Unhinged Leftists Celebrate CEO Murderer and Smear Daniel Penny, and Gay Wedding Cake Update, with Heather Mac Donald, Kristen Waggoner, and Jack Phillips | Ep. 961
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Summary
A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in a McDonald s in the early morning hours of December 9th, and the left is praising the suspect as a hero for being a hero. Megyn is here to remind you that this guy is not a hero at all.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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We are getting more information now on the alleged suspect in the, well he's the suspect,
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and the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Yesterday, Luigi Mangione was identified and arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald's in the morning.
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Police reported, because some people thought it was the McRib, it's come back and they didn't think he could resist going in there.
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A lot of people get sucked back into McDonald's thanks to this thing.
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It was the morning. I don't, it might have been a McMuffin.
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Um, police reported that when they approached Mangione, who's being hailed by the left as some sort of a hero for committing murder in the streets of New York and shooting a man in the back,
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father of two, including a 16-year-old boy, this is their new hero, uh, you know, what a badass he is for standing up for others.
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Okay, you know what, he basically peed his pants when the cops approached him in the McDonald's.
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He started shaking just upon being asked the question of whether he'd recently been in New York, this guy who killed a man by shooting him in the back.
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Can I just say, I'm really over this nonsense. This guy's not a hero at all.
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We should not be lauding his good looks, which really aren't existent, um, all over the internet.
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When Tim Miller, ye of the, I won't ask Doug Emhoff a single question about his alleged assault of a woman in your stupid podcast is out there talking about how he wants to get together with this guy.
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How he's not to mention the Boston marathon bomber. These people are fucking sick. Sorry. They just, they're sick.
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Um, and I just want to say one thing. It is today, December 10th, right? It's December 10th, 2024.
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It was December 15th, 1985 that my own father died. He died of a heart attack, an unexpected heart attack in our home at age 45, 10 days before Christmas.
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And I was a 15 year old girl. And it was of course, as any sane person already can see deeply traumatic for me and my entire family.
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And it's something you never get over. It changes your life in a profound way.
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And so this guy, Brian Thompson had two boys. I think one was 18, one was 16 for sure. One was 16 and their father was killed three weeks before Christmas.
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And these assholes are out there talking about how they want to sleep with the killer, how hot he is.
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What a hero he is for taking out the CEO of a company in an unpopular industry.
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Unpopular. And at some point we'll discuss why they're unpopular. As I said yesterday, now's not that time, but I mean, good luck getting through any piece of the healthcare system without insurance.
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Never mind government insurance, which is the realistic alternative to the private health insurance that we get.
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I mean, you may think they're evil. They're a necessary evil and they actually make more procedures possible than they do deny the ones that cause people to go nuts over them.
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I just, this is so wrong. What are we doing? A 16 year old's life has been changed forever. And that 18 year old as well.
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They don't have a dad anymore. Young boys who don't have their dad. Screw you for talking about his abs. You disgusting cretins.
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I'm just, oh, gross over these gross people. We'll get to Taylor Lorenz on with peers.
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We've learned more about this guy's personal history, including that this alleged assassin was an Ivy League graduate.
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As we did tell you yesterday, when this was breaking, he went to University of Pennsylvania from a very prominent Maryland family who owned several country clubs, as well as at least at his grandfather's generation.
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He's the one who seems to have made the money, a radio station, country clubs, a real estate company.
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And it is being reported that a turning point for the suspect may have been a back surgery earlier this year.
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He had some sort of a surgery and then he reportedly went dark, stopped talking to his friends, stopped talking to his family.
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His family was sounding the alarm as recently as November on where is Luigi?
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We can't find him and he's not in touch with anybody. People, friends, sending him messages online saying, are you coming to my wedding as you said you were or not?
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Where are you? He went off to Hawaii. He tried a surf lesson. This is post his back surgery, I believe.
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And it was so debilitating. He was in bed for a week.
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Okay, so meantime, you've got the cretins, as I pointed out. The worst is Taylor Lorenz, who, I mean, the body wasn't even warm of Brian Thompson and she was expressing how happy she was that he was dead.
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Um, we're also going to get to more on the insane leftist reaction to Daniel Penny's acquittal yesterday in New York.
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I'm so grossed out by this reaction to the murder of this insurance company's CEO.
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And it's pretty widespread on the left, how they are lionizing the alleged murderer.
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And I mentioned Taylor Lorenz because she's pretty indicative of it.
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She was fired by The Washington Post this fall when she posted on her Instagram, Joe Biden
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When they chastised her for posting such a thing as a so-called reporter, she denied she
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And then a month or so later, she definitely posted on her social media, Joe Biden is a
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Kind of removing the mystery about whether it had been her the first time.
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And now this woman is all over online on her sub stack and elsewhere trying to justify
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this man's murder and goes on with Piers Morgan on his YouTube show last night saying
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And I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately,
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He's a father and he's being young down in the middle of Manhattan.
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So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because greedy
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health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable
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Should they all be killed, these health care executives?
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Joyful or even to even say you're not empathetic about something.
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It's like somebody losing their life when they leave behind two young boys.
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Taylor, I don't mean to be rude, but why the fuck are you laughing all the time?
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Sorry, apologies for my language, but honestly, I find it unbelievable.
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Serious, I am laughing at Tommy's insane mischaracterization of why people are angry.
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I found it, in a sense, frustrating to hear you initially, Megan, rebutting the claim that
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this was somehow a justified act, because it seemed like it's tragic that we have to concede
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It should be so patently obvious that you're not allowed to kill because you disagree with
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And to even engage in that argument is to concede too much, but obviously we need to.
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Let's recall, these are the same group of intersectional allies that also celebrated
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There's something that has gone fundamentally wrong with the left's understanding about
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some basic moral truths, which is you don't get to narcissistically kill some figurehead
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because you'd feel like you're in pain after back surgery, and you don't get to kill on
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This is being a poison that's being bred in the universities, which proceeds with the
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Manichaean worldview about the evil of anything associated with capitalism, with anything
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associated with Western civilization, and that glorifies alleged victims, alleged marginalized,
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and clearly is very closely positioned to the next step, which is that it's okay to kill.
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This is, Lawrence is basically a mainstream media figure.
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And is giving voice to what we've seen all over the internet, thirsting after this guy
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and celebrating his looks and counting him as some sort of courageous guy, as they say,
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who shoots a man dead in the street, an unarmed man in the back.
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Here is that guy, Tim Miller, who couldn't find the stones, Heather, to ask Doug Emhoff,
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who he had right across from him, right after the story broke that he had, according to his
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ex-girlfriend, slapped her with an open hand across the face so hard outside of a festival
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This is like a year before he got together with Kamala Harris.
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He couldn't find the stones to ask him the question, would you like to respond to that?
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Is it true that you hit this woman, you who are being lauded by the left as the new version
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of masculinity, non-toxic, the way the Republican version is?
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This guy, Tim Miller, couldn't find the stones to ask him those questions.
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But here he is today with his thoughts about this alleged killer of CEO Brian Thompson.
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There's a lot to unpack here, including his six-pack would be among the things you need
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He says, a very attractive man, and I am attracted to the shooter.
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In that category, kind of the Boston Marathon bomber was kind of a little bit more of my wheelhouse.
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You know, I have to feel sometimes that the anarchism of the early 20th century, that
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we're past that, that that kind of solipsistic embrace of evil and of the notion that you
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have a right to go around killing people that you disagree with, we're certainly never going
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to return to that degree of, of contagious insanity.
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You know, this is not, and it's not even an underground movement.
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You know, the anarchists were, were understood as enemies of the state and they, they did everything
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they could to cover their tracks and, and, and cover their propaganda to a certain extent,
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although they were also out there leafleting, but their, their homicidal intentions were
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But these are people that are going onto social media, the most public realm in the world and
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proclaiming that they don't have a problem with murder.
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I, I lack the language, Megan, to really describe as in a sort of a Cassandra-like position,
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We all thought that there was a course correction, uh, with the Trump election and people are,
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are saying no more with the, the identity-based grievance, which this is related to in, in
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Uh, but we clearly have a very, very, uh, long road to, to tread to get back to some kind
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I mean, the irony, you know, you mentioned the Daniel Penny, Jordan Neely verdict that, that
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And then an actual hero was being, uh, treated as a homicidal criminal and villain.
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It, we're living in an upside down world, at least to the extent that you live in the elite,
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I have a lot for you on Daniel Penny today, which I will do next, but you're exactly right.
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I mean, I think the Trump election was a declaration that the normies are with us.
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We've reclaimed the normies who were leftist adjacent, you know, open-minded to self-flagellation
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Like, okay, if that's what I need to do to be a good person, I'm open, I'm listening.
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And now they've just been completely rejiggered to normalcy.
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I think they're back with us, but it doesn't mean the loons went away.
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They're still a part of the Democrat party and they're vocal and they're not giving one
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Taylor Lorenz is one, uh, example of that, but they're all over CNN and MSNBC in the wake
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of Penny, which is the other big story today, saying all the things you'd expect them to
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say about how we've normalized vigilantism, the same people, they, they see him as this
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we've, we've, we've, we're celebrating a vigilante in the case of Penny, but on the
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CEO, Brian Thompson, you've got some of those same people saying right on, you know, the
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Um, I hope that there's more people like Piers Morgan out there in the mainstream media
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that are distancing themselves from these views, because if they're not, uh, you're
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And it's, um, you know, I, I think Trump is under constant threat of another assassination
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You know, the, the, the left probably thinks that the right's rhetoric is just as unhinged
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and, and just as dangerous, just as apocryphal, uh, and, and unduly Manichaean that could
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give rise to right-wing kooks and, and, you know, there's always a, uh, a risk about directly
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There should be a very, very wide berth for, uh, politically extreme rhetoric.
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As long as you're not calling for violence, it's not clear that anybody that embraces a
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certain kind of discourse should be held responsible for somebody who acts out in the name of that
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Um, so, you know, both sides view the other as engaged in completely unhinged rhetoric.
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Nevertheless, I, I don't think there's anything comparable.
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I mean, maybe there is, maybe there's some right-wing kooks that are, that are, that are
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justifying in advance, uh, using violence against people you disagree with, but, uh, you know,
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we've, we've seen the young people have completely lost understanding of the first amendment.
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They do not understand fundamental principles of discourse of the free market of ideas that
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the best way to, uh, counter ideas that you disagree with is to argue against them.
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You don't, you don't arrogate to yourself the power of censorship.
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So that's bad enough that we've lost sight of that fundamental principle of democracy, a
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principle that has given power to the marginalized throughout the ages.
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You have Frederick Douglass saying the thing that tyrants fear most is freedom of the press
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because it allows those who oppose slavery to throw off their chains.
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Now you have the left opposing the freedom of the press, but it's even worse than that.
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Now you have the left saying thou shalt kill people who you think are, are denying services
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because you have a certain view of health insurance.
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I, you know, this is a principle that is going to lead to a complete civil war.
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Uh, there's many health insurance, uh, executives out there, as Piers Morgan said, should they
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And then you move on to oil executives, uh, to wall streets.
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Although, you know, wall street is it's, it's weird.
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It's in sort of a transition mode because wall street is of course also very left.
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So, uh, you know, we get to rail against capitalism except when we're drawing on billions to support
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I mean, like, and then you move on of course, to politicians where it's like, uh, and certainly
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I'm just saying that if you want to talk about a politician who's really had a massive effect
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on healthcare, the first person to come to mind would be Barack Obama.
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If you like your doctor, you can keep your law, your doctor, which was a lie.
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And his Obamacare plan led to the loss of, uh, individual relationships between a patient
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and his doctor over and over and over again, a patient and her plan over and over and over.
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So if we're green lighting, we're now green lighting violence against public figures who
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I mean, how is it not a call for multiple assassinations?
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And that's why I refuse to even have the discussion.
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I refuse to have the discussion about the state of modern, uh, insurance care in America
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Maybe at some point we'll discuss it, but certainly not in response to this lunatic who is being
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covered like this, Heather, just to give you one other example.
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Would you look at CNN talking about this murderer, this suspected murderer?
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The reaction online is also just such a reinforcement of how much, uh, aesthetics, attractiveness.
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I mean, like the shallowness of the American people, the American people who are online,
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Part of, yes, there's absolutely a bubbling anger about the, uh, inequity in the country
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writ large and in the healthcare system, no question.
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But so much of, you know, the clips we were watching at the top of this segment are driven
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by the fact that this is, this is an attractive person.
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I know we've got to drop the banner to show why.
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And, and it's, it is deeply troubling that we are celebrating this, this person who's
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committed cold-blooded murder, uh, because, you know, he clearly went to the gym, you know,
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So what happened in that clip for listening audience is that Casey hunt, the anchor chimes
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in, we've got to drop the banner to show them why like show him his abs.
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There's something incredibly crass, sophomoric, simple about the discussions these people are
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having around this man who gunned down a fellow American.
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We haven't seen an open assassination attempt like this in a long time, Heather.
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Again, part of me rebels against us even having this conversation, Megan, we should not be having
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to persuade other people that you don't get to kill a corporate executive because you disagree
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But if we didn't have it, I guess they'd go unchallenged.
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Uh, but, but, you know, one wonders again and again, what common ground do we have now
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with people on the progressive left and, and even liberals?
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If you can't even agree, I used to think that, well, there's no common ground because we can't
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even agree that chromosomes determine one's biological sex, that there is, we have made
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this enormous progress in understanding genetics.
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This is one of the greatest feats of human understanding.
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And now we're throwing that all out in, in favor of this completely politicized gender
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theory view that in fact, sex is something assigned at birth, not, not written into every
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single cell in our body and can be changed at will by people that decide they hate the
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I used to think if we can't agree about that, it's hopeless, but now it turns out it's, it's
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The, the fundamental law that you cannot kill, you shall not commit murder.
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I mean, what, no, we have to forge on without them.
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We can, these are not people we can, we can reason with.
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We just have to defeat them and forge on without them.
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I do want to ask you just, you're not a psychologist or a psychiatrist, but it is bizarre
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that this guy was valedictorian of this Tony boys school in Maryland, went on to the university
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of Pennsylvania, where he got a BA and an MA in computer science, uh, engineering and
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math, I think was his minor, uh, goes on to work for some tech companies, though.
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I will say the employment history started to get a little sketchy.
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They say he's worked, he worked for 10 different companies in the past 10 years.
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Now that would have been six when he was 16 to 26, but it's not like he found a great
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job and just kept it upon graduating from UPenn.
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Um, I'll just show you a little bit from his high school graduation speech as valedictorian.
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It, he wasn't particularly articulate or impressive.
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Just like, just like we've done these past few years, be exploring the unknown, whether
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that be attending colleges across the country, traveling the world during gap years.
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Fulfilling military service in foreign countries.
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As we embrace the new, however, we won't forget the old.
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Our friendships, values, and memories from Gilman will always stay with us.
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So to the class of 2016, a kind of class that only comes around once every 50 years.
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And I simply can't imagine the last few years with any other group of guys.
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All the advantages, education, uh, wealth, uh, apparently a nice family that was, was looking
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for him when he went missing at age 26, couldn't find him, was doing its best to try to retrieve
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Lots of friends, you know, according to them, good looks.
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I, it's just, it's very strange what would make him go from that to, I'll listen, uh, I'll
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let you hear it from John Miller, who's in Intel analyst now on a CNN.
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He's the chief law enforcement, uh, and Intel analyst talking about what was in his manifesto
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that the police found on his person when they arrested him.
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Well, he was railing against the healthcare industry, which of course fits into the scenario
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Um, he talks about, uh, how these parasites had it coming.
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Um, he starts off, uh, basically saying, uh, I don't want to cause any, um, trauma, uh,
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Um, so a second page really kind of goes into problems with the health industry.
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He raises the question, you know, why do we have the most expensive healthcare in the
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world, but we're 42, um, rated 42 in life expectancy around the world.
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It was talking about, uh, the healthcare industry and the need for violence.
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I mean, especially when you talk about, um, you know, the opening, which is, um, that it
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had to be done, these parasites, um, you know, had it coming.
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It's, it's always a question, you know, are these people just simply crazy?
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And, and again, if it's the, if it's the other guy that's committed this atrocity, we
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are going to be inclined to blame the rhetoric, to blame the ideology.
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If it's our guy, and again, let's be honest, it is, it is conceivable that some right-wing
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kook, uh, you know, especially during the election could take the language that Biden
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is a threat to democracy, that he is, uh, a fascist or a totalitarian, which there's
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an argument in given their, uh, censorship of speech that that's a completely deserved
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label, uh, and, and then acted totally unjustifiably upon that.
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So, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, that's, that's that difficult link between when does
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ideology lead to violence or is it a complete break?
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And what's really going on is you've got somebody here who's just psychologically, uh, deranged
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and, and is psychotic and does not understand basic moral principles and has no human empathy.
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I can tell you, you know, as far as the STEM background, because I was surprised by that
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too, you know, you think engineering, uh, in my experience, scientists, and with all due
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respect, and I, I revere, uh, scientists and for their, for their, what should be their,
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their commitment to universal reason and the colorblind pursuit of knowledge, but they can
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You know, I would say about half of them are actually in favor of totally destructive race
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and gender preferences and scientific hiring and, and can be very naive about economic,
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You know, they're, they're pure redistributionists and anti-capitalist.
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So anyway, that, that's not an inoculation against this, but it just may be that he's, he's
00:28:06.540
got, uh, as a disintegrating moral compass and, and cognitive capacities to be able to assess,
00:28:16.260
In fact, I thought his getaway plans were kind of crazy.
00:28:21.700
Other people I've seen on TV thought, oh, he's a very smart guy.
00:28:24.960
I don't know why he's still holding onto the gun.
00:28:27.240
I would have, I would have biked all the way to the East river and thrown it in.
00:28:31.800
Uh, I don't think they could possibly find it there.
00:28:34.160
So, so something else may be going on and, and maybe it's not fair to, to blame the left
00:28:43.020
wing, uh, anti-fa walls, you know, occupy wall street rhetoric against, uh, against the
00:28:58.900
He had all sorts of icons on, on his, uh, social media that suggested me, he might've been into
00:29:06.840
Um, they don't make you normally psychotic, but the, the God of psychedelics was on this
00:29:11.900
show telling us this Hopkins researcher saying, if you have any history of schizophrenia in
00:29:19.760
They can, they can be helpful to people who are, um, who don't have that history and are
00:29:25.900
depressed and need to look at the world in a different way.
00:29:28.560
We've had those people on the show too, but they would rule out anybody who had that sort
00:29:34.060
of a history in their family because they can cause a psychotic break from which you cannot
00:29:44.720
Now his friends are coming out, talking to CNN about how he had some massive back problem
00:29:48.380
that caused him a lot of pain, but no reports so far of any beef with an insurance company.
00:29:54.620
And this guy's, I mean, it sounds like the cops have got him dead to rights, the manifesto
00:29:59.180
on him, the gun on him, the silencer on him, both of which they say appear to have been
00:30:03.580
the product of a 3d printer, which is nuts along with hollow point bullets, which he would
00:30:09.160
have to have had to have purchased, um, false IDs.
00:30:12.940
He confessed to holding a false ID into presenting it to the police saying he was a New Jersey resident
00:30:22.020
And ultimately today charged so far with second degree murder in New York.
00:30:25.860
And I expect that will be increased to first degree.
00:30:28.800
Once they proceed down the line with this case, there, he is in his mugshot looking super tough.
00:30:33.780
It's not super tough to kill an unarmed man in the back.
00:30:40.020
Let's talk about Daniel Penny, who is a genuine hero, who I, unlike this guy, like they, they
00:30:50.460
That's what the left is saying, because both were trying to act in defense of others.
00:30:55.800
That's what the Taylor Lorenz of the world see when they look at Penny and this guy, but
00:31:03.120
So you could say that to justify the murder of just about anybody who had caused any harm
00:31:10.900
It, it doesn't make your murder of them justified.
00:31:14.380
Daniel Penny was actually trying to defend weaker people around him on the subway.
00:31:22.040
A fact, which is not being acknowledged by the BLM, NAACP, Al Sharpton types today, which
00:31:34.260
Also, he was not intending to kill Jordan Neely.
00:31:41.660
He was simply trying to restrain him until first responders could arrive in the subway at
00:31:47.980
And there was evidence presented that in fact, he was not putting particular amount of pressure
00:31:53.760
on, on Neely's chest and neck, uh, that it was just holding him down there because if
00:32:01.100
you let him go, every, the, one of the arguments is, well, once people got off the train, uh,
00:32:08.180
You don't know what he's going to do if he's, if he's still crazy and you let him go, he could
00:32:14.360
You don't know if he's armed, but there's simply no parallel.
00:32:17.980
Uh, this was somebody who was simply trying to get, uh, somebody out of the range of being
00:32:25.880
And the fear that he might kill other people is completely legitimate and rational.
00:32:31.760
We just went through on, on November 18th in this country, in this, in New York city,
00:32:36.320
uh, a mentally ill deranged vagrant, uh, who went on a stabbing spree across Manhattan and
00:32:47.180
We regularly have vagrants in the subway who slammed people's heads, uh, into the subways
00:32:54.040
10, 10 days after the, the Jordan Neely, Daniel Penny incident, uh, vagrants slammed a woman's
00:33:03.860
You know, the, the argument made by the, uh, prosecution was that Penny was either reckless
00:33:10.420
or negligent in his disregarding the risk that by putting Penny in this so-called chokehold,
00:33:20.140
and there's a lot of, always a lot of semantic play around what constitutes a chokehold, what's
00:33:24.860
not, but he basically brought him down in a, in a bear hug, Penny lay on the, on the subway
00:33:31.220
floor with Neely on top of him, uh, that, that somehow Penny should have known.
00:33:38.700
And he was indifferent to the risk that by just holding this guy who was high on, on
00:33:44.400
synthetic marijuana, that that could have led to his death under that standard.
00:33:49.280
It is the city that is every single day homicidal because they know it is not just a possibility.
00:34:00.560
It is a certainty given the number, the thousands of untreated mentally ill drug addicts who are
00:34:10.060
It is a virtual certainty that every couple of days, every couple of weeks, one of them
00:34:15.580
will assault an innocent pedestrian, possibly lethally, and they are on notice.
00:34:27.880
They, they spend all their money on vanity left-wing projects, uh, you know, whether it's
00:34:34.660
protecting migrants from deportation or various trans projects or affordable housing for single
00:34:41.720
mothers who have made themselves poor by not marrying when they have children, uh, instead
00:34:47.940
of dropping everything and saying, our primary responsibility is to protect the public from
00:34:56.460
We are going to transfer all of the money that we're now wasting on feckless social service
00:35:04.980
We're going to build however many mental institutions it takes to confine people who should not be
00:35:11.800
for their own sake left to decompose on the streets.
00:35:15.520
Talk about, uh, you know, we're all supposed to feel like Penny was indifferent to the human
00:35:23.720
The people who are indifferent to Neely's human dignity are the outreach workers and who let
00:35:30.440
him go to sit in his own feces to, to expose himself on platforms, to go battering elderly
00:35:38.920
people and don't give a damn the, the homeless.
00:35:42.980
You are not helping the homeless, vagrant, mentally ill chemical abusers by letting them roam the
00:35:49.320
You are subjecting them to a life of squalor and, and, and sheer, uh, just abuse, self-abuse
00:36:00.220
And yet the reason we do this is because the homeless lobby needs the homeless on the streets
00:36:05.220
so that they can make their million dollar contracts.
00:36:07.700
And they want to have a symbol of the heartlessness of capitalism.
00:36:11.220
The whole thing is a perverse narrative and we haven't even gotten to the race issue.
00:36:17.080
Megan, I have frankly, as, as we will, let's hold, let's, let's put a pin in that.
00:36:21.880
Cause that's next, but let's stay where you are.
00:36:25.120
So this was community noted on X yesterday, a commentator named Tiffany Caban writes Jordan
00:36:30.760
nearly deserve better than the violence of being denied access to stable housing and healthcare,
00:36:38.660
Jordan nearly deserve better than the systems that allow for and justify extrajudicial white
00:36:46.000
The community note reads as follows as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors after he
00:36:50.800
punched a 67 year old woman in the, in the face in the street in 2021, Jordan nearly was
00:36:56.500
given free access to stable housing and healthcare at a treatment facility in the Bronx.
00:37:05.000
So there there's a, she's a New York city council member that Tiffany Caban, um, they're just not
00:37:13.720
getting, they refuse to get it intentionally, willfully, uh, blind to the problems.
00:37:18.620
New Yorkers, New York taxpayers who are working every day, they're getting up early, they're
00:37:23.480
going to the job, they're putting up with possibly obnoxious coworkers or bosses, but because they
00:37:28.880
believe in making self-sufficiency, that they're not going to be leeches on the system.
00:37:34.240
They're really screwed because a judge, thanks to legal aid society lawsuit has held that we
00:37:40.460
are obligated to provide shelter to everyone on demand.
00:37:44.880
So we'll just cut, cast aside whether that's just or not, let's take that as a given.
00:37:49.460
The rule should be, if we have to provide you shelter on demand, whether you're a single
00:37:54.380
mother that gets a subsidized private apartment with your own cooking and bathroom facilities,
00:38:00.820
or you're in a congregate shelter as a, as a childless adult, the rule should be, you got
00:38:07.480
If we're going to be paying billions of dollars a year to provide this shelter, you don't
00:38:16.140
Uh, but in fact, they do get to stay on the streets.
00:38:21.200
You know, we've lived with this lie for now, what is it?
00:38:26.040
It was completely blown out of the water by some early sociologists.
00:38:29.860
The idea that housing, it's a, homelessness is a housing problem.
00:38:35.160
It's a problem of mental illness, drug abuse, and what, what some early researchers called
00:38:44.040
Those social ties that may allow you to shack up with your mother or sister.
00:38:51.340
You're so involved in your own addictions that people say, I can't take you any longer.
00:38:56.940
Uh, so you don't have that, that social safety net, but, but nevertheless, so it's not about
00:39:03.520
These people are offered housing numerous times.
00:39:08.540
I don't even like to use the phrase homelessness, but sometimes it just comes ready, ready to hand.
00:39:16.620
Uh, I, I've written on Skid Row in, in Los Angeles, which is the biggest hell on earth.
00:39:21.720
There's no, there's no Vista that you've ever seen like it unless you've actually seen Skid Row of
00:39:27.040
block after block of human degradation beyond belief.
00:39:31.800
Uh, but people come from across the country to be in Skid Row because they know they can party
00:39:41.960
They run prostitution rings out of their cardboards.
00:39:46.240
And if you allow certain people to make that choice, they will, whether they're capable of
00:39:52.500
But frankly, you do not get to colonize public space.
00:39:57.120
We used to understand this, you know, for centuries, people understood this.
00:40:01.900
We had Skid Row's, cheap, uh, cage housing, SRO, single room occupancy hotels, and the police
00:40:09.280
did something that now you're not allowed to talk about.
00:40:14.120
If you say you don't get to stay here, people make other arrangements.
00:40:17.860
And now, now the government believes that its only duty is to the dysfunctional and the
00:40:25.660
It owes nothing to the law abiding, the hardworking, the tax paying.
00:40:30.480
They're simply supposed to put up with crime and squalor and feel lucky to be paying taxes
00:40:37.260
to support this massive, feckless, totally incompetent social service industry.
00:40:42.740
This, this is, this gets right to the befuddlement of many on the left and in the media as to
00:40:51.440
the reaction that you and I and other sane people are having to this verdict.
00:40:55.680
They don't understand why we're applauding Daniel Penny, because we've seen all the things
00:41:02.600
We object to this current system, which none of us voted for or okayed in any way.
00:41:08.080
We miss the old days of there being law and order and of the law abiding citizens being
00:41:12.960
the ones who are protected and at the front of mind for police.
00:41:17.440
And we're cheering a strong, brave man like Daniel Penny, who fills the gap to keep us safe.
00:41:25.400
But I'll just give you, just listen to this CNN anchor, Audie Cornish, who seems genuinely
00:41:30.880
confused about this reaction that some of us are having.
00:41:36.180
When I hear lawmakers hailing Penny as a hero, as a good Samaritan, really being promoted,
00:41:44.120
Just, we started at the top of the show talking about the killer of the United
00:41:53.480
If you're on the American left tonight, here's my chart.
00:42:05.480
I'm just telling you what I see out in the world today.
00:42:12.760
What I'm telling you is, people on the left, people on the left can't seem to tell the difference
00:42:22.160
I'm not actually asking you about people on the left.
00:42:22.860
I'm asking you whether you consider this person.
00:42:25.540
We have people praising Luigi and attacking Penny.
00:42:26.960
I want to know whether you think that, as Congressman Crane does, that Daniel Penny
00:42:32.100
should get the Congressional Gold Medal to recognize his heroism.
00:42:38.060
I think he ought to build a statute of this guy.
00:42:46.280
I mean, he represents something so archaic, which is male chivalry, selfless help of others
00:42:56.420
People were terrified on that subway car, again, for good reason.
00:43:02.040
You mentioned before, with regards to taking psychedelics, if you're psychotic, the category
00:43:08.600
of, it's called MICA's, M-I-C-A's, Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers, they are very violent.
00:43:16.000
When you cross being mentally ill, schizophrenic, and chemical abuse, that leads to very high
00:43:23.700
So those people who were terrified when Jordan Neely burst into the subway, claiming he wanted
00:43:29.140
to die, he wanted to go back to jail, implicitly, I'm going to kill somebody to go back to jail,
00:43:39.140
What kills me the most, Megan, we have two types of hypocrisy.
00:43:43.200
We're bracketing for now the race hypocrisy, but it overlaps with all this maudlin, lacrimose,
00:43:55.640
You know, at the start of this, the New York Times ran this hilarious feature about what
00:44:01.200
to do if you see somebody acting out on the subway.
00:44:04.860
And the first suggestion was, well, get the hell out of there, which is what most people
00:44:11.080
But it also said, well, go up to that person and say, do you need something?
00:44:17.460
All of these people, Al Sharpton, all of the race baiters, and Audrey Cornish, and whoever
00:44:24.740
else it is, that are saying, well, why didn't Daniel Penny help him?
00:44:29.120
Jordan Neely was just, this was just a cry for help.
00:44:33.080
I can guarantee you, Megan, and I'm happy to be proven wrong.
00:44:37.800
Somebody come up and prove to me that you on the left have gone up to a psychotic, raving,
00:44:44.560
drug-addicted vagrant and said, how can I help you?
00:44:52.680
I can guarantee you he has never done that, and especially you've never done it in a subway
00:44:59.880
He said at his, he went to the funeral of Jordan Neely and said, he posed no threat.
00:45:04.700
He's just such a hustler, non-fact based, who tries to gin up anger and riots and protests.
00:45:11.620
He tried again here without any care for the consequences that follow.
00:45:16.120
And that will bring us officially to the race discussion here, where the Sharptons and the
00:45:22.140
NAACP and this lunatic from BLM, Shavonna Newsome, who's the co-founder of the Greater New York
00:45:34.280
There is no one coming to save black people, or else we wouldn't live in these ghettos.
00:45:49.040
But once we saw those non-white jurors, we knew that this case was over.
00:45:54.020
The only crime that Jordan Neely was guilty of was the color of his skin.
00:46:03.780
These wonderful white people, I hope they celebrate their Christmas while the Neely family
00:46:18.620
Ten days after the Jordan Neely-Penney incident, there was a 16-year-old girl named Claudia Quanti
00:46:36.020
She was, she was in a Queens hospital, brain dead during the Jordan Neely funeral, which
00:46:41.600
was another fake, totally fake outpouring of, of fake compassion.
00:46:51.060
There's been, every single month, there are black children who are gunned down by insane
00:47:00.260
None of them have ever been protested by Black Lives Matter activists, by this woman.
00:47:08.940
Dozens of blacks are killed by other blacks every single day.
00:47:16.700
The only time that a black victim gets any attention from the civil rights so-called activists
00:47:23.660
is when there's the remote possibility of a white person killing that black person.
00:47:33.400
And we're going to bracket whether this is even causal here with Penny and Neely.
00:47:37.780
The fact of the matter is, is that blacks are 35 times more likely to engage in violence
00:47:47.420
If we wanted vigilantism, you know, there's a lot more cause for vigilantism on the white
00:47:55.140
But the idea that white people are the source of danger to black lives is completely preposterous.
00:48:03.060
Blacks die of homicide between the ages of 10 and 24 at 25 times the rate of whites.
00:48:10.500
So in one sense, when President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden say that black people
00:48:16.300
should be right to fear that their kids will be shot when they step outside, that's right
00:48:22.960
in one sense because the black crime rate is so high.
00:48:27.400
But what they mean is their right to fear that white people will kill their black children.
00:48:31.860
That is a complete lie, but it is one that has not been rebutted.
00:48:37.120
It continues to create hatred, animosity in inner city neighborhoods and throughout academia.
00:48:44.500
And I am looking forward to a president in the White House that is not going to continue
00:48:50.200
this total, total fabrication and insult to the police officers of this country that they
00:48:58.920
are a threat to black people rather than their best chance, short of the reconstitution of
00:49:11.140
We have a minute to break, but I'll say this on the subject of good cops.
00:49:14.720
The two cops who arrested Luigi Mangione in that McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, two
00:49:23.600
hours outside of Pittsburgh, one, the one who confronted him was a rookie.
00:49:27.540
He'd been on the job as a police officer for this group, for this jurisdiction, six months
00:49:33.080
and went over there, managed to get him to take his mask down, managed to ask him the question
00:49:39.480
about whether he'd recently been in New York and managed to affect an arrest that easily
00:49:44.820
could have gone wrong, could have wound up in gun violence.
00:49:48.200
The guy was carrying a weapon with his silencer and his hollow point bullets and managed to
00:49:54.240
take this killer, suspected killer into custody with absolutely no problem.
00:50:03.060
So, you know, while we're always on the subject of how terrible our cops are, maybe a word for
00:50:07.300
him, Al Sharpton, would love to, he's not interested because Luigi's not black.
00:50:12.260
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I'm dying to talk to you about Trump's cabinet picks, including Pete Hegseth.
00:51:58.040
I heard your discussion with Ann Coulter, and I thought it was typically fascinating.
00:52:02.120
And I'll just get the audience caught up on where Pete's nomination stands right now, where
00:52:08.920
he's still facing some problems potentially with Murkowski, Collins, maybe McConnell, and
00:52:22.060
Joni Ernst is causing a lot of anger on the right because she's a Republican senator from
00:52:28.120
Iowa, which is a red state, and I think they expected better from her.
00:52:32.980
And for the past few days now, there has been trending on X, the hashtag Judas Joni, where
00:52:41.260
Republicans are expressing their outrage that she seems to be getting ready to, in their view,
00:52:48.340
She had a second meeting with Pete on Monday and put out a statement that may or may not
00:53:01.700
I appreciate Pete Hegseth's responsiveness and respect for the process.
00:53:08.340
Following our encouraging conversations, okay, Pete committed to completing a full audit of
00:53:12.940
the Pentagon and selecting a senior official who will uphold the rules and value of our service
00:53:18.340
men and women based on quality and standards, not quotas, and who will prioritize and strengthen
00:53:23.200
my work to prevent sexual assault within the ranks.
00:53:26.500
As I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth,
00:53:35.940
She later called it a very productive reading, a meeting, sorry.
00:53:40.980
And then she said, we're just moving through the process, but he does respect that I'm taking
00:53:50.140
What I, what my understanding is, is she's no more committed to doing anything with Pete
00:53:55.160
besides getting him a hearing and listening to what is said in the hearing.
00:54:00.180
But I have to be honest, I don't really sense a bunch of softening in that statement.
00:54:04.680
And I too think Joni Ernst may still be a no and she could take this nomination.
00:54:11.500
Well, my concern with Pete Hegseth is that he doesn't have the bureaucratic experience to
00:54:20.680
be able to manage the world's largest, most clotted, most overfunded, most bloated, self-involved
00:54:29.080
bureaucracy on the planet, which is the Pentagon.
00:54:31.600
I think that being a disruptor may not be enough in, in something like that, that you have to
00:54:39.340
have, uh, again, and I'm not, I'm not in that world, so I may be over, uh, romanticizing it,
00:54:46.320
but I would think that there's a certain degree of almost military skill of understanding, you
00:54:51.780
know, when you strike, when you pull back and, uh, the, otherwise the blob will, will consume
00:54:59.020
That's my concern with Hegseth as far as, uh, the Ernst, Joni Ernst-Heggseth interaction.
00:55:06.020
What really depressed me, uh, was after their interaction, he had some comments about, well,
00:55:14.660
uh, you know, I'm so, so happy to work with a wonderful combat service woman, uh, and, you
00:55:21.040
know, we're all for our combat men and, and, and women in combat.
00:55:25.300
My strong support for Hegseth is based on one issue and one issue alone, his promise to
00:55:32.400
end females in combat units, which is a complete travesty.
00:55:36.020
It has nothing to do with military preparedness.
00:55:39.700
Uh, it is only about being able to credentialize females that's because you need to have combat
00:55:46.060
experience in order to be a four-star Pentagon general.
00:55:48.580
It has nothing to do with making us a stronger fighting force.
00:55:52.560
In fact, it is, it is a certainty that it will weaken it because when you introduce females
00:55:57.720
into combat units, you introduce Eros, which destroys combat cohesiveness.
00:56:03.540
It is inevitable that you were going to have jealousies.
00:56:08.160
You're going to have pregnant females as we've seen in our submarines, which is also not at
00:56:16.160
Um, but I fear that in order to get these, uh, dissenters or, or fence sitters on board,
00:56:23.140
he's going to have to throw out that, that pledge.
00:56:26.840
Um, now, obviously the elephant in the room that I'm not addressing yet is the sexual assault
00:56:33.060
And, and my position on that, Megan, is that I really don't care.
00:56:37.180
Short of an actual crime that's been committed and there are real sexual crimes and those
00:56:43.820
are, should be punished and they should be disqualifying.
00:56:46.940
If somebody is simply a sexual aggressor, a bore, I do not care.
00:56:52.460
I, I, I have a strict distinction between public virtues of leadership and private behavior of Eros.
00:57:01.380
Eros makes everybody crazy, but it has no bearing on whether can somebody can be a good public
00:57:07.680
leader, a leader of men able to engage in political persuasion, to make compromises where
00:57:14.260
necessary, to carry people along on a transformative mission, which is what has to happen with the
00:57:23.140
And especially in this case where these are anonymous accusers, I'm even less, uh, willing to
00:57:29.620
credit that, but I, I would just, those who feel like there should be an absolutely porous
00:57:35.080
membrane between somebody's private sexual life and their public capacities, uh, just imagine
00:57:41.400
if James Madison, uh, had been a skirt chaser and let's say in a, under me too standards,
00:57:48.800
he was seen as being too aggressive towards subordinates.
00:57:53.380
This would be maybe in his household, uh, this would be maybe towards maids working in
00:57:57.660
his household that he was too handsy with them, a me too, a hater of males, a me too warrior
00:58:07.020
who believes in tearing down male civilization would say that because James Madison, uh, did
00:58:13.700
not always have his erotic impulses under complete check.
00:58:16.960
He therefore should have been thrown out of the constitutional convention and we never
00:58:21.600
would have had the most extraordinary document that grows out of centuries of development of
00:58:29.660
constitutional theory, which is uniquely a Western creation that the fact that James Madison
00:58:35.800
was maybe acted out, uh, improperly in his household should discredit him from public leadership.
00:58:42.860
I simply don't believe in that. So I'm going to judge Pete Hegseth on his public capacities.
00:58:49.620
And as I say, the, the concern I have there is whether he's got the, the clout, the knowledge,
00:58:55.880
the understanding to be able to reform the Pentagon.
00:58:59.640
He's certainly got the desire, which I think is the main goal of Trump selecting him, that
00:59:04.060
they're on the same page with respect to mission. But I, I listened to you and I listened to Ann and
00:59:10.140
Ann was much more in the old school Republican camp of character matters. He cheated on all three of
00:59:17.520
his wives. He reportedly cheated on the first wife some five times. That's unconfirmed. But Gabe
00:59:22.960
Sherman is reporting that the ex-wife says he told her that. Um, and so how can he sit atop
00:59:29.780
a military where we prosecute people for infidelity and in effect, pass judgment on these guys who still
00:59:38.760
do get court-martialed for doing things like that? Okay. Well, that's a different issue. I didn't
00:59:44.940
remember she made that point. If that's the case. No, I don't know if she made that last point. That
00:59:48.300
was me. But, but do, if we prosecute for infidelity, uh, then I would say that, that that's the choice
00:59:54.900
the Pentagon has made. I would say, uh, I'm, I'm all for fidelity. I'm all for marriage. I think the
01:00:02.280
disappearance of marriage is a very, it's, it's the most catastrophic thing of, uh, of modern culture.
01:00:07.920
Um, I don't know about prosecuting for infidelity, but if that's the case, then clearly he shouldn't
01:00:14.020
be, uh, nominated because he has violated the oath of office and the, and the conditions of,
01:00:20.320
of leadership. Short of that though, if that, if there wasn't that rule, I just think cheating on
01:00:25.600
your wife, it's very regrettable and it's extraordinarily painful within a domestic situation.
01:00:31.200
I've been through divorce. I can tell you it is traumatic and it leaves lifetime scars,
01:00:36.800
but I don't think that that has any bearing on whether somebody can be a leader of men. I can
01:00:43.800
well imagine that some of the greatest military heroes, some of the greatest public leaders,
01:00:49.920
whether it's Bonaparte when, you know, there's a division of opinion on him, Alexander the Great
01:00:54.320
people, but, but even people within America's own history, that they didn't control themselves
01:01:02.120
completely to normal standards when it comes to females, same with females onto men. I just don't
01:01:09.200
think that that's relevant for public leadership. I think there's character matters, but I think that
01:01:16.080
that's the character of public character. Are you magnanimous towards your enemies? Uh, are you willing to
01:01:23.120
extend an olive branch after conflict? I think the great reconciliation after the world war, after
01:01:30.520
civil war between Ulysses Grant and Robert Lee, that was an extraordinary moment that both men showed
01:01:39.000
magnanimity of spirit. That's one of my complaints about Trump is I don't think, I don't care about his
01:01:45.140
private behavior, but I don't particularly respect him for his public character. I think he's nasty.
01:01:51.500
I think he's vindictive. I think he should model male virtues in a way that Daniel Penny did,
01:01:58.520
which is chivalry, heroism, self-sacrifice. I don't see that in Trump. I see a narcissist in Trump.
01:02:06.000
Those are the values that I care about, especially today with males being viewed as pariahs, with being,
01:02:13.640
they are hated by the elite establishment, especially straight white males. They are viewed with contempt,
01:02:20.880
and, and the, basically an effort to replace them from every institution. I look for males who can
01:02:28.340
model what traditional male virtues are and be proud of them. Hmm. I do think Trump's a narcissist.
01:02:35.160
No big surprise. Most of the people who run for and become president are, but I, I can defend him on
01:02:40.940
that other front in that, you know, look at him now after the election, Joe Biden telling everybody that
01:02:46.620
he's Hitler, he's a Nazi, he's a white supremacist, fascist. He sat down with him and said, you know,
01:02:52.120
it's a tough election. A lot of tough things get said in these elections, but that's politics.
01:02:55.900
Same thing with Jill Biden over in, uh, Notre Dame cathedral this week, smiled at her, was nice to her,
01:03:02.300
um, sat down. I mean, Marco Rubio as secretary of state, those two did strong rhetorical battle back
01:03:08.840
in 16 yours truly. He didn't like me for a year, but we're great now. You know, he, I think he
01:03:15.960
actually is set to, he accepted a meeting with Joe and Mika from morning Joe. They came down to Mar-a-Lago
01:03:22.920
and he was kind to them. Like, I think Trump is capable of looking past strife and an adversarial
01:03:31.580
relationship just as long as the other person would like to do that too.
01:03:35.560
I hope you're right. I hope we've, I would say that's turning over a new leaf. I think that his
01:03:40.920
behavior towards Jeff Sessions was appalling. People defend Trump and say, yeah, but look at
01:03:45.840
what Jeff Sessions did. Jeff Sessions was acting on what he believed the constitutional principles was,
01:03:51.840
were, I, I'm not a fan of his, uh, nicknames. I think they're, they're juvenile. They're an embarrassment,
01:03:58.060
but that's the one area where I guess I'm a girl because most boys that I know, most males think
01:04:03.240
they're funny. I don't, but, and I, but I know there's many females that think they're funny too.
01:04:12.520
Oh, okay. That, that, that's okay. I guess you're allowed to maybe the enemy. You could,
01:04:17.180
like, they don't deserve any respect, but I think our, our political, uh, domestic
01:04:22.880
opponents, we should be a little bit more, uh, adult towards, but Rocketman was good,
01:04:28.020
but I'm rotten to sanctimonious, but, but anyway, let's just hope it's a new, it's a new, um,
01:04:33.300
it's a new era for Trump. I would also say, I think Joe Biden deserves credit too for, for his
01:04:39.160
behavior with Trump. Uh, you know, it's easy for Trump to extend the olive branch, but, but Biden was
01:04:44.840
the one, um, you know, who was pushed aside and, and, and so he, that was, that was a good moment for
01:04:51.560
our country. Yep. Yep. So how are you feeling now? I mean, we elected Trump, the Republicans are
01:04:58.320
going to control the Senate and the house. They don't have a filibuster proof majority. We've got
01:05:03.420
a six, three majority on the U S Supreme court. I don't know. How are you feeling Heather?
01:05:09.520
I'm optimistic for the ones for first time in my life. I actually found myself imagining what could
01:05:15.080
happen with 12 years of Republican rule that I think we could really get this country back on track.
01:05:20.760
So I just hope that Trump restrains himself so that JD Vance is a shoe in because I would love to see
01:05:27.780
a Vance presidency. Um, I think that the Trump is much wiser now. I think he started in on trying to
01:05:36.780
end the anti-white male hatred at the end of his administration. It was too late by then. Now,
01:05:43.500
some of his, his picks are just fantastic. Jay Bhattacharya, the head of NIH Bhattacharya,
01:05:50.180
of course, was one of the authors of the great Barrington declaration, which came out against
01:05:55.220
lockdowns, which came out against the arbitrary tyranny of the public health establishment with
01:06:00.720
these rules that were pulled out of thin air against school closures. We've seen the real problem
01:06:07.540
with the school closures. It's not only the learning loss, it is that it has widened the academic skills
01:06:12.740
gap between blacks and whites, which guarantees further racial strife in the future. Um, Bhattacharya
01:06:19.140
was the victim of, of censorship on the government's part. He is going to restore our science establishment
01:06:26.500
to meritocratic excellence. He will ream out the billions of dollars that are spent on promoting race
01:06:35.180
and sex in science rather than accomplishment. The immigration, uh, agenda. I think Trump is much more
01:06:43.020
hard hitting at this point. I love Tom Homan. So I think this could be an amazing thing. I'm totally,
01:06:48.780
uh, thrilled, enthralled by the Vivek Musk alliance. I just hope that they're not such big egos that they
01:06:56.300
end up going after each other. Ultimately, we'll have like some big cage fight, you know, but if they can
01:07:01.500
work together, if they can work together, how can this not be a good thing? So I'm usually a pessimist.
01:07:08.920
I I've lost four steak bed dinners on the Trump election. I thought he would, there was no way
01:07:13.260
he'd be reelected, but I, I think that the momentum is so great now. Uh, it's hard to see that at least
01:07:20.540
in the first hundred days, he's not going to take, accomplish a hell of a lot. Yeah. Tom Homan, uh,
01:07:28.080
apparently was speaking at an event in Chicago yesterday and began the remarks by saying
01:07:32.360
your, uh, mayor sucks and your governor sucks. Yes. Right. Right. Right. Speak for us all, sir.
01:07:40.220
Truce. Brandon Johnson. Oh, he's the worst. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We will soon find out
01:07:46.940
whether Hegseth and these others get through, but the reports right now are that, that team MAGA has
01:07:52.400
effectively gotten it, that the Pete Hegseth nomination is it's about more than Pete, because
01:07:57.300
if they give on him, they wait to see what they do to Bobby Kennedy and a lot of the others getting
01:08:02.100
into their personal lives, making bad personal choices, the stakes for the nomination. It's like
01:08:06.720
now's the time to fight. And if we give on this one, we're, we're probably going to lose RFKJ among
01:08:13.120
others. Heather McDonald. I love talking to you. Please come back anytime. Thank you so much,
01:08:19.620
Megan. It's such an honor. Oh gosh. It's such a, such a privilege for me to be able to engage in
01:08:25.340
these conversations. Love her. Uh, okay. So before we take a break, I want to bring you a couple of
01:08:30.840
updates that we're getting now on the, on the, um, arrest of this Luigi Mangione and the latest in
01:08:37.180
this case, cause some stuff is happening. The, there are now death threats against the police
01:08:44.840
officers who arrested the guy. People have lost their minds. They're, they're threatening the lives
01:08:52.860
of the cops who arrested him because he's already seen as such a folk hero. I mean, I don't think this
01:09:00.560
guy thought this through because it was very clear he would eventually wind up arrested. I mean,
01:09:04.480
with this picture plastered all over the United States like that, what did he think was going to
01:09:09.000
happen? Of course they were going to get him in modern day America. And how did he see that going?
01:09:13.080
How does he think his, his back troubles are going to do any better in prison with the healthcare
01:09:18.680
there? Does he think he's going to be getting an interventional radiologist or interventional pain
01:09:23.280
management doctor, giving him ridiculopathy, uh, while he's locked up as a convicted felon,
01:09:29.780
probably in one of the worst, most maximum security prisons we have. I, I'm not sure it's
01:09:35.180
going to work out so well for Luigi. And by the way, I don't know if I even believe the whole
01:09:40.900
insurance thing, because I don't know that it was personal to him since it sounds like he comes from
01:09:44.900
a very rich family. And those are the families that can handle bad insurance news. It tends to be the
01:09:50.960
poor families who wind up paying the price if an insurer doesn't cover something. So I,
01:09:56.160
I don't know, to me, it seems more likely that this guy's in the psychotic break camp
01:10:01.000
either because of schizophrenia, which is right around now it's like 19 to mid twenties that it
01:10:06.260
kicks in even, even with people who seemed fine before, or maybe there was a psychedelic induced
01:10:12.940
break. You know, maybe he overused some medications. Maybe it was in connection with back pain. Then he
01:10:18.060
made that choice. Total speculation on my part of just thinking out loud here, but there's gotta be an
01:10:22.240
explanation for why he went postal. I mean, he, that's what happened here. And, um, we just need
01:10:30.100
to learn more about it. Now I will say that the, there was a former NYPD guy, former NYPD captain,
01:10:38.140
uh, named John Monahan. He was on CNN last night and he was suggesting that he did not believe Luigi,
01:10:45.200
if this is in fact is the, our guy Mangione was done that he actually thought he was probably on
01:10:53.800
his way back to New York and possibly to commit another crime. He was making the point that the
01:11:00.820
buses, you know, he took a Greyhound bus, the buses out of, uh, Penn station, which I think is where he
01:11:06.260
left, um, go to, uh, he said, New York, Philadelphia, and one other town and that to DC and that he
01:11:15.700
believes Luigi got on a bus to Philly and then headed back, uh, to Pittsburgh and Altoona. And that
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he believed based on the route that the guy was traveling, New York was next that he was going to
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go back there. And this may not have been the end of his crime spree, which would explain why he still
01:11:37.020
had the gun on him. I mean, yes, you could say it was for a confrontation with cops, but there's no
01:11:43.300
report that he lurched for his backpack, which I believe was right there in the McDonald's. Actually,
01:11:48.060
can we show the pictures that we've seen now of him in the McDonald's? Um, I mean, it does look just
01:11:55.500
like him, but his backpack was reportedly right by him, uh, in the McDonald's. Hello. Are we going to put
01:12:01.560
it up in the air? Uh, I guess we'll get to it. Um, there, there he is. I don't know what he's
01:12:08.520
sipping there, but he's sitting there with some, something in his right hand. It's a, it's a hash
01:12:13.380
brown. He's eating a hash brown with his mask off of his face and a big sort of burnt orange beanie on
01:12:19.740
his head. And, uh, anyway, reportedly his backpack was right there. His laptop was right there. So he
01:12:25.160
didn't lurch for it. He didn't try to have a shootout with cops. So you tell me why he held
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onto the gun. Listen to John Monahan last night on Anderson Cooper, three 60 side 11.
01:12:37.480
What stands out to me is the fact that, you know, earlier they were asked that the Pennsylvania
01:12:44.080
leadership was asked, is he cooperating? And he said initially that he was, but then he stopped
01:12:49.700
and then we charged him. Anderson, that is the exact sequence of events that has to occur. If
01:12:54.700
you want to get information from this prisoner, that gun on all ballistics expert, Anderson, but I
01:13:00.120
don't, I doesn't look like something that was created by a 3d printer. He went to Philly. Then he
01:13:04.600
went to Pittsburgh. Now commissioner Miller asked a very good question. What was next? He started
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Pittsburgh is well, West of Altoona. He's heading back to New York as he approaches Altoona,
01:13:15.420
Pennsylvania. I wonder how much ammunition was in that backpack. Let's think about what did not
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happen in that McDonald's. He didn't have a chance to draw that weapon to commit suicide,
01:13:25.000
which he may have been prone to do. He never changed to draw that weapon to fight it out with
01:13:28.340
the cops. And he was still there. What kind of restaurant is that fast food restaurant? They
01:13:33.520
were there very quickly. How long is it? People sit in McDonald's, eat their breakfast, 10 minutes
01:13:37.620
tops. They got there right away. And we're getting more now on exactly how they got there. So
01:13:45.020
now, you know, you remember yesterday we talked about, was it an elderly patron who ID'd him or
01:13:50.180
was it an employee? And now what we understand, at least as of today, is that there was a guy who
01:13:56.840
was there with his buddy eating McDonald's and they saw him and they were saying, looks like the guy.
01:14:06.440
Hello. Looks like the guy from the shooting. And, uh, then a female employee agreed and called the
01:14:13.100
police. Well, one of those customers to whom I just referred, gave an interview to Fox and described
01:14:20.760
what went down that morning. Listen here. A group of us are here every day. And, uh, one of my friends,
01:14:28.800
and I thought he was kidding. Uh, when the, when the shooter, I'm assuming was the shooter who they
01:14:37.900
made the arrest on came in, he made a comment, well, that looks like the shooter from New York. But
01:14:46.460
I thought he was, I, the group of us, I thought it was more of a joke and we were kidding about it. But then
01:14:54.180
as it turned out, it was him. And like I said, the employee that thought it was him that I guess
01:15:04.060
started the initial like investigation on it. Uh, I, I talked to her later. I said,
01:15:13.280
I said, was I here when he came in? And she goes, yeah. And she goes, actually you and your,
01:15:20.900
your friends and all were, were making a joke almost like a saying, you know, and that's pretty
01:15:29.460
much about it. My friend, Mike had said this. He, I asked him again this morning. I said,
01:15:35.460
were you kidding or not? He said, no, I was serious. He goes, the backpack, the jacket
01:15:41.960
resembled the one he said the day of the shooting. There was no reaction like from him whenever my
01:15:49.960
friend said that. And, and the worker, if she heard us talking, he had to have heard us, but there was no,
01:15:57.760
no. Wow. Think of that. Just two regular guys sitting there having their McDonald's saying
01:16:06.320
that looks a lot like him. And it did. I mean, you see that picture. He's got that burnt orange
01:16:13.060
beanie. He's got, here's the other shot of him. He's got the sort of medical mask on the COVID mask
01:16:19.060
on again. And, you know, thanks to law enforcement in New York that went back and got pictures of him
01:16:25.560
at the youth hostel where he'd been staying. We did have that picture of him bare faced. Remember
01:16:30.600
he pulled on his mask for a minute to flirt with a girl. And we had the second picture of him in the
01:16:34.900
back of either a taxi or an Uber, totally bare faced where you could see his face. And it's a
01:16:40.780
pretty distinctive face very clearly. And they got that everywhere. So these customers and the employee
01:16:47.460
had two visions of the guy in their head with the mask and without. And apparently they saw both
01:16:53.260
while he sat there in McDonald's. Why didn't he, this guy who planned this elaborate crime,
01:16:58.500
why wouldn't he have changed the color of his hair, got gotten into a disguise, right? Like,
01:17:06.920
hello, you still look exactly like the picture that's everywhere of you. Of course, we're going
01:17:12.880
to notice you. And by the way, you're not even that far from New York. How is this a disguise?
01:17:16.960
Like the, I think the cover, the color of the beanie may be different. I'm not sure,
01:17:20.900
but I don't get why he wasn't dressed in like a woman's wig or shaving his head and walking around
01:17:30.620
with glasses and no mask. Like why wouldn't he have changed his look dramatically in order not to be
01:17:37.960
caught? I don't totally understand that. Um, on the subject of his alleged back pain and who he was,
01:17:46.420
there was an interesting exchange again on CNN with RJ Martin, who lived with Luigi Mangione
01:17:52.280
at some quote, co-living community in Hawaii. Apparently this is some community he joined
01:17:58.600
with a lot of gamers who were out there who were kind of living ragtag with one another.
01:18:03.740
It's not exactly what you think your kid's going to do after he graduates with a master's degree
01:18:08.320
from UPenn, but listen to RJ Martin in Sod 8. So when, um, I first interviewed him before he moved
01:18:16.260
in, I remember he said he had a back issue and he was hoping to get stronger in Hawaii. So he's always
01:18:21.140
focused on trying. Um, when he first came, he went on a surf lesson with other members. And
01:18:26.900
unfortunately just as basic surf lesson, he was in bed for about a week. Um, we had to get a
01:18:32.620
different bed from that was more firm and I know it was really traumatic and difficult.
01:18:36.820
Did he have any conversations with you then, or even afterwards about that issue? And I mean,
01:18:42.100
his back, how he heard it. I mean, obviously anything to do with the insurance process of it.
01:18:49.900
You know, I don't, the only thing he ever mentioned, um, you know, he mentioned, Oh,
01:18:53.640
I need to go back to see my doctor and then I'm going to have to have a degree. Um, I encouraged
01:18:58.480
him and brought him to yoga classes. He would do calisthenics on his own. Um, I know he was really
01:19:02.960
focused on being strong and healthy, but it also weighed on him that he knew that there was, um,
01:19:07.720
an impending surgery. Hmm. He went on, uh, to speak about whether he seemed embittered.
01:19:16.680
Listen to Sot 9. Did you have conversations about any of the issues that, you know, we now even see
01:19:23.200
in, in the writings that he had on him when he was arrested. I mean, did he talk about,
01:19:29.280
I mean, not even as maybe as specific as health insurance, but, but capitalism, um, anything of
01:19:34.960
that nature? Um, you know, I apologize. I haven't read any of the media that's, that's happened. Um,
01:19:43.460
I, I heard about it when a reporter called me. Um, so I'm not familiar with what his writings were,
01:19:48.340
but I know we talked about social issues and we talked about how to improve the world. And we talked
01:19:52.540
about, you know, issues that are, um, you know, say with capitalism or with the healthcare system
01:19:57.740
or with housing or the food systems, it wasn't, you know, anything specific. It wasn't like he had
01:20:02.760
an ax to grind or he was even upset or angry about a particular issue or they were just natural
01:20:08.020
intellectual conversations that you have when you're inquisitive. He also confirmed that Luigi did
01:20:15.360
have surgery and that Luigi sent him an X-ray of his back saying that, uh, he confirmed he had
01:20:22.280
surgery. He sent me the X-ray. It looked heinous with giant screws going into the spine. He said
01:20:28.780
that Luigi was not a violent person, never once talked about guns or violence, um, that he cannot
01:20:35.960
make sense of what has happened here. And others who knew him too, who are speaking out now said
01:20:41.780
similar things about him. A former college classmate told Fox news, very polite, driven engineering
01:20:49.080
student usually had a smile. Um, he was a little removed from the bar and party scene. He seemed
01:20:56.160
like someone who's more likely to start a nonprofit than, than to read manifestos. Uh, another former
01:21:02.820
college classmate told Fox news, I wanted to set him up with one of my best friends because he would
01:21:07.020
be a great boyfriend. Uh, um, someone named Aaron Cranston, former classmate of his at the Gilman
01:21:12.800
school, the high school in Baltimore said he was a smart and ambitious student. It was hard to
01:21:18.520
understand him being suspected in such a crime, but he did know that, um, he and other peers had
01:21:27.680
been forwarded a message earlier this year when men, Joni's family was trying to track him down.
01:21:33.840
This man Cranston said the message reported that the family members had not heard from Luigi for
01:21:39.440
several months following his back surgery and were looking for him. A person who had been in the same
01:21:47.440
fraternity with him at the university of Pennsylvania said he had heard that Mangione had
01:21:50.860
been out of contact with many people from campus for the last year. And the, he said the last time
01:21:57.420
he'd spoken to Mangione was in February of 23 when Mangione mentioned that he had suffered a spine
01:22:03.620
injury. So we're not totally sure of the chronology, but it does appear that this guy was withdrawing
01:22:10.540
from society bit by bit and that it may have related to the back. His family issued the following
01:22:16.000
statement. Our family shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest. Um, we offer prayers to the family
01:22:21.660
of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved. We don't know whether the family was
01:22:28.680
looking at those photos thinking, Oh my God, that's Luigi. We do know that they had no obligation to call
01:22:34.580
police and report him. That is not yet a thing in America. You do not have to call police and turn
01:22:40.360
in a relative. Um, now if you harbor him, that's a different story, but you don't have to say that
01:22:45.320
looks just like Luigi. You should look them up. So we don't know whether they recognized him from the
01:22:49.420
pictures that were everywhere, but man, what a story. I'll leave you with this FBI profiler, Dr. Mary Ellen
01:22:56.600
O'Toole who did help capture the Unabomber, uh, was speaking out on local news about Luigi and, you
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know, what could possibly be behind this kind of act. And here's what she said. And early on to me,
01:23:13.100
it was, it was pretty clear that you had a person that had practiced, but wasn't experienced. Yes. He
01:23:19.680
wore a mask. Yes. He wore gloves. Yes. He got rid of his backpack. He did things to show that he thought
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things through, but he had never been through it himself until last week when he shot and killed
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the CEO. Cause I hear that come up a lot in different cases. This person really wanted to be
01:23:36.820
caught. And I really have not seen that. I see people that want to get credit for their criminal
01:23:43.860
behavior. I see people that want to be recognized for their ideology, uh, recognized for their beliefs
01:23:51.680
and their philosophies. If the manifesto and his ideation and his philosophies were really
01:23:56.780
important, he would want credit for those. But to say, I want to be arrested and, and, and go to
01:24:03.460
prison for most of my rest of my life or most of it. I don't see that. But the one question that I
01:24:09.160
would have is what precipitated your decision to take this to a criminal level? Um, I certainly would
01:24:17.060
allow him to explain to me what his thinking is and his manifesto. Cause I do think that that's
01:24:22.920
something that he'd want to talk about. And I do think he does not want it to be misunderstood.
01:24:28.460
Hmm. Right now he's not talking online. He praised Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber saying he's been
01:24:35.140
misunderstood. Uh, maybe he'll start talking, but usually the way this works is after you've been
01:24:41.320
officially charged, which he now has, as I said, second degree murder, it's going to have to go up to
01:24:46.040
first. Then you get a lawyer and your rights kick in and you don't have to talk. And, um, so far,
01:24:51.360
he's not talking. So we'll see. This case is going to rely on the physical evidence that they found on
01:24:56.100
him when they arrested him. In addition to a forensics comparison between the gun and the
01:25:01.380
bullets and what was found in the victim and at the crime scene. What a case. Uh, thank you. All
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stand by. I'm going to bring on a guest next who you may know, uh, maybe not by his name, but as the
01:25:14.200
guy who baked the cakes out in Colorado, who then refused to bake a cake for a gay marriage,
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whose case went all the way up to the U S Supreme court. And then a trans customer started harassing
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poor Jack Phillips. And now that case has gone all the way up to the Colorado Supreme court.
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Religious Americans have been under attack by former President Barack Obama and then President
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Joe Biden's far left policies for years. Don't believe me? The little sisters of the poor of
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all people had to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to get an exemption to Obamacare's
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contraception mandate. Bunch of nuns. And that brings us to the case of Jack Phillips. He is the
01:28:37.240
incredibly talented cake artist from Colorado who declined to make a cake for a same-sex wedding
01:28:43.360
due to his sincerely held Christian beliefs. His case went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court
01:28:48.840
and the ordeal took a major emotional toll on Jack, his family, and his employees. Here's part of my
01:28:56.940
interview with him back in 2017. But it's been emotional for us as well. There were days where my
01:29:03.480
wife was afraid. Actually, afraid to come to the shock. We've had death threats, harassing phone
01:29:13.720
calls. I've been forced by the government to give up 40 percent of my business, half of my employees.
01:29:21.000
It's been emotional on our side as well. But the mainstream media won't tell you about Jack's pain.
01:29:28.400
He wound up winning his case in 2018, but that was not the end of the story. On the very same day the
01:29:35.140
U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear that case, a transgender attorney requested that Jack make
01:29:41.580
him, it was a man posing as a woman, a pink cake with blue frosting to celebrate a, quote, gender
01:29:49.700
transition. Jack once again declined and that trans attorney took legal action against him. That case has
01:29:57.780
been in the courts for years. Thankfully, in October, the Colorado Supreme Court dismissed the
01:30:04.900
case, which is good for Jack. But they did it on procedural grounds. They didn't get into the
01:30:11.320
substance about whether there was an obligation to bake the cake or not. They just said that the case
01:30:16.920
had not been properly filed. Here with me to discuss whether the harassment of Jack Phillips
01:30:22.080
is finally over is the man himself, along with his attorney, Kristen Wagoner, who is the president
01:30:28.400
and general counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom. Welcome to you both. Great to see you both again.
01:30:34.200
Well, congratulations, Jack, because at least this chapter of harassment against you is over.
01:30:41.080
But how confident are we that the saga is over?
01:30:48.140
You never know what other people are going to do, but I know this case cannot be appealed by the
01:30:53.540
other side. And so it's completely finished. Were you thrilled when you finally got this ruling?
01:31:00.840
I was. It was a really good ruling. The court did exactly what we asked them to do. They dismissed the
01:31:06.960
case. And yeah, after 12 years, 12 years plus, it's over and I can go back to my baking and
01:31:14.400
and the things that I love this business for. So the shop's still open.
01:31:19.580
The shop is still open, though it's a lot different than it was before all this started.
01:31:25.180
First, I just want to make sure that it's clear that we serve everybody, including the person who
01:31:29.400
sued us this time in the state of Colorado, representing the two men who sued us before. We serve
01:31:34.280
everybody, but we just can't create every cake and every message with our our express every message
01:31:40.240
with our custom cakes. Exactly. If they want to come in and have a random cake or get a coffee or
01:31:45.780
whatever, they can do all that. It's that you you didn't want to be compelled to celebrate gay
01:31:49.560
marriage or pretend that men can become women through a cake. Here's my question for you,
01:31:55.260
Kristen. I'm worried because they didn't decide it on the substance, the Colorado Supreme Court,
01:32:00.900
and they should have. To me, this is a no brainer. There should have at least been been dictum in
01:32:05.060
there saying, OK, they screwed up procedurally, so we're going to throw it out. But by the way,
01:32:10.240
since this case was started, 303 Creative was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
01:32:15.980
And that case made very clear that a state's civil rights laws cannot force a business like Jack's
01:32:23.180
to engage in compelled speech, even if the state lawmakers think the compelled speech is really,
01:32:30.460
really good and really, really moral. You're absolutely right. And essentially what the
01:32:36.380
Colorado court did, which is about as far left of a court as you can find, is they tried to
01:32:40.960
not follow the 303 Creative decision because it protects Jack and and kick the case on procedural
01:32:46.180
grounds. But in terms of what happens next, Jack is going to continue to speak freely.
01:32:51.380
And I think what's important is to realize his case started in 2012. He's been on this
01:32:57.080
journey for 12 years now, and he was one of the first where government was trying to weaponize
01:33:03.240
the law to silence, censor and punish people because they disagreed with the government's
01:33:08.460
view. And because of Jack's stand, it didn't just lead to one decision that protected religious
01:33:13.720
freedom. It led to the 303 Creative decision that protects his speech as well as all of our speech.
01:33:19.460
He's a warrior and he's been put through hell for two cakes. He's been put through hell over two
01:33:28.380
cakes because he's become their favorite target. They're trying to bully you, Jack. Can you just
01:33:35.160
tell us, can you give us a little bit about your childhood? Like what made you strong enough to
01:33:41.460
stand up to people trying to bully you into saying, no, you know, I'll just get past my beliefs because
01:33:47.400
I don't want this aggravation. But I know that my background was art was with art. I love to draw
01:33:55.520
and paint and sketch and sculpt and all those things growing up. And when I got to a job in a bakery and
01:34:01.040
I found out there was cake decorating, then I knew that I could use that my skills and talents and
01:34:06.320
experience to use the cakes as a canvas to help people express their messages and special events
01:34:13.320
and special occasions. As far as being able to stand up to all this for the last 12 years,
01:34:19.760
Alliance Defending Freedom has been there right from the start to help us out. But one of the
01:34:26.060
commissioners compared my decision, compared religious freedom, said it was a, quote, despicable
01:34:32.200
piece of rhetoric. And it's been used for all kinds of things like slavery and the Holocaust.
01:34:36.740
And my father fought in World War II. He fought, he landed in Normandy, he fought across France and
01:34:45.320
Germany and Belgium. And he ended up being part of a group that liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
01:34:51.540
And for her to compare a decision to stand by my principles and not create a cake, expressing a
01:34:57.040
message that went so far against him to the Holocaust of Hitler was just ludicrous. So that kind of
01:35:04.700
part of the destruction of your life and your business and your character. I mean, it does take
01:35:09.640
a very strong man to go through what you've been through, even with a group as great as Alliance
01:35:14.360
Defending Freedom, Standing by Your Side. It takes a lot of temerity. I salute you again for fighting for
01:35:21.220
all of us because 303 Creative was huge, Kristen. I do think it's important that when the lower courts in
01:35:30.280
Colorado were ruling against Jack on this trans case, it had not yet been decided. They were
01:35:36.540
ruling against him substantively, like on the merits, but they had not yet been, you know,
01:35:43.180
they're bound by that Supreme Court precedent, 303 Creative, which says you can't force compelled
01:35:46.920
speech on a business. Then it came down and then the Colorado Supreme Court got the case,
01:35:52.860
but they didn't deal with it. They just said, we're balancing, we're throwing out,
01:35:55.980
we're going to rule for Jack because the other side screwed up procedurally. So we haven't yet
01:35:59.880
had the case that tries to test the trans thing in the wake of 303 Creative. And the reason it's
01:36:07.800
really important is because Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in 303 Creative, but he was critical
01:36:14.080
to Bostock, which is the reason it's illegal to make any hiring decisions or firing decisions
01:36:23.500
that factor in somebody's trans status. So we're going to get a case, are we not? That's going to
01:36:29.240
go up like maybe Jack's situation, or I think it could happen in the, in the case of a company that
01:36:36.400
demands somebody say the quote preferred pronouns, right? Because that's what the state human rights
01:36:42.720
law requires. And the person says, I'm not doing that in my religion, like mine. We don't believe
01:36:47.640
that God makes mistakes on people and that there are only two sexes, male and female, and I'm going to
01:36:51.720
pretend that you can change. And that's exactly the kind of case where you could file it and you
01:36:55.960
could say, I refuse. That's compelled speech. I'm not going to say it. And you tell me at some point,
01:37:00.560
the Supreme court is going to have to deal with what 303 Creative means in that context.
01:37:07.160
Megan, I would say, I'm not sure that the case will go up, that it has to go up because I do feel
01:37:11.600
like in some respects, we've turned the tide on the gender identity issue. That's not to say that it
01:37:15.820
won't, but I guess I would put it this way in Gorsuch's opinion in 303 Creative, he made it very clear
01:37:21.400
and explicitly said that you can't use these types of laws to violate people's constitutional rights
01:37:26.680
and that you do have the right to be able to speak freely at Alliance Defending Freedom. We have had
01:37:31.540
the privilege of representing a number of teachers and counselors who have fought for their right to
01:37:36.860
speak freely and not use the wrong pronouns. And they've won. I believe that the majority of the
01:37:42.080
Supreme court will continue to protect the right of free speech in this area. But I also think it's
01:37:48.060
critical to remember that doesn't mean the battles won't be fought in the lower courts and that
01:37:53.160
perhaps they will have to take a case in the end because courts have ruled incorrectly. I think
01:37:58.240
right now of the global censorship that we're seeing around the world and how it's playing out in the
01:38:04.340
digital sphere, and it is gender identity that's the Trojan horse to this. But again, I would just say
01:38:10.520
as we stand up, Jack provides an example for every average normal American that's just trying to go
01:38:17.720
about their business to say, when my rights are violated, I can stand and I can make a difference
01:38:23.860
and I can change the laws of a nation in doing so.
01:38:28.300
You gave me a chill there. Yes, that's exactly right, Jack. So you mentioned it in passing that things have
01:38:34.820
changed. I mean, there has been a cost to you. And we saw it in that NBC clip that, you know, you got
01:38:40.180
emotional. It's not been easy, even though you have Kristen's help. It's been quite a journey.
01:38:45.460
Yeah, it has been quite a journey. Back when this started, we had a fantastic wedding business,
01:38:53.180
a great reputation across the city. We had achieved awards from a national wedding magazine,
01:39:00.080
a lot of employees, a lot of customers. It was just a lot of fun, a lot of energy going on,
01:39:05.360
and just creating cakes to help these people celebrate all these special occasions. And now
01:39:10.360
the government took all that away at the beginning. And so we're still trying to figure
01:39:16.480
out what we're going to do now that the Supreme Court of Colorado has dismissed this case, how we
01:39:21.060
go forward. What's the name of the cake shop? Masterpiece Cake Shop. And is it, do you ship cakes?
01:39:31.280
No, we don't ship cakes, but we do have a site where we can ship brownies and cookies.
01:39:35.480
And the brownies are better, Megan. I'm just telling you, if you buy a dozen brownies,
01:39:40.520
you'll eat them all. Well, I have a feeling that a lot of my audience has just decided to send
01:39:45.980
their friends and family some Masterpiece Cake Shop brownies and cookies this Christmas season
01:39:52.600
as a way of supporting you and making sure you stay on your feet, Jack.
01:39:57.660
I'm just thrilled about all of this. So, all right, last bit. We just had a case go up,
01:40:04.860
Kristen, where we were arguing about this issue yet again, and whether children have a right
01:40:15.200
to medications that sterilize them and deprive them of sexual function and enjoyment for the rest of
01:40:21.880
their lives when their parents go in and say to a doctor they're trans. I think that's going to go
01:40:29.540
our way, too. I think the Supreme Court's going to rule there is no such right, and the bans on those
01:40:35.900
procedures and medicines in some 22 states will be upheld. But what do you think? You're a lot closer
01:40:43.300
I'm optimistic. I think that the science is clear. You saw the Department of Justice in the Supreme Court
01:40:48.340
argument walk back their claims that science supports this. We know it's experimental on
01:40:53.800
children, and that it's bringing great harm, irreversible harm. But I do think it's important
01:40:58.880
that we continue this fight because, one, they won't give up even if there's a win here at the
01:41:03.660
Supreme Court, and two, there are real victims that are resulting from this. So I would just encourage
01:41:10.000
people need to understand what's at stake, and on gender ideology, refuse to speak things that are not
01:41:16.660
true. Biological reality matters, and we need to insist on it.
01:41:21.740
All right. Quickly, in the time we have left, is there any chance a federal ban
01:41:25.440
on these medicines, so-called medicines, for children could be upheld?
01:41:32.740
Well, I'm not going to speculate on whether it can be upheld. I think it will determine what the
01:41:36.900
Congress hinges the right with which they have to act on it. But there is every chance, again,
01:41:42.380
that states especially have the right to be able to regulate the practice of medicine. And you can't
01:41:49.080
use dangerous drugs that are illegal on children, and we're optimistic that it will be upheld. 26
01:41:55.240
states now have these laws. We just need more states to follow suit.
01:41:59.540
Yes, and to see reason, as they have in Scandinavia and the UK and elsewhere.
01:42:05.260
Kristen, thank you. Jack, Merry Christmas. All the best to you both.
01:42:12.500
Wow. Great. Great. All right. We'll bring you the latest on all the news tomorrow. Thanks for listening.
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