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| If you want to be a part of the program, uh, By now, most of you, if not all of you, I'm sure, have seen the incident with the police, five officers, and Tyree uh Nichols, uh, which ultimately resulted in his death. | |
| Um I guess that there's any surprise, and there really shouldn't be a surprise here. | |
| Um everybody knows they're good cops. | |
| I would say the majority of them are. | |
| My leave my own personal experience in life. | |
| I've had a couple of cops that you know were really obnoxious in a lot of ways. | |
| Yes, and no matter how polite you're even being, and they they just, I don't know, have a chip on their shoulder, maybe they're having a bad day, whatever it happens to be. | |
| I guess the biggest surprise to me is the number of people that have decided that in spite of the fact that all the officers in this case, all five of them are black and the and Tyree Nichols is black, and and and they're still trying to turn this into a race case. | |
| You know, latest person to do this this morning apparently was New York City Mayor Eric Adams on fake news CNN saying that race played a major role in Nichols' murder. | |
| I'm having a hard time understanding how they got there. | |
| Uh, because you know, the police chief who happens to be African American herself said race is off the table in this case. | |
| Adam says, you know, when asked, do you agree that race is off the table? | |
| No, I don't. | |
| He says, I think race is still on the table. | |
| When a culture of policing historically has treated those from different groups differently, even when the individuals are from the same group, that culture can still exist. | |
| I think this is simply it's not more complicated than what you see this as. | |
| This is a case of, you know, there are good cops and there are not good cops. | |
| I'd like to think the majority of people that I my experience has been people that go into law enforcement, they know they're taking on a very difficult job. | |
| They know they're they know they they can lose their life on at any given minute. | |
| They all know that. | |
| They take on the risk to protect and to serve their communities. | |
| That's what I've discovered in the course of my life. | |
| Are there bad apples in every field? | |
| Sure. | |
| Including broadcasting. | |
| I can name them uh names you'd recognize easily, but that's a different story for a different day. | |
| So, you know, in in the wake of this, and I'm I'm looking at at so many people in their comments, and I'm trying to understand how they got to the positions that they got. | |
| You know, by saying the things that they've been saying. | |
| And yet it just goes on and on and on. | |
| And, you know, even to the point where you have the Biden administration, they've now made a decision to open a civil rights investigation into the Tyree Nichols murder. | |
| Jonathan Turley wrote a great piece about this. | |
| He said the move of the Justice Department to open a civil rights investigation is surprising. | |
| He denounced the killing and went on to say that even the Memphis police chief told the public that the race of the officers takes off the table that issue and brings into the forefront problems in law enforcement. | |
| You know, that they're about race. | |
| Basically saying then that that's not the case. | |
| That was a general rule that such civil rights investigations would follow state investigations and state charges. | |
| Uh That rule was discarded by the Obama administration in cases like the case of Trayvon Martin after the fanfare of the investigation, the administration quietly shut it down and did not bring any charges. | |
| Remember, you had eyewitness testimony that we didn't know till the very end, although I knew it was coming because I had my sources, which is why we always end up being right on all of these cases. | |
| I had sources in Ferguson, Missouri that were telling me, Sean, there are multiple African Americans that corroborate the officer's story about Michael Brown, and that this hands up don't shoot incident never happened. | |
| And Michael Brown was the one that reached into the police officer's car and struggled for his gun when the shot first shot went off. | |
| And then Michael Brown charged the police officer. | |
| All of that corroborated by African Americans testifying in the case. | |
| Just like I was tipped off that none of these officers in the Freddie Gay Gray case in Baltimore were ever going to be found guilty of anything. | |
| And everyone had predicted that there would be guilty verdicts. | |
| And I said, There's not going to be guilty verdicts in this case. | |
| I'm not even sure. | |
| Well, we what they haven't done yet is broken down and identified each officer in their specific role in this incident with Tyree Nichols. | |
| Um, you know, certainly the officer that, you know, ran up and kicked him in the head twice, uh, is going to be one of those people that will rightly be charged with second degree murder, uh, or the people that are wailing on them and beating the hell out of them. | |
| You know, what's so frustrating to me is you got five officers there that are supposed to be trained officers of an elite unit, which since has now been disbanded over the weekend. | |
| They're supposed to be part of an elite unit, and five guys couldn't cough one person, uh, one young man. | |
| And that tells me that their training is poor. | |
| You know, it's if if you know basic, you know, jujitsu manipulations, I'm telling you, you could take somebody's fingers and get them to comply. | |
| You can get their wrist, put it in a Kartagashi wrist lock, and they're going to comply. | |
| And these are not hard maneuvers for police officers to be trained in the use of. | |
| Well, you got five on one. | |
| The other thing that really struck me is where was that one officer to walk over when they had full control of Tyree Nichols on the ground, and he wasn't fully complying by getting completely on his on his uh waist on his, you know, lay put his face down, and he was he obviously he was upset that he was pulled over. | |
| Obviously, he wanted answers to questions. | |
| The cops were just frustrated, seemingly from the get-go, but there wasn't one guy that walked over and said, All right, everybody take take a deep breath. | |
| What's your name? | |
| Tyree. | |
| Okay, Tyree, listen to me. | |
| You got to take it easy here. | |
| Our goal is not to hurt you. | |
| Our goal is to get to the bottom of what has gone on here, and we need your help, and we need your cooperation. | |
| I don't want you getting hurt. | |
| I don't want our officers getting hurt. | |
| I have five guys here. | |
| You're not gonna get away. | |
| We're not gonna hurt you. | |
| We just want to question you. | |
| I'm asking for your cooperation. | |
| You know, that tone, that cadence probably could, it may not have worked every may not work every time, but it certainly could have an impact by a lot of people. | |
| I think that would have an impact on tons of people. | |
| Uh so, you know, and then this this race to bring up the racial issue. | |
| You know, the uh that I'm having a hard time understanding some of the comments with so many people as it relates to you know the coverage in this particular case. | |
| You know, I just it it makes no sense to me. | |
| I have a montage of some of the media. | |
| Let me play it for you, uh, blaming race for Tyree Nichols' death. | |
| Listen. | |
| This is an outrage. | |
| And race still is involved, Joe, as you and I spoke about on the phone. | |
| Because I don't believe those five cops would have done that to a young white on a uh on a traffic stop. | |
| I'm not surprised the officers here were black because when we talk about race and policing, we talk about the way black men, black women, black people are perceived and the way they are perceived by all of us. | |
| And so anti-black racism, uh, the idea of thinking of black men and women as prone to violence, as dangerous, as bigger or stronger or or or more insidious than they really are, something that can infect all of our minds. | |
| Um and black people are not immune from that as well. | |
| There's this very simplistic notion that says, well, if a white cop is doing something uh to an unarmed black person, then that's racism. | |
| Um but we sometimes forget unfortunately um uh African Americans can also be guilty of hatred and bias and bigotry against other African Americans. | |
| But I think a race is still on the table uh when a culture of policing historically has treated uh those from different groups differently of even when the individuals are from that same group that culture could still exist and we have to zero in on it being honest about it and making sure that we properly train police for the realities of the cities that they are policing in. | |
| It shouldn't be a surprise to people that uh individual black people can actually do anti-black things anyone who knows the history uh of enslavement anyone who knows the the history of policing knows that black people can do anti-black things. | |
| And communities of color they often have different types of policing than many of our white brothers and sisters have in their community and this video illustrates it that it's this culture that says it doesn't matter whether the police officers are black, | |
| Hispanic or white that it is somehow for you to trample on the constitutional rights of certain citizens from certain ethnicities and certain communities. | |
| This is nothing to this case had nothing to do with race that I can see the officers were black all of them the case of Tyree Nichols he was black. | |
| I could see bad policing I could see poor training I could see a lack of professionalism. | |
| I mean it's like these cops took it personally there was five of them and they couldn't even get this this young man in handcuffs. | |
| And and you have to ask why why couldn't this have been handled better? | |
| This kid did not need to be kicked in the head beaten silly you know have frustrated cops you know and by the way how many times have I said that stupid taser is junk I've said it so many times and and sure click click click click click boom doesn't work Van Jones writing on fake news CNN that the police that killed Tyree Nichols were black but they still might have been driven by racism. | |
| The narrative that white cop kills unarmed black man should never have been the sole lens through which we attempted to understand police abuse and misconduct. | |
| It's time to move to a more nuanced discussion of the way police violence endangers black lives. | |
| Black people are not immune to anti-black messages, he said. | |
| One of the sad facts about anti-black racism is that black people ourselves are not immune to its pernicious effects. | |
| Society's message that the black, that black people are inferior, and dangerous is pervasive. | |
| Well are you saying that the black officers there's so many by the way police departments in the country where they have majority minority police departments and you know MPR you have Ben Trump is on spot on here. | |
| When you look at uh this it's never really about the demographics or the ethnicity or the racial makeup of the uh and the racial makeup of the officer it's about demographics the ethnicity and racial makeup of the person who is being policed that's that is wrong. | |
| Reverend Al Sharpton Tyree Nichols's death is an outrage and race is still involved you know Ben Crump ABC it's not the race of the police officer that is the determining factor of whether they're going to engage in excessive force but it is the race of the citizen and this this these comments were widespread. | |
| Jamil Hill claiming that black people can carry water for white supremacy. | |
| You're stuck on faces, you know, making that statement. | |
| I just see bad policing overall. | |
| I see five cops that are supposed to be professionally trained, incapable, five of them, of handcuffing one suspect. | |
| You know, for what seems like a minor infraction. | |
| when a guy's screaming for their mother and he's that way at by the time they had the second encounter, if they didn't realize that they were not going to calm the suspect down, things needed to be treated very, very differently. | |
| Instead of anger, instead of, you know, spraying mace at the guy, instead of, you know, manhandling the kid, this young man, they could have handled it a thousand different ways and professionally. | |
| And if he still resisted, yes, it would take force to get him in handcuffs, but five officers that are in an elite unit ought to be able to do that in their sleep for crying out loud. | |
| Shouldn't be that difficult. | |
| Uh anyway, we'll have a debate on it coming up later in the program today. | |
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| I mean, it went on. | |
| Jameel Hill claiming black people can carry water from white supremacy. | |
| You're stuck on faces. | |
| Whoopi Goldberg, do we need to see a white person also get beat before anybody will do anything? | |
| So many other people said it. | |
| Uh Sarah Haynes, the fact that it was black officers doesn't matter. | |
| It's the victim. | |
| You know, how do you how do you make the leap here? | |
| And would there have been a different reaction of people if they're if if the WAF if there were different races involved? | |
| Probably probably. | |
| Because there are some people that always want to push that narrative. | |
| Here is a reality. | |
| There are good and bad people in every profession. | |
| What I take out of this more than anything else is that you had five officers here, and you had one suspect here. | |
| And what we're talking about, quote, reckless driving. | |
| I don't know what happened. | |
| I didn't see that portion of the tape to sufficiently come to any conclusion. | |
| Uh it was early in the evening. | |
| No indication that he used any drugs, but I did see this kid laying in his hospital bed with his head kicked in. | |
| I did see the officer, you know, run up and kick him right in the head. | |
| Not once, but twice. | |
| I did see this kid getting beaten on the ground, and I did hear the voices of officers uh that sounded about as unprofessional as you'd ever expect. | |
| And there wasn't one of them that said, All right, guys, let's slow down here. | |
| All right. | |
| You know, sir, sir, we need your cooperation. | |
| Listen to me. | |
| Nobody wants to get hurt here. | |
| We have to do our job. | |
| We're gonna ask you for your cooperation. | |
| You know, it's not like he well, he did get up at one point, which by the way, should not have happened either. | |
| And then when the cops are chasing uh Tyree, they they weren't even close to being able to keep up with him. | |
| And I know they have heavy equipment on, but we're crying out loud. | |
| You gotta if you're a cop, you gotta stay in decent shape. | |
| Pretty un unreal. | |
| Um, so you know, and then why bring up civil rights charges in this case? | |
| That's what Joe Biden has now done. | |
| Uh but I guess it could things could have gotten worse. | |
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| I think when America really wraps its mind and fully understands the countries that that Hunter was dealing with, the lies that Joe told, Joe's involvement in all of this, photographic meetings, | |
| lying about never having spoken to his son or any family member about his foreign business dealings, evidence to the contrary, and then following the money and seeing how the Bidens have enriched themselves with some of our biggest, you know, geopolitical foes. | |
| You know, China's donation to the to UPenn just an enormous amount of money. | |
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| Uh Robert Gates gave an interview about Biden's handling of the war in Ukraine and uh said that he should have been doing things differently. | |
| He said that the things the administration is currently doing, shipping tanks, uh other critical military hardware, that should have been done months ago. | |
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| We do have ex-Twitter employees that will be testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. | |
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| Umway, uh, we have both Senator Warner and Senator Marco Rubio calling for document for the document oversight in the national security. | |
| They just want to know what's in this. | |
| In other words, was sources and methods compromised in any way. | |
| But I will tell you this, with the help of the corrupt media in this country, I will tell, and the Washington Times had a really good editorial about this. | |
| Their cover-up is in full swing. | |
| You know, when he vowed, and Gensaki said, we'll bring transparency and truth back to government, no bigger lie has been told than that one. | |
| Except maybe when he said he never talked to Hunter or any family member about his foreign business dealings. | |
| But now they've turned out to be the lat least transparent administration in modern history. | |
| You know, the Treasury Department responding, for example, Congress is up and running, and the Treasury Department, we have Congressman Comer send a request to provide information on Biden family financial transactions that have been marked suspicious, suspicious activity reports is what they call any over a certain amount of money. | |
| Like if you, for example, take out more than $10,000, that report usually gets triggered, uh, which is fine. | |
| I mean, it's your money, you should be able to do whatever you want with your own money, but that's separate and apart. | |
| I think the money issue, the you know, did Hunter really give half his salary to Pops? | |
| Did Hunter really pay for the repairs at Pop's home? | |
| Did Hunter, you know, put aside X number of millions of dollars for the big guy? | |
| Because if that's the case and that happened, now you got a whole series of violations. | |
| You got Farah violations, you got tax violations. | |
| Now, you can't prosecute a sitting president, but if he's not elected, he could be prosecuted, and certainly Hunter would be. | |
| It took the Biden administration 68 days to disclose to you, the American people that they even had classified information. | |
| They found it six days before the midterm elections. | |
| And the Department of Justice in his executive branch, they knew about it from the get-go. | |
| Uh what else do we have here? | |
| Now, this is pretty interesting. | |
| How many of you would like an 8.7% pay increase? | |
| I bet a lot of you would like an 8.7% pay increase, especially if you got a 4.6 pay raise this year and you're a federal government employee, because that's what Democrats now are proposing to give federal workers for quote, toiling through the Trump administration and the coronavirus pandemic. | |
| Look, I don't have a problem with the free market, but if for those of you that for people that choose to work in certain professions, if you're going to work in government, it all it's not the profession to go into if you want to get wealthy and have a different standard of living. | |
| Like I know so many people that that the money had little to do with the decision of what profession that they decide. | |
| I know people from the time they were little that wanted to be in law enforcement. | |
| I know people from the time they were little wanted to be pilots. | |
| I know people from the time they were little wanted to be doctors or nurses. | |
| I even know people that wanted to be dentists. | |
| I don't know why anybody would want to be a dentist. | |
| And this is a hard job. | |
| Interesting story from the Epic Times. | |
| I love this one. | |
| The cost to fuel your electric vehicle is now higher than the cost of fueling a gas-powered car. | |
| I mean, can you believe this? | |
| In the last quarter of last year, 2022, typical mid-priced internal combustion engine car drivers paid about eleven dollars twenty-nine cents to fuel their vehicles for a hundred miles. | |
| The cost was around thirty-one cents cheaper than the amount paid by mid-priced electric vehicle drivers charging mostly at home, and over three dollars less than the cost borne by comparable electric vehicle drivers charging commercially, according to the Anderson Economic Group in their analysis. | |
| Luxury electric vehicles still enjoy a cost advantage against their gas-powered counterparts. | |
| It costs luxury EV owners 12.4.4 dollars to drive every hundred miles on average if they charge their cars mostly at home, or $1,595 if they charge at a commercial charging station during the fourth quarter. | |
| Now it the cost for fuel, you know, went up significantly, came down, and now it's going back up to four dollars a gallon again. | |
| That's unbelievable. | |
| You know, I I I read all of these. | |
| The general consensus among economists, and it's the Fed will meet this week as inflation is beginning to cool. | |
| I mean, after the multiple rate hikes, you would expect that to happen. | |
| However, we don't know, you know, they had talked about a soft landing. | |
| I don't know anybody that's really predicting that. | |
| Most people are predicting that it's gonna be, you know, a rough next 18 months or so. | |
| Uh a lot of people, by the way, Linda questioning, you know, the price of eggs are through the roof right now. | |
| Do you see what happened in Connecticut? | |
| I was gonna tell you that. | |
| A coop uh uh chicken coop destroyed in a blaze at an egg farm. | |
| Twenty firefighting crews from across the region had to battle this blaze, uh, according to fire officials. | |
| They said about a hundred thousand chickens may have died in the blaze blaze. | |
| A chicken coop measuring fifty feet by four hundred feet went up in planes uh in flames at uh Hillendale Farms on Saturday afternoon in uh Norwich, Connecticut, and uh they responded very quickly to this. | |
| By the way, eighteen dollars a dozen. | |
| Some people are predicting for a dozen. | |
| What am I gonna do? | |
| That's all I eat are eggs and meat for the most part, unless it's weekends and I cheat watching football. | |
| Which I did yesterday. | |
| I cheated dramatically. | |
| Do you see the story I just sent you? | |
| I did not. | |
| By the way, do you see the story about wind turbines now taller than the Statue of Liberty are all falling over? | |
| I did not see that story. | |
| Yeah, it's a good story. | |
| Hang on. | |
| Mary Houck, jury deadlocked. | |
| Mark Huck. | |
| Mark Hook, sorry. | |
| Not guilty, all charges. | |
| Huge story. | |
| The pro-lifer. | |
| He was at the abortion clinic with his son. | |
| And then they stormed his house with all the FBI agents, held all of his seven children at gunpoint. | |
| And then they took him to trial to say that he was aggressive at the abortion clinic just because he was speaking about pro-life stuff. | |
| They found him not guilty on all charges. | |
| This is where Jim Jordan, it's going to be a field day. | |
| And you can already see that the strategy of the DOJ and the FBI is to stonewall and try and get everything in court. | |
| Anyway, so the instances, part of a recent rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the U.S. and Europe from failures of key components to full-on collapses, industry veterans are saying they're happening more often, even if the events are occurring at only a small fraction of installed machines, but the problems have added hundreds of millions of dollars in cost for three of the largest Western turbine makers, GE Vestus Wind Systems, and Siemens Energy. | |
| And by the way, they could result in more expensive insurance policies, a setback. | |
| No, I'm telling you right now, this is we unilaterally disarmed as it relates to energy to buy into the climate alarmist cultism. | |
| And it's costing us all a fortune. | |
| And we don't have the, the alternative that the likes of Al Gore and other lunatics are telling us we have. | |
| I did like the bill Mars said, Yeah, I fly around in a private jet. | |
| I'm but I'm not out there telling people to stop eating meat. | |
| They are. | |
| I'm like, good. | |
| Finally for him, he's just being honest. | |
| If you don't think that global warming is happening, if you're not lecturing people about the cars they drive, the meat that they eat, and telling them that they're bad people, and wanting them to pay for a socialist agenda in the name of green, then you understand that the United States happens to be one of the cleanest that takes care of its air, water, better than any country on the face of the earth, considering the level of industrial growth we've had. | |
| The planet has a fever. | |
| What year did he say that? | |
| 2006. | |
| Well, we're surviving the fever. | |
| Fever seems to be going down. | |
| All right, we're gonna have a uh full discussion. | |
| Sergeant Trey Penny will join us. | |
| Also, Dallas Police Sergeant Sam Digby will check in with us. | |
| Uh, our friend Gianni Colwell was on the ground in Memphis on Friday night. | |
| Had a lot of time to speak to a lot of people uh about what happened uh in this case of Tyree Nichols and the reaction of the community and what can be done to prevent this from ever happening again, straight ahead. | |
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