Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty show what a terrible day it
Speaker 1: is for America. I never never thought I would see
Speaker 1: Americans scaling the wall to attack the people's House to capital.
Speaker 1: So if you if you're thinking about moving to a
Speaker 1: narco state or a banana republic and you're wonder what
Speaker 1: it's like today was a good idea of what it
Speaker 1: would be like. That is not America. That is not
Speaker 1: this idea of America. We're a nation of laws. We're
Speaker 1: not a lation a nation of people who attack law
Speaker 1: enforcement officers. Uh, trying to accomplish the goal that was
Speaker 1: never going to be accomplished in the first place. Martha,
Speaker 1: this was always a fool's rain. So so so why
Speaker 1: people are surprised that Mike Pence did exactly what the
Speaker 1: Constitution called him to do. Um, I'm surprised that they're surprised, Well,
Speaker 1: they're following a leader, and the leader said, look, this
Speaker 1: election was stolen from you, and he continued to say
Speaker 1: it while people were storming the Capitol. You'd even back
Speaker 1: off it. Then got this tweet that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I'm no longer impressed that Nicholas Cage managed to steal
Speaker 1: the declaration of Independence, you know, kidding. That was fanciful
Speaker 1: in the movie, but now I realized, Hey, you can
Speaker 1: walk in and sit at the speaker of the houses.
Speaker 1: That's a rifle through drawers if you want to. You
Speaker 1: can stand at the podium where Mitch McConnell stands in
Speaker 1: your bare outfit or whatever that guy had on. You
Speaker 1: stand on a podium, you stand behind elect Sean. Give
Speaker 1: it up, Give it up? Um so, uh right, right, Jack.
Speaker 1: I wish you had done it and done your Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell because that would have been really because you're I'm
Speaker 1: standing here. Yeah. So, anyway, the theme of this morning,
Speaker 1: if you're just tuning in, is there were a lot
Speaker 1: of factors that went into yesterday and they're not all Trump.
Speaker 1: They're not all right wing lunatics, although those two factors
Speaker 1: absolutely did factor in, and we will get to that.
Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that, we'll paint the whole
Speaker 1: picture for you. But first we want to talk to
Speaker 1: Casey from the Sacramento area and California who were told,
Speaker 1: uh decided to go to drive all the way to
Speaker 1: d C to be part of the rally. Casey, Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you? Good morning? I'm I'm tired. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: bet you are. So why did you decide to drive
Speaker 1: three thousand miles roughly to go to this event? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know the Lord? The Lord told me to be there.
Speaker 1: I saw his tweet and that and of itself wasn't enough,
Speaker 1: but I just felt, uh compelled to be here. I'm
Speaker 1: mystified by what you just said. The Lord told you
Speaker 1: to be there? You mean Trump? Or do you mean
Speaker 1: God is talking to you and told you to go
Speaker 1: to the Trump rally? And I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: a smartass. I just I actually didn't understand what you said. No,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like heard words or anything. It
Speaker 1: was just it's a feeling. It's like when you're canduring,
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm going to have a burger because that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna have. I I feel like God tells
Speaker 1: me things to do too. I so, no, I'm fine
Speaker 1: with that. I just didn't know if you meant Trump,
Speaker 1: because some people mean Trump when he say that. Um so,
Speaker 1: so that's what motivated you to go, hoping to accomplish
Speaker 1: what to bear witness? I wanted to I wanted to
Speaker 1: be here to bear with this, and I felt like it.
Speaker 1: I needed to be here to see it in myself.
Speaker 1: And after having spent the entire day here with all
Speaker 1: of communications shut off, nobody could text to each other,
Speaker 1: nobody could uh we can barely get a phone call
Speaker 1: out of here. They basically shut down communications with us.
Speaker 1: And when I finally got that before on the news,
Speaker 1: before people stormed the Capitol, you couldn't even text or
Speaker 1: after correct before before when we were when we were
Speaker 1: still down listening to Trump speak, people were like, is
Speaker 1: your phone working? Is your phone working? Is your phone working?
Speaker 1: All through the march? It wouldn't work all up in
Speaker 1: front of the Capitol. It wouldn't work. Um. So when
Speaker 1: I got back to my vehicle last night and turned
Speaker 1: on the radio, I was a little bit surprised to
Speaker 1: hear the way they were reporting him really so well,
Speaker 1: you know what, Well why not? So you were not
Speaker 1: a witness to any of the violence or the busting
Speaker 1: into the capital or anything like that. I was right
Speaker 1: up at the front, I was on I was I
Speaker 1: was five people back when when the police were being
Speaker 1: pushed back up onto the promenade and I watched people
Speaker 1: smash the windows out. So I was right there. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I didn't jump into the building. Why were you
Speaker 1: surprised that it was reported? Then it's not that it
Speaker 1: was reported, it's how it's being reported. That the way
Speaker 1: it's being reported in the media is is if you
Speaker 1: weren't here, you think that the capital building still on fire,
Speaker 1: but you know two windows got smashed out and then
Speaker 1: they shot a girl. Okay, so you said you wanted
Speaker 1: to go there and bear witness. If you were to summarize,
Speaker 1: you know, the message you were trying to send, what
Speaker 1: was it? Um, I'll tell you that I surely don't
Speaker 1: trust the media. Um. If you do, you're a fool.
Speaker 1: I think that it's important for people to turn off
Speaker 1: their TVs and go see these things for themselves so
Speaker 1: that they can see what is actually happening interesting because
Speaker 1: the TV is just lying. Sure, I think it's important
Speaker 1: to get this on because I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be an ongoing conversation of who was do and
Speaker 1: the most violent stuff because we've seen you know a
Speaker 1: lot of uh, you know, the police started the violence.
Speaker 1: So I I understand that they that they that they
Speaker 1: were concerned there there were literally thousands of people encroaching
Speaker 1: on them and meeting pushing them, pushing them backward, and
Speaker 1: disobeying their orders. Not initially, none of that started until
Speaker 1: the police started using their pepper spray and gas bombs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these things are always very difficult. As I've watched a
Speaker 1: lot of videos of a lot of BLM things and
Speaker 1: everything like that. It's just you know, but but that
Speaker 1: decide I want to get to this. So you were
Speaker 1: in the crowd that was trying to get the people
Speaker 1: to stop breaking the windows. Everybody in the crowd is
Speaker 1: trying to get to people to stop breaking the windows.
Speaker 1: They started smashing on the windows, and the entire crowd
Speaker 1: started yelling at them to stop. We're not these other groups.
Speaker 1: We don't do that. This is our house. We're not
Speaker 1: here to break our house. We're here to make sure
Speaker 1: they hear our voices. I think that's fascinating because we've
Speaker 1: seen that over and over with the BLM protests with
Speaker 1: a lot of them where you got the actual peaceful
Speaker 1: protesters in the streets screaming at people, why are you
Speaker 1: breaking those windows? Stopping So this is something to the
Speaker 1: point where a girl ran over and grabbed one of
Speaker 1: these guys and pulled him down to the ground to
Speaker 1: make him stop, and he got back up and started
Speaker 1: smashing the window again, and she had the support of
Speaker 1: the crowd, not the not the vandal. Correct. That's really interesting.
Speaker 1: That is something you will definitely not here reported anywhere
Speaker 1: at any point. Wow, that's crazy, Casey. Anything else that
Speaker 1: we ought to know from your experience before we let
Speaker 1: you go. You know, there's a lot of pushing and
Speaker 1: pulling there. The the the the people who were up
Speaker 1: at the front of that line were in constant communication
Speaker 1: with the Capitol Police, and they had come out prior
Speaker 1: to the windows being broken. Then just saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: have talked to these guys. If we just hold our line,
Speaker 1: and we just hold our line, and we just stay here,
Speaker 1: and we just stay here and make sure that they
Speaker 1: hear us, they won't keep spray us, they won't attack us,
Speaker 1: they won't hit us, they won't arrest us or drag
Speaker 1: us out. Uh. That's when the agitators with the hammers
Speaker 1: that they pulled out of their pockets started smashing the windows. Interesting. So, finally, Casey,
Speaker 1: did did you go there thinking Mike Pence could somehow
Speaker 1: do something to change the result of the election. I
Speaker 1: didn't come here with any kind of preconceived notions of
Speaker 1: any of that story. I came here to bear witness, right, Casey,
Speaker 1: we sure appreciate the time, a friend, thanks thanks for
Speaker 1: talking to us, certainly, thank you. All right? Yeah, interesting, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is interesting because well, you know, I've been seeing
Speaker 1: this a lot, and and everybody's been wondering, is it
Speaker 1: the fringe of uh, you know, Black Lives Matter, or
Speaker 1: the trunk crowd or whatever that starts smashing stuff, or
Speaker 1: you know, is it the the anarchists who just want
Speaker 1: to bring down society that show up to any of
Speaker 1: these events, protests, every protest and starts smashing stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and actually who was smashing what and for what cause
Speaker 1: will be will become more clear. I am, as always
Speaker 1: disgusted and angered by the blatantly biased and and just
Speaker 1: dishonest news media coverage of these things start and