Media's "Don't Say Gay" Misinformation, and Durham Probe Reality, with Dave Rubin and Paul Sperry | Ep. 278
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Summary
Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report, joins me on The Megyn Kelly Show to talk about his dog, Clyde, who almost knocked Megyn down when he jumped on her and tried to eat her eggs. Megyn and Dave talk about how to deal with a dog like this, and what to do about it.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.
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Oh, we made it, right? You're having that feeling like we made it.
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So, so happy to have with me today, Dave Rubin, my pal and host of The Rubin Report.
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So, Megyn, I'm doing well. You know, before we get going here on, you know, the serious issues of the day that I know we have to cover,
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I have to tell you that right now I'm missing a very important appointment to be with you because my dog, Clyde,
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who when you came to my house, jumped on you, almost knocked you down.
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You love dogs. You didn't mind. You were cool with it.
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But he is being trained downstairs right now. I'm supposed to be in the training, but I said, no, Clyde, you're going to have to figure this out on your own.
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I am with Megyn Kelly right now so that next time you come here, he will not maul you.
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Let me tell you something. I'm so jealous because I have Thunder. She's a good girl. She's going to be three.
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And then she was so good. We said, wouldn't two be even better?
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And along came little Strudwick, same dog, you know, their English labs.
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He's a red. She's a yellow. And he is a delightful, adorable, loving menace.
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He's such a menace. Oh, my God. He's so bad, Dave. So bad.
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And we sent him away to military camp. He had to go to military school and he came back and he was amazing for a week.
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Oh, and then he lost it after a week. Totally lost it.
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I thought about doing it. We discussed it. Are we just going to send him away for a while?
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But we're going to try to do it here. He's three also. And he's been great for two years.
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But something about, as you know, we moved to Florida, something about the lizards out on the streets.
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I think there's so many lizards out here and iguanas and peacocks and squirrels and also it's just he's on edge.
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So we're just we're going to work through it. It's going to be OK.
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And my my audience knows we got our dog trainer was like, you got to put the shock collar on.
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And then as soon as he went over to eat my other dog's crap, I was like,
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we haven't we haven't done the shock collar, but we do have some treats that kind of take the edge off.
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I'm not going to say what's in the treats. This is a family friendly show, but they're doing the trick.
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Oh, my God. We have to talk offline about about those.
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I'm totally legit. I got them a peco. It's got like ashwagandha in it or something.
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It's I want it. I want it right now. Well, yeah, in any event, let me tell you, my dog's lucky.
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He's so cute. Very lucky. He's so cute. Otherwise, I don't know what I'd be doing beginning and no love from me every day.
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I mean, literally every day there's something new. It's like and now he's taken out just to get off of this.
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But like my my three kids will sit at the kitchen counter in the morning is the kind of counter where like they can have a stool that pulls up to it,
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you know, like a kitchen island and they'll sit there and they eat their eggs or whatever.
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The dog will literally jump up in between them.
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He will he won't even go to the left or the right of them, which would be the easiest way.
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Jump up on his hind legs and he will grab their eggs on toast right off of their plates.
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Megan, dogs are animals. That's my main takeaway from the show today.
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They don't tell me if your guy maybe you could slip that one in as if it were yours since you're still on the pay clock and I'm not.
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You know, I got nobody to call. Maybe you could just slip that one in like it's Clyde's issue and get back to me on what he says to do.
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Oh, yes, yes. Clyde's been eating the kids' eggs off the table.
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OK, so I have a challenge for you to kick things off.
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Florida, I've been told that if you even say the G word in the privacy of your own home, that Ron DeSantis is goons will burst through the door, put a black bag on your head, drag you out and bring you to the gulag.
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I have no doubt that you're on the very short list of of people that have been covering it, honestly.
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But this is like just the perfect example of what the left in the media does with absolutely everything.
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They take something that is either nothing or really a pretty good bill, a pretty good bill, basically saying that if you're kindergarten to third grade, that teachers cannot talk to you about in essence about sex.
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It's about gender identity and sexuality, but they can't talk to you about those things and that they certainly can't hide that conversation from the parent.
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It has nothing to do with homophobia or transphobia or anything else.
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The fact that they call it the don't say gay bill and then everyone repeats it over and over and over again, that CNN brings on all of these people to talk about homophobia, suicide in kids.
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I know they're older than than first, second grade, but it's like, you know, I have a second grader.
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So actually, I was just at my my seven year old niece's birthday party on Sunday.
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You know, that's the thing that the kids are doing now.
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My sister's not thrilled with the slime, but, you know, they take shaving cream and they color it and whatever.
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These kids, the idea of sexuality at seven, seven years old or gender identity, the idea that anyone would be talking about it to them, whether it's a friend or whatever, but that a state employee should talk to them about it and then be able to hide that conversation.
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But the media just lies about everything, everything.
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They are so like they're in full woe is me mode.
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There was somebody on the House floor in Florida crying.
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Is this soundbite five to my team crying about like, how could they do this?
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And all what the bill says is it doesn't say don't say gay.
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It says and I'll actually read it to the audience so that they can understand exactly what we're dealing with here.
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It's not at all, of course, what the media is saying.
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They say, among other things, not having to do with any of this, they say we're prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels.
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And then it goes on to clarify classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade three or in a manner that's not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.
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So you can't don't talk about sexual orientation or gender identity to K through third graders.
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And beyond that, make sure the discussion is age appropriate.
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Do we really think that teachers are engineering students to become gay?
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School boards are not, in fact, conspiring to turn children gay.
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Why didn't they tell you that before you got there?
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I know you're no longer an atheist because of Jordan Peterson.
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Have you crossed over to celebrating Lent to take it?
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In times such as these, you have to swear every now and again.
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Especially if you do what we do, where we're trying to combat nonsense all day long.
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I'm not trying to demand that people really believe or have the exact worldview that I have.
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But I'm trying to just debunk some of the nonsense so people can think clearly for themselves,
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And when we're doing that all day long, every now and again, you got to curse because these
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That guy there, that state senator Farmer is his last name.
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He tweeted out he had the he had the gay he had a sticker on his face and tape on his
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I was like, wow, he's really making a point with a duct tape on his face with a beard.
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I put that black duct tape on my face and ripped it off.
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I invited him on the show truly to say why you think this is so important.
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It got something like twenty five thousand likes.
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Now, I'm not I'm not doing this to get into a Twitter war of likes, but it's like it's like,
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I would love to have you on the show so you can explain this to me because maybe maybe I'm
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I didn't mention anything of my sexuality, which, by the way, is completely irrelevant
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If anything, I think the average gay person should be more against this stuff than, say,
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the average straight person, because they're making us all look like like really crazy,
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And most of the gay people that I know are just like you, Megan.
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I mean, it's literally they're telling they're telling you they want to be able to have these
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But then they're also saying and we shouldn't have to tell the parents about it.
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And Florida law actually has an exception, which I thought was good for if you think that that
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telling the parents that such a discussion took place would endanger the child.
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Basically, it allows for school districts to withhold such information from parents if
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a reasonably prudent person would determine that disclosure could lead to abuse, abandonment
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So, you know, in other words, if a teacher knows you've got some lunatic parent at home
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who's like some crazy bigot, if that's out in the open and, you know, calling up the
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teacher to say little Johnny came home and he told me at school he's gay, you don't want
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to set the child up for abuse that I get that makes that just shows Florida legislatures
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are trying to find the right balance between parental rights and the well-being of the children.
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It's about teaching when it's appropriate at age appropriate levels.
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And the fact that the media is just not explaining that properly again, no kid, literally no kid,
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Megan, I mean, tell me in all in your years of being a parent, did your first grader ever
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come home and start talking about gender identity?
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This is not something that kids are thinking about.
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Now, if this was about 11th graders who let's say when I'm not that old, I'm 45.
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But when I was in seventh grade, we had health class.
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OK, and you started learning about some of this stuff.
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Now, maybe you knew about some of it because you had older siblings or your parents taught
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you at home or you had friends, whatever it might be.
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But in seventh grade, that's the way they used to do it.
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But let's say by 11th grade, Florida was really banning any discussion of sexuality in
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Well, then there would be something to discuss and we could we could have an honest discussion
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about what should be discussed in a public school, what shouldn't and what should the
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privacy laws be, which is really what you're referring to there.
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Like if there really potentially was a threat because of a really bad at home situation,
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what is the responsibility of the teacher or the administrator, the school district to
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We can have a discussion about that, but that has nothing to do with any of this.
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I also went to public school in New York State and we had the intro class to sexuality
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And then you had another one that was a little bit more advanced in seventh grade.
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And then 10th grade was, you know, the whole kahuna.
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But it doesn't bear any resemblance to what they're teaching today on this stuff.
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I mean, they get in some of these classes actually enjoy promoting, quote, kink, and they
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These teachers somehow think it's going to be beneficial to your 14 year old for them to show
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sex toys at the front of the class and then pass them around.
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In my fifth grade, which was 1980, I guess, 1980, they literally were passing around still
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the sanitary belt with the sanitary napkin for girls who are about to get their periods.
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Does any is there any woman out there old enough to remember?
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You've got to call me later because that's how old I am.
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I don't know what the sanitary belt is and I don't want to know what the sanitary belt is.
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They hadn't figured out adhesives in 1980 that you'd stick on your underwear.
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They wanted you to put like the the napkin in your underwear and then hold it in place
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But but really, it's like joking aside for one second.
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Imagine what it would be like for a second grade teacher to sit down with a seven year
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old or maybe eight year old at that at that grade and say, I want to talk to you about
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gender identity. You know, you identify as a female because you're your girl.
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But, you know, some kids identify as boys and then to imagine the level of insanity.
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I mean, just of what you would be putting into a child's brain.
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And by the way, and I'm sick of saying this qualification or this qualifier and I'm going
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to stop doing it. I have no problem with trans people.
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If you want to live your life as you wish as an adult, that is completely fine.
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If you want to have whatever surgeries you want to have, that is fine.
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I actually have sympathy for someone that would be, you know, that they're they're feeling
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of who they are is out of whack with with what their biology is.
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I would want them to be treated equally under the law and hopefully find someone that loves
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And really think about what it would be like for an adult, not even the parents, to be doing
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Well, and I'm going to say something controversial, but the thing is about being gay.
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Let me explain to you what it's like to be gay, Dave.
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And like people who are worried, oh, if my son spends time with a with a gay boy, he's
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And my gay friends are like, you know, I tried it.
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And while that's also true of many people in the trans community, we know from books
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like Abigail Schreier's Irreversible Damage that the trans thing has become a social contagion.
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And hers is based on, in part, the work of Brown University professor, former Lisa Littman,
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who's been really revolutionary in studying this.
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And so there is a social contagion factor to some instances of transgender, of being transgender.
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So I do think I can understand a parent being a little bit more uncomfortable with the discussion
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of the transgender thing is like, it's an option.
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I don't know how they're going to talk about it to my seven year old, but I just see that
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one is a little bit more fraught than explained.
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Most kids when they're seven or eight have seen gay men or lesbian women and they naturally
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Sometimes two women love each other and you move on.
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I want to be in control of those discussions, but I really want to be in control of the ones
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that might implant a seed that could grow into something in my child.
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So, for example, I mentioned my seven year old niece's birthday party that we went to
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Yes, my husband is gay, was then the special person at her class this week.
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They had special, they had special, they had special place in there.
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But, you know, Eden, who's who's beautiful and wonderful and curious and smart and all
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She comes to our house and she has sleepovers and hangs out with us.
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And, you know, we we swim and do all the stuff that you do.
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When we take her to the zoo, it's never once come up like something about us being different
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Not and it's not because we're hiding it from her, but she's seven years old.
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And maybe there's some inkling of, oh, they you know, these are two guys that live together
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But when the moment comes or if and we've discussed it with my sister and my brother
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in law, when the moment comes or if she brings it up, if she ever said to the two of
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us, so you guys live together or you have one bedroom or whatever it might be, it's
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like then we can honestly have that discussion with her.
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But I don't know that I would do it without referring to my sister first.
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So, again, handing this all to the state, especially when the state has shown it's so
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negligent regarding everything else, regarding critical race theory and all the other woke
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And yeah, and it's it's by the way, by the way, the only reason Florida is doing this
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This isn't that DeSantis was just like, oh, let's do this out of nowhere.
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It's only because they keep encroaching on everything that we used to think was just
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Let me tell you, for those who haven't heard it, what happened to my third grader?
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But this is this began our journey out of our old school, which is literally one of the top
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We he was in third grade and we went to parent teacher night and one of the other dads at
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parent teacher night raised his hands and said to the teacher, and it was the science
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teacher who was nine months pregnant at the time.
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Why did my son come home and ask me if it's true he can take a pill to prevent puberty?
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And then when he turns 18, he can have an operation to chop off his penis if he decides he wants
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to be a girl who told him that and who thought that was an appropriate discussion for third
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And we were expecting this woman to say, you know, boys chat.
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She was like, we told him that it happened in class.
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We discussed that as part of our three week education program on trans people.
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Apparently they had slipped something into like a mass email, which was not revealing of
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Of course, it had, you know, trans people, guys dressed in tutus with a heavy makeup.
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A lot of them had never heard anything about this.
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But a lot of these boys had never even heard the term trans.
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And it wasn't her business to introduce them to that concept and to talk to them about chopping
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And if that teacher had tried that shit stuff down in Florida after this law, she wouldn't
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The parents actually would have been able to sue if she had done that without disclosing.
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And they did it in my school without disclosing.
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They were so confused, Dave, that they started had to implement a system where the boys would
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hold up their hands like in a fist and they would make you hold up one finger, two, three,
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four or five, depending on how confused you were, because they were also confused about
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It was all the tropes that we've been trying to get rid of around the gay community and just
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That liking purple or pink or even a dress doesn't mean anything about your sexuality.
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And we couldn't yell at the lady because she was nine months pregnant.
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And for the first time in the school's 400 year history, they actually had to apologize
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There was such an outrage in this liberal New York City community that when 86 percent for
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Joe Biden, even those parents were outraged and the school had to apologize.
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Yeah, and Megan, I remember when you took your kids out of school and I remember when you
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You have a great family and all that stuff and resources.
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But it's never easy regardless, regardless of where you're at.
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It's never easy to just pick up and say, I can't do this anymore.
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I think we actually might have discussed this once before, but the other part of the
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trans discussion that, again, we're talking about such a small amount of people, and that's
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not to dismiss that amount of those people, but we're having big discussions constantly
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about a very small percentage of the population.
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But the other piece of this, the other piece of this that's really dangerous, and I think
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people need to start thinking about, is that it's actually very anti-gay, too, because
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you just hit on something when you mention the colors.
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So people always say to me, Dave, oh, you're straight acting, or you don't seem gay, or
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And it's like, I have been married to a man for eight years.
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Now, do I still like Star Wars and Marvel movies and basketball?
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But I happen to be gay, and that's just one piece of me.
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So when I was a kid, let's say fourth grade or whatever, I was playing with G.I.
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So the teacher may have thought that I was not gay, and I don't think I was thinking about
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However, now take, say, a more effeminate little boy, a fourth grader who's playing with
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Barbies or just has longer hair or his affect is a little more girl-like or whatever it might
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The teacher would be inclined to push him towards becoming trans and becoming a girl.
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So they're actually, in a bizarre sense, this is very anti-gay because that four-year-old,
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who's maybe more effeminate, is probably just going to grow up to be a gay guy and big
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But instead, they're going to push him to something that's completely out of whack with
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And if you do, and this is exactly what Abigail's book is about that you referenced earlier,
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Once you do these massive changes to your body, it doesn't mean that you're happier the
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You know, I mean, people should watch, even though the show was sort of woke, the show
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transparent on, I think it was on Hulu, does a really good explainer of this, that this
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man decides or goes through the transitioning process, sort of thinking that his life will
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magically get better because he had this secret or wasn't living as himself all the time.
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But we really, we're playing with something that's very dangerous here.
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And it should be left to the parents when the kids are little.
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And I don't trust these teachers at those levels to understand what's appropriate for
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these young children, because a lot of these teachers are ideologically driven and they
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have some mantle of being like some social engineer with my child that I've never given
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So and the keeping it a secret is that a real thing, too, in New York, at least in
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New York City, I haven't checked in New York State, but at least in New York City, you send
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your kid to private school there and your kid decides to transition while at school.
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The school has absolutely no obligation to tell you.
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And in fact, I think the the policy is they may not tell you they may not.
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So we had friends of friends who had a kid at one of the best schools in the city.
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And at some point and then the child who I think was a it was a boy transitioning a girl.
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But the the kid came home and said, I want to be a girl.
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And they said, we're going to talk with the school.
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The kid said, OK, they went to talk to the school.
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The school's like, oh, we know he's been dressing as a girl and going by this girl name for a
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And they didn't tell the parents and they literally believe here and in L.A.
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school district that the parents rights stop at the schoolhouse door.
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Megan, my only sort of belief at this point related to all this is these people are not
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I think we really do have to understand that they are not going to stop.
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Wokeness has become a cult and you have to give the devil is due.
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They have they have wrought such destruction on all of the things that that so many generations
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fought to keep us free and keep individual rights and logic and reason in place to build
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They've done an incredible job of destroying all of those things.
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And I would say to to you and I would say to anyone that's a parent that's listening to
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this, if your child is at a school that tolerates any of this or allows for the teacher to have
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conversations with the student, your child, that they that they don't have to then tell
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you about, especially about something of this nature, you have to get your kids out of these
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I mean it at every technologically at every level, they are not going to stop.
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And I think in some ways we're wasting our energy trying to get them to stop and we should
00:26:30.980
And I'm so happy that there are governors like DeSantis who say effectively, if if these
00:26:36.200
districts aren't going to protect the students and the parents, I will.
00:26:40.820
And by the way, supported by the Florida legislature.
00:26:48.160
That's why we're in Connecticut now, a different school.
00:26:50.400
And can I let me give you another example of a great teacher.
00:26:52.500
So my same little boy who had been in that third grade class.
00:26:57.940
And he was just telling me this last night because we were talking about energy and, you
00:27:02.520
know, green energy, all these things in the wake of what's happening with Ukraine
00:27:07.940
And I was making the point that I had made on the air, which is the Germans in particular
00:27:14.280
could have faced the wrath of Greta Thunberg or they could have faced the wrath of Vladimir
00:27:26.520
And my daughter said, oh, you know, yes, my my school said that she's a heroine and she's
00:27:34.480
And she's made a real difference in making the world a cleaner, you know, healthier, better
00:27:39.100
Like, OK, not surprised that that's what you learned in your girl school.
00:27:41.880
And my son, who, again, this is in his new school, his teacher in fifth grade said Greta
00:27:48.580
Thunberg is very courageous and she stood up for what she believed in.
00:27:54.460
That's she's to be commended for standing up in what she for what she believes in.
00:27:57.860
And the boys right now, the fifth grade say, but was she right?
00:28:04.020
And he said, it's not my place as your teacher to answer that question.
00:28:13.620
There are good teachers out there who recognize where the line is.
00:28:21.620
And Megan, if I was you, I would start a new school with that guy.
00:28:26.020
Just grab him, grab all your sane friends, grab their kids, let him be the principal of
00:28:30.580
the school, run the curriculum and start start new things.
00:28:35.260
I mean, I just think it's so obvious that these things are so infected.
00:28:41.500
There are just so many stories of all of these elite liberal institutions that have destroyed
00:28:46.720
themselves, that no longer grade, in essence, that that if you do well and you're Asian,
00:28:54.940
You can't do extra credit anymore because that might put you ahead of someone else.
00:29:05.840
And then, you know, it's hard work and it's God gifted skills and all of that stuff.
00:29:10.640
We've gone from that to saying, no, we're just going to destroy everybody.
00:29:13.700
So we're all lesser as opposed to let's start everybody at the same point and then see what
00:29:20.500
They know what's what they're not believing these these spinners who, in response, just
00:29:24.080
try to tell us it's all about bigotry and hatred for gays or believe this demonstration.
00:29:29.820
This is soundbite for from the Florida Senate Democrats who think they made a point doing the
00:29:34.240
Did I see you post online something like you're thinking you're reconsidering being gay?
00:29:58.600
But whatever that is, I just want nothing to do with it.
00:30:05.200
No one cares that that I think that woman was saying that her daughter's gay.
00:30:10.340
But that still gives you no right to do everything that we've talked about in this time with second
00:30:16.380
graders privately from what their parents may or may not want.
00:30:20.940
These people, most of them should be in mental institutions.
00:30:23.720
I mean, we should have a mass mental health session.
00:30:26.740
If you want to have if we really want to sit down with people and figure out what's going
00:30:30.220
on here, most of these educators should probably be sat down.
00:30:33.620
Well, speaking of gay people who are going to institutions, I've got to talk to you about
00:30:38.780
Jussie Smollett next because he got his sentence and had a few things to say on his way to the
00:30:49.160
We'll be back with the one and only Dave Rubin in just two minutes.
00:31:00.620
OK, so Jussie Smollett, he's going to jail and this is the right result.
00:31:07.940
He lied about his fake race crime, hate crime hoax, and he got caught.
00:31:19.360
OK, so now he gets sentenced to 30 months of felony probation, which includes five months
00:31:27.940
In addition, he has to pay restitution of more than one hundred and twenty thousand and
00:31:31.420
a twenty five thousand dollar fine as well for making false reports.
00:31:36.540
But five months in prison, that means something to him.
00:31:39.280
And the remaining months of probation does it as well.
00:31:41.800
And here is what he had to say in court yesterday in Chicago.
00:31:51.380
If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of black Americans in
00:31:56.180
this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBT community.
00:31:59.980
Your Honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this and I am not suicidal.
00:32:05.200
And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself.
00:32:27.480
I could have said that I was guilty a long time ago.
00:32:34.640
It's like, are you at the center of some worldwide conspiracy where you have tapes on all these
00:32:38.460
powerful people and there's like what is what it's all about him and his weird narcissism
00:32:47.620
In full disclosure, I'm not fully aware of the catalog of all of his acting work, but I
00:32:53.300
am sure that was the best performance of his life because that's what that was.
00:32:59.500
I mean, that was a script that he had been going through in his head that he just rolled
00:33:11.900
And and in many ways, even though, you know, it's 150 days in jail and some of the other
00:33:15.400
stuff, whatever it is, like that seems like, OK, we can argue it's too little, too much,
00:33:19.840
If you think of the cultural damage that this guy did to this nation, think of all of the
00:33:26.060
We played the or we showed the clip this morning on my show, Kamala Harris's tweet when it happened
00:33:31.560
about, you know, it's proof of systemic racism and AOC.
00:33:40.700
At Jesse Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.
00:33:50.140
No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin.
00:33:57.820
Can't wait until she walks that back and sets the record straight with America and apologizes
00:34:03.960
for jumping on a bogus allegation that was obviously problematic from the start.
00:34:12.220
And by the way, AOC won't Pelosi, won't the rest of them.
00:34:15.220
They use it when they think it's valuable to them.
00:34:17.360
And then when it always gets debunked as a hoax, which it always does, then then they go silent
00:34:24.280
So, you know, this was the biggest story in America for weeks when it looked like a lynching.
00:34:28.900
But now you think that I get there's other things going on in the world, this war or
00:34:33.880
But of course, this is going to fly under the radar.
00:34:36.300
But to your bigger point at the beginning there about, you know, I'm not suicidal.
00:34:42.240
I mean, look, I don't want the guy to kill himself.
00:34:47.700
But I'm pretty sure he's telling us he's going to kill himself because he now wants he wants to be the ultimate
00:34:56.160
I mean, Epstein, there were reasons that people might want Epstein dead.
00:34:59.780
Like there was evidence that there were people that he knew and things that he knew and probably
00:35:04.360
other documents that he had access to if he had ever gotten out or whatever.
00:35:09.100
There's no reason to think that anyone wants to kill this guy.
00:35:11.960
So he's he's telling you this is the ultimate part I can play to instigate the further racial
00:35:20.180
Look, the judge said to him yesterday and listen, this is somebody who sat there.
00:35:26.780
Judge James Lynn spoke for nearly over more than 30 minutes before announcing that sentence
00:35:32.340
and said, you, Jussie Smollett, you wrote the script.
00:35:38.640
Your premeditation for this entire thing was an aggravating factor in the case.
00:35:43.680
That's why you're getting jail time and said, and I quote, there's a side of you that has
00:35:56.120
You're not a victim of a homophobic hate crime.
00:35:59.280
You are just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime.
00:36:07.420
The brother of Jussie Smollett, Jojo, came out and said he spoke about his arrogance.
00:36:12.640
He doesn't know the struggles my brother's encountering.
00:36:16.860
I couldn't care less what struggles he's encountering.
00:36:24.340
You actually involved a lot of the Chicago PD's time, took up a lot of their time when they
00:36:29.340
could have been solving murders and real crimes out on the streets of Chicago.
00:36:33.320
That's what that black chief of police was saying in his very fiery speech when he announced
00:36:44.620
You know, Megan, we've all done things that we're not proud of in life.
00:36:52.180
And it's your job as a human to try to do those things less and live the best, honest,
00:36:57.920
But I'm obviously not sitting here as a perfect human.
00:37:02.880
But what you get within that in the adventure of your life, I think, is you get these brief
00:37:07.440
moments where you can set some of the stuff right.
00:37:10.620
And he could have had one of those moments yesterday.
00:37:13.020
You know, it's not the worst thing in the world.
00:37:16.340
OK, especially after knowing what he did and the strife that it caused in this country.
00:37:24.740
Instead of doing what he did, which is exacerbate the situation, make it about him now more.
00:37:29.120
And it seems like he's going to do even worse things in jail.
00:37:33.000
He could have had a moment and said, you know, knowing that the whole world's looking at him
00:37:37.420
and said, you know, I got caught up in something.
00:37:40.360
We live in this oddly racialized society and I've experienced racism in my life.
00:37:46.100
And I did something that I should not have done.
00:37:49.560
I did something that was illegal and immoral, that mixed up so many people that led to some
00:37:57.500
I was trying to shine light on racial injustice or whatever it is that he believes the problem
00:38:04.980
Someone who I think is a millionaire, who has all the benefits in the world.
00:38:09.180
He could have had a moment where he would have done that and then sort of set back some of
00:38:16.020
But instead, he decided to set that craziness forward.
00:38:20.200
And then adding insult to injury, Kim Fox, the so-called D.A. out there, the Cook County
00:38:26.820
prosecutor, who's just been a nightmare from the start.
00:38:29.260
She's another George Soros back D.A. who doesn't want to prosecute crime, including his.
00:38:35.440
The only reason he was tried and convicted in a court is because they appointed a special
00:38:40.800
prosecutor because they recognized how outraged the cop community was in the community writ
00:38:45.600
large when it turned out this was an obvious hoax.
00:38:51.720
So she got big footed by Dan Webb, same guy who put my friend Rod Blagojevich in jail.
00:39:06.140
And she says on Thursday, the damaging, costly and disingenuous criminal prosecution
00:39:13.480
As the Cook County state's attorney, it pains me deeply to say that in this case, our justice
00:39:18.140
Given the reputational price Smollett paid, the $10,000 bond we held and the fact that
00:39:23.500
he'd never been accused of a violent crime, we decided not to pursue a criminal conviction
00:39:29.780
Then she goes on to say, OK, my administration's vacated over 177 wrongful convictions, 87
00:39:40.800
Rather than working collaboratively to stem the rising crime or free the wrongly convicted,
00:39:44.580
a small group of people hijacked the judicial system here to enact what is best described
00:39:54.600
Black women elected prosecutors around the country have faced the same mob.
00:40:04.240
It's about race and it's about her being big footed because of her race, not because
00:40:16.200
Megan, remember in the previous segment when I said that we have to give the devil is due
00:40:21.440
and you have to be impressed by the damage that these people have created, the wokesters
00:40:25.460
have created a cult like belief that victimhood is everything.
00:40:28.980
So not only is Jesse Smollett a victim of his own doing, but still pretending to be a victim
00:40:34.560
But now you've got the prosecutor, you know, pretending that she's the victim.
00:40:39.320
Everyone pretends that they're the victim because they put that at the height of the hierarchy
00:40:45.200
And if you can somehow perceive yourself to be a victim, then you are a victim.
00:40:49.240
But, you know, these Soros-backed D.A.s that are all over the place.
00:40:53.520
I'm sure Media Matters is watching your show as they watch mine every day and they want
00:41:01.960
We know that George Soros puts tons of money towards these crazy left-wing D.A.s who end
00:41:13.120
And then what happens in the world of left-wing California politics?
00:41:19.600
And now San Francisco's got this guy Chesa Boudin, who's even worse than him.
00:41:23.600
And then it happens in Chicago and Seattle and all these other places.
00:41:28.940
And then you're not going to believe who has to come in and fix these cities.
00:41:33.240
It's those scary, mean conservatives, sort of like in New York City back in the late 80s
00:41:40.900
when progressive hero David Dinkins destroyed the city.
00:41:44.740
And I remember, even though I grew up in Long Island, I remember going to visit my grandparents
00:41:48.420
who lived in New York City, and it was disgusting.
00:41:50.820
And I literally remember once walking through Times Square and my mom putting her hand over
00:41:55.900
my eyes because she didn't want me to see all the all the sex shops and the homeless
00:42:02.800
This guy came in named Rudy Giuliani, and they said he was mean and he hated black people
00:42:11.540
He gave New York City basically a 25-year incredible run that then Bloomberg pretty much worked with
00:42:19.940
It came crashing down by Bill de Blasio, another lefty, I would argue, socialist.
00:42:28.480
Lefty socialist pothead who is sitting back in Gracie Manchin, token up a doobie instead of
00:42:33.620
worrying about the overflowing garbage cans, the homeless problem, the crime problem, and the
00:42:38.540
fact that New York, which was once a thriving metropolis with known internationally for its
00:42:43.400
great restaurants and its mom pop stores and its amazing bakeries, got reduced to one big
00:42:48.840
Starbucks, CVS and Citibank because of his policies.
00:42:52.740
And you can walk through exactly how he did it, but he did it.
00:42:55.480
Now, speaking of L.A., can we just talk about something out there?
00:43:01.360
Finally, they got rid of the mask mandate in the schools and our lunatic governor who nobody
00:43:17.280
They're the least at risk from covid, but they refuse to unmask the littles.
00:43:21.080
Oh, and by the way, there was one school in New York that tried to do an end around the
00:43:26.400
new no mask policy saying if your teacher says she's more comfortable with having the
00:43:31.400
class in masks, we expect you to accede to her.
00:43:42.800
I love I really love the fact that you're struggling with this cursing thing, too, because
00:43:46.600
it's become a running joke on my show, because as I said earlier, it's like, what else do we
00:43:51.880
What how what other words are there than these people?
00:43:55.620
I can't even say the phrase that I call Kathy on my show.
00:43:58.640
I'm not even going to degrade your show to the point because I don't call her by her last
00:44:04.440
But I'll I'll text I'll text it to you when we're done here.
00:44:11.620
Well, anyway, so now so let's go fly cross country to L.A.
00:44:16.420
And that school district has basically the latest reporting is that they're they're not taking
00:44:22.120
All the kids are going to have to remain masked until the end of the year.
00:44:27.740
And it's explicitly because of the teachers unions.
00:44:32.880
Oh, Dave, Megan, did you see this thing on television?
00:44:39.020
There was this elderly man who gave a big speech in front of a bunch of other old people.
00:44:49.000
Somebody clapped with their knuckles right behind him.
00:44:51.420
Yeah, the woman that was going like this the whole time, really creepy.
00:44:54.520
I believe it was Joe Biden, I think, was his name.
00:44:56.780
And it was the State of the Union that they did.
00:44:58.640
And it was a whole bunch of people in a room with no windows and none of them had masks.
00:45:03.380
I think there was that one woman with the mask there.
00:45:08.600
We know that age is one of the major factors in how sick you'll get with covid.
00:45:18.800
I don't know how to describe it any other way than that.
00:45:21.060
There is no science, zero science that says that kids should be in masks at this point.
00:45:27.720
Actually, the Surgeon General here in Florida, as you know, I fled L.A.
00:45:30.720
I'm an L.A. refugee who now lives in the free state of Florida.
00:45:34.300
The Surgeon General who we have here, who's absolutely fantastic.
00:45:37.340
He's been basically reading reports during press conferences showing that there is no science.
00:45:42.280
So Fauci, who suddenly has disappeared over the last two weeks, he would go on, meet the
00:45:46.380
press and all the shows, and he would never refer to us.
00:45:50.100
He would always say, well, we need the numbers to be low enough.
00:46:00.420
And if you send at this point, two years after two weeks to flatten the curve, if you send
00:46:05.720
your kids to school in a mask, three year olds, four year olds who are now having speech
00:46:09.920
delays and there's sores on their mouths, I mean, there's all sorts of stuff coming out
00:46:15.580
Literally, the muscles in their mouths are not developing properly.
00:46:19.780
If you are still sending your kids to schools in that situation, you're abusing your own
00:46:25.520
You're I don't I don't know how to say it any other way.
00:46:27.360
It's so we have to remember the kids who are masked.
00:46:31.000
My kids, thank God, are unmasked now, but we can't just move on without them.
00:46:35.660
We have to go back and get them like the kids in the L.A. Unified School District and
00:46:39.440
this nonsense and these terrible, terrible teachers unions need to be held to account.
00:46:45.360
Dave Rubin, so delighted that the G word Florida resident Dave Rubin was here today.
00:46:52.720
I hope soon we can say the same for Clyde and get back to me on what we what do we do
00:46:59.480
when he jumps up on the kitchen island right in front of you.
00:47:05.020
We can't wait to cook some chicken parm for you.
00:47:07.760
Drink some tequila in the free state of Florida.
00:47:15.200
If you haven't checked out the Rubin Report, you need to.
00:47:17.600
That's obvious why I should go download it now.
00:47:21.380
And don't forget, you can find the full video show and clips of our show when you subscribe
00:47:26.560
to our YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash Megan Kelly and go back and take a look
00:47:29.660
at our old Dave Rubin episodes because they're all great.
00:47:35.020
Thanks to the Durham investigation into the Trump Russia probe.
00:47:39.300
This is the guy who's trying to figure out how everyone got it so wrong.
00:47:42.980
We now know that President Trump was, in fact, spied on investigative reporter and longtime
00:47:51.560
Paul Sperry has been doing great, in-depth, fearless reporting on this topic, shedding light
00:47:57.860
on the shady, and I do mean shady, cast of characters involved.
00:48:06.160
So you're going to help us walk through it in the little baby terms, because this is so confusing.
00:48:12.780
So let me let me explain how I want to do it to remind our audience.
00:48:22.580
How did this lie get made up about a sitting president and distract the nation for over
00:48:28.340
And he indicted, among others, this guy, Michael Sussman, a lawyer who he says lied to the FBI
00:48:34.780
and didn't disclose that he was in there trying to push negative information on Trump to the
00:48:41.100
He lied by not disclosing that he was actually a lawyer for the Clinton campaign, which would
00:48:47.600
Now, most reports say that the FBI actually already knew that, but that doesn't excuse
00:48:51.680
And so Sussman, who has denied that he's lied, is facing some legal hot water.
00:48:55.960
OK, so in the course of that piece of of Durham's case, he files a motion.
00:49:01.540
There's some sort of conflict of interest going on with the lawyers.
00:49:05.920
And in his latest motion, Durham says, let me tell you another little story about Michael
00:49:11.800
Sussman and some people he hired that were inappropriately using data that they had legal
00:49:20.200
access to the data because they were running White House servers and other servers that
00:49:25.200
But they did not have the legal right to be plumbing those servers for data related to
00:49:32.680
Trump and then making it somewhat public, using it against him.
00:49:39.860
This guy, Michael Sussman, who worked for the Clinton campaign, used unidentified tech
00:49:48.320
What tech executive had access to servers that Donald Trump, the candidate, was using,
00:49:52.600
that Donald Trump, the president, was using, and then went to the FBI with data trying
00:50:03.880
Now we're going to get he's going to tell you the name of the tech executive.
00:50:07.280
And before we get to that piece, the Durham and all that, he's going to we're going to
00:50:10.440
walk a little bit through this guy's background because you do it brilliantly.
00:50:16.760
Rodney Jaffe is he's quite the operator, a bit of a hustler.
00:50:25.820
And he's supposed to be a big cybersecurity expert entrusted with government Internet
00:50:35.240
data and supposed to be protecting us from, you know, cyber creeps trying to snoop on us
00:50:45.280
But looks like he's one of those creeps himself, you know, spying on Trump and a number of
00:50:53.620
And we found that he has a pretty sketchy background running mail order scams and online lottery
00:51:03.540
scams, which begs the question, how did this guy get the security clearance to, you know,
00:51:14.540
run contracts with the FBI, the Pentagon, even the White House and get access to all of this
00:51:22.740
sensitive, otherwise protected data, which also, by the way, raises a lot of privacy issues
00:51:29.840
So tell us about let's take a walk down memory lane and tell us about Rodney L.
00:51:48.240
He was investigated, actually, for fleecing old folks by claiming that they had won a grandfather
00:51:53.120
clock, which turned out to be nothing more than a miniature plastic version.
00:51:59.540
You know, you put it on your nightstand and there was some assembly required.
00:52:03.540
And he was actually charging these folks $69 for shipping and handling.
00:52:10.800
And so millions got scammed and state attorneys investigated as well as the feds.
00:52:20.860
And Jaffe and his partner ended up having to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:52:25.520
And we tracked down his old business partner, retired in Florida, and she blamed everything
00:52:40.120
So this is just to remind the audience, this is the same guy.
00:52:42.820
This is tech executive one we're talking about.
00:52:44.520
This is the guy who allegedly went to the FBI with the Trump data from his servers and
00:52:50.140
the White House servers and said, hey, might be a Russia connection here.
00:52:53.960
He did it through Michael Slessman, the lawyer.
00:52:55.880
It's always better to do it through a lawyer because they believe people with nefarious
00:53:02.600
Maybe the conversation won't be discoverable if you involve a lawyer.
00:53:06.700
This is tech executive one with his grandfather, Clock Scam, who somehow worked his way up to
00:53:11.680
become the guy who controls the White House servers.
00:53:15.140
OK, so you as you write in your piece for Real Clear Investigations, love RealClearPolitics.com.
00:53:21.880
You write, but Jaffe, Jaffe pressed on with his direct mail marketing business before packing
00:53:31.040
So he wasn't content after getting caught with the whole grandfather clock thing to just
00:53:37.260
Well, he, you know, there's some questions why he left.
00:53:44.160
We did find some pretty hefty tax liens against his property in Los Angeles.
00:53:50.880
And he ends up in Phoenix and tries to recreate himself as a champion of for consumers battling
00:53:59.800
mail order scams and also spam and kind of garnered a reputation as such.
00:54:08.380
And then years later, he ends up in Washington as a cyber security expert and gets in with
00:54:24.280
You you do some stuff that may be not totally above board, like the thing with the clock.
00:54:29.480
But then you learn your lesson and you're like, you know what, I'm going to use my powers
00:54:33.140
for good now and become the quote, as he put it in the name of his business, white hat
00:54:37.600
hacker, you know, to to use the tools, the tricks of the trade for good doing this to
00:54:45.280
But he ended up being involved with this free lotto.com.
00:54:50.340
So there's a pattern here and free lotto.com had to pay millions and fines for deceptive
00:54:58.380
So what's that free lotto.com is a lot of free lotto.com.
00:55:06.580
Basically, instead of exploiting the retirees, now he's is companies involved with or exploiting
00:55:16.300
And they ended up having to pay the parent company plows the net of millions of dollars
00:55:21.460
to New York and other states for for fines for deceptive advertising.
00:55:31.580
That's why I was saying that he's a bit of a hustler, this guy.
00:55:37.680
Uh, but he really cleaned up his reputation and repackaged himself as a cyber security expert.
00:55:46.660
And a number of people in Washington, you know, they bought it.
00:55:50.540
And, you know, he, the cyber forensics experts or colleagues that I've talked to, he said,
00:55:58.980
He's not, he's not good at computer programming.
00:56:01.640
And, uh, you know, as a networking analyst, uh, he's more of an operator and, you know, he brags
00:56:10.020
about how much, you know, carrying around bags of money to make things happen.
00:56:14.380
Um, so we're continuing to dig into his background.
00:56:18.620
We've also found some other things that are curious in his background that we're developing.
00:56:24.060
How did this guy get, I mean, forgive my naivete, but how did he pass an FBI background check,
00:56:29.800
which he would have had to, to have access to the White House servers?
00:56:35.680
Um, you know, who, who are these people and how do they get so much power and who's vetting
00:56:41.540
Because obviously this would have showed up in an FBI personal background check on him,
00:56:47.060
which, you know, he's got top secret clearance.
00:56:49.740
Um, especially since the U S postal service was involved in that investigation.
00:56:56.280
Um, but, uh, somehow he, he passed and, you know, some justice department people I've
00:57:02.640
talked to, um, you know, about this situation in this case say that he's got friends in
00:57:08.200
So, you know, he was, um, an advisor to Obama in the white house, president Obama.
00:57:19.600
And we even dug up some old photos of him together with Obama and together with James
00:57:27.900
My God, it's like the web of people who are involved in Russiagate.
00:57:38.460
Uh, so he was working on some cybersecurity cases and he also had a number of contracts
00:57:44.940
with the FBI and those contracts involved monitoring government computers, uh, for breaches and also
00:57:57.740
And of course we know about the white house executive office of the president.
00:58:02.880
You were talking about things he was spying on in Trump.
00:58:05.600
Uh, another, not just Trump towers and the executive office of the president.
00:58:09.240
He was also looking in the transition offices, uh, for the president elect back then, but he
00:58:15.260
was also looking at, um, traffic involved with the, the internet servers connected to Trump's apartment
00:58:30.800
Cause that's of course what the audience is most interested in.
00:58:33.120
Like what, what did he do to Trump if anything, and how, how does it play in?
00:58:40.040
Nobody, nobody bothered to look if somebody had done this to Joe Biden, all of the media
00:58:44.320
would be exposing the weird clock thing and the free lotto.
00:58:47.960
And he's still on that, the board, I guess, of that company.
00:58:50.640
And we'd be questioning why was such a character involved in this and, and what exactly did he
00:58:56.380
But no, this story has been buried since it broke.
00:59:00.420
The mainstream media pushed back so hard on it.
00:59:08.880
I mean, basically everybody stopped covering it, but we're not going to stop covering it.
00:59:12.760
Um, so now the guy, the media is, yeah, they're running a lot of interference on the
00:59:20.960
And, uh, a lot of obfuscation and going with the, what, what, what,
00:59:26.380
they're fed by the defense attorneys for Jaffe and Sussman and others, instead of doing
00:59:34.800
And, um, the reason for that is primarily because there's Pulitzers on the line here.
00:59:42.080
You know, if this thing, if the Russiagate hoax is unraveled and Durham's hitting a lot
00:59:49.100
of pay dirt here, and it's, that is happening and it's completely unraveled, you know, you have
00:59:54.740
to go back and look at some of these Pulitzers, the New York Times, the Washington Post, one.
00:59:59.760
So, I mean, they were complicit in the scandal.
01:00:04.460
And, and so they have a lot invested here to prevent the public from knowing about this,
01:00:11.960
uh, what, uh, these indictments and everything that.
01:00:18.400
So this guy continues climbing the, the ranks in Washington, buddying up with President Obama,
01:00:26.880
And then when he ultimately gets this role, you know, overseeing the servers, and then
01:00:37.280
Again, it's in the context of the case against Sussman that his name came up.
01:00:41.360
Um, those around him circle the wagons, Paul, and they say, this is not a political guy.
01:00:46.820
He doesn't, this is not, this isn't some Hillary operative tech executive one, meaning Jaffe.
01:00:56.820
He's made it pretty clear where his loyalties were.
01:01:02.040
I mean, he, uh, Durham, uh, uncovered an email 2016 where, um, Jaffe was telling a colleague,
01:01:09.680
listen, I've, I've been promised, I was promised a top job, cybersecurity job in a Hillary Clinton
01:01:18.500
So he had a vested interest in, um, you know, smearing Trump and, uh, uh, the crew that he
01:01:28.780
had, he had hired, uh, not hired, but, um, uh, he had enlisted and recruited to help with
01:01:36.380
Sussman and the Hillary Clinton campaign go data mine, all this, uh, information, all
01:01:45.340
Uh, they, there was a neat, another email where one of the lead researchers from Georgia tech
01:01:50.660
who's pals with, with Jaffe said, you know, the only reason we're doing this once they
01:01:55.540
couldn't find what Jaffe was telling them, you know, the narrative to create, uh, they
01:02:00.020
would say, Hey, he admitted the only reason we're doing this is because we all share a
01:02:05.920
And just to back you up, this is from your piece posted at real clear politics.
01:02:10.660
Um, there's the email that you just referenced.
01:02:12.880
As Jaffe writes, uh, in 2016 is shortly after Clinton's lost to Trump in November, 2016,
01:02:18.300
he writes, I was tentatively offered at the top cybersecurity job by the Democrats when
01:02:24.140
And then he goes on, I definitely would not take the job under Trump.
01:02:27.560
And then to your point, those who were helping Jaffe, his lead researcher, Manos Anton, Anton,
01:02:36.120
Of the Georgia Institute of Technology revealed in one email obtained by Durham.
01:02:40.000
You write that quote, the only thing that drives us is that we just don't like Trump.
01:02:47.200
Uh, you know, that, that became the subject of this motion Sussman filed.
01:02:58.400
Who knows where the investigation goes, but he's certainly looking at all these people to
01:03:07.040
He was subpoenaed and he's pleaded the fifth to protect himself from self-incrimination.
01:03:12.920
To be very right, he's not been charged at this point.
01:03:19.260
Because, you know, there was a lot of, you know, Trump's like, it's worse than Watergate
01:03:23.960
And then the media, they were like, this is bullshit.
01:03:26.860
There's once again, I can't ring in my dirty mouth.
01:03:35.580
I saw, I think it was Tom Winter on MSNBC on Morning Joe one day, who I like and I respect
01:03:41.400
Tom, but he was saying he didn't steal anything.
01:03:45.260
He basically was like a doorman standing at the door who had access to certain things and
01:03:53.380
then maybe just kind of passed on that same access to somebody else coming through the
01:04:01.040
But they really ran cover for what actually happened, saying, you know, he had total access.
01:04:06.180
He had rightful access to the data that OK, that may be true.
01:04:11.800
But like what you then do with the data matters.
01:04:16.440
OK, so Jaffe, even though he's near the top of this conspiracy that Durham is investigating,
01:04:21.160
which is Clinton campaign operatives were spying on Trump's Internet traffic to try and make
01:04:29.420
it look and then data mining it, trying to make it look cherry picking data, trying to
01:04:33.840
make it look creating this narrative that he was secretly communicating with the Kremlin
01:04:39.520
in Russia, which Durham is completely debunked in his speaking indictments.
01:04:45.760
But Jaffe wasn't the guy actually doing the hands on mining.
01:04:51.280
He held the key to the data through his contracts with his Internet startup companies and also through
01:04:59.940
Newstar, who was a big beltway bandit with huge contracts with the government in Washington.
01:05:05.740
And then he recruited and enlisted these Georgia Tech contractors, computer contractors who
01:05:15.780
were vying for a very lucrative Pentagon contract worth millions of dollars at the time.
01:05:23.020
So they also had fiduciary interest in helping the Clinton campaign, not just their own personal
01:05:33.440
And so they actually were tasked by Jaffe to go through the holdings of DNS logs.
01:05:46.320
Basically, put it simply, this is the pinging back and forth between your phone, your cell phones
01:05:53.800
and your computers and servers, including servers that are transmitting emails.
01:05:58.980
And so they were going in there and looking through the holdings of that, that Jaffe had access
01:06:09.940
And then eventually Georgia Tech researchers landed that contract with the Pentagon.
01:06:19.500
This is the research arm of the Pentagon that they're working for.
01:06:22.900
And now they've got their own access, you know, their own own access to these holdings.
01:06:31.860
But back then in 2016, that's what they were doing.
01:06:38.500
There was a five page dossier that Fusion GPS put together for Jaffe and his crew.
01:06:44.620
And Jaffe, in turn, gave that to his crew and said, hey, also scoured the internet data for dirt
01:06:57.460
And I'm told that these guys, these other, these, and the document is called Trump's associates
01:07:04.440
And so that list included Papadopoulos, George Papadopoulos, Lieutenant General Flynn, Paul
01:07:13.500
Manafort, and Carter Page, and also Steve Bannon.
01:07:21.180
So they were, they weren't just spying on Trump.
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They were looking in this data, which is pretty sensitive.
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Some of it is public, a lot of it was non-public, and you're talking about millions of records.
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And these are the gatekeepers of the internet, these guys.
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They have political agendas and access to crime.
01:07:45.140
And that's scary because who else are they spying on?
01:07:48.140
You know, they're looking at millions of records that are generated, you know, you and I right
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now, and they are looking at them daily and they have access that other people don't have
01:07:58.900
to because of these government contractors and no one's vetting them.
01:08:02.920
And that's, that's scary because you're, and I think Durham has stumbled into a potentially
01:08:18.000
Um, and I've talked to a number of their colleagues, um, who weren't part of this operation, this
01:08:24.880
confidential project assessment, build it as for Hillary and they're pissed.
01:08:31.460
You know, they, they want, um, those Georgia Tech guys, Jaffe, of course, uh, their contracts
01:08:41.680
No, they're still working on those contracts and, you know, they still have access to all
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And they used, they exploited it for political purposes.
01:08:55.820
And a lot of people I talked to in the FBI, former FBI and justice prosecutors see that
01:09:03.300
But, you know, beyond that, um, you know, this raises a number of privacy issues because
01:09:11.660
these guys, these guys I talked to said, look, these guys were trusted with this data and
01:09:18.360
They should not be anywhere near these contracts anymore.
01:09:21.320
It's unbelievable that this guy is pleading the fifth and yet he still, as you put it, has
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the keys that, you know, he is perfectly willing to hand out from what we learned from Durham
01:09:31.680
to those keys to anyone that he's still in charge.
01:09:35.820
He still has all the access and maybe Georgia Tech does too.
01:09:43.140
So a couple of weeks before, uh, the Durham indictment was unsealed, uh, he left or was
01:09:53.020
By the way, New Star, Durham's also looking at New Star and, um, has already subpoenaed
01:10:03.380
This is kind of buried in my story and I encourage your viewers and listeners to go to RealClearInvestigations.com
01:10:14.720
Well, um, but, uh, Durham in one of his indictments, uh, actually said that Sussman and Perkins
01:10:25.520
Corp, this is the lawyer for Hillary's campaign, build New Star itself for the confidential project.
01:10:35.360
And that's the Alpha Bank business that, that they were working on to try and frame Trump.
01:10:42.320
So New Star's leadership knew about this project.
01:10:47.380
So, so just to, just to, just to reiterate that.
01:10:52.340
So Hillary Clinton's campaign lawyers build New Star, the company that was operating the
01:10:59.920
servers or an opposition research project for the Hillary plant campaign.
01:11:09.580
And this is another part of the story, which is huge is follow the money trail.
01:11:13.200
Uh, and Durham's, Durham's investigators are doing that.
01:11:17.420
And by the way, he just hired, uh, this is last month.
01:11:23.740
He just hired another prosecutor and, uh, she has a background as a trial attorney prosecuting
01:11:32.500
fraud and money laundering cases, which is very interesting.
01:11:36.980
Well, because what they seem to be saying, correct me if I'm wrong, you're, you've been
01:11:40.260
following this way more closely, what, um, Jaffe seems to be saying is that a, he did nothing
01:11:47.460
criminal, but B given the hack of the democratic national committee that had happened not too
01:11:57.400
This is what we've heard, you know, from his surrogates to monitor communications and make
01:12:02.220
sure there was no red flag suggesting a hack or an inappropriate Russian presence.
01:12:08.360
And that's what he and his team were allegedly worried about.
01:12:14.120
But the, the, even if you accept that, how does that explain him seeing a red flag?
01:12:21.340
And instead of, you know, going directly to the FBI and saying there's a problem instead,
01:12:36.620
So, you know, here you have these guys and they're claiming that, Hey, we're just looking
01:12:41.180
out for national security interests here and we're worried about Russia.
01:12:47.420
So their job typically is supposed to spot threats, you know, hacking, spamming, phishing
01:12:58.860
And that's what those contracts are for through, through the Pentagon and why they're, they
01:13:04.540
had that contract to monitor the EOP in the white house.
01:13:08.260
But as you said, so if you're finding some threats, like you claimed you saw, which by
01:13:15.340
the way, we're not, you know, they've been completely debunked.
01:13:18.340
First of all, it's the first problem with that.
01:13:20.140
But if they were finding genuine threats, you would go to the authorities directly with
01:13:29.060
Instead, they handed them off to Hillary's people who they knew were doing opposition
01:13:37.220
And, and this guy, Jaffe is, has apparently admitted, according to Durham, that that was
01:13:46.780
I mean, and to your, to our earlier discussion, it's not exactly like this guy has this squeakiest,
01:13:57.300
That would make us think he would never, he would never cross an ethical line.
01:14:03.120
All right, wait, there's much more to discuss on this and some other issues that we're going
01:14:07.200
to get to with Paul Sperry, a brilliant journalist, investigative, who's actually doing the work
01:14:17.400
Let me get the actual title for you because it's so good.
01:14:19.320
It's, it's entitled The Checkered Past of the FBI Cyber Contractor Who Spied on Trump.
01:14:27.420
So again, Jaffe not charged with a crime, Sussman denying that he committed a crime.
01:14:39.020
Were you able to get a statement at all from Jaffe, who now you say is pleading the fifth?
01:14:44.180
He's not talking, just statement through his attorney who said that, hey, listen, this guy
01:14:49.360
had access to this, this data through his contracts and he was looking at threats and that's what
01:14:58.440
But, you know, he has refused to cooperate with Durham's investigators and his grand jury.
01:15:06.040
And so to me, that, that shows that, you know, he's worried, he's worried, you know, he's,
01:15:17.060
he's pled the fifth, he's not cooperating and he's really hunkered down right now.
01:15:22.420
But he, I'm told is it or near the top of this conspiracy and, um, a central player.
01:15:31.760
Now, when this story broke, it, it was covered mostly by more conservative media, Fox News,
01:15:41.220
And immediately, as I referenced, you had MSNBC and CNN and, uh, you know, sort of the more
01:15:47.480
mainstream, the New York Times, you know, very lengthy piece tried to explain to us why
01:15:52.420
And took issue with the, and took issue with the term spying.
01:15:59.640
There was no infestation of anything or invasion of anything.
01:16:04.060
And, um, this is a little flashback of some of what we heard, um, about how there was no
01:16:23.320
The conspiracy gene is no more accurate than pizza game.
01:16:26.600
No one was spying on the president through the microwave.
01:17:10.740
That was actually before I think this report dropped. But we heard similar stuff right after, too, saying no spying and the media has gotten this all wrong and there's no there there. Your reaction to it?
01:17:20.600
Well, they parroted the talking points. They were fed really well. I guarantee none of those talking heads have read any of the filings, definitely didn't read the 30 odd page original speaking indictment, which is complex for anybody.
01:17:38.160
You know, you're talking about all this cyber forensics and, you know, DNS logs and everything. So they're just talking at a superficial level. They have no idea what Durham has uncovered.
01:17:50.600
And what's really shameful is that none of the big media have have gone into those details and just reported the facts.
01:18:02.400
They've just dismissed things at a superficial level without getting down and doing the spade work and finding out exactly what Durham is uncovering.
01:18:17.600
He's interviewed dozens of witnesses and you're talking about tens of thousands of pages of documents, text messages, emails and billing records that that he's been able to subpoena with his grand jury.
01:18:34.660
By the way, he's got two grand jury up and running, one in D.C. and another in Virginia in a different case involving the dossier, the primary source of the dossier, Danchenko.
01:18:46.840
So this is a very elaborate, intricate, complex investigation that he's doing.
01:18:58.400
And for political reasons, obviously, the talking heads, just trying to dismiss it.
01:19:06.220
And New York Times and Washington Post, you put that really well, you know, they're trying to they're not reporting on it.
01:19:12.240
They're just trying to say why it's not a story to shoot it down.
01:19:15.000
And again, they're trying to Russiagate was their big their Pulitzer Prizes and they are loathed to have that all unraveled.
01:19:28.060
And that that is exactly what's what's been happening.
01:19:32.420
Actually, Mueller, who just found a big nothing burger in terms of the conspiracy, the Trump Russia conspiracy, and then Horowitz took it another level and discredited the dossier.
01:19:46.980
And now Durham is finding even more pager to refute all that.
01:19:55.020
And his final report is going to be, you know, boil the oceans if Biden's attorney general doesn't deep six it.
01:20:09.920
Because so far, it's, you know, what what you hear is it's a yawn.
01:20:14.180
It's like so far they've got, OK, somebody related to the dossier and then they got that's a lawyer who like told him.
01:20:21.640
I mean, lying to the FBI is always the thing they get you on when they can't get you on anything real.
01:20:26.600
Right. So like that's I've heard even smart people I respect say things like that about the Durham investigation so far.
01:20:32.720
So why are you saying it's going to be a boil the oceans moment?
01:20:37.680
Well, Mueller, Mueller didn't come up with any big hits.
01:20:43.520
You know, all of his prosecutions were for process crimes, essentially.
01:20:48.560
But what Durham Durham is up against is statute of limitations, you know, five year federal statute of limitations.
01:20:58.080
I'm told he's building a conspiracy case may needs to be seen.
01:21:05.800
But if he is building a conspiracy case, he's not affected by the statute of limitations.
01:21:10.280
And, you know, aside from what other indictments he comes up with, potentially, the file reports are going to be devastating to the whole Russiagate narrative.
01:21:24.220
And it's imperative that the American people see it, understand it, without it being redacted and blacked out.
01:21:38.180
It's up to Attorney General Garland whether or not he's going to do that and let the public see that report.
01:21:53.140
Now, Durham probably won't have the report out before the November election.
01:21:58.060
And Republicans are expected to win back control of the committees, investigative committees and the gavels for the hearings and subpoena power.
01:22:08.480
So if it's pushed past that, it has a really good chance of seeing the light of day and being forced through the media cover up, you know, break break through through hearings and subpoenaing, subpoenaing Durham to testify.
01:22:24.140
If, you know, if, you know, they try to, you know, deep six report, you know, Republicans can push push it out there after November or actually after January when they get get control, especially in the House, maybe the Senate.
01:22:42.140
So what does the time frame look like that Durham's under?
01:22:45.040
Because, you know, these grand juries have limited time frames that they can set.
01:22:52.140
Complaining. That's why I think large part Fox News backed off the story until recently is because they felt like he was dragging his feet and there's going to be a whole lot of nothing.
01:23:05.980
But his reputation for being, you know, methodical, fastidious to a fault and moving at a glacial pace.
01:23:13.680
Plus, to be fair to him, he was hampered and hamstrung by COVID restrictions in D.C., which were off the charts.
01:23:22.140
That's what they were doing in D.C. for COVID restrictions.
01:23:24.360
So he couldn't panel his his grand jury for hearings.
01:23:28.880
FBI agents couldn't do face to face investigations.
01:23:31.960
And so I think we'll see this thing speed up here as the as they remove some of these COVID restrictions going forward.
01:23:43.420
What what I want to just on the subject of the media, covering it up and downplaying it.
01:23:49.160
Here's an example. This is from The New York Times and a piece by Charlie Savage that got a lot of response.
01:23:55.300
The headline was court filing started a furor in right wing outlets.
01:24:00.060
But their narrative is off track and they try to excuse, you know, what Jaffe did and so on.
01:24:06.380
But this let me read you this line from his piece.
01:24:10.020
He says, upon close inspection, these narratives being pushed are often based on a misleading presentation of the facts or outright misinformation.
01:24:18.800
They also tend to involve dense and obscure issues.
01:24:23.180
So dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time, raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims.
01:24:36.900
Why does that do you write for a bunch of dumb asses?
01:24:39.900
Because my audience can understand this just fine.
01:24:49.620
It should telegraph to everybody the bias that's going on in The New York Times and covering this story.
01:24:59.560
It's never been heard of in the history of journalism.
01:25:04.300
Journalists job is to take complex information and distill it down into its simplest terms so the readers can understand it.
01:25:15.460
So he's basically saying, oh, we're we're committing malpractice here and we're not going to tell you what's what's going on with this.
01:25:23.880
Yeah, we're going to have to work too hard and you're going to have to work too hard to figure it out, even though it's our job to help you understand it.
01:25:31.600
But we don't like it is what he's really saying is we don't like it.
01:25:35.260
And that's actually the most honest thing I've read in The Times in a while.
01:25:37.820
But all right, some pushback because the judge in the overall Durham case, the one that's looking into Sussman, didn't really like this piece of Durham's brief.
01:25:49.740
Judge Christopher Cooper, D.C. District Court, that's the federal trial court there in D.C., apparently in a hearing, according to CNN, said this was unnecessary for you to include in this piece.
01:26:04.140
He said, including this material in this motion, it was not necessary for me, let alone for Mr. Sussman.
01:26:11.160
I didn't see any link to areas that were relevant.
01:26:14.240
I didn't need any of that ancillary information.
01:26:20.080
And Sussman, he argued that it was incendiary and that he wanted it stricken.
01:26:28.680
But this is the judge saying to Durham, what are you doing?
01:26:32.080
Why did you why did you go down that lane in this relatively simple filing about conflict of interest?
01:26:41.440
Oh, well, the judge is showing his hand a little bit there.
01:26:46.040
Something that Durham is up against, you know, not just with the D.C. judges who tend to be Democrats.
01:26:59.540
He's not only having to deal with Democrat Trump hating judges to to hear his cases, but if they go to trial, which these two are expected to go to trial, Dan Chanko as well.
01:27:15.880
You know, he's dealing with with D.C. jurors, which is tough for him, although the Dan Chanko case, he'll be dealing with Eastern Virginia district.
01:27:30.840
So a little bit different animal there, perhaps.
01:27:34.700
He is, by the way, an Obama appointee, this judge.
01:27:41.120
So he's going to he's going to have a rough time, just like he had a rough time.
01:27:46.020
With the judge, you heard the Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI, senior FBI lawyer who was indicted, you know, related to falsifying information to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump advisor Carter Page.
01:28:03.320
So that guy got a slap, you know, they were asking for prison time.
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The judge, who's a real Democrat activist from a long, you know, his family is a bunch of Democrat activists in Boesburg, I think was his name.
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Judge Boesburg gave the guy a slap in the wrist.
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OK, let's zoom out, though, because now that's too far down a rabbit hole that I didn't that I didn't I didn't appropriately.
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Yeah, so so there's so there's there's another Democrat judge face.
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He didn't get a prison prison sentence for a huge case.
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I mean, this guy was lying to the FISA court and got a slap in the wrist where all he had to do is write for his favorite liberal newsletter in D.C.
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for it to satisfy his voluntary time under probation.
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OK, so let's let's zoom out in the minutes that we have less left.
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If if I had you over to a dinner party, Paul, and we had people like my mom there who don't.
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She's definitely not reading real clear investigations and she probably doesn't totally understand what Russiagate was.
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She knows it was bad and that the media messed it up, but not much more.
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How would you explain what what Durham is doing here and what basically what happened here and what is the likely outcome of his investigation?
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Well, he like, you know, his original scope of his of his investigation was laid out.
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He's looking at the counterintelligence operation that the FBI primarily ran against Trump and his in his advisers and seeing if there was any criminal element to it.
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And he's finding that there's all sorts of stuff going on with with the Hillary campaign being involved, including with the FBI, as we're finding.
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And he's got a lot that we don't know about and we won't know until we see his final report, because his shop is airtight.
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I mean, this guy does not leak, unlike Mueller, whose office leaked like a sieve.
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But, you know, his final reports are going to be literally thousands of pages.
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I mean, this this guy, the amount of voluminous documentation that he's uncovered.
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But like I said, it's going to boil the ocean if it's allowed, if it's not just blacked out page after page after page.
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Really interesting to everybody to go read the original piece and to read everything Paul writes, because he's willing to do the work.
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Been a pleasure. Monday, we've got David Leonhardt back of The New York Times.
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And I want to tell you something else. Last night, I conducted the longest interview I've ever done for the show.
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Four hours. You'll know the name. It's going to be big.