1 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: This is Larry Menty in for Jesse Kelly tonight, so 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: proud to be here. I want to tell you about 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: something that happened in New York. First of all, you 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: know about the storm, and we'll be checking in on that, 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: because the gentleman we're going to talk to in a 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: moment is a hero to many people in New York, 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: especially conservatives in New York, because he tried to stand up. 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: He attempted to stand up to a wave of corruption. 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 1: That's what I call it. I mean, I don't know 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: if it's the definition of corruption, the technical definition of corruption, 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,599 Speaker 1: but where do you hear it? And you tell me 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: if it's not corrupt, it's at least ikey. And this, 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: by the way, pay attention to this because once something 14 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: like this happens in one state, you can't just say, oh, 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: that's just New York. No, no, no. This will get 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: the attention of state legislators all across the country. And 17 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: so you think it's just New York, you wait, they're 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: gonna go WHOA. I didn't think of that. The New 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: York Senate has had the reputation of being a do 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: nothing Senate. Over the past year. We had lots of 21 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: problems in the state and they haven't fixed it. Well, 22 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: they finally did something. They gave themselves a big, fat 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: pay raise, a twenty nine percent pay raise, going from 24 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: one hundred and ten thousand dollars a year to one 25 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: hundred and forty two thousand dollars a year, thirty two 26 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: thousand dollars pay raise that makes them the highest paid 27 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: state senators in the country. They even had a special 28 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: session to do this. A special session, now that's usually 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: for emergencies. You would think they might want to debate 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: the failed criminal justice system that forces criminals right back 31 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: on the street and creates high crime, high violent crime 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: in New York City. They keep letting people back until 33 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: they eventually heard or kill somebody. Nope, didn't even talk 34 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,839 Speaker 1: about it. How about fixing the unemployment insurance fund that 35 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: was corrupt, that squandered eleven million dollars in taxpayers money. No, 36 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: none of that. The emergency was the pay raise. That's 37 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: what they needed. A thirty two thousand dollar Christmas present. 38 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: And as I said, one of the guys who tried 39 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: to stand the line, who told them this is wrong, 40 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,399 Speaker 1: especially now, this is just wrong, is George Burrello, who 41 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: is from Northwest New York, and I want to talk 42 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: to him about the pay raise, but I also wanted 43 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: to ask him because he's right there in the thick 44 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: of the horror in northwest New York, where they've gotten 45 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: a hundred inches of snow over the last couple of months, 46 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: and now they just got another. There's sixty three and 47 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: people died in horrendous ways. What Senator, First of all, 48 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Thank you so much for joining us tonight. 49 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: You were a hero in this whole fight. But can 50 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: you tell us what's going on in your section of 51 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: the state and your section of the country right now? Well, 52 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: you know, Buffalo and I live in the Buffalo area, 53 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: just south of Buffalo, and yeah, we we're used to snow. 54 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: But we had a combination of hurricane forced winds and 55 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: a Lake Erie siege, which is a tremendous and sudden 56 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: rise in the lake levels that led to literally a 57 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: perfect storm. And as hardy as we are, you know, 58 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: and prepared as Western New York is, this unfortunately has 59 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: led to you know, thirty four deaths in counting, and 60 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: by many estimates that may approach as many as a hundred. Unfortunately, 61 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: when everything is when all of the the bodies are counted, 62 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: So it's really a tragedy. It occurred, you know, over 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: the Christmas weekend. You know, obviously you know, short staff, 64 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: skeleton crews, and but people were heroic, Our first responders 65 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: were heroic. Average citizens helped one another out as we 66 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: always do here in Western York. But in the end, 67 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: it was just a tragedy. And when the dust settles, 68 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: we'll have to look and see what was missed, what 69 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: could have been done better. But I can tell you 70 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: that everyone did their best to try and help in 71 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: what was an unprecedent situation. Yeah no, and you don't 72 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: be hard in yourself. There's nothing you could have done. 73 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: This was a storm, as we just heard from the 74 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: Weather Center, this is a storm of a generation, a 75 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: historic storm and a killer storm, and you unfortunately got 76 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: the brunt of it. But God blessed those first responders 77 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: doing hero's work. And speaking of hero's work, not quite 78 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: the way the first responders were doing it. But Senator Barrello, 79 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 1: you are a lot of people's heroes in trying to 80 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: stand up to this is an historic pay raise. We 81 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: can call it a killer pay raise too, because it's 82 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: it's hurting the state when it comes to inflation, and 83 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: it's paying, it's spending some more taxpayers money, and it's 84 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: done in that dead zone where politicians like to do 85 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: things like this when they think nobody's paying attention. Explain 86 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: what happened and what your position is. Well, first of all, 87 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: keep in mind, we just had an election here in 88 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: New York and Republicans made gains, but not nearly enough gains, 89 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: and there was plenty of opportunity for the Democrats. We 90 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: have one party rule in New York. The Democrats control 91 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: the Assembly, which is like the House, the Senate, and 92 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: the governor's mansion. They have a supermajority in both houses 93 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: of the legislature, so they do as they please. They 94 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: could have very easily discussed this pay raise before the election, 95 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: so the people of New York could have decided, is 96 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: this how should we judge people? They wanted to give 97 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: themselves a pay raise. Instead, they called us back in 98 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: a special session last Thursday, you know, when they were 99 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: already predicting the storm of a generation to be hitting 100 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: Western New York. They called us back to vote on 101 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: a pay raise for themselves. And as you mentioned, one 102 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: hundred and forty two thousand dollars. The next highest legislature 103 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: is California at one hundred and twenty one thousand dollars. 104 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: So by far, my far left progressive colleagues love to 105 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: try to keep up with California, but in this case 106 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: they surpassed them. And all this was done again now 107 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: without people really watching and knowing what was going on. 108 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: And it is a you know, the New York State 109 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: Legislature is a part time position. We have spent about 110 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: sixty days in Albany Old in session. Now. It is 111 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: a very it is a very taxing job. That is, 112 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot to do if you do it well, 113 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: but a lot of my colleagues pretty much phone it in. 114 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: There's not all it's not equally distributed the work that 115 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 1: is done. And to give this huge pay raise takes 116 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: away the idea of a part time citizen legislature, a 117 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: legislature that is supposed to be in touch with the people, 118 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: you know, average citizens, people that own businesses, people that 119 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: are you know, doctors and people in pharmacists and that 120 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: spend their time being a part of the community instead 121 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: of just being this insulated professional politician. This you know, 122 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: the ruling ruling class, and this large pay raise now 123 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: it makes them truly that insulated ruling class, which is 124 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: just yeah, let's let me let me pick up there 125 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: what you're saying, because there's another important part about what happened, 126 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: and because there's been some scandals in the past because 127 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: of people's private businesses, they put a cap on how 128 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: much starting in twenty twenty five, how much a state 129 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: senator can make or a state legislator can make outside 130 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: in their own businesses of thirty five thousand dollars. Tell 131 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: me the damage that's done by that. Well, you know, 132 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: so many of us, myself includes I'm I'm a a 133 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: small business owner my life and I are in the 134 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: restaurant business. We employ over two hundred people. Very few 135 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: of my colleagues now can say that that they are actually, 136 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: you know, part of the economy. And what this will 137 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: do now is it will force people like myself and 138 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: others to have to make a decision. Am I going 139 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: to continue to serve the people, which is what I 140 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: chose to do knowing what the pay was, not needing 141 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: a raise, But now I'm going to have to make 142 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: that decision as well many others as to whether or 143 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: not they will stay, and instead those positions may very 144 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: well be filled instead with business owners and professionals and 145 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: people again with skin in the game, with the trust 146 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: fund babies, and you know, political activists who've never made 147 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: so much in their life at one hundred and forty 148 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. That's the tragedy of this. It is 149 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: going to take away that citizen legislator who is a 150 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: part of the economy. That it's important that we have 151 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: people whose own success is also the success of New 152 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: York State or the failure of New York State, and 153 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: that yeah, you know we are losing. Yes, Senator, we 154 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: talked about this before, and I said, that's what the 155 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: founding fathers wanted. They wanted people to do jobs, be 156 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: successful in jobs, and then move in to the legislature 157 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: and help the government. That's what they wanted, these these 158 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: citizen politicians. But you just made me think of something else. 159 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: Maybe there's something behind this, because many of these Democrats 160 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: that you're talking about that are in Albany and that 161 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: run state legislators, they're not really working other than this. 162 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: It seems to be the Republicans that own businesses. So 163 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: maybe they're just trying to thin the herd a little 164 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: bit and get you to quit. You know, there's no 165 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: question that's a part of it. But also keep in 166 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 1: mind there's something even more sinister. People don't realize that 167 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: New York State just passed to a taxpayer funded campaigns 168 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: on the taxpayers in New York State are now going 169 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: to start funding these political campaigns, and as they do 170 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: in New York City and in New York City, it 171 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: has been a mess full of corruption, and now we're 172 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: going to bring that type of corruption and public financing 173 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: of political campaigns statewide. So you're going well, Sat. Senator 174 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: George Burrello, I'm un out of time here. We will 175 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: talk again, though I promise you that it was great 176 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: to talk to you. Please keep trying to hold the line. 177 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time. States Editor George Barrello in 178 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: New York. When we come back, I'll tell you how 179 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: much I hate the Royals. So I'm not enjoying Harry 180 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: and Meghan too much. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I 181 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: have not talking about something that's not so great. I 182 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: have not watched a second of the celebration of manufactured victimhood. 183 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: That is the docu drama called Harry and Meghan that 184 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: is much more drama than docu where they renegade royals 185 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: whine and cry that, oh, they had family fights, just 186 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: like everybody else in the world, only most of us 187 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: don't get the opportunity to blab about those imaginary slights 188 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: to the world for a hundred million dollars from Netflix. 189 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: This is what I get from the clips and news 190 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: reports I see again. I refuse to watch it, and 191 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: I was hoping that no one else would watch it 192 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: to teach Netflix and the cry baby couple a lesson. 193 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 1: But I knew I'd be wrong. I knew it was 194 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: going to be successful because Americans are, for some reason, 195 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: obsessed with intrigue about the royal family. It was successful, 196 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: historically successful, breaking the record for streaming documentaries with over 197 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: It's much more than this now, but it had over 198 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: eighty one million total viewing hours in just the first 199 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 1: four days that the series was available. They're already talking 200 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: about a second season of Harry and Meghan more whining. 201 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 1: But I'm not. I'm biased in this whole thing. I'll 202 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: be with you. I can't stand the royal family, not 203 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: the individuals many of them seem like decent people, including 204 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth, who recently passed away. I hate the whole 205 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: idea of a royal family and a royal bloodline that 206 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: sits in manufactured and expensive importance over nothing. They have 207 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: no power, and yet we're obsessed by them, and we, 208 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: I mean Americans, we keep the Royal family in Buckingham 209 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: Palace with our obsession. And as much as the Royal 210 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: family recoils at the Megan and Harry documentary, I have 211 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: to know, you have to know that this schlock keeps 212 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: them in business as it stokes America's obsession with all 213 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: things royal. I wonder what would have happened to us? 214 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: How do we not going out? When we did, our 215 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: security was being pulled. Everyone in the world knew where 216 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: we were. I said, we need to gotta him, y'all 217 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: on the Freedom flight to see this institutional gaslighting. I 218 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: wasn't being thrown to the wolves. I was being fed 219 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: to the wolves. Oh please, oh please, poor you. I 220 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: had to flee. It was the Freedom Flight. There's people 221 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: escaping war right now, trekking across deserts for a chance 222 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: to come to America, but that they were being put 223 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: upon living now in your fifteen million dollar mansion in 224 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: Santa Monica with one hundred million dollars Netflix deal. Oh yeah, 225 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: way to go, Megan, after bagging your princess or your prince, 226 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: I should say, more like a princess these days. There's 227 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: nothing about her that ever makes you believe she is 228 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: telling the truth. As Royal Watcher years, Morgan points out, 229 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: just another load of unsubstantiated smears designed to portray them 230 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: as victims. But it doesn't really pass the muster of 231 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: fact checking. One minute that the beloved young couple in 232 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: spot a nation, the next fact nation is horribly racist 233 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: out to throw Megan to the walls. In the very 234 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: beginning the attacks on the press was so wicked that 235 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: she was hated and feared for her life. Yeah, she 236 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: said that she feared for her life, you know, because 237 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace has so little security. Again, the only thing 238 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: I saw of this six part soap opera posing as 239 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: a documentary was from news clips or eclips on YouTube. 240 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: How about the whole thing about the curtesy? Did you 241 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: see that they played that over and over again where 242 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: she said she had to do this curtsy and she 243 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: didn't know what to do to the queen, and she 244 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: made fun of it, and she left and her poor 245 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: husband sat there looking at her like this never happened. 246 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: And then we find out that in rehearsals for suits, 247 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: she did a courtesy, so she knew exactly how to 248 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: do it. She is an amazing liar. These two royally 249 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: tone deaf malcontents vomited their rich people complaints into the 250 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: living rooms of a country that was still struggling from 251 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: the effects of a pandemic at a time when people 252 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: were losing their jobs and businesses and struggling to get by. 253 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: So excuse me if I don't get over clemped over 254 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: the emotional damage inflicted by a dispute Meghan Marko had 255 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: with Princess Kate Middleton over the dresses worn by the 256 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: flower girls at Harry and Meghan's royal wedding. It made 257 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: me cry and it really hurt my feelings. Oh, we 258 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: all have problems with family members now and then, especially 259 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: in laws. Do you know what we do? You know 260 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: what most of us do. We keep it to ourselves. Now, 261 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: these two are calling for a summit with a royal 262 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: family to clear clear the air because they have to 263 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: go back for the coronation of Charles. Yeah, I don't 264 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: think a summit or an apology is coming anytime soon. 265 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: These two are pretty much despised in England. I don't 266 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: care about them at all, and I'm so stunned that 267 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: Americans do again. I don't have a problem specifically with 268 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: Megan or Harry individually. I loathe the entire royal family, 269 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: but these two are protect particularly sickening. We fought a 270 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: bloody revolutionary war to rid ourselves this family of inbreads. 271 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: And when I say inbreads, yes they are. They just 272 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: started dating out of the family not too long ago. 273 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: You know what this obsessions about. It's Disney. Every little 274 00:16:54,760 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: American girl has a princess obsession for decades. Little girls 275 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: grew up with all that Disney propaganda of wanting to 276 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: grow up to be a princess. Maybe now, right now, 277 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: the worldwide movement of female empowerment American women will snap 278 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: out of this princess spell and cut the embellical chord 279 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: with great bitt we can give Harry and Megan what 280 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: they truly deserve, our complete ambivalence. Larry Mente filling in 281 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,640 Speaker 1: for Jesse Kelly. Tonight. We'll be back in a couple 282 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: of minutes, the time has come. Wow, this is great 283 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: music on this show, isn't it. You almost feel like 284 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: not talking just listening to the music. It lulls you 285 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: into a sense of Hey, I want to hear a 286 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: good song. Larry Mente in tonight for Jesse Kelly proud 287 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 1: to be here. Glad Jesse gets some time off during 288 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: the holidays. It is on now. By the way, after 289 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: almost three years since the New York Post broke the 290 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop story, make that two years, there will 291 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: be an investigation and will finally know the truth, the 292 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: truth that was purposely hidden from America. When the New 293 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: York Post broke the story three years ago about the 294 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop, it was quickly labeled by both current 295 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: and former members of the intelligence community as Russian disinformation. 296 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: They went as far as to call media outlets and 297 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: social media executives when they heard that the story was 298 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: going to come out to warn them not to run 299 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: the story, not to even mention it, and they didn't 300 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: had the story not been covered up by the FBI 301 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: in the media. Polls show clearly the Donald true Rump 302 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: would have won reelection. Trump was left to try and 303 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: tell Americans about the laptop himself, and he was shot 304 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: down over and over again. I think it's one of 305 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: the biggest scandals I've ever seen, and you don't cover it. 306 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: You want to talk about it because it can't be verified. 307 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: I want to talk about insignificant things. I'm telling you. 308 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: Of course it can be verified. They found the laptop, Leslie, 309 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: What can't be verified the laptop? Why do you said 310 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: that even the family hasn't the family on the laptop. 311 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: He's gone into hiding for five days. He's gone into hiding. 312 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: He's preparing for your debate. Oh, it's taken in five 313 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: days to prepare. I doubt it. That was Trump in 314 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty on sixty minutes. None of that was aired, 315 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: by the way. That was an outtake that was shot 316 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: by the Trump campaign. Smart people, what a on descending 317 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: Leslie Stall, smiling and shaking her head, as if the 318 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: President of the United States was just being silly, and now, 319 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: of course we know he was right. That means for 320 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: two presidential campaigns in a row, the media willingly believed 321 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: an FBI fueled disinformation campaign against Donald Trump, a candidate 322 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: for president and then president of the United states. These 323 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: are two scandals of immense proportion. And now, after the 324 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 1: New York Times in the Washington Post independently confirmed the 325 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop. They did this almost 326 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: a year ago, sixty Minutes finally admits the laptop is 327 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: the real deal. Wow, So does Leslie Stall apologize? Now? 328 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: CBS did a story on this saying, yeah, we've had 329 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: some experts come in and it's real. They heard that 330 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: story seven hundred and sixty seven days after The New 331 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: York Post broke the story. They had two experts look 332 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: at the computer. They were they busy for seven hundred 333 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 1: and sixty seven days. You couldn't look at it right 334 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: when the story broke. You couldn't send your investigative reporters 335 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: out You're sixty minutes to try to get that laptop. 336 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure they would have given it to you. CBS 337 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: News could have looked at it back then. They weren't interested. 338 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: How can an alleged esteem news organization be that intellectually numb, 339 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: purposely biased, not even curious about what is about to 340 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: become one of the biggest stories in American history. The 341 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: laptop is filled with evidence of influence pedaling, an influence 342 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: peddling operation that hunter Biden ran and made tens of 343 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: millions of dollars for himself, his friends, and his father, 344 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: known on the email infamously now as the big Guy. 345 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: Even though Biden lied to us when he was running 346 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: for president and said he never even talked with his 347 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: son about his business dealings. Mister bi president, how many 348 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: times have you ever spoken to your son about his 349 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: overseas business dealings? I've never spoke. And here's what I know. 350 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 1: I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating 351 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: every basic norm of a president. You should be asking 352 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: him the question, why is he on the phone with 353 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader? If 354 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: that's what happened, that's appears what happened. You should be 355 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: looking at Trump. Rope's doing this because knows I'll beat 356 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: him like a drum and he's usually the abuse of 357 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: power and every element of the presidency to try to 358 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 1: do something to smear me. Everybody looked at this, and 359 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: everybody's looked at it said there's nothing there, ask the 360 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: right question. Really, nobody looked at it except the New 361 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: York Post and the US Attorney in the Justice Department, 362 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: they had the laptop. But now finally the Republicans controlling 363 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives are going to investigate the Biden 364 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: family influence peddling scheme. Finally, it'll be investigated at a 365 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: public hearing. It's going to happen a few weeks and 366 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 1: make no mistake about it, and this is important. The 367 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: House investigations into the influence peddling is not a Hunter 368 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: Biden investigation. Do not fall for that. That's what the Democrats, 369 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,719 Speaker 1: with the media and toe want you to believe that 370 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: the Republicans are going after his son. This investigation is 371 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: a President Joe Biden investigation. We're not trying to prove 372 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden is a bad actor. He is. If anybody 373 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: wants to disagree with that, then there's nothing we have 374 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: to talk about. Our investigation is about Joe Biden, and 375 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: we already have evidence that would point that Joe Biden 376 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: was involved with Hunter Biden only say so. We want 377 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: the bank records and that's our focus. We're trying to 378 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: stay focused on. Was Joe Biden directly involved with Hunter 379 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 1: Biden's business deals and is he compromise That's our investigation. 380 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: That's Kentucky Congressman James Comer, who is the chair of 381 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee. He will be the chair a 382 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: committee whose sole purpose is to oversee the executive branch. 383 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 1: He can't constitutionally conduct an investigation of Hunter Biden. This 384 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: is a Joe Biden an investigation, and it's important. We 385 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: should know if he lied to us, if he criminally 386 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: used his name and position to profit from foreign companies 387 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: while he was in power as Vice president, and we 388 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: should know if he is compromised because of the money 389 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: he received. Those foreign companies were not paying tens of 390 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: millions of dollars for nothing. They wanted favorable treatment by 391 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: the United States, and they wanted information. The key to 392 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: the investigation is going to be one hundred and fifty 393 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: Suspicious Activity reports. The Congressional investigators have not been able 394 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 1: to get their hands on from the Treasury Department Suspicious 395 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: banking activity. Those STARS reports are read flags of large 396 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: deposits of money into bank accounts from foreign governments. Again, 397 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden is named on a hundred and fifty suspicious 398 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: activity reports, the STARS reports. By the way, this whole 399 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: thing about Stars report started after nine to eleven because 400 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: the terrorists received funding that the Treasury Department saw but 401 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,959 Speaker 1: didn't share with the CIA or the FBI. So now 402 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 1: they're all being flagged. So now they're shared with everyone, 403 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: including Congress, or at least that used to be the case. 404 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: President Biden stopped it. So since nine to eleven, all 405 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: the stars reports have been shared. President Biden stopped it. 406 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: If this is the first time you're hearing this, you 407 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: have to ask yourself why that's a pretty big story. 408 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: Sure smells like a cover up to me, he must 409 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: be hiding something. Why would you do that if we've 410 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: learned anything at all from politics. It's not the crime, 411 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: it's the cover up. I'm Larry MENTI in for Jesse 412 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: Kelly Tonight. We'll be back in just a couple of minutes. 413 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: Larry Manty, proud to be into their great Jesse Kelly Tonight. Hey, 414 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: have you noticed? But the January sixth Committee just kind 415 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: of crumbled into the dust spin of history and nobody's 416 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: talking about it. It came and went supposed to be 417 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: such a big deal, primetime television for hours, no commercials, 418 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: and nobody's talking about it anymore. It was supposed to 419 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: be historic, it was supposed to be game changing, and 420 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: nothing because they promised a whole lot and they didn't 421 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: deliver too much. The January sixth Committee has referred former 422 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal investigation 423 00:27:54,880 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: and potential prosecution. Wow, who saw that coming? I'm kidding. 424 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: Of course, everybody saw it coming. It had the most 425 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: predictable ending since the Titanic. Oh, you're kidding. The ship sinks. 426 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: The committee was set up for this conclusion. They could 427 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,479 Speaker 1: have not wasted our time. They could have spared us 428 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: the agony of suffering through the inquisition. That wasn't It 429 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: was all scripted. It was produced by James Goldstin, the 430 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: former president of ABC News. The participants had their hair 431 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 1: and makeup done. There was a giant teleprompter that they butchered. 432 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: They even got the prime time slot, as I said, 433 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: on all the networks. That is until the ratings came 434 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: back and the networks were losing too much money on 435 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: this partisan circus. That's not to condone, by the way, 436 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, that's not to condone anything about 437 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: January six It was a travesty, an assault on the 438 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: democratic press. But the Justice Department already investigated. Let them 439 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: do their jobs. They arrested nine hundred and sixty four people, 440 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty four, but this committee wasn't interested 441 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: in them. This committee was set up purely to arrest 442 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and make certain he doesn't run for president again. 443 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: Up too late, he is a candidate for president and 444 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: the front runner to get the Republican nomination, and the 445 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: Biden administration Justice Department will now be considering a second 446 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: investigation into a political opponent. I would have taken this 447 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: all much more seriously if this committee was set up 448 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: like most congressional committees. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy submitted five 449 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: names like he was asked to. There'd be seven Democrats 450 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: and five repub Publicans and the Republicans. The minority party 451 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: always gets to choose its members, and he did Representatives 452 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: Jim Banks of Indiana, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Jim Jordan 453 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: of Ohio, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, and Troy Nells 454 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: of Texas. Pelosi turned down Banks and Jordan. That's never 455 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: happened in the history of the United States Congress. The 456 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: minority party gets to pick its members. So Kevin McCarthy said, 457 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: we're out, and Pelosi was fine with that the Speaker 458 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: went looking for five Republicans who would volunteer to join 459 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: the committee, and they could find two. Liz Cheney of 460 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: Wyoming and Adam Kinsing of Illinois, both voted to impeach Trump. 461 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: Neither will be in Congress next year, and they also 462 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: are now in the dust spin of history. There was 463 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: talk about Liz Cheney was going to run for president. 464 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,719 Speaker 1: Oh please, cost a lot of money to get no votes. 465 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: Kizerger was smart enough not to run for reelection and 466 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: embarrass himself. Cheney did run for reelection and did embarrass herself. 467 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: She was trounced in the Republican primary. Cheney is now 468 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: the Republican that only Democrats like. The committee was so 469 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: one sided. It was a prosecution with no defense. It 470 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: was deeply Unamerican and undemocratic. They said they were protecting 471 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: democracy while they were trampling all over it. The committee 472 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: referred four crimes obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud 473 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: the government, making material false statements, and inciting an insurrection. 474 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: Constitutional law professor an attorney Jonathan Turley was not impressed. 475 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: This committee again promised that there would be new evidence 476 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: being displayed today. There was a couple of videos that 477 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: we had not seen before, but there was no direct 478 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: new evidence of criminal act by the former president. That's 479 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: not to say that his conduct wasn't reckless or reprehensible, 480 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: but that's not a criminal act. And it was basically 481 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: a rehashing of what we have seen in virtually every 482 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: one of these hearings, and they simply attached these referrals 483 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, it was over and over again, the 484 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: exact same thing. The Justice Department, by the way, is 485 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: not required to follow through on any of the charges. 486 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,959 Speaker 1: And since they have charged no one, not one of 487 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,239 Speaker 1: the nine hundred ninety six participants, with an insurrection, it 488 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: would be impossible to charge President Trump with inciting an 489 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: insurrection when you don't have any evidence that an insurrection 490 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: took place in the first place. How can you charge 491 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: somebody with inciting it? But you see insurrection. That charge 492 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: is important to the Democrats because the Amendment to the 493 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: Constitution specifically says if you were found guilty of taking 494 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: part or aiding and embedding an insurrection or causing an insurrection, 495 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: you can hold federal office Again. Any other felony charge, 496 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: by the way, does not bar you from serving in 497 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: federal office. But insurrection specifically is spelled out in the 498 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment, so they charged him with that, even though 499 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is pretty clear in past cases you 500 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: can't make somebody do something with words. It's the act, 501 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: not the words. People are responsible for their own actions, 502 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: regardless of what a speaker says, what a musician says, 503 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: what a TV anchor says, what a talk show host says, 504 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: what a movie says, all of that speech is protected. 505 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: And in this case, Trump told the crowd to march 506 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol, and the committee purposely 507 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: left that part of the speech out, proving this is 508 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 1: a partisan prosecution out to get Trump to kill and 509 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: it just kills the credibility of the hearing. Look, I 510 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: don't think this even hurt Trump in trying to become president. 511 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 1: Every poll out, you know, DeSantis is leading in a couple, 512 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: but Trump's leading in most. I think most Republicans and 513 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: many Americans think the whole thing was a sham. But 514 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: if it's Trump or someone else, the Democrats have stopped 515 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: to stoop to a new political low. They have changed 516 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: the rules of engagement. And remember what goes around comes around. 517 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: Larry Manti and for Jesse Kelly, we'll be back after 518 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: this