Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #144: Fauci takes the 5th. Now that his lies are exposed, the disgraced Anthony Fauci won't answer ANY questions. The Tony Romo bodycam is out; Mark offers his take. And the Democrats hold their only Governor debate but don't debate at all, giving the Marxist frontrunner a free ride.
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- 0:24Speaker 2: Fauci takes the Fifth. I mean, this story is just beautiful.
- 0:30Speaker 2: First of all, it's the proof of one of my
- 0:32Speaker 2: longtime statements that the truth always comes out. It's just
- 0:37Speaker 2: that it often takes a very very long time, and
- 0:40Speaker 2: often when it does the other side, the side that
- 0:43Speaker 2: was wrong simply moves on or does it want to
- 0:47Speaker 2: share with you what that truth is. But the truth
- 0:49Speaker 2: is out. On Fauci, we have the guy that we
- 0:52Speaker 2: couldn't get to shut up ever now refusing to talk
- 0:56Speaker 2: at all. We're going to analyze his take making the
- 1:00Speaker 2: fifth Amendment of refusing answer any questions in the United
- 1:03Speaker 2: States Senate today. As we dive into today's podcast, have
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- 1:41Speaker 2: a not a lot of people were expecting Fauci to
- 1:45Speaker 2: exercise his Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination today, But
- 1:51Speaker 2: if you look back a couple of days, you could
- 1:53Speaker 2: see this coming. Senator ran Paul posted the following My
- 2:03Speaker 2: investigator investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. What
- 2:09Speaker 2: he wrote privately and what he told the country are
- 2:12Speaker 2: two different stories. Today, I'm releasing his entries from December
- 2:17Speaker 2: of twenty nineteen to December of twenty twenty two. If
- 2:21Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci lies before Congress on Wednesday, as he did
- 2:25Speaker 2: in his previous hearings, his preemptive pardon won't cover him.
- 2:32Speaker 2: That's ran Paul. So when ran Paul released the diaries,
- 2:38Speaker 2: the diaries that were turned over under subpoena, that were
- 2:41Speaker 2: kept by Anthony Fauci, these writings that he was writing
- 2:44Speaker 2: to himself, why did he do it more on than
- 2:47Speaker 2: in a moment which contradicted what he was saying in
- 2:52Speaker 2: public All through the first couple of years of COVID,
- 2:57Speaker 2: when those are released, it became a sense that Fauci
- 3:02Speaker 2: wasn't going to talk. Because Fauci has already talked repeatedly
- 3:08Speaker 2: under oath and said things that were very, very different
- 3:13Speaker 2: than what he was saying in those diaries. He can
- 3:16Speaker 2: only compound this if he lies. Furthermore, as Senator Paul
- 3:23Speaker 2: points out, the preemptive pardon that he has, it would
- 3:28Speaker 2: not cover new lies that would be told on that day.
- 3:31Speaker 2: In other words, he's given privilege for anything that he
- 3:35Speaker 2: may have talked about in the past, given his testimony,
- 3:38Speaker 2: but if he lies during the hearings now, he wouldn't
- 3:43Speaker 2: be covered at all. So clearly Fauci did not want
- 3:46Speaker 2: to have to answer. You said this, but in the
- 3:49Speaker 2: diary you knew that. Let me quote from the report
- 3:59Speaker 2: on the epic times this Doctor Anthony Fauci, on July
- 4:02Speaker 2: twenty ninth, declined to answer questions from senators following the
- 4:04Speaker 2: release of a diary he compiled of working in the government.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Although it pains me to do so because of the
- 4:09Speaker 2: respect I have for the legislative branch for government and
- 4:12Speaker 2: my decades long record of cooperating with Congress under the
- 4:15Speaker 2: advice of my attorney, I will invoke my right under
- 4:18Speaker 2: the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering
- 4:21Speaker 2: your questions. There's so much to unpack here, including all
- 4:35Speaker 2: of the things that were stated in the diary by
- 4:37Speaker 2: Fauci that contradicted the same things that Fauci was saying
- 4:42Speaker 2: aloud at the exact same time. The first thing that
- 4:46Speaker 2: I want to discuss, why did he keep a diary
- 4:51Speaker 2: and why did he tell the truth in his diary?
- 4:57Speaker 2: Now you may say that's a stupid question. Why would
- 4:59Speaker 2: you lie in your diary? Now? Obviously the first part
- 5:03Speaker 2: of the answer is Fauci never thought this thing would
- 5:07Speaker 2: see the light of day. It never dawned on him
- 5:16Speaker 2: that he, in fact wasn't as untouchable as he thought,
- 5:19Speaker 2: and as untouchable as he seemed for so many years. Obviously,
- 5:23Speaker 2: if you keep a diary, it or anything else can
- 5:26Speaker 2: be subpoened. This goes back away. But it just it's
- 5:32Speaker 2: just striking to be this is Nixon and the tapes
- 5:37Speaker 2: all over again. Richard Nixon. Why you're tapped himself? Richard Nixon,
- 5:45Speaker 2: when he was President of the United States, put up
- 5:47Speaker 2: a taping system in the Oval office of the White House,
- 5:49Speaker 2: and anything that he said to anybody, and anything anybody
- 5:51Speaker 2: said to when in the Oval office was recorded. The
- 5:55Speaker 2: tapes ended up sinking him during Watergate when during a
- 5:59Speaker 2: portion of the tapes he discussed paying hush money to
- 6:03Speaker 2: the original Watergate burglars. Once those tapes were revealed, he
- 6:06Speaker 2: was sunk. He resigned not long after that, knowing that
- 6:10Speaker 2: he was going to be impeached and probably convicted and
- 6:12Speaker 2: therefore removed. And people wanted at the time, why would Nixon,
- 6:17Speaker 2: why would anybody in politics record their own conversations? And
- 6:25Speaker 2: I think that the answer in both cases is just,
- 6:28Speaker 2: first of all, an incredible vanity, the belief that you
- 6:31Speaker 2: can do something like this and nobody's ever going to
- 6:33Speaker 2: hear it. And secondly, I think in the case of Nixon,
- 6:38Speaker 2: he wanted to have this record so that he could
- 6:40Speaker 2: go back and consult years later when he wrote his
- 6:42Speaker 2: memoirs about what an incredible statesman and leader he was.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Nixon was a pompous ass and a terrible president, despite
- 6:49Speaker 2: what some of the younger conservatives who are trying to
- 6:52Speaker 2: resurrect his image would want to tell you. So he
- 6:56Speaker 2: was going to after he left, you don't carry out
- 6:58Speaker 2: about this and carry out about that, and he would
- 7:00Speaker 2: you go back and take a look at these tapes
- 7:02Speaker 2: to refresh his memory on things. He wasn't never gonna
- 7:04Speaker 2: tell anything the truth about it, but it was there
- 7:06Speaker 2: to preserve a record for himself. Likewise, Fauci Fauci going
- 7:11Speaker 2: through COVID. I mean, he's in his element. He didn't
- 7:14Speaker 2: care that all of these people are dying, didn't care
- 7:16Speaker 2: that he's telling these lies. He didn't care that he
- 7:19Speaker 2: was the guy that funded the research at the Wuhan
- 7:22Speaker 2: lab from which the outbreak occurred. He didn't care about
- 7:26Speaker 2: any of this because he's now after years of just toiling.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Fauchi had that job for like for thirty forty years,
- 7:31Speaker 2: nobody ever knew who he was. Now everybody knows who
- 7:34Speaker 2: he is, and he is so admired. Oh and pill Fauci,
- 7:37Speaker 2: Fauci Fauci, the left and the media falling all over Fauci.
- 7:41Speaker 2: He's thinking, I'm gonna write my memoirs and I'm gonna
- 7:45Speaker 2: lay down with me, saying Fauci did all the way
- 7:47Speaker 2: through COVID. So of course he keeps his diary so
- 7:51Speaker 2: that he can go back and take a look at
- 7:53Speaker 2: his thoughts, knowing full well, that the thoughts that he
- 7:58Speaker 2: actually had, the things that he were writing his diary,
- 8:00Speaker 2: was never going to be what he was actually going
- 8:02Speaker 2: to tell anyone. As it turns out, the diary contradicts
- 8:09Speaker 2: almost everything he said on everything he wrote in the
- 8:15Speaker 2: diary early in COVID, that the best information indicates that
- 8:18Speaker 2: COVID had a zero point two to zero point three
- 8:21Speaker 2: percent mortality rate. That's not two and three percent, that's
- 8:25Speaker 2: two tens of one percent, in other words, two in
- 8:27Speaker 2: one thousand. But what he was saying publicly was that
- 8:31Speaker 2: COVID was much deadlier. We now know that COVID was
- 8:37Speaker 2: the final straw for a lot of people who were
- 8:39Speaker 2: older and already very very ill. It took people that
- 8:44Speaker 2: were approaching death and pushed them over the finish line,
- 8:50Speaker 2: and it didn't do much terrible to anybody else other
- 8:53Speaker 2: than make them somewhat sick. But Fauci was, of course
- 8:57Speaker 2: pushing all of these draconian actions he put on the
- 9:01Speaker 2: diary that he you know, he would say one thing
- 9:05Speaker 2: about lockdowns publicly and another thing in the diary, all
- 9:08Speaker 2: this stuff. So now here we are six years after
- 9:13Speaker 2: the big outbreak of COVID, and five years after we
- 9:16Speaker 2: went through the hell of twenty twenty one. We're shutdowns
- 9:19Speaker 2: and lockdowns were still partially in place, and Biden used
- 9:22Speaker 2: it as an opportunity to carpet bomb the country with
- 9:24Speaker 2: government spending that created the inflation we can't get rid of.
- 9:30Speaker 2: And we find that everything the people in the United
- 9:33Speaker 2: States were told about COVID was wrong. We were told
- 9:39Speaker 2: that lockdowns would work. Yet almost anyone who knows anything
- 9:44Speaker 2: about infectious diseases knows that it's something like this that
- 9:47Speaker 2: is easily transmittable gets out. Virtually everybody on the planet
- 9:50Speaker 2: is going to get it, and the only way we're
- 9:52Speaker 2: going to be able to fight it off and the
- 9:53Speaker 2: future is to develop natural amidity that so all of
- 9:55Speaker 2: these work. We shut down school rules, We took young
- 10:03Speaker 2: children out of school. To this day, some of them
- 10:05Speaker 2: are having a hard time interpreting speech because when they
- 10:09Speaker 2: were learning speech early on in their earliest years, people
- 10:13Speaker 2: were wearing masks, so they weren't able to pick up
- 10:15Speaker 2: on verbal cues or mouth reactions for comprehension. We had
- 10:22Speaker 2: an incredible increase in drug addiction. All of these things
- 10:25Speaker 2: that occurred because we made every wrong decision with regard
- 10:29Speaker 2: to COVID, and the guy who was telling us every
- 10:31Speaker 2: decision to make was Fauci, and he was lying about
- 10:34Speaker 2: it all along. One thing I wonder about if Fauci
- 10:43Speaker 2: had not been the guy that back toward the funding
- 10:47Speaker 2: at the Wuhan Lab. And again, for those of you
- 10:50Speaker 2: that haven't paid close attention to the story, gain of
- 10:53Speaker 2: function research was banned in the United States. Gaina function
- 10:56Speaker 2: research is the kind of research in which you take
- 10:58Speaker 2: a virus and try to turn it into another virus.
- 11:00Speaker 2: It was banned because it was thought to be too dangerous.
- 11:03Speaker 2: But Fauci and other mad scientists like him, they wanted
- 11:06Speaker 2: to create all these viruses and then they would use
- 11:08Speaker 2: this at the cover for this. Well, until we create
- 11:11Speaker 2: something like this, we don't know how we would ever
- 11:13Speaker 2: combat it. So he provided a grant to an American
- 11:16Speaker 2: nonprofit which turned around and funneled that grand to the
- 11:19Speaker 2: Wuhan Lab in China. In other words, the money was
- 11:23Speaker 2: laundered through the nonprofit. So obviously Fauci knew that he
- 11:28Speaker 2: had done that, and he knew once that COVID first
- 11:30Speaker 2: showed up and where Wuhan. Oh my god, I provided
- 11:35Speaker 2: the money for this research, and that virus that got
- 11:37Speaker 2: out of the lab. Let's imagine somebody else had provided
- 11:42Speaker 2: that money, or that it never came from the United
- 11:45Speaker 2: States government, that the Chinese themselves just funded it. In
- 11:48Speaker 2: other words, if Fauci's hands weren't dirty about COVID, it's
- 11:54Speaker 2: I think it's very possible he would have done everything differently.
- 11:58Speaker 2: All of his reactions were premise covering up the original sin.
- 12:08Speaker 2: The biggest lie that they told, now contradicted in the
- 12:11Speaker 2: diary was that the virus didn't come out of the
- 12:16Speaker 2: lab for two years. Those of us on the right
- 12:20Speaker 2: and some in Congress and some public commentators who said
- 12:24Speaker 2: it came out of the lab were called liars. We
- 12:26Speaker 2: were called fraudsters. We were spinning disinformation. We weren't experts.
- 12:30Speaker 2: We were spreading disproven lies. And the only thing that
- 12:34Speaker 2: made it disproven is a bunch of scientists that Founci
- 12:36Speaker 2: rounded up to sign a paper saying, oh, I cannot
- 12:38Speaker 2: have come out of the lab, all of whom were
- 12:40Speaker 2: co opted. Said that that was the first of what
- 12:46Speaker 2: would turn out to be many, many, many lies. The
- 12:49Speaker 2: problem there are two big problems with lying. The first
- 12:52Speaker 2: is it's hard to remember all the lies that you've
- 12:55Speaker 2: told because they're not based in fact, if you did something,
- 12:59Speaker 2: that's easier to remember then if you simply said something,
- 13:01Speaker 2: because now you have to keep track of everything that
- 13:03Speaker 2: you ever said about something. The second problem with lying
- 13:06Speaker 2: is a lie simply gets you out of the situation
- 13:10Speaker 2: you're facing right now. It often creates another problem, and
- 13:13Speaker 2: another problem, and another problem. And his lies just compounded themselves.
- 13:17Speaker 2: And for the longest time, the American media simply refused
- 13:22Speaker 2: to do what the media is supposed to do, which
- 13:24Speaker 2: is provide a skeptical look at government and try to
- 13:27Speaker 2: dig into and find out what government is telling you
- 13:29Speaker 2: is truthful. Instead, the media has instead decided to genuflect
- 13:33Speaker 2: before the altar of left discovernment. So anything that any
- 13:36Speaker 2: left discovernment does is never investigated or ever challenge that
- 13:40Speaker 2: we see in reading the diaries. There Fauci was dining
- 13:44Speaker 2: at CNN's Jake Tapper's house. Dana Bash of CNN was
- 13:48Speaker 2: exchanging text with him about how terrible was that this
- 13:51Speaker 2: Republican congressman clashed to them. They were all tight. There
- 13:55Speaker 2: were so many people that early on in this in
- 13:58Speaker 2: these first two years up Fauci that now it was
- 14:02Speaker 2: in their interest also to cover it up. There's a
- 14:06Speaker 2: story I'm going to allude to very briefly here. I
- 14:08Speaker 2: wasn't going to get to it today, but it's a
- 14:10Speaker 2: good way of analogizing this situation. The Kyle Shanahan story
- 14:14Speaker 2: in San Francisco. Kyle shanahans to San Francisco forty nine
- 14:17Speaker 2: Ers football coach. Several weeks ago he was involved in
- 14:20Speaker 2: a very bad automobile crash. Forty stitches over the eye,
- 14:26Speaker 2: multiple concussions, all banged up, and for weeks nobody knew
- 14:31Speaker 2: anything about it. It was covered up. First of all,
- 14:34Speaker 2: police responded, meaning it's a public record, and apparently a
- 14:40Speaker 2: lot of people knew about this first part. Daily newspapers
- 14:46Speaker 2: used to have reporters who would go check the police
- 14:48Speaker 2: blotter every day. Nobody does that anymore because nobody has
- 14:50Speaker 2: the staffing to do so. So there wasn't anybody who
- 14:52Speaker 2: probably went into the Palo Alta Police department and ran
- 14:55Speaker 2: through the accident reports and would have seen this name
- 14:57Speaker 2: here of Kyle Shanahan, or if anybody was it. They
- 15:00Speaker 2: don't know anything about sports and they don't know who
- 15:01Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan was, but segulate that means that nobody in
- 15:05Speaker 2: the police department, every cop must have known about this.
- 15:09Speaker 2: We're responded to U seeing in the forty nine ers
- 15:11Speaker 2: coaches in there is all he's all banged up. None
- 15:17Speaker 2: of the cops decided to leak this and tell anybody
- 15:19Speaker 2: about it. I mean, this stuff comes out all the time,
- 15:23Speaker 2: all the time, but they kept it quiet. As it
- 15:26Speaker 2: turns out, a lot of people that are these you know,
- 15:29Speaker 2: all these cable networks and websites and so on, they
- 15:33Speaker 2: know the term they use is insiders, NFL insider, NBA insider, insider, insider, insider.
- 15:39Speaker 2: A lot of these insiders knew about this and didn't
- 15:42Speaker 2: report it because they're friends of Shanahan. Well, see, that's
- 15:48Speaker 2: the thing about these insiders. A lot of these insiders,
- 15:50Speaker 2: some are full time employees, but a lot of them
- 15:52Speaker 2: have these are their part time gigs. Sometimes they're former jocks,
- 15:55Speaker 2: maybe they're reporters. Maybe they're an insider who comes on
- 15:57Speaker 2: a show Tenna and they're paid for ten hours a
- 15:59Speaker 2: week and so on. So they have divided loyalties. If
- 16:03Speaker 2: you actually are hired by somebody to be an insider,
- 16:05Speaker 2: that means you're supposed to share inside information. And the
- 16:08Speaker 2: fact that Shanahan caused a serious car wreck and he
- 16:11Speaker 2: was banged up is something you would certainly share, but
- 16:14Speaker 2: they didn't share it because they wanted to protect Shanahan. Now,
- 16:19Speaker 2: earlier this week, the Palo Alta Police finally that Palo
- 16:23Speaker 2: Alto is community up in the San Francisco Bay areas
- 16:27Speaker 2: where Stanford is. This is where the accident occurred, and
- 16:30Speaker 2: it's in the area where the forty nine ers play.
- 16:33Speaker 2: I forget the name of the city that's the forty
- 16:34Speaker 2: nine ers are in right now. It's one of those
- 16:36Speaker 2: cities down in Silicon Valley, isn't it. It's in Santa Clara. Yeah.
- 16:40Speaker 2: So anyway, the police released this report, and the report
- 16:51Speaker 2: said the crash occurred when it was head on crash
- 16:56Speaker 2: in which Shanahan was turning and he was struck by
- 16:58Speaker 2: the other vehicle. The police report came out and it
- 17:04Speaker 2: indicated that the other driver, a twenty one year old woman,
- 17:06Speaker 2: was at fault, except she wasn't at fault. The actual
- 17:11Speaker 2: investigation showed that Shanahan turned right into the car or
- 17:15Speaker 2: whatever the specifics of the situation was, and it wasn't
- 17:18Speaker 2: her fault. So Shanahan then came out and sort of
- 17:23Speaker 2: to his credit, corrected the record and said, no, it
- 17:26Speaker 2: was my fault. The report said there was no indication
- 17:29Speaker 2: of drinking. And when I first heard about this, my
- 17:32Speaker 2: first response is this thing was covered up and we
- 17:35Speaker 2: didn't hear about it because Shanahan was never drunk tested
- 17:38Speaker 2: at the time, and he was probably bombed. Why else
- 17:40Speaker 2: would there be a reason. You know, if you're involved
- 17:42Speaker 2: in a crash, that's not an embarrassing thing unless you're
- 17:46Speaker 2: doned on drugs or you're drunk or there's somebody in
- 17:48Speaker 2: the car that's not supposed to be. You know, if
- 17:50Speaker 2: I'm in a wreck, even if the wreck is something
- 17:54Speaker 2: somehow my fault because I'm careless or something, it's reported
- 17:57Speaker 2: and it's not the end of the world if that occurs.
- 17:59Speaker 2: So I figured he had to be covering something up.
- 18:01Speaker 2: But they said it was during the day and there
- 18:02Speaker 2: was no alcohol, no drugs in a system, no alcohol, nothing.
- 18:06Speaker 2: So anyway, Shanahan then came on and said no, no, I
- 18:09Speaker 2: was the one that was a fault, and the police
- 18:10Speaker 2: department then said they're correct about that. In fact, we
- 18:15Speaker 2: were wrong. There was a clerical error. This is the
- 18:18Speaker 2: most aweighted police report that the Palo Alta police is
- 18:21Speaker 2: probably released. Ever yet there was a clerical error and
- 18:25Speaker 2: they wrote it down wrong. Wouldn't this have been double
- 18:28Speaker 2: checked and triple checked and quadruple checked. Anyway, The point
- 18:30Speaker 2: that it was going to make about Fauci is so
- 18:33Speaker 2: many of these insiders who knew about this, their firstants
- 18:39Speaker 2: think is to prop up their friend and not report
- 18:42Speaker 2: the news, getting back to Fauci, somebody in the media,
- 18:46Speaker 2: somebody on the left. They were so tied to Fauci
- 18:50Speaker 2: and the narrative and so tied to attacking and debunking
- 18:55Speaker 2: anyone who was objecting or raising questions. If you objected
- 18:58Speaker 2: to masks, if you objected to the lockdowns, if you
- 19:02Speaker 2: objected to closing the churches, if you objected to the
- 19:07Speaker 2: notion that some available generic drugs might help, if you
- 19:10Speaker 2: tried to raise the point that taking vitamin D three
- 19:13Speaker 2: and curse it in and a couple of other supplements
- 19:17Speaker 2: was clearly something that would help you not get COVID
- 19:21Speaker 2: or at the very least fight it off. If you
- 19:23Speaker 2: drew any attention to the side effects that were occurring
- 19:26Speaker 2: from the vaccine, which happened very very early you were
- 19:30Speaker 2: smacked down and called a quack because Fauci was debunking
- 19:32Speaker 2: all of this. So you were the media that was
- 19:34Speaker 2: so tied to the Fauci side. So even as the
- 19:38Speaker 2: cracks started to appear and we could, you know, let's
- 19:40Speaker 2: take the side effects from the vaccine. They're not widespread,
- 19:44Speaker 2: but they clearly exist and they're still going on now.
- 19:50Speaker 2: It's still the point now that anybody who has any
- 19:52Speaker 2: kind of a heart problem thinks it's because they had
- 19:53Speaker 2: the vaccine. And it sure seems to me that people
- 19:56Speaker 2: are dropping over of heart attacks right and left now
- 19:58Speaker 2: in their forties, fifties, and sixties. Is there a link
- 20:00Speaker 2: to this or not. I don't know, but we know
- 20:02Speaker 2: that certainly some people have developed heart issues, palpitations, and
- 20:06Speaker 2: other irregularities as a result of the vaccine. It doesn't
- 20:09Speaker 2: mean that everybody got it, but some did. And when
- 20:12Speaker 2: the early reporting on the early indications of that were
- 20:15Speaker 2: coming down, it was slapped down by the media rather
- 20:18Speaker 2: than Okay, there's a downside of these things, which might
- 20:21Speaker 2: lead some people to say, well, I'm thirty five, I'm
- 20:24Speaker 2: pretty healthy. There's almost no chance at thirty five I'm
- 20:26Speaker 2: going to croak of the vaccine. Why take it? Because
- 20:29Speaker 2: we were instructed. Everybody had to have this because the
- 20:31Speaker 2: media was so tied to this story and so tied
- 20:33Speaker 2: to this narrative that they had a vested in pest
- 20:35Speaker 2: in propping up Fauci. Sen aw Fouci takes the fifth.
- 20:42Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Trump's out of office, it's now
- 20:46Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine, somehow he's called before something or another
- 20:49Speaker 2: and Trump takes the fifth. You'll never hear the end
- 20:51Speaker 2: of it. So this is a very very uncomfortable The
- 20:55Speaker 2: first of all, the story itself of the diary very
- 20:58Speaker 2: uncomfortable for the left, and it's not being heavily covered
- 21:00Speaker 2: in a lot of the mainstream media. And now he
- 21:03Speaker 2: takes the fifth, and I'm sure they're going to explue
- 21:05Speaker 2: every American has the right to take the fifth. That's right.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Every American does have the right to take the fifth.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Do you know who takes the fifth? People who do
- 21:11Speaker 2: not want to have to answer questions, often because a
- 21:17Speaker 2: answering questions means you either have to lie, which is
- 21:20Speaker 2: a crime, or tell the truth, which is to expose
- 21:23Speaker 2: the crimes that you were involved in. One other comment
- 21:35Speaker 2: on the hearing, Rand Paul the senator who's convening the hearings.
- 21:40Speaker 2: He is the biggest senator, biggest I would say, governmental
- 21:43Speaker 2: critic of any branch of government of FOCI. Rand Paul
- 21:47Speaker 2: is a libertarian type Republican senator from Kentucky, and he's
- 21:51Speaker 2: been at odds with Fouci all along. Part of it.
- 21:53Speaker 2: You know, Rand Paul's a doctor. He's he's an ophthalmologist.
- 21:59Speaker 2: Is that the right one, Yeah, optomologists. Optomologists are mds,
- 22:03Speaker 2: meaning he had training in all areas of medicine, but
- 22:07Speaker 2: his practice is specialized in treating diseases of the eye
- 22:11Speaker 2: and so on, nothing to do with in vectious diseases.
- 22:13Speaker 2: But he's still a doctor and he's carried out about
- 22:16Speaker 2: public health issues. He's also a very libertarian guy, so
- 22:19Speaker 2: he was objecting to mandates, objecting to lockdowns, ebjecting to
- 22:23Speaker 2: requirements and so on all along. And he's been bucking
- 22:26Speaker 2: heads with Fouci from the very very beginning. And he
- 22:32Speaker 2: was one of the first to be on to the
- 22:33Speaker 2: fact that FOCI was lying about the lab leak and
- 22:37Speaker 2: lying about what our role was and funding it. So
- 22:39Speaker 2: he's been after Foucie for some time. So he called
- 22:42Speaker 2: these hearings. He was the guy was It was his
- 22:46Speaker 2: committee that subpoened and got their hands of the diary.
- 22:49Speaker 2: So he's the one that's doing all of this. Okay,
- 22:51Speaker 2: they show up for the thing. You've all seen congressional
- 22:53Speaker 2: hearings in the past. By the way, they've never the
- 22:57Speaker 2: setup that they have for these hearings has not changed.
- 23:00Speaker 2: I think. Ever, you go back and you watch the
- 23:03Speaker 2: video on these things is terrible, but you can on
- 23:05Speaker 2: YouTube now watch some of the historic hearings of the past,
- 23:09Speaker 2: like some of the Joe McCarthy committee hearings are there.
- 23:13Speaker 2: The House on American Activities Committee hearings, which people who
- 23:18Speaker 2: don't know anything about history have turned into the same thing.
- 23:21Speaker 2: They think that McCarthy was responsible for the blacklist in
- 23:23Speaker 2: Hollywood at all of that stuff. McCarthy had nothing to
- 23:25Speaker 2: do with that. That was the House on American Committee
- 23:27Speaker 2: that was ended that McCarthy was after communists and the
- 23:31Speaker 2: government and the Defense Department and the army and so on. Anyway,
- 23:36Speaker 2: or a lot of the mafia hearings. So they did,
- 23:37Speaker 2: they'd all these old members of the mafia in front
- 23:40Speaker 2: of the for hearing. The hearings have always been the
- 23:43Speaker 2: same the body. It be at the center of the house.
- 23:45Speaker 2: They're sitting on one side, and then you've got the
- 23:47Speaker 2: witness sitting there at a table, and then there's this
- 23:50Speaker 2: gap in between where they allow the camera people to
- 23:52Speaker 2: sit and they're taking pictures and they're sitting in this. Well,
- 23:54Speaker 2: I don't say, I don't think I've ever seen a
- 23:56Speaker 2: congressional hearing where they set the room up any different
- 23:58Speaker 2: than that. Have you It's always been that, so Fauchi
- 24:01Speaker 2: sits there and then you see, of course, prominent people
- 24:06Speaker 2: will be sitting in the room. I still don't know
- 24:07Speaker 2: how it is you get tickets to those things. If
- 24:09Speaker 2: they sell them, can you buy them? Like can you
- 24:11Speaker 2: buy them on StubHub? But obviously this is one that's
- 24:15Speaker 2: packed that a lot of people want to see. Somehow
- 24:17Speaker 2: Laura Ingram got in there in the second row, so
- 24:19Speaker 2: her beak is like right over, Pauchi said, So somehow
- 24:22Speaker 2: she got into that anyway. Rand Paul said, he here's
- 24:25Speaker 2: the rules for the thing. You can bring your lawyer,
- 24:28Speaker 2: because of course you can bring your lawyer, but you
- 24:29Speaker 2: can have the lawyer sitting at the witness table. This
- 24:32Speaker 2: is not a criminal trial with the lawyer is answering questions.
- 24:37Speaker 2: You're answering questions, So you can't have the lawyer at
- 24:39Speaker 2: the witness table, one of Fouci's lawyers. And Paul kept
- 24:42Speaker 2: pointing out one of your half dozen, he insisted at
- 24:44Speaker 2: sitting at the witness table. When the hearing starts, the
- 24:46Speaker 2: lawyer starts to talk and Rand Paul won't turn his
- 24:49Speaker 2: microphone and say you're not recognized. And the guy's still talking,
- 24:53Speaker 2: and he's telling him to shut up, and the lawyer
- 24:56Speaker 2: kept talking and talking and talking and talking and talking,
- 24:59Speaker 2: and and Paul said, look, if this is a court
- 25:01Speaker 2: of law and the judge told you to shut up,
- 25:03Speaker 2: you wouldn't be carrying on like this because you'd becited
- 25:06Speaker 2: for criminal attempt. I can't do that, but what I
- 25:08Speaker 2: can do is kick you out. So they kicked him out.
- 25:16Speaker 2: I want to turn my attention to I got some
- 25:19Speaker 2: people were asking me, why didn't you on the last
- 25:21Speaker 2: podcast to discuss the severe weather in Wisconsin. We did
- 25:24Speaker 2: the podcast before the tornadoes came through, in fact, right
- 25:28Speaker 2: before they came before they came through. So the last
- 25:31Speaker 2: podcast that we did was before all of the terrible
- 25:33Speaker 2: storms that rolled through Wisconsin. Really coming almost straight down
- 25:37Speaker 2: north to south, and when they went through portion of
- 25:41Speaker 2: the Fox Valley approaching kind of Lake Winnebago, they really
- 25:45Speaker 2: really really built up. And this tornado came through southern
- 25:49Speaker 2: Appleton and through the city of Nasha. And I'm not
- 25:55Speaker 2: going to cover this in tremendous step because any of
- 25:58Speaker 2: you who are from Wisconsin, you've all seen the images.
- 26:00Speaker 2: There are neighborhoods that are just flattened and houses, I
- 26:05Speaker 2: mean giant trees uprooted, which I guess you see all
- 26:08Speaker 2: the time, but houses in which the rough is caved in,
- 26:11Speaker 2: caved in, caved in, caved in. For those of you
- 26:12Speaker 2: wh don't know anything about Nasha, it is a very
- 26:15Speaker 2: It is a lower middle class town. And this looks
- 26:17Speaker 2: and the tornado looks like the area that it went
- 26:20Speaker 2: through is sort of a lower middle class neighborhood. In
- 26:22Speaker 2: other words, the houses are rather old. When I looked
- 26:25Speaker 2: at the houses, I didn't see many brick houses. They're
- 26:28Speaker 2: older homes, the types of would be more vulnerable to
- 26:30Speaker 2: something like this, and it just went through, it smashed
- 26:33Speaker 2: the hell out of all of them. I find it, well,
- 26:40Speaker 2: this is a terrible story. I think it's a miracle.
- 26:43Speaker 2: Nobody died. I mean, everybody must have gone to the basement,
- 26:49Speaker 2: because some of these homes, the basement was the only
- 26:51Speaker 2: thing that was left. There. Are the video that we've
- 26:56Speaker 2: seen a lot of the videos some people who haven't
- 26:58Speaker 2: yet gone to the basement. On the show the tornado
- 27:00Speaker 2: as it's approaching it, before it's getting there. On one
- 27:03Speaker 2: of the best ones, there's a woman that keeps there's
- 27:04Speaker 2: a woman yelling at the woman who standing the camera
- 27:06Speaker 2: come on inside, coming out of the base and cut
- 27:08Speaker 2: of the and she's capturing and capturing and capturing. Anyway,
- 27:11Speaker 2: when you have this number of houses that are smashed
- 27:15Speaker 2: and trees that are coming down, I mean there apparently
- 27:19Speaker 2: was nobody in their car and the path when this
- 27:22Speaker 2: thing was going on. You know, because most of the
- 27:27Speaker 2: world is not a city. Most of the world is
- 27:29Speaker 2: a country or water and so on, tornadoes generally don't
- 27:33Speaker 2: go into a dense community and an Asha part of
- 27:35Speaker 2: the Fox Valley, everything from Oshkosh to Kakana, which is
- 27:38Speaker 2: where I'm from, is connected. It's a bunch of suburbs
- 27:42Speaker 2: looking for a city. And in many of these middle
- 27:44Speaker 2: class communities, they're kind of like neighborhoods in the city
- 27:47Speaker 2: of Milwaukee, where the houses are close together and so on,
- 27:50Speaker 2: very dense packed in neighborhood. For this to plow through
- 27:56Speaker 2: an area where they're all of that, I mean that
- 27:58Speaker 2: it'd be the same as if it plowed to see
- 27:59Speaker 2: a neighbor hood in West Allie. That's how dense it
- 28:03Speaker 2: all is. For no one to have been killed when
- 28:06Speaker 2: you see how much damage it is, and then the
- 28:08Speaker 2: aerial shots that they took at this end, cars being
- 28:11Speaker 2: blown around even two miles north of there when the
- 28:13Speaker 2: thing was up in Appleton, that no one was I mean,
- 28:16Speaker 2: they're still doing search is hopefully they're not going to
- 28:18Speaker 2: find anybody at the bottom of all this rubble. But
- 28:20Speaker 2: I'm doing this now forty eight hours after and it
- 28:23Speaker 2: appears as though there were no fatalities. I think that's
- 28:27Speaker 2: something of a miracle. I want to turn my attention
- 28:29Speaker 2: out to a story in New Berlin. New Berlin, for
- 28:33Speaker 2: those of you not from here, is a southwestern suburb
- 28:37Speaker 2: of Milwaukee County. New Berlin is in eastern Waukashaw County.
- 28:43Speaker 2: In other words, if you cross the Milwaukee Waukeshaw County line,
- 28:50Speaker 2: you would go into depending on where you are New
- 28:52Speaker 2: Berlin or Greenfield, and whether Greenfield or West Alice, and
- 28:56Speaker 2: then that's who de Berlin is. New Berlin is directly
- 28:58Speaker 2: south Brickfield, and geographically it's pretty big. It goes all
- 29:03Speaker 2: the way out to Winter State forty three and so on.
- 29:05Speaker 2: And it's one of the many communities in Waukershaw County
- 29:09Speaker 2: that decades ago went from largely rural to being a
- 29:13Speaker 2: lot of subdivisions. It's got commercial areas, some industrial areas,
- 29:18Speaker 2: and then as you approach I forty three, you know,
- 29:21Speaker 2: lots of fast food restaurants and all of that stuff.
- 29:24Speaker 2: Farther to the south is Mouskego. Anyway, New Berlin Rockwell Automation,
- 29:30Speaker 2: which is a huge American corporation based in Milwaukee. They
- 29:35Speaker 2: got their kind of their base guy here after they
- 29:37Speaker 2: bought the Allen Bradley Corporation many many decades ago and
- 29:40Speaker 2: took over that factory and the corporate headquarters was moved here.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Rockwell Automation is a big company that's involved in lots
- 29:48Speaker 2: of things that are in the tech and high tech area.
- 29:54Speaker 2: They want to build a two hundred million dollars planned
- 29:59Speaker 2: in New Berlin. It's along Grange Avenue. In fact, it's
- 30:03Speaker 2: not too far from where our radio station is. I
- 30:05Speaker 2: know the area well. It's an area that's zoned for
- 30:08Speaker 2: this in zoned industrial, and there's some light industrial and
- 30:12Speaker 2: buildings and stuff like that in the area, and there's
- 30:14Speaker 2: also residential. It's one of those neighborhoods that you'll see
- 30:17Speaker 2: in a middle class community in which there's a mix
- 30:20Speaker 2: of brookfield as areas like this. A lot of communities
- 30:23Speaker 2: will have these areas in which there's some business, some
- 30:26Speaker 2: industrial in an otherwise general residential area. Everything about this
- 30:32Speaker 2: story is good. Rockwell Automation, as I say, as a
- 30:36Speaker 2: major company, and it's a company that seems to be
- 30:39Speaker 2: benefiting from a lot of the tech developments that have
- 30:41Speaker 2: been going on for the last number of decades. The
- 30:44Speaker 2: manufacturing facility that they want to build is not in Mexico,
- 30:48Speaker 2: it's not somewhere outside of the United States. They're investing
- 30:51Speaker 2: in American jobs, and these are very very good jobs.
- 30:56Speaker 2: It's the kind of thing that communities and states set
- 30:58Speaker 2: up economic development departments for to try to attract this stuff.
- 31:03Speaker 2: But we're facing a trend right now on which some
- 31:06Speaker 2: people don't want to have anything near them. This has started,
- 31:11Speaker 2: I think with the data centers, and I get the
- 31:14Speaker 2: downsides of living very very close to a data center,
- 31:18Speaker 2: but now we're seeing it come up for almost anything.
- 31:21Speaker 2: I remember when you know, Franklin chased Strauss Veal out
- 31:25Speaker 2: of They've been in Franklin for nearly a century, and
- 31:30Speaker 2: they want to do a meat processing plant there, and
- 31:34Speaker 2: Frankly kept saying no and no and no, and Strauss,
- 31:36Speaker 2: which would take it over by another company, they just said,
- 31:39Speaker 2: screw it, We're out of here. After all these years
- 31:41Speaker 2: in this community, and now here's Rockwell Automation that wants
- 31:44Speaker 2: to put in this factory. A number of neighbors have
- 31:48Speaker 2: been opposing it. Now this is again like anything else.
- 31:52Speaker 2: If you live in de Berlin, if you get something
- 31:54Speaker 2: like this, this is a gold mine for you. First
- 31:56Speaker 2: of all, the property taxes that will be paid by
- 31:59Speaker 2: this thing are enormous, and factories generally require very little
- 32:06Speaker 2: government service. The schools don't have to service anything with
- 32:11Speaker 2: regard to a factory, but they pay massive property taxes
- 32:15Speaker 2: that go into the schools. Certainly the fire department and
- 32:18Speaker 2: sewer and water and other services would exist with regard
- 32:20Speaker 2: to this. But what you get out of a factory
- 32:24Speaker 2: like this is the ability to have relatively high paying,
- 32:27Speaker 2: middle class type jobs and a huge impact on the
- 32:33Speaker 2: community's tax base. So if I live in New Berlin
- 32:37Speaker 2: two miles away from here, this is the greatest thing
- 32:39Speaker 2: in the world. But if I live two blocks away,
- 32:43Speaker 2: suddenly my nice sort of quiet. And I would say
- 32:45Speaker 2: that this part of New Berlin isn't real quiet because
- 32:48Speaker 2: it's Grange. Is not a main drag, but it's not
- 32:51Speaker 2: a side street either. It's something in between. It's a
- 32:54Speaker 2: radio station not far down the road, not us another one.
- 33:01Speaker 2: So the neighbors are objecting to this to their credit,
- 33:04Speaker 2: a committee of the New Berlin Common Council Tuesday night,
- 33:07Speaker 2: I'm doing this podcast on Wednesday, approve the plan. Here's
- 33:12Speaker 2: what we can't have happen. We can't allow people now
- 33:18Speaker 2: to object to everything, because if they do, we're going
- 33:21Speaker 2: to have nothing left. We're going to be California, where
- 33:25Speaker 2: everything is chased away. It's bad enough that we're facing
- 33:28Speaker 2: the prospect of having a governor who's a Marxistan, is
- 33:31Speaker 2: talking totally like a Marxist and is all the beliefs
- 33:34Speaker 2: of a Marxist and doesn't want to have any companies
- 33:36Speaker 2: in here, and doesn't want to have any of those things.
- 33:38Speaker 2: When you have individual communities that are rather conservative that
- 33:41Speaker 2: are turning their noses up at the kind of economic
- 33:44Speaker 2: development that everybody used to fight for, that's a little frightening.
- 33:49Speaker 2: No again, I get the opposition of people who live nearby,
- 33:53Speaker 2: but that's kind of the case with everything. Almost everybody
- 33:59Speaker 2: wants to live in a community where there's lots of
- 34:01Speaker 2: things around that create jobs and economic development, and you know,
- 34:05Speaker 2: retail stores and all of this stuff. But do you
- 34:07Speaker 2: want to live right next door a block away or
- 34:09Speaker 2: two blocks away. No, you probably don't. But we can't
- 34:13Speaker 2: sneeze and turn up our turn our noses up at
- 34:17Speaker 2: all of this stuff, or we won't have any jobs anymore. Furthermore,
- 34:21Speaker 2: for the people who want to keep spending money on
- 34:23Speaker 2: schools and want to keep spending money on social services,
- 34:28Speaker 2: if you don't have any businesses, who's going to pay
- 34:30Speaker 2: those taxes? And if we don't have these businesses employing
- 34:33Speaker 2: all of these people, where do the incomes come to
- 34:35Speaker 2: support all of this stuff. No again, people say, well,
- 34:40Speaker 2: well you want to live two blocks No, I wouldn't.
- 34:44Speaker 2: And all of these things are things that people take
- 34:46Speaker 2: into consideration when they're buying a home. How is the
- 34:48Speaker 2: neighborhood zoned, how close are you to a road where
- 34:51Speaker 2: something can be developed, and so on. The data centers,
- 34:56Speaker 2: I believe, is another thing in which the benefits overall
- 34:59Speaker 2: for a community in a region, in a state are
- 35:01Speaker 2: going to be massively positive. But I grant you, I
- 35:05Speaker 2: wouldn't want to live a mile away from one of them.
- 35:08Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to live next door to them. They
- 35:09Speaker 2: have They send off all this noise in the whirr
- 35:12Speaker 2: and you got to have unless they build power plants
- 35:14Speaker 2: that all of them. There are going to be power
- 35:16Speaker 2: lines that come in to bring it into the through
- 35:18Speaker 2: the grid. We have this story going on right now
- 35:20Speaker 2: in the East Troy area. They're planning to build a
- 35:23Speaker 2: data center there and the data center operator is going
- 35:25Speaker 2: to build their own power plant, which I think that's
- 35:29Speaker 2: the perfect solution to everything. You don't have to have
- 35:31Speaker 2: the big power lines coming through, and you don't have
- 35:33Speaker 2: to tap the grid, you don't have to drive up
- 35:35Speaker 2: everybody else's electric costs. They're just going to build their
- 35:38Speaker 2: own power plan and put there. There are people in
- 35:40Speaker 2: East Troy that are objecting to the power plant. If
- 35:46Speaker 2: we had this kind of mindset one hundred years ago,
- 35:48Speaker 2: we wouldn't have had the Industrial Revolution, we wouldn't have
- 35:51Speaker 2: had any factories, we wouldn't have had anything. You know.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Trump has pushed very hard for this new industrial revolution
- 36:04Speaker 2: in America and a lot of people have said that
- 36:06Speaker 2: it hasn't yet materialized. Well, it has it, it's only
- 36:09Speaker 2: eighteen months in. He wants us to revert back to
- 36:12Speaker 2: what we were, a country that made things, because when
- 36:16Speaker 2: all of our stuff has made overseas, we're at the
- 36:18Speaker 2: mercy of foreign governments, We're at the mercy of unfair
- 36:22Speaker 2: trade policies and your middle classy roads because the kinds
- 36:28Speaker 2: of companies that make things, the vast majority of their
- 36:31Speaker 2: employees those are middle class type jobs, and the middle
- 36:34Speaker 2: class in America has indeed been gradually eroding. But one
- 36:38Speaker 2: of the obstacles of this is going to be if
- 36:41Speaker 2: you can't put everything in Texas, you can't put everything
- 36:44Speaker 2: in Alabama and South Carolina, these states that are in Tennessee,
- 36:48Speaker 2: all these states that are getting massive renaissances and manufacturing
- 36:52Speaker 2: because they're embracing all of it. We can't have everything
- 36:55Speaker 2: go down there because the remaining states are going to
- 36:57Speaker 2: become welfare states. We can't become California here, which is why,
- 37:03Speaker 2: as I say, the key is where you locate this stuff.
- 37:07Speaker 2: And in the case of the plant in New Berlin,
- 37:10Speaker 2: it's a quasi residential area, but it's more commercial and
- 37:14Speaker 2: all of that is in there, and it seems to
- 37:17Speaker 2: me that the site is fine. But I grant you,
- 37:19Speaker 2: as I said nineteen times, if I lived two blocks away,
- 37:22Speaker 2: I wouldn't be happy about this at all. But the
- 37:24Speaker 2: community has to decide what is in the larger good,
- 37:26Speaker 2: because nobody wants to have anything within two blocks of them,
- 37:31Speaker 2: other than all the people who moved to downtowns in
- 37:34Speaker 2: the United States who want to have nothing but commotion
- 37:36Speaker 2: around them all the time. The Democrats in Wisconsin had
- 37:40Speaker 2: their only debate for governor last night. First of all,
- 37:45Speaker 2: I don't even know if anybody says, why was there
- 37:47Speaker 2: only one? You would think that there would be like
- 37:51Speaker 2: three or four of them. There was only one. Now
- 37:56Speaker 2: we call it a debate because that's what they called it.
- 37:59Speaker 2: It was in a debate. I want to analyze this
- 38:02Speaker 2: when we come back at a moment here on the
- 38:03Speaker 2: Markedelling podcast, This is the Markdelling Podcast. There are some
- 38:12Speaker 2: things in life I don't want to do. I think
- 38:14Speaker 2: that's like half of them, isn't it, But you have
- 38:18Speaker 2: to do them. I really didn't want to watch the
- 38:23Speaker 2: five Democrats running for governor have this debate. But my
- 38:29Speaker 2: job is to talk about stuff like this because I
- 38:32Speaker 2: know that most of you weren't going to watch the
- 38:34Speaker 2: damn thing either. So I had to watch this so
- 38:37Speaker 2: I could share what happened with you, and I did.
- 38:40Speaker 2: I watched it. I watched about ninety percent of it.
- 38:46Speaker 2: What you have here are five Democrats running the gamut
- 38:49Speaker 2: from an out and out Marxist to a regular old
- 38:53Speaker 2: old school lefty, with others in between the two of them.
- 39:00Speaker 2: The way the thing was formatted, I mean the two interviews,
- 39:06Speaker 2: I didn't even bother to find out who the two
- 39:08Speaker 2: interviewers were. Did you know who they were? Is Matt
- 39:15Speaker 2: or Max? Did you say Matt Smith?
- 39:18Speaker 1: Is?
- 39:18Speaker 2: He? Was? He the African American man? Oh? That that
- 39:24Speaker 2: was the other guy. See, I don't know. I don't
- 39:26Speaker 2: watch local TV anymore and I miss nothing. I don't
- 39:28Speaker 2: know who they are. Matt Smith, according to Jason, was
- 39:31Speaker 2: one of them, and there was Anyway, the two reporters,
- 39:34Speaker 2: I thought they were more knowledgeable than you normally get
- 39:37Speaker 2: in this because Jaron and Jordan. Is he from Madison
- 39:41Speaker 2: or is he from a local station. He's from Channel twelves,
- 39:44Speaker 2: Channel twelve and Milwaukee sponsored the debate, and so I
- 39:47Speaker 2: don't know who he was. Anyway, if you ever did
- 39:50Speaker 2: you watch this show Deep Jason Deep? That was the
- 39:54Speaker 2: Julia Louis Dreyfus show. I make fun of people when
- 39:59Speaker 2: they don't don't watch like the great stuff that was
- 40:01Speaker 2: on cable of streaming. But I haven't watched ninety percent
- 40:04Speaker 2: of them either, So the ten percent of stuff that
- 40:06Speaker 2: you really have to watch, I just assume everybody's seen them. Anyway,
- 40:10Speaker 2: Veep was this great takeoff. It started when she was
- 40:12Speaker 2: the vice president and then she ran for president and
- 40:15Speaker 2: carried on for a number of years and it was
- 40:17Speaker 2: a satire and like everything else, Jul Louis Dyaphus says,
- 40:21Speaker 2: is really really funny. That guy what was Jordan? What's
- 40:23Speaker 2: his first name? Jed Jeron Jordan. I mean he vocally
- 40:30Speaker 2: and even by appearance, was a dead ringer for this
- 40:32Speaker 2: character on VEEP named Richard Split. I mean, even the
- 40:35Speaker 2: way he has I'm thinking, I'm watching Richard Splett. He's
- 40:38Speaker 2: the moderator of the debate. So they'd ask a question
- 40:42Speaker 2: and the Democrat, each of the Democrat candidates would like
- 40:45Speaker 2: not respond to the question, and the answers it were
- 40:48Speaker 2: required to be very short, and after they were done,
- 40:50Speaker 2: the moderators did go right back to us but the
- 40:53Speaker 2: question yes or no, and they did force him to
- 40:57Speaker 2: answer each time on that, and I thought that that
- 40:59Speaker 2: was way better than most of the debates these debates
- 41:02Speaker 2: are run. But the problem with the debate is, and
- 41:05Speaker 2: I know why they have this, there's five candidates and
- 41:09Speaker 2: they want to give all of them equal time, and
- 41:10Speaker 2: they want to be able to cover a lot of material.
- 41:12Speaker 2: So all of the answers were short. And what they
- 41:14Speaker 2: did is they simply put questions to each of these candidates,
- 41:17Speaker 2: so you ended up with not a debate. It was
- 41:19Speaker 2: like there were five separate news conferences that were being held. Okay,
- 41:23Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask this one this, I'm asking this one,
- 41:24Speaker 2: then I'm asking this one then and the candidates themselves
- 41:27Speaker 2: in their response, they can of course initially say whatever
- 41:30Speaker 2: they want, and what they all did was just put
- 41:33Speaker 2: out their talking points and whatever that issue was, and
- 41:36Speaker 2: none of them debated anything that the other candidate had
- 41:40Speaker 2: to say. Now, there were many people who thought that
- 41:46Speaker 2: this would debate would be the first time you would
- 41:49Speaker 2: see at least one or maybe two of the other
- 41:51Speaker 2: Democrats attacking the front runner, the front runner, the clear
- 41:55Speaker 2: front runner. Recording to polls, which are hard to you
- 41:59Speaker 2: can't say they're fully reliable at this stage because zillions
- 42:03Speaker 2: of Democrats are undecided, and you have a candidate's drop
- 42:05Speaker 2: in and out of the race. But everyone that's been
- 42:07Speaker 2: done and every one of the candidate's polls, they all
- 42:09Speaker 2: show the Marxist winning and winning way ahead, but her
- 42:14Speaker 2: winning way ahead is still with only twenty six percent
- 42:17Speaker 2: of the vote. Francesco hins around twenty six percent. Then
- 42:21Speaker 2: you're seeing a couple of ten and elevens, and like
- 42:23Speaker 2: half the Democrats are undecided. So she's way ahead of
- 42:26Speaker 2: everybody else. But she's clearly not the choice of three
- 42:29Speaker 2: fourths of the party at least at this point. But
- 42:32Speaker 2: she's ahead of the others. And she is a candidate that,
- 42:38Speaker 2: even by the standards of Democrats, is radical. She's the
- 42:42Speaker 2: left of AOC, she's a member of the Democratic Socialist
- 42:44Speaker 2: of America, which has an out and out Marxist agenda.
- 42:48Speaker 2: She's not disabout a single one of their positions. The
- 42:55Speaker 2: other democ call de Roy's is probably the closest to her,
- 42:58Speaker 2: but I wouldn't go all the way to say that
- 43:00Speaker 2: shee'sing out and out marxis the way hang is. Then
- 43:03Speaker 2: you've got Mendela Barnes, who's kind of lefty, David Crawley,
- 43:06Speaker 2: the Milwaukee County executive, who's kind of lefty, and then
- 43:09Speaker 2: you've got Joel Brennan, who's also a lefty, but more
- 43:12Speaker 2: of the kind of like a Tony Eavers lefty and
- 43:16Speaker 2: actually sharper than Tony, but he's just like an old
- 43:19Speaker 2: white guy Democrat from the old school Democratic Party. So
- 43:22Speaker 2: here you've got a Marxist running against the four of them,
- 43:25Speaker 2: but none of them criticized. Not only did not criticize her,
- 43:29Speaker 2: they didn't criticize any of her positions. So seriously, why
- 43:34Speaker 2: have the debate. What's the point of a debate if
- 43:37Speaker 2: the candidates don't debate. Because of the persistence of the
- 43:43Speaker 2: media questioners, they were able to get to some differences
- 43:47Speaker 2: of opinion. For example, two of them came right out
- 43:49Speaker 2: and said that they wouldn't scale back school choice in Wisconsin.
- 43:55Speaker 2: It's a big issue, particularly in Milwaukee, where a huge
- 43:57Speaker 2: percentage of the kids go to private schools under the
- 44:00Speaker 2: Cheel school choice program and thrive at those schools do
- 44:03Speaker 2: way better than they would do under the rat hole
- 44:05Speaker 2: that we call the Milwaukee public school system. Francesca Hank
- 44:08Speaker 2: came right out and said she's against school choice and
- 44:11Speaker 2: we'll end it. So, I mean all of you that
- 44:14Speaker 2: are sending your kids to the two Saint Augie's in Milwaukee,
- 44:20Speaker 2: to Christo Ray, we'll go through the list of You're done,
- 44:27Speaker 2: all these schools that are thriving. We won't have any
- 44:29Speaker 2: of him anymore if Francesca han is the governor. She
- 44:33Speaker 2: said it, and she said it mostly because they pressed
- 44:35Speaker 2: her on it. But the other four didn't turn and
- 44:37Speaker 2: criticize her for that. You could have easily had Crowley,
- 44:43Speaker 2: who said I'm in favor of keeping school choice in Milwaukee,
- 44:48Speaker 2: turn to her and say you want to kick all
- 44:49Speaker 2: the kids out of Mesmer High School in the north
- 44:51Speaker 2: side of Milwaukee. He didn't do that. If none of
- 44:56Speaker 2: them attack her, she's going to win. I know a
- 45:00Speaker 2: fair Amountawa politics I know what their thinking is here.
- 45:05Speaker 2: I can easily read the Democrat mind. It's not that
- 45:08Speaker 2: hard to do because the Democrat mind isn't particularly complicated.
- 45:12Speaker 2: I think generally speaking, it's easier to read the mind
- 45:15Speaker 2: of a stupid person than a smart person. But it's
- 45:19Speaker 2: that hard to read their minds here, all of these
- 45:22Speaker 2: candidates that are all four of them that are running
- 45:24Speaker 2: behind Hong no that in order to beat her, you're
- 45:29Speaker 2: going to have to start attacking her. Voting began yesterday,
- 45:34Speaker 2: the election day itself. The end of voting is in
- 45:36Speaker 2: thirteen days. There's no time left. They're thinking, we're going
- 45:41Speaker 2: to use our advertising to start roughing her up, but
- 45:45Speaker 2: don't do it in a public debate because it will
- 45:47Speaker 2: create create a backlash. That's what they're all thinking, which
- 45:52Speaker 2: is again all well and good, except I haven't seen
- 45:55Speaker 2: many ads that are attacking Hang for her Marxist beliefs.
- 45:59Speaker 2: And second, if you have a problem with her Marxism,
- 46:08Speaker 2: you shouldn't be afraid to say you have a problem
- 46:10Speaker 2: with her Marxism. There's a story in today's Wall Street Journal.
- 46:17Speaker 2: It's a big story that covers this issue in Wisconsin.
- 46:21Speaker 2: The reason it's a story is this we've had all
- 46:24Speaker 2: over the country. They call themselves democratic socialists. These Marxists
- 46:28Speaker 2: win democratic primaries. Several New York State congressional districts went
- 46:32Speaker 2: that way, the original members of the squad. That was
- 46:34Speaker 2: the first wave of them that came in in eighteen
- 46:36Speaker 2: twenty twenty two in that era, the AOC era. So
- 46:41Speaker 2: this has happened in very liberal congressional districts. Mamdani himself
- 46:46Speaker 2: got elected mayor of New York, a very very liberal city.
- 46:50Speaker 2: Hang is the first one of this ILK that's trying
- 46:55Speaker 2: to be elected statewide in a swing state. Wisconsin's not
- 47:00Speaker 2: seventy percent Democrats state like say California. We're not even
- 47:04Speaker 2: a fifty six percent Democrats state, like New Jersey. We're
- 47:08Speaker 2: not Connecticut, which is probably a sixty percent Democrats state.
- 47:11Speaker 2: I don't know that as out and out Marxist could
- 47:13Speaker 2: win in any of those states. They tend to be
- 47:15Speaker 2: electing rather conventional, regular old bull lefty Democrats. But here
- 47:20Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, in which our elections go back and forth,
- 47:25Speaker 2: all of our major elections are very very close. All
- 47:30Speaker 2: three Trump elections were very very close. Our governor's races
- 47:34Speaker 2: have tended to be very very close. Most of our
- 47:37Speaker 2: United States Senate races, not all of them are very
- 47:39Speaker 2: very close. We're a very evenly divided state. So can
- 47:44Speaker 2: the Democrats put up as their candidate in an evenly
- 47:46Speaker 2: divided state somebody as radical as Francesca Han Now? The
- 47:51Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal story points out that the Democrats that
- 47:54Speaker 2: Wisconsinder are freaked out with concern over This story is
- 47:58Speaker 2: written by John McCormick. He writes, Francesca Hong, a dues
- 48:01Speaker 2: paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has established Democrats.
- 48:06Speaker 2: Establishment Democrats rattled ahead of the August eleventh primary for
- 48:09Speaker 2: governor Hang a thirty seven year old state representative and
- 48:12Speaker 2: part time bartender. By the way, what is it about
- 48:14Speaker 2: these radicals and being bartenders? That's what AOC was too.
- 48:23Speaker 2: That actually is a pretty good question, isn't it. I mean,
- 48:26Speaker 2: I can't imagine that elan Omar was a bartender. For
- 48:28Speaker 2: one thing, she would have been too mean to serve
- 48:32Speaker 2: serve anybody their drink. I mean, I'm actually surprised Francesca
- 48:35Speaker 2: Hong could be I mean, it's got to be a
- 48:37Speaker 2: bar wer only lefties come into, because I can't imagine
- 48:39Speaker 2: that she's the type that like wants to do something
- 48:42Speaker 2: for somebody else. I mean, can you imagine AOC saying
- 48:45Speaker 2: thank you? Never well that you know, that was before
- 48:49Speaker 2: she got in there, and Hang's in the state Assembly
- 48:51Speaker 2: and she's a bartender. That's her side gig anyway, Leeds.
- 48:57Speaker 2: In the most recent Market Law School primary poll, she
- 49:00Speaker 2: is outpacing a former lieutenant governor now dropped out, a
- 49:03Speaker 2: former top state administrator, and several other more prominent Democrats.
- 49:06Speaker 2: The race is one of three heartland Democratic primaries in
- 49:09Speaker 2: early August offering insights into the party's direction. The other
- 49:13Speaker 2: two are US Senate contests in Michigan and Minnesota. Hong's
- 49:16Speaker 2: bid will also test whether Democratic Socialists, a rising faction
- 49:20Speaker 2: within the party that is one in deeply blue cities
- 49:23Speaker 2: and districts, can win statewide primaries in purple states. The
- 49:27Speaker 2: primaries are playing out as Democrats remain divided about how
- 49:31Speaker 2: to more widely win competitive elections. One wing asserts battleground
- 49:36Speaker 2: districts and states are won by wooing independent voters with moderation,
- 49:41Speaker 2: while another says voters are eager for significant change at
- 49:44Speaker 2: a time of widespread skepticism and government and widening economic
- 49:48Speaker 2: disparity hang. Wisconsin's first Asian American state legislator is solidly
- 49:54Speaker 2: on the side, calling for a vast expansion of government
- 49:56Speaker 2: into virtually every corner of life, from freeach childcare and
- 50:00Speaker 2: mass transit to publicly run grocery stores in the elimination
- 50:04Speaker 2: of all college debt. She backs legalizing marijuana to fund
- 50:08Speaker 2: high speed broadband, and supports a state run development bank,
- 50:12Speaker 2: medicare for all, a thirty two hour work week with
- 50:15Speaker 2: no pay cut, a volaging ICE, restoring voting rights to felons,
- 50:20Speaker 2: and the eventual elimination or at least reduction of prisons
- 50:23Speaker 2: and police. Again, as the Wall Street Journal story puts on,
- 50:26Speaker 2: those are all of her positions. I mean, as much
- 50:31Speaker 2: fun as we've made of California and Newsom, maybe one
- 50:36Speaker 2: or two of those issues would say somebody like Newsom embrace.
- 50:42Speaker 2: She's out there on all of them. Can you imagine
- 50:47Speaker 2: Wisconsin if we try to impose this, How do businesses
- 50:51Speaker 2: in Wisconsin survive if you have to go to a
- 50:54Speaker 2: thirty two hour workwek and you can't cut pay. Even
- 51:00Speaker 2: mainstream Democrats have been hesitant to say that they want
- 51:02Speaker 2: to abolish ice. The opposition to ice was one of
- 51:07Speaker 2: the things that sunk commonly Harris in her campaign. But again,
- 51:10Speaker 2: as the story's putting on, Hang is out there and
- 51:12Speaker 2: all of them back to the story. President Trump and
- 51:15Speaker 2: other Republicans have branded the DSA as quote communism and
- 51:19Speaker 2: are using the policy positions of its members as a
- 51:22Speaker 2: line of attack against all Democrats. Asked how she would
- 51:25Speaker 2: pay for the additional benefits she has suggested she is suggesting,
- 51:29Speaker 2: Hang said she would push for higher taxes on the
- 51:32Speaker 2: wealthiest and elimination of business tax credits. Let me interject,
- 51:35Speaker 2: so she wants to get rid of all business tax credits.
- 51:39Speaker 2: This will drive huge numbers of Wisconsin businesses into unprofitability. Furthermore,
- 51:45Speaker 2: all of these businesses are simply going to say, I'm
- 51:47Speaker 2: going to move to a state where we can deduct
- 51:49Speaker 2: typical business expenses. So the one thing that you can't
- 51:53Speaker 2: say about Hang is that she's talking all moderate when
- 51:57Speaker 2: she's radical. These are all of her positions of the story.
- 52:02Speaker 2: The money is there, she said in an interview, it's
- 52:04Speaker 2: how we've allocated and who is not required to pay.
- 52:09Speaker 2: The story then goes on David Aksrod, a Democratic commentator
- 52:13Speaker 2: who worked as a top strategist on Barack Obama's presidential
- 52:16Speaker 2: campaign put it this way on social media late last week,
- 52:19Speaker 2: the dem race for governor Wisconsin feels like a slow
- 52:23Speaker 2: rolling car heading for a cliff. Hang dismissed concerns about
- 52:27Speaker 2: her established electability, pointing to an anti establishment mood in
- 52:31Speaker 2: what she said is her ability to attract a spectrum
- 52:34Speaker 2: voters drawn to her push to make life more affordable.
- 52:38Speaker 2: The story goes on, the point of the story is
- 52:41Speaker 2: Democrats are freaking that they're going to lose these elections
- 52:45Speaker 2: if in their primaries they elect Marxist or to use
- 52:48Speaker 2: the term that they're applying, democratic socialists. Yet here in Wisconsin,
- 52:56Speaker 2: where is the Democrat's effort to stop haw All it
- 53:00Speaker 2: is is force somebody out of the race. First they
- 53:03Speaker 2: forced Crawley out of the race, they annointed Sarah Rodriguez.
- 53:06Speaker 2: Then Sara Rodriguez imploded, so they forced Crawley back into
- 53:09Speaker 2: the race, and they get Tony Evers to endorse him.
- 53:11Speaker 2: That's what they're doing. They're doing that. What they are
- 53:14Speaker 2: not doing is attacking Hong for her Marxism. They're saying
- 53:18Speaker 2: Marxists can't win, but they're so terrified of taking on
- 53:22Speaker 2: Marxist ideologically that they will not criticize the ideas. Now
- 53:27Speaker 2: I'll tell you who will criticize the ideas. The Republicans
- 53:30Speaker 2: will criticize them. If it's Hang that runs against Tom Tiffany,
- 53:34Speaker 2: all of this radicalism of Hang is going to be
- 53:37Speaker 2: thrown out there by Tiffany's campaign, and it's going to
- 53:39Speaker 2: be put out there for people to decide. And if
- 53:41Speaker 2: people in Wisconsin want to have a Marxist well we're
- 53:43Speaker 2: going to be stuck with a Marxist and we're going
- 53:45Speaker 2: to do this radical state of the United States. But
- 53:47Speaker 2: at least the case will then be made. But if
- 53:52Speaker 2: the Democrats want to stop this takeover of their party
- 53:57Speaker 2: by the Socialists, they have to at some point stand
- 54:01Speaker 2: up and argue to other Democrats that we don't believe
- 54:05Speaker 2: in what these people believe in. The Democrats used to
- 54:15Speaker 2: be the party of the blue collar Francesco Hung wants
- 54:19Speaker 2: to chase all the companies that provide blue collar jobs
- 54:22Speaker 2: out of the state. The Democrats used to be the
- 54:26Speaker 2: party that embraced responsibility. An increasing number of Democrats are
- 54:35Speaker 2: part of a party that wants to get their kids
- 54:37Speaker 2: into better schools, which is why they a support all
- 54:39Speaker 2: this funding for public schools would be push for the
- 54:42Speaker 2: alternative to send kids to better private schools if they
- 54:45Speaker 2: have the chance. They're Democrats who don't agree with her
- 54:48Speaker 2: on getting rid of the voucher program. They're Democrats that
- 54:51Speaker 2: don't agree with her on mandating the thirty two hour
- 54:54Speaker 2: work with There are Democrats who don't think that all
- 54:56Speaker 2: the buses should be free. Can you imagine how much
- 54:59Speaker 2: we're going to have to pay p property taxes if
- 55:01Speaker 2: we make mass transit free? She came right out of
- 55:05Speaker 2: the debate. They all said, the surplus that the state have,
- 55:07Speaker 2: we're not going to do any of it with tax
- 55:08Speaker 2: or they forget it's going to spend it all healthcare
- 55:11Speaker 2: and schools, healthcare and schools, healthcare and schools. So my
- 55:15Speaker 2: point to these other Democrats is, if you're so threatened
- 55:18Speaker 2: by her, why aren't you fighting and telling your voters
- 55:22Speaker 2: that these ideas are toxic and awful. If they don't
- 55:28Speaker 2: attack her, she's going to win. So they're sitting there
- 55:32Speaker 2: wringing their hands, acting as though they can't do anything
- 55:34Speaker 2: about it when they're not doing anything about it. One
- 55:37Speaker 2: other point on this, if you ask me which of
- 55:39Speaker 2: the five candidates did worse during the debate. It was Crowley,
- 55:44Speaker 2: he's the guy that's annointed. And again it's one debate.
- 55:47Speaker 2: It wasn't even televised statewide and all the channels in Milwaukee,
- 55:51Speaker 2: Channel twelve was the one that did it, so it
- 55:53Speaker 2: was on there, so through on the internet. I guessing
- 55:55Speaker 2: that the vast majority of people are going to vote
- 55:57Speaker 2: in the Democratic primary probably didn't even pay any attention
- 56:00Speaker 2: to it. So the debate in and of itself is
- 56:03Speaker 2: probably not going to be something that would have moved
- 56:04Speaker 2: the needle. However, if there had been this viral moment,
- 56:09Speaker 2: if say Brennan or Crowley or even Barnes turned to
- 56:15Speaker 2: her and said, the things that you believe in are
- 56:17Speaker 2: the same thing communists believe in. I'm a Democrat, I'm
- 56:21Speaker 2: not a communist, that would have been the moment and
- 56:24Speaker 2: it would have been seen by everybody in the mart
- 56:26Speaker 2: Why did any of them do it? They're all chicken
- 56:28Speaker 2: to do it. So they sit there and they wring
- 56:31Speaker 2: their hands. We're going to lose the Tiffany, We're going
- 56:32Speaker 2: to lose to the Republicans. These positions are too extreme
- 56:35Speaker 2: for a state like Wisconsin. But when you've got the
- 56:37Speaker 2: actual extremists, and you've got the actual Marxist sitting right there.
- 56:41Speaker 2: They are terrified of saying anything about it, and they've
- 56:45Speaker 2: been reluctant to even address it in their advertising. Instead,
- 56:48Speaker 2: they keep saying, well, she's not that very electable without
- 56:52Speaker 2: coming out and killing anybody. Why having these views is
- 56:55Speaker 2: not electable and why the views are wrong. We have
- 57:04Speaker 2: a remarkable story developing today in Milwaukee. This was reported
- 57:08Speaker 2: yesterday by JS online in an actual example of journalism
- 57:15Speaker 2: and from the mainstream media, those are rarer and rarer.
- 57:18Speaker 2: This is reported by John Deedrick and David Clary Milwaukee
- 57:21Speaker 2: Journal Central JAS online. I'll quote the lead paragraphs here.
- 57:24Speaker 2: A ninety nine year old woman who was beaten at
- 57:27Speaker 2: her Milwaukee home by a stranger waited more than three
- 57:30Speaker 2: hours for police and paramedics to arrive, according to records
- 57:33Speaker 2: obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Centinel. Now I'll interject clearly
- 57:37Speaker 2: this was leaked to them, which I'm not criticizing. I'm
- 57:43Speaker 2: just saying, how else would they have found out about this?
- 57:45Speaker 2: Somebody internally let them know. The delayed response to her
- 57:50Speaker 2: call in the early morning of July twenty seventh, is
- 57:54Speaker 2: under investigation by city officials. Now, for clarification, I'm doing
- 57:59Speaker 2: this program on July twenty nine, so this would have
- 58:01Speaker 2: been two days ago as the story is written. During
- 58:09Speaker 2: the attack, the woman activated a personal medical alert system.
- 58:12Speaker 2: You know what those things are a lot of older
- 58:13Speaker 2: people who have health conditions. There's various brands for them,
- 58:16Speaker 2: but they have these little buttons, these things, these call
- 58:18Speaker 2: buttons that they can press if they fall in or
- 58:21Speaker 2: they have a heart attack or something like that's going on.
- 58:23Speaker 2: Somebody had busted into her house and was attacking her,
- 58:26Speaker 2: and she activated her button. Now, that activated button goes
- 58:29Speaker 2: to whatever company that she's a subscriber to, and their
- 58:33Speaker 2: alert center gets this and they contact the local nine
- 58:36Speaker 2: one one center, which is what happened during the attack
- 58:38Speaker 2: of woman activated a personal medical alert system and the
- 58:41Speaker 2: alert company called Milwaukee's nine one one center shortly after
- 58:44Speaker 2: five am, according to dispatch records, but medical responders and
- 58:47Speaker 2: police were not sent to her South Side home until
- 58:49Speaker 2: just before eight am, after the woman called nine one
- 58:53Speaker 2: one herself a second time. Now, I'll give you the
- 58:56Speaker 2: background so we don't have to wade through it in
- 58:58Speaker 2: the story. In the scene, dy of Milwaukee there's a
- 59:01Speaker 2: separate city agency that runs the dispatch So if you
- 59:07Speaker 2: call nine one one in Milwaukee, the call is routed
- 59:10Speaker 2: through an entity called the Department of Emergency Communications. The
- 59:14Speaker 2: people answering these calls are not police officers, they're not firefighters,
- 59:18Speaker 2: and they don't work for the police. They don't work
- 59:19Speaker 2: for the fire They work for this separate agency. So,
- 59:23Speaker 2: as you might guess, there's a lot of people pointing
- 59:26Speaker 2: fingers in opposite directions that this isn't my fault. So
- 59:29Speaker 2: the agency that runs the dispatch center is there, is
- 59:32Speaker 2: the Department of Emergency Communications. Now there are two stories
- 59:36Speaker 2: that js online produced yesterday, and after they did the
- 59:39Speaker 2: first one, people started changing their tune. In the updated story,
- 59:44Speaker 2: Tony Bueno again he's the head of the out of
- 59:47Speaker 2: the government body that runs the dispatch center. We take
- 59:49Speaker 2: this kind of incident seriously, said Tony Bueno. If there
- 59:52Speaker 2: are problems, we're going to correct them immediately. Now I
- 59:55Speaker 2: would describe that initial response as him saying, what's the
- 59:59Speaker 2: big deal? If there are problems. She's a ninety nine
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: year old woman. Somebody busts into her house. She has
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: the presence of mind to hit her medical alert button.
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: The medical alert company gets ahold of them, contacts the
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: police and says that this is going on, and the
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: guy who runs the dispatch center says, if there are problems,
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: the city is investigating the handling of the initial call,
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: which was given on a medium level priority. So, in
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: other words, the story will explain. In Milwaukee police, when
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: they get a call, they have a number system to
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: rate the need for immediate response zero to seven. I
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: wish there was a standard, by the way, as if
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: seven was the worst and one was the lowest or
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: whatever I mean. I'm forever confused about the hurricane thing.
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: Every year the hurricanes come around, and after remember of
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: category one is the worst of category five is the worst?
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: Five is the worst? Well, it works the opposite of Milwaukee.
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: Seven would be the type of call that would require
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: that's the lowest standard of seriousness. Zero would be explosion, mass, murder, etc.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: So zero to seven zero would be the highest priority,
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: seven the lowest. They provided it A two. A two
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: would mean that there doesn't need to make an immediate response,
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: but it is a prioritized response. The second call, which
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: came over two hours after the initial nine woman call,
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: was handled appropriately with responders dispatched immediately, Bueno said. Bueno
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: declined to say whether the first call was handled appropriately,
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: saying he wanted to wait until the department's internal investigation
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: is completed. He said the employee has not been placed
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: on leave and no action would be taken until the
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: investigation is finished. Milwaukee police arrested a twenty two year
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: old man in the attack, which the department described as
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: a home invasion, and planned to refer charges to prosecutor.
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: As a police spokesperson said the woman who was taken
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: a hospital with non fatal injuries in the first call
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: around five to fifteen am, the Medical Alert company described
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: the incidents quote, sounds like a physical fight going on
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: the record show. So the Medical Alert persons calling the police,
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: calling the dispatch center and saying we're hearing this and
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: it sounds like that there's a physical fight. That call
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: was categorized as a welfare check and given a level
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: I said earlier, level two, level three priority. Typically a
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: battery would be classified as a level two, requiring a
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: more urgent response. Now, one of the things that I'm
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: going to want to hear is the audio of this.
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: How clear was the Medical Alert representative that this was
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: an elderly person that may be involved in a physical
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: something physical is happening here, Were they clear about it?
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: If they were, the dispatcher's clearly made a terrible error. Now,
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: I think being a dispatcher is an incredibly difficult job.
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: I mean, when you hear these high speed chase calls
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: and so on, the dispatcher's got to process all this
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: information and to handle this after remaining calm. Often somebody's
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: calling up reporting somebody's broken into their home or this,
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: that and the other thing, and they're very, very calm.
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: The person is frantic. They get the information out of them.
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: In most cases, dispatchers do an outstanding job. The only
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: time you ever hear about the dispatches is when there's
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: a screw up like this continuing in Milwaukee. None one
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: calls it, categorized by different priorities so on. Here's a
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: timeline base of events based on the dispatch records. At
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: five eighteen am, the medical alert representative told nine one
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: one that he believes he heard a man say to
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: a female that he was going to physically harm her.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: The call is upgraded to a threat and the record
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: note that the suspect is on the scene. Now again,
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: this is the first call at five eighteen. Four minutes later,
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: a caller joined the call in and joined the call
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: in and male subject heard making threats to physically assault
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: in the elderly suspect. Bueno told The Journal Sentinel that
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: a joined call means either the alert company provided a
- 1:03:52Speaker 2: recording of their call with the woman or connected the
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: calls in real time. The dispatch records showed that no
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: action was taken at the point. So four minutes later
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: they get this further and you can hear the guy
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: saying I'm going to attack you to the woman. The
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: dispatch center then had this and evidently hurd it, and
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: again nothing happened. There are no further updates until the
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: woman herself calls at seven to fifty one am. Now,
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: let me interject, even if there was a low priority
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: given to this, clearly nobody between the dispatch center or
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: police supervisors or whatever did any kind of follow up
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: on what was going on with this thing that was
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: called in two and a half hours ago. So now
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: it's seven fifty one, and imagine this, the woman's ninety
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: nine ten to eight, nearly three hours, two and a
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: half laters after the original call, she calls nine one
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: one herself and tells the operator she was physically attacked
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: and kicked and the suspect had left her. Call was
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: then categorized as a Priority two that's the third highest
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: level of call and requires an immediate dispatch, and the
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: dispatcher notes it states that a woman was on the
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: floor with quotes serious bleeding and having trouble breathing. The
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: woman told the dispatcher where she hides her house keys
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: the officers at paramedics can enter. So ninety nine year
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: old who's living at home, she's I think, explaining all
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: this pretty clearly. The Milwaukee Fire Department, which provides medical care,
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: arrives at seven fifty seven, So the fire department got
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: there six minutes after this most recent call and began
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: staging a few houses away, waiting for police to arrive,
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: and police to arrive first and secure the scene. And
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: by the way, this is standard if there was a
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: call that there was some sort of an attack. When
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: the firefighter paramedics show up, they don't enter the house
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: until the cop gets there. Because the firefighter paramedics don't
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: have guns. We don't know if the attacker is still
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: in the house and the attacker was gone. But now
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: they're sitting there because they get there first. The cops
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: still aren't there. In the meantime, the woman now is
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: pushing on three hours of bleeding and being beaten up.
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: At eight oh two am, the woman told the dispatcher
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: that she cannot hold the phone anymore. Milwaukee police arrived
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: at eight twenty three am, So even after the second call,
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: it took them Awaylwaukee cops thirty two damn minutes to
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: get there. No, this is the original call came in
- 1:06:09Speaker 2: at five am. The time that Milwaukee police are really
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: active is between say, seven at night and three in
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: the morning. There's zillions of calls in. It starts to
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: quiet down close at the dawn, and now we're in
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: rush hour where everybody's getting up. There's traffic at all
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: of that stuff. But it's not a particularly high crime
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: time of day. Why did it take the cops thirty
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: minutes to get somebody's butt over there? Again, I don't know,
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: other than to point out, as I do all the time,
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Police Department is grotesquely understaffed. It has been
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: for decades. There are nowhere near enough sworn officers and
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: patrol cars out there in the street. Response time is
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: often slow for serious things, but even by this standard,
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: this seems to be unusually slow. Now that this is
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: a second call, was every other squad occupied? My guess
- 1:06:57Speaker 2: is evidently back to the story. At eight thirty three am,
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: the woman was taken by ambulance to a hospital. The
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: Milwaukee City Department of Emergency Communications and charge of that
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: on calls the department as a civilian staff. The delayed
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: response to the woman has led to the shifting of
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: blameing of the departments. The police department has placed the
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: responsibility with the dispatchers, noting that police responded once they
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: received the information from dispatch. Yeah, thirty two minutes later. Wait,
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: the head of the nine one sentter said police staff
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: are able to see all incoming calls. So the guy
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: who runs the dispatch department, he said, that's true. We
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: answered the call, but the police can see every incoming call.
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: They had an awareness of this thing as well. Based
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: on information available July twenty seventh, it was not clear
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: if Milwaukee police supervisors or officers saw the initial call
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: classified as a welfare check, or if anyone was even
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: available to respond. If they did. Story goes on. Several
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: hours later, the story was updated on js online, and
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: you'll hear now that the tone of the story starts
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: to change. Once sees bureaucrats sitting on there at city Hall,
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: and I'll see that this thing is getting some covered.
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: The head of Milwaukee's nine one one call center said
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: there were obvious mistakes. Now, remember a few hours earlier,
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: this guy Bueno, he said, I'm not going to say
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: there are any mistakes until I see the investigation. Now
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: the thing is out in print. My guess is some
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: members of the city council are going ballistic. And now
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: Bueno is getting off of his lethargic ass and said, oh,
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: it's obvious there were mistakes. If it was obvious, why
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: didn't you say they were obvious? A few hours ago,
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: said there were obvious mistakes made in the late response
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: to a ninety nine year old beating victim, when it
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: took more than three hours to send Milwaukee police and
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: fire personnel. Tony Buanno, director of the city's Department of
- 1:08:35Speaker 2: Emergency Communications, said he will not fully address what we're
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: wrong until the investigation is done, likely later this week,
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: but an interview on July twenty eighth, that would have
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: been yesterday. He said dispatchers have since been reminded they
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: should err on the side of sending officers in paramedics.
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: Other changes are coming, but he did not give specifics. Well,
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: of course you're going to tell them error on the
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: side of sending somebody over there. But again, I haven't
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: heard the audio yet. What the description is is that
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: the medical Alert person got on there and said it
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: sounds like it's an attack going on, and then in
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: the separate thing, they either hooked up and patched in
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: the original call or they added that there's a male
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: voice that's the attacker that's heard on the call. I
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: am assuming that the age of the victim ninety nine
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: was communicated and they were at the very least elderly.
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: It would certainly sound unless the Medical Alert company person
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: was not communicating well, that they were communicating enough information
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: that unless the dispatcher has a brick instead of a
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: head up there, that they would understand. It sounds like
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: somebody broke into an old lady's house. It has beat
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: the hell out of her, which is the sort of
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: thing that you would think would result in somebody sending
- 1:09:44Speaker 2: a cop way, don't know there was sufficient information provided
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: that we should have handled it differently, said Bueno, who
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: added if he personally had been the dispatcher, it would
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: have been made a high priority call, which should result
- 1:09:57Speaker 2: in police responds minuts. Now, again, some dispatcher clearly here
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: screwed up before we overjudge that person. As I said,
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: these jobs are brutally hard. And also understand that in
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: Milwaukee we have every Tom Dick an idiot calling nine
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: one one over everything. They're called with crap all the time.
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: I don't remember what the situation was. I think I've
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: witnessed the wreck or something near my home, like eight
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: or nine years ago in Milwaukee. Yeah, it was a crash.
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: There was two somebody ran a stop sign and there
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: was a t bone. I called nine on one. It
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: was like fourteen rings before it was answered. And again
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: that's nobody's fault other than the fact that zillion people
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: are calling nine one one over every damn thing in
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: the world. So these dispatchers are hearing all sorts of things,
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: and have all sorts of stuff going on, and have
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: lots of stuff that they have to do. And this
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: might have been the greatest dispatcher in the world. Now
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: they're working graveyard shift. I don't know if that. I
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: don't know if the better people get the better shifts. Nonetheless,
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: unless I know warm about the person's record, I'm not
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: going to say out and note that person should be fired.
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: But it clearly seems to me, based on what we
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: have here, that this is a total screw up, and
- 1:11:07Speaker 2: there didn't seem to be anybody was paying attention, was
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: aware that this was going on for hours continuing. Bueno
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: declined to say if any personnel actions have or will
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: be taken. The Department of munit Urgency Communications was former
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: twenty twenty five putting police and Fire Dispatch set, pulling
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: police and fire dispatch from each of the departments and
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: putting them under a standard standalong City agency Alderman Scott Spiker,
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: who represents the era in Milwaukee's South Side where the
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: attack occurred and also serves as chairman of the Council's
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: Public Safety and Health Committee, which oversees emergency services, called
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: the slow response to the attack shocking the poor woman
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: who was beaten, and then the response being that slow
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: due to an error getting the information about the severity
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: of it. That was just appalling. Mayor Cavalier Johnson declined
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: to comment until the review was complete. He often declines
- 1:11:59Speaker 2: to comment on things like this. All right, now, I
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: have this story for you. This is one of these
- 1:12:10Speaker 2: stories that I find that in and of itself you
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: wouldn't think is all that newsworthy. But it struck a
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: nerve with me. It has to do with some bum
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: We're not supposed to use that term anymore, but boy,
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: oh boy, if it's ever applicable, it's this guy, forty
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: year old homeless man. He was wandering around in Brookfield
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: on Lisbon Road. Lisbon Road is one of those streets
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: that angles its way out of Milwaukee County and into
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: the northern portion of Brookfield. In if you can stay
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: on it long enough, I think you get into monominee balls. Anyway,
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: four year old homeless guy. Let me quote from the
- 1:12:50Speaker 2: report by Karen Pularski and the Waukashaw Freeman. Marzelle R.
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: Smith has been charged in Waukeshaw County Circuit Court with
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: one felony count a bribery of a public official and
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: three misdemeanor counts of theft a City of Brookfield police
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: officer responded Wednesday, that's Wednesday of last week to a
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: business on Lisbon Road after the owner reported seeing a
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: homeless man climb into a vehicle in the parking lot.
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: The officer allegedly saw Smith climbing out of the passenger
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: side of the vehicle. Police had responded to a presspassing
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: complaint involving Smith earlier that day. The complaint said, so,
- 1:13:25Speaker 2: this guy's hanging around in the parking lot of this business,
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: and they called the cops earlier again, homeless bums wandering
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: around even in Milwaukee. What it's talking about priorities of response,
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: It's probably not the highest priority thing. But now he's
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: getting in a car, so they called the cops again,
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: and now somebody said oh. When asked why he was
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: inside the vehicle, Smith allegedly claimed it belonged to his uncle,
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: but refused to identify him. Okay, so now you got
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: the homeless bumb and he's trying to think of the fly. Oh,
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: this is my uncle's car. What's your uncle's name? He's
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: not answered. The officer observes Smith carrying a bundle of cash,
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: jewelry and a clear plastic bag, an orange box and
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: a pouch containing loose coins. The complaint said, so guy's
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: got a bag and the stuff that he swiped under
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: the cary's carrying around of this bag. As Smith placed
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: the cash on the hood of the vehicle at the
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: officer's request, he allegedly insisted the money belonging to him.
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: The officer noted that Smith that this officer is the
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: one that had responded earlier to the complaint that he
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: was trespassing in the area, said notice, he didn't have
- 1:14:29Speaker 2: that bag before. So somehow between the first call and now,
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: Smith has this bag that he's carrying around that's got
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: all this money and the jewel and everything else in it.
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: The officer noted that Smith had no money during the
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: earlier encounter. That day, police alicer recovered a pocket knife
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: from Smith's pocket. Smith allegedly admitted taking loose coins in
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: two vaping devices from the vehicle and told the officer
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: had he believed he had the right to enter it
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: because the parking lot was empty. According to the complaint,
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: investigators did determined the cash total one hundred and twenty
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: nine dollars. The vehicle's owner told police she had left cash,
- 1:15:06Speaker 2: a pocket knife and used vaping devices. It was amazing
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: that fifteen years ago we didn't know what the hell
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: of vaping devices. When did they start coming out? Is
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: it fifteen years ago? Turn to fifteen fifteen years ago,
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: like we didn't know what they are. I swear, I
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: don't see anybody smoking anymore. I mean almost anywhere. When
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: do you see anybody smoke? College coaches, college kids, they
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: probably gave up vaping so started smoking. I mean, I
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: just I hardly ever. You know, we're at a radio
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: station and nobody works here anymore, but that's your They
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: go stand outside the door and smoke their cigarettes. I
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: think there's one guy that still does that outside my
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: door because I hear the door opening and closing all
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: the time. But you know, anyway, keep these vape deep
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: put vaping all over the place. So so they woman
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: who had the car, She left one hundred and twenty
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: nine dollars in cash, the other stuff, and the vaping
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: device in the unliked vehicle. According to the complaint, Smith
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: that's the forty year old guy. The bomb then allegedly
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: offered to split the money with the officer. Now I'm
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: thinking you're the bomb. You've kind of been slow on
- 1:16:16Speaker 2: your feet. And come up with any excuses saying, hey,
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: you want to split it. You gotta admit there are
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: police officers in the United States that would probably split
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: the money and say, Okay, we're gonna split it. Except
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: this is out of business. The owner has already called
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: a couple of times, the business that people are probably
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: outside taking a look at this. And the average Brookfield
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: cop is not going to commit a felony for his
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: half of one hundred and twenty nine dollars. I wouldn't
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: think the average cop anywhere would do that anyway. He said, hey,
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: do you want to split it? He said, if we
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: split the money, will you let me go. When the
- 1:16:47Speaker 2: officer asked whether he was attempting to bribe him, Smith
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: allegedly replied, yes, okay, and repeatedly asked how much money
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: it would take for the officer to release him. Now
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: he's only got one hundred and twenty nine. He started
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: with half, which is sixty four to fifty. What is
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: he thinking If I go up to eighty five or ninety,
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: the CoP's gonna let me go. After he was taken
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: into custody, Smith allegedly admitted to taking the money from
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: another vehicle, telling offices. Okay, I took the money from
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: another vehicle, but it was unlocked and there was no
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: one there. So this is his excuse. I'm in the
- 1:17:19Speaker 2: car there, he's probably he probably checked every car in
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: the thing. And you know, I'm in Milwaukee. I see
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: these people trying to get into cars all the time.
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: They pull the handle, pull the handle, and pull the
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: handle and pull the handle, and you know what they're doing.
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: And it's not even something that you can call the
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: cops over. We've got a woman being beaten half to
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: death and she doesn't get it for three hours. If
- 1:17:37Speaker 2: I say I see somebody trying to open a car
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: door that isn't here's I think you're gonna go a
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: response to twenty fifty nine. Anyway, he opens these doors
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: and one of them opens, and he gets this stuff
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: and he steals in and he says, well, look, the
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: car wasn't locked. So in the end, that's where he's
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: gonna fall. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't entirely
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: disagree with this guy. I cannot imagine going into one.
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: Who are these people who don't lock their cars? My producer,
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: my former producer who lived in Cedarburgh but always Wait,
- 1:18:15Speaker 2: don't lock our car. Wait, don't lock our goers. He
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: doesn't That doesn't live in Cedarburg. He lives in Cedarburg.
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: He lives way out in like the country. This is
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: probably nobody who's ever even in his driveway. Okay, I
- 1:18:23Speaker 2: get that. This is in Lisbon Road in Brookfield. He's
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: in front of a business. Unless this car is like
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: fifty years old. To lock the car door, you put
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: you make one little punch on your fob. Do people
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: still have car keys? When did the fobs come in?
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: You have a car key? It's an old car. See
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: when did When did car keys go out and fobs
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: come in? Your father in law has a twenty one
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: camera and no, that might be that might be one
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: where it works with a key or a fobs. Oh
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: he wanted so he got like the most base carry
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: that you can get. I remember back when I was
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: started to buy cars, there were a lot of them
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: that didn't have I mean, never mind air conditioning, that
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: didn't have radios. Well, I was gonna be going in
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: the radio. I had to have a radio. But I
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: mean back then the base model was really the base model.
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: So he got one, and it's so much of a
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: are you telling me that he has to turn the
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: crank for the windows to go up? There are that
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: was another one the power windows, saying that that was
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: something that would like differentiate between a luxury car. Okay,
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: so maybe she's got this could be as soon as
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: as recent as a twenty one camera if she bought
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: the cheap o model. Even still, does he have to
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: use the key to lock it? Or can he push
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: the button and then close the door and it locks?
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: So he's got the fib that will unlock and lock
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: the door, but he still has to crank it to
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: open it with the key, but the locking even the
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: even with this though, he can lock it by pushing
- 1:20:02Speaker 2: a button. So how old would her car have to
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: be that you don't even think you have to put
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: the key in the car and do something to lock
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: the car. Yeah, Jason said he had a car in
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: the mid nineties that had the fob. So I'm guessing
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: she just This is my theory, and since we don't
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: know who this woman is, I'm going to go out
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: and theorize as much as I want. I have a
- 1:20:22Speaker 2: theory as to why she didn't lock the car, and
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: my theory is that she didn't lock the car because
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: she's going back and forth all day to hit her fabe.
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: And that's the thing. Now, But remember earlier in the day,
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: this guy was wandering the parking lot. And my guess
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: is that this is if you know anything about homeless people,
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: they have certain areas. There are parts of Milwaukee the
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: same guy's been living in that lot for like thirteen months.
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: That's where he puts That's where he puts a sleeping
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: bag and puts this thing and something in better places
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: than others. This is the area that the guy works.
- 1:20:51Speaker 2: So if you got a guy that you know that
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: works this area, how in the world do you not
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: lock your car? And then she's leaving cash in her car. Wait,
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: I mean you don't have a purse. Why is the
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: catch like not in your purse? I mean a guy
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: is a wallet. I mean I wouldn't leave cash in
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: the car. It would be my wallet, which would be
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: in my pocket that I would take into the thing. Now,
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: I'm not saying the guy's justified and taken this. On
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: the other hand, the woman is justified in losing her stuff.
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: She's almost begging to have her stuff taken from her.
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: Now I see this a lot when people are arrested.
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: In this case, is the victim. I'm just again going
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: to guess, and I'm theorizing here because I don't know
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: who the victim is. When they went and they told
- 1:21:32Speaker 2: the woman, Okay, this guy broke into your car, I
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: know the first thing she asked, did he get my vape? Yes,
- 1:21:42Speaker 2: he got your vape. I know why they're so addicted
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: to vapes. These vapes have way more nicotine than a
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: regular cigarette does. So these people that are hitting at
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: my theory, by the way, on why Tucker Carlson went insaying,
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: is I think he's oding on nicotine. I'm on, I've
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: heard nobody else say this. You know, he sells these
- 1:22:00Speaker 2: cootine pouches. He created this product that's a competitor, is zin.
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: I think that's the big one, a competitor of this.
- 1:22:05Speaker 2: And he's always got this pouch of nicotine in there,
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: and he's on nicotine all day, And I think it's
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: you know what nicotine does. It wires you up, You're
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: all jumping around, and you develop this physical addiction for it.
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: I think Tucker's mind is working nineteen miles a minute,
- 1:22:20Speaker 2: and he's lost control of the thing, and his mind
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: is like a car that's veering around on the road,
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: Like you know, you see these cars if they know
- 1:22:27Speaker 2: they start taking off and there's no driver rate in
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: the curvet in all these directions. That's how his mind
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: is working because he's simply fried out on nicotine. But
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: the people that are hitting these vabes, and I think
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: the pouches as well, there's so much nicotine in them
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: that they not only addle them, the addiction is so
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: much stronger than it was from the people that were
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: just puffing on the cigarettes. And we know how hard
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: it was for people to kick the habit with regard
- 1:22:49Speaker 2: to the cigarettes. Imagine these people that are getting they're
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: not getting the smoke or anything else in there. They're
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: just guzzling on all of this nicotine. We're going to
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: address the Tony Romo bodycam when we come back on
- 1:23:04Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
- 1:23:10Speaker 2: The Tony Romo bodycam is out now. On Monday's podcast,
- 1:23:16Speaker 2: we briefly discussed the fact that Tony Romo, the CBS
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: football analyst who's originally from Burlington, was nailed for drunk driving.
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: Picked up on the Market Interchange in Milwaukee and was
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: booked for OWI. He makes seventeen million dollars a year
- 1:23:34Speaker 2: to do about I don't know, thirty maybe football games
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: a year. I would say that's max A couple of
- 1:23:39Speaker 2: preseason one or maybe two a weekend. He might do
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving and the following Sunday, plus the playoffs in
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: the postseason. It's a very big job. And I believe
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: he's the highest paid analyst. I think he makes more
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: than Troy Aikman, doesn't he seventy millions a lot. Yeah,
- 1:23:57Speaker 2: and he's not somebody who's on the network like every
- 1:24:00Speaker 2: other day like you see some of these people in ESPN,
- 1:24:03Speaker 2: and so when he makes a lot of money. He
- 1:24:05Speaker 2: was in West Bend competing in the Wisconsin State Amateur
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: Tournament and was apparently driving back, as he said during
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: the stop that we've now seen, heading apparently back to
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: Burlington to see his grandparents. He lives in Texas. He
- 1:24:21Speaker 2: was pulled over on the Market interchange, apparent for erratic driving.
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: They saw him driving on and passing on the right,
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: and apparently he went over the white line. That's what
- 1:24:30Speaker 2: we can pick up on the body cam. As I
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: said on Monday, the question and how bad this is
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: going to be for Romo is going to be dependent
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: on what is on the body cam, how drunk does
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: he appear to be, and is he a jackass about it?
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: You know, I've seen enough police body cams where a
- 1:24:50Speaker 2: lot a lot of people make things so much worse
- 1:24:52Speaker 2: for themselves by the way they behave they resist the
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: rest that they act like jerks, or they're so drunk
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: that they can't form a centen etcetera, etce, et cetera.
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: All right, the body cam is out. I'm not going
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: to play the audio of this here because one hundred
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: and fifty million people are going to see this, which
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: is one of the points that I want to make
- 1:25:13Speaker 2: about it. In a moment. You can find this anywhere.
- 1:25:15Speaker 2: It's everywhere on social media, it's everywhere on YouTube, just
- 1:25:18Speaker 2: in whatever the search thing is. Just put in Tony
- 1:25:20Speaker 2: Romo bodycam and you'll see it if you haven't already
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: seen it. So there's no point in playing it here.
- 1:25:26Speaker 2: I don't think he made it worse. I would describe
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: him as mostly cooperative. The one point at which he
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: was not cooperative was they asked him to get out
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: of the car and he immediately he doesn't immediately get
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: out of the car, and he keeps saying, I want
- 1:25:43Speaker 2: to call my lawyer now that I say, keeps saying
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: I maybe seventy five seconds before he got out of
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: the car. It might even be less than that. So
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: he's himin and hawn and wanted to call the lawyer
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: before he gets out of the car. But that didn't
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: go on law Beyond that, he was respectful, appeared to
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: be somewhat drunk, did not appear to be bombed out
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: of his mind. He wasn't like smashed, falling down or
- 1:26:11Speaker 2: anything like that. But you could if you wouldn't have
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: known any better, you would have thought the guy's head
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: at least some number of drinks. But he didn't, through
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: his conduct or behavior, do anything to I think make
- 1:26:22Speaker 2: it worse. Now if you would have pulled this, I'm
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: not getting out of the car, not getting out of
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: the car, not getting out of the car longer, that
- 1:26:27Speaker 2: would have been worse for him. Adds For the sheriff's
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: deputy involved, I thought she was very professional and she
- 1:26:34Speaker 2: handled this with respect toward Romo and a firmness in
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: telling him, no, you have to get out of the car.
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: She was also reasonable. They're pulled over on the market
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: interchange on the freeway. It's not a good area to
- 1:26:45Speaker 2: try to do the standardized field sobriety test. You kind
- 1:26:47Speaker 2: of need to get out of there, I mean. And
- 1:26:49Speaker 2: by the way, this was also in the five o'clock hour,
- 1:26:52Speaker 2: meaning rush hour, and it was on part of the freeway,
- 1:26:56Speaker 2: the high rise bridge where you're elevated off the road.
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: It's just not the right place. You got to get
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: out of there and have to tow the car and
- 1:27:02Speaker 2: so on. And she was very clear in dealing with him.
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: The video follows as he's taken back to apparently a
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: police station or squad station in which he was doing
- 1:27:11Speaker 2: the testing. She was respectful the entire time. I do
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: not think she knew who he was. I didn't get
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: the impression that she knew who he was, even after
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: he handed over the driver's license. Now maybe the driver's
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: I don't know if his driver's license is Tony or Anthony.
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: Maybe she didn't put two and two together. Unless you
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: watch football a lot, I don't know that necessarily people
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: would recognize him by face unless you're really into football
- 1:27:34Speaker 2: or watch the games on TV. But you can't say
- 1:27:36Speaker 2: that there was any preferential treatment, but I think that's
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: there was no sense that she knew who he was.
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: Romo at no point tried to play the do you
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: know who I am? Card? He did not do that
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: at all. In fact, if anything, he was sort of
- 1:27:52Speaker 2: underplaying this. Also the contact that was going on. They're
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: on the side of the freeway. It's really loud. I
- 1:27:58Speaker 2: mean it's really loud, and they have a trouble hearing
- 1:28:00Speaker 2: one another. And you know, Romo, initially he's in the
- 1:28:02Speaker 2: car when she's asking the initial questions and she's not
- 1:28:06Speaker 2: hearing him right, and he's not hearing her. He would saying,
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: and it wasn't that he was slurring so much as
- 1:28:11Speaker 2: it's just hard to hear that he was at this
- 1:28:13Speaker 2: Gulf tournament. He's going to see his grandparents. And then
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: she said, are you saying you came from your grandparents?
- 1:28:17Speaker 2: And though then when he was out of the car,
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: he explained he was at the Wisconsin State at the
- 1:28:22Speaker 2: Wisconsin Stadiometer. It's a USG event. I'm sure she didn't
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: know what that means. And then he's going to see
- 1:28:26Speaker 2: grandma and grandpa. I'm guessing they still live in the
- 1:28:29Speaker 2: Burlington area. Romo himself lives in Texas, but he's up
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: your planing this thing in the summer. He was probably
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: visiting his grandparents and was supposed to fly back to
- 1:28:37Speaker 2: Dallas later on in the day. It's a first offense
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: for Romo. Drunk drivings are handled completely differently depending on
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: your position. In many people's positions, they're fired, you're in
- 1:28:51Speaker 2: a position in public, you're a police officer, Often you're terminated.
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: Now for first offense, it doesn't get up to second offense.
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: In the case of Romo, he's a football broadcaster. There wasn't. Fortunately,
- 1:29:04Speaker 2: he didn't crack into anybody, he didn't hurt anybody. He
- 1:29:06Speaker 2: was caught by the officer who saw him weaving around
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: and driving erratically enough that she felt the need to
- 1:29:14Speaker 2: make the stop. To me, the thing that especially remarkable
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: about this is it's changed a little bit now that
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: the Wisconsin State Patrol is patrolling the Milwaukee freeways. But
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: you almost never see a Sheriff's deputy on the roads
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. Occasionally now in the Marquette Interchange construction zone,
- 1:29:29Speaker 2: I'll see some and I'll see a few state troopers
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: in there, but usually there are no. I mean, it's
- 1:29:35Speaker 2: just not a priority of the Sheriff's department, and it
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: shouldn't be. We are under law enforcement in Milwaukee County
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: and there were better and more important things to do
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: than out there trying to catch speeders and so on.
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: But this deputy was in the area where she saw him.
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: What we don't know, and it's probably going to be
- 1:29:51Speaker 2: at a report. Did she see him weave around like
- 1:29:53Speaker 2: a mile behind and then she waited to see if
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: he was going to continue to drive erradically, to see
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: if she had cause to pull him over or not.
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: So I thought Romo handled himself. Okay, he didn't lred
- 1:30:05Speaker 2: anything over. He didn't say hey, I'm Tony Romo. He
- 1:30:08Speaker 2: didn't act impurious, he didn't fight with the officer, didn't
- 1:30:11Speaker 2: argue with or didn't say I didn't do this. He
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: did refuse to blow into the PBT. I don't know
- 1:30:17Speaker 2: whether or not they did. They got to search more
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: to do a blood draw. In some cases you can
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: and some you can't. I would advise him not to
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: fight this if he didn't blow And it's just going
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: to be based on the officer's interpretation. Sometimes you can
- 1:30:33Speaker 2: get these things dismissed because you don't have substantial proof. Now,
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: if they did a blood drawn, he's over the limit,
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: he sunk. I would encourage him to apologize, pay the ticket,
- 1:30:44Speaker 2: pay the fine. And Wisconsin, there isn't going to be
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: jail time for a first offense. And Wisconsin, first time
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: drunk driving is not a crime, it's a civil violation.
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: I would encourage him to swallow his sword. As for
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: what it means for him at CBS, in this world world,
- 1:31:00Speaker 2: in the media, and a lot of other jobs, this
- 1:31:02Speaker 2: is what it comes down to. If CBS wants to
- 1:31:06Speaker 2: get rid of him, they now have the weapon to
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: do so. If they want to keep him, they're going
- 1:31:12Speaker 2: to keep him, and that's being debated. You know, Tony Romo,
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: when he started this job as the analyst for CBS,
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: he was like the best color commentator ever. It was uncanny.
- 1:31:24Speaker 2: He would tell you what play was going to be
- 1:31:25Speaker 2: called before the team called it. But many people have
- 1:31:28Speaker 2: made this point he didn't do that anymore. He's several
- 1:31:31Speaker 2: years removed from playing the game. Teams have offensive strategies
- 1:31:34Speaker 2: have changed a lot, and there's even been a report.
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: One of the sports websites reported several months ago that
- 1:31:42Speaker 2: CBS essentially bald Romo out during last season and insisted
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: that he start doing more preparation for games that he
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: come in. And he wouldn't be attending the meetings that
- 1:31:51Speaker 2: the broadcasters have with the head coaches, and he didn't
- 1:31:53Speaker 2: seem to know who a lot of the players were,
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: and he might have just been going up there and
- 1:31:58Speaker 2: winging it. So if they've decided, and you're seeing this
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: in sports everywhere, we're paying too much in salary for
- 1:32:04Speaker 2: this guy that we can't justify nearly a million dollars
- 1:32:07Speaker 2: a game, this can become their excuse to fire and
- 1:32:11Speaker 2: for cause. If they're still happy with Tony Romo, I
- 1:32:15Speaker 2: think that they would let it go. And I do
- 1:32:17Speaker 2: think that first defense, drunk drivings with no other He
- 1:32:22Speaker 2: didn't kill anybody, He didn't do anything beyond that. They
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: should not be something to ruin your life. It's when
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: you get into multiple and repeat offenses, or when you
- 1:32:31Speaker 2: say run from the police during it, or you physically
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: resist stuff like that, that it becomes the kind of
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: thing that probably should have more serious consequences. Do you
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: see the video, what do you have any impressions? Jason, Yeah,
- 1:32:50Speaker 2: I thought he handled pretty One other point that I
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: want to make, it is beyond me that after first
- 1:32:55Speaker 2: of all, some people watch these videos on YouTube, and
- 1:32:58Speaker 2: I'm one of them, and other people don't. The number
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: of people who think that you can call your cop
- 1:33:02Speaker 2: when you call your lawyer when you're pull over by
- 1:33:04Speaker 2: a cop. You do not have a right to call
- 1:33:06Speaker 2: your lawyer during a traffic stop. And he wanted to
- 1:33:09Speaker 2: call his lawyer, and you see this a lot of
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: these things. I'm gonna call my layer. I'm gonna call
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: my layer. I'm in The Supreme Court has ruled on this.
- 1:33:16Speaker 2: It's not the same as if you were in a
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: squad room when you were in custody. When you were
- 1:33:21Speaker 2: detained in a traffic stop, you do not have the
- 1:33:24Speaker 2: right to consult with an attorney before doing anything. There is, however,
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: no requirement that you answer any questions. You are required
- 1:33:32Speaker 2: to follow instructions and give your name. That's all you're
- 1:33:35Speaker 2: required to do. Now, I've anybody who's ever driven after
- 1:33:40Speaker 2: drinking anything at all has to have thought about this
- 1:33:43Speaker 2: and what you would do if somebody would pull you over.
- 1:33:47Speaker 2: And my response is, if I've done nothing wrong, these
- 1:33:52Speaker 2: lawyers come out and say, don't answer anything, going answer
- 1:33:54Speaker 2: anything if I actually haven't done anything wrong. For example,
- 1:33:57Speaker 2: let's say case I wasn't drinking, I'm gonna answer everything.
- 1:34:00Speaker 2: I'd explain that to them and be very very forthcoming.
- 1:34:02Speaker 2: I'm only going to be evasive if I actually would
- 1:34:04Speaker 2: have something to hide. But if something goes on and
- 1:34:07Speaker 2: you haven't done anything wrong, I think that you should
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: fully cooperate with this. Now, in this instance, he had
- 1:34:12Speaker 2: been drinking, and he handled it in the way that
- 1:34:15Speaker 2: he the way that he did, but he did seem
- 1:34:17Speaker 2: to think that he had a right to have a
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: lawyer during questioning, and he does it. What he doesn't
- 1:34:22Speaker 2: have to do is answer questions. The cops can ask
- 1:34:25Speaker 2: as much as they want, but he doesn't ask to
- 1:34:27Speaker 2: answer questions. On the other hand, if you pull somebody
- 1:34:29Speaker 2: over for suspicion of drinking and they're not going to
- 1:34:31Speaker 2: answer any questions, I think it's proper that you can
- 1:34:33Speaker 2: assume that there's a good chance that the person is drunk.
- 1:34:36Speaker 2: And as I say, in some cases in Wisconsin, they
- 1:34:38Speaker 2: get a search war to do a blood draw off
- 1:34:40Speaker 2: the person does not consent. In other cases they don't.
- 1:34:43Speaker 2: And whoever this resolves. I mean, I think Tony Rome
- 1:34:46Speaker 2: was a good guy. I hope that this works out
- 1:34:48Speaker 2: for him. And the question that every I mean everybody
- 1:34:51Speaker 2: I know has had the same response to this, and
- 1:34:53Speaker 2: it's my question too. Tony Roam only seventeen million dollars
- 1:34:56Speaker 2: a year, he's going, He's probably staying somewhere, and you're
- 1:35:00Speaker 2: Burlington because he said that's where his grandparents were. Hire
- 1:35:03Speaker 2: a driver. Now, it may be this golf outing, it's
- 1:35:10Speaker 2: the state amateur. It's not like a fundraiser even or
- 1:35:13Speaker 2: a bunch of guys going to a golf course in
- 1:35:15Speaker 2: which often they'll be drinking. May he may have thought
- 1:35:19Speaker 2: there's no drinking after this. I'm just gonna come straight
- 1:35:21Speaker 2: home because it's a tournament. And he didn't intend to drink,
- 1:35:24Speaker 2: but he did. But seventeen million plus, wouldn't you just
- 1:35:32Speaker 2: want you want to drive through Milwaukee County in the
- 1:35:34Speaker 2: middle of Russia or anyway, wouldn't you just spend a
- 1:35:37Speaker 2: few hundred bucks, have the driver take you back there
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: and sit in the back seat, and then have the
- 1:35:41Speaker 2: three drinks you're going to have, and then hop on
- 1:35:43Speaker 2: your private jet and go back to Dallas and do
- 1:35:45Speaker 2: whatever it is that you want. I mean, I do
- 1:35:47Speaker 2: get as somebody, you know, I suppose I could my
- 1:35:52Speaker 2: entire life uber and I'm a too cheap to do that.
- 1:35:55Speaker 2: But be I kind of like driving, you know, and
- 1:35:58Speaker 2: got a nice car. But if you're somebody that's prone
- 1:36:05Speaker 2: to going out and drinking a lot. And I don't
- 1:36:07Speaker 2: know if Tony's a big drinker or not, but we
- 1:36:08Speaker 2: probably get things like this, does drink hire a driver? Well?
- 1:36:14Speaker 2: And I think it's probably fair to say that for
- 1:36:16Speaker 2: the rest of Tony Romo's life, he's gonna hire a driver.
- 1:36:20Speaker 2: That's it for today's podcast. Remember the schedule is Monday, Wednesday,
- 1:36:24Speaker 2: and Thursday, so we're going to release another one Thursday afternoon.
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