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COVID Opened 4,200 North Carolina Prison Cell Doors · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: Good Monday morning. It is so nice to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us on the 47 Morning Update, and we've got
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  Speaker 1: a big story for you. Democrat former Governor Roy Cooper
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  Speaker 1: now claims that the American people were frustrated and wanted
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  Speaker 1: more prisoners released. because of COVID. This coming from a
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  Speaker 1: governor that freed at least 3,500 convicted criminals as the
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina governor during the COVID era. So is this
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  Speaker 1: part of making sure we get rid of prisons and
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  Speaker 1: let all the prisoners free? We explain it all to
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  Speaker 1: you in the shocking details in just a moment. But
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  Speaker 1: That's joinfof.org. It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: There is an interesting article that is now shedding light
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  Speaker 1: on what Democrats' real goal was during COVID when it
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  Speaker 1: came to the issue of emptying out our prisons. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not joking about this. Former North Carolina governor and current
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper said claimed that people were, quote,
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  Speaker 1: very frustrated that his administration did not release more prisoners.
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  Speaker 1: CNN's Manu Raju asked Cooper if he had regrets about
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  Speaker 1: the way he and his administration handled the, quote, court-ordered
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  Speaker 1: settlement between civil rights groups to reduce the prison population
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  Speaker 1: during the COVID era. The centerpiece of the Republican campaign
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  Speaker 1: against you is this settlement deal. that you reached, quote,
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  Speaker 1: about the prisoner release. Roughly 3,500 prisoners were released early
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  Speaker 1: in the name of COVID. And when you look back
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  Speaker 1: at the way that was handled by you and your administration,
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  Speaker 1: Maniraju asked, do you have any regrets by the way
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  Speaker 1: you handled it? Quote, this is something that the state
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  Speaker 1: had to do because the court ordered it, Cooper responded.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people believe if you
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  Speaker 1: ask the plaintiffs, They were very frustrated that there weren't
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  Speaker 1: more that were released. Now, think about what this means
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  Speaker 1: for a second. What this means is Democrats were trying
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  Speaker 1: to use COVID as a reason for what they describe
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  Speaker 1: in their radical agenda as bail reform and prison reform, right?
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  Speaker 1: They're obsessed with with letting prisoners out of prison, and
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  Speaker 1: they want lawlessness. They want no police. They want no prisons.
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  Speaker 1: They want cashless bail, regardless if you rape someone, beat someone,
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  Speaker 1: kill someone. They don't care. They want criminals running around
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  Speaker 1: among us. And that is exactly what happened during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: They saw an opportunity. And they took it to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's prison overcrowding or we can't keep everybody safe in
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  Speaker 1: the prisons with COVID. And so, therefore, we must let
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  Speaker 1: out the prisoners. That was the logic. And then they
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  Speaker 1: did it. Now, these comments from the Democrat Cooper came
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  Speaker 1: after reporting from Maniraju noted that North Carolina Republican Senate
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  Speaker 1: candidate Michael Watley has centered his attacks on Cooper's record
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  Speaker 1: on crime. And he criticized Cooper over the court-ordered settlement.
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  Speaker 1: Whatley has said that the actual number of convicted criminals
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  Speaker 1: that Cooper released could actually be more than 4,200 criminals. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Breitbart News also reported that in 2021, Cooper and a
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  Speaker 1: far-left group announced a settlement agreement releasing a total of
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  Speaker 1: 3,500 convicted criminals from state prison. Cooper has also been
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  Speaker 1: described as having offered numerous excuses for releasing not just criminals,
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  Speaker 1: but violent criminals from prison as well. In 2021, Cooper
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  Speaker 1: and far-left groups announced that settlement releasing a total of
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  Speaker 1: at least 3,500 convicted criminals from the state prison. When
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  Speaker 1: the settlement was announced, prison officials said only convicts with
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  Speaker 1: sentences ending in 2021 would be released. Now, that declaration
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  Speaker 1: misled a state legislative committee and forced officials to correct
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  Speaker 1: them at the time, indicating violent offenders would, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: be released. Not wouldn't be released, would be released. The
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  Speaker 1: list of specific offenders was shielded at the time as well.
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  Speaker 1: No transparency for what criminals would be running among us.
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  Speaker 1: And only released when it was confirmed that that DeCarlos Brown,
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  Speaker 1: the man accused of murdering a Ukrainian refugee at the
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte light rail system, was on that list. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to think about that. That's the killing that
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  Speaker 1: went viral because it was caught on video. Now, Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: who was the governor, has offered numerous excuses for releasing
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  Speaker 1: violent criminals from prison. Quote, this was something that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do to make sure we worked to protect
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  Speaker 1: the public.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: That's how Cooper explained it on CNN, saying public safety
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  Speaker 1: officers made decisions about this. They follow the lead of
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's team. President Trump released 13,000 prisoners at least
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  Speaker 1: during the COVID era. He signed a bill to do that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina Democrat Roy Cooper says he should have released
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  Speaker 1: more criminals back onto the streets. That is insane, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Completely and utterly insane. I want you to hear part
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  Speaker 1: of this from CNN. Listen to how they spun this.
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  Speaker 5: He is going after Cooper's record on crime, including over
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  Speaker 5: a court-ordered settlement that Cooper reached as governor with civil
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  Speaker 5: rights groups to reduce the prison population during COVID. Do
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  Speaker 5: you have any regrets by the way you handled that?
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  Speaker 6: This is something that the state had to do because
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  Speaker 6: the court ordered it. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 6: people believed, if you ask the plaintiffs, They were very
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  Speaker 6: frustrated that more weren't released. And this was something that
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  Speaker 6: we wanted to do to make sure we worked to
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  Speaker 6: protect the public. Public safety officers made decisions about this.
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  Speaker 6: They followed the lead of President Trump's team. The problem
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  Speaker 6: here is that they are lying about all of these
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  Speaker 6: cases that they're trying to connect to this.
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  Speaker 1: I look at this, and I go back to the
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  Speaker 1: core here. You look at this defense by Cooper. He's
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  Speaker 1: now accusing Republicans of lying about all these cases, that
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to connect to this and say that he
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  Speaker 1: was the one who actually prosecuted violent criminals and put
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  Speaker 1: them behind bars. Well, hold on a second. Which one
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  Speaker 1: is it? Which one is it? Now, Cooper, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: during a campaign appearance in August, also lied to reporters
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  Speaker 1: when he was asked about his soft on crime record.
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  Speaker 1: When he was asked about it, again, Cooper said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: independent fact checkers show most of what they're saying is
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  Speaker 1: simply not true. So he's using these fictitious fact checkers
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  Speaker 1: to say, oh, no, no, no, I didn't let anybody go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the only one in the race who's actually prosecuted
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  Speaker 1: violent criminals and worked to keep them behind bars, he
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  Speaker 1: went on to say. Are you kidding me? RNC Research
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  Speaker 1: putting this out from an event. And here's what they said.
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  Speaker 4: They're coming at you for being soft on crime. What's
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  Speaker 4: your message to voters who hear those messages? And what
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  Speaker 4: specific strategies do you have in place or thoughts in
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  Speaker 4: place to try to make North Carolina a safer place?
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  Speaker 7: Well, first, independent fact checks show that most of what
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  Speaker 7: they're saying is simply not true. And I'm the only
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  Speaker 7: one in this race who's actually prosecuted violent criminals and
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  Speaker 7: worked to keep them behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: That is the complete opposite of what the governor did
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  Speaker 1: at the time. In this matter, not only is Cooper lying,
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  Speaker 1: he's pathologically lying. Court and public records also confirm, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, that Cooper settled a lawsuit filed by the
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  Speaker 1: far-left group in order to release, he was basically working
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  Speaker 1: with them, a minimum of 3,500 convicted criminals from prison.
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  Speaker 1: And the only governor in the country who signed a
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  Speaker 1: legally binding agreement requiring their states to release the prisoners was, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you guessed it the North Carolina Democratic Governor Cooper Roy
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  Speaker 1: Cooper is the only one in the country that did
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  Speaker 1: this we now have learned that the total ended up
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  Speaker 1: being 4200 at least that we know of and if
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  Speaker 1: you think that's not enough Cooper also vetoed legislation requiring
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  Speaker 1: cooperation with ICE detainers, increasing penalties for rioting, and allowing
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  Speaker 1: more juvenile crime to move into the justice system as well.
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  Speaker 1: So when they tell you that they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: use things like COVID to push their radical agenda, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? They're lying to you. They will absolutely, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: use their radical agenda... to push no matter what's happening. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they don't care if it's COVID. They're like, great, push
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  Speaker 1: the agenda, get everybody out of jail. That's the Democratic Party, folks.
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