Piers Morgan Uncensored - Piers Morgan Uncensored: Matt Walsh

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

On this episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers delves into how Prince Andrew is attempting to clear his name. Also Piers looks into the horrific incident when five black police officers beat up and... killed a black man, Tyre Nichols and why it's being blamed on racist white supremacy. Matt Walsh, the man behind the film 'What is a Woman', joins Piers to discuss What is a female? Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored at 8 pm on TalkTV on Sky 522, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217. Listen on DAB+ and the app.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Tonight, up here's Morgan uncensored as Harry and Megan broker a deal to crash the king's coronation, Prince Andrews in hot water, over this bizarre bathtub bid to clear his name. Is it time for King Charles to banish the rogue royals? Protests in the US, a shocking body camp footage shows 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, beaten and killed by five police officers. All five of them were black. So why is this horror being blamed on racist white supremacy? We'll debate that.
Starting point is 00:00:34 Plus, as SMP lead in Nicholas Sturgeon, faces the slew of scandal caused by her own inability to define females. I'm joined live by Matt Walsh, the man behind the smashy at film, What is a Woman? Maybe he can help, Ms Sturgeon. Live from London, this is Pearz Morgan Uncensored. Well, good evening in London. Welcome to Pierce Morgan Unsensored. Prince Andrews has ever been the brightest buzz. in the royal box, but his decision to launch a legal bid to reopen his sex abuse case may be his dimmest move yet.
Starting point is 00:01:09 The Duke spent millions, much of it provided by the late Queen and therefore ultimately by you and I, to settle with Virginia Dufray out of court. We were told that was to avoid the likely embarrassment of Andrew on the witness stand after the embarrassment of Andrew on Newsnight. It was a shooting weekend. A shooting weekend. Just a straightforward shooting weekend. I was at home. I was with the children. I'd taken Beatrice to a pizza express in working.
Starting point is 00:01:39 She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating and that she went on to have bath, possibly. There's a slight problem with the sweating because I have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat. Well, you'd be forgiven for thinking the Duke's absurdist alibis of shockingly dry armpits and a shockingly memorable pizza was as bizarre as it could get. But there long came this at the weekend, a quite ludicrous staged photograph released by friends of jail's sex trafficker Gilay Maxwell, friend of Andrew, which supposedly clear the Duke by proving there simply wasn't space in her bathtub for the alleged toe-licking that took place there. Well, first, this is a tawdry and madcap stunt, which is completely beneath anyone in the royal family. But secondly, it actually proves the exact opposite of what Andrew's defenders claim. Virginia Dufray, then age 17, underage in America at the time,
Starting point is 00:02:49 in the States where she says Andrew committed the offences, says that he licked her toes in the bath before later having sex with her. Well, not only does the photograph actually prove there was ample room, the toe related to frolicing. It also shows the uncivourous duke made us hit at the tap end of the tub. And with historically bad timing, apparent proof has now emerged
Starting point is 00:03:11 that the infamous photograph of Andrew, Virginia Jufre, in Gilein Maxwell's house is in fact real. Here's what Maxwell told Talk TV from behind bars last week. It's a fake. I don't believe that. I don't believe it's real for a second.
Starting point is 00:03:26 In fact, I'm sure it's not. There's never been an original. and further there's no photograph and I've ever seen a photocopy of it. And here's what Andrew himself said. I think it's from the investigations that we've done you can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.
Starting point is 00:03:52 So it's very difficult to be able to prove it but I don't remember that photograph ever being taken. Well, it seems now that the photograph is real this weekend we learned from the Mail on Sunday that it has a date and a timestamp, locating it to a convenience store just two minutes from Virginia Geoffrey's home in Florida, developed three days after the meeting happened. Well, Geoffrey is now planning to write a book about her experience as due out quite soon because there was a one-year ban as part of a settlement with Andrew before she could talk publicly. The Duke is now threatening her, it's reported, with an 81-1-1.
Starting point is 00:04:29 million-powered lawsuit if she repeats her claims. But these are the same claims he just paid millions of dollars to avoid disputing in court. In the court of public opinion, Andrew looks deeply embarrassing. But the very serious consequence of all this is inevitable briefing and smearing by both sides, dragging the reputation of the monarchy into the gutter with Andrew again. Meanwhile, Harry and Megan, who've done more than enough of that already, they're also haggling to now be at the King's coronation and celebrate with the best of British. And the King is reportedly asking the Archbishop of Canterbury to broker a peace deal for his son to appear at the coronation.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Now, it's understandable that he wants to reconcile with his brother and son before the biggest day of his life. The stated occasions like the coronation belong not just to the royal family, but to the people of Britain and the Commonwealth. If Harry and Megan refused to apologise, we think we know they won't. And if Andrew continues to embarrass himself and Britain by continuing to dispute something he's already settled.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Now, my view is that King Charles should ban all three of them from his coronation. Well, joining me as the Royal Editor of Vanity Fair, Katie Nicholl, journalist and friend of the Queen Consort, Petcherna O'Wyatt, and lawyer Alan Dershowitz. He was also sued by Virginia Dufray, which he dropped her case and now acknowledges it was likely mistaken identity. Well, welcome to all of you. Alan, good to talk to you, not spoken to you for a long time.
Starting point is 00:05:55 I appreciate you coming on the program tonight. First of all, let me just ask you about this idea that Andrew may now go back in and try and recontest this case with Virginia Dufre because of what happened in your case with her, where you always denied all the allegations that she threw at you, and she ultimately admitted that it may be mistaken identity. She simply got you wrong and mixed up with somebody else. Is that enough for Prince Andrew to go back in and try and re-litigate all this? Well, I think it's part of a larger package. I'm not going to comment specifically on the case, but I can tell you that you can undo deals if there was a fraud on the court, if the plaintiff alleged things that weren't true.
Starting point is 00:06:42 And one specific thing, of course, is that she swore under oath and everybody swore under oath in the case, that she lived in Colorado. And if it could be proved that she didn't live in Colorado, again, I'm talking hypothetically. that could possibly reopen the case. Also, there was a deal made in which she agreed not to sue any associates of Epstein, including, quote, royalty. So these are at least hypothetically the kinds of arguments that could be made legally. I think my own case may add kind of an atmospheric to it. She admitted after all these years. I have it on the cover of my book. I now recognize that I may have made a mistake in identifying Alan Dershowitz.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Years ago, I wrote a book laying out all the evidence, but now she's made this acknowledgement. That creates a kind of atmospheric, but less of a legal claim. The legal claims tend to be more jurisdictional, procedural, fraud, that kind of thing. Okay. I mean, I know that you've in the past also shed doubt over the veracity of this. infamous photograph of Andrew with his arm around a young Virginia Dufre. But the mail on Sunday here in the UK at the weekend had a pretty damning dossier in which they really reveal that this picture is almost certainly genuine.
Starting point is 00:08:09 It had watermarks on it. They had examined them. It was processed within three days of this alleged encounter, which she claimed with Prince Andrew and so on and so on. In light of that dossier they published, have you changed your mind about this picture? I never said it was false. I just said that the original was never disclosed so that it creates a difficulty. I actually wrote an email to Goulain Maxwell, essentially asking her what she thought, because she's in the picture.
Starting point is 00:08:43 I have no basis more than you do or any of your viewers do for knowing whether the picture was authentic or not, but I would hope that sometime they might produce the original picture, which could finally resolve this issue. The fact that she got it wrong about you, Virginia Jouffray, that doesn't, of course, mean that she got it wrong about Andrew, does it? No, of course not. But it does affect possibly the certainty of any allegation, because she certainly made the allegations against me.
Starting point is 00:09:21 with great certainty and assurance saying that it happened, what, seven times in different places. So it might be relevant to the case, but certainly not dispositive. I mean, she now has a book coming out, which is going to reveal a number of new revelations, we're told. Andrew, we're reading every day, is planning potentially to launch a new legal challenge to all these allegations. And yet at the centre of this, you have a guy who is the Queen's son who said repeatedly, I will clear my name in court. I want to have my day. I want to clear my name.
Starting point is 00:10:02 And then right at the last minute, he settled for millions of dollars to a woman that he claimed he'd never met. That seems to me to be the central problem with his position. Because if he genuinely had never met her and he genuinely wanted to clear his name in court, well, why didn't he? Well, the question is what pressures the royal family, his mother particularly experiencing her Jubilee, might have placed on him. Cases get settled for all kinds of reasons. And, of course, there was no admission of guilt in the settlement.
Starting point is 00:10:39 But, you know, the public has the right to take into account all of the factors. I wish the media would do a better job in investigating accusations. In general, women must be taken. seriously. And when a woman makes an accusation, it must be taken seriously. That means it must be investigated thoroughly. And I do not think today in the Me Too movement, many of these allegations are thoroughly investigated by the media. They have usually a narrative and they go with the narrative. They're terrified about investigating alleged victims. I guess they'll be accused of victim shaming. And I just don't think the media has done a sufficient job of investigating
Starting point is 00:11:20 all these accusations and allegations. It could do a great service by taking women very seriously and therefore investigating their claims. What I would say to that is I think there are some cases where certainly they could have done more, but it was the media, of course, who did expose the likes of Harvey Weinstein and other serial predators. Without that, the Me Too movement would never have started. So I think you can argue this both ways. I think the counterpoint I would make about Andrew and what he's done is that the best way, of course, to test all the allegations would have been in a courtroom. And he, again, to repeat, he was adamant, I will go to court and clear my name. And we all believed him.
Starting point is 00:12:01 And then at the last minute he caved and gave someone he insisted he never met millions of dollars. I mean, it made no sense. I wish he had litigated the case. I wish he had had a jury trial. I wish he had taken it to a court, but I don't know the pressures that might have been put on him to settle. But the settlement itself does not include an admission of guilt, and that has to be taken into account to. But settlements are negotiated. People want to end the lawsuit, and there are considerations on all sides.
Starting point is 00:12:39 So the public has the right to judge. The totality of the circumstances. I agree with you that exposing predators is a very important function of the media, but exposing people who make false accusations is just as important. You know, Blackstone, the great British commentator, better tend guilty go free than one innocent be wrongly confined. The media has to look hard at the possibility that there have been some innocent people who have been charged, and the media has failed largely in its responsibility to dig deeply
Starting point is 00:13:14 into accusations that are somewhat questionable. Okay, well, I'll take a bit of a hit on behalf of the media. I think on some cases that may be justified that criticism. But then I would return the fire and say that like a lot of very high profile, powerful, intelligent people, you were one of many who befriended Jeffrey Epstein. You acted for him in the previous case, of course. And none of you seem to realize what he was really like. I mean, I would say to you, Alan Dershow, just to return the criticism, if you with your legal brain had done a little bit more digging yourself, then he may have been stopped a lot earlier than he was because he was clearly a serial paedophile monster.
Starting point is 00:14:02 But remember, he met the queen. He met very prominent people. He met presidents of the United States, Nobel Prize winners. I was never a personal friend or acquaintance. I was an academic. a friend, nobody had any idea that he had done anything wrong. Once he was charged, I became his lawyer and as a lawyer, obviously my job was to defend him and tried to get a deal. And I did inquire very deeply. And I did find out ultimately what happened. But at that point, I was his lawyer. And lawyers cannot disclose confidences that they learn in legal representation. But I did nothing wrong at all. I acted like any lawyer would do when John Adams defended the people who were accused of the Boston Massacre. He also found out what they had done, but he didn't quit the case. The job of a lawyer is to represent some of the worst people.
Starting point is 00:14:55 I've also represented Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton and Natanzh Chiransky and half of my cases of pro bono. I've represented innocent people on death row and I've saved their lives. So I've had a career that has been filled with controversial people, but I don't turn in my clients, and I certainly don't do anything but zealously represent them. That's my job. And I'm proud of that job. I wish I had never met Jeffrey Epstein because I wish I hadn't had to go through eight years of being falsely accused for something I didn't do by somebody I never met. But I was prepared to go to trial. And I was prepared to litigate this thing to the end. And then, of course, the charges were dropped. And the woman admitted that she may have made a mistake. Yeah, listen, I think you were defamed, and justice was seen to serve its cause. But eventually, it took a long time. In the meantime, you were dragged through the mob, which I think was extremely unfortunate.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Alan, good to talk to you. Thank you very much, indeed. Likewise, nice to talk to you as well. Thank you. Let's go a reaction to this. So, Petrault. I mean, this is a complicated thing, because at the heart of it, it's really, We don't know, right?
Starting point is 00:16:08 We just don't know. All we do know are the facts is that Andrew befriended this paedophile. Yes. Even after he was convicted initially of paedophile behavior, Andrew continued to see him, including for four days in New York infamously.
Starting point is 00:16:24 And we also know he vowed to clear his name and then never did. Yeah, I mean, my problem is not that he befriended Epstein when he didn't know he was a peter vial, but after he was released from prison, in full knowledge of what he'd done, he then goes in New York to stay with them, and it wasn't for academic legal reasons.
Starting point is 00:16:46 He wasn't acting. Yeah, he was on a jolly with his old pal. And lots of women scene going in. Exactly. And that is extremely distasteful. We also have the photograph, which is now real. One of the weirdest things, well, which photograph? Well, I mean, I thought, look, it looks like the male on Sunday have nailed the fact
Starting point is 00:17:06 that that photograph may be real. But what about the bathtub one in the camera? I mean, the baths have the weirdest things I've ever seen. It takes it into it. Have we got it again? Can we get it up on camera? Yeah, but it now reminds me of the Dutchess Bar-Gar. Look at this.
Starting point is 00:17:19 So these are friends of the Maxwell's, Gilaim Maxwell, right? Who are pretending to be Andrew and this girl, who was his, you know, the woman he's paid millions of dollars to while saying he never met her, to prove that they couldn't have froliced in that bathtub. this looks like proof of the complete opposite, Katie. Yeah, it's an extraordinary photograph and clearly doesn't do anything to clear Andrew's name.
Starting point is 00:17:43 I mean, I think at the end of the day, he said he was going to go to court. He'd be prepared to do that, be prepared to be investigated by the FBI, did none of that. I think it sticks in the court for a lot of people that the settlement was deemed the easy way out. I think Alan made a good point, though,
Starting point is 00:17:59 because he was under huge pressure. The Queen wasn't well. She's coming towards the end of her life. the last thing that the royal family would have needed was a big court case like this. They had enough with what was going on with the court of the Sussexes across the pond. But of course Charles is now faced with all of this
Starting point is 00:18:14 on the eve of his coronation. Well, the last thing he needs is always all about Andrew. It's always about him wanting to make his comeback into public life. You don't start even talking or thinking about this sort of thing until after the coronation. Assuming he is innocent, then absolutely. How can we assume that? Let's just play Dasville's advocate.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Let's give him a chart. Why doesn't it be an innocent person paid millions and millions of dollars? Well, let's just say. They claim they never met. It wasn't like he met her and there's a dispute. If he was, it's hypothetical what I'm saying. If he was, it wouldn't really matter
Starting point is 00:18:51 whether he was trying to clear his name or not because the point is that Charles's plan for a streamlined monarchy wasn't going to include Andrew at the helm anyway. He was going to be demoted. So this is just a distraction. But what about it? Coronation is a great chance for King Charles to reset, right, the whole monarchy.
Starting point is 00:19:09 Yes. After 70-odd years of his mother's reign, his glorious reign. This is the big moment for him where he actually has a coronation and his queen consortium and his queen consortium gets heard. Yes, I mean, he must be sitting with his head in his hands, wishing he had rather more amiable relatives. No, but I would be saying, why on earth would he even countenance having Barry and Meghan there with all their cameras, making notes, repeating,
Starting point is 00:19:34 again, more private conversations that have to be rules. And why would he have happened? There'll be a bigger row. If he's now going to try and be contesting this court. I agree. I agree.
Starting point is 00:19:42 I think there will be a bigger route. If he doesn't, their absence will... I don't agree. Why would there be a bigger route? Because they would make one. The best answer to Harry and Megan is, shut up, go away
Starting point is 00:19:52 and nothing to do with this anymore. But the press, you're missing the point. What's the point? The point of a royal family is it has to be united. It projects the signature. You don't know, but it's too mudslingers in Canada. And so,
Starting point is 00:20:03 Why should it be all one way? Why should these two renegades just shoveled dirt all over their families' heads from months and years away? I don't agree. See, I... If one of my kids did this, that would... For this long and this nastily about all the loved ones and the family... Since Queen Victoria, the royal family is supposed to represent the idealised British family. And they've always been conscious of that.
Starting point is 00:20:30 And it's something the taxpayer conscious of... But they do not like to see a royal family divided. Charles doesn't have any choice. William wants to punch Harry's lights out, I was told you over day. Literally wants to punch his lights out. What happens if he sees him at the coronation and decides now's the moment. I mean, at the air of the throne, punching his brother in the head. The Abbey will have been cleared.
Starting point is 00:20:54 The Abbey would have been cleared. There will be no dog goals. There will be no. Shut. Listen. If one of your family had done this, right? one of your siblings or a child, if they'd done that, what would you do? We're private individuals.
Starting point is 00:21:09 You keep it in the private domain. Unfortunately, Harry hasn't done that. No, he's a little traitor. I think his father and his brother will show that they can do better. I think they honestly, they should cut them off. Bang, done, gone. You stay in Montecito, you're not part of this anymore. You don't get the good stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:25 You don't get the trinkets from the institution that you've been trashing and burying. This poll in America last week showing massively reduced popularity for all the royals, but the most unpopular now, Harry and Megan in America, right? Because they just don't know what they're doing. And Charles is riding top of those poles, peers. And I think to extend that fine iron is a way to behave. They're on a mission to destroy the monarchy, and we in this country should not accept it. By the way, it's not just Charles's coronation.
Starting point is 00:21:52 It is the people's coronation of our king. We're paying for it. But I think the people appreciate Charles acting with dignity. And that has risen the brabbing says so much in his favour. The most dignified thing we can do is have the least dignified members of his family, not there. That's what I call preserving dignity. The idea of Megyn Markle and Harry, after all they've done, sitting there, beaming away in the front row, would make me puke.
Starting point is 00:22:16 Well, they won't be in the front pew. I mean, just look back to the Queen's Service of Thanksgiving during the Jubilee. They can be there in a peripheral. They can be there in a peripheral. Exactly. All right. Got to leave with them. Thank you, ladies.
Starting point is 00:22:27 Appreciate it. We'll come in next tonight. Five black police officers beat a black. man to death in Memphis in America. Tyne Nichols was killed horrifically. But was he killed by racism and white supremacy or by five black police officers? We'll debate that after the break. Well, Tyree Nichols loved Sunsets. He was a father. He'd been out to photograph the twilight sky in his home city of Memphis where five black police officers pulled him over. The letter said it was for reckless driving. There's no evidence to substantiate that. It's still unclear why they're
Starting point is 00:23:13 stopped him. What is clear is that Tyree Nichols was subjected to a savage and horrific beating, taking sustained blows from the officers as he cried out for his mother and he died three days later. The beating was captured on body cam and CCTV in a warning. Viewers may find this footage upsetting. You might get sprayed again. Hey! Well, that is just what it looks like. It's five black officers beating a black man, horrific, appalling, credibly hard to watch. I'm not surprised by the global revulsion to this brutality. What I am surprised by is the immediate attempts by many high-profile liberal commentators to blame this on racism and white supremacy. Here's CNN commentator Van Jones. Black people are at risk from
Starting point is 00:24:08 police no matter what color. Black, white, brown, you talk to African-Americans, I'll tell you, it doesn't matter. There's this pervasive view from law enforcement that if you're black are dangerous. Really? So black people killed a black person, and that's racist. Well, Black Lives Matter issued a statement saying that all police represent the interests
Starting point is 00:24:30 of capitalism and impel state-sanctioned violence. Anyone who works with a system will perpetuate state-sanctioned violence is complicit in upholding white supremacy. So these five black police officers were white supremacists, apparently. Jamil Hill from the Atlantic, agreed, explaining the entire.
Starting point is 00:24:48 system of policing is based on white supremacist violence. Again, apparently nothing to do with just five horrible thugs wearing police uniforms killing a black man. It was apparently about racism and white supremacy. Well, joining me now, Black Lives Matter organizer and activist, Imman Aten, and rapper and podcaster Zubi. Welcome to both of you. I don't get this narrative at all that is coming out. It's been coming here from people as well, that somehow this is all about racism and white supremacy. It's not. It's about five poorly trained
Starting point is 00:25:24 thuggish black police officers killing a black man who did nothing to deserve it. That's it. Okay, so I just have to start with saying that video was absolutely disgusting, one of the worst videos I've ever seen in my entire life. It goes on and on on on. Yeah, it was disgusting.
Starting point is 00:25:39 There was two versions of it, the body footage and, of course, the pole from across the road. Absolutely disgusting. So I'm absolutely horrified at the fact that, of course, it was five black people. But for me personally, this is about an abuse of power and a disregard of human life,
Starting point is 00:25:53 and those individuals need to be accountable for their actions. That I need to be clear. Don't disagree. What's he got to do with racism or white supremacy? Why are white people responsible for this? Okay, so people could also argue that this is due to internalized racism, which is a byproduct of societal or institutional racism,
Starting point is 00:26:10 also referred to as white supremacy. So black police officers become white supremacist racists who kill black people because they work in an atmosphere of white supremacy. Is that it? I can explain it a little bit better. Okay, so anti-blackness is baked into society here and in the US, and black people are not impervious to that. And so what people felt to realize... The black people are anti-black? Yep, exactly, so let me explain it. I know it's very confusing. So let me explain it. Let me explain it peers. So what people felt to realize is that when black people have to contend with racism,
Starting point is 00:26:44 they can end up internalizing it. And that can result in low-sides. self-esteem, self-loving and rejection of one's community. And when you combine those feelings, which as we know are also referred to as unconscious bias, when you have those feelings and they are compounded by hierarchy and power, it can lead to an individual abusing said power and projecting their self-hate onto another. And this is why, in my opinion, why we see black and white police officers killing more black people than we do white. Reason why is because of racism, which includes internalised racism peers.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Right. I think that's complete nonsense. You would because you're a white man and you don't understand. Exactly. I'm white. Therefore, my skin colour means. Because you don't have the lived experience. My skin color means I have nothing to do it.
Starting point is 00:27:21 All right, well, let me go to a black man and see if he's allowed to have a view. Zubi, what's your view? Okay, so I agree with the first half of everything that was said there. I agree that the video was disgusting. I agree that this is an issue of training, and I agree that this is an issue of the human heart. I think that any attempt to put the blame on this in any way, shape, of form on racism or white supremacy or white people in general,
Starting point is 00:27:49 is absolutely ridiculous. I also think it's pretty degrading because this sort of idea stems from the notion that black people, black men, black women, that we do not have full agency and responsibility and therefore accountability for our actions and our words. We end up in these ridiculous situations
Starting point is 00:28:09 where no matter the permutation, no matter what happens, even if there's not a single white person involved in the situation, in the Memphis Police Force, even the police chief is a black woman. The large percentage of the force is black, and people are still trying to lean on this white supremacy
Starting point is 00:28:28 is the answer and the reason for everything. And honestly, it's lame, and as someone who's lived my entire life as a black male, certainly I've never been possessed by this sort of phantom of white supremacy that's made me want to attack anybody, let alone another black person. And I think that we need to put the blame in responsibility squarely, on the individuals who were involved in this.
Starting point is 00:28:50 I completely agree. It's tragic that this young man died. I completely agree. I mean, just to note some statistics about the Memphis Police Department, that 65% of Memphis population is black. 58% of the entire police force in Memphis is black. The police chief was a black woman, right? And so on and so on.
Starting point is 00:29:11 So you take all that in totality, you think, working, well, where is this institutionalized white supremacy coming from? given the institution is actually served predominantly by black people for a population that is predominantly black as well. So I don't get that point. The second point I make is this. I think there's a wider issue here. The demonisation of the police in America,
Starting point is 00:29:33 calling them all a bunch of vile racists, has led to many older experienced good police officers who were not vile races, quitting the force all over the country. And as a result, in Memphis, for example, they had a massive reduction, 20% between 2011 and 2017, of police officers. 20% went from the force. And so to try and restore the numbers, they made it easier to become a police officer. They reduced the restrictions, reduced the qualifications.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Two of the five officers involved in killing this poor young man went through that process in that period of not being required to have the same sort of qualifications. that they used to join the Memphis Police Department. So you have a bunch of people being brought in who are poorly trained, who are not qualified to do the job, who end up committing this kind of crime.
Starting point is 00:30:28 That has nothing to do with racism and white supremacy that has everything to do, I think, with perhaps an over-demonized force in general, with a lot of bad apples in it, but over-demonized force leading to many people quitting and being replaced with people just not up to the job. I think it's, well, everything that you said, I don't disagree with.
Starting point is 00:30:47 I think it's not about conflating the two things. It's just about presenting a different perspective, an alternative perspective. That should be considered, because internal racism is a real thing, so therefore it should be considered. You just heard a black man. Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:59 I am very much aware of that. Say that basically you're talking nonsense. No, so the idea that you can... I'll ask that. So Zubi, do you believe that internal racism is nonsense? Do you believe that black people cannot internalize racism? Do you believe that? I don't believe that it's completely impossible.
Starting point is 00:31:17 Okay. I don't think it's impossible for a black, I don't think it's impossible for a person of any race or ethnicity to harbor hatred or animosity towards people who may look like them or share some things in common. What I don't, what I completely disagree with is the idea that in every single one of these situations that no matter what happens, we just jump to white supremacy as the problem.
Starting point is 00:31:41 We've seen this happen many, many times. And I agree with you. And I think one of the biggest issues with it is, okay, I think one of the biggest issues as well is it's actually a distraction from a very important conversation, which peers was leaning into there, which is that when it comes to the police in the USA and also in other countries, there's clearly an issue of character, qualifications, training. I don't know exactly. Prejudice is the foundation for all forms of discrimination, including sexism, misogyny, racism,
Starting point is 00:32:09 and the list goes on. So if you have not dealt with your prejudice within an institution, it will manifest. That's a fact. That's a fact. A, you're talking over. That's a fact. I'm going to. I'm going to.
Starting point is 00:32:18 But secondly, you're bringing in prejudice, I think this is... I think this is... None of which had anything to do with this particular incident. What are you talking about? I just explained to you internal racism, which is based off a prejudice.
Starting point is 00:32:28 I had nothing to do with why these stars killed this man. And I said it should be considered. I said it should be considered. Well, let's do you finish the point you were making. Okay. Okay, even following on from that point, I'd also say this is mind reading as well. So even trying to bring racism into this conversation,
Starting point is 00:32:43 let's say these guys did not have... guns and badges. Let's say this was just a group of random thugs, five black men beating up another black man. Even in that situation, even outside the police force, I've still seen situations where people try to blame this somehow on this specter of white supremacy. And as I've said, frankly, it's embarrassing. And as a black person, I have just as much agency and accountability. Okay. As I said, black people have full responsibility and accountability. Just like it would be ridiculous to see a video of white people beating up a white man. There are videos. There are videos. out there of white police beating up white people.
Starting point is 00:33:17 I would also make the point of some sort of internalized racism. On that point, I would make, I would also make the point that if people genuinely believed it was racism, then given these scenes were as horrific as the George Floyd killing, in my view, no better, no worse. I mean, this was went on for a much longer period and was disgusting and abhorrent to watch. Completely innocent guy, just getting beaten and then he died. Given that, if it was racism that people genuinely believe was the motivation, we would see the same scenes on the streets of cities all over America that we saw after George Floyd's death.
Starting point is 00:33:56 We would see the riots. We would see burning cities. We would see that kind of intensity of reaction. But the truth is, even the people claiming this is about racism and white racism, they don't believe it. Because if they did believe that, if they did believe that, they'd be up in the streets saying it. And they're not. They are saying it.
Starting point is 00:34:11 They are saying it because they do believe it. But they're not protesting in the same way because, in their heart they know it's not racist. I agree with you in that. I've always said that. I don't subscribe to any type of hypocrisy, right? So if white people are going to kill black people, we should be outraged.
Starting point is 00:34:24 If black people kill black people, we should be outraged. So therefore, there are many things that you have said that I agree. There are many things that you have said that I agree with. But what I'm also trying to say is that, firstly, this is about abuse of power and a disregard of life. The individuals should make sure that they are accountable for their actions. We can all agree on that. That is clear.
Starting point is 00:34:43 But we also need to take into a way. account that black people internalize racism and they can perpetuate that racism within institutions. That is a fact. Yeah. I'll tell you what is a fact. This was five black police officers killing a black man, not because of racism and white supremacy or because anything a white person has done. No, they're wrong. But because they actually didn't know how to do their jobs, he got completely out of control. They behaved like a mob, a frenzied mob. Just like white people do and they completely lost control. Because they're not as well. When white police beat up black people, they're also fugs as well, because black people aren't just fugs when they beat up black people.
Starting point is 00:35:15 And white people can also be perceived as fugs when they're black people. Just be clear on your language. You can keep saying whatever you want, this had nothing to do with racism or white supremacy. And as Zubi rightly says, I actually think it's embarrassing. You called them black thugs, though, didn't you? They were black thugs. Okay, but you don't call white people black thugs when they killed black people. Can I say one more thing here?
Starting point is 00:35:35 I call white people white. You don't. You don't. Of course I do. There is far more emphasis on black people. There is far more emphasis. This is reality of media. There is normal.
Starting point is 00:35:44 Can I jump in here? Final word to Zubi. Connotations like thugs. Final word to Zuzzi. Can I jump in here? I think that in all of our, in both the US and in the UK, when we can have these conversations without the words white and black even being brought into the picture, then I think it will be making some headway.
Starting point is 00:36:01 So you're offering colourblind. I totally agree. And actually, I actually completely agree with that. And I'm quite disappointed that you said that as a background. If we purely talked about the police brutality here in that context without mentioning skin color, We wouldn't get anywhere. We would actually get somewhere to trying to help the situation.
Starting point is 00:36:17 But by making it about race where it doesn't exist, we actually cause more problems than we're already there. Imam, thank you. Zubi. Appreciate you joining me. Thank you very much. Good to have on the show. Well, coming next tonight,
Starting point is 00:36:28 Nicholas Sturgeon ties herself in knots again about women. She says a trans woman is a woman. It may not be a woman in a prison context. What on earth does that mean? We'll talk to Matt Walsh, the maker of a smash-it film. What is a Woman? Maybe he can give us some advice about what a woman. That's next. Welcome back a double rapist of Scotland named Adam Graham has sent a woman's prison last week after transitioning into a woman named Isla Bryson at the beginning of his trial.
Starting point is 00:37:06 Rapids has now been moved and the Scottish government's plededly announced a pause on the transfer of violent trans inmates to women's prisons. But Scottish First Minister Nicholas Sturgeon is still struggling with this issue. Take a look at this. Are all trans women women? You haven't answered that question. Well, that's not the point that we're dealing with yet. the question I'm asking. Trans women are women, but in the prison context, there is no automatic right for a trans woman. So there are contexts where a trans woman is not a woman? No, there is circumstances in which a trans woman will be housed in the male prison estate. Is there any context in which a woman born as a woman will be housed in the male estate? Look, we're talking here about trans women. And I'm now asking about women born as women? I don't think there are circumstances there, but...
Starting point is 00:37:49 So it's different for trans women? Well, yes. And I'm not... So they're not equal? That is not that there is a risk assessment process done for trans women. I mean, it's complete and utter gibberish. And this is what happens. When the woke mindset runs riot, this is where it leads into complete and utter insanity
Starting point is 00:38:09 that can't be explained, even by the people spewing it. Well, joining me in today's pack, talk to you, contribute to Esther Cracker and broadcaster Jenny Cleman. I'm glad to be joined by Daily Wire columnist and a man behind the smash hit film. What is a woman, Matt Walsh. I mean, every time I think this can't get more absurd, this simple question in terms of a response from women, we get something like that. We're a leader of a country, Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of Scotland, simply incapable of explaining why if trans women are women, then they have to be kept in male prisons.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Yeah, I mean, if they weren't such frauds and cowards, you'd almost feel sorry for them. They backed themselves into this corner, and they're left with, as you said, absolute gibberish. because that's the fundamental incoherence. At the bottom of gender theory, it's totally incoherent. And all you have to do is ask some basic questions, and that's revealed. And by the way, this idea of, well, we'll do a risk assessment, well, look, if there are female prisoners, even very danger, if there's an actual female prisoner who was larger and stronger, you'd have to do a risk assessment there, but there'd be no thought about whether that prisoner
Starting point is 00:39:17 goes to a woman's prison or not. Obviously, that prisoner is going to be a woman's prison. Right. I mean, I think in a way, this case has really exposed this whole issue, actually, in the most sharpest possible way, because even this rapist ex-wife came out and said, he never mentioned any of this stuff when they were married for eight years, and she thinks he's invented the whole transitioning simply to get himself a cushier place in a woman's prison, where, of course, he would then be able to prey on women,
Starting point is 00:39:47 which is what he's done before, which is why he's a convicted rapist. And I say he, because I just don't believe that he's a genuine transitioner at all. I think he just scammed everybody, including the legal system. Yeah, and I think he is right. And by the way, even if he was a, quote, genuine transitioner, I'd still call him he because he means man, that's what he is, no matter how he feels about himself. I do think it exposes something because at the heart of this debate, whether we're talking about locker rooms or sports teams or prisons, it's always a question
Starting point is 00:40:15 of, first of all, what is a quote-unquote trans woman? How do you define it? But then also you have these competing claims. You have the, you have the quote-unquote trans person who says that, well, if you don't do, as I say, it's going to make me feel bad about myself. But then you have all the other people who are affected who say, well, if you let them do what they want, then we are going to be unsafe. And when you translate this over to a prison and you're talking about putting violent predators and sex offenders in with women, because if you don't, the violent predator will feel bad. Well, it's like, okay, well, we can. It's mad, as is the whole sporting thing.
Starting point is 00:40:51 We have six-foot-three-inch swimmers pulverising women-born-to-female bodies in the pool and breaking all women's records potentially irrevocably. Jenny, can you defend any of this? I mean... I think it's a really stark example of where this begins to fall down because prisons are binary and sex is binary. Gender is a continuum, but sex is binary.
Starting point is 00:41:14 And whilst there is a kind of drive, to be inclusive and to be welcoming. It gets to a certain point where when you're conflating gender and sex, when you have a situation where it's either a male prison or a female prison, that's where this all throws out. I'm not going to try and defend any of it. You agree with me. Blimey.
Starting point is 00:41:29 I know. It feels very weird. We're turning the wokeies in real time here. My point about it is I think the way you try and introduce, you know, limitless self-identity of any kind, this is where it goes, right? It goes to insane places, which are actually dangerous. This is dangerous.
Starting point is 00:41:45 But it's also state overreach. And I feel like no one's pointed this out because the state is not in the business of, I'm sorry, accommodating the needs of trans-identifying prisoners. That's not their business, right? You can feel how you want. Like you said, prisons are binary and they're binary for a reason. I went to a gym this afternoon. I was in the female gym showers. I can't imagine a person born with a penis, i.e. a male being in there.
Starting point is 00:42:07 It's horrifying. So I think even the fact that, you know, people feel like it's the government's business to accommodate trans prisoners is completely preposterous. Well, the thing that I would like to know is I would like to know. where trans men go to prison. Nobody's talking about that. Because there are any trans men in prison? No one talks about trans men's sports. Do we talk about trans men's sports?
Starting point is 00:42:25 Do we talk about trans men's sports? It's not a different thing because they don't exist. It doesn't work the same way. It doesn't work the same way because biologically, because biologically the issue only works one way. Thank you. Right? Biologically, in a swimming pool or sprinting or whatever it may be,
Starting point is 00:42:42 people born to male bodies have an advantage over female bodies. predominantly, almost exclusively, right? Which is why we separate the sexes at the Olympics and things. There's no advantage with them. I mean, it's not even an advantage, though, genuinely exists. They would vanish. And that would kind of really shed light on all of this issue, are they? Well, you mentioned gyms, Esther.
Starting point is 00:43:01 When we come back, we'll talk to Matt and then you guys about this new extraordinary viral digital craze of women shaming men for looking at them in the gym. Is this perverted conduct which should lead to cancellation? or is it just people looking at each other in a gymnasium? More from Matt Walsh, my pack next. Well, the recent poll said more than half of men fear being labeled creepy for talking to women, so-called digital influences like Jessica Fernandez
Starting point is 00:43:37 might be partly to blame. Tens of millions of people watched a video show that from a gym which she claimed a, quote, feral man was staring at her. Fernandez has since apologized, but thousands of similar videos are circulated to huge audiences. Well, back with my pack, and first of all, Matt Walsh, and you've been following this, Matt, It's a quite extraordinary trend where from most of the videos I've seen, where people are claiming this is appalling behavior,
Starting point is 00:44:00 it's just bloke's in a gym looking at people, but not in any way that I would describe as predatory or unpleasant. No, of course not. This is the trend as women, for whatever reason, are recording themselves at the gym. That's the first problem. If you want to record yourself working out, maybe stay at your home and do that.
Starting point is 00:44:17 But then it turns out this is really a cover to basically entrap men who might glance over in their direction. By the way, there's a lot of reasons why somebody might glance at you in the gym. Maybe one reason is they find you physically attractive, God forbid. It might also be that, I don't know, your hogging equipment. Maybe there's equipment that you're using while you're filming yourself and muttering to yourself like a schizophrenic. And they want to use that equipment so they're kind of lingering around so they can use it. Those are all kinds of reasons.
Starting point is 00:44:41 But this is, this ultimately is why men are paranoid in just opening a conversation with a woman. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I get it the other way. I've started going back to the gym, and I get a lot of very hot women. obviously almost fainting on sight when they see the big guns coming out. But is this a serious... I mean, what is going on here, Jenny? I think a lot of women feel that they're being stared out at the gym
Starting point is 00:45:04 or having their photo. A lot of the footage is going to go around is people having their photographs taken. But aren't you going to a gym to make yourself look aesthetically more pleasing? You're going to the gym to exercise. Even if a man is looking at you, you know, like, wow, you look hot.
Starting point is 00:45:15 Why would that be wrong? Isn't that what you want to achieve? A gym is not a bar. A gym is not a dating app. Isn't it for many people? Yeah, exactly. I think a lot of women. Listen, I've heard of many romances that started at the gym. Look, the thing is, I think we're being too clinical about this.
Starting point is 00:45:28 People meet in all sorts of different settings. Again, like Matt said, you could look at someone because their form is... I don't want to be looking at me when I'm exercising. Well, that's you. I very much like to be complimented, looked at ass out. That's great if anyone is listening. But, you know, the thing is, they could also be looking at you because your form is off, right? They could be looking at you.
Starting point is 00:45:44 Do you look at other people at the gym? Yes, if you're hogging... I think you're quite unusual in that way. This is the thing. When I go to the gym, I don't think you could avoid... looking at people because I'm looking at them to see what their forms like, how they're carrying certain weights, are they carrying more than me?
Starting point is 00:45:59 You know, male or female? I don't really care. I'm just, I'm quite curious about other people using a gym. Am I now going to be something appearing on Instagram, influences sites in some sort of purve? Well, it's possible. By the way, I also, I don't mean to be a victim blamer here, but
Starting point is 00:46:15 could we also say that if you're a woman and you don't want to, you don't want men to notice you in the gym, maybe wear more than your underwear to go work out? I mean, that's the one These women in these videos, they're wearing sports bras and, like, hot pants. I mean, how about put some clothes on if you don't want people to look at you? This is victim blaming, though. I'm sorry, I'm going to quote more awkward here that men are afraid of women laughing at them.
Starting point is 00:46:37 Women are afraid that men are going to kill them. It is not okay to say that it's a woman's fault for wearing the wrong thing. You think the people looking over at people using some equipment of gym are going to kill them? I think that taking photographs is threatening, staring at people is threatening. But the ones photographing it are these institutions? No, they're not. They are video-eering men taking photographs of them and living out. Final word. We lost our minds? Yes, we have lost our minds. Men, please ask away.
Starting point is 00:47:02 Don't be tamed by this boring attitude. Matt Walsh, thank you. Pact, thank you. Whatever you're up to. Keep it uncensored. Good night.

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