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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. Now look,
- 0:04Speaker 1: I know we've been focusing a lot on Diddy, but
- 0:06Speaker 1: that doesn't mean the other stories we've been talking about
- 0:09Speaker 1: have been discarded. Just means they're put on the back
- 0:13Speaker 1: burner for a minute. However, one case that is never
- 0:17Speaker 1: on the back burner, as far as I'm concerned, is
- 0:20Speaker 1: the Brian Kohlberger trial. And now that we're going to
- 0:23Speaker 1: be winding down with the Diddy trial, we're going to
- 0:26Speaker 1: be diving directly into what's going on with Brian Koberger
- 0:30Speaker 1: and the murders in Moscow. And while we've been focused
- 0:33Speaker 1: on what's going on with Diddy, we've had a few
- 0:36Speaker 1: developments up in Moscow. And one of those developments has
- 0:39Speaker 1: to do with someone who is a DoorDash driver who
- 0:42Speaker 1: recently was arrested and was caught on camera talking about
- 0:46Speaker 1: how she's going to be a witness in the Brian
- 0:49Speaker 1: Koberger trial. And considering the gag order that's draped over
- 0:53Speaker 1: this trial, it's not very often that we hear somebody
- 0:56Speaker 1: who's involved having anything to say about what's going on. So,
- 1:01Speaker 1: we're going to dive into an article from CNN, and
- 1:04Speaker 1: we're going to get caught up. Headline, potential witness in
- 1:08Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger murder case appears to say she saw him
- 1:12Speaker 1: at the scene, police video shows. And look, I know
- 1:16Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there that want to
- 1:18Speaker 1: try and, you know, create controversy here, try and create
- 1:21Speaker 1: an issue like you saw with like Karen Reed. But
- 1:24Speaker 1: that just doesn't exist when it comes to Brian Kohlberger.
- 1:28Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, there is going to
- 1:29Speaker 1: be people who try and make it out to be
- 1:32Speaker 1: something that it's not. And those people have been doing
- 1:35Speaker 1: it since the very beginning. And frankly, I really don't
- 1:38Speaker 1: have patience for it. It's one thing to question the
- 1:41Speaker 1: prosecution and what they're doing and making sure they're doing
- 1:44Speaker 1: the right thing. It's a whole ass other thing to
- 1:46Speaker 1: come up with all kinds of wild ass scenarios that
- 1:49Speaker 1: don't even fit into the story that we're talking about.
- 1:52Speaker 1: And make no mistake, there's going to be a circus-like
- 1:54Speaker 1: atmosphere surrounding this whole ass trial. But the good news is,
- 1:59Speaker 1: like usual, we're going to cut through all that noise
- 2:02Speaker 1: and we're going to stay on target here on the podcast.
- 2:05Speaker 1: This article was authored by Andy Rose, Veronica Miracle, and
- 2:09Speaker 1: Jack Hanna. Amid a critical hearing in the Brian Kohlberger
- 2:13Speaker 1: murder trial, an eight-month-old police video is drawing attention for
- 2:17Speaker 1: a woman who said she will be a key witness
- 2:20Speaker 1: in the case. I'm a DoorDash driver, the woman told
- 2:23Speaker 1: a police officer after an unrelated traffic stop in Pullman,
- 2:27Speaker 1: Washington last year, then appears to say, I saw Brian there.
- 2:32Speaker 1: So what people are going to try and say is
- 2:33Speaker 1: that this woman... Shouldn't give this testimony now because she's
- 2:36Speaker 1: talking out of school, which is crazy. Remember the whole
- 2:40Speaker 1: prior bad acts thing we were talking about and how
- 2:42Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger's team was making a big deal out of it?
- 2:46Speaker 1: Sam applies here. Her getting pulled over for a DUI
- 2:50Speaker 1: has no effect on the fact that she says, at
- 2:53Speaker 1: least in this interview, that she saw Brian Kohlberger at
- 2:56Speaker 1: the murder scene. But of course, the grifters and the
- 3:00Speaker 1: bullshitters They're going to make more of it than there
- 3:02Speaker 1: is here, and they're going to try and make it
- 3:04Speaker 1: out like her testimony shouldn't be admitted. But that's as
- 3:08Speaker 1: far away from the truth or as far away from
- 3:10Speaker 1: how it's going to go down as it could possibly be.
- 3:14Speaker 1: If this woman saw Brian Koberger at the scene, you
- 3:17Speaker 1: better believe we're going to hear her testimony saying that.
- 3:21Speaker 1: And if Ann Taylor and Brian Koberger's team wants to
- 3:24Speaker 1: bring up the fact that she got pulled over for
- 3:26Speaker 1: drunk driving, well, they're going to have to explain that
- 3:29Speaker 1: to the jury how it's relevant and why it matters.
- 3:34Speaker 1: Kohlberger is accused of murdering University of Idaho students Madison Mogan,
- 3:38Speaker 1: Kelly Gonsalves, Zanna Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus
- 3:43Speaker 1: home in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022. Not guilty pleas
- 3:47Speaker 1: have been entered on his behalf. Yeah, on his behalf,
- 3:50Speaker 1: not by him though. Remember, he stood in silence. And
- 3:54Speaker 1: the reason is he wanted to keep his options open.
- 3:56Speaker 1: And in Idaho, you're allowed to do that. So Brian Kohlberger...
- 4:00Speaker 1: and his team made the strategic move for him to
- 4:02Speaker 1: remain silent, and for his lawyers to answer for him.
- 4:06Speaker 1: And then of course the judge was the one who
- 4:08Speaker 1: entered the plea. But all of that was by design.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Judge Stephen Hippler on Wednesday heard a new request from
- 4:14Speaker 1: defense attorneys to delay the trial because of a recent
- 4:18Speaker 1: episode of NBC's Dateline, which they argue included information that
- 4:22Speaker 1: must have come from unauthorized leaks. Hipler said that he
- 4:27Speaker 1: will write a decision in short order about the defense's
- 4:29Speaker 1: request to delay Kohlberger's trial, but advised it's likely you're
- 4:34Speaker 1: going to trial on the date indicated. And hallelujah. Enough
- 4:38Speaker 1: time has passed here, folks. Enough is enough. And Brian
- 4:42Speaker 1: Kohlberger has been given every opportunity to build a defense.
- 4:47Speaker 1: So I've said from the jump that I doubt that
- 4:49Speaker 1: Judge Hipler is going to give them the delay that
- 4:51Speaker 1: they're looking for, and I think that decision would track
- 4:54Speaker 1: with everything else we've heard from Judge Hipler. Seems to
- 4:59Speaker 1: me that the judge is really gung-ho on getting this
- 5:01Speaker 1: thing started on the date that it's scheduled to start on,
- 5:05Speaker 1: and to get things moving. At the end of the day,
- 5:08Speaker 1: I understand that Brian Koberger has rights, but so do
- 5:11Speaker 1: the victims, their families, and the taxpayers of Idaho. The
- 5:16Speaker 1: videotaped interview with an officer dated September 4, 2024, shows
- 5:21Speaker 1: the 44-year-old woman being questioned after an arrest for allegedly
- 5:25Speaker 1: driving under the influence of prescription medicine. Bodycam video was
- 5:29Speaker 1: posted on a YouTube channel last year but only recently
- 5:32Speaker 1: gained attention after her reference to the Moscow murders was noticed.
- 5:38Speaker 1: The woman's name, which CNN is not publishing because she
- 5:41Speaker 1: has not been named in court documents in the Kohlberger
- 5:43Speaker 1: case and has not publicly identified herself, matches initials listed
- 5:48Speaker 1: in court documents for a DoorDash driver who made a
- 5:51Speaker 1: delivery to Kern Odell early on the morning of November 13th, 2022.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And we've been through the DoorDash warrant here on the podcast,
- 6:00Speaker 1: and there's no doubt that a DoorDash driver was there.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Was it this woman? I have no idea. But according
- 6:06Speaker 1: to all of the facts that we know that are public,
- 6:09Speaker 1: it all lines up. So again, people are going to
- 6:12Speaker 1: try and demeanor, there's no doubt about it. Those weirdos
- 6:15Speaker 1: that support Brian Kohlberger, they're going to try and make
- 6:17Speaker 1: hay of it. But it's going to be dead on arrival.
- 6:21Speaker 1: And it's not going to matter, in the grand scheme
- 6:23Speaker 1: of things, as far as the jury's concerned. Final witness
- 6:27Speaker 1: lists have been sealed by the court, so it's not
- 6:29Speaker 1: clear if she will be called to testify. But Steve Gonsalves,
- 6:33Speaker 1: Kaylee Gonsalves' father, told the Idaho Statesman Monday that he
- 6:37Speaker 1: was informed by a private investigator that the DoorDash driver
- 6:41Speaker 1: was a female. Steve Gonsalves did not return CNN's request
- 6:45Speaker 1: for comment on Wednesday. I don't blame him. Why get
- 6:49Speaker 1: yourself involved in this nonsense? Just be quiet about it
- 6:53Speaker 1: and let things play out at this point. Because make
- 6:55Speaker 1: no mistake about it, folks. Before you know it, it's
- 6:58Speaker 1: going to be go time. and all the time for
- 7:01Speaker 1: talking and bullshitting, and all the time for all the
- 7:04Speaker 1: rumors and nonsense, it's going to be over. And once
- 7:07Speaker 1: we strip away all the fat, and once we get
- 7:10Speaker 1: rid of all the nonsense, well, we all know that
- 7:13Speaker 1: credibility becomes the currency inside of that courtroom. So that's
- 7:18Speaker 1: where this is going to be decided. And looking at
- 7:20Speaker 1: the evidence that we know of so far, it's going
- 7:23Speaker 1: to be an uphill road for Brian Kohlberger. The woman,
- 7:27Speaker 1: who said that she took a prescription painkiller, told an
- 7:29Speaker 1: officer that her fragile emotional state was due to stress
- 7:33Speaker 1: over her connection to the extremely high-profile case, as well
- 7:37Speaker 1: as physical ailments and what she described as PTSD after
- 7:41Speaker 1: the killing of her husband in Moscow in 2013. Yeah,
- 7:45Speaker 1: I would say that that would be a bit of
- 7:47Speaker 1: a traumatizing situation, your husband being killed. Never a good
- 7:52Speaker 1: thing in the best of circumstances, right? So to have
- 7:56Speaker 1: all of that going on already and then dealing with
- 7:59Speaker 1: this on top of it. Look, man, drug addiction is tough.
- 8:03Speaker 1: And I know people want to, you know, look down
- 8:05Speaker 1: on people who are addicted to drugs, but it's a
- 8:07Speaker 1: trap a lot of people could fall into. You go
- 8:10Speaker 1: to the doctor, you have an injury, they prescribe you
- 8:13Speaker 1: some painkillers. And before you know it, you got a Jones.
- 8:17Speaker 1: And when you can't get them painkillers anymore from your doctor,
- 8:20Speaker 1: what do you think your addiction says? Ah, you know what?
- 8:23Speaker 1: We'll give it a rest. Of course not. So it
- 8:26Speaker 1: becomes a thing. And it's a trap that a lot
- 8:29Speaker 1: of people can fall into, and unfortunately a lot of
- 8:31Speaker 1: people have fallen into. Now I have to testify in
- 8:36Speaker 1: the big murder case too, because I'm a DoorDash driver,
- 8:39Speaker 1: so yeah, she said. When the officer asked her to
- 8:42Speaker 1: clarify which case, the woman replied, the murder case with
- 8:46Speaker 1: the college girls. The woman was released from custody and
- 8:50Speaker 1: assigned a court date, court records obtained by the Idaho statesman,
- 8:54Speaker 1: confirmed statements from the video that the woman had been
- 8:57Speaker 1: pulled over for driving with expired tags. Pullman is about
- 9:01Speaker 1: 10 miles from Moscow. How can you drive DoorDash with
- 9:04Speaker 1: expired tags though? Isn't there like some kind of checks
- 9:07Speaker 1: and balances for that? And that's a legitimate question. I
- 9:10Speaker 1: don't know. I've never driven DoorDash or anything like it,
- 9:14Speaker 1: but I would think that you have to have functioning
- 9:17Speaker 1: insurance and, you know, tags and shit, right? Then again,
- 9:20Speaker 1: we are talking about Idaho. The defense objected last year
- 9:24Speaker 1: to introducing DoorDash records into evidence at the trial. Prosecutors
- 9:29Speaker 1: said in a response last year that the evidence regarding
- 9:32Speaker 1: a delivery made to the scene of the crime on
- 9:34Speaker 1: the morning of the murders was important because it provides
- 9:37Speaker 1: a timeline of events before the homicides and corroborate state
- 9:40Speaker 1: witness testimony. Well, there you go. Corroborate state witness testimony. Look,
- 9:46Speaker 1: I'm going to say that it's very likely that this
- 9:48Speaker 1: DoorDash driver is going to give testimony at the trial.
- 9:53Speaker 1: And on cross-examination, of course, and Taylor and company, they're
- 9:56Speaker 1: going to look to you know, destroy her credibility, but
- 9:59Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be able to bring
- 10:01Speaker 1: up this DUI. And the reason is, it's not relevant.
- 10:05Speaker 1: How's her having a DUI relevant to what happened at
- 10:09Speaker 1: 1122 King Road? The driver's testimony may be critical because
- 10:14Speaker 1: a court document from prosecutors says says Kernodle is believed
- 10:18Speaker 1: to have been the only person awake in the house
- 10:20Speaker 1: when the DoorDash order was delivered just before 4 a.m.,
- 10:24Speaker 1: minutes before investigators believe the killings began. CNN reached out
- 10:30Speaker 1: to email addresses associated with the woman for comment. There
- 10:33Speaker 1: was no answer on her home phone Wednesday and her
- 10:36Speaker 1: cell phone was disconnected. DoorDash did not respond to a
- 10:40Speaker 1: request for comment from CNN on Wednesday and the local
- 10:43Speaker 1: court clerk's office said and Whitman County, Washington, Prosecutor Dennis
- 10:48Speaker 1: Tracy declined to share information on the outcome of the
- 10:52Speaker 1: driver's DUI case. And a lot of times they won't
- 10:55Speaker 1: share that information anyway, so I'm not shocked by that.
- 10:59Speaker 1: During a brief proceeding on Wednesday, lead defense attorney Ann
- 11:02Speaker 1: Taylor listed challenges and difficulties over the two and a
- 11:06Speaker 1: half years of the case, telling the court, the record
- 11:09Speaker 1: is replete with notice that we're not prepared to go
- 11:12Speaker 1: to trial. Hey, look, you've had plenty of time. Enough
- 11:16Speaker 1: is enough now. I mean, what are we going to
- 11:18Speaker 1: wait forever? Another five years, six years? Oh, Brian's still
- 11:21Speaker 1: not ready. Not only has he been provided with very
- 11:26Speaker 1: competent counsel, he's had plenty of time to challenge all
- 11:29Speaker 1: of these motions that have been put forward. And every
- 11:32Speaker 1: single time, for the most part, they've been slapped down.
- 11:35Speaker 1: So I think the record's complete for moving forward as
- 11:38Speaker 1: far as your appeal goes, because let's be honest, that's
- 11:42Speaker 1: what all of this is about. this is all about
- 11:44Speaker 1: the appeal. So in my opinion, the record has been
- 11:46Speaker 1: memorialized and it's time to get going. Venue issues, media coverage,
- 11:52Speaker 1: and what she says is 68 terabytes of information to
- 11:55Speaker 1: review are just some of the issues Taylor said her
- 11:58Speaker 1: team has contended with while defending Kohlberger. Kohlberger's trial, which
- 12:03Speaker 1: has gone through numerous delays due to disputes about evidence
- 12:06Speaker 1: and witnesses, as well as the change of venue to
- 12:09Speaker 1: the state capital of Boise, is currently scheduled to start
- 12:13Speaker 1: on August 11th. Taylor specifically referenced the Dateline episode, saying
- 12:18Speaker 1: it wasn't just a one-time deal back in May, it
- 12:21Speaker 1: continues to be talked about. Oh, they're really latching on
- 12:24Speaker 1: to that, huh? Oh, Brian Kohlberger can't get a fair trial. Meanwhile,
- 12:28Speaker 1: all these other high-profile cases have kicked off. Karen Regis
- 12:32Speaker 1: had a trial. Donald Trump had a trial. You see
- 12:35Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, right? This is nothing more
- 12:38Speaker 1: than a delay tactic and enough is enough. Last month,
- 12:41Speaker 1: Hitler ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys to preserve records after
- 12:46Speaker 1: the apparent leak and said at the time that it
- 12:48Speaker 1: was imperative to attempt to see that the source of
- 12:51Speaker 1: such leaks is identified and held to account. And I
- 12:54Speaker 1: agree with that. If you're leaking information, you need to
- 12:57Speaker 1: be dealt with. And depending on who did the leaking,
- 13:00Speaker 1: there might be other consequences for the prosecution if it
- 13:03Speaker 1: came from their camp. And frankly, if there was a leak,
- 13:06Speaker 1: whatever punishment, if punishment's coming, is justified. Manage your house better.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Make sure nobody on your team is talking out of school.
- 13:16Speaker 1: And if you can't do that, well, there's going to
- 13:18Speaker 1: be consequences, especially in Idaho. We've already seen Lori Vallow
- 13:22Speaker 1: get the death penalty taken off the table because of
- 13:24Speaker 1: prosecutorial misconduct. So if there's some sort of issue here,
- 13:29Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be addressed. In addition to what's going
- 13:33Speaker 1: on with what happened with the Dateline episode, that's not all.
- 13:36Speaker 1: There's a book set to be released just a few
- 13:38Speaker 1: weeks from now to be followed by a docuseries on
- 13:41Speaker 1: Amazon Prime about the murders, Taylor said. She argued that
- 13:45Speaker 1: the jury pool will likely be tainted due to the
- 13:48Speaker 1: media coverage. Enough with the tainted jury pool nonsense. Everybody
- 13:52Speaker 1: knows what the case is. Everybody knows who Brian Kohlberger is.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Present your evidence and let's get going. The prosecution argued
- 14:01Speaker 1: that delaying the trial would put them at the whim
- 14:03Speaker 1: of the media. We know there's going to be a
- 14:05Speaker 1: lot of publicity, regardless of when the trial happens, said
- 14:09Speaker 1: prosecutor Joshua Hurwit. The issue is whether the court, using
- 14:13Speaker 1: the procedures it has established, or maybe even modifying them
- 14:17Speaker 1: as the court wants to, can seat a panel of
- 14:19Speaker 1: impartial jurors. And that is possible in this case, despite
- 14:23Speaker 1: the challenges. In addition to the potential pushback of the
- 14:26Speaker 1: trial start date, Hippler is set to consider a defense
- 14:30Speaker 1: request to allow them to introduce evidence of an alternate
- 14:33Speaker 1: perpetrator in the killings. The judge sealed the details of
- 14:37Speaker 1: the defense request. And y'all, I'm telling you right now,
- 14:40Speaker 1: if these YouTube lawyers show up to this case with
- 14:43Speaker 1: their bullshit like they did with Karen Reid, it's going
- 14:46Speaker 1: to be a whole problem for them because they're all
- 14:48Speaker 1: going to get the smoke. I have zero tolerance for
- 14:52Speaker 1: that kind of bullshit. And it's one of the main
- 14:53Speaker 1: reasons I stopped covering Karen Reid. I mean, the circus
- 14:56Speaker 1: was just too much. It's not about justice. It wasn't
- 15:00Speaker 1: about any of that. It was about a bunch of
- 15:02Speaker 1: people with main character syndrome thinking that they're the story.
- 15:05Speaker 1: And while I think that the verdict was correct when
- 15:07Speaker 1: it comes to Karen Reid, because as I've said from
- 15:10Speaker 1: the very beginning, the investigation was shit. I certainly don't
- 15:14Speaker 1: buy into the whole alternate perpetrator theory that these idiots
- 15:19Speaker 1: in Canton were engaged in some grand conspiracy. Like they
- 15:23Speaker 1: were the fucking Gambinos. It just doesn't track. Now, I
- 15:27Speaker 1: don't know what happened to John O'Keefe, but I'll tell
- 15:29Speaker 1: you this much. I highly doubt that he was killed
- 15:31Speaker 1: inside that house. And if you want to prove it,
- 15:33Speaker 1: then let's see some evidence. Now that Karen Reid's no
- 15:36Speaker 1: longer on trial, you can't use the excuse of, oh, well,
- 15:39Speaker 1: the burden of proof is on the state. If you're
- 15:41Speaker 1: making these accusations, remember, big accusations require big evidence. And
- 15:46Speaker 1: so far, I've seen zero evidence that there was some
- 15:49Speaker 1: grand conspiracy. What happened in Canton was a terrible-ass, disgusting investigation,
- 15:56Speaker 1: and Karen Reid ended up walking because that investigation was
- 15:59Speaker 1: so shitty. And even Karen Reid's own team didn't go
- 16:03Speaker 1: too hard trying to, you know, push this theory during
- 16:07Speaker 1: their closing statements. Now, don't get me wrong, it was
- 16:10Speaker 1: a good lever to pull on to try and get
- 16:12Speaker 1: Karen Reid off, and it was effective. But it was
- 16:15Speaker 1: effective because there was a lot of reasonable doubt there.
- 16:18Speaker 1: When it comes to Brian Kohlberger... It is not the same. Remember,
- 16:22Speaker 1: there was a knife sheath found underneath Madison Mogan with
- 16:26Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger's DNA on it. There is no explanation for it.
- 16:30Speaker 1: And until I have an explanation for how that sheath
- 16:33Speaker 1: got there underneath Madison Mogan, I will continue to think
- 16:37Speaker 1: and say that Brian Kohlberger is on a fast track
- 16:40Speaker 1: to being convicted. Now, look, we have to go through
- 16:43Speaker 1: the evidence, right? We have to go through the trial.
- 16:45Speaker 1: And like usual, I'm going to look at all of
- 16:48Speaker 1: the evidence that comes our way. And just like I
- 16:50Speaker 1: did with Diddy, we're going to have a series where
- 16:52Speaker 1: we defend Brian Kohlberger as the trial is going on.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Because I like to wear both hats. I want you
- 16:58Speaker 1: to have the perspective of both sides. We're not here
- 17:02Speaker 1: to pitch narratives. We're not here to, you know, try
- 17:04Speaker 1: and promote, oh, I hope Brian Kohlberger gets the death penalty.
- 17:08Speaker 1: I don't hope that. I hope that justice is served,
- 17:11Speaker 1: and if that means that Brian Koberger gets the death penalty,
- 17:14Speaker 1: then so be it. But in this case, when we're
- 17:17Speaker 1: talking about Brian Koberger, I don't think he's going to
- 17:20Speaker 1: have anywhere near the success that Karen Reid did when
- 17:23Speaker 1: it comes to the alternate perpetrator, for all of the
- 17:25Speaker 1: reasons we just discussed. So we'll see how it works out, obviously,
- 17:29Speaker 1: and we'll see what Judge Hippler has to say. But
- 17:32Speaker 1: in my opinion, Brian Koberger and his team better have
- 17:35Speaker 1: a different strategy that they plan on using once this
- 17:38Speaker 1: one fizzles out. Alright folks, that's going to do it
- 17:41Speaker 1: for this one. All of the information that goes with
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