1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: The Michael Very Show. 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Is on the air now. 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 3: I literally have never said anything to invoke violence, and 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 3: I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 3: a democrat invoking violence. 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 4: I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 4: over the country, and maybe there will be. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: People need to start taking through the streets. 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 2: This is a dictator. 11 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 5: You know. 12 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 3: There needs to be unrest in the streets for as 13 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 3: long as there's unrest in our lives. 14 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: Enemies helped to stay. 15 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 4: Show me where it says that protests are supposed to 16 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 4: be polite. 17 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: I thought he should have punished him in the face. 18 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: I said, even if you lost. 19 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 3: He insulted why he's on the escalator and called Mexican's 20 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 3: rapist emmers. 21 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 1: He said, well, what do you think I should done? 22 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 5: So? I think you should find some in the face 23 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 5: and then gotten out of the race. 24 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: You would have been a hero. 25 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: I should if we were in high school, taking the 26 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 2: kind of Jim and beat the hell out of them, 27 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: pard some people in the face. 28 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 6: Them as the last time, I'm not just assassinated president. 29 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: They're still gonna have to go out and put a 30 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: pull with a dog. 31 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 2: Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump 32 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: is a fascist? Yes? I do, Yes, I do. 33 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 7: The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark 34 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 7: Milly said, no one has ever been more dangerous to 35 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 7: this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist 36 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 7: to his core. 37 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: I have thought an awful lots about blowing. 38 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: Up the White House. 39 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 3: I will go and take Trump out, but like if. 40 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 8: There grouse, I mean, like this dude has to be 41 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 8: knots over the head like hard. 42 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 3: We are not only gonna punch you back, but we 43 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 3: are gonna knock you out. 44 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 8: The woman who repeatedly reminds us she is a black 45 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 8: woman making threats of violence against people and wondering where 46 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 8: the stereotypes come from, well, Maxine Waters says, I will. 47 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: Take our Donald Trump tonight. Sis, the girl. 48 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 8: Only thing you're taking out tonight is tho's teeth because 49 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 8: they are too big for your mouth and they need 50 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 8: to be put in PEPs and or whatever it is 51 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 8: you use to clean them. You ain't taking anybody out, Mamma. 52 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 8: Just sit down and calm down. Okay, we don't need 53 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 8: anything from you right now. There is a famous line, 54 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 8: and some of you will be able to quote it 55 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 8: if I were to start it. That goes the greatest 56 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 8: trick the devil ever played was convincing the world it 57 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 8: didn't exist. The greatest trick the devil ever played was 58 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 8: convincing the world he didn't exist. It's one of these 59 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 8: phrases that has an air to it, an elegance to it, 60 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 8: a certain historical feel, and so it has been myths 61 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 8: attributed to Charles Baudelaire, but it is not Bodelaire who 62 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 8: said it. In fact, it's far more mundane, but no 63 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 8: less impressive. It was uttered by Kevin space actually playing 64 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 8: a character known as Verbal Kent in a movie called 65 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 8: The Usual Suspects, and it's it's one of those moments 66 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 8: that Spacey, leaving aside his freakish personal sexual assaults and 67 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 8: all these as a character, breaking the fourth wall in 68 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 8: delivering lines like this was one of his absolute strong suits. 69 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 8: And he's he's being interrogated and he's talking about misleading 70 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 8: the police and you the audience, about the real identity 71 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 8: of Kaiser Sooshe, who by the way, turns out to 72 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 8: be him. But he's created this alternate mythical crime boss fella, 73 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 8: and he's describing basically misdirection. This is Nazi style propaganda, 74 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 8: mind warping. 75 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: This is the line. You've seen the movie, You remember it. 76 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: Greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world 77 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: he didn't exist. 78 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 8: Five days after Charlie Kirk's assassination, CBS News said shooter's 79 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 8: motive remains elusive. 80 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 9: Five days after Charlie Kirk's murder, the shooter's motive remains elusive. 81 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 9: No writing's left behind, vague secondhand testimony, that uncertainty and 82 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 9: the risk of drawing sweeping conclusions suggests the murder may 83 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 9: share similarities with recent violence not driven by an obvious 84 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 9: political ideology. 85 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 8: Absolute political ideology and trying to convince us otherwise is misdirection, dishonesty, 86 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 8: and lying. Ted Cruz was on CNN with that nasty person, 87 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 8: Caitlin Collins, who repeatedly asserts, we. 88 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 2: Just don't know his motive. 89 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: We don't have a motive yet, We don't know yet. 90 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 9: We're waiting. 91 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: Obviously, we've heard what the governors had to say with 92 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: the quarter. You know, we don't have about it yet. 93 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: We know, we don't have a lot of yet. 94 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 8: What's happening with really that CNN's position, we just had 95 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 8: to fire the gun and celebration. Well, I'm going to 96 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 8: run out of johnn you just know that. That continued 97 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 8: with her saying that Christopher O'Leary is a retired FBI agent. 98 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: That's pretty frightening considering what he's about to say. 99 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 8: Now he's an MSNBC analyst, and he joins in with 100 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 8: the herd and says. 101 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 2: Oh, we don't know the ideology behind. 102 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 4: It, which hasn't been released, is a real clear cut 103 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:36,239 Speaker 4: ideology behind this. It looks like it and maybe leaning towards, uh, 104 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 4: you know, perhaps something related to you know, gay community 105 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 4: or trans community. But I mean, there's there's nothing necessarily here. 106 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 4: He talks about his father being more pro Trump, but 107 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 4: is that because he's reacting to the assassination of Charlie 108 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 4: Kirk or is it is he acting out against you know, 109 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 4: his father's f filiation with magal world. So I don't 110 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 4: think we see a real clear cut ideology here. One 111 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 4: of the things that we've seen with school shootings and 112 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 4: even the first Trump assassination attempt, these young men, a 113 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 4: lot of young men similar to this, have this nihilistic 114 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 4: view and they're acting out but it's not traditional ideologies. 115 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 4: It's some kind of blend sometimes and nothing you can 116 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 4: put a finger on. So you have some groups that 117 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 4: champion this, but we haven't seen evidence of any of 118 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 4: that yet. He's certainly, you know, in chat rooms that 119 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 4: are consistent with this kind of thing, but at least 120 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 4: the information that has been released so far doesn't really 121 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 4: paint a clear picture of why he did this. We 122 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 4: have the the act and evidence of the act, but 123 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 4: we really don't understand the guilty mind yet and what 124 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 4: drove him towards. 125 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: Us con junction jumption? What's your otion? 126 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 2: The Michael Show conjunction junction? 127 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: How's that ounction? 128 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 8: James Carbled, along with a number of other Democrats, have 129 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 8: warned Democrats, you're losing Middle America. Kamala Harris was a 130 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 8: turnoff to Middle America. Some of your crazy positions, like 131 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 8: men in the women's locker room, you're turning off Americans. 132 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 8: People that are not particularly political know that what you're 133 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 8: doing is wrong. You're doing long term damage to the 134 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 8: Democrat brand. You're making us unreasonable and irrational and out 135 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 8: of step. You're behaving in a manner that is eqy 136 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 8: to people who don't otherwise care much about politics. Well, 137 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 8: here you've got a guy who assassinates Charlie Kirk. Whether 138 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 8: you loved Charlie Kirk, liked Charlie Kirk, knew who he was, 139 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 8: didn't know much about him, or for whatever reason, didn't 140 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 8: think he was great, but didn't just hate him. 141 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: Wherever you were. 142 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 8: On that scale, which occupies almost all of the continuum 143 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 8: of Americans on the matter, you don't believe he should 144 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 8: be assassinated while sitting on a stool speaking to students, 145 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 8: You don't. And then when his assassin is caught and 146 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 8: you find out that he went to great links to 147 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 8: murder Charlie Kirk, and then you find out that he's 148 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 8: living with a dude who's trying to somehow become a woman, 149 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 8: and that we have the text messages between them, and 150 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 8: you decide to describe this as a very tender moment. 151 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 8: A little Romeo and Joliet. We're going to position this 152 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 8: monster as a casanova. They want to romanticize Charlie Kirk's murderer, 153 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 8: turning him into this Luigi who killed the CEO, who 154 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 8: some people think is some sort of hero. ABC News 155 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 8: reporter Matt Guttman is ridicule for saying that the text 156 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 8: messages that Kirk's murderer's murderer and his transgender loving lover 157 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 8: were very touching and gave a very intimate portrait into 158 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 8: this relationship. 159 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 10: We have seen an alleged murder with such specific text 160 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 10: messages about the alleged murder weapon, where it was hidden, 161 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 10: how it was placed, what was on it. 162 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 2: But also it was. 163 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 10: Very touching in a way that I think many of 164 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 10: us didn't expect, a very intimate portrait into this relationship 165 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 10: between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself, with him 166 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 10: repeatingly calling his roommate, who was transitioning, calling him my 167 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 10: love and I. 168 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: Want to protect you, my love. 169 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 10: So it was this duality of someone who the attorney said, 170 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 10: not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, 171 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 10: but was doing it in front of children, which is 172 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 10: one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And on 173 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 10: the other hand, he was speaking so lovingly about his partner, 174 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 10: so very interesting, as Pierre said, riveting, Press Confin stated. 175 00:10:50,280 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: It wasting, riveting, disgusting. What do he do you masturbate 176 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 2: to dog? 177 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 5: Day? 178 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 2: Afternoon. The last scene, what kind of weirdo were you? 179 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: Then? 180 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 8: Montell Williams on CNN calls the murderer a quote love 181 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 8: torn child. 182 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 6: There are people who are trying to pigeonhole this as 183 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 6: a leftist thing and a right thing. And what we're 184 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 6: really talking about, hear me, because I'm going to throw 185 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 6: you when I say this. We're talking about a love 186 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 6: torn child, a kid. This is probably his first real relationship, 187 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 6: and somebody was disparaging the person that he loved. He 188 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 6: sat on that building for thirty minutes before he took 189 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 6: the shot. Why do you wait until the first word 190 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 6: trance came up? 191 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: Then he took the shot. 192 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: You think he heard it, He could. 193 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 6: Hear I think he could hear it. I think he also. 194 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 6: I don't believe he was motivated politically. I think this 195 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 6: was motivated emotionally. I think this was an emotionally stunded 196 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 6: person who literally, well to say it this way, just 197 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 6: hear me, tried to defend his significant other, not trying 198 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 6: to defend some ideology. 199 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 8: What before you know it, the left is going to 200 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 8: turn the very touching text exchange into a musical and 201 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 8: put it on Broadway. Matt Gutman at ABC, who once 202 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 8: released details of prime victims families of the Trayvon Martin 203 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 8: witnesses in the family knows a child who witnessed what 204 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 8: happened to scare that child and his family away so 205 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 8: they would not be able to speak at the trial, 206 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 8: And that is what happened. Then they brought Kamala Harris's 207 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 8: former lover on sea and and to steer this away. 208 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: This was really just love. Oh I should tell you. 209 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: Because her mattress is Willy Brown. 210 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 8: One thing I think think is really beautiful and glorious 211 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 8: that I have witnessed over the last week is how 212 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 8: so many content creators have rallied around one person who 213 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 8: was bigger than a content creator, but still a content creator. 214 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 8: It didn't matter if Charlie Kirk's show radio show aired 215 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 8: at the same time as a show. It didn't matter 216 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 8: if these were people sharing the space for influence. Everybody 217 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 8: understood this was an important person with a powerful message 218 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 8: whose death came far too early at the hands of evil. 219 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 2: And this was a moment. 220 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 8: Very large for our nation, and every one of us 221 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 8: had to rise up. There will be in time. It's 222 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 8: human nature those who will attempt to use Charlie Kirk's 223 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 8: legacy for their purposes, and those purposes will relate to 224 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 8: Israel or Palestine, or. 225 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 2: Trump or. 226 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 8: A number of different things that will be to their 227 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 8: own personal advantage. 228 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 2: That's going to happen. 229 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 8: But the average American just wants fairness, an opportunity, and justice, 230 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 8: safety and security. And I think it's important to remember 231 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 8: that jd. Vance was the first fill in for the 232 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 8: Charlie Kirk Show after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and he 233 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 8: did a wonderful job. It's not easy. You ever have 234 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 8: a moment to kill Go look at Go. Listen to 235 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 8: Alec Baldwin trying his hand at talk radio. About thirty 236 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 8: seconds in he says, let's go to the phone line. 237 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 8: They said, we don't have to bail the phone line. 238 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 8: About every ten say they got to mail on the 239 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 8: phone line. Because the idea is you just walk in 240 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 8: the studio on the phone's ring and you just the 241 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 8: caller does all the work and you react to it. 242 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: But to talk into a microphone to. 243 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 8: Keep people engaged over a period of time is not 244 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 8: an easy thing to do. But jd Vance has a 245 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 8: great skill set and his heart was really in this 246 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 8: we believe on the Michael Berry Show that it doesn't 247 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 8: have to be Michael Berry twenty four to seven. I 248 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 8: don't have to be speaking every minute of our show. 249 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 8: One of the things we do with the platform we've built, 250 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 8: such as it is, is to amplify the words, actions, 251 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 8: deeds of others as well to make our country better. 252 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 8: So we're going to hand over the next five minutes 253 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 8: to jd Vance, who I think had a beautiful, beautiful 254 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 8: closing monologue, and the rest of this of his hosting, 255 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 8: will be our bonus podcast this weekend. 256 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: But here's what unity. 257 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 5: Real unity can be found only after climbing the mountain 258 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 5: of truth, and there are difficult truths we must confront 259 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 5: in our country. One truth is that twenty four percent 260 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 5: of self described quote very liberals believe it is acceptable 261 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 5: to be happy about the death of a political opponent, 262 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 5: while only three percent of self described very conservatives agree. 263 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 5: Three percent is too many, of course. Another truth is 264 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 5: that twenty six percent of young liberals believe political violence 265 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 5: is sometimes justified, and only seven percent of young conservatives 266 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 5: say the same. 267 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: Again, to high a. 268 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 5: Number in a country of three hundred and thirty million people, 269 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 5: you can, of course find one person of a given 270 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 5: political persuasion justifying this or that, or almost anything. But 271 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 5: the data is clear people on the left are much 272 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 5: likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not 273 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 5: a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, 274 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 5: one side has a much bigger and malignant problem. 275 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: And that is the truth. 276 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 5: We must be told that problem has terrible consequences. 277 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: The leader of our party, Donald J. 278 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 5: Trump, escaped an assassin's bullet by less than an inch. 279 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 5: Our House majority leavers, Steven Scalise, came within seconds of 280 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 5: death by an assassin himself, now the most influential conservative 281 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 5: activist in generations. Our friend Charlie has been murdered. This violence, 282 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 5: it doesn't come from nowhere. 283 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 2: Now. 284 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 5: Any political movement, violent or not violent. 285 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: Is a collection of forces. 286 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 5: It's like a pyramid that stacks on top one support 287 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 5: on top of the other. That Peermid's got a foundation 288 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 5: of donors, of activists, of journalists now, of social media influencers, 289 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 5: and of course of politicians. Not every member of that 290 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 5: pyramid would commit a murder. In fact, over ninety nine 291 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 5: percent I'm sure would not. But by celebrating that murder 292 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 5: apologizing for it, and emphasizing not Charlie's innocence, but the 293 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 5: fact that he said things some didn't like, even to 294 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 5: the point of lying about what he actually said. 295 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: Many of these people are creating. 296 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 5: An environment where things like this are inevitably going to happen. 297 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 5: A couple of months ago, I had landed a fundraiser 298 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,239 Speaker 5: in southern California, and since you know we'd be out 299 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 5: there anyways, my wife and I decided to take our kids. 300 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: To Disneyland one weekend. 301 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 5: We had fun, and to be clear, most of the 302 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 5: guests said very nice things or they just. 303 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: Left us alone. 304 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 5: But there was a loud and very pole minority that 305 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 5: would shout at my children, who were eight, five and three, 306 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 5: whenever they got the opportunity. You should disown your dad, 307 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 5: you little shit, one middle aged woman yelled at my 308 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 5: five year old. 309 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: Tell the Secret Service. 310 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 5: To protect the Constitution, not your father, screamed another. Are 311 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 5: these women violent, probably not. Are they deranged, certainly? And 312 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 5: while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, 313 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 5: it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics 314 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 5: and American politics today are proud members of the far left. 315 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 5: After Charlie died, one of his friends and one of 316 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 5: our senior White House staffers, had left leaning operatives in 317 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 5: his neighborhood, passing out leaflet's telling people what he looked 318 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,719 Speaker 5: like and where he lived, encouraging neighbors to harass him 319 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 5: or God forbid. 320 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: To do worse. 321 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,959 Speaker 5: While he was mourning his dead friend, he and his 322 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 5: wife had to worry about the political terrorists drawing a 323 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 5: big target on the home he shares with his young children. 324 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: Are these people violent? I hope not? 325 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 5: But are they guilty of encouraging violence us? You damn 326 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 5: well better believe it. We can thank God that most 327 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 5: Democrats don't share these attitudes, and I do while acknowledging 328 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 5: that something has gone very wrong with a lunatic fringe, 329 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 5: a minority, but a growing and powerful minority on the 330 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 5: far left. 331 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,360 Speaker 1: There is no unity. 332 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 5: With people who scream at children over their parents' politics. 333 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 2: There is no. 334 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 5: Unity with someone who lies about what Charlie Kirk said 335 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 5: in order to excuse his murder. There is no unity 336 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 5: with someone who harasses an innocent family the day after 337 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 5: the father of that family lost a dear friend. There 338 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 5: is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination, 339 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 5: and there is no unity with the people who fund 340 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 5: these articles, who pay the salaries of these terist sympathizers, 341 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 5: who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband and father, 342 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 5: deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words 343 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 5: with which they disagreed. 344 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 9: This is me, Michael Berry the show Just. 345 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 2: From the moone. 346 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 8: Go to clip number four oh five. This is Mayor 347 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 8: Barbara Lead, the mayor of Oakland. She was on MSNBC 348 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 8: with Al Sharpton and she says, Hey, you know those 349 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 8: crime statistics that show that Oakland's really, really dangerous, that's 350 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 8: misinformation that ain't true. 351 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 11: You recently marks one hundred days in office, and while 352 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 11: the changes you've made seemed to have made impact, according 353 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 11: to data from the FBI examining each city's murder and 354 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 11: property crime rates, Oakland still ranks among as the second 355 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 11: most dangerous place in the country, and police retention in 356 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 11: the city has been a big problem for Oakland. The 357 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 11: department says they are three hundred officers shot of what 358 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 11: they need on the street. Trump sending in the National 359 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 11: Guard for thirty days doesn't seem like it would bring 360 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 11: long lasting change to this situation. What would actually help 361 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 11: since you've already start bringing some things down. 362 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, every now, those statistics aren't the correct statistics. 363 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 2: When you look at the FBI report. 364 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 3: Oakland and the scheme of things that's number seventeen or 365 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 3: number eighteen. 366 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: On its list. 367 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 3: So there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation about Oakland. 368 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 3: And what would be helpful, of course, is funding our 369 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 3: applications and our requests for more work with regard to 370 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 3: our Department of Violence Prevention. We are trying to get 371 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 3: to seven hundred police officers. We have a voter initiative 372 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 3: that passed that wanted and directed us to get to 373 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 3: the seven hundred. We're on that path, and yes we 374 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 3: are strained our budget. Of course, some jurisdictions are providing 375 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 3: seventy five thousand dollars signing bonus. But retentions is extremely 376 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 3: important and so the support from the federal government for 377 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 3: retention and for recruitment would be welcome also to help 378 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 3: us invest more in our Department of Violence Prevention. But 379 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 3: the crime rate is coming down even in spite of 380 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 3: these challenges, so it's. 381 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: All hands on deck. 382 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 3: We're working with our organizations to help recruit from inside 383 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 3: of Oakland. We have many young people who are ready to. 384 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: Go into the academies. 385 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 3: We funded five new academies this year in our budget. 386 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 2: We funded and we have an issue. 387 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 3: We don't sweep our challenges under the rug with side shows, 388 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 3: and so we funded finally which was not in the 389 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 3: budget before, an additional a new investment in side show prevention. 390 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 3: And so we're moving forward in spite of our challenges. 391 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 8: But you know what this reminds me of Eddie Murphy 392 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 8: had a comedy had two big comedy shows in the eighties, 393 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 8: Raw and Delirious, And in one of them, he talks 394 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 8: about his wife coming home and finding him in bed 395 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 8: with another woman, and he talks about the different layers 396 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 8: of First, it didn't happen, Second wasn't me, and third, 397 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 8: all right, I did it, but I just you know, 398 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 8: blanked that woman. 399 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 2: I make love to you. 400 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 8: But he started with the Jedi mind trick, and that 401 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 8: was the funniest part of the whole bit. 402 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 2: Every now and then I take a joke too far 403 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 2: and get in trouble. 404 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 12: That's why I hadn't been on the road the last 405 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 12: three years, because I did a lot of did y'all 406 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 12: see Delirious? 407 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 2: And then man I'm making fun out a lot. 408 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 12: Of entertainers who That's when I got scared because I 409 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 12: did some jokes bout mister T, and mister T was 410 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 12: gonna get up he was. I was scared because y'all 411 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 12: see mister T. He don't look like, you know, like 412 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 12: he can't fight. He looks like he can whip some ass, right, 413 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 12: And I was petrified. I was walking parties, people say, yo, man, 414 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 12: mister T was just here looking for you. He was 415 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 12: walking up people saying, I'm a whipping everybody. 416 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 2: I want to see him. 417 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: And then I watched the show because I didn't know him. 418 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:46,959 Speaker 1: I watched the show and see what kind of guy 419 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: he was. And the character on the show ain't too bright. 420 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 12: So I figured if he came up to me, I 421 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 12: could use a Jedi mind trick on him. 422 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: Mister T, walk up. 423 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 2: I heard you did some jokes about it. 424 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: No you didn't, maybe I didn't. 425 00:24:58,720 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 2: I'm gonna go beat up the fool. 426 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 8: I am reminded of one of the finest lines ever 427 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 8: in a presidential speech in the modern era, George W. 428 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: Bush. 429 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: I know where to believe, but it was his speech 430 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 2: writer who wrote it. 431 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,439 Speaker 8: And he referred at a Black school to the soft 432 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 8: bigotry of low expectations. 433 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 13: When you lower expectations, you get lousy results. See, what 434 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 13: we're doing is challenging what I call the soft bigotry 435 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 13: of low expectations, because I know every child can learn. 436 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 13: Every child can learn, and so we're insisting on raising 437 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 13: the standards. 438 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 8: When someone has low expectations for you, that is not 439 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 8: a compliment, It is an insult. If a teacher says 440 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 8: to you, yeah, Bob, this paper will be just fine, 441 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 8: and you later get a C minus, it means that 442 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 8: that teacher didn't think you were an a student all right, 443 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 8: and you don't care for school all right. If you 444 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 8: go into a new financial advisor and you go, all right, 445 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 8: I'm sixty four and here's what i've saved so far. 446 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 8: It's four hundred and twelve dollars, and he says, well, 447 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 8: you've done very well, and you go done very well. 448 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 8: I couldn't live one month on that. It means that 449 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 8: he doesn't think that you were a very sharp person, 450 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 8: a thrifty person, a strategic person. The soft bigotry of 451 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 8: low expectations the idea, and this is what we have 452 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:39,919 Speaker 8: in this country. 453 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: Every day. Black people are told. 454 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 8: Indirectly, you are lazy, you are dishonest, you are not 455 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 8: very smart, so we'll take care of you. 456 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. 457 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 8: You know the great coaches in history, Paul Bear Bryant, 458 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 8: Nick Saban, Tom Landry, task Masters, Belichick, they didn't say, hey, guys, 459 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 8: just do your best. They constantly drove people past their 460 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 8: comfort level because they knew there's another gear. 461 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 2: We've all got another gear. 462 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 8: When this woman says, oh, Oakland isn't isn't dangerous, the 463 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 8: fact that after that she can return to Oakland and 464 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 8: not be booed out of the city by the people 465 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 8: who are the crime victims tells you that they have 466 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 8: accepted this. 467 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 2: In some odd way. 468 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 8: She is defending their honor. That's tragic when you think 469 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 8: about it. That's really tragic when you think about it. 470 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 8: They should be demanding more. I have been around black 471 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 8: politics for twenty five years. Sheila Jackson Lee's seat city Council. 472 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 8: I've seen it from the belly of the beast, in 473 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 8: the churches, at city hall, on the campaign trail, in 474 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 8: the streets, and one of the things I have noticed 475 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 8: is that many black voters have had their hearts broken 476 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 8: so many times over such a long period of time 477 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 8: that they no longer have an expectation of good government. 478 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 8: They don't believe reformers. They figured they're all going to lie, 479 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 8: cheat and steal. Who's going to do it in a 480 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 8: way that will help me or that will return my 481 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 8: phone call. The idea is government is going to be 482 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,479 Speaker 8: a cesspool of corruption. I want somebody that to at 483 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 8: least get mine from me. When you think about how 484 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 8: far you have to have fallen to reach that point, 485 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 8: how sad life is for you at that moment, you 486 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 8: can't get out of that. You don't demand excellence out 487 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 8: of your politician. You might have one day, but you've 488 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 8: been hurt, You've been lied to, betrayed so many times 489 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 8: that you just figure, hey, you know what the elected 490 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 8: officials in my community, that's who and what they are. 491 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 8: So I'll just elect the one that I know the 492 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 8: best or that I feel can help me. 493 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 2: The most, and I won't expect it. 494 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 8: So that's why when Marion Barry gets caught naked with 495 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 8: the prostitute smoking crack in a hot sheet motel, FBI 496 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 8: kicks down a door. First thing out of his mouth, bitch, 497 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 8: set me up. After he goes to prison for stealing 498 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 8: their money. That's why he then gets re elected to 499 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 8: city council because they didn't expect any better from him anyway.