1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, Time, Time, Luck and Load from 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: This is of Chief also checks another box when it 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 2: comes to inclusivity and diversity and this department. She's a 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 2: proud member of the LGBTQ community. 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 3: That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh, I. 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 4: Didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me. 8 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: Isn't nobody gets in Fordy. 9 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 3: I am super inspired. 10 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: She took time out of her already busy schedule to 11 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: tell us about her vision for the department's future, one 12 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 2: that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity. 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: People ask me, what number are you looking for us? 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: And I'm looking for a number. It's never enough. 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, there is only 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen are women. 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: Right now. 18 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: She's already looking at ways to change that. She's quick 19 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: to point out that doing so has a greater purpose 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: attracting the best and brightest for the job. 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 5: They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part 22 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 5: of a cohesive tea. 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 4: You might have recall a new story from last year. 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 4: There was some interest in the fire departments and the 25 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 4: firefighters in California, and the interest was whether there were 26 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 4: too many white men. There were firefighters, and we need 27 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 4: to have a program in California to make sure we 28 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 4: don't have enough white man as firefighters. 29 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 6: We have no water, I said, do you have a drought. No, 30 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 6: we don't have a drought. I said, why did you 31 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 6: have no water? Because the water isn't allowed to flow down. 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 6: It's got an actual flow from Canada all the way 33 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 6: up north to pot more water than they could have used. 34 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 6: And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the 35 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 6: water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions 36 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 6: and millions of gallons of water gets poured. I could 37 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 6: have water for all of that land, water for your forests. 38 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 6: You know your forest said dry as a bone. Okay, 39 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 6: that water could be routed. You know, you could have everything. 40 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: What is the situation with the water. Obviously in the palisage. 41 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 3: Ran now last night and the hydrants I tarned the 42 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 3: firefighter in this block. 43 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: They left because there were no water in the hydrants. 44 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 2: Here. 45 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: Local folks are trying to figure that out. 46 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 7: Do you o citizens and apology for being absent while 47 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 7: their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire 48 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 7: department budget by millions of dollars not in there. Have 49 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 7: you nothing to say today? Elon Musk says that you're 50 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 7: utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position another mayor? Have 51 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 7: you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? You're 52 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 7: dealing with this disaster and. 53 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 5: That brings us to the fires that it has been 54 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 5: one It has been one year since the fires ravaged 55 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 5: the Pacific Palisades area. 56 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: Of Los Angeles. 57 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 5: The opinion editor for the California Post, Joel Pollock, was 58 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 5: on Fox News when he revealed that fires in the 59 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 5: state park local headed next to the Palisades were not 60 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 5: suppressed because the park contained rare plants and the fire 61 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 5: department needed an archaeologist to approve the action first. This 62 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 5: would be funny if the consequences weren't so dire. 63 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: Here's what he said. 64 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 8: Smoking gun evidence wasn't found by me. It was uncovered 65 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 8: during the course of private lawsuits against public authorities who 66 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 8: failed in their duty to protect Pacific Palisades. And they 67 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 8: have released drone footage that shows smoke rising from an 68 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 8: earlier fire that took place on January first, twenty twenty five, 69 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 8: called the Lachman Fire, which the fire department failed to 70 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 8: extinguish fully as it smoldered in the roots of plants. 71 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 8: And we believe and many others believe that part of 72 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 8: the reason that fire was never fully extinguished was that 73 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 8: the state of California had a policy on parkland of 74 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 8: not allowing heavy fire suppression equipment into areas that were 75 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 8: considered sensitive, either. 76 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: Because they had rare plants or. 77 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 8: Because they possibly had cultural resources. And if you read 78 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 8: the documents, these policies, which were crafted. 79 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 3: In late twenty twenty four, said. 80 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 8: That you could not suppress fire in the state park, 81 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 8: which is right up against specific polisades, unless you had 82 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 8: an archaeologist present to tell you where you could and could. 83 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 3: Not put out the fire. So as the result of 84 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 3: these policies, you. 85 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 8: Had this massive inferno that spread in high winds and 86 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 8: that destroyed the plants and likely many of the cultural sites. Anyway, 87 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 8: this policy helped guide firefighters because it had previously been 88 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 8: used even against public departments that tried to suppress fire 89 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 8: or to cut fire brakes. The Governor of California, Gavin 90 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:51,239 Speaker 8: Newsom we showed there earlier. 91 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 3: Lying to one of my neighbors. 92 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 8: He says that the state of California is not responsible 93 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,679 Speaker 8: that this was a local decision by firefighters. He says 94 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 8: he sent one hundred and ten fire engines to southern 95 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 8: California in advance of the extreme winds, but he did 96 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 8: not send fire engines to that spot where there had 97 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 8: been a fire on January first, six days before the 98 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 8: wind event, where there was smoldering fire, where some residents 99 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 8: had reported smoking, where the state knew there was a 100 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 8: huge risk of reignition. 101 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 5: I love this country. I'm not running for office. I 102 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 5: don't need anybody to vote for me. I don't say 103 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 5: that because people need to hear it. I'll say it 104 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 5: because I deeply believe it. And I don't just love 105 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 5: this country because this is a country I was born in. 106 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 5: Reminds me of the old Winston Churchill line French prominent Frenchman, 107 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 5: proud Frenchman said to Winston Churchill, he said, Prime Minister Churchill, 108 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 5: if I were not born a Frenchman, I should want 109 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 5: to be born an Englishman, to which church Show famously, 110 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 5: without missing a beat, said, if I had not been 111 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,799 Speaker 5: born an Englishman, I should want to be born an Englishman. 112 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 5: I have seriously thoroughly studied the world. I have traveled, 113 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 5: not as much as some of you traveling salesmen and 114 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 5: engineers project consultant guys. 115 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: But I've traveled. 116 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 5: I've made it my business to travel to a lot 117 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 5: of countries and see a lot of different cultures and 118 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 5: ask people about the opportunities, the sense of security, of 119 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 5: faith in the system, a sense of justice. And I 120 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 5: got to tell you, it's the greatest nation on earth. 121 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 5: It's the greatest nation and the history of earth to 122 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 5: the extent that we can trust history's telling of the 123 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 5: people of Sparta or Rome, Troy. But it pains me, 124 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 5: It genuinely pains me that the problems that plague other 125 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 5: countries have befallen our country when they hadn't before. And 126 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 5: it troubles me because good people took for granted how 127 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 5: great this country is and assumed that somehow God had 128 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 5: just ordained it would be the case. America's great always 129 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 5: has been, always will be. We don't have anything to do. 130 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 5: Let's just open the borders to the entire third world. 131 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 5: Let's just let toxic, cancerous ideology take hold. Let's just 132 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 5: assume that when people tell us what they're going to do, 133 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 5: they won't do it because things. 134 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: Are always great in America. 135 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 5: I love this countries and this kind of nonsense right here, 136 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 5: this cannot will not be accepted. 137 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: Christy know I'm doing her best, White Yoakum. Earlier today 138 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: there was an ice involved shooting. 139 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 5: And she gave her speech or presser and a cowboy 140 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 5: had a touch too big for her body. 141 00:07:58,280 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: Touch too big. 142 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 5: But I don't think she's worn hats for a long time. 143 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 5: I like the look, don't get me wrong. I like 144 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 5: the rugged individualism. And you know she is from the 145 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 5: Dakotas you got to You know that's an image, and 146 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 5: she is a woman trying to project strength. 147 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. 148 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 5: It is harder for a woman to project strength in 149 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 5: a position like that, and it is a position of 150 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 5: strength than it is for a man. Feminine attire is 151 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 5: naturally not designed to look as tough. 152 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: That's a fact, okay. 153 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 5: Somehow Margaret Thatcher pulled it off, and they called her 154 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 5: the Iron Lady. She had to be cold and frigid 155 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 5: at all times in order to be taken seriously as 156 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 5: a strong woman projecting the strength of the British in 157 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 5: their resurgence alongside Reagan, and I think she did an 158 00:08:53,360 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 5: admirable job. I actually like the Christy noam of cowgirl chic. 159 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 5: I like that she exposes her arms. They're sexy, and 160 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 5: sometimes her shoulders, they're sexy. 161 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with being sexy. 162 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 5: Just because most women her age can't be that sexy 163 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 5: doesn't mean she can't show off her sexy. Don't be jealous, 164 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 5: and I can guarantee you this. If you're jealous, are 165 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 5: you going to run her down? And that's inappropriate. Just 166 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 5: because your husband says yeah, doesn't mean he agrees. The 167 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 5: woman is a smoke show for her age. She might 168 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 5: be a legitimate standalone smoke show, but she's definitely a 169 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 5: smoke show for her age. Right, Oh, you know what? 170 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 5: You reminded me what you wanted me to do. I'll 171 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 5: get to the being in just a moment. But today 172 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 5: she wore her hat down real low over her eyes 173 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 5: like Doyle and Slinglade aka Dwight Yoakum, and I posted 174 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 5: to it on the social media is to get people's 175 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 5: thoughts and reaction to that. But somebody has changed the 176 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 5: way she's wearing her ha hat on purpose. You can 177 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 5: tell it. It was a designed to play all right. 178 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 5: From the serious stuff I was talking about I was 179 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 5: lamenting my nation and how the systems have failed. I 180 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 5: used to take great pride in by any statistical measure, 181 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 5: you'd say America was the best. 182 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: And when I would travel around the world. 183 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 5: And things would be broken, and I'd say, well, how 184 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 5: come we can't just do this and can hook do this? 185 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 5: Ain't America. These don't work like that here. They don't 186 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 5: work at all here. And then things started failing during 187 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 5: my lifetime. You know, Detroit went from the fifth largest 188 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 5: city in a great city of American industry and might 189 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 5: to a public housing project. Chicago one of the world's 190 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 5: great cities that represented industrial might and commodities, trading and strength, 191 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 5: and design and invention and architecture of Frank wood Wright 192 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 5: and others. And journalism. American journalism was well represented in 193 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 5: this city. And then it fell into being the sort 194 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 5: of the poster child for the Obama administration. And in 195 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 5: New York, which was the world's great city, the world 196 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 5: looked to the financial headquarters, to the arts and entertainment headquarters. 197 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 5: I mean, this was a city of great art and 198 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 5: music and live theater and finance and food. This was 199 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 5: a special place right culture couture couldn't think of the word. 200 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 5: This was a city that replaced London and Paris for 201 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 5: what they had once been. And New York has plunged 202 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 5: into deep despair. But that began before Mamdani. Let's be 203 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 5: clear about that. That began decades ago. But I just 204 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 5: keep looking at I keep used to be I could say, well, 205 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 5: this place is a terrible place. But my America is 206 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 5: still my America because there's the rest of the country. 207 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 5: But increasingly you see that the rest of the country 208 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 5: that we just assume is great is shrinking in size, 209 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 5: and the parts of the country that have failed, the 210 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 5: parts of the country that are corrupted, the parts of 211 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 5: the country. Saw a video the other day of it 212 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 5: said be careful who you associate with, because they will 213 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 5: affect you. And it was two beautiful red strawberries and 214 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 5: they were on a toothpick, and then a third strawberry 215 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 5: was added to the toothpick, and it was, you know, 216 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 5: squinched up beside them. 217 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: It squenched a word or more I like that word. 218 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 5: Anyway, they put the third strawberry in there, touching the 219 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 5: middle one, and it showed you a time lapse of 220 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 5: that tainted strawberry tainting the middle one which didn't drag 221 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 5: the other one. It was like they were pulling them 222 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 5: under the water, drowning them. The decay was obvious. And 223 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 5: that's what I see happening Minnesota. Minnesota was a purple state. 224 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 5: We had the governor of Minnesota on who ran for 225 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 5: president in twenty twelve. And look, he wasn't a Texas Republican. 226 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 5: He wasn't in Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi Republican, 227 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 5: but he was at least a Republican of some sort. 228 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 5: Now that state has fallen blue, and it is sad, sad, 229 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,479 Speaker 5: sad what has become of it? Fox nine in Minneapolis 230 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 5: reporting that a Somali restaurant was paid twelve million dollars 231 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 5: a year after claiming to feed four to six thousand 232 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 5: poor kids per day. 233 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 9: In December and twenty twenty one, the FBI installed US 234 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 9: surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake Street in Minneapolis. 235 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 9: At the time, it was Safari Restaurant, which overall took 236 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 9: in twelve million dollars in federal child meal payments through 237 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 9: Feeding Our Future. Safari's former co owner, Salim Sayid is 238 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 9: on trial alongside Amy Bach, the Feeding our Future executive 239 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 9: director Safari, claimed to feed four. 240 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: To six thousand kids a day. 241 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 9: It's invoices and meal counts shown to the jury alongside 242 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 9: the video an FBI agent testifying that an average of 243 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 9: forty people came and went during the six weeks it 244 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 9: was surveilled. The FBI set up a total of twelve 245 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 9: cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers of meals. 246 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 9: Another was at a deli in Saint Paul, also registered 247 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 9: by defended Salim Sayid, which claimed eighteen hundred meals per day. 248 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 9: The video shown to the jury showed an average of 249 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 9: twenty three people a day coming and going. The jury 250 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 9: was shown dozens of invoices, meal counts, and emails sees 251 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 9: from Feeding Our Futures headquarters in Saint Anthony. Some showed 252 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 9: links to websites that randomly generated names and ages to 253 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 9: create rosters of children who were served meals. Many were 254 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 9: signed or sent by Amy Bach, who's charged with wire 255 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 9: fraud along with bribery for the alleged. 256 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: Kickbacks that she received. 257 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 9: Her defense attorney tried to raise doubt when it cross 258 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 9: examined the FBI agent that they didn't see the back 259 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 9: entrance where it's possible meals left packed in trucks for delivery. 260 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 9: He pushed back, insisting they'd still see congestion to that volume, 261 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 9: he said, I would say it would not make any sense. 262 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 5: As a general rule, we do not here on the 263 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 5: Michael Berry Show comment on breaking news. 264 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: We may sometimes acknowledge. 265 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 5: It, so you know we are aware of it, but 266 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 5: we have a policy of not commenting on it. And 267 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 5: that policy comes from the fact that, sitting as we are, 268 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 5: which is what nine to nine percent of people who 269 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 5: are commenting on news breaking news do, we are dependent 270 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 5: on primary news sources because we're not there on the scene. 271 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 5: We don't see it, so we have to depend on 272 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 5: a primary news source, which is almost never an objective source. 273 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 5: People have biases, and almost always its scus left excus 274 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 5: anti white, excuse pro minority. It's scus pro immigrant, it 275 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 5: ECUs anti American citizen, excus anti Christian, excus pro Muslim. 276 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: It skews. You get the point. 277 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 5: So, yes, I am always aware of the news story 278 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 5: that you may have watched in the in the around 279 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 5: the water cooler at work. I am of the belief 280 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 5: that when we make when we when I offer an 281 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 5: opinion on a subject, I should have some basis upon 282 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 5: which to make that judgment, and not what I've kind 283 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 5: of heard happened, whether that's a shooting at Brown University 284 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 5: or George Floyd dying, Because as you later learn, there 285 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 5: are details that are that are obfuscated, that are that 286 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,719 Speaker 5: are hidden from you. There are people who have an 287 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 5: a desire to alter what has happened because it's a 288 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 5: first in time. It's a first mover advantage they call 289 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 5: it in a business world. Whoever gets in the in 290 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 5: the in the news space first gets to create the 291 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 5: subject around which we're going to talk. And so if 292 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 5: they say this happened, most people will never know. 293 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: Well, that isn't what happened. 294 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 5: And this is a perfect description of what happened on 295 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 5: January sixth, But what happened in Mogadishu where I'm not 296 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 5: you know what, I'm not even going to set the 297 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 5: stage because I don't know. And until I can feel 298 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 5: comfortable that I know. We know that an ice agent 299 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 5: was involved, we know that another person is dead. There 300 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 5: are allegations that that person was attempting to do harm 301 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 5: to the ice agent. I believe it But again, I 302 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 5: don't believe it because I have good facts upon which 303 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 5: to believe it. I believe it because I think that 304 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 5: the Democrats have created an environment where nutjobs out there 305 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 5: are trying to kill federal agents. But what I do know, 306 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 5: because this is I can watch it. It's just as 307 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 5: true for me watching it as it is to people 308 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 5: who are there on the scene. Is that little idiot 309 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 5: mayor of Mogadishu who has pandered to the Somalis. If 310 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 5: you ever see the moment that he's walking into the 311 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 5: building attempting to do a Somali dance, or he's eating 312 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 5: Somali food attempting to act like this is his daily cuisine. 313 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 5: He's a little weasel, as all white liberals are. He's 314 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 5: a little pandering weasel. It's disgusting. But he did say 315 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 5: today to ice to federal agents to get the f out. 316 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 5: This is part of what we talked about about six 317 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 5: eight months ago that Democrats were being told by the 318 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 5: James Carvels, by their consultants that they needed to be 319 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 5: more like Trump, they needed to cuss more. And know 320 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 5: what you're thinking, Michael, come on, you really think they 321 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 5: told them cuss more? You'll sound more like Trump. People 322 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 5: will like you absolutely proofs into pudding. You can see it. 323 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 5: It's there. They all of a sudden started cussing more. 324 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,239 Speaker 5: You saw Jasmine Crockett do it. You saw in this 325 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 5: case Jacob Fried to it. That gets attention. It is 326 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 5: intended to convey a deeper conviction in what you're saying, 327 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 5: and that made the news. Y'all get the f out now, 328 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 5: you and I think, wait, you can't tell the feds 329 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 5: to get out. We're all in this together. Our constitution 330 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 5: has a form of federalism. They have every constitutional right 331 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 5: and responsibility. 332 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: To be there. 333 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 5: You can't do this. They're enforcing federal law. You don't 334 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 5: like the federal law, change it. That's what no one 335 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 5: ever talks about on the left. If you don't like 336 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 5: our immigration laws, simply change them. Oh you can't get 337 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 5: them changed. Why can't you change them? They've had a 338 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 5: Democrat majory. They got to I'm a care through and 339 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 5: that was terribly unpopular. The reason they can't change it 340 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 5: is because the American people don't want it. And I 341 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 5: think it is ill understood the extent to which the 342 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 5: American people don't want a change. 343 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: They want more enforcement. Not less. 344 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 5: So that is probably more time than I should have 345 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 5: because I don't ever want to make statements. If I 346 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 5: can help it, then I have to walk back because 347 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 5: they're not true. And you may not think of yourself 348 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 5: as trusting me, but I want to be trustworthy, whether 349 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 5: you trust me or not, I want to be worthy 350 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 5: of your trust. It is an honor to come into 351 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 5: your truck, your van, your car, your living room, your workplace, 352 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 5: your AirPods. 353 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: Either live or by podcast. 354 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 5: It is an honor to get to talk to you 355 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 5: every day. And I take that responsibility. And maybe that's 356 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 5: me being over the top, taking myself too seriously, but 357 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 5: I want you to understand I'm not a shock shot, 358 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 5: I'm not a DJ, I'm not a time filler. This 359 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 5: isn't a shift, as the radio business used to call it. 360 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 5: I love this country the way you love this country. 361 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 5: I get to do research and talk about what's going 362 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 5: on in this country while you're baking the bread and 363 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 5: making the meats and farming the land and defending the 364 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 5: country and defending our streets and running businesses and raising 365 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 5: kids and teaching kids and suturing surgeries. So just as 366 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 5: you would take seriously if they rolled me into the 367 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 5: emergency room. Your job as a nurse or a doctor. 368 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 5: I take seriously what we do here. And that is why, 369 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 5: much to the chagrin of some people, a lot of 370 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 5: people in the industry and some lists, I do not 371 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 5: engage in the real time commentary of what is happening 372 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 5: because I don't trust that I have good information, and 373 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 5: so why would I offer a subjective opinion that I 374 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 5: don't know I can stand behind tomorrow. 375 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: I think that's unhealthy. I think there's too much of it. 376 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 5: I watched today as the stations they immediately, you know, 377 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 5: maybe they were going to talk about the LA fire 378 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 5: first anniversary, but then there's a shooting in the news 379 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 5: director say, all right, get us some guests on. So 380 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 5: they start calling people and you see the guests and 381 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 5: they're in their living room, and you know, they turn 382 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 5: their TV on and and the ladies don't have makeup 383 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 5: on during the first interview, and by the second one 384 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 5: they do. They're rushing to get on TV and say something, Hi. Well, 385 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 5: I don't know the exact details earnest, but what I 386 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 5: do know is that and they state platitudes, so just know, 387 00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 5: we don't do that. 388 00:23:59,440 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 1: It's a poll. 389 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 5: I'll see that we don't do it, and by tomorrow 390 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 5: I will be able to state an opinion. It will 391 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 5: matter if you need a rush to judgment, it's worth 392 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 5: what you paid for. 393 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: The Michael Arry Show. 394 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 5: We have just across the one hundred station threshold, so 395 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 5: we have a lot of new listeners who don't know 396 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 5: the show, don't know what I'm about, don't know what 397 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 5: I believe, and I don't believe what Tucker believes, or 398 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 5: what Buck or Clay or Candice Owens or Ben. 399 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: Shapiro or whatever. I believe what I believe. 400 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 5: And I don't want it assumed that I believe what 401 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 5: you know, the party platform or everyone else does, and 402 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 5: people will make that assumption that everyone agrees on everything, 403 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 5: and that's not true. I came to my conclusions based 404 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 5: on my life experiences and based on my own studies, 405 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 5: and some of those opinions are different. So let me 406 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 5: say a couple of things right now. I am very 407 00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 5: doctrainial about the position that people who wear the badge 408 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 5: are honorable people. They start as honorable people. The willingness 409 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 5: to wear the badge makes you an honorable people a person. Now, 410 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 5: there are some absolute turds, I mean awful human beings 411 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 5: who wear the badge. But of all the fields that 412 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 5: we ever discuss, I find it interesting that this is 413 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 5: the only field law enforcement where people cannot say we 414 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 5: should respect the people who wear the badge without a 415 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 5: disclaimer that they're not all perfect. Because you'll let your 416 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 5: kids wear the jersey of an adult football player, and 417 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 5: you'll let him worship that guy because he throws the 418 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 5: football or catches the football, or runs with the football, 419 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 5: or tackles the guy with the football. When the number 420 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 5: of absolute thugs baby Mama's in every city that NFL 421 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 5: has a team beating up women, squandering their money, terrible 422 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 5: life choices, but we don't feel the need to talk 423 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 5: about You know, I like the NFL. 424 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 1: I like so and so. 425 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 5: He's my hero, he's my kids he really I make 426 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 5: sure my kid worships him without pointing out that the 427 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 5: lifestyle he's leading. What about rappers, We don't feel the 428 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 5: need to do that. Oh, my kid loves so and so. 429 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 5: What about politicians complete scumbags? You should have to say, 430 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 5: I know almost every politician is a scumbag, but I 431 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 5: like so and so. 432 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: As opposed to the reverse, because the numbers are. 433 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 5: So high it is a magnet for scumbacks. So let 434 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 5: me say this, the people who wear the badge deserve respect. 435 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 5: I am a civil liberties guy. If there is a 436 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 5: bad law, change it. If a law enforcement officer enforces 437 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 5: the law inappropriately, then in a court of law, it 438 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 5: needs to be overturned. No matter how much we want 439 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 5: to believe that every bad guy, every person that's that's 440 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 5: apprehended is a bad guy, that's just not true. There 441 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 5: are over zealous cops, often with the best of intentions. 442 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: My brother was a cop. 443 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 5: Sure, that's part of what colors my opinion, but I 444 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 5: learned a lot about the process. 445 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: I know a lot of cops. I talk to cops 446 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: every single day. 447 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 5: They send me stories of what's going on, they send me, perspectives, 448 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 5: they send me. I'll get feed I'll get more feedback 449 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 5: than usual tonight from officers across the country, and I 450 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 5: will engage them. And all many officers think that officers 451 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 5: can never be wrong because in their opinion, we're all 452 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 5: out there criticizing everything they do. 453 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 1: And that's understandable. 454 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 5: If you're a cop, you put on your badge, you 455 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 5: leave your more cops that are men than are women. 456 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,360 Speaker 5: So if you're if you're a male cop or female, 457 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 5: you're leaving your house and the people who love you, 458 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 5: and you're going out into a world that is constantly 459 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 5: questioning you, constantly questioning you. I told you I wasn't 460 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 5: going to talk about that Minnesota Ice Minnesota story with 461 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,880 Speaker 5: the Ice shooting because it happened today. I'm not speaking 462 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 5: about the facts of the story itself. I'm speaking generally 463 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 5: about that. But we have expectations of law enforcement officers 464 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 5: at every level. 465 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: That they be so many things in one for the paycheck. 466 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 5: Of your average civil servant, we expect them to be perfect. 467 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 5: And they walk out of their house every day, and 468 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 5: this is true. This is more true of Ice today 469 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 5: than any other level of government. 470 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: They walk out of their house every. 471 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 5: Day, especially in the major urban areas where the mayors 472 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 5: and police chiefs are basically putting a bounty on their head. 473 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 5: If someone were to say about Mayor Jacob Fryar the 474 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 5: kinds of things he said about Ice today, there would 475 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 5: be a howl. 476 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: You're going to get him killed. Folks. 477 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 5: Let's just look at what's happened in this country in 478 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 5: the last few years, which is exactly what George Soros wants. 479 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk assassinated, martyred while giving a speech. 480 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: Just think about this for a moment. 481 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 5: You know, these things have been so normalized. Step back 482 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 5: for a moment and think about this. Do you realize 483 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk was murdered giving a speech engaging in people 484 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 5: of Hey, what's your opinion. I'll tell you mine, you 485 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 5: tell me yours. Let's talk about that was so offensive 486 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 5: to somebody. He had opinions that were so offensive to someone. 487 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 5: Imagine how much you've got people twisted up that they're 488 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 5: willing to do that. 489 00:29:58,720 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: So, whether it's a. 490 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 5: Police officer, sir at the local, county, state, or federal, 491 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 5: these people are heroes. And I don't know what happened 492 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 5: in this story. 493 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: I'll know about tomorrow, but these people are heroes. 494 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 5: Paul Harvey's father was murdered in the line of duty, 495 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 5: and I think Paul Harvey said it the way I 496 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 5: feel better than anybody. 497 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 10: Else possibly could. A policeman is acomposite of what all 498 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 10: men are. I guess a mingling of saint and center, 499 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 10: dust and deity called statistics wave the fan over stinkers 500 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 10: underscore instances of dishonesty and brutality because they are news. 501 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 10: What that really means is that they are exceptional. They 502 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 10: are unusual, They are not commonplace. Buried under the fraud 503 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 10: is the fact, and the fact is the less than 504 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 10: one half of one percent of policemen misfit that uniform, 505 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 10: and that is a better average than you'd find among clergymen. 506 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 10: What is a policeman? He, of all men, is at 507 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 10: once the most needed and the most wanted, a strangely 508 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 10: nameless creature who is sir to his face and pig 509 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 10: or worse behind his back. He must be such a 510 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 10: diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that 511 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 10: each will think he won. But if a policeman is neat, 512 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 10: he's conceited. If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, 513 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 10: he's a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. He 514 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 10: must make instant decisions, which would require months for a lawyer. 515 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 10: But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's delivered, he's lazy. 516 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 10: He must be first to an accident, infallible with the diagnosis. 517 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 10: He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, ty splints, 518 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 10: and above all, be sure the victim goes home without 519 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 10: a limp or expect to be sued. The police officer 520 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 10: must know every gun draw on the run and hit 521 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 10: where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip 522 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 10: two men twice his size and half his age without 523 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 10: damaging his uniform and without being brutal. If you hit him, 524 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 10: he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully. 525 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 10: A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must 526 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 10: know where all of the sin is and not partake. 527 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 10: The policeman from a single human hair must be able 528 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 10: to describe the crime the weamon the criminal and tell 529 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 10: you where the. 530 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: Criminal is hiding. 531 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 10: But if he catches the criminal, he's lucky. 532 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: If he doesn't, he's a dunce. If he gets promoted, 533 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: he has a political pool. If he doesn't, he's a dullard. 534 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 10: The policeman must chase bum leads to a dead end, 535 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 10: stake out ten nights to tag one witness who saw 536 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 10: it happen but refuses to remember. He runs files and 537 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 10: writes reports until his eyes ache to build a case 538 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 10: against some felon who will get dealed out by a 539 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 10: shameless shamus or an honorable who isn't honorable. The policeman 540 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,719 Speaker 10: must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a 541 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 10: tough guy and a gentleman. And of course he'll have 542 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 10: to be a genius because he'll have to feed a family. 543 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 10: It's on a policeman's salary.