Blue Origin "Mission" Brutally Mocked, and Defamation Case Against NBC, with Batya Ungar-Sargon and Stacey Evans | Ep. 1050
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On today's show, Megyn talks about the latest in the Abrego Garcia case, the latest on the Women s Space Flight trip to space, and how Hollywood is celebrating Jeff Bezos's sexual fantasy rocket ride. Plus, a call-in from the lawyer for the disgraced doctor who recently settled his massive defamation case against NBC News.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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Later, we've got the lawyer for the doctor who recently settled his massive defamation case
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She will join me to explain exactly what they did on The Rachel Maddow Show,
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and on MSNBC.com with people like Jacob Soberoff
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that wound up costing NBC some undisclosed amount of money
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with which the plaintiffs say they are, quote, very happy.
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Democrat senators making absolute fools of themselves now,
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going to bat for the illegal immigrant suspected MS-13 gang member.
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This is their poster boy on the left now who was sent to El Salvador.
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OK, there was the removal order saying don't remove him there because he might face gang violence.
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What we did was send him back to his home country.
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between the Trump administration and this judge.
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literally they're talking about it like it was Apollo 11.
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All these Hollywood celebs are going on Instagram and elsewhere
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and expressing their disdain for what these women did
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Wait until you hear how they talked about their 10-minute trip
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that are appropriate for referral to the U.S. DOJ
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and then in applying for a mortgage for that house,
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knowing that this was not her primary residence,
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Then they're saying she had a place in Brooklyn
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that she was going to get a special mortgage for
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This is why Democratic women, wealthy, middle-aged
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Democratic women made, you know, third-trimester
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That's what getting trans women out of women's
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It's about the dignity of the average American.
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lost touch with that great American middle, have
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to invent ways in which they are the ones who are
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Hence the magical slippery slope that if Donald Trump
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deports an alleged wife beater or somebody who supports
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Hamas, people who are not American citizens and don't
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have the rights of American citizens, that he could be
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coming for you, you wealthy people at Coachella.
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It's going to work with the top 10 percent because that's
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really what they want to hear, that they are the true
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But this is going to get the Democrats nowhere.
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You know, there's a meme I keep thinking about, you
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know, this anime meme of the young man standing like
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this and there's a butterfly, you know, it's like he's
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the Democrats and they're looking at like, you know,
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these these ne'er-do-wells, you know, these illegals who
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came here illegally broke the law, you know, and they are
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And I just keep thinking this is them like being like, is
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No, it's not how you get back the working class.
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No, 73 percent of men who voted for Trump, men who are
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He found that 73 percent of non-white men who voted for
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Their American dream was put on hold so that the Democrats
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could walk around white knighting for illegal migrants and
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And that number, Megan, is growing and growing and
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I mean, I care about the working class and I want them to
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But I also care about the safety of young women like
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Laken Riley, like this 37 year old mom, Rachel Morin, who's
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killed on a jog, mother of five by an illegal who was harboring
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And Caroline Levitt was making this point perfectly the other day
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I think it was yesterday about how they're very, very concerned
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about Abrego Garcia getting his proper due process.
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They don't say one word, not one word about the Laken Riley's or
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The Democrat in media outrage over the deportation of Abrego
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Garcia, an MS-13 El Salvadorian, illegal alien criminal who is
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hiding in Maryland, has been nothing short of despicable.
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Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room,
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you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year.
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That's because, unfortunately, many in this country care more
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about this quote unquote Maryland father, a legal alien MS-13 gang
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member than a Maryland mother and an American citizen who was
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brutally murdered at the hands of a different illegal alien.
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Where was the Maryland senator's trip on her behalf, showboating on her
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Where was Chris Murphy speaking out so that we all understood the dangers
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of Joe Biden's illegal immigration policy, that actual American women were
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being killed as they go for a jog to try to stay fit where I don't remember
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And is that because what bigotry of low expectations?
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They just expect these guys are, you know, they're they're animals.
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If so, why would you why would you on an open border?
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It's like none of it is congruous other than they see in a story, as you
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point out, and they see an opportunity to advance themselves.
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I mean, these people at this point, they would give a kidney to get a retweet
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This is they've decided this is the direction that the party is going in.
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I think that she's very genuine and really believes what she has to say.
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If the Democrats cannot figure out that illegal immigration is a huge problem that came at
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the expense of people who used to be their voters and now are Trump's voters because
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he looked at them and said, you have a right to demand better.
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They're never, ever, ever going to be competitive again.
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You know, they have a lot of like, you know, they seem to understand that they have a problem.
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But this is the one thing that they just will not they can't quit illegal immigrants.
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And I think, Megan, the reason for that is like, unlike Donald Trump, who very successfully
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sidelined the elites of his party over the last 10 years, and especially during the last
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campaign, all of the Democratic funding is now bound up with very privileged white progressives
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who really support the open border, both for economic and for social reasons.
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But also, you know, the Soros Foundation, the Ford Foundation, all of these NGOs that have
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And of course, this is the most elite thing possible.
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There are millions of Americans who the only thing they have in their life that gives them
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They are proud to belong to this, the greatest nation on planet Earth.
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And that is the thing that the elites cannot stand for them to have, that they want to rob
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And of course, the way you rob them of that is you dilute it by having an open border and
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having a marketplace that welcomes in millions of people to compete with working class people
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The idea that you could have somebody here who is, you know, claiming to have the same
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legal protections as a citizen is a way of saying the citizenship itself should not count
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And I think all good people should say no to that.
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But before I get to it, I just want to point out if again, we haven't independently verified
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Fox News is reporting them now at least to one from 2021 from 2021 in which Jennifer Vasquez
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is accusing a man who has the same name, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and it shows his birthday is
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I mean, maybe there are two couples that are that unite Jennifer Vasquez and Kilmar Abrego
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So that would have been a 2020 and a 2021 domestic violence incident bad enough to make her go
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in and seek a protective order against him alleging serious domestic violence.
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He, his, when he was found, uh, alleged, allegedly engaging in some sort of activity that led them
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to believe he was arrestable and part of MSN 13 was 2019.
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He was found to be part of this gang of the appellate court in the immigration system,
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And then he, you know, pleaded for mercy saying, well, please just don't deport me to El Salvador.
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And of course we said, okay, fine, you don't have to go.
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The first incident would have been within months of us going soft on him, of, of our
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And then if, if this dovetails the way it looks like it does, according to these documents,
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he was wailing on his wife in 2020 and then again in 2021, and then he gets arrested and
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sent out by Trump and it's back to, oh, poor guy.
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But I want to get to your bigger point because it's important about how these, these, these
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judges are trying to take the matter in hand, that the Democrats are trying to stop the Trump
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agenda of removing the millions that Joe Biden willingly, happily, purposefully allowed in.
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On Monday, a federal judge halted the Trump administration's plan to revoke the legal status
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and work permits of more than half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela,
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We flew here under a Biden era, quote, parole program.
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He flew them in saying, I'll give you legal protection and I will let you work in the United
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And no sooner had he begun that program than they are.
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Some data from the program showing evidence of fraud.
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One review found that at least 3,200 people applied to sponsor immigrants.
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And it's really supposed to be like a direct relationship, but they sponsored over 101,000
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So it's clearly these government NGOs or dare I say the Catholic church saying, I'll be responsible
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But 3,000 people cannot monitor 101,000 as alleged here.
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The Trump administration looking at this program also alleges that it was very poor vetting.
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Almost 3 million of these applications were filed, excuse me, as of last August, including
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80,000 from aliens living in countries other than those that I listed.
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This is all according to a House Judiciary Committee report.
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And concerns of fraud were so bad that they even led Biden's Department of Homeland Security
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to suspend temporarily this program for several weeks last year.
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You might be able to suspend their legal status here, Mr. Trump, if you give them an individual
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case-by-case review, which no one got on the way in.
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But now we want, they just want to tie him up for the next four years with all of this
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They got flown in summarily and they can be flown out summarily.
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I think they're wrong on the, on the legal merits.
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John, you were saying yesterday, you made a really good point, which is that this parole
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program is always at the request of the president and can be revoked at any moment.
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They just want to keep them in court, keep them from enacting the agenda that the president
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was put in office to enact by the voters of this country.
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You know, Megan, I keep thinking if this was 2016, back then the Democrats sort of mass
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media approach to opposing the Trump administration worked a lot better.
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Remember the whole like family separation thing, you know, that was in the New York Times and
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And suddenly, you know, the Trump administration had to back off because there was this huge
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And I think today we are just in a totally different moment because the voters, the electorate,
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the American people was able to see what happens when you have somebody like Joe Biden
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just basically decriminalized illegal border crossing, which is what he did, which is what
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he promised he was going to do during the campaign.
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And the most horrifying part about it is this to me.
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I mean, obviously, the crimes that are committed against American citizens, I agree with you,
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It's because American corporations were desperate for workers in the post-pandemic labor crunch,
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and they didn't want to pay American workers what they were asking for.
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And so Biden partnered with the cartels to open the border and provide American corporations
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with slave labor to the tune of millions and millions and millions of illegal immigrants.
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And when that chaos threatened his reelection campaign, they said, you know what?
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We're just going to legally start importing these people to these corporations so they
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can pay them slave wages and not have to pay Americans more money.
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I think Biden felt, well, this will bring down inflation.
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Now, the problem with this is that, you know, we actually should want working class Americans
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We have to control immigration because a tight labor market uses the free market in order
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to raise wages for working class people and give them dignity.
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And that's why in the 70s, most Americans were middle class because people who worked in
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meatpacking plants and people who were manicurists and people who worked in construction were able
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They were able to make a middle class wage, working and working class jobs.
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And now thanks to the Democrats who still have the chutzpah to cosplay as the side of labor,
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we shipped all these good manufacturing jobs overseas to China to build up their middle class.
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We imported millions and millions of low wage illegal immigrants to work in the jobs here,
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radically reducing the wages that working class people could ask for.
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And it was Donald Trump, a Republican, who showed up and said, you do not have to live
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People will say, oh, well, if we pay working class people a living wage, then all of these
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Well, notice that what Donald Trump has done is he took a bunch of very pro-worker policies
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like tariffs and controlling the border to raise the wages of working class people.
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And he has paired them with a host of very pro-business things that are coming down the
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We're going to have cheap energy because of drill, baby, drill.
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And he has promised anybody who reshores manufacturing that he will drop their corporate taxes to
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That combination of being pro-business on the one side and pro-worker on the other side,
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And this is why the Democrats can't stand him because they didn't think of this first.
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They came to it too late and then tried to steal it as their own, but they haven't been
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Um, March, 2025 numbers at the border, lowest crossings in U S history.
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And when it comes to those we have, uh, apprehended and, um, yeah, those that we've apprehended.
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And by the way, March of 2024, that was right around when Joe Biden actually did try to start
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making an effort at the Southern border because he realized his reelection chances were going to
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Um, in March of 2024, the numbers crossing the border were about 4,500 a day under Joe Biden.
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Now it's less than 330 a day, uh, for the entire month.
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It was a hundred and about 40,000 for the month under Trump is about 8,300.
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He just didn't have the will stand by more with Baja after this quick break.
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Judge Boesberg, who thinks that he's the president of the United States, he's the chief district
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court judge for the district of Washington, D.C.
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He said he would launch proceedings to determine whether to hold the Trump administration, its
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officials in criminal contempt for defying his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants
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from America based on the wartime alien enemies act.
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This is all based this he's drunk on his own power.
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This is all based on the fact that Trump decided to use the alien enemies act, which,
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by the way, the Supreme Court has already implicitly said, OK, that's good.
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I mean, we're not going to we're not going to chastise him on that.
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And the ACLU ran into court before Judge Boesberg because they knew they could get a sympathetic
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They did not go into Texas where the detainees were that they were allegedly representing
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That's what the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately held.
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They went to D.C. because they knew they could get a judge.
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And they got a ruling from him saying, first of all, he said, no, no plane should take off
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This is Marco Rubio's call and President Trump's call on whether the foreign policy of the
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United States requires these people to be deported and whether the safety and security
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of the American people requires that they to be deported.
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And the commander in chief ruled that they were part of an incursion or an invasion and
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Judge Boesberg said, no, I'm higher than you are on the totem pole.
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And there is a real question about whether any sort of temporary restraining order has
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Wasn't put in writing until several hours later that day.
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Two planes were already in the air and in international airspace, and they refused to
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It did take off much later from the written order, but it didn't have anybody on it pursuant
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So it's really less relevant, but he's getting ready to hold them in criminal contempt for
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And for allowing them to take off in the first place.
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We talked about this with our lawyer panel the other day about you, but like, I don't
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know how you hold, I don't know how you hold the president in criminal contempt.
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So are we in a world where like the Democrats want a Brigo Garcia free and Trump jailed?
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I keep thinking like, you know, they tried to get him on 91 counts and like, look at where
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You know, this Khalil Mahmoud guy, they hold him up as some sort of, you know, oh, he's
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And then it turns out if you had just waited like, you know, 10 minutes, you would have
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found out that this guy actually lied on his visa application, right?
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This Garcia fellow who they're holding up as this Maryland father.
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Well, maybe wait a minute and find out, you know, a little bit more about this person before
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you decide to nominate him for like, you know, the avatar of the Democratic Party.
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And they just can't seem to understand that there is a real logic here.
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But everything he has done since he got into office has been unbelievably intentional.
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You know, they lost in 2020 and they sat at home and for four years they plotted.
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I feel like you can really see this with Jason Miller, right?
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And with that, with Stephen Miller, this is a guy who sat at home for four years and plotted
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how he was going to restore America to its greatness through using legal avenues to enact
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the Trump agenda that is wildly popular with the American people.
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And the Democrats are acting like it's 2016, people are shooting from the hip and that you
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can get a story in the New York Times and shut down the agenda.
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I think Trump was really changed by the assassination attempts on him.
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But also, Megan, I think he was changed by the level of support that he sees from the people.
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You know, in 2016, he knew that what he wanted to do was popular, but he couldn't quite
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In 2025, he knows that what he wants to do is popular and he knows that the people know
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And I think that that confidence is really coming across and it is forcing the Democrats
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into unforced error after unforced error after unforced error.
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I mean, you don't need a consultant to tell you, don't white knight for the criminal illegal
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I made this point when I was arguing with somebody on the show about it, but I was like, they
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They did not go and arrest all of the students at Columbia University who were taking part
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of those protests or all the students at Harvard who were taking part of those protests or any
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They targeted a few who were the leaders, the instigators who took an extra role and were
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We didn't try to kick out American citizens where people committed crimes.
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They got charged with whatever it was, larceny or vandalism.
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He was a guest in our house and he behaved like an animal.
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And I don't care that he didn't actually commit violence on Columbia's campus.
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He was the spokesperson for the group that held the hostages on campus.
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The entire campus was held hostage thanks to that group he represented.
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And by the way, he worked for the Hamas arm of the UN.
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That's the lie you're referring to on his visa application.
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Mysteriously, he forgot to disclose that when he asked us if he could come into our country.
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But yes, the left is now the party that makes statues of George Floyd and won't stand for
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little DJ Daniel at the State of the Union and won't mourn Rachel Morin or Lakin Riley
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and will send senators to prisons in El Salvador to go gin up empathy for an accused wife abuser
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and MS-13 gang member who's from El Salvador, by the way.
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Like we sent him to like the middle of Siberia.
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Now, it's it's coming back to haunt them, though, because they were the ones they were
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the ones to unleash the dear friend letter during the Obama administration to start using
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And of course, the universities were only too happy to comply.
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And Barack Obama used the dear friend letter through his ridiculous secretary of education,
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You eliminate due process for young men who are accused on college campuses or you get
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If you don't yank their right to counsel, yank their right to cross examine, yank their
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That was his big cause to try to completely eliminate due process rights for young men on
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And by the way, there's virtually no rate of appeal.
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You can try to file in a federal court after you've been found guilty as a sexual assault or
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And even when it does, the university won't help you.
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We saw this in the case at Amherst, where they completely dropped the ball on this one
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They didn't care when it was all said and done.
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It's very hard to get review when you've been fucked over, sorry, by your college campus
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It has a duty under the various federal statutes that are out there, whether it's Title
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Nine to protect women or Title Six to protect any minority group that's become the subject
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of harassment on college campuses, to step in and try to stop it.
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You cannot act in a discriminatory or harassing fashion.
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And the government, it's their job to enforce legality.
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But they crossed it with all those absurd protests where they were chanting Hamas slogans
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at Jews, harassing them, in some cases, physically berating them or hurting them.
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And Trump is trying to bring justice now, saying this will never happen again.
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And here's how we're going to make sure it never happens again.
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You're going to issue certain reforms on your campus or you're going to lose your federal
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Now, this is exactly what Obama did, his threats on Title IX.
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And by the way, what he did to many police stations across the country, you will hire
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more black and brown people or we will take over.
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In fact, they did take over many police stations and say, we're running your police station now.
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We think you're too racist based on, you know, sometimes very scurrilous allegations.
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In any event, so now Trump says to Harvard, you will do all these things.
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And the list of things is actually quite good, I have to say.
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The university must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, cease all preferences based
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on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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They should be able to say they'll do that because it's unlawful not to, but they won't.
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Merit-based admissions reform must adopt and implement merit-based admissions and cease all
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preferences based on race, color, national origin, or proxies, et cetera.
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That too should be a no-brainer given the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.
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You have to reform the way you recruit and screen international students who are hostile
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Then there's, um, reform programs with egregious records of antisemitism or other bias.
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You have to commission an external party to audit these programs that have been particularly
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pernicious and fuel the most antisemitic harassment.
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And you have to discontinue DEI, which of course is at the root of a lot of this Jew hatred
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Um, they said, no, Trump said, say goodbye to $2.2 billion that you're getting now through
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And that may, may not be all that may not be all.
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We actually may look into your tax exempt status.
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If you want to play hard ball, let's play hard ball.
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He said, maybe Harvard should lose its tax exempt status and be taxed as a political entity.
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If it keeps pushing political ideological and terrorist inspired sickness, remember tax
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exempt status is totally contingent on acting in the public interest.
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If that happens, then Harvard's endowment income tax rate could soar from 1.4% to the
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standard 21% corporate tax rate, potentially translating to a $525 million annual reduction
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Who decides to weigh in on how inappropriate this is to use the federal government to threaten
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Yeah, it's truly amazing because he doesn't weigh in often.
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And then when he does weigh in, it's always on the side of the elites of the elites of the
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elites in the most unpopular way on the, like to me, Trump has already won because he got
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Harvard to say, no way, Jose, we will not stop importing people who hate America and hate
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Like whatever happens, he has exposed them for what they are, which is an institution
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not of higher learning, but which confers status on people.
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And the higher status you are is based on how much you hate America and recently how much
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Like this is very clear at this point that these institutions are no longer places that give
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And of course, it was Barack Obama who defunded vocational training in high schools, right?
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The idea was everyone's going to go to college.
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Why would he block millions and millions and millions of young men of finding their way
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into the middle class by working with their hands for a living?
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Well, of course, because the number one predictor for whether you'll be a Democrat is whether you
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have a college degree, you know, so they were funneling people into college.
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And so your ability to achieve the American dream, thanks to Barack Obama, became contingent
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on how much anti-American, anti-Semitic, post-structuralist, post-modernist crap you had been exposed to.
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And of course, you could see how this directly leads to these activist judges.
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They've been exposed to it for 12 years, right?
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So they've been exposed to it for many, many, many more years than even just your average
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This is, of course, totally, totally ridiculous.
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Certainly, if it cannot prove that it has the best interests of the United States of America
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at heart, it's not owed the tax dollars of hardworking Americans.
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But also the whole system that was built by Obama, the system in which you only get access
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to the American dream if you walk the gauntlet of these anti-American institutions, which are
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nothing more than status conferring operations in which elites confer status and a lot of wealth
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I want us to stop seeing a Harvard degree as something to be proud of.
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I want us to stop worshipping at the altar of these institutions that hate us and hate
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And for the cost of $400,000 a year, teach young Americans who are going to be wealthy
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to hate the people who they're going to employ.
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Like, however this drama plays out, I think Harvard's going to cave very, very quickly.
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I think the Trump administration's letter was an opening salvo.
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I don't think they're going to insist on every aspect of this list.
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They want certain things very clearly more than others that investigate all teachers for
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That's probably I mean, I was also reading that and I was like, they'll never do that.
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But we really have the power as Americans to say, just no.
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Like, as Trump always says, you don't have to live like this.
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We don't have to give people respect just because they have a Harvard degree or a Princeton
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We can say, actually, this proves to me you spent four years being exposed to the most
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It's already happening because corporate America already knows that a Harvard degree
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isn't what it used to be and it means something else.
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And I'm sorry, but this is what the left has done.
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If you happen to be a minority and you're at one of these top elite universities and you
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They're going to look at you and think that Harvard accepted you because of your skin color.
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And it's unfortunate that you went there in a time of exploding DEI where they've changed
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You have yourself a Harvard degree and now you have yourself a healthy amount of skepticism
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from all employers because they're wondering whether you really deserve to get in or whether
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So Barack Obama, just for the record, what he said was Harvard has set an example for other
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higher institutions by rejecting, uh, this deal, rejecting an unlawful and ham handed
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That's, that's really his history supports his commitment to pure academic freedom without
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any governmental ham handed attempt to interfere the nerve, by the way, the best, the best tweet.
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And really this guy might be my favorite follow on Twitter.
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And that's saying a lot because I have a lot of people I love.
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This is, um, a commentator who goes by red steez.
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Um, he says, Obama, you know, who needs us to defend them right now?
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Harvard, Bernie, you know who I need to go speak to about income inequality?
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I have to keep going because there's so much news about you.
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I'm I, if I don't get to spend enough time on blue origin, I'm going to be very sad and
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I have to mention quickly, quickly that on the legal front, Pam Bondi just fired the,
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So the main governor, she had her little tête-à-tête with Trump like, I'm not doing it.
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She caved almost instantly on the universities because she couldn't lose the money and she
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And so now Pam Bondi just filed a lawsuit saying, you will cave, you will cave because
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It's in short referred to as title nine and you're violating it by letting boys play in
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And by the way, there was just, this is not in our country, but just not for nothing.
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The UK's Supreme Court, their highest court in the country, just ruled today unanimously
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that the definition of a woman in equality legislation refers to a biological woman and
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to biological sex and so-called trans women who are, that's not a thing.
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They can call themselves whatever the hell they want, but legally they're not women.
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And that's the problem that this main governor is going to have as this lawsuit goes forward.
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So good for you, Pam Bondi, totally behind you all the way.
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But we've got to get to blue origin because it's over the top.
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We made fun of it on Monday because it was just so ridiculous the way some of the media
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were covering it, the way they were like self-congratulatory.
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First of all, can we, can we pull, I want to hear the lead.
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I don't know which soundbite it is, you guys, but the, the montage of them about them.
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Flowers for me, I believe are, are like God's laughter and God's smile.
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And I brought a Daisy because I have so much love for my daughter, Daisy, and I have so
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It just says to me, if I can do this, I was telling, I was telling these guys, I might even
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I've never gotten my ears pierced because that hurts.
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I hope they can, um, see the unity, um, that we modeled and replicate that and understand
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Gail King upset because there's been a lot of blowback and I'll play it in a minute,
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but like from Hollywood leftists and not just people like you and me, but like Hollywood
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These are the people who are supposed to love them, who are ripping these women to shreds.
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And Gail King is upset and had a few things that she needed to explain to those of us who
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Whenever a man goes up, you have never said to an astronaut, boy, what a ride.
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You know, we duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day.
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It was called a journey because a ride, a ride implies that it's something frivolous or
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There was nothing frivolous about what we did and, and the machine, and the machine that
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we were on and what it took for the people to get that machine up and running, to get
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So, you know, I'm very disappointed and very saddened by it.
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And I also say this, the, what it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please
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So many women and young girls reach out to me and men too, by the way, men too, that
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say, wow, I never thought I could do that, but I see you doing it at this stage of my
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First of all, Alan Shepard walked on the moon, Gail.
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You're, you're, you didn't do the same thing as Alan Shepard.
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And by the way, when he did his first space flight, it was the first space flight.
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It wasn't with some woman with her tits hanging out who needed a little extra attention.
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Secondly, there's nothing frivolous about what we did.
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Let's see how it went on board the blue origin spacecraft.
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You guys, I have to tell you, look at the moon.
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Like, they admired the universe and what they were expecting was for us to admire the fact
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that they were rich enough and famous enough to have been granted this utterly, utterly vacuous
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experience from which they learned absolutely nothing.
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And it's just like, I mean, this is the Democratic Party, right?
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I mean, this was exactly what Kamala Harris's entire campaign was like.
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She said she's heard from women and girls who have said to her, I didn't realize this
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Because it's not something they could do because they're not friends with Jeff Bezos, right?
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Their message for women was take up space like us.
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Like, the reception they got was like the right corrective.
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Where is the sense that we owe something to the society that has made us so unbelievably
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What they are giving back is their celebrity, the right for us to admire them.
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It's not just women, although, of course, like, women do this so much worse because we
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I don't remember who it was that went to space.
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Yeah, I think it was Bezos and William Shatner.
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He came back and he said, wow, you know, we're so small vis-a-vis the universe.
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Like, the most banal, like, totally, like, really, you went to space.
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And it's just like, these people are so bored, Megan.
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They have nothing in their lives that they consider to be of value.
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And what's amazing to me is that it seems like Hollywood knows what time it is, even
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Like, you really did see people coming out and being like, what the heck is this?
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Um, I, okay, yeah, the, the, just, I'm still stuck in the fact that Gail King actually used
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the word astronauts in reference to like, we're just like, like an actual astronaut.
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You are there on a vanity project of Jeff Bezos and his fiance.
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You've done absolutely nothing to deserve this.
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And if you don't want people to think it's frivolous, Gail, then don't have the fucking
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Kardashian's craft side as you take off and Oprah that it, that might have something to
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do with our reaction to this as a non-serious event, a PR stunt.
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Back to the blowback, Olivia Munn, she's an actress.
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And, uh, I think she speaks for a lot of us when she's trying to espouse why so many on
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the left and the right had a visceral reaction to this.
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Like, what are you guys going to do up in space?
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I mean, it's, by the way, they're going for 11 minutes.
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I think they're going to float around a little.
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Like you're just going up space mountain, more appropriately space mountain.
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Think about, I know this is probably obnoxious, but like, um, like it's so much money to go
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And there's, we, there's a lot of people who can't even afford eggs.
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And I think, um, I just think there are the cover of Elle magazine.
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Space exploration was to, to like, to further our knowledge and to help mankind.
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I mean, what are they going to do up there that has made it better for us down here?
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I'll give you one more, um, model Emily Ratajkowski, uh, who did a little Instagram post after the
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At space mission this morning, that's in time shit.
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Like this is beyond parody thing that you care about mother earth and it's about mother
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And you're going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's single-handedly
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destroying the planet get the state of the world and think about how many resources went
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into putting these women into space for what, for what, what was the marketing there?
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And then to try to make it like, I I'm disgusted.
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Where's her protest on how many carbon emissions we had to suffer just so that Gail could be
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Uh, Olivia Wilde reposted an image of Katy Perry kissing the ground.
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Honestly, truly, she was asking, she was acting like she got back from Apollo 13, um, kissing
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the rat and she captioned it billion dollars, bought some good memes, I guess.
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Here was Amy Schumer doing her own version of making fun of these women.
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Guys, last second, they added me to space and I'm going to space.
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Um, it has no meaning to me, but, um, it was in my bag and I was like on the subway and I
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got the text and they were like, do you want to go to space?
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So I'm going to space and thank you to everyone who got me here and I'll see you guys in space.
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I mean, like it's, that's what gets them upset.
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That's why Gail did that little, we're inspirational and we're astronauts.
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First of all, that's the funniest I've seen Amy Schumer in maybe 10 years, 15,
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Um, I think that this is kind of a turning point, Megan.
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Like a year ago, you would not have seen the left, like openly admitting, like, this is
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It's almost like these women in their space mission admitted a little bit too much.
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You know, they became, they went from being like the apotheosis of what the leftist elites
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and Hollywood and entertainment represents to just like exposing it a little bit too much.
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Like if the message had been like slightly better, nobody would have come out against
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But now it's very interesting to see the cracks in the very elites that these women come
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There's no purchase for that ostentatious, liberal, vacuous, empty culture anymore.
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And I think we're going to look back on this moment as maybe the moment that we started
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to realize that we were in full on woke lash and people wanted to return to substance and
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to unifying messages and to actual entertainment, actual culture that has real meaning for people.
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And I also think there's the element of it's got it's got a little bit of a stolen valor
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feel to it where we revere our astronauts, our actual astronauts who actually do put themselves
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And we've seen astronauts, actual ones die in the name of this service.
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We've seen even civilians like Kristen McAuliffe when, you know, people of my age were in middle
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school and we all watched that flight take off the space shuttle and and burn in the
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They go through real training, not two days of learning how to buckle your seat belt, which
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That's what they're touting as their training, buckling the seat belt, getting in and out of
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the vessel and learning how to press the button so they could speak to mission control.
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That is not that doesn't make you an astronaut.
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Not OK, sorry, Gail and everybody else on board.
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And so I like she and they actually seem to have expected a Neil Armstrong type welcome
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And I'm really uplifted by the fact that left and right, because I think you and I have
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probably zero in common with Amy Schumer and certainly Olivia Wilde, other than our ability
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One more quick point, which is I forget his name, the astronaut who Elon Musk just rescued
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He went to church services every Sunday from space.
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I can't remember the last time I heard something so inspiring.
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This man was in space and he did not miss a single Sunday service.
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But he brought his spirituality and his faith up into space with him.
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The idea that even there, when you're so close to the heavens and you have this perspective,
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what he was longing for, what his soul needed was to be tied to his faith community here
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And these women went up there in search of meaning and came down just as vacuous as they
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The meaning they came back with was, I am important and I am your hero.
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And again, I mean, my guest made this point yesterday.
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It was a very good one, which is, I think it was, who was it who was making this, Walter
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or on Monday, about how they completely ignored all these same news stations who want us to
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celebrate these women, completely ignored Elon Musk's rescue of those two astronauts on
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They'd been stuck up there for the better part of a year.
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But this vapidity celebrated like the second coming.
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And thank you for everything you do for this great nation and for the Jewish people.
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Department of Homeland Security criticizing conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center
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in Georgia, which at the time was run by ICE and had detained immigrants staying there.
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The letter was primarily about the lack of COVID precautions there, but it also included
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shocking allegations from a nurse named Dan Wooten claiming, Don, I should say, not Dan,
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that's our friend, Don Wooten, claiming that a doctor was performing hysterectomies on nearly
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every patient that he saw, calling him, quote, a uterus collector.
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Well, MSNBC took up the story the very next day with Nicole Wallace, Chris Hayes, and Rachel
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The nurse who contributed to this whistleblower complaint explains it like this, quote,
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quote, everybody this doctor sees has a hysterectomy, just about everybody.
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He's even taken out the wrong ovary on one detained immigrant woman.
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She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary.
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She had to go back to take out the left, and she wound up with a total hysterectomy.
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She still wanted children, so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that
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She said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard the doctor tell the nurse
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The nurse says she and her fellow nurses, quote, questioned among ourselves, like, goodness,
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Everybody he sees, he's taking all their uteruses out, or he's taking their tubes out.
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Dr. Mahendra Amin only performed two medically necessary hysterectomies on detainees at that
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ICE facility, and he was not happy with this report.
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The guy spent his whole life helping underprivileged communities, volunteering his time, helping people
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who cannot pay, and he got viciously smeared originally by this nurse who worked at the
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And The Good Doctor filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal in September,
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They settled after discovery in this case showed that even internally at the news organization,
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they had significant doubts about whether this was true, even as they presented the allegations
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to their audience without reflecting those serious doubts.
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Here now to explain more is Stacey Evans, Dr. Amin's attorney.
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Thank you so much for having me and sharing the story.
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Yes, you're, I'm told, a Democratic lawmaker in the state of Georgia, and that many people
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would not expect you to be suing MSNBC, which is beloved by a lot of Democrats.
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So did you have any hesitancy in taking this case?
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I definitely thought in my mind this could hurt me politically.
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You proclaimed to be this progressive champion.
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And I said, well, it's very easy because he didn't do these terrible things that the media
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is claiming that he did, that MSNBC is claiming that he did, that this alleged whistleblower
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And for me, whether it's a Democratic-leaning media or Republican-leading media, you've got
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I mean, the media is a very important part of our systems, of government, really.
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And so it's my job, I feel like, as a defamation lawyer to hold anyone accountable who's not
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telling the truth, whether that's the network I watch or another network.
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Just so the audience can understand how this got started, I mentioned this nurse who works
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Here she is talking to NBC's Jacob Soberoff and making these allegations against Dr.
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You're quoted in the complaint as saying, that's his specialty, he's the uterus collector.
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That's how the detainees refer to this physician.
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They referred to him as, I had a detainee to ask me, she said, well, what is he doing,
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Ms. Wooten, collecting all of our uteruses?
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And I just looked at her puzzle, because I didn't have an answer.
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Later, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general would conduct an investigation.
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And they released a report finding, based on its medical records review, the National
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Commission on Correctional Healthcare Resources team determined women's healthcare provided
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So they're basically saying that, well, he's not mentioned by name, nothing untoward happened
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there, nothing that wasn't medically necessary.
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They said that Dr. Amin performed mass hysterectomies, high number of hysterectomies, and that they were
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And the court even found in her summary judgment order, Judge Wood of the Southern District
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of Georgia, found in a 108-page order, very clearly, there is no evidence of mass hysterectomies,
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no evidence of high numbers of hysterectomies, and no evidence that Dr. Amin is a uterus collector,
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and also relayed information to make clear that Don Wooten was not telling the truth, and MSNBC was
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When she said all these detainees called Dr. Amin the uterus collector, I took deposition
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after deposition after deposition of women who had been formally detained at Irwin County
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Detention Center and others who had been there, and no one heard him be called the uterus collector
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until after MSNBC's news reports, which the detainees obviously had access to watching television
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But no one admitted to ever using that phrase, and no one even heard it until after the report.
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So MSNBC took these allegations, which were salacious, and it was right in the middle
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We were six weeks before the 2020 election, and they ran with it, and they tried to tie
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Dr. Amin, an immigrant himself, to what they portrayed as terrible, atrocious things that
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were happening to immigrants during the Trump administration.
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I mean, the child separation policies, there were these administrators who were tracking
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Rachel Maddow said that Dr. Amin, my client, a man who's been practicing medicine for over
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35 years, devoted himself to these underserved areas, took on these cases of this of the detainees
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For most of his career, he's been the only or one of only a few OBGYNs in a very wide
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So they said this man, my client, Dr. Amin, one of the most gentle people you'll ever meet,
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was the next chapter in this saga of immigration abuse that's happening in our country.
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Again, an immigrant himself tied him to that without not only not looking as deep as they
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needed to, but the surface level that they did look into told them that these allegations
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from this alleged whistleblower were not corroborated.
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And I appreciate you mentioning the election because it's very interesting.
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I mean, we've seen this so many times where mistakes, mistakes, or intentional misstatements
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get made in service of a political narrative that somebody finds important.
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And I think, obviously, MSNBC was guilty of that here.
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It would hurt him on one of his key issues, you know, immigration.
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He's basically got a Joseph Mengele in there taking out uteruses for fun.
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But that's one of the things I wanted to get into because it wasn't just MSNBC.
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The Guardian, some other publications, mostly left-wing, ran with these same allegations
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And there is a reason that you zeroed in on NBC and MSNBC.
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Well, there were some earlier sort of lesser known print, maybe online publications that
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And then they were the only broadcast media to run with the story.
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And they did it again in the face of, on the same day that they were up reporting, I was
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telling them, we've only got records of two hysterectomies being done at this facility
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At the time, they didn't know if there were other doctors that may be treating women at
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That's what MSNBC did, which was very reckless.
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They had the biggest microphone, the biggest camera, and they blasted his name and blasted
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And that from their own investigation, they had feedback telling them it wasn't there.
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Their own internal people saying, we don't have it.
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And I know we may talk about that more if you want me to go into some of the things that
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I'm running out of time on my SiriusXM live show, and we're going to continue this over
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So I'll start something a little, I'll keep us on something less deep, because that's
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But yeah, so he had multiple news organizations, but MSNBC and NBC was the worst, and the ones
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with the biggest microphone reporting this about them.
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Can I ask you before, in the time we have, do we know why this nurse made these allegations?
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Because I saw some reference to she had an ax to grind.
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Well, she had, she definitely had some issues employment wise with the facility.
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But she was very upset about her status as an employee and being, her hours being cut
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And she was mainly concerned about COVID protections at the facility.
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She was complaining that the safety protocols weren't being followed.
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And she had some, her own health issues that she was worried about and being forced to work
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You know, this 26 page letter, I believe it was total, only one little paragraph about
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But her advocates through this advocacy organization have been trying to get attention on COVID for
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And why she chose to say that he did this, I'll never know.
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So let's talk now about what you discovered about MSNBC and NBC in particular, because this
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was really, you know, I don't know whether you would have won the defamation claim against
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them, even though we now know what they reported was untrue.
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But they did try to cross some T's and dot some I.
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So when I was reading up on the case, I was like, how did they win this?
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And then I got to the page that explains how you won it.
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But just to set it up, they did try to do some things.
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They reached out, right, to the doctor for comment.
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And they included, I think, his denial in the ultimate report that it wasn't true.
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Um, but that, as it turns out, wasn't sufficient because why?
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Well, they did include his, um, his denial, which was general.
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Um, and one of the things to keep in mind here, and that was very frustrating for Dr.
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He can't go digging through his medical records and throw them up on the screen and say, see
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Um, he cannot talk about specific things that happen with them.
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And so that general denial was, was all he could do.
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Um, but what, what was true and what we just got worse as we were peeling back the layers
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during discovery is this whole thing started with, um, Julia Ainsley and Jacob Stoverhoff
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were writing, working together on an, on an article that was going to be for, um, NBC News
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online and they were calling, um, immigration lawyers in Georgia, obviously speaking to
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Don Wooten and what they found in the course of doing that is that the immigration lawyers
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were telling them, you know, when this story broke, we started calling our colleagues.
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One of the immigration lawyers that they talked to was, um, a leader in this 15,000 plus
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member, um, association of immigration lawyers all across the country.
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And she had access to all the ones there on the Southeast and Georgia in particular.
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They were not seeing high numbers of hysterectomies.
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And they told the reporters at MSNBC, that's unclear whether it was Jacob that they told
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or Julia, but they told one of them, we are not seeing it.
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We are asking people to report to us and we are not seeing it, um, going to air.
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They really only had hard evidence of one hysterectomy.
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Um, and, and they had that from an immigration lawyer who told them, and she had cancer.
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Now they said they had more than that, but, but they never did.
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That's what ice was saying is that there were two, two reported out from ice, um, and that
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they were, uh, approved through their internal procedures to be, to be necessary.
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And then you had standards who was looking at that article standards and practices.
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We've talked about them with my audience there.
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It's at NBC, it's pretty rigorous where you go through this team of lawyers and sort of
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professional journalists who make sure or try that you don't defame people in your reporting.
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And especially when you have a report like this, that's incendiary.
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I mean, you're setting this guy on fire with these allegations.
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And I, and I, I personally felt sorry for Christopher Scholl was the deputy head of standards at the
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time and he was clearly pushing back and he was saying, we have this one source.
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She has no direct knowledge because she, she told even Jacob Soboroff, I didn't go with
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I mean, never set foot onto the campus of Irwin County detention center.
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The women were brought to his private medical office.
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Don Wooten said the alleged whistleblower, I didn't go there.
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And the deputy head of standards is pointing this out guys.
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Hey, we have one source with no direct knowledge.
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We've got these folks saying, maybe we found one.
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You've got, I say, and there's two, we don't have it.
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And there's evidence that we developed that, that standards never actually approved that
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online news report, which ended up being the basis for all the on air.
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But there's, there's some emails later where the deputy head of standards is saying, these
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articles shouldn't go out without standards, seeing a final version, and they should not
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be considered approved based on answers to questions, which is all there was back and
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All these emails, questions, answers, questions, answers, but then more questions.
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And then all of a sudden the news article is up and Julia Ainsley's on deadline White House.
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And then from there, you know, it goes to Chris Hayes.
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Was the original article on NBC.com or MSNBC.com?
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And those warnings from standards and practices were issued prior to them posting that article
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Prior to posting the article online and prior to any on air, including the deadline White
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And then you also had, you had Chris Hayes behind the scenes internally with standards
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saying, you know, this whole thing went viral because it sort of brings up all these
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Third Reich, Jim Crow, Mississippi hospitalization experiments.
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It brings up all these bad historical implications, but that's not true here.
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That same night he goes on his show and he says, this story went viral because of the
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historical ramifications of any kind of coerced sterilization of an immigrant population.
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So the exact same thing that he said, this is not internally, he told the viewers, that's
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why this is such a big story, because this is what it makes us think of.
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It was very, very reckless and very disappointing to me to see that, see it happen this way.
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Here he is having that same nurse on his show again, after all these warnings from standards
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I had several detained women on numerous occasions that would come to me and say, Ms.
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I had no answers as to why they had those procedures.
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And one lady walked up to me here this last time around between October of 19 until July
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And she says, everybody that I talked to has had a hysterectomy.
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I mean, I don't have an answer for why that they would come to me and they would say, is
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Now, in that interview, did Chris Hayes express strong skepticism?
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Like, was there anything to mitigate the damage in those allegations?
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It would have been one thing to say, OK, here's what Don Wooten is saying.
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But we haven't been able to verify from anyone who was actually in the room.
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We're being skeptical here, which internally they were saying, standards was saying to Chris
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There were, I don't remember if it was Chris Hayes or other on-air talent or his producers
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And our hero is here to share the truth with us, just really putting her up on a pedestal
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and then calling Dr. Amin a so-called medical professor, a professional, so-called medical
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That's how things were going behind the scenes.
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So they're definitely saying one thing behind the scenes, and then they're saying another
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So you've got Nicole Wallace at Deadline White House.
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And then after that, you've got Rachel Maddow, which really took it to the next level.
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And we alluded to it earlier when she made this really an election issue and said, this
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is the Trump administration's mistreatment of immigrants.
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And going through the child separation policy and going through tracking of immigrant women's
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menstrual cycles when they're in detention, and now Dr. Amin, the next chapter.
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And that was such a terrible, outlandish thing to say.
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But even more so because earlier that day, when she was internal records during discovery
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revealed, she had been having her production meeting with her team.
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And she starts out saying, if it's true, we should go with it.
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I think there's a lot of jumping to conclusions.
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And then according to the document, eight minutes later, she is saying, this is going
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And this is going to be the chapter of this immigration situation with no evidence that
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And so many people look up to her as a smart and hardworking and thorough journalist.
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And for her to be so flippant about Dr. Amin and what he did here just was really too much.
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Did she explain in the deposition why the change of heart in eight minutes?
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And in fact, for her and some of the other folks that we deposed on air talent, but also
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producers, what struck me was how flippant folks were about, that was a long time ago.
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And yeah, maybe it was a flashpoint in time for you.
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Maybe you can move on from it in a second and put it out of your mind and not worry
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He had to live with the death threats, the bomb threats, the constant calls to his office,
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the following of him, the name calling, some of the most vile things to be called.
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His own staff, he had several Hispanic women working for him.
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And they took also flack in their own communities and with their family and friends because they
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They knew that how these women were treated, which was well when they were in Dr. Amin's
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Can you tell the story, Stacey, of what happened with his son, who was off to the Cleveland
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Dr. Amin's son, his middle name is Mahindra, the same as Dr. Amin's first name,
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And, um, when all of the, the news hit and Dr. Amin was very scared about what was going
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to happen to him and others, he immediately thought of his son and he called his son.
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He said, you might get calls because your name is so close to mine.
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Um, and if you get calls, just tell them you don't know me, just tell them that you don't
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know me, that it's just a coincidence that you have the same name because he was so concerned
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that his son who had just gotten his dream job was going to be affected negatively, um,
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about this so much so that he was just like, pretend like you don't know me.
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I mean, Dr. Amin is a father of four, um, caring husband, doctor, father, and, and to
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Especially in light of what you just said, which is they had doubts.
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They did that because they thought it was a story that was going to work for team blue
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and for their own ratings, notwithstanding their knowledge that there were serious holes
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That's really kind of how it sounds like I've ruined a lot of people since Dr.
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Um, look, I have empathy for news organizations because we're all in a position of trying to report
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And that really makes a villain out of the actors you've mentioned is that they knew or
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If they had her word, they couldn't get in touch with Dr.
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They didn't get a denial and they, they reported it straight as look, she's filed this whistleblower
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We're going to continue to try to reach out to him and get comment, whatever.
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But they didn't, they actually did go beyond that.
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And when they got there, they learned that the story had a tons of holes in it.
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And then even then you could potentially avoid liability.
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If you went on the air and said, here are the allegations and here are all the holes in
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Like that too could potentially spare you, but just going with these are the allegations.
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And without reporting any of the serious problems you've discovered behind the scenes, that's
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what got you to defamation because for some reason they decided to treat him as a public
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figure, even though it wasn't, but whatever, it's not important.
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Um, so you had a higher burden and bringing a defamation claim, um, against MSNBC and NBC.
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And you had to prove actual malice on their part that they knew what they were saying was
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false or behaved in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.
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And I think that latter point is that's where all these messages came in.
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You, you submitted in the case, um, text messages between Julia Ainsley, who you mentioned in
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Jacob's Jacob Soboroff, she texts to him saying, but only two hysterectomies, or do you think
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She's trying to say, maybe they referred others and we don't have a record of them.
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And Soboroff answers, I think it's possible or likely lots of lawyers saying it.
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Um, then you've got this one source, an immigration lawyer named Sarah Owings, who told Soboroff
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that she and her colleagues were not finding evidence of a large number of hysterectomies.
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The Rachel Maddow meeting that you just outlined that guy, you mentioned from standards and
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practices, Chris Scholl, you say standards weighed in on this prior to the airing of the
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reports, but this is from a follow-up segment that Chris Hayes was going to do two days after
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the original report where standards, this guy, Chris Scholl is jumping up and down saying that
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The quotes are, uh, Scholl saying, we don't know if the doctor did anything wrong here.
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Scholl doubted the credibility of that nurse Wooten in the same call quote, and the whistleblower
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Scholl admitted in the deposition, the network did not know the truth.
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And as to televising the accusations, he said, we would have to approach this with a great
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deal of transparency with viewers and say, look, we don't know the truth.
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That's my understanding too, Stacey, that like, when you've got somebody making, you know,
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whistleblower allegations like that, and you've got a strong denial on the other side, you
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investigate it and you find a bunch of reasons to doubt the allegations.
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It's a judgment call as to whether you tank the story entirely, but in some instances,
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Like if it's big enough and it's like serious enough, you might put it on the air anyway,
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but you would have to outline all the doubts that had been found in your reporting about
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it so that the viewers knew to keep a very healthy dose of skepticism on the allegations.
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I mean, that's really what the guy from standards was saying is that if we're going to do this,
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we've got to, we've got to caveat it with this and this and this, and then it's worth
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And he acknowledges during one of those internal calls too with Chris Hayes and his producers,
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hey, we can get to the bottom of this and we can find out.
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But by the time we find out, we're not going to want to do the story anymore.
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I mean, really just sort of acknowledging how they were rushing here.
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I mean, the media, the media has an important job and I know it's got to be hard.
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And, and I've had cases that have come to me and I've started looking at them and I'm
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But when you find out facts that tell you it's not, when you're in the media and you
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have, you think you have this great story, but then you find out facts that tell you,
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that show to you that it's not, you have to stop.
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I think Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff, they had done this book on, or Soboroff had
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They had won some awards for reporting in that.
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They wanted it so much that even though their own sources, their own immigration lawyers
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Even though ICE was saying two hysterectomies, even though this was not a firsthand account,
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they just couldn't stop themselves from doing it.
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And then those text messages that you showed, some of those go into the night after the
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And you have them even saying, gosh, I've got to know if it's true.
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Do we think that the attorneys that did talk to us and told us that they found one, do we
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I've heard mixed things about Don Woot and the alleged whistleblower.
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It's a hard job, but when you learn better, when you know better, you do better.
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If it's okay, I wanted to real quickly, you mentioned how we had to meet that actual malice
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So I have to pat ourselves on the back for that for our team.
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Right, because you would have expected that this judge could have thrown your case out
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And that's really what I think led to the settlement, right?
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The judge did not throw out the case at summary judgment.
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In fact, you got summary judgment on the critical facts of your case, which is, it is not true
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We got, we got, it's so rare for a plaintiff to get summary judgment.
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We got summary judgment on several of the statements being false as a matter of law.
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And she said, no evidence of mass hysterectomies, no evidence of high numbers of hysterectomies.
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If the case had continued, we'd be in trial right now or next week.
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Um, but we had to prove actual malice here, even though Dr.
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Amin is not a public figure because Georgia has a very, um, strict anti-SLAPP statute,
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um, strategic lawsuit against public participation is what SLAPP stands for, for the viewers
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Um, and so when you have statements on air or in publications about issues of public concern,
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which this was deemed to be that you have to reach that actual malice standard, um,
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There's been some, we could get nerdy on the law.
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There's been a little bit of changes since, since that happened.
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And I have some disagreement about how that was applied here, but that's why it wasn't
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because he was a public figure, but because in, in this case, the court had deemed this
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And so we had to meet that higher standard, which is very, very hard.
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Well, NBC saw it coming because once they lost at summary judgment and you were barreling
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toward trial, I think they understood exactly how this is going to go over in front of a
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And I've, I've heard you say you're very happy with the settlement.
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Well, the settlement terms themselves are confidential, so I really can't.
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Um, but I can say that Dr. Amin is very happy to be able to move on from this.
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I mean, this is, we filed this case in the fall of 2021.
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So this has been going on for a very long time for him.
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Um, and so he's very glad to be able to move on from it and, and very glad that, that you
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and some others have been interested in sharing his story because it's, um, it's been so hurtful
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And so to be able to, to have the truth come out, to be able to get that, um, that accountability,
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um, for the truth, uh, just means so much to him.
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And I appreciate you letting us tell that story.
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Um, I don't, other than when I told him he needed to wear, um, a business casual outfit,
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at least for his deposition, I've never seen the man not in scrubs.
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He's coming in scrubs because he's, he'll, he'll take a break and he'll go, he'll get
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He just wants to know, when can I get back to seeing patients?
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The community, um, fortunately still loves him down there.
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Um, he, he had some trouble for a while, but everybody, um, luckily it seems like everyone's
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come back around and he'll, he'll never know all the naysayers that are out there.
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And yeah, all he wants to do is practice medicine.
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There's, there never was a lawsuit against the nurse, right?
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There actually is a pending lawsuit against her.
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We have a, um, state court case against, um, Sinclair Broadcasting and Don Wooten, um, jointly
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that's pending right now in Tift County, uh, Superior Court.
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Cause I saw, she spoke out to the guardian or at least the guardian offered a, an article
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about her in 2022 and, uh, she, she's blaming a very low dejected mental state on, on her
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time as a whistleblower saying, uh, post whistleblowing, I am on antidepressants.
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At one time I was suicidal, couldn't pay the bills, still can't pay the bills.
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I'm back trying to figure out how I'm going to make ends meet, et cetera.
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It's in a, we we've got a procedural issue that we've got to work through before we get
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And so a lot is still sort of paused, but I do think it's worthy, uh, of note that the
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government accountability project, which were her lawyers throughout the, the media frenzy,
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um, and, and it was a representative of the government accountability project that was
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on air with her at Chris Hayes, the government accountability project.
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If you go to their website and you scroll down to the bottom of their homepage, you will
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Um, basically retracting anything bad they've ever said about Dr.
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Amin and his medical practices, accusing him of mass hysterectomies, everything like that.
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I don't see anything like that from Don Wooten.
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We'll see if we ever get there, but at least, um, the lawyers that were with her at this
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crucial time back in the fall of 2020, they have retracted it all.
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You don't get that every day in practicing defamation law.
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Thank you so much for coming on and telling his story and all the best to both you and
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Speaking of good doctors, uh, we're going down to interview one exclusively Dr.
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Marty McCary, the new head of the FDA praise Jesus will be on this show tomorrow.
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You guys have seen him on this show as Johns Hopkins doctor who pushed back against some
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He came on to talk about his book, which is very Maha friendly.
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And now I'm dying to talk to him about what he has found in the first couple of weeks,
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He's an honest broker and there aren't a lot of them in, you know, these medical policy setting