The Young Turks - Trump Cancels North Korea Talks, Says Migrant Kids “Not Innocent,” Politician Begs Cop To Let Her Drive Drunk

Episode Date: May 24, 2018

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in the authorities. So perhaps a little bit of justice finally. And then you're going to love this story in the second hour. A Republican commits a crime. Her excuse to the cops is I don't want to say record breaking because there's been a lot of terrible, terrible Republican excuses. But it's right up there in the Pantheon. You will greatly enjoy it. Okay. So, but first we start with current events relating to our president and world events. that might be disastrous. All right, let's go over here. It turns out that Donald Trump might not be getting the Nobel Peace Prize after all. Say it with me. Of course.

So a bunch of Republicans, 18 of them had petitioned that Donald Trump should get one based on the peace deal that he was going to make with North Korea. Well, hadn't happened yet, as Bush used to say. So I would have held back on that one. Now, if he had done that deal, and I've said this from day one, then I think it would have been amazing, fantastic. I would have been completely in favor of it. And I even think that his bluster might have helped to get the North Koreans to the table.

I've also said that throughout. But it turns out we're not even going to have the talks. At the very end of this story, there's a great little thing about how the Republicans had already started to do basically their end zone dance and celebrate. It turns out, yeah, you might want to put that celebration back. Anyway, here's Donald Trump announcing the end of the potential summit that was to never be. Based on the recent statement of North Korea, I have decided to terminate the planned summit in Singapore on June 12th. Well, many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead, potentially.

I believe that this is a tremendous setback for North Korea and indeed a setback for the world. I've spoken to General Mattis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world that has been greatly enhanced recently, as you all know, is ready if necessary. So, I'm going to tell you how Donald Trump got played on this, and it's one of the guys standing behind him that totally clowned him and actually did ruin any chance of Trump victory on this issue. But before I do that, I want to give you one more quote from Donald Trump, because it gives you a sense of what went wrong here. He actually wrote a letter to Kim Jong-un, and in that letter, he said, sadly, based on

the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent sense. statement. I feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Now, by the way, I don't want you to get the wrong idea. I hope that the meeting does eventually happen. Right now, the one that was planned in June has been canceled. It's not to say that it's never going to happen. It might, and I hope that it does. But there are people within the White House who are looking to sabotage it, which, by the way, I think, again, it hurts Donald Trump and his potential accomplishments, et cetera. But they're undermining him for a reason. I'll explain that in a second. So, hey, conservatives out there, this is kind of a palace coup in a sense.

The one that you've been looking for, they're in the house. So first, the South Korean reaction. Now, the South Koreans have been trying to put this together the whole time. They reached out the North Koreans and shared the Olympics a little bit in a way they didn't have to, but it was a great gesture. They were still hopeful that this meeting was going to happen, despite some tough talk back and forth earlier. And of course, did we tell him ahead of time that we were going to cancel the talks? No. In fact, there's reporting that

President Trump might not have even told his own State Department before he sent the letter. Of course. No preparations, no forethought, no homework, all that stuff. So the South Korean spokesperson sounds bewildered. They said, we are attempting to make sense of what

precisely President Trump means. Well, you and us both, brother, okay, the whole world's trying to figure out what in the world Donald Trump means exactly. And in this case, he's miffed. Now, why is he miff? It's because of the insults that the North Koreans did to two people, John Bolton and Mike Pence. Now, why did they do those insults and why do I think those two people are actually

trying to undermine Trump? So first, let me show you what John Bolton said over the weekend on television. I think we're looking at the Libya model of 2003-2004. We're also looking at what North Korea itself has committed to previously. And most importantly, I think going back over a quarter of a century to the 1992 Joint North-South Denuclearization Agreement, where North Korea committed to give up nuclear weapons and committed to give up uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessed. So that was the first red flag.

Why on God's Green Earth would you mention the Libyan model? He's saying we want North Korea to do what Libya did, which is give up their weapons. Well, what happened to Libya afterwards? We attacked him and killed their leader. You would only mention that if you wanted to not only antagonize North Korea, but to remind them that we are actually not going to meet our end of the bargain. That's undermining Trump. That's sending a message.

And if you don't know, I've talked about this on the show before, well before John Bolton never said that. The thing that North Korea is most concerned about is, well, basically what they're now calling the Libyan model, what happened to Gaddafi. Gaddafi makes a deal and then gets killed by us, and Bolton knows that Trump's stupid. He doesn't know anything, right? Never heard of it. When trying to explain the Libyan model a couple of days ago, it made a total mess of it.

He has no idea what he's talking about. But Bolton does know what happened to the Libyans. Basically, he's telling the North Koreans, here I am, the National Security Advisors of the the president, if you do the deal, later will kill you. Wow. And he knows that Trump is too stupid to understand that. He knows the North Koreans will understand that. They'll fire back at Bolton, and hopefully that'll scuttle the deal. It wasn't enough until Penn stepped in. But so what did the North Koreans do when they heard Bolton say that? Of course, predictably, they said that it was, quote, awfully sinister. And by the way, if you don't know, again, I have posted a decent summary of

this, so let me just read that to you about what happened to Gaddafi. After Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear weapons program in 2003, an armed revolution aided by the United States and NATO military intervention, ousted him in 2011. Rebel forces captured and brutally killed Gaddafi during the conflict. And as I've told you before on the program, the North Korean leaders have literally watched that video of Gaddafi being dragged through the streets and killed. And there's nothing. nothing that they are more concerned about than that. So when Bolton says, yeah, we're gonna do what we did in Libya.

They go, oh, I get it, okay, do not make a deal with the Americans. It's stunning. And by the way, media, let's go, wakey, wiki. Some of the print articles explain some of the context here again there, the Huff Post had a decent explanation of what happened. But on television, are you hearing about how Bolton and Pence undermine Trump? Because that's exactly what they're doing. There's no other reason why you would mention Libya.

unless you meant, not if you cross us, but if you do the deal, we're going to kill you anyway. So hold on. Now let me give you another senior North Korean official reaction to this. They say about the Libya situation, world knows too well that our country is neither Libya nor Iraq, which have met a miserable fate. That is exactly what they would say. It is the most predictable thing in the world. I would have told you what they were going to say ahead of time. And John Bolton knows that because he's trying to end these peace talks. Why? Because they're peace talks.

And there might not be a bigger hawk in the country than John Bolton. I think he outhawks all the other neo-conservatives, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, maybe even Dick Cheney himself. So he's like, peace, I don't want peace, I want war. So let me scut it in a way that my moron president can't even tell. So apparently not enough because that didn't kill the talk. So then Mike Pence went out this week and said, let me try to finish it. So here's what he said. It would be a great mistake for Kim Jong-un to think he could play Donald Trump.

You know, there was some talk about the Libyan model last week. And, you know, as the president made clear, you know, this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal. Some people saw that as a threat. Well, I think it's more of a fact. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful. But now there's a podcast dedicated to unraveling those lies, debunking the conventional wisdom.

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you must unlearn what you have learned. And that's true whether you're in Jedi training or you're uprooting and exposing all the propaganda and disinformation you've been fed over the course of your lifetime. So search for UNFDR in your podcast app today and get ready to get informed, angered, and entertained all at the same time. No, no, the reporter, so-called reporter on Fox News missed it. Look, threatening to do violence against North Korea if they don't make the deal is easy. That's something we've done before.

That's not the news event. The news event is bringing up the Libya model in the first place. What is the positive thing that you would get, you would want North Korea to get out of it if they actually do the right thing and make a deal with us? Well, okay, then they would get what Libya got, which is what? We'd kill them. Why would they make that deal? Of course, on Fox News, they're not going to ask that.

But you get a sense, Mike Pence brings up the Libyan model on his own. So he's working with John Bolton. He's working with the neo-conservatives. By the way, the people who voted for Donald Trump, you liked it when he said that Iraq war was a bad idea. You liked it when he said that we did too much intervention, right? Well, that Trump's instinct in this case is still the same. But his own administration is undermining him.

And they know that if the North Koreans then insult Pence, which you know they're going to, that that's going to bother Trump. He says, oh, that's not respectful. It's not the right thing to do. I like Mikey. Why do they say that about Mikey, right? And of course, that's exactly what happens. So, North Korean Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs comes out and says, as a person involved

in U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice president. Okay, that'll do it. But you know North Koreans, they're not done yet. So I went on to call, Pence, quote, a political dummy. So now we're back to basics. Now North Korea, after we canceled the talks, and it goes back and forth, both sides threatening all throughout as soon as the Libyan model was introduced in the conversation

by the neo-conservists in the Trump administration. So North Korea's senior avoy for U.S. affairs says, we're going to make the U.S. taste an appalling tragedy. It has neither experienced nor even imagined. Great. We're back to more war. Bolton wins. Mike Pence wins. And by the way, if you're a Donald Trump supporter, you lose. If you're a progressive, you lose.

Yes, this is one issue where we agree, actually. If you're a reasonable human being who favors peace instead of carnage that in the case of the Korean peninsula might cost literally, and it's not anywhere. near a hyperbole. It might cost millions of lives. Just in conventional weapons, the North Koreans have so many and they can launch it on South Korea and kill millions fairly quickly, let alone what we would do to North Korea. So the Hawks must be thrilled. The rest of us are in bad shape because I wanted this to work out for Trump because it would have worked out for America and the world. So finally, I mentioned to you earlier that they were doing a

a little bit premature celebration the Republicans were about how this deal was, they hadn't even had the summit, but they were treating it like the deal was already done, right, Nobel, Peace Prize talk, etc. There was one other thing that they did. So they, Wall Street Journal explains, in a sign of raised expectations for the summit, the White House Communications Agency earlier this week unveiled a commemorative coin to mark the coming summit between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim. Oops. We can call that coin the Leon Lett coin.

You didn't think that maybe this volatile situation might not end well and they might not even have the summer? And so you thought, we got this. He's got the art of the deal. Let's already print the coins celebrating the summit and how wonderful it was. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Morons and monsters. That's what the Trump administration is filled with. Okay

Now speaking of which let's go to Trump's monstrous Actions okay So recently Donald Trump Referred to undocumented immigrants as animals That was in response to a question about MS-13 Now in his answer he didn't clarify MS-13 and he talked about how they were turning away a lot of people at the border It seemed like it was a more general response than that specific question about MS-13, but look, I know that the Republicans are snowflakes, and so they get their

feelings heard, and they're like, no, you're missing it, okay, all right, it doesn't matter, because Trump's going to clarify. So he's going to say a number of things here, and I'm going to give you the facts, the realities about MS-13, they are terrible gang, and they do commit atrocities, which Trump's going to share with you in a second, but I'll give you the real numbers as to the scope of the problem. So first, let's hear out Trump today. They exploited the loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors. They look so innocent.

They're not innocent. So now, let's be clear, he's talking about minors. He just said it. So he's talking about kids, immigrant kids, they look innocent, but they're not. Why? We have to dehumanize them. And the people that we have the most sympathy towards are kids. They look so cute.

We're hardwired to actually not do violence against one another. Of course, we've had terrible violence throughout human history, and that is also part of our wiring. But overall, there's great studies on this. Our instinct is to not do it. In fact, in World War I, an enormous percentage of people would not fire on the other side. Right? But when it comes to kids, we're particularly against doing violence, which is great. That's great. But fascists don't like that. They want you to hate another group. They got a demagogue them. The problem is that other group has kids just like we have kids. But that's why Trump, like all good fascists, has to come out and go, they're not innocent. They're not kids. They're monsters. It's okay. Let's crush the kids, too. So now he's going to connect. them to MS-13. Watch. I noticed recently where Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, as an example, are trying to defend MS-13

gang members. I called them animals the other day, and I was met with rebuke. They said, they're people. They're not people. These are animals. And we have to be very, very So there he is in Long Island, where MS-13 has done terrible violence, and he's going to tell you about that. I'm going to tell you about that. Let's clarify a couple of things. First off, Nancy Pelosi is not defending MS-13. Nancy Pelosi is a thousand problems. That ain't one of them.

And no one, no one in the country is defending MS-13. That's a total lie. He says that because he's like, oh, yeah, well, you know, they're saying that I said that MS-13 is animal. No, they're saying that you called undocumented immigrants animals. That's what they're criticizing, not your comments about MS-13, so total lie. Okay, but much more importantly, he's doing the old Dick Cheney trick. How did they get us into the Iraq war? Well, 70% of Americans thought at the time that we started the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had personally attacked us on 9-11.

He hadn't. Saddam didn't do it. It was al-Qaeda that did it, and al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were enemies. Now, they couldn't say that with a straight face, so what would Cheney and Bush always do? They would come out and say 9-11, Saddam Hussein, 9-11, Saddam Hussein. I didn't say Saddam Hussein did 9-11, although Cheney sometimes would say that. But Bush was careful not to say it, but he would put them in the same sentence over and over and over again, as usual, like in this case, largely unchallenged by the media. So it left people with the impression that, oh, this Saddam Hussein must have done 9-11.

And Dick Cheney famously once said on Meet the Press, that our attackers on 9-11 came from the same region of the world as Iraq. What the hell is that mean? They came 15 out of 19 of them were from Saudi Arabia, which is a great ally of Dick Cheney. But he wanted you to attack Iraq. So this is an old demagoguing trick, and he's doing it here. He's going, kids, MS-13, kids, MS-13. Ah, the kids are not innocent. These unaccompanied minors are not innocent, MS-13.

Okay? Now, he's not done yet. So he, if you, in order to drive the demagogue home, what you want to do is you want to tell these monstrous stories. They're not people, they're monsters. Now, the stories he's going to tell it with the exception of one of them are true. Then I'll give you the context. Let's watch. They killed a cop for the sake of making a statement. They wanted to make a statement. So they killed a cop, a policeman. MS-13 gang members were charged with killing and hacking up a teenager. Four other young men were brutally murdered recently by MS-13 in Suffolk. MS-13 gang members are accused of stabbing a man 100 times decapitating him and ripping out his heart. The MS-13 members beat a sex-trafficked 15-year-old girl with a bat, 28 times, totally disfiguring a beautiful young woman. Two MS-13 gang members were charged after kidnapping, drugging, and raping a 14-year-old girl.

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That's EXP-R-E-S-S-V-P-N dot com slash T-YT. Check it out today. All right, two important points here. The one he was lying about was the cop. The cop was not killed. In fact, Long Island police, after Trump said this, came out and clarified. No, there was a threat against one of our cops, but no cop was actually killed. Now, does the president or anyone on his team ever do homework?

No. Do they mind lying? Not at all. They're like, who cares? Just say he killed a cop and move on. Now, do they have to lie? No, MS-13 does terrible things. The other things that he read are true.

By the way, you know who else does terrible things? Other gangs, including other Latino gangs, other black gangs, other white gangs. We did a story recently on the show. Mississippi has more white gangs than all other. other gangs combined, they've never used the gang law against any white gang member in Mississippi. They only use it against black gang members. Okay, so it's selective enforcement in that case. In this case, it's selective propaganda. So he doesn't focus on any of the other gangs. He doesn't focus on any of the crimes. All he does is immigrants MS-13, immigrant kids,

MS-13, MS-13, terrible, terrible crimes. So now you might think, oh my God, MS-13 probably has committed thousands upon thousands of crimes, it's a plague across the country, and it's probably the majority of immigrants, given how much he's talking about it, right? So let's actually look at the numbers. So as a professor at Fordham Law School, John Faff explains, MS-13 is responsible for 207 murders since 2012. That's a lot, guys. That's 207 murders from just one gang in six years. So don't underestimate that. They're a terrible game. Okay. Now, let's give you context. Between 2012 and 2016, there were over 76,000 murders in the U.S. So what's the percentage then?

That means MS-13 is responsible for less than 0.3% of all U.S. murders during that time. But even 0.3% is pretty high for one gang. But having said that, the way that Trump says it, it sounds like it's 99.7% instead of the 0.3%. It doesn't seem like a small percentage of the crime. It seems like a huge percentage of the crime the way that he constantly talks about it and drills at home. But to me, what's even more important is what is the percentage of the kids that are coming in, the unaccompanied minors that are coming in that are MS-13? Because he seemed to paint it there like, well, I mean, a lot of them are MS-13.

I mean, they look like they're innocent, these kids, but they're not. They're MS-13. So are they MS-13? Let's find out. As New York Daily News reports, Carlos Provost, the acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. That's a person in the Trump administration, head of the Border Patrol, noted during the Senate testimony last summer, how seldom gang members are caught among the unaccompanied minors crossing the border from Mexico.

So it's not a common occurrence. It's a very rare occurrence. But if you're wondering, hey, Jake, what are the actual numbers hold? Because I have them. So I'm glad you asked. So the 250,000 children apprehended between 2011 and the summer of 2017,

159 had or were suspected of having gang affiliations. Hmm, that seems like a pretty small percentage. But look, I'll break it down further for you. Okay? 159. Okay. Of those, only 56 were suspected of affiliation or confirmed to be members of MS-13 provost said.

Again, Provost is the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol under Trump. So even his own administration admits there's only 56 MS-13 minors that came into the country. out of 250,000 kids that came in. So what is that percentage? 0.02%. Not 2%, not 0.2%, 0.02%. So it is a minuscule, minuscule percentage of the kids that are coming into this country that are MS-13. But the way Trump says it, oh my God, the kids coming in here, they're not innocent.

they're MS-13, their MS-13.0.02%, 99.98% are not MS-13. So, one last review here of the unaccompanied kids coming into the country over that period of time, 56 or MS-13, 103 were from other gangs, 249,841 We're just kids. This is how you demonize people and dehumanize them so that you could do terrible, monstrous things to them. And that is exactly what Donald Trump's goal is, and that is why he plays these rhetorical tricks. It's meant to get you to hate the immigrants that are coming in and their kids. That's why he's such a terrible person, young Turks.

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But he's pretending to be a reporter. And he's like, this is the problem with the, there's a huge problem in the Democratic Party. Progressives winning. And the Democratic Party was supporting a guy who's now in fifth place. So where's the problem? Apparently, the guy that Democratic Party was supporting is a miserable failure, right? So, no, Democratic Party must be right. This guy's pretending to be a reporter.

I know. There's a lot of them running around. Yeah, I know. And then he actually said he did the smear. He said, oh, and his father was a terrorist in, his grandfather was a terrorist. His grandfather died 16 years before he was born. He just says it. What a, like a, what a hatchet smear job?

What a piece of crap reporter this guy is. Anyway, I'll rip into him on Rebel headquarters, so you don't want to miss that. All right. A state lawmaker in New Mexico got arrested for drinking or driving under the influence. And apparently her pleas to the cops, as she was getting investigated for being under the influence, had a lot to do. with how she has fought to protect the rights of police. Take a look. I literally fight for you guys every chance.

Well, that doesn't make it okay to drink and drive. I'm not drinking and driving. Okay. I fight for you guys every time I get to see us. So many people tell me that you guys treat me like, I didn't believe it. I'm not treating you poorly at all. Okay, I'm the one that does that. So as she is getting arrested for driving under the influence, she is telling these cops,

hey, I've been defending you when people say all these negative things about you. You should let me go. So who is this lawmaker? It is Monica Youngblood. She is a state representative in New Mexico. This occurred in Albuquerque. Apparently she was driving and happened to go through a police checkbook. She did several field sobriety tests and failed them.

She refused to do a breathalyzer test and she was promptly arrested as a result of driving under the influence. But since she is a person in a position of power, she did not spend the night behind bars, which most people do if they're caught drinking and driving. She was there for about 30 minutes and was able to leave after that. All right, that piece of video was amazing. There was a woman saying, I let you guys be racist and you're still going to arrest me. She says, you know, people criticize you for being against people of color.

But I let you. I defend you. I let you be racist and you're still going to arrest me? Yeah. So now look, I want to give credit to the cops here. Yes. Two things. One, body cams and the video cameras worked if she had used her power later and they didn't

have video of it, maybe she could have lied about what the cops said, right? That's right. But body cam showed exactly, cops were right. She was saying that stuff, okay? And they did not play favorites, and they did the right thing, okay? And of course, she's a Republican. Shocking, I know. And then here's another great part of this story. She had introduced legislation that, thank God, was unsuccessful, especially for herself. she's probably thinking, who, dodge the bullet on that one, that would have prohibited the release of people suspected of aggravated DWI like herself

on their own recognizance. So, hey, lock them up, lock them up, right? Lock them up when it's you. But I let you be racist. Hey, why did you, by the way, why did you refuse a sobriety test if you were sober? Why were you crying if they pulled me over for drinking and I haven't been drinking? I'll take the test and why would I be crying?

Actually, she did address that in a statement that she later gave to the press. Let's go to Graphics 60. She said, as a legislator, I have always taken drinking and driving seriously. While I regret the situation altogether, I most definitely regret not taking the breathalyzer test. I look forward to bringing this matter to a swift and just conclusion. So it appears that she's denying that she was driving under the influence. Whatever. And she wishes she took the breathalyzer to prove that she wasn't.

No. But yeah. No, that's not how it works. You don't take the breathalyzer only under one circumstance if you're drunk and really, really drunk. Okay, if you think you're even on the border, you'll take it just in case you pass, because the court concludes that if you don't take the breathalyzer, that means you were guilty. And she's a legislator, she knows that she's proposed legislation about

drinking and driving. And I will give her credit. She does take it seriously. She's a serious drunk driver. So I wanted to just comment on the hypocrisy because as you mentioned, she is a more right-wing state lawmaker who wants stricter penalties for those who are caught drinking and driving. And I feel like this story is illustrative of what we see of people on the right on a regular

basis. They want these draconian laws to be passed because they think of everyone as the others, right? the criminals, the people that should be behind bars, we want to be tough on crime. But they never reflect on their own actions because they feel that they're above the law, they're untouchable. Of course I'm gonna drink and get behind the wheel. By the way, drinking and driving is one of the most, I take that seriously. I know people who have either lost family members as a result of drunk drivers or I know

a friend who lost her life because someone was drinking and driving crashed into her car while she was on her way home, people lose their lives because of drunk drivers. It is the most nonsensical thing ever. And I love the fact that, you know, there are people who are, you know, putting action behind their words and they're fighting to curb drunk driving. But at the same time, the law only applies to everyone else when it comes to Republicans. Even when it comes to things like smoking pot, for instance. Like, think about how the Bush administration was when it came to the issue of

marijuana. Very, very strict when it came to marijuana legislation. But when it came to Bush and him smoking while he was in college, that was okay. Yeah. And last piece of Republican 101 here. So one, she wants to be above the law. Like, look, I want to punish drunk drivers, but cops, I'm on your side, right? So let me just not follow the law. Well, that sounds like some other Republican I know. Second of all, don't take the breathalizer so later you can say, I deny it. I strongly deny it, right? No, you don't take the breath, Liser, that means you're guilty, guilty. She's like, I'm looking for a swift and just conclusion. I've got an idea. How about you resign immediately? So I remember what the Republican said about

Spitzer. Whatever your point of view is on prostitution, he prosecuted other people who had frequented prostit. Oh, great. By that standard, she, look, whatever you think of a drunk driving, she was, she wanted to crack down on the drunk drivers. Great. You get to actually, live those words now, crack down on yourself, immediately resign in shame, and then we'll see about criminal charges. She might actually resign because she didn't break one law there, she broke two. So the fact that she mentioned her position is illegal, a crime for public officials to use their offices to obtain personal benefits. So she is currently being investigated by state officials, and we'll see how that, you know, concludes, but she potentially broke two laws

there, and it is pretty serious. I think it shows the mindset and the thought process for many politicians. They get paid by certain people, and they do their bidding. And so the people who donated their thousands and thousands of dollars, someone will be like, I paid you money, you do what I say. And they go, oh, that's what I do. Gotcha. So now, since she's in the position of being arrested, she's like, hey, I'm doing all this

stuff for police officers. You're supposed to do me a favor to come back, because that's how politics works. Isn't that how the real world works, too? I'd do a few, you help me out and let me off the hook. It doesn't work that way. Yeah. And sometimes it does. So, again, credit to the cops.

And credit to the attorney general who's now investigating this case. The only thing I have left to say is lock her up, lock her up. If you did the drunk driving, you think they wouldn't lock you up? You would spend the night in jail. You would. That's what happens. Let alone what else would happen. Right.

All right, moving on to another story involving cops. Recently, a woman by the name of Sherida Dixon Cole, who's 37 years old, got arrested for drinking and driving in the state of Texas. Now after she got arrested, she hired an attorney and alleged that the individual who arrested her, who works with the Texas Department of Public Safety, assaulted her, sexually assaulted her during the arrest. She claimed that the trooper repeatedly told her he would let her go in exchange for sexual favors. When she said no, she claimed the trooper sexually assaulted her, and that's according to

her statement from her attorney on Monday. Well, now we have some evidence of what really happened. Luckily, there was body camera footage that showed the entirety of the arrest, and the cops decided to release two hours of that footage, unedited to show us what really happened. And it turns out that she lied. Now, we're not going to show you the two-hour footage, but we're going to show you a snippet of it. Take a look. How much alcohol have you consumed this evening? Why don't you? Just one?

What was it? My alcohol. Okay. Thank you. I also see there's a couple of containers of alcohol in the back seat. It looks like wine and... Yes. I'm bringing that from my house to his house.

All right, ma'am. You were being placed on a rest of a driver on intoxicated. I need you to keep facing towards my car. You can go ahead and sit up here. I'm gonna reach around to buckle you in. Okay, so JR pointed this out to me, and I wanted to also point it out to you. In the end of that video, you can see how the cop pulls the seatbelt, and he's so careful to not touch her in any way.

I mean, the way that he handled that situation was perfect. He was respectful. He didn't touch her in any type of way, you know, that could be questionable. He handled that perfectly. And to know that he was victimized, potentially victimized with serious charges, if he wasn't wearing that camera. Like, that camera provided evidence that he did nothing wrong. See, the body camera is not to punish cops.

It's to find out what actually happened. In this case, it helped the cops because it was false charges. And by the way, if you're not doing anything wrong, which is a thing that cops say all the time, you should love the body camera on you. This is two stories in a row. There's the legislator in New Mexico who could have pulled a power play on the cops, but there was a camera that showed that she, in fact, was trying to persuade them to let her off because she was a legislator.

In this case, this woman totally lied about the cop who was incredibly respectful, and the body camera shows it. So it's another reason to have body cameras. We're not looking, we're not anti-cop, we're pro-justice. So in this case, the cop was the victim because he had the false charges against him, and the body camera, the evidence, the fact, showed that he was right and we got justice. Exactly. Now, when this story first came out and before we had any access to that body camera footage,

there were a number of people who came out in support of the woman who got arrested, Shreda Dixon Cole. And so one of those people were included, I should say, her attorney, Lee Merritt. And he has now apologized for anything he has said prior to the video coming out. I want to read you his apology. He says, it is deeply troubling when innocent parties are falsely accused and I'm truly sorry for any trouble these claims may have caused. The officer and his family, I take full responsibility for amplifying these claims to

the point of national concern. So he specifically talked about how he shouldn't have made this such a public case before are seeing all the evidence. And I think that it takes a lot of courage to admit that. You know, yeah. Yeah. Look, so Sean King, who used to work to be on Turks 2, and now at the Intercept and has his own pact to fight for justice, also publicize the case.

But to be fair to the attorney, first of all, he represents her. To be fair to Sean King, 99 out of 100 times, this cases are real. And the cops won't turn over the body cam evidence for months. So are you supposed to just sit back and go, oh, no, that's okay. I just trust the cops. I'm sure everything will be fine. In the overwhelming majority of the case, that is not the case. And not believing the victim, like out of hand is not the right policy.

Now, the question is, what do you do when the evidence comes in? And in this case, the lawyer walks it back and goes, hey, my bad, and I should have shown more restraint. Sean King came in and walked it all the way back. Yes. Okay, so you've got some quotes. I do. So let's go to Graphics 68. He tweeted about it and then he also wrote a lengthy blog about this.

He says today the Texas Department of Public Safety released this body camera footage of the traffic stop, field sobriety test, and subsequent arrest of Sherita Dixon Cole. It does not appear to show any verbal threats, sexual assault, or police brutality. And from his blog, he writes, she victimized the man, she falsely accused, and she victimized those who stood up for her, believing that she had experienced the worst crimes. Thankfully, she does not represent anyone but herself. She does not represent the actual victims of sex crimes. She does not represent actual victims of police brutality.

And she does not represent black women or black people. And I think it's important to differentiate because what she did was not only damaging, potentially severely damaging to that cop, but it's so damaging to women who do get sexually assaulted and do want to speak out. And the minorities who suffer oftentimes at the hands of police throughout the country, but now their claims will be taken a little less seriously because of her actions. That's why these false accusations are so hurtful. But to me, what's interesting is the difference in how right wing and left wing react, right?

Right wing sees evidence and goes, fake news, fake news, right? And we deny it, we strongly deny it, no matter how overwhelming the evidence is. Here, because we actually care about justice, whether it's us, we didn't report on this story earlier, but Sean King, who has a whole pack dedicated to justice, says, well, this isn't just, I'm going to support the cop, and I'm going to tell you that what she said isn't true. Well, that's what you would want someone to do if they care about facts, and he does. So that should be applauded. You should say, oh, well, then, okay, then he's, he actually does care to serve the truth

and does care to serve justice. And so that's a guy I could trust more, not less. That it should work out that way. But I feel like right now, any admission of any mistake at any point. Exactly. That's it. You're done. By the way, when you admit that you were wrong, you get punished.

At least that's what it seems like. If you were wrong and you remain defiant, it feels like people reward you for that. And it should be the opposite. They call it because they call it 50-50. And the media goes, well, I'm going to do balance. here, right? But you know what that does is that gives a giant advantage to lies. Because if the truth is not on an even playing field and the lies are given just as much credit as the truth, well, then one, you're not doing journalism. And two, it gives an incentive to lie because they

know, hey, people like Sean King, they admit it when they're wrong. That's a mistake. We never admit it when we're wrong. But for all of you out there who are not partisans and you don't care about the Republican or Democratic Party, see how people react to their mistakes, and whether they actually care, whether they care about facts, reason, logic, reality, and then make up your mind about them. We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back. Thanks for watching.

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