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Conservative 0:01:19.150 --> 0:01:22.459 elites seem to love throwing middle America under the bus. 0:01:22.860 --> 0:01:24.760 Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.420 as you say, with the white working class, don't you 0:01:26.459 --> 0:01:28.340 want to get new Americans in? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:33.800 The wall has always been a con for Donald Trump's credulous, rube, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.080 ten-toothed base. 0:01:35.580 --> 0:01:39.930 Liberal elites defend their kind. Conservatives, not so much. But why? 0:01:39.950 --> 0:01:40.020 Why? 0:01:40.830 --> 0:01:47.890 Why don't conservative elites protect their own? I'm Patrick Karelchi. 0:01:48.350 --> 0:01:49.720 And I'm Adriana Cortez. 0:01:50.140 --> 0:01:53.200 And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. 0:01:54.300 --> 0:01:56.740 This is not another talk show covering the day's news. 0:01:57.220 --> 0:01:58.960 We're all about telling stories. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.530 Stories Hollywood doesn't want you to hear. 0:02:02.250 --> 0:02:06.390 Stories the media mocks. Stories about everyday Americans that the 0:02:06.430 --> 0:02:07.330 globalists ignore. 0:02:08.329 --> 0:02:11.180 You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:20.760 and we promise only one thing. The truth. Welcome to 0:02:20.820 --> 0:02:31.310 Red Pilled America. Some conservatives have been throwing Trump supporters 0:02:31.350 --> 0:02:34.250 under the bus for years now. But their recent knee-jerk 0:02:34.290 --> 0:02:37.520 attack on the Covington teenagers has reopened the wound and 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.820 has some people wondering, why don't our conservative elites protect 0:02:40.870 --> 0:02:44.210 their base? To find the answer, we follow the rise 0:02:44.250 --> 0:02:47.290 of a one-of-a-kind journalist and how her work reveals a 0:02:47.350 --> 0:02:53.410 growing fracture in the conservative movement. Laura Loomer is an 0:02:53.490 --> 0:02:57.240 outspoken journalist, but she wasn't brought up in a media epicenter. 0:02:57.620 --> 0:02:59.540 I grew up in Tucson, Arizona. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.560 Her parents instilled something in her from a young age 0:03:03.100 --> 0:03:04.480 that has stuck with her to this day. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.380 My parents were They're not hyper-political people, but we watched 0:03:08.419 --> 0:03:09.260 the news, and. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.690 They made an effort, of course, to highlight. 0:03:14.389 --> 0:03:17.389 The importance of watching the news and knowing what's going on. 0:03:17.490 --> 0:03:19.350 So from a very young age, I always knew what 0:03:19.370 --> 0:03:20.010 was going on. 0:03:20.350 --> 0:03:22.570 When most of us were introduced to video games or 0:03:22.610 --> 0:03:25.620 new cartoons, Laura was introduced to an event that would 0:03:25.690 --> 0:03:26.780 shape the rest of her life. 0:03:27.020 --> 0:03:29.680 And I had always found Islam to be interesting, and 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.799 from a young age, I was 8 years old when 0:03:32.820 --> 0:03:33.580 9-11 happened. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:34.299 And my parents. 0:03:34.990 --> 0:03:38.030 You know, they were very outspoken when I was growing 0:03:38.130 --> 0:03:42.540 up about, like, the war on terror. And I remember 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.120 they bought me the Iraqi most wanted playing cards. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.100 Laura's own vocal nature became evident at a young age. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:49.880 When I was a kid, I didn't have, like, a 0:03:49.900 --> 0:03:50.520 lot of friends. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.780 I just kind of, I wouldn't say that I was 0:03:52.820 --> 0:03:55.030 a loner, but I just kind of, like, stuck to myself. 0:03:55.190 --> 0:03:58.690 And I was always very outspoken, but I ended up 0:03:58.710 --> 0:04:00.730 getting in a lot of trouble growing up in school 0:04:00.750 --> 0:04:01.990 for being outspoken, right? 0:04:02.530 --> 0:04:06.160 Laura's home life became a challenge. her parents divorced, the 0:04:06.190 --> 0:04:07.830 family became a bit dysfunctional. 0:04:08.250 --> 0:04:11.630 Because of the circumstances, my dad ended up sending me 0:04:11.790 --> 0:04:14.170 and one of my other brothers to boarding school. And 0:04:14.350 --> 0:04:19.150 so I didn't have like an easy, smooth, you know, fun, 0:04:19.330 --> 0:04:22.600 enjoyable childhood, but I decided to make the best of it. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.820 And I kind of had to really mature from a 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.920 very young age. So pretty much from the age of 12, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:34.650 I've been, you know, on my own kind of, living 0:04:34.890 --> 0:04:37.810 life as an adult because I went to boarding school 0:04:37.870 --> 0:04:40.950 from age 12 till the time I was 18. 0:04:40.950 --> 0:04:43.570 When it came time for college, Laura had a specific 0:04:43.610 --> 0:04:46.610 kind of school she wanted to attend. That didn't end 0:04:46.670 --> 0:04:47.370 up panning out. 0:04:47.810 --> 0:04:51.539 Yeah, so when I finished boarding school, I actually decided 0:04:51.620 --> 0:04:54.900 to go to Mount Holyoke. And it was interesting because 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.980 I wanted to go to Dartmouth and I remember I 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.460 was like really devastated because I got waitlisted. And when 0:05:00.500 --> 0:05:03.839 I got waitlisted, I, you know, I felt like I 0:05:03.860 --> 0:05:06.040 felt like a failure and I had thought that I 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.880 was going to go to Dartmouth, right? 0:05:08.940 --> 0:05:10.670 I just kind of like had this fantasy in my 0:05:10.730 --> 0:05:11.990 head that I was going to go to an Ivy 0:05:12.020 --> 0:05:14.589 League school. And I didn't get in. 0:05:14.670 --> 0:05:16.570 So I just went to Mount Holyoke, which is like 0:05:16.610 --> 0:05:21.909 a women's college in Massachusetts. And I only went there because, 0:05:21.950 --> 0:05:26.490 you know, it's known for being, you know, an elite university, 0:05:26.529 --> 0:05:29.690 an elite college. And I thought, well, I need to 0:05:29.730 --> 0:05:31.650 go to a school that has a fancy name if 0:05:31.690 --> 0:05:44.539 I'm going to be successful, right? Well, anyway, I get 0:05:44.580 --> 0:05:47.219 to Mount Holyoke and I absolutely hated it. I did 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.240 one semester there and my grades were fine. I had 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.000 like straight A's. 0:05:51.020 --> 0:05:54.280 That was no problem. But the people there were just insufferable. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.440 I mean, it was just, I was surrounded by vegan 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.850 militant feminazis who didn't want to accept the fact that, 0:06:02.410 --> 0:06:03.910 you know, I was a conservative. 0:06:03.970 --> 0:06:05.150 They could not handle that. 0:06:05.310 --> 0:06:07.469 So Laura transferred out of the school after just one 0:06:07.510 --> 0:06:11.450 semester and got a scholarship to Berry University in Miami, Florida. 0:06:11.940 --> 0:06:12.230 It was a. 0:06:12.210 --> 0:06:16.200 Smaller school, and I thought, well, you know, this is fine. 0:06:16.260 --> 0:06:17.820 I guess I don't really need to go to a 0:06:17.860 --> 0:06:19.140 school that has an elite name. 0:06:19.180 --> 0:06:22.000 I'm just going to, you know, work and go to school. 0:06:22.310 --> 0:06:24.929 Laura initially thought she was destined to go into medicine. 0:06:25.290 --> 0:06:26.229 Her father was a doctor. 0:06:26.510 --> 0:06:27.309 And it's kind of funny. 0:06:27.450 --> 0:06:28.870 You know, my dad's a doctor, and I thought, I 0:06:28.910 --> 0:06:29.930 want to go to medical school. 0:06:30.390 --> 0:06:33.680 But I have a really hard time with math, and 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.719 so for me... you know, with math classes and all 0:06:37.740 --> 0:06:41.000 of these high level courses like calculus and physics, it's 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.640 very hard for me because growing up, I kind of 0:06:44.660 --> 0:06:47.860 had this like, I guess I'd call it like a 0:06:47.900 --> 0:06:51.260 learning disability when it comes to math. And so I 0:06:51.300 --> 0:06:55.560 was always behind a year in my math classes. And 0:06:55.620 --> 0:06:58.409 when I got to college, I realized, well, I'm not 0:06:58.450 --> 0:06:59.670 going to be doing very. 0:06:59.510 --> 0:07:01.409 Well in medical school. 0:07:01.430 --> 0:07:03.390 I was able to get a 4.0 and have very 0:07:03.430 --> 0:07:05.750 good grades, but I realized I'm not going to really 0:07:05.790 --> 0:07:08.730 be able to go to medical school because I don't 0:07:08.770 --> 0:07:10.290 know how I'd pass all these classes. 0:07:10.330 --> 0:07:11.630 Like, it's going to be overwhelming. 0:07:12.050 --> 0:07:14.610 So I just decided, like, because I'm not very good at. 0:07:14.590 --> 0:07:17.530 Math, that I wouldn't have a career in medicine. 0:07:17.650 --> 0:07:19.970 And that's when I decided that I wanted to do 0:07:19.990 --> 0:07:21.010 broadcast journalism. 0:07:21.330 --> 0:07:25.330 So she majored in broadcast journalism and political science. Laura 0:07:25.380 --> 0:07:28.060 thought of herself as political by high school, but because 0:07:28.100 --> 0:07:30.180 she'd attended a boarding school on a ranch in the 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.160 middle of nowheresville, she wasn't really able to explore her interest. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.010 That was about to change. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.060 So when I got to college, I became more political. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.840 And it wasn't until I really went to school in 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.520 Miami that I joined College Republicans and started helping out 0:07:47.540 --> 0:07:49.120 with the Republican Party of Florida. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.440 And so everything kind. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.440 Of began for me when I was in college, even 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:59.380 though I was always interested in politics and media growing up. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.840 She began to see an opportunity to bring these two 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.340 worlds together while attending an event at school. 0:08:04.820 --> 0:08:07.620 Yeah. So when I was in college at Berry University, 0:08:07.980 --> 0:08:10.040 what happened was I was president of. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.020 The College Republicans. 0:08:11.710 --> 0:08:16.630 This was 9-11 of 2014, I believe. 0:08:17.210 --> 0:08:20.890 And what happened was the university decided that they were. 0:08:20.830 --> 0:08:23.370 Going to have an interfaith 9-11 memorial service. 0:08:24.050 --> 0:08:25.950 And one of my professors said, all right, we're going 0:08:25.970 --> 0:08:27.210 to go to the ceremony today. 0:08:27.510 --> 0:08:29.770 And, you know, it's mandatory. 0:08:29.810 --> 0:08:32.040 So I go and I had no problem going, of course. 0:08:32.100 --> 0:08:34.220 But then when I get there, they pass out these pamphlets. 0:08:34.819 --> 0:08:36.910 And if you are in an interfaith ceremony. 0:08:36.950 --> 0:08:41.070 Well, you would expect there to be multiple religious groups represented, right? 0:08:41.110 --> 0:08:42.310 And this was a Catholic school. 0:08:42.350 --> 0:08:44.830 I mean, I'm Jewish, but I went to a Catholic 0:08:44.850 --> 0:08:49.320 school because I got a really good scholarship. And when 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.480 I got there, I looked at the pamphlet, and it 0:08:51.540 --> 0:08:53.500 was two pages long, and the first page and a 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.080 half was dedicated to Islam. And they literally opened up 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.040 the 9-11 memorial service by allowing an imam to chant 0:09:00.110 --> 0:09:00.910 Allah Hu Akbar. 0:09:01.390 --> 0:09:03.310 And I was just sitting there thinking to myself, wow, 0:09:03.350 --> 0:09:04.890 this is absolutely. 0:09:04.429 --> 0:09:05.130 Absurd, right? 0:09:05.470 --> 0:09:07.569 So Laura decided to write about the event. 0:09:08.030 --> 0:09:10.069 And so I ended up posting a really big Facebook 0:09:10.110 --> 0:09:13.540 post about this and it ended up going viral. And 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.440 what happened is it got picked up by Breitbart and 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.420 Pamela Geller and lots of different news organizations and people 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.400 started to bombard my university with messages. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.380 It wasn't long before she got called in. 0:09:24.220 --> 0:09:27.380 When the university called me into the administrator's office and 0:09:27.410 --> 0:09:29.530 threatened to kick me out of school, I kept on 0:09:29.730 --> 0:09:32.540 trying to talk to the media about They also told 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.640 me that I had to go see psychological services because 0:09:35.660 --> 0:09:38.240 they said that my views on Islam were not normal, right? 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.780 Because I said like, well, Allahu Akbar is obviously what 0:09:42.660 --> 0:09:47.450 the 9-11 hijackers probably said right before they flew the 0:09:47.490 --> 0:09:48.790 planes into the tower. 0:09:49.070 --> 0:09:51.630 And it's highly inappropriate. And they didn't want to accept this. 0:09:51.850 --> 0:09:55.209 Here Laura was, barely in her 20s, and she'd already 0:09:55.290 --> 0:09:58.859 got a taste of a story going viral. Laura learned 0:09:58.900 --> 0:10:02.150 she had a powerful voice. and she was just getting started. 0:10:03.020 --> 0:10:05.400 As a result of the post going viral, Laura was 0:10:05.460 --> 0:10:06.960 invited to a political conference. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.000 And I ended up meeting James O'Keefe there. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.910 James O'Keefe is an investigative journalist with an independent outfit 0:10:12.950 --> 0:10:14.449 called Project Veritas. 0:10:15.110 --> 0:10:16.910 And that was the first time I met O'Keefe, and 0:10:16.950 --> 0:10:18.570 of course I was a fan of his, and I 0:10:18.630 --> 0:10:20.660 told him, oh my god, you need to hire me. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.040 You know, I kind of ambushed O'Keefe and said, you 0:10:23.059 --> 0:10:24.990 have to hire me. I mean, you need someone to go. 0:10:24.950 --> 0:10:30.030 Undercover in the Hillary Clinton campaign for the election cycle. 0:10:30.450 --> 0:10:32.370 And I never, I didn't hear back from him for 0:10:32.410 --> 0:10:34.010 a while. And then three months later, he gave me 0:10:34.030 --> 0:10:36.730 a call and wanted to fly me out to New 0:10:36.770 --> 0:10:37.580 York and flew me. 0:10:37.580 --> 0:10:38.339 Out the next day. 0:10:38.700 --> 0:10:42.020 She began working for Project Veritas while still finishing college. 0:10:42.900 --> 0:10:44.620 O'Keefe had a way of testing Laura. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.670 For my very first exercise with O'Keefe. 0:10:47.690 --> 0:10:48.910 They gave me a camera and they told me to 0:10:48.950 --> 0:10:51.290 go to the Black Lives Matter rally. 0:10:51.450 --> 0:10:53.960 And that's what they did with people back then, right? 0:10:53.980 --> 0:10:56.140 They would give them a camera and test them out 0:10:56.179 --> 0:10:59.100 to see if they're even capable of doing undercover work. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.860 So she went to the rally and what she captured 0:11:06.900 --> 0:11:09.479 on that first assignment was the daughter of Eric Garner, 0:11:09.940 --> 0:11:12.880 a black man who tragically died from a police chokehold 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.459 during an arrest. She captured that deceased man's daughter, labeling 0:11:16.500 --> 0:11:19.560 Al Sharpton as someone in the civil rights movement purely 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:20.040 for the money. 0:11:20.380 --> 0:11:22.020 So what, you think Al Sharpton is. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.080 Kind of like a crook in a sense? 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.059 Like you think he's like, that is money with you. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.220 The story landed on the front page of the New 0:11:33.260 --> 0:11:35.219 York Post. Laura was on her way. 0:11:36.179 --> 0:11:39.620 And it was at that moment that Project Veritas told 0:11:39.660 --> 0:11:43.670 me that they wanted me to work with them. like full-time, 0:11:43.830 --> 0:11:45.770 and I was still a college student at this time. 0:11:46.830 --> 0:11:50.030 So I quit my job working for WSBN, which was 0:11:50.110 --> 0:11:54.270 the Fox affiliate news station in Miami, Florida. And I 0:11:54.290 --> 0:11:57.790 started going back and forth between Miami and New York 0:11:57.929 --> 0:11:59.229 because I was still in college. 0:11:59.730 --> 0:12:02.650 Laura quickly came up with her next media hit, an 0:12:02.710 --> 0:12:07.730 investigation to expose the PC culture of colleges. At the time, 0:12:07.790 --> 0:12:11.440 a story was going viral in conservative media. An Obama 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.450 State Department spokeswoman had an interesting suggestion on how to 0:12:15.550 --> 0:12:19.960 stop Islamic terrorist attacks. She suggested we give them job opportunities. 0:12:20.590 --> 0:12:22.949 We cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot 0:12:23.050 --> 0:12:25.100 kill our way out of this war. We need in 0:12:25.140 --> 0:12:27.839 the longer term, medium and longer term, to go after 0:12:27.860 --> 0:12:31.079 the root causes that leads people to join these groups, 0:12:31.140 --> 0:12:33.120 whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs. 0:12:33.140 --> 0:12:34.400 We're not going to be able to stop that in 0:12:34.420 --> 0:12:35.910 our lifetime or 50 lifetimes. 0:12:35.929 --> 0:12:37.310 There's always going to be poor people. 0:12:37.590 --> 0:12:39.050 There's always going to be poor Muslims. 0:12:39.390 --> 0:12:40.570 And as long as there are poor Muslims. 0:12:40.590 --> 0:12:42.070 The trumpets blow and they'll join. 0:12:42.429 --> 0:12:43.330 We can't stop that. 0:12:44.070 --> 0:12:46.050 We can work with countries around the world to help 0:12:46.100 --> 0:12:49.199 improve their governance. We can help them build their economy 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.280 so they can have job opportunities for these people. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.160 And I remember it got brought up in one of 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.540 my classes and the professor said that we need to 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.200 have sympathy for ISIS. 0:12:59.020 --> 0:12:59.280 Right. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.770 And that was another one of those moments where it 0:13:03.090 --> 0:13:04.150 just kind of really triggered me. 0:13:04.690 --> 0:13:04.870 Right. 0:13:04.910 --> 0:13:07.390 And when I heard that professor tell me we need 0:13:07.410 --> 0:13:09.750 to have sympathy for ISIS, that's when I said I 0:13:09.790 --> 0:13:13.449 need to expose this. So I did an undercover expose 0:13:14.070 --> 0:13:16.360 and I got a hidden camera and I proposed making 0:13:16.390 --> 0:13:20.400 an ISIS club on my university campus. And I told O'Keefe, yeah, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.780 this is the script we have to do. And they 0:13:22.820 --> 0:13:24.040 never thought it was going to work. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:24.260 Right. 0:13:24.340 --> 0:13:26.020 O'Keefe never thought this was going to work out. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.300 So she went out to prove him wrong. She armed 0:13:30.340 --> 0:13:32.380 herself with a hidden camera and tried to make the 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.969 preposterous happen. She tried to start a pro-ISIS club at 0:13:37.010 --> 0:13:37.950 Berry University. 0:13:38.490 --> 0:13:40.429 Well, I ended up going to the administrator and I 0:13:40.450 --> 0:13:42.210 said I wanted to start a club for ISIS to 0:13:42.250 --> 0:13:45.410 send overseas to send aid to ISIS fighters and their wives. 0:13:46.070 --> 0:13:48.530 And I said I wanted to call the club Sympathetic. 0:13:48.110 --> 0:13:50.819 Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. 0:13:51.630 --> 0:13:54.920 It's called Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State 0:13:54.940 --> 0:13:55.559 of Iraq and Syria. 0:13:55.980 --> 0:13:56.640 I want to raise money. 0:13:57.090 --> 0:14:00.469 Like, funds to send overseas and humanitarian efforts to help, like, 0:14:00.530 --> 0:14:03.010 the widows and, like, the children of people who have 0:14:03.070 --> 0:14:05.590 died over there in the Islamic State. One of the 0:14:05.630 --> 0:14:08.780 things they really need is, like, flashlights because a lot 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.760 of the facilities have been destroyed, so, like, there's not 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.559 a lot of electricity and power. And then also, too, like, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.220 a lot of the fighters, like, they can't see at night, 0:14:16.380 --> 0:14:18.610 you know? So like people are like attacking them and 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.070 they can't see at night and because like they're so poor, 0:14:21.110 --> 0:14:23.810 like they don't have night vision and stuff, so they 0:14:23.890 --> 0:14:26.910 wanted flashlights so that they could like better protect themselves. 0:14:27.170 --> 0:14:30.090 Many countries are technically in conflict with ISIS. Oh, so 0:14:30.130 --> 0:14:32.810 you do specifically want to send aid to ISIS? Well, yeah. 0:14:33.010 --> 0:14:34.520 So maybe just change the name if I want to 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.760 have the club. Like do you have any suggestions like 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:37.560 is what I could call it? 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.600 Yeah, we've talked about maybe staying in the Middle East. 0:14:41.990 --> 0:14:44.990 In support of the Middle East. 0:14:45.210 --> 0:14:48.130 As opposed to having the ISIS. 0:14:52.310 --> 0:14:56.410 Remarkably, her university was up for approving the club, and 0:14:56.430 --> 0:14:59.350 Laura caught it all on camera. Her idea went so 0:14:59.410 --> 0:15:02.260 well that Project Veritas thought they'd try pulling it off 0:15:02.300 --> 0:15:05.340 at another school before publishing the story, so they sent 0:15:05.380 --> 0:15:08.060 an undercover reporter to do the same thing at Cornell. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.760 What if you wanted to start a pro-ISIS club at 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.540 an American Ivy League university? 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.750 There's a lot of our student organizations that do. 0:15:14.660 --> 0:15:15.380 Things like that. 0:15:16.230 --> 0:15:18.430 Would the assistant dean of students have a problem with 0:15:18.450 --> 0:15:21.930 the humanitarian club sending care packages to terrorists? That's a 0:15:21.930 --> 0:15:22.609 good question, Matt. 0:15:23.270 --> 0:15:25.210 And I think programs like that really do have a 0:15:25.250 --> 0:15:26.170 good place here at Cornell. 0:15:26.510 --> 0:15:29.010 Maybe we could get a freedom fighter to come and 0:15:29.090 --> 0:15:30.850 do a training camp for students. 0:15:31.590 --> 0:15:33.150 You'd be allowed to do something like that, just like 0:15:33.190 --> 0:15:36.150 bringing a coach to do a training on a sports team. 0:15:36.290 --> 0:15:36.670 Oh, really? 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:37.050 Okay. 0:15:37.450 --> 0:15:39.730 Again, astonishingly, it worked. 0:15:40.270 --> 0:15:42.670 And then we did the same script at Cornell, and 0:15:42.910 --> 0:15:45.510 it ended up going so viral that President Donald Trump 0:15:45.610 --> 0:15:47.670 ended up printing out a copy of it and faxing 0:15:47.710 --> 0:15:50.340 it over to Project Veritas and asked James O'Keefe to 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.120 meet him because he thought it was so funny. I mean, 0:15:53.500 --> 0:15:56.400 this was prior to even Donald Trump running for office, right? 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.480 He hadn't even announced that he was running for president. 0:15:58.900 --> 0:16:01.730 Laura was not even 22 years old yet, and her 0:16:01.770 --> 0:16:04.530 work got on the radar of the billionaire real estate mogul. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.380 but the stunt landed Laura in some hot water. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.100 Student suspended? Well, a woman in the middle of a 0:16:11.340 --> 0:16:14.920 campus controversy says Berry University has booted her from class. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.960 NBC6 reporter Jamie Garolla, live in Miami Shores with the 0:16:18.020 --> 0:16:19.660 latest on this. Jamie, what's this all about? 0:16:20.850 --> 0:16:22.950 Well, yeah, well, the suspension means that that student is 0:16:23.030 --> 0:16:25.670 not allowed here on campus and is not allowed to 0:16:25.710 --> 0:16:29.130 go to class. Now, according to an apparent suspension letter, 0:16:29.490 --> 0:16:32.670 the university says the student created a hostile environment here. 0:16:34.530 --> 0:16:37.390 When the video came out, it ended up going viral. 0:16:37.490 --> 0:16:39.570 And it was two months prior to graduation, and my 0:16:39.650 --> 0:16:43.140 university actually kicked me out. So meanwhile, I was set 0:16:43.180 --> 0:16:44.320 to be valedictorian. 0:16:44.380 --> 0:16:46.460 I had a 4.0 GPA. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.080 And they literally kicked me out of college instead of 0:16:49.140 --> 0:16:51.760 firing the university officials who said I could start an 0:16:51.820 --> 0:16:56.450 ISIS club, right? And I ended up getting my diploma. 0:16:56.090 --> 0:16:56.930 Because I got a lawyer. 0:16:57.410 --> 0:17:00.610 The fact that she faced expulsion rather than the university 0:17:00.690 --> 0:17:03.970 staff facing termination is was a pivotal moment in her 0:17:04.020 --> 0:17:04.619 young career. 0:17:05.030 --> 0:17:07.369 It really set in stone, like, my mission has to 0:17:07.410 --> 0:17:11.390 be to expose this Islamification that's taking place in our country. 0:17:11.590 --> 0:17:16.710 And that's why, you know, going forward, issues of Islamic 0:17:16.750 --> 0:17:20.560 immigration and Jew hatred and Sharia have been a key 0:17:20.580 --> 0:17:24.199 part of, you know, what my work focuses on. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.320 It also earned her the label of Islamophobe by her critics, 0:17:27.780 --> 0:17:29.880 a characterization Laura takes umbrage with. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.770 Well, Islamophobia doesn't exist, right? That's the thing. It's not, 0:17:34.790 --> 0:17:36.790 a phobia is an irrational fear. 0:17:37.810 --> 0:17:41.270 And to have a fear of Islam is not irrational, 0:17:41.369 --> 0:17:44.730 especially if you are an American or a non-Muslim or, 0:17:44.990 --> 0:17:48.889 you know, a former Muslim, because Islam seeks to kill 0:17:48.950 --> 0:17:53.350 non-believers and it seeks to be the dominant political ideology 0:17:53.369 --> 0:17:53.830 in the world. 0:17:54.150 --> 0:17:56.630 Laura is a young Jewish woman who's been thinking about 0:17:56.670 --> 0:18:01.340 the significance of the 9-11 terrorist attacks since she was eight. Islam, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.620 in her mind, is not only a threat to her 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.660 Jewish community, it's a threat to Western culture. In America's 0:18:07.700 --> 0:18:11.150 political class right now, this is a very controversial position. 0:18:11.650 --> 0:18:15.190 But it nonetheless is a position held by some influential intellectuals. 0:18:15.410 --> 0:18:17.850 You know, for the last 15 years. 0:18:18.350 --> 0:18:21.830 That's Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalia-born human rights activist who 0:18:21.890 --> 0:18:24.350 embraced Islam as a young girl but fled to the 0:18:24.410 --> 0:18:28.669 Netherlands to escape a forced marriage. She'd later become a U.S. citizen. 0:18:29.170 --> 0:18:32.820 In a 2016 Sam Harris interview for his podcast Waking Up, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:34.980 Ayaan touched on her mission. 0:18:35.260 --> 0:18:38.920 You know, for the last 15 years, I've been trying 0:18:38.980 --> 0:18:43.440 to educate the enlightened world on Islam and the threat 0:18:43.460 --> 0:18:48.610 that it poses to women, to people like me who 0:18:49.369 --> 0:18:54.189 have chosen not to believe in God, to Christians, to Jews, 0:18:54.930 --> 0:18:58.239 even to, and probably I would say mainly Christians, to 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.659 those who actually are Muslims and believe in the Quran 0:19:01.700 --> 0:19:02.540 and the Prophet Muhammad. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.959 Those are the words of a highly regarded former Muslim intellectual. 0:19:06.380 --> 0:19:08.780 So Laura's views on the threat of Islam to America's 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:14.119 traditional culture cannot be disregarded simply as Islamophobia. Laura continued 0:19:14.180 --> 0:19:16.990 working for O'Keeffe, but eventually decided to branch out on 0:19:17.030 --> 0:19:20.730 her own. And her first big solo stunt was about 0:19:20.770 --> 0:19:25.210