Daniel Penny Verdict Watch - Social Justice on Trial
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In the New York City criminal trial of Marine veteran Daniel Penney, the jury just sent a note to the judge.
They are deadlocked on the first count in this case.
This is manslaughter in the second degree.
Frankly, the president of the United States deserves a presumption that the people that he, uh, nominates, um, you know, should be, should be those, the ones who serve in those positions.
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Folks, will Daniel Penny be acquitted?
We're looking right now at the situation in the courtroom in New York City, where today is the fifth day of deliberations for the jury.
And we're told now, as of this very moment, that the jury is deadlocked.
And please take it with an absolute grain of salt.
Please take it with an absolute grain of salt.
But I just had a report come in from a New York source saying that one thing they're hearing is that there's a lot of jurors who want to find him not guilty and that, in fact, there's only about two holdouts that Really are adamantly believing that Penny should be found guilty.
The rest of them saying, look, we think this is a self-defense situation.
I certainly believe it's a self-defense situation.
I think the majority of the country believe it's a self-defense situation, a horrible situation.
It never should have happened.
But unfortunately, there was a situation where someone became violent, where someone became a threat To others and themselves, by the way, and Penny responded in the best way that he knew how, the best way that he knew how, and he was trying to do the right thing.
And in our country, in our world, don't we want to live in a place where, when there is a situation like this, that someone would be able to step up And do the right thing to help out, to help defend other strangers.
People they don't even know, people that they're not related to, people that they don't have connections to in any way, but be willing to intervene to save them because it is the moral and social right thing to do.
That's actual social justice, by the way.
No, I don't think that Nia Lee, the Assailant, in this case, should have been killed.
I honestly hope that that's not something, I don't think that's something that anyone ever intended.
I think it was just a horrible outcome of a horrible situation, but one in which Daniel Penny did not play a role other than to attempt to protect Other people on that train.
And if a police officer were there, if they had had handcuffs, if they had had any other implements, then I'm sure they would have been able to do them.
So let's pray right now for the folks out there.
I've got my rosary right here like I always do.
So let's pray right now for Daniel.
Let's pray for his safety and let's pray that justice, true justice, is done in that courtroom in New York City.
Right now.
And so as it stands, as of this very moment, we do not know the outcome of this situation.
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So one of the guys who I'm following, Joseph Brucker, who's there reporting, GB reporting at ProtonMail.com, Is writing, here's where we're at.
He said this as of about 30 minutes ago.
The jury indicated they're determining if Penny reasonably acted in self-defense or defense of others.
If they agree that that's the case and they follow the judge's instructions, not guilty on both counts.
This is report.
So an acquittal is possible today.
And this is the report that we're getting out.
So folks know that I don't do the You know, the hopium train that I don't do the hopium kind of talk.
But this is an incredible report coming out of a case like this.
And look, this is a clear case of self-defense.
And just like Kyle Rittenhouse, it was on video.
Eric Metaxas joins us now.
Eric, I'd love to hear what is your view on the jury and these latest developments out of New York City?
Well, listen, I live in New York.
I'm not there right now, but I live there, and I have to say the bottom line is whenever anything like this happens, it's tragic.
You don't want somebody to die.
But if you have ever been in a situation where you feel threatened, and I'm not speaking as a man, I'm not afraid, but what if you're a woman with kids?
It's a horrifying situation.
You pray that some guy like this Would leap in and do something about it.
And so it is tragic that it went this way.
But it's hard for me to believe that somebody who sticks his neck out to help other people is now going through this.
I mean, look, I'm old enough to remember, you know, the days of Bernie Getz, the subway vigilante.
And, you know, this stuff has never happened.
Yeah.
No, and this was a, it goes back to Kyle Rittenhouse, it goes back to, again, the fact of the matter is, we have this on film, and that's another Another case where, you know, another aspect of the case, which I think bears understanding this idea that we now live in a society where we have constant surveillance,
not just from video cameras, but of course, you know, that are, you know, on the streets for police or from, you know, hotel security, like that other, the, you know, the assassination from a couple of days ago of this UnitedHealthcare CEO, but instead, It's also surveillance from just people around us at all times.
I've got mine right here.
I've got my phone.
In fact, that's something that I'm quite known for.
I always tell people these days, it's not see something, say something anymore.
It's if you see something, film something.
And so in this instance, we do have, from a variety of angles, all of this footage of the incident.
And you can tell That it doesn't appear to me in any way that Daniel Penny is trying to do any harm to this individual other than simply restrain him until police can arrive.
That's my take.
That's my take.
And by the grace of God, the jury will have common sense.
We'll see.
No, I think that's exactly right.
You know, it's a huge question of where we're at in our society because we know that there have been these social justice narratives that have been pushed into this.
People who say that, oh, we need to make it about race and the fact that it's a white man and a black man.
But Eric, you know, there's something...
I'll put it this way.
I guess there's something in the air.
There's something in the wind with the Trump victory just about one month ago.
I think today or I guess yesterday was the one month mark of this sweeping victory in our nation.
But it's bigger than Trump because it's this idea that we're just done with wokeness.
We're done with critical race theory.
We're done with so many of these failed ideas and people just want to come back.
To living in a society where we judge people based on the things that they do, on their behaviors and their actions, rather than their immutable characteristics.
I mean, listen, Jack, it's not too much to say that the madness we've been living through is demonic deception.
Now, there are a lot of people that don't believe in that.
I believe in that, that there's demonic deception.
When you think what happened, In Germany, in the 1930s, I wrote a book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
A lot of people know there's a great film out right now about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I recommend everybody go see it ASAP, because it's not going to be in theaters very long.
But it tells the story of a nation's descent into madness.
And when you think about what happened, there's definitely a demonic angle.
You can't explain it through psychology.
And for America to go down the path of lunacy, We're mutilating children.
Could anybody dream that in America we would ever go that far?
We're there now.
Doctors are profiting from mutilating children.
That's not to talk about the murder of the unborn.
We have to be honest and say this is evil.
There's a demonic element to this here.
So when you're talking about everybody seeing things through the lens of race, what is that if not At least sick, but I would say it's demonic because, you know, most people that I know in New York, until Obama injected race, there was very little of that.
People just see other people.
I mean, to be perfectly honest with you, we got to that place in America where there was a lot of normalcy with regard to race.
Something has been injected.
You can see it as just Marxist lunacy, all of that stuff.
I mean, you talk about it, but there is A component of evil, to see people as different, to suddenly think like, oh, I'm going to be in trouble because I'm white, as opposed to I'm going to get a fair shake in America.
I mean, we know that if people are in trouble because they're black, that you might not get a fair trial.
You're in trouble with a white jury.
We know that's wrong.
But the idea that that that would shift and some people would say, good, it's about time.
That is clearly not the American way.
It's not God's will for the nation.
So I do believe we are turning a page.
But I think ultimately it's a spiritual deception that somehow, by the grace of God, we're breaking free of what we've been going through.
But we need to fight.
And so you're one of the voices out there.
I'm grateful for you fighting.
And I do my best where I can as well, obviously.
Well, thank you, and I appreciate that.
And we do have to fight, and we do have to pray for peace, and we have to pray for sanity.
And by the way, one of the ways to find sanity, of course, is by reading the classics.
And I understand that you have got a new book out for Bonhoeffer, but in fact, this is through Socrates in the City, called The Conversations on the Examined Life.
I wonder if you could tell us about that real quick.
Yeah.
Listen, this Tuesday, we are in Manhattan.
We're having our 25th anniversary Black Tie Gala celebrating Socrates and the City.
Socrates and the City started 25 years ago.
I thought, you know what?
If you are a person with conservative traditional values, if you're a Christian and you live in a place like New York City, most people at cocktail parties, they don't go there.
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We need a forum where I can interview people, brilliant people, amazing people, about the big questions.
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We do it with humor, but at the same time, it's serious.
A lot of people's lives have been changed through Socrates in the City over the years.
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And so I picked eight of my favorite conversations over the years.
And, you know, one of them is with the great Dick Cavett.
He's become a friend talking about what's the price of fame.
Do you pay a price for becoming famous?
He's known some of the most famous people in the world.
So my conversation with him is there.
My conversation with Alice von Hildebrand, 91 years old.
She was the widow of the number one enemy of Hitler in Austria, one of the great Heroes, Dietrich von Hildebrand and his widow, 91 years old, had a conversation with me.
Unbelievable conversation.
One of the greatest conversations I've ever had.
I said, that's got to go in the book.
That's absolutely incredible.
Tell people again, real quick, where they can get the book and follow you.
They can get everything at ericmetaxas.com.
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You can find everything there as well.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Eric, always a pleasure.
I've got to keep you on for longer next time, my friend.
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All right, we've got Vish Burra, the president of Basilisk Strategies, joins us now.
I got a question for you.
You know, I'm looking at this great Tommy Tuberville tweet, and I was wondering if I could get you to respond to it.
I'll just read it real quickly here.
He said, Trump went 7-0 in the battleground states.
The Senate GOP went 1-4 in those same battleground states, that one being Dave McCormick in my state of Pennsylvania.
Trump won the popular vote.
The House GOP didn't win seats.
This election was a mandate for Donald Trump.
Give him the team he and the American people are asking for and stop pretending this is business as usual.
Why is it that the people's president is having so much trouble getting senators like, oh, I don't know, from places like, let's just pick two states off the top of a hat, Iowa and South Carolina states that he resoundingly won, able to get his nominees across the finish line.
It's real simple, Jack.
There's a power struggle going on right now in DC, and it's a classic one that took place even in 2016 when President Trump first got elected.
It's Mitch McConnell, Senator Thune, and all these people trying to show that they still have power to be negotiated with in DC within the Senate.
The Senate represents the last vestige of never-Trump, anti-Trump establishment Power.
And these people are trying to show that Trump can't do anything without them.
And these are the ways that they are going to do it by blowing out or trying to blow out picks that are highly supported by the grassroots and people who People voted for Trump, want to see the change that he promised, and President Trump is now trying to do that by making the picks that are not only approved by him, but approved by the grassroots.
Let me tell you something about the Senate, Jack.
These people think that they are not accountable to the people.
These people think that they are the lifers.
Presidents come and go.
I'm a senator.
I'm here to stay.
That guy's here for four.
I'm here for six.
This is the mentality that is carrying on through the Senate.
Particularly, when we look at somebody like Joni Ernst.
Joni Ernst, who quite frankly, I don't know why she has a huge say in how this process goes outside of possibly Boeing and Lockheed Martin being one of her biggest donors.
The fact of the matter is that Senator Ernst needs to understand, I was there in Iowa on the ground during the caucuses with those folks in those subzero temperatures.
These people were voting for Trump, coming out for Trump in his agenda.
And I don't think those people will be very happy to know that Senator Ernst is holding up one of his biggest, most important consequential picks.
And also, She thinks that these people are also dumb by going and starting this Senate Doge Caucus, you know, chairing it.
That is a misdirection play.
That is her trying to suck up to Elon so he doesn't primary her in Iowa and spend the money with the America pact coming after her for standing against President Trump's agenda here.
Very interesting because I'm looking at the Des Moines Register, as I do from time to time.
I don't really read their articles, though I hear they're in need of a new pollster out there because they had issues with their last one.
And it says, when is Iowa's next election?
And would you look at that?
Kim Reynolds and Joni Ernst are next to face re-election.
That'll be in 2026. Wait, are you telling me that Joni Ernst is actually in cycle now?
Right now in the great state of Iowa, does that mean that there are people potentially looking at primary challenges of Joni Ernst this very moment because she only has two years left?
That means if someone were to come up and run against her in the state of Iowa, they'd be able to do so right now and potentially have the backing of the richest man in the world, America PAC, which is a I mean,
I really hope that Joni Ernst understands all of these things, but when it really comes down to it, Vish, she could be the hero here.
She could come down and say, I had serious misgivings about this.
I remember the Susan Collins speech.
Remember the Susan Collins speech with Kavanaugh when she came out and said, look, I've looked into this thing.
I had my concerns, but I've weighed and measured and I'm going to cast my vote.
Wouldn't you love for Joni Ernst to do the right thing instead of make a very, very foolish decision that would potentially have a huge impact on her career, Vish?
Listen, Jack, this is really simple for Joni Ernst, okay?
She can either go big time in crime time or it's primary time for her.
That's it.
That's real simple.
The Attorney General, I believe, of Iowa already came out.
I'm saying that Trump's support for headset and headset should be confirmed.
There's already people smelling blood in the water.
So the fact of the matter is you do not want Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, with a pack that has one of the most sophisticated ground games in the world paired with The almighty power of X and the air game that that provides, she does not want that smoke.
I guarantee it.
She needs to take this moment where she's in the spotlight and let everybody know that, hey, I looked into it, I spoke to my people, I went back to Iowa, and they told me what the deal is, and the deal is the art of the deal, Donald Trump's way.
That's where we're going, and that means that we need to get Hegseth confirmed, and I, as Joni Ernst, am going to do everything in my power to help him get confirmed through the Senate.
I'll Sherpa him myself.
She needs to go and make those kinds of movements right now, because if she doesn't, everything that she does will be seen as disingenuous, and we will hold her accountable for that.
That's just the fact of the matter.
MAGA does not forget, and we will not forget if we are betrayed in this matter.
MAGA never forgets.
MAGA holds the line.
MAGA stays frosty.
Look, I would love to live in the world, by the way, where Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense and then Joni Ernst gets brought in.
Perhaps she can run an independent mission on issues like sexual harassment, sexual assault that do go on within the military.
That's a huge place for reform.
I'd love to see Pete Hegseth work for her.
I know she's got a bill that she's been trying to push Regarding the chain of command and set up independent investigations for this, and it's been something that's been a huge project of hers for a long time, I'm certain, I'm absolutely certain that Pete Hegseth, working with her and working with a court, President Trump would have to sign that legislation, would want to get that across the finish line.
But I'm also certain of another eventuality that would happen should she decide to move In a different direction, And I would hate for that eventuality to have to come because, Vish, look, you've already shown us that you can go out to Iowa and pound the pavement out there.
Donald Trump understands how to pound the pavement in Iowa.
I'll move to Iowa.
I'll go straight to Iowa.
And you know who I'm going to bring with me?
I'll bring Scott Pressler.
I'll bring Cliff Maloney.
I'll bring Charlie Kirk.
And I will bring Kevin Posobiec.
And we will bring Elon Musk along with us.
And I'd hate for that to have to happen because I'd much rather be doing other things with my time.
I'd rather be working for the people of Iowa to make this country great again.
But if that has to happen, that has to happen.
The choice is Joni's.
That's right, Jack.
And that's just the way MAGA rolls.
If that means that we all have to move out to Iowa, you know, the way Scott Pressler lived out of his car in Pennsylvania to help win Pennsylvania, these are the kinds of things that we do.
I will sleep in caves for the movement.
I will sleep out in cornfields for the movement.
I don't care.
I don't need a nice place to rest.
I need a place that's going to give me the opportunity to get President Trump's agenda done.
You know what it is?
You know what it is when it comes to this victory?
It's about a question of respect.
It's about respect for the victory, respect for the mandate of the people, respect for the choice of the people.
It just feels like a lack of respect, wouldn't we say?
It's a total lack of respect.
And look, there's still some parts of denial that's going on here, Jack.
A lot of people just don't want to admit that they are done and there's a new time to rise.
It's literally, look, with the Senate, it's the SpongeBob meme.
How many times are we going to have to teach you this lesson, old man?
Right?
Like, this is what's going on.
We need these people to understand that their time is up and it's our time now.
This is the MAGA era.
It's wonderful.
Finally and definitively, it's over.
We are in the new era.
Get with the program.
It's one minute to go.
Speaking of the MAGA era, are there any events going on in New York anytime soon where people can get a taste of the MAGA era?
Absolutely.
We got the New York Young Republican Club's 112th Annual Gala Sunday, December 15th.
We have the pre-gala party as well on the 14th in Manhattan.
Make sure you sign up for that.
It's going to be big time and there's going to be some special guests.
So make sure you follow at NYYRC. We only got a couple of tickets left, folks.
Buy them while you can.
It's going to be the hottest one.
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See you at the Gala.
Kevin Posobiec just announced as a special guest this morning.
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Brett, how are you, man?
Good.
How's it going, Jack?
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, it's going really well.
So tell folks who aren't familiar with your program.
I know that we've been promoting it here on the show for a couple of weeks now.
But just for folks who haven't heard anything about it coming in, we have the Trump administration getting involved.
We're putting it together.
You've got this incredible Secretary of Education coming in with Linda McMahon and so many others.
It really is a time where people are looking at new forms of education because I think we realize that the current form is just totally broken.
Yeah, it's not just broken.
It's so broken that everyone's excited that there's talk of getting rid of the Department of Education.
And if you look at academic performance in America, pre-1980 and after 1980, the inception of the Department of Education, it has actually gone down.
And someone like Linda McMahon is in a prime position to do the things that everyone knows needs to be done.
We all see that The CRT, the critical race theory, where they're basically training young people to view the world through the lens of oppressed versus oppressor, right?
They're basically training young Marxists.
We have to get that out of our education system.
You have the sexual education, which I think we all know to anyone who is even a little bit honest knows it's completely inappropriate.
And these teachers have no business talking to our children about anything sexual, let alone the type of degeneracy they're pushing on our kids.
But what I would like to say to You and your audience and America in general, that getting rid of the Department of Education, rolling back CRT, getting rid of the sexual education, that only touches the surface of the things that have to be done.
In 2023, and I don't know how this went under the radar, Gavin Newsom signed a bill, Assembly Bill 873 in California, which mandated that media literacy, as they call it, be taught to not only high school students, but all the way down through kindergarten.
They're trying to get our kids from as young an age as possible.
And when they say media literacy, what they really mean is to teach our kids to outsource their thinking to authority.
So, what does that look like?
What is media literacy according to Gavin Newsom?
Well, What they mean is to teach children to look to reputable sources.
So if you read something in the New York Times, that's a reputable source.
Well, of course, that must be true.
If you read something in the New York Times and the Washington Post, well, now you have cross-references from reputable sources.
Well, of course, that's true.
And of course, the only thing they're really doing is training our children to outsource their thinking to children.
Now, with my homeschool program, Classical Learn, I run a homeschool company, we also teach media literacy and it looks completely different.
I write two fake newspapers.
The students read through the newspapers and they scan it for logical fallacies.
Are there appeals to authority?
Are there appeals to emotion?
Are there straw man arguments?
They fill out a finding fallacy sheet, and then they evaluate each claim made by the newspapers.
And with each claim, they have to evaluate, did it come from a primary source, a secondary source?
Then they have to get back to the source, evaluate the source for themselves.
I mean, this is what critical thinking really is.
This is what media literacy should be.
Can you find logical fallacies?
Can you get back to primary documents?
Do you know how to source information?
And then after our students source that information, I have them fill out discernment charts.
It's basically allowing the students to view how information should be filtered through their brain.
So you have I know and how I know, I think I know and why I think that I heard and where I can look.
And this is really the dichotomy we're seeing with people who are still sending their children to the public school system in which there is a concerted effort, not just in California, but they passed a similar bill in New York and I think 14 other states where they are trying to train our children From as young an age as possible to outsource their thinking to authority so that the children could be turned into cogs in the machine for pushing the agenda that those in power want to push.
But smart parents are fighting back.
They're teaching their own version of media literacy which is about logical fallacies, getting back to primary documents, evaluating sources, and actually filtering information and learning to discern Truth from fiction.
And to me, I think this is probably as important an issue in America as anything else, because if we allow the powers that be to hijack the minds of our children, and they're trying to, then we can wake as many people up as we want today, but the next generation will be asleep, and that's what we can't allow to happen.
Well, that's what it's about, right?
Because ultimately, what you're talking about is training free thinkers, training people to say, and just in the very first instance, to say, well, Just because something is written in the Associated Press, that doesn't mean it's necessarily true.
Or just because it's written in NBC or CNN or ABC and CBS and all of these various things, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
Now, what I think is interesting is it also doesn't necessarily mean those things are true.
False.
That's the New York Times.
But, you know, when you see something there, you have to actually read between lines.
Media literacy, when it really comes down to it, is incredibly complex.
And so I applaud you for what you're doing in taking this on, in attempting to make this a skill that is taught at a young age.
And what was it that You know, that made you want to really get classical learner focused on, you know, kids.
Is the, I guess, the thinking that you've got to start doing this at an early age because it becomes harder as you get older?
When my wife got pregnant and I was going through my awakening and really starting to understand how the world worked and this, you know, seven years ago and I had this Great fear that my son would come up through a system that I knew was nonsense.
I had a degree in history education, masters in special education.
I came through that system and I saw that almost everything they taught me was a lie, including the history, right?
And you're a historian.
That's very concerning.
Like, how can you get a degree in history?
And the university system never even brought up the Congressional Church Committee and Operation Mockingbird.
So I started writing books with my son in mind.
And that was the first thing that I did.
And as an example, one of the books I wrote is Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee.
And I wanted to create Children's entertainment that would not only teach my son the history and his rights and the things I wanted him to learn, but would actually familiarize him with how people are manipulated.
So in the book Operation Mockingbird, you have Red Rooster and he's a news rooster and he thinks he's getting into, you know, a noble profession.
And he quickly finds out that his other roosters, Black Rooster, Blue Rooster, Green Rooster, They're on the take.
And early in the book, you had these news reports of bears trespassing and bears stealing a bike.
And then later in the book, the children, they go through this journey and they're shown that same picture, that same moment in time, but not a close-up.
They're shown the whole picture.
And when you see the whole picture, you notice, but he wasn't stealing a bike.
He was walking into a bicycle repair shop and he wasn't trespassing.
He was actually there fixing something.
He was a repair bear.
So we're actually showing children how the manipulations take place in a child-friendly way so that they're not scared and When they're ready, they can look back and understand, oh, so this is what this book was really about, and this is how the manipulations take place.
I think that's really important, and so understanding that that's the background that you're looking at this in, that that's what you're focused on, it's so important.
Tell people again where they can go and get this.
And by the way, folks, I've looked at Classical Order.
This is really designed for kids.
I mean, it's this heavy stuff, but the way you present it to the kids is very light.
It's fun.
It's entertaining.
You do an absolute great job.
Tell people what that site is again.
Yeah, my homeschooling stuff is ClassicalLearner.com and with the books, you actually get a discount.
I was really happy to partner with Jack because I've appreciated the work you've done for many years now.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
ClassicalLearner.com slash Poso, you get a discount on the books plus free shipping and it's a great present for your kids because it's the present that really gives them the knowledge they need to have a good foundation in life.
Amen.
Thanks so much.
classical learner.com/poso.
Merry Christmas, by the way, Brad, to you and to your family.
Jack is a great guy.
He's written a fantastic book.
Everybody's talking about it.
Go get it.
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.
Amen.
Jack Pasovic back live here.
Human Events Daily.
We remain on Daniel Penny.
Vudict Watch.
I really want to know what's going on with Daniel Penny.
I want to know if it's true about these potential holdout jurors.
How many are there?
How many want to see him guilty?
Is it true that the majority view him as innocent and want to quit him because they view him as having it in self-defense?
So, of course, we're sticking with that.
We are on top of that as much as absolutely possible.
I'm just going to check back in with the reporter who was there, Joseph Rucker.
And no, I'm not seeing anything.
I'm not seeing anything new just yet, but I will say I'll just read you what he says.
That the jury was asking the judge to elaborate on the reasonable person standard for the justification of self-defense, which would, of course, be a full acquittal.
The judge clarifies the difference between an objective or subjective standard.
He references People v.
Getz, which created this test, that it was the case that Eric Boutaxis referred to earlier of Ernie Getz, the subway vigilante.
The reasonable person, quote, knows what the defendant knew in that situation.
To be clear, the jury does not know that during the altercation, Neely had a warrant out from assaulting a woman on the subway because Daniel Penny would not have known.
So does that make sense?
The judge also instructs that it has to satisfy both parts of a two-part test.
Number one, honestly helped.
Must have actually believed that Neely would use physical force.
And two, reasonable.
A reasonable person in the same circumstances, having the same information, would reach the same belief.
So that's the latest, the absolute latest that I've seen anywhere on the Daniel Penny situation.
Now, I also saw during the break that there may have been some breaking news involving the Stay frosty.
Stay frosty.
And so about two hours ago, there was a rumor.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled the country.
This wasn't the first time that we heard this rumor because they said that about a week ago when the rebels, these Turkish-backed rebels that are being run by Turkish intelligence, according to reports, have been involved in this new offensive within Syria aimed at regime change.
And we heard a lot of rumors, and I kept telling people, stay frosty, because you're going to hear a lot of rumors, and you're going to hear a lot of people saying that, oh, someone's been assassinated, someone's been killed, but ultimately they turn out to be just fine.
And by the same token, you're also hearing that the leader of the rebels had been killed.
So you get this from both sides.
It's the fog of war.
That's what it's referred to.
I guess with Daniel Penny, you could call it the fog of crime.
Well, on Send Defender on Twitter posted a report saying, following earlier reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has finally fled the country from possibly either Iran or the United Arab Emirates, Syrian state media is now claiming that Assad had just arrived in Tehran for a meeting with senior Iranian officials.
And about 25 minutes later writes, Syrian channels are now denying that Assad is in Tehran, stating that he is monitoring the situation From Damascus.
So there you go, folks.
I mean, just another situation of...
Look, when you're in cases like this, when you're in situations like this, when you're trying to figure out the truth, when you're trying to suss out what exactly is going on, it's tough.
I get it.
It's tough.
You don't always know.
But I will say the one thing that you do need to know, the one thing that is so important, Is that you absolutely need, you absolutely need to figure out what's happening, when it happens, and you need to stay frosty.
You just have to stay frosty.
And staying frosty means, the minute something crosses your desk, you say, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, you know, what was it yesterday?
There was an earthquake, and then people said, oh my gosh, there's going to be a tsunami, and everyone's going to evacuate.
I say, no guys, stay frosty.
Stay frosty because you never know.
Another example of that is Pete Exeth, okay?
It used to be a situation in this country that we didn't have the mainstream media response function we have in terms of social media.
So when mainstream media would drop a story, this happened in Watergate, and I asked Roger Stone about this once.
I said, why did Nixon resign during Watergate if none of it was true?
Why didn't he push back?
And Roger responded.
He said, look, because you guys...
Didn't exist back then, that independent media didn't exist, social media didn't exist, where you can disintermediate the power of mainstream media.
So it used to be that a mainstream report, like, oh, the New Yorker, right?
So the New Yorker comes out and says, oh, this guy's an absolute drunk, and NBC comes out and says, you know, he committed this, he committed that.
Well, nowadays, we have the ability through social media Intermediation and from some huge voices and huge names in social media who can actually respond and get those messages out directly to people.
That is why we've seen corporate media, legacy media, the regime, and so many of these, the Blob as entities, as Mike Benz calls it.
We did an entire show on Blobology yesterday here to explain the reason behind all of it We're good to go.
Easily in the last 5-10 years.
It's very clear to me that President Trump's victory would not have happened without for that, because that gave people the ability to share the truth until the truth scale.
On a personal note, from a programming note, I just wanted to say thank you to the audience and thank you to the crew, the absolutely top notch crew that we have here on the show on Human Events Daily.
Today is our 900th episode.
You know, if you had told me three years ago that we would be doing 900 episodes when we started episode one of this thing, I don't know that I would have believed you.
