Church Agitators ARRESTED... But is Don Lemon Next? With Allie Beth Stuckey, Rob Henderson, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 1236
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The FBI arrests three people in connection with the ICE protest at City s Church in St. Paul, Minnesota on Sunday, including a black woman named Nakima Levy Armstrong and Chantelle Allen, who are charged with violating the First Amendment right to exercise her First Amendment rights.
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Live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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that the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations team
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have made arrests over that outrageous ICE protests.
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It was terrorism at City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota on Sunday.
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and Chantille Allen have been taken into custody for violating the FACE Act.
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Thanks for inviting your pal Don Lemon and your BLM pals,
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or interferes with or attempts to do those things
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or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right
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of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
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We've got video of Armstrong being taken into custody.
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And look at this large, unhappy woman with her hands.
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She was so proud of what she was doing to those Christians
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The Klan Act, you could go to jail for 10 years
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Yes, BLM lady, you are being charged under the Klan Act
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because it's basically conspiracy against rights.
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If you engage in a conspiracy to violate somebody's civil rights,
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like their right to worship, you're in a lot of trouble.
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So, look, it's still going to have to be charged,
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or going to have to be tried in a Minneapolis federal courtroom,
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And in general, you might have a better jury pool.
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I'm just saying he's at least got another excuse for being there
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that he could try to use to prey upon the sympathies of a jury.
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at the start of his six-hour live stream on Sunday.
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And I can't tell you exactly what they're doing,
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And she has been doing this since George Floyd,
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catch them off guard, and hold them to account.
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And then after that, after we do this operation,
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Don Lemon's not always the most reliable reporter,
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We're going there with the purpose of disrupting them.
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do you think you might confront her with those facts?
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Like we were just trying to participate in the service.
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and said that it was desecrating a house of worship.
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justice for Renee Good and hands up, don't shoot.
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until I got up and posed that question to the pastor.
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well this reeks of politics i can smell it here
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don lemon a shield against violating the rights
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and calling yourself a journalist might make you a journalist
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within the meaning of the fourth amendment but you does not
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it doesn't mean that you get to use it as a defense to violate other people's
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megan magistrate judges federal magistrate judges they are not
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appointed by any president they're not confirmed by
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by the judges who are the appointed judges on the court so they are
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hired from the local community okay these are lawyers probably
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people with certain political connections who wound up getting these
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together along with the fact that there have been
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i believe that's what it's about now the justice department
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is not stuck here they can always go to the grand jury and they can get an
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indictment this magistrate's word is not and will not be mark my words
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the last one on the subject so they they would have to go to a federal
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grand jury that's already impaneled that right isn't that how it works and
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you kind of get in front of it and you make your case on
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both of these laws yeah one way or another it can go to
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i think there might be a way i was trying to research this um before we
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came on air um i think there might be a way for
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prosecutors to get another bite at the apple by going to an article three judge
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or perhaps a a different court a district court judge who's
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who's been placed uh with lifetime tenure on the court
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yeah but there are options look don lemon has won round one um and it's
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probably like i said due to politics but i don't think it's over for him
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i've seen the same videos and the evidence that you have and that your
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audience has seen uh and what i see is i see a person who is
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acting together with people who are committing a crime he is
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he is encouraging he's an active participant he's encouraging just by
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being there and that takes you out of the realm of being a casual observer
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and squarely into the realm of being a participant it doesn't take much to be an
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accessory it simply takes um facts that would show that you were
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actively involved that you encouraged uh that you helped in some way even if it's
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just a tiny way and just by being there and giving
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inspiration to those people i think that could perhaps be enough
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so i think let's not forget let's not forget phil that he showed up
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with his cameras which actually is encouragement to the blm types
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that's what they wanted they wanted to make a splash with it
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they loved the fact that they were on camera with don lemon there's video of
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him hugging and kissing this nakima levy armstrong clearly the two of them are
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very familiar with one another he knew was happening happening at a church
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before others did that was obvious he came in he got in the face of that pastor
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who clearly who made clear no one wants to talk to you he kept it pushing he's on
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camera saying trauma is part of the process being forced to feel
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uncomfortable is part of the process he argued that the first amendment allowed
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people that the first amendment allowed them to be all of this
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is assistance and participation in the actual protest it's not journalism
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no it's it's i think you laid out the case exactly right it's it's squarely in the
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realm of participation he's not just a bystander i think no one would
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dispute that uh someone even if it's an amateur journalist or a former
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cnn journalist don lemon has a first amendment right to engage in news
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gathering and and airing the news showing the news nobody
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disputes that but you can't you can't take that step um over into the other
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arena and become an active participant and that i think under the totality of
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shows that that's what don lemon was he will be arrested when there's a will
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there's a way the doj is going to find a way around
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i said this is something that uh most people don't understand but
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magistrate judges and what what is the local community we're looking at well
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it's the minneapolis st paul area uh and you just can take a look at the
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news to see what the local politics are there so that's sort of you may have a
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problem with the grand jurors too because look what happened with the tish
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james case which was a real case and we took a hard
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look at those allegations the audience is aware
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that that was not the bullshit case that uh her her defenders claimed it was
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but it got thrown out because the prosecutor they said wasn't properly
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appointed and then when they tried to rebring it
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um with the proper prosecutor behind it they had i think two grand juries say no
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because they're they're immersed in news coverage that is saturated with
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messaging about how shitty the case is how there's no
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they're there how it's just political retribution
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and these grand jurors they they're allowed to watch the news they take it in
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and they're like oh this is wrong so a grand jury sitting in minneapolis right
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because that like that's a leftist town to begin with and then
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you know those leftist democrats are going to be mad at ice and not mad at don
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lemon well i think that's probably why they decided to try to go the route of
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the arrest warrant eventually they would have to get an indictment anyway
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following the arrest unless there was a plea deal worked out then they could file
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what's something called an information uh if somebody's going to plead guilty
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and you can bypass the grand jury but i think that's why they went the route
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of seeking the arrest warrant from the federal magistrates look
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the local cops could have gone in and found a local judge to make these arrests too
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because you know that was um that was trespassing it was lots of other things
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probably that violated state law but when the federal when the
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local government local authorities refused to do their duty
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they refused to do their sworn duty to protect the community to enforce and
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carry out the laws somebody else has to step in and do it the
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federal government is not well suited for this this is typically the kind of
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thing that the locals should do but when they refuse to do it nobody else is
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left and so now the the attorney general and the department of justice has to
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step in and try to fill that role a role that admittedly is not uh they're not
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really designed to operate in this space you know local street level crime uh is
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maybe we have a group of people that doesn't want to enforce the law
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here's another interesting thing mayor jacob fry has said nothing nothing
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about the church terror nothing it's not a word he's so he's got opinions on
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everything phil but not one word in defense of the the people who are inside
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that church and now he comes out and weighs in on the
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arrest this morning with the following this is a gross abuse of power he tweeted
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it the federal government is picking and choosing who to investigate going after
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protesters and not the person who shot and killed one of our neighbors i am
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calling for nakima to be released immediately i mean he's whistling in the
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wind he can call for it all he wants the answer is no
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that pam bondi doesn't answer to him but do you believe the nerve of this mayor
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to he says nothing about the churchgoers but this now he finally thinks it's time
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to weigh in yeah uh look i'm surprised and i'm really i'm not ruling it out but
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i'm surprised that he might not be on the list of people also uh who are to be
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arrested because look it's one thing to be uh to use his words you know to be an
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advocate for your constituents and for the local community but
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i believe that some of the statements made by waltz
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um and um the mayor there as well have have gone beyond simply advocating for
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your constituents um i believe that their rhetoric
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encourages violence i think that now they are trying to take some steps back now
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that we've seen some people get hurt and someone's been killed
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uh i think they're trying to take a more moderate stance now but very early on and
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even you know to a certain extent later their rhetoric fuels this fire it's like
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literally pouring gasoline on the fire every time they take to x and every time they take
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to a microphone bank for a a press conference because all they do is stir people up and encourage
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more violence i wouldn't be surprised if they're not allowed phil they're like the state
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authority it's the federal immigration authorities enforce immigration law and the state can help
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they absolutely can help and in the red states they do um but they're not required to help under the
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you know federalism principles like the states have their own sort of experiments going and they don't
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have to help but they can't obstruct so like neutrality in the enforcement procedure is okay
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but actively working to undermine the federal government or like trying to block the federal
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government that actually can get you an obstruction charge or or some other charge and that's why
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walls fry and ellison and i think another all got subpoenas a grand jury subpoena that
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pam bondy had already gotten right to figure out like what have you been emailing to each other what
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have you been texting what have you been texting to your staff like how involved are you in making
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these protests that are obstructing us happen yeah there's probably lots of things that are happening
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that are behind the scenes that we don't know about that walls and uh his compatriots there and
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the mayor might be actively supporting these people but it's it's as you correctly pointed out you can
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you can stand out and you can voice your opinion uh but you can't tell your constituents to take to the
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streets and obstruct ICE because once you do that you have crossed the line into open rebellion
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against the united states government look you talk about federal uh authorities cooperating with
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certain state authorities in certain places these are people who are serious criminals right and so
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if if you can hand them over from the security of a jail to immigration authorities which is the way
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it's always been done up until the last year or so a couple years anyway um then you know you don't
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have people out in the streets you don't have ICE uh going out home to home door to door conducting
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these searches and executing these raids you have it all done safely and securely uh in a jail
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environment and people don't see it but now we have to go on the streets we have to go home to home
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door to door business to business and have this on the ground presence and when you have the mayor
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and the governor fanning these flames of active resistance there's nothing else that you can call
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that except open rebellion against the united states yeah they could be facing charges soon if if they
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can get a magistrate judge to sign off on it um i'm going to repeat this reporting but i want to tell
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you we don't have this confirmed um it this is from an individual who is his name is brian kimber he
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hosts world news with brian kimber he's retired air force he worked as a security officer for the
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department of defense he says um he's followed by a lot of people who we love and admire and he is
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reporting the following again take it with a grain of salt because we don't know his reporting and it's
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only one person uh federal law enforcement tells me that one of the two women arrested today had rented
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three separate hotel rooms they were waiting for her to come out so as not to make a huge scene the
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manager of the hotel parentheses pissed because she was treating staff like garbage and parens told her
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she had a package in the lobby update here federal law enforcement tells me that every person who
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entered that church is getting a warrant and that they are also using phone records to add conspiracy
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charges on top of everything else i specifically asked about don lemon haven't heard back yet and then
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he writes on the three hotel rooms they did not know which one she was in and did not want to kick
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three doors in in a hotel so they just waited and then told her she had a package in the lobby so
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that's that could be true i mean that sounds right it tracks but i will tell you what is true for sure
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william kelly is now in federal custody let's take a look at the pictures we knew it was coming and
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indeed the good news is mr loudmouth tough guy is now in federal custody he's in handcuffs for the
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listening audience not looking so tough looking a little shocked frankly that his arms are behind
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his back and he's being taken away and he won't be able to go out and agitate in the churches of
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america at least for the next few days and good because this is one person i think it's safe to say
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who will not be avoiding charges either with a leftist jury or otherwise it's just too clear
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fell his harassment of those parishioners he's clear everybody who was in there is clear and if that
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reporting is true that they're all getting warrants i say great go for it because they were all
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committing crimes that guy by the way i'm not sure you got the right guy because that looks a lot like
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the guy who i saw testifying in congress today named jack smith i'm not sure if maybe they were
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separated at birth or or what but can you imagine if that's jack smith's like side gig you know it's in
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the gig economy that's what he does that's why he also has a presence in washington dc outside of
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phoenix that's church no in any event so so that guy um that what was his name again megan um that
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you the picture we just showed um i keep yeah they all they all run together but he's the one that's
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out there daring uh the federal authorities i dare you to come get me my lawyer says you can't do
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anything my lawyer says this my lawyer says that well you know what lawyers are wrong sometimes i'm
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even wrong i'm on i'm actually wrong a lot but um i don't think i'm wrong about this i think that
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anyone who takes uh their lawyer's advice to mean that they can go out and actively oppose and
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obstruct law enforcement and also that then that they can trample on the first amendment and other
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rights of other citizens you know there are people in that community like the hotel manager that have
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you know they've had enough of this shit you know they're tired of these people they want they want
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this out of their their community they want it out of their towns i think we have a vocal probably a
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minority but we also have a lot of astroturf outsiders that are brought in the people of
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minnesota by and large and minneapolis they want their communities back they want these hellraisers and
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protesters and criminals out of there uh and they want this whole thing to probably go away if the
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truth be told here's the crazy thing you know they they want to paint these protesters as like they
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went in and filed a lawsuit uh last week and they got a judge to agree with them that ice should be
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banned from spraying pepper spray against i mean the ruling is basically against protesters who
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aren't disrupting or obstructing okay well that's already the law i mean like that's that this ruling
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is totally pointless right but the truth is they are actually getting in the faces of police officers
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and there's a report out today but in the daily wire that there's this radical ice watch group there's
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a couple of minnesota recruiting white folks to quote break black arrestees out of cop cars
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that the group was a leftist volunteer immigration and they are telling people how to perform a de-arrest
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saying how you've got to pull the cop off of the arrestee you've got to break their hold by hitting
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the cop's hand you got to open the cop car you got to break the zip tie cuffs you may get hurt or
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arrested but you have to do it you can't let even one black person be taken you as a white person have
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to set the arrestees free all of that is what's the word we use in the law illegal phil yeah probably
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will get arrested definitely would get i mean they get hurt definitely will get arrested probably get
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hurt uh in the minute or so we got left here i see i want to just ask this question and i don't
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know the answer the federal courts are not very well equipped to deal with um this type of of case
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this many arrests um they are they are accustomed to dealing with a more orderly process these types
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of street level arrests are always taken through the local court system dealt with by local judges
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local prosecutors better equipped to deal with the volume federal courts aren't i would like to have
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some reporting in a week two weeks a month three months from now to find out what happened to these
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cases for these people who are getting arrested were they actually prosecuted were they just released
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on bail and their charges dismissed uh i would like to hear some follow-up not just out of you
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mean the illegals going back all the way to los angeles to find out what happened the church
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oh yeah i mean all these all these street level arrests yeah we'll be fought we'll be following
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everything everybody from this church very carefully all right phil thank you for pinch hitting we
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appreciate you getting on so quickly tomorrow on the show assistant attorney general for civil rights
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at the doj her meet dylan what a day to have her see you then
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thanks for listening to the megan kelly show no bs no agenda and no fear
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