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Sept. 21, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Merrick Garland Embarrases the Masses
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It is now approximately 41 minutes after the time that I had originally scheduled for this.
But I wanted to explain to you first my apologies.
But I want you to understand something that is very important, so that you understand what it is that we do.
Mrs. Al and I are committed, if you will, to a, I guess you would say, to our own mission.
I know this sounds kind of corny, but I'll tell it to you.
My dream.
My focus, my passion, my absolute love, more than anything, well, I mean, any vocational job, certainly not more than my wife, but anything is the discussion,
the depiction, the description of what is going on in the world, and to bring it to you and to discuss it in a way that Maybe somebody would say, oh, I understand it.
I want to be a teacher.
That sounds corny.
It sounds, I think it sounds a little highfalutin.
But it's the absolute truth.
This is what we do.
This is my mission.
This is it.
I have been doing it now, it seems, for so long.
And I've been doing it.
In terms of...
Well...
Let me change this, by the way.
We're going to talk a little bit about Merrick...
Merrick Garland embarrasses...
He was so embarrassing.
Embarrasses the masses.
I don't know if that makes any sense.
He was so bad today.
But I'm going to explain this to you.
This is what I want to do full time.
This is my thing.
And I know that it does not fit anything that anybody else is doing.
Because my particular take is different.
It's not the same.
And I recognize that, but I can only figure out how to do it my way.
And I can only do it my way.
Then I want to take things and not necessarily bludgeon you, but make you think and change and fool you sometimes and have you think, well, that's an interesting take, or I didn't think about it like that.
Because I want you, first and foremost, to understand Everything about the issues.
And then you make up your own mind.
But I don't want to be a cheerleader.
I don't want to be the ringleader.
I don't want to do that.
That's not what I want to do.
I just have no interest in that.
I want you always to be able to say, I don't know what he's going to say.
I think I do, but I'm not sure.
He might take a different tack.
That's critical to me.
That means more to me than anything.
Because every situation is different.
Some of them are nuanced.
Some of them are gray.
The Russell Brand story, by the way, is so incredibly fascinating by virtue of all of the issues.
We are...
I can't tell you how many times I've seen this.
And I can't tell you how many times I've been a part of this.
But there is a group of people in this country who understand that the truth, or that which has been told the truth, It's not.
They don't know what's going on.
And I've heard more reluctant people say, you know, maybe Trump.
I do a newsletter, as you know.
And you should sign up for the newsletter, which is very good.
And every day, whatever comes back, I look and I can see who.
And by the way, you can always opt out of it, of course.
And I'm always curious to see who says goodbye.
Who says, I don't want to receive your newsletter anymore?
And sure enough, I see old friends, friends of mine, who I'm thinking, they haven't talked to me in years.
Don't they want to see what I'm doing?
No.
I mean, it's one little newsletter.
I mean, with all the stuff that you get in your mailbox, no.
Because I'm either such a disappointment to them or I'm so antithetical to their worldview.
Or maybe I'm saying things that they know to be true but they don't want me to think.
I don't know.
But I've accepted this.
And then every now and then I'm thinking, nobody really gets this.
I am all on my own.
And Mrs. L, even worse.
Even worse because of the whole notion of working with kids and trafficking and this sort of thing.
And then every now and then something will come along just like this.
One particular Zoom call and I'll realize, oh my God, we're not the only ones out there.
We're not the only ones out there.
We are...
I don't know what we're going to do unless we get more people like us.
How do we recruit more people?
I don't know.
And I know that people, when they hear me, they think, this is just some Republican.
This is some right-winger, some MAGA, whatever.
No!
Because I've said so much about Trump that I've told you is wrong.
Wrong with what he's doing.
Wrong with his approach.
But we are at war with a group of people right now who are so horrible.
If you caught any of the Merrick Garland travesty today, you have to think to yourself, dear God, how did this...
How does this man sleep at night?
This fellow is purportedly one of these jurists that is the creme de la creme.
A man who's Harvard.
He was involved in the Timothy McVeigh Oklahoma City prosecution.
That's another one.
We'll talk about that.
Maybe one day.
He did everything.
Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit Court.
This is always the stepping stone to the bench.
Scalia.
The D.C. Circuit Court is it.
Not a district court.
Circuit Court.
And I heard this mumbling, harrumphing, psychophasic, schizophasic, maundering, Prattle of nothing.
I could not believe.
And I thought, dear God, is anybody even seeing this?
Is anybody even remotely watching?
Does anybody see what I'm seeing here?
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Alright, dear friends.
Let me talk to you about something.
Sometimes one of the most incredibly...
Oh, I don't know what the word is.
Sometimes one of the most incredibly important stories are kind of, sort of, maybe a little, well...
A little boring.
And they don't grab the interest of people.
You see Merrick Garland testifying.
How do I explain that to you?
How do I say, are you watching this?
Do you know what's going on here?
This is...
I was watching today and I could not believe it.
I couldn't believe what I was saying.
And I'm one of these people who just reacts.
Sometimes they say stuff which, you know...
Merrick Garland was the guy who was supposed to be the Supreme Court judge.
That's what he wanted all his life.
And there's a part of me, believe it or not, that always kind of looks sorry for that.
You're not going to believe this, but I kind of feel sorry in a very weird way for Hillary.
Because Hillary wanted to be president.
And she never got the chance.
And there's something about it as a human.
Even though she's a despicable person, I can compartmentalize.
It's one thing you'll know.
I can take somebody and say, this is what happened.
This is what happened.
This is what happened.
Ted Bundy was this.
Ted Bundy was horrible.
But this is what happened to Ted Bundy when he was a kid.
See what I'm saying?
It's one of those...
I can separate.
So Merrick Garland wanted to be Supreme Court.
So at the end of Obama's term, right when Scalia died, it was the time to nominate him.
And they were waiting for him because he was it.
A good jurist, well-respected, scholarly, really devoted his life.
And these guys...
No matter how much money you think you make, you don't even come close to what you could do in private practice.
Dear God, this guy with a white shoe law firm.
Oh my God.
But he wants to be a judge.
And was a judge.
That's what he wanted to do.
That was his calling.
And a judge...
Some of the federal judges in particular are so unique.
I'm telling you, there's something to be said for them.
It's a devotion to this stuff.
And they've always had great respect for judges.
Well, as you recall, after Scalia died, he came along, and they had something called, what was it?
They called it this Biden rule.
But they waited and waited and waited.
He He was the longest appointee.
I forgot.
He was the longest appointee.
This is important.
Merrick Garland.
Let me see.
How long was he?
He was the longest appointee.
Let me see.
education.
See, here's this guy, graduated in 74 from Harvard, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Cap.
Really, I mean, not a slouch by any, and it was at a time when Harvard was Harvard.
293 days.
His nomination lasted 293, the longest to date, and it ended on January 3rd at the end of the 114th Congress.
As you remember, Trump didn't appoint him, but appointed Neil Gorsuch.
And he held this in him like you cannot believe.
This, he was a judge.
Most judges, believe it or not, their rulings have nothing to do with their politics.
I know you don't believe this.
Most of their rulings, most judges deal with stuff about statutory law, the tax code, the Fisheries Act, administrative law, stuff that...
There's nothing to do with, you know, political ideology.
But, but, in this instance, dear friend, in this instance, something wild happened.
I think he went crazy.
I think he said, I'm going to get these.
We can't get them back, Merrick, but you're not going to be judged, but how about being AG?
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
And from that moment, and there have been people, Meese, Attorney General, John Mitchell, oh my god, just go down the list of friends, the ones who, remember Jimmy Carter, what was his name?
Oh, anyway, Bell, anyway, Griffin Bell, all these, okay.
So here's the ones that got me.
First and foremost, if I said, I don't give a damn what you say.
I can be a right-winger.
I can be a left-winger.
I am not going to put people in prison who protest at abortion clinics.
Either pro-abortion.
I'm not going to put people, just because they're protesting, because I don't like their speech.
That is so unconstitutional, it's not even funny.
I'm not going to do it.
Period.
End of discussion.
Period.
A judge rules balls and strikes.
That's it.
Balls and strikes.
That's the rule.
That's the way it is.
That's it.
Judges don't get the chance to write laws.
And an attorney general, he follows the policy of the administration, but still he has to apply.
This is a judge.
You don't send the FBI out to scare parents who dare speak up at school boards.
You don't target the Catholic, the Roman Catholics, because they're, you know, whatever.
You don't do this.
You don't.
Do this.
I can't explain it any other way than by telling you, you don't do this.
And I would tell you the same thing.
I would tell you, I'm not going to do this.
He did it.
And then he said, I don't know what's going on.
The Hunter Biden case is so bad, you would think he would say, listen, Joe, Mr. President, I'll do as much as I possibly can, but you're destroying my name.
You're just...
I'm destroying my reputation.
I can't do this.
I can't do this.
Now, we're doing everything we can.
David Weiss comes along.
He's the U.S. Attorney in Delaware.
They let the statute, they slow-walked it.
We had statutes run out.
Basically, they're involving the...
I thought today, the hearing, I thought in some respects, he handled himself well.
I don't think he committed perjury, per se, but I think, By virtue of the way he reacted, it was embarrassing.
It's like he didn't know anything.
What is with this penchant for the Biden administration to have these incomprehensibly subliterate people just, I mean, between Biden, between this, it's just incredible.
It's beyond anything.
I can't believe what I'm saying.
Jim Jordan was wonderful, but nothing will come of it.
Jim Jordan knew the names of everybody.
He knew the whistleblowers.
He knew the names.
He knew the dates.
He could go through.
He is the most thorough, thorough.
By the way, he doesn't wear a jacket.
Fetterman doesn't wear clothes.
Okay, where are you going to go?
There you're going to go.
But anyway.
I couldn't believe what I'm saying.
Now, If this were you, me, if this were Donald Trump Jr., forget it.
You know and I know.
It would be a disaster.
It would be a disaster.
And they ask him very simple questions.
What do you think about this?
How can anybody look at this?
When Joe Biden is at the Council of Foreign Relations, he's thinking, there I was, and I said, if you don't get rid of Shokin, you can forget the billion dollars.
Who do you know?
Or I'm going to do it.
Well, you're not the president.
Want to bet?
I'll get him on the phone.
And he's saying this.
And he never thought, maybe he did at the time, maybe he said this, not knowing it would be put together in context with what was happening regarding his son, regarding Burisma.
Maybe he said the thing, I'm just going to say it because I want to brag.
He's a big shot.
He's one of these people, he's a big shot.
He wants you to know he's a big shot.
You understand what I'm saying?
He wants you to know he's a big shot.
He's a big shot!
And you're not.
And he can do stuff you can't do.
Because he's a big shot.
You understand that?
Did I tell you that?
He's a big shot.
He can do whatever he wants.
The law doesn't apply to him.
It doesn't apply to him.
So when they're asking him, do you think this was influence peddling or the like?
And very frankly, Merrick Garland can say, I have never been given the opportunity to address whether this was influence peddling.
There was no grand jury.
This is when he was vice president.
I wasn't the attorney general then.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what to tell you.
That would have been alright.
But for him to act like, I don't know, I don't know what's going on.
But Biden's laughing his ass off.
He says, I can't believe this.
I actually, I did.
I showed them exactly what I'm doing.
And he basically said, normally people would say, I'm not going to say this right because they're going to put my son, the Burisma, they're going to.
Glenn Hughes says, my kid's listening too.
Mrs. Lionel, she's great.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Your kids are listening?
Good.
How old are your kids?
Pray tell.
Welcome aboard, kids.
I like that.
Kids.
I want kids to listen.
I want them to listen.
I'm not going to be...
I'm not profane.
On my private channel, different story.
Sometimes I use the vernacular because that's a different story.
It's only when I think the word is important.
We don't talk about anything that you would be embarrassed about.
But I want your kids or anybody to hear this guy, you know, he's rather methodical because I want to explain this to you.
I want you to draw this thing out.
I don't want to just react.
I want to say, well, here's why I think.
And the sad part about the whole, oh, 13 and 16. God bless.
Perfect age.
Oh, my God.
13 and 16. I would say boy, girl, but that would imply pronouns and we don't do that anymore.
How critical that would be to be 13 to 16 years old.
And I'd love to be able to tell them, I want you to understand this.
Does this make sense to you?
Do you know why this is important?
Why do you think this is important?
Why do you think this is important?
Garland's son-in-law is making millions selling CRT curriculum to gray schools from coast to coast.
Could be.
Could be.
That's legal.
That's legal.
Absolutely legal.
As you know, critical race theory is part of the crits.
Critical race theory is a part of a movement which was started in the 70s under the first one of the auspices of critical legal studies.
And critical legal studies came about at first because this was the idea that law should deal with the inequity of law, not by making...
Legal resources available to the poor, not by trying your best to stop and prevent racism and the like, but bending over backwards and creating this thing called equity, which is just the strangest thing anybody's ever seen before.
And those were called the CRITs, C-R-I-T-S, Critical Legal Studies, and then later Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, which basically was a kind of an exaggerated and imaginary form of Of history.
Let me stop right now because this is interesting.
To our young people listening, let me ask you a question.
Here's a question.
When is history to be taught?
And when is history to be celebrated?
For example, as you know, there are many, many statues.
That deal with the Civil War.
And there's people like, look at this, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson.
Stonewall Jackson was incredible.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
Jeb Stewart, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Longstreet, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, bloody Bill Anderson.
Not the Whisperer, not the country music dude, but...
So my question for you would be to our friends, to our young people, I assume you know a little bit about the Civil War because don't feel bad because a lot of adults don't know what it's about.
A lot of adults think it is purely about slavery.
That's it.
That's it.
So my first question is, and I'm changing the subject because I think this is interesting because this might be more amenable to your liking.
Why do you think people...
During the Civil War, we're fighting.
If I could say you, Mr. Confederate soldier, you and you, Mr. Union soldier, come here.
Can you tell me why are you fighting?
Are you fighting because of slavery?
Do you own any station?
You don't, Mr. Confederate.
And Mr. Union, are you fighting against slavery?
Is this what you're doing?
Or is that a part of it?
I would not be surprised if both of them said that has nothing to do with what we're doing.
That has nothing to do with our at all.
Nothing.
Nothing.
It has nothing to do with any of that stuff.
I'm fighting because this is my land.
You're over here.
And my father's in the army and he's in the army and we're in Virginia and that's it.
Okay.
It's not to say that slavery is an important part of it, but But not the only part of it.
Okay, fine.
So let's say you have a statue of Stonewall Jackson, and it's in your town square, and a group of people say, excuse me, that statue is offensive to us, whether they're African Americans or non-Africans, whatever.
So whatever it's worth, this was a general and a cause whose primary purpose, I believe, It's a perpetuation of racism and the like.
And I want this statue down.
What should you do?
How do you handle that?
I want this to our young people.
What do you do?
What do you say?
This is Stonewall Jackson.
They lost.
They surrendered in Appomattox.
It was a weird thing because at the time...
Grant said, no yipping, no hooting and howling and no nothing.
You can have your weapons back, your horses.
It's over.
We're done.
Let's forget this thing.
Let's go back.
We're Americans.
That's it.
No prisoners of war.
No nothing.
It's done.
Okay, fine.
What do you do with a statue?
What do you do with a statue in the town square?
That's offensive.
And it'd be like this.
Now, Let's give you an example.
In Germany, there was a World War II, you might have heard about it, it was in all the papers, and there was a guy there who had that Charlie Chaplin mustache, I'm not going to mention his name, because God forbid, I don't know what algorithm or what machine algorithm that would trip, but in any event, there he is.
There he is.
Should there be a statue?
Is it in his honor, or does he say, this happened?
On this stage, and that's the guy.
Now that you say, now wait a minute, I've got no problem with you not having a statue of that guy.
But Stonewall Jackson?
Well, to some people, Stonewall Jackson may be just as bad as the other.
How do you work?
Who wins?
And by the way, to our young people, remember this.
One of my favorite lines ever, this is from Tolstoy, who said, history would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
On Broadway, we had a play called Hamilton.
And Hamilton, it is wonderful.
And it's the most pretend and nonsense incredible.
He said because of money, slavery, the 13-year-old.
Interesting.
That was a part of it.
But if you're in the South, and all of a sudden they say, did you hear what happened?
We're going to war.
We are.
Against the Yankees.
Okay.
So be it.
They want to come over.
We're going to war.
You're going to war, my brother.
We're all going to war.
Okay.
Same thing, by the way, goes for Vietnam.
Why do people fight?
If you stopped American soldiers during Vietnam, if you went and you said, what are you fighting for?
Is this against communism?
No.
I'm fighting to protect my brother, the man to my left and right.
I'm here or I'm drafted.
But going back to Hamilton, Hamilton was a story, Hamilton had a slave.
He was against manumission.
Hamilton was this, his wife, I forgot her name, his wife was from this rich family, and they had slaves.
Slavery, as abominable as it is, was the norm in many places.
Many people found it disgusting, other people in the South said, well, there you go, slaves.
And he's got slaves, and he's got slaves, and it goes to show you, and this is one thing for our young people to know, that during the course of human behavior, you will see people do some of the most horrible things to humankind that you could ever imagine.
Ever imagine even occurring.
You can't believe they even did this out of convention, out of practice, out of whatever it is.
But the issue is, how do we refer to it?
Must we always refer to it by spitting on it?
Or must we always say, well, this is what happened?
And if there's somebody who says, but I have a Southern heritage, the stars and bars, by the way, this is not the Confederate flag, it's a battle flag, but this was my Southern roots.
Who remembers during the 19...
By the way, I'm glad we got from Merrick Garland to this, because this is, I think, more interesting.
In the 1970s in particular, there was this movement of Southern rock.
Remember this?
Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Leonard Skinner, Outlaws.
I think Marshall, Tucker, Allman Brothers, probably Southern Rock.
And they did not necessarily convey the notion of the Confederate flag.
Some did.
Sweet Home Alabama was basically a repost to Neil Young, Southern man.
And there were a lot of people who had this thing about being in the South.
Being Southern.
Shelby Foote.
They consider the Confederate War and their forefathers and forebears and the daughters of the Confederacy.
They consider this to be something which is noble.
It was a noble cause.
That's what they think.
And if you said to them, but was it about slavery?
They'll say, no, not for slavery.
Well, that's what it was.
But it was different.
It's our South.
It's the way we talk.
It's about the way we live.
But the South is segregation.
Not just the South.
It's weird.
Try to have some...
And I'm from the South.
And I always thought, that's interesting.
But I remember during the 70s, people would walk around with cowboy hats, listening to Marshall Tucker and Take the Highway and all this stuff.
And people would be, you know, with the Dixie and that whole thing.
And nobody...
Gave a hoot about slavery.
Nobody said, yeah, it wasn't that great at slavery.
So here's my original question.
What do you do with it?
How do you tell somebody, your recollection is one thing is valid, yours isn't.
Your recollection is considered negative.
This would be one of the greatest things ever.
Because right now in my city, in New York City, they want to take down a statue.
Right there on Wall Street, the federal whatever it is, where George Washington took the oath of office.
There's a big statue right there on Wall Street.
There's George Washington.
They want to remove that.
They, some people.
And there's some other cities that say, we'll take that statue.
Thank you very much.
They want to take pictures of Stuyvesant in Columbus.
They want to remove it.
And it is...
I'm going to say I believe much of it is not sincere, but some of it is.
And they look at this and say, this is...
Beyond horrible.
And the whole thing, you know, about Columbus and the syphilis and the indigenous people.
Okay, fine.
So what do you do?
If you vote to remove something, does that city have the right to say, okay, take that down?
Take that down.
How many want to vote?
We vote, okay.
We vote and take it down.
Or do you say, no.
We're not going to take it down.
What do you mean?
We're not going to take it down.
Because why?
Because that's history, and history is valid, and you're not going to take it.
Yeah, but this is a statue that commemorates that honors.
All right, so what?
All right.
How about a statue of Emma Goldman, the anarchist?
Or how about a statue of Sacco and Vanzetti?
How about a statue of...
Why?
Because they were famous.
They were anarchists.
They were...
But those were bad people.
To you they were, but to me they're...
Who gets to decide who are the good guys and bad guys of history?
How does that work?
You know and I know someday people will say they don't want any mention of Trump anywhere.
They want his name removed from history books.
They will say that.
They don't want statues.
They don't want anything of him because they love to hate Trump.
So tell me, who wins, my friends?
Who wins?
Silver Fox says, leave it be, we're supposed to learn from history.
But there is a statue of commemorating Stonewall Jackson.
It doesn't seem like you're learning from history.
It seems like you're lauding history.
What do you do?
It's a hell of a question.
You're praising him.
This is a guy who wanted to perpetuate the Confederacy.
Does it matter why?
I don't want to say this, but I had a friend of mine whose father, this was years ago, he was older than me, but his father was a German pilot, he was a Stuka, and he was a proud, he was a proud German, and he said he had nothing, he did not, he was not a member of that certain party, if you know what I'm talking about.
See this?
How do you...
Tell me how you do this.
You're not going to believe what I say.
You know what I say?
Leave it there.
Are you honestly telling me that seeing this bothers you that much?
In the South, we used to have little confederate...
By the way, that's the battlefly.
And they would have that sometimes on state flags, and they would have it in whatever.
And it was a reference to that particular period of time.
Now, what is the difference between that and the swastika?
To some people, there's no difference at all.
I think there is a difference.
Now, how do you explain that?
Well, what's the difference between sweet and salty?
You can taste it.
You can tell immediately.
And I can tell just like...
Potter Stewart said, I know it when I see it.
That is a different story.
That sign, that sign, that sign, that signal.
And a level of people say, oh no, that's different because see, that was a Native American.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Doesn't work like that.
Now, can you see the difference?
I can.
Can you explain it?
No.
No.
But here's the problem.
Even though I don't like that?
Is there a right to flash it?
To show it?
I can understand the city saying we don't want to have this up.
What about Skokie?
What about when those folks marched?
Don't they have a First Amendment right?
Absolutely.
So would you allow them to do it?
Absolutely.
But by the same token...
I see this may sound inconsistent.
I see nothing with somebody else exhibiting their First Amendment right by saying we, through plebiscite, we don't want this up.
We're going to take it down.
We have laws about a lot of stuff.
We have laws about forms of housing, homeowner associations, whether you can leave trash on your farm, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We have all kinds of people who are involved in this kind of behavior.
Aside from all of this, aside from this, I want the young people to understand, do you see how difficult this is?
Do you see the difficulty involved in this?
Do you see it?
Is it not fascinating?
Aren't you not fascinated by the questions, especially ones that are hard to answer?
And I always, and I want our young folks to remember this, I always...
I always err on the side of the Constitution.
This is my Bible.
This is it.
What does it say?
Congress shall pass no law.
And that's, of course, states as well.
To abridge the free speech, freedom of expression.
Do you want to do it?
Yes.
Unless there is compelling governmental interest, something that, you know, the old yelling theater in a crowded fire.
Try defining that.
Please.
I dare you.
Try defining it.
Do you have a problem with a...
What if a city, what if a government, what if a city decides that they want to promote the teaching of critical race theory?
Any problem with that?
School board adopts that?
Any problem with that?
Can you see anything illegal with a school board saying, okay, we'll do that?
I don't.
I don't.
I don't prefer it.
But is there anything illegal with a school board saying, we want to do that?
Is there anything that's illegal with a school board asking kids what their pronouns are?
Or a particular curriculum as far as gender assignment, speech, speech, teaching.
Active is one thing.
Physically taking children and doing things without their parents' consent in terms of dealing with them and working on them and having them change their identity actively.
But one could argue, well, but they're spreading this.
How do you determine what can and can't be said?
How do we live in a country?
When, how long can something be brought up against you?
Is there anything to statutes of limitation?
We have this thing called cold cases.
As you know, I hope our young people know, statutes of limitation don't apply to murder.
They don't apply.
You can charge somebody with murder forever.
There's some due process considerations, but nonetheless, you can do this.
So what they're doing now is they're taking these people, they're taking something with...
DNA on it.
They're taking it.
They're backing it up.
They're looking at it.
They're doing all kinds of...
Doing this incredible technology where they run the DNA.
And then they go back and they look through DNA genealogy.
And they say, we found...
Oh, and they also use databases, interestingly enough, that people, when the big craze was 1, 2, 3, and me, or whatever the hell it was called.
DNA stuff.
They run this through ger, med, and blah, blah, blah.
And they run this through, and lo and behold, guess what?
There's a match.
There's a match.
We don't know who it is, but this guy, this assailant, this murderer who left this, happens to match a group of people we found out in this group.
And we found out from them where they're from, and blah, blah, blah.
And they were in Minnesota.
And the people, the allele, anyway, they go backwards and they'll find somebody and they'll say, yep, this was Cousin Jerry.
That's the guy.
It just so happens that Cousin Jerry, out of the two sons, we can eliminate one son, but Cousin Jerry, the one that we can't eliminate, he lives in Boca Raton.
That's where the murder was.
That's our guy.
But we've got to catch him.
So we wait.
He discards something.
We then run that sample against this sample and we can nail him.
The guy's 80 years old, doesn't know what the hell you're talking about.
A murder?
What?
Yeah, you're the murderer.
Of who?
He pulls a Joe Biden.
He has no idea what you're talking about.
So what do you do?
You charge him?
You charge him.
Okay.
Is there any due process?
Not really.
What happens, by the way, if years ago you gave up a child for adoption and you wanted to do it under the condition that the child would ever know, that the child would ever come back?
And find you or ask you, why did you do this to me?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, fine.
When you go back, lo and behold, and you find this person, and guess what?
Or the person who was adopted finds you.
You get a knock at the door.
Who are you?
I am your daughter.
You gave me away.
Wait a minute.
They told me...
Okay.
Let me stop.
Do you, as young people still walking, do you understand all the questions of everything I've brought up so far in the 42 and a half minutes so far?
All the questions which make you say, yeah.
Do you understand, young people, that it's not important for you to answer the question and to ask questions, to keep running through this, to keep asking, yeah, it's a good question.
Should you take down the statue of somebody, From a particular war that we don't like?
Should you allow somebody to teach something in a school that we don't like?
Should we?
How long ago?
Russell Brand.
Does Russell Brand say, that's 14 years ago?
I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I mean, there's no...
How do we handle this?
What's this thing called justice?
Good luck.
I don't have clear answers for you.
I believe in the Constitution.
I believe in the plebiscite.
I believe in people able to vote.
But I don't have.
But as far as I am concerned, this is the most important.
I have such a tolerance for everything.
Go ahead and put up pictures.
It doesn't.
A statue of somebody.
For me, personally.
That's their ride.
I may despise this person.
It could be a statue of Charles Manson.
I don't know.
By the way, I don't think Charles Manson had anything to do with those murders.
But it's a different story.
But my opinion doesn't rule.
The question is how much do we tolerate?
How much do we put up with?
How much?
What do we do?
How do we balance this?
I promise you, you will never see anybody on any kind of a TV show, left or right, who will ever say, yeah, but what about...
What about this?
Silver Fox, by the way, says, knowing your fondness of generals, that is Curtis LeMay, where do you rank Stonewall Jackson?
He was brilliant, eccentric, and Lee's right hand.
Gettysburg would have been different with him.
My two cents.
As a general, he was without peer.
He was at the time, remember when he was shot, he said, I've always wanted to die on a Sunday.
Ah, that's incredible.
He was something that I've never seen even remotely possible.
He was just incredible.
But, to some people, some people say he can't be incredible because he represented a side that I don't agree with.
U.S. Grant was Absolutely a battlefield genius.
Patton.
Whether you like him or not.
Rommel.
Sun Tzu.
General Tso, who gave us the chicken.
All these great people.
My personal favorite, probably American, is George Catlett Marshall.
George C. Marshall.
General Marshall was the Marshall Plan.
He was probably one of the greatest.
Generals and people of all time that the country just kept going.
His first day, his first day as Army Chief of Staff for Head, it was the day of when that mustachioed guy who looks like Chaplin invaded the beginning of World War II.
Go back and check on that.
But it was the very first day in any of them.
And by the way, this is another great story.
When did World War II start?
When did it start?
When did World War II start?
1939 to 1945.
Well, some of the people would say probably not.
When the Germans invaded Poland, that's the first day, September the 1st, 1939, that's the first day that George C. Marshall came on board.
Now here's something else which is very interesting and I want our young people to understand.
Who's a great general from whose behalf?
Was Ho Chi Minh a great general?
By the way, General Jap was incredible.
Guerrilla warfare?
NVA?
Oh my god.
He grabbed him by the belt.
His understanding of war was like nobody's.
He was a genius.
But he was the enemy.
My friends, think about this tonight.
We have a lot to think about and talk about.
Let me thank you again for being part of this tonight.
It means a lot to me.
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All right, dear friends.
All right.
Thank you so much for being a part of this, and I appreciate it immensely.
Thank you so much for our friend Glenn Hughes and your young children, children I should say, your offspring, your heirs, as it were.
Thank you for that.
Mr. Silver Fox, thank you for joining us and adorning us with your countenance and the like as well.
Have a wonderful day.
See you tomorrow morning, 8 a.m. as usual.
Again, my apologies for the delay this evening, but it was a good reason.
That's all I've got to say.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Don't ever change anything.
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