WEBVTT - Gun Control Debate - August 28th, Hour 3 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.920 Peter Schweizer, Eric Egers, we are filling in for Sean 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.440 Hannity a Day of Tragedy as we continue to hear 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:14.200 about the details of what happened in Minneapolis when mister Westman, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.920 the transgender mass shooter, blindly fired over one hundred rifle 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.800 rounds and at least three shotgun blasts through the windows 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:27.560 of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, leading to death. Children died, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.440 children were injured, grandparents were injured. Eric, we want to 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.519 have a conversation with somebody who actually has experience with 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.720 these kinds of situations to figure out what we should 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:38.919 be looking for and what could be. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.239 Done to prevent it now in what's unfortunate is that 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:48.280 the conversation almost immediately turned to a politicization about gun policy. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.159 And you know, there's a lot of details that the 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.560 identity of the shooter has been elevated, and there's lots 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.760 of other circumstances that I think are worth kind of noticing, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.080 But it's part of the larger conversation about, you know, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.520 our trategies like this preventable. What we know now that 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.080 Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, who, by the way, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.679 when the left is decrying gun policy. Remember, Tim Waltz 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.640 was picked to be vice president last year by Kamala 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.160 Harris in part because of his appeal to alleged gun 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.400 owners and gun you know, people that wanted to use 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.920 those and we saw how poorly that went. And we 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.080 now know that Tim Waltz was part of the Minnesota 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.280 leadership that said no to requests by bishops to give 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.080 funding for more security measures in Minnesota schools to prevent 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.760 exactly these types of things from happening. We saw what 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:38.960 happened in the Nashville school shooting, we saw what happened 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.680 in Texas. They said, listen, we need more protection. Can 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.880 you give it to us? Tim Waltz said no. And 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.440 so you know, while people want to say it's about guns, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.960 it's probably about more other factors and it's a little 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:51.000 bit more complicated discussion. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.240 Yeah, that's right. And we now know from the manifesto 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.360 that the Minneapolis shooter, by the way, said that he 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.760 picked schools precisely because they were unprotected. So let's bring 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.200 in Josh Cherrard. He's the director of law enforcement for Berna. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.800 We want to bring him on in particular because he's 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.560 a law enforcement officer who's been on the scene of 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.200 mass shootings and tragic events. He was at the twenty 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.640 eighteen Santa Fe High School shooting, the tragedy there. Josh, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:17.560 thanks for joining. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.720 Us, Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.720 So tell us, Josh, there's so much noise after these 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.440 tragedies occur. Tell us what should we be looking for 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.200 and what can we glean from these circumstances that will 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.960 give us methods to prevent these tragedies from happening in 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:36.520 the future. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.360 You know, Peter, that's been the million dollar question, the 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.400 ten million, the billion dollar question for the last you know, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.440 almost twenty five plus years of what are we looking for? How? 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.200 You know, how do we spot these shooters? How do 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.280 we root them out before they get to the point 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.320 of no return, whether they're they've made the decision to 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.760 go in and cause as much damage destruction of mayhem 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.280 as they can. And unfortunately we haven't gotten very far, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.160 you know that in that realm, in that space, being 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.960 able to pick a handful of cues that are just 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.400 absolutely positively flagged identifiers of somebody that's going to go 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.359 in and shoot up a school or a building or 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.440 anything for that matter. We have done, you know, lots 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.040 of research and we've been able to garner some kind 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.760 of flags and some kind of of things to look for, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.160 But at the end of the day, it's about how 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.760 much we're going to go in and violate somebody's privacy 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.040 and rights to say, hey, we think that you might 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:38.080 be inclined to commit these kinds of crimes in the future. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.120 What we should really be focusing on and what our 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.280 efforts are dollers, you know, are our resources, the limited 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.119 ones that we have in assets, should be going in 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.280 to what can we do to harden ourselves as a target, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.120 What can we do to protect our kids in schools 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.280 and to protect ourselves. So if we're not going to 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.800 be able to positively identify those that are going to 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.760 be somebody that might perpetrate that and cut that off, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.080 we need to be able to no matter who comes in, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.400 no matter where it comes from, internal external threat, we 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.400 need to be able to harden that target and protect 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.920 that target against whatever that threat may be. And that 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.680 is really where we need to focus a lot of 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.880 that time and resources on. And unfortunately, depending on the 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.720 part of the country that you're in, that is a 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.880 very difficult decision to have or a difficult conversation to have, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.680 and a lot of decisions have to be made as 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.600 far as how far you're willing to go to protect 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.080 those that are most important to you in your life, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:35.680 those children. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.520 Wait, why is that a hard conversation to have or 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.400 a different decision to make based on what part of 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.120 the country you're in. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.800 I would ask the same question, but unfortunately it is. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.880 And when we go in to certain parts of the 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.280 country and we say, hey, you need to put armed 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.800 security in those schools. You need to have SROs that 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.520 are armed to be able to respond to that threat. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.640 You need metal detectors in your school, you need to 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.960 take other measures to harden this target. Unfortunately, many school dishi, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.880 many states, many cities say, well, we're not willing to 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.400 take those steps. We're not willing to do that for 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.760 one reason or another. Well, guns in schools are bad, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.359 or we don't want our kids to feel, you know, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.480 like they're unsafe, like to feel that we need to 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.320 put armed personnel in the school. Well I don't either, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.640 and I would love to say that we didn't have to. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.640 And it sucks that we have to sit here and say, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.360 you know that this is a way of life. But 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.240 at the end of the day, this is the way 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.520 of life, and this is what we have to do 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.800 to take positive measures to protect those kids. But unfortunately, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.159 there's a large part of this country that just does 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.160 not feel that that is necessary. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.400 Yeah, and that's probably because they're hearing from people like this. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.159 Listen to this cutup. You're gonna hear from Jensaki, former 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.960 Biden administration spokesperson. You're gonna hear from the Minneapolis mayor, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.839 and then you can hear from Joe Scarborough. This is 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.800 their reaction the aftermath to the events of many of 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:50.320 the shooting. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.240 Here's what matters. Today's shooter bought the Rafel handgun and 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.560 shotgun they used to do what they did today. Legally, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.080 we live in a country with more guns than people, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.679 where they are not versaal background checks, they're not bands 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.960 on assault weapons, and it is far too easy to 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.520 buy a gun. It's the guns everyone, It's not really 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:07.040 a secret. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:13.080 I'll speak generally, though, we have more guns in America 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.960 than people. I don't see a reason why people should 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.600 be able to buy a gun one month and then 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.000 buy a gun the next month, and then the next 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.159 month after that. People who say that this is not 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.359 about guns. You got to be kidding me. This is 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.320 about guns. We do need to take action. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.400 How many school shootings, how many school shootings and churches? 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:42.760 How many shootings at concerts? How many shootings country music concerts? 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:47.040 How many shootings in street fairs? How many shootings and restaurants? 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.080 How many shootings everywhere are we going to have before 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:55.039 we can talk about common sense gun safety laws? 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:56.440 Yeah? 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.400 So, Josh, I want to ask you about that, because 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.480 I'm looking at study right in front of me by 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:07.039 the Crime Prevention Research Institute doctor John Lott, and he 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.039 points out that if you look at the actual the 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.920 death rates from mass public shootings comparing European countries in 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.440 the United States and Canada, the United States is number 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.840 eleven on the list. Those that have a more serious 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.560 problem with this include Switzerland and France. Those right behind 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.680 us we're number eleven, number fifteen and sixteen, or England 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.320 in Germany. So this myth that somehow mass shootings are 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.560 just this crazy American thing is simply not true, and 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.280 it becomes an excuse for an action, doesn't it. Oh, well, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.680 we can't get gun control because people don't want to 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.760 give up their Seconmendment rights, so we can't do anything. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.320 Isn't that really where we are today? 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.880 It absolutely is, And that's the issue, you know, we're 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.200 we always and mind you, Unfortunately, these people are just 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.240 absolutely politicizing a tragic event and trying to use it 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.800 to push a narrative. And I think we all understand that, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.720 you know, all your listeners, I'm sure understand that as well. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.720 But you know this, I equate this war on guns 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.640 is the same thing as as saying, well, we need 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.040 to have a war on forks to fight obesity, you know, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.280 or we need to have of course, the classic you know, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.240 the war on drugs, you know, over the course of 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.720 the eighties and the nineties that obviously didn't work because 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.040 it's not a war on drug it's war on drug 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.840 dealers wor war on criminals. That's the issue is the 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.040 accountability here. They want to sit here and assign accountability 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.840 to an inanimate object that has nothing to do with 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.640 the overall issues in order to push anarrative. And I 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.960 think that everyone understands that here at the end of 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.880 the day, unfortunately or fortunately how you look at it, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.480 the only thing that the only way to stop a 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.680 bad guy with a gun is a good guy with 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.400 a gun, and we continue in this country to see 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:45.400 that over and over again. The ratio of of of 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.840 lives that are saved due to handguns is overwhelming compared 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.200 to the lots that are taken by handguns. So you know, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.720 the statistics are all over the place on how much 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.840 the guns are actually saving lized every day, and especially 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.520 in these mass using that's the only thing that we have, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.280 it's the only resource generally we have. It'll just stop 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.880 these shooters. And yet we're using it. Unfortunately, people are 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.240 using it to push an absolute false narrative. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.560 Yeah, and by the way, I want to point out, Josh, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.120 I mean you'ither director law enforcement for Berna. You produce 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:22.080 non lethal defense handguns, so they're not guns in the 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.520 traditional sense. So you would have all the incentive in 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.679 the world to want to have guns banned, but you don't. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.760 You're speaking truth here. My question to you is clearly, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:36.360 mister Westman, the shooter in Minneapolis was troubled. In this manifesto, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.439 he wrote, he said he was tired of being transd 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.120 he wished he had never been brainwashed. Clearly, very troubled, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.920 and I don't know in the Minneapolis case, But in 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.360 a lot of cases, it seems like these younger shooters 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.920 are on antidepressants. They're on a series of pharmaceutical drugs, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.679 and you know when you read those labels, they would say, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.920 in rare cases, taking this drug can lead to psychosis. Well, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.199 if you have million people that are on SSRIs or 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.640 these other mood altering drugs in rare cases can mean 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.880 thousands of people. Do you think that's a problem. The medication, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.480 the over medication, Could that be part of the problem. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.199 I absolutely think it's part of the problem. I think 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.839 that when you have a child of that age, you know, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.640 when they're middle school, high school, young adults, their hormones 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:27.320 are already just absolutely obliterated, and then introducing these these 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:32.079 absolute hormone just changing drugs, especially when you're talking about 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.439 you know, transgender and the gender reassignment and all that. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.640 The amount of hormones that are just absolutely raging through 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.680 there are are are such an issue when it comes 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.960 to their mental state and their ability to make good 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.640 decisions at a point in their life where they're already 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.360 troubled to make good decisions and now you know, there's 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.839 so much material out there they're getting brainwashed from so 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.560 many different sources, especially if you're you know, kind of 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.360 in that lifestyle. So this is all going into the 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.720 overall issue that we're having. And then of course, you know, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.600 what what is it? What are their parents' supervision? Like, 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.320 you know, a lot of these shooters, that's one of 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.680 the commonalities that we generally find is a lack of 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.440 parental supervision and then just letting them kind of do 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.240 whatever they want because they want to respect their products 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.240 here or whatnot as a child. But unfortunately, that's generally 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.920 where we find a lot of these shooters is is 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.319 where their parents have no idea they'd go, you know, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.160 they go missing for a few days, and that's not 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.520 abnormal for their parents not to know where they're at 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.080 for a few days or know what they're up to. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.600 And so when you have you know, these kids on medication, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.240 these kids that are just in a very changing environment 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.360 with zero supervision, that's where we start to see a 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.040 lot of these issues manifest and in a time where 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.000 they should be you know, overly supervised to make sure 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.400 that that you know, the drugs that they're on, the 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.360 medication that they're on is doing what it's supposed to 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.800 do so that they don't fall into that quote rare 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.720 case of of of those side effects. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.480 So what's your reaction to the larger conversation that's happening. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.959 I understand that one of your biggest customer bases in Chicago, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.360 where they have the more restrictive gun laws. You know, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.000 it's weird because you heard that, the left goes immediately 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.440 to we need to ban guns, and then we're having 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.000 this conversation about the need to potentially introduce more troops 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.320 to these blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore. Do you 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.600 feel like, not just with schools, but I mean, do 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.040 you consider the idea of adding more troops to or 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.200 just adding more resources some of these cities or crimes 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.160 a problem. Is that a good idea? And do you 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.440 see that that's the way to harden those targets as well? 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.160 Yeah? Absolutely. What we have to remember is, and this 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.200 is a lot of people don't understand this, but when 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.160 we talk about mass shootings active shooters, schools is not 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.600 the most frequent location. It's actually down the list. It's 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.800 actually number four on the list of active shooter frequency. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.079 You've got public commercial spaces is number one. So malls 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.320 department stores, grocery stores, that's where active shooters, that's where 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.920 mass shootings and mass attacks are most likely to happen. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:01.400 And then we have public spaces, parks, open spaces, you 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.559 know the one October Las Vegas Mandalay based shooting. And 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.240 then we have government buildings, and then we have schools. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.120 So you know, when people think about active attacks and 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.280 they're you know, their likelihood of being involved in something 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:13.720 like that, they think, oh, well, I don't go to 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.400 a school, so it's not likely for me. But know 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.280 that their likelihood that it's going to happen in a 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.280 normal place that they probably traverse, you know, in a 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.960 day to day life, is actually much greater. So you 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.800 have to think in the manner of okay, well, how 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.080 can we harden all these targets. How can we make 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.240 sure that if there's somebody that's just bent on doing this, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.600 that we can make it very very difficult for them 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.280 and curb that very quickly. So you know, look, I 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.200 was a cop on every street corner, that would be great, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.480 and that's that's not a realistic thought. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.360 Josh. We appreciate you joining us, thank you for your insights. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.360 We'll be back with more after this. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.600 Welcome back everybody. It is Eric Eggers here with Peter Schweitzer. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.760 We're filling it for Sewan Handy on the Shawn Handy 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.920 Radio Show. It's a Thursday before a long weekend, and 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.560 I know that some people are taking tomorrow off. You know, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.840 some people are gonna just get back to work. But 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.520 you know, we will continue to do what we do 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.120 here at the Government Accountability in Student provide information about 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.320 the ways in which members of Congress continue to like 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.760 break people's trust. We do a podcast called the Drill Down, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.040 and on a recent episode we highlighted the level of 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.120 activity that Congress is having in terms of buying and 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.640 selling stocks, and we have some breaking news on that front. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.000 Peter Schweitzer, Yeah, we might be taking a break this weekend, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.640 but Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the congressrooms from southern Florida, is 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.080 not taking a break. She apparently bought stock in a 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.120 company called VSAT, which is a defense contract or. She 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:44.000 sits on the subcommittee that determines the funding for military construction, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.880 including this company. She bought the stock and within a 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.240 month that skyrocketed three and forty five percent. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:51.600 Well, that's a pretty good deal. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:51.880 For her. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.320 Then that's what happens when you buy stocks, right. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.960 No, No, that's not what happens when I buy stock. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.600 No, it's it's a shame. It's a shame to sham. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.520 And actually, one of the more interesting things to pay 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.680 attention to next month when Congress comes back from their 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.000 vacation is you've got bills in the House and the 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.960 Senate that will attempt to do to ban exactly what 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.200 she did. They're trying to stop members of Congress and 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.360 being the buy and sell stock for exactly that reason. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.760 That's an issue that we've chronicled. So we'd love for 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.760 you to find out more about what we do. Go 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.240 to the drill Down dot com. We be right back 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.640 after this. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:29.720 When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:35.200 Sean Hannity is on right now. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.600 It's Peter Schwitz or Eric Eggers. And you hear that sound, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.760 you hear that music. It is football season. College football 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.520 kicks off this weekend, the NFL next weekend. Very exciting time. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.080 It is I think America's sport and we've got a 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.520 legend who is joining us. This is a guy who 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.800 not only it was incredible on the field, but has 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:06.800 always been a man of integrity, honesty, and values, and 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.440 I just excited that we're going to have him on 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:08.720 the show. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.800 No, Mike Singletary is going to be joining us right now. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.360 Mike Singletary an NFL Hall of Famer, a Super Bowl 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.400 champion with the Chicago Bears. A He's in Waco, Texas 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.320 this weekend to help out his alumni, the Baylor Bears, 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.960 and they're kicking off their season. But more importantly, you know, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.560 he has a book out. It's called Visualize Your Greatness, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.880 the Playbook for the seven Season Success. And we've spent 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.840 the last two and a half hours on this program. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.440 We always love being able to fill in for Sean, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.320 but it can be challenging because some of the stuff 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.720 you talk about, by definition, is in the news, is tragic, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.680 it can be divisive, and I know that coach Singletary 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.280 has a heart to do the opposite. I know that 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:46.880 that's one of the reasons why he wrote this book, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.520 because he wants to inspire people to help realize the 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.280 best version of themselves, because that's ultimate what's going to 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.520 make this country the best version it can be. So 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.880 I wanted to take a quick moment talk to Mike Singletary. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.720 Coach Singletary, is the start of football season excite you 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.000 or do you have so much other stuff going on 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.720 in your life that it's kind of like, hey, you 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.520 know that that's not really what I'm about. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.760 You know, It's it's kind of a two edged sword. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.120 It really excites me. I love football season, but at 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.119 the same time, because of so many other things, you know, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:27.600 family and and projects you're working on, they just continue 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:33.720 to go and so it's exciting a football season is happening, 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.200 but just keeping it in perspective, keeping it focused, and 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.280 it all work out well. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.960 So, coach, why do you think it is Americans love football? 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.159 I mean, I know they call baseball America's game, but 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.440 I think the professional football is the sport that dominates Saul. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.080 What is it that people love about it? And what 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.920 would you say, I mean, you've got an incredible life story. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.719 What would you say is that football brought you and 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:03.080 taught you in terms of values, integrity, and teamwork, those 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.640 qualities that unfortunately seem to be diminished these days. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.719 You know, for me, football was one of those things 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.439 where you just put everything else aside. It's kind of 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.440 like it's kind of like that movie Fill the Dreams, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.480 and you know when you walked on the field, it's 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:31.160 like once you cross that line, everything else stayed outside 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:36.760 of it. And it is the pleasure of being able 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.040 to step inside of those lines. Even though you hear 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.440 the fans, they can't help you play the game. You're 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.480 inside of that game, and all that matters is the 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:56.840 work that you put into the preparation, the mindset, and 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.400 the character in which you play the game. And that's 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:01.600 what it really comes down to. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.200 I'm talking to NFL Hall of Famer Mike Singletary. Football 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.479 is back. You can feel it in the weather, at 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.439 least you can where we live in North Florida. Coach. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.439 One of the things that's been interesting, you talk about 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.920 things being divisive these days. The NFL, unfortunately, has had 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.640 a bit of a run of some less positive headlines recently. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.640 They've had some stuff in terms of the slogans they're 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.920 going to allow in the end zone and some business 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.000 with these male cheerleaders on a couple of teams that 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.639 some people find to be culturally divisive. What do you 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.600 how do you react when you hear about this game 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:38.000 that's meant so much to you and the benefits. I 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.919 know you care deeply about not only the people you 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.760 played with, but the people the players like. I know 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.680 you're very involved in helping improve the lives of other 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.520 former players in a lot of different ways. What do 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.560 you think about the win you see less positive headlines 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:54.760 about the NFL today? 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.600 You know, I think that when I think of the NFL, 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.679 just like everything else, well, there's an organization because when 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.600 you get right down to it, the NFL is a 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.359 business and at the end of the day, you you 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:16.320 have a culture that you develop, a vision that that 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.679 you set in place, and this is what we're going 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:20.760 to do. This is how we're going to go about 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:26.879 doing our business. And whether you are an athletic business, 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:32.040 whether you are a banking whatever it might be, whatever 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:36.320 that culture is, you have to make sure that the 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:41.600 culture is good for everybody, that the culture serves everybody. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.960 But once you walk inside of those lines, these other 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:50.960 rules that we play within, and every organization has to 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.560 decide how far do we go. Every organization has to 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:59.760