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Mark Belling Podcast #143: The Madison Police shooting is the ultimate leftist train wreck: no bodycams, political demagoguery, anti-police venom and cancellations everywhere. Also, a local county gets backlash over trying to fix the vexing problem of funding EMS. And, the media really doesn't want you to see egomaniacal Fauci's diary entries · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: start with the obvious story, which is pretty easy to summarize.
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  Speaker 2: They'll explain that once when he used it, I think,
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  Speaker 2: Dandy Don Meredith, this goes back like fifty years. I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember this. Maybe I saw it onto YouTube. Dandy
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  Speaker 2: Cosell explained his wont I don't know that ever. I've
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  Speaker 2: used that word ever in my radio career or podcasting career,
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  Speaker 2: but this is the first time for anything. Anyway, as
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  Speaker 2: probably everybody knows, all hell is broken loose. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ramifications off the story, but the summary it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty much all you would have needed to know to
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  Speaker 2: predict everything that has happened since. Now. What I want
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  Speaker 2: to do is focus on several things here, including what
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  Speaker 2: this guy, Corey Reeri, is thirty eight years old and
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  Speaker 2: in prouble. His entire adult life goes back to two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and seven, which is nineteen years which would be
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  Speaker 2: since he was nineteen years old. My guest is there's
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  Speaker 2: a juvenile record in there, but we don't know that
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  Speaker 2: because those are secret. He's been in trouble forever. And
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  Speaker 2: I went through these cases, and I went through all
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  Speaker 2: of them. It is amazing. Every time he's charged with something,
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  Speaker 2: one of the charges is resisting arrest. So this is
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  Speaker 2: what he does. He does things that result in him
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  Speaker 2: being arrested, and every time they try to arrest him,
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  Speaker 2: he resists the rest. So I'm sure he's well known
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  Speaker 2: to the police and has a well known history of
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  Speaker 2: behaving the way that he was behaving. That context alone
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  Speaker 2: needs to be considered in evaluating the story based on
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  Speaker 2: what I've seen, and this is one of the places
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  Speaker 2: I'm going on This from video from a cell phone
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  Speaker 2: of a bystander who captured apparently the very end of this,
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  Speaker 2: because that's all we've seen. There were several cops trying
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  Speaker 2: to bring the guy under control. He has a knife,
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  Speaker 2: he's like kind of poking and swinging with it. One
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  Speaker 2: of the officers fires her taser and it doesn't deploy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the failure rate on tasers is.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody just says, well, that happens quite a bit. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I watch YouTube videos where they use tasers,
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  Speaker 2: and it does seem to happen quite a bit that
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  Speaker 2: they don't work. I don't know where that is. You
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  Speaker 2: would think that the taser industry would make a more
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  Speaker 2: foolproof taser, wouldn't you. And sadly that becomes a key
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  Speaker 2: because if he had been tased, it might have struck
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  Speaker 2: him down enough that they were able to get him
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  Speaker 2: under control. But the taser didn't work. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: he's with these cops. Well, he's got a knife in
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  Speaker 2: his head. One of the officers then point blank shoots him.
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  Speaker 2: He's dead. That's what we saw. Now, everybody brings to
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  Speaker 2: their viewing of anything like this their own biases. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Bears play, the Packers, Packer receivers going out for a pass,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Love throws a pass, the Bear defender reaches up
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  Speaker 2: and bats the ball away. There's contact. The Packer fans
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  Speaker 2: all see pass interference, and the Bear fans all see
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  Speaker 2: perfectly good defensive play. And given the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: NFL allows like some contact, all of it becomes subjective
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  Speaker 2: and you see things according to your own biases. So
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  Speaker 2: people who hate cops see this. Why they should not
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  Speaker 2: have shot the poor guy? Why did they have to
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  Speaker 2: shoot him? Or to quote the front running Democratic candidate
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  Speaker 2: for governor, why did they have to execute him? Her
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  Speaker 2: term execution? Execution, Francesca Hang, don't blame me for Chessca Hang.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a Democrat. I'm not the person who's propped Reperds,
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  Speaker 2: the front running Democratic candidate for governor execution. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've actually seen an execution. Oh, I know, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen one live. There's like some that you see
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  Speaker 2: on video. Like I always talk about the Chowchesco esque execution,
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  Speaker 2: which you don't really see, but you kind of see.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really see a lot of them. They allow
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  Speaker 2: witnesses in. For the longest time, we didn't execute anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. And see, this is something I
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  Speaker 2: would remember because it happened. You were like a kid.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that. They were like twenty years we didn't
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  Speaker 2: execute anybody in the United States. And then the late
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  Speaker 2: seventies we executed somebody. Do you remember that? Who that was?
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  Speaker 2: It was a big deal only because they even Norman
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  Speaker 2: Mahler wrote a book about it, because we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: one for so many years. Gary Gilmore, how did you
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  Speaker 2: do him? They executed him. The one thing I know
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  Speaker 2: about executions is they don't let the guy who's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be executed swing at the execution or with a knife.
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  Speaker 2: Usually they're locked up, strapped up, and then they inject
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  Speaker 2: you in the arm. In the past, they tie you
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  Speaker 2: up and they start they fire a firing squad at you,
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  Speaker 2: or they put you in electric care. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: you can shoot back that's not an execution, or if
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  Speaker 2: you're somebody who's very pro police, you can see this
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  Speaker 2: as the guy's trying to stab these officers. They can't
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  Speaker 2: bring them under control, so of course they used the
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  Speaker 2: deadly force and shot him after the taser didn't work. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: depending on your bias, you're gonna see this one way
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  Speaker 2: or another, or for many people somewhere in between. The
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  Speaker 2: problem is, and it's the problem with seeing a snippet
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  Speaker 2: of anything. As they've explained a million times in the past,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't see the entirety of the event, you
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  Speaker 2: have no context. How long were they fighting with him?
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  Speaker 2: How long had this gone on? Were there jabs with
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  Speaker 2: a knife prior to when we start seeing the video
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  Speaker 2: the video was shot, and staying from behind is kind
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  Speaker 2: of misleading because the video is that there's four officers there.
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  Speaker 2: They're surrounding the guy, and everybody's moving around, and the
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  Speaker 2: person who's holding the cell phone is standing where the
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  Speaker 2: person holding the cellphone was standing. What you clearly do
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  Speaker 2: not get, though, is a view from behind the officer
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  Speaker 2: who shot. In other words, you have no view of
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  Speaker 2: what he saw, and you have no view of what
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  Speaker 2: the officer who fired the taser, the one that didn't
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  Speaker 2: go off saw because it's shot from a different angle,
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  Speaker 2: and we will never see those things because Madison police
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  Speaker 2: don't have cameras. This component of the story is the
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  Speaker 2: one that I want to focus on because I've been
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  Speaker 2: on this issue for some time now. The push for
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  Speaker 2: body cams started with the left. I'll tell you when
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  Speaker 2: it started too. It started and with Ferguson, Missouri twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Brown was shot or the police there, and all
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  Speaker 2: the lefties demanded body camps because they've got to have
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  Speaker 2: body cams to see because all these police are out
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  Speaker 2: there brutalizing people. They're shooting people who shouldn't be shot.
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  Speaker 2: They're beating them up, they're kicking them in the balls,
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  Speaker 2: they're stopping on them, they're doing all these terrible things.
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  Speaker 2: We need all of them to wear body cameras so
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  Speaker 2: we could expose all of this wrongdoing by police. And
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  Speaker 2: very rapidly, you know, federal funding came in, state funding.
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  Speaker 2: There's grants for policing all over the place. Lots and
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  Speaker 2: lots of cops got them. And then fast forward to
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, George Flightham defund the police ranting, raving the
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  Speaker 2: cops are murderers. That's when the next massive wave of
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  Speaker 2: body cams came in again, all pushed by the left.
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  Speaker 2: For those of you not from Wisconsin, I mean I
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  Speaker 2: think almost everybody would know this, But for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who like don't know anything, Madison is as lefty
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  Speaker 2: as you can possibly be. How is it that a
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  Speaker 2: push that was started by the left ends up with
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  Speaker 2: the leftiest city in the Midwest. I think accurate to
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  Speaker 2: say that the police don't have body cams. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: Madison is the largest city in the entire Midwest that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have body cams. Key there a city. Some counties
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  Speaker 2: don't have them. I'm looking at you walka Shaw County.
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  Speaker 2: But large and small police agencies generally have body cams,
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  Speaker 2: especially now a few very small departments one or two officers,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not many of them actually do, but at any
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  Speaker 2: department of size, they're bodycams. The reason that their body
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  Speaker 2: cams in Madison is the left, which started this push
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  Speaker 2: for them, turned against them. There's one particular alderman in Madison.
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  Speaker 2: Her name was Julianna Bennett. This was her issue. She
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  Speaker 2: fought for four years to keep the city from funding
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  Speaker 2: body cameras because what happened is the body camera started
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  Speaker 2: coming out is a they were exonerating police in case
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  Speaker 2: after case after case after case after case after case
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  Speaker 2: of allegations of misconduct by police. You saw that the
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  Speaker 2: police officers weren't committing misconduct. But secondly, they became an
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  Speaker 2: incredible tool for police and convicting people because you've got
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  Speaker 2: actual evidence of what the suspect is doing. It also
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  Speaker 2: did away with the ability of a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: to false they claimed the officer molested them, or the
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  Speaker 2: officer got in a cheap shot, and so on, because
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  Speaker 2: there all these bodies cams there, so the script entirely flipped.
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  Speaker 2: They become a tremendous tool for law enforcement and a
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  Speaker 2: great protector of cops. So suddenly Lefty soward on them.
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  Speaker 2: Then the whole YouTube thing came in. Obviously, bodycams are
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  Speaker 2: public records. The whole YouTube phenomenon in body cams, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the things Lefties have no ability to think ahead.
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  Speaker 2: They can never think about the consequences of anything. So
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  Speaker 2: if we give police bodycms, that means there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be all this video that comes to bodycams. Don't you
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  Speaker 2: think the world would love to see this. For the
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  Speaker 2: longest time, we had this TV show, it's on for
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  Speaker 2: over thirty years. Cops. It was on Fox. I forget.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might have been Paramount that was producing it.
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  Speaker 2: They canceled it after George Floyd in Minneapolis because they
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to show police on a positive light. And anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Cops is on for thirty years. It's hit and all
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  Speaker 2: it was was you'd see dash cams and bodycams of
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  Speaker 2: police officers and more to the point, camera crews from
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  Speaker 2: the Fox themselves. Fox would embed not five Cops the
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  Speaker 2: show it aired on Fox, but the producers of Cops
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  Speaker 2: had these producers follow the police around with handheld cameras.
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  Speaker 2: They use that and a combination of what existed of
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  Speaker 2: body cams. If there wasn't a crew, there's a crew
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  Speaker 2: connected to the scene that they didn't have a camera
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  Speaker 2: crew with a police squad, they would use their bodycam
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  Speaker 2: in any of it. Big Get Bighead show. So now
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  Speaker 2: that all these body cams and dash cams are out there,
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  Speaker 2: content creators an entire vast new industry of people whose
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  Speaker 2: livelihood was created by the ability of them to have
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  Speaker 2: a place to put their content i e. YouTube and
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  Speaker 2: to some extent TikTok. YouTube specializes in longer videos, which
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  Speaker 2: is for the bodycams that come in these content providers.
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  Speaker 2: Content creators are scrolling the country looking for news events
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  Speaker 2: and police incidents that might be interesting and making open
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  Speaker 2: records requests for the bodycams. Some people, I'll use the
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  Speaker 2: term stupid people. I like calling people stupid when the
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  Speaker 2: term applies because it just drives people crazy. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what other term would you use it? Some people stupid
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  Speaker 2: people think that the police are putting these things up
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  Speaker 2: there No if bodycams a public record in the same
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  Speaker 2: way that any other government record is a public record.
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  Speaker 2: So the content creator requests the bodycams. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: do an incredible job, very elaborate production, editing, huge staffs.
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  Speaker 2: Because they've monetized their channels on YouTube, they're making a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money off of this and as a result,
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  Speaker 2: people to get pulled over for drunk driving, police that
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  Speaker 2: resist the rest, people that are acting up when police
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  Speaker 2: are called to throw somebody out of a bar. Here
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  Speaker 2: are these people that are behaving badly. It's captured on
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  Speaker 2: bodycam and the next thing you know, it's slapped up
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube, sometimes with hundreds of thousands of people viewing
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  Speaker 2: them an unintended consequence, something that didn't dawn and all
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  Speaker 2: the people that push for the body cams in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. Now I'm in favor of cameras everywhere. I'm boring.
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  Speaker 2: I don't do anything. I don't care if it's what
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  Speaker 2: you show me on care. First of all, everybody's paying
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  Speaker 2: attention to look at it me anyway. Secondly, I never
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  Speaker 2: do a damn thing. What do I care if there's cameras.
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  Speaker 2: If I was the sort of person that was skipping
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  Speaker 2: my tab at a bar and then trying to take
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  Speaker 2: a swing throat at a waitress, all these kinds of
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  Speaker 2: stuff you see on YouTube, I probably wouldn't like the
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  Speaker 2: fact that there are cameras everywhere. But I don't do
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  Speaker 2: any of those things. What's the worst thing that I
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  Speaker 2: do that I wouldn't want a camera to catch me
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  Speaker 2: if I was doing it. I don't mean like inside
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  Speaker 2: taking a dump or something. I mean like out on
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  Speaker 2: the street in public. What would be something that I
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  Speaker 2: would do that I won't want a camera to say?
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  Speaker 2: I can't even think of anything I'm boring as can be.
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  Speaker 2: But there are a lot of people who behave badly,
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  Speaker 2: especially when they're not. The other big one is airport videos.
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  Speaker 2: You know, airport police officers were on the bodycams. They're
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  Speaker 2: called over to a gate because somebody, usually because they're drunk,
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  Speaker 2: is denied boarding, and the people often go absolutely nuts
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  Speaker 2: and they put if somebody puts the thing on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: and a trillion people see it and it's on the
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  Speaker 2: internet forever and ever and ever. I'm going out and
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  Speaker 2: on and on about this because this is really hacking
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  Speaker 2: off people preparely on the left, and Madison becomes like
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  Speaker 2: the one holdout. No body cams, no body cams, no
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  Speaker 2: body cams. So as a result of this, we do
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  Speaker 2: not have excellent views from all angles of what happened
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  Speaker 2: in this situation. That is a disgrace. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that you can pass a federal law requiring all police
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  Speaker 2: agencies to have them, because I do believe in local control.
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  Speaker 2: But that's a huge portion of the problem here. So
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  Speaker 2: the video evidence that we have is going to be
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  Speaker 2: brief and shot from an angle. From what I've seen
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  Speaker 2: from the angle, the shooting may or may not have
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  Speaker 2: been necessary, but certainly would seem to be not criminal.
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  Speaker 2: And remember that's the standard in terms of bringing charges.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing I would say that would argue against
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  Speaker 2: what the officer did is all of the officers involved
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  Speaker 2: had guns. He was the only one to shot. On
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  Speaker 2: the other hand, he was one who had his hands free.
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  Speaker 2: The others were tangling a tussle with him. The officer
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  Speaker 2: who fired with a taser was trying to obviously knock
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  Speaker 2: him out stun him so that they could bring him
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  Speaker 2: under control. That didn't work, So why didn't the others
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  Speaker 2: shoot him earlier? Could they have used other lethal force?
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  Speaker 2: While there's a problem with that. You could see one
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  Speaker 2: of the cops trying to kick him in the head
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  Speaker 2: and attempt to dissuade him, but people go nuts over
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  Speaker 2: that stuff too. The guy's actively fighting you with a knife,
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  Speaker 2: you got to do everything in your power to disable him.
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  Speaker 2: And when one of that works, the guy fired the shot. Again.
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  Speaker 2: It would certainly be helpful to all of us if
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  Speaker 2: we could see front on what the police officer was seeing,
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  Speaker 2: because you're seeing from this distance the guy's kind of
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  Speaker 2: poking and reaching with the knife. Apparently two of the
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  Speaker 2: other officers were contacted with the knife. The term stab
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what means a stab. If you scrape,
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  Speaker 2: is that a stab? If you puncture, it doesn't require bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But he's swinging the knife and he's
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  Speaker 2: poking out with the knife, and an instant apparently one
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  Speaker 2: for some time. Now, going back to the point I
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  Speaker 2: made earlier with a guy who has a history of
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  Speaker 2: doing this, and give him the fact that he always resists,
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  Speaker 2: and again, check his criminal record. Almost every time he's
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  Speaker 2: arrested for anything. They pull him over for a driver's license,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: pull him over for retail theft, all this stuff. It's
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  Speaker 2: always resisting is one of the charges on there with him,
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  Speaker 2: So they know that he's not going to go down
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: without a fight. And now the guy's got a knife,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: knowing therefore that he's gonna fight literally to the death.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's different than somebody who might just be acting up
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: for a second in which you realize is gonna come
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to his senses and stop fighting anyway. Now the reaction.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Let me stand the bodycam thing for a moment. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: have been riding ass on Wakershaw County because Wakershaw County,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: despite its affluence, they claim that they have budgetary problems
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: because of their affluence, they don't get much. Said AID
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: has not funded bodycams for sheriff's deputies who are on patrol.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I think it's simply a disgrace. I'm not going to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: rip on Paul Farrow, the Lake County executive repens takes
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: his funeral is pending, but he and the the county
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: board refused to provide specific funding for the body camps. Now,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: many community police communities don't have specific funding. The sheriff
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: of the police chief simply finds the money within their
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: existing budget, in the same way that they find money
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: for all the other things that you need in law enforcement.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: There's generally not a specific line on and passed by
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the county. For example, for every piece of equipment that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: you get, you buy guns, you do this thing, you
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: do that thing, and so on. The sheriff the police
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: chief has control of the budget through appropriated a dollar
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: sub The sheriff, not getting a specific allocation for it,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: has not wanted to take the money out of his budget.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The out sheriff again is outgoing Eric Severson. As a result,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: there are no body camps at Walkershaw County, which, again
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I just think in this day and age, given what
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: an important tool. They are to protect law enforcement, proof
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: of guilt and also to answer these questions about whether
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: inappropriate force occurred. All of that, they're an essential Both
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: of the candidates for sheriff have said they will make
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: it a priority to get them, but neither of them
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: had committed to me to provide body cams that the
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: county board doesn't provide specific funding. I find both of
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: their answers unsatisfactory, but at least they're on the right
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: side and saying that they want them. This should fast
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: forward every police agency in America to push for this, because,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: as I say, first of all, if the cop is
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: in the wrong, we will have better proof of it
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: with the body cams, and if the cop isn't in
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the wrong, the body cams become the way of protecting
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the police officers. So you have the most lefty community
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: in the state, Madison doesn't have them, and now everything
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: blows up. They canceled everything in Madison all weekend because
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: BLM is out there marching and screaming. They didn't burn
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: down the city the way they burned down Kenosha. I
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: would say yet, but I think it's I think it's
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: petering out here and I think one of the reasons
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that they didn't burn down the city is worst case
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: scenario for the police officer. This is a close call,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: best case scenario. It's justified. Again, I would love to
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: see a front end view. Is there more they could
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: have done without the use of lethal force? But the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: guy was they were not getting him under control. He
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: didn't look like a little guy. And apparently he's been
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: fighting with police forever and ever and ever. Apparently he
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: kind of lives on the street by the way. The
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: next thing, all these people running around Portray when left
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: when somebody gets killed by the police, why does all
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the left what people who have to criticize the police
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: have to then turn around to try to pretend that
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the person who was shot was a saint. This guy's
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: a piece of crap. He's been under arrest for the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: essentially since two thousand and seven. It's been a NonStop
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: life like this or him and then his family always
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the wonderful guy he's this said, and the other thing
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: they're why didn't you take him in and help them
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: with his problems? Apparently made his own choices in life,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: so they carry on, carry on, carry on with this
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: ridiculously overheated rhetoric, not the rhetoric. Francesca Hank isn't just
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: another random Madison COMI. She is a Madison commie. But
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: she's not a random one. There's a lot of particularly female,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: but affluent females in Madison who think like her, Marxist
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: out the wazoo, entitled to be to beat all, an
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: utterly radical, filled with rage and hatred and so on.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: But she's not a random one. She is the front
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: runner for the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin. She
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: called this an execution execution first of all, totally prejudging
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the case. By the way, EVE been so many stupid
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: comments are I don't trust the Madison Police Department to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: conduct the investigation. They don't conduct the investigation. We have
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a law in Wisconsin that another agency has to conduct
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: an investigation if a police agency is involved in a
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: fatal shooting. But again, people shoot off their idiotic months
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: before they know what they're talking about. Secondly, the most
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: pacifistic flower child police department in Wisconsin is the Madison
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Police Department. It was even that way when I lived
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: there forty years ago. When I was in Madison, which
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: is eighty six to eighty nine. I'm not making this up.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: The police chief at the time, this is Madison's always
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: been left I won't say always. Madisons start getting started
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: getting really lefty in the sixties and has just moved
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: from then really really lefty to very very lefty. To know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I think apparently out and o communist over the years.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Every year it just gets worse. But anyways, I was
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: there in the eighties. They somehow tolerated me. I was
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: like their pet conservative. That was when they still believed
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: in free speech and diversity of viewpoints. Plus they figured, well,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you're no nobody's listening. You are all gonna vote for
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Democrats anyway, So they tolerated me when I was there. Anyway,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the police chief at the time had a big portrait
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: of Gandhi on his Huffin's wall. Gandhy, you know other
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: police chiefs had, like j Edgar Hoover, He had Gandhi.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I do not know why I remember his name, but
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I knew his name was Cooper. He looked exactly like
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a police chief in Madison in the eighties, would look
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: bald with a beard, very he is a very likable,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: god calm. His whole thing was, you know, proactive police
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and get along with the community. You know, cops walk
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the beach, shake people's hands. This forty years ago protest occurred.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: When protest occurred in Madison during George fight, the medicine
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: police didn't do a damn thing. We had a Democrat
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: member of the State Assembly beaten up on the Capitol
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Square during those protests because he was taking pictures. The
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: lefties assumed he wasn't on their side. It was this
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: is a lefty on their side. Police didn't do anything
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: about it. These are police like they ride around to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: their bikes, they coddle. They're perfectly fine with the DA
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: that doesn't charge anybody over anything. Yet they're the ones
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: that are accused now of being stormtrooper fascists by these
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: lefties led by Francesco Haang, who was the Democratic front
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: on a for governor. If you didn't see the video
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: of Haong, she like always use the term stuck her
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: beak out there. It's literally what she's doing. Her head
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: is actually angled forward. It's like she literally seems to
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: be sticking her neck out there. It's what she's doing.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: This state sanctioned violence was an execution cry. Like I said,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: this would be bad enough. If she was down there
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: two percent in the polls, she's the front runner. State
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: sanctioned violence was an execution execution. As I said before,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: people being executed are not allowed to try to fight
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: their way out with a knife. We no longer can
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: have a system that protects a power and a privilege
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: that puts the pain and lives of armed officers over
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: black people. We cannot have a protect system that contain contain,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: that contains to that continues to reign harm and terror.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: She then went out and issued a written statement reaffirming
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: what she said, ranting into the megaphone, Can you imagine
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: this as your governor when you have a situation that
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: demands calm to stop something from exploding out of control
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: like George Floyd produced all these riots. Instead, we'll have
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: governor hang out there undercutting the law enforcement of the
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: state and immediately judging them to be executioners before an
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: investigation is even launched. Interestingly, none of the other Democrat
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: candidates for governor has gone as far as her, but
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: not one of them has criticized her. This is the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: thing with the radicals and the Democratic Party. They are
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: always free from criticism from other Democrats. All you'll get is,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: well you they're not is she's not electable. Because of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: how she's not electable, they will not criticize her. By contrast,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the Republican candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany properly called for
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: a full investigation and transparency, the kind of thing that
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: you would think most people who are saying would be
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: able to agree with. Because this situation was not an
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: obvious case of being an execution. Let's imagine it was worse.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Let's imagine, for example, Rurie's had no weapon, and let's
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: imagine he was They had gotten him under control, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: then he was shot. We would have seen riots and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: burning down the streets. It would have been George Floyd
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: all over again. Who benefits from that? Well, as I said,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: we didn't have that, Imagine if we did, and imagine
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: hang was the governor when you had that? When Minnesota burned,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Waltz the governor there didn't do anything about it, but
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: he didn't add to it by calling anything an execution.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: To my knowledge, it was the mayor, Jacob Fry who
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: was the most extreme in his comments, how do you
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: like to be a cop? They always show these like
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: another thing you see on YouTube, there's like these police impersonators.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Apparently that's a thing. I swear because I watch YouTube
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: now all the time. You start to draw the You
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: have to understand that the people who are like on
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: YouTube doing weird things are just a small percentage of
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the population, but because they're the ones you always see
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, you start thinking the entire world is completely crazy.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, again, what an odd psychotic kind of
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: thing to be. I'm not a cop, but I want
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: to pretend I'm a cop and go out in public,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of we're a uniform that looks like
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: a police rig up your car with a bunch of
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: lights that make it look like squad cars, and then
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: they're like they'll they'll pull people over and all this
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: weird Why they want to be police officers, It's just
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: beyond me. Every time you go on a domestic call,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: likely at least one of the people, and often both
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: are completely out of control with their tempers and not rational.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Anytime you come upon a suspect who has an outstanding
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: felony warrant, felony warrant means they'd be taken into custody
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: if the felony warrant is for something serious and they're
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: pro in probation. It may mean that they're back, going
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: back to prison. Every single time you have to think
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: about is this guy going to try to kill me
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: to escape this? And many times they do. You have
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: all manner of abuse that are hurled at you simply
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: because you're in uniform. Remember Wahwatosa, the lefties there had
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: a problem with one cop officer mensa, so they protested
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: the entire police department. We have those riots on the
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: streets in which they confronted hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: of them at seventy six in the North screaming obscenities
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: in the face of all the police officers who had
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: to just stand there and take it. You want to
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be a cop, and now here you are and flower
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: child Madison once again, Corey rereases out on the street
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: and once again he's starting crap up, and this time
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: he's got a knife. You make a decision right or wrong,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: and even if you're exana right in your life may
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: be ruined. The officer's name is going to be out there.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I just can't you imagine it? And seriously, who backs
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: them up? Now? Sometimes as they say police as an
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: institution of their own worst enemy. A lot of cops
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: carry they have a swagger about them. When I've talked
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to cops, I don't know that as many current cops
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: as I did when I was younger. When people my
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: age are cops. There's nobody my age as a police
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: officer now, unless unless they have the worst retirement plan
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: known to man. Most of them retire in their fifties.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: But they would tell me, look, you have to present
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: an error of intimidation to bring the suspect, so the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: suspect knows not to start anything up in the first place.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: So when they walk over to the car, you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: when they're pulling you over, you have to come over
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: with a sense of authority, which is why they law
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: had ask the condescending question. So any reason you were
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: driving so fast? I'll shut up. So these things do
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: tend to hack people off. So you add to that
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: just the era that some police officers put off a
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: sense of arrogance. And again I understand what they do.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: And then all the lefties, you just hate them because
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: they can't stand any notion that we're supposed to enforce
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the law or follow rules in a society, criticized, criticized, criticized, criticized,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: And then when a controversy comes up, no better than
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a doubt is given, just instead a rage turned against you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: And as I say, who defends him? The one side,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the Republicans aren't going to defend you yet, they're gonna say,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: we're gonna need to have an investigation. I remember Kenosha
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Similar situation, I guess, although even less
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: clear video. Guy who's in a bad custody situation and
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: as a warrant tries to take off from police while
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: abducting a child who's in the backseat of the car.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Police try to stop him. He shot, and he wasn't killed.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: He was badly wounded. It was paralyzed. The shooting was
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: ultimately investigated by a special prosecutor neighboring DA and by
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: the way, a very liberal DA who hired one of
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: the most liberal experts on policing in America, another former
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: police chief of Madison, not the one that was there
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: when I was there at Nobelray Noble Rays. He may
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: be the most liberal police chief of the history being
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: police chiefs. The former police chief of Madison. They hired
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: him to investigate the Kenosha situation. He ruled and justified
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the Kenosha DA who oversaw the case. Excuse me the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: written Yeah. The Kenosha DA over took the report from
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: his expert that he hired, and he ruled the shooting
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to be justified. And I think all of the evidence
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: was that it was justified. You can't allow a guy
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: with a warrant to abduct a child, to particular the
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: guy who's out of control and was abusive toward the
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: woman whose house he was at. But the initial reaction
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: they burned Kenosha for three days. They might still be
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: burning Kenosha, had Kyle written, who has not come to Kenosha.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: They attempted to kill him, he shot back. He was
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: exonerated for his actions as well. In that instance, you
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: had nobody willing to defend the police there and addled
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: governor of Wisconsin choosing not to protect the city and
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: the city burned. It was only a year after George Floyd.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: You could have seen it coming from a mile away.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: In the immediate aftermath of that. Did anybody defend the police?
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I remember that story. Nobody did. You even had a
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Republican candidate for governor to do her best. Francesca hawng invitation.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Rebecca Clayfish came out and criticized the police. I think,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: by the way, had she not done that, she would
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: have beaten Tim Michaels. A year later in the election
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: for governor. People remembered her for judging of the case.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: I think she wishes that she hadn't done it. Nobody
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: defends the police, nobody gives them the benef of the doubt.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to let me turn my attention into
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: another story connected with the governor's election. All right, So
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: here's Francesca hang sailing to be the Democratic nominee for governor.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: She might be helped by calling the police executioners, because
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you know, there's still five Democrats in that race. You
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: can win the thing with thirty percent. Clearly, at least
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: thirty percent of the party are Marxist cop haters, and
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: she's getting no heat from her own party for it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: You have several other Democrats running. They've tried to anoint
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, who's doing so badly
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: he dropped out of the race and got back in
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: the race because the other candidate, the anointed Sera Rodriguez imploded.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: One of the guys hanging in the race is Joel
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Brennan aka the White Guy. Joel Brennan is the head
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Greater Milwaukee Committee, worked in
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the Evers administration. Before that, he ran Discovery World. He's
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: been involved in democratic politics and government his whole life.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: He's a Democrat, He's a liberal, but he's the least
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: radical of the Budge. He's been campaigning on the premise that, hey,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I could win. It's going to be a
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: democratic year, and I'm not a comedie or a nut
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: like these other people over there. I could win. So
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: he runs an ad and he criticizes the front runners.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Who are the front runners Princess ha Hang, who we mentioned,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor who's got a million
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: skeletons in his closet and has proven he can't win
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: a statewide election, and David Crowley, the county executive. Also
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: in the race is killed de Royce, who's sitting around
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: two percent of the vote. She's a big lefty from Madison,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: but she's not lefty enough. So Francesco Hang is like,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: not only laughter. She's like laughter twenty seven times. So
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Brennan runs an ad saying these top three they can't win.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Honk can't win because of all the honksuff Barnes can't
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: win because the little Barnes said. Crawley can't win. He
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: was a proven loser. You alread dropped out of the race.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: So what happens story here on js online. Brennan faces
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: backlash from party for ad that omits white opponents. They're
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: calling Brennan a racist because all the candidates he criticized
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: are people of color. Why didn't you include the white guy? Well,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing the reason he didn't include the white woman. Rather,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: he didn't include kill the races, because kill the rice
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: is dead in the water. She's going nowhere. He's criticizing
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: the ones that are ahead of him, who happened to
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: be an Asian American woman and two African American men.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Now here's why Brennan opens himself up to this. First
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: of all, all the Democrats think about our groups, Well,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: this is a black mail. This is another African American male,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: this is the woman. They're always in these groups. So
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Brennan becomes the white guy because Brennan will not get out,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: and frankly, I don't know why he doesn't do it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you if Brennan wanted to get him self attention,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And right now, Joel Brennan sitting there, he's down there
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: five percent of the polls too, because nobody's paying any
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: attention to him, But he refuses to drop out of
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the race. If he wants people to pay attention to him,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: he has to do something that will get people to
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: pay attention to him. That sounds redundant, but it's not.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: How do you get people to pay attention to you?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Do something that people pay attention to Like, how about
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: get up there and call out Hang for being a Marxist.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I'm Joel Brennan. I'm traditional Democrat. I believe in this,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: that or the other thing. Francesca Hang is a Marxist.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not a Marxist, and the Democratic Party is not Marxist.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: The Democratic Party led the fight against communism. Yes, we
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: believe in social justice, but we're not socialists and we're
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: certainly not Marxists. None of them are willing to do that. Instead,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: he's babbling around unelectable, but never explains why they're unelectable
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: because they're terrified of calling out Marxists for being Marxist.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: As they say, the way I see it, Hong probably
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: wins this single. It's too early to tell exactly how
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: our executioners sawing thing plays out. Play on words, not
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: gonna explain it. You can't knock somebody be out for
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: being too extreme without attacking that person for being extreme.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Let me move to the story another story about Democrats.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: The twenty twenty eight presidential election is closer than you think.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: We're in July. In seventeen, the first primary occurs, and
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: eighteen months the normal calendar of the Iowa caucuses, New
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Hampshire Primary, South Carolina, Nevada, the Democrats are not going
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: to use. They made the decision over the weekend that
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Iowa and New Hampshire will not go first. South Carolina
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: is going to go first. Any procedure that is held
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: in either of those states prior to that, the Democrats
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: will not seat their delegates. So Iowa can hold the
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: caucus in New Hampshire, can hold the primary before South Carolina,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: but the Democrats will not recognize those votes in terms
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: of delegates for their convention. They were instead putting up
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: a schedule in which South Carolina will go first. Now
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: you may wonder why first of all South Carolina is
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it's the most Republican state
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: in the country, but it's in the top ten. Both
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: US senators from South Carolina Republicans. The governors are Republican.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: The Republicans that carried South Carolina and the presidential elections
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: for over forty years extremely republican state. Why would the
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Democrats want a Republican state to be the first one
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: to pick their nominee for president. Well, here's why. The
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Democrats in South Carolina, who are a minority, the majority
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: of that minority are African American. South Carolina, of course,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: is a large African American population, and the vast majority
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: of them are Democrats. But that's like the entirety of
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: their party. Iowa and New Hampshire are two of the
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: whitest states in the nation. The Democrats made the decision
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: that they want a state in which the majority of
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: the voters are African American to be the one to
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: choose the dominie. While South Carolina is a conservative state,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the Democrats there in the minority because of their being
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: African American are rather leftist. Some believe that this is
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: a major victory for Kamala Harris, who has suggested in
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: the past that she's African American, which she's not. One
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: can argue as to whether or not she's black. She's
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: of mixed race, but none of it is from Africa, Jamaican,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: an Indian, but has tried to present herself as a
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: woman of color. Alexandria Cassio Cartes is Latino. The belief
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: is that heros would do better in a state of
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: black voters than AOC would be, given that AOC's appeal
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: is overwhelmingly strowing among affluent whites, a group that Kamala
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: hasn't particularly appealed well with. The bigger problem here is
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: if both parties now set up their own schedules, how
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: much of a me is this going to be? Because
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: elections are run by the government. In Wisconsin, for example,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: our presidential primary is put in place by the state
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin. Those dates are set by state law. So
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: if the political parties decide to set up their own
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: separate dates, how do you hold an election that isn't
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: authorized by the state. You're essentially trying to force states
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: to move the election days to come up with the
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: schedule that you've created now. I don't even know if
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: it was necessary to do this. The last time that
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: the Democrats picked an actual candidate for president, they didn't
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: pick one. In twenty twenty four, Biden dropped out after
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: the primaries and they just handed it off Takama. It
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: was in twenty twenty Biden got annihilated in Iowa, he
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: got annihilated in Nevada, and he got annihilated in New Hampshire.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: All of those that occurred when he went to South
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Carolina where he won big, and when he won big
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina, it was instantly over. So you don't
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: even have to put South Carolina first to make it
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: the decisive state. Nonetheless, they have. So what it does
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: mean is, and remember you're going to have both parties
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: with open races for the presidency. Trump is term limited
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: out desprite what he's sometimes hintsat. So you can have
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a Republican race for the presidency and a Democratic race
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: of the presidency. But you may have some of these
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: elections not occur on the same date or have the
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: same importance. Take the New Hampshire primary as an example.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: If they still hold it on the same date that
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: they do, but the Democrats don't count the delegates. Does
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: that mean that New Hampshire Democrats will vote in the
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Republican primary because the Democratic primary is meaning. Nobody knows
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: the answer to any of those things. But the Democrats
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: have created this mess as they have created just about
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: all of the messages that we have. You're listening to
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Interesting ruckus going on in Washington County for those of
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: you not from Wisconsin. Washington County is to the northwest
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee, growing area in terms of residential and economic
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: development communities like Germantown, Slinger, West Bend, so on. Very
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Republican county. It's one of those counties, however, in which
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: there isn't a single dominant city. For example, Racing County,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: the biggest city is city. Say Kenosha County, biggest city
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: is City of Kenosha. Even in Milwaukee County, biggest city
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: is the city is the City of Milwaukee. Waukeshaw County, however,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: city of Waukeshaw is in there, but there's Brookfield. The
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Berlin Monominee falls all of the kind of walk all
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: these communities of rather large sized Nope, community dominates in
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Washington County. West Bend is I think it might still
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: be the biggest city, but Germantown's pretty big, slinger in
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: the area around there is sort of growing. So it's
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: a community in a county of all these different individual communities.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: One of the biggest issues confronting local governments in the
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: state of Wisconsin right now is EMS funding. It's a
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: problem everywhere. There are a lot of reasons for the problem,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: lots of them. One of them is the whole area
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: of EMS when it was created is just it was
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: done terribly. EMS was generally put under fire departments because
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: when the whole area of EMS was created, fire departments
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: mostly fought fires and would occasionally ran ambulance calls. Now
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: there's no fires, but there's ambulance calls all the time.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: So you have firefighter paramedics, and you've got fire departments
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: that are essentially ambulance services and first responders that don't
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: really fight fires, and the funding mechanism for these first
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: responder systems simply isn't in place, and there are more
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: calls than ever. There's a million reasons why there are
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: more calls. One of them is the aging population, the
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: baby boomers. Is just going to be more heart attacks
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: and more people falling when such a high percentage of
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: the population is over the age of seventy. Secondly, the
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: ODES are out of control. None of these things are
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: going to reverse themselves. Are just just they're way more
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: EMS calls for emergency services, not fire, but the health
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: related than there were years ago. While they can build
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: back for insurance and many of these, it never recoups
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: the cost of operating the service. Communities have looked at
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: creating taxes to pay for EMS services. They look to
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: the state to give them more money, but the numbers
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: never add up. In Washington County, Josh Shuman, the county executive,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: has proposed the creation of a tax. It would amount
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: to about fifty one dollars a person. It would be
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: a county EMS fee. The county would then coordinate EMS services,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: but would not replace the individual departments, So what it
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: would be would be an attempt by the how need
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: to raise more money for EMS to provide some relief
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: for the local communities. The idea has created a tremendous
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: opposition with some communities saying they don't want any part
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: of it. Germantown has voted, for example, not to sign
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: a statement of support for this. Germantown's saying, look, we
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: don't want to be part of any county anything, so
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: we don't like the idea of being tax for something
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: that we won't get any benefit from. Obviously, in order
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: to make this work, they have to tax everyone in
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: the county. The county can't create a tax that this
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: city pays and this one doesn't pay. So some of
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: the communities are saying, we don't want to be part
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: of the thing, so we're not going to support creating
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: this tax when we won't get any of the benefits
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: from it. There is no good answer here. I praise
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Shauman for trying to come up with some sort of
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: solution to this problem of EMS funding, But to me,
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: there's one fundamental problem here. You have all of these
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: individual departments all providing the same service. I live four
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: months of the year in Miami Dade County. I won't
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: say that anybody's figured this problem. Won't, but they figured
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: it out better than almost any of them. Miami Dade
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: County has a county wide EMS service. Not every community
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: is in it, but almost all of them are. For
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: some reason, Miami Beach goes it alone. There's a geographic
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: reason there getting over get over the infra coastal and
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: the causeway and all of that. But most communities are
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: part of it. There's seventy one communities that are in
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: the county EMS, so they have stations all over. So
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: it means, for example, the little community that I live
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: in that has about eight thousand people, they don't have
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: to have their own fire department because they have the
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: county EMS. But who has a fire station right into
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: the community, So you don't have ninety seven thousand chiefs
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: and all of the overlap of administration. You can get
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: rid of all of the chiefs and simply have one
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: department and stage the station on the squads. And you
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: also don't have to have fire departments everywhere. There's an
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: ambulance service, which many of our local communities now have
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: because the fire departments run this. In Milwaukee, we still
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: have the absurdity on an ambulance call a fire truck response.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: You'll see the ambulance coming and right behind it, here's
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: a big hooking ladder truck. It ain't you truck? So
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: one of the solutions would be to simply have all
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: counties take over ems. So you get rid of the
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Germantown ems, you give it, you give it to the
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: slinger E ms, to westpend ems. It It's just it
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: never happens because that means all these chiefs lose their jobs,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: all these fiefdoms fall apart. But we clearly don't need
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: to have a different department for all of these different
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: communities over there, because you end up buying way more
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: equipment and way more staffing than you would otherwise need.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: But I think that that problem is just built into this.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: So Schulman made the mistake of trying to solve this problem,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: and all these going end up doing is hacking everybody
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: off because there is no solution that anybody is going
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: to propose that you're going to get everybody to go
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: along with and agree with. Now to the Marty Brooks story.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Marty Brooks is the guy who ran the convention Center
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, which we call the Baird Center, which, by
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the way, nobody knows. Nobody knows that because nobody ever
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: refers to the Convention Center even as the Convention Center,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: because other than the Republican National Convention in twenty twenty four.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Nobody can name a convention that's held there, which he
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: isn't even really, you know, if you're from town, how
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: do you know who's here for a convention? Really? Like
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Northwestern Mutual just had its agents thing last week. Ten
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: thousand people were running around you easy to spot if
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: you're in downtown Milwaukee. There's something about life insurance agents
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: or financial planners, that's what they call themselves, that make
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: themselves stick out like store thumbs. Anyway, Baird Center Marty Brooks,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: he got himself fired. This all started when he was
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: accused by a member of his board, who happens to
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: be the president of Miwaukee Common Council. Jose Perez Paris
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: said Brooks pinched him in the butt. Brooks adamantly denied it.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: All right, this is where the bad stuff starts. Brooks,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: like all convention center heads, wants to expand his empire.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: So he wants to tear it down the arena and
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: tear it down the Miller High Life Theater so he
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: can expand the convention Center. So he commissions a study
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: to come back and tell him you how to do this.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: The problem is he never cleared this with his board,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: and some of the members of the board are people
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: who operate other hotels, so he wants to tear it
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: down these two facilities so he can put up a
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: subsidized convention center hotel. So they got on him, what
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: are you doing commissioning a study when we didn't authorize
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: you to commission a study. You're just the hired hand here.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: We're the board that runs a dam thing. So the
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: decided they're going to get rid of him. And then
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: when they get rid of him, they said, okay, you know,
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: we need some We need cause here to fire him
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: so we don't have to pay him off. And he
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: was not willing to play ball and negotiate his departure
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: and get like negotiated Severn. So they fire him for
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: cause because they dug in and they found that he
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: was spending convention center money on himself and he was
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: making political contributions on the convention Center credit card, which,
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: by the way, is a violation of federal law. I,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: for example, not that our chiefs gate of a company
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: would ever do this, But if I gave say one
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars to Tom Tiffany, I can't have iHeartMedia reimbts
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: me even if they supported Tiffany. Of course they're neutral.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: You can't do that a conservative company, just say company X.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Let's imagine a real right wing boss. He can't have
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: all of his employees max out and give to a
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: political candidate saying I'll just give you the money and
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: reimburse you. It's violation of the federal law. Well, they didn't
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: know he was doing it because he was just doing
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: it off of the credit card. He wanted to suck
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: up to these politicians, but it was too cheap to
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: do it with his own money. Anyways, they fired him,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: So now Marty Brooks is fighting his firing. There's a
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: story about this by Tom Dake and on JS online
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: in which he comes up with a filing and pries
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: to explain himself. I'm going to quote portions of this
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: because it gets to be rather hilarious, including how he
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: justifies using convention center money to buy two two thousand
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: dollars pairs of shoes. I once told it myself on
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: this show and talked about an insanely expensive pair of
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: shoes that I bought when I was in Florida, like
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: five years ago. It's in Florida, Milwaukee. It was out
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: of Nords Gums. It was one of the other And
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: I told the story to make fun of myself because
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: I could not believe that I spent that much money
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: on a pair of shoes. Nonetheless, I did it. I
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: was not in four figures. Brooks bought two thousand dollars
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: pairs of shoes and charged them to the convention center.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Here's the good part. One of them was for his aid,
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: who's a woman. Now. I don't think there was any
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: kind of romantic thing going on here because I remember all.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: This is also the guy that was accused of pinching
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: the butt of Jose Perez. Nonetheless, these are the things
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: that they cited when they fired him. So in fighting
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: the firing, he's got to come up with an explanation
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: for this. So let's dive into Tom diakins rather humorless
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: report of this. The board says Brooks used district credit
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: cards to make political contributions and other inappropriate charges, including
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: two pairs of luxury shoes, expensive restaurant meals at a
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee athletic club membership. Brooks said the campaign contributions totally
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: from around five thousand dollars were a sincere but misguided
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: attempt to support local officials such as County Executive David Crowley,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Mayor Cavalier Johnson, and Common Council President Jose Perez. That's
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: kind of amusing. One of the guys that he gave
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: the illegal campaign contribution to was the guy that he
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: went on to either pinch in the butt, as Perez
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: allages or gets light about an attempt to pinch in
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: the butt, which is what Brook says. He says Perez
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: made the whole thing up. Anyway, he was one of
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: the people who received this, so he's saying it was
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: misguided but a sincere attempt to support local officials. It's
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: also a crime. The other charges were legitimate expenses to
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: build business relationships and other activities to benefit the district.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: He said, of the two pairs of luxury shoes, though
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: I'm diving right into the shoes. Did you read this,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: by the way, do you know that Jason, you did
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: not read this, so you have not heard. His explanation
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: is to the two two thousand dollars pairs of shoes,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: one of which went for Sarah Mayo, who was the
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: district's director of marketing. So he buys a two thousand
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: dollars pairs of shoes for himself, and then Sarah gets
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: a two thousand dollars pair of shoes. I want you
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: all and again. I used to do this in my
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: old producer Paul. Try to figure out how they're gonna
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: explain this. See, I almost never do anything bad, so
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I don't have to wheeze a lot of anything. But
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: I do think I would be a good weaseler. This, though,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: is a tough one. How do you justify using public
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: funds to buy two two thousand dollars pairs of shoes?
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get, okay, you know, I got to
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: be out there in public. I what you know what
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: person in public life, though, doesn't have to you know,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: look good in public? I mean, but how do you
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: come up with the two thousand dollars? Well, let's get
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: into the explanation of the two pairs of luxury shoes
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: from French design designer brand Christian la Bouton. I have
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: a fashionable girlfriend. I don't have to ask her if
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: that's a big deal. But I've never heard of him.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: You've never heard of him? Have you? You've heard that name?
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: You're ahead of me. The last one I remember was
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: the one that the sex and the city girls all
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: wear their shoes. Manolo Blancos or whatever his name was.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: That was the last shoe designer that I had heard of.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Brooks bought one pair for himself and one for Sarah Mayo,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: then the district's vice president of marketing, who was recovering
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: from surgery. Brooks and Mayo wore the shoes, which cost
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: a total, oh, two thousand dollars total. So they're one
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: thousand apiece, okay for our presentation about Baird Center's expansion,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: according to his written response of the district, So they
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: couldn't present their report about the expansion unless they both
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: had these new thousand dollars pairs of shoes. A January
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: report by consulting firm Hundon Partners, which Brooks hired, said
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee is losing inventions to competing cities because it doesn't
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: have enough room hotel rooms tied to Bird Center. Critics
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: said the hundred report is flawed, no kidding, and that
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: new hotel would hurt other hotels competing in a weak market.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Brooks said some board members, including hotel operators Greg Marcus
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: and Mark Flaherty were unhappy about the report, which The
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee Journal Senten the first reported on. In September, a
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: district board committee studied the report and recommended it reallyconsidered
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: developing the hotel as a long term strategic option, but
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: the board at its May fifteenth meeting declined to vote
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: on whether to formally adopt the recommendation. Brooks said some
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: board members originally hoped to fire him by using a
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: claim last fall by Perez that Brooks pinched his butt,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: which Brooks denied doing. What better way is that it
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: discredit me than make such a serious and damning accusation. Well,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I would say there are better ways to discredit you
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: than that. Secondly, that's Perez putting himself out there on
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: the line. Okay, you need to get we need to
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: get rid of this guy, Perez. How are we going
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: to Don't worry I'm gonna claim he pinched me in
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: the ass. I mean, I think if some guy did
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: pinch me in the butt, I would be hesitant to
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: point that out because I don't want anybody to know
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: that a guy pinned even it was against my way anyway.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: So he said, that's why they brought this up. They
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: were trying to get rid of me all along. So
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Perez made this up about me pitching his butt. That
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: firing faultered, Brooks said. After Milwaukee police investigated the claim
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: and chose not to pursue a criminal charge. Itistic's internal
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: investigation and of March and again there was no charge.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: As a total, he said, he said thing, how do
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: you prove that he pinched him of the butt? Perez
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: said he did. There was no cameras here. Again, I'm
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: for cameras everywhere we want it out. Despite this, two
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: investigations and no charges filed, my reputation was europically be
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: harmed because of this false allegation of sexual assault. Brook
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: said he was told March twenty six that the district
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: might would be firing him. That was two days after
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: the board met and closed session to discuss the butt
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: pinch investigation. After Brooks declined to take a lower severance fee,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: they chose to fire him. And how he brings up
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: these I mean, I don't think he has a leg
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: to stand on. I think he's lucky that they don't
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: refer him on to criminal for criminal charges for making
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: campaign contributions using taxpayer money, which is a violation of
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: federal law. I'm going to hold this segment until we
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  Speaker 2: come back after the break. You're listening to the Mark
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I paused
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: and I moved the segment that I was going to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: do a moment ago into this segment because the subjects
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: are so related that I wanted to do them in tandem.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: They are two separate allegations of cover ups, completely different topics,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: but there's a common denominator in one of them. First
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: of all, the Trump administration is to classified documents pertaining
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: to the nineteen ninety five explosion of TWA Flight eight hundred.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: Now this is been all over social media, so some
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: of you may be aware of it. For those of
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: you who don't remember, TWA Flight eight hundred had just
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: taken off from Kennedy Airport in New York and was
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: flying to Europe and it blew up. Everybody aboard was killed.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: There was never an explanation offered as to what happened. However,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: numerous eyewitnesses. You know, Kennedy Airport is on the southern
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: portion of Long Island, so the plane is taking off
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: and it's skimming along the south shore, of Long Island,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: which is a long island. Zillions of people live along there,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: and many witnesses reported that they saw something that appeared
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: to be a missile launching in the air and hit
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: the plane. Nothing ever came of that allegation. Now government
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: reports are classified, and we find that the FBI headquarters
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: in Washington had received faxes from Cairo, Egypt, claiming credit
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: for the takedown of Flow eight hundred. The FBI did
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: nothing with those faxes and it was never pursued. This
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: was in ninety five. Clinton apparently did not want and
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: his administration did not want to poke into whether or
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: not there was a Middle Eastern act of terrorism that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: killed everybody aboard that jet. We now know that in
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: addition to all of these eyewitness reports which were just
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: as scouted that and again people came kind of for
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: things that they may not be responsible for. But there
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: were two separate factses that came into FBI headquarters from
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Cairo from a radical group that was claiming credit for
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: bringing down that flight. Only thirty years later. Now are
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: we learning this because the Clinton administration covered it up.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Second story over the weekend, the contents of Anthony Fauci's
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: diary were revealed. The diary consists of filings that Fauci
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: was making during the period of COVID. Everything that Fauci
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: wrote is exactly everything. Yet you would think Fauci would
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: be writing, for example, if you think Fougi is an
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: egomaniacal piece of crap, you'd be right. If you think
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: Fauci sucked up to the media and kissed high rear ends,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: you'd be right. So these things have been released, They've
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: been reported on by Fox, and they are all over
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: the Internet. Social media is quoting these things right and left. However,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: as of this morning, according to Fox News, here's who
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: has not reported a war worried about the Fauci diaries, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: and MS NOW. Senator Ran Paul, who is a longtime
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: critic of Fauci and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: said the journal's chronicle Fauci's day to day role during
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: the COVID nineteen crisis, through conversations with President Donald Trump,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: governors and world leaders, media appearances, and his personal observations
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: as the pandemic and folded in twenty twenty this on
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Fox Newsci Paul, a longtime Fauci, critic who frequently clashed
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: him over federal response and of the origins of the virus,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: made the diaries public as part of the committee's ongoing
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: oversight investigation. The diary and priests exploded on social media,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: but appeared to have been ignored by the mainstream media.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: And they go on and then list all of the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: news out that have not covered some of the things
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: that Fauci wrote. CNN's on air Blackhawk came despite anchor
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: Jake Tapper appearing repeatedly throughout the private diary in priest,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: as Fauci documented phone calls, text exchanges and dinners at
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: the tappers Washington home amid their growing friendship. So we
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: learn from the diaries that Fauci was hanging out and
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: going to dinner at Tapper's house all the time. That's
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: something we didn't know before, but it might explain the
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: uncritical reporting from the media of Fauci. Fauci wrote that
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Tapper privately checked to make sure a CNN interview hadn't
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: caused problems with the White House when the Atlantics Peter
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: Nicholas suggested Fauci had been humiliated over a canceled Tapper interview.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: Fauci fired back in his in his diary F You Peter.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: After Fauci's heated exchange with Ohio Republican Jim Jordan Congress
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: and Jim Jordan in April of twenty twenty one, Fauci
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: wrote that CNN's Dana Bosh texted him telling him he
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: was a better man, and relaying the fellow CNN anchor
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Wolf Flitzer had joked, no one would have blamed Fauci
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: if he had told Jordan to go bleep himself. Again,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: this is in the diary that Dana Bash had said that,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: and wilf Flitzer had said that Fox News's chief political
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: analyst Brit Hume took notice of the media blackout. This
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: is not going getting the coverage it deserves, and he
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: goes on to explain why now, why isn't the media
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: covering this? Well, let's go back to the premise. The
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: media has a vested interest in propping up Fauci now
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: because they've propped up Fauci then. But secondly, one of
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: the things these diary entries reveal is how tight Fauci
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: was with so many in the media, which explains why
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: they were propping him up. In the first place. All right, now,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: this they held the rescheduled on Friday night, They held
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: the rescheduled White House Correspondence Dinner. That was the dinner
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: that was to be held a few weeks ago. Guy
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: came of the gun blazing fire. He was ended up
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: being arrested, so they called the event off that night,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: but they did reschedule it and they held it on
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: Friday night. For those of you who don't know what
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: this thing is, it's been going on forever and ever
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: and ever, and a lot of state governments have them
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: as well, where the media puts on an event and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: politicians show up and then the head politician gets to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: talk in Trump wasn't attending, hadn't attended several of them
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: because he and the media hate one another. He was
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: at the event several weeks ago that got called off,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: and he was at it on Friday night and Prumb
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: made some comments. He spoke for an hour, and he
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: also told some jokes. I'm gonna quote one of the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: jokes here. And this is this great dilemma as too,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: should you explain a joke for people who don't get
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: the joke. See, you know, I think this is really funny,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: but I acknowledge that if you don't get it, you
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: won't see what's funny about it. I've made the executive
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: decision here to leave you on your own. This joke
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: will not be explained. So if you don't get it,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: you're just stuck. You're gonna have to listen to somebody
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: else's podcast to explain it. So this is Trump, A
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: finally been toppled. Their former leader has been removed, and
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: they're now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: But I, for one, wish Barry Weiss all the best
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: at CBS News. No, I think this is very funny,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: but I acknowledge some of you might not get any
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: of it. And out of this, they held the Brickyard
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: Race yesterday. The Brickyard Race is the NASCAR race that
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: they hold at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race is
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: a mess. When it started, it was really really big
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: because the Indianapolis Motor Speedway basically only ever ran the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Indy five hundred, which is for a different type of car,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: and a number of years ago they decided NASCAR decided
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: to run a race there, and it became initially not
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: only as big a deal, it might have been an
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: even bigger deal than the Indy five hundred. The track
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: seats four hundred thousand people, it's two and a half miles.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: You can't see across the whole track with this incredible
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: amount of seating. It's an iconic raceway, and so on.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: Over the years, the race has declined and declined and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: declined in popularity. I watched much of it yesterday in
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: the same way that I watched just about everything else.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Halfway paying attention. There's nobody there. Now, there are actually
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of people there, but there was nobody there.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: Let me explain. When you have four hundred thousand seats
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: and see at this track, the seating goes almost all
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: the way around the half of the track, the third turn,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: the fourth turn, then the straightaway where the main grand
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: sand is, the first turn, and then kind of the
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: runway up into turn two. They're seating all there, and
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: all of those seats were empty, like a few scattered
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: people in there. The people that were there were all
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: in like the main grand stand on the front stretch,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: but all these other seats and you know, they're showing
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: on the canvas. Its just empty seat, empty seat, empty seat,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: empty seat, empty seat. All you were seeing were empty seats.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: As it turns out, seventy thousand people were there. Now,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: seventy thousand for a NASCAR race is actually huge. They
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: don't draw anywhere near that for most of their races.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: But when only seventy thousand people are at a four
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand seat track, it appears to be a disaster.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: And when they started running the Brickyard, they were drawing
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: four hundred thousand. Secondly, the track's too narrow. It works
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: for indy cars, which are like long narrow kind of
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: they're like knives on wheels, but for a regular old
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: stock car it doesn't work. Also, that particular track does
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: not have multiple racing grooms. When indy cars they go
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: around one another, kind of like slingshotting. You don't have
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: cars driving side to side for a mile and a
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: half onto the turn the way stock cards often do.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: There's only one racing groove an indie, meaning it's just
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: single file racing and there's almost no passing. The result
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: of this is the race was like a lot of
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: stock car races were in the past, where the last
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: sixty laps there were no recks, no yellow flags. It
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: was just a parade. And there's a car that's be
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: ahead of the second place car, and behead of the
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: third place car, and then seconds back to the fourth
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: place car. The leader of the race led I think
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: the last forty or fifty laps and nobody could pass
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: anybody down the stretch and the knock and the race
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: therefore is that it was boring, which it sort of is,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: and it's just not conducive to the way NASCAR runs
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: races anymore, and they need to give it up, but
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: they haven't. However, that's not the entire reason I bring
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: this up. The guy who run the race, won the
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: race is named Corey Heim. He's twenty four. He's the
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: youngest guy to win a major jor NASCAR race. Is
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: Jeff Gordon. What's interesting about him is he doesn't even
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: have a full time ride. He drives for the team
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. The team is
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: called twenty three to eleven. Do you have to explain
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: that now? I'm not explaining anything today. Michael Jordan's number
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: was twenty three. Denny Hamlin's car is eleven. They co
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: owned the team. Corey Heim isn't even a full time driver.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of guys who get rides with
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: teams in which you might ride for say eight races
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: a year, and put somebody else in the car for
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: eight races a year. In other words, you're not competing
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: for the championship, but we're working you in to build
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: you some experience and see whether or not you're good
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: enough to get a full ride next year. Sometimes the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: team doesn't have enough money to finance say three cars
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: in a race, they'll run two most weeks, and they'll
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: add a third the number of reasons why you'd be
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: a part time driver. Those guys never win. They're usually
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: kind of in the back of the pack, and usually
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: they have the weakest car of the ones that the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: team has. That the team's full time drivers get better vehicles.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Corey Heim has now won two of the last five races,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: and the two races that he won could not be
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: more different. They ran a road race road course race
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: at the Coronado Naval Base in San Diego, another stupid
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: race that is contrived by NASCAR trying to be something
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: that it isn't, and then he won the Indie Race,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: which is the ultimate oval race in which there's no
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: road course at all, So he won two completely different
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: kinds of races, did so with almost no experience and
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: well only a part time driver. He's going to be
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: a full time driver next year, but I just think
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: the great likelihood is that he's going to be a superstar.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: His team is okay, it's not one of the top teams.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: They have Bubba Wallace on there, who's the most overrated
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: driver in NASCAR. But they have another guy, Reddick, who's
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: won a lot of races this year. So I mean
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: it's a decent enough team, which explains partly him winning.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: But to win two races in five weeks when you're
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: only running a part time schedule, it's rather amazing. Here's
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: the most amazing thing. I mentioned that Denny Hamlet is
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: one of the owners of the team. Would you believe
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: that Denny Hamlin does not drive for the team he owns.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: He drives for Joe Gibbs, but he owns a separate
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: team with Michael Jordan, but doesn't drive for the team
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: that he owns. I don't, I can't even I don't
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: understand how that can possibly even be allowed. I mean,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: NASCAR's filled with conflicts of interest anyway. You know teams
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  Speaker 2: have engine sharing agreements, and also you know they have
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  Speaker 2: four drivers for a team. Often one driver is going
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  Speaker 2: to help out another driver may not be trying the
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  Speaker 2: hardest for himself to win if somebody else needs the
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  Speaker 2: points more. And sometimes a driver will block for another
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  Speaker 2: member of his team, and so on. But in this instance,
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  Speaker 2: Denny Hamlin is an owner of a team for which
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  Speaker 2: he does not drive. He drives for a separate team.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Gibbs is a bigger team than twenty three to
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  Speaker 2: eleven and probably more money behind it's so he probably
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  Speaker 2: wants to drive with them rather than his own team.
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  Speaker 2: Is an odd thing, but I'm only here to report
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