1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. So ted forgive me, but I 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: get a little fired up sometimes when I'm talking about this. Look, 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: I've gotten in arguments with people before. You know. A 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I took my family to New 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: York City. This is when I was in the United 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: States Senate. We spent a few days there. It was 7 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: a wonderful trip in a lot of ways. But you know, 8 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: every time we went to the subway, I'd have one 9 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: of my kids grabbing onto my leg or afraid because 10 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: there was a crazy person yelling, hollering and screaming at 11 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: a three year old little kid. Why do we live 12 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: like this? Why do we accept this in our communities? 13 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: And the answer is because of bad political leadership. We 14 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: have accepted for too long this idea that we ought 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: to give over our streets to criminals and to vagrants 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: and to people who are screaming at us, instead of 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: taking back our streets with our incredible law enforcement. And 18 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: there are so many things that we can do. You know, 19 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. The first two months that we 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: surged the National Guard, the President Trump surged the National 21 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: Guard into Washington, d C. There were no murders, not 22 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: a single murder for two weeks in the streets of Washington, 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: d C. And you know, we have all these world 24 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: leaders who come and we'll tell them, you know, we 25 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: haven't had a murder in Washington, d C. In two weeks, 26 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: and these world leaders will look at us and say, 27 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 1: is that supposed to impress us? Like that doesn't sound 28 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: very good. But you know, to Washington, d C, which 29 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: averaged last year a violent murder every other day, two 30 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: weeks without a murder was a hell of a track record. 31 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: And then we just surged the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, 32 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: again a Democrat city, a Democrat city in a red state, 33 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: but where the mayor said, we are sick of our 34 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: people being afraid to walk safely on the streets, So 35 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: why don't you help us? And that's our basic attitude 36 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: in the Trump administration is, look, we should not allow 37 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: people to take over We should not allow these violent 38 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: criminals to take over city streets. And if the local 39 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: government wants out help, if the local authorities want our help, 40 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: then we are going to help them because we stand 41 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: for American safety everywhere, whether it's a big city or 42 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: a small one. Thank you, young man. So this is 43 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: what it means. Being pro law and order is actually 44 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: not that difficult. There are some things we do, some 45 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: issues we address that are so complicated and so challenging, 46 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: but supporting our local law enforcement is actually pretty easy. 47 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 1: It's just a question of political willpower. Here's thing number one, 48 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: very simple. If our great police officers find a violent 49 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: criminal and lock them up, we ought to keep them 50 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: locked up instead of letting them back on our streets 51 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: with a slap on our wrist. That means we want 52 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: to give our police officers the very best equipment and 53 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: the very best protection anywhere in the world. We want 54 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: you guys to have the very best, and we're going 55 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: to fight every single day to make sure that they 56 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: have it. It means punishing state and local jurisdictions that 57 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: restrict your ability to do police work. They just want 58 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: to do their job. They ought to be allowed to 59 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: do it. And it means pursuing enhanced sentences for violent 60 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: criminals like the violent criminal who murdered that poor innocent 61 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: girl in Charlotte, North Carolina, just a couple of months ago. 62 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: And I want to talk about her for a second, 63 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: because I think, oh, we got a beautiful baby over there. 64 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: How you doing, man, I would like to how old 65 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: is she? Six months old? Beautiful? Thank you, thank you 66 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: for bringing her. We went law and order for her 67 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: above all else. Right, that's why we're doing what we do. 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: But we all know a couple of weeks ago and 69 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: it's one of these things that got bumped out of 70 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: the news because the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. And 71 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: so let me talk just a bit about that. You 72 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: all know Charlie. He was a great guy. He was 73 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: a great husband, a great father. He believed in two 74 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: things I think above all else. Number one, the second 75 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: most important is he believed in political debate in the 76 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: United States of America that we ought to talk about 77 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: our disagreements and not attack one another over our disagreements. 78 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: And he gave his life dying for that principle. And 79 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: the second thing he believed, and it was the most important, 80 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: is that he wanted to be a Christian evangelist. He 81 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: wanted to bring the gospel everywhere, and he saw connecting 82 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: with people and debating politics as an opportunity to talk 83 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: about his faith. And I think it's important to honor 84 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: him by recognizing that this is a kid, and he 85 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: was he died at thirty one years old. This is 86 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: a kid who every single day he would go to 87 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: these college campuses. He would talk for three hours with 88 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: anybody about whatever they wanted to talk about. And he 89 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: believed in the civic virtue of open debate. He gave 90 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: his life to protect that civic virtue, and he gave 91 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: his life serving that civic virtue at the highest level. 92 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: He was a great guy, and his loss was the 93 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: nation's law. And Erica, we love you. Erica is his 94 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: beautiful widow. And I think you all will join me 95 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: in saying that what happened to Charlie was discussing it 96 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: was unacceptable and it is the most anti American act 97 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: of violence that we've seen in the last couple of 98 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: weeks in this country. It was a disgrace. 99 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 2: But thank you all, I appreciate that. 100 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: And the thing is, it actually bumped out of the news, 101 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: this terrible story in Charlotte. And here's the basic summary, 102 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: as far as I can recall, it is, you have 103 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: a violent criminal who has been arrested fourteen times, often 104 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: for very violent offenses, who gets on a bus with 105 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: an innocent young girl twenty two years old and slits 106 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: her throat and she dies. She died because she was 107 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: coming home from worksheet. She worked at a pizzeria. She 108 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: came from a beautiful family, She had a young boyfriend, 109 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: she had her entire life ahead of her. And she 110 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: was actually a refugee from Ukraine, so she came from 111 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: a war torn country. She sought shelter in the United 112 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: States of America, and because of soft on crime policies, 113 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: she was murdered here, not in the war torn country 114 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: she came from. Isn't that a disgrace And isn't that 115 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: an insult to the incredible law enforcement officers who arrested 116 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: this person fourteen times. They did everything that they could 117 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: to keep this thug off the streets, and it was 118 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: the political leadership that failed. And we got to be 119 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: honest about that. I saw Governor, former Governor Cooper say, 120 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: and this is Michael Wattley's opponent, Former Governor Cooper said 121 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: just a couple of days after the attack that we 122 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: have got to do more when it comes to law 123 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: enforcement to keep people like this off the streets. And 124 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: my response was, Governor, he was arrested fourteen times. Law 125 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: enforcement did their job. It's time for you to do 126 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: your job, and it's so amazing to me. Political democrats. 127 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: I don't think it's all democrats. I actually think most 128 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: Democrats want what most Republicans want, which is safety and 129 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: their communities. But they always manage to turn issues of 130 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: crime into a distraction about race. They always try to 131 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: say that law enforcement lacking violent criminals up is inherently racist, 132 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: and I gotta be honest with you, that's an insult 133 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: to white people. It's an insult to black people too, 134 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: because all of us just want to live safely in 135 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: our communities. It doesn't make anounce of sense to me. 136 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: But I actually, because of these Democrat talking points, I 137 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: went and looked up do you know that in most 138 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: big cities, the gross majority over ninety percent of violent 139 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: crime is committed by fewer than one percent of the 140 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: city's residents. This is not a black white issue. Is 141 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: we've got a percentage of violent criminals in our communities. 142 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: Democrats would have let him out of prison, and Republicans 143 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: want to put him in prison and keep them there 144 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: so that all of us are safe in the process. 145 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: I think that's common sense, don't you. So I also 146 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: got to talk a little bit about another law and 147 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: order problem. I said Charlie Kirk's assassination was the most 148 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,239 Speaker 1: political and disgusting violence that we've had in this country 149 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,679 Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. And that was true 150 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: maybe until this morning, because I don't know if you 151 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: all have followed the news, and we're still learning a 152 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: little bit about it. But what we know is that 153 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas, and ICE facility and Immigrations and Customs 154 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: enforcement facility was opened fire upon by a violent left 155 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: wing extremist, a person who wrote anti ICE messaging on 156 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: their bullets. And there's some evidence that we have that's 157 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated. 158 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: They were politically motivated to go after law enforcement. They 159 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,119 Speaker 1: were politically motivated to go after people who are enforcing 160 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: our border. And I think that is the most disgusting thing. 161 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: The very people who keep us safe ought to be 162 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike. 163 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law 164 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: enforcement because here's what happens. Because here's what happens when 165 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: Democrats like Gavin Newsom did say that these people are 166 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: part of an authoritarian government. When the left wing media 167 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: lies about what they're doing. When they lie about who 168 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: they're arresting, when they lie about the actual job of 169 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: law enforcement, what they're doing is encouraging crazy people to 170 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: go and commit violence. You don't have to agree with 171 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: my immigration policies, you don't have to agree with Donald 172 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: Trump's immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages violence 173 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, 174 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: and you have no place in the political conversation of 175 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: the United States of America. Just yesterday, just yesterday, NBC 176 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: News maybe the worst of all the fake news. And 177 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure we have an NBC reporter out there. It's 178 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: a tough competition, my friends, to be clear, but maybe 179 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: the worst I said, maybe the worst is NBC News. 180 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 1: And they said that Immigration Enforcement, you know what, they said, 181 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: that Immigration enforcement had detained a five year old autistic 182 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: girl in order to get to that girl's father. Turned 183 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: out that story was a complete fabrication. It was a 184 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: complete dishonest lie. But when you go around and lie 185 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: about our law enforcement and you tell them that they're 186 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: mistreating five year old girl, what do you think is 187 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,719 Speaker 1: going to happen? When democratic politicians incur doxing. When they 188 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: encourage us to unmask ICE enforcement officers, What do you 189 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: think is going to happen? When the mayor of Los 190 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: Angeles encourages violent protesters to get in the face of 191 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: our law enforcement, what do you think is going to happen. 192 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: What's going to happen is political violence, and political violence 193 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: has gotten out of control in this country. We got 194 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: to stop it. We got to condemn it, and that starts, 195 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: unfortunately at the very top of the Democratic Party. If 196 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law 197 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: enforcement as the Gestapo. If you want to stop political violence, 198 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you 199 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: is a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, 200 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: look in the mirror. That's the way that we stop 201 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: political violence in this cunt trape. And we got to 202 00:11:50,840 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: do it. And while we're all morning and rooting for 203 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: and praying for everybody who was injured at that ICE facility, 204 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: and as far as we know, it looks like some 205 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: of the detainees, in other words, some of the potential 206 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: illegal aliens were some of those who are affected. Look, 207 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: just because we don't support illegal aliens, we don't want 208 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political 209 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: violence or either. So we're praying both for our ice 210 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: agents but also for everybody who's affected by this terrible tack. 211 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: But that was an ice facility. And as these guys 212 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: behind me know, and a few of our police officers know, 213 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: police officers writ large face two many threats of violence 214 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: all across the United States of America, and we know 215 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: where it started. We all remember the summer of twenty 216 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: twenty when all of these violent protesters were encouraged to 217 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: treat police as the enemy instead of as the solution. 218 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: You'd take a thousand police officers, you'd find one person 219 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: who didn't do something perfect and use that one guy 220 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: to tarnish the other nine one hundred and ninety nine 221 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: police officers. Well, I would like everybody, whether a Democrat, 222 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: a Republican, or an independent, especially those in political leadership. 223 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: Can we all just agree that our police officers are heroes, 224 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: that they are public servants, and that the first and 225 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: most important step of keeping all of us safe is 226 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: to keep our police officers safe, because they are the 227 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Thank you all. 228 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: It just happens too much our police officers being assaulted, 229 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 1: our police officers being attacked. You have these crazy attacks 230 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: where you have a cop and a squad car who's 231 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: enjoying their lunch break and somebody comes up and summarily 232 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: executes them before the cop even had a chance. It 233 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: happens way too much, and it happens because too many 234 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: of our political life leaders have encouraged it. Now, and 235 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: it's not just that, it's not just the rhetoric that 236 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: encourages violence against our law enforcement. You know, when I 237 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: was in in the Senate, there was a big bill 238 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: that was going around and it was basically that we 239 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: were going to try to eliminate qualified immunity from police officers, 240 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: one of the most disgraceful and worst ideas that I've 241 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: ever seen. In other words, that we were going to 242 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: make it easy for criminals to sue police officers for 243 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: doing their job. Now, does anybody think when you see 244 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: the fake news media and the way they attack our 245 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: police officers, does anybody think that we need to make 246 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: it harder for our police to do their job. Some 247 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: of America cities today, some of America cities today have 248 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: worse murder rates than the very worst third world cities 249 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: all over the world. That's not a joke. You go 250 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: to poor to Prince Haiti, or you go to some 251 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: of the poorest countries all over the world. Even those 252 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: countries have a better murder rate than Washington, d c. 253 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: Or some of the major American cities. Some of them 254 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: have better murder rates than Sharps, North Carolina. That's a disgrace. 255 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: All of us should be asking how do we make 256 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: that better? How do we make people safer in their communities. 257 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: How do we make it easier for a young family 258 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: to walk down the street and security and comfort. But unfortunately, 259 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: we've got a crew of violent radicals in the United 260 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: States of America who think we ought to make it 261 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: harder for police to keep us safe than easier for 262 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: police to keep us safe. So here's one thing I'd 263 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: like to do. I'd like every single Democrat starting today, 264 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: and every Republican too while we're at it, to say 265 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: that we are going to defeat these efforts to strip 266 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: immunity from our police officers. We're going to make it 267 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: easier for them to do their job, not harder for 268 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: them to do their job. Let's fight for it every 269 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: single day. 270 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 2: That's exactly right, sir, that's exactly right. 271 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: You can say that, but I can't. I've hit my 272 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: quotion for cuser today. I don't want Ted budd Tod 273 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: has own me, so I'm not gonna say that. But 274 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: we can run the clip back later. But let me 275 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: just let me just leave you with one final thought here. Look, 276 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: I was asked earlier today by a reporter, a reporter 277 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: I actually like, but a reporter who said, well, don't 278 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: both sides have crazy people? And of course, obviously three 279 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million people, of course both sides have 280 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: crazy people. But if you look at the political violence 281 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: in our country over the last couple of months, the 282 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: last couple of years, it is not a both sides problem. 283 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: It is primarily on one side of the political aisle. 284 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: So if we are going to truly go after the 285 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: political violence in this country, we need the democratic leadership 286 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: of Washington, d C. To look in the mirror. We 287 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: need them to renounce all political violence. When a poor 288 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: kid like Charlie Kirk is gunned down in cold blood, 289 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: we need them to start with condemning the violence instead 290 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: of condemning something that Charlie Kirk said that they disagree with. 291 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: When you have when you have an entire network of 292 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: left wing organizations that encourage, that promote, and that apologize 293 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: for violence, you know what you're gonna get out of it. 294 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: You're gonna get political violence. So here's my sacred obligation 295 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: to you, to all the law enforcement, but every person, 296 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: whether they wear a uniform or not. Over the next 297 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: couple of years, the Trump administration is going to do 298 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: everything that we can to dismantle the networks, to destroy 299 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: the funding, and to make it harder for people to 300 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: kill one another just because they disagree with what somebody says. 301 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: That is what we're going to do. We're gonna fight 302 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: for it. Let me just leave you with this one 303 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: final thought. Now, most of the time when I go 304 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: round to events like this, I'm talking about our big, 305 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: beautiful bill, our working families tax cuts, and I want 306 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: to leave us just with a reflection on that, because 307 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: while we're talking about law and wars and we're honoring 308 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: the police, one of the ways in which we rebuild 309 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: the American dream is by allowing you to keep more 310 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: of your hard earned money. And that bill that these 311 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: great congressmen worked on, and the great Senator here What 312 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: it did was very simple. It increased the child tax credit. 313 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: It meant that we're going to increase take home pay 314 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: by about ten thousand dollars over the four years of 315 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. It means that if you're working, when 316 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: innocent families are caught in the middle of conflicting GASA 317 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: on tips, or if you're working an overtime shift, the 318 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: government is going to take less of your money. And 319 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good idea, because if you're 320 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: working hard, I think the government ought to keep its 321 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: hands out of your pocket. We're gonna do all those 322 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: things because I believe the American Dream is fundamentally about 323 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: this principle. It's about the principle that for all the 324 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: parents and grandparents out there, and I'm now the parent 325 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: of three beautiful young kids, I just want them to 326 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: have a better life than the life that I have. That, 327 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: to me, is the core of the American Dream, the 328 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, 329 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: we're going to give our kids, and we're going to 330 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: give our grandkids something that's just a little bit more prosperous, 331 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: a little bit more secure, and a little bit more 332 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: proud than what we were given when we were kids. 333 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: That is, I think our sacred obligation that by inheriting 334 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,959 Speaker 1: a great country from our parents and grandparents, we got 335 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: to pass on something even greater to the next generation. 336 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: But none of that, none of that matters without law 337 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: and order in public safety. How can you have the 338 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: American dream if you can't walk down your neighborhood in safety. 339 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: How can you have the American dream if you're worried 340 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: about getting mugged when you're taking your family out to 341 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: a nice meal downtown. How can you have the American 342 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: dream when every celebration, every big moment in a person's life, 343 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: you're too worried about violent crime and not focused enough 344 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: on the things that make life worth living. One of 345 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: the things that we have got to get back to 346 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: remembering is that if we want to preserve the American dream, 347 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: we've got to preserve the right of everybody, rich or poor, 348 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: to live in safety and security in their neighborhoods. You know, 349 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: when I grew up in Middletown, Ohio in the nineties, 350 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: we didn't have a whole lot of money. I was 351 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: raised by a woman who struggled very often to put 352 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: food on the table and close on our back, mamma. 353 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 1: Everybody loves mammal most of all me. But you know what, 354 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: for all of the problems that we had, for all 355 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: the times that mamma was worried about where our next 356 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: meal would come from, for all the times that ma'am 357 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: was sometimes terrified that she wouldn't be able to make 358 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: an important bill payment, we never worried about public safety. 359 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: And the reason we never worried about public safety, the 360 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: reason she knew I could go across the street and 361 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: play in the park and safety and comfort, is because 362 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: we had something in this country, and that was a 363 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: recognition Democrat and Republican that we stood with law enforcement 364 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 1: and we stood with their mission. It didn't matter what 365 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: your political affiliation was. We wanted to support people who 366 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: kept our community safe. And that's something we've gotten away 367 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: from because a lot of the people who are poured 368 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: on the news, a lot of the people who actually 369 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: make policy in Washington, d C. Let's be honest, they 370 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: are wealthy people who can block themselves off from the 371 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: consequences of the policies they impose on the rest of us. 372 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: Now maybe now, maybe maybe they've never had to call 373 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: a police officer because they can call a private security guard. 374 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: Maybe they've never had their home broken into because they 375 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: live behind a gated community. Maybe they don't have to 376 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: worry about walking down the streets of a city safely 377 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: because they've got a driver and a big, fancy car 378 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: who can take them from point A to point B. 379 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: But that is not true of the gross majority of 380 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: our citizens. So I want to tell you when I 381 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: talk about protecting the American dream, when President Trump talks 382 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: about fighting for the American dream, at the very top 383 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: of that list is fighting for your ability, whether you're 384 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: rich or poor, to be safe in the home that 385 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: you love. It is our sacred obu deligation. 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