The Megyn Kelly Show - Media Spreading Hamas Propaganda, and COVID Vaccine Lawsuits, with Michael Oren, Arthur Aidala, and Jonna Spilbor | Ep. 658

Episode Date: October 30, 2023

Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the anti-Semitism being displayed at Cornell University and throughout the world, the frightening anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn, the increasing targeting of... Jews worldwide, the true horrors of Hamas atrocities, and more. Then Michael Oren, former Israel Ambassador to the United States, to discuss the true threats Hamas and anti-Jewish groups pose to Israel, how a “ceasefire” would mean the end of Israel, the existential fight Israel is in right now, how Hamas uses the American and Western media to supplement its military war on Israel, the distortion and fabrication coming from the New York Times and BBC, anti-Israel reporters next focusing on Israel's supposed "war crimes," advice to jewish Cornell students, the great "Paulie" from Queens who cursed out a guy ripping down hostage posters, and more. Then Jonna Spilbor, founding attorney of Jonna Spilbor Law, and Arthur Aidala, host of the Arthur Aidala Power Hour radio show, join to discuss the evidence coming out about the George Floyd autopsy and how it might affect Derek Chauvin's conviction, how the new information does not match up with the public narrative, if the United States Supreme Court will take this case, two new lawsuits testing whether COVID vaccine manufacturers can be sued over potential deaths related to the vaccines, what Big Pharma and the government is actually immune from legally, whether people were "forced" to get the COVID vaccine and how that relates to the lawsuits, news that there will be cameras in the Bryan Kohberger Idaho college murders  case courtroom, and more. Oren: https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/Spilbor: https://jonnaspilbor.comAidala: https://aidalalaw.com/podcast/ Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Israel enters Gaza, protests erupt around the world, and Jewish students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. This is a stone's throw away from where I lived the first 10 years of my life as a child and went to college, Syracuse University. This is unbelievable to me. You know, I'm always saying I like people from upstate New York. They make sense. This is a little bit more central slash Western New York. Same rule applies, though, but not at Cornell, because as you know, on university
Starting point is 00:00:45 campuses, anything goes. The left is unrecognizable, even to most of the left these days. Jewish students there threatened with messages calling for them to be hunted and to have their throats slit. In just minutes, I'm going to be speaking with one of the most important voices on what we are witnessing right now. Israel's former ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren. He was born in New Jersey, wound up going over to Israel, staying there and became their ambassador to the U.S. And he's got a lot of thoughts on what we're seeing these days. But first, I'm going to walk you through the developments that happened this weekend in Brooklyn, New York. On Saturday, some 7000 protesters took to the Brooklyn Bridge as
Starting point is 00:01:30 Jewish people were warned, avoid the area again. I have to pause. This is New York. This is America. The answer from the NYPD or the authorities at Cornell or the authorities at Cooper Union, that other college incident we saw last week, is not avoid the area Jews. It's all hands on deck when it comes to the cops and security. And Jews are welcome here just like anywhere else in any square foot of America, because this is America. I don't understand this. Jews stay home. That's not the way forward. That's not the way forward. That's not the way forward. According to Fox News, one demonstrator told the crowd, we are going to liberate Palestine. We liberated parts of it already. So get ready to get barbecued. The protesters scaled a statue of George Washington waving the Palestinian flag. This video, courtesy of friend of the show,
Starting point is 00:02:26 Julio Rosas, he's been on before, who, like he always is, was on scene to document it all. The crowd chanted Allahu Akbar, and at least one protester was heard saying long live Hamas. Look at this. Hamas cheerleaders in Brooklyn, New York. Allahu Akbar. Really? Okay. It was all too much for one Israeli man who confronted the protesters in a fiery exchange. This is what you support. The Muslim countries, nobody wants to open the border to take this garbage, right? Genocide denier, genocide denier. Why Muslim countries open the border to take this garbage? You support genocide. You support genocide. Nobody wants those people. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Jewish proud Israeli and all these supporters, whatever they did in Israel, this is more worse than the Holocaust. And they will do it here as if they can. And they did it on September 11. Don't forget that. Overseas, the images were just as dramatic. In London, around 100,000 protesters look at this in front of Big Ben. I mean, it's shoulder to shoulder. Flooded the city for the third consecutive weekend. A sound system led people to chant, stop arming Israel, stop bombing Gaza,
Starting point is 00:03:56 and we are all Palestinian. And look at this video. It shows a masked man walking and waving the jihadist flag used by Al Qaeda and ISIS. Stay on message, sir, or wait. Are you? Are you? Journalist Andy Ngo posted video showing protesters chanting Allahu Akbar near the statue of Winston Churchill. Watch. In total, 11 people were arrested, including two for assaulting police officers. This was the scene in Istanbul, Turkey, where President Erdogan told the crowd Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Israel is an occupier.
Starting point is 00:04:55 Look at this film. My goodness. It's a sea of people. Erdogan then declared Israel, quote, a war criminal. And late last night, truly terrifying videos began to emerge out of Russia when a flight from Tel Aviv landed in the Republican of Dagestan. Pro-Palestinian rioters there stormed the airport and began searching, openly searching and running after people they believed might be Israeli passengers from that Tel Aviv flight. They demanded to see people's passports and documents, breaking down doors, hoping to find the Israelis or Jewish citizens hiding in fear. Watch. Hey, you're under arrest! Open the door! Open the door!
Starting point is 00:05:51 Come on, come on! Where are you going? Come here! Where are you going? I think about this. They're yelling Allahu Akbar. It means Allah is great. Can you imagine? Can you imagine?
Starting point is 00:06:20 I mean, look, I I'm a Catholic, so I understand Christianity. Can't imagine committing this kind of an atrocity or trying to hunt down a Jew or a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist, trying to hurt them, kill them, yelling, God is great. Yeah, my God is great. My God wants this. Think of this. This is so sick and twisted. It's not all Muslims. One of my best friends, literally, in New York is Muslim. She's absolutely lovely. They don't all feel this way. What's happening here is an abomination in the name of God. Okay. Last night, there were reports that no Israeli citizens were on that flight, which seemed odd since it was coming from Tel Aviv. But overnight, the Jerusalem Post reported that indeed there were and that the Israelis were hidden within the airport complex until police could control the riot. They were
Starting point is 00:07:11 then evacuated by a helicopter to an undisclosed location. I mean, that is actually quite impressive. And one wonders how that happened. Who was helping them? Apparently, this is a heavily Muslim area into which the Tel Aviv flight was flying. And as you know, the Russians and the Muslims have had their own problems. And so who helped them? Was it employees at Tel Aviv there, understanding that they were in danger? We'll find out more in the coming days. Here at home, Jewish students also forced to hide in fear inside their dorm rooms. This is unbelievable. On an American campus in the coming days. Here at home, Jewish students also Ford forced to hide in fear inside their dorm rooms. This is unbelievable. On an American campus in the state of New York, Cornell, this is another Ivy League. We got Harvard. We got, we got, uh, Yale. We've seen UPenn,
Starting point is 00:07:57 all Ivy league, Cornell university in Ithaca, another one, Ithaca, New York now on high alert after deeply disturbing messages found online. One message calling for Jewish students to be followed home and their throats slit saying rats need to be eliminated from Cornell. This is outrageous. I have a young friend who's at Cornell right now. She's Jewish. She and her mother cannot believe their eyes. She wanted to get a great education. That's why she wasn't expected to be targeted for her religious beliefs, for something happening a world away. A separate message calling for Jewish students to be raped and killed, quote, before they birth more Jewish
Starting point is 00:08:36 Hitlers. It's been over three weeks since the October 7th terror attack on Israelis. The terror inside the border kibbutz and at the music festival is now being felt worldwide by Israelis, by Jews. And just when you think you know what happened that awful day, horrifying new details emerge. I did something this weekend that I've never done with my team before, and that is before I sent them this news link, I actually said, I need to include a viewer warning like to my own team. I mean, we're all news people. We've seen the worst of the worst, but you can't just share something like this in a group text without a heads up that something terrible is coming. And if we start doing
Starting point is 00:09:23 that, we've lost some of our humanity. It's not okay. Just these casual references to the inhumanity of Hamas. Like we need to pause before we just dump this stuff on you. And you need to pause while you're reading X or reading online, the disturbing details of what Hamas did, because it's, it's soul shaking. That is the story I'm about to bring you. So if you care not to hear it, now's the time to turn out. It's a story told by Ellie Beer. Ellie's the founder and president of a Jerusalem based emergency response organization. By all accounts, he has a stellar reputation. He's appeared on CNN, Fox, countless other media outlets over the past few weeks and recently met with President Biden when Mr. Biden was in Israel. On Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition Conference in Las
Starting point is 00:10:17 Vegas, Beer took to the stage and talked about the horrors he says he and his rescuers saw, which included, forgive me, a baby found in an oven. I saw little kids who are beheaded. We didn't know which head belongs to which kid. I was crying for five days straight. I couldn't get out. I couldn't stop crying. See, little children, some of them had grandparents who were Holocaust survivors, and they were murdered in a Holocaust in Israel in 2023. Little babies, little children,
Starting point is 00:10:55 you couldn't even recognize if they were kids. They couldn't, we couldn't even recognize, we saw a little baby in an oven. They put him in, these bastards put these babies in an oven and put on the oven. We found the in, these bastards put these babies in an oven and put on their oven. We found the kid a few hours later. There's just, there's no words to describe what the Israelis went through. And all of this explains what we're seeing right now as they try to take out Hamas, the group behind that terror
Starting point is 00:11:23 attack. Joining me now, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Ambassador, thank you so much for being here. I mean, the horrors, they continue to come out to the world. And yet my fear is they're not going to change anything. They're not going to change these protests on the street. The college students aren't going to listen. It's already turned into a both sides kind of thing. How does Israel get out from under that?
Starting point is 00:11:52 Well, Megan, good to be with you. Thank you. You know, full disclosure, I actually serve as an advisor to Elie Bier's organization, Atzala. It's an amazing organization. It's almost 8,000 paramedic volunteers who, free of charge, treat Jews, Arabs, Christians, and they themselves are Jews, Arabs, and Christians. Two of these volunteers were killed during the attack of Hamas. And I know Eli well. he's an extraordinary human being. But just listening to him talk and I've heard him say this to me personally, it just brings us back. Because in so many ways, we in Israel are still on October 7th. We have moved beyond it because we're hearing these stories all the time. Just several hours ago for the first time, Megan, I saw pictures of those bodies, babies' bodies. And I can't describe it.
Starting point is 00:12:47 You know, I'm an old warrior. I've been in the army for many years and war many times. I've never seen one. I just haven't. And barely recognizable as human beings, babies, adults, you can't really tell. We have between 100 and 200 bodies that we can't identify. You know how rare that is? You can't identify a body that we can't identify you know rare that is you can't identify a body that can't get dna out of them that's how how thoroughly they were incinerated and mutilated um you know we've compared the uh to harm us to animals i think it's an insult to the animal kingdom animals would never do this to another living creature never so there and you're the top of everything out is what's going on in cornell last night i had a conference call a zoom call with the pro-israel community at cornell they are living in panic they are they've had to shut down uh the center for jewish living
Starting point is 00:13:40 people have been barricading themselves in libraries at cooper union in new york and what's almost as bad as the assaults on american jews and it's going on around the world not just in america is the silence it's the anti-semitism of silence the silence of of of hollywood stars and silence of university presidents as those ivy league colleges that you were mentioned um silence is horrible and there's a deep and profound moral failing um and I've uh written I have my I have a sub stack called clarity when I write about this but actually wrote about this week on Barry Weiss's uh sub stack on honesty uh Barry's an old student of mine i wrote a book called the second war against the jews the first one of course being the holocaust this is not a war against israel
Starting point is 00:14:31 this is this is a war against the jewish people uh globally whether it's in dagestan or london or in paris or in ithaca new york um it's a war against the Jewish people. And we've been here before. We've suffered before, but we have prevailed and we have survived and we thrived. For Israel, this is clearly a war of survival. This is a war, an existential war. And one of the biggest threats we face, forget the face of Hezbollah from Iran, from Hamas, the hostage situations, the number of hostages keep on going up because we're finding out more and more. They're now topping 230, going up to close to 240 hostages. The great fear, the great threat we're facing, believe it or not, is a ceasefire. Now, Hamas is very smart.
Starting point is 00:15:25 They were going to release hostages or videos of the hostages one at a time. They're going to talk about how wonderful they're being treated by Hamas, and their one demand will be for a ceasefire. And in the international community, they're going to say, well, what's wrong with a ceasefire? These fires are good. Look, it's an ameliorative word. It's good. People aren't going to shoot each other. People are going to die. Why can't we have a ceasefire? Megan, a ceasefire for Israel is death. Simply put, death. And I'll explain why.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Ceasefire means that Hamas gets away with mass murder of the worst, most heinous type. That's right. Mass murder. A ceasefire means Israel will never be able to restore its internal security. We have 300,000 evacuees living in hotels, living in other people's houses. They won't be able to go back to their homes. You have children. Would you bring your children back to a border community that has sustained that type of carnage?
Starting point is 00:16:25 And Hamas is not deterred. Hamas was allowed to restore its arsenals, make new plans for the next attack. And a ceasefire means we can't restore our deterrence power, not just against Hamas, but against Hezbollah, against Iran, against all our enemies in the region. The word was gout. Israel is vulnerable. You can attack israel with impunity when israel goes to defend itself the international community will impose a ceasefire
Starting point is 00:16:51 and you'll get away with it that's what ceasefire means so you know i don't carry a gun anymore alas i mean it um but my job is to go out to try to explain to the world why this means death for the state of Israel. It's a hard job. We'll be doing it tonight again. News. But that has to be our message. We need time and space for our army to undertake perhaps the most difficult missions ever undertaken. Fighting in the streets, alleys of Gaza, which are booby-trapped in mine, but it's also what's beneath the streets. There are hundreds of miles of tunnels and bunkers, some of them hundreds of feet beneath the surface. That's where the real wars could be fought, and somewhere down there are our hostages. Imagine that.
Starting point is 00:17:35 And all the time, we have 150,000 rockets in the hands of Hezbollah pointed at our heads. Iran rockets pointed at our heads. Rockets in the hands of Shetlish in Iraq. Rockets in the hands of militias in iraq rockets in the hands of houthi rebels in yemen backed by iran we are very grateful for the help we've been given by the administration by the united states at a time when i'd say there's bipartisan support for not getting involved in foreign military attachments once again it's picking up in the middle east we have these two very large uh naval carrier strike forces in our region uh and we're very appreciative of the deterrence that they are affecting against his ball in iran at the end of the day israel has
Starting point is 00:18:19 to defend itself at great cost of our own soldiers. Last night I went down south near Gaza. The light in the sky was lit up by rockets. And I visited my old paratrooper unit. These kids are 18 years old. And to me they look like children with guns. But this unit had been one of the first units to respond to the attacks on October 7th. Kibbutz,
Starting point is 00:18:47 Beri, Yitzhak, Kfar Aza. The things they saw there, no human being should ever witness. And they fought, and some of them didn't come home. And I saw on the faces of these children, I saw aged
Starting point is 00:19:03 faces. Aged faces faces children with very old faces with guns and um they're going back to battle they're going back into battle and they know it and i saw the same fear on the faces of those cornell students i spoke to us. It was unnerving, I say unnerving. The age of the Israeli soldiers, I mean, it's just, I have a 14-year-old boy, I cannot imagine in four years him having to go into a place like Gaza and fight and fight for his life
Starting point is 00:19:39 and for the life of his countrymen. I will say this, a friend of mine and a Jewish American just wrote me a long, thoughtful email about the whole conflict. And she was raising a good point. She said in Israel, mandatory military service takes place, I think for three years, starting at 18. And she said over here, and that's what, that's what the Israelis do. They go, they learn about defending their country, about honor, about working as a team, about what it means to be an Israeli. Here in the United States, what do we do when our kids
Starting point is 00:20:11 turn 18? We send them to college for four years of indoctrination and radical far left thinking. We try intentionally to drive wedges between them and their parents, them and their country. We try to have people with a radical agenda imprint their beliefs on our children as opposed to helping our children figure out how to critically think for themselves. It's such a diversion between the way Israel treats its young teens and the way we treat our teens, not that anybody wants to see their 18-year-old go off to war. And yet, what choice did Israel have? Yeah, I know. It's one of the reasons that wokeism hasn't taken root really here,
Starting point is 00:20:56 is the fact that our young people, by the time they hit universities, they have flown F-16s, they have commanded tanks, many have seen action, some of them are married already. And so when a professor gets up there and talks about these things, about critical race theory or microaggressions, they look at them and say, well, you've got to be kidding. It's very different if you're a very impressionable 18-year-old and this is the first major authority you're seeing telling you these things.
Starting point is 00:21:19 So it is a bulwark against that. It is. But Megan, I don't have words for these kids, for these young people. No, I don't. They're beautiful and they're brave. And I think just about all Israelis understand that we have no choice here, that they have to go forth and defend us. Well, like you said, I mean, if for no other reason than deterrence, if you don't, you're going to be seen as an even bigger target than you already are.
Starting point is 00:21:50 That's that's Israel's only way forward. If they don't, if they do not eliminate Hamas right now, others are going to see an opportunity. I know you've written about this in the past. Let me ask you a question coming from the other side, the other argument, you know, from people who are pro-Palestinian, I'll put it that way, to be charitable, who say there's no military solution to be had, that we've seen these skirmishes, you know, mowing the lawn over the past 20 years or however long it's been since 2005, since Gaza was returned entirely to Hamas. And nothing ever gets solved with rockets or return rocket fire, death,
Starting point is 00:22:26 beginning death on small scales or large scales. And, you know, you listen to these pro-Palestinian advocates and they basically say, I don't even think they want a two state solution exactly, Ambassador. I think they want a one state solution that doesn't involve Israel. But what what what kind of peaceful resolution could there possibly be? So again, citing my old age, I started off my public career as an advisor to the Ishaq Robin government in 1993 at the time of the Oslo Accords. And I've been through every peace process. I actually participated in the last round of discussions, negotiations with the Palestinians.
Starting point is 00:23:07 And one of the big problems is we talk in terms of solutions. There are not a lot of solutions for many problems, not a solution for Syria, there's not a solution for Egypt. No, the solution is not going to be had, but there are better ways of managing it. One of the big impediments to managing it better
Starting point is 00:23:25 is the belief that there's a solution um and that's not going to happen but i certainly there is a solution to the grave damage done to israel's deterrence power to our internal security and to the relationship between the people of israel and the state of Israel, because to say very frankly, on October 7th and 8th, the state kind of let us down, right? Whether it be the military, at least let us down. So we have to restore that relationship. We have a social contract, just like every other state. This social contract was a very particular social contract because Israel was created three years almost to the date after the end of the Holocaust. And the promise this country made to the Jewish people was that a second Holocaust couldn't happen.
Starting point is 00:24:10 The Jews would be secure here. And that social contract sustains some pretty significant shredding on October 7th and 8th, those two horrible days. We have to restore that. We cannot do that without a military response. Hamas can be uprooted. It can be driven out of its tunnels. It can be mowed down. If you whatever edges, whatever verb you want to use, it will no longer be in control of the Gaza Strip. And you can say you can't get rid of the idea of Hamas. That's true. Any more. You can get rid of the idea of ISIS or Al Qaeda anymore. You can get rid of the idea of Nazism. But the fact that there is States degraded ISIS and Al-Qaeda greatly reduced the threats
Starting point is 00:25:07 of those two terrorist organizations. There's no solution by bombs and bullets. Tell that to Nazi Germany. Tell that to Imperial Japan. I think there were some solutions there, don't you? Are they perfect solutions? No. But in our region,
Starting point is 00:25:23 we want to be able to manage the conflict, to make progress where we can make progress. But in the meanwhile, we want to live. We want to develop what has become one of the most successful countries in the world in every area. And we can only do this if we have basic security. And that's what we have to restore. Right now, things are changing militarily in Gaza. This is according to Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesperson in The New York Times, saying, the current stage of the operation, a combined force of infantry tanks and armored units are now attempting to move toward groups of armed Palestinian operatives inside Gaza. He said
Starting point is 00:26:01 overnight dozens of terrorists were eliminated, declining to specify how many Israeli troops were inside Gaza. Um, Israel's defense minister this month outlined three phases of a battle plan, one intense airstrikes to eliminating pockets of resistance, three, creating a new security reality for the citizens of Israel. We presume by ending Hamas's rule. And they are, it's not a full ground invasion from what we can tell into Gaza right now, though what we're able to observe is limited. They've cut a lot of the communications, but definitely Israel has stepped up its attacks on Gaza. And I'll tell you, one of the things, and you know this better than anybody, that you're up against is not just Hamas and its evil, but the media, which enables it. This morning, I turned on NPR's Up First, a podcast, a short podcast that many people listen to to start the day.
Starting point is 00:26:58 It's one of the top podcasts in the country, actually, news-wise. And one of the first things I heard was all about the devastation of the poor Palestinians said something, I think they said 6,000 dead, a number that has not been verified. They didn't even bother to source it. I mean, at least the other papers said, oh, according to Palestinian health ministry, which we now know is Hamas, and all these papers were embarrassed having run with that hospital attack. But even today, she didn't even bother to source it on NPR, just 6,000 Palestinians dead. Really? Are there? According to whom? Who says who? So you have the media working against you and the Hollywood crowd here in America working against
Starting point is 00:27:36 you. And this growing leftist belief on college campuses and beyond that Israel's an occupier, that Israel's created an apartheid state, that this boils down to skin color. And so there is a PR war that needs to be waged, and Hamas is very good at it. So what does Israel do on that front? First of all, I think, let me just say something about the unrest on campuses and some of these protests around the world and some of these media outlets like the BBC, I can't help but see beyond or beneath the anti-Semitism to locate a deep self-loathing. These people not only hate Israel, they hate their own country. They hate their own civilization.
Starting point is 00:28:17 And they understand something that should be understood by everybody, that this is not a war between Israel and Hamas. It's a war between civilization and evil. Their problem is they view their own civilization as evil. And somehow in a Christian universe, Hamas becomes good. And that's precisely what's going on on these campuses. Ask these same people who are protesting for Israel's destruction, what do they think America is a force for good in the world? Whether America is an exceptional country. Whether America stands for anything worthwhile. I think you'll get a very similar answer. That's my gut feeling.
Starting point is 00:28:47 Do you agree with me, Megan? I'm sure you do. Yeah. As for the media wars, that's something I've been dealing with, oh God, for a very long time. And it works like this. Hamas knows, even with the horrendous attacks
Starting point is 00:29:03 of October 7th, 8th, with all the rocket fire, and I'm sitting here in Jaffa, and we are hit by rockets pretty much every day. Last night was a particularly heavy barrage. With all of their rockets, with all of their massacres and tortures and mutilations and burning, they can't destroy us. They'll come close to destroying us. So what's their plan? Their plan is to have a military tactic that serves a media,
Starting point is 00:29:32 a diplomatic, and legal strategy. I shall explain. So they break through our border to kill our people to shoot rockets. At the end of the day, their rockets can't cause much damage we shoot back and they don't they don't invest a penny in civil defense there's no bomb shelters in gaza there's no there's no sirens that go off that warn people right uh unlike in israel i'm actually talking to you from inside my bomb shelter here don't know if you can see the books behind me don't let them fool you that's the bomb shelter and we all have bombs so they're not investing that siren system is very advanced it's on our
Starting point is 00:30:08 cell phones it's outside um they don't have any of that so they promise win this twice it gets to kill our people and then it gets us to kill their people and get those get npr talking about it now that creates protests around the world, particularly in Europe, and that in turn translates into pressure on government. So the media strategy then turns into a diplomatic strategy, and the diplomats put pressure on their governments to vote for, for example, condemnations in the Security Council, which in the end can leapfrog from the UN into the National Criminal Court, where they could find Israel guilty of war crimes.
Starting point is 00:30:48 They're already investigating us for war crimes today. And then the International Criminal Court announces there's a boycott and blockade of Israel, which will deny us the right to defend ourselves and actually ultimately deny us the right to exist as a sovereign Jewish state. So that, you've seen how it leaps from a military tactic to a strategy which is about media, diplomacy, and ultimately the legal system. These guys aren't stupid. And they do this again and again.
Starting point is 00:31:15 And they chip away at our legitimacy each round. I guarantee you there's going to be more and more resolutions in the Security Council. I hope the United States keeps on videoing those resolutions. Not easy. And then the accusations of war crimes. They're coming already. There's going to be many, many more. It's amazing because if you think back to how we responded after 9-11, we started bombing Afghanistan. You didn't have reporters going
Starting point is 00:31:46 into the villages in Afghanistan to talk about the plight of the innocent Afghanis who got swept up in the crossfire, you know, and and nor nor do we believe that they were using civilians in the way that Hamas uses them over there. But only with the Israel-Palestinian conflict does the media rush in to try to talk about the effect of each and every bomb that Israel launches? Each and every bomb is a war crime because of this, because of that. Without giving the context of the fact that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, Israel does everything within its reasonable power to stop civilians from being targeted. Hamas does the opposite. That context is missing from 90% of the reports. Just it was just a
Starting point is 00:32:25 what was it a couple of days ago, October 26th. The Hamas leader, honey, a honey, H-A-N-I-Y-E-H Aniya Aniya Aniya. Thank you. Thank you. Came out and said very clearly that the blood of women and children and the elderly being spilled is a good thing for Hamas that they need it. Here is that soundbite number nine. I have said this before, and I say it time again. The blood of the women, children and elderly. I am not saying that this blood is calling for your help. We are the ones who need this blood.
Starting point is 00:33:07 So it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit. So it awakens within us resolve. So it awakens within us the spirit of challenge and pushes us to move forward. And yet, Ambassador, what you have, again, is the Western reporters going in there like another civil israel israel's killed this many civilians in in gaza not not verifying the numbers not including any context not acknowledging this is all part of hamas's plan
Starting point is 00:33:39 yep so listen again i've been involved this many years and I serve on an inter-ministerial committee on this. And I'm sort of the hard guy on this committee because people talk about, well, we've got to invest more in trying to convince this campus or trying to convince that newspaper of the righteousness of our cause. And I said, OK, we should do that. We also have to keep in mind that at the end of the day, we are the Jewish state, which means we will be judged by a completely different set of standards. United States in its wars in Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan killed tens of thousands of civilians. Even the New York Times reported on that. And the rules of engagement were much more lenient than our rules in terms of trying to avoid civilian casualties. America's not held to that standard. Nobody is. We alone are held to the standards.
Starting point is 00:34:28 And, you know, if you look at the Barry Weiss sub-stack, that's what I call the second war against the Jews, I go into the press handling of Israel and show how the press's treatment of Israel, particularly in this conflict, reflects medieval anti-Semitic tropes. Innocent Jew is an oxymoron. Jews are
Starting point is 00:34:50 guilty by birth belief and ancestry of deicide. Jews are guilty of the massacre of the innocents, the book of Matthew. Jews are, you know, every blood libel, the classic blood libel of the Middle Ages is played out on these pages.
Starting point is 00:35:08 And our ability to fight hatreds that are hundreds, in some case, thousands of years old is very difficult, extremely difficult. On top of that, all of these hate groups are amplified exponentially by the social media. They are now being amplified by AI because people are saying, well, those massacres really never happened on October 7th because they were all fabricated by Israeli AI. You don't know how good Israel is at AI. And all those pictures of dismembered bodies and incinerated bodies, they're all fabricated. And even the hospital,
Starting point is 00:35:46 it's the Al-Ahi hospital bombing, which both the United States and Israel proved unassailable, was not Israel's bombing, but a Palestinian rocket. They had a poll today that came out that majority of generated generation Z people don't believe that evidence. They believe that Israel fabricated the evidence. Nor do the members of the so-called squad who continue to go,
Starting point is 00:36:11 oh, we may never know. Or the New York Times. The New York Times, which paid experts a week, a week and a half after that, to keep on trying to prove that Israel did it. It was jaw dropping, jaw dropping to see this stuff. They were desperate. You saw, of course, the New York Times just hired a Palestinian reporter who openly praised Hitler. You are so good. Hitler, you are so great. It wasn't like,
Starting point is 00:36:39 you didn't have to really separate the wheat from the chaff to figure out whether this guy actually is a fan of him or it was right there. I thought, I think that even for New York Times, that was quite exceptional to hire experts to really try to prove that Israel did it. And this is what we have to deal with. At the end of the day, Megan, you know, we've been dealing with this hatred
Starting point is 00:36:58 for a very long time. We're still here. And I'll tell you an interesting story if I could, I'm off time. Like, you know, last, part of my family, from marriage is Sicilian. And last year, just about a year ago,
Starting point is 00:37:13 we went to Sicily and we had a great time with the Sicilian branch of the family. And we went to Syracuse, not Syracuse, New York, went to the original Syracuse. And in Syracuse, if you walk down these steps about 20 feet, there are the oldest mikvah baths, ritual Jewish baths in Europe.
Starting point is 00:37:33 They're about 1500 years old and they're still full of water. You can still use them. And you're down there and there are no Jews left in Syracuse. They were all evicted in 1492 during the expulsion and the Inquisition. And you come out to the surface and you see these magnificent ruins. There are Roman ruins and Greek ruins. Also Sicily. If you get a chance to go to Sicily, if you've been there, it's amazing.
Starting point is 00:37:53 Especially if you like ruins. And Byzantine ruins and Ottoman ruins and Arab ruins and Crusader ruins. Every room in the world. All of these civilizations are gone. And we're still here. We're still here we're still here and so we will be here we're going to win this war it's going to cost us greatly it already has plus this break we will deal with the hatreds you know a thousand years from now the new york times won't be here but we will be here and we have to keep that in mind all the time.
Starting point is 00:38:32 I appreciate the optimistic message. I know a lot of Jewish people and the people who love them, like yours truly, are very worried. It's good to hear the larger perspective just for a minute, because people are scared. I know Jewish parents even here are scared where this is going. Let me take a quick break. And that's where I want to pick it up when we come back. Your message for Americans and people outside of Israel who are dealing with this and what they should be doing more with Ambassador Oren right right after this. Hamas releasing a new video just a short time ago showing three Israeli women who are being held hostage by the terror group. In the video, the women criticize Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and call for a ceasefire. I mean, obviously, these women are under duress and are more than likely being told exactly what to say by their captors. The prime minister's office slammed
Starting point is 00:39:21 the release of the video as cruel psychological propaganda. As we've been covering, people are trying to spread awareness of the hostages all over the world by putting up flyers so people can see their faces and their names only for them to be ripped down in many cases by pro Hamas activists. It happened again in Queens, New York last week. Oh, my God, this went so viral and for such good reason. This time, however, the man ripping down the posters got more than he bargained for, thanks to New York's hero, Pauly. And if you know Queens, when a Pauly shows up, you better be ready for a smackdown. Pauly works construction. He's not Jewish, but he didn't like what he saw the man doing and handled it New York style. Watch.
Starting point is 00:40:11 All right. I'm a veteran. I'm telling you. All right. I'm not Jewish. He's not Jewish. I don't know if he is or not. It doesn't fucking matter. This is fucking the U.S. New York City. You don't have a fucking right to touch that shit. This is a free country you can wave your palestine flag and say death to the jews or america whenever you want but we can put up signs okay then don't rip that down you are doing something you're offending us yeah you are when you throw that on the floor you're later in the city in a minute i'm gonna litter the floor with you you have a clue so fuck on. You have proof they're not getting up. No. So shut the fuck up. I know that's what you want. I ain't dying to
Starting point is 00:40:51 fucking put you in the hospital. Come on. Polly, Polly, we love you. He's now being hailed by many as the new king of Queens. Back with me now, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Ambassador, what I love so much about that clip is the guy gets everything. He gets that you have a right
Starting point is 00:41:11 to say the stuff, even if the stuff is hateful because this is America. But I have the right to come yell at you and get in your face about what you've just done. And you don't have the right
Starting point is 00:41:20 to tear down my posters. I mean, it was just, to me, Polly and the Polly's of the world are the answer. And I get very nervous about Jews don't come to the dining hall. Jews barricade yourselves
Starting point is 00:41:33 in the library. Jews stay home. You know what the truly horrible thing is, Megan? I heard repeatedly today that there are charges that that video, which has gone viral,
Starting point is 00:41:44 was fabricated the day after. No, that's from people who have never been to New York. Anyway, disturbing. You know, I spent many years, one of my first jobs in government was being Israel's ambassador to the Christian world and there are about 60 recognized churches in this country many unrecognized churches in this country and as preparation for that job I sat down and
Starting point is 00:42:15 studied the New Testament very carefully and it was a it was a very important tool for me but one of my favorite lines the New Testament comes from the book of Corinthians and where Paul says you know the is is a very confusing place it's full of fog and we look at the world as if through a glass dark room and i think that the greatest quality of human beings like paulie are people who can look through the glass even if it's dark and actually see clarity see clearly and that's a rare quality. Look how clearly that man saw things, that this apparently Muslim gentleman has the right to fly a powerhouse and fly.
Starting point is 00:42:52 He has a right to say what he wants, but he doesn't have the right to assault another human being. He saw this as an assault. He didn't have that right. That's so rare. That's seeing through a glass darkly, but really seeing. And it's amazing.
Starting point is 00:43:12 What about the Americans out there right now? Because I understand Israel has a mission and it's a righteous mission right now. A hundred percent get it all. But I do worry as we see these pro-Palestinian mobs growing across the globe and domestically here in the U.S. about, you know, the Hamas talents in the propaganda war that we just discussed. And as Israel's incursion ramps up, as things get worse for Hamas,
Starting point is 00:43:40 I think that that swelling of support for the Palestinians will get even bigger. And I worry about the backlash to Jewish Americans here, Jewish people around the world, you know, more college campuses getting the nonsense that we just saw at Cornell or at Cooper Union last night and i i spoke to them you know after meeting these paratroopers and i saw the same expressions on the face i said this earlier but i said the students at cornell you know these paratroopers are preparing to go in gaza but you're also in the book you're a war against the jews this the front lines is cornell university is an ethical and uh your weapons are your knowledge and making sure that no one can distort the history of Gaza, which includes Israel's withdrawal from Gaza Strip in 2005, ripped up 21 settlements. We yanked 8,000 of our own citizens out of their homes in order to give the Palestinians a chance to build a peaceful state. And they turned it into a terrorist state.
Starting point is 00:44:44 And these are just one of the many facts you have to know. There's no water in Gaza. You know why there's no water in Gaza? Israel is only responsible for 70% of the water in Gaza. There's no water in Gaza because Hamas ripped up all the pipes to make rockets. They dug tunnels through the aquifer and drained the aquifer. That's why there's no water in Gaza. But the people across are going to blame Israel, denying Palestinians water.
Starting point is 00:45:04 You've got to know these things. That knowledge is the equivalent of a gun on American campuses. But at the end of the day, what these young paratroopers and these young students have in common is their spirit, their unwillingness to surrender, their willingness to fight, to stand up. And my advice to these Cornell students was do not let them. Don't let them lock you into your Jewish center, your center for Jewish living. Do not let you be intimidated.
Starting point is 00:45:33 Fight back. Your president at your college doesn't say anything. Accuse that president of being complicit in racism. And the standard must be if people say this about jews if they had said the same thing about black people or about lgbt people what would be the response if the response is anything less less total less category than what they'd say in those cases then that is risk and accuse your president your faculty of racism because because it is. Stand up. Be strong. Here I'm not quoting the New Testament, but our Bible, the Torah,
Starting point is 00:46:12 Moses says to Joshua again and again, in Hebrew, Chazak ve'mas, be of strong heart and good courage. And that's the best I can tell you. Yeah, now more than ever. I mean, I have a lot of Jewish friends right now who for the first time are buying guns. They're worried about the mezuzah outside of their house. You know, the the marking that a lot of Jewish people put on the outside. And that shows that you're Jewish.
Starting point is 00:46:34 They're worried about their kids wearing their Star of David necklace. I mean, it's just crazy. It's crazy. I mean, I understand the fear. That's not crazy. But that we're at this point, even in America, I can't imagine being a Jew in Israel right now. It's genuinely terrifying. But we have to remember that we're Americans, too.
Starting point is 00:46:51 I mean, we're Americans first over here. And we don't cower. We don't cower. You get in our face, we get a Polly. If we're not strong enough to do it ourselves, we get ourselves a Polly and it's on. All right? I grew up among Polly. I grew up in an entirely Italian neighborhood. I know Polly. Believe me. You don't want to mess with Polly and it's on. All right. So, um, I grew up among Polly. I grew up in an entirely Italian neighborhood. I know Polly. You don't want to mess with Polly.
Starting point is 00:47:10 You're from Jersey. It's the same, the same as Queens. I love it. Listen, all our best to you, Ambassador. Thank you so much for being with us here today. And we're praying for you guys. Thank you, Megan. Be well. Thanks for your support. All the best. Wow. Can you imagine? It's great. It's like, you know,
Starting point is 00:47:31 Pauly probably didn't see himself becoming a hero on the internet or elsewhere, but that's all it takes. As he points out, moral clarity. That moral clarity that he had, that a lot of you have. And you know what? So many of these people, they're cowards. They're cowards.
Starting point is 00:47:43 You get in their face, they're going to back down. They're afraid. They're counting on the anonymity of being able to pull down the posters or wave their Palestinian flag. And 90% of them know nothing. They know nothing. Now we turn to Kelly's court with two of my favorite legal minds joining me today, Johnis Bilboer, criminal defense attorney and founding attorney of Jonas Bilboer Law, and Arthur Aydala, trial attorney and managing partner of Aydala, Bertuna & Kamens,
Starting point is 00:48:12 and host of the Arthur Aydala Power Hour radio show on AM 970, The Answer in New York. All right, so there's a lot to get to, you guys. We got Derek Chauvin. We got Brian Kohlberger and more. Welcome back to the program. Let's start with Derek Chauvin, the man, the cop convicted of second degree murder in connection with the death of George Floyd. Of course, everyone remembers the story. That's what he was convicted of, among other charges. Now he's serving a 22 year sentence and there's news on this case. At the moment, his lawyers are trying to be, to get the case heard at the U S Supreme court,
Starting point is 00:48:55 the Supreme court of Minnesota decided not to hear their appeal. So now they're going to the court of last resort, the U S Supreme court trying to say, please, please, please hear our appeal and give us a new trial. So we'll get to that in a minute. But in that context, like as that's happening, something else is happening, which is Amy Sweezy. She's our age. I think the three of us are about the same age. She's a 1995 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. And she was a prosecutor in this district attorney's office that went after Derek Chauvin in Minnesota for 28 years. She's tried over 100 felony jury trials. So she knows what she's doing, including first degree murder cases. She specializes in, all this stuff. Now, she is suing her old boss at the Hennepin
Starting point is 00:49:50 County Attorney's Office, alleging, I think it's sexual harassment, that he sexually harassed her, sex discrimination and retaliation. Right. And yet in the context of this civil litigation, she has made some extraordinary allegations on the record about what kind of behavior he's guilty of and what he was saying and doing while running in particular the George Floyd case, the case against Derek Chauvin. She says at her deposition, which is sworn, she's under oath, that this guy, the DA, was aware of a conversation she had with the medical examiner, whose name was Andrew Baker, and that the day after George Floyd's death, she, Amy Swayze, had a conversation with the medical examiner, Andrew Baker. And Andrew Baker said the following, quote, well, this is her describing it. He called me later in the day after I'd asked him to perform the autopsy. And he told me after doing the autopsy, there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the
Starting point is 00:51:06 vital structures of Mr. Floyd's neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation, said Ms. Sweezy. He said to me, she went on, Amy, what happens when the actual evidence does not match up with the public narrative that everyone's already decided on. And then he said, this is the kind of case that ends careers. Andrew Baker responded, the medical examiner saying, I cannot comment, but his representative says that he stands by the autopsy report and his televised testimony, both of which are publicly available. Now, many are saying this proves that Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd in any way, that this medical examiner knew it, that there were no signs of asphyxiation nor any injury to the vital structures of his neck, no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.
Starting point is 00:52:03 And that last comment is the killer. What happens when the evidence doesn't match up to the public narrative? So, Jonna, what, if anything, does this do to the case and specifically to this appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to get Derek Chauvin a new trial? So much to dive into here, Megan. This is really bombshell evidence because on a number of levels, it proves if true, a malicious prosecution, it proves, disproves the fact that there was any sort of, that this was basically a homicide. So it proves that Derek Chauvin and others and company should not have been charged at all, certainly not the way
Starting point is 00:52:46 they were charged. And it proves that this was going to be a conviction at all costs kind of prosecution based on the climate of what was going on across the country, based on the climate about how people all of a sudden had to hate all police, especially white police. It proves that Derek Chauvin, if true, was absolutely railroaded. Now, the interesting thing is that really didn't come out. I mean, Eric Nelson, the defense attorney, did try to raise that in the course of his cross-examination, didn't really hit a home run with it. It will be part of the appeal to the Supreme Court, even though it wasn't part of the trial. They can bring up this new evidence when they make their pitch to the Supreme Court. But at the very least, I don't think it stopped there.
Starting point is 00:53:38 This is new evidence. And they should probably try to reverse course and start all over again to the extent that the Minnesota allows them to do that, because this is really huge. So she raises a good point, Arthur, that they did try. They knew, as I read the transcripts, some of this they knew from the medical examiner's report, some of this, but they didn't know all of it. I don't see anything where they knew he was saying the actual evidence does not match up with the story that they're telling the public. That's devastating. You know, as a defense attorney, if you found that coming from another D.A. talking to the your medical examiner as the defense attorney, you'd be like, I'm doing cartwheels. You'd be so thrilled. But as far as I can tell, they did not.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Derek Chauvin's lawyer did not have access to that because it's only been unearthed here in this civil lawsuit I don't think it's going to be enough I mean what they what they write in or what they're facing part of their appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States of America on is that the jurors were in a position when there was not a change of venue that if they found Chauvin not guilty, there would have been riots in the street again. So they really had no choice, which is a pretty powerful argument. But just what an appellate court could say to get themselves out of it is, look, the jury heard substantially significant evidence that the medical examiner said,
Starting point is 00:55:08 I don't think he was choked to death. He died of asphyxiation, but there's no injury to the neck. What I found very interesting by the- He didn't die of asphyxiation, did not die of asphyxiation. And the medical examiner testified to that. And what I found very interesting though, Megan, from the packet your team gave me was that he said he never watched the video before he did the autopsy because he didn't want it to influence him and what his outcome was, which that really was like, wow, that's interesting.
Starting point is 00:55:44 So he doesn't even know or he hasn't seen it with his own eyes until I think after the fact. But look, the three of us know the Supreme Court of the United States of America takes less than 100 cases a year. There are certain cases that they have to take, like when two jurisdictions, like two different states in federal court are ruling differently the second department the second circuit has a different ruling than the third circuit they kind of have to take that here they have to find four justices to say okay we're going to take this case because it has such a profound info uh impact on the laws of the united states of america but we're going to take it i don't see that burning legal issue here.
Starting point is 00:56:25 You know, you know, I will say I'll make an argument of why they should. And I understand that they probably won't because they don't want to be particularly bold. The U.S. Supreme Court, they like to not touch the hot buttons if they can get away with it. But this is a growing trend in America. Trial by media, you know, trial, but for social justice, not for actual justice. And if they actually took this case and reversed it, saying this guy did not get a fair trial, the court of public opinion had hanged him before he ever stepped foot in that courtroom. And this was a D.A. and an A.G. on a quest for social justice, not actual justice. That's not the United States of America. It actually would send a very powerful message down to all all courts, criminal and civil on. Don't go this road, this road. We're not going to support you. And we don't care if people don't like us. But, John, let me jump back to some of the evidence
Starting point is 00:57:20 that was admitted before the jury, because this is not going to be helpful to Derek Chauvin's request for a new trial or trying to use this woman's deposition as like, you know, the new Holy Grail. As you pointed out, his lawyer, Eric Nelson, Chauvin's lawyer, did get some of these points in before the jury. Now, that's the kind of stuff any appellate judge will look at because the judges want to wiggle out of changing the verdict. They don't they don't like changing verdicts. So if they have any reason to say this is all brought up in front of the jury and you you muffed it, then they'll do that. So here's what happened when they had Andrew Baker on the stand, the medical examiner, and Nelson was cross
Starting point is 00:58:01 examining him April 2021. Here it is SOT 20. Let's play it. In terms of the placement of Mr. Chauvin's knee, would that explain anatomically why Mr. Floyd, would that anatomically cut off Mr. Floyd's airway? In my opinion, it would not. So that was a great admission that Nelson got, that the knee would not have cut off airflow to George Floyd. The jury didn't care.
Starting point is 00:58:38 Right. Which goes along with the very basis, the very basis of the appeal is that, right? The very basis of the appeal is because you didn't allow us to change a venue, a conviction was a foregone conclusion because the jurors did not want their houses burned down. They didn't want their families stoned. They didn't want any of that. And the fact that a jury can ignore solid evidence from an M.E. This isn't even a hired gun, so to speak. This isn't a quote unquote expert that any side can hire. This is the guy that works for the state that that does this for a living, that works for the state, giving information that is basically contrary to the state's case.
Starting point is 00:59:22 And the jury still rejected it. What does that tell you about the tenor? And you know what I find very interesting? If we believe the information and the deposition that's ancillary to all of this, where the ME was basically saying without saying it, don't make me do this because I still want my job. Don't make me say what really happened here
Starting point is 00:59:43 because it's not a safe environment if I do. Do you think 12 strangers aren't going to have the same fear? If a professional, if a seasoned professional is afraid to tell it like it is, do you think 12 jurors are going to be bold enough to find Derek Chauvin not guilty? No way. As a reminder, he did end it, according to this woman's deposition, again, to find Derek Chauvin not guilty? No way. That's why, that's why the patient- Because he ended it, just as a reminder, he did end it according to this woman's deposition. Again, Amy Sweezy's deposition,
Starting point is 01:00:11 the medical examiner ended it with, the evidence doesn't match up with the public narrative. This is the kind of case that ends careers. He was scared. He was worried about his paycheck. And you could argue those jurors were worried about their safety, their lives, their jobs as well. Go ahead, Arthur. That's why I think to everyone's point that both of you that just made their stronger issue is the
Starting point is 01:00:36 lack, the fact that they didn't change the venue, that there was so much. She's saying it feeds in, right? It feeds in. But, but wait, before, before, before you make that point again, because I heard that point the wait, before before you make that point again, because I heard that point the first time before you make that point again, that there are other issues that came out. But I want to and I want to get your take on it, because you, Mark and and I had a big debate on the Chauvin case, Mark Arthur, back when it was all going down. And this was one of the issues, the drugs and whether George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose, not from anything Derek Chauvin did. Now, if you look back, because I went and looked back, what did the medical examiner say about how George Floyd died at the time, like in his report? Well, he came out with some very squirrely language. He said, I'm really going to homicide, but quote, not a legal determination
Starting point is 01:01:23 of culpability or intent. So he's basically trying to say he was killed as a result of actions of another, but I'm not saying whether someone intended to kill him. Then he said Floyd died of cardiopulmonary arrest. Okay. This is squirrely. Listen to this. So far we understand cardiopulmonary arrest, like something happened with a heart in the lungs that caused him to stop breathing. Complicating law enforcement subdual restraint and neck compression. Complicating. His cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement restraint and neck compression. So, in other words, the fact that his heart and his lungs gave out
Starting point is 01:02:05 complicated the cop's restraint of him. What in the actual F? Nobody understands that choice of phraseology. If you reversed it, we would understand. The restraint complicated his heart, his lungs, his ability. That's not what he wrote. And then he was asked about it on the stand and it still didn't make any sense to me, but he did expand on what he tried to mean in SOT 22. So what I clarified for the U.S. attorney in the Federal Bureau of Investigation was my opinion as to what happened to Mr. Floyd and that is he experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest
Starting point is 01:02:42 in the context of law enforcement's dual restraint and neck compression. arrest in the context of law enforcement's dual restraint and neck compression. It was the stress of that interaction that tipped him over the edge, given his underlying heart disease and his toxicological status. Not what his report said, Arthur, as you as a defense attorney would be quick to point, that's not what he, the way he phrased it when he was a squirrel. Right. But so it's so instead of saying complicating, it should have said complicated by the cops beating on him.
Starting point is 01:03:10 That's what brought on the heart attack. Megan, I just have to get this out of my system. The more we talk about this, like the United States Supreme Court is not going to take this case based on anything we're talking about. I mean, I would be shocked. No, no.
Starting point is 01:03:24 I mean, they have ruled in cases that actual innocence does not require a reversal. If everything was done the right way, procedurally, everything was done the right way. And they're going to say, you know, what you and John are talking about, like, how can we let juries do this? Like the Supreme Court is not going to come down with a ruling saying, if there's too much public pressure on juries, you know, we have to do X, Y, and Z. They're just going to look at the Constitution. They're going to look at precedent and say, was there anything here that violated it? It's got to be of the magnitude that affects the country.
Starting point is 01:03:57 And I just don't see that happening here. What they're going to say is, look, the jury heard all of this stuff. They heard that testimony. They heard the defense attorney's opening where he brought it up and his summation where he brought it up and his cross-examination it is not newly discovered evidence like hypothetically you know they they really found something new in the toxicology report that took months to come out and now it's brand new and nobody knew about it so you know i know, I think Mr. Chauvin is, I mean,
Starting point is 01:04:25 the place where he kind of shot was in the Minnesota appellate court. Once you know that, and then their higher court said no, and now you're in the Supreme Court of the United States, it ain't happening. But these are points, these soundbites that I'm playing, these are soundbites that will be quoted by the prosecution in arguing Mr. Chauvin's had his day in court. Mr. Chauvin's lawyer raised these issues when have been a change of venue, even those points aren't persuasive. Nine justices. So don't take a look at this case. It's just it's very unfortunate that this medical examiner, John, I did not have the balls to come forward as a whistleblower and a legal term.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Is that a legal term? Yes, you understand it's balls. Did you miss that day? Black's Law Dictionary under B. I go with hooks, but you Yes, you understand. It's balls. Did you miss that day? It's in Black's Law Dictionary under B. I go with chutzpah, but you can go with that. It's fine. But seriously, like he had to say, he said it to the DA who later resigned, but he didn't have the guts to say it publicly.
Starting point is 01:05:39 And honestly, she should have come forward with it sooner too. She didn't bring it forward until she sat for a deposition. Oh, too. She didn't bring it forward until she sat for a deposition. Oh, absolutely. I mean, really, this is akin to a Brady violation because what we're hearing in this deposition is only part of it. I guarantee you there were conversations that no one is privy to other than the participants where this M.E. said, what what in the hell are you doing? And they said, make it happen. Say what you got to say. Phrase it the way you got to phrase it because this guy is going to get prosecuted and all his buddies are going to get prosecuted.
Starting point is 01:06:11 And this is the way it's going to happen. And, you know, I liken this to sometimes when you have civil cases, right, and you're trying to get to the conversations that occurred behind closed doors, you always got to ask for the post-it notes, right? Everybody who doesn't want this information to ever be public, they don't put it in their note. They don't type it in the computer. They put it on Post-its. And when they're done discussing it, those Post-its go in the garbage. And what this Emmy did was really untoward, if not just fully illegal. He's, again, not a paid expert. He's an Emmy. He should have just said what it actually was and let the DAs deal with it, let the jurors deal with it.
Starting point is 01:06:53 But they essentially have hidden valuable exculpatory evidence that's not okay. And I don't care what court needs to hear it next. It's not okay. This man is serving 20, 21 years in prison for his job. No, it's true. It's, it's very dark what happened. Um, you know, Tucker came out, he did a show on this and, um, he said that according to a recent court deposition, the one we're talking about, it proved that Chauvin did not murder George Floyd and Newsweek gave him a false rating for the show. I mean, I have to tell you, I'm on team Tucker. It did. It did prove that Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd. And what it proved to me was maybe not as beyond a reasonable doubt, but it certainly gave us new evidence that this was not a murder and that the M.E. knew it and that the M.E. used squirrelly phraseology to please his boss,
Starting point is 01:07:50 because that's what you do when the actual evidence doesn't match the story being told to the public. You squirrel your way out of it with mealy mouth language that nobody understands. And then you get browbeaten by a number of bosses. And then by the time you take the stand in the actual criminal case, you say, oh, as I have since made clear, what I meant by my weird language was he wouldn't have died had it not been for that knee, even though he didn't, he wasn't asphyxiated. He wasn't strangled. The guy had a heart attack. So in any event, I respect, I respect. I'm going to disagree with you. I know that I'm at my own peril, but I don't think it proves that Chauvin didn't do it. I think what would have proved it is if someone said, any medical expert said that had he walked out of that store that day and no one called the police, they said his artery was 90% blocked. Clinton's artery was 90% blocked. They took him to the hospital and they fixed him. If it was 99% blocked, like, how did he walk out of the store?
Starting point is 01:08:50 He was going to just collapse and die there no matter what. If he had a contact with the police, if he didn't have any contact with the police, his time was up, he was ready to go. I think but for the interaction with the cop that day, he would have at least lived to see dinner that night, if not breakfast the next morning. So you can't say that he was in really bad shape. He had an enlarged heart because he had years of high blood pressure. He had a 90 percent clogged artery.
Starting point is 01:09:18 He had some drugs in his system. And therefore, he was going to die anyway. And Chauvin not been there. But then, Arthur, wait, hold on, counselor. OK, I take your point. But then at that point, you have to start asking, OK, at what point did it did it switch into murder? Because George Floyd was the one who invited interaction with cops that day. George Floyd resisted arrest long before George Floyd wound up on his stomach on the ground under Derek Chauvin's knee. He was in trouble with the cops. His nose was bleeding in the car before he went down. So like what the Emmy is basically saying is the stress of the event pushed him over the top.
Starting point is 01:09:58 Here he is for when he was asked about the amount of fentanyl in George Floyd during the confrontation in Sat 21. Listen. Do you recall describing the level of fentanyl as a fatal level of fentanyl? I recall describing it in other circumstances. It would be a fatal level. Yes. In other circumstances. Had you found Mr. Floyd under different circumstances, you would have determined this to be a fentanyl overdose. So I don't recall specifically what I told the county attorney, but it almost certainly went something like this. Had Mr. Floyd been home alone in his locked residence with no evidence of trauma and the only autopsy finding was that fentanyl level, then yes, I would certify his death as due to fentanyl toxicity.
Starting point is 01:10:49 So, John, I mean, what's really happening there is once again, he's saying what he actually believes, that the guy drug overdosed. I'm sure he did get stressed out by his interactions with cops. But where is the evidence, the actual evidence that the nine minutes underneath the knee caused the death? The most he could come up with after the fact was it was the stress of the interaction that tipped him over the edge. I played you that soundbite, tipped him over the edge, giving his underlying heart disease and toxicological status given given those two things. So, look, it's I mean, look, I I'm being exacting because you before you put a man in jail for twenty two and a half years, especially a police officer, you better be damn sure it actually was murder.
Starting point is 01:11:28 And what we're seeing here is an Emmy who was not sure and further confirmation from the deposition of this prosecutor who's now very angry that no one believed it, that the Emmy didn't believe it. She didn't believe it and that we had a chief D.A. with an agenda. Let's take it a step further. This conversation shouldn't even be happening happening in the context of is this a crime, let alone is it murder? This is a great conversation for the civil lawsuit when you're trying to prove, you know, the eggshell plaintiff that we all heard about in law school, you know, but for the knee on the neck, Mr. Chauvin would still be alive because you have to take him as you find him. And how you found him that day was high on fentanyl with a 90% clogged artery with high blood pressure and with whatever host of other ailments that he had.
Starting point is 01:12:18 The civil context is where this is relevant. This should not have even risen to the level of a crime, let alone the highest crime, that being murder. So it's offensive all the way around for me that this is now coming out ancillary. This isn't even coming out for the purpose of this former DA trying to help Chauvin. She's trying to help herself. And here it comes. Somebody ought to do something about it. It's total reasonable doubt they found the guy guilty. And the appeals court said, well, the jury heard it. They heard that he didn't know if
Starting point is 01:13:09 he was 16 or 17. They found him guilty. Here, the jury heard what the medical examiner said, and they still found him guilty. Even though Megan's mad at me for repeating myself, I think the stronger issue is it should not have been a jury that if they found him not guilty, they went outside their house. It would be burned to the ground because they were in such a volatile area. Well, and I agree with that point that this case never should have been tried there. What a nightmare. And obviously the result was baked in and you had the AG Keith Ellison, a man on a mission to put this guy behind bars. He's a very political animal and he got his way. I've told the story before. I just want to mention it one other time because in the context, it's just so telling to me. One of the reasons we left New York City
Starting point is 01:13:48 schools is because of their crazy obsession with race essentialism and the trans obsession. And our daughter Yardley was in school in this fancy Tony, New York City private school, fourth grade after this happened. And the teacher got up, they gave the girls a Newzilla article to read about this case about Derek Chauvin being convicted or being tried. I think it was right after the conviction. I'm trying to remember exactly where we were in the case, but in any event, gave him the article and said, we're going to talk about it. Then the teacher stood up and said, this country has a massive problem with cops killing unarmed black men. And one of the little girls had the temerity to say, wasn't George Floyd resisting arrest? And the teacher's response was,
Starting point is 01:14:34 they always blame the victim. And then Yardley raised her hand and said, wasn't George Floyd on a lot of drugs at the time he died? And the teacher responded with this conversation is making me uncomfortable and I'm shutting it down right now. Look at this. Yes, Jonna, those girls were zeroing in on exactly the right two things and they weren't allowed to explore it in front of their classmates because the damn teacher was growing uncomfortable. Shameful. It's supposed to be the other way around, right?
Starting point is 01:15:10 Like maybe the teacher would make the kids feel uncomfortable. But the fourth graders aren't supposed to make the teacher. The teacher is supposed to be able to act and react to that and have maybe a conversation about it. Although, I don't know, fourth grade, I'd rather them be learning like long division or whatever they do in fourth grade than about a murder trial. I mean, I think that's a parent's role if you want to discuss the current events. They raised it because they want to indoctrinate our daughters into their left-wing thinking, which is why we left that school. And I'll tell you a happy story on the opposite end. Now we moved to Connecticut and our kids are in new schools. And of course, we checked them out before we selected them. And I heard a story about, this is not my daughter, but my son and his history teacher. I heard this story that a few years back during the height of
Starting point is 01:15:49 the Me Too movement, they were reading some text or I don't know what it was, but it was something from, you know, yesteryear. It wasn't a current text, but the text veered toward demonizing boys. And this is an all boys school. And one of the boys got up and ripped the pages in two and threw them on the ground and said, I'm sick of this. It's everywhere. Boys are being demonized. It's unfair. And let me tell you, at that New York City school, you would have been in a shit ton of trouble. They would have called your parents about ripping up school books. You would have been explained about toxic masculinity and why you may not know it, but you are a secret feminist and all the stuff, right? You have to accept. And at this school, the teacher said, so interesting. Let's
Starting point is 01:16:32 talk about it. Why do you feel that way? And then said, who else feels the way this kid does? And then said, who disagrees with them? And then they had a debate and the kid won some people over to his side and some people went over to the other side and the teacher just allowed critical thinking and discussion and exploration of ideas. That's the way it ought to be done. All right. Quick break.
Starting point is 01:16:53 Coming back with this lawsuit that's now been filed about the COVID vaccine allegedly killing a teenager and how parents are now finding a way to challenge the legal system, which says they cannot sue, but they are. Stand by. Back with me now, Janice Bilboer of Janice Bilboer Law and Arthur Idalla of the Arthur Idalla Power Hour radio show. All right, guys. So a pair of lawsuits now in connection with
Starting point is 01:17:25 the COVID vaccine, in particular this time, the Pfizer one. One is at our evil top hat neighbor, Canada. That was Michael Knowles' description. That makes me laugh. And one is right here in the United States. Okay, the first one, God bless this poor dad. An Ontario man files a $35 million lawsuit against Pfizer over his son's vaccine death. This is new to Ontario. The dad's name is Dan Hartman has initiated a wrongful death lawsuit, wrongful death against Pfizer because his son, Sean died from the COVID vaccine. There is an American pathologist named Dr. Ryan Cole who has determined as of this past summer, indeed, that is what caused the son's death. They went to the vaccine injury support program in March. He was denied money. This
Starting point is 01:18:18 father was. His son died 33 days after receiving the Pfizer second vaccination, his poor son, Sean, was found deceased in his bedroom by his mother. They said that he had problems after the first shot and then came the second shot. And 30 days, 33 days later, he died. Now, in the United States, there is a similar case, but a different defendant. He's suing Pfizer, this Ontario dad. But here in the U.S., there's a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for its relationship to this vaccine and pushing it through. The family of 24-year-old George Watts of Lockwood, New York has filed a lawsuit accusing the department of defense of willful misconduct in the death of their son by deceiving millions of Americans into taking the COVID vaccines, which they say
Starting point is 01:19:16 were unsafe after taking two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Um, he, he died and, um And yeah, after the first dose, he experienced complications, which he chose to keep to himself. After the second dose in mid-September, he experienced flu-like symptoms and so on, and shortly thereafter, died. He began coughing up blood. He had pain in his feet and his hands and his teeth, extremely sensitive to sunlight. And by October 27th, 2021, he was dead. Absolutely awful stories. So what do you guys make of it? Because as you know, they're supposed to have immunity. Pfizer is supposed to have immunity.
Starting point is 01:19:58 The federal government is supposed to have immunity from lawsuits like this. So how do these parents get to bring these claims? Who wants to start? I'll start. Can I start? Yeah. to have immunity from lawsuits like this. So how do these parents get to bring these claims? Who wants to start? I'll start. Can I start? Yeah. So, okay. So a couple of things first that people need to understand is that what our government did when they rolled out these vaccines, they had to bake into the cake immunity against the vaccine manufacturers or else nobody was going to manufacture these vaccines. Everybody knew from the get go that nobody was going to manufacture these vaccines. Everybody knew from the get-go that they were going to get sued. People were going to die.
Starting point is 01:20:32 Things were going to happen. So you have to bake that into the cake. And just like they did with the nursing home cases, they granted nursing homes during COVID immunity from civil lawsuits for a period of time. And typically when that happens, the government plans to roll out some sort of fund to help compensate the people who are damaged by happens, the government plans to roll out some sort of fund to help compensate the people who are damaged by whatever conduct the government has created. Now, it sounds like they're trying to do that in the COVID cases, but some families are saying that's not good enough. And in order to get around the governmental immunity, which governments have against their negligent acts by and large,
Starting point is 01:21:05 and the federal government has that too with the Federal Tort Claims Act, you can't get around immunity or a plaintiff can get around that provision if they can prove that the government's conduct was reckless, that it violated your civil rights, and that it wasn't a matter of mere negligence. And so these cases are saying, look, it was reckless. It violated our civil rights because we have a right to life, liberty and happiness. And well, if you're dead, your civil rights have been violated. And you did so recklessly for whatever your agenda was to roll out these vaccines without the proper protocol or what have you. It's a good avenue, Megan. I know it sounds like it's going to be a long shot, but it is a good avenue to get around the government
Starting point is 01:21:50 claims of immunity and it just might work. And if it does work, it could be big. It'll be a large class action. That's my prediction. And that's the right way to go. Arthur, let me just clarify because I made a mistake in describing the cases. The first boy, the one in Ontario, he died after the first shot. It was the second young man out of New York, Lockwood, New York, who had some symptoms after shot number one, but that he kept to himself, it says the lawsuit, including blood in his urine, and then went on to get the second shot anyway and died thereafter. So just to clarify, one died after the first shot, one died after the second. Go ahead. So if I could be pragmatic for a second, if I was the dad of either of these tragic deaths, I would just go to Pfizer privately and say, hey, how do you feel about setting up a foundation in the name of my son, knowing that three people, there's some fund of people, the vaccination fund, and all three of them together have gotten a total of $5,000.
Starting point is 01:22:52 One got $1,000, one got $2,000, one got $1,000. So I don't think there's really a lot of good law on this for these plaintiffs, especially since, yes, I understand these two boys died tragically, and how many millions and millions and millions of Americans had no reaction, if any. So I don't see them, and God forbid this happens again, and some sort of a pandemic. Do we really want to set precedent to the manufacturers of the drug saying, yeah, we know at the time when we really needed you, we said you were going to have immunity. Three years later, we changed our mind and you don't. And now anyone who had any kind of reaction to the COVID vaccine is going to be able to sue you. You can't have that precedent. You have to
Starting point is 01:23:42 protect the manufacturers. Here's how clever the government is though, Arthur. They grant immunity to the drug companies for a period of time so that the statute of limitations will have run for any wrongful death claims by the time they lift that immunity. So the government looks like they're, oh, we're lifting the immunity. Great. But the people who actually need to sue the companies for wrongful death will have surpassed their statute of limitations. So it's a win-win for the government and for the drug companies and not for the people, which is why they have to sue the federal government under a civil rights violation.
Starting point is 01:24:21 And that's how I think they can get in under the wire and get some sort of actual relief that these families obviously deserve there. But can't you get luck? But the standard right now, even if we don't change anything, the standard right now is if you can prove willful misconduct, you can get after them. You can get them willful misconduct. So what they're alleging, like in the first case out of Ontario, they're alleging that that Pfizer owed a duty of care to Sean Hartman, the young boy, to accurately inform of adverse events on vaccinated people in the study and on from there. That's true. We had an episode. It was number 201. The guy's name was Brian Dressen, and he was talking about this exact experience when it came to the astrazeneca trials so right after she got the shot uh we're driving home and she said something doesn't feel right she had tingling down her arm where she got
Starting point is 01:25:32 the shot she started to notice that her vision was changing um her ears became very very sensitive to sound they didn't offer any help to you you were on your own in dealing with the fallout from it. And then it seems like, you know, the other shoe to drop was when you saw her negative outcome was not included in the results of the clinical trial. Right. The test clinic sort of didn't seem super interested. The feedback we were getting from AstraZeneca was essentially, we need a diagnosis, we need a diagnosis. Anything that would essentially
Starting point is 01:26:10 absolve them of any responsibility. If they can get there, and they're going to be able to get their hands on people like that, to say it was willful, this was a willful attempt to mislead by companies like Pfizer and Moderna. You know why?
Starting point is 01:26:27 Because it was worth billions, billions to them. Right. And there's your exception to the governmental immunity. Boom. That's a that's a home run right there. And I think that's going to be very provable and the government's going to have to step up and do the right thing. I mean, it wasn't that long ago, guys. Remember, we were forced. You were forced to get vaccinated depending on where you work. You couldn't go to a restaurant in New York City without showing your vaccine. You couldn't do anything without showing your vaccine card. That's forced. And to do that without the proper
Starting point is 01:27:05 testing or lying to us about the results, which I'm positive the government did, is just flat out wrong. And now it's time to pay the piper. And I feel very sorry for these families who lost children. It's bad enough. We have plenty of families who lost elderly people. No death is okay. But the people who especially lost otherwise healthy children, it's not acceptable. And there is okay. But it really wasn't forced. In other words, in the lawsuit, in the lawsuit, they say, well, one kid wanted to play hockey. That's why he got the vaccine. And another kid had the option of going to school online, but he didn't want to. So he got the shot so he could go in person. That's not a legal definition of force.
Starting point is 01:27:47 And you know what, John? We're being lawyers now. We're not being like what it should be. We're talking about a Supreme Court of the United States looking at the law, being a strict constructionalist like Amy Comey Barrett is, the way she was taught by Justice Scalia. Nobody was forced to get the shot. There were some circumstances, like in the city, you were going to lose your job.
Starting point is 01:28:07 But these particular cases, to go play hockey or kids did online learning. They were not forced. You can't use the word forced. They were not forced to. Go ahead, John. Well, I think we probably will redefine forced then. Because otherwise, if we had listened to the government and didn't want to get vaccinated, then you were going to be shut in in your house with scare tactics daily. Plenty of people were, John, plenty of people. Not only were you going to die, but you were going to kill other people if you didn't get the vaccine.
Starting point is 01:28:43 I mean, come on. That was manipulative. No, because that's the thing, Arthur. She she has a point is like, well, are we really going to be at the point where unless you had a gun to your head and you were told get this vaccine or you get the bullet, it doesn't count as force because it was you. You're losing your jobs. People were fired from the military. They were fired from teaching jobs. They were fired from hospital jobs. They couldn't play sports. They couldn't go to school if they refused to get the vaccine there At our own school, it's been great on the woke stuff, but not so great on the COVID stuff. These kids were going to be expelled unless they got that shot at age 16. Thankfully, our kids were younger, so they didn't have to face that yet.
Starting point is 01:29:19 But that is a form of force that was exerted. And it's not just going to be these two plaintiffs who suffered negative consequences. Expelled is a lot different than I can't play hockey, right? I mean, getting expelled from school is a lot different. Okay, but I'm expanding it. Okay. The bottom line is there's got to be precedent on this, right? Kids all have to get vaccinated to go to school, at least here in New York. You know, my daughter, who's two, she's getting a shot every six months of something.
Starting point is 01:29:48 So there's got to be some legal precedent on how these cases have played out through the years that we can rely on. I just don't see that the government here is going to say, let's let manufacturers of a drug that saved people's lives. Let's have them now be liable when we told them you weren't going to be liable because the next time this comes up. We told them they wouldn't be liable for negligence. We didn't tell them that they would not be liable for willful misconduct. And by the way, if they had tried to say that, it would not be upheld by a court. You can't immunize Pfizer or Moderna for willful malfeasance behind the scenes, for knowingly endangering people, which is what is
Starting point is 01:30:30 being alleged. If they can go to court and show plaintiff after plaintiff who knows somebody who we have witnessed after what is who was dumped from the trial because their participation would make the results look bad, they're in a shit ton of trouble. But Pfizer didn't approve the drug.
Starting point is 01:30:46 FDA approved the drug. So you're saying the government is liable. Of course. That's true. So Pfizer has no consequences as a result? Listen, here's my drug. You guys are going to test it. We think it's good.
Starting point is 01:30:57 But you make the last call. You make the ultimate decision. We think it's okay. Pfizer made representations. Pfizer made independent representations about the safety and efficacy of its drugs. So did Moderna. This other kid or this other young man, George Watts, 24. He took he took Pfizer, but he died, according to the autopsy record from the Bradford County Coroner's Office of myocarditis, vaccine related myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart. We've seen this over and over and over. It wasn't
Starting point is 01:31:25 acknowledged in the early days by any of these vaccine companies. And then when smart doctors started to talk about it, it was all deny, downplay, deny. There's that sinus medication we've all been buying. It's supposed to clear you up that they said it works. It works. It works. The FDA just said, you know what? We realized it doesn't work. Yes, we approved it. We made a mistake at CVS and Rite Aid. They all pulled it off the shelves because it doesn't work. It's the government's job.
Starting point is 01:31:51 That's why we're paying all these taxes to the FDA to make the ultimate decision. Yes, I agree. The government sucks and they should pay, but it doesn't get Pfizer off the hook. What nasal spray are you talking about? What is this? It's all over the place.
Starting point is 01:32:05 It's got a long, long word. I know the one that is good is Sudafred. Leuconazine? I shouldn't say names that I don't know whether there's a problem. I don't know. There's two of them that sound very similar. One of them works and one of them does not work. They did this long-term test with the placebo,
Starting point is 01:32:22 and the placebo worked just as well as the drug. And it's been on the shelves. I don't know which one it is. Phenylephrine. The one that does not work is phenylephrine. And the FDA has approved it. The drug companies have said, yeah, it works. I don't think anyone died from it.
Starting point is 01:32:38 How about all the money we've spent on it? It doesn't have a negative effect. Yeah, that's different. Yeah, that's different if it didn't have a negative effect. My apologies to fluconazine or whatever that other one is called. The nasal sprays bring back like childhood trauma. My mom was a nurse. She was always trying to shove one of those up my nose. I ran. I hated it. All right. Yeah. Afrin. I got to finish with, um, Kohlberger. So the court in the Brian Kohlberger case out in Idaho
Starting point is 01:33:00 has said cameras will be allowed. Great. Because I do believe that we have a right to see what happens there and also has rejected his lawyer's attempt to have the entire indictment dismissed. They claimed that the grand jury should have been using a standard before deciding whether to indict him of beyond a reasonable doubt instead of a preponderance of the evidence, which is a very weird argument and to me just underscores the desperation of the defense attorneys here, Jonna. I mean, like what kind of that's just a specious argument. It underscores the duty of the defense attorneys, Megan, because, look, they're creating a record for when this guy gets convicted for the appeal that will follow. You have to do this. It's, you know,
Starting point is 01:33:49 standard operating procedure that you're going to challenge the grand jury indictment. You're going to make any plausible argument that you can make. And there's a 99.99% chance that the judge is going to, you know, shut it down. So we didn't expect that to work, but they do have to create their record along the way. and that's what they did. And Megan, sometimes the Hail Mary, I apologize, but sometimes the Hail Mary works. My firm filed five of these types of motions, rejected by five judges. After the conviction, the lower court, the appellate court, said, no, actually, they were right. And they threw the whole case out because they said the grand jury proceeding was ineffective.
Starting point is 01:34:28 So you never know. But I would definitely classify this as a Hail Mary. New York is so it's so weird because they call the trial court the Supreme Court and they call the intermediate appellate court the appellate court. Then they call the top top court the Court of Appeals which is not the top, top court at the federal level. That's the immediate appellate court. And like how and of course, at the federal level, the Supreme Court's the highest. How are people like lay people supposed to follow that nonsense? I know not. What do you make of cameras being allowed in the courtroom?
Starting point is 01:34:55 Because it will likely be another grounds for appeal if and when Brian Kohlberger gets convicted. His lawyers did not want it. They think that he's already been misrepresented. They think they complained that screen grabs have been like misused by tabloid media. Janna, the judge says he's going to try to control it more. I don't know how, but have we seen cameras in the courtroom ever used as an effective grounds for appeal that you know of? I can't think of a case. Look, the people love this stuff. We do have a right to know. This may end up helping him. How many times have we gone into a big trial with preconceived notions
Starting point is 01:35:31 that the defendant is guilty or Johnny Depp is guilty, and then all of a sudden, cameras in the courtroom, we change our minds. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. It's not going to be a ground for appeal. I respectfully disagree. Megan, if you or someone you love was having open heart surgery, would you want the surgeon to be on the you love was having open heart surgery, would you want the surgeon to be on the learning channel doing the open heart surgery and adding yet another distraction to that room? Or do you want him to be laser or her to be laser focused on the open heart surgery? When there's enough things you got to deal with in a courtroom, when you're trying a case and someone's life is on the line, I don't need a camera in my face. I'll just go on Kelly's Court,
Starting point is 01:36:05 get all the camera out of my system, and I'll be happy. It's scary being on with the two of you. The two of you women just scare me. I'm used to being here with eyeglasses. But you, gorgeous, dynamic, intelligent, charming. It's too much for me. I'm scared. I'm scared.
Starting point is 01:36:21 Go on, go on. We only have 16 minutes to break, but continue. There's 16 seconds. Panel, it was a pleasure as always. Two of the OGs from Kelly's Court. You speak Kendall's Court. That's how long ago we started this, when I was married to a different person. Love you guys. See you soon. Thank you. Be well. And thanks to all of you for listening today. I enjoyed Kelly's Court. I have to say we needed that. All right. See you tomorrow. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.

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