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- 0:02Speaker 1: On scorn wilds Oscodia. This is the Wider Panalty Show.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Patty Show. Coming
- 0:12Speaker 2: up tonight. I speak to the father whose world was
- 0:14Speaker 2: turned upside down when he is then fifteen year old
- 0:17Speaker 2: son was almost killed after being struck by the Andrews
- 0:21Speaker 2: family suv. The Prime Minister reafirms his support for truth
- 0:26Speaker 2: telling and treaty despite the failure of the voice. Josh
- 0:30Speaker 2: Hammer will join me from the US, where Joe Biden's
- 0:33Speaker 2: intersectional base is breaking apart with black and Hispanic voters
- 0:38Speaker 2: flocking to Trump, and of course plenty of left is
- 0:42Speaker 2: losing it.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Where is the only country where it's legal to be
- 0:45Speaker 3: gay in the Middle East? Palty Asia, Do you know
- 0:47Speaker 3: it's Israel?
- 0:48Speaker 4: I don't consider it a country.
- 0:49Speaker 5: I've got a.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Palestine joining me now is Harold's Sons Senior columnist Patrick Carline. Patrick,
- 0:56Speaker 2: Let's start in Victoria. The Herald's Sons are revealed that
- 0:59Speaker 2: nine thousand Victorians have been the victims of aggravated burglaries
- 1:04Speaker 2: in the past ten years. That's one in every seventy
- 1:08Speaker 2: five Victorian homes. Incredible figure. Bayside area has been hit
- 1:13Speaker 2: hard we've seen burglaries up six hundred and seventy three
- 1:17Speaker 2: percent from ten years ago. Two hundred and one incidents
- 1:21Speaker 2: reported last year. A lot of this growth is due
- 1:24Speaker 2: to youth criminals. We've one police source telling The Herald's
- 1:28Speaker 2: son that the parents for most of these children is
- 1:33Speaker 2: the state of Victorian. That is a reoccurring problem, isn't it.
- 1:37Speaker 2: The Herald Son again reported a youth offender who had
- 1:41Speaker 2: hundreds of offenses.
- 1:44Speaker 6: Wiped off the books.
- 1:46Speaker 2: It's just an incredible number for such a young kid,
- 1:50Speaker 2: and you just wonder what his future is going to be.
- 1:53Speaker 6: But people are scared.
- 1:54Speaker 2: People are scared in their own homes, and they're getting
- 1:57Speaker 2: increasingly upset by some of the advice they're getting about
- 2:01Speaker 2: how to deal with this crisis. Things like putting a
- 2:05Speaker 2: tracking device in your car so when it's stolen, we
- 2:08Speaker 2: can track it down a little bit easier.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Yes, well that's the problem, isn't it.
- 2:12Speaker 7: I mean we're being told the official advice is surrender.
- 2:15Speaker 7: If they come to your castle, they come to your
- 2:17Speaker 7: home at two am, surrender on the spot. And Rebecca Judd,
- 2:22Speaker 7: the influencer, was going on we got it right the
- 2:24Speaker 7: other day. She talked about Melbourne being woke, broke and violence,
- 2:28Speaker 7: and there is a really palpable fear. If you leave
- 2:32Speaker 7: your car in the driveway, are you going to wake
- 2:34Speaker 7: up at two am to kids marauding through your house
- 2:37Speaker 7: demanding your keys as a revolving door. They get caught.
- 2:41Speaker 7: It sounds like the police are very good in turning
- 2:44Speaker 7: up quickly. They arrest some of them, they get bail,
- 2:46Speaker 7: and then they do it again. And this is getting worse.
- 2:48Speaker 7: I mean, these numbers vindicate that fear that so many
- 2:52Speaker 7: men Burnie is a feeling at the most.
- 2:54Speaker 2: And I remember when Beck Judd first brought this up,
- 2:57Speaker 2: particularly in the base Side area, backlash from the Victorian government.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Dad Andrews was Premier at the time, and he kind
- 3:06Speaker 2: of mocked her and said her figures were completely wrong
- 3:09Speaker 2: and the official stats don't back that up. The official
- 3:12Speaker 2: stats did back that, Hud, but he's gone and just
- 3:16Speaker 2: into Alan seems to be even less interested in this.
- 3:20Speaker 2: I mean, she would know that it's going to have
- 3:22Speaker 2: an impact at the polls, but the polls are a
- 3:24Speaker 2: long way away.
- 3:24Speaker 7: Absolutely now. I think she should be very mindful of that.
- 3:27Speaker 7: I mean, people are very sort of cynical. If you
- 3:31Speaker 7: like about this bail policy, and you keep reading these
- 3:33Speaker 7: stories where kids are given bail and you haven't judged,
- 3:36Speaker 7: So I'll give you another chance.
- 3:38Speaker 1: This is chance number nine or number ten.
- 3:40Speaker 7: Then they go and t bonakar at an intersection in
- 3:43Speaker 7: the stolen car, or they're in a police chase or whatever.
- 3:46Speaker 7: They're danger in the community.
- 3:48Speaker 1: It really does. These are the sorts of.
- 3:49Speaker 7: Things you might expect in Johannesburg or the South Side
- 3:53Speaker 7: or Chicago or something.
- 3:54Speaker 1: This is Melbourne.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Well, that was what was interesting when the police gave
- 3:59Speaker 2: that advice about put a was it the Apple device
- 4:03Speaker 2: that air tracker in your car so we can find it?
- 4:07Speaker 2: And I think there was other advice about leaving the
- 4:10Speaker 2: keys by the front door so if they come in,
- 4:12Speaker 2: they don't have to find you. They can just grab
- 4:14Speaker 2: the keys and grab your car. It's the sort of
- 4:16Speaker 2: advice crime riddled Californian cities were given to their residents.
- 4:21Speaker 2: So we're not expecting to hear that in Melbourne. Now
- 4:24Speaker 2: let's talk about Anthony Albanezi's while he's saying is open
- 4:29Speaker 2: to a macaratea commission, in other words, a treaty and
- 4:32Speaker 2: the whole truth telling process. We saw him on election
- 4:37Speaker 2: night promise to implement the Ullarys Statement from the Heart
- 4:41Speaker 2: in full and that does include treaty and truth telling.
- 4:44Speaker 2: But given that the Voice failed, and failed pretty comprehensively, Patrick,
- 4:49Speaker 2: you would think you would listen to the will of
- 4:51Speaker 2: the Australian people Because sixty one percent of them are
- 4:54Speaker 2: against the Voice. I would guess more than eighty percent
- 4:59Speaker 2: would be against an treaty process. So why is it
- 5:02Speaker 2: even entertaining it contemplating? It is really beyond me? Is
- 5:07Speaker 2: it determined to be a one term PM?
- 5:10Speaker 7: It seems like it doesn't. I think I've said to
- 5:12Speaker 7: you before. I went up to Cape York about a
- 5:14Speaker 7: month before the Voice. I spoke to people in remote
- 5:17Speaker 7: communities and they were seeing all about the Voice. They said,
- 5:20Speaker 7: this is big city nonsense. Basically, there is no appetite
- 5:24Speaker 7: for treaties at the moment, and I think there's a
- 5:26Speaker 7: lot of suspicion.
- 5:27Speaker 1: What's a treaty about. Is it about actually truth telling.
- 5:31Speaker 7: As it's called, or is it about activism and of
- 5:35Speaker 7: reparations down the track? What does a treaty actually lead to?
- 5:38Speaker 7: And people are sick of thinking about it. I think
- 5:41Speaker 7: people care a lot more about practical outcomes. There've been
- 5:44Speaker 7: no improvements across the board in indigenous sort of health
- 5:48Speaker 7: or employment or education for twenty years. People want to
- 5:53Speaker 7: see that get better. They're not that interested in sort
- 5:56Speaker 7: of going back.
- 5:57Speaker 2: We keep seeing successive governments listening almost exclusively to the
- 6:02Speaker 2: activist class, and I think that's a large part of
- 6:04Speaker 2: the problem.
- 6:04Speaker 6: The very people whose advices.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Let us here are the ones who are still setting
- 6:10Speaker 2: the agenda. Now, let's talk about South Coast residents in
- 6:15Speaker 2: New South Wales staging a rally to oppose the government's
- 6:18Speaker 2: offshort wind farm plans. National leader David littlproud told the
- 6:24Speaker 2: crowd a coalition government would dump the Illwarra project and
- 6:28Speaker 2: will look for other energy options. He said the coalition
- 6:32Speaker 2: isn't against renewables, but renewables should be an environment, should
- 6:37Speaker 2: be in an environment they can't destroy.
- 6:40Speaker 6: That is a good point.
- 6:42Speaker 2: The Daily Telegraph ran a poll on this issue. Eighty
- 6:46Speaker 2: nine percent of their readers are against this project. Patrick,
- 6:50Speaker 2: but the government is pressing ahead with so many of
- 6:54Speaker 2: these large scale renewable projects and they do seem to
- 6:58Speaker 2: destroy the natural environments, certainly esthetically. These soul of farms,
- 7:04Speaker 2: wind farms and the concerns of local residents seem to
- 7:09Speaker 2: be disregarded very easily.
- 7:11Speaker 7: It sounds like there's been very little consultation in a
- 7:13Speaker 7: lot of these cases. And I mean, you've got New
- 7:15Speaker 7: South Wales, you've got Southwest Victoria, and you've got CFA
- 7:19Speaker 7: units in Victoria today coming out and saying we're not
- 7:22Speaker 7: going to put out fires on renewable projects unless lies
- 7:24Speaker 7: are endangered, because we don't want these projects.
- 7:27Speaker 1: These are bad for our communities.
- 7:28Speaker 7: And it sounds like there's a real disconnect between the
- 7:31Speaker 7: ideology of the renewables push and those poor people on
- 7:35Speaker 7: the ground who actually have to live with the consequences
- 7:38Speaker 7: of transmission lines and those sorts of things.
- 7:41Speaker 1: It sounds like it's been badly handled.
- 7:43Speaker 7: I think we'll see more and more of these kind
- 7:45Speaker 7: of protests as time goes on.
- 7:48Speaker 2: I hope that there is some movement because these projects
- 7:52Speaker 2: are happening and if you travel in the countryside, and
- 7:57Speaker 2: a lot of Australians really never leave the big cities
- 7:59Speaker 2: where they live, they would see this and they would
- 8:02Speaker 2: see the impact it's having on just beautiful parts of
- 8:06Speaker 2: the country being really visually destroyed. And god knows what
- 8:10Speaker 2: those solar farms are doing to the actual farmable land. Now,
- 8:14Speaker 2: Skynese host and former Chinese prisoner Chung Lay was body
- 8:19Speaker 2: blocked at a China Australia press event by Chinese officials.
- 8:24Speaker 6: Let's have a look.
- 8:26Speaker 8: Here.
- 8:26Speaker 9: You can see an Australian official asking the Chinese media
- 8:29Speaker 9: staffer to move from blocking the journalist. The woman in
- 8:33Speaker 9: the brown coat and the man in the blue blazer
- 8:35Speaker 9: are both standing between Miss Chung and the cameras who
- 8:38Speaker 9: are about to film the premiere of China and Anthony Albanezi.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Walking in together.
- 8:44Speaker 9: You can see Australian officials repeatedly trying to get them
- 8:47Speaker 9: to move, and when missus Chung switches seats so that
- 8:50Speaker 9: she's on the other side, the Chinese officials again try
- 8:53Speaker 9: to block her view from the cameras. You can see
- 8:56Speaker 9: an Australian staffer in the light coat blocking the two
- 8:59Speaker 9: Chines news officials from getting near Miss Chung. This was
- 9:03Speaker 9: all during remarks that were due to be made by
- 9:05Speaker 9: the Prime Minister and Chinese premiere. You can see here
- 9:08Speaker 9: Miss Chung is very amused by the whole thing, and
- 9:11Speaker 9: the ministers are in the background signing documents.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Now, the Prime Minister said the matter had been formally
- 9:17Speaker 2: followed up with a Chinese embassy to express Australia's concern
- 9:20Speaker 2: at las treatment, calling it clumsy. I would have used
- 9:25Speaker 2: stronger language, Patrick than clum z.
- 9:28Speaker 7: I don't think clumsy is the right word. Maybe deliberate
- 9:30Speaker 7: or insistent. We're on astrand soil here. How can this
- 9:35Speaker 7: not possibly be condemned in the strongest terms From the
- 9:38Speaker 7: moment it happened, it was all over the news yesterday,
- 9:41Speaker 7: It hijacked the biggest story of constructive relations and everything.
- 9:45Speaker 7: The Prime Minister needed to come out and condemn it
- 9:47Speaker 7: on the spot, it looked very flat footed. I think
- 9:50Speaker 7: it took him till this morning on radio to actually
- 9:52Speaker 7: sort of deal with the question properly, and even there
- 9:55Speaker 7: he used fairly flimsy language to try and make the point.
- 10:00Speaker 2: They seem to be terrified of offending China, where we
- 10:04Speaker 2: are scared of any sort of economic coercion, any punishment
- 10:08Speaker 2: they're going to.
- 10:08Speaker 6: Meet out, but we can't have that.
- 10:10Speaker 2: It's not bad enough that they locked up this poor
- 10:13Speaker 2: woman for three years and just the most horrific of circumstances.
- 10:17Speaker 2: The conditions she endured were stuff of nightmares. And then
- 10:23Speaker 2: to do this here the nerve of it is beyond belief. Now,
- 10:29Speaker 2: the US state of Kansas is suing pharmaceutical giant Pisa
- 10:34Speaker 2: for misleading the public on their COVID nineteen vaccine. The
- 10:38Speaker 2: say claims Fiser made false statements about its vaccines effectiveness
- 10:43Speaker 2: and hid its risks, including safety related to pregnant women
- 10:48Speaker 2: and heart problems. Here is Kansas Attorney General Chris Kobak.
- 10:54Speaker 10: However, as Spiser knew, the United States government, the United
- 10:56Speaker 10: States military, foreign governments, and others had found that Weser's
- 11:00Speaker 10: COVID nineteen vaccine casmiocarditis and pericarditis number three effectiveness regarding variants.
- 11:08Speaker 10: Weiser also claimed that it's COVID nineteen vaccine protected against
- 11:11Speaker 10: COVID nineteen variants, even though data available at the time
- 11:15Speaker 10: should Weser's vaccine was effective less than half the time
- 11:18Speaker 10: against variants. Finally, transmission, Piser urged Americans to get vaccinated
- 11:25Speaker 10: in order to protect their loved ones, clearly indicating a
- 11:28Speaker 10: claim that p Weiser's COVID nineteen vaccination stopped transmission of
- 11:32Speaker 10: COVID nineteen. Peiser later admitted that it had never even
- 11:36Speaker 10: studied transmission.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Interesting indeed, and I'm sure there are many in Australia
- 11:43Speaker 2: who have COVID vaccine injuries who will be watching this
- 11:46Speaker 2: case Patrick carefully, but they don't have too many options
- 11:53Speaker 2: if they're in Australia because these big pharmaceutical giants have
- 11:58Speaker 2: effectively got immunity.
- 12:00Speaker 7: Look, I think Kansas is just the beginning of this story.
- 12:02Speaker 7: There's going to be other states that are going to
- 12:04Speaker 7: take very similar action, and it'll be fascinating to see
- 12:06Speaker 7: how it all plays out. I know you've been very
- 12:09Speaker 7: strong on that transmission question all the way through because
- 12:12Speaker 7: it did sound like being vaccinated would protect you from
- 12:15Speaker 7: spreading it.
- 12:16Speaker 6: Well, that's what vaccines typically do.
- 12:18Speaker 2: They stop you getting it and spreading it. And there
- 12:21Speaker 2: are some who say that even just calling this a
- 12:25Speaker 2: vaccine has been counterproductive because we're now seeing less trust
- 12:30Speaker 2: in vaccines than we should be seeing, because people are
- 12:32Speaker 2: associating with the COVID vaccines when you know most vaccines
- 12:37Speaker 2: are far more effective and stopping infection and transmission.
- 12:42Speaker 7: Well, it all happened very quickly, didn't it, And at
- 12:43Speaker 7: the time the world was applauding that science.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Could come up with these vaccines.
- 12:48Speaker 7: So readily, Whereas you know, ordinarily things take years and
- 12:51Speaker 7: years and years and all sorts of checks and balances
- 12:54Speaker 7: before they're approved. This all happened very quickly, and I
- 12:56Speaker 7: think we're seeing the consequences for that man.
- 13:00Speaker 2: And I think one of the things we've got to
- 13:02Speaker 2: consider in this country, in this state in particular, is
- 13:07Speaker 2: the pressure to get young kids healthy, young kids who
- 13:11Speaker 2: are at the lowest risk from COVID vaccinated, because I
- 13:15Speaker 2: remember we were running stories about kids having to change
- 13:20Speaker 2: clothes on the sidewalk because they couldn't enter clothing shops
- 13:25Speaker 2: to try on clothes because they didn't have been double vax.
- 13:29Speaker 2: And we're talking about fourteen year old kids. So it's
- 13:32Speaker 2: almost like we've memory hold that episode for.
- 13:35Speaker 7: All we close playgrounds. I think we've got haircuts on
- 13:37Speaker 7: the street. At one point in Melbourne.
- 13:39Speaker 2: Well, we banned IVF treatments, and I think Victorians and
- 13:44Speaker 2: I think Australians at large, have forgotten so much of
- 13:47Speaker 2: that because so many signed up to the insanity wholeheartedly.
- 13:52Speaker 7: We've banned common sense, and we banned joy and we
- 13:55Speaker 7: did it for about two years.
- 13:56Speaker 1: And fish we shouldn't forget it, and fishing and fish
- 13:58Speaker 1: in Victoria.
- 13:59Speaker 2: You could fish elsewhere, Patrick Carline, thank you for your time.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Thanks for now.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is fighting a court order
- 14:07Speaker 2: to submit phone records from the day his family is
- 14:11Speaker 2: Ford suv collided with a teenage cyclist who were seriously
- 14:16Speaker 2: injured on impact. The fifteen year old bike rider, Ryan Mullerman,
- 14:21Speaker 2: was riding on the morning in Peninsula when he was
- 14:23Speaker 2: struck on January seven, twenty thirteen. He's sustained serious injuries,
- 14:28Speaker 2: including a punctured lung, broken ribs, internal bleeding, and lost
- 14:32Speaker 2: ninety percent of his spleen. Dan Andrews's wife, Catherine was
- 14:36Speaker 2: behind the will at the time. Dan Andrews has engaged
- 14:40Speaker 2: high profile loyal Leon Swire and labeled the subpoena requiring
- 14:45Speaker 2: him to produce phone records from that day a phishing expedition.
- 14:49Speaker 2: We did reach out to Dan Andrews' media contact for
- 14:52Speaker 2: response and.
- 14:53Speaker 6: Have not received a reply.
- 14:55Speaker 2: We are happy to put their version of events to
- 14:58Speaker 2: airt any time if they respond to our request. Ryan's father,
- 15:03Speaker 2: Peter joins me, now, tell me about what you hope.
- 15:08Speaker 6: To achieve with this legal action.
- 15:12Speaker 8: We're hoping to get justice for Ryan from this. It's
- 15:14Speaker 8: just been such a long road for us, so we'd
- 15:18Speaker 8: really like to get closure on the case and if
- 15:21Speaker 8: we can get some honesty, some transparency, and some justice
- 15:28Speaker 8: for him.
- 15:29Speaker 6: It's been more than a decade.
- 15:31Speaker 2: We'll talk about how this has impacted your son and
- 15:34Speaker 2: your family, but first, speaking on behalf of the dissenter,
- 15:38Speaker 2: Alan government Minister Lily Dia Ambrosio has said that this
- 15:42Speaker 2: matter has already been thoroughly investigated.
- 15:46Speaker 11: This matter has been thoroughly investigated and has been concluded,
- 15:53Speaker 11: and there's nothing more to be added to this. I'm
- 15:55Speaker 11: not going to get into court matters, but what I
- 15:59Speaker 11: can say to everybody is that whenever this pops up
- 16:03Speaker 11: every now and then, the matter has been thoroughly investigated
- 16:07Speaker 11: by all relevant authorities and there's nothing more to be
- 16:10Speaker 11: added to it, and I won't be adding any more
- 16:12Speaker 11: comments to it.
- 16:15Speaker 6: What's your response to that.
- 16:17Speaker 8: Well, we don't feel that it's been thoroughly investigated. There's
- 16:20Speaker 8: been a lot of new evidence come to light just
- 16:22Speaker 8: recently the Triple O call for one, and we don't
- 16:28Speaker 8: believe that it was thoroughly investigated. Back at the time,
- 16:33Speaker 8: there was no breathalyzer done on either of the occupants
- 16:36Speaker 8: of the car. Daniel Andrews removed the car from the
- 16:42Speaker 8: crash scene, so removed that evidence from the scene.
- 16:46Speaker 2: He says that he did that to drive the kids
- 16:49Speaker 2: home because the kids, his kids in the car were
- 16:51Speaker 2: alarmed by the accident, so just to give his side.
- 16:56Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right, because we did have doctor Raymond Shwey,
- 16:59Speaker 2: who's the state's former Assistant Commissioner for Traffic and Operations.
- 17:04Speaker 2: He looked into this accident and said that Victoria Police,
- 17:08Speaker 2: the investigation they did, had twelve critical standards that were failed.
- 17:15Speaker 2: The standard operating procedures were not followed in at least
- 17:19Speaker 2: a dozen instances. Have you had an explanation from Victoria
- 17:25Speaker 2: Police for why they didn't do those sort of things
- 17:27Speaker 2: you mentioned the breathalysers, there's a number of other things
- 17:30Speaker 2: they didn't do properly. Is Have they been forthcoming and
- 17:34Speaker 2: explained their failures there?
- 17:36Speaker 8: No, we've had no correspondence from vic Pole at all,
- 17:40Speaker 8: and so that raises further suspicion. I guess if they
- 17:45Speaker 8: felt that they'd done their job entirely, they would have
- 17:49Speaker 8: come to us and said, well, we looked at it
- 17:50Speaker 8: this way and that way and that way, but none
- 17:53Speaker 8: of that happened. We've been really kept out of the loop,
- 17:56Speaker 8: and I think that they just wanted to close it
- 17:59Speaker 8: from their end, probably to protect a political career. But
- 18:06Speaker 8: our lawyers and our research team have uncovered a lot
- 18:10Speaker 8: of things. As I said, the breath Eliza, the removal
- 18:13Speaker 8: of the car. Yes, he took the children home, and
- 18:15Speaker 8: I'm aware that they would have been alarmed, but those
- 18:18Speaker 8: children are also witnesses to that accident, which is a
- 18:21Speaker 8: crucial piece of evidence as well.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Now, as I mentioned earlier, the premiere is the former premier,
- 18:28Speaker 2: Dan Andrews is fighting the court order to submit his
- 18:30Speaker 2: phone records from that night. What is your message, Jim,
- 18:36Speaker 2: if you could speak to him directly, if he's watching,
- 18:38Speaker 2: what is your message to Dan Andrews.
- 18:41Speaker 8: If you've got nothing to hide, you'd be transparent about
- 18:45Speaker 8: all of those records. But if you've got something to hide,
- 18:48Speaker 8: then you're going to fight to disclose those records.
- 18:51Speaker 2: But he says it's a fishing expedition, so we're not
- 18:54Speaker 2: casting any doubt on his reasons for that. But you've
- 19:00Speaker 2: made the point that given his standing in the community,
- 19:04Speaker 2: the fact that he's just been honored with the country's
- 19:06Speaker 2: highest honor, an ac Do you feel like he should
- 19:12Speaker 2: be forthcoming and provide those records just to make this
- 19:19Speaker 2: matter not drag out even longer in the courts.
- 19:22Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, I feel that he should bring those records forwards. Again,
- 19:25Speaker 8: you know, if we've got nothing to hide and to
- 19:29Speaker 8: say that it's still a fishing expedition, it's a legal case,
- 19:32Speaker 8: which is far from.
- 19:33Speaker 1: A fishing expedition.
- 19:34Speaker 8: So we just want that clarity and that closure and
- 19:39Speaker 8: that justice.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Now, how has Ryan's life been impacted with this crash?
- 19:44Speaker 2: And we spoke earlier about his terrible injuries, but it's
- 19:50Speaker 2: been a critical juncture in his young life, isn't it
- 19:53Speaker 2: at the age of fifteen to undergo something like that.
- 19:56Speaker 8: Yeah, the injuries that he sustained were terrible, but you
- 20:01Speaker 8: do recover from those physical injuries. It's probably been the
- 20:05Speaker 8: mental injuries that he has sustained from that. He was
- 20:10Speaker 8: incredibly traumatized from that accident. But further to compound that,
- 20:16Speaker 8: he was warned that if he spoke about that incident
- 20:21Speaker 8: that he would be in trouble by the police.
- 20:24Speaker 6: So there's a phis he gave him that warning.
- 20:26Speaker 1: I think it was.
- 20:27Speaker 8: Either the lawyers or it might have been Vic Police himself.
- 20:30Speaker 8: I'm really not too sure, but if you're a fifteen
- 20:34Speaker 8: year old boy, that would ske you to death. So
- 20:36Speaker 8: he really feels like he's been shut down and silenced
- 20:41Speaker 8: since that twenty thirteen accident.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Now you're asking the public to support your case. It
- 20:47Speaker 2: is an expensive exercise, we know, any sort of legal action.
- 20:50Speaker 2: And you've set up a go fund Me page.
- 20:53Speaker 8: Yeah, we have set up a go fund Me page.
- 20:55Speaker 8: This is a really expensive legal exercise. We're a humble
- 20:59Speaker 8: fan from humble means and we want to fight this case.
- 21:05Speaker 8: You know, we want to get justice for Ryan. I'm
- 21:08Speaker 8: sure the Andrews camp thinks. I'm sure that they can
- 21:11Speaker 8: outspend us, and I'm sure that they think that once
- 21:15Speaker 8: they've outspent us that we just simply go away and
- 21:18Speaker 8: it all gets washed under the rug yet again, so
- 21:21Speaker 8: really reaching out to those people that want to support
- 21:24Speaker 8: our case with that go fund me page.
- 21:28Speaker 6: Yeah, we've got the page up.
- 21:29Speaker 2: So if people want to back your son and his
- 21:33Speaker 2: fight to find out precisely what happened on that night,
- 21:37Speaker 2: you can do that. Peter Mullman, thank you so much
- 21:40Speaker 2: for your time. This evening, I really do appreciate you
- 21:42Speaker 2: speaking with me. Still to come a bumper edition of
- 21:45Speaker 2: Left He's Losing It, and Josh Hammer joins me with
- 21:48Speaker 2: the latest from the US. It's time for Left is
- 22:01Speaker 2: losing it and we love nothing more than hearing intersectional
- 22:05Speaker 2: race baiting and political grandstanding from sports broadcasters.
- 22:08Speaker 6: And Stephen A. Smith delivers the goods here.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Apparently all the accolades that Caitlin Clark is receiving is
- 22:16Speaker 2: because she's white, and the jealous players who are attacking
- 22:20Speaker 2: her are really the real victims here.
- 22:24Speaker 12: She is a white young lady, and she's been a
- 22:30Speaker 12: magnet in a way that has benefited the league in
- 22:36Speaker 12: ways that others have not. No matter how far we
- 22:40Speaker 12: believe that we have advanced as a society, there's still.
- 22:44Speaker 1: Such a long way to go. Because in the end.
- 22:47Speaker 12: If you're white, you're bright, you're right, and as a result,
- 22:51Speaker 12: the shine comes your way in the eyes of a
- 22:55Speaker 12: lot of people in America.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Oh, the idiocy did not end there. Apparently make America
- 23:01Speaker 2: Great again is synonymous with make America white again.
- 23:07Speaker 12: You have somebody that's a presidential candidate, What is his
- 23:11Speaker 12: claim to feed make America great again, what have people
- 23:15Speaker 12: interpreted that to me make America white again?
- 23:19Speaker 2: Well, that must be newsed to the majority of Hispanic
- 23:22Speaker 2: voters who now back Trump instead of the Democrats. It
- 23:26Speaker 2: must be newsed also to the growing number of black
- 23:29Speaker 2: voters who are abandoning the Democrats to embrace the MAGA message.
- 23:33Speaker 2: I'll be speaking to Josh Hammer about that very shortly.
- 23:37Speaker 6: Now, we love a good vox pop on this program.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Let's see what the young folk at a DC pro
- 23:43Speaker 2: Palestinian rally are thinking. Surely even this lot will not
- 23:48Speaker 2: make excuses for rape, torture, and slaughter of innocent Israelis
- 23:53Speaker 2: on October seven.
- 23:54Speaker 13: Can you guys tell me a little bit about your
- 23:56Speaker 13: goal here today?
- 23:56Speaker 14: As queer people, we have a duty to show up
- 23:59Speaker 14: here and stand in solidarity with all of the other
- 24:02Speaker 14: marginalized communities.
- 24:04Speaker 6: All this kind of started October seventh.
- 24:06Speaker 13: So what do you have to say about October seventh
- 24:08Speaker 13: and the actions of Hamas. I think definitely the protests
- 24:10Speaker 13: started October seventh, but like this issue did not start
- 24:13Speaker 13: October seventh.
- 24:14Speaker 4: I guess Ostber seventh, they like did something they came
- 24:17Speaker 4: out of like trying to like fight back, you know,
- 24:19Speaker 4: because you know they've been oppressed for so many years.
- 24:22Speaker 3: Hamas is the reaction is not a problem. Hamas is
- 24:25Speaker 3: the result of the situation.
- 24:27Speaker 5: No other young people out there.
- 24:28Speaker 13: Should they come out and protest and share this work
- 24:30Speaker 13: for Homas?
- 24:32Speaker 6: I think they should.
- 24:33Speaker 13: And your sign says from the river to the sea,
- 24:35Speaker 13: Palestine will be free.
- 24:36Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 24:37Speaker 13: Can you tell me which river and which sea we're.
- 24:38Speaker 4: Talking about here?
- 24:42Speaker 13: This is a a You've caught me on the spot,
- 24:44Speaker 13: and I'm really horrible when I asked some questions not true,
- 24:47Speaker 13: but basically the river and the sea that border both
- 24:50Speaker 13: sides of Palestine where Israel is right now?
- 24:54Speaker 5: Dear?
- 24:54Speaker 2: And here are more college kids who are frightfully stupid.
- 25:00Speaker 4: Did you guys see that?
- 25:01Speaker 3: Al Kaya just thank you guys. They thanked all the
- 25:03Speaker 3: college protesters and everything Houthis has BLA.
- 25:06Speaker 14: I make you happy, Uh.
- 25:06Speaker 4: Huh, yeah, of course we're supported.
- 25:08Speaker 3: It makes you feel like there's actually some kind of
- 25:10Speaker 3: home for one hundred buck who was the terrorist group
- 25:12Speaker 3: behind nine to eleven No food al Qaida?
- 25:16Speaker 14: Well you think that nine to eleven.
- 25:17Speaker 5: Had some justification?
- 25:19Speaker 4: Good in some ways?
- 25:20Speaker 3: Can you guys find God's on a map?
- 25:23Speaker 4: I think we need a better moth.
- 25:24Speaker 9: You can't find it. Who is the number one sponsor
- 25:27Speaker 9: of global terrorists in America and the US New York,
- 25:30Speaker 9: New York's Estate.
- 25:32Speaker 2: That's Zach Say, who does great work exposing these lefties
- 25:37Speaker 2: losing it.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Where is slavery legal in the Middle East?
- 25:40Speaker 4: Israel, you know, and Yemen the Huthi's brought it back.
- 25:43Speaker 4: Oh my god, wow, what a houi.
- 25:45Speaker 3: Where is the only country where it's legal to be
- 25:47Speaker 3: gay in the Middle East?
- 25:48Speaker 4: I would say, Asia, Do you know? It's Israel. I
- 25:50Speaker 4: don't consider it the country. I would go to Palestine
- 25:53Speaker 4: if you went to Palace and you'd be thrown off
- 25:54Speaker 4: of a building.
- 25:55Speaker 14: All of these like the gayest city on Earth.
- 25:56Speaker 4: I doubt it's the gayest city on it. It's really gay,
- 25:59Speaker 4: you know what?
- 26:00Speaker 3: The number one slogan the Iranian government chances death to America.
- 26:03Speaker 4: Honestly, like, I'm kind of not really.
- 26:06Speaker 2: Now to California, the bluest of blue states, where the
- 26:10Speaker 2: La City Council is taking down a no U turn
- 26:14Speaker 2: sign in the name of equity, tolerance and inclusion.
- 26:19Speaker 5: What La City Council members?
- 26:26Speaker 2: You go?
- 26:26Speaker 15: Sodo Martinez and Nythia Rahman were on hand today to
- 26:30Speaker 15: help remove the signs. They say the no cruising and
- 26:33Speaker 15: no U Turn signs were put up in the nineteen
- 26:35Speaker 15: nineties to prevent people in the gay community from meeting
- 26:38Speaker 15: up with other gay people.
- 26:42Speaker 14: I was also surprised that these U turn signs were
- 26:46Speaker 14: still up. And at first, you know, they seem a
- 26:48Speaker 14: little oh okay, it's just a no U turn sign.
- 26:51Speaker 14: But when you learn the history of it and you
- 26:53Speaker 14: realize that these were used to profile gay people.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Really, these activists are almost beyond parody. The descent into
- 27:02Speaker 2: a full blown leftist lunacy is pretty much complete. And
- 27:07Speaker 2: I think it's time to check in on the Leader
- 27:09Speaker 2: of the Free World again. Another incoherent rant here he
- 27:13Speaker 2: has a little mini melt down. Watch him completely mix
- 27:17Speaker 2: up a well known expression as he casually threatens Israel.
- 27:24Speaker 1: And I know you're a typical press guy.
- 27:26Speaker 6: You're grabbing me in front of this on and said
- 27:28Speaker 6: to trust you.
- 27:29Speaker 12: As far as I throw your phone, I can add
- 27:30Speaker 12: a good.
- 27:31Speaker 6: Arm, haven't you.
- 27:31Speaker 1: I'm going to throw this away. But my point is this,
- 27:38Speaker 1: I have made.
- 27:39Speaker 16: Very clear to the Israelis that they have to do
- 27:44Speaker 16: in the New Turn.
- 27:45Speaker 1: If they don't, what's gonna happen was going to come off.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Across the West, we continue to see anti Israeli, anti
- 27:54Speaker 2: West protesters run riot. They're even harassing their fellow lefties
- 27:59Speaker 2: in the lefty heartland of Washington, DC.
- 28:03Speaker 17: People who eat at Tati, the most basic is rarely
- 28:06Speaker 17: establishment in DC. Here we have some mediocre white people
- 28:10Speaker 17: to start the day off.
- 28:12Speaker 4: More mediocre white people.
- 28:15Speaker 1: More mediocre white people. Thank you for the smiles.
- 28:17Speaker 18: They're there, a.
- 28:18Speaker 17: Chubby, mediocre white man.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Hike.
- 28:19Speaker 17: Excuse me, man, Can we ask you your stance on Palestine?
- 28:23Speaker 17: Any stance, ma'am? No stance, No stances, no, just what
- 28:27Speaker 17: do you have for brunch? Some chuk shuka? Some Palestinian
- 28:31Speaker 17: chuk shuka? Hey, by leakyaknva you guys, wire gonna give
- 28:35Speaker 17: you a pass, but next time, please skip Tata. It's
- 28:38Speaker 17: owned by devilish white people.
- 28:41Speaker 2: Joining me now is Newsweek Senior editor at Large and
- 28:45Speaker 2: Article three Projects Senior Council Josh Hammer.
- 28:49Speaker 5: Josh.
- 28:49Speaker 2: We've seen these protesters take over university campuses. They have
- 28:53Speaker 2: these illegal encampments there. We've seen them cause enormous damage
- 28:58Speaker 2: to property and open threatened people. We've even seen acts
- 29:02Speaker 2: of violence. And yet as you have written in the
- 29:05Speaker 2: New York Post. Where are the consequences? Why are Blue
- 29:09Speaker 2: cities in particular turning a blind eye to this lawlessness?
- 29:15Speaker 3: You know, Rita, It is certainly not for lack of
- 29:18Speaker 3: available options. There are any number of options that federal
- 29:22Speaker 3: prosecutors have. I mean, there is the ku Klux Klanak
- 29:25Speaker 3: going back to eighteen seventy one, which is passing the
- 29:28Speaker 3: aftermath of the American Civil War, which basically bans people
- 29:31Speaker 3: from a mass conspiracy, especially if you go in disguise,
- 29:34Speaker 3: if you wear masks, like a lot of these protesters
- 29:36Speaker 3: have been doing, you are forbidden from doing that and masks,
- 29:39Speaker 3: so as to deprive your fellow American citizens of their
- 29:43Speaker 3: constitutional rights. There is a civil analog to that. There was,
- 29:46Speaker 3: of course material support for terrorism, which is a federal
- 29:49Speaker 3: criminal offense. But the point is that whether at a
- 29:52Speaker 3: federal level or at a local level, when it comes
- 29:55Speaker 3: to lower level local crimes such as harassment, intimidation, a
- 30:00Speaker 3: lot of this stuff on the street, you know, you
- 30:02Speaker 3: don't have a free speech right Riata in our country.
- 30:05Speaker 3: You don't have a first Memen free speech right to
- 30:07Speaker 3: intimidate and to harass people. You have a free speech
- 30:10Speaker 3: right to make your opinions known on the issues of
- 30:13Speaker 3: the day. You don't have a right to get into
- 30:15Speaker 3: someone's face and to say that you want them to die,
- 30:18Speaker 3: that you want to call for genocide. This was the
- 30:20Speaker 3: error that the Harvard president made, of course, in the
- 30:23Speaker 3: infamous December twenty twenty three congressional testimony that led to
- 30:26Speaker 3: her resignation. But the points here, and this is what
- 30:29Speaker 3: I wrote about for the New York Posts. Whether it's
- 30:31Speaker 3: the federal level, whether it's the local level, or anywhere else,
- 30:33Speaker 3: there was a very very simple and straightforward reason the
- 30:36Speaker 3: prosecutors and law enforcement in general are not bringing these charges,
- 30:39Speaker 3: which is that one, they probably largely at least left
- 30:43Speaker 3: wing jurisdictions, agree with the underlying conduct. Two, as we
- 30:47Speaker 3: saw in the twenty twenty Antifa Black Lives Matter riots,
- 30:50Speaker 3: and as we've seen again since October seven, these are
- 30:52Speaker 3: very violent people. Read, these are violent people who take
- 30:55Speaker 3: no prisoners. These prosecutors and cops don't want to be
- 30:58Speaker 3: on these miscreants bad side any more than anyone else
- 31:01Speaker 3: wants to be. So they agree with the Wolk orthodoxy,
- 31:03Speaker 3: and they don't want to get themselves hurt. What that
- 31:05Speaker 3: creates obviously is a toxic, toxic stew America is currently
- 31:09Speaker 3: failing its Jews, and by extension, is not merely just
- 31:12Speaker 3: feeling its Jews, is feeling us off.
- 31:16Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 31:17Speaker 2: And we've got this two tier policing, this two tier
- 31:20Speaker 2: justice system, where if you were out there protesting from
- 31:24Speaker 2: some right wing cause, you would have the authorities come
- 31:28Speaker 2: down on you like a ton of bricks. But if
- 31:31Speaker 2: they agree with you viewpoint, you can get up to
- 31:35Speaker 2: the mischief we've seen, and the calling it mischief is
- 31:38Speaker 2: really underplaying it, because sometimes it is just violent intimidation
- 31:43Speaker 2: and nothing else. Now, even a broken clock is right
- 31:47Speaker 2: twice a day. And so I was interested in this
- 31:50Speaker 2: analysis from CNN on the historic levels of support the
- 31:55Speaker 2: Republicans are getting from black folk under Trump. They are
- 32:00Speaker 2: perplex the f I at CNN, but they acknowledge this
- 32:04Speaker 2: is a seismic shift.
- 32:07Speaker 18: And more than that, it's not just that Joe Biden
- 32:10Speaker 18: is losing ground, it's that Donald Trump is gaining ground.
- 32:13Speaker 18: You go from seven percent single digits at this point
- 32:16Speaker 18: in twenty twenty to now twenty one percent. And again, John,
- 32:21Speaker 18: I keep looking for signs that this is going to
- 32:22Speaker 18: go back to normal, and I don't see it yet
- 32:25Speaker 18: in the polling of anything. Right now, we're careening towards
- 32:28Speaker 18: a historic performance for Republican presidential candidate, the likes of
- 32:31Speaker 18: which we have not seen in six decades. Look at
- 32:35Speaker 18: black voters under the age of fifty. Holy cow, folks,
- 32:38Speaker 18: Holy cal Look at this. Joe Biden was up by
- 32:41Speaker 18: eighty points among this group back at this point in
- 32:43Speaker 18: twenty twenty. Look at where that margin haskreem down towards
- 32:46Speaker 18: it's now just get this, thirty seven points. That lead
- 32:51Speaker 18: has dropped by more than half. Mister Berman Home, I
- 32:55Speaker 18: just never seen anything like this. I'm like speechless because
- 32:58Speaker 18: you always look at history and you go, okay, this
- 33:00Speaker 18: is a historic moment. If this polling is anywhere near correct,
- 33:04Speaker 18: we are looking at an historic moment right now. We're
- 33:06Speaker 18: Black voters under the age of fifty, which have historically
- 33:09Speaker 18: been such a big part of the Democratic coalition, are
- 33:12Speaker 18: leaving it in droves.
- 33:15Speaker 2: Josha Donald Trump has launched his Black Voter Coalition group.
- 33:20Speaker 2: His campaign is saying historic rates of black voters are
- 33:23Speaker 2: now behind the Republican candidate.
- 33:26Speaker 6: And if those CNN figures.
- 33:28Speaker 2: Are accurate, what's that going to mean for the Democrats
- 33:32Speaker 2: going forward. They have just relied on getting ninety percent
- 33:37Speaker 2: plus of the black vote for decades.
- 33:40Speaker 5: Now.
- 33:42Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Red, I'm trying not to leugh too
- 33:45Speaker 3: hard over here because Harry Enton is the CNN d
- 33:48Speaker 3: and analyst that we just saw. I've actually known Harry
- 33:50Speaker 3: since he and I were both eighteen years old. He
- 33:52Speaker 3: and I go way back. He's probably the only straight
- 33:54Speaker 3: shooter at CNN. He is not a far left liberal guy.
- 33:57Speaker 3: He calls it like he sees it. But Harry knows
- 33:59Speaker 3: his audience and he knows of the CNN audience is
- 34:02Speaker 3: a liberal audience. So he's just trying to do what
- 34:04Speaker 3: any good television broadcasters should do, which is just trying
- 34:07Speaker 3: to be very honest with your audience. And here honesty
- 34:10Speaker 3: means that Joe Biden's intersectional coalition is falling apart. Black
- 34:14Speaker 3: voters are peeling away at record pace for very simple
- 34:18Speaker 3: bread and butter reasons. Because the economy in the United
- 34:20Speaker 3: States has never been good. Bidenomics they tease it out
- 34:23Speaker 3: like a wet BALLOONA went absolutely nowhere last year. They
- 34:26Speaker 3: haven't talked about Bidenomics since November. They for a little while.
- 34:30Speaker 3: That's all I talked about. Then they decide that they
- 34:32Speaker 3: couldn't bamboozol Americans into thinking the bidnominous was anything other
- 34:35Speaker 3: than a stink bomb, so they let it go. Inflation,
- 34:38Speaker 3: of course, reached nine point one percent to forty year
- 34:40Speaker 3: high back on the summer of twenty twenty two. The
- 34:42Speaker 3: economy formally entered a recession back on that same year,
- 34:45Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. So Black voters are peeling away from
- 34:48Speaker 3: Joe Biden for the same reason that many underrepresented minorities,
- 34:52Speaker 3: Hispanic voters among them, are peeling away, which is that
- 34:54Speaker 3: they don't like the way that the country is being
- 34:57Speaker 3: governed right now. And if these numbers are real, and
- 35:00Speaker 3: as Harry said right there on CNN, we have every
- 35:02Speaker 3: indication to believe that the shift actually is real, especially
- 35:06Speaker 3: for young black men. Young black men are now supporting
- 35:08Speaker 3: Trump twenty five sometimes even thirty percent in polls that
- 35:13Speaker 3: could easily could easily make or break the election when
- 35:16Speaker 3: it comes to states like Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina Pennsylvania,
- 35:20Speaker 3: all of which have sizeable Black populations there. But the
- 35:24Speaker 3: broader point to read is that the entire post two
- 35:26Speaker 3: thousand and eight Barack Obama Joe Biden Ara Democratic Party,
- 35:29Speaker 3: which is built on the house of cards of intersectionalism
- 35:33Speaker 3: and identity politics. It's all falling apart right now. They're
- 35:37Speaker 3: stuff between a rock and a hard place when it
- 35:38Speaker 3: comes to the Middle East conflict. Obviously, they can't make
- 35:41Speaker 3: the error voters in Michigan happy, but then they can't
- 35:44Speaker 3: make the Jewish voters happy either, or the majority of
- 35:46Speaker 3: Americans who support Israel for the matter. So everywhere you look,
- 35:49Speaker 3: this whole identity politics thing is falling apart for them,
- 35:52Speaker 3: and you know, frankly, as a conservative, I kind of
- 35:54Speaker 3: love to see it.
- 35:57Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right about this into sectional coalition falling apart,
- 36:02Speaker 2: because it's not just black voters leaving the Democrats. There
- 36:05Speaker 2: are increasing numbers of other ethnic groups, including Hispanics, who
- 36:09Speaker 2: now prefer Trump to the Democrats. A number of polls
- 36:13Speaker 2: have shown a majority of Hispanic voters backing the Republicans,
- 36:17Speaker 2: and a new poll shows that a majority of registered
- 36:20Speaker 2: voters from all backgrounds are now in favor of mass
- 36:24Speaker 2: deportations of illegal immigrants. According to a new yek Of poll,
- 36:29Speaker 2: sixty two percent want to see mass deportations, and that
- 36:34Speaker 2: includes josh A clear majority of Hispanic voters, and I've
- 36:39Speaker 2: long said that Hispanics will become part of the Republican
- 36:44Speaker 2: base that are typically socially conservative. They are aspirational, and
- 36:50Speaker 2: the Democrats have really little to offer them at the
- 36:52Speaker 2: moment other than victimhood and pronouns.
- 36:57Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Look, I live in South Florida. I mean this is
- 37:00Speaker 3: kind of the epicenter of the Hispanic part of America.
- 37:03Speaker 3: Moving to the right, I mean Miami Day County, which
- 37:05Speaker 3: is the most populous county in all of Florida. You know,
- 37:09Speaker 3: Ron de Santis won that by double digits in his
- 37:12Speaker 3: group of toyal reelection.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two.
- 37:13Speaker 3: He won Miami Day County, which is a seventy percent
- 37:16Speaker 3: Hispanic county. He won it by eleven points. Marco Rubio,
- 37:19Speaker 3: our center here in Florida, won by ten points. And
- 37:21Speaker 3: a lot of people look on that and they say, oh,
- 37:23Speaker 3: it's Miami Day County. It's just these Cubans. They're all
- 37:26Speaker 3: conservative because they're fleeing the castros and communism. It's actually
- 37:29Speaker 3: not true. So in Osceola County here in Florida, which
- 37:32Speaker 3: is a suburb of Orlando, heavily Puerto Rican County, Puerto
- 37:36Speaker 3: Rican's historically a very very liberal demographic here in the
- 37:39Speaker 3: United States. Osciola County, Florida actually voted for Romda Santis
- 37:43Speaker 3: and Marco Rubio as well in twenty twenty two. You know,
- 37:46Speaker 3: going back to twenty twenty, even in heavily Mexicans South Texas,
- 37:49Speaker 3: down in the Rio Grand Valley, you had ninety to
- 37:52Speaker 3: ninety five percent Hispanic counties like Star County, Texas, is
- 37:55Speaker 3: Upota County, Texas, which some of them were actually outright
- 37:58Speaker 3: breaking for Trump, but then Trump was actually very narrowly
- 38:01Speaker 3: losing others by single digits. The broader shift is happening,
- 38:04Speaker 3: And like I was just talking about with black voters,
- 38:06Speaker 3: it's the same thing for these Hispanic voters. Reader. They
- 38:08Speaker 3: don't like the way the economy is doing. They want
- 38:10Speaker 3: their communities to be secure, They want people to be
- 38:13Speaker 3: able to walk the streets safely without fear of being mugs,
- 38:16Speaker 3: and they care about general public safety and deterring violence
- 38:20Speaker 3: just as much as white voters or anyone else. So
- 38:21Speaker 3: I am not surprised to see these data points, but
- 38:24Speaker 3: I certainly do hope that they are giving Democrats a
- 38:26Speaker 3: lot of heartburn.
- 38:29Speaker 2: Now to Texas and the Department of Justice is indicted.
- 38:33Speaker 2: A whistleblowing doctor exposed how a Texas hospital was continuing
- 38:38Speaker 2: to perform sex change procedes and treatments on children as
- 38:43Speaker 2: young as eleven despite announcing that were shutting down their
- 38:46Speaker 2: gender clinic after Texas bans surgical procedures and prescription treatments
- 38:51Speaker 2: for transgender youth. Doctor Ethan Haim, a surgeon at the
- 38:57Speaker 2: Texas Children's Hospital, is accused of accessing and obtaining information
- 39:02Speaker 2: belonging to these patients without authorization, and it's convicted. He
- 39:07Speaker 2: faces up to ten years in federal prison and a
- 39:10Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars maximum fine.
- 39:13Speaker 6: Tell me about this case, Josh.
- 39:15Speaker 2: This seems to be a whistleblower who is being punished
- 39:19Speaker 2: for doing the right thing. How could he possibly expose
- 39:22Speaker 2: this if he didn't access that information?
- 39:27Speaker 1: Right?
- 39:27Speaker 3: So the DOJ is alleging that he They're saying that
- 39:32Speaker 3: he violated HIPPA, which is a patient privacy protection statue
- 39:36Speaker 3: that existed in the United States for a number of
- 39:39Speaker 3: decades now. But the point here, Rita, is that they're
- 39:43Speaker 3: picking the target very carefully here. You know, the very
- 39:45Speaker 3: nature of prosecution is that prosecutoral resources are scarce here.
- 39:49Speaker 3: I mean you learn this as a first year lawsuitent.
- 39:50Speaker 3: Going back to criminal law course, no prosecutor literally has
- 39:54Speaker 3: the manpower, the time, the resource, or anything in order
- 39:57Speaker 3: to prosecute every possible offense that comes across or her jurisdiction.
- 40:01Speaker 3: The fact that they are going after after this whistleblower,
- 40:04Speaker 3: who again audibly and nobly was blowing the whistle because
- 40:08Speaker 3: the Texas Children's Hospital was lying. That they were lying.
- 40:11Speaker 3: They said that they were cutting back on these genital
- 40:14Speaker 3: mutilations so called surgeries on chemical castration. They said in
- 40:18Speaker 3: response to pressure from Texas Attorney General Ken Pax and
- 40:21Speaker 3: Governor Greg Gavit. They said, in response to that that
- 40:23Speaker 3: they were finally shutting it down, and they lied about it.
- 40:26Speaker 3: That is why this whistleblower came out and said, you
- 40:28Speaker 3: know what, mister Governor, mister train General, they're telling you
- 40:31Speaker 3: one thing, they're not doing it. So the fact that
- 40:32Speaker 3: he's being prosecuted for doing the righteous, noble, just and
- 40:36Speaker 3: correct thing here on dubious statutory grounds says everything they
- 40:40Speaker 3: need to know about America's further further unraveling weaponization of
- 40:45Speaker 3: our law enforcement apparatus.
- 40:49Speaker 2: And I've saying that trust in the justice system at
- 40:52Speaker 2: historic laws in America and we know why. It's very
- 40:55Speaker 2: much a justified point of view. Josh Hammer, always a
- 40:59Speaker 2: pleasure to hear from you.
- 41:00Speaker 5: Still to come.
- 41:01Speaker 2: The Hawthorne racism saga, i'm one of the most shameful
- 41:05Speaker 2: episodes in Australian media.
- 41:07Speaker 6: So Vie Ellsworth joins me.
- 41:09Speaker 2: Next joining me now is media writer for The Australian.
- 41:20Speaker 6: Sophie Ellsworth.
- 41:22Speaker 2: Let's start with what is one of the most shameful
- 41:24Speaker 2: episodes in the Australian media and the sports media. But
- 41:28Speaker 2: this story went further than just the sports media, and
- 41:31Speaker 2: it's the way three men were defamed as racist monsters
- 41:35Speaker 2: after the ABC published Elaked Report, a deeply flawed report
- 41:41Speaker 2: into the culture at Hawthorne Football Club. Last week, former
- 41:44Speaker 2: Hawthorne coach Alistair Clarkson, now the coach of North Melbourne,
- 41:48Speaker 2: spoke about his desire for the saga to end up
- 41:51Speaker 2: in the Federal Court so he can finally put his
- 41:54Speaker 2: side of the case forward.
- 41:57Speaker 16: And that's what's perplexing for focus, myself and Jayson. We've
- 42:00Speaker 16: got to six over six hundred days later and we
- 42:05Speaker 16: still haven't had the opportunity either through Hawthorne, through the AFL,
- 42:09Speaker 16: through the AFL investigation, through the Human Rights Commission, nor
- 42:12Speaker 16: a court of law to actually tell our story. And
- 42:17Speaker 16: ironically enough, the three people were actually quite going for
- 42:21Speaker 16: it to go to the federal court as Fergus, myself
- 42:23Speaker 16: and Jas because that will provide a platform to be
- 42:25Speaker 16: able to tell our story.
- 42:27Speaker 2: This is a fascinating case. I remember writing about this, well,
- 42:33Speaker 2: that was it September twenty twenty two, whenever this story
- 42:35Speaker 2: first broke and you looked at some of the allegations,
- 42:41Speaker 2: some of the claims that were just being accepted uncritically,
- 42:46Speaker 2: and the way people were condemning these men that were
- 42:49Speaker 2: guilty as charged was incredible because there were massive holes
- 42:55Speaker 2: in that entire report. There were huge concerns, and yet
- 43:00Speaker 2: the media almost uniformly ignored those to just go after
- 43:05Speaker 2: these three men and destroy them. And for a period
- 43:09Speaker 2: all three had to step down from their roles and
- 43:11Speaker 2: things have turned around now, but it looked like and
- 43:14Speaker 2: I was hearing from season Footy types predicting that Alistair
- 43:18Speaker 2: Clarkson Chris Fagan, coach of Brisbane, they would never coach
- 43:22Speaker 2: again because of how they were perceived after this story.
- 43:25Speaker 5: Broke a terrible situation.
- 43:26Speaker 19: Reata and you've written about this many times and called
- 43:30Speaker 19: it out right from the beginning.
- 43:32Speaker 5: It was flimsy from the beginning.
- 43:34Speaker 19: And this is the concern with the media is sometimes
- 43:37Speaker 19: it's trial by media. It's guilty until you've proven innocent,
- 43:42Speaker 19: not the other way round.
- 43:43Speaker 5: And I think that was really problematic with this story.
- 43:45Speaker 19: And you can see when Alistair Clarkson spoke there, he's
- 43:49Speaker 19: obviously still very distressed by them.
- 43:52Speaker 2: He went out on stress leave, that's right, last year.
- 43:56Speaker 5: That's right.
- 43:56Speaker 19: So the fallout from this has been shocking and it
- 43:59Speaker 19: hasn't been a good reflection on the ABC, on the
- 44:03Speaker 19: AFL or Hawthorne Football Club.
- 44:05Speaker 2: In my view, No, I think there are many answers
- 44:08Speaker 2: for the Hawthorn Food Club, many questions for the Hawthorn
- 44:11Speaker 2: Bok Club to answer, and they may be facing a
- 44:13Speaker 2: multimillion dollar lawsuit as well, so they've got all sorts
- 44:18Speaker 2: of issues to contend with in the coming years off field. Now,
- 44:21Speaker 2: let's talk about nine and their ongoing woes. Kerie Anne
- 44:25Speaker 2: Kennley is the latest start to speak out about the
- 44:28Speaker 2: entrenched culture of the network. Has there been any response
- 44:34Speaker 2: from nine to what Kerie Ane Kenley told you in
- 44:37Speaker 2: the Australian.
- 44:38Speaker 19: So basically nine, you know, keeping their responses very careful
- 44:42Speaker 19: with all of these allegations, RITA, because we now have
- 44:45Speaker 19: the external review that is undergoing in the News and
- 44:50Speaker 19: Current Affairs Division within nine, so they are not saying
- 44:54Speaker 19: much other than Mike Sneezeby has come out yesterday in
- 44:57Speaker 19: an email to all staff and said basic, we need
- 45:00Speaker 19: to change the culture at nine. He admits there were
- 45:04Speaker 19: wrongs in the past and they need to change the
- 45:06Speaker 19: culture in order to move forward.
- 45:09Speaker 5: But Nine have been very careful what they say.
- 45:11Speaker 19: Because this external investigation is still afoot and could take
- 45:16Speaker 19: some months. But apparently from what I have been told
- 45:20Speaker 19: from numerous sources is that dozens of women and females,
- 45:25Speaker 19: both former and current staff, are making complaint Dozen.
- 45:30Speaker 5: That's what I've been told.
- 45:32Speaker 2: Well, are we going to have any clarity once this
- 45:34Speaker 2: review is completed about what their findings are. Is this
- 45:38Speaker 2: school going to be kept in house or will they
- 45:42Speaker 2: actually come clean because they did try to hide this.
- 45:45Speaker 6: It was the Australian that broke this story.
- 45:47Speaker 5: RITA.
- 45:48Speaker 19: They have to well have said to staff they will
- 45:51Speaker 19: share the findings when it's handed down by the Advisory
- 45:56Speaker 19: Group Intersection, and this will have to be made public.
- 46:00Speaker 2: I mean this is impacted Nine. This has impacted them.
- 46:03Speaker 2: They've lost their chair Peter Costello.
- 46:05Speaker 19: You know, they've had managers move, They've had Darren Wick
- 46:09Speaker 19: leave the business. They've had such widespread problems. Their share
- 46:13Speaker 19: price has fallen too, So this saga is far from over.
- 46:17Speaker 2: Meanwhile, seven is also facing some challenges. They've also had
- 46:22Speaker 2: allegations of cultural issues.
- 46:24Speaker 6: And they have a new news boss.
- 46:27Speaker 2: Who has hired a comedian from the ABC, Mark Humphreys,
- 46:31Speaker 2: to refresh their news coverager.
- 46:34Speaker 6: I'm not sure how this is going to work. Do
- 46:35Speaker 6: we have.
- 46:36Speaker 2: Any information about how Mark Comphreys came to be hired
- 46:41Speaker 2: and what his role is going to be within the
- 46:44Speaker 2: news team.
- 46:45Speaker 19: So Retel, we've obviously got a new news director at
- 46:47Speaker 19: Channel seven, Anthony de Segli, and he has made this
- 46:52Speaker 19: bold decision to insert Mark Humphreys into the six pm
- 46:57Speaker 19: news bulletin in Sydney. Mark Humphrey's is obviously a comedian,
- 47:01Speaker 19: He's done this sort of work before, and Anthony Decegli
- 47:05Speaker 19: is trying to shake things up at seven. So Mark
- 47:08Speaker 19: Comfreys will start at the network in the coming weeks.
- 47:11Speaker 19: It will be on a weekly basis. This sort of
- 47:13Speaker 19: comedy inserted into the news. Now, I wonder how this
- 47:17Speaker 19: is going to work, reader, when you have a serious
- 47:20Speaker 19: news bulletin and suddenly trying to inject news.
- 47:23Speaker 5: So let's see if it works.
- 47:24Speaker 2: Let's look at some silly reporting from the UK.
- 47:28Speaker 6: You could mock this. This is easy to mock.
- 47:30Speaker 2: The Mirror warned its readers last week of a heat
- 47:33Speaker 2: wave set.
- 47:34Speaker 6: To hit major cities.
- 47:36Speaker 2: They wrote, UK to be blasted by forty eight hours.
- 47:40Speaker 6: Of twenty six degree heat wave.
- 47:43Speaker 2: I don't notice twenty six degrees a heat wave anywhere
- 47:45Speaker 2: in the world, but it's incredible the hardship the poems
- 47:50Speaker 2: have to endure for forty eight hours. But we've got
- 47:54Speaker 2: The Guardian, on the other hand, saying that it's actually
- 47:57Speaker 2: quite cold in the UK. But they still need to
- 48:00Speaker 2: get some climate cult commentary in their saying the cool
- 48:05Speaker 2: start to the summer may feel more miserable than figures
- 48:09Speaker 2: suggest because people have come to see heat.
- 48:12Speaker 6: Waves as the norm.
- 48:14Speaker 2: Global heating means UK summers are more than a degree
- 48:18Speaker 2: warmer than in the seventies, but I wonder how much
- 48:20Speaker 2: warmer they are than the I don't know, twelve hundreds,
- 48:23Speaker 2: thirteen hundreds, you know, the medieval warming period. So there
- 48:28Speaker 2: is a lot of material there to be mocked. But
- 48:31Speaker 2: I do wonder if Marc Comfrey's is going to touch
- 48:34Speaker 2: any of that. I think you'll just be watching Sky
- 48:37Speaker 2: hoping for moments for Sky, which is wonderful promotion for us.
- 48:41Speaker 6: So if you see this mark, please publicize.
- 48:43Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 48:44Speaker 19: Absolutely, But Rita, I mean, really, the Brits are complaining
- 48:47Speaker 19: about twenty three degrees celsius twenty six.
- 48:49Speaker 5: It's twenty three, so should I say?
- 48:51Speaker 19: I mean, it's a heat wave and they are all
- 48:53Speaker 19: panicking and they need to stay indoors because it's so hot.
- 48:56Speaker 19: I mean, you can mock these It's just too easy
- 48:58Speaker 19: to mock Rita. It sort of shows the fast that
- 49:02Speaker 19: you know, when they're making headlines that's twenty six degrees
- 49:06Speaker 19: and it's a heat wave and this is a climate emergency,
- 49:09Speaker 19: then you start to really question thisty you.
- 49:12Speaker 2: See this, So it's so prevalent in the UK when
- 49:14Speaker 2: they're doing their weather reports on television, the heat and
- 49:18Speaker 2: the map is all in red in summer, like the
- 49:21Speaker 2: whole place is on fire, even though the temperatures are
- 49:25Speaker 2: the same as they were a couple of years ago
- 49:26Speaker 2: with a normal map, so it is all about those optics.
- 49:30Speaker 2: Sophie Lsworth, thank you so much for your time this evening.
- 49:33Speaker 2: Thank you, Rita, and that's it from me. Up next
- 49:37Speaker 2: is Newsnight.