1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: What it's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 2: You tune into any conservative news channel on the radio, 4 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: on television, you read any blog, you read any magazine. 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: You will hear politicians. 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 2: You will hear this set again and again and again, 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorrows prosecutors. We know that 8 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities, 9 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 2: and we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler, 10 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: evil people who in past years would have committed their 11 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 2: crime and then they would have been arrested eventually, and 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 2: then they would have been sent away first time for 13 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 2: a couple years, they'd get out, they do it again 14 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: the next time, for ten years, get out and do 15 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 2: it again. 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: The next time. 17 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 3: They'd be in for And they're getting older. 18 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,919 Speaker 2: As this is going on, and as as punks get older, 19 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 2: they tend to be less aggressive and less violent. Well, 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 2: what happens if that what if that happens if that 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: cycle that we just just described, What if instead that 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 2: guy may or may not be arrested, but when he is, 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 2: he's released. Now instead of being a year, three, five, 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 2: ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 2: a lot of them, and they're violent, and each victim. 26 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 2: God help you if you're a victim one of these people, 27 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: because you're not a statistic anymore. It becomes you lock 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: every door obsessively, you go to counseling, you worry over 29 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 2: your family members, the phone rings and you jump, you 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 2: worry something. It changes your whole, It steals your innocence. 31 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: So we know that George Soros and now his son's 32 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 2: taking over the operation. We know that I can't stand 33 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: the man, and it is bad for America. But one 34 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: must marvel at how effectively he has carried out his 35 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 2: agenda by simply recognizing a little quirk, a little loophole. 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 2: Go in and get the district attorney, own the district 37 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: attorney in the major city, and you can make criminals 38 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: out of innocent people, and you can make innocent people 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: out of criminals. You can really create a tumultuous situation. 40 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: And that has happened. 41 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 2: Now you've heard this line from me, from Tucker, from 42 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: a lot of other people. We have a guest who's 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 2: going to help us dig deeper in actually case in point, 44 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 2: chapter and verse. 45 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 3: His name is Zack Smith. 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 2: He's a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and 47 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 2: he is an author of the He is the author 48 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 2: of the book Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows lawyers are 49 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: destroying America's communities. It is available now. Zach, let me 50 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 2: start with the question, of all the things you could 51 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: write about, why did you choose this? 52 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 4: Well, first of all, thank you for having me on 53 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 4: the show today. I really appreciate appreciate the opportunity to 54 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 4: be here and talk about this. But the reason we 55 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 4: chose to write about this my co author and I 56 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 4: we're both former prosecutors, and we started talking to two friends, 57 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 4: former colleagues, and they said, Hey, there are prosecutors coming 58 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 4: into office around the country and they're not prosecuting. They're 59 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 4: refusing to prosecute certain crimes. They're not seeking veil, even 60 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 4: for repeat violent offenders, and even when someone is convicted 61 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: of a crime, they're seeking very lenient sentences for that 62 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 4: convicted criminal. And we started hearing this story more and 63 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 4: more in cities around the country, and so we started 64 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 4: looking into it. We started writing about some of these prosecutors, 65 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 4: and pretty soon it became apparent there's a thread leaving 66 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 4: all these prosecutors together. This was a national movement that 67 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 4: was very well financed, it back by George Soros and 68 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 4: other left leaning billionaires, and it was a systematic attempt 69 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 4: to fundamentally, and this is their words, reimagine and we 70 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 4: engineer a criminal justice system. And the consequences of this 71 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 4: effort have been absolutely devastating in the communities where it's 72 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 4: being tried. It's been absolutely devastating for victims, and it's 73 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 4: been absolutely devastating for the rule of law across the country. 74 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 4: And so this is a very important topic. Frankly, I 75 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 4: think it's something not a lot of people realize it 76 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 4: is happening right now, and so we wanted to write 77 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 4: about it, to highlight it and the most importantly, give 78 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 4: folks a pathway forward if they're confronted with one of 79 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 4: these rogue, radical distance attorneys in their own communities. 80 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 2: Zach, I want to do that, but I want to 81 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 2: devote sufficient time. 82 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: As much as we. 83 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: Possibly can to Let's start, and I want to devote 84 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 2: the time to do this thoroughly. 85 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: Let's start with how this happened. 86 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: To what extent can we say these are Soros prosecutors. 87 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 2: I'm going to make some straw man arguments. I'm going 88 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 2: to be the devil's advocate in this case from truly 89 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 2: the devil's advocate. Let's start with, well, George Soros isn't 90 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: the only one supporting these prosecutors, and they are winning 91 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 2: the support of their voters. 92 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: How do you respond to his outsized influence. 93 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 4: Well, I'll make a couple of points in response to that. 94 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 4: First of all, yeah, George Soros isn't the only person 95 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 4: doing it, but he was certainly one of the driving 96 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 4: forces behind this movement. He's certainly been one of the 97 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 4: biggest financial contributors to this movement. In our book, we 98 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 4: have an entire chapter where we go through the funding 99 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 4: of this movement, how it works, what we know. What 100 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 4: we can't definitively know because a lot of the money 101 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 4: flows through back channels. It's tend from public use. But 102 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 4: what we think we know based on where some of 103 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 4: the money is going with some of the money is 104 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 4: being spent. And it's estimated that in direct campaign contributions, 105 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 4: George Soros has given almost forty million dollars in direct 106 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 4: campaign contributions to support these rogue district attorneys around the country. 107 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 4: Now that is a lot of money. But in politics, 108 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: you may be thinking, well, that's not that much money. 109 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 4: You know, look at how much we spend on the 110 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 4: last presidential election, look at how much is spend on 111 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 4: senate rignatorial races. But the important thing to realize here 112 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 4: is that in different attorney races, these are traditionally low dollar, 113 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 4: low profile affairs. They're often uncontested. Many times, even in 114 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 4: large cities, a six figure campaign contribution is unheard of. 115 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 4: And so when you you know, inundate these cities for 116 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 4: a seven figure campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also, 117 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 4: we suspect in indirect spending, you know, different infrastructure that's 118 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 4: been put in place, think tanks, support groups that George 119 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 4: Sorol system spending to support this radical movement in criminal 120 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 4: justice pro reform in general may be approaching a billion, 121 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 4: as it's a billion with a being dollars. And then 122 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 4: quickly to your second point, you said, these individuals received 123 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 4: these supportable voters, they were elected to office. That's true, 124 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 4: but what happened in many of these jurisdictions when these 125 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 4: folks were first running for office, they use pull tested 126 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 4: language saying they wanted to fair criminal justice system. They 127 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 4: wanted a criminal justice system that didn't unnecessarily incarcerate anyone. 128 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 4: They made pretty uncontroversial statements that you or I or 129 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 4: any reasonable person would agree with. Well, what happened when 130 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: these individuals got into office In many cases it quickly 131 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 4: became a parent what they met by those phrases and 132 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 4: when you or I or the average person would have 133 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 4: understood those phrases to mean are two different things entirely right. 134 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 2: And the amount of money, as you said, it may 135 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: not sound like that much money, but it is shocking 136 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: how these district attorneys races. Unlike say, congressional seats, one 137 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 2: congressman can't do much if you're not the Speaker of 138 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 2: the House, you're just one congressman. A district attorney has 139 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 2: an incredible. 140 00:07:59,200 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: Amount of power. 141 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: We will discuss this issue in greater detail. I'm going 142 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: to devote a lot of time on this Evening's program 143 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: so that you're aware because this is an issue that 144 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: is not getting enough attention and is absolutely destroying America's cities. 145 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: Heck, you see what's. 146 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 2: Happening with with Donald Trump and that prosecution alone. More 147 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: coming up the book is Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows 148 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 2: lawyers are destroying America's community. 149 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 5: I've almost went the laws to myself the. 150 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show. 151 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation. The 152 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 2: book is Rogue Prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyer are destroying 153 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 2: America's communities. Folks, I want you to understand, to put 154 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 2: this into perspective. When you talk about presidential elections and 155 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 2: how much money is raised, you take that to the 156 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 2: state level for gubernatorial elections and how much money is raised. 157 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: And the one that gets me is how much money 158 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: people will spend on a congressional election. How much money 159 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 2: will be raised, And you think to yourself, of all 160 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 2: those millions of dollars, we could have taken ten percent 161 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 2: of that and focused it on a district attorney's race 162 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: in the major. 163 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: Cities and won some races. 164 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 2: Most people don't know who the district attorney is in 165 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 2: their county. And I'm particularly speaking of the major counties 166 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: that the major cities are a part of. Harris County 167 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 2: for Houston, Cook County for Chicago. You see this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 168 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 2: New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland. You know, Monoma County 169 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 2: used to be kind of a reasonable county, and Portland. 170 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: Was a little wacky, weird, harmless. 171 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 2: Well that's changed, and now you don't want to run 172 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 2: a foul of the district attorney in those sorts of places. 173 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 2: So for very little money, you talk about bang for 174 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 2: the buck. For very little money, relatively speaking, sorrows can 175 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 2: have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes, 176 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 2: in saying, well, if you're a young black man who 177 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 2: is engaged in jugging, that's a big thing in Houston 178 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 2: right now. And you follow a little lady from the 179 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 2: bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going because 180 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants 181 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 2: to give them some money for their birthday. And that 182 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: guy puts a pistol in her face, whips her, takes 183 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: the money, and the cops arrest him. They got him 184 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: dead to rights, they got him on video, they've got 185 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 2: her witness account. There's no doubt. You know, there's four 186 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 2: witnesses at the whole deal. And you've got, as we've 187 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 2: seen in Houston, you've got now judges, because beyond just 188 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 2: the prosecutor, you've got the judges. 189 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden. 190 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 2: We've seen a crime spike in Houston and Harris County 191 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 2: the likes of which we've never seen. And it's not 192 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: that there are more criminals, it's that our process is 193 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 2: no longer dealing with them. That's why this issue is 194 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 2: so important because it's a national trend and it's not 195 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 2: accidental rogue prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. Zach, 196 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: I think I cut you off while you were making 197 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 2: your point. I want to make sure you leave nothing unsaid. 198 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 2: We're going to have plenty of time to get into this. 199 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 2: But when you look at the Soros strategy and how 200 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 2: targeted this is, how did he do we understand how 201 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 2: he decided this would be the thing he would focus on. 202 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, we have an entire chapter in the book, and 203 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 4: the way we structured the book, we basically have. The 204 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 4: first chapter talks about the background, the ideological underpinnings of 205 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 4: the movement. It has its roots in a Marxist movement 206 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 4: from the sixties seventies to prison abolition movement. There's actually 207 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 4: a movement where people think no one should go to 208 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 4: prison for any reason. Well, that obviously didn't play well 209 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 4: with the general public. Most people recognize it for the 210 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 4: radical policy that it was. But what that original Marxist 211 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 4: prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished a 212 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 4: day through the Rogue Prosecutor movement. But what happened back 213 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 4: in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen, Essentially some folks who work 214 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 4: for George Soros or had been affiliated with George sorows 215 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 4: they recognized how much power the district attorney has. And 216 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 4: there are twenty three hundred local elected das around the country, 217 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: and they since we realized, it doesn't matter how many 218 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 4: officers you have on the street. It doesn't matter if 219 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 4: the officers are making arrest. If the prosecutor won't prosecute 220 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 4: the criminals, what a police do doesn't matter. And it 221 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 4: doesn't matter what kind of laws you have on the book. 222 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 4: If you have mandatory minimums, lenksy sentences for violent crimes, 223 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 4: none of that matters either. If the prosecutor won't prosecute, 224 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 4: because the judge will never see the case, it'll be 225 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 4: dismissed before it ever goes to trial. And so, in 226 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 4: a very ingenious and very diabolical way, these individuals recognized 227 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 4: how much power the da has. They recognize that not 228 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 4: many people pay attention to the local DA races, and 229 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 4: they recognize that for relatively little money, they could go 230 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 4: in brust their preferred candidates to the top of the 231 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 4: electoral pack and essentially through a very back end way 232 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 4: in active preferred policies, policies that frankly, they likely knew 233 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 4: they could never get pushed through each state's legislature. And 234 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 4: so they did a test run in Mississippi and Louisiana 235 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 4: with some where they primaried essentially some death penalty DA's, 236 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 4: and they had success. And so then they moved out 237 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 4: and they went national and their first big city prosecutor 238 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 4: they packed was Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook County 239 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 4: District Attorneys. And so the other thing we do in 240 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 4: our book we highlight eight different rogue prosecutors in eight 241 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 4: different cities around the country. We outlined how they came 242 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 4: to be part of the movement, who backed them, the 243 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 4: policies they've enacted once they got into office, and most tragically, 244 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 4: we focus on true crime stories that would not have 245 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 4: happened brought for these rogue pronsecutors policies. I have to 246 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 4: tell you it's heartbreaking when you see the same results 247 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 4: playing out in city after city after city, and knowing 248 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 4: that these crimes would not have happened if these prosecutors 249 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 4: would have just done their jobs and would if they 250 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 4: would have sought justice and sought to hold criminals accountable 251 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 4: for their actions. 252 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 2: It's a real harsh reality that many people don't want 253 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 2: to accept to understand that there is a prevailing belief 254 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: because they don't say it in these words directly, that 255 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: a person who commits murder, particularly a person of color, 256 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 2: should simply be released back out on the streets because 257 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 2: he is a victim of a system. And it's not 258 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: until someone is a victim of a crime or has 259 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 2: a family member who is. And we had a series 260 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 2: of crime victims families in the last year during our 261 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 2: during our election cycle. 262 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: Step forward and we had the of a woman who 263 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: she was run. 264 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 2: Over and then they back up over her to steal 265 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 2: her pursss she exited a McDonald's. And we have teenagers 266 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: who are murdered by a gang member and then the 267 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: gang members drive by the mom's home and make air 268 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 2: pistol gestures at her, or they're released from prison before 269 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 2: she's home from a casket or planning the funeral. The 270 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 2: bad guys are released to go back to their home 271 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 2: three doors over from where the bad guy kill their daughter. 272 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: It is a level of a depth of depravity. 273 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 2: That is hard, I think for most people to understand 274 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 2: that these things aren't happening accidentally, that this is a strategy, 275 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 2: a very ill intentioned strategy, and it's working out exactly 276 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: the way they planned it because they don't share our 277 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: belief that the victim is sacrosanct and criminals should be punkled. 278 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: I will die for this country. 279 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 3: I will die for. 280 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 2: Discraft to Michael Berry Show, he's the big honor to 281 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 2: be living in the United States. A year or two ago, 282 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: I was watching No Country for Old Men, and Tommy 283 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 2: Lee Jones's character, if you recall, is the sheriff who 284 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 2: never really unholsters his gun. He never has to draw, 285 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: and the Mexican cartels have brought a level of violence 286 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: to the streets that he can't even understand. The firepower 287 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 2: far exceeds anything he's got, and he just can't understand 288 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 2: how the world has gone to hell. You just can't 289 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: understand it. So he goes to his mentor, and he's 290 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 2: talking to his mentor and his mentor's trying to explain 291 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: how crazy the world has become, and he refers to 292 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: Signs and Wonders. And when I heard that, I thought, 293 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 2: you know, that's how I feel about some of the 294 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: crazy news stories of how on earth can this action 295 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 2: it happened? How do you reach such a point of depravity? 296 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 3: I really have to wonder. 297 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 2: Well, our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to 298 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: you from Chicago, Illinois. 299 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 6: It's all the damn money and money and the drugs. 300 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 6: It's just damp beyond everything. 301 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 3: What's it mean? What's it leading to? 302 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 7: I don't know. 303 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 6: If you'd have told me twenty years ago i'd see 304 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 6: children walking the streets of our Texas towns with the 305 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 6: green hair bones and their noses, I just flat out 306 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 6: wouldn't a bleak Signs and Wonders. But I think once 307 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 6: you quit here in sir and ma'am, the rest of 308 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 6: them to follow. 309 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 3: Oh it's the tad. 310 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: It's the digital tad. 311 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 7: It is not the one that the one thing Signs 312 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 7: and Wonders, Signs and Wonders. It's the digital pod Signs 313 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 7: and Wonder, Signs and Wonders. 314 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 2: So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two 315 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 2: in Chicago, and It's ugly. 316 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 8: We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs 317 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 8: after teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride. 318 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 8: Robin's Felice a three thirteen year old boys were inside 319 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 8: of a stolen Kia with the driver's side window busted out, 320 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 8: driving on Kedzie Avenue at about two thirty this afternoon. 321 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 8: Police started to follow the Kia when it collided with 322 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 8: another car, killing a seventy one year old man who 323 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 8: was driving. Neighbors tell us the man lived in a 324 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 8: nearby apartment complex. 325 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: It's terrible, terrible. 326 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 9: I don't even think they'd taken driver's eg So how 327 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 9: are you stealing a car? 328 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 10: She's very unfortunate, said I'm said. 329 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 8: The teens were all arrested at the scene. 330 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: The amazing thing is that that woman is most bothered 331 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: that they haven't taken drivers yet. 332 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: That's the least of their words. 333 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 2: Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things, 334 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 2: let me remind you of Latarian. Milton Latarian was seven 335 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 2: years old when he stole his grandma's car. When asked 336 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 2: why he did it, he said that he wanted to 337 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 2: do hood rat stuff with his friends. 338 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: He wanted to do hood rat stuff with his friends. 339 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 2: That went viral in two thousand and nine, but you've 340 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 2: already forgotten it. He was seven years old. You have 341 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 2: a seven year old boy stealing a car and saying 342 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 2: funny stuff on the news. 343 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: Let's go back to that original report. 344 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 2: This is a seven year old kid, a first grader. 345 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: Credit WPF News in West Palm Beach. 346 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 5: Latarian Milton is not your typical seven year old. If 347 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 5: you his age, have ever driven an suv up and 348 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 5: down several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse. 349 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 5: Latarian says he took the car keys and hopped into 350 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 5: his grandmother's dods DURINGO and. 351 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 9: I came to the back door. I looked on the counter. 352 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 9: My keys were gone. 353 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 10: I took my grandma carp because they got met my 354 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 10: mom and then I show him. Have my friend come in, 355 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 10: and he smoked with cigarettes. 356 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 3: He started the vehicle and put it into gear. 357 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 10: I yanked the I yanked it. I yanked the. 358 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 5: Thing, and off they went. Two seven year olds alone 359 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 5: on the road. Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park 360 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 5: and Palm Beach gardens. 361 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 9: We got the one called that he told you about 362 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 9: the driver in the vehicle who looked too short to 363 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 9: be able to see Steio. 364 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 5: Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two 365 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 5: part cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two 366 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 5: moving cars near Walmart. 367 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 10: I want to do because it's fun funny do bad 368 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 10: things and drives into a car. 369 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 3: So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebout it? 370 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 10: Yes, but I wanted to do her or stuff for 371 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 10: my friend. 372 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 5: It all ended on Investment Lane and Consumer Drive. That's 373 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 5: where latarian hit the curve inside, swiped the sign. The 374 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 5: SUV took most of the bad snapping off one of 375 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 5: his axles and wheels. 376 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 3: A grandmother's rage. 377 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 9: I want to whip his behind. That's what I want 378 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 9: to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take 379 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 9: me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now. 380 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 3: You don't think he should be punished for all of this. 381 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 10: There's a little bit no video games for the whole weekend. 382 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 3: And one unusual story for police. Are you sorry? 383 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: You understand that now your grandma's going to have to 384 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: pay to have those cars sticks because you hit those cars. 385 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 2: Mom, Mom, I don't know, can you mom help her. Well, 386 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 2: you moved on, as we all did, but Latarian didn't. 387 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 2: Two weeks after that, he attacked his grandmother because she 388 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: wouldn't buy him chicken wings. Nine years later, he found 389 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 2: himself in trouble again. Won't to guess what he did. 390 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 2: This time he carjacked a car with his friends once again. 391 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 2: WPBF twenty five news. 392 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 5: Latarian Milton spent about ten minutes in court this morning. 393 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,719 Speaker 5: He learned that he will not be able to go 394 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,959 Speaker 5: home anytime soon. He will have to wait to hear 395 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 5: from the judge the next court day. We last spoke 396 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 5: with Latarian Milton in twenty fifteen. He had just completed 397 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 5: middle school and was looking forward to the next step. 398 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 2: I good the school on high school first, he had 399 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 2: down your football team had some good successful. 400 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,919 Speaker 5: This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday 401 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 5: to face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and carjackie. 402 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 5: Balmbe County's here staff and he'say. A lift driver picked 403 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 5: up four young males and a female early Sunday morning 404 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 5: and drove them to a windor away in West Palm Beach. 405 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 5: That's where the female exited the vehicle. Investigator say the 406 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 5: suspects told the driver to take them to another location, 407 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 5: where the driver refused. Authorities say one of the suspects 408 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 5: pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the 409 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 5: back of the head. The driver says he got out 410 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 5: of the car and was robbed of his walllet and jacket. 411 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 5: He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the 412 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 5: front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's 413 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 5: seat and sped away with the other suspects. According to investigators, 414 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 5: the driver gave detectives a phone number, which led to 415 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 5: the identification of Milton. Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. We 416 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 5: first met Milton in two thousand and seven, when he 417 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 5: was seven years old. He had just stolen his grandmother's 418 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 5: SUV and went on a joy ride through Lake Park 419 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 5: in Palm Beach Gardens. 420 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 10: I want to do it cause it's fun, funny do 421 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 10: bad things. Drives into a car? 422 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 3: So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody? 423 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 10: Yes, but I wanted to do hood stuff with my friend. 424 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 9: If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd 425 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 9: whip thisiss behind right now. 426 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 5: Back in court, the judge ordered milton to remain at 427 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 5: a juvenile facility into his next court day. 428 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 2: Miltarian would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison for 429 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 2: that Crown the streets have replaced fathers in the home. 430 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 2: You know, I've played this clip before, but maybe it's 431 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 2: never been more appropriate than now. It was Denzel Washington 432 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 2: when he was asked about the importance of the father 433 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 2: in the home. 434 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 5: You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem, 435 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 5: especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman delz into this 436 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 5: the issues around the legal system. 437 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: Do you think we've made any headway? 438 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 11: And I think it's more important to make headway in 439 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 11: our own house. By the time the system comes into play, 440 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 11: the damage is done. They're not locking up seven year olds. 441 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 7: Yeah. 442 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 11: You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three 443 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 11: four weeks ago and we saw these little kids on 444 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 11: bikes with masks on the side of the head. 445 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 3: Like five or six of them. 446 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 11: And the driver said, yeah, they little yummies. I said, 447 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 11: who said little yummies? Look up Google, little yummy. Little 448 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 11: yummy was eleven year old murderer. 449 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 12: Wow. 450 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 11: And you look at his picture, you'll see his head 451 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 11: shot him and he's like this and he got murdered 452 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 11: at eleven by a fourteen year old. 453 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: Wow, who's doing life now? And a sixteen year old? 454 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 3: That makes no sense. 455 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 11: You blame the system. Where was his father? It starts 456 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 11: in the house and starts in the home. And yeah, well, 457 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 11: well when my father got locked up, where was his father? 458 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? 459 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 11: You know, But like I did, talk about my three 460 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 11: closest friends, and they did you know, fifteen to twenty five, 461 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 11: one did twenty eight this, and that I was the 462 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 11: only one of the three to have a father in 463 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 11: my life, even though my parents were together. 464 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 1: But I still had a father who was a gentle 465 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: man and a good example. 466 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 11: And they didn't We can blame the system if we want, 467 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 11: but they didn't lock any of us up at seven. Yeah, 468 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 11: we were all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen. 469 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 11: My parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have 470 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,959 Speaker 11: anybody to help them, and they kept doing what they 471 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 11: was doing and the system got them. So I don't 472 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 11: the system is rigged, But why all the more reason 473 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:56,479 Speaker 11: not to help them? 474 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 3: Do you take care of yourself? 475 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: Thank you about it, for this is just gets better 476 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 2: and better and better. 477 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: Pinched myself. 478 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 2: President Trump as the head of the Kennedy Center, just 479 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 2: announcing that George Straight will be honored at the Kennedy 480 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 2: Center I as civilian honor you can receive. And I 481 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 2: think about I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about 482 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 2: George Straight being chosen by the Houston Livestock showing rodeo 483 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 2: to cover a missed date. Do you remember who missed 484 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 2: the date? Who very good to cover for a missed date? 485 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 2: And how that really launched him? Obviously, I think that 486 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 2: was the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV 487 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 2: did for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo did for. 488 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: George Strake. 489 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 2: And I think about this little bitty fellow, little skinny, 490 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 2: fair faced, fresh faced kill boy in his boots and 491 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: his jeans creased down the middle, and he's reaching out 492 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: there and shaking people's hands, and he's happy to be here. 493 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 2: And that's George Straight, and now he's going to be honored. 494 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: Have you been to the Kennedy Center. 495 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 3: Nothing. 496 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 2: I went up because the kids were interning in Congress 497 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 2: this summer and spent some time, and we went back 498 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 2: to things that I had worked at a law firm 499 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 2: there and I hadn't but I hadn't spent any real 500 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 2: time there in a while, so I had to make 501 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 2: multiple trips to DC, and so sometimes this summer I 502 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 2: was doing my show from my hotel room. 503 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: And it's good that you didn't notice. 504 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 3: That means our equipment is good. 505 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: And don't try to say you notice now that I 506 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: told you. 507 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 2: Anyway, we went to a show at the Kennedy Center, 508 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 2: and I mean it's it's kind of a tired old building, 509 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 2: to be honest with you. But the grandeur and the 510 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 2: fact that Trump understood just like he's taking over the Olympics. 511 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: Why let the left have these things? 512 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 3: Why not? 513 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 2: So George Strait will be honored, Gloria Gaynor will be honored. 514 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 2: Michael Crawford, I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's 515 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 2: famous for being the voice of the of the Phantom 516 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 2: and Phantom of the Opera. He's kind of the voice 517 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: that's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture, 518 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: to the to the fine to the performing arts theater. 519 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 2: And then who else, Sylvester Stallone and last but not least. 520 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 12: Kiss Oh hell, yes, oh yes, this is not about 521 00:27:54,040 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 12: their daddy. 522 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 2: And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to 523 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 2: be was a DJ, not a talk show host. 524 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: Why even say that? Oh yeah, Trump's gonna do his 525 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: Ymca dance to this Hell yes. 526 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 10: America's back. 527 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: Oh he's gonna be kiss make up with platforms. 528 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 3: What will his be give it? 529 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 10: Oh? 530 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: I got it, I got it. He's all white like 531 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: a panamion. 532 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 2: But there's a bullet streak across where the bullet went across, 533 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 2: and his ear is black. Oh hell yes, yes, inshould 534 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 2: the fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade 535 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 2: versions of Nancy. 536 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 3: Throwing eggs in him, and an. 537 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 2: Iron dome emerges and they shatter and crack like Paul 538 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 2: Pelosi's knee, and over to the side, Paul and Nancy 539 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 2: are both getting hammered, but in very different ways, and you. 540 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: Die, Oh, I love it, I make it all. 541 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 2: And he's just doing that Ymca dance all around the 542 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 2: stage and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing teeth, nashers 543 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 2: and lamentations as they bow before us, and then stallone 544 00:29:49,040 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 2: comes out circle rambo yes, and then Gloria Gaynor comes 545 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 2: out looking like Telma Houston Stark in nineteen seventy eight 546 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 2: in a fade down kiss and they make a barbershop 547 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 2: quartet behind them, and she starts into I will survive, 548 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 2: and everyone knows. 549 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 3: This is a tribute to Donald Trump. Donald J. 550 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: Trump was a breed that was doug. 551 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 8: A fine kept thinking of another without you buy my side. 552 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 2: But then I spend so min a night thinking how 553 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 2: you did me wrong? 554 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 4: Doctor's wrong? 555 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 10: Now learned people. 556 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 3: It's like that last scene, officer and a gentleman. 557 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 9: Donnay, I just walked the end of partner here with 558 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 9: that Nona face. 559 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 4: I should have changed that. 560 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 10: Stupid to wait a goo, Paul. 561 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 2: But they're way to go at Donald Trump's like look 562 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 2: at this thirty four convictions. 563 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 3: And then Stormy daniels. 564 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: Over to the side. 565 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 2: Her dress falls off and she is exposed in all 566 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 2: her shame and Ejen Carol is over there in her 567 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 2: eyes have turned blood red, and then she turns to 568 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 2: stone like Medusa. 569 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 3: Well, I want to thank you all very much. 570 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 13: This is great. 571 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: These are our friends. 572 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 13: We have thousands of them, and we said this, and 573 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 13: I won't fight for you, for your family and your future. 574 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 13: Every single day I will be fighting for you. 575 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: So we're gonna make our country. 576 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 2: Better than on the screen has displayed a picture of 577 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton in the blue dress and red high. 578 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: Heels with his. 579 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 2: Co f me look on his face like he's in 580 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 2: bride's head revisited that hung in Epstein's New York home 581 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 2: and Hillary just keeps fainting, but they put smelling sauce 582 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 2: under her and say no face the music, Hillary, you 583 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 2: ain't no ways time. 584 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: That's just how I imagine that might not. I don't know, 585 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: that's not official