A powerful video goes viral of a father angrily calling out the lawmakers whose soft-on-crime policies led to his daughter s murder. Also, Pete Hegseth unveils the new standards for combat troops. Plus, an unintentionally hilarious new statue of Tina Turner is getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. And the NFL gives the Super Bowl halftime show to a far-left Hispanic pop star who was boycotting the U.S. to protest ICE. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
00:07:06.680Burglary in the first-degree is a felony punishable by life imprisonment. The court,
00:07:12.080in its discretion, may sentence the defendant to a term of not less than 15 years.
00:07:18.340Well, that sentence should have been handed down immediately. Normal, functioning members of society
00:07:24.520do not commit these crimes. You cannot rehabilitate the people who do.
00:07:31.120Okay, rehabilitation is basically a myth, the way that we think of it. The way that we think of it,
00:07:38.860we could take these totally dysfunctional criminals and rehabilitate them and turn them
00:07:43.800into functioning members of society. It almost never happens. Okay, it's mythological. It's like
00:07:50.420talking about Bigfoot. And even if you can theoretically rehabilitate them, it's not worth the risk to the
00:07:58.240general public. Now, critics will object and they'll say, well, are we really going to just,
00:08:03.380well, what are we going to do, give up on people like this?
00:08:07.880Yeah, we should. We should give up on them.
00:08:14.120Alexander Dickey. Okay, society should have given up on him a long time ago. Once you have demonstrated
00:08:21.720that you have no interest in being a part of civilized society, we should give up on you.
00:08:26.300You can spend the rest of your life locked in a cage like an animal because that's how you want
00:08:31.640to act. It's not our responsibility to help you or give you another chance or try to domesticate you
00:08:42.460like some kind of feral cat. We're done with you. Goodbye forever. That should be the approach.
00:08:50.840And if it was the approach, this criminal never would have had the opportunity to murder this
00:08:57.760young woman. The time for discretion in these kinds of cases is over. Any judge who abuses this
00:09:05.660discretion to release violent criminals like this should be held liable for the murders that
00:09:11.140inevitably result. Until now, there really hasn't been much popular support for a change like this.
00:09:17.080That's because Logan Federico's murder, as utterly horrifying as it is, is similar to murders
00:09:22.940that occur every day in this country. Now, what makes the killing of Logan Federico different from
00:09:28.620a practical perspective is that really for the first time in memory, the family of the victim
00:09:34.460is not resorting to leftist platitudes in response. They're not urging everyone to come together or
00:09:42.500preaching about unity and all that sort of thing. And we saw something like that after the killing
00:09:48.160of Austin Metcalfe. As thousands of leftists, primarily black leftists, danced on Austin Metcalfe's
00:09:53.980grave, the father insisted that it wasn't a racial issue and he was being forgiving and this is just a
00:10:02.980poor decision that a kid made and all that sort of thing. Now, I'm not disparaging the father in that
00:10:08.520case. It's impossible to imagine being in his position. But the point is that his response,
00:10:14.420if adopted on a societal and systemic level, is how you get a lot more violence.
00:10:22.860Well, that's not happening this time. Instead, the family of Logan Federico, particularly her father,
00:10:27.980Stephen, is pledging to devote the rest of his life to changing the laws that allowed Alexander
00:10:34.800Devante Dickey to murder his daughter. He's not letting the left-wing narrative take hold,
00:10:39.520even for a moment. And he's a big part of the reason why the other day lawmakers in Charlotte,
00:10:44.300North Carolina, met for a hearing on violent crime. And here's what Stephen Federico had to say.
00:10:50.260This clip is going viral for very good reason. Very powerful address from Stephen. Listen.
00:10:56.800Here's what I need you to do. When I tell you this story, think about your kids. Think about your
00:11:04.240child coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling
00:11:10.960somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed, naked, forced on her knees with her
00:11:21.620hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father, me, that couldn't be
00:11:33.980there. She was five foot three. She weighed 115 pounds. Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander
00:11:50.180Devante Dickey, who was arrested 39 goddamn times, 25 felonies, was on the street.
00:12:03.220How about that? How good are we doing for our family? He should have been in jail for over 140
00:12:10.420years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison?
00:12:14.660A little over 600 days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes
00:12:24.360a year since he was 15 years old. But nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated.
00:12:33.680Well, you'd have to put him in prison. My daughter laid on the floor for seven hours before somebody
00:12:39.920in that house recognized that something was wrong. And that serial criminal, an hour later,
00:12:47.860went on a spending spree with her debit card. When they saw his face on a video, they didn't
00:12:55.660have to do a check. He was arrested so many times they knew who he was. They knew exactly where to go
00:13:01.580get him. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic that I'm here today. Now, what you're seeing there is somewhat
00:13:13.360unfamiliar these days. That is righteous anger. And it's exactly what we need to see. He is enraged.
00:13:23.540He's enraged. He's enraged because he feels like the system essentially chose the violent thug who
00:13:30.960murdered his daughter over his daughter. He feels like the system had a choice between being merciful
00:13:37.040to this scumbag or to protecting his daughter. And they chose the scumbag, swapping one for the other.
00:13:45.520That's how he feels. And he's right. That's exactly what happened. Now, you'll see a lot of theories
00:13:52.580online about why when someone is killed in a very preventable homicide, the family members of the victim
00:13:58.040usually don't have this reaction publicly. We usually don't see them enraged like this, even though they
00:14:06.220must be enraged and they should be. Now, some people will tell you that in the past, government agents spoke
00:14:12.980to the victim's families and coach them on what to say. But the more likely explanation is that for
00:14:18.040many generations, in no small part because of the rhetoric of both parties, it's been considered
00:14:23.140impolite and uncivilized and bigoted to point out the truth. You're not supposed to talk about the
00:14:30.780fact that homicides are both preventable and predictable. For the same reason, you're not
00:14:35.960supposed to talk about crime statistics or practice pattern recognition when you're out for a walk late at
00:14:41.560night. As this hearing in Charlotte demonstrated, that dam has now finally broken. Witness after
00:14:49.120witness exposed the degree to which Democrats have deliberately allowed violent criminals to
00:14:54.360terrorize entire communities. We'll play one more of these statements. It's from Justice Campbell,
00:15:00.120a police officer with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. His life has also been changed
00:15:06.060forever by one of these violent career thugs. Watch. April 29th of 2024, the Marshal Service
00:15:13.620was serving a warrant for a convicted felon for possession of a firearm again.
00:15:23.680While serving that warrant, four members of that or three members of the task force and one member of
00:15:29.560the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department were gunned down and murdered that day, along with five
00:15:33.380others including myself that were injured. Now, that day was chaos. Responding to that call, multiple officers, not only dead but injured, were taking gunfire from an elevated position by a known convicted felon. During the process of extracting the officers,
00:16:02.940I ended up breaking my foot. I ended up breaking my foot, which resulted in me being diagnosed with regional complex pain syndrome.
00:16:12.820It's a miserable diagnosis which led to the amputation of my right foot. His entire arrest report, and in this report starts in 2009, where he burglarized a residence with a stolen firearm.
00:16:27.080After he was taken to jail, he was released, where he committed multiple other offenses prior to him going to prison.
00:16:41.600He was released from prison, and again, continuously committed violent crimes with firearms.
00:16:52.440Now, confronted with testimony like this is abundantly clear that Democrats have no idea what to do.
00:16:59.080Without total narrative control, they are in very serious trouble.
00:17:02.980And in particular, there are now so many victims of violent crime as a result of Democrat policies
00:17:07.400that Democrats themselves can't even keep them straight.
00:17:11.120So many victims are now coming forward that they can't keep track of the whole roster.
00:17:15.760And it's gotten so bad that at this hearing in Charlotte, one Democrat representative, a woman named Deborah Ross,
00:17:22.420appeared to confuse Logan Federico with Irina Zrutska, the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered on the light rail several weeks ago.
00:17:31.500Stephen Federico had to correct Deborah Ross mid-statement. Watch.
00:17:36.080I also want to express my deepest, deepest condolences to the family of Irina Zrutska.
00:17:45.760What happened to her is simply unimaginable and unconscionable.
00:17:51.880And I hope that we will take to heart her family's request not to remember her by her last moments or politicize her death.
00:18:02.900The majority has brought us here together.
00:18:06.320And I would say I went to the Philadelphia hearing.
00:18:09.760I've been on the Judiciary Committee since I was ever in Congress.
00:18:15.760But to be honest, and for our victims, this hearing is too little, too late.
00:18:23.380We should have been doing more to prevent crime and address the lack of mental health care long before this hearing.
00:19:31.360Deborah Ross apparently thought that she was looking at Irina Zrutska, starts talking about mental health issues, which have no relevance to the murder of Logan Federico or any of the other witnesses in front of her.
00:19:43.880And Stephen wasn't going to stand for that, nor should anyone.
00:19:48.520If you look at the media coverage of this case, you'll find a lot of excuses for why Alexander Devante Dickey was constantly being let out of jail.
00:19:55.920Here's just one example from law and crime.
00:19:59.940Like how you said, there's been a lot of past convictions, so many mugshots, so many discharges and accusations against him.
00:20:07.860How does a person that's, you know, described as a true criminal even have the chance to do something like this again?
00:20:14.560Do you think that this is just some type of failure somewhere?
00:20:17.860He was able to slip through the cracks?
00:20:19.280You know, most people don't go to jail for life in prison for breaking and entering.
00:20:25.660Let's say it was auto break-ins, those smaller, petty crimes that really do make people feel unsafe and it really makes people feel violated.
00:20:32.260It just may not rise to the level of 20, 40 years of a sentence.
00:20:37.880So there are people who have been convicted who may have done two, three, four years for these crimes and then they're back out.
00:20:44.620But under the laws, generally, there aren't those max penalties.
00:20:49.220Now, analysts talk about the law as if that's something that we can't immediately change.
00:20:54.920It's just a fact of life, we're told, that criminals can repeatedly commit acts of violence without receiving mandatory life imprisonment or the death penalty.
00:21:01.940As we discussed earlier, that's not even true in South Carolina.
00:21:06.960This guy could have been sentenced for life a long time ago under the current law.
00:21:13.860But to the extent that this is, you know, that you don't have those laws anywhere else, well, then you need to change that.
00:21:23.560Instead of engaging with any of this, Democrats will say that in reality, the solution is, you know, spending more tax money on shelters and mental health treatment.
00:21:34.020That's what happened at the hearing in Charlotte.
00:21:35.920And there was a viral post on X to the same effect.
00:21:38.820It racked up several million views in reference to the murder of Irina Zeritska, who, again, was stabbed in a light rail car by an apparently schizophrenic black man who said,
00:21:48.840I got that white girl as he walked away.
00:21:51.400This person wrote the following, quote,
00:23:34.460I mean, it's a solution that would have saved Irina's life.
00:23:37.800There is one absolute 100% way to ensure that a violent criminal does not kill a woman on the light rail car, and that is to convict that person and execute them.
00:23:52.420If they're no longer on earth, then 100% guarantee that they will never hurt another person.
00:23:59.520So, yeah, I would call that a solution.
00:24:02.540It would save hundreds of lives every year.
00:24:05.120Like, believe it or not, you can just kill the worst and most dangerous people.
00:25:15.580And what this hearing in Charlotte demonstrates is that, for the first time since the crime crackdown of the 1990s, there's a real popular will for punishing degenerate and violent criminals as harshly as we possibly can.
00:25:28.780And now we need to start handing out those punishments.
00:25:34.080And in doing so, like Stephen Federico, we should be unapologetic and forceful.
00:25:41.140You know, that is the fight that this righteously angry father has just devoted his life to.
00:25:46.760And every single American, people who don't want their daughters to be executed as they sleep, should join him.
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00:27:39.260Over 4 billion pounds of the stuff imported last year to be exact.
00:27:42.600All dressed up to look local, but it isn't.
00:27:44.960I mean, what else are these labels trying to pull on us makes you really have to wonder about that.
00:27:48.960So I started looking for something that I could actually trust, especially with kids to feed and a wife who can spot a so-so steak from a mile away.
00:30:03.380As we all know, this is you versus an enemy hell-bent on killing you.
00:30:07.280To be an effective, lethal fighting force, you must trust that the warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly, physically capable of doing what is necessary under fire.
00:30:21.260You know this is the only standard you would want for your kids and for your grandkids.
00:30:28.300Apply the War Department golden rule, the 1990 test, and the E6 test, and it's really hard to go wrong.
00:30:34.880Now, think about this for a minute because people are going to freak out about this.
00:30:38.620The media, the left, they're going to say that Hegseth is trying to drive women out of the military and so on.
00:34:17.060And it's even better when you consider the freakout that is going to happen, has been happening.
00:34:25.380Where you're going to have all these people accidentally admitting that women can't live up to, you know, high standards in this sort of context.
00:34:35.660Here's a story from our friends up north.
00:35:10.160They adopted their three-year-old through Quebec's youth protection services.
00:35:14.220But first had to be approved as foster parents.
00:35:17.420Something that required a lot of work and openness, they say, to their relationship.
00:35:22.560We had a lot of things to go through in order to be able to be, to have that accreditation.
00:35:28.800And it's through that process that they learned that we are a little different because we're three, but we're not different from any other family.
00:35:36.120Some other Canadian provinces, including Ontario and British Columbia, legally recognize more than two parents.
00:35:44.400Last April, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled the government has a year to modify the civil code to allow a child to have more than two recognized parents,
00:35:53.720saying the current situation is unconstitutional and violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms since it discriminates against different family models.
00:36:30.180So I guess nature is infringing on the rights of the LGBT community.
00:36:36.820And this is the difference, by the way, between the traditional understanding of human rights, the American understanding, and the leftist version.
00:36:44.660Because the original idea was that human rights belong to us by our nature, endowed by God.
00:36:52.780And so when I say that nature has decreed it as so, this is what I mean.
00:36:59.560It's our human nature, endowed by God, created by God.
00:37:04.600But the leftist idea would say that our rights stand in opposition to nature.
00:37:13.220We get our rights not from nature, but against nature, to contravene nature.
00:40:51.640So anyone who's tried to and there are a lot of people on the left, too, not on the left and and and but even some on the certainly on the left and some on the right.
00:41:02.560Who try to draw this line, you know, they're all in favor of gay adoption.
00:41:06.360If somebody like me goes out and says, no, I don't think two men should be allowed.
00:41:08.900I don't I think they should be legally barred from adopting a baby.
00:41:11.820If they hear that, they'll say, oh, that's bigoted.
00:45:34.800Tina Turner was simply the best, but fans are less than impressed with a new statue paying tribute to the late rock singer.
00:45:42.360A 10-foot bronze statue of Turner, who died in May 2023 at the age of 83, was unveiled in the singer's hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee on Saturday.
00:45:50.700During the city's annual Tina Turner Heritage Days celebration, the monument designed by Atlanta-based sculptor Fred Ajanoga depicts Turner mid-performance
00:46:01.260as she strikes a confident pose in a mini dress and high heels.
00:46:05.940Ajanoga said he aimed to reflect Turner's ability to move dynamically on stage,
00:46:10.080the way she grasped the microphone with her index finger pointing out,
00:46:13.540and her hairdo, which the artist likened to a lion's mane.
00:46:17.040However, the tribute did not receive a warm reception from Turner's fans,
00:46:21.860many of whom took to social media to criticize the statue's design and its questionable resemblance to the real-life Turner.
00:46:27.180Okay, so people didn't like the statue.
00:46:29.660Let's see if they're being harsh or not.
00:46:31.740We'll put the photos up on the screen.
00:46:34.820And as you can see, no, they're not being harsh at all.
00:46:37.580If anything, they're not being harsh enough.
00:46:40.380We've seen a lot of really bad statues in recent years.