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Speaker 1: Welcome to a numbers game, Brian Gerdowski, this is our

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Speaker 1: mini episode. I know a lot of listeners to the

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Speaker 1: show are probably saying, what is like a mini episode?

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Speaker 1: You've never done this? Well for special incidences where there's

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Speaker 1: a breaking news moment that I can't get to in

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Speaker 1: the preceding episode. Tomorrow's episode is already recorded with Ann Kulter,

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Speaker 1: but we're not talking about the ice shrety Minneapolis, and

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Speaker 1: I think that needs to be addressed from me. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure most of you know what happened, but if you don't,

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Speaker 1: I'll brief everybody on the situation. On Saturday, federal agent

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis shot and killed a thirty seven year old

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Speaker 1: nurse named Alex Jeffrey pretty pretty or pretty I don't

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Speaker 1: know the pronunciation of the last name, but pretty is

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Speaker 1: how I'll say it. Of course, there was video evidence

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Speaker 1: which shows Alex pretty resisting arrest. There there's about half

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Speaker 1: to do him. Clearly was a very strong man. They

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Speaker 1: have him down when one of the agents discovers a

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Speaker 1: gun on him. The man was carrying a nine millimeter handgun,

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Speaker 1: a very expensive gun. I might add when it was

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Speaker 1: discovered that he had the gun, the agent who sees

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Speaker 1: it and takes it from him screams the word gun,

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Speaker 1: and another agent hearing the word gun at that point,

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Speaker 1: I guess in the confusion and in the moment fires

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Speaker 1: the gun and shoots mister pretty multiple times, killing him.

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Speaker 1: Secretary of DHS Christine nom came out of the statement saying,

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Speaker 1: mister Pritty was there to kill ICE agents or hurt

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Speaker 1: ICE agents. He wasn't from Minneapolis and this area specifically,

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Speaker 1: and he was actually carrying the gun illegally for Minneapolis law, which,

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Speaker 1: according to that local losses you need to have an

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Speaker 1: idea on you while carrying a firearm. Of course, the

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Speaker 1: left is insisting that this was a public execution by

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Speaker 1: ICE agents carrying out and calling them gestapo and you know,

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Speaker 1: using a bunch of dehumanizing language. Here's what you need

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Speaker 1: to know. First of all, as someone who's been extremely

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Speaker 1: supportive ICE and President Trump's immigration policy, I need to

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Speaker 1: I think that in the moment with whistles going off

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Speaker 1: think it was a mistake. This is not the same

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Speaker 1: as the Renee Goods case where she was charging her

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Speaker 1: bad decisions that led to her untimely death. This situation escalated.

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Speaker 1: It was escalating in park because Alex Preddy had this scuffle.

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Speaker 1: He refused to rest, but he didn't do anything that

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Speaker 1: good friend who's a criminal defense attorney who was very

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Speaker 1: sympathetic towards mister Pretty and a supporter of President Trump's,

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Speaker 1: and she said, quote, if you have a firearm and

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Speaker 1: it's a legal firearm, as was the case mister Pretty,

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Speaker 1: and you get into a conflict with law enforcement and

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Speaker 1: they decide to detain you, even if you think that

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Speaker 1: they are wrong, do not resist. But if you have

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Speaker 1: disarm you, even if you were lawfully armed. And even

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Speaker 1: if you're lawfully armed, they will view it as a

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Speaker 1: declare that you're lawfully armed. Let them detain you and

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Speaker 1: then get arrested. Do not resist. Mister Pretty's decision to

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Speaker 1: decision to resist arrest, to get into that scuffle, to

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Speaker 1: to not declare that he had a firearm was part

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Speaker 1: his death. Secondly, a lot of conservatives are making nonsense

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Speaker 1: arguments about the gun, the style of gun. You know,

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Speaker 1: if he was allowed to have a firearm near law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing is nonsense. You absolutely have a right to

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Speaker 1: Do not start falling for these anti Second Amendment arguments

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Speaker 1: for anti Second Amendment arguments right now. What DHS Secretary

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Speaker 1: Pritty's intention was. He was an American citizen who had

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Speaker 1: What Border Control Chief Greg Bovino has said about him

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Speaker 1: making the situation any better. There was a scuffle. You

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Speaker 1: He was part of an activist group seeking to cause chaos.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he should have died. He was not

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Speaker 1: His mistake was not declaring he had a firearm. He

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Speaker 1: very close advisor, Corey Lewandowski's decision back back in October

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Speaker 1: final deportation orders, has done a lot of damage to

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Speaker 1: with limited prioritization. Is it getting numbers, Yes, but at

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Speaker 1: what cost? I think Christy Nome was partially rife for

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Speaker 1: increasing activities within the homeland outside of just criminality, outside

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Speaker 1: She should step down from her position at this point.

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Speaker 1: The agency is too important, Mass deportations are too important.

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Speaker 1: She's not doing President Trump's administration or the goals of

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Speaker 1: mass deportation any favors with these public statements. It's just

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Speaker 1: her choice to smear the reputation of a dead American

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Speaker 1: citizen whose politics I may not agree with, is disgraceful.

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Speaker 1: We don't know his attention. He did make mistakes, he

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Speaker 1: That's why he got killed. She's not doing anyone any

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Speaker 1: including the President. Lastly, and most importantly, the activists left,

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Speaker 1: including politicians like Tim Wolls, have made this moment this

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Speaker 1: are on the ground communicating about how to stop ICE. Allegedly,

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Speaker 1: even local police are involved in this effort to stop ICE. Mayors,

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Speaker 1: They do not have the right to pick and chose

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Speaker 1: I was really bothered by what I saw with the

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Speaker 1: So President Trump needs to make some very important decisions

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Speaker 1: the agency and activists are looking for it. A activists

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Speaker 1: very important this time to make sure, even if it

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Speaker 1: which job, declare victory and move on. Right, That's the

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Speaker 1: be messier than Venezuela. It shouldn't. It should be messier

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