Speaker 1: Al Zone Media.
Speaker 2: This is it could happen here in Executive Disorder, our
Speaker 2: weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the
Speaker 2: crumbling world, and what it means for you. I'm Garrison
Speaker 2: Davis Dame, joined by James Stout, Robert Evans and maybe
Speaker 2: Sophie Lichterman.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This episode, we are covering the week of January twenty
Speaker 2: eighth to February fourth. Very exciting events happening this weekend,
Speaker 2: as we know, the super Bowl and even more importantly,
Speaker 2: the Turning Point USA Halftime Show streaming on Daily Wire Plus,
Speaker 2: America's Real Voice, National News Desk and TBN. I don't
Speaker 2: know what that is.
Speaker 1: Way pause, pause, it's behind a payroll.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, unclear? Uh well, but probably not because
Speaker 2: it's gonna be Also, it's also gonna be on YouTube,
Speaker 2: ex Everything app and Rumble.
Speaker 3: But I was going to ask you it was on Rumble.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be Oh, don't worry, James, that there are
Speaker 2: one step ahead of you and we can we can
Speaker 2: see all of our favorite acts. We have Kid Rock, Bradley,
Speaker 2: Gilbert Lee, Bryce and Gabby Barrett, all of my favorite performers.
Speaker 4: Garrett I haven't seen kid rock since you and I
Speaker 4: watched kid Rock together at the r n C.
Speaker 2: It's been too long. It's been too long.
Speaker 3: It's been way too long.
Speaker 2: It's been too long. I'm I'm excited for Lee Bryce
Speaker 2: obviously as a as as the biggest Bryce head on
Speaker 2: the pod. Rice is gonna be huge. Gabby Barrett will
Speaker 2: be a nice you know, a nice little spice on top. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And this guy's name is it's not Bradley, It's it's Brantley.
Speaker 6: Sorry, Brandley Gilbert. My my apologies, my apologies all the
Speaker 6: big Brandley fans out there by bad obviously the most
Speaker 6: literally brand.
Speaker 4: That's not a real name. That's just not a real name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it isn't spelled with L E I g H.
Speaker 5: So we do have to give him that.
Speaker 4: If it was Brandt Leigh, I would be doing some
Speaker 4: terrorism right right.
Speaker 1: I gun in my hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would be unable to stop myself.
Speaker 1: You guys, I just googled Lee Brice and the first
Speaker 1: picture that pops up is incredible and I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it in the.
Speaker 3: Chat, please do? Is it in the work chat?
Speaker 1: It's in the zoom chat. That's the first picture that
Speaker 1: pops up it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Oh he looks tough. Wow is he in band of brothers?
Speaker 2: His jaw is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's an incredible first photo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, his expression isn't though. He's really letting himself down
Speaker 5: with the face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his face says I really am racist.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't look happy to be there.
Speaker 2: So obviously, after about six months of planning, Turning Point
Speaker 2: was able to put together just the finest, the finest
Speaker 2: acts in all the show business for their for they're
Speaker 2: all American names, so all the big names. Really whatever flits,
Speaker 2: everyone's it to listen. They could not even get Nicki Minaje,
Speaker 2: which is like so humiliating, Like, come on, guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, didn't she do a dance with the Treasury Secretary
Speaker 5: yesterday or something?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Who is that guy or those two people that were
Speaker 1: at the R and C that they kept showing doing
Speaker 1: that rap video? I like kind of blocked it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's those conservative rap guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah for Got your Blow? Is it?
Speaker 4: Forget for Got your Blow? Is one of the conservative
Speaker 4: rap guys.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I will admit I don't have a deep
Speaker 5: knowledge in this area.
Speaker 4: I I saw him at the R n C. I
Speaker 4: was walking behind him on my way to the beer store.
Speaker 4: He's my incredible He's an amazing looking man. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a unique dude. That's a that's your risky goople of
Speaker 4: the day. God really broke the mold with him.
Speaker 2: So we will we will report on how the Turning
Speaker 2: Point halftime show went next week for the next d
Speaker 2: D because you you know that I'm going to be
Speaker 2: turned into rumble to watch this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: We're need a minute by minute breakdown of this bad boy.
Speaker 2: I'll be taking extensive notes.
Speaker 5: I hope I'll be able to record in watching again
Speaker 5: later for posterity. I feel like it's goes down like
Speaker 5: live aid. You know, it's the greatest moment in live music.
Speaker 2: It is interesting that they are showing it on national
Speaker 2: news desk. Fox News did not did not decide to
Speaker 2: air air the all of Eric at halftime show, so
Speaker 2: instead you have to tune into TBN whatever that is
Speaker 2: in National news desk. So let's get us some actual
Speaker 2: news though.
Speaker 3: Sure, real news. Okay.
Speaker 4: So, Portland, Oregon has been the site of some recent
Speaker 4: noteworthy ice protests. On Saturday, the thirty first of January,
Speaker 4: there was a large Union march on the Ice Building
Speaker 4: on McAdams Street in Portland, Oregon. This was like basically
Speaker 4: every union in Portland. It was the largest union march
Speaker 4: that we've had here in like twenty years. Somewhere along
Speaker 4: those lines. About five to ten thousand people showed up. Wow,
Speaker 4: when I heard it was ten k because I wound
Speaker 4: up there. I didn't even planning to go, but I
Speaker 4: showed up with a friend, and as we were kind
Speaker 4: of watching the crowd pass, some buddy of ours came
Speaker 4: up who knows one of the people who organized the
Speaker 4: march and was like, yeah, they're expecting like ten thousand people.
Speaker 4: And I was like, there's no way they're going to
Speaker 4: get ten thousand fucking people out here. And then as
Speaker 4: the crowd went past me for like twenty straight minutes,
Speaker 4: and I was like, yeah, that might be ten thousand people.
Speaker 4: That really is quite a lot of motherfucking people. It
Speaker 4: was an extremely diverse crowd, which I mean in the
Speaker 4: age sense primarily it's Portlands, so not in the in
Speaker 4: any other sense of the word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those protests tend to have you know, older folks, teenagers, families, teachers, a.
Speaker 4: Lot of older folks, a lot of little kids, kids
Speaker 4: who were like eight to twelve years old, because it
Speaker 4: was just suppose people were like the basic round of
Speaker 4: march was doing a circle around the Ice facility, and
Speaker 4: then there was like sound equipment and music set up
Speaker 4: on a nearby park. So I think I don't believe
Speaker 4: the plan was an extended confrontation with Ice, which is
Speaker 4: what made what came next so surprising, which is that
Speaker 4: we start walking towards where the route of march is heading.
Speaker 4: We're kind of in like the middle of the crowd probably,
Speaker 4: and we see a cloud and it's like three point
Speaker 4: thirty in the afternoon. So the people I'm with, who
Speaker 4: have all been through their share of Portland protests, are like,
Speaker 4: that can't be tear gas. It's not even four pm
Speaker 4: and this is the Liberal March. There's no way they've
Speaker 4: gassed it already. Like I saw the front of the march,
Speaker 4: it was a bunch of people in their fifties. Like,
Speaker 4: they're not forcing the issue with Ice, I don't think,
Speaker 4: but apparently pray the claims made by Ice. When the
Speaker 4: crowd reached the Ice building, people began throwing water bottles.
Speaker 4: So obviously that's a situation that can't be allowed to continue.
Speaker 4: So they gas the absolute fuck out of the march,
Speaker 4: and they gased it so much that the cloud of
Speaker 4: gas spread to cover pretty much the entire march, including
Speaker 4: the people who were nowhere near the front of the
Speaker 4: march yet. So as we're walking towards it, we've become
Speaker 4: aware about halfway towards getting to it that like, okay,
Speaker 4: that's not smoke, that is, in fact gas. Some of
Speaker 4: us had masks. I did not, So I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have a bad time. This is straight up
Speaker 4: not going to be fun. And the problem with it
Speaker 4: was because of where they gassed us. There were kind
Speaker 4: of two streets of buildings on either side, so you
Speaker 4: basically got you're in like a valley almost. You've got
Speaker 4: steep canyon walls kind of on either side of you.
Speaker 4: And there was no wind that day, so you've just
Speaker 4: got this thick cloud of gas smoke, and ten thousand
Speaker 4: people crammed in between two pillars of buildings. So it
Speaker 4: was a very bad time. A lot of kids got gassed.
Speaker 4: I saw a number of children in significant distress, like
Speaker 4: little kids. A lot of old people wound up in
Speaker 4: significant distress. It was straight up a bad time, and
Speaker 4: it continued for the next day. There was another march
Speaker 4: the next day that started at City Hall. This kind
Speaker 4: of galvanized people in Portland to specifically take up the
Speaker 4: charge of protesting for the city to basically not renew
Speaker 4: or cancel ICE's contract to use the building that they're
Speaker 4: based out of. So there was a large march on Sunday.
Speaker 4: I showed up as the march reached the Ice area
Speaker 4: because I didn't want to walk across town, and sure
Speaker 4: enough we get there in maybe an hour or so
Speaker 4: after the crowd arrives. There's like a thousand or so people,
Speaker 4: and it's still a very young crowd. This is not
Speaker 4: mostly people who have been doing the protest thing in
Speaker 4: Portland for a long time. Like I saw a lot
Speaker 4: of girls who couldn't have been older than sixteen or
Speaker 4: seventeen out on Sunday and they gassed again, and I
Speaker 4: couldn't tell you. They were letting people like right up
Speaker 4: to the front of the ICE building, which they had
Speaker 4: gassed folks for throwing water bottles kind of near the
Speaker 4: day before. So there's never any consistency with these sort
Speaker 4: of things, And eventually they just decided to gas the
Speaker 4: shit out of everybody again to come and snatch people.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of the story is people in Portland
Speaker 4: are really pissed again because they gassed the big Lib march.
Speaker 4: All of the unions are really angry, all of the
Speaker 4: nurses are really angry. The city government's angry. The Mayor
Speaker 4: of Portland, Keith Wilson, made a statement that all of
Speaker 4: the ICE should quit their jobs, should resign. I don't
Speaker 4: know that. I think that they're actually going to kick
Speaker 4: ICE out of its building now. To be fair, I
Speaker 4: don't think that ICE is really getting much done in
Speaker 4: that building because it's locked down completely. They are using
Speaker 4: facilities up in Washington for the actual immigration stuff for
Speaker 4: the most part, so it's become I think it's largely
Speaker 4: a symbol. Yeah, a symbolic kind of dill. So we'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going to happen next, but yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the update from here.
Speaker 1: The tear gas air is spicy and bad for our health.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it always bums me out to see
Speaker 4: really young people like kids get tear gased, especially like
Speaker 4: teenage girls.
Speaker 3: Because there's data and not.
Speaker 4: Nearly as much as there should because the government really
Speaker 4: doesn't like studying this on how tear gas affects, particularly
Speaker 4: like reproductive health, and it's bad. There's evidence from places
Speaker 4: like Gaza that it can cause miscarriages. There's documentation and
Speaker 4: miscarriages and at least three different countries as a result
Speaker 4: of tear gas use, although again it's not the kind
Speaker 4: of documentation you'd want for a medical thing because you
Speaker 4: can't really isolate out other factors that may have been
Speaker 4: happening at the same time, because you're trying to figure
Speaker 4: out what this and other things are doing to people's
Speaker 4: bodies in a place like Gaza where you have no
Speaker 4: kind of like clinical control. But outside of that, there's
Speaker 4: evidence of missed periods that it can delay or cause
Speaker 4: unusually painful periods.
Speaker 1: Send people into early menopause.
Speaker 5: Jeez.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some evidence for that.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a When I brought this up online,
Speaker 4: someone got very angry at me because they're like, well,
Speaker 4: it's not proven. I think there's enough data to tell people,
Speaker 4: especially if you've got a uterus, wear a mask when
Speaker 4: you go protest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think also, how are we going to obtain
Speaker 5: proof in this scenario?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: What are they going to do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not very easy for us to do. We
Speaker 5: can't really do it just a double blind trial, right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Somebody brought up like, if it was bad for reproductive health,
Speaker 4: then all of the women in the military, because you
Speaker 4: get tear gased as part of military training, then that
Speaker 4: would have shown up before and it hasn't. And I
Speaker 4: immediately found in about three seconds the largest like study
Speaker 4: done so far on the effective tear gas that specifically noted. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they did some studies on hair tear gas affects people
Speaker 4: in the sixties.
Speaker 3: They didn't look at.
Speaker 4: Women, weren't interested, they didn't care, not at all a priority.
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely ignored it. Shocked, shocked to hear this.
Speaker 4: So anyway, just like we're a respirator. A half faced respirator,
Speaker 4: you know, is cheaper. I would recommend a full face
Speaker 4: because tear gas sucks on your eyes. They're not crazy expensive.
Speaker 4: You don't have to get a nice gas mask. Just
Speaker 4: get a respirator. It's better than nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like my respirator.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 5: So first, just a couple of small things that we
Speaker 5: wanted to note that we might come back to covering later. First,
Speaker 5: the US has now admits it that it had a
Speaker 5: small contingent troops on the ground in Nigeria. I wrote
Speaker 5: on my newsletter about US drone strikes in Nigeria, what
Speaker 5: they're doing there and who they're targeting with those drone strikes,
Speaker 5: alongside the long running issues with civilian casualties with airborne
Speaker 5: raids in Nigeria on my news letters of people want
Speaker 5: to read that they can. And secondly, I wanted to
Speaker 5: mention that Judge Anna Reyes has stated Secretary g Nomes
Speaker 5: decision that would have rendered three hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 5: Haitians without legal status when she was going to let
Speaker 5: the temporary protected status expire. I have explained TPS several
Speaker 5: times on ED and in my first Darien series, so
Speaker 5: I'm not going to go into detail about it here,
Speaker 5: but if you'd like to listen to those, you could
Speaker 5: find out more about it.
Speaker 2: Last thing before our first ad break, Bill and Hillary
Speaker 2: Clinton have agreed to testify before Congress is a part
Speaker 2: of the Epstein investigation. A vote to hold the Clinton's
Speaker 2: in criminal contempt of Congress was scheduled for this week
Speaker 2: before they finally agreed to be to at two hearings
Speaker 2: in late February and the Clintons have now called for
Speaker 2: these hearings to be public. This follows a slew of
Speaker 2: new Epstein documents that are released by the DOJ last week,
Speaker 2: which Robert, you'll be you'll be covering on Behind the
Speaker 2: Bastards soon.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we will be talking about the things revealed
Speaker 4: in the new Epstein file releases, the three million or
Speaker 4: so documents that just came out. Yes, we'll be talking
Speaker 4: about that on Behind the Bastards.
Speaker 1: Not next week but the week after.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably like the week after something like that. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of good stuff in there, a lot of
Speaker 4: brock Pierce in this set of releases. If you've been
Speaker 4: curious as to what the guy who invented Tether, the
Speaker 4: cryptocurrency tether was up to, with Jeffrey Epstein as a spoiler,
Speaker 4: it was molesting people.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well allegedly, we don't know. We don't know that
Speaker 4: it was molesting. They were described as girls, repeatedly described
Speaker 4: as girls in the emails, but between brock Pierce, the
Speaker 4: Mighty Ducks guy, and Jeffrey Epstein. But that could mean anything,
Speaker 4: you know, that could mean anything.
Speaker 2: You'd be talking about the Elon Musk emails in there.
Speaker 4: There's some Elon stuff in there, it's nothing definitive. The
Speaker 4: downside of it is Elon has a leg to stand
Speaker 4: on when he's like I never went to the island.
Speaker 3: That said.
Speaker 4: You can interpret the emails one of two ways. Because
Speaker 4: I saw an Elon musk fans, I'd be like, see,
Speaker 4: he was clearly just trying to blow him off. That's
Speaker 4: not how I interpret Elon's emails to Epstein. I think
Speaker 4: he really wanted to go to that fuck island.
Speaker 3: What night will the wildest post he be or something?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like I want to know where, But
Speaker 4: he was also talking about like the whole island area right,
Speaker 4: like where the wildest parties are that he wanted. So
Speaker 4: he does have some plausible deniability. But he was lying
Speaker 4: about not being in touch with Epstein and also JK
Speaker 4: Rowling in touch with Epstein. Oh shit, save yes.
Speaker 3: Saved him seats for the opening of.
Speaker 4: Her play, Oh of the Harry Potter play on Broadway.
Speaker 3: Got Jeffrey Epstein a seat. God, just when you thought
Speaker 3: you're gonna be a worse fucking person.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what a third, what a disgrace to our national Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean we have lots of those, I guess, but yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't believe this one person has ruined the reputation
Speaker 2: of Britain, the.
Speaker 5: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, previously unblemished
Speaker 5: in santuries of history Jesus Christ until the turf Wizard
Speaker 5: Lady came alone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first bed English person anyway.
Speaker 2: So yeah, On February twenty sixth, Hillary will be testifying,
Speaker 2: and on the twenty seventh, Bill will be testifying in
Speaker 2: hearings that should be televised live to the public.
Speaker 1: Interesting, okay, let's go on, britt all right, we're back,
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Speaker 2: Luckily, podcasting is a visual medium.
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Speaker 3: What are we imagine?
Speaker 2: Oh god?
Speaker 6: All right, I think I think we get forgot you.
Speaker 4: Do we need anymore?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: No, we don't, okay, all right, sorry? Oh god.
Speaker 5: The fact that video is playing on the background of
Speaker 5: a large police badge.
Speaker 1: We're voting Donald Trump baby so bad.
Speaker 2: So bad. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am
Speaker 2: that I will not be hearing them perform on Super
Speaker 2: Bowl Sunday. You can see just the disappointment in my
Speaker 2: face right now. M This Wednesday morning, February fourth, Tom
Speaker 2: Homan announced that they're pulling seven hundred federal agents out
Speaker 2: of Minneapolis, though two thousand will remain in the city.
Speaker 1: That's so many agents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so that much.
Speaker 1: Even seven hundred sounded like.
Speaker 2: There's still a lot of ICE and Border patrol on
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Two thousand was a surge that they did earlier this year.
Speaker 5: That that was when they really kind of flooded it
Speaker 5: with ICE agents. So in two thousand is still two
Speaker 5: thousands is still a massive amount of ices overall capacity.
Speaker 5: That these aren't all ICE agents, right, like they deputize
Speaker 5: atf and marshals and other things.
Speaker 2: But a lot of Border patrol guys here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if that's who the seven hundred
Speaker 5: who there was drawing are.
Speaker 2: It's a mix, it's not. I don't think they're from
Speaker 2: just one agency.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, there are a lot of Border patrol you
Speaker 5: see that a lot, right, Like the Border patrol agents
Speaker 5: clearly love this, right, They're they're getting per DM, they're
Speaker 5: getting travel pay. They make more money than they do
Speaker 5: on the border and they don't have to like drive
Speaker 5: around in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3: They call it going on Safari.
Speaker 5: Homan has cited an increasing cooperation by Minnesota authorities. He
Speaker 5: was talking about handing over detained people who would be deportable,
Speaker 5: I think, But I have not seen a similar statement
Speaker 5: from state authorities in Minnesota, at least at a time,
Speaker 5: So take that with a pinch of salt. Right, A
Speaker 5: lot of what we see coming out of drum DHS
Speaker 5: just straight up isn't true.
Speaker 2: They have been talking about trying to increase the cooperation
Speaker 2: with ICE detainers in the local prisons and jails.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think that would be what this cooperation
Speaker 5: would be. It would be like either cooperating with ICE
Speaker 5: detainers or even alerting ICE if they thought someone was deportable.
Speaker 2: An interesting thing of note as well is earlier this
Speaker 2: week the military troops that were placed on standby have
Speaker 2: been unplaced on standby, soh not looking like those guys
Speaker 2: in Alaska or North Carolina will be deploying to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: In some other Minneapolis related news, Dawn Lemon, friend of
Speaker 2: the pod, was arrested Thursday, January twenty nine and now
Speaker 2: faces civil rights charges for allegedly violating Face Act, which
Speaker 2: prohibits interfering with reproductive health services or people exercising religious
Speaker 2: freedom at a place of worship. On January eighteenth, Lemon
Speaker 2: reported on a protest at City's church in Saint Paul,
Speaker 2: where one of the pastors is also the head of
Speaker 2: the local ice field office. A magistrate, judge and an
Speaker 2: appeals court previously dismissed the charges against Lemon before the
Speaker 2: case was brought before a grand jury in Minnesota. Six
Speaker 2: activists and one other journalists are also facing charges. We
Speaker 2: reported on this protest after it happened, and yeah, the
Speaker 2: DOJ has been trying to pin pin Lemon on this
Speaker 2: for the past few weeks. Yeah, probably not a great
Speaker 2: sign for you know, general general First Amendment activity.
Speaker 5: No, no, that's a pretty pretty bleak side.
Speaker 2: Actually, as frustrating as the as it is to start
Speaker 2: waiving the Jimmy Kimmel Don Lemon flag, you know. That's
Speaker 2: that's that is the situation we're in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 5: The journalists they arrested was the head of the National
Speaker 5: Association of Black Journalists.
Speaker 3: What's she Georgia Fort is her name?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I do want to say, actually that like
Speaker 5: when we talk about protections for journalists, like journalists, yes,
Speaker 5: can often be the people who were first targeted for
Speaker 5: like things that violate freedom of speech. Right, Like when
Speaker 5: governments are going to violate freedom of speech, they can
Speaker 5: go off to journalists first. But like when someone is
Speaker 5: recording ICE operations, they are doing citizen journalism. They are
Speaker 5: protected by exactly the same rights that we have as
Speaker 5: journalists who are doing this as our full time job.
Speaker 5: There isn't a special first Amendment for us. And so
Speaker 5: when the border patrol agents killed Alex Pretty, they killed
Speaker 5: someone who is at that time engaged to journalism too.
Speaker 5: And like, I'm to see journalistic bodies standing up, not
Speaker 5: just for people who employed his full time jeneists have
Speaker 5: put all of our rights to document and record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of the legal observers who are filming ICE
Speaker 2: as well that are being targeted with intimidation, being pulled over.
Speaker 3: Having guns pointed at them, etc.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about the Senate funding for ICE?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Do I?
Speaker 2: So the partial government shut down, which did start last week,
Speaker 2: was ended on Tuesday after the DJs bill was stripped
Speaker 2: out of the now one point two trillion dollar annual
Speaker 2: funding package. DHS's funding will lapse on Friday the thirteenth,
Speaker 2: and negotiation.
Speaker 3: Why not.
Speaker 2: While negotiations continue on a DHS funding bill, Congressional Democrats
Speaker 2: are pushing for agency reforms like judicial warrants and no
Speaker 2: masked agents, while Republicans are signaling minor consents like having
Speaker 2: a border patrol and ice wear body cameras.
Speaker 3: Yeah, should we talk a little bit more about body cameras?
Speaker 2: You know what my favorite tarthic let's talk about body cameras.
Speaker 3: A Yeah, I love to talk about a body worn camera.
Speaker 2: Time was a flat circle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 5: So Christie Nome this week announced that ice agents in
Speaker 5: Minnesota were going to wear body worn cameras going forward.
Speaker 5: And I've been kind of disappointed a lot of the
Speaker 5: reporting on this. What is I think missing is that that,
Speaker 5: like there was a twenty twenty two executive order right
Speaker 5: signed by Biden the ordered federal law enforcement to use
Speaker 5: body worn cameras. Funding for them was included in the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one for SCOOL year appropriations built. Nome has
Speaker 5: said they will grow the program as funds become available,
Speaker 5: but those funds have been available for some time right
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four document ice document that talked about
Speaker 5: their pilot program study. They said, quote full implementation is
Speaker 5: expected by September thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Eagle eared listers
Speaker 5: will noticed that it in the past. However, in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five I spagan rolling this back. They issued a
Speaker 5: directive which continued only implementing the body worn camera program
Speaker 5: in the certain pilot program cities. The Trump administration, in
Speaker 5: its second term, has called Congress to cut funding for
Speaker 5: body worn cameras by seventy five percent and reduce the
Speaker 5: staffing of the body worn camera program from twenty two
Speaker 5: people to just three. They have also cut oversight offices
Speaker 5: within DHS like oh IDO. O IDEO is like the
Speaker 5: nichest level of DHS. Understand that when you know of
Speaker 5: o IDEO, I think Biden created it. I actually I've
Speaker 5: seen them once. It's the Office of the Immigration Detention ombardsmen.
Speaker 5: They came to the outdoor detention sites in hercumber which
Speaker 5: seems to be something of a concession that by the
Speaker 5: administration at the time denied people were detained in those sites.
Speaker 5: It had one hundred plus employees at start of the
Speaker 5: Trump administration. It also has three now, according to Reuters,
Speaker 5: this most recent bill, as Garrison said, does include funding
Speaker 5: and a mandate for their use. A federal judge in
Speaker 5: Chicago had already ordered agents there to wear cameras in
Speaker 5: November of last year. I should note that I also
Speaker 5: looked up the Ice body warm camera policy and it
Speaker 5: theoretically now in soo far of any of these policies
Speaker 5: are being followed, right, prohibits them for using body worn
Speaker 5: cameras for the quote sole purpose of recording people engaged
Speaker 5: in First Amendment protected activities. So they can just use
Speaker 5: their phones for that. I guess that's what they've been doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, this is like part of the frustration
Speaker 2: around this bill is you do have humor pushing for
Speaker 2: certain things like like not wearing masks and not doing
Speaker 2: the rolling raids, but also emphasizing, you know, you want
Speaker 2: the masks off and the cameras on, as if that's
Speaker 2: going to affect the behavior of agents on the ground. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: during the killing of Renee Good, the officer that shot
Speaker 2: and killed her was filming the whole thing on his phone.
Speaker 2: He was filming on his own cell phones. So obviously, yeah,
Speaker 2: having a camera on the agent is not going to
Speaker 2: prevent them from killing someone.
Speaker 4: Because they think it's good what they're doing. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: don't think it's bad.
Speaker 5: You have to understand that both the agents who shot
Speaker 5: Alex Pretty actually had body worn cameras and they're actually
Speaker 5: CBP agents. So CBP or BP, I should say, right,
Speaker 5: Customs are border.
Speaker 2: Protection, one of them is CPP, one of them's PP.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what they're they're both CBP agents. But within
Speaker 5: CBP you have BP and OFO. Okay, they get really
Speaker 5: mad if you get this wrong. Literally, I've got an
Speaker 5: email once for the subject line.
Speaker 3: Come on, man.
Speaker 5: So they were both Customs and Border Protection agents. Generally
Speaker 5: border patrol. Border patrol is part of Customs and Border Protection, right,
Speaker 5: the other part of the Office of Field Operations. Border
Speaker 5: Patrol ceased using their cameras early in the Trump administration,
Speaker 5: citing an issue with the bluetooth used by the cameras
Speaker 5: that could make them detectable. This is a thing that
Speaker 5: can happen. It is possible. There's a GitHub script for this.
Speaker 5: Whether the justifiers stopping using them is an entirely different question.
Speaker 5: Both the agents in the Pretty shooting were wearing body
Speaker 5: can but we have not seen that footage. The two
Speaker 5: agents have been identified by Pro Publica as Border Patrol
Speaker 5: agent Zus jesse Or Choa and Customs and Border Protection
Speaker 5: Officer Field Operations Officer Raimundo Gutierrez. A Choa joined twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: Gutierrez joined in twenty fourteen. Gutierrez is part of the
Speaker 5: office Field Operations Special Response Team that is generally a
Speaker 5: team with training in weapons and tactics who would serve
Speaker 5: high risk warrants.
Speaker 3: Do raids like a Swart style.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's another word for swat, I think because what
Speaker 5: became somewhat you know, they decided they want a different
Speaker 5: word for it. Sure, pro Publica I got an interview
Speaker 5: with the Choa's ex wife who said, quote, by the
Speaker 5: time the couple split in twenty twenty one, he had
Speaker 5: become a gun enthusiast, with about twenty five rifles, pistols
Speaker 5: and shotguns. Into much as that matters, I guess that
Speaker 5: was the only interview that could get about them.
Speaker 3: Both of the men are from South Texas.
Speaker 2: To circle back to the funding bill for DHS and
Speaker 2: these potential reforms being pushed for at you know, multiple
Speaker 2: levels of the democratic establishment, you know, with Schumer being
Speaker 2: a little bit lighter and obviously people like AOC and
Speaker 2: to leave pushing for more extreme measures like abolishing the
Speaker 2: agency advice, which is unlikely to happen in this funding
Speaker 2: bill as the Republicans control Congress. But still there is
Speaker 2: a spectrum of beliefs among the party at the moment.
Speaker 2: And to get a look at what average regular registered
Speaker 2: Democrats believe, there's a new poll from you gov that
Speaker 2: came out this week based on data from late January
Speaker 2: early February that have seventy nine percent of Democrats saying
Speaker 2: they support abolishing ICE. Abolishing ICE is also up eight
Speaker 2: points within the attendants and more people overall support abolishing
Speaker 2: ICE at forty six percent to forty four percent opposing.
Speaker 5: So, just to finish up on our immigration coverage to
Speaker 5: the week, we also saw Judge Cobb with the DC
Speaker 5: District Court grant a tentative restraining order that prevents DHS
Speaker 5: from denying Congress people the right to inspect immigration attention
Speaker 5: facilities without notice. Previously, DHS had been asserting that they
Speaker 5: had a seven day period of notice that they had
Speaker 5: to give before they could inspect attention facilities.
Speaker 3: The judges found that that's not justified.
Speaker 5: Another eight attorneys have left or announced intentions to leave
Speaker 5: the US Attorney's office in Minnesota. They are now operating
Speaker 5: at less than half the capacity of assistant USA attorneys
Speaker 5: that they had in the early Biden administration. They've also
Speaker 5: lost several non attorney staff, and the Star Tribune reports
Speaker 5: that this is due to concerns about selective prosecution and
Speaker 5: the exclusion of state and local investigators from the good
Speaker 5: and pretty cases. In yesterday, one federal prosecutor said, and
Speaker 5: I'm quoting for the transcript here, this system sucks. This
Speaker 5: job sucks. Another quotation. I'm here just trying to make
Speaker 5: sure that the agency understand how important it is to
Speaker 5: comply with all the court orders, which they have not
Speaker 5: done in the past or currently. I'm here as a
Speaker 5: bridge and a liaison between the one that in jail,
Speaker 5: because if I walk out sometimes I wish you would
Speaker 5: just hold me in contempt your honor, so that they
Speaker 5: could have a full twenty four hours of sleep. Yikes,
Speaker 5: this is a person on the ragged edge. Yeah, that
Speaker 5: is someone who is breaking Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: You can look up her caseload and it is legitimately insane. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And it has only got bigger since the start of
Speaker 5: the year.
Speaker 3: You can see why.
Speaker 5: People are are quitting this job, even if they don't
Speaker 5: have a moral issue with it, because it's an inhumane
Speaker 5: amount of work.
Speaker 4: And again, I'm not coming at this from a point
Speaker 4: of a lot of sympathy, but it's not funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's funny. It's just funny.
Speaker 5: It's funny to see them so obviously frustrated that the
Speaker 5: agencies are just not complying with what they asked him Doestually,
Speaker 5: I was reading the transcript today to judge in the case,
Speaker 5: was like, look, you can tell me the agencies are
Speaker 5: not complying. But like, if I have a problem in
Speaker 5: the restaurant, I don't walk in there and try and
Speaker 5: find the exact person who's baking the bread. I talked
Speaker 5: to the restaurant, and the restaurant sorted out you are
Speaker 5: part of the executive branch. Yeah, this is on you.
Speaker 5: Like it was a good, little little core exchange. And
Speaker 5: then finally, NBC has obtained a leaked email from Greg
Speaker 5: Bovino showing tensions between himself and todd Lyons. Lions is
Speaker 5: the acting Director of Immigration and custom to Enforcement. Lions
Speaker 5: attempted to prevent Veno from engaging in widespread sweeps in
Speaker 5: which agents kind of rum around check papers on anyone
Speaker 5: they think might not be a citizen, and encouraged him
Speaker 5: to do targeted operations instead. And then mister Bovino said
Speaker 5: in the email quote, mister Lyons said he was in charge,
Speaker 5: and I corrected him, saying, I report to Corey Lewandowski.
Speaker 5: Garrison's just made a face for those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you want to hear more about our
Speaker 1: dear buddy, Greg, Robert and I recorded anisode with Jack
Speaker 1: O'Brien from Behind the Bastards that's dropping next Thursday, all
Speaker 1: about Greg Bavino.
Speaker 2: Greg's been on a bit of a tour on his
Speaker 2: way back to California.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he went to Mount Rushmore to record like a
Speaker 5: moto video and then he was spotted drinking a glass
Speaker 5: of red wine in Las Vegas. Yeah, it seems like
Speaker 5: they made him road trip.
Speaker 4: Like a weirdo who's drinking. You're drinking the house wine
Speaker 4: at a casino in Vegas. Come the fuck on, Greg,
Speaker 4: grow up, Greg, have a fucking cocktail. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: I think he's back in Imperial now. But it was
Speaker 5: it seems that they made him take a road trip home.
Speaker 5: They didn't fly him back, wouldn't spring for the plane trip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's quite remarkable.
Speaker 2: Incredible gestapo, unbelievable. All right, we are back. Last Wednesday,
Speaker 2: January twenty eighth, the FBI executed a raid on the
Speaker 2: Fulton County Election Office outside of Atlanta, Georgia, as a
Speaker 2: part of an investigation into Trump's claim that the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty election was rigged against him. The special Agent in
Speaker 2: charge of the FBI Atlanta Field Office resigned a week
Speaker 2: before the warrant was served. This search warrant was signed
Speaker 2: by a United States Magistrate judge and instructed investigators to
Speaker 2: seize quote all records relating to violations of Title fifty
Speaker 2: two US Code two zero seven zero one and two
Speaker 2: five one one, with these violations occurring quote after October twelfth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty unquote. The former statute here two seven oh
Speaker 2: one relates to retaining and preserving election records for twenty
Speaker 2: two months after an election, and the latter two five
Speaker 2: one one relates to voter fraud or threats, intimidation and
Speaker 2: coersion against voters. The records that were to be seized
Speaker 2: are listed on the warrant as quote, all physical ballots
Speaker 2: from the twenty twenty general election in Fulton County, all
Speaker 2: tabulator tapes for every voting machine, all ballot images produced
Speaker 2: during the original ballot count all voter roles from the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty general election in Fulton County from absentee, early
Speaker 2: and in person voting, and any electronically stored information relevant
Speaker 2: to those items above. The Fulton County Commissioner mount Ivory
Speaker 2: said that federal officials took seven hundred boxes of ballots,
Speaker 2: and curiously, Director of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbert appeared at
Speaker 2: the side of the search and had a phone call
Speaker 2: with Trump. After the raid concluded, Gabert sent a letter
Speaker 2: to Congress on Monday, claiming, quote, my presence was requested
Speaker 2: by the President and executed under my bra statutory authority
Speaker 2: to coordinate, integrate, and analyze intelligence relating to election security,
Speaker 2: including counter intelligence, foreign and other malign influences, and cybersecurity unquote.
Speaker 2: She also wrote on x the everything app quote, the
Speaker 2: Office of the Director of National Intelligence has and will
Speaker 2: continue to take action under my statutory authorities to secure
Speaker 2: our nation and ensure the integrity of our elections. I
Speaker 2: will include here that four days before January sixth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, Trump told George's top election official to quote
Speaker 2: unquote find enough votes to overturn the election. Here's a
Speaker 2: recording of that phone call.
Speaker 8: All I want to do is this, I just want
Speaker 8: to find.
Speaker 1: Eleven thousand, seven hundred and eighty votes.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration has made multiple unsuccessful attempts to gain
Speaker 2: access to the twenty twenty Georgia ballots through civil suits.
Speaker 2: Now they have just turned to executing search board through
Speaker 2: the FBI. On February first, Mike Johnson was asked about
Speaker 2: potential election medaling in Georgia. Here is this exchange from
Speaker 2: NBC News.
Speaker 7: What do you say to that allegation that President Trump
Speaker 7: is going to meddle in the twenty twenty six midterm elections,
Speaker 7: that that's what he's doing in Georgia.
Speaker 8: I find it comical that one of the senators from
Speaker 8: Georgia is talking about schemes in elections. Remember, Georgia was
Speaker 8: example a of that. In the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 7: There were two statewide recounts in Georgia.
Speaker 8: Mail out ballanced to everyone. Everyone knows all of the
Speaker 8: problems that occurred in Georgia. It was very controversially and
Speaker 8: remains so to this day because of all the things
Speaker 8: that happened there. Again, we're not going to relitigate that.
Speaker 8: But what we have to focus on is going forward
Speaker 8: to ensure that there are not questions about the elections.
Speaker 8: And that's why Republicans are working at the federal and
Speaker 8: the state levels to clean those things up and clean
Speaker 8: up voter rolls to make sure illegals are not voting,
Speaker 8: for example. That's what the Save Act is about. We
Speaker 8: have to continue that and the President has keeping a
Speaker 8: proper focus on it. This investigation is to ensure that
Speaker 8: all the questions that about the elections in Fulton County
Speaker 8: are investigated properly so that people have confidence in the system. Again,
Speaker 8: that's very important, but.
Speaker 7: There are really no questions about election integry from twenty
Speaker 7: twenty that have not been asked and answered. Even the
Speaker 7: Republican Nope, the Republican led governor has pointed out it's
Speaker 7: been years and no one has ever come forward under
Speaker 7: oath with evidence of fraud in Georgia.
Speaker 2: But let me ask you pretty absurd stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're not going to reltigate it as we
Speaker 1: rel litigate.
Speaker 5: It, yeah, Yeah, and just giving no evidence, just being like, oh,
Speaker 5: it's very controversial.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows, such a weasly answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Republican Governor Brian Camp has been very clear that there
Speaker 2: was absolutely no fraud happening in Georgia during twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: and if there was any attempt to meddle with the election,
Speaker 2: it is this phone call that Trump made to the
Speaker 2: Georgia Secretary of State, Yeah, asking to find a certain
Speaker 2: number of votes that itself should have resulted in Trump
Speaker 2: going to prison. Yea like South Korea style, like you're done,
Speaker 2: You're finished. You can't can't do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is like the most transparent election interference.
Speaker 2: The way that Trump's court case in Fulton County related
Speaker 2: to his attempts to meddle into twenty twenty election is
Speaker 2: just a complete disaster due to coruption within the Fulton
Speaker 2: County courses tom itself. One of the worst things to
Speaker 2: happen during this like Biden era, is the mishandling of
Speaker 2: the court cases around Trump's attempts to over overturn the election. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and especially like looking at at what South Korea did
Speaker 2: after their president tried to take over the country a
Speaker 2: year or two ago is like, oh, yeah, that's very
Speaker 2: clearly what we should have done with this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people could have done better.
Speaker 2: And Mike Johnson just keeps making really concerning statements on
Speaker 2: the news about about quote unquote nationalizing elections.
Speaker 1: I follow up on elections. The President says that he
Speaker 1: wants Republicans to nationalize elections.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with him?
Speaker 1: And do you have confidence in how elections are conducted?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 1: Heading into the midterm.
Speaker 8: We have thoughtful debate about our election system every election cycle,
Speaker 8: and sometimes in between. We know it's in our system.
Speaker 8: The states have been in charge of a ministering their elections.
Speaker 8: What you're hearing from the President is his frustration about
Speaker 8: the lack of some of the Blue states, frankly, of
Speaker 8: enforcing these things.
Speaker 2: Make Johnson goes on to discuss possible fraud in California specifically,
Speaker 2: though admits that he has no evidence of said fraud.
Speaker 2: One more clip.
Speaker 8: In some of the states, like in California, for example,
Speaker 8: I mean they hold the elections open for weeks after
Speaker 8: election day. That's just one thing that bothers so many people.
Speaker 8: We had three House Republican candidates who are head on
Speaker 8: election day in the last election cycle, and every time
Speaker 8: a new tranche of ballots came in, they just magically
Speaker 8: whittled away until their leads were lost. And no series
Speaker 8: of ballots that were counted after election day were our
Speaker 8: candidates ahead on any of those counts. It looks on
Speaker 8: its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove no, because
Speaker 8: it happens so far upstream. But we need more confidence
Speaker 8: in the American people in the election system.
Speaker 3: Absurd, Yeah, completely, bonkys, sir, I.
Speaker 1: Fear that more ballots have been counted and results have changed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what elections are.
Speaker 2: You cannot place a vote in California after election day, no,
Speaker 2: but they do count mail in ballots that have been
Speaker 2: postmarked on or before election day, which is what he's referencing.
Speaker 2: But he's yeah, miss, he's purposely misconstruting it to make
Speaker 2: it sound way more, way more nefarious than what it
Speaker 2: actually is. If you've placed a mail in vote on
Speaker 2: or before election day in California, that vote will be counted.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 2: That is how the elections in California work, not this
Speaker 2: magically keeping keeping the election open for weeks afterwards. People
Speaker 2: can continue to vote that's that's not that's not true.
Speaker 1: It's giving like a very specific sports reference where that
Speaker 1: the announcers like and the team with the most points
Speaker 1: won the game. That's literally what he's doing. He's like,
Speaker 1: as as the votes recounted, the results changed.
Speaker 2: They changed and someone won. Who is not what I
Speaker 2: wanted to happen. Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shock, horror.
Speaker 2: Can I prove there's fraud? No, But well I continue
Speaker 2: to say there's fraud. Yes, Mike Johnson.
Speaker 5: It had been reported that they were trying to leverage
Speaker 5: the ice raids in Minnesota against getting electoral role information
Speaker 5: from Minnesota as well. Yes, So, like this is this
Speaker 5: is not just his fascination with with Georgia. Like, this
Speaker 5: is all deeply concerning as we go into like midterm year.
Speaker 5: But we will find out soon.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, especially as Congress is the entity that is
Speaker 2: supposed to be there to help to ensure that states
Speaker 2: run the elections fairly and that we do not have
Speaker 2: a nationalized voting system.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the fact that the Speaker of the House seems
Speaker 2: to be unaware siding siding with the executive branch with
Speaker 2: this idea of nationalizing elections or at least trying to
Speaker 2: like manufacture consent. Trump's claim there very very worrying. I
Speaker 2: now want to update a story we talked about almost
Speaker 2: a year ago, based on some new information that has
Speaker 2: come out. In January, a judge has unsealed a State
Speaker 2: Department memo from March twenty twenty five that confirms that
Speaker 2: Ramesa os Turk's visa was revoked and the government sought
Speaker 2: to deport her on the basis of oz Turk co
Speaker 2: authoring and op ed in the student newspaper at Tufts University.
Speaker 2: This memo admits that DHS could not provide any evidence
Speaker 2: that oz Turk ever engaged in any eighties Semitic activity,
Speaker 2: was involved in Students for Justice in Palestine, or has
Speaker 2: ever expressed support for terrorism as claimed by government officials.
Speaker 2: Last year. Churchill McLoughlin told CNN at the time of
Speaker 2: oz Turk's arrest that DHS and ICE investigations had found
Speaker 2: that oz Turk had quote engaged in activities in support
Speaker 2: of hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing
Speaker 2: of Americans unquote. On the contrary, this newly unsealed memo
Speaker 2: from the State Department reads, quote, while os Turk has
Speaker 2: been involved with actions protesting Tuft's relationship with Israel. Dhs
Speaker 2: ICE or Homeland Security Investigations has not, however, provided any
Speaker 2: evidence showing that oz Turk has engaged in any anti
Speaker 2: Smidy activity or made any public statements indicating support for
Speaker 2: a terrorist organization or anti Semitism generally unquote. The memo
Speaker 2: goes on to state that though a previous dhs report
Speaker 2: quote implies a connection between oz Turk and the now
Speaker 2: banned Tuft's Students for Justice in Palestine, the report presents
Speaker 2: no evidence other than os Turk's membership in Graduate Students
Speaker 2: for Palestine, which supported proposals to Tufts which were also
Speaker 2: supported by Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine, nor as
Speaker 2: dhs ICE or HSI shown any evidence that oz Turk
Speaker 2: was involved in any of the activities which resulted in
Speaker 2: Students for Justice in Palestine being suspended from Tufts unquote.
Speaker 2: The Bureau of Consular Affairs VISA office identified no reporting
Speaker 2: specific to oz Turk on US government interagency databases. According
Speaker 2: to this memo, and interagency vetting partners do not provide
Speaker 2: any response to oz Turk's twenty twenty four VISA application
Speaker 2: quote indicating the existence of derogatory terrorism related information. I'll
Speaker 2: read the final quote here from this memo quote, DHS
Speaker 2: did not identify any alternative grounds for removability that would
Speaker 2: be applicable to oz Turk, including the ground for removability
Speaker 2: for aliens who have provided material support to a foreign
Speaker 2: terrorist organization or terrorist activity, and has not indicated whether
Speaker 2: it plans to consider termination of oz Turk's CIVIS registration.
Speaker 2: Although information provided by DHS, Homeland Security investigations and ICE
Speaker 2: does not establish any potential in eligibility for us Turk,
Speaker 2: you may, in your discretion and in accordance with Department
Speaker 2: policy in nine FA M four three point one point
Speaker 2: one Dash five B, approve revocation of her F one
Speaker 2: visa effect immediately based on the totality of the circumstances presented,
Speaker 2: indicating that revocation may be warranted unquote. The only evidence
Speaker 2: held against her in the memo is that she wrote
Speaker 2: an op ed. You still can revoke her visa if
Speaker 2: you want to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And that is pretty much the way student
Speaker 5: visas especially work, right leg You you just here at
Speaker 5: the pleasure of US politics.
Speaker 2: Essentially, the fact that this memo openly says they do
Speaker 2: not have evidence to support the claims that she's involved
Speaker 2: in anti Smithy activity on campus supports Hamas in any way.
Speaker 2: The fact that we have you have the government saying
Speaker 2: that in these internal documents, while externally, people like McLoughlin
Speaker 2: and Rubio say otherwise, it's such a naked display of
Speaker 2: the sort of rhetoric that these people are using. Secretary
Speaker 2: Rubio claimed at a press conference on March twenty seventh,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Quote, we revoked her visa. It's an
Speaker 2: F one visa. I believe we revoked it. And here's why.
Speaker 2: If you apply for a visa to enter the United
Speaker 2: States and be a student, and you tell us that
Speaker 2: the reason why you're coming to the United States is
Speaker 2: not just because you want to write op eds, but
Speaker 2: because you want to participate in movements that are involved
Speaker 2: in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings,
Speaker 2: creating a ruckus. We're not going to give you a visa.
Speaker 2: If you lie to us and get a visa and
Speaker 2: then enter the United States and with that visa participate
Speaker 2: in that sort of activity, We're going to take away
Speaker 2: your visa.
Speaker 5: Unquote yeah, it means she didn't tell them that she
Speaker 5: was engaged to that kind of activity.
Speaker 3: She wasn't.
Speaker 2: That's just not what happened. Yeah, And DHS admits itself
Speaker 2: that she was not involved in the activity, the protest
Speaker 2: activity that resulted in students Justice in Palestine being banned
Speaker 2: from campus, which included vandalism, but DJA says that they
Speaker 2: do not have evidence that she was involved in that
Speaker 2: in any way, nor had any direct association with that group.
Speaker 2: In December, a federal judge allowed oz Turk to continue
Speaker 2: her research and teaching at Tufts University on the basis
Speaker 2: that she's likely to succeed on the claim that her
Speaker 2: visa termination was quote arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law,
Speaker 2: and in violation of the First Amendment. The court case
Speaker 2: related to her removal proceedings will still continue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty bleak.
Speaker 1: That was Yeah wow.
Speaker 5: I guess talking of bleak. Should I finish up with
Speaker 5: a summary of the situation in Syria?
Speaker 1: Yeah, give us a Syria date.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So the aa n e S has reached
Speaker 5: a settlement with the STG. The aa n e S
Speaker 5: the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria aka ro Java,
Speaker 5: and the STG being the Syrian transitional government. That will
Speaker 5: result in the withdrawal of troops from the points of contact,
Speaker 5: as well as the withdrawal of SDF troops from Commishlo
Speaker 5: and Hesseka and the entry of the Syrian Ministry of
Speaker 5: the Interior. They're about ninety Ministry of Interior people going
Speaker 5: into Commishlo, one hundred and Hessegas. These are essentially like
Speaker 5: Syrian feds.
Speaker 3: I guess right.
Speaker 5: Integration of the SDF will occur as brigades of the
Speaker 5: Syrian Army deployed Derrik.
Speaker 3: If you're looking at a map, it's probably.
Speaker 5: Going to say Al Malakaya, Delhi being the Kurdish name, Commishlo,
Speaker 5: Hesseka and Kabani. These forces will be largely Kurdish, but
Speaker 5: they will also include Assyrian and Arab elements, as the
Speaker 5: SDF always has. I imagine they will probably Armenians as well.
Speaker 5: They're then nearly always are sending in the sdfs since
Speaker 5: the beginning there have been.
Speaker 3: The agreement also.
Speaker 5: Included the integration of the Eshaish into the Syrian Ministry
Speaker 5: of the Interior, the government takeover of oil fields and borders,
Speaker 5: and a recognition of Kurdish education credentials across the country.
Speaker 5: The AA and e S will appoint a governor in
Speaker 5: Hesseka and the security chief will be appointed by Damascus.
Speaker 5: The SDF will also appoint a deputy defense minister in Damascus,
Speaker 5: and the SEG appointed Marwan al Ali Tobac security. He
Speaker 5: previously did this for HDS in Idlib Hiatoria al Sham Right,
Speaker 5: that's the group that was formerly listed as a Foreigntarist
Speaker 5: organization in the US that has gone on to take
Speaker 5: over Syria and become the government in Damascus, and he
Speaker 5: sort of oversaw their purge of jurras aal Din, which
Speaker 5: is like an al Qaeda associated group in Idlib. Shortly
Speaker 5: after the deal was signed to Syrian traditional government began
Speaker 5: accusing journalists who entered via Samalka, as I have done
Speaker 5: and Robert has done, of having entered Syria illegally, which
Speaker 5: great I guess. Turkey has continued to prevent aid coming
Speaker 5: to Kabani, where water and power remain cut off. Pretty
Speaker 5: bleak situation in Rosjaba. I'm glad that there is not
Speaker 5: more killing and not more dying, but also sad to
Speaker 5: see some other things that so many people fought and
Speaker 5: died for being lost, especially this idea of brotherhood of
Speaker 5: people's which I think was integral today is you have
Speaker 5: a revolution and the women's revolution, which like it will
Speaker 5: be very hard to sustain in the context of a
Speaker 5: state led by HTS. Pretty upsetting stuff. I know that
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