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- 2:12Speaker 2: couple of huge legal stories today that we're going to
- 2:16Speaker 2: spend most of the show talking about. The Lindsay Clancy
- 2:20Speaker 2: trial has entered the final phases of And as of
- 2:24Speaker 2: my discussion with you at this very moment, they have
- 2:27Speaker 2: not handed down a verdict. But here's the thing. We
- 2:34Speaker 2: have got some real disconnect in culture between what they're
- 2:43Speaker 2: saying in the courtroom and what people are saying outside
- 2:47Speaker 2: the courtroom about this case. And I think that separating
- 2:51Speaker 2: fact from fiction is kind of vital to begin with.
- 2:54Speaker 2: But beyond that, I just, there's so many things wrong
- 2:59Speaker 2: with what these women outside the courthouse are telling people
- 3:03Speaker 2: and what influencers are saying online and how they keep,
- 3:07Speaker 2: there's this one I just saw where a woman was
- 3:11Speaker 2: talking to her camera and she said, look, my litmus
- 3:18Speaker 2: test for potential husbands going forward is on our first date.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I will ask you, do you believe Lindsay Clancy was
- 3:26Speaker 2: guilty and should go to jail? And if he says, yes,
- 3:28Speaker 2: I'm getting up and walking away, I will never marry somebody.
- 3:33Speaker 2: And I'm like, yes, please do that. Save him the
- 3:36Speaker 2: heartache because there's not a man in this country that
- 3:41Speaker 2: if he killed his three kids, that that's, there would
- 3:46Speaker 2: be any group of men outside the courthouse going, oh,
- 3:49Speaker 2: he's so misunderstood. Oh, he's just, he's just, you don't understand.
- 3:53Speaker 2: His work was hard. He had an addiction problem. Whatever
- 3:56Speaker 2: the case, whatever the excuse would be, it wouldn't be,
- 3:59Speaker 2: it wouldn't be satisfactory. And you wouldn't see a group
- 4:02Speaker 2: of men doing this for a father who would have
- 4:05Speaker 2: killed his three kids. It's not, it's not, it's not happening.
- 4:09Speaker 2: There'd be lots of dads. It would be like, fry him,
- 4:12Speaker 2: give him the death penalty. He's done. There wouldn't be
- 4:16Speaker 2: a single one in the country that would be like, oh,
- 4:19Speaker 2: we just need to understand him more. Fathers don't work
- 4:23Speaker 2: that way. I don't think mothers do either, by the way.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Which is why I think what her legal team is
- 4:29Speaker 2: trying to pull off here is such an insult. Such
- 4:34Speaker 2: an insult to mothers everywhere. That she somehow could have
- 4:41Speaker 2: been so lost somewhere. And out of control of her
- 4:45Speaker 2: own agency. Agency is the big word now. Did she
- 4:48Speaker 2: have the agency? Did she have the agency to check
- 4:50Speaker 2: herself out of the program she was in? Evidently. Did
- 4:54Speaker 2: she have the agency to send the husband out? Evidently.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Did she have the agency to take them all to
- 5:01Speaker 2: the basement? And then one kid come in, put the
- 5:07Speaker 2: exercise band around them, strangle them together. then bring in
- 5:12Speaker 2: the next and do the same. And then the next
- 5:14Speaker 2: and do the same. Did she have the agency to
- 5:16Speaker 2: make those decisions? Evidently the expert witness in the trial
- 5:22Speaker 2: said that, that there was, he's never seen a case
- 5:25Speaker 2: of an hallucination, hallucination that's taken, you know, 18 minutes
- 5:30Speaker 2: to fulfill and to see the social media reaction of this, these,
- 5:39Speaker 2: these mostly white, middle to upper class, progressive, supposedly progressive
- 5:46Speaker 2: women that are saying the kinds of things that they're saying.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Let me just play you the example from, so I
- 5:52Speaker 2: was on Ed Henry on Newsmax last night. And one
- 5:56Speaker 2: of the clips they asked us to react to was
- 5:59Speaker 2: from a woman who was outside the courtroom. Listen to
- 6:03Speaker 2: what she said when they stuck a camera in her face.
- 6:07Speaker 6: It was wonderful to see so many women come together
- 6:09Speaker 6: to support such a wonderful cause.
- 6:11Speaker 1: What?
- 6:13Speaker 2: It was wonderful to see so many women coming together.
- 6:18Speaker 2: It was such a wonderful... Listen to this again.
- 6:20Speaker 6: It was wonderful to see so many women come together
- 6:23Speaker 6: to support such a wonderful cause.
- 6:25Speaker 2: To support such a wonderful cause. What's the wonderful cause?
- 6:32Speaker 2: Do you know the meaning of the word wonderful? These
- 6:35Speaker 2: women are out of touch. They have... I'm going to bet...
- 6:41Speaker 2: that that one that was in the clip isn't even
- 6:43Speaker 2: a mom. Most of the moms that I've spoken to
- 6:46Speaker 2: about this case are so angry at Lindsay. They don't
- 6:53Speaker 2: see her as innocent. They don't see her as the victim.
- 6:56Speaker 2: You know what every mom I've spoken to on this
- 6:58Speaker 2: case believes? I'm not telling you what the men believe.
- 7:01Speaker 2: I'm telling you what the mothers believe. The mothers believe
- 7:06Speaker 2: that the children were the victims, not the moms. But
- 7:10Speaker 2: there's a bigger problem here that I think has deeper
- 7:15Speaker 2: roots than we understand. This case took place in Massachusetts.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Massachusetts has been a bastion of far leftism for a
- 7:25Speaker 2: long time, just in general as a state. I believe
- 7:30Speaker 2: that when you look at cases like Sarah Smith, who
- 7:34Speaker 2: drove her kids into the pond and they drowned in
- 7:37Speaker 2: the water. When you look at the cases of like
- 7:39Speaker 2: Andrea Yates, who suffocated her four children, one after the
- 7:43Speaker 2: other in, in her, in her bathtub. When you look
- 7:48Speaker 2: at the case right now, Lindsay Clancy and how she
- 7:53Speaker 2: premeditatedly had to take each child one at a time
- 7:56Speaker 2: into the room, wrap the band around their neck and
- 8:00Speaker 2: then hold it until they could not breathe anymore. This, this,
- 8:07Speaker 2: There's a similarity in all three of these cases. And
- 8:11Speaker 2: the biggest similarity in all three cases are it runs
- 8:14Speaker 2: against every fiber of what normal women and normal moms
- 8:19Speaker 2: would ever allow themselves to do. And to have a
- 8:23Speaker 2: group of women outside the courthouse holding up the heart
- 8:32Speaker 2: hands and basically saying to Lindsay, It's okay what you did.
- 8:39Speaker 2: We understand. No. No. We cannot be understanding this. We
- 8:48Speaker 2: cannot be allowing some sort of forgiveness of this matter
- 8:57Speaker 2: on the human level. If God chooses to forgive her,
- 9:00Speaker 2: that's up to him. But this is not for humans
- 9:03Speaker 2: to forgive. The only people that could truly offer her
- 9:07Speaker 2: forgiveness are all dead. I guess the father could offer
- 9:11Speaker 2: forgiveness on some level, but she is not the victim.
- 9:16Speaker 2: The children were the victims. But outside, just feet away
- 9:22Speaker 2: from where the arguments are being held, you've got this
- 9:25Speaker 2: kind of silliness.
- 9:26Speaker 6: It was wonderful to see so many women come together
- 9:29Speaker 6: to support such a wonderful cause.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Wonderful for so many women. to come together to support
- 9:36Speaker 2: such a wonderful cause. Friends, we are messed up as
- 9:40Speaker 2: a society. We need God more than we've ever needed Him.
- 9:45Speaker 2: And this case is a demonstration of that. Kevin McCullough
- 9:48Speaker 2: coming right back.
- 10:00Speaker 7: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough. Welcome.
- 10:23Speaker 2: It's the Tuesday edition. Kevin McCullough, glad to have you
- 10:25Speaker 2: with us. Very interesting news day. We've got a lot
- 10:30Speaker 2: of interesting things to talk about. The president getting a
- 10:34Speaker 2: big win at the Supreme Court yesterday. The latest on
- 10:36Speaker 2: the Lindsay Clancy trial. We've got special guests coming up
- 10:40Speaker 2: to talk about all this and more. I hope you'll
- 10:42Speaker 2: stick around. But before we get to any of that,
- 10:46Speaker 2: I want to do what we do every day, intentionally,
- 10:48Speaker 2: on purpose. And that is take this early part of
- 10:51Speaker 2: the show to ask the question of ourselves before examining
- 10:55Speaker 2: all of the worldly news and stuff that we need
- 10:57Speaker 2: to be dealing with. How do we live in light
- 11:01Speaker 2: of that? How do we live in light of a
- 11:04Speaker 2: culture that despises God, has no use for his word,
- 11:08Speaker 2: has a desire? to, um, actually, um, ridicule or oppose
- 11:13Speaker 2: those who, um, who, who, who do believe in those things?
- 11:18Speaker 2: How do we, how do we live in light of that?
- 11:20Speaker 2: Does that change our mission? Does it mean that we
- 11:23Speaker 2: should be, um, in some way altering what we're supposed
- 11:26Speaker 2: to do as believers on the planet? I would argue, no.
- 11:29Speaker 2: And if you're not a believer, then this isn't for you.
- 11:32Speaker 2: But I would, I would ask that those of you
- 11:34Speaker 2: that are, please pay attention because this is where we
- 11:37Speaker 2: really do the hard work every day here on the show.
- 11:40Speaker 2: This week we're taking on a topic that I think
- 11:43Speaker 2: is going to have some national practical implication even. Forgiveness.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Not what does Jesus do when he forgives us, though
- 11:51Speaker 2: that's kind of the foundation for it, but what's our
- 11:54Speaker 2: role in forgiveness? Doug Becker is back with us. He
- 11:57Speaker 2: is the pastor of theology at Emergence Church in New Jersey.
- 12:02Speaker 2: And if you want to find out more about all
- 12:04Speaker 2: things that he's doing, emergence.church is where you can go
- 12:08Speaker 2: to see that. But Doug, a seasoned veteran of How
- 12:11Speaker 2: Do We Live and always bringing the good stuff. Doug,
- 12:14Speaker 2: we started this discussion yesterday. And I really do think
- 12:19Speaker 2: that in light of sometimes very strong evil in the world,
- 12:23Speaker 2: I think we are confused about that. What is forgiveness?
- 12:26Speaker 2: What does it look like? What does it mean to forgive?
- 12:28Speaker 2: How do we forgive? And maybe most importantly, why? Why
- 12:31Speaker 2: is forgiveness important to the faith of a believer?
- 12:35Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, so yesterday when we began talking about forgiveness,
- 12:41Speaker 5: we talked a little bit about how essential this actually
- 12:45Speaker 5: is to Jesus' teachings in the gospel, sometimes putting it
- 12:50Speaker 5: in very stark terms that are even challenging theologically. And
- 12:56Speaker 5: What I said at the conclusion to that was that
- 13:01Speaker 5: this is actually a primary fruit of actually knowing the Lord,
- 13:06Speaker 5: actually following Jesus, actually being born again, that God produces
- 13:11Speaker 5: in us a forgiving heart. And today I want to
- 13:15Speaker 5: focus on two ways in which our personal forgiveness is
- 13:21Speaker 5: linked to that essential understanding of who we are as Christians.
- 13:26Speaker 5: So there's two passages, and one is quite short, but
- 13:31Speaker 5: the other one is a parable. And the parable that
- 13:35Speaker 5: I want to look at briefly with you guys is
- 13:38Speaker 5: in Matthew 18, and a lot of us know this well.
- 13:41Speaker 8: This is the parable of the unforgiving servant, right?
- 13:45Speaker 5: And just to give a brief synopsis of this, there's
- 13:49Speaker 5: a guy who owes a ton of money to a king.
- 13:54Speaker 8: And he's called to account for that. He's called to
- 13:57Speaker 8: pay it back.
- 13:58Speaker 5: And he throws himself on the mercy of the king
- 14:00Speaker 5: because he simply cannot pay it back.
- 14:02Speaker 8: And the king does have mercy and he forgives his debt.
- 14:05Speaker 9: Right.
- 14:06Speaker 8: And then the guy goes out happy as a clam.
- 14:09Speaker 5: But then he sees a guy, another guy who owes
- 14:12Speaker 5: him money and basically does what the king did to him.
- 14:16Speaker 5: He says, you got to pay me what you owe.
- 14:18Speaker 5: And the guy says, I can't. He does the same
- 14:20Speaker 5: thing that man number one did before the king. And
- 14:24Speaker 5: instead of instead of forgiving this man, his debt, he said,
- 14:28Speaker 5: you know what? Throw him away in debtor's prison. You're
- 14:31Speaker 5: paying me every cent that you owe. OK, and no
- 14:34Speaker 5: one looking at that. It's very easy to see where
- 14:37Speaker 5: Jesus is going with this.
- 14:38Speaker 2: Right.
- 14:38Speaker 5: That that that how can we be forgiven a great
- 14:42Speaker 5: debt by a great king and and then turn around
- 14:47Speaker 5: and hold other people to account for the things that
- 14:50Speaker 5: they owe us? Of course, this is not just talking
- 14:52Speaker 5: about financial debt. This is talking about forgiveness. The whole
- 14:55Speaker 5: chapter is about forgiveness, right? Now, there's an interesting feature
- 15:00Speaker 5: about this parable. And sometimes– so it talks about the
- 15:05Speaker 5: actual sums of money that these guys owe. And our
- 15:10Speaker 5: eyes can kind of glaze over and we skip over
- 15:12Speaker 5: those parts, right? But when you actually look at what
- 15:17Speaker 5: those numbers are, and I'm not going to get too
- 15:20Speaker 5: in the weeds about this, but the guy owes.
- 15:23Speaker 8: The king 10,000 talents, okay?
- 15:26Speaker 5: Now, a talent is about 20 years wages for a laborer.
- 15:33Speaker 5: This is billions of dollars if you were to translate
- 15:40Speaker 5: it into modern funds. It is an astronomical sum. And
- 15:44Speaker 5: that's the point, right? That we owe God this astronomical
- 15:47Speaker 5: sum because of our sin and he forgives us. So
- 15:51Speaker 5: we get that part of it. Now, the second part
- 15:55Speaker 5: of the parable is often, I think, missed by.
- 15:58Speaker 8: A lot of people.
- 15:59Speaker 5: Sometimes when talking about the man going out on the
- 16:03Speaker 5: street and finding another servant who owes him money, it
- 16:06Speaker 5: will be said that the guy owes him peanuts, that
- 16:10Speaker 5: it's nothing. And that's not quite true, okay? It says
- 16:14Speaker 5: that he owes him 100 denarii. Now, a denarii is
- 16:19Speaker 5: a day's wage for a laborer. OK, that is not nothing.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Right.
- 16:24Speaker 8: If you think what a day.
- 16:25Speaker 5: Labor earns in like a day, 30 days and you're
- 16:29Speaker 5: talking about 100 days. OK, this is somewhere in the
- 16:32Speaker 5: neighborhood of like I don't know, depends on what you
- 16:34Speaker 5: want to say of day labor earns, but somewhere in
- 16:36Speaker 5: the neighborhood of like 15 grand.
- 16:38Speaker 8: OK, that is not nothing.
- 16:41Speaker 10: Right.
- 16:41Speaker 5: So Jesus is not saying, look, God has forgiven you
- 16:44Speaker 5: all this, and what do these people owe you?
- 16:46Speaker 9: Nothing.
- 16:47Speaker 5: No, he's acknowledging that forgiveness is costly, right? But as
- 16:51Speaker 5: costly as it is, it is nothing compared to the
- 16:54Speaker 5: debt God has forgiven us. So that's the first real
- 16:57Speaker 5: big reason why Christians who truly understand the gospel– are
- 17:04Speaker 5: forgiving people, why Jesus tries it so tightly, because of
- 17:08Speaker 5: the immense amount we have been forgiven by God, that
- 17:13Speaker 5: in light of that, we can go out and do
- 17:15Speaker 5: the hard work of forgiveness of those who have truly
- 17:19Speaker 5: wronged us.
- 17:20Speaker 8: I know that was a lot, but..
- 17:21Speaker 2: No, but it sets the foundation very strongly. Like, in
- 17:25Speaker 2: order for us to be believable with the gospel, we
- 17:30Speaker 2: need to be the evidence of it, no?
- 17:32Speaker 8: That's a good way to put it.
- 17:34Speaker 5: Um, yeah, we, in order for us to be believable,
- 17:37Speaker 5: cause this, this is part of the witness and, and, um,
- 17:41Speaker 5: you could easily think of how other people seeing that,
- 17:43Speaker 5: you know, Jesus tells us that let your good works
- 17:46Speaker 5: shine before others, uh, that they may see your good
- 17:50Speaker 5: works and glorify your father in heaven. And certainly the
- 17:54Speaker 5: ability to forgive the extraordinary Christian.
- 17:57Speaker 8: Ability to forgive, right?
- 17:59Speaker 5: We follow a Lord who said, father, forgive them.
- 18:01Speaker 8: They don't know what they're doing.
- 18:03Speaker 5: Um, uh, is, is, is a testimony and a direct
- 18:08Speaker 5: opportunity to speak about the gospel.
- 18:10Speaker 8: I forgive because I've been forgiven.
- 18:12Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 18:13Speaker 5: Um, now the other aspect of this, the other, the
- 18:16Speaker 5: other passages is a little bit briefer, but it's something
- 18:20Speaker 5: that wrote that, that Paul says in Romans 12 chapter nine.
- 18:25Speaker 8: Okay.
- 18:26Speaker 5: And, um, And so Paul says this, sorry, Romans 12, 19,
- 18:32Speaker 5: not nine. So he says, beloved, never avenge yourselves, but
- 18:38Speaker 5: leave it to the wrath of God. Okay. So, um, here,
- 18:47Speaker 5: this is like the practical, you know, in chapter 12
- 18:50Speaker 5: of Romans, Paul gets onto like the very practical nitty gritty,
- 18:54Speaker 5: the implications of the gospel that he laid out in
- 18:57Speaker 5: the first half of the book. And, um, And here
- 19:01Speaker 5: we find the other like main scriptural reason why Christians
- 19:06Speaker 5: should be forgiving people. And that is that we have
- 19:09Speaker 5: confidence that God will judge justly.
- 19:13Speaker 7: Right.
- 19:14Speaker 5: I can free this person has wronged me. You know,
- 19:18Speaker 5: they need they need to pay for it. There needs
- 19:20Speaker 5: to be retribution here. Well, you know what the Christian says?
- 19:25Speaker 5: is able to say, I have confidence that God will
- 19:28Speaker 5: accomplish that. That God will deal perfectly with this person.
- 19:32Speaker 5: I won't deal perfectly. I will want to one-up the
- 19:35Speaker 5: other person. That's what vengeance looks like, right? But it
- 19:41Speaker 5: very much is giving it to God. And so Paul
- 19:47Speaker 5: is able then to say in the very next verse,
- 19:50Speaker 5: to the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him.
- 19:53Speaker 5: If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. For
- 19:56Speaker 5: by so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head,
- 20:00Speaker 5: which is... interesting word picture, but I think that refers
- 20:05Speaker 5: to like the pangs of conscience.
- 20:07Speaker 8: Like, I wronged this person. Why is he doing right
- 20:10Speaker 8: to me? Again, the inroads into the gospel.
- 20:14Speaker 5: And then he finishes that paragraph by saying, do not
- 20:18Speaker 5: be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Oh, good stuff. Yeah. Doug, we have to call it
- 20:25Speaker 2: to an end today. But just getting started, friends, just
- 20:27Speaker 2: barely scratching the surface on forgiveness and why it's so important.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Doug will be back tomorrow. You want to know more,
- 20:33Speaker 2: go to emergence.church and see more of Doug's stuff there. Doug,
- 20:37Speaker 2: appreciate it. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
- 20:39Speaker 8: Talk to you tomorrow, Kevin.
- 20:40Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back from Times Square. Don't go anywhere.
- 20:47Speaker 11: Stick around for more of That Kevin next.
- 20:53Speaker 12: Here he is from New York.
- 21:11Speaker 7: That Kevin.
- 21:13Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough.
- 21:18Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. Kevin McCullough, glad to have you
- 21:20Speaker 2: with us. And thank you to Doug Becker for spending
- 21:23Speaker 2: this week with us. Forgiveness is an interesting topic for
- 21:27Speaker 2: our How Do We Live segments because this is a
- 21:30Speaker 2: week in which I'm not sure forgiveness is doable on
- 21:36Speaker 2: the earthly level with Lindsay Clancy.
- 21:42Speaker 12: I mean..
- 21:44Speaker 2: If forgiveness is releasing her to allow God to do
- 21:47Speaker 2: what he will with her, I guess we can forgive her.
- 21:52Speaker 2: But if forgiveness is meant in the moral sense that
- 21:57Speaker 2: the sin is now, the debt of the sin is
- 22:01Speaker 2: now paid for, that can't be measured out in this life.
- 22:09Speaker 2: That's why I don't think the death penalty is out
- 22:11Speaker 2: of out of question for someone who commits this kind
- 22:14Speaker 2: of crime. Now it is for Lindsay because she's in
- 22:16Speaker 2: Massachusetts and they don't, they don't do the death penalty
- 22:19Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, but on a visceral level on multiple visceral levels,
- 22:27Speaker 2: the idea of forgiving someone who, who could do this,
- 22:32Speaker 2: who could literally violate the most sacred of trusts between
- 22:38Speaker 2: small children and a mom. And again, I am coming
- 22:43Speaker 2: back to this kind of without any apology. I don't
- 22:50Speaker 2: think that there should be anyone supporting and saying, oh,
- 22:56Speaker 2: she's okay. She didn't really mean it. She was just,
- 23:03Speaker 2: you know, insane. I think anytime you do something that
- 23:09Speaker 2: takes an innocent life, I think that There's something in
- 23:12Speaker 2: your programming and in your wiring that is the opposite
- 23:17Speaker 2: of that on a human level. I don't think we
- 23:19Speaker 2: were intended to kill people and feel good about the
- 23:24Speaker 2: killing of people. I genuinely don't believe that that is
- 23:32Speaker 2: ever how we were created to be. But I will
- 23:37Speaker 2: tell you this. People that do things and convince themselves
- 23:45Speaker 2: that they're okay to do, sometimes eventually get into a
- 23:50Speaker 2: scenario where they don't feel the guilt anymore. They don't
- 23:53Speaker 2: feel the disruption in their conscience. And it seems important
- 24:01Speaker 2: for us to make a stand, if you will, on
- 24:07Speaker 2: exactly the things that are that should be sacred. Because
- 24:18Speaker 2: when you are saying that someone should be acquitted, that
- 24:25Speaker 2: has already confessed to taking the life of innocent children,
- 24:32Speaker 2: you're dealing with pretty heinous evil. And if over-medication is
- 24:42Speaker 2: a problem, then let's deal with over-medication. If putting drugs
- 24:48Speaker 2: together that shouldn't be put together is a problem, then
- 24:51Speaker 2: let's deal with all that. But don't make an argument
- 24:54Speaker 2: to me that this is a person who should have
- 24:56Speaker 2: full agency when she says that she knowingly killed her children.
- 25:05Speaker 2: She had enough agency to decide, but not enough agency
- 25:10Speaker 2: to be responsible for it. And bombshell testimony, expert testimony
- 25:19Speaker 2: in the last 24 hours has seemed to reinforce this.
- 25:21Speaker 2: Take a listen.
- 25:22Speaker 9: That I found the account of hallucinations to be, as
- 25:29Speaker 9: she described it, it would be very, very unusual to
- 25:32Speaker 9: experience it that way. Never having, not before, not since,
- 25:37Speaker 9: constantly for 18 minutes.
- 25:41Speaker 1: However, if this was a thought..
- 25:44Speaker 9: An unwelcome, intrusive thought, but still a thought, that's basically
- 25:49Speaker 9: this is your last chance, you have to kill the
- 25:53Speaker 9: kids so you can kill yourself, then that would be
- 25:55Speaker 9: consistent with thoughts that she'd been experiencing for some time.
- 26:01Speaker 9: She'd been having thoughts about harming herself, that she was...
- 26:07Speaker 9: It was going to be very difficult for her to...
- 26:13Speaker 9: to do this in a way that made sense.
- 26:19Speaker 2: So there you have one of the top mental health
- 26:24Speaker 2: experts that they have in the trial saying that she
- 26:29Speaker 2: had never had an hallucination before it. She hasn't had
- 26:33Speaker 2: one since. And to have an 18-minute hallucination in which
- 26:39Speaker 2: you claim you don't know what you're doing, but you're
- 26:41Speaker 2: methodically saying, killing children in the way you kind of
- 26:46Speaker 2: meticulously planned. You had to get the exercise bands. You
- 26:49Speaker 2: had to have the space to do it. You had
- 26:52Speaker 2: to meticulously take them there. You had to send the
- 26:55Speaker 2: husband out on an errand. You had to do all
- 26:57Speaker 2: the things in order to line up all the moving
- 27:04Speaker 2: pieces to make it all happen. What he's in essence
- 27:07Speaker 2: saying is that there's no way she didn't know what
- 27:09Speaker 2: she was doing. There's no way that she didn't know it.
- 27:13Speaker 2: I'm seeing so many women in real life and on
- 27:19Speaker 2: different circles on social media that are just saying, don't
- 27:24Speaker 2: put this on postpartum depression or psychosis. I had postpartum depression.
- 27:31Speaker 2: I didn't kill my kids. And this is the challenge.
- 27:35Speaker 2: You're going to impugn a lot of good mothers and
- 27:40Speaker 2: make society question whether or not they're fit. Because you
- 27:43Speaker 2: use this as the excuse? Nope, not buying it. Kevin
- 27:47Speaker 2: McCullough coming right back.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
- 28:13Speaker 1: All right, welcome.
- 28:16Speaker 2: Back to That Kevin Show. It's the Tuesday edition. And
- 28:18Speaker 2: you know that I've been somewhat reluctant to talk about
- 28:22Speaker 2: the Lindsay Clancy story, although now that we're coming to
- 28:25Speaker 2: the end of the trial and kind of the point
- 28:27Speaker 2: where it's all going to culminate, I am talking about
- 28:30Speaker 2: it more freely. I wrote about it at townhall.com yesterday.
- 28:33Speaker 2: If you want to, go check that out because that's
- 28:35Speaker 2: my more concise thoughts on it. Belinda Perillo is back
- 28:38Speaker 2: with me. She joins me every Tuesday. And normally we
- 28:41Speaker 2: talk about travel because we both love to travel. Belinda,
- 28:46Speaker 2: something that this audience may not know about you is
- 28:48Speaker 2: that you are a mom of not one, not two,
- 28:51Speaker 2: not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven,
- 28:55Speaker 2: but eight Linda Perillo kids. And they are all amazing children.
- 29:00Speaker 2: And I know that you have had nothing but joy
- 29:03Speaker 2: in being their mom. But The Lindsay Clancy story bothered
- 29:08Speaker 2: me from the beginning in that the defense was so
- 29:12Speaker 2: willing to use it and so willing to say, oh, postpartum, postpartum, postpartum.
- 29:17Speaker 13: Always.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Always.
- 29:18Speaker 10: That's always.
- 29:18Speaker 2: And I thought, you know what? What about all the
- 29:20Speaker 2: millions and billions of women who have had postpartum that
- 29:24Speaker 2: would never under any circumstance kill their children? Is that
- 29:28Speaker 2: really an excuse? I'm curious what a mom of eight
- 29:31Speaker 2: would tell me.
- 29:33Speaker 10: No, it's not an excuse. And I think they're looking
- 29:36Speaker 10: for it as an excuse for her because. this postpartum psychosis,
- 29:42Speaker 10: which I had never heard of before. You've heard of
- 29:44Speaker 10: baby blues. You've heard of postpartum depression.
- 29:46Speaker 2: I mean, it's all on the continuum of being postpartum.
- 29:49Speaker 10: Yeah. But the thing is, postpartum psychosis, from what I understand,
- 29:54Speaker 10: is way down the line. It's like seven or eight
- 29:56Speaker 10: months into the process. So, you know, we also confuse, Kevin,
- 30:00Speaker 10: baby blues, which are normal hormonal changes when you have
- 30:04Speaker 10: a baby with postpartum depression. And we use the term
- 30:07Speaker 10: postpartum depression so loosely to exonerate, you know, a woman
- 30:13Speaker 10: that's gone crazy after she's had a baby. When, as
- 30:17Speaker 10: you point out, we've been having baby for billions and
- 30:21Speaker 10: gazillions of years. And is it tough? Yeah, it's tough
- 30:24Speaker 10: in the beginning. The adjustment's tough. But like you said,
- 30:28Speaker 10: where's the license to harm or kill your kid? I'm sorry.
- 30:33Speaker 10: There's a line there.
- 30:35Speaker 2: And I kind of think if you make that an
- 30:37Speaker 2: easy excuse, I just think you're insulting millions of moms
- 30:41Speaker 2: that have suffered through postpartum depression as bad as what
- 30:46Speaker 2: this one had and didn't kill their kids.
- 30:49Speaker 7: Right.
- 30:49Speaker 2: It shouldn't be like, oh, I just give up on everything. Okay,
- 30:52Speaker 2: I guess I can kill my kids.
- 30:54Speaker 14: What happened?
- 30:54Speaker 10: I don't feel good. I feel like I'm going to
- 30:56Speaker 10: hurt the baby.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Here, take the baby.
- 30:57Speaker 15: I can't do this.
- 30:58Speaker 14: Go away.
- 30:59Speaker 10: Get a therapist. Whatever you got to do to not
- 31:02Speaker 10: have that happen. Maybe as you're said than done, Kevin,
- 31:06Speaker 10: like I said, I haven't been in that position, thank
- 31:08Speaker 10: the good Lord. We don't know what she was going through,
- 31:11Speaker 10: but what was she going through? But again- We cannot
- 31:17Speaker 10: exonerate her for killing her children. They are innocent and
- 31:22Speaker 10: dependent upon their mother at that moment. You realize that?
- 31:26Speaker 10: That's another thing.
- 31:28Speaker 2: I was on Ed Henry last night on Newsmax, and
- 31:31Speaker 2: he played a little sounder from a news package. And
- 31:35Speaker 2: in the package, there was a soundbite from a woman
- 31:38Speaker 2: who's outside the courthouse, one of these women, and they
- 31:41Speaker 2: all look the same. Middle-aged, white, probably middle to upper
- 31:45Speaker 2: class women. liberal white women. And she, and she kind
- 31:48Speaker 2: of just, I don't know. She was, you could tell
- 31:51Speaker 2: she was kind of fascinated that she was on camera
- 31:53Speaker 2: for the first time. Cause she kind of had that
- 31:54Speaker 2: look in her eye, like, Oh, I'm on TV and
- 31:56Speaker 2: I've never been on TV before. And they're like, you
- 31:58Speaker 2: know how they look. It's that, it's that thing that
- 31:59Speaker 2: they do with their eyes and everything. And she's like, well,
- 32:02Speaker 2: we're just out here for a really good cause.
- 32:03Speaker 10: A really good cause.
- 32:05Speaker 2: And it stopped me in my tracks and Ed didn't
- 32:09Speaker 2: come to me right away. So I didn't get to
- 32:11Speaker 2: react to it. He went to the other guy. But
- 32:14Speaker 2: I thought, a really good cause? What about the Lindsay
- 32:18Speaker 2: Clancy trial can you classify as being a really good cause?
- 32:24Speaker 2: You're there holding up the Taylor Swift heart hands to
- 32:29Speaker 2: the camera as a big group in your pink shirts,
- 32:31Speaker 2: all united, saying that what? You support someone who took
- 32:36Speaker 2: one child into a room, put rubber bands around their neck,
- 32:40Speaker 2: squeezed it until they suffocated. Went and got the next one,
- 32:44Speaker 2: brought them in, did the same thing. And can you
- 32:46Speaker 2: imagine the horror that those kids knew in coming that
- 32:49Speaker 2: they were next? But she did that three times. Three
- 32:53Speaker 2: times is premeditation. Even if you're really wacko on the
- 32:58Speaker 2: first one, you're like, what did I do? I lost
- 32:59Speaker 2: my mind. I killed my first kid. Well, what about
- 33:01Speaker 2: the second one? You went back out, got them, brought
- 33:05Speaker 2: them in. I mean, you could probably detail 14 different
- 33:09Speaker 2: choices that she made in between each child that she
- 33:12Speaker 2: proactively made. I'm going to go walk outside. I'm going
- 33:14Speaker 2: to get the child. I'm going to bring them in.
- 33:16Speaker 2: I'm going to lay them on the bed. I'm going
- 33:17Speaker 2: to put the rubber band around their neck. I'm going
- 33:19Speaker 2: to squeeze it. So I don't think you get away
- 33:22Speaker 2: with saying it wasn't premeditated. And you've already said that
- 33:25Speaker 2: you did it. And I just don't think society can
- 33:29Speaker 2: look on this and go, oh, okay, we understand.
- 33:33Speaker 10: Here are the good causes. You want a good cause?
- 33:35Speaker 10: Why don't you support the husband? Because that guy is
- 33:38Speaker 10: suffering more than anybody. Those children are dead. They're not
- 33:42Speaker 10: suffering anymore. That guy's got to live with this the
- 33:44Speaker 10: rest of his life. And he lost three children to
- 33:49Speaker 10: the mother of his children. That's the sick part. I
- 33:52Speaker 10: feel badly for Patrick Clancy.
- 33:54Speaker 13: I do.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, too, because I think that
- 33:59Speaker 2: there is no greater betrayal of power in the universe
- 34:04Speaker 2: than a mom taking the life of her own child.
- 34:09Speaker 10: As a Christian woman, as a Catholic, as a devout Catholic,
- 34:13Speaker 10: you want to do what the Lord would ask and
- 34:15Speaker 10: that would be to forgive. But you know, one of
- 34:17Speaker 10: the things about forgiveness, Kevin, is we cannot forget. And
- 34:21Speaker 10: it doesn't mean that you have to align yourself with
- 34:24Speaker 10: what she did as being okay. You know, it just
- 34:28Speaker 10: means that you, It just means that you say, Lord,
- 34:32Speaker 10: have mercy on her. I don't hate her. And I
- 34:36Speaker 10: understand and have empathy for what she did, but it
- 34:40Speaker 10: doesn't mean you have to say, well, it's all over now.
- 34:43Speaker 14: Oh, let her go.
- 34:43Speaker 10: We forget her.
- 34:45Speaker 2: I certainly don't think an acquittal in any way would
- 34:48Speaker 2: ever be looked upon. I think, and from a human perspective,
- 34:52Speaker 2: I just think it's hard to forgive some of these
- 34:54Speaker 2: people that do really heinous things. And I think that's
- 34:56Speaker 2: why they have to face Jesus themselves and say, Either, Lord,
- 35:01Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and I choose not to be this person,
- 35:05Speaker 2: or whatever. But that's between them. We as a society
- 35:10Speaker 2: have a responsibility to send the message very strongly that
- 35:13Speaker 2: we do not advocate the killing of kids. And that
- 35:16Speaker 2: we need to do everything we can to prevent that
- 35:18Speaker 2: going forward. Anyway, Linda, always good to see you. Thanks
- 35:21Speaker 2: for stopping by. And come and see us. We're going
- 35:23Speaker 2: to be taping some fun stuff on September 1st, one
- 35:26Speaker 2: week from tonight. If you're in the New York Tri-State area,
- 35:30Speaker 2: come to Arthur Avenue, Mario's. We're going to have a
- 35:33Speaker 2: full hour of travel chat, and then we're going to
- 35:35Speaker 2: have a full hour of tourism stuff. It's going to
- 35:37Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. 5 to 7.30, Mario's on
- 35:41Speaker 2: Arthur Avenue. Come out and see us. Linda, we'll talk
- 35:43Speaker 2: to you then.
- 35:44Speaker 10: You got it, Kev.
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- 38:36Speaker 2: was on, I mentioned this in the first segment, I
- 38:39Speaker 2: was on with Ed Henry last night on Newsmax. And ironically...
- 38:45Speaker 2: In addition to the story about Lindsay Clancy, we touched
- 38:49Speaker 2: on a couple of other things. And I may actually
- 38:55Speaker 2: save the audio for when we're done at the end
- 38:57Speaker 2: of the show, but it's just the amount of stories
- 39:01Speaker 2: that are bubbling up to the top right now without
- 39:04Speaker 2: common sense attached to them are really, it's insufferable. Randy Weingarten,
- 39:09Speaker 2: who you may recall is the head of the National
- 39:14Speaker 2: Federation of of teachers or is it the, it's an
- 39:17Speaker 2: American Federation. One of the two NFT or AFT. I
- 39:21Speaker 2: don't remember, but she went on social media yesterday and
- 39:26Speaker 2: lambasted target stores. Now, what would, what were the Target
- 39:30Speaker 2: stores doing? Were they putting the Pride gear for Pride
- 39:38Speaker 2: Month up in the prominently displayed area of the store
- 39:41Speaker 2: like they did a couple of years ago? No, that's
- 39:44Speaker 2: not what they were doing. What were they doing? Why
- 39:47Speaker 2: was she calling for a boycott of Target? Why was
- 39:49Speaker 2: she going after Target? Why was she targeting Target? Well,
- 39:52Speaker 2: she finally got to explaining what it was all about,
- 39:55Speaker 2: like halfway through her screed, which turned out to be
- 39:59Speaker 2: Target didn't speak up during the ICE raids in Minnesota.
- 40:05Speaker 2: And Target, in her mind, I guess, had an obligation
- 40:08Speaker 2: to do so because they have a big headquarters in Minnesota.
- 40:12Speaker 2: So they should have spoken up. But they didn't, so
- 40:15Speaker 2: now we have to cancel Target because they didn't speak
- 40:17Speaker 2: out against ICE. So literally, the not doing of something
- 40:21Speaker 2: is now worth being boycotted over. Friends, the whack jobs
- 40:27Speaker 2: believe that they can force you to care. You will
- 40:31Speaker 2: be made to care, or you will be canceled. Well,
- 40:34Speaker 2: I won't cancel you, but they'll try. Calvin McCullough coming
- 40:36Speaker 2: right back.
- 40:43Speaker 12: We don't have that, so we have That Kevin Show.
- 41:13Speaker 3: Featuring the music of Dick Tunney and the Dream in
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- 41:43Speaker 3: It's Kevin McCullough, Monday through Friday, on That Kevin Show.
- 41:54Speaker 3: And now, from the Connors & Sullivan Broadcast Studios, the
- 41:58Speaker 3: man who is not what he wants to be, but
- 42:01Speaker 3: is way grateful that he's not who he used to be, here's.
- 42:12Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, I said from the top of the show
- 42:15Speaker 2: today we were going to talk about two different legal
- 42:18Speaker 2: matters in our country, and we did cover one of
- 42:22Speaker 2: them in great detail in the first hour, the Lindsay
- 42:24Speaker 2: Clancy trial. Zach Smith is going to be with me
- 42:26Speaker 2: later this hour from the Heritage Foundation talking about some
- 42:29Speaker 2: of the legal ramifications of that, but also the legal
- 42:32Speaker 2: ramifications of our other big legal story today, which is
- 42:37Speaker 2: a ginormous win for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court. Now,
- 42:43Speaker 2: of course, it was a Massachusetts judge that had to
- 42:47Speaker 2: be overruled. Of course, she had been appointed by Barack Obama.
- 42:52Speaker 2: And of course, when President Trump signed an executive order
- 42:56Speaker 2: in March requiring, get this, basic verification safeguards for mail-in voting. Ooh,
- 43:02Speaker 2: so controversial. The president signed an executive order. that required
- 43:08Speaker 2: basic verification safeguards for mail-in votes. Oh, my goodness. He's
- 43:12Speaker 2: so out of control. I saw Robert De Niro on
- 43:17Speaker 2: social yesterday, and he was wearing a Canadian shirt with
- 43:20Speaker 2: a big Canadian flag and words on it that said,
- 43:23Speaker 2: don't worry, Canada, we hate him too. Except that we don't.
- 43:28Speaker 2: We overwhelmingly elected him by a majority of the country,
- 43:33Speaker 2: a majority of popular votes, an overwhelming majority of electoral votes.
- 43:37Speaker 2: And the Robert De Niro's of the world. Yeah, you
- 43:39Speaker 2: can just go, you know, pound chop wood because you're
- 43:43Speaker 2: not going to you're not going to find any, you know,
- 43:46Speaker 2: strong Canadian sympathizers. Our farmers being taken to the woodshed
- 43:51Speaker 2: by by Canada, the thing, the massive imbalance in what
- 43:58Speaker 2: we do with them is all that the president is
- 44:00Speaker 2: trying to correct. So the fact that De Niro took
- 44:02Speaker 2: it the way he did and did it the way
- 44:04Speaker 2: he he had the opportunity to, and then yeah, we
- 44:08Speaker 2: hate him too. Well, you may hate him, but you
- 44:10Speaker 2: don't speak for all of us, Bob De Niro. So
- 44:13Speaker 2: thanks for not, you know, throwing a lumping us all
- 44:15Speaker 2: together there, except that you kind of did anyway. But
- 44:20Speaker 2: so I understand that the president signing an executive order
- 44:24Speaker 2: in March that required basic verification safeguards for mail-in voting. Oh,
- 44:28Speaker 2: it's so controversial. The judge, judge Indira Talwani in Boston said,
- 44:36Speaker 2: when he signed that, blocked the federal government from applying
- 44:39Speaker 2: key provisions in 23 states and the District of Columbia
- 44:43Speaker 2: ahead of this year's elections. But on Monday, the Supreme
- 44:47Speaker 2: Court said, nope, can't do that, Judge. Not on the merits.
- 44:52Speaker 2: Not yet. But the administration can move forward. That's what
- 44:58Speaker 2: the Supreme Court said yesterday. And before anybody starts hyperventilating
- 45:02Speaker 2: about voter suppression, let's look at what Trump actually ordered.
- 45:06Speaker 2: He directed Homeland Security to compile lists of adult U.S.
- 45:11Speaker 2: citizens and make that information available to state election officials
- 45:15Speaker 2: before federal elections.
- 45:17Speaker 7: Why?
- 45:19Speaker 2: So that states have another tool for verifying who is
- 45:22Speaker 2: actually eligible to vote. He told the Attorney General to
- 45:27Speaker 2: prioritize prosecutions when officials knowingly issue federal ballots to people
- 45:31Speaker 2: who aren't eligible to receive them. So he does two things.
- 45:36Speaker 2: He says, Homeland Security, make lists of legal voters available
- 45:40Speaker 2: to the local states. And number two, Attorney General, prioritize
- 45:45Speaker 2: prosecutions when officials allow federal ballots to be sent to
- 45:50Speaker 2: people that should not receive them. He also directed the
- 45:53Speaker 2: Postal Service, another agency that's under the executive branch, by
- 45:57Speaker 2: the way. He directed the Postal Service toward a system
- 46:00Speaker 2: in which states identify the voters who are supposed to
- 46:03Speaker 2: receive mail-in ballots. before those ballots start moving through the mail.
- 46:08Speaker 2: And that's it. Read the decision again if you need to.
- 46:12Speaker 2: All we're talking about is verifying eligibility, enforcing laws already
- 46:18Speaker 2: on the books, and knowing who is supposed to receive
- 46:21Speaker 2: a ballot before the government puts one in the mail.
- 46:24Speaker 2: And apparently this was alarming enough that 23 states and
- 46:27Speaker 2: the District of Columbia went running to federal court before
- 46:31Speaker 2: much of it had even happened. Which brings us to
- 46:33Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. and brings us to the Supreme Court today.
- 46:38Speaker 2: The majority didn't need to settle every future constitutional question
- 46:42Speaker 2: surrounding Trump's order to expose the problem with Telwani's injunction.
- 46:47Speaker 2: The court basically told the states, you're not there yet.
- 46:51Speaker 2: The DHS provision is currently an instruction from the president
- 46:55Speaker 2: to his own subordinate. The states haven't yet been ordered
- 46:58Speaker 2: to do anything under it. Trump's direction to the Attorney
- 47:01Speaker 2: General about prosecuting priorities Presidents direct the executive branch enforcement
- 47:07Speaker 2: priorities all the time. That's the job. And the Postal
- 47:11Speaker 2: Service provision hadn't even reached the point of a final
- 47:13Speaker 2: rule when the state sued. So what exactly was Judge
- 47:17Speaker 2: Telwani stopping? Let me make a comparison. You ever know
- 47:23Speaker 2: that your kids did something that they weren't supposed to do,
- 47:26Speaker 2: but you didn't know it? But you saw them like
- 47:29Speaker 2: being overly defensive about something that they shouldn't have been
- 47:32Speaker 2: overly defensive about. Like they kind of indicated that there
- 47:34Speaker 2: was something. That's what she did. The states went to
- 47:37Speaker 2: court over consequences that in significant part had not occurred.
- 47:42Speaker 2: A federal district judge nevertheless stopped the administration from moving
- 47:45Speaker 2: ahead and the Supreme Court said, nope, too early. Nobody's
- 47:49Speaker 2: been hurt. Nothing's been done here. If a state is
- 47:52Speaker 2: mailing ballots, election officials should know that the people receiving
- 47:55Speaker 2: them are entitled to receive them. And if the federal
- 47:58Speaker 2: government already possesses information that can help states maintain accurate
- 48:02Speaker 2: voter records, they should use it. You'll notice I keep
- 48:06Speaker 2: coming back to how basic this is. We require identification
- 48:10Speaker 2: and verification for countless things in American life. And many
- 48:14Speaker 2: of them considerably less consequential than choosing the people who
- 48:17Speaker 2: run the country. Yet somehow, election verification continually gets treated
- 48:23Speaker 2: as though asking a government database to confirm eligibility is
- 48:27Speaker 2: is the first seen in a dystopian novel. It isn't.
- 48:32Speaker 2: This is basic election integrity, and voters have every right
- 48:35Speaker 2: to demand it, and in the election of Donald Trump,
- 48:38Speaker 2: they kind of did. The resistance to even modest verification
- 48:42Speaker 2: measures is exactly why confidence in elections has become such
- 48:47Speaker 2: a problem. Americans shouldn't have to wonder whether voter rolls
- 48:50Speaker 2: are accurate. They shouldn't have to wonder whether ballots are
- 48:53Speaker 2: being mailed where they're supposed to go. They shouldn't have
- 48:56Speaker 2: to discover after an election that officials possessed information capable
- 49:00Speaker 2: of identifying problems but weren't using it. Election integrity isn't complicated.
- 49:05Speaker 2: Know who's eligible. Know where the ballots are going. Punish
- 49:09Speaker 2: officials who violate the law. Count lawful votes. Then publish
- 49:13Speaker 2: the results and stand by them. Judge Talwani tried to
- 49:16Speaker 2: freeze portions of Trump's effort before the feared conversation. had
- 49:20Speaker 2: even materialized. And again, I think they protest too much.
- 49:24Speaker 2: It's the kid fast-chatting you when you walked in before
- 49:30Speaker 2: you even knew that they did anything wrong. 23 states
- 49:34Speaker 2: and D.C. wanted one federal judge in Massachusetts to stop
- 49:38Speaker 2: election integrity before much of the machinery they were complaining
- 49:43Speaker 2: about had even started moving. Think about that. The administration
- 49:47Speaker 2: says it wants better eligibility verification, and the response was,
- 49:51Speaker 2: the response wasn't, well, let's see if it works, and
- 49:54Speaker 2: it wasn't like, well, we think that's a good idea.
- 49:56Speaker 2: It was, get a judge. And for now, the Supreme
- 49:59Speaker 2: Court has said no. States may have opportunities to litigate
- 50:02Speaker 2: concrete applications of these policies, but they don't get to
- 50:05Speaker 2: turn speculation into about what might happen into a nationwide
- 50:09Speaker 2: roadblock against the president doing what the executive branch is
- 50:12Speaker 2: legally permitted and expected to do. And that's good. President
- 50:17Speaker 2: Trump should move ahead, figure out who's eligible, make sure
- 50:21Speaker 2: ballots go only where they're supposed to, enforce the law
- 50:24Speaker 2: when somebody knowingly breaks it, and count every lawful vote.
- 50:27Speaker 2: For the life of me, I still can't figure out
- 50:29Speaker 2: which one of those we're supposed to be afraid of.
- 50:32Speaker 2: But good on the Supreme Court and good on President Trump.
- 50:35Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, come right back.
- 50:54Speaker 1: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
- 51:01Speaker 11: All right, welcome.
- 51:02Speaker 2: It's Tuesday. And as I said in the commentary, a
- 51:06Speaker 2: great win for the president yesterday at the Supreme Court.
- 51:09Speaker 2: It's not a permanent thing, but at least the court
- 51:12Speaker 2: had enough sense to say, hey, nobody's been harmed by
- 51:15Speaker 2: the idea of this policy just yet. Let's wait until,
- 51:19Speaker 2: you know, let's not put the cart in front of
- 51:21Speaker 2: the horse kind of thing. And I think that at
- 51:23Speaker 2: the end of the day, they're going to be consistent
- 51:25Speaker 2: with this. But let me get some other perspective. KT
- 51:27Speaker 2: McFarland is back with us. We normally talk about national
- 51:30Speaker 2: security and foreign policy stuff. KT has traveled the world extensively,
- 51:34Speaker 2: not just for presidents, but also independently. And KT, one
- 51:38Speaker 2: of the things that I am amazed at, and it
- 51:41Speaker 2: does not get mentioned in our discussion of this here
- 51:45Speaker 2: in the U.S. very much, but we have like 1960s
- 51:49Speaker 2: level elections where When the rest of the world is
- 51:53Speaker 2: kind of like on 2021 in terms of like the security,
- 51:58Speaker 2: the reliability, the way they do them, the confidence that
- 52:02Speaker 2: they have in them. And I know that there's no
- 52:05Speaker 2: reason why we should be, particularly when it comes to
- 52:08Speaker 2: voter integrity and making sure that we have accurate results.
- 52:13Speaker 2: Your thoughts on what the Supreme Court did?
- 52:15Speaker 13: You know, we're the laughingstock of the world for our elections.
- 52:19Speaker 13: We're held up by the world as a nation of laws,
- 52:22Speaker 13: the world's greatest democracy. And yet every time we go
- 52:24Speaker 13: through our election season, it's not an election day. It's
- 52:28Speaker 13: like an election month.
- 52:30Speaker 2: Right.
- 52:31Speaker 13: So not only are the elections sort of long running
- 52:35Speaker 13: and even when election day comes and goes, it seems
- 52:38Speaker 13: you can still vote after election day. And the fact
- 52:41Speaker 13: that you have one election result, what looks like an
- 52:44Speaker 13: election result on election evening, and then it changes completely overnight.
- 52:49Speaker 13: And the fact that it always changes in one direction.
- 52:52Speaker 13: And it usually changes in the big cities, in the corrupt,
- 52:56Speaker 13: incompetent big cities that are competent only at one thing,
- 53:00Speaker 13: which is unfair. So it's about time. The technology has
- 53:04Speaker 13: been there for a long time. And anyone who says
- 53:08Speaker 13: that you don't need identification to vote is somebody who's
- 53:13Speaker 13: cheating because you have identification to do everything, to enter
- 53:17Speaker 13: a federal building. You have to have identification. You know,
- 53:21Speaker 13: every step of your day, how many times a day
- 53:24Speaker 13: do you use identification? But the one place you're not
- 53:26Speaker 13: allowed to is the one place that is supposed to
- 53:28Speaker 13: be most sacred. The most sacred right of an American
- 53:31Speaker 13: citizen is to exercise their vote, their right to vote.
- 53:35Speaker 13: So it's about time. I'm glad the Supreme Court did it.
- 53:37Speaker 13: I hope we tighten up the rolls. I hope we
- 53:39Speaker 13: bring back things like voter ID. And the one way
- 53:43Speaker 13: we could do it, I've always thought, is to on
- 53:46Speaker 13: Election Day. only vote on one day unless you have
- 53:50Speaker 13: permission slip not to, is to federalize all of the
- 53:53Speaker 13: election sites for one day because to get into a
- 53:57Speaker 13: federal building, you need to show an ID.
- 53:59Speaker 2: Huh. Hadn't thought about that. But if you did that,
- 54:03Speaker 2: of course, blue states that would deem honest elections a loss,
- 54:10Speaker 2: they're going to fight it. And they did fight it.
- 54:11Speaker 2: Like this case that was before the court, I found
- 54:13Speaker 2: it to be hilarious. By the way, this win doesn't
- 54:18Speaker 2: Put any new laws into play. This win doesn't do
- 54:21Speaker 2: anything different than what's already been done. It's just allowing
- 54:25Speaker 2: the standards to be made consistent in blue states that
- 54:29Speaker 2: red states have adopted already for quite some time. But
- 54:33Speaker 2: the people that are opposing it, Katie, they're fighting for
- 54:35Speaker 2: things like leaving bad names. And unverified addresses on the
- 54:41Speaker 2: voter rolls so that ballots can be sent to nowhere.
- 54:46Speaker 2: It's like it's when you when you get into the
- 54:48Speaker 2: details of what they actually sued for, you're like, wait,
- 54:51Speaker 2: you're literally filing a lawsuit against the administration for the
- 54:55Speaker 2: purpose of cheating.
- 54:57Speaker 13: You know, I think the one great thing that Donald
- 55:00Speaker 13: Trump has brought back is common sense, whether it's common
- 55:03Speaker 13: sense over women playing in women's sports, not men playing
- 55:07Speaker 13: in women's sports, whether it's the whole DEI agenda, whether
- 55:11Speaker 13: it's the whole racist thing of rewarding people for whatever
- 55:16Speaker 13: they're aggrieved about. Agreement is as opposed to rewarding them
- 55:20Speaker 13: for their capabilities. I mean, the most obvious thing is
- 55:23Speaker 13: you want to know that American elections are safe and secure.
- 55:26Speaker 13: And one of the ways you do that is to
- 55:28Speaker 13: have a clean voting roll. And one of the ways
- 55:31Speaker 13: you do that is when people die, you take them
- 55:32Speaker 13: off the voting roll. Or when people move, you take
- 55:35Speaker 13: them off that voting roll. Or you actually have to
- 55:39Speaker 13: have someone prove citizenship in order to register to vote.
- 55:43Speaker 13: You scratch your head when you realize the twists and
- 55:46Speaker 13: turns and pretzel-like shapes that some of the inner cities
- 55:50Speaker 13: and the red states are trying to do in order
- 55:52Speaker 13: to cheat. And it leads you to believe, you know,
- 55:55Speaker 13: if it looks like a dog and it walks like
- 55:57Speaker 13: a dog and it barks like a dog, guess what?
- 56:00Speaker 8: It's probably a dog.
- 56:02Speaker 13: And it's not just the fairness of it and to
- 56:04Speaker 13: make sure they are, but it's the underlying premise of
- 56:06Speaker 13: democracy is that our elections are fair and we have
- 56:10Speaker 13: the right to govern ourselves and we have the right
- 56:12Speaker 13: to choose our leaders. And if you take away that
- 56:15Speaker 13: foundational principle of the Constitution and a democracy, what do
- 56:19Speaker 13: you have left? It's a banana republic. So I think
- 56:22Speaker 13: it's a very good day for the world that the
- 56:24Speaker 13: Supreme Court did this, and I certainly hope that we
- 56:27Speaker 13: continue in that direction, clean up the voter rolls, make
- 56:30Speaker 13: sure people vote who are citizens and nobody else gets
- 56:33Speaker 13: to vote, and to make citizenship not only a privilege
- 56:37Speaker 13: but a responsibility.
- 56:39Speaker 2: Well, and it's one of those things where we can
- 56:41Speaker 2: lead the way and show the way. And I want
- 56:44Speaker 2: to ask you about this because I know that this
- 56:47Speaker 2: was all connected. There was this voting machine company, Dominion.
- 56:52Speaker 2: They filed a bunch of lawsuits, got a lot of
- 56:54Speaker 2: people to pay a lot of money for things. We're
- 56:56Speaker 2: learning things about that company that turned out not to
- 56:58Speaker 2: be exactly as stated as well. But like in places
- 57:02Speaker 2: like Venezuela where and I know that in your lifetime,
- 57:05Speaker 2: you remember the Venezuela of the past that was prosperous,
- 57:09Speaker 2: that was thriving, that was, you know, had a huge
- 57:13Speaker 2: energy industry and was and was working well to make
- 57:16Speaker 2: its people's lives better. And the way they the way
- 57:21Speaker 2: the corrupt powers came in is they they overtook it.
- 57:26Speaker 2: with shoddy elections, and then they kept those shoddy election
- 57:30Speaker 2: practices in place to keep those dictators in place until
- 57:33Speaker 2: we went in there and said, Maduro, you're out.
- 57:34Speaker 13: The fact that the United States of America, with all
- 57:37Speaker 13: of our technological capabilities and the wealth and everything else,
- 57:42Speaker 13: somehow can't get their act together in a simple election,
- 57:46Speaker 13: I don't know, it makes us look like a laughingstock
- 57:48Speaker 13: to the world. And it also is to tell the
- 57:51Speaker 13: world we don't really care about real elections, when we do.
- 57:54Speaker 13: So I think it not only is going to be
- 57:55Speaker 13: important for confidence that the American citizens have in the
- 57:59Speaker 13: integrity of their elections, but if we can turn this
- 58:02Speaker 13: around and clean it up, then we've become a real
- 58:05Speaker 13: example to the world. And I keep looking back at
- 58:07Speaker 13: the state of Florida in 2000. The state of Florida
- 58:11Speaker 13: was a mess. Remember, it took two months before you
- 58:14Speaker 13: could figure out who really won the election because there.
- 58:17Speaker 8: Were voting machines that didn't work. They were hanging.
- 58:20Speaker 13: And, you know, and it was just a joke. Well,
- 58:23Speaker 13: what did Florida do out of embarrassment and shame? It
- 58:26Speaker 13: cleaned up its voter rolls. It cleaned up its method
- 58:28Speaker 13: of voting. It had early voting, but with identification.
- 58:32Speaker 2: And with a definitive cutoff date.
- 58:34Speaker 13: And a definitive cutoff date. And so by election day,
- 58:37Speaker 13: and I know this because my daughter is a state
- 58:40Speaker 13: representative in Florida, Representative Fiona McFarland. By election night, within
- 58:45Speaker 13: 20 minutes after the polls closed, you know who won.
- 58:48Speaker 8: And you know by how much.
- 58:50Speaker 13: And if you try to cheat the system in Florida,
- 58:53Speaker 13: if you try to register in two places and vote
- 58:55Speaker 13: in two places or get your dog registered, you are caught.
- 59:00Speaker 13: You have fines to pay and jail sentences to serve.
- 59:04Speaker 13: So if Florida can do it, anybody can do it.
- 59:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and what's really discouraging about that and I know
- 59:10Speaker 2: that you love New York City, but the city can't.
- 59:16Speaker 1: L.A.
- 59:16Speaker 2: Couldn't count mayoral votes in the same length of time
- 59:19Speaker 2: that Florida can count the entire state. This is one
- 59:23Speaker 2: of those things where you look at it and go,
- 59:24Speaker 2: there's got to be something wrong here. Last question, very quick.
- 59:28Speaker 2: Since Trump's been back, Every Western hemispheric election has gone
- 59:34Speaker 2: to the non-Marxist. They've kicked a lot of Marxists out
- 59:38Speaker 2: of our Western hemisphere. To what influence do you attribute
- 59:42Speaker 2: Donald Trump to that?
- 59:43Speaker 13: 100 percent. For a couple of reasons.
- 59:46Speaker 8: One, when.
- 59:48Speaker 13: Millet in Argentina came into power. Trump backed him. And
- 59:53Speaker 13: Millet came into power saying, I'm going to do what
- 59:55Speaker 13: Trump did. I'm going to cut out government waste, fraud,
- 59:58Speaker 13: and abuse.
- 59:58Speaker 4: And so he did.
- 59:59Speaker 13: He eliminated like 30% of the government bureaucracy. It turned
- 1:00:03Speaker 13: around the economy. It's turned around the country. In El Salvador, Bucalay,
- 1:00:09Speaker 13: the leader Bucalay said, I'm going to call it what
- 1:00:12Speaker 13: it is. If they're gang members, I'm putting them in jail.
- 1:00:15Speaker 13: And I'm not going to be worried about their rights.
- 1:00:17Speaker 13: I'm worried about the people that they're killing. And so
- 1:00:20Speaker 13: that turned around. And then the other thing is that
- 1:00:22Speaker 13: we stopped giving– the United States USAID stopped giving– grants
- 1:00:27Speaker 13: and monies to a lot of those anti-american groups that
- 1:00:32Speaker 13: we were believe it or not we were paying anti-american
- 1:00:34Speaker 13: groups just to do their anti-american thing and their anti-capitalist
- 1:00:40Speaker 13: and their anti-democracy thing we were paying for it we
- 1:00:43Speaker 13: cut that out and so that's changed the environment and
- 1:00:45Speaker 13: i think nothing succeeds like success yeah Countries in that
- 1:00:48Speaker 13: region are the United States, now we have Argentina, and
- 1:00:51Speaker 13: there are probably six more countries in South America and
- 1:00:54Speaker 13: Latin America and Central America that have changed.
- 1:00:56Speaker 8: Their governance, and they're all thriving.
- 1:00:59Speaker 13: So I think that the last piece of the Western
- 1:01:02Speaker 13: Hemisphere will be Cuba, and I do think that we
- 1:01:05Speaker 13: will have a new government, a post-communist government in Cuba,
- 1:01:09Speaker 13: and that Cuba will be a prosperous, successful nation, and
- 1:01:14Speaker 13: that'll happen sooner rather than later.
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: Well, it is amazing when the USAID funds dried up
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: how quickly those elections all swung one way. And I
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: just think the truth speaks for itself. KT McFarlane, always
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: appreciate your insights. Thank you, lady.
- 1:01:29Speaker 13: Thank you.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: You got it. Kevin McCullough coming right back.
- 1:01:33Speaker 11: Stick around for more of That Kevin.
- 1:01:35Speaker 7: Next.
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
- 1:02:00Speaker 12: Welcome back.
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, glad to have you with us. It's That
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com for all things related, whether it's the
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: TV clips, the column, all the stuff. And you know
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: that I've written a lot this summer, much more than
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: I ever anticipated about the men and women's sports issue
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: as it is still being thrust upon us literally every
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: by the most profitable women's sports league in the country
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: right now. There's no other league on par with the
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: WNBA in terms of TV contracts and everything else, and
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: yet that seems to be the place where if you
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: show up with a shirt that says XX-XY, you get
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: thrown out of a game, while if you show up
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: to watch a game saying something like all trans lives
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: matter or something like that, they welcome you and applaud
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: you and you're allowed to stay. Not only at the
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: Barclays Center did they have this protest outside, there were
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: messages that they put up on the scoreboard inside the
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: game that were allowed to take positions on this. And
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: there were three pro-trans positions broadcast on the super screen inside.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: The one woman, who was from the XX-XY Corporation, which
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: is just a clothing brand. There's nothing more sinister to
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: it than that. It's just this clothing brand with those
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: letters on it. She was not allowed to have her
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: message displayed to the New York Liberty's home team. So
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting that this double standard exists. Alexandra
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: Bauer is back with us from Moms for Liberty of
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: Bergen County here in the tri-state area. And Alex, it's
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: not just the NBA that's having this issue. There are
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: governors that are still trying to live in their own
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: reality as well. And sadly, you live in a state
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: where one of them exists. Mikey Sherrill has been on
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: a rampage of sorts, if you will, in recent days,
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: signing laws that prevent people from doing basic constitutional things
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: like expressing their faith or praying in public places and
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: in certain ways in certain times. Tell us a little
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: bit about what she's trying to do.
- 1:04:11Speaker 4: Yeah, she's basically going to fine you and throw you
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: in jail if you are praying outside of any sort
- 1:04:19Speaker 4: of women's reproductive health clinics, abortion clinics, things like that.
- 1:04:24Speaker 4: She's saying that it's going to be intimidating to those
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: people having to go in and get whatever procedures or
- 1:04:31Speaker 4: help that they want.
- 1:04:32Speaker 14: Who's going to be the judge of that?
- 1:04:34Speaker 4: Who is going to be the person that says, oh, yes,
- 1:04:37Speaker 4: that's intimidating or that's not? I mean, this is This
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: is probably the wildest thing that I've seen her do,
- 1:04:44Speaker 4: but actually do so far. Two months ago, she actually
- 1:04:48Speaker 4: wanted the legislation that was going through, and it sort
- 1:04:51Speaker 4: of changed a little bit before it got to her desk,
- 1:04:54Speaker 4: was that even if you spoke about it to anybody.
- 1:04:58Speaker 14: So, for instance, if I were.
- 1:04:59Speaker 4: To speak to someone and give someone advice, they could
- 1:05:02Speaker 4: then come after me just for giving advice at any time, anywhere.
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: If I were to make a video and talk about
- 1:05:09Speaker 4: something like that, they could come after me.
- 1:05:11Speaker 14: They knew that that was just off the deep end.
- 1:05:15Speaker 4: And they ended up changing the language before the bill
- 1:05:19Speaker 4: actually got on her desk. But, you know, she is
- 1:05:23Speaker 4: completely anti- The residents of New Jersey, she really is.
- 1:05:30Speaker 4: She listens to a very small amount of people. And
- 1:05:34Speaker 4: these are the people that she sort of, you know, kneels.
- 1:05:37Speaker 14: To, if you would.
- 1:05:38Speaker 4: It's not the majority of New Jersey. And that's what
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: she needs to understand. Frankly, nobody wanted her as our governor.
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: We didn't vote her in. I mean, where did those
- 1:05:51Speaker 4: extra votes come from?
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: I have significant issue with the New Jersey totals from
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: her gubernatorial race.
- 1:05:57Speaker 4: They figure, well, someone's not going to be paying attention
- 1:06:00Speaker 4: and maybe we'll get away with that. But the difference
- 1:06:03Speaker 4: is we are paying attention.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: For people that are not familiar with Moms for Liberty,
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: real quickly, give us the mission, what they're about, how
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: people can join.
- 1:06:11Speaker 4: Yeah, Moms for Liberty. So we want to empower parents.
- 1:06:15Speaker 4: And the way we do that is we teach them,
- 1:06:18Speaker 4: we educate them, and we give them the tools so
- 1:06:20Speaker 4: that they understand their parental rights and that this way
- 1:06:23Speaker 4: they can stand up for their children. You know, you
- 1:06:26Speaker 4: have 100% God-given rights. to, you know, decide the education
- 1:06:32Speaker 4: for your children, how they're brought up, their morals and values.
- 1:06:36Speaker 14: And that is not something that.
- 1:06:38Speaker 4: Anybody can take away from you.
- 1:06:40Speaker 14: But, you know, sometimes it's confusing.
- 1:06:42Speaker 4: Maybe you've never been to a board event meeting. Maybe
- 1:06:44Speaker 4: you just don't know the curriculum. You have a lot
- 1:06:46Speaker 4: of questions. So we help people with that. They can
- 1:06:49Speaker 4: go to momstoliberty.org and there's a cute little map on
- 1:06:52Speaker 4: there and you can find your chapter and and it
- 1:06:54Speaker 4: will connect you to us. So, you know, and we're
- 1:06:58Speaker 4: happy to help everybody. I know that there's not a
- 1:07:00Speaker 4: chapter in every county. I'm actually the ambassador now for
- 1:07:04Speaker 4: New Jersey. So I'm able to help out the entire state.
- 1:07:07Speaker 14: So just reach out to me.
- 1:07:09Speaker 4: Also have social media, Moms for Liberty, Facebook, X, you know,
- 1:07:14Speaker 4: I think we're going to have MySpace soon.
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: So what are Moms for Liberty's plans for November? Are
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: you guys involved in a lot of congressional races?
- 1:07:24Speaker 4: Yeah, well, so we we only endorse school candidates for now.
- 1:07:29Speaker 4: So board of ed or superintendent, things like that. We
- 1:07:32Speaker 4: that's what we're about. That's what we try to help
- 1:07:34Speaker 4: people because, you know, you really do have to start
- 1:07:37Speaker 4: on that, you know, local scale.
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: All politics is local.
- 1:07:40Speaker 4: Yeah, that's correct. You really have to start there. So
- 1:07:44Speaker 4: we help.
- 1:07:44Speaker 14: Parents run for board of ed or help them, you.
- 1:07:47Speaker 4: Know, go to the board of ed meeting so that
- 1:07:49Speaker 4: they understand how they're run, what they're allowed to change,
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: things like that. So we're very busy vetting candidates and
- 1:07:57Speaker 4: endorsing them and helping them.
- 1:07:59Speaker 14: So we're super busy with that.
- 1:08:01Speaker 4: And then we also have a our yearly Moms for
- 1:08:05Speaker 4: Liberty Summit happening this year.
- 1:08:06Speaker 14: It's in Dallas. October 8th to the 10th. And that's
- 1:08:09Speaker 14: a great thing to go to.
- 1:08:11Speaker 4: You don't have to be a chapter leader to attend that.
- 1:08:15Speaker 14: You could just be a parent that wants more information.
- 1:08:18Speaker 14: We have awesome speakers.
- 1:08:20Speaker 4: We have awesome breakout sessions that really help give you
- 1:08:23Speaker 4: those tools to effectively help your children have the best
- 1:08:28Speaker 4: education that they can get.
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: Alex Bauer, thank you for all that you're doing. Friends,
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: stay right here. We're coming right back to Times Square.
- 1:08:35Speaker 2: Don't go away.
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- 1:08:54Speaker 1: Here he is from New York.
- 1:08:57Speaker 7: That Kevin.
- 1:08:58Speaker 8: Kevin.
- 1:08:59Speaker 12: McCullough.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: Welcome back to Times Square.
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: It's That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. And as I have been
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: making mention of throughout the show today, pretty big win
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: for the president at the Supreme Court yesterday. And it
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: has to do with this year's elections, which is kind
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: of exciting. Zach Smith is back with us from the
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation, senior legal fellow with the Heritage Foundation. Zach,
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: we've got two kind of big court things that we're
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: thinking about today. The Lindsey Clancy case, I'll ask you
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: about that in a second. But this Supreme Court win
- 1:09:33Speaker 2: for the administration allows them to actually hold people accountable
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: in blue states in this election cycle to make sure
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: that they play right.
- 1:09:45Speaker 15: Yeah, look, well, thanks for having me on the show today, Kevin.
- 1:09:47Speaker 15: I think it's important to understand exactly what President Trump's
- 1:09:50Speaker 15: executive order was trying to do. It essentially had three
- 1:09:54Speaker 15: pieces to it. The first is it ordered the Secretary
- 1:09:56Speaker 15: of Homeland Security to provide citizenship lists to states in
- 1:10:00Speaker 15: advance of elections. That way states could use those and
- 1:10:02Speaker 15: check their voter rolls if they wanted to. The court
- 1:10:05Speaker 15: made clear that was a directive President Trump gave to DHS.
- 1:10:09Speaker 15: There was nothing for states to do. And so the
- 1:10:11Speaker 15: state's rights weren't violated. There was no harm to the
- 1:10:14Speaker 15: states by the president simply telling the DHS secretary to
- 1:10:17Speaker 15: take this step. The second piece of this was President
- 1:10:21Speaker 15: Trump ordered the Attorney General to prioritize prosecuting individuals who
- 1:10:25Speaker 15: illegally provide ballots to ineligible voters. Again, there's no harm
- 1:10:30Speaker 15: to states. The president's simply telling the Attorney General what
- 1:10:33Speaker 15: types of prosecutions to prioritize. Now, the third piece that's
- 1:10:37Speaker 15: gotten most of the attention is is the Postal Service Regulation,
- 1:10:41Speaker 15: where the president is ordering the Postal Service not to
- 1:10:44Speaker 15: take any particular action, but simply to start a rulemaking
- 1:10:48Speaker 15: process so that the Postal Service can better check and
- 1:10:52Speaker 15: track mail-in or absentee ballots. And if you read the
- 1:10:55Speaker 15: Supreme Court's decision, the majority opinion that it released yesterday,
- 1:11:00Speaker 15: the justices said, that there was nothing for the states
- 1:11:04Speaker 15: to do. The president hadn't even given the Postal Service
- 1:11:07Speaker 15: an order. He simply told them to start the rulemaking process,
- 1:11:10Speaker 15: to consider evidence, and come out with a proposed policy. Now,
- 1:11:14Speaker 15: since the states filed suit, the Postal Service has come
- 1:11:16Speaker 15: out with that proposed regulation. But the justices said that
- 1:11:20Speaker 15: didn't matter because at the time the states filed suit,
- 1:11:23Speaker 15: nothing yet had happened.
- 1:11:24Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: Well, and nobody's been harmed in any of it. So
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: what are they even suing for? Like, that's the thing that... Like,
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: and you know, there's this, this, when you're a parent,
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: you kind of know things, right? So, you know, if
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: you're getting too much explanation about something you didn't even
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: ask about, there's something probably happened that you probably need
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: to know about. I kind of feel like that's what
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: they did here. They're like, well, you know, you can't
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: do that because, and we're not, we're not saying anything
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: like you, you're, you're kind of putting all the smoke
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: signals out before anything's been accused.
- 1:12:00Speaker 15: Well, and look, I think one of the interesting things
- 1:12:02Speaker 15: from yesterday's decision is a six to three decision with
- 1:12:05Speaker 15: the three liberal justices dissenting. What stood out to me
- 1:12:08Speaker 15: is Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan issued their own dissenting opinion.
- 1:12:12Speaker 15: Justice Sotomayor wrote it. Justice Kagan joined it. But neither
- 1:12:15Speaker 15: of them joined Justice Kentucky Brown Jackson's separate dissenting opinion.
- 1:12:19Speaker 15: And we've seen this over the course of the past
- 1:12:21Speaker 15: several years. It seems like Justice Jackson is alienating many
- 1:12:25Speaker 15: of her colleagues. In her very lengthy, very incendiary dissenting opinion,
- 1:12:30Speaker 15: she accused her colleagues of taking their eye off the ball.
- 1:12:33Speaker 15: She accused the Trump administration of trying to foment chaos
- 1:12:37Speaker 15: before the upcoming election. And unfortunately, this just seems to
- 1:12:40Speaker 15: be the latest installment of Justice Jackson writing for her
- 1:12:44Speaker 15: social media audience, writing for cable news pundits, instead of
- 1:12:47Speaker 15: really engaging and addressing with the substance of the claims.
- 1:12:51Speaker 15: that were being raised. This is obviously a tragic case
- 1:12:54Speaker 15: all around. Lindsay Clancy and her husband have filed medical
- 1:12:57Speaker 15: malpractice suits against her medical providers. This has been a
- 1:13:00Speaker 15: big part of this trial. She clearly had a lot
- 1:13:02Speaker 15: of medications from a lot of different providers that don't
- 1:13:05Speaker 15: seem like they were always checking with how those medications interacted.
- 1:13:09Speaker 15: But to your point, Kevin, the fundamental question that the
- 1:13:12Speaker 15: jury has to decide in this case, did she know
- 1:13:15Speaker 15: right from wrong when she killed her children? Was she
- 1:13:18Speaker 15: able to control her actions? Now, the problem the prosecution
- 1:13:23Speaker 15: may have in this case is Massachusetts is somewhat of
- 1:13:26Speaker 15: an outlier when it comes to their insanity defense, because
- 1:13:29Speaker 15: that's essentially what Lindsey Clancy is raising, insanity defense. And
- 1:13:34Speaker 15: after John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Reagan in the 1980s,
- 1:13:38Speaker 15: the federal government and most states changed the way their
- 1:13:40Speaker 15: insanity defense worked. Typically, in most states, if a defendant
- 1:13:45Speaker 15: raises a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity,
- 1:13:48Speaker 15: They bear the burden. The burden shifts to the defendant
- 1:13:50Speaker 15: to show that they were legally insane at the time
- 1:13:53Speaker 15: they committed the prohibited act. That's not what happens in Massachusetts.
- 1:13:58Speaker 15: As long as a defendant even raises the possibility of
- 1:14:01Speaker 15: legal insanity, the prosecution then has to go through this
- 1:14:04Speaker 15: lengthy process and essentially disprove their legal insanity claim. And
- 1:14:10Speaker 15: so this can be problematic for the prosecution. Massachusetts is
- 1:14:16Speaker 15: also an outlier in that there's a second avenue for
- 1:14:20Speaker 15: Lindsay Clancy to avoid legal accountability. In most states, a
- 1:14:25Speaker 15: defendant has to show that they didn't know the difference
- 1:14:28Speaker 15: from right and wrong. Massachusetts provides a second avenue to
- 1:14:32Speaker 15: be claimed legally insane. Lindsay Clancy can show what's known
- 1:14:37Speaker 15: as an irresistible impulse. She can say, even if she
- 1:14:40Speaker 15: knew what she was doing was wrong at the time
- 1:14:42Speaker 15: she did it, if she couldn't control her actions, she
- 1:14:46Speaker 15: could still escape a guilty verdict on that basis alone.
- 1:14:49Speaker 15: That's why we've heard so much expert testimony from her
- 1:14:52Speaker 15: psychologists and psychiatrists from the state as well. And that's
- 1:14:55Speaker 15: what the jury is going to have to wrestle with
- 1:14:58Speaker 15: at the.
- 1:14:58Speaker 11: End of the day.
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: Well, can't anybody who's done something that they're ashamed of
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: later claim poor impulse control?
- 1:15:05Speaker 15: I mean, And I think what Lindsay Clancy is claiming
- 1:15:09Speaker 15: here about postpartum psychosis, as I understand it, the defense
- 1:15:13Speaker 15: is essentially postpartum psychosis is different than postpartum depression.
- 1:15:18Speaker 2: That's what they're trying to say. I've known so many
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: personal friends that have had postpartum issues post-pregnancies. And I just,
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: I don't know. It seems like there's a lot of
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: women that experience these kinds of pains and uncomfortable experiences.
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: situations after birth and i don't know a single one
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: of them that have ever said oh the solution kill
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: my kids like it's just i don't know it's it's
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: coming up really and i think that i think that
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: normal everyday people are kind of feeling like well don't
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: pawn that off on just someone who's who's saying that
- 1:15:52Speaker 2: they struggle with that because there have been millions of
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: women who have struggled with it valiantly and come through
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: the other side with no impulse to kill their children Um,
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: and I've known a few that have said, you know,
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: I had dark moments, but I gave my baby to
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: my husband and I said, I need to go for
- 1:16:06Speaker 2: a walk and, um, you know, calm herself down, et cetera.
- 1:16:10Speaker 2: There's like, there's so many, there's so many other options.
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: We cannot countenance killing innocent children and say, uh, okay,
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: get out of jail free card, which is not going
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: to be her life. She's going to be paralyzed forever.
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: So it's, it's one of those things, but Zach, always
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: appreciate your insights. Thanks for being here. Of course.
- 1:16:28Speaker 15: Thanks for having me on.
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back from Times Square. Stay here.
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