1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 1: And Windsor as he currently calls himself, the former Duke 2 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: of York, the former Prince Andrew is under arrest. He 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: was arrested this morning at his new home in Norfolk, 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: or at least where he's currently staying on the Sandringham 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: estate in Norfolk, and he is under arrest on suspicion 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: of misconduct in public office. 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: I hope Okay. 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 3: So this arrest is a huge deal because it's not 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 3: just about a scandal. It's about accountability. No one is 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 3: above the law, regardless of title or status. We're going 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: to talk about that more this morning. I'm going to 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: check you with Nicki Kelly as well, and we'll ask 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 3: her what the biggest story in the State House is today, 14 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 3: and we're going to discuss more of this. Here's a 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 3: little bit of what Nicki Kelly had to say, and 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: it is the Chicago Bears. 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 4: Chicago. Yeah, so it's definitely the sleeper issue of this session. 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 4: And today we're gonna I think, get some more information 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 4: about more details in this stadium bill that's going to 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 4: come out, and we're hearing that the Bears might be 21 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 4: winnowing down their interest impossible Indiana locations. Nothing firm yet, 22 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 4: but some movement. 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 3: So we'll get into that a little bit more coming 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 3: up at ten o'clock, and we'll also talk about the 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 3: state of things in regards to Iran. But back to 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: he is no longer Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles. 27 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: He's just now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, which I 28 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 3: rested this morning on his sixty sixth birthday. Happy birthday 29 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 3: to him. 30 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 5: I just found that out this morning. I've known for 31 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 5: like listen in the last couple of weeks because I 32 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 5: follow what's going on in England and the United Kingdom, 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 5: and they kept referring to this guy Andrew mount Batten. 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 5: I was like, oh, there must be a bunch of 35 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 5: these guys caught up in this Epstein scandal over there. 36 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: No, they were talking about Prince Andrew. 37 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 5: But since he lost his title as his Royal Majesty, 38 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 5: he can no longer be called prince, so they're using 39 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 5: a real name for him. So when you can use 40 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 5: those two interchangeably, Andrew Mountbatten and Prince Andrew are the 41 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 5: same person. 42 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 3: So he was taken into custody on suspicion of misconduct 43 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 3: in public office. That's a serious charge eight can carry 44 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 3: life in prison under the United Kingdom law, and the 45 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 3: arrest obviously ties to new revelations from the US Justice 46 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 3: Department release of millions of pages of documents connected to 47 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So this just points out 48 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 3: how much power and privilege should not protect the powerful. 49 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 5: And I think this is what we're starting to see here, 50 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 5: is at least for me, I'm getting a better understanding. Okay, 51 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 5: now I understand why these emails weren't sent out or what. 52 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 5: Now Why is taken fifteen years for us to get 53 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 5: this information? You're starting to get that. I mean, Prince 54 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 5: Andrew is an extraordinarily powerful person. I mean, I know 55 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,239 Speaker 5: we think of them as this figurehead, and technically they 56 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 5: are in the United Kingdom, but that doesn't mean they 57 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 5: don't have a ton of close connections with powerful people 58 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 5: over the world, and they are very powerful. And of 59 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 5: course we saw the firing of the UK ambassador to 60 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 5: the US. So what we're seeing here is the United 61 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 5: Kingdom is seeing a lot more real action take place 62 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 5: from these Epstein file releases than what we're seeing here 63 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 5: in the United States. And there's some good reason for 64 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 5: that too. Keep in mind here. Most felonies in the 65 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 5: United States have a statute of limitations of seven years. 66 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 5: Jeffrey Epstein's been dead for about seven years, so all 67 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 5: of these things that might have been crimes longer than that. Yeah, 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 5: he was arrested in twenty nineteen. It's twenty twenty six. 69 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 5: So a lot of these crimes that they were committed 70 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 5: in the United States, the statute of limitations may have 71 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 5: expired on them. They don't have that in England. Here's 72 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 5: another interesting thing. He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 5: and public office. It's what's called a common law offense 74 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 5: in the UK, so there's no like specific violation that 75 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 5: is defined. They leave that up to the judges to decide. 76 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 5: And so again a difference between the two judicial systems 77 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 5: is why we may be seeing some more action in 78 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 5: England than what we're seeing here. And here's another reason 79 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 5: why this is really serious for Prince Andrew, because it's 80 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 5: not only this, you know, unbecoming of a member of 81 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 5: the royal family. There are emails very similar to the 82 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 5: former UK ambassador of the US. There are emails where 83 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 5: it looks like Prince Andrew shared classified information with Jeffrey 84 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 5: Empstein British classified information. There was an email dated November 85 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 5: twenty ten that was forwarded to Andrew or it was 86 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 5: forwarded from Andrew to Epstein that talked about a confidential 87 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 5: brief on investment opportunities in Afghanistan and some other areas. 88 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 2: Also, there were. 89 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 5: Emails that allegedly showed that he was sharing official visit 90 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 5: information from British dignitaries to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. 91 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 5: So you've kind of got this element of espionage in 92 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 5: here too that could become a big, big problem for 93 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 5: Prince Andrew. 94 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 3: So police are searching his properties in Berkshire and also Norfolk, 95 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: including his current residents in Sandrihama State. He's denied any wrongdoing, 96 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: of course, but this is unusual, one of the first 97 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 3: times his senior British royal figure has been arrested in 98 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 3: modern history. I mean, you have to keep in mind 99 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 3: thousands of years. This is a very traditional institution. But 100 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: you've got King Charles and also Buckingham Palace saying that 101 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 3: they are supporting the investigation and they're going to respect 102 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 3: the legal process. King Charles just like get away from us. Yeah, 103 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 3: how toxic is this guy. It's his own brother, but 104 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 3: he's trying to save himself at this point. 105 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 2: Well, and finally somebody hasn't. 106 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 5: And by the way, Prince William and Princess Kate have 107 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 5: come out in support of King Charles's position on this. 108 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 5: So it looks like the rest of the royal family 109 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 5: has said, you know what, Andrew, you did some stuff 110 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 5: you shouldn't have been doing, and that's on you, and 111 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 5: you're on your own. Which is different because if you 112 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 5: know anything about you know, Queen Elizabeth and the way 113 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 5: she was the you know, Queen and ran the monarchy 114 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 5: for so long. She was so protective of making sure 115 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 5: that the British monarchy endured so that it could be 116 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 5: passed down to the next generation for hundreds of years 117 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 5: to come. Yet she enabled a lot of what Prince 118 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 5: Andrew did. She you know, paid part of the settlement 119 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 5: money that he did in this entire process. It's always 120 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 5: been known that Prince Andrew was her favorite. And so 121 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 5: you can sit here and talk about, oh, it's just 122 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 5: a mother's love for her son. Now this goes way 123 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 5: beyond this. Queen Elizabeth, it looks like enabled Prince Andrew 124 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 5: and isn't the person that held him accounta bill. And 125 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 5: it's so interesting because she defended the monarchy as queen 126 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 5: for so long, but it was it could be that 127 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 5: enabling of Prince Andrew that ends up bringing the monarchy down, 128 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 5: which is being discussed. 129 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, this moment shows the institutions when they lose 130 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 3: public trust to protect their own that's a real problem. 131 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 3: And so you got to hold these people accountable, not 132 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,239 Speaker 3: protect them due process matters. 133 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 2: But nobody is above the law. It's not only in 134 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: the UK that things are happening. 135 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 3: You've got in Norway, the former prime minister has been charged. 136 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 3: In France, a minister of culture was rated in Austria, 137 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: a banker was arrested in Sweden. You've got a senior 138 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 3: un official who resigned. In Dubai, You've got the DP 139 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 3: world chairman was replaced. So this global network, the cracks, 140 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 3: the cracks are showing. 141 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, and it kind of reminds me of and I'm 142 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 5: going to paraphrase this, but during the first Trump administration, 143 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 5: he talked about how he. 144 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 2: Said the quiet part out loud as it. 145 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 5: Relates to everything involved, not just you know, Jeffrey Epstein files. 146 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 5: But he basically said, hey, you know everything that you 147 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 5: think is happening with politicians and global leaders. 148 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: You're exactly right. It is happening, and it. 149 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 5: Just doesn't justify, but it gives you a better understanding 150 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 5: of why it was so difficult to get these documents released. 151 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 5: These are worldwide powerful people, and I'm sure that they 152 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 5: were exerting their influence as best they could to make 153 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 5: sure these things never saw the light of day. And 154 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 5: thank goodness, we've at least gotten a portion of them 155 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 5: out there and in the public. 156 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 2: Yep, you gotta quit sweeping this under the carpet. 157 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 3: Bring it out, darkness into light.