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Speaker 1: I thank you. See everybody, we have got a great
Speaker 1: show for you tonight. Mark Zuckerberg has just invented legs.
Speaker 1: Vladimia Putin is getting desperate, and in New Zealand, cows
Speaker 1: are to become taxpayers. So let's do those people. Let's
Speaker 1: jump straight into today's headlines. Right before we get into
Speaker 1: the big stories, let's catch up on a few other
Speaker 1: things going on in the world, starting with some big
Speaker 1: tech news. Mark Zuckerberg has just revealed that from now on,
Speaker 1: people will have legs in the metaverse. Yeah, and I,
Speaker 1: for one, I'm truly excited for what this means. Because
Speaker 1: first you get legs, then you will get feet. Pretty
Speaker 1: soon you'll be able to walk out of the metaverse
Speaker 1: and go literally anywhere else. In climate news, New Zealand
Speaker 1: has just announced a plan to fight methane emissions by
Speaker 1: taxing cows for their burps. And this is how much
Speaker 1: billionaires are winning in the world. Even cows are getting
Speaker 1: tax before them. And by the way, even if you
Speaker 1: support this general idea to try and slow climate change,
Speaker 1: you have to admit if you were a cow, you'd
Speaker 1: be pretty pissed about this. Oh, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: it's still my milk. Might be spent my whole life
Speaker 1: on death row. And now you you turn nipple bitches?
Speaker 1: Are gonna text me for pupping? Are you all driving
Speaker 1: a lecture cars? No? Are you all using solid panels? Now? No,
Speaker 1: you're still fold private chits. But I can text. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: how about this? He pitches? Take that you pitches in
Speaker 1: New Zealand, cars are angry all right. And in sports news,
Speaker 1: after it came out that NBA star Dreaming Green of
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors punched his teammate in the face
Speaker 1: during practice, Green has announced that he will be taking
Speaker 1: some time off, which is a great reminder for everyone.
Speaker 1: Do not punch your coworkers unless you want some extra
Speaker 1: vac aition time. All right, let's move on to some
Speaker 1: of the biggest stories of the day, which, for some reason,
Speaker 1: all involve racism. Yeah. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have ever heard of racism, but it's a pretty hard
Speaker 1: thing these days. And by these days, I mean the
Speaker 1: last like thousand years. Now. For some reason, for some reason,
Speaker 1: it seemed like everyone was extra racist this weekend. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe because it's like a three day weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, people had a little more time to kick
Speaker 1: back and work on their racism. Whatever it was, it
Speaker 1: almost seemed like people were competing to see who could
Speaker 1: be the most racist. So let's dive in to all
Speaker 1: the competition for a segment we call the Amazing Racism.
Speaker 1: I have a first story involving racism. Hails from the
Speaker 1: Great States of Alabama. I know, I'm shocked to What
Speaker 1: makes this racism special is that it's from a senator,
Speaker 1: one of the best people in America, and he said
Speaker 1: out loud on TV. Senator Tommy tub of Alabama is
Speaker 1: facing a significant backlash from major civil rights groups for
Speaker 1: comments he made at a Trump rally over the weekend
Speaker 1: Serta Tumberville, calling out Democrats as being pro crime. He
Speaker 1: also suggested that people who want reparations for ancestral slavery
Speaker 1: aren't to blame for the crime. The Democratic Party, they
Speaker 1: have majority. They could stop this crime today. They won't crime.
Speaker 1: They won't crime because they want to take over what
Speaker 1: you got. They want to control what you have. They
Speaker 1: want reparation because they think the people that do the
Speaker 1: crime are old debt. Bullshit, they're not old debt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you tell them, Timmy, that thing you just made up
Speaker 1: right now by reparations is bullshit. We can't have that
Speaker 1: freakning happening. I gotta say, people, I've heard racists say
Speaker 1: all kinds of things. I've heard them say that black
Speaker 1: people are criminals, and I've heard them say that reparations
Speaker 1: are reverse racism. But it takes a true racism innovator
Speaker 1: to combine both ideas at the same time. Now, this
Speaker 1: is like the stuffed crust pizza of racism. Because I
Speaker 1: knew you could have crust, and I knew that you
Speaker 1: could have cheese, but I know that you could put
Speaker 1: the cheese inside the crust that's holding the rest of
Speaker 1: the cheese. Because now the crust is holding the cheese.
Speaker 1: At the same time that this cheese is now. Now,
Speaker 1: if you are confused, if you're confused by what this
Speaker 1: man is saying, congratulations, it means you're saying But at
Speaker 1: his point is that Democrats want black people to do
Speaker 1: crime because that's basically reparations which the Democrats believe they deserve.
Speaker 1: And there are just two things I can think of
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. Off the top of
Speaker 1: my head. One, how does this argument explain black people
Speaker 1: who steal things from other black people, because then who's
Speaker 1: reparating who? And secondly, how is this man going to
Speaker 1: stand on stage and imply that all criminals are black? Huh?
Speaker 1: That is disgusting. Has the senator never watched Netflix? Huh?
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stand here and let Tommy Chamberville erased
Speaker 1: all these white people's contributions. This is the real race
Speaker 1: to hit my friends, to make it seems like white
Speaker 1: people can't crime. How care you white people do crime?
Speaker 1: Just like any black guy's gonna make it seem like
Speaker 1: all my white friends and you you can do the crime.
Speaker 1: You hear me. You don't listen to these people say
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't do You do the crime. Look,
Speaker 1: you know what, while this is upsetting, you have to
Speaker 1: it's not exactly surprising. I mean, he's an Alabama conservative
Speaker 1: named Tommy Tubbleville. What would be surprising is if he
Speaker 1: got up on stage and he was like, I'd like
Speaker 1: to open today with my favorite passage from James bald
Speaker 1: When y'all. So that's our first story, and I hope
Speaker 1: you warmed up because this next one is a little
Speaker 1: more unexpected and it takes place in liberal l A.
Speaker 1: In Los Angeles, the big political issue right now is
Speaker 1: a blockbuster tape recording that could force three city councilors
Speaker 1: to resign. Nuri Martinez, a rising star in l A politics,
Speaker 1: potentially faces a career in ruins. The first Latina chosen
Speaker 1: to lead the Los Angeles City Council, caught on tape
Speaker 1: making racist and defensive comments during a redistrict in meeting
Speaker 1: with three Latino Democrats. At one point, Martinez talks about
Speaker 1: the black child of Mike Bonnet, a white council member,
Speaker 1: in Spanish, calling the boy a little monkey, white guy
Speaker 1: with the little black kid who's misbehaved, the kids bosting
Speaker 1: off the row over. There's nothing you can do him
Speaker 1: like a little white kid, which I was like, this
Speaker 1: kid need be down, Like let me, let me take
Speaker 1: him around the corner and then I'll bring him back.
Speaker 1: Whoa boy? Yeah, and Latina Democrats called the black son
Speaker 1: of a white colleague a little monkey was sing all
Speaker 1: around the walls. I'm sorry, bouncing all around the effing walls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you for censoring yourself. I appreciate it. That was weird.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure she sensored herself in the
Speaker 1: right place. That was weird of her to be like
Speaker 1: councing off the f and wall was like a little monkey.
Speaker 1: You know. I think he would have a sense of
Speaker 1: the racism and just safe. I think that would be better.
Speaker 1: But to each their own, I guess I'm just fing
Speaker 1: crazy that way. You know. Also, like, do you know
Speaker 1: how racist you have to be to see a kid
Speaker 1: misbehaving and your first instinct is to use a racial
Speaker 1: slur against him. It's a little kid, all right. We
Speaker 1: all see kids of every race throw a tantrum or misbehave,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm not trying to brag, but personally I
Speaker 1: hate all kids equally. Yeah, it's not it's not the
Speaker 1: color of their skin that makes them annoying. It's the
Speaker 1: content of their shitty character. What's especially wild about the
Speaker 1: story as well is that in the same conversation, she
Speaker 1: basically implies that because the kid is black, not white,
Speaker 1: he should be beaten so that he behaves. And I'm sorry, people,
Speaker 1: if you believe that black kids deserve to be beaten,
Speaker 1: you have no place being on the l A City Council.
Speaker 1: You clearly belong in the l A p D. But
Speaker 1: before we run out of time, there is one story
Speaker 1: that has the whole world talking. I'm referring, of course,
Speaker 1: to Kanye West, rapper, entrepreneur, and the guy who proved
Speaker 1: that not even black people can make the MAGA hat cool.
Speaker 1: Kanye has been drifting more and more to the right lately,
Speaker 1: from wearing a White Lives Matter shirt sitting down for
Speaker 1: an interview with Tucker Carlson, but over the weekend, Kanye
Speaker 1: drifted right off the deep end. Yeah formerly known as
Speaker 1: Kanye West, is now blocked from using Instagram and Twitter
Speaker 1: because of racist and anti semitic messages that he posted
Speaker 1: on Friday. Instagram was the first site to lock his
Speaker 1: account after Kanye post a text messages between himself and
Speaker 1: the rapper Sean Diddy Combs. In those messages, he accused
Speaker 1: Diddy of being controlled by Jewish people. After did he
Speaker 1: criticized the shirt Kanye was photographed wearing that red White
Speaker 1: Lives Matter. Then on Sunday, Kanye posted a series of tweets,
Speaker 1: once again targeting Jewish people, using the phrase deaf Con three.
Speaker 1: The rep start lashing out, tweeting, I'm a bit sleepy tonight,
Speaker 1: but when I wake up, I am going death Con
Speaker 1: three un Jewish people. The funny thing is, I actually
Speaker 1: can't be anti Semitic because black people are actually jew Also,
Speaker 1: you guys have toyed with me and tried to blackball
Speaker 1: anyone whoever opposes your agenda. Oh no, Kanye, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it again. You're gonna do it again. I don't
Speaker 1: even know where to begin with this ship. I mean,
Speaker 1: promoting anti Semitism to your fifty million followers, not even
Speaker 1: joking about threatening to go death Con three on Jewish people, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I know this is not the point,
Speaker 1: but that's not how you say it's. I know it's
Speaker 1: not the main issue here, I know that, but it's
Speaker 1: deaf Con three, al right, not deaf Conton three, right,
Speaker 1: deaf Con sounds like like a trade show where the
Speaker 1: unveiled the latest coffins or something. It's like, our newest
Speaker 1: model comes with Bluetooth. Now you can check on to
Speaker 1: make sure Nana's still dare just use the app dea
Speaker 1: card not to mention the deaf can scale goes from
Speaker 1: one to five. So def Con three is like in
Speaker 1: the middle. If you're trying to tell people how hard
Speaker 1: you're gonna go, that's just a weird way to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm about to open up a can of
Speaker 1: whip bass, but I'm gonna put half of it in
Speaker 1: some tupe of war for later. You can warn I
Speaker 1: don't want to use all my whip bass at the
Speaker 1: same time. Also, it's funny that he starts his threat
Speaker 1: with I'm a bit sleepy tonight. What is that? What
Speaker 1: does anti semit? Doesn't make you tired? Is that why
Speaker 1: mega people love the my pillow guy? Is that what
Speaker 1: this is? But I will say, man, I feel bad
Speaker 1: for American right wingers, you know, because they're getting Kanye now.
Speaker 1: I think if they missed college dropouts my beautiful dog
Speaker 1: twisted fantasy graduation, you know, they missed all of their
Speaker 1: getting this Kanye. It's like getting to date the high
Speaker 1: school prom king, but decades off the high school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you remember Chad from high school. Well, he's
Speaker 1: got uncontrollable flatulence. Now, yeah, they might even tax him
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. So those are the contenders in this
Speaker 1: week's amazing racism. You've got a black guy hating on Jews,
Speaker 1: a white guy hating on black people, and a Hispanic
Speaker 1: woman hating on a white guy for how he raises
Speaker 1: his black kid. You've got like every combination of racism
Speaker 1: in there, and you could find that depressing. You could,
Speaker 1: and I would understand why. But I myself choose to
Speaker 1: see this side, choose to see all these things as
Speaker 1: the glass half full. You know, if everyone is being
Speaker 1: racist against everyone else, then that means that, no matter
Speaker 1: what kind of we are, racism is at least one
Speaker 1: thing that we all have in common. And what a
Speaker 1: beautiful thought that is. All Right, that's it for the headlines,
Speaker 1: But before we go to break, it's time to check
Speaker 1: in and all the latest social media trends with our
Speaker 1: very own Ronnie chating everybody funny kill, Good to see
Speaker 1: you again, my friends. Is happening online hey driver, thanks
Speaker 1: a lot. Before it began, I just want to check
Speaker 1: do you have any major announcements you want to make
Speaker 1: for any emotional, life changing decisions about your professional life
Speaker 1: that you might want to talk about before I guess started. Actually, yes,
Speaker 1: there is one thing that I've had on my stop.
Speaker 1: All right, no more announcements, no one, Just let me
Speaker 1: get through this one segment. We're becoming a surprise face
Speaker 1: meme again with a stupid curb your enthusiasm music, very
Speaker 1: original idiots, means of the comedy of lesser minds. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the social media trends or whatever this long weekend,
Speaker 1: it's fun times on the internet as usual. Kanye West
Speaker 1: going off the rails again. His beard is clearly not helping.
Speaker 1: He looks like kimbout half a slice, just sending out
Speaker 1: this tweet as we've already examined. Yes, a lot to
Speaker 1: unpack here. Uh. First of all, anytime you are writing
Speaker 1: something in lower case and then you put the race
Speaker 1: of a people in all caps, that's not a good
Speaker 1: place to be, okay, because even if you're saying something nice,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna read well. You could be saying like
Speaker 1: I want to wish a happy Hanukah to the Jewish people.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work, okay, And what's what's going on with
Speaker 1: this line? Also? Do you actually you? Also? I mean
Speaker 1: it sounds like you let the iPhone predictive text, right
Speaker 1: and manifesto for him. I do like this, So I
Speaker 1: do like the spaces in between, right. I think every
Speaker 1: racist rant needs a few blank spaces where we can
Speaker 1: project our own prejudices into and and if and if
Speaker 1: this wasn't chaotic enough, luckily for everyone, the world second
Speaker 1: weirdest person, Elon Musk, came in to calm everyone down,
Speaker 1: replying with this tweet, talked to you today and express
Speaker 1: my concerns about his research tweet, which I think he
Speaker 1: took the hot. You know, it's bad when Elon must
Speaker 1: thinks you're being unreasonable on Twitter? And I mean, is
Speaker 1: this how Elon is going to do content moderation when
Speaker 1: he owns Twitter. He's just gonna have a hot hot
Speaker 1: with every single person who tweets something racist because I
Speaker 1: don't know if you checked Twitter lately, because I don't
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have a lot of time to go
Speaker 1: to Mars if you do that, Okay, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a little busy and what else is going on? Oh yeah, Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: another billionaire maniac? Yo, Mack, why are you obsessed with
Speaker 1: the metaverse? The metaverse sucks. You made billions of dollars
Speaker 1: in real life. Now you're losing billions to create a
Speaker 1: fake life. So what Now there's legs in the metaverse?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, we got legs in the matter of verse? Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what else? That's legs right here? That's we
Speaker 1: got legs here already. Okay, the guy who created an
Speaker 1: infinite universe that could be anything, and you made legs. Okay,
Speaker 1: not not jetpack legs, not teleporting legs, just legs, just legs.
Speaker 1: What else are you gonna invent in your magic world
Speaker 1: college debt joke? Even even even Kanye is looking at
Speaker 1: this going like, yo, what are you doing? Man? You're
Speaker 1: making how people look bad? And who here wants to
Speaker 1: be in a metaverse made by Facebook. I've never been
Speaker 1: on Facebook and said, you know what, I wish this
Speaker 1: was in three dimensions? How can I physically interact with
Speaker 1: this post from a sixty year old woman who was
Speaker 1: annoyed and no one spoke English at the drug store?
Speaker 1: What kind of dork with nothing but time on his
Speaker 1: hands would even be excited about the metaverse. All right,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at what people are tweeting about it.
Speaker 1: Look at this random idiots. I mean, wow, I just
Speaker 1: used the off for the first time. Mind blowing. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine what it will be like when it's basically real.
Speaker 1: You can't imagine will be like if it's real. Why
Speaker 1: don't you take off the headset? You just took a round.
Speaker 1: It's every right now, reality is right here. Who is
Speaker 1: this dumb acting idiot? Anyway back to you? I think
Speaker 1: I think that tweet made some good points. Ronnie chating everybody.
Speaker 1: I like that idea. All right, we come back. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out, right, Vladimi a Pookin is acting out,
Speaker 1: so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: It has been seven months since Vladimir Putin went death
Speaker 1: Con three on Ukraine, and in the last month, Ukraine
Speaker 1: has been kicking Russia's ass all up and down the map.
Speaker 1: They've defeated Russian soldiers across the front lines, they blew
Speaker 1: up a key supply bridge deep in Russian territory, and
Speaker 1: they even gave Putin's personal email to bed Bath and
Speaker 1: Beyond's mailing list. Anyway, another week of the war means
Speaker 1: another week of updates, so let's catch up on how
Speaker 1: it's all going in another edition of lad Gone Mad.
Speaker 1: After a series of defeats, Vladimir Putin has been so
Speaker 1: humiliated that it was just a matter of time before
Speaker 1: he lashed out, and yesterday he did just that, launching
Speaker 1: missile strikes against civilian targets all across Ukraine for the
Speaker 1: first time since the beginning of the war. Now, unfortunately
Speaker 1: for him, the missile strikes only seemed to have oldened
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian people who went right back outside off to
Speaker 1: the strikes to live their lives and get coffee. And
Speaker 1: if you ask me, that's a testament to how resilient
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian people are and to how addicted people out
Speaker 1: of coffee. These people were just at Starbucks, like, I know,
Speaker 1: missiles are coming, but pumpkins spice seasonally is very limited.
Speaker 1: But it turns out, it turns out a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know this part of the story. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: and these people weren't just lashing out at Ukraine. No,
Speaker 1: they decided to take a piece of the wall to America.
Speaker 1: Lett s is investigating a coordinated cyber attack on the
Speaker 1: websites more than a dozen US airports, including LaGuardia, and
Speaker 1: Russian speaking hackers are claiming responsibility. LaGuardia was the first
Speaker 1: to be impacted around three yesterday morning, and as of
Speaker 1: last night, Denver International Airport's website was still being attacked.
Speaker 1: The websites were temporarily knocked offline. There were no immediate
Speaker 1: signs of impact to actual air travel. That's right, people,
Speaker 1: the Russians took out websites for some American airports. And
Speaker 1: please everyone, calm down, Calm down. I know we all
Speaker 1: log onto LaGuardia dot com to see the latest news
Speaker 1: about which terminal will be under construction for the next
Speaker 1: seventeen years, but today we will all have to discover
Speaker 1: which areas under construction for our itselves. Stay calm, that's
Speaker 1: stay calm. This is a major story, people, and from
Speaker 1: more on this we go live to our own desert lighting.
Speaker 1: Who is at LaGuardia right now, desilic everybody, what is
Speaker 1: the situation over there right now? Well, Trevor, as someone
Speaker 1: who has been a huge fan of LaGuardia's website ever
Speaker 1: since I found out it existed at this morning. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you it is chaos. Trash bins are overflowing,
Speaker 1: people are sleeping half naked on the carpet. Oh, no, desert.
Speaker 1: That's because of the website being down. No, this is
Speaker 1: always LaGuardia, but somehow it seems worse. Right now, your
Speaker 1: t s a pre check. You don't know what it's like.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how bad this is. All the
Speaker 1: ladies rooms were closed for cleaning, all of them. I
Speaker 1: was forced to pee in one of those breastfeeding pods. Wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't know the breastfeeding pods have toilets. No, no
Speaker 1: they don't, and the babies were super judgy about it.
Speaker 1: So so does do you think this is all going
Speaker 1: down because of the website being attacked? Well, clearly something's
Speaker 1: going on here. There are three sunglass huts next to
Speaker 1: each other. And I just walked past a bathing suit store.
Speaker 1: What kind of psychopath buys a bathing suit at the airport?
Speaker 1: Did you not know where you were going? Anyway? The
Speaker 1: good news is I found the cinnabon that. Oh that's okay. Well, Deny,
Speaker 1: did you learn anything valuable that you can report to
Speaker 1: our viewers at home? Yeah? I'm not from a warrior
Speaker 1: from Apple. I'm sorry, DESI, there was there was cinnabon
Speaker 1: in your mouth. What did you say? Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1: We can't hear what you're saying. DESI just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a m surprisingly good anyway, Please do not come
Speaker 1: to LaGuardia unless you absolutely need to. Why would anyone
Speaker 1: go to LaGuardia if they don't need to? I don't know.
Speaker 1: For a cinema powerful reporting doesn't like like everybody. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the day show. My guests Tom is they
Speaker 1: fill my DC Metropolitan Police officer who nearly lost his
Speaker 1: life defending the US capital during the insurrection on January six.
Speaker 1: He writes about that and policing in America in his
Speaker 1: new book Hold the Line, The Insurrection and one Cops
Speaker 1: Battle for america Soul. Please welcome Michael Pherone. Michael Pheron,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Danni Show. Yeah, thanks for having me, Man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Um, you have written a book that
Speaker 1: UM would have been remarkable even before January six happened.
Speaker 1: You know, you've lived a life in law enforcements. You
Speaker 1: you have a really interesting story in and around law enforcements.
Speaker 1: But there is no denying that January six is a
Speaker 1: day you know that America will probably never forget, and
Speaker 1: a day that will be etched into your memory forever.
Speaker 1: Some people have seen the footsage, and those who have
Speaker 1: have all said the same thing, It is harrowing. But
Speaker 1: you actually experienced that. If you wouldn't mind take me
Speaker 1: through not not what happened, but how you feel about
Speaker 1: people commenting on that day as if it wasn't a
Speaker 1: big deal. You know, many people say it wasn't that bad,
Speaker 1: it wasn't an insurrection, it wasn't this. This was just,
Speaker 1: you know, it was calm. People need to react. You
Speaker 1: were actually there, You were actually one of the people
Speaker 1: trying to stop those who are trying to come into
Speaker 1: the capital. What was your experience and how different is
Speaker 1: it from what people try and claim. I mean, I
Speaker 1: remember the brutality of that day like it was yesterday,
Speaker 1: and hearing people, you know, especially lawmakers elected, so called
Speaker 1: leaders of this country, downplay or deny the reality of
Speaker 1: that day. I mean to say it's infuriating is an understatement.
Speaker 1: I mean, it pisces me the off. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it what it felt like for you.
Speaker 1: I mean you you suffered extreme injuries. How are you
Speaker 1: doing now, by the way, I mean, I'm good, like physically,
Speaker 1: um mentally, I feel like I've I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of time to uh come to terms with what I
Speaker 1: experienced that day. But I mean, a big part of
Speaker 1: writing this book was not just to memorialize what I did,
Speaker 1: but also what so many other officers did that day.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, there's a lot of them that
Speaker 1: are out there that are suffering in silence, that didn't
Speaker 1: get the acknowledgement that I've gotten, um and that have
Speaker 1: kind of been or at least feel that they've been
Speaker 1: forgotten because you were one of I think it was
Speaker 1: fifty officers who rushed to protect the capital during that moment.
Speaker 1: You were one of the many officers who are attacked
Speaker 1: by this mob who who was rushing in. One of
Speaker 1: the darkest ironies in some of that footage is you
Speaker 1: being beaten by a mob where they're holding a Blue
Speaker 1: Lives Matter of flag. You know, I've often said one
Speaker 1: thing that perturbs me in America is how people will
Speaker 1: use the idea of either the military or law enforcement
Speaker 1: to further their narrative. But it seems like they don't
Speaker 1: actually have that same reverence for actual law enforcement or military.
Speaker 1: You know, you see people veterans being homeless, or you
Speaker 1: see law enforcement treated like yourself. Do those people even
Speaker 1: acknowledge what was happening? Did they see you did did
Speaker 1: they acknowledge you as a human, could you communicate with
Speaker 1: them or or did it feel like they were going
Speaker 1: through you at all costs. I mean there was a
Speaker 1: point where, um, you know, I remember yelling out to
Speaker 1: the crowd that I had kids, and this is while
Speaker 1: I was being beaten and strut with a taser, and
Speaker 1: I did, uh, I think get through to maybe a
Speaker 1: handful of the individuals there, And they did try to,
Speaker 1: you know, offer some level of assistance to me. I
Speaker 1: mean I remember at one point they were actually fighting
Speaker 1: with other rioters to try to prevent them from, you know,
Speaker 1: continuing their assault on me. But you know, for the
Speaker 1: most part, I think they just felt like I was
Speaker 1: an obstacle and they were going to get through me
Speaker 1: and and any of the other authors that were there
Speaker 1: trying to protect the building and protect ourselves, uh, to
Speaker 1: you know, accomplish their goal, which was overturning a free
Speaker 1: and fair election. When you look at how lawmakers have responded,
Speaker 1: you know, in the in the book, you talk about this,
Speaker 1: and it's it's been it's been really scary and disappointing
Speaker 1: to see how lawmakers have spoken, either to you in
Speaker 1: privates or to any of the officers who were there.
Speaker 1: And it seems like the way they responded on that
Speaker 1: day and the things that they said behind closed doors
Speaker 1: are very different to what they now say when they're
Speaker 1: on TV downplaying everything that happens. You know, for instance,
Speaker 1: you're really critical of Lindsey Graham, for instance, and I'd
Speaker 1: love to know hasn't been strange for you to see
Speaker 1: him then publicly downplay the event offen saying to you
Speaker 1: you should have killed these people, and then publicly say
Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad as everyone says. Nothing shocks me anymore.
Speaker 1: After all this time that I spent not only is
Speaker 1: a police officer for twenty years, but the time I
Speaker 1: spent on Capitol Hill. I mean, it's unfortunate, I think,
Speaker 1: not just Republican lawmakers, although they do deserve quite a
Speaker 1: bit of um you know, the uh scrutiny that they're
Speaker 1: getting right now, but lawmakers in general and how they
Speaker 1: are indifferent to the people that they are elected to
Speaker 1: represent and serve. That was the main takeaway that I
Speaker 1: was that I got was, you know, people like Kevin McCarthy,
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, a lot of these lawmakers, they saw me
Speaker 1: as an inconvenience and they were indifferent to what my
Speaker 1: experience was and what the experience of many of the
Speaker 1: other officers that day were. Uh, And they were indifferent
Speaker 1: to the experience that, you know, what America is experiencing
Speaker 1: right now under their half asked representation. In the book,
Speaker 1: you you speak to so many of these ideas, and
Speaker 1: you have a really interesting journey, you know, like I
Speaker 1: didn't know about your your your history and law enforcement
Speaker 1: until I read this book, and you know, just talking
Speaker 1: about your tattoos and the work that you did working
Speaker 1: undercover narcotics and and how you know you had the
Speaker 1: nickname I think it was the spider Man, right, and
Speaker 1: and and you're not Tourious. We like I think you
Speaker 1: you're rock climbate. Do you still climb? Do you still
Speaker 1: have the skills? Yeah? I mean I wouldn't say I
Speaker 1: have the skills, but I give it a shot. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: But you know, it was really interesting because like you you,
Speaker 1: you were, you were connected. It was it was almost
Speaker 1: you know, it was a double entange because you were
Speaker 1: connected and you know the people in the community knew you.
Speaker 1: But you also would climb up to perch yourself for
Speaker 1: for sting operations and to be in the right place
Speaker 1: for for for what you were doing. UM. What's interesting
Speaker 1: is how you talk about law enforcement in the book.
Speaker 1: It's it's a longer conversation than just January six, and
Speaker 1: you share some some really interesting insights about how you
Speaker 1: see the failings of American law enforcement and how it
Speaker 1: is incongruence, incongruence with what it's actually trying to do.
Speaker 1: You know, for instance, talking about how to bring down
Speaker 1: drug rates, drug crimes, drug usage, etcetera. You don't seem
Speaker 1: to be pro locking everybody up with every minor infraction.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know why. I mean, I learned pretty
Speaker 1: early on in my career. UM. I mean for me,
Speaker 1: I aspired only to be a a vice officer, to
Speaker 1: work in narcotics. I mean that was like the pinnacle.
Speaker 1: I never saught promotion. UM. Was not interested in supervising
Speaker 1: other officers. I can barely supervise myself. So I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, The pinnacle of my career was was when
Speaker 1: I went to Vice and like I said, I saw,
Speaker 1: you know, the the idea of going out and going
Speaker 1: into an area in which, you know, violent crime was prevalent,
Speaker 1: where open air drug markets existed, and locking up hundreds
Speaker 1: and hundreds of people. UM, that was not solving the problems. UM.
Speaker 1: It was not addressing violent crime. It was not addressing
Speaker 1: the open air drug markets. What I saw was UM,
Speaker 1: a need for much more surgical, uh precision strikes if
Speaker 1: you will, against you know, very specific individuals who were
Speaker 1: committing these violent crimes in those neighborhoods. UM quality over
Speaker 1: quantity unfortunately, you know, whether it was through laziness or um.
Speaker 1: You know, and again it is complicated. Law enforcement had
Speaker 1: um opted for you know, we we looked at success
Speaker 1: as the quantity of arrests, how many arrests were made
Speaker 1: in a specific area. That's how we determined, um that
Speaker 1: we were being successful in that area. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: you know, It's a lot of people might think it
Speaker 1: was not fueled by law enforcement. Law enforcement officials that
Speaker 1: actually came from you know, our city council and from
Speaker 1: the mayor's office. I mean, these these concepts, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess too. To extremeline the explanation, you would have
Speaker 1: citizens would complain about an area in which there was
Speaker 1: you know, a large amount of violent crime or drugs,
Speaker 1: and then you would have politicians would you know, receive
Speaker 1: those complaints and they would forward them onto the police department,
Speaker 1: and they would want to know what is the police
Speaker 1: department doing to address this issue. They want results now,
Speaker 1: They want officers out there, They want them out there
Speaker 1: making arrests, and they want to be able to go
Speaker 1: back to these citizens and say, well, we made these
Speaker 1: arrests and that's success. Um. So again, it's not you know,
Speaker 1: law enforcement has a role to play, politicians have their
Speaker 1: role to play, and citizens have a role to play.
Speaker 1: The issue is not as comp or as not as
Speaker 1: simple as uh I think a lot of people would
Speaker 1: um would think. And again, another big point that I
Speaker 1: tried to make in my book is that I feel
Speaker 1: like the politicians are failing us in that their role
Speaker 1: to play is to facilitate positive, constructive conversations between law
Speaker 1: enforcement and the people that were charged with serving uh.
Speaker 1: And right now, I don't feel like that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a really complicated journey, and um, I
Speaker 1: think it's uh, it's revealing, it is honest, and um
Speaker 1: it's a painful account of what you went through on
Speaker 1: that day. And as you said with the eight plus
Speaker 1: offices who also stepped up, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: taking the time, Appreciate you for being for having thank
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