. .>>>TIME NOW FOR “MONEY, POWER,>>>TIME NOW FOR “MONEY, POWER, POLITICS.” POLITICS.” IN THE 2018 ELECTION CYCLE IN THE 2018 ELECTION CYCLE CONSERVATIVE BILLIONAIRES CONSERVATIVE BILLIONAIRES CHARLES AND DAVID KOCH SPENT CHARLES AND DAVID KOCH SPENT ALMOST $400 MILLION BUCKS WITH ALMOST $400 MILLION BUCKS WITH $20 MILLION DEDICATED TO MAKING $20 MILLION DEDICATED TO MAKING SURE THE TAX CUTS PASSED. SURE THE TAX CUTS PASSED. THERE ARE FEW INDIVIDUALS WITH THERE ARE FEW INDIVIDUALS WITH MORE INFLUENCE IN BUSINESS AND MORE INFLUENCE IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS THAN THESE TWO BROTHERS POLITICS THAN THESE TWO BROTHERS ON YOUR SCREEN. ON YOUR SCREEN. THEY OWN ROUGHLY 80% OF KOCH THEY OWN ROUGHLY 80% OF KOCH INDUSTRIES. INDUSTRIES. NOW, WE HEAR ABOUT THEIR NOW, WE HEAR ABOUT THEIR POLITICAL DONATIONS AND THEIR POLITICAL DONATIONS AND THEIR LOBBYING EFFORTS AGAINST CLIMATE LOBBYING EFFORTS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVES BUT RARELY CHANGE INITIATIVES BUT RARELY HEAR ABOUT HOW THIS FAMILY GOT HEAR ABOUT HOW THIS FAMILY GOT SO POWERFUL. SO POWERFUL. IN THE NEW BOOK “KOCHLAND” IN THE NEW BOOK “KOCHLAND” KRISTOFFER LEONARD DESCRIBES HOW KRISTOFFER LEONARD DESCRIBES HOW CHARLES KOCH TURNED THIS COMPANY CHARLES KOCH TURNED THIS COMPANY INTO A $110 BILLION EMPIRE AND INTO A $110 BILLION EMPIRE AND HAVE INFILTRATED JUST ABOUT HAVE INFILTRATED JUST ABOUT EVERY THREAD OF AMERICAN LIFE. EVERY THREAD OF AMERICAN LIFE. I’LL SHARE THIS QUOTE. I’LL SHARE THIS QUOTE. THE COMPANY IS EMBEDDED IN THE THE COMPANY IS EMBEDDED IN THE HIDDEN INFRASTRUCTURE OF EVERY HIDDEN INFRASTRUCTURE OF EVERY DAY LIFE. DAY LIFE. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE USE KOCH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE USE KOCH PRODUCTS WITHOUT EVER SEEING PRODUCTS WITHOUT EVER SEEING KOCH’S NAME ATTACHED. KOCH’S NAME ATTACHED. JOINING ME NOW THE AUTHOR JOINING ME NOW THE AUTHOR OF “KOCHLAND THE SECRET STORY OF OF “KOCHLAND THE SECRET STORY OF KOCH INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE KOCH INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE POWER IN AMERICA.” POWER IN AMERICA.” CHRISTOPHER, YOU NOTE WE USE CHRISTOPHER, YOU NOTE WE USE KOCH PRODUCTS EVERY DAY AND KOCH PRODUCTS EVERY DAY AND ALMOST NEVER SEE THEIR NAME. ALMOST NEVER SEE THEIR NAME. WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTS? WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTS? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?>>WELL, THIS COMPANY>>WELL, THIS COMPANY SPECIALIZES IN THE KINDS OF SPECIALIZES IN THE KINDS OF BUSINESSES THAT UNDERPIN BUSINESSES THAT UNDERPIN CIVILIZATION. CIVILIZATION. KOCH MAKES FUEL, FERTILIZER, KOCH MAKES FUEL, FERTILIZER, BUILDING MATERIALS, CLOTHING BUILDING MATERIALS, CLOTHING MATERIALS, THE SENSORS IN YOUR MATERIALS, THE SENSORS IN YOUR CELL PHONES. CELL PHONES. THE KIND OF STUFF YOU USE EVERY THE KIND OF STUFF YOU USE EVERY DAY BUT NEVER DIRECTLY PURCHASE DAY BUT NEVER DIRECTLY PURCHASE IF YOU WILL. IF YOU WILL. AND THE PROFITS FROM THIS HAVE AND THE PROFITS FROM THIS HAVE BEEN STUNNING. BEEN STUNNING. KOCH’S ANNUAL SALES FOR EXAMPLE KOCH’S ANNUAL SALES FOR EXAMPLE ARE LARGER THAN THAT OF ARE LARGER THAN THAT OF FACEBOOK, GOLDMAN SACHS, AND FACEBOOK, GOLDMAN SACHS, AND U.S. STEEL COMBINED. U.S. STEEL COMBINED. THIS IS A MASSIVE COMPANY THAT THIS IS A MASSIVE COMPANY THAT AFFECTS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. AFFECTS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.>>THEN HOW ON EARTH DO WE>>THEN HOW ON EARTH DO WE BARELY KNOW ABOUT THEM? BARELY KNOW ABOUT THEM? I WANT TO SHARE A QUOTE FROM THE I WANT TO SHARE A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK. BOOK. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SECRECY. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SECRECY. YOU WRITE, SECRECY WAS A YOU WRITE, SECRECY WAS A STRATEGIC NECESSITY FOR KOCH STRATEGIC NECESSITY FOR KOCH INDUSTRIES. INDUSTRIES. CHARLES KOCH DID NOT WANT TO CHARLES KOCH DID NOT WANT TO SURRENDER IT. SURRENDER IT. HE ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO SURRENDER HE ALSO DIDN’T WANT TO SURRENDER CONTROL. CONTROL. HE HAD A SPECIFIC, CLEAR VISION HE HAD A SPECIFIC, CLEAR VISION OF HOW TO RUN HIS COMPANY AND HE OF HOW TO RUN HIS COMPANY AND HE DIDN’T NEED WALL STREET DIDN’T NEED WALL STREET INVESTORS TO INTERFERE. INVESTORS TO INTERFERE. SO WAS THE MAGIC OF ALL THIS TO SO WAS THE MAGIC OF ALL THIS TO KEEP THE COMPANY PRIVATE? KEEP THE COMPANY PRIVATE?>>THAT’S RIGHT.>>THAT’S RIGHT. WHAT IS SO INTERESTING TO ME IS WHAT IS SO INTERESTING TO ME IS THE SECRECY AROUND THIS THE SECRECY AROUND THIS CORPORATION. CORPORATION. WE KNOW KOCH, FOR EXAMPLE, VERY WE KNOW KOCH, FOR EXAMPLE, VERY INTENTIONALLY DISGUISES ITS INTENTIONALLY DISGUISES ITS POLITICAL DONATIONS. POLITICAL DONATIONS. WELL, THAT COMES FROM THE WELL, THAT COMES FROM THE BUSINESS ITSELF. BUSINESS ITSELF. AND WHAT I REALIZED IS THAT AND WHAT I REALIZED IS THAT SECRECY IS STRATEGIC FOR KOCH SECRECY IS STRATEGIC FOR KOCH INDUSTRIES. INDUSTRIES. FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS A COMPANY FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS A COMPANY THAT IS REALLY DEEPLY INVOLVED THAT IS REALLY DEEPLY INVOLVED IN WHAT WE WOULD CALL TRADING, IN WHAT WE WOULD CALL TRADING, BUYING AND SELLING, ENERGY, BUYING AND SELLING, ENERGY, SUPPLIES, EVEN BUYING AND SUPPLIES, EVEN BUYING AND SELLING OTHER COMPANIES. SELLING OTHER COMPANIES. WHEN THAT’S YOUR LINE OF WORK WHEN THAT’S YOUR LINE OF WORK YOU REALLY DON’T WANT OTHER YOU REALLY DON’T WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW AND PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW AND TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE BE TO DO. TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE BE TO DO. THAT’S WHY SECRECY IS SO THAT’S WHY SECRECY IS SO FUNDAMENTAL TO THIS COMPANY. FUNDAMENTAL TO THIS COMPANY.>>CHARLIE, YOU HAVE SEEN THIS>>CHARLIE, YOU HAVE SEEN THIS PLAY OUT IN WISCONSIN, WISCONSIN PLAY OUT IN WISCONSIN, WISCONSIN POLITICS. POLITICS. PUT IT INTO CONTEXT. PUT IT INTO CONTEXT.>>WELL, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THEY>>WELL, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE BEEN MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE HAVE BEEN MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BUT RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BUT WHAT IS INTERESTING TO ME, ALSO, WHAT IS INTERESTING TO ME, ALSO, IS THE WAY THAT — IS THE RULE IS THE WAY THAT — IS THE RULE THEY’RE GOING TO PLAY IN THE ERA THEY’RE GOING TO PLAY IN THE ERA OF TRUMP. OF TRUMP. THEY NEVER REALLY GOT ON BOARD THEY NEVER REALLY GOT ON BOARD WITH DONALD TRUMP AND THE THING WITH DONALD TRUMP AND THE THING ABOUT THE KOCHS AND I’M TALKING ABOUT THE KOCHS AND I’M TALKING ABOUT POLITICS, IN CONTRAST TO ABOUT POLITICS, IN CONTRAST TO SOME OF THE OTHER PLAYERS LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER PLAYERS LIKE THE MERCERS, THEY DO THINK THEY THE MERCERS, THEY DO THINK THEY ACTUALLY CARED ABOUT IDEAS. ACTUALLY CARED ABOUT IDEAS. AND I THINK THEY HAVE BEEN AND I THINK THEY HAVE BEEN WILLING TO STAY ARMS LENGTH. WILLING TO STAY ARMS LENGTH.>>AND –>>AND –>>THEY BOUGHT INTO THE WHOLE>>THEY BOUGHT INTO THE WHOLE STEVE BANNON, YOU KNOW, TRUMP STEVE BANNON, YOU KNOW, TRUMP SORT OF WORLD VIEW. SORT OF WORLD VIEW. AND I THINK THAT IT’S AND I THINK THAT IT’S INTERESTING TO ME TO NOTE WHAT INTERESTING TO ME TO NOTE WHAT ROLE THE KOCHS WILL PLAY OR THE ROLE THE KOCHS WILL PLAY OR THE KOCH — THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL KOCH — THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL PLAY IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND PLAY IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT POST THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT POST DONALD TRUMP. DONALD TRUMP. THESE GUYS ARE HARD TO KIND OF, THESE GUYS ARE HARD TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, IS JUST PUT INTO A BOX YOU KNOW, IS JUST PUT INTO A BOX BECAUSE THEY’RE QUITE BECAUSE THEY’RE QUITE LIBERTARIAN. LIBERTARIAN. THEY ARE INTERESTED IN A WHOLE THEY ARE INTERESTED IN A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS. LOT OF THINGS.>>KRISTOFFER,CHRISTOPHER YOU GO>>KRISTOFFER,CHRISTOPHER YOU GO GREATER DETAIL AROUND HOW DONALD GREATER DETAIL AROUND HOW DONALD TRUMP WAS CERTAINLY NOT THE KOCH TRUMP WAS CERTAINLY NOT THE KOCH BROTHERS’ BOY. BROTHERS’ BOY. THEY CONSIDERED FIVE DIFFERENT THEY CONSIDERED FIVE DIFFERENT REPUBLICANS IN 2016. REPUBLICANS IN 2016. NONE OF THEM WERE THE PRESIDENT. NONE OF THEM WERE THE PRESIDENT. YOU WROTE THIS. YOU WROTE THIS. IN MANY WAYS, DONALD TRUMP POSED IN MANY WAYS, DONALD TRUMP POSED A GREATER POLITICAL THREAT TO A GREATER POLITICAL THREAT TO CHARLES KOCH’S POLITICAL AGENDA CHARLES KOCH’S POLITICAL AGENDA THAN BARACK OBAMA. THAN BARACK OBAMA. THAT IS A BIG STATEMENT. THAT IS A BIG STATEMENT. HOW? HOW?>>WELL, CHARLES KOCH HAS BEEN>>WELL, CHARLES KOCH HAS BEEN PATIENTLY WORKING TO RESHAPE THE PATIENTLY WORKING TO RESHAPE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR 40 YEARS. REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR 40 YEARS. HIS GOAL AS CHARLIE JUST SAID IS HIS GOAL AS CHARLIE JUST SAID IS TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS MORE TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS MORE LIBERTARIAN WITH THIS POINT OF LIBERTARIAN WITH THIS POINT OF VIEW THAT GOVERNMENT MUST BE VIEW THAT GOVERNMENT MUST BE LIMITED AND MUST NEVER INTERVENE LIMITED AND MUST NEVER INTERVENE IN MARKETS. IN MARKETS. WHEN DONALD TRUMP CAME ALONG IN WHEN DONALD TRUMP CAME ALONG IN 2016, HE UP ENDED THAT 2016, HE UP ENDED THAT PHILOSOPHY. PHILOSOPHY. DONALD TRUMP CLEARLY BELIEVES DONALD TRUMP CLEARLY BELIEVES THAT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IS THAT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IS NOT ONLY APPROPRIATE BUT NOT ONLY APPROPRIATE BUT DESIRABLE. DESIRABLE. JUST LOOK AT THE TARIFFS. JUST LOOK AT THE TARIFFS. LOOK AT THE TRADE WAR. LOOK AT THE TRADE WAR. DONALD TRUMP IS SEEKING TO DONALD TRUMP IS SEEKING TO RESHAPE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW RESHAPE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW IN HIS OWN IMAGE, WHICH IS THIS IN HIS OWN IMAGE, WHICH IS THIS SO-CALLED AMERICA FIRST AGENDA. SO-CALLED AMERICA FIRST AGENDA. IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THE IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THE AMERICA FIRST AGENDA IS ANATHEMA AMERICA FIRST AGENDA IS ANATHEMA TO THE KOCH NETWORK. TO THE KOCH NETWORK. THERE IS A STRUGGLE AND A FIGHT THERE IS A STRUGGLE AND A FIGHT FOR CONTROL FOR THE FUTURE OF FOR CONTROL FOR THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND I THINK
>>>THIS MORNING WE’RE LEARNING>>>THIS MORNING WE’RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE TRUMP MORE ABOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S LATEST ATTEMPT ADMINISTRATION’S LATEST ATTEMPT TO DETER IMMIGRANTS FROM PASSING TO DETER IMMIGRANTS FROM PASSING THE BORDER, BLOOMBERG REPORTING THE BORDER, BLOOMBERG REPORTING FOR MONTHS THE WHITE HOUSE HAS FOR MONTHS THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO BEEN TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO BLOCK UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT BLOCK UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FROM ENROLLING IN CHILDREN FROM ENROLLING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS CALIFORNIA BECOMES THE LATEST STATE TO BECOMES THE LATEST STATE TO CHALLENGE THE ADMINISTRATION’S CHALLENGE THE ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC CHARGE RULE WHICH AIMS TO PUBLIC CHARGE RULE WHICH AIMS TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR POOR MAKE IT HARDER FOR POOR IMMIGRANTS TO BECOME LEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO BECOME LEGAL RESIDENTS. RESIDENTS. THE MASTERMIND BEHIND BOTH THE MASTERMIND BEHIND BOTH POLICIES, TRUMP AIDE STEPHEN POLICIES, TRUMP AIDE STEPHEN MILLER WHOSE PATH TO POWER MADE MILLER WHOSE PATH TO POWER MADE IT TO TWO FRONT PAGES THIS IT TO TWO FRONT PAGES THIS WEEKEND. WEEKEND. “THE TIMES” WRITING THIS. “THE TIMES” WRITING THIS. MR. MILLER NOW OCCUPIES A LARGE MR. MILLER NOW OCCUPIES A LARGE WEST WING OFFICE AND HAS WEST WING OFFICE AND HAS INFLUENCE ON VIRTUALLY EVERY INFLUENCE ON VIRTUALLY EVERY ELEMENT OF IMMIGRATION POLICY ELEMENT OF IMMIGRATION POLICY FROM THE WORDS THE PRESIDENT FROM THE WORDS THE PRESIDENT USES TO THE REGULATIONS. USES TO THE REGULATIONS. MR. MILLER IS A SPEECHWRITER, MR. MILLER IS A SPEECHWRITER, POLICY ARCHITECT, PERSONNEL POLICY ARCHITECT, PERSONNEL DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE AIDE, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE AIDE, SPOKESMAN, AND STRATEGIST. SPOKESMAN, AND STRATEGIST. AT EVERY STEP, HE HAS PUSHED FOR AT EVERY STEP, HE HAS PUSHED FOR THE HARDEST LINE POSSIBLE. THE HARDEST LINE POSSIBLE. JOINING ME NOW THE REPORTER JOINING ME NOW THE REPORTER BEHIND THAT PIECE WITH THE “NEW BEHIND THAT PIECE WITH THE “NEW YORK TIMES” ALSO THE AUTHOR OF YORK TIMES” ALSO THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW BOOK OUT TOMORROW “A THE NEW BOOK OUT TOMORROW “A GOOD PROVIDER IS ONE WHO LEAVES GOOD PROVIDER IS ONE WHO LEAVES ONE’S FAMILY AND MIGRATION IN ONE’S FAMILY AND MIGRATION IN THE 21st CENTURY.” THE 21st CENTURY.” JOYCE VANCE FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY JOYCE VANCE FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY AND PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL AND OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL AND CONGRESSWOMAN SHERRILL BACK WITH CONGRESSWOMAN SHERRILL BACK WITH ME. ME. JOYCE, I WANT TO START FIRST JOYCE, I WANT TO START FIRST WITH THE REPORT THAT THE TRUMP WITH THE REPORT THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO BLOCK IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FROM BLOCK IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FROM ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL. ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL. I KNOW YOU DEALT WITH SOMETHING I KNOW YOU DEALT WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN ALABAMA. LIKE THIS IN ALABAMA. WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT HAPPENED?>>THIS IS CLEARLY>>THIS IS CLEARLY UN-CONSTITUTIONAL AND STEMS FROM UN-CONSTITUTIONAL AND STEMS FROM A SUPREME COURT CASE BACK IN THE A SUPREME COURT CASE BACK IN THE 1980s. 1980s. IN THE ALABAMA CASE, ALABAMA’S IN THE ALABAMA CASE, ALABAMA’S EFFORTS BY STATE LAW TO FORCE EFFORTS BY STATE LAW TO FORCE KIDS TO REVEAL THEIR PARENTS’ KIDS TO REVEAL THEIR PARENTS’ IMMIGRATION STATUS SO THEY COULD IMMIGRATION STATUS SO THEY COULD REGISTER FOR SCHOOL, A MEASURE REGISTER FOR SCHOOL, A MEASURE CLEARLY AN EFFORT TO FORCE CLEARLY AN EFFORT TO FORCE PEOPLE WHO WERE HERE WITHOUT PEOPLE WHO WERE HERE WITHOUT LEGAL IMMIGRATION STATUS TO LEGAL IMMIGRATION STATUS TO REVEAL THEMSELVES, WAS REVEAL THEMSELVES, WAS ULTIMATELY HELD ULTIMATELY HELD UN-CONSTITUTIONAL BY THE 11th UN-CONSTITUTIONAL BY THE 11th CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND THE SUPREME COURT DECLINED TO SUPREME COURT DECLINED TO REVERSE THAT RULING. REVERSE THAT RULING. THIS IS A REALLY COMMON SENSE THIS IS A REALLY COMMON SENSE REASONING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT REASONING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. IT. IT SAYS, FIRST, IF THESE KIDS IT SAYS, FIRST, IF THESE KIDS CAN’T GET AN EDUCATION, THEY’LL CAN’T GET AN EDUCATION, THEY’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO MAKE A NEVER BE ABLE TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION. CONTRIBUTION. THAT WE SHOULDN’T PENALIZE THEM THAT WE SHOULDN’T PENALIZE THEM AT THAT YOUNG AGE. AT THAT YOUNG AGE. SECONDARILY, IT SAYS, WE AREN’T SECONDARILY, IT SAYS, WE AREN’T A COUNTRY THAT PUNISHES INNOCENT A COUNTRY THAT PUNISHES INNOCENT CHILDREN FOR DECISIONS THAT CHILDREN FOR DECISIONS THAT THEIR PARENTS MAKE. THEIR PARENTS MAKE. TWO, THREE, 4-YEAR-OLD KIDS TWO, THREE, 4-YEAR-OLD KIDS DON’T CHOOSE TO COME TO THIS DON’T CHOOSE TO COME TO THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. EVEN OLDER CHILDREN ARE DIRECTED EVEN OLDER CHILDREN ARE DIRECTED BY THEIR PARENTS. BY THEIR PARENTS. THEY SHOULD STILL GET AN THEY SHOULD STILL GET AN EDUCATION. EDUCATION. THAT’S BEEN VERY CLEAR LAW IN THAT’S BEEN VERY CLEAR LAW IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE AT LEAST THE THIS COUNTRY SINCE AT LEAST THE 1980s. 1980s. SO THIS EFFORT TO GO AROUND SUCH SO THIS EFFORT TO GO AROUND SUCH A CLEAR RULE OF LAW IN SUCH A A CLEAR RULE OF LAW IN SUCH A MEAN SPIRITED WAY IS I THINK A MEAN SPIRITED WAY IS I THINK A VERY DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT IN VERY DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA. THIS AREA.>>CONGRESSWOMAN, WHILE IT MIGHT>>CONGRESSWOMAN, WHILE IT MIGHT BE UN-CONSTITUTIONAL, DOES THE BE UN-CONSTITUTIONAL, DOES THE SPIRIT OF IT REFLECT HOW AMERICA SPIRIT OF IT REFLECT HOW AMERICA CURRENTLY FEELS? CURRENTLY FEELS? WE KNOW OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION WE KNOW OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IS FAILING. SYSTEM IS FAILING. ARE THERE AMERICANS WHO MIGHT ARE THERE AMERICANS WHO MIGHT NOT BE HARD LINE ANTI-IMMIGRANT NOT BE HARD LINE ANTI-IMMIGRANT AMERICANS WHO CERTAINLY DON’T AMERICANS WHO CERTAINLY DON’T SUPPORT CHILD SEPARATION POLICY SUPPORT CHILD SEPARATION POLICY BUT WHO DO SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT BUT WHO DO SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT UNTIL EVERY AMERICAN CHILD IS UNTIL EVERY AMERICAN CHILD IS GETTING A GOOD EDUCATION WE GETTING A GOOD EDUCATION WE SHOULDN’T OFFER AN EDUCATION TO SHOULDN’T OFFER AN EDUCATION TO OTHERS AND, YES, IT MAY BE OTHERS AND, YES, IT MAY BE UN-CONSTITUTIONAL, BUT I’M JUST UN-CONSTITUTIONAL, BUT I’M JUST TALKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT. TALKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT.>>I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME>>I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME AMERICANS. AMERICANS. BUT THAT CERTAINLY IS BUT THAT CERTAINLY IS SHORT-SIGHTED. SHORT-SIGHTED. WHEN WE’RE NOT EDUCATING YOUNG WHEN WE’RE NOT EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE, NOT DOING THE MOST WE PEOPLE, NOT DOING THE MOST WE CAN FOR OUR ECONOMY. CAN FOR OUR ECONOMY. YES, DO WE NEED TO DO A BETTER YES, DO WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB EDUCATING AMERICAN CITIZENS? JOB EDUCATING AMERICAN CITIZENS? CERTAINLY. CERTAINLY. I AM PROUD TO SAY NEW JERSEY HAS I AM PROUD TO SAY NEW JERSEY HAS ONE OF THE BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL ONE OF THE BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN THE COUNTRY EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW. HOWEVER, WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE HOWEVER, WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE HAVE YOUNG SURE THAT AS WE HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN HERE WHO WERE BROUGHT CHILDREN HERE WHO WERE BROUGHT HERE THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR HERE THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN THAT WE’RE GIVING THEM A OWN THAT WE’RE GIVING THEM A GOOD ECONOMIC FUTURE BECAUSE YOU GOOD ECONOMIC FUTURE BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHEN WE’VE JUST HAD KNOW WHEN WE’VE JUST HAD D.A.C.A. REFORM PASSED IN THE D.A.C.A. REFORM PASSED IN THE HOUSE WHEN WE SEE THIS CHANCES HOUSE WHEN WE SEE THIS CHANCES ARE MANY OF THESE CHILDREN ARE ARE MANY OF THESE CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BE CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR GOING TO BE CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR ECONOMY IN THE FUTURE. ECONOMY IN THE FUTURE. THEY CAN’T DO THAT IF THEY DON’T THEY CAN’T DO THAT IF THEY DON’T HAVE AN EDUCATION. HAVE AN EDUCATION.>>GREAT POINT.>>GREAT POINT. JASON, IN YOUR PIECE ABOUT JASON, IN YOUR PIECE ABOUT STEPHEN MILLER YOU QUOTE SOME OF STEPHEN MILLER YOU QUOTE SOME OF HIS EARLY COLUMNS AND TV HIS EARLY COLUMNS AND TV APPEARANCES AND A COUPLE STUCK APPEARANCES AND A COUPLE STUCK OUT TO ME. OUT TO ME. THE QUOTE FROM THEODORE THE QUOTE FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT INCLUDED IN HIS HIGH ROOSEVELT INCLUDED IN HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK. SCHOOL YEARBOOK. THERE CAN BE NO 50/50 THERE CAN BE NO 50/50 AMERICANISM IN THIS COUNTRY. AMERICANISM IN THIS COUNTRY. THERE IS ROOM HERE FOR ONLY 100% THERE IS ROOM HERE FOR ONLY 100% AMERICANISM. AMERICANISM. ONLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE AMERICANS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE AMERICANS AND NOTHING ELSE. AND NOTHING ELSE. AND THEN IN HIS FIRST JOB AS AN AND THEN IN HIS FIRST JOB AS AN AIDE TO A REPUBLICAN AIDE TO A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN MICHELLE BACKMAN, CONGRESSWOMAN MICHELLE BACKMAN, ARGUING UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS ARGUING UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS WERE BRINGING IN DISEASES, WERE BRINGING IN DISEASES, BRINGING IN DRUGS, BRINGING IN BRINGING IN DRUGS, BRINGING IN VIOLENCE. VIOLENCE. WE HAVE HEARD VERY SIMILAR WE HAVE HEARD VERY SIMILAR LANGUAGE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE LANGUAGE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND IT SEEMS LIKE MILLER FORMED AND IT SEEMS LIKE MILLER FORMED THESE OPINIONS AT A YOUNG AGE THESE OPINIONS AT A YOUNG AGE YET WHEN HE JOINED THIS YET WHEN HE JOINED THIS ADMINISTRATION FORMER AIDES TO ADMINISTRATION FORMER AIDES TO THE PRESIDENT SAID HE’S JUST A THE PRESIDENT SAID HE’S JUST A SPEECHWRITER. SPEECHWRITER. A SPEECHWRITER WHO IS REALLY A SPEECHWRITER WHO IS REALLY SMART AND GETS THE PRESIDENT’S SMART AND GETS THE PRESIDENT’S VOICE. VOICE. HE IS NOT JUST A SPEECHWRITER HE IS NOT JUST A SPEECHWRITER ANYMORE. ANYMORE. HE’S HAD THESE VALUES FOR QUITE HE’S HAD THESE VALUES FOR QUITE SOMETIME AND NOW THOSE VALUES SOMETIME AND NOW THOSE VALUES AND VIEWS ARE BEING ENACTED IN AND VIEWS ARE BEING ENACTED IN POLICY. POLICY.>>NO, HE’S NOT JUST A>>NO, HE’S NOT JUST A SPEECHWRITER. SPEECHWRITER. HE IS THE MOST PROMINENT FACE OF HE IS THE MOST PROMINENT FACE OF A VERY INFLUENTIAL MOVEMENT THAT A VERY INFLUENTIAL MOVEMENT THAT HAS I THINK OVERTAKEN THE HAS I THINK OVERTAKEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. REPUBLICAN PARTY. THE MOVEMENT TO RESTRICT THE MOVEMENT TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION. IMMIGRATION. AND I THINK THERE’S AN ELEMENT AND I THINK THERE’S AN ELEMENT OF POTENTIAL SELF-FULFILLING OF POTENTIAL SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESY IN THIS. PROPHESY IN THIS. CRITICS OF IMMIGRATION WORRY CRITICS OF IMMIGRATION WORRY THAT IMMIGRANTS WON’T THAT IMMIGRANTS WON’T ASSIMILATE, BUT IF YOU CONTINUE ASSIMILATE, BUT IF YOU CONTINUE TO TELL THEM THAT THEY’RE NOT TO TELL THEM THAT THEY’RE NOT WELCOME AND IF YOU DENY THEIR WELCOME AND IF YOU DENY THEIR CHILDREN ACCESS TO PUBLIC CHILDREN ACCESS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION, YOU’RE ALMOST EDUCATION, YOU’RE ALMOST ENSURING THE OUTCOME THAT YOU ENSURING THE OUTCOME THAT YOU FEAR. FEAR.>>JOYCE, THE LATEST IMMIGRATION>>JOYCE, THE LATEST IMMIGRATION MOVE OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE IS MOVE OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE IS THIS PUBLIC CHARGE RULE MAKING THIS PUBLIC CHARGE RULE MAKING IT HARDER FOR IMMIGRANTS WHO IT HARDER FOR IMMIGRANTS WHO REQUIRE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO REQUIRE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO GET LEGAL STATUS. GET LEGAL STATUS. I KNOW THERE ARE SEVERAL I KNOW THERE ARE SEVERAL LAWSUITS AROUND THAT THAT I WANT LAWSUITS AROUND THAT THAT I WANT YOU TO HELP US UNDERSTAND BUT AT YOU TO HELP US UNDERSTAND BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE PRESIDENT IS THE SAME TIME THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING HE IS SICK AND TIRED OF SAYING HE IS SICK AND TIRED OF IMMIGRANTS COMING TO THIS IMMIGRANTS COMING TO THIS COUNTRY AND IMMEDIATELY GOING ON COUNTRY AND IMMEDIATELY GOING ON WELFARE, LEAVING OUT THE FACT WELFARE, LEAVING OUT THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY OF IMMIGRANTS THAT THE MAJORITY OF IMMIGRANTS COMING INTO THIS COUNTRY AREN’T COMING INTO THIS COUNTRY AREN’T CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE FOR WELFARE. CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE FOR WELFARE. I’M TALKING DREAMERS, I’M TALKING DREAMERS, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, TEMPORARY WORKERS, SEASONAL TEMPORARY WORKERS, SEASONAL WORKERS, H1B VISA HOLDERS. WORKERS, H1B VISA HOLDERS. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE GET NONE OF THESE PEOPLE GET WELFARE. WELFARE. WHEN YOU’RE TALKING THE DAYS OF WHEN YOU’RE TALKING THE DAYS OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WE DIDN’T THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WE DIDN’T HAVE A WELFARE STATE. HAVE A WELFARE STATE.>>YOU KNOW, THIS CHANGE TO THE>>YOU KNOW, THIS CHANGE TO THE PUBLIC CHARGE RULE IS VERY MUCH PUBLIC CHARGE RULE IS VERY MUCH IN KEEPING WITH THE MEAN IN KEEPING WITH THE MEAN SPIRITEDNESS THAT REALLY SPIRITEDNESS THAT REALLY PERMEATES ALL OF THE PRESIDENT’S PERMEATES ALL OF THE PRESIDENT’S POLICY ON IMMIGRATION. POLICY ON IMMIGRATION. AND AS YOU POINT OUT IN THIS AND AS YOU POINT OUT IN THIS AREA, IT’S NOT REALLY A PROBLEM. AREA, IT’S NOT REALLY A PROBLEM. THIS IS PART OF AN IDEOLOGICAL THIS IS PART OF AN IDEOLOGICAL SHIFT. SHIFT. WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT MILLER WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT MILLER DOESN’T COME TO IMMIGRATION WITH DOESN’T COME TO IMMIGRATION WITH ENORMOUS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OR ENORMOUS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OR POLICY WORK IN THE AREA. POLICY WORK IN THE AREA. HE IS PRIMARILY AN IDEOLOGUE SO HE IS PRIMARILY AN IDEOLOGUE SO THIS IS PART OF THE TREND OF THIS IS PART OF THE TREND OF CONTINUING TO RESTRICT NOT JUST CONTINUING TO RESTRICT NOT JUST IMMIGRANTS WHO COME WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS WHO COME WITHOUT LEGAL STATUS BUT ALSO LEGAL LEGAL STATUS BUT ALSO LEGAL IMMIGRATION. IMMIGRATION. IT IS DANGEROUS AND SURPRISINGLY IT IS DANGEROUS AND SURPRISINGLY SHORT-SIGHTED. SHORT-SIGHTED. YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT SCHOOLS IN YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT SCHOOLS IN ALABAMA WHICH IS A HEAD COUNT ALABAMA WHICH IS A HEAD COUNT STATE. STATE. THAT MEANS IT’S FEDERAL FUNDING THAT MEANS IT’S FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EDUCATION BASED ON THE COUNT FOR EDUCATION BASED ON THE COUNT OF KIDS IN THE CLASSROOM WHEN OF KIDS IN THE CLASSROOM WHEN IMMIGRANT KIDS AND THE CHILDREN IMMIGRANT KIDS AND THE CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS DIDN’T GO TO SCHOOL OF MIGRANTS DIDN’T GO TO SCHOOL IN ALABAMA BECAUSE OF ITS BILL, IN ALABAMA BECAUSE OF ITS BILL, FUNDING DROPPED DRAMATICALLY AND FUNDING DROPPED DRAMATICALLY AND IT WAS SORT OF A WAY OF, YOU IT WAS SORT OF A WAY OF, YOU KNOW, CUTTING OFF YOUR NOSE TO KNOW, CUTTING OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR OWN FACE. SPITE YOUR OWN FACE. WE SEE MANY BAD ECONOMIC FALL WE SEE MANY BAD ECONOMIC FALL JOUTS JOUTS OUTS WHEN WE DON’T APPRECIATE OUTS WHEN WE DON’T APPRECIATE THE IMPETUS THE IMMIGRANTS BRING THE IMPETUS THE IMMIGRANTS BRING TO OUR ECONOMIC ENGINES. TO OUR ECONOMIC ENGINES.>>JASON, WE KNOW STEPHEN>>JASON, WE KNOW STEPHEN MILLER’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT IDEOLOGY MILLER’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT IDEOLOGY IS IN LINE WITH THE PRESIDENT’S IS IN LINE WITH THE PRESIDENT’S VIEWS. VIEWS. A LOT OF THEM HAVE MADE MAJOR A LOT OF THEM HAVE MADE MAJOR HEADLINES AND CAUSED HUGE HEADLINES AND CAUSED HUGE BACKLASH, TALKING THE MUSLIM BACKLASH, TALKING THE MUSLIM BAN, CHILD SEPARATION POLICY, BAN, CHILD SEPARATION POLICY, BUT YOU NOTE IN YOUR PIECE THAT BUT YOU NOTE IN YOUR PIECE THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POLICIES THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POLICIES NOT JUST IDEOLOGIES BUT POLICIES NOT JUST IDEOLOGIES BUT POLICIES THAT HAVEN’T GOENT THE SAME THAT HAVEN’T GOENT THE SAME ATTENTION BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD. ATTENTION BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD. WALK US THROUGH WHAT THEY ARE. WALK US THROUGH WHAT THEY ARE.>>YEAH.>>YEAH. I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS INSTINCTS. INSTINCTS. I THINK STEPHEN MILLER HAS I THINK STEPHEN MILLER HAS POLICY KNOWLEDGE AND HAS AN POLICY KNOWLEDGE AND HAS AN ABILITY TO OPERATIONALIZE AS ONE ABILITY TO OPERATIONALIZE AS ONE OF HIS ALLIES PUT IT THE OF HIS ALLIES PUT IT THE PRESIDENT’S PHILOSOPHY. PRESIDENT’S PHILOSOPHY. STEPHEN MILLER KNOWS THE HUNDRED STEPHEN MILLER KNOWS THE HUNDRED RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT CAN RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT CAN SLOW DOWN THE APPLICATION FOR SLOW DOWN THE APPLICATION FOR VISAS THAT CAN MAKE IT HARDER VISAS THAT CAN MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A LEGAL FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO BE IN THE COUNTRY TO RIGHT TO BE IN THE COUNTRY TO GET THEIR PAPERS THROUGH AND GET THEIR PAPERS THROUGH AND HE’S DONE THAT VERY HE’S DONE THAT VERY SUCCESSFULLY, QUITE OUT OF THE SUCCESSFULLY, QUITE OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE. PUBLIC EYE.>>SO HE IS QUIETLY SLOW PLAYING>>SO HE IS QUIETLY SLOW PLAYING THESE MEASURES THAT ARE LEGAL THESE MEASURES THAT ARE LEGAL MEASURES FOR PEOPLE TO GAIN — MEASURES FOR PEOPLE TO GAIN –>>CRITICS CALL IT THE INVISIBLE>>CRITICS CALL IT THE INVISIBLE WALL. WALL.>>CONGRESSWOMAN, WHAT DO YOU DO>>CONGRESSWOMAN, WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT THAT? ABOUT THAT? WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU ARE WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU ARE PUBLICLY FIGHTING A PRESIDENT PUBLICLY FIGHTING A PRESIDENT GETTING FUNDING FOR A WALL GETTING FUNDING FOR A WALL BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO AND BEING SUCCESSFUL? MEXICO AND BEING SUCCESSFUL? WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT THE WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT THE INVISIBLE WALL? INVISIBLE WALL?>>WHAT WE HAVE TO HAVE IS>>WHAT WE HAVE TO HAVE IS COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM. REFORM. WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR IMMIGRATION WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR IMMIGRATION POLICIES, THERE ARE MANY POLICIES, THERE ARE MANY IMMIGRATION POLICIES THAT I IMMIGRATION POLICIES THAT I THINK ARE IMMORAL LIKE CHILD THINK ARE IMMORAL LIKE CHILD SEPARATION. SEPARATION. THERE’S ALSO THE IMMIGRATION THERE’S ALSO THE IMMIGRATION POLICIES THAT ARE JUST HURTING POLICIES THAT ARE JUST HURTING OUR ECONOMY. OUR ECONOMY. AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE REVERBERATING THROUGHOUT REVERBERATING THROUGHOUT AGRICULTURE, THROUGHOUT OUR AGRICULTURE, THROUGHOUT OUR SEASONAL WORKER PROGRAMS, EVEN SEASONAL WORKER PROGRAMS, EVEN INTO SOME OF OUR COLLEGES AND INTO SOME OF OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WHICH ARE THE BEST UNIVERSITIES WHICH ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD NOW HAVING TROUBLE IN THE WORLD NOW HAVING TROUBLE RECRUITING SOME OF THE TOP MINDS RECRUITING SOME OF THE TOP MINDS IN THE GLOBE. IN THE GLOBE. THESE ARE REALLY GOING TO IMPACT THESE ARE REALLY GOING TO IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO GROW OUR ECONOMY OUR ABILITY TO GROW OUR ECONOMY IN THE FUTURE. IN THE FUTURE.>>REMIND OUR AUDIENCE, ILLEGAL>>REMIND OUR AUDIENCE, ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS WERE AT A BORDER CROSSINGS WERE AT A 50-YEAR LOW WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA 50-YEAR LOW WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA LEFT OFFICE. LEFT OFFICE. IN TERMS OF COMPREHENSIVE
ALTHOUGH SHE WAS NOT ON HIS PAYROLL, HE HELPED ORGANIZING PAYROLL, HE HELPED ORGANIZING HIS LIFE AND CALLING HER “HIS HIS LIFE AND CALLING HER “HIS BEST FRIEND.” BEST FRIEND.”>>LET’S BRING IN TOM WINTER AND>>LET’S BRING IN TOM WINTER AND OUR STEVE EATON. OUR STEVE EATON. TOM, TO YOU FIRST. TOM, TO YOU FIRST. REVELATIONS IN EACH COURT REVELATIONS IN EACH COURT DOCUMENTS OF MAXWELL, WHAT DID DOCUMENTS OF MAXWELL, WHAT DID THEY CONFIRM THAT WE DID NOT THEY CONFIRM THAT WE DID NOT KNOW ALREADY? KNOW ALREADY? THIS IS THE DAUGHTER O F A THIS IS THE DAUGHTER O F A SWINDLER AND A CON MAN WHEN HER SWINDLER AND A CON MAN WHEN HER FATHER ROBERT MAXWELL DIED FATHER ROBERT MAXWELL DIED MYSTERIOUSLY MYSTERIOUSLY MYSTERIOUSLY FOUND NAKED ALL OF MYSTERIOUSLY FOUND NAKED ALL OF HIS YACHT. HIS YACHT. HE OWNED OVER 40 BANKS. HE OWNED OVER 40 BANKS. $4 BILLION. $4 BILLION. HOW DID HESHE ROLL WITH SOME OF HOW DID HESHE ROLL WITH SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND NOW NO ONE KNOWS WHERE WORLD AND NOW NO ONE KNOWS WHERE SHE IS. SHE IS. HOW CAN SHE AFFORD LIVING OFF HOW CAN SHE AFFORD LIVING OFF THE GRID? THE GRID? I CAN’T. I CAN’T.>>GETTING INTO THE MAXWELL’S>>GETTING INTO THE MAXWELL’S FINANCES AND GETTING INTO THE FINANCES AND GETTING INTO THE EXACT QUESTION THAT YOU ASKED, EXACT QUESTION THAT YOU ASKED, HOW IS SHE ABLE TO AFFORD TO DO HOW IS SHE ABLE TO AFFORD TO DO THIS OR AFFORD TO LIVE IN THIS THIS OR AFFORD TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD. WORLD. WE KNOW FROM SOME OF THE WE KNOW FROM SOME OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT JEFFERY EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS THAT JEFFERY EPSTEIN BOUGHT HER A HELICOPTER AND SHE BOUGHT HER A HELICOPTER AND SHE FLEW THAT HELICOPTER AND SO WHEN FLEW THAT HELICOPTER AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS. YOU LOOK AT THIS. YOU HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, YOU HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, HOW DID SHE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN HOW DID SHE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THIS LIFESTYLE AND HOW MUCH OF THIS LIFESTYLE AND HOW MUCH OF THAT AND HOW MUCH OF THOSE MEANS THAT AND HOW MUCH OF THOSE MEANS CAME FROM JEFFERY EPSTEIN AND CAME FROM JEFFERY EPSTEIN AND HOW MUCH WAS MONEY SHE MAY HAVE HOW MUCH WAS MONEY SHE MAY HAVE HAD THAT COULD HAVE BEEN HAD THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SEPARATE FROM HER FATHER. SEPARATE FROM HER FATHER. THE WHOLE THING IS A MYSTERY. THE WHOLE THING IS A MYSTERY. IT IS A MYSTERY HOW SHE GETS IT IS A MYSTERY HOW SHE GETS INTO EPSTEIN’S WORLD. INTO EPSTEIN’S WORLD. IT IS A MYSTERY HOW SHE STAYED IT IS A MYSTERY HOW SHE STAYED THIS IN WORLD. THIS IN WORLD. SHE HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT OF SHE HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT OF CHELSEA CLINTON’S WEDDING. CHELSEA CLINTON’S WEDDING. HOW DID SHE STAY IN THIS MIX AND HOW DID SHE STAY IN THIS MIX AND TRAVEL IN THESE CIRCLES AND TRAVEL IN THESE CIRCLES AND WHERE DID THINGS GO NEXT FOR WHERE DID THINGS GO NEXT FOR HER? HER?>>NO AUTHORITIES KNOW AND THEY>>NO AUTHORITIES KNOW AND THEY HAVE NOT TOLD US? HAVE NOT TOLD US?>>IT IS NOT A QUESTION THEY>>IT IS NOT A QUESTION THEY WOULD DIVLULGE TO US. WOULD DIVLULGE TO US. NOBODY HAVE SEEN HER OR HEARD NOBODY HAVE SEEN HER OR HEARD FROM HER FOR A LONG TIME. FROM HER FOR A LONG TIME. WE TRIED TO REACH OUT TO HER WE TRIED TO REACH OUT TO HER ATTORNEYS NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. ATTORNEYS NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. WHEN WE DO THIS STORY AND WE WHEN WE DO THIS STORY AND WE TALK ABOUT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY TALK ABOUT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY IN THEIR ACTIONS, IT IS THEIR IN THEIR ACTIONS, IT IS THEIR POLICIES HERE AND WE TRY TO POLICIES HERE AND WE TRY TO REACH OUT TO THAT PERSON AND REACH OUT TO THAT PERSON AND THAT PARTY BECAUSE THAT’S THE THAT PARTY BECAUSE THAT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. RIGHT THING TO DO. WE WANT TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. WE WANT TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. IF MAXWELL IS STILL SOLICITING, IF MAXWELL IS STILL SOLICITING, WE KNOW OUR NUMBERS AND WE HAVE WE KNOW OUR NUMBERS AND WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU AND WE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN THOSE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN THOSE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU REFERENCED ON DOCUMENTS THAT YOU REFERENCED ON FRIDAY. FRIDAY.>>STEVE, NOW WHAT HE’S DEAD,>>STEVE, NOW WHAT HE’S DEAD, ALL THAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING ALL THAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING INTO WHETHER IT IS GHISLAINE INTO WHETHER IT IS GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S MONEY OR TO DEUTSCHE MAXWELL’S MONEY OR TO DEUTSCHE BANK, WHERE DO THOSE BANK, WHERE DO THOSE INVESTIGATIONS GO? INVESTIGATIONS GO? DO THEY DIE AWAY WITH HIM? DO THEY DIE AWAY WITH HIM?>>THERE IS A LOT TO LOOK AT>>THERE IS A LOT TO LOOK AT HERE. HERE. THERE IS MONEY MOVING LEFT AND THERE IS MONEY MOVING LEFT AND RIGHT AND TRANSACTIONS DATING RIGHT AND TRANSACTIONS DATING BACK MANY YEARS. BACK MANY YEARS. THESE ARE MANY MILLIONS OF THESE ARE MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MOVING AROUND. DOLLARS MOVING AROUND. THE BANKS ARE SERPTCERTAINLY LOO THE BANKS ARE SERPTCERTAINLY LOO AT THEIR OWN RECORDS AND THERE AT THEIR OWN RECORDS AND THERE IS A LOT TO LOOK AT HERE AS IT IS A LOT TO LOOK AT HERE AS IT RELATE TO THE MONEY. RELATE TO THE MONEY.>>IT WAS JUST REPORTED MOMENTS>>IT WAS JUST REPORTED MOMENTS AGO. AGO. WEXNER WAS THE ONLY SOURCE FOR WEXNER WAS THE ONLY SOURCE FOR EPSTEIN TO GET AS WEALTHY AS HE EPSTEIN TO GET AS WEALTHY AS HE DID. DID. WEXNER GAVE POWER OF ATTORNEY WEXNER GAVE POWER OF ATTORNEY WHICH WAS UNHEARD OF OVER HIS WHICH WAS UNHEARD OF OVER HIS BILLION DOLLARS FORTUNE. BILLION DOLLARS FORTUNE. WEXNER IS NOW IN THE LAST FEW WEXNER IS NOW IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS WORKING WITH AUTHORITIES. MONTHS WORKING WITH AUTHORITIES. WHY DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? WHY DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IF YOU ARE LES WEXNER AND IF YOU ARE LES WEXNER AND EPSTEIN STOLE TENS OF MILLIONS EPSTEIN STOLE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM YOU OVER A OF DOLLARS FROM YOU OVER A DECADE AGO, WHY WOULD YOU WORK DECADE AGO, WHY WOULD YOU WORK WITH AUTHORITIES THEN. WITH AUTHORITIES THEN.>>MR. WEXNER REVEALED HE’S BEEN>>MR. WEXNER REVEALED HE’S BEEN A VICTIM OF FINANCIAL. A VICTIM OF FINANCIAL. MR. EPSTEIN HAD THIS AFFILIATION MR. EPSTEIN HAD THIS AFFILIATION WITH HIM FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS. WITH HIM FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS. SO THAT RAISES QUESTION. SO THAT RAISES QUESTION. WHY AUTHORITIES WERE NOT CALLED WHY AUTHORITIES WERE NOT CALLED IN BACK IN 2007, AT THE TIME IT IN BACK IN 2007, AT THE TIME IT WAS DISCOVERED. WAS DISCOVERED.>>HAD WEXNER GIVEN AN ANSWER TO>>HAD WEXNER GIVEN AN ANSWER TO THAT? THAT?>>IF I WALK INTO VICTORIA’S>>IF I WALK INTO VICTORIA’S SECRET RIGHT NOW AND STOLE A SECRET RIGHT NOW AND STOLE A BRA, I WOULD GET ARRESTED. BRA, I WOULD GET ARRESTED.>>WHY WOULD WEXNER NOT CALL>>WHY WOULD WEXNER NOT CALL AUTHORITIES WHEN EPSTEIN STOLE 6 AUTHORITIES WHEN EPSTEIN STOLE 6 BILLION BUCKS FROM HIM AT LEAST. BILLION BUCKS FROM HIM AT LEAST.>>WE UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME>>WE UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME AMOUNT OF MONEY, ROUGHLY A AMOUNT OF MONEY, ROUGHLY A $100 MILLION RECRUITED BACK AS $100 MILLION RECRUITED BACK AS PART OF THIS BUT THERE HAS NOT PART OF THIS BUT THERE HAS NOT BEEN A FULL AREA ON THAT ASPECT. BEEN A FULL AREA ON THAT ASPECT.>>WILL THERE BE A LEGAL REASON>>WILL THERE BE A LEGAL REASON TO GET THESE ANSWERS FROM THE TO GET THESE ANSWERS FROM THE LIKES OF WEXNER. LIKES OF WEXNER. OBVIOUSLY REPORTERS ARE OBVIOUSLY REPORTERS ARE INTERESTED. INTERESTED. LES WEXNER DOES NOT HAVE TO TAKE LES WEXNER DOES NOT HAVE TO TAKE OUR CALLS. OUR CALLS. ARE THERE GOING TO BE DEMANDS OR ARE THERE GOING TO BE DEMANDS OR INCREASES FROM THE GOVERNMENT INCREASES FROM THE GOVERNMENT NOW THAT EPSTEIN IS DEAD. NOW THAT EPSTEIN IS DEAD.>>ONE IS FROM A CIVIL>>ONE IS FROM A CIVIL STANDPOINT FOR THE VICTIMS WHEN STANDPOINT FOR THE VICTIMS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THEM GETTING WE TALK ABOUT THEM GETTING JUSTICE. JUSTICE. SOME OF THESE FIGURES MAY HAVE SOME OF THESE FIGURES MAY HAVE FUNDED EPSTEIN AND IF THAT MONEY FUNDED EPSTEIN AND IF THAT MONEY AND ANY MONEY THAT WENT TO AND ANY MONEY THAT WENT TO EPSTEIN TO FUND THIS CONSPIRACY EPSTEIN TO FUND THIS CONSPIRACY THAT IT WAS BEING CHARGED WITH, THAT IT WAS BEING CHARGED WITH, THAT’S SOMETHING THAT THAT’S SOMETHING THAT PROSECUTORS COULD BE INTEREST PROSECUTORS COULD BE INTEREST IN. IN. THEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE THEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE MONEY CAME IN AND KEEP AN EYE MONEY CAME IN AND KEEP AN EYE ON. ON. FOR THE LAST FOOIIVE YEARS, THEY FOR THE LAST FOOIIVE YEARS, THEY HAD BANKING RECORDS. HAD BANKING RECORDS. IF EARNINGS DISCLOSE THAT IN IF EARNINGS DISCLOSE THAT IN PUBLIC FILINGS. PUBLIC FILINGS.>>WOULD IT BE EASIER TO GET>>WOULD IT BE EASIER TO GET SOME OF THIS INFORMATION NOW SOME OF THIS INFORMATION NOW THAT HE’S DEAD? THAT HE’S DEAD?>>IF I AM EPSTEIN’S LAWYER, I>>IF I AM EPSTEIN’S LAWYER, I AM NOT GELTTTING PAID BY HIM AS AM NOT GELTTTING PAID BY HIM AS SATURDAYS. SATURDAYS.>>SOME OF THOSE ATTORNEYS MAY>>SOME OF THOSE ATTORNEYS MAY BE MANAGING HIS ESTATE. BE MANAGING HIS ESTATE. FROM THAT STANDPOINT, THE BORA FROM THAT STANDPOINT, THE BORA KIMABLES KIMABLES BILLABLES KEEP GOING BECAUSE BILLABLES KEEP GOING BECAUSE THEY ARE MANAGING ON STATE. THEY ARE MANAGING ON STATE. WE ARE REPORTING HERE — WE ARE REPORTING HERE –>>EPSTEIN’S ATTORNEYS?>>EPSTEIN’S ATTORNEYS?>>IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT THE>>IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT THE ESTATE WOULD SUE MCC. ESTATE WOULD SUE MCC. DANNY DANNY DANNY CEVALLOS BROUGHT UP A DANNY CEVALLOS BROUGHT UP A GREAT POINT BEFORE. GREAT POINT BEFORE. IRREGULARITYIES OF THIS FACILITY IRREGULARITYIES OF THIS FACILITY>>HOLD ON, IRREGULARITIES THAT>>HOLD ON, IRREGULARITIES THAT ALLOWED HIM TO HAVE THE ALLOWED HIM TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO KILL HIMSELF. OPPORTUNITY TO KILL HIMSELF.>>THE POSSIBILITY DOES EXIST.>>THE POSSIBILITY DOES EXIST. IT IS A POSSIBILITY THAT WE HAVE IT IS A POSSIBILITY THAT WE HAVE TO CONSIDER. TO CONSIDER. I DON’T THINK THE IDEA THAT WE I DON’T THINK THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE THIS BUTTON UP BY THE END HAVE THIS BUTTON UP BY THE END OF THE WEEK AND HOW IT IS OF THE WEEK AND HOW IT IS EXECUTED IN THE STATE. EXECUTED IN THE STATE. IT IS COMPLICATED AND DEFINITELY IT IS COMPLICATED AND DEFINITELY GOING TO BE KEEP TRACK OF. GOING TO BE KEEP TRACK OF. THE CIVIL ATTORNEYS DEFINITELY THE CIVIL ATTORNEYS DEFINITELY HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS. HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS. THEY WANT THE ABILITY TO GET THEY WANT THE ABILITY TO GET FINANCIAL JUSTICE FROM JEFFERY FINANCIAL JUSTICE FROM JEFFERY EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN.>>STEVE, IF I AM DEUTSCHE BANK>>STEVE, IF I AM DEUTSCHE BANK OR JP MORGAN AND IP AM WATCHING OR JP MORGAN AND IP AM WATCHING THE CLOCK, THIS GUY IS GOING TO THE CLOCK, THIS GUY IS GOING TO HAVE A TRIAL DATE A YEAR FROM HAVE A TRIAL DATE A YEAR FROM NOW, I AM GOING TO CALL TO BE NOW, I AM GOING TO CALL TO BE TESTIFY, ARE ALL THOSE PARTIES
>>>THIS MORNING THERE ARE MORE>>>THIS MORNING THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS. QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS. A WHOLE LOT MORE IN THE CASE A WHOLE LOT MORE IN THE CASE AGAINST JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND HIS AGAINST JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND HIS APPARENT SUICIDE IN A MANHATTAN APPARENT SUICIDE IN A MANHATTAN JAIL OVER THE WEEKEND. JAIL OVER THE WEEKEND. HERE TO ANSWER SOME OF THOSE HERE TO ANSWER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS THE REPORTER WHO BROKE QUESTIONS THE REPORTER WHO BROKE THIS STORY WIDE OPEN AND PUT THIS STORY WIDE OPEN AND PUT EPSTEIN BACK INTO THE EPSTEIN BACK INTO THE SPOTLIGHT, “MIAMI HERALD’S” SPOTLIGHT, “MIAMI HERALD’S” JULIE K. BROWN, FORMER FEDERAL JULIE K. BROWN, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AND PROFESSOR AT PROSECUTOR AND PROFESSOR AT GEORGETOWN LAW SCHOOL PAUL GEORGETOWN LAW SCHOOL PAUL BUTLER AND CAMERON LINDSAY WHO BUTLER AND CAMERON LINDSAY WHO SERVED AS A FEDERAL PRISON SERVED AS A FEDERAL PRISON WARDEN AND SPECIFICALLY WORKED WARDEN AND SPECIFICALLY WORKED AT MULTIPLE FACILITIES INCLUDING AT MULTIPLE FACILITIES INCLUDING THE SISTER FACILITY OF WHERE THE SISTER FACILITY OF WHERE EPSTEIN WAS. EPSTEIN WAS. CAMERON, YOU KNOW I NEED ANSWERS CAMERON, YOU KNOW I NEED ANSWERS TO HOW THIS JAIL WORKS. TO HOW THIS JAIL WORKS. BUT JULIE, I HAVE TO GO TO YOU BUT JULIE, I HAVE TO GO TO YOU FIRST. FIRST. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU HEARD ABOUT HIS DEATH? HEARD ABOUT HIS DEATH?>>I JUST COULDN’T BELIEVE IT.>>I JUST COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. I MEAN, I GOT A PHONE CALL AND I I MEAN, I GOT A PHONE CALL AND I SAID, NO. SAID, NO. YOU KNOW, THAT CAN’T BE RIGHT. YOU KNOW, THAT CAN’T BE RIGHT. I THINK EVERYBODY HAD THE SAME I THINK EVERYBODY HAD THE SAME REACTION. REACTION. HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED? HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED? GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE ALLEGEDLY GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE ALLEGEDLY TRIED SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS TWO TRIED SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO THIS? WEEKS PRIOR TO THIS? EVERYBODY THOUGHT THE SAME EVERYBODY THOUGHT THE SAME THING. THING. WASN’T HE UNDER SUICIDE WATCH? WASN’T HE UNDER SUICIDE WATCH? HOW COULD SOMEBODY ON SUICIDE HOW COULD SOMEBODY ON SUICIDE WATCH COMMIT SUICIDE? WATCH COMMIT SUICIDE? WE NOW KNOW THAT HE SOMEHOW WE NOW KNOW THAT HE SOMEHOW MANIPULATED THINGS SO THAT HE MANIPULATED THINGS SO THAT HE GOT OFF OF SUICIDE WATCH SO EVEN GOT OFF OF SUICIDE WATCH SO EVEN SO — SO –>>DO YOU THINK HE MANIPULATED>>DO YOU THINK HE MANIPULATED THINGS TO GET OFF SUICIDE WATCH? THINGS TO GET OFF SUICIDE WATCH?>>YES, I DO.>>YES, I DO. I DO. I DO. BECAUSE OF HIS HISTORY. BECAUSE OF HIS HISTORY. REMEMBER THE WAY HE WAS REMEMBER THE WAY HE WAS INCARCERATED IN FLORIDA, I MEAN, INCARCERATED IN FLORIDA, I MEAN, HE HAD GUARDS WHO WERE LEAVING HE HAD GUARDS WHO WERE LEAVING HIS DOOR OPEN, GUARDS WHO WERE HIS DOOR OPEN, GUARDS WHO WERE BRINGING HIM STEW, YOU KNOW, BRINGING HIM STEW, YOU KNOW, GUARDS THAT WERE CUTTING HIS GUARDS THAT WERE CUTTING HIS HAIR. HAIR. HE WAS ALLOWED TO LEAVE EVERY HE WAS ALLOWED TO LEAVE EVERY DAY WITH HIS OWN VALET AND GO TO DAY WITH HIS OWN VALET AND GO TO AN OFFICE. AN OFFICE. YOU KNOW, IT DOESN’T SURPRISE ME YOU KNOW, IT DOESN’T SURPRISE ME AT ALL HE WOULD HAVE BEEN AT ALL HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE TO MANIPULATE SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE TO MANIPULATE THEM INTO GIVING HIM SOME TIME THEM INTO GIVING HIM SOME TIME TO HIMSELF. TO HIMSELF.>>I KNOW YOU’VE SPOKEN TO SOME>>I KNOW YOU’VE SPOKEN TO SOME OF THE VICTIMS SINCE SATURDAY. OF THE VICTIMS SINCE SATURDAY. HOW ARE THEY PROCESSING THIS? HOW ARE THEY PROCESSING THIS?>>I THINK THEY ARE ALL STILL IN>>I THINK THEY ARE ALL STILL IN SHOCK. SHOCK. YOU KNOW, IT’S A RANGE OF YOU KNOW, IT’S A RANGE OF EMOTIONS. EMOTIONS. IT’S SHOCK, IT’S GRIEF. IT’S SHOCK, IT’S GRIEF. IT’S ANGER REALLY. IT’S ANGER REALLY. THIS IS, REPRESENTS ANOTHER THIS IS, REPRESENTS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW THE CRIMINAL EXAMPLE OF HOW THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR TO JUSTICE SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR TO WEALTHY MEN WHO SEEM TO BE ABLE WEALTHY MEN WHO SEEM TO BE ABLE TO GET A DIFFERENT KIND OF TO GET A DIFFERENT KIND OF JUSTICE THAN OTHER REGULAR JUSTICE THAN OTHER REGULAR PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY. PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY.>>HOW RELIEVED ARE THEY?>>HOW RELIEVED ARE THEY? WHERE DO ALL OF THESE WHERE DO ALL OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS OR EVEN THE INVESTIGATIONS OR EVEN THE REPORTING GO? REPORTING GO? LET’S SAY MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN LET’S SAY MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN HIS CIRCLE WERE NOT CRIMINALS HIS CIRCLE WERE NOT CRIMINALS AND SEX OFFENDERS LIKE HE WAS. AND SEX OFFENDERS LIKE HE WAS. BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE JUST BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE JUST ABSOLUTE VILE SLEAZE BAGS WHO ABSOLUTE VILE SLEAZE BAGS WHO DIDN’T WANT THE PILOTS TO SAY, DIDN’T WANT THE PILOTS TO SAY, HERE’S WHO’S BEEN ON THE PLANE HERE’S WHO’S BEEN ON THE PLANE TEN TIMES, 15 TIMES? TEN TIMES, 15 TIMES? ARE THOSE PEOPLE DANCING IN THE ARE THOSE PEOPLE DANCING IN THE STREETS? STREETS?>>NO.>>NO. I DON’T THINK SO AT ALL. I DON’T THINK SO AT ALL.>>WHY?>>WHY?>>I THINK THE U.S. PROSECUTOR>>I THINK THE U.S. PROSECUTOR IS GOING TO — THERE ARE A LOT IS GOING TO — THERE ARE A LOT OF DOCUMENTS OUT THERE. OF DOCUMENTS OUT THERE. WE DON’T KNOW COMPLETELY WHAT WE DON’T KNOW COMPLETELY WHAT THE U.S. ATTORNEY HAS BUT HE HAS THE U.S. ATTORNEY HAS BUT HE HAS A BIG PAPER TRAIL. A BIG PAPER TRAIL.>>WILL WE SEE THOSE DOCUMENTS>>WILL WE SEE THOSE DOCUMENTS NOW? NOW?>>I THINK IN TIME.>>I THINK IN TIME. YOU KNOW, WHEN HE BRINGS YOU KNOW, WHEN HE BRINGS INDICTMENTS AND THE CASE GOES TO INDICTMENTS AND THE CASE GOES TO TRIAL. TRIAL. HE WILL PROSECUTE OTHER PEOPLE HE WILL PROSECUTE OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS I FEEL CERTAIN INVOLVED IN THIS I FEEL CERTAIN BECAUSE I’VE SEEN THE EVIDENCE BECAUSE I’VE SEEN THE EVIDENCE OUT THERE, SOME OF IT, AND IT IS OUT THERE, SOME OF IT, AND IT IS VERY STRONG. VERY STRONG.>>PAUL, WITHIN MINUTES OF>>PAUL, WITHIN MINUTES OF LEARNING OF EPSTEIN’S DEATH THE LEARNING OF EPSTEIN’S DEATH THE INTERNET WAS FLOODED WITH INTERNET WAS FLOODED WITH CONSPIRACY THEORIES. CONSPIRACY THEORIES. THE PRESIDENT EVEN RETWEETING A THE PRESIDENT EVEN RETWEETING A CONSPIRACY THEORY TYING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY TYING THE CLINTONS TO THIS. CLINTONS TO THIS. IT IS NOT JUST — THERE ARE IT IS NOT JUST — THERE ARE CONSPIRACY THEORIES ALL OVER THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES ALL OVER THE PLACE. PLACE. HOW MUCH DOES THAT COMPLICATE HOW MUCH DOES THAT COMPLICATE THINGS IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY THINGS IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY GETTING JUSTICE HERE? GETTING JUSTICE HERE?>>HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW.>>HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW. WE KNOW MR. EPSTEIN’S SUICIDE WE KNOW MR. EPSTEIN’S SUICIDE WAS ENABLED BY THE FEDERAL WAS ENABLED BY THE FEDERAL PRISONS. PRISONS. HE WAS UNDER SUICIDE WATCH. HE WAS UNDER SUICIDE WATCH. OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNDER OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNDER SUICIDE WATCH. SUICIDE WATCH. HE SHOULD HAVE HAD SOMEONE ELSE HE SHOULD HAVE HAD SOMEONE ELSE IN THE CELL WITH HIM. IN THE CELL WITH HIM. THAT PERSON WAS MYSTERIOUSLY THAT PERSON WAS MYSTERIOUSLY REMOVED ON FRIDAY. REMOVED ON FRIDAY. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CHECKED HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CHECKED EVERY 30 MINUTES AND APPARENTLY EVERY 30 MINUTES AND APPARENTLY WAS NOT CHECKED FOR HOURS. WAS NOT CHECKED FOR HOURS. SOMETHING BIZARRE WAS GOING ON. SOMETHING BIZARRE WAS GOING ON.>>OKAY.>>OKAY. BESIDES THE MOMENTARY OUTRAGE BESIDES THE MOMENTARY OUTRAGE THAT WE’RE EXPERIENCING TODAY, THAT WE’RE EXPERIENCING TODAY, WHAT — WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT — WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT? THAT?>>SO THE COCONSPIRATORS, MR.>>SO THE COCONSPIRATORS, MR. EPSTEIN’S VAST, CRIMINAL EPSTEIN’S VAST, CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY WAS ENABLED BY OTHER CONSPIRACY WAS ENABLED BY OTHER PEOPLE. PEOPLE. SOMEBODY HAD TO RECRUIT THOSE SOMEBODY HAD TO RECRUIT THOSE GIRLS. GIRLS. SOMEBODY HAD TO TRAIN THOSE SOMEBODY HAD TO TRAIN THOSE GIRLS. GIRLS. SOMEBODY HAD TO COERCE THOSE SOMEBODY HAD TO COERCE THOSE GIRLS. GIRLS. REMEMBER, THE BIZARRE TRAVESTY REMEMBER, THE BIZARRE TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE THAT THE FLORIDA PLEA OF JUSTICE THAT THE FLORIDA PLEA DEAL REPRESENTED SAID THAT THOSE DEAL REPRESENTED SAID THAT THOSE COCONSPIRATORS COULD NOT BE COCONSPIRATORS COULD NOT BE PROSECUTED. PROSECUTED. THANKFULLY THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THANKFULLY THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR NEW YORK, MR. BERMAN, DOES NOT NEW YORK, MR. BERMAN, DOES NOT AGREE WITH THAT. AGREE WITH THAT. HE SHOULD GO AFTER THOSE FOUR HE SHOULD GO AFTER THOSE FOUR COCONSPIRATORS VERY QUICKLY. COCONSPIRATORS VERY QUICKLY.>>HOW ABOUT WHERE ARE THEY?>>HOW ABOUT WHERE ARE THEY? DELAIN MAXWELL HAS BEEN WRITTEN DELAIN MAXWELL HAS BEEN WRITTEN UP OVER AND OVER AS THE UP OVER AND OVER AS THE COCONSPIRATOR, RECRUITER, OFTEN COCONSPIRATOR, RECRUITER, OFTEN THE TRAINER OF MANY OF THESE THE TRAINER OF MANY OF THESE YOUNG GIRLS. YOUNG GIRLS. IT IS REPORTED THEY DON’T EVEN IT IS REPORTED THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE SHE IS. KNOW WHERE SHE IS. THIS IS A WOMAN WHOSE FATHER THIS IS A WOMAN WHOSE FATHER DIED A SWINDLER, CON MAN, OWING DIED A SWINDLER, CON MAN, OWING OVER 43 BANKS $4 BILLION. OVER 43 BANKS $4 BILLION. A, HOW DID THIS WOMAN MAINTAIN A, HOW DID THIS WOMAN MAINTAIN HER SOCIALITE STATUS AND, B, WHY HER SOCIALITE STATUS AND, B, WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE STILL DON’T IS IT THAT PEOPLE STILL DON’T KNOW WHERE SHE IS? KNOW WHERE SHE IS? I COULDN’T LIVE OFF THE GRID. I COULDN’T LIVE OFF THE GRID. I DON’T THINK YOU COULD EITHER. I DON’T THINK YOU COULD EITHER.>>YEAH.>>YEAH. I CAN’T REALLY ANSWER THAT I CAN’T REALLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION. QUESTION. I WOULD HOPE THEY ARE KEEPING I WOULD HOPE THEY ARE KEEPING TRACK OF HER AND THEY SHOULD TRACK OF HER AND THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKING WHERE SHE IS HAVE BEEN LOOKING WHERE SHE IS EVERY SECOND. EVERY SECOND. SHE DOES HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP I SHE DOES HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP I UNDERSTAND WITH THE UK AND IS UNDERSTAND WITH THE UK AND IS ALSO ASSOCIATED IN RECENT YEARS ALSO ASSOCIATED IN RECENT YEARS WITH A LOT OF OCEANOGRAPHERS. WITH A LOT OF OCEANOGRAPHERS. SHE HAD A NONPROFIT SHE HAD A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. ORGANIZATION. SO THERE’S ALSO BEEN SOME SO THERE’S ALSO BEEN SOME SPECULATION THAT SHE COULD EVEN SPECULATION THAT SHE COULD EVEN BE ON A SUBMARINE SOMEWHERE IN BE ON A SUBMARINE SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. WHO KNOWS? WHO KNOWS? I MEAN, SHE, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS I MEAN, SHE, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS PRETTY SHARP THAT SHE WAS ABLE PRETTY SHARP THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO EVADE IT THIS LONG. TO EVADE IT THIS LONG.>>IF BILL BARR WANTS THEM TO>>IF BILL BARR WANTS THEM TO THE FBI CAN FIND THIS WOMAN. THE FBI CAN FIND THIS WOMAN. THE QUESTION IS DOES HE? THE QUESTION IS DOES HE?>>BILL BARR HAS SAID HE IS>>BILL BARR HAS SAID HE IS OUTRAGED. OUTRAGED. CAMERON, TAKE ME INSIDE OF THIS CAMERON, TAKE ME INSIDE OF THIS PRISON. PRISON. IS THERE ANY WAY SOMEONE OTHER IS THERE ANY WAY SOMEONE OTHER THAN EPSTEIN COULD HAVE THAN EPSTEIN COULD HAVE ORCHESTRATED HIS DEATH OR HAD A ORCHESTRATED HIS DEATH OR HAD A HAND IN IT? HAND IN IT? BECAUSE FOR THOSE OF US SITTING BECAUSE FOR THOSE OF US SITTING HERE, IT SIMPLY MAKES NO SENSE. HERE, IT SIMPLY MAKES NO SENSE.>>WELL, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME>>WELL, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME JUST SAY THIS IS JUST A TERRIBLE JUST SAY THIS IS JUST A TERRIBLE EVENT THAT’S HAPPENED. EVENT THAT’S HAPPENED. I THINK IT IS A BLACK EYE ON OUR I THINK IT IS A BLACK EYE ON OUR ENTIRE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ENTIRE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR THE SAKE OF THE VICTIMS AND FOR THE SAKE OF THE VICTIMS AND UPHOLDING OUR SYSTEMS OF UPHOLDING OUR SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE. JUSTICE. THESE KINDS OF THINGS — THESE KINDS OF THINGS –>>WHAT IF A BLACK GUY IS THE>>WHAT IF A BLACK GUY IS THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS AND THOSE LESSER OF TWO EVILS AND THOSE ARE SAYING, YEP. ARE SAYING, YEP. THIS WILL BE HUMILIATING BUT AT THIS WILL BE HUMILIATING BUT AT LEAST WE’LL GET THIS GUY OUT OF LEAST WE’LL GET THIS GUY OUT OF THE PICTURE BECAUSE HE COULD THE PICTURE BECAUSE HE COULD HURT US WAY MORE THAN A BLACK HURT US WAY MORE THAN A BLACK EYE? EYE?>>THIS IS CERTAINLY GOING TO>>THIS IS CERTAINLY GOING TO FUEL THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES. FUEL THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES. VERY FRANKLY, IT’S GOING TO BE VERY FRANKLY, IT’S GOING TO BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS UNFOLDS. UNFOLDS. BUT I PREDICT WHAT WE’RE GOING BUT I PREDICT WHAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE IN THE END IS THAT TO SEE IN THE END IS THAT EPSTEIN WAS PROBABLY ABLE TO EPSTEIN WAS PROBABLY ABLE TO CHARM OR MANIPULATE A MENTAL CHARM OR MANIPULATE A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL INTO HEALTH PROFESSIONAL INTO BELIEVING THAT HE WAS NO LONGER BELIEVING THAT HE WAS NO LONGER A THREAT TO HIMSELF AND WAS A THREAT TO HIMSELF AND WAS THEREFORE PULLED OFF THE SUICIDE THEREFORE PULLED OFF THE SUICIDE WATCH. WATCH. PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT EPSTEIN PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT EPSTEIN SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A CELL WITH SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A CELL WITH ANOTHER INMATE TO HELP, PERHAPS, ANOTHER INMATE TO HELP, PERHAPS, KEEP HIM FROM KILLING HIMSELF. KEEP HIM FROM KILLING HIMSELF. I SEE THAT VERY DIFFERENTLY. I SEE THAT VERY DIFFERENTLY. FROM A CORRECTIONAL FROM A CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATOR PERSPECTIVE WHEN ADMINISTRATOR PERSPECTIVE WHEN YOU TAKE AN INDIVIDUAL LIKE YOU TAKE AN INDIVIDUAL LIKE JEFFREY EPSTEIN WHO IS A JEFFREY EPSTEIN WHO IS A CONVICTED PEDOPHILE, WHO IS CONVICTED PEDOPHILE, WHO IS EXTREMELY HIGH PROFILE, A EXTREMELY HIGH PROFILE, A BILLIONAIRE CONNECTED TO BILLIONAIRE CONNECTED TO VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY, TO KILL VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY, TO KILL SOMEBODY, FOR AN INMATE TO KILL SOMEBODY, FOR AN INMATE TO KILL SOMEBODY LIKE JEFFREY EPSTEIN SOMEBODY LIKE JEFFREY EPSTEIN VERY FRANKLY WOULD BE A BADGE OF VERY FRANKLY WOULD BE A BADGE OF HONOR. HONOR. IN THE SUB CULTURE OF JAILS AND IN THE SUB CULTURE OF JAILS AND PRISONS THIS IS THE KIND OF GUY PRISONS THIS IS THE KIND OF GUY THAT IS GOING TO BE RIPE TO BE THAT IS GOING TO BE RIPE TO BE TAKEN OUT. TAKEN OUT. I BELIEVE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN I BELIEVE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SINGLE CELLED THE ENTIRE TIME. SINGLE CELLED THE ENTIRE TIME. ONCE HE HAD HIS SUICIDE ATTEMPT ONCE HE HAD HIS SUICIDE ATTEMPT IF THIS IS PROVEN, THEN FROM MY IF THIS IS PROVEN, THEN FROM MY PERSPECTIVE HE SHOULD HAVE PERSPECTIVE HE SHOULD HAVE REMAINED ON SUICIDE WATCH THE REMAINED ON SUICIDE WATCH THE ENTIRE TIME HE WAS IN THAT ENTIRE TIME HE WAS IN THAT FACILITY. FACILITY. HE WAS A PRETRIAL, PRESENTENCE HE WAS A PRETRIAL, PRESENTENCE FACILITY. FACILITY. HE THEREFORE WOULD NOT BE ON HE THEREFORE WOULD NOT BE ON SUICIDE WATCH INDEFINITELY. SUICIDE WATCH INDEFINITELY. AS SOON AS HIS CASE WERE TO BE AS SOON AS HIS CASE WERE TO BE ADJUDICATED THE BUREAU OF ADJUDICATED THE BUREAU OF PRISONS WOULD HAVE DESIGNATED PRISONS WOULD HAVE DESIGNATED HIM VERY QUICKLY TO THE HIM VERY QUICKLY TO THE INSTITUTION OF SERVICE OF INSTITUTION OF SERVICE OF SENTENCE MUCH LIKE THEY DID WITH SENTENCE MUCH LIKE THEY DID WITH GUZMAN, SHORTY GUZMAN. GUZMAN, SHORTY GUZMAN. AS SOON AS HIS CASE WAS AS SOON AS HIS CASE WAS ADJUDICATED OFF HE WENT TO THE ADJUDICATED OFF HE WENT TO THE ADX. ADX. THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS I SEE THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS I SEE WHERE THE AGENCY WENT WRONG VERY WHERE THE AGENCY WENT WRONG VERY FRANKLY. FRANKLY.>>JULIE, WHERE DOES YOUR>>JULIE, WHERE DOES YOUR REPORTING GO FROM HERE? REPORTING GO FROM HERE?>>I’M GOING TO KEEP FOLLOWING>>I’M GOING TO KEEP FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF EVIDENCE THAT WE’VE THE TRAIL OF EVIDENCE THAT WE’VE DUG UP SO FAR WITH THESE DUG UP SO FAR WITH THESE DOCUMENTS THAT CAME OUT THE DOCUMENTS THAT CAME OUT THE OTHER DAY. OTHER DAY. THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED, A LOT OF THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED, A LOT OF THREADS TO FOLLOW. THREADS TO FOLLOW. THERE ARE NEW NAMES AS WE KNOW THERE ARE NEW NAMES AS WE KNOW OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ALLEGED TO OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ONE WAY OR HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER SO WE’LL START LOOKING I ANOTHER SO WE’LL START LOOKING I THINK CLOSER AT ALL OF THOSE THINK CLOSER AT ALL OF THOSE DOCUMENTS AND ALSO I THINK DOCUMENTS AND ALSO I THINK EVERYBODY IS HOPING THAT PERHAPS EVERYBODY IS HOPING THAT PERHAPS MORE PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT THIS MORE PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT THIS WILL COME FORWARD, MEANING — WILL COME FORWARD, MEANING –>>YOU THINK THEY WILL?>>YOU THINK THEY WILL?>>I DON’T KNOW.>>I DON’T KNOW. YOU KNOW, FIRST I THOUGHT THEY YOU KNOW, FIRST I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BUT, YOU KNOW, WITH HIM WOULD BUT, YOU KNOW, WITH HIM BEING GONE, MOST OF THEM TOLD ME BEING GONE, MOST OF THEM TOLD ME THEY DIDN’T WANT TO SPEAK THEY DIDN’T WANT TO SPEAK BECAUSE EITHER THEY HAD A BECAUSE EITHER THEY HAD A NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT WITH HIM NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT WITH HIM IF THEY WORKED FOR HIM OR THEY IF THEY WORKED FOR HIM OR THEY WERE AFRAID. WERE AFRAID. NOW WITH HIM GONE I THOUGHT, NOW WITH HIM GONE I THOUGHT, WELL MAYBE NOW, YOU KNOW, HOW WELL MAYBE NOW, YOU KNOW, HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE NONDISCLOSURE EFFECTIVE IS THE NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT GOING TO REALLY BE? AGREEMENT GOING TO REALLY BE? NOW WITH ALL THESE CONSPIRACY NOW WITH ALL THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES FLOATING OUT THERE, THEORIES FLOATING OUT THERE, THEY COULD VERY WELL BE AFRAID
ALL OF THESE ARE HALLMARKS OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST POLICIES. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST POLICIES.>>RIGHT.>>RIGHT. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART. BUT JOINING US NOW, ALEXANDRIA BUT JOINING US NOW, ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, THE DEMOCRATIC OCASIO-CORTEZ, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR THE 14th DISTRICT. NOMINEE FOR THE 14th DISTRICT. SHE UNSEATED A TEN-TERM SHE UNSEATED A TEN-TERM INCUMBENT CONGRESSMAN, AND CORY INCUMBENT CONGRESSMAN, AND CORY BUSH IS WITH US HOPING TO PULL BUSH IS WITH US HOPING TO PULL OFF A SIMILAR FEAT IN MISSOURI’S OFF A SIMILAR FEAT IN MISSOURI’S FIRST DISTRICT. FIRST DISTRICT. GREAT EXPLANATION. GREAT EXPLANATION.>>THANK YOU.>>THANK YOU. I’M DYING TO GO FIRST. I’M DYING TO GO FIRST. THAT EXPLANATION MAKES SENSE TO THAT EXPLANATION MAKES SENSE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT A LOT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WATCH THAT ARE PEOPLE WHO WATCH THAT ARE ALREADY IN YOUR CAMP. ALREADY IN YOUR CAMP. BEING TIED TO THE WORD BEING TIED TO THE WORD SOCIALIST, ARE YOU CONCERNED SOCIALIST, ARE YOU CONCERNED THAT WHEN YOU GET ON THE BIG THAT WHEN YOU GET ON THE BIG STAGE THAT COULD BE A KILLER FOR STAGE THAT COULD BE A KILLER FOR YOU? YOU? THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE THAT AREN’T GOING TO GO MIDDLE THAT AREN’T GOING TO GO THROUGH THAT EXPLAINER, AND WHEN THROUGH THAT EXPLAINER, AND WHEN THEY HEAR SOCIALIST, THINK THINK THEY HEAR SOCIALIST, THINK THINK MY HARD EARNED DOLLARS, I’M NOT MY HARD EARNED DOLLARS, I’M NOT READY TO GIVE THEM AWAY. READY TO GIVE THEM AWAY.>>I THINK THAT’S A LEGITIMATE>>I THINK THAT’S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN. CONCERN. I GO BACK TO HOW WE WON THE I GO BACK TO HOW WE WON THE RACE. RACE. WE DON’T WIN THIS RACE WITH WE DON’T WIN THIS RACE WITH LABELS OR SAYING I AM THIS OR LABELS OR SAYING I AM THIS OR THAT. THAT. WE ALWAYS RAN THIS RACE WITH OUR WE ALWAYS RAN THIS RACE WITH OUR GOALS AND OUR ISSUES IN MIND. GOALS AND OUR ISSUES IN MIND. WE RAN THIS RACE TALKING ABOUT WE RAN THIS RACE TALKING ABOUT MEDICARE FOR ALL. MEDICARE FOR ALL. WE WON THIS RACE TALKING ABOUT WE WON THIS RACE TALKING ABOUT OPENING TUITION FREE PUBLIC OPENING TUITION FREE PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. EXPANDING OUR EDUCATIONAL EXPANDING OUR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. OPPORTUNITIES. OUR TRANSIT AND BANKING. OUR TRANSIT AND BANKING. WE TALK DIRECTLY TO THE WE TALK DIRECTLY TO THE EXPLANATION THAT YOU WERE EXPLANATION THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. TALKING ABOUT. NOT EXPLAINING WHAT THESE NOT EXPLAINING WHAT THESE IDEOLOGIES ARE. IDEOLOGIES ARE. PEOPLE DON’T WAKE UP IN THE PEOPLE DON’T WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND SAY I’M A CAPITALIST MORNING AND SAY I’M A CAPITALIST OR THIS OR THAT. OR THIS OR THAT. WE DON’T THINK ABOUT IDEOLOGY. WE DON’T THINK ABOUT IDEOLOGY. WE THINK ABOUT WHAT WE’RE TRYING WE THINK ABOUT WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO GET DONE. TO GET DONE. I THINK A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE I THINK A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE MAKE THESE IDEOLOGIES, THEY TRY MAKE THESE IDEOLOGIES, THEY TRY TO MAKE THAT THE CONVERSATION TO MAKE THAT THE CONVERSATION POINT WITH THE INTENT OF BEING POINT WITH THE INTENT OF BEING DIVISIVE. DIVISIVE. WITH THE INTENT OF BEING WITH THE INTENT OF BEING ALIENATING. ALIENATING. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHAT BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHAT I FOUND IN OUR DISTRICT WAS THAT I FOUND IN OUR DISTRICT WAS THAT MOST PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE SURE MOST PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS HEALTH CARE. THAT EVERYONE HAS HEALTH CARE. MOST PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE SURE MOST PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY CHILD HAS ACCESS TO THAT EVERY CHILD HAS ACCESS TO AN EQUITABLE EDUCATION THROUGH AN EQUITABLE EDUCATION THROUGH COLLEGE. COLLEGE. AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TALKING AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. ABOUT.>>CORY, ALL CAMPAIGNS ARE>>CORY, ALL CAMPAIGNS ARE UNIQUE. UNIQUE. THE ISSUES YOU FACE ARE GOING TO THE ISSUES YOU FACE ARE GOING TO BE UNIQUE. BE UNIQUE. BUT ARE THERE THINGS THAT YOU BUT ARE THERE THINGS THAT YOU SAW IN ALEXANDRIA SAW IN ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ’S CAMPAIGN YOU’RE OCASIO-CORTEZ’S CAMPAIGN YOU’RE HOPING TO UTILIZE? HOPING TO UTILIZE?>>ABSOLUTELY.>>ABSOLUTELY. HER CAMPAIGN WAS POWERFUL. HER CAMPAIGN WAS POWERFUL. THE MOMENTUM WAS THERE. THE MOMENTUM WAS THERE. IT WAS ELECTRIC. IT WAS ELECTRIC. THAT’S WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE THAT’S WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND HERE IN ST. LOUIS. GROUND HERE IN ST. LOUIS. WE HAVE PEOPLE POWER. WE HAVE PEOPLE POWER. WE MAY NOT HAVE THE MONEY, BUT WE MAY NOT HAVE THE MONEY, BUT WE HAVE PEOPLE SHOWING UP AND WE HAVE PEOPLE SHOWING UP AND SAYING THIS IS WHO I WANT. SAYING THIS IS WHO I WANT. IT’S ABOUT LEADERSHIP. IT’S ABOUT LEADERSHIP. IT’S NOT ABOUT LOYALTY. IT’S NOT ABOUT LOYALTY. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE POWER. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE POWER. IT’S ABOUT WHO IS GOING TO BEST IT’S ABOUT WHO IS GOING TO BEST REMIT AND FIGHT FOR WORKING REMIT AND FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES AND EVEN THOSE THAT MAY FAMILIES AND EVEN THOSE THAT MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED UNDER THAT NOT BE CONSIDERED UNDER THAT TERM. TERM. PEOPLE WHO ARE ON DISABILITY, PEOPLE WHO ARE ON DISABILITY, CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS, THEY CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS, THEY SHOULD HAVE A VOICE AT THE SHOULD HAVE A VOICE AT THE TABLE. TABLE. THAT’S WHAT I’M LOOKING AT WITH THAT’S WHAT I’M LOOKING AT WITH HER RACE AND THAT’S THE SAME HER RACE AND THAT’S THE SAME THING THAT’S HAPPENING WITH THING THAT’S HAPPENING WITH OURS. OURS.>>LET’S TALK ABOUT IMPACTFUL>>LET’S TALK ABOUT IMPACTFUL LEADERSHIP. LEADERSHIP. I CAN’T FIND ANYBODY OUT THERE I CAN’T FIND ANYBODY OUT THERE WHO SAYS I’M INSPIRED BY MITCH WHO SAYS I’M INSPIRED BY MITCH McCONNELL. McCONNELL. I’M DIEING TO SPEND TIME WITH I’M DIEING TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM. HIM. YOUR VIDEO WAS AMAZING. YOUR VIDEO WAS AMAZING. YOU HAVE INSPIRED PEOPLE. YOU HAVE INSPIRED PEOPLE. BUT MITCH McCONNELL IS A BUT MITCH McCONNELL IS A TACTICAL BEAST. TACTICAL BEAST. PEOPLE AREN’T SENDING HIM PEOPLE AREN’T SENDING HIM CHRISTMAS CARDS, BUT THEY’RE CHRISTMAS CARDS, BUT THEY’RE SENDING HIM CAMPAIGN DONATIONS. SENDING HIM CAMPAIGN DONATIONS. HE’S LEADING THE CHARGE TO GET HE’S LEADING THE CHARGE TO GET ANOTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN ANOTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN POSITION. POSITION. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SUCCESS THE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SUCCESS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS PLAYING REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS PLAYING LIFE OR DEATH HARDBALL, WHAT DO LIFE OR DEATH HARDBALL, WHAT DO YOU TAKE FROM THAT AND WHAT ARE YOU TAKE FROM THAT AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? YOU GOING TO DO?>>ONCE AGAIN, I THINK KIND OF>>ONCE AGAIN, I THINK KIND OF GOING BACK TO OUR INITIAL GOING BACK TO OUR INITIAL MESSAGE IN THIS CAMPAIGN, AND IN MESSAGE IN THIS CAMPAIGN, AND IN THAT VIDEO, IT’S PEOPLE VERSUS THAT VIDEO, IT’S PEOPLE VERSUS MONEY. MONEY. WE’RE NOT GOING TO BEAT THEM AT WE’RE NOT GOING TO BEAT THEM AT THAT BIG MONEY GAME. THAT BIG MONEY GAME. THAT’S A TRAP. THAT’S A TRAP. WE NEED TO BEAT THEM WITH BIG WE NEED TO BEAT THEM WITH BIG ORGANIZING. ORGANIZING. THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT I JUST THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT I JUST WANT A RACE WHERE I WAS OUTSPENT WANT A RACE WHERE I WAS OUTSPENT TEN TO ONE. TEN TO ONE. I HAVE SHOWN THAT BIG ORGANIZING I HAVE SHOWN THAT BIG ORGANIZING IS POSSIBLE. IS POSSIBLE. I BELIEVE THAT BIG ORGANIZING IS I BELIEVE THAT BIG ORGANIZING IS THE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC THE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. PARTY. I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL MAKE THEM I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL MAKE THEM LOSE THESE SEATS BECAUSE WE’VE LOSE THESE SEATS BECAUSE WE’VE GOT THE VOTES. GOT THE VOTES.>>BUT DID DEMOCRATS KNOW HOW TO>>BUT DID DEMOCRATS KNOW HOW TO UNIFY AND GET IT DONE? UNIFY AND GET IT DONE? BECAUSE CONSERVATIVES HAVE SHOWN BECAUSE CONSERVATIVES HAVE SHOWN IN YEAR THAT THEY DO. IN YEAR THAT THEY DO.>>YEAH.>>YEAH. WELL, I THINK THAT I CAN. WELL, I THINK THAT I CAN. I THINK CANDIDATES LIKE CORY I THINK CANDIDATES LIKE CORY BUSH CAN. BUSH CAN. I THINK WHEN YOU HAVE ELECTRIC I THINK WHEN YOU HAVE ELECTRIC CANDIDATES THAT DON’T TAKE CANDIDATES THAT DON’T TAKE CORPORATE LOBBYIST FUNDS SO CORPORATE LOBBYIST FUNDS SO THEIR COMMUNITIES TRUST THEM TO THEIR COMMUNITIES TRUST THEM TO ADVOCATE DIRECTLY FOR THEIR ADVOCATE DIRECTLY FOR THEIR NEEDS, I THINK THIS IS THE NEEDS, I THINK THIS IS THE FUTURE. FUTURE. YOU HAVE ELECTRIC CANDIDATES YOU HAVE ELECTRIC CANDIDATES LIKE CORY BUSH AND OTHERS THAT LIKE CORY BUSH AND OTHERS THAT UNIFY PEOPLE, EXCITE THE UNIFY PEOPLE, EXCITE THE ELECTORATE, AND REALLY WHAT THE ELECTORATE, AND REALLY WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC BASE IS IS NONVOTERS. DEMOCRATIC BASE IS IS NONVOTERS. I KNEW THAT GOING INTO THIS. I KNEW THAT GOING INTO THIS. I KNEW THAT MY BASE WERE PEOPLE I KNEW THAT MY BASE WERE PEOPLE WHO DON’T USUALLY TURN OUT IN WHO DON’T USUALLY TURN OUT IN PRIMARIES. PRIMARIES.>>AND ALSO GOT DONALD TRUMP>>AND ALSO GOT DONALD TRUMP ELECTED. ELECTED. A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE. A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE. IT’S AN INTERESTING POINT, BUT IT’S AN INTERESTING POINT, BUT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE LOOKING EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR NONVOTERS IN A WAY WE DON’T FOR NONVOTERS IN A WAY WE DON’T TRADITIONALLY DO IN A CAMPAIGN. TRADITIONALLY DO IN A CAMPAIGN. YOU ARE PART OF JUSTICE YOU ARE PART OF JUSTICE DEMOCRATS. DEMOCRATS. THERE ARE SOME POSITIONS LIKE THERE ARE SOME POSITIONS LIKE ENSURING A LIVABLE WAGE TIED TO ENSURING A LIVABLE WAGE TIED TO INFLATION. INFLATION. IT’S GOING TO FIND RESISTANCE IT’S GOING TO FIND RESISTANCE FROM SOME PEOPLE. FROM SOME PEOPLE. WE TALK ABOUT MINIMUM WAGE. WE TALK ABOUT MINIMUM WAGE. WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO COME WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO COME OUT HERE, PARTICULARLY OUT HERE, PARTICULARLY REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THERE’S A REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THERE’S A MARKET THAT DICTATES WAGES AND MARKET THAT DICTATES WAGES AND HEALTH CARE. HEALTH CARE. WE HAVE ARGUED MANY, MANY TIMES WE HAVE ARGUED MANY, MANY TIMES THAT A MARKET ORIENTED HEALTH THAT A MARKET ORIENTED HEALTH CARE IS A BIT PERVERSE. CARE IS A BIT PERVERSE. IT’S LIKE MARKET ORIENTED IT’S LIKE MARKET ORIENTED PRISON. PRISON. WE DON’T WANT MORE DEMAND FOR WE DON’T WANT MORE DEMAND FOR THEM. THEM. BUT HOW DO YOU GET THESE IDEAS BUT HOW DO YOU GET THESE IDEAS INTO THAT NONVOTER CROWD WHEN INTO THAT NONVOTER CROWD WHEN YOU ACTUALLY FACE BUILT IN YOU ACTUALLY FACE BUILT IN RESISTANCE? RESISTANCE?>>SO ONE THING ABOUT IT IS>>SO ONE THING ABOUT IT IS PEOPLE THAT MAKE $7, $8 AN HOUR, PEOPLE THAT MAKE $7, $8 AN HOUR, THEY DON’T WORK LESS HARD THAN THEY DON’T WORK LESS HARD THAN PEOPLE WHO MAKE $30 AN HOUR. PEOPLE WHO MAKE $30 AN HOUR. SO MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE WHAT SO MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES, PAY THEIR BILLS THEIR FAMILIES, PAY THEIR BILLS AND STILL HAVE MONEY LEFT OVER AND STILL HAVE MONEY LEFT OVER TO SAVE SHOULD NOT BE SOMETHING TO SAVE SHOULD NOT BE SOMETHING WE SHOULD HAVE TO BEG FOR. WE SHOULD HAVE TO BEG FOR. WE HAVE COMPANIES THAT WE KNOW WE HAVE COMPANIES THAT WE KNOW OF THAT MOVE TO $15 AN HOUR OF THAT MOVE TO $15 AN HOUR MINIMUM — WAGE, AND THEY’RE MINIMUM — WAGE, AND THEY’RE PROSPERING AND DOING WELL. PROSPERING AND DOING WELL. AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT, WE AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT, WE CAN COME UP WITH MONEY TO BE CAN COME UP WITH MONEY TO BE ABLE TO BUILD THESE TENT CITIES ABLE TO BUILD THESE TENT CITIES AND PAY $800 A DAY PER CHILD TO AND PAY $800 A DAY PER CHILD TO BE ABLE TO HOUSE THOUSANDS OF BE ABLE TO HOUSE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. CHILDREN. WE CAN COME UP WITH THE MONEY TO WE CAN COME UP WITH THE MONEY TO DO THAT. DO THAT. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A DAY TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A DAY TO HAVE PEOPLE IN THESE DETENTION HAVE PEOPLE IN THESE DETENTION CAMPS, THESE DETENTION CENTERS. CAMPS, THESE DETENTION CENTERS. BUT WE CAN’T MAKE SURE THAT BUT WE CAN’T MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING HARD PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING HARD EVERY SINGLE DAY ARE ABLE TO EVERY SINGLE DAY ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES? TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES? I THINK THAT WE CAN DO BETTER. I THINK THAT WE CAN DO BETTER.>>THIS IS A BRILLIANT POINT.>>THIS IS A BRILLIANT POINT. AND WHAT CAN YOU LEARN AS A AND WHAT CAN YOU LEARN AS A CANDIDATE FROM DONALD TRUMP’S CANDIDATE FROM DONALD TRUMP’S STRATEGY? STRATEGY? I LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP ACE’S BAS I LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP ACE’S BAS WHO IS WILDLY LOYAL TO HIM AND WHO IS WILDLY LOYAL TO HIM AND THE POINT OF THE TENT CITIES. THE POINT OF THE TENT CITIES. DONALD TRUMP IS PLAYING TO HIS DONALD TRUMP IS PLAYING TO HIS BASE EMOTIONALLY THAT FEEL LEFT BASE EMOTIONALLY THAT FEEL LEFT OUT AND FORGOTTEN. OUT AND FORGOTTEN. IF WE SPENT THE TENS OF MILLIONS IF WE SPENT THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE’RE SPENDING ON THE OF DOLLARS WE’RE SPENDING ON THE TENT CITIES AND BROUGHT THEM TO TENT CITIES AND BROUGHT THEM TO RURAL AMERICA OR INNER CITIES RURAL AMERICA OR INNER CITIES AND GOT FASTER WI-FI OR BETTER AND GOT FASTER WI-FI OR BETTER HEALTH CARE OR BETTER SCHOOLS, HEALTH CARE OR BETTER SCHOOLS, THAT WOULD ENERGIZE THAT THAT WOULD ENERGIZE THAT NONVOTING BASE THAT GOT OUT NONVOTING BASE THAT GOT OUT THERE AND DIDN’T JUST VOTE FOR THERE AND DIDN’T JUST VOTE FOR HIM. HIM. THEY’RE WILDLY LOYAL TO HIM. THEY’RE WILDLY LOYAL TO HIM.>>YEAH.>>YEAH. AND I THINK THAT KIND OF SPEAKS AND I THINK THAT KIND OF SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO THE QUESTION WHEN DIRECTLY TO THE QUESTION WHEN PEOPLE SAY THESE IDEAS. PEOPLE SAY THESE IDEAS. WHO IN CONGRESS IS GOING TO WHO IN CONGRESS IS GOING TO RESONATE WITH THE IDEAS? RESONATE WITH THE IDEAS? FOR ME IT’S ABOUT WHICH OF THE FOR ME IT’S ABOUT WHICH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO RESONATE WITH THESE IDEAS? RESONATE WITH THESE IDEAS? AND WHAT WE FIND IS THAT I AND WHAT WE FIND IS THAT I BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICAN BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE, US AS VOTERS, US VOT ELECTORATE, US AS VOTERS, US VOT FOR A VERY BOELDSLD AGENDA. FOR A VERY BOELDSLD AGENDA. WHEN WE TRY TO WATER DOWN THAT WHEN WE TRY TO WATER DOWN THAT AGENDA BECAUSE OF FEARS OF WHAT AGENDA BECAUSE OF FEARS OF WHAT PEOPLE THINK, WE FIND WE DON’T PEOPLE THINK, WE FIND WE DON’T HAVE A MESSAGE. HAVE A MESSAGE. WE CANNOT RUN WITHOUT A MESSAGE. WE CANNOT RUN WITHOUT A MESSAGE. DONALD TRUMP RAN WITH A MESSAGE. DONALD TRUMP RAN WITH A MESSAGE. IT WAS DISTURBING. IT WAS DISTURBING. IT WAS DIVISIVE. IT WAS DIVISIVE.>>BUT MIGHTILY CLEAR.>>BUT MIGHTILY CLEAR.>>IT WAS CLEAR.>>IT WAS CLEAR. FOR WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS THIS A FOR WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS THIS A TIME MORE THAN EVER TO BE TIME MORE THAN EVER TO BE BOELDS,BOELDSLD, BOELDS,BOELDSLD, TO BE CLEAR. TO BE CLEAR. SO SAY WE’RE A PARTY OF SOCIAL SO SAY WE’RE A PARTY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR AMERICANS. JUSTICE FOR AMERICANS.>>THAT’S CLEAR.>>THAT’S CLEAR.>>WE NEED TO HAVE FIGHTERS.>>WE NEED TO HAVE FIGHTERS. WE SHOULD HAVE CHAMPIONS. WE SHOULD HAVE CHAMPIONS. PEOPLE READY TO LEAD THE ISSUES. PEOPLE READY TO LEAD THE ISSUES. IT’S NOT OKAY TO VOTE DECENT. IT’S NOT OKAY TO VOTE DECENT. YOU HAVE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT YOU HAVE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT BECAUSE WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH BECAUSE WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION, WHAT’S THIS ADMINISTRATION, WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY’RE TAKING PEOPLE OUT. THEY’RE TAKING PEOPLE OUT. A LEADER IS BOLD. A LEADER IS BOLD. YOU’RE MOVING WITH NEW IDEAS AND YOU’RE MOVING WITH NEW IDEAS AND NOT AFRAID TO STAND UP FOR THE NOT AFRAID TO STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO SERVE.
AND JEWISH TARGETS AND WHO WAS PROMOTING WHITE SUPREMACISTS PROMOTING WHITE SUPREMACISTS IDEOLOGY. IDEOLOGY. AGENTS SAY THE SUSPECT HAD AGENTS SAY THE SUSPECT HAD ILLEGAL FIREARMS AND BOMB MAKING ILLEGAL FIREARMS AND BOMB MAKING MATERIAL. MATERIAL. WE’LL HAVE MORE ON THAT IN JUST WE’LL HAVE MORE ON THAT IN JUST A FEW MINUTES BUT WE GEN TONIGHT A FEW MINUTES BUT WE GEN TONIGHT WITH THE PRESIDENT’S OWN WITH THE PRESIDENT’S OWN ACCUSATIONS OF ENCOURAGING WHITE ACCUSATIONS OF ENCOURAGING WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND THE CONTINUED SUPREMACISTS AND THE CONTINUED BACKLASH OVER DONALD TRUMP’S BACKLASH OVER DONALD TRUMP’S DIVISIVE AND INFLAMMATORY DIVISIVE AND INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC LEADING UP TO THE RHETORIC LEADING UP TO THE DEADLIEST ATTACK TARGETING DEADLIEST ATTACK TARGETING LATINOS IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY. LATINOS IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY. THE EL PASO SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO THE EL PASO SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO REFERENCED TRUMP’S LANGUAGE REFERENCED TRUMP’S LANGUAGE SAYING HIS ATTACK WAS QUOTE IN SAYING HIS ATTACK WAS QUOTE IN RESPONSE TO THE HISPANIC RESPONSE TO THE HISPANIC INVASION OF TEXAS. INVASION OF TEXAS. AND IN AN AFFIDAVIT FILED TODAY AND IN AN AFFIDAVIT FILED TODAY “THE NEW YORK TIMES” REPORTS THE “THE NEW YORK TIMES” REPORTS THE SHOOTER DIVULGES THAT HIS SHOOTER DIVULGES THAT HIS TARGETS WERE MEXICANS. TARGETS WERE MEXICANS. THE VERY SAME PEOPLE PRESIDENT THE VERY SAME PEOPLE PRESIDENT TRUMP SLANDERED THE DAY HE TRUMP SLANDERED THE DAY HE ANNOUNCED HIS CAMPAIGN FOR ANNOUNCED HIS CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT IN THIS VIDEO HERE. PRESIDENT IN THIS VIDEO HERE. A USA TODAY ANALYSIS OF THE A USA TODAY ANALYSIS OF THE RALLY TRUMP HAS HELD SINCE 2017 RALLY TRUMP HAS HELD SINCE 2017 FOUND THAT TRUMP HAS USED THE FOUND THAT TRUMP HAS USED THE WORDS PREDATOR, INVASION, ALIEN, WORDS PREDATOR, INVASION, ALIEN, KILLER, CRIMINAL AND ANIMAL AT KILLER, CRIMINAL AND ANIMAL AT HIS RALLIES WHILE DISCUSSING HIS RALLIES WHILE DISCUSSING IMMIGRATION MORE THAN 500 TIMES. IMMIGRATION MORE THAN 500 TIMES. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ISN’T THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ISN’T TREATING THESE PEOPLE ANY TREATING THESE PEOPLE ANY BETTER. BETTER. THE ADMINISTRATION IS ACCUSED OF THE ADMINISTRATION IS ACCUSED OF INTENTIONALLY SEPARATING INTENTIONALLY SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS AT CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS AT THE BORDER AND CAGING THEM IN THE BORDER AND CAGING THEM IN OVERCROWDED DETENTIONS, SLEEPING OVERCROWDED DETENTIONS, SLEEPING ON CONCRETE FLOORS WITH ON CONCRETE FLOORS WITH INSUFFICIENT FOOD OR SHOWERS. INSUFFICIENT FOOD OR SHOWERS. TODAY CHILD WELFARE SERVICES ARE TODAY CHILD WELFARE SERVICES ARE GRAPPLING WITH CARING FOR GRAPPLING WITH CARING FOR CHILDREN WHO WERE LEFT STRANDED CHILDREN WHO WERE LEFT STRANDED AFTER I.C.E. ARRESTED NEARLY 700 AFTER I.C.E. ARRESTED NEARLY 700 UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI ON WEDNESDAY. MISSISSIPPI ON WEDNESDAY. THE LARGEST RAID IN A SINGLE THE LARGEST RAID IN A SINGLE STATE ENU.S. HISTORY. STATE ENU.S. HISTORY. ROUGHLY 300 OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE ROUGHLY 300 OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING DETAPED. STILL BEING DETAPED. BUZZFEED REPORTED THAT HUNDREDS BUZZFEED REPORTED THAT HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN ACROSS MISSISSIPPI OF CHILDREN ACROSS MISSISSIPPI MISSED SCHOOL YESTERDAY BECAUSE MISSED SCHOOL YESTERDAY BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR THEY WERE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES. HOMES. SCHOOL AND WELFARE AGENCIES WERE SCHOOL AND WELFARE AGENCIES WERE NOT ALERTED ABOUT THE RAIDS NOT ALERTED ABOUT THE RAIDS BECAUSE IT COULD HAVE BOTCHED BECAUSE IT COULD HAVE BOTCHED THE OPERATION, I.C.E. OFFICIALS THE OPERATION, I.C.E. OFFICIALS TOLD NBC NEWS. TOLD NBC NEWS. AS ONE I.C.E. OFFICIAL SAID, AS ONE I.C.E. OFFICIAL SAID, QUOTE, WE’RE A LAW ENFORCEMENT QUOTE, WE’RE A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, NOT A SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY, NOT A SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY. AGENCY. ONE WORKER WHO WITNESSED THE ONE WORKER WHO WITNESSED THE RAIDS SAID I’M THINKING OF THE RAIDS SAID I’M THINKING OF THE SEPARATED FAMILIES, FATHERS AND SEPARATED FAMILIES, FATHERS AND MOTHERS DEPORTED, CHILDREN LEFT MOTHERS DEPORTED, CHILDREN LEFT ALONE BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS WERE ALONE BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS WERE ARRESTED. ARRESTED. WHAT I SAW WAS TRAUMATIC, WHAT I SAW WAS TRAUMATIC, PAINFUL. PAINFUL. WELL TRAUMATIC AND PAINFUL, BUT WELL TRAUMATIC AND PAINFUL, BUT THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT. THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT. TODAY DONALD TRUMP WAS ASKED TODAY DONALD TRUMP WAS ASKED SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THIS LACK OF SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THIS LACK OF PREPARATION. PREPARATION.>>WHY WASN’T THERE A BETTER –>>WHY WASN’T THERE A BETTER –>>THE REASON IS BECAUSE YOU>>THE REASON IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GO IN, YOU CAN’T LET HAVE TO GO IN, YOU CAN’T LET ANYBODY KNOW. ANYBODY KNOW. OTHERWISE WHEN YOU GET THERE, OTHERWISE WHEN YOU GET THERE, NOBODY WILL BE THERE. NOBODY WILL BE THERE. BUT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT BUT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT IF THEY COME INTO THE UNITED IF THEY COME INTO THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY THEY’RE GETTING STATES ILLEGALLY THEY’RE GETTING OUT, THEY’RE GOING TO BE BROUGHT OUT, THEY’RE GOING TO BE BROUGHT OUT. OUT. AND THIS SERVES AS A VERY GOOD AND THIS SERVES AS A VERY GOOD DETERRENT. DETERRENT.>>A VERY GOOD DETERRENT.>>A VERY GOOD DETERRENT. THE ATLANTIC’S SAYS THE REAL THE ATLANTIC’S SAYS THE REAL DETERRENT IS EXACTLY THE CRUEL DETERRENT IS EXACTLY THE CRUEL CONDITIONS IMMIGRANTS AND ASYLUM CONDITIONS IMMIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS FACE AT THE BORDER UNDER SEEKERS FACE AT THE BORDER UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. PRESIDENT TRUMP. IN HIS PIECE ENTITLED FROM LAST IN HIS PIECE ENTITLED FROM LAST YEAR ENTITLED “THE CRUELTY IS YEAR ENTITLED “THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT,” TRUMP’S ONLY TRUE THE POINT,” TRUMP’S ONLY TRUE SKILL IT THE CON. SKILL IT THE CON. HIS ONLY FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF IS HIS ONLY FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF IS THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THE THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THE BIRTHRIGHT OF STRAIGHT WHITE BIRTHRIGHT OF STRAIGHT WHITE CHRISTIAN MEN AND HIS ONLY REAL CHRISTIAN MEN AND HIS ONLY REAL AUTHENTIC PLEASURE IS IN AUTHENTIC PLEASURE IS IN CRUELTY. CRUELTY. IT IS THAT CRUELTY AND THE IT IS THAT CRUELTY AND THE DELIGHT IT BRINGS THEM THAT DELIGHT IT BRINGS THEM THAT BIEPDS HIS MOST ARDENT BIEPDS HIS MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS TO HIM IN SHARED SUPPORTERS TO HIM IN SHARED SCORN FOR THOSE THEY HATE AND SCORN FOR THOSE THEY HATE AND FEAR. FEAR. BUT DONALD TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION BUT DONALD TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY IS CAUSING PAIN ON THE POLICY IS CAUSING PAIN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER AS OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER AS WELL. WELL. NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CAL PERRY NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CAL PERRY CROSSED THE BORDER TO SEE HOW CROSSED THE BORDER TO SEE HOW MEXICO IS HANDLING THE OVERFLOW MEXICO IS HANDLING THE OVERFLOW OF MIGRANTS AND THOSE DEPORTED OF MIGRANTS AND THOSE DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES AND JOINS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND JOINS US LIVE FROM MEXICO CITY. US LIVE FROM MEXICO CITY. GOOD EVENING, CAL. GOOD EVENING, CAL.>>GOOD EVENING, ALI.>>GOOD EVENING, ALI. AS YOU SAID THIS ADMINISTRATION AS YOU SAID THIS ADMINISTRATION IS CHANGING IMMIGRATION AND IS CHANGING IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN AMERICA. ASYLUM IN AMERICA. THEY’RE CHANGING WHAT IT MEANS THEY’RE CHANGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN IMMIGRANT IN AMERICA. TO BE AN IMMIGRANT IN AMERICA. BUT AS WE FOUND OUT, THESE BUT AS WE FOUND OUT, THESE POLICIES HAVE A WIDE RANGING POLICIES HAVE A WIDE RANGING IMPACT THAT GO BEYOND AMERICA’S IMPACT THAT GO BEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS. BORDERS. IN THIS CASE ALL THE WAY TO IN THIS CASE ALL THE WAY TO MEXICO’S BORDER WITH GUATEMALA. MEXICO’S BORDER WITH GUATEMALA. IN MEXICO MOST PEOPLE ARE FROM IN MEXICO MOST PEOPLE ARE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE, AND EVERYBODY SOMEWHERE ELSE, AND EVERYBODY HAS A STORY. HAS A STORY. DID YOU THINK ABOUT GOING TO THE DID YOU THINK ABOUT GOING TO THE U.S.? U.S.?>>NO.>>NO.>>Reporter: WHY NOT?>>Reporter: WHY NOT?>>BECAUSE I GOT DEPORTED>>BECAUSE I GOT DEPORTED ALREADY. ALREADY.>>Reporter: WHAT IS IT LIKE>>Reporter: WHAT IS IT LIKE HERE? HERE?>>I DON’T KNOW.>>I DON’T KNOW. IT’S NOT GOOD. IT’S NOT GOOD.>>RIGHT NOW THE SITUATION IN>>RIGHT NOW THE SITUATION IN AMERICA IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR AMERICA IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.>>Reporter: PRESIDENT TRUMP>>Reporter: PRESIDENT TRUMP ISN’T JUST AFFECTING THE LIVES ISN’T JUST AFFECTING THE LIVES OF MIGRANTS, HE’S SHIFTING OF MIGRANTS, HE’S SHIFTING POLICY INSIDE MEXICO. POLICY INSIDE MEXICO. HIS TUNE ON THE COUNTRY HAS HIS TUNE ON THE COUNTRY HAS RECENTLY NOT SO SUBTLY SHIFTED. RECENTLY NOT SO SUBTLY SHIFTED.>>I WANT TO THANK, BY THE WAY,>>I WANT TO THANK, BY THE WAY, THE COUNTRY OF MEXICO. THE COUNTRY OF MEXICO. THEY’VE GOT 21,000 SOLDIERS ON THEY’VE GOT 21,000 SOLDIERS ON THE BORDER RIGHT NOW. THE BORDER RIGHT NOW. I’M STARTING TO LIKE MEXICO A I’M STARTING TO LIKE MEXICO A LOT. LOT.>>THIS IS THE NEW REALITY FOR>>THIS IS THE NEW REALITY FOR THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT EVER THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT EVER SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP THREATENED SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP THREATENED THIS COUNTRY WITH TARIFFS, THIS COUNTRY WITH TARIFFS, 11,000 NEW NATIONAL GUARDSMAN 11,000 NEW NATIONAL GUARDSMAN HAVE BEEN STOOD UP ALONG THE HAVE BEEN STOOD UP ALONG THE BORDER WITH GUATEMALA FRCH. BORDER WITH GUATEMALA FRCH. FOR THE COMMANDER HER HERE AND FOR THE COMMANDER HER HERE AND HIS PERSONNEL THE MISSION HERE HIS PERSONNEL THE MISSION HERE IS AS PERSONAL AS THE POLITICS. IS AS PERSONAL AS THE POLITICS. FOR SECURITY REASONS THE FOR SECURITY REASONS THE MILITARY INSISTED WE CONSEAL HIS MILITARY INSISTED WE CONSEAL HIS IDENTITY. IDENTITY. WHAT’S THE STATED MISSION OF THE WHAT’S THE STATED MISSION OF THE SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN STOOD UP SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN STOOD UP HERE ON THE BORDER? HERE ON THE BORDER? TRAVELING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN TRAVELING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN MEXICO AND GUATEMALA HAS BEEN A MEXICO AND GUATEMALA HAS BEEN A PART OF DAILY LIFE AND COMMERCE PART OF DAILY LIFE AND COMMERCE FOR CENTURIES. FOR CENTURIES. IT’S ONLY IN THE ERA OF IT’S ONLY IN THE ERA OF PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT YOU NOW PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT YOU NOW OFFICIALLY NEED AN I.D. WHEN OFFICIALLY NEED AN I.D. WHEN REACHING THE MEXICAN SIDE OF THE REACHING THE MEXICAN SIDE OF THE RIVER. RIVER. THAT SHOW OF FORCE ALONG THE THAT SHOW OF FORCE ALONG THE BORDER WITH GUATEMALA IS ONLY BORDER WITH GUATEMALA IS ONLY HALF THE STORY. HALF THE STORY. THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IS THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IS SETTING UP CENTERS LIKE THIS ONE SETTING UP CENTERS LIKE THIS ONE IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET MIGRANTS TO IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET MIGRANTS TO REGISTER. REGISTER. IT’S THEIR WAY OF TRYING TO IT’S THEIR WAY OF TRYING TO BRING SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER IN BRING SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER IN WHAT IS VERY CLEARLY A CHAOTIC WHAT IS VERY CLEARLY A CHAOTIC SITUATION. SITUATION. PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD QUEUE UP AND JOCKEY FOR POSITION QUEUE UP AND JOCKEY FOR POSITION BY THE GATES THAT SEEM TO SWING BY THE GATES THAT SEEM TO SWING AT RANDOM AND AT THE SAME TIME AT RANDOM AND AT THE SAME TIME ARE OVERWHELMED BY THE VOLUME OF ARE OVERWHELMED BY THE VOLUME OF HUMAN TRAFFIC. HUMAN TRAFFIC. ALL THE WHILE PEOPLE ARE STUCK ALL THE WHILE PEOPLE ARE STUCK HERE, MANY AFTER A TREACHEROUS HERE, MANY AFTER A TREACHEROUS JOURNEY, AFRAID STILL TO SHOW JOURNEY, AFRAID STILL TO SHOW THEIR FACES. THEIR FACES. FEARING IT’LL HURT THEIR CHANCES FEARING IT’LL HURT THEIR CHANCES OF EVENTUALLY MAKING IT TO THE OF EVENTUALLY MAKING IT TO THE UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES. AS NIGHTFALLS ON THIS BORDER AS NIGHTFALLS ON THIS BORDER TOWN WE MEET ISHMAEL. TOWN WE MEET ISHMAEL. HIS PARENTS BROUGHT HIM TO HIS PARENTS BROUGHT HIM TO CALIFORNIA WHEN HE WAS ONLY 3 CALIFORNIA WHEN HE WAS ONLY 3 YEARS OLD. YEARS OLD. RECENTLY DEPORTED HE’S TRYING TO RECENTLY DEPORTED HE’S TRYING TO GET BACK TO THE ONLY LIFE AND GET BACK TO THE ONLY LIFE AND FAMILY HE KNOWS. FAMILY HE KNOWS. ARE YOU TRYING TO GET BACK? ARE YOU TRYING TO GET BACK?>>I AM.>>I AM.>>Reporter: HOW ARE YOU?>>Reporter: HOW ARE YOU?>>EITHER LEGALLY OR IF POSSIBLE>>EITHER LEGALLY OR IF POSSIBLE ILLEGAL. ILLEGAL. JUST TO BE BACK WITH MY FAMILY. JUST TO BE BACK WITH MY FAMILY.>>Reporter: HE TOLD US HE FEELS>>Reporter: HE TOLD US HE FEELS LIKE A FOREIGNER LIVING IN LIKE A FOREIGNER LIVING IN MEXICO, HE’LL DO WHATEVER IT MEXICO, HE’LL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET BACK TO HIS FAMILY TAKES TO GET BACK TO HIS FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA EVEN IF HE DIES IN CALIFORNIA EVEN IF HE DIES TRYING TO CROSS BACK ILLEGALLY. TRYING TO CROSS BACK ILLEGALLY. AS YOU SAID THESE POLICIES ARE AS YOU SAID THESE POLICIES ARE ADVERTISED AS DETERRENTS, BUT ADVERTISED AS DETERRENTS, BUT THE COST OF THAT IS HUMAN THE COST OF THAT IS HUMAN SUFFERING, PEOPLE IN DETENTION, SUFFERING, PEOPLE IN DETENTION, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SEPARATED PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SEPARATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES, FROM THEIR FAMILIES, DEPORTATIONS OR IN THIS CASE DEPORTATIONS OR IN THIS CASE PEOPLE STUCK AT INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE STUCK AT INTERNATIONAL BORDERS UNABLE TO MOVE IN EITHER BORDERS UNABLE TO MOVE IN EITHER DIRECTION. DIRECTION.>>CAL, STAY WITH US.>>CAL, STAY WITH US. I WANT TO BRING IN STEPHANIE I WANT TO BRING IN STEPHANIE VALENCIA. VALENCIA. SHE’S ON THE ADVISORY BOARD OF SHE’S ON THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LATINO VICTORY FUND AND THE LATINO VICTORY FUND AND JOYCE VANCE, FORMER U.S. JOYCE VANCE, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA AND AN MSNBC DISTRICT OF ALABAMA AND AN MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST. LEGAL ANALYST. SHE WROTE A NEW PIECE ABOUT HER SHE WROTE A NEW PIECE ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES AS A PROSECUTOR WITH EXPERIENCES AS A PROSECUTOR WITH I.C.E. I.C.E. WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU. WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU. STEPHANIE, YOU AND I SPOKE STEPHANIE, YOU AND I SPOKE EARLIER THIS WEEK. EARLIER THIS WEEK. I WANT TO GET YOUR TAKE. I WANT TO GET YOUR TAKE. IT’S BEEN A REMARKABLE WEEK FOR IT’S BEEN A REMARKABLE WEEK FOR LATINOS, HISPANICS IN AMERICA LATINOS, HISPANICS IN AMERICA BOTH WITH THE KILLINGS FROM LAST BOTH WITH THE KILLINGS FROM LAST WEEKEND, THE TARGETED KILLINGS, WEEKEND, THE TARGETED KILLINGS, THEN WITH THE I.C.E. ROUNDP IN THEN WITH THE I.C.E. ROUNDP IN MISSISSIPPI. MISSISSIPPI. YOU SAID TO BE LAST WEEK THAT YOU SAID TO BE LAST WEEK THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED, PEOPLE ARE THINGS HAVE CHANGED, PEOPLE ARE BECOMING AWARE OF THE FACT THIS BECOMING AWARE OF THE FACT THIS TARGETING NOW HAS A PRICE. TARGETING NOW HAS A PRICE.>>ABSOLUTELY.>>ABSOLUTELY. AND TRUST ME, ALI, THERE ARE AND TRUST ME, ALI, THERE ARE MANY MORE PLACES I’D RATHER BE MANY MORE PLACES I’D RATHER BE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT THAN TALKING ON A FRIDAY NIGHT THAN TALKING ABOUT THE KIND OF ATTACKS ON ABOUT THE KIND OF ATTACKS ON HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE HAPPENED COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE LAST WEEK AND QUITE OVER THE LAST WEEK AND QUITE FRANKLY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL FRANKLY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. YEARS. I THINK WHAT WAS CLEAR FROM I THINK WHAT WAS CLEAR FROM CAL’S PIECE IS, YOU KNOW, THE CAL’S PIECE IS, YOU KNOW, THE SLASH AND BURN APPROACH TO SLASH AND BURN APPROACH TO TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY IS TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY IS NOT SOLVING THE ROOT CAUSES OF NOT SOLVING THE ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION. MIGRATION. PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THIS PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE FLEEING COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE FLEEING VIOLENCE AND PERSECUTION. VIOLENCE AND PERSECUTION. AND THEY COME HERE TO SEEK A AND THEY COME HERE TO SEEK A BETTER LIFE AND MORE SAFETY FOR BETTER LIFE AND MORE SAFETY FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. IN ADDITION TO THAT WE HAVE AN IN ADDITION TO THAT WE HAVE AN ECONOMY AS WE SAW EARLIER THIS ECONOMY AS WE SAW EARLIER THIS WEEK WITH THE MISSISSIPPI WEEK WITH THE MISSISSIPPI IMMIGRATION RAIDS, AN ECONOMY IMMIGRATION RAIDS, AN ECONOMY THAT RELIES ON IMMIGRANT LABOR, THAT RELIES ON IMMIGRANT LABOR, AND WE CANNOT BE IPKRTS AS AND WE CANNOT BE IPKRTS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS HERE INCLUDING AMERICAN CITIZENS HERE INCLUDING DONALD TRUMP WHO “THE WASHINGTON DONALD TRUMP WHO “THE WASHINGTON POST” AGAIN REVEALED EARLIER POST” AGAIN REVEALED EARLIER TODAY IN A PIECE THAT HAD THE TODAY IN A PIECE THAT HAD THE RELIANCE OF IMMIGRANT LABOR AT RELIANCE OF IMMIGRANT LABOR AT HIS HOTELS, AND SO WE AS A HIS HOTELS, AND SO WE AS A COUNTRY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT COUNTRY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUR ECONOMY ULTIMATELY DOES RELY OUR ECONOMY ULTIMATELY DOES RELY ON IMMIGRANT LABOR AND THAT, YOU ON IMMIGRANT LABOR AND THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE LITERALLY KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE LITERALLY PUTTING FOOD ON OUR TABLE, MANY PUTTING FOOD ON OUR TABLE, MANY OF YOU PROBABLY HAD IN CHICKEN OF YOU PROBABLY HAD IN CHICKEN SALADS EARLIER THIS WEEK, WERE SALADS EARLIER THIS WEEK, WERE PEOPLE SEPARATED FROM THEIR PEOPLE SEPARATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES. FAMILIES. WHETHER IT’S DACA, LARGE SCALE WHETHER IT’S DACA, LARGE SCALE IMMIGRATION RAIDS TARGETING IMMIGRATION RAIDS TARGETING WORKERS BUT NOT EMPLOYERS. WORKERS BUT NOT EMPLOYERS. WHETHER IT’S KIDS IN CAGES AT WHETHER IT’S KIDS IN CAGES AT THE BORDER OR ROUNDING UP AND THE BORDER OR ROUNDING UP AND STARTING TO DETAIN U.S. CITIZENS STARTING TO DETAIN U.S. CITIZENS WHICH HAS HAPPENED MULTIPLE WHICH HAS HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES UNDER THE TRUMP TIMES UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. ADMINISTRATION. THE SLASH AND BURN POLICY IS NOT THE SLASH AND BURN POLICY IS NOT WORKING, AND THERE IS ONLY ONE WORKING, AND THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO THINK, YOU KNOW, THING TO THINK, YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY HE’S GOING AFTER THE ULTIMATELY HE’S GOING AFTER THE HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY. OBVIOUSLY THE MESSAGES THAT HE’S OBVIOUSLY THE MESSAGES THAT HE’S SENDING IS RESULTING IN ACTS OF SENDING IS RESULTING IN ACTS OF VIOLENCE ON OUR COMMUNITY IN VIOLENCE ON OUR COMMUNITY IN PLACES LIKE EL PASO. PLACES LIKE EL PASO. AND SO WE HAVE TO PUT A STOP TO AND SO WE HAVE TO PUT A STOP TO IT, AND WE HAVE TO STAND UP. IT, AND WE HAVE TO STAND UP. AND WHAT WAVE SEEN IN THE LAST AND WHAT WAVE SEEN IN THE LAST WEEK IS WE’VE SEEN LOTS OF WEEK IS WE’VE SEEN LOTS OF LEADERS, HUNDREDS OF LEADERS LEADERS, HUNDREDS OF LEADERS SIGNED ONTO OUR OP-ED THAT RAN SIGNED ONTO OUR OP-ED THAT RAN IN “THE WASHINGTON POST” EARLIER IN “THE WASHINGTON POST” EARLIER THIS WEEK. THIS WEEK. BUT PEOPLE ARE FED UP AND PEOPLE BUT PEOPLE ARE FED UP AND PEOPLE ARE AWAKE. ARE AWAKE.>>AND YOU WERE ONE OF THE>>AND YOU WERE ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THAT OP-ED. AUTHORS OF THAT OP-ED. SKROIS, LET’S TALK ABOUT WHEN SKROIS, LET’S TALK ABOUT WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT AND JOHN KELLY WAS HIS HOMELAND AND JOHN KELLY WAS HIS HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY, THEY TALKED SECURITY SECRETARY, THEY TALKED ABOUT THE FACT IF YOU WERE NOT A ABOUT THE FACT IF YOU WERE NOT A SERIOUS CRIMINAL OR A CRIMINAL, SERIOUS CRIMINAL OR A CRIMINAL, YOU WERE NOT GOING TO BE YOU WERE NOT GOING TO BE TARGETED FOR DEPORTATION. TARGETED FOR DEPORTATION. HIS ELEGANT TERM FOR IT WAS BAD HIS ELEGANT TERM FOR IT WAS BAD HOMBRES. HOMBRES. BUT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE BUT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE KIND OF PEOPLE A THREAT TO KIND OF PEOPLE A THREAT TO SOCIETY, A MENACE TO SOCIETY. SOCIETY, A MENACE TO SOCIETY. IN FACT, TO STEPHANIE’S OPPONENT IN FACT, TO STEPHANIE’S OPPONENT MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO WE KNOW, MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO WE KNOW, WE’VE REPORTED ON WHO HAVE BEEN WE’VE REPORTED ON WHO HAVE BEEN TARGETED FOR IMMIGRATION ACTION TARGETED FOR IMMIGRATION ACTION AND DEPORTATION HAVE BEEN PEOPLE AND DEPORTATION HAVE BEEN PEOPLE WORKING IN THE UNITED STATES 5, WORKING IN THE UNITED STATES 5, 10, 15, 20S WE KNOW OF INSTANCES 10, 15, 20S WE KNOW OF INSTANCES 25, 30 YEARS INCLUDING SOME OF 25, 30 YEARS INCLUDING SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE ARRESTED THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE ARRESTED IN MISSISSIPPI. IN MISSISSIPPI. TELL ME HOW WE’RE SUPPOSED TO TELL ME HOW WE’RE SUPPOSED TO THINK ABOUT THESE I.C.E. RAIDS THINK ABOUT THESE I.C.E. RAIDS BECAUSE YOU WERE A PROSECUTOR BECAUSE YOU WERE A PROSECUTOR WHO HAD JURISDICTION OVER SOME WHO HAD JURISDICTION OVER SOME OF THESE THINGS. OF THESE THINGS.>>SO THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT>>SO THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SORT OF A SITUATION AS A THIS SORT OF A SITUATION AS A PROSECUTOR IS IT’S IMPORTANT TO PROSECUTOR IS IT’S IMPORTANT TO PROSECUTE THE MOST CULPABLE PROSECUTE THE MOST CULPABLE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE WHO PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT THE GREATEST THREAT TO REPRESENT THE GREATEST THREAT TO YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR COMMUNITY. IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS, THAT IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS, THAT WOULD MEAN SEEING IF YOU CAN WOULD MEAN SEEING IF YOU CAN PROSECUTE THE EMPLOYERS WHO PROSECUTE THE EMPLOYERS WHO AFTER ALL ARE THE ONES WHO WERE AFTER ALL ARE THE ONES WHO WERE EMPLOYING ALL THESE PEOPLE EMPLOYING ALL THESE PEOPLE ILLEGALLY AND ALSO IF YOU’RE ILLEGALLY AND ALSO IF YOU’RE GOING TO LOOK AT PEOPLE WHO WERE GOING TO LOOK AT PEOPLE WHO WERE IN THE COUNTRY WITHOUT LEGAL IN THE COUNTRY WITHOUT LEGAL IMMIGRATION STATUS, YOU WANT TO IMMIGRATION STATUS, YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON THOSE WHO WERE VIOLENT FOCUS ON THOSE WHO WERE VIOLENT AND ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL AND ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. ACTIVITY. BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS SHOULD BE BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS SHOULD BE THE PRIORITIES, BUT THIS WEEK WE THE PRIORITIES, BUT THIS WEEK WE SAW LAW ENFORCEMENT GO AFTER, SAW LAW ENFORCEMENT GO AFTER, YOU KNOW, WHAT PROSECUTORS WOULD YOU KNOW, WHAT PROSECUTORS WOULD CALL LOW HANGING FRUIT, GOING CALL LOW HANGING FRUIT, GOING INTO A WORKPLACE AND ARRESTING INTO A WORKPLACE AND ARRESTING PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THEIR JOBS. PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THEIR JOBS.>>AND STEPHANIE, I WANT TO>>AND STEPHANIE, I WANT TO PLAY — PEOPLE HAVE MAYBE SEEN PLAY — PEOPLE HAVE MAYBE SEEN THIS BEFORE, BUT I THINK IT’S THIS BEFORE, BUT I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT IMPORTANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF THE SOUND OF AN 11-YEAR-OLD OF THE SOUND OF AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHOSE FATHER WAS TAKEN IN GIRL WHOSE FATHER WAS TAKEN IN THE I.C.E. RAIDS IN MISSISSIPPI. THE I.C.E. RAIDS IN MISSISSIPPI. I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ON THE I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE ABOUT THIS.>>STEPHANIE, THOSE IMAGES, THAT>>STEPHANIE, THOSE IMAGES, THAT GIRL IS — TELLS US A STORY WE GIRL IS — TELLS US A STORY WE HAVE BEEN COVERING FOR THE HAVE BEEN COVERING FOR THE LAST — MORE THAN THE LAST YEAR LAST — MORE THAN THE LAST YEAR ABOUT A LINE WE CROSS WHEN IT ABOUT A LINE WE CROSS WHEN IT COMES TO HUMANITY, RIGHT? COMES TO HUMANITY, RIGHT? THAT GIRL, HER FATHER WAS THAT GIRL, HER FATHER WAS ARRESTED, BULLET WE HAVE SEEN ARRESTED, BULLET WE HAVE SEEN CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN DETAINED. CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN DETAINED. WE HAVE SEEN CHILDREN DETAINED WE HAVE SEEN CHILDREN DETAINED AT A COST TO TAXPAYERS THAT AT A COST TO TAXPAYERS THAT WOULD BE HIGHER THAN SPENDING A WOULD BE HIGHER THAN SPENDING A NIGHT IN A FOUR SEASONS HOTEL NIGHT IN A FOUR SEASONS HOTEL WHO DON’T GET CLOTHES AND WHO WHO DON’T GET CLOTHES AND WHO DON’T GET TOOTHPASTE AND WHO DON’T GET TOOTHPASTE AND WHO DON’T GET SHOWERS. DON’T GET SHOWERS. WHAT — THIS IS ABOUT MORE THAN WHAT — THIS IS ABOUT MORE THAN IMMIGRATION. IMMIGRATION. THIS BECOMES OUR HUMANITY. THIS BECOMES OUR HUMANITY.>>IT ABSOLUTELY IS.>>IT ABSOLUTELY IS. AND THAT LITTLE GIRL’S VOICE HAS AND THAT LITTLE GIRL’S VOICE HAS KEPT ME UP AT NIGHT, ALL WEEK KEPT ME UP AT NIGHT, ALL WEEK SINCE THE MISSISSIPPI RAID SINCE THE MISSISSIPPI RAID HAPPENED. HAPPENED. AND FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN’T SHAKEN AND FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN’T SHAKEN TO THEIR CORE BY HEARING THAT TO THEIR CORE BY HEARING THAT AND HEARING THE FEAR AND SADNESS AND HEARING THE FEAR AND SADNESS IN HER VOICE BECAUSE SHE DOES IN HER VOICE BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT KNOW THE NEXT TIME SHE HAS NOT KNOW THE NEXT TIME SHE HAS SEEN HER FATHER AND PICKED UP SEEN HER FATHER AND PICKED UP THE FIRST TIME WHICH SHOULD BE A THE FIRST TIME WHICH SHOULD BE A HAPPY AND JOYFUL DAY FOR A KID HAPPY AND JOYFUL DAY FOR A KID HER AGE, THIS IS CALL TO HER AGE, THIS IS CALL TO CONSCIENCE FOR ALL AMERICANS. CONSCIENCE FOR ALL AMERICANS. ARE WE OKAY FOR UNITED STATES ARE WE OKAY FOR UNITED STATES CITIZENS WITH THE WAY WE ARE CITIZENS WITH THE WAY WE ARE TREATING PEOPLE LIKE THAT WHO TREATING PEOPLE LIKE THAT WHO AGAIN ARE PART OF OUR AGAIN ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITIES, WHO ARE PUTTING COMMUNITIES, WHO ARE PUTTING FOOD ON OUR TABLE, WHO ARE DOING FOOD ON OUR TABLE, WHO ARE DOING BACK BREAKING WORK IN OUR BACK BREAKING WORK IN OUR COUNTRY? COUNTRY? ARE WE OKAY WITH HOW THEY ARE ARE WE OKAY WITH HOW THEY ARE BEING TREAT SND AND I THINK THIS BEING TREAT SND AND I THINK THIS IS CALL TO CONSCIENCE. IS CALL TO CONSCIENCE. I THINK THE IMAGES WE SEE OF I THINK THE IMAGES WE SEE OF CHILDREN BEING SEPARATED FROM CHILDREN BEING SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS, OF KIDS IN THEIR PARENTS, OF KIDS IN PHYSICAL CAGES, YOU KNOW, IT PHYSICAL CAGES, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY IS AWAKENING A SET OF REALLY IS AWAKENING A SET OF PEOPLE BEYOND JUST THE PASS PEOPLE BEYOND JUST THE PASS PANIC COMMUNITY. PANIC COMMUNITY. THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY AND THE THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY AND THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY IN THIS IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY IN THIS COUNTRY FEELS VERY MUCH UNDER COUNTRY FEELS VERY MUCH UNDER ATTACK. ATTACK. BUT I THINK BECAUSE OF WHAT WE BUT I THINK BECAUSE OF WHAT WE ARE SEEING AND WHAT WE ARE ARE SEEING AND WHAT WE ARE HEARING, EVERY SINGLE DAY NOW I HEARING, EVERY SINGLE DAY NOW I THINK OF A BROADER SET OF PEOPLE THINK OF A BROADER SET OF PEOPLE ARE BECOMING AWARE, AND THEY’RE ARE BECOMING AWARE, AND THEY’RE ANGRY ABOUT IT. ANGRY ABOUT IT. AND I DO THINK THAT THIS IS ALSO AND I DO THINK THAT THIS IS ALSO A WAKEUP CALL FOR REPUBLICANS TO A WAKEUP CALL FOR REPUBLICANS TO STEP UP AND BE A CALL TO STEP UP AND BE A CALL TO CONSCIENCE AND REALLY SPEAK AND CONSCIENCE AND REALLY SPEAK AND WORK WITH THEIR CONSCIENCE. WORK WITH THEIR CONSCIENCE. I THINK AS JOYCE SAID, WE SHOULD I THINK AS JOYCE SAID, WE SHOULD REALLY BE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE REALLY BE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CREATE AN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM CREATE AN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM THAT WORKS TO PUT A, YOU KNOW, THAT WORKS TO PUT A, YOU KNOW, PUT MANY OF THESE FOLKS ON A PUT MANY OF THESE FOLKS ON A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP. PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP. BUT ALSO TO FOCUS OUR BUT ALSO TO FOCUS OUR ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES WHERE THEY ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES WHERE THEY MATTER MOST, WHICH IS GETTING MATTER MOST, WHICH IS GETTING THE SCARIEST CRIMINALS OUT OF THE SCARIEST CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY. BUT I THINK ULTIMATELY THIS IS BUT I THINK ULTIMATELY THIS IS THE TIME FOR US TO RETHINK WHAT THE TIME FOR US TO RETHINK WHAT IMMIGRATION IN THIS COUNTRY — IMMIGRATION IN THIS COUNTRY –>>THOSE TWO THINGS ARE NOT>>THOSE TWO THINGS ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. YOU CAN KEEP THOSE HARDWORKING YOU CAN KEEP THOSE HARDWORKING PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HERE, PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HERE, CAL, AND YOU CAN COMPLETELY PUT CAL, AND YOU CAN COMPLETELY PUT YOUR ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS BEHIND YOUR ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS BEHIND PEOPLE WHO ARE CONDUCTING, YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE CONDUCTING, YOU KNOW, CRIMINALITY AND BEHAVIOR KNOW, CRIMINALITY AND BEHAVIOR THAT IS UNSAFE FOR AMERICANS. THAT IS UNSAFE FOR AMERICANS. CAL? CAL?>>Reporter: RIGHT, AND LISTEN,>>Reporter: RIGHT, AND LISTEN, DON’T FORGET 300 OF THE 600 DON’T FORGET 300 OF THE 600 PEOPLE SWEPT UNIN THOSE RAIDS PEOPLE SWEPT UNIN THOSE RAIDS WERE AMERICANS. WERE AMERICANS. I THINK DONALD TRUMP AND STEVEN I THINK DONALD TRUMP AND STEVEN MILLER, AND I THINK WE NEED TO MILLER, AND I THINK WE NEED TO SAY THAT NAME, STEVEN MILLER, SAY THAT NAME, STEVEN MILLER, ARE CHANGING THE FABRIC WHAT THE ARE CHANGING THE FABRIC WHAT THE MEANS TO BE AMERICAN AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR AMERICA. MEANS FOR AMERICA. THE THING ABOUT TRAVELING AROUND THE THING ABOUT TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD AND REPORTING AND THE WORLD AND REPORTING AND RETURNING TO AMERICA IS AMERICA RETURNING TO AMERICA IS AMERICA IS THE PLACE THAT PROTECTS IS THE PLACE THAT PROTECTS PEOPLE. PEOPLE. AMERICA IS THE SAFE PLACE THAT AMERICA IS THE SAFE PLACE THAT PEOPLE CAN COME, THAT THEY CAN PEOPLE CAN COME, THAT THEY CAN APPLY FOR ASIMEM WHEN THEY’VE APPLY FOR ASIMEM WHEN THEY’VE REACHED AMERICA AND ON AMERICAN REACHED AMERICA AND ON AMERICAN SOIL. SOIL. AND WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW IS AND WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW IS THEY’RE GOING IN DETENTION THEY’RE GOING IN DETENTION FACILITIES, SEPARATING FAMILIES, FACILITIES, SEPARATING FAMILIES, DEPORTING PEOPLE INCLUDING DEPORTING PEOPLE INCLUDING AMERICANS. AMERICANS. AND IT’S NOT ONLY CHANGED THE AND IT’S NOT ONLY CHANGED THE FABRIC OF AMERICA BUT CHANGED FABRIC OF AMERICA BUT CHANGED HOW THE WORLD IS LOOKINGATS AT T HOW THE WORLD IS LOOKINGATS AT T UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER THERE WERE QUOTES FROM THIS THERE WERE QUOTES FROM THIS GUNMAN SAYING I WAS TRYING TO GUNMAN SAYING I WAS TRYING TO SHOOT AS MANY MEXICANS AS I SHOOT AS MANY MEXICANS AS I COULD, AND WE DIDN’T HEAR COULD, AND WE DIDN’T HEAR ANYTHING FROM THE PRESIDENT OF ANYTHING FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 48 HOURS. THE UNITED STATES FOR 48 HOURS. PEOPLE HERE HAVE NOTICED THAT PEOPLE HERE HAVE NOTICED THAT AND THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT IT, AND THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT IT, ALI. ALI.>>THE RIGHT TO DOWN-PLAY THIS>>THE RIGHT TO DOWN-PLAY THIS SPECIFICALLY IDEOLOGICAL COMPLEX SPECIFICALLY IDEOLOGICAL COMPLEX OF THE EL PASO MASSACRE IS AN OF THE EL PASO MASSACRE IS AN APPARENTLY SELF-SERVING EFFORT APPARENTLY SELF-SERVING EFFORT TO ABSOLVE THIS PRESIDENT OF TO ABSOLVE THIS PRESIDENT OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS MORAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS DAMAGING RHETORIC. DAMAGING RHETORIC. THIS TOO SHOULDN’T WASH. THIS TOO SHOULDN’T WASH. THE PRESIDENT IS GUILTY IN A THE PRESIDENT IS GUILTY IN A BROAD SENSE OF A FORM OF BROAD SENSE OF A FORM OF INCITEMENT. INCITEMENT. TO STEPHANIE’S POINT THIS IS AS TO STEPHANIE’S POINT THIS IS AS CLEAR AN OPPORTUNITY AS ONE GETS CLEAR AN OPPORTUNITY AS ONE GETS FOR REPUBLICANS TO BE ABLE TO FOR REPUBLICANS TO BE ABLE TO SAY THIS ISN’T AMERICA, THIS IS SAY THIS ISN’T AMERICA, THIS IS A BRIDGE TOO FAR. A BRIDGE TOO FAR. BUT THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO MOVE BUT THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO MOVE THIS PRESIDENT. THIS PRESIDENT.>>IT REALLY DOESN’T, ALI.>>IT REALLY DOESN’T, ALI. AND IF THIS PRESIDENT WANTED TO AND IF THIS PRESIDENT WANTED TO DISASSOCIATE HIMSELF WITH THAT DISASSOCIATE HIMSELF WITH THAT SORT OF RACIST SENTIMENT, HE SORT OF RACIST SENTIMENT, HE COULD VERY CLEARLY TAKE TO COULD VERY CLEARLY TAKE TO TWITTER OR DO AN INTERVIEW AND TWITTER OR DO AN INTERVIEW AND SAY I DON’T WANT ANYONE TO HARM SAY I DON’T WANT ANYONE TO HARM MEXICANS. MEXICANS. YOU KNOW, WHETHER THESE PEOPLE YOU KNOW, WHETHER THESE PEOPLE ARE LEGALLY IN OUR COUNTRY OR ARE LEGALLY IN OUR COUNTRY OR NOT, AMERICAN CITIZENS OF NOT, AMERICAN CITIZENS OF HISPANIC ORIGIN, NO ONE SHOULD HISPANIC ORIGIN, NO ONE SHOULD USE VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHER USE VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE. PEOPLE. I THINK IT’S REMARKABLE BY I THINK IT’S REMARKABLE BY CHARLOTTESVILLE ON, WE’VE NOT CHARLOTTESVILLE ON, WE’VE NOT SEEN THIS PRESIDENT MAKE ANY SEEN THIS PRESIDENT MAKE ANY SORT OF STATEMENT LIKE THAT AT SORT OF STATEMENT LIKE THAT AT ANY POINT IN TIME. ANY POINT IN TIME. EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN ELECTED EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN ELECTED OFFICIAL NEEDS TO ASK IF THEY OFFICIAL NEEDS TO ASK IF THEY CONTINUE TO STAND WITH THE CONTINUE TO STAND WITH THE PRESIDENT OR HOW THEY VIEW THE PRESIDENT OR HOW THEY VIEW THE NEED FOR VIOLENCE IN THIS
>>>PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK TO>>>PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK TO TWITTER THIS MORNING TRYING TO TWITTER THIS MORNING TRYING TO DEFLECT A LOT OF THE CRITICISM DEFLECT A LOT OF THE CRITICISM HE IS GETTING THIS MORNING, HE IS GETTING THIS MORNING, BLAMING THE MEDIA FOR THE ANGER BLAMING THE MEDIA FOR THE ANGER AND RAGE THAT LED TO THIS DEADLY AND RAGE THAT LED TO THIS DEADLY WEEKEND. WEEKEND. THIS COMES AS MANY PEOPLE ARE THIS COMES AS MANY PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY POINTING TOWARD THE ACTUALLY POINTING TOWARD THE PRESIDENT’S OWN PAST WORDS, PRESIDENT’S OWN PAST WORDS, SPECIFICALLY AT SOME OF HIS SPECIFICALLY AT SOME OF HIS RALLIES WHERE HE WOULD USE RALLIES WHERE HE WOULD USE RHETORIC LIKE THIS. RHETORIC LIKE THIS.>>THE COUNTRY PUTS THE NAME IN>>THE COUNTRY PUTS THE NAME IN THE BASKET AND YOU PICK PEOPLE THE BASKET AND YOU PICK PEOPLE OUT OF THE LOTTERY. OUT OF THE LOTTERY. WELL, LET’S SEE. WELL, LET’S SEE. THIS ONE IS A MURDERER. THIS ONE IS A MURDERER. THIS ONE ROBBED FOUR BANKS. THIS ONE ROBBED FOUR BANKS. THIS ONE I BETTER NOT SAY. THIS ONE I BETTER NOT SAY. THIS ONE, ANOTHER MURDERER. THIS ONE, ANOTHER MURDERER. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ANOTHER LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ANOTHER MURDERER. MURDERER. THINK OF THIS. THINK OF THIS. DO YOU THINK THEY’RE GOING TO DO YOU THINK THEY’RE GOING TO PUT THEIR GREAT CITIZENS — THEY PUT THEIR GREAT CITIZENS — THEY HAVE GREAT CITIZENS, GREAT HAVE GREAT CITIZENS, GREAT PEOPLE LIKE WE HAVE GREAT PEOPLE LIKE WE HAVE GREAT PEOPLE — DO YOU THINK THOSE PEOPLE — DO YOU THINK THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING INTO A LOTTERY? PEOPLE ARE GOING INTO A LOTTERY? NO. NO. THIS IS AN INVASION. THIS IS AN INVASION. WHEN YOU SEE THESE CARAVANS WHEN YOU SEE THESE CARAVANS STARTING OUT WITH 20,000 PEOPLE, STARTING OUT WITH 20,000 PEOPLE, THAT’S AN INVASION. THAT’S AN INVASION. I WAS BADLY CRITICIZED FOR USING I WAS BADLY CRITICIZED FOR USING THE WORD “INVASION.” THE WORD “INVASION.” IT’S AN INVASION. IT’S AN INVASION. BUT HOW DO YOU STOP THESE BUT HOW DO YOU STOP THESE PEOPLE? PEOPLE? YOU CAN’T. YOU CAN’T. THERE’S NOT — THAT’S ONLY IN THERE’S NOT — THAT’S ONLY IN THE PANHANDLE YOU CAN GET AWAY THE PANHANDLE YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THAT STATEMENT. WITH THAT STATEMENT. ONLY IN THE PANHANDLE. ONLY IN THE PANHANDLE. SO IT’S A TOUGH SITUATION. SO IT’S A TOUGH SITUATION. BUT IF THEY CHANGE THE LOOPHOLES BUT IF THEY CHANGE THE LOOPHOLES WE’LL HAVE IT PERFECTLY. WE’LL HAVE IT PERFECTLY. WHEN THE WALL IS FINISHED IT’S WHEN THE WALL IS FINISHED IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT. GOING TO BE GREAT.>>IF YOU COULDN’T HEAR THAT>>IF YOU COULDN’T HEAR THAT RESPONSE, THAT WAS SOMEONE IN RESPONSE, THAT WAS SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE SAYING, SHOOT THEM, THE AUDIENCE SAYING, SHOOT THEM, TO WHICH THE PRESIDENT SAID, TO WHICH THE PRESIDENT SAID, ONLY IN THE PANHANDLE. ONLY IN THE PANHANDLE. JOINING ME NOW, PHILLIP RUCKER JOINING ME NOW, PHILLIP RUCKER WHITE HOUSE BUREAU CHIEF FOR WHITE HOUSE BUREAU CHIEF FOR “THE WASHINGTON POST,” ALSO THE “THE WASHINGTON POST,” ALSO THE NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT FOR PBS NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT FOR PBS NEWSHOUR, THE FORMER ASSISTANT NEWSHOUR, THE FORMER ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, JOURNALIST TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, JOURNALIST FOR THE “STORM LAKE TIMES” IN FOR THE “STORM LAKE TIMES” IN IOWA, AND JOURNALIST AND IOWA, AND JOURNALIST AND PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS FIRM PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS FIRM TRUST ROSSMAN AND MY FRIEND TRUST ROSSMAN AND MY FRIEND BRETT STEVENS FOR THE “NEW YORK BRETT STEVENS FOR THE “NEW YORK TIMES.” TIMES.” I TURN TO YOU FIRST AND THIS I TURN TO YOU FIRST AND THIS QUOTE THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO QUOTE THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME. ME. YOU WROTE THESE WORDS. YOU WROTE THESE WORDS. AFTER YET ANOTHER MASS SLAYING, AFTER YET ANOTHER MASS SLAYING, THE QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE THE QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE PRESIDENT IS NO LONGER WHETHER PRESIDENT IS NO LONGER WHETHER HE WILL RESPOND AS OTHER HE WILL RESPOND AS OTHER PRESIDENTS ONCE DID BUT WHETHER PRESIDENTS ONCE DID BUT WHETHER HIS WORDS CONTRIBUTED TO THE HIS WORDS CONTRIBUTED TO THE CARNAGE. CARNAGE. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFERENT FOR WHY IS THIS SO DIFFERENT FOR TRUMP VERSUS PAST PRESIDENTS? TRUMP VERSUS PAST PRESIDENTS? GIVE US A HISTORY LESSON. GIVE US A HISTORY LESSON.>>IT’S DIFFERENT, STEPH,>>IT’S DIFFERENT, STEPH, BECAUSE FROM THE MOMENT DONALD BECAUSE FROM THE MOMENT DONALD TRUMP WALKED DOWN THE ESCALATOR TRUMP WALKED DOWN THE ESCALATOR AT TRUMP TOWER TO LAUNCH HIS AT TRUMP TOWER TO LAUNCH HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FOUR YEARS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FOUR YEARS AGO, ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC, AGO, ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC, RACIST RHETORIC HAS BEEN A RACIST RHETORIC HAS BEEN A HALLMARK AND FEATURE OF HIS HALLMARK AND FEATURE OF HIS CAMPAIGN, OF HIS PRESIDENCY, AND CAMPAIGN, OF HIS PRESIDENCY, AND ACCORDING TO EXPERTS IN THE ACCORDING TO EXPERTS IN THE FIELD, IT HAS INSPIRED THE WHITE FIELD, IT HAS INSPIRED THE WHITE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT. NATIONALIST MOVEMENT. THAT’S WHY THE MANIFESTO THAT IS THAT’S WHY THE MANIFESTO THAT IS AT THE CENTER OF THE AT THE CENTER OF THE INVESTIGATION IN EL PASO BORROWS INVESTIGATION IN EL PASO BORROWS SO MUCH OF THE LANGUAGE THAT SO MUCH OF THE LANGUAGE THAT DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT TRUMP DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS USED AT HIS RALLIES, IN HIS HAS USED AT HIS RALLIES, IN HIS TWEETS. TWEETS. AND TRUMP IS UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT AND TRUMP IS UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT THIS. THIS. IT IS NONETHELESS A FEATURE OF IT IS NONETHELESS A FEATURE OF HIS PRESIDENCY AND THAT’S WHY A HIS PRESIDENCY AND THAT’S WHY A LOT OF DEMOCRATS AND OTHERS ARE LOT OF DEMOCRATS AND OTHERS ARE SAYING, HIS WORDS, THROUGH HIS SAYING, HIS WORDS, THROUGH HIS WORDS HE IS CULPABLE IN THIS WORDS HE IS CULPABLE IN THIS SORT OF CARNAGE. SORT OF CARNAGE.>>IT’S NOT A BUG.>>IT’S NOT A BUG. IT’S A FEATURE. IT’S A FEATURE. WE’VE HEARD THAT OVER AND OVER. WE’VE HEARD THAT OVER AND OVER. ARE A NUMBER OF THE 2020 ARE A NUMBER OF THE 2020 CANDIDATES THIS WEEKEND SAID IT CANDIDATES THIS WEEKEND SAID IT IS THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS THAT IS THE PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS THAT HAVE FANNED THE FLAMES OF HATRED HAVE FANNED THE FLAMES OF HATRED IN THIS COUNTRY AND, IN THIS COUNTRY AND, SPECIFICALLY, THESE SHOOTINGS. SPECIFICALLY, THESE SHOOTINGS. BUT BETO O’ROURKE WHO YOU RARELY BUT BETO O’ROURKE WHO YOU RARELY HEAR SPEAK LIKE THIS, TOOK IT A HEAR SPEAK LIKE THIS, TOOK IT A STEP FURTH OTHER. STEP FURTH OTHER.>>JUST ASK, IS THERE ANYTHING>>JUST ASK, IS THERE ANYTHING IN YOUR MIND THAT THE PRESIDENT IN YOUR MIND THAT THE PRESIDENT CAN DO NOW TO MAKE THIS ANY CAN DO NOW TO MAKE THIS ANY BETTER? BETTER?>>WHAT DO YOU THINK?>>WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU KNOW THE — SAYING. YOU KNOW THE — SAYING. HE’S BEEN CALLING MEXICAN HE’S BEEN CALLING MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS RAPISTS AND IMMIGRANTS RAPISTS AND CRIMINALS. CRIMINALS. LIKE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS, WHAT LIKE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS, WHAT THE — HOLD ON A SECOND. THE — HOLD ON A SECOND. YOU KNOW, IT’S THESE QUESTIONS YOU KNOW, IT’S THESE QUESTIONS THAT YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO. THAT YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO. CONNECT THE DOTS ABOUT WHAT HE’S CONNECT THE DOTS ABOUT WHAT HE’S BEEN DOING IN THIS COUNTRY. BEEN DOING IN THIS COUNTRY. HE’S NOT TOLERATING RACISM. HE’S NOT TOLERATING RACISM. HE IS PROMOTING RACISM. HE IS PROMOTING RACISM. HE’S NOT TOLERATING VIOLENCE. HE’S NOT TOLERATING VIOLENCE. HE IS INCITING RACISM AND HE IS INCITING RACISM AND VIOLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY. VIOLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY. SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST — I DON’T SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST — I DON’T KNOW WHAT KIND OF QUESTION THAT KNOW WHAT KIND OF QUESTION THAT IS. IS.>>ART, NOT DEMOCRATS OR>>ART, NOT DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS OR GOVERNMENT REPUBLICANS OR GOVERNMENT LEADERS, DO AMERICANS SEE IT LEADERS, DO AMERICANS SEE IT THAT WAY? THAT WAY?>>YES, I THINK AMERICANS DO SEE>>YES, I THINK AMERICANS DO SEE IT THAT WAY, AT LEAST PEOPLE IT THAT WAY, AT LEAST PEOPLE WHERE I LIVE IN STORM LAKE, WHERE I LIVE IN STORM LAKE, IOWA, SMALL TOWN OUT HERE ON THE IOWA, SMALL TOWN OUT HERE ON THE PRAIRIE THAT’S ABOUT HALF PRAIRIE THAT’S ABOUT HALF IMMIGRANT, INCLUDING MAINLY IMMIGRANT, INCLUDING MAINLY LATINO. LATINO. AND EVERYBODY IN THIS TOWN IS AND EVERYBODY IN THIS TOWN IS LOCKED DOWN IN FEAR OF LOCKED DOWN IN FEAR OF DEPORTATION, FEAR OF BEING DEPORTATION, FEAR OF BEING ROUNDED UP, FEAR OF BEING ROUNDED UP, FEAR OF BEING ARRESTED AND FOR NO GOOD REASON ARRESTED AND FOR NO GOOD REASON AND SO, YEAH. AND SO, YEAH. IT DOES CONTRIBUTE TO A PALPABLE IT DOES CONTRIBUTE TO A PALPABLE SENSE OF FEAR AND I’M SURE RAGE SENSE OF FEAR AND I’M SURE RAGE IN OTHER PEOPLE. IN OTHER PEOPLE.>>RAGE IN OTHER PEOPLE.>>RAGE IN OTHER PEOPLE. YOU’VE BEEN REPORTING ON THE YOU’VE BEEN REPORTING ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER, SO TAKE US TO SOUTHERN BORDER, SO TAKE US TO THE PEOPLE THERE. THE PEOPLE THERE. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS HATEFUL HAVE YOU SEEN THIS HATEFUL RESPONSE TO THE INFLUX OF RESPONSE TO THE INFLUX OF MIGRANTS FIRST HAND? MIGRANTS FIRST HAND? BECAUSE IT’S A COMMUNITY OF BECAUSE IT’S A COMMUNITY OF MIGRANTS. MIGRANTS.>>THAT’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT,>>THAT’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, STEPHANIE. STEPHANIE. ONE OF THE SURPRISING THINGS TO ONE OF THE SURPRISING THINGS TO ME IN COVERING THE BORDER HAS ME IN COVERING THE BORDER HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT FOR ALL OF THE ALWAYS BEEN THAT FOR ALL OF THE HEATED RHETORIC IN THE CAPITAL HEATED RHETORIC IN THE CAPITAL AND AROUND THE REST OF THE AND AROUND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, WHAT HAPPENS IN CITIES COUNTRY, WHAT HAPPENS IN CITIES LIKE EL PASO, AND I’VE BEEN TO LIKE EL PASO, AND I’VE BEEN TO EL PASO A NUMBER OF TIMES AND EL PASO A NUMBER OF TIMES AND ACROSS THE BORDER TO JAUREZ AS ACROSS THE BORDER TO JAUREZ AS WELL, THE TWO SISTER CITIES WELL, THE TWO SISTER CITIES BASICALLY CREATE ONE, LARGE BASICALLY CREATE ONE, LARGE COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY. YOU HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND FORTH EVERY DAY TO SHOP, AS THE FORTH EVERY DAY TO SHOP, AS THE PEOPLE WERE IN THE WALMART THAT PEOPLE WERE IN THE WALMART THAT DAY. DAY. YOU HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND FORTH TO GO TO SCHOOL. FORTH TO GO TO SCHOOL. YOU HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND FORTH TO WORK. FORTH TO WORK. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY DAY. PEOPLE EVERY DAY. THEY DO NOT SEE THE SAME THEY DO NOT SEE THE SAME DISCONNECT THAT SEEMS TO INFORM DISCONNECT THAT SEEMS TO INFORM A LOT OF OUR POLITICAL RHETORIC. A LOT OF OUR POLITICAL RHETORIC. AND THAT IS WHY I THINK WE HAVE AND THAT IS WHY I THINK WE HAVE TO NOTE AS WELL THAT THE PERSON TO NOTE AS WELL THAT THE PERSON WHO WENT THERE, WHO ALLEGEDLY WHO WENT THERE, WHO ALLEGEDLY WENT THERE TO CARRY OUT THIS WENT THERE TO CARRY OUT THIS MASS ATTACK, DID NOT COME FROM MASS ATTACK, DID NOT COME FROM THAT COMMUNITY. THAT COMMUNITY. THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM IN THOSE THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM IN THOSE COMMUNITIES. COMMUNITIES. THIS IS A PROBLEM BROUGHT IN THIS IS A PROBLEM BROUGHT IN FROM OUTSIDE. FROM OUTSIDE. IT’S A PROBLEM ACROSS THE REST IT’S A PROBLEM ACROSS THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. OF THE COUNTRY. AND I DO WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT AND I DO WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS. THIS. THIS IDEA OF WHITE SUPREMACY IS THIS IDEA OF WHITE SUPREMACY IS NOTHING NEW TO THIS COUNTRY. NOTHING NEW TO THIS COUNTRY. AS WE SIT HERE TODAY AND TALK, AS WE SIT HERE TODAY AND TALK, STEPHANIE, IT IS THE SEVEN-YEAR STEPHANIE, IT IS THE SEVEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE WHITE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MASS SHOOTING AT OAK SUPREMACIST MASS SHOOTING AT OAK CREEK, WISCONSIN, THAT TARGETED CREEK, WISCONSIN, THAT TARGETED MEMBERS OF THE SIKH COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF THE SIKH COMMUNITY THERE IN THEIR TEMPLE AND THAT THERE IN THEIR TEMPLE AND THAT WAS UNDER THE OBAMA WAS UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. ADMINISTRATION. THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE, HOWEVER, THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE, HOWEVER, IN THE WAY THAT ADMINISTRATION IN THE WAY THAT ADMINISTRATION HANDLED THESE ATTACKS AND HANDLED THESE ATTACKS AND RESPONDED TO THESE ATTACKS, AND RESPONDED TO THESE ATTACKS, AND ACTUALLY PUT RESOURCES TO THE ACTUALLY PUT RESOURCES TO THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT WOULD TAMP KINDS OF THINGS THAT WOULD TAMP DOWN ON FURTHER ATTACKS. DOWN ON FURTHER ATTACKS. THAT HAS NOT BEEN HAPPENING THAT HAS NOT BEEN HAPPENING UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION AT UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION AT ALL. ALL.>>MOSQUES, SYNAGOGUES, BLACK>>MOSQUES, SYNAGOGUES, BLACK CHURCHES, SCHOOLS. CHURCHES, SCHOOLS. CHRIS, “THE WASHINGTON POST” CHRIS, “THE WASHINGTON POST” REPORTS THAT COUNTIES THAT REPORTS THAT COUNTIES THAT HOSTED TRUMP RALLIES IN 2016 SAW HOSTED TRUMP RALLIES IN 2016 SAW A 226% INCREASE IN HATE CRIMES. A 226% INCREASE IN HATE CRIMES. IS 226% EVIDENCE THAT WORDS DO IS 226% EVIDENCE THAT WORDS DO ACTUALLY MATTER? ACTUALLY MATTER?>>STEPHANIE, YOU ONLY NEED TO>>STEPHANIE, YOU ONLY NEED TO COMPARE WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE IN COMPARE WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE IN THE UNITED STATES WITH WHAT THE UNITED STATES WITH WHAT HAPPENS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. HAPPENS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE HATE OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE HATE GROUPS. GROUPS. THEY HAVE THE INTERNET FOR THEY HAVE THE INTERNET FOR SPREADING HATE GROUPS. SPREADING HATE GROUPS. THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AND VIDEO GAMES AS CHALLENGES AND VIDEO GAMES AS WELL. WELL. IN NO OTHER COUNTRY DO YOU SEE IN NO OTHER COUNTRY DO YOU SEE THE KIND OF VIOLENCE WE HAVE IN THE KIND OF VIOLENCE WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS COUNTRY. IT IS NOT JUST THE EASY IT IS NOT JUST THE EASY ACCESSIBILITY OF GUNS. ACCESSIBILITY OF GUNS. YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHOSE YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHOSE RHETORIC IS PROVIDING ROCKET RHETORIC IS PROVIDING ROCKET FUEL TO THE IDEOLOGY THAT FUEL TO THE IDEOLOGY THAT INCITES THIS VIOLENCE AND HE IS INCITES THIS VIOLENCE AND HE IS PROVIDING LEGITIMACY TO THE PROVIDING LEGITIMACY TO THE GRIEVANCES OF THESE PEOPLE. GRIEVANCES OF THESE PEOPLE. AND SO, LOOK. AND SO, LOOK. HE CAN GET ON TWITTER THIS HE CAN GET ON TWITTER THIS MORNING AND TALK ABOUT MORNING AND TALK ABOUT BACKGROUND CHECKS. BACKGROUND CHECKS. HE CAN TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH HE CAN TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, BUT THESE ARE JUST CHALLENGES, BUT THESE ARE JUST MORE EMPTY WORDS UNTIL HE SPEAKS MORE EMPTY WORDS UNTIL HE SPEAKS DECISIVELY WITH MORAL CHARACTER DECISIVELY WITH MORAL CHARACTER IN THE WAY THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IN THE WAY THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA DID AFTER THE SANDY HOOK DID AFTER THE SANDY HOOK SHOOTING AND PUT HIS ENTIRE SHOOTING AND PUT HIS ENTIRE WEIGHT OF HIS ADMINISTRATION WEIGHT OF HIS ADMINISTRATION BEHIND PASSING GUN LEGISLATION, BEHIND PASSING GUN LEGISLATION, IT’S JUST MORE EMPTY WORDS FROM IT’S JUST MORE EMPTY WORDS FROM THIS PRESIDENT. THIS PRESIDENT.>>BRETT, YOU WONDER WHAT KIND>>BRETT, YOU WONDER WHAT KIND OF TRAGEDY WOULD BRING THE OF TRAGEDY WOULD BRING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER. COUNTRY TOGETHER. THE PRESIDENT AMONG OTHER IS THE PRESIDENT AMONG OTHER IS BLAMING THE MEDIA FOR BLAMING THE MEDIA FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE HATE AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE HATE AND RAGE IN THIS COUNTRY. RAGE IN THIS COUNTRY. THAT’S NOT NEW. THAT’S NOT NEW. IT IS PART OF HIS PLAYBOOK. IT IS PART OF HIS PLAYBOOK.>>OF COURSE IT IS.>>OF COURSE IT IS. BY THE WAY, IT’S IMPORTANT TO BY THE WAY, IT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSCORE THAT THIS IS A — UNDERSCORE THAT THIS IS A — WHAT AN HISTORIC BREAK THIS IS WHAT AN HISTORIC BREAK THIS IS IN THE AMERICAN POLITICS. IN THE AMERICAN POLITICS. REMEMBER, GEORGE W. BUSH, REMEMBER, GEORGE W. BUSH, WHATEVER ELSE YOU THOUGHT OF WHATEVER ELSE YOU THOUGHT OF HIM, HE USED TO SAY THAT HIM, HE USED TO SAY THAT COMPASSION, FAMILY VALUES NEVER COMPASSION, FAMILY VALUES NEVER STOPPED AT THE RIO GRANDE. STOPPED AT THE RIO GRANDE. BUSH’S FATHER, RONALD REAGAN, BUSH’S FATHER, RONALD REAGAN, ALSO SPOKE COMPASSIONATELY ABOUT ALSO SPOKE COMPASSIONATELY ABOUT LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS, LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS, INCLUSIVELY ABOUT THEM. INCLUSIVELY ABOUT THEM. TRUMP IS SOMETHING ELSE. TRUMP IS SOMETHING ELSE. YOU KNOW, I REPORTED FOR THE YOU KNOW, I REPORTED FOR THE MIDDLE EAST FOR MANY YEARS. MIDDLE EAST FOR MANY YEARS. I WAS THE EDITOR OF “THE I WAS THE EDITOR OF “THE JERUSALEM POST” AND THE ISRAELIS JERUSALEM POST” AND THE ISRAELIS HAVE A WORD FOR WHAT TRUMP IS HAVE A WORD FOR WHAT TRUMP IS DOING. DOING. IT IS CALLED INCITEMENT. IT IS CALLED INCITEMENT. WHICH IS WHEN YOU CONVEY WHICH IS WHEN YOU CONVEY CONSTANTLY STEREOTYPICALLY, CONSTANTLY STEREOTYPICALLY, DIABOLICALLY AGAINST AN ENEMY, DIABOLICALLY AGAINST AN ENEMY, IT IS NOT A SURPRISE THIS PERSON IT IS NOT A SURPRISE THIS PERSON OR THAT DECIDES TO TAKE A GUN IN OR THAT DECIDES TO TAKE A GUN IN HIS HAND AND KILL PEOPLE. HIS HAND AND KILL PEOPLE. THE ISRAELIS USED TO ACCUSE THE ISRAELIS USED TO ACCUSE YASSER ARAFAT OF INCITEMENT. YASSER ARAFAT OF INCITEMENT. BY THE WAY, THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY BY THE WAY, THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT IT. RIGHT ABOUT IT. HE LAID THE RHETORICAL HE LAID THE RHETORICAL GROUNDWORK IF YOU WILL FOR ACTS GROUNDWORK IF YOU WILL FOR ACTS OF TERRORISM TO BE PERPETRATED OF TERRORISM TO BE PERPETRATED AGAINST ISRAELIS. AGAINST ISRAELIS. WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN DOING NOW AMOUNTS TO A FORM OF DOING NOW AMOUNTS TO A FORM OF INCITEMENT. INCITEMENT. BY THE WAY, LET’S CONNECT THE BY THE WAY, LET’S CONNECT THE DOTS HERE. DOTS HERE. THIS IS ALSO NOT THAT DIFFERENT THIS IS ALSO NOT THAT DIFFERENT FROM THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT LUNATIC FROM THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT LUNATIC WHO TOOK A GUN TO THE SYNAGOGUE WHO TOOK A GUN TO THE SYNAGOGUE IN PITTSBURGH AND KILLED 11 IN PITTSBURGH AND KILLED 11 PEOPLE BECAUSE HE, TOO, WAS PEOPLE BECAUSE HE, TOO, WAS CONVINCED THAT THE UNITED STATES CONVINCED THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS EXPERIENCING A, WAS EXPERIENCING A, QUOTE-UNQUOTE, INVASION FROM QUOTE-UNQUOTE, INVASION FROM LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS. LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS. THERE IS A THREAT HERE AND THIS THERE IS A THREAT HERE AND THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN SO LONG AS THE WILL HAPPEN AGAIN SO LONG AS THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO USE THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO USE THE KIND OF IMMIGRANT BASHING KIND OF IMMIGRANT BASHING RHETORIC THAT HAS BEEN THE RHETORIC THAT HAS BEEN THE HALLMARK OF HIS CANDIDACY AND OF HALLMARK OF HIS CANDIDACY AND OF HIS PRESIDENCY FROM THE DAY HE HIS PRESIDENCY FROM THE DAY HE WALKED OUT OF THAT ESCALATOR AT WALKED OUT OF THAT ESCALATOR AT TRUMP TOWER. TRUMP TOWER.>>AND REPUBLICANS ARE OKAY WITH>>AND REPUBLICANS ARE OKAY WITH THAT? THAT?>>WELL, THIS IS WHAT IS SO>>WELL, THIS IS WHAT IS SO DISGRACEFUL ABOUT IT, WHICH IS DISGRACEFUL ABOUT IT, WHICH IS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEM THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEM GOGARY THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE GOGARY THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE ESSENTIALLY CAPITULATED TO A ESSENTIALLY CAPITULATED TO A CULTIVE PERSONALITY FIGURE WHO CULTIVE PERSONALITY FIGURE WHO IS ELICITING A KIND OF A IS ELICITING A KIND OF A SOCIAL — A PARTY MANIA OR SOCIAL — A PARTY MANIA OR IDEOLOGICAL MANIA THAT HAS NO IDEOLOGICAL MANIA THAT HAS NO BASIS IN REALITY, THE SUGGESTION BASIS IN REALITY, THE SUGGESTION THAT THERE IS AN INVASION TAKING THAT THERE IS AN INVASION TAKING PLACE AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. PLACE AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH.>>RON, YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING>>RON, YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING THESE SHOOTINGS, UNFORTUNATELY, THESE SHOOTINGS, UNFORTUNATELY, FOR YEARS. FOR YEARS. HOW CAN WE HAVE A HEALTHY SECOND HOW CAN WE HAVE A HEALTHY SECOND AMENDMENT? AMENDMENT? MANY PEOPLE THINK GUN CULTURE IS MANY PEOPLE THINK GUN CULTURE IS PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE. PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE. BUT CAN YOU HAVE HEALTHY, BUT CAN YOU HAVE HEALTHY, AMERICAN GUN CULTURE AND AT THE AMERICAN GUN CULTURE AND AT THE SAME TIME SENSIBLE GUN SAME TIME SENSIBLE GUN LEGISLATION? LEGISLATION?>>OF COURSE YOU CAN.>>OF COURSE YOU CAN. I’M TALKING TO YOU FROM I’M TALKING TO YOU FROM MICHIGAN. MICHIGAN. I SPENT THE WEEKEND LIKE I DO I SPENT THE WEEKEND LIKE I DO EVERY WEEKEND IN NORTHERN EVERY WEEKEND IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN, THE HEART OF HUNTING MICHIGAN, THE HEART OF HUNTING CULTURE IN THIS COUNTRY. CULTURE IN THIS COUNTRY. THERE IS NO NEED FOR A MILITARY THERE IS NO NEED FOR A MILITARY ASSAULT RIFLE AND A BANANA CLIP ASSAULT RIFLE AND A BANANA CLIP TO TAKE DOWN A DEER. TO TAKE DOWN A DEER. THE ONLY REASON SOME OF THESE THE ONLY REASON SOME OF THESE WEAPONS ARE MADE, THE ONLY WEAPONS ARE MADE, THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE USED, ARE TO REASON THEY ARE USED, ARE TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS. KILL HUMAN BEINGS. THE SECOND AMENDMENT PROTECTS THE SECOND AMENDMENT PROTECTS THE RIGHT, GIVES US THE RIGHT TO THE RIGHT, GIVES US THE RIGHT TO PROTECT OURSELVES. PROTECT OURSELVES. THE SUPREME COURT INCLUDING A THE SUPREME COURT INCLUDING A RIGHT LEANING SUPREME COURT HAS RIGHT LEANING SUPREME COURT HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT WE CAN PUT MADE IT CLEAR THAT WE CAN PUT LIMITS ON OUR RIGHT TO BEAR LIMITS ON OUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, SO WE CAN HAVE SENSIBLE ARMS, SO WE CAN HAVE SENSIBLE GUN CONTROL. GUN CONTROL. WE MUST HAVE SENSIBLE GUN WE MUST HAVE SENSIBLE GUN CONTROL. CONTROL. WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT RIGHT NOW WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT RIGHT NOW HAS NEARLY 300 MASS SHOOTINGS HAS NEARLY 300 MASS SHOOTINGS THIS YEAR ALONE. THIS YEAR ALONE. 1300 CASUALTIES. 1300 CASUALTIES. THIS YEAR ALONE. THIS YEAR ALONE. NO OTHER COUNTRY COMES EVEN NO OTHER COUNTRY COMES EVEN CLOSE. CLOSE. THE CLOSEST COUNTRY HAS LESS THE CLOSEST COUNTRY HAS LESS THAN TEN MASS SHOOTINGS SO FAR THAN TEN MASS SHOOTINGS SO FAR THIS YEAR. THIS YEAR. SO IT’S NOT JUST CAN WE. SO IT’S NOT JUST CAN WE. WE MUST HAVE SENSIBLE GUN WE MUST HAVE SENSIBLE GUN CONTROL. CONTROL. WHILE WE PROTECT THE SECOND WHILE WE PROTECT THE SECOND AMENDMENT. AMENDMENT.>>BUT HAVEN’T WE SAID THAT FOR>>BUT HAVEN’T WE SAID THAT FOR YEARS? YEARS? DIDN’T WE SAY MUST AFTER MASS DIDN’T WE SAY MUST AFTER MASS SHOOTING AFTER MASS SHOOTING? SHOOTING AFTER MASS SHOOTING? SANDY HOOK WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO. SANDY HOOK WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO. THOSE WERE KINDERGARTENERS. THOSE WERE KINDERGARTENERS.>>RIGHT.>>RIGHT. RIGHT. RIGHT. AND THE GUN LOBBY LED BY THE AND THE GUN LOBBY LED BY THE NRA, THE GUN MANUFACTURERS, NRA, THE GUN MANUFACTURERS, STOOD IN THE WAY OF EFFORTS TO STOOD IN THE WAY OF EFFORTS TO TRY TO SATISFY 80% TO 90% OF THE TRY TO SATISFY 80% TO 90% OF THE PUBLIC THAT WANT SENSIBLE GUN PUBLIC THAT WANT SENSIBLE GUN CONTROL. CONTROL. WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO INSIST ON BETTER FROM OUR INSIST ON BETTER FROM OUR POLITICIANS ESPECIALLY FROM THE POLITICIANS ESPECIALLY FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT IS REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT IS ALLOWING ITSELF TO BE ALLOWING ITSELF TO BE CAPITULATED FROM ORGANIZATIONS CAPITULATED FROM ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE NRA. LIKE THE NRA. THIS CAN HAPPEN. THIS CAN HAPPEN. THIS HAS TO HAPPEN. THIS HAS TO HAPPEN. EVERY TIME WE HAVE BLOOD IN THE EVERY TIME WE HAVE BLOOD IN THE STREETS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S STREETS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S AMERICAN VERSUS AMERICAN, WE AMERICAN VERSUS AMERICAN, WE HAVE A CRISIS IN THIS COUNTRY OF HAVE A CRISIS IN THIS COUNTRY OF WHITE NATIONALISM. WHITE NATIONALISM. WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF HATE, WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF HATE, COUPLED WITH GUNS AT THE READY, COUPLED WITH GUNS AT THE READY, WE CAN’T BE SURPRISED THAT WHEN WE CAN’T BE SURPRISED THAT WHEN WE’RE FACING THIS KIND OF WE’RE FACING THIS KIND OF EPIDEMIC OF BLOODSHED ON OUR EPIDEMIC OF BLOODSHED ON OUR STREETS. STREETS.>>ART, THE LAST TIME YOU SPOKE>>ART, THE LAST TIME YOU SPOKE TO US ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF OHIO, TO US ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF OHIO, YOU TOOK US BACK TO, EXCUSE ME, YOU TOOK US BACK TO, EXCUSE ME, OF IOWA, YOU TOOK US BACK TO OF IOWA, YOU TOOK US BACK TO KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES. KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES. THAT’S WHAT MATTERED TO PEOPLE THAT’S WHAT MATTERED TO PEOPLE THERE MOST. THERE MOST. DO THESE SHOOTINGS, WHILE DO THESE SHOOTINGS, WHILE THEY’RE NOT IN THE BACK YARD OR THEY’RE NOT IN THE BACK YARD OR EVEN IN THE HOME STATE OF IOWA, EVEN IN THE HOME STATE OF IOWA, DOES IT AFFECT PEOPLE WHEN IT DOES IT AFFECT PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES TO HOW THEY’RE GOING TO COMES TO HOW THEY’RE GOING TO VOTE? VOTE?>>YEAH.>>YEAH. I THINK IT DOES. I THINK IT DOES. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE CONTEXT OF ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE CONTEXT OF THE IOWA CAUCUSES, WHERE THIS THE IOWA CAUCUSES, WHERE THIS HAS BEEN A MATTER OF DISCUSSION HAS BEEN A MATTER OF DISCUSSION FOR SOME TIME AND, LIKE PEOPLE FOR SOME TIME AND, LIKE PEOPLE IN MICHIGAN, THERE IS A STRONG IN MICHIGAN, THERE IS A STRONG GUN CULTURE IN IOWA AND GUN CULTURE IN IOWA AND EVERYBODY HERE HUNTS PHEASANTS. EVERYBODY HERE HUNTS PHEASANTS. AND SHOOTS COYOTES. AND SHOOTS COYOTES. AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. BUT EVERYBODY HERE ALSO, YOU BUT EVERYBODY HERE ALSO, YOU KNOW, 80% TO 90%, AS RON STATED, KNOW, 80% TO 90%, AS RON STATED, FAVOR REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS ON FAVOR REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS ON GUNS, WHETHER IT’S, YOU KNOW, GUNS, WHETHER IT’S, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO BUY A FLAK JACKET, BEING ABLE TO BUY A FLAK JACKET, THE GUY IN OHIO WAS WEARING A THE GUY IN OHIO WAS WEARING A FLAK JACKET, A KEVLAR VEST. FLAK JACKET, A KEVLAR VEST. WE DON’T NEED COP KILLER WE DON’T NEED COP KILLER BULLETS. BULLETS. WE DON’T NEED HIGH CAPACITY WE DON’T NEED HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES. MAGAZINES. AND I THINK ALMOST EVERYBODY AND I THINK ALMOST EVERYBODY AGREES ON THAT. AGREES ON THAT. AND I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE AND I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE LISTENING RIGHT NOW AND I THINK LISTENING RIGHT NOW AND I THINK THAT BETO O’ROURKE ACTUALLY MADE THAT BETO O’ROURKE ACTUALLY MADE A PRETTY STRONG CALL YESTERDAY A PRETTY STRONG CALL YESTERDAY FOR A KIND OF A MORAL RENEWAL IN FOR A KIND OF A MORAL RENEWAL IN AMERICA AND I THINK THAT THAT AMERICA AND I THINK THAT THAT DEFINITELY HAS RESONANCE IN THE DEFINITELY HAS RESONANCE IN THE MIDWEST. MIDWEST.>>BRETT, IF THE NRA HAS HAD ONE>>BRETT, IF THE NRA HAS HAD ONE STANCE, IF GOVERNMENT HAS DONE STANCE, IF GOVERNMENT HAS DONE NOTHING, IS THE ANSWER BIG NOTHING, IS THE ANSWER BIG BUSINESS, TO SAY ENOUGH IS BUSINESS, TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH? ENOUGH? IS IT RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS TO IS IT RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS TO SAY, THIS DOESN’T NEED TO BE OUR SAY, THIS DOESN’T NEED TO BE OUR GUN CULTURE? GUN CULTURE? WALMART IS THE BIGGEST EMPLOYER WALMART IS THE BIGGEST EMPLOYER IN AMERICA. IN AMERICA. THEY DON’T NEED TO SELL THESE THEY DON’T NEED TO SELL THESE TYPE OF ASSAULT RIFLES. TYPE OF ASSAULT RIFLES.>>YEAH.>>YEAH. AND WALMART DOES NOT NEED TO AND WALMART DOES NOT NEED TO ACCEPT THE SUPREME COURT’S ACCEPT THE SUPREME COURT’S DEFINITION OF WHAT’S DEFINITION OF WHAT’S PERMISSIBLE. PERMISSIBLE. IT’S A PRIVATE BUSINESS. IT’S A PRIVATE BUSINESS. IT CAN SET STRINGENT IT CAN SET STRINGENT RESTRICTIONS ON WHO IT CHOOSES RESTRICTIONS ON WHO IT CHOOSES TO SELL WHAT SORTS OF THINGS TO. TO SELL WHAT SORTS OF THINGS TO. I MEAN, IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO A I MEAN, IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO A PHARMACIST TO BUY SUDAFED OR PHARMACIST TO BUY SUDAFED OR WHATEVER IT IS AT A PHARMACY, WHATEVER IT IS AT A PHARMACY, THOSE SENSIBLE RULES SHOULD ALSO THOSE SENSIBLE RULES SHOULD ALSO APPLY TO BUYING AR-15s OR BUYING APPLY TO BUYING AR-15s OR BUYING LARGE MAGAZINE CLIPS. LARGE MAGAZINE CLIPS. SO I ABSOLUTELY THINK THAT WE SO I ABSOLUTELY THINK THAT WE HAVE TO FIND WORK-AROUNDS AROUND HAVE TO FIND WORK-AROUNDS AROUND THE GOVERNMENT, AROUND THE NRA, THE GOVERNMENT, AROUND THE NRA, AND IF BUSINESS ISN’T GOING TO AND IF BUSINESS ISN’T GOING TO TAKE THE LEAD, I DON’T THINK TAKE THE LEAD, I DON’T THINK ANYONE ELSE WILL. ANYONE ELSE WILL. I MEAN, THESE ARE CHOICES THAT I MEAN, THESE ARE CHOICES THAT INDIVIDUAL — BUSINESSMEN LIKE INDIVIDUAL — BUSINESSMEN LIKE PEOPLE LIKE THE HEAD OF DICK’S PEOPLE LIKE THE HEAD OF DICK’S SPORTING GOODS, CAN MAKE. SPORTING GOODS, CAN MAKE. IF THEY DO SO, THEY CAN CREATE A IF THEY DO SO, THEY CAN CREATE A CLIMATE IN WHICH WE SAY, WE ARE CLIMATE IN WHICH WE SAY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW GUNS TO GET NOT GOING TO ALLOW GUNS TO GET IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR COULD MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR COULD HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR COULD BE PRONE TO VIOLENCE. COULD BE PRONE TO VIOLENCE. THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT 98% OF AMERICANS MINUS WAYNE 98% OF AMERICANS MINUS WAYNE LAPIERRE SHOULD BE ABLE TO AGREE LAPIERRE SHOULD BE ABLE TO AGREE ON. ON.>>YOU COVER WHITE NATIONALISM.>>YOU COVER WHITE NATIONALISM. IT IS PART OF YOUR BEAT. IT IS PART OF YOUR BEAT. WHETHER IT’S THE PRESIDENT’S WHETHER IT’S THE PRESIDENT’S RHETORIC, WHITE NATIONALISM IS RHETORIC, WHITE NATIONALISM IS ON THE RISE. ON THE RISE. WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN SINCE THE WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN SINCE THE PRESIDENT TOOK OFFICE? PRESIDENT TOOK OFFICE?>>YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL YOU FLAT>>YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL YOU FLAT OUT, STEPHANIE, WHAT PRIETWHITE OUT, STEPHANIE, WHAT PRIETWHITE SUPREMACISTS HAVE TOLL ME SUPREMACISTS HAVE TOLL ME THEMSELVES WHICH IS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES WHICH IS WHEN THEY HEAR THE PRESIDENT USE SOME OF HEAR THE PRESIDENT USE SOME OF THE WORDS THEY REGULARLY USE THE WORDS THEY REGULARLY USE THAT IMMIGRATION SHOULD BE SEEN THAT IMMIGRATION SHOULD BE SEEN AS AN INVASION, WHEN THEY HEAR AS AN INVASION, WHEN THEY HEAR THE PRESIDENT SELF-IDENTIFY AS A THE PRESIDENT SELF-IDENTIFY AS A NATIONALIST, WHEN THEY HEAR THE NATIONALIST, WHEN THEY HEAR THE PRESIDENT SMIRK AND CRACK A JOKE PRESIDENT SMIRK AND CRACK A JOKE AFTER SOMEONE SAYS THAT AFTER SOMEONE SAYS THAT IMMIGRANTS CROSSING THE BORDER IMMIGRANTS CROSSING THE BORDER SHOULD BE SHOT TO PREVENT THEM SHOULD BE SHOT TO PREVENT THEM FROM COMING HERE, THEY SEE FROM COMING HERE, THEY SEE SOMEONE WHO, TO THEM, IS, AND SOMEONE WHO, TO THEM, IS, AND I’M GOING TO QUOTE ONE OF THEM I’M GOING TO QUOTE ONE OF THEM HERE, A RISING SYMBOL OF WHITE HERE, A RISING SYMBOL OF WHITE CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS. IT’S NOT NECESSARILY THEY AGREE IT’S NOT NECESSARILY THEY AGREE WITH HIS POLICIES. WITH HIS POLICIES. IN FACT, SOMETIMES THEY THINK HE IN FACT, SOMETIMES THEY THINK HE DOES NOT GO STRONG ENOUGH. DOES NOT GO STRONG ENOUGH. BUT THEY LOOK AT HIM AND THEY BUT THEY LOOK AT HIM AND THEY SEE SOMEONE WHO REFLECTS SOME OF SEE SOMEONE WHO REFLECTS SOME OF THEIR VALUES BACK TO THEM. THEIR VALUES BACK TO THEM. WHAT I HAVE SEEN IN OTHER WHAT I HAVE SEEN IN OTHER GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD WHEN I’VE COVERED TERRORISM AND WHEN I’VE COVERED TERRORISM AND EXTREMISM AROUND THE COUNTRY IS EXTREMISM AROUND THE COUNTRY IS THAT IT TAKES UNEQUIVOCAL THAT IT TAKES UNEQUIVOCAL LANGUAGE TO STOP THAT. LANGUAGE TO STOP THAT. UNFORTUNATELY THIS PRESIDENT UNFORTUNATELY THIS PRESIDENT HASN’T BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER HASN’T BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER THAT. THAT.>>A RISING SYMBOL OF WHITE>>A RISING SYMBOL OF WHITE CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS. PHIL, LAST QUESTION TO YOU. PHIL, LAST QUESTION TO YOU. HOW DO YOU STOP WHITE HOW DO YOU STOP WHITE NATIONALISTS WHEN THE PRESIDENT NATIONALISTS WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS CLEARLY SPEAKING THEIR IS CLEARLY SPEAKING THEIR LANGUAGE? LANGUAGE?>>YEAH.>>YEAH. WELL, STEPH, IT’S COMPLICATED WELL, STEPH, IT’S COMPLICATED AND I’M NO EXPERT IN THIS BUT I AND I’M NO EXPERT IN THIS BUT I THINK THE FIRST STEP WOULD HAVE THINK THE FIRST STEP WOULD HAVE TO BE THE PRESIDENT CONFRONTING TO BE THE PRESIDENT CONFRONTING IT DIRECTLY, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT IT DIRECTLY, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THIS IS A THREAT TO THE COUNTRY, THIS IS A THREAT TO THE COUNTRY, AND CONDEMNING IT, REPUDIATING AND CONDEMNING IT, REPUDIATING IT AT EVERY TURN. IT AT EVERY TURN. HE HAS DONE NONE OF THAT. HE HAS DONE NONE OF THAT. THE FBI HAS DOCUMENTED AN THE FBI HAS DOCUMENTED AN INCREASE IN WHITE NATIONALISM INCREASE IN WHITE NATIONALISM EACH YEAR SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP EACH YEAR SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK OFFICE AND, YET, WHEN TOOK OFFICE AND, YET, WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ASKED A FEW PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ASKED A FEW MONTHS AGO ABOUT THE THREAT OF MONTHS AGO ABOUT THE THREAT OF WHITE NATIONALISM, HE SORT OF WHITE NATIONALISM, HE SORT OF POO-POO’d IT AND SAID IT IS JUST POO-POO’d IT AND SAID IT IS JUST A FEW SMALL, CRAZY PEOPLE. A FEW SMALL, CRAZY PEOPLE. HE HAS NOT YET, NOW 48 HOURS HE HAS NOT YET, NOW 48 HOURS AFTER THE EL PASO SHOOTING, HE AFTER THE EL PASO SHOOTING, HE HAS NOT YET CONDEMNED WHITE HAS NOT YET CONDEMNED WHITE NATIONALISM. NATIONALISM. WE’LL SEE IF HE DOES SO DIRECTLY WE’LL SEE IF HE DOES SO DIRECTLY IN HIS REMARKS AT 10:00 A.M. IN HIS REMARKS AT 10:00 A.M. BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE A REAL SEA BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE A REAL SEA CHANGE IN THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP
MAKE.>>I HOPE THIS ENDS UP BEING A>>I HOPE THIS ENDS UP BEING A FRUITFUL CONVERSATION. FRUITFUL CONVERSATION.>>>SOME SOLUTIONS HAVE FINDING>>>SOME SOLUTIONS HAVE FINDING CONSENSUS WHILE OTHERS ARE CONSENSUS WHILE OTHERS ARE DEFINITELY NOT. DEFINITELY NOT. PRESIDENT TRUMP AS WELL AS MANY PRESIDENT TRUMP AS WELL AS MANY REPUBLICANS ARE NOW ADVOCATING REPUBLICANS ARE NOW ADVOCATING FOR STRONGER BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR STRONGER BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR GUN PURCHASES. FOR GUN PURCHASES. A BILL STRENGTHENING BACKGROUND A BILL STRENGTHENING BACKGROUND CHECKS PASSED THE HOUSE BUT HAS CHECKS PASSED THE HOUSE BUT HAS BEEN WAITING FOR ACTION IN THE BEEN WAITING FOR ACTION IN THE SENATE SINCE FEBRUARY. SENATE SINCE FEBRUARY. THE PRESIDENT CALLING FOR RED THE PRESIDENT CALLING FOR RED FLAG LAWS SUPPORTING BY SENATEOR FLAG LAWS SUPPORTING BY SENATEOR SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM. DON JR. PUSHED BACK ON THE IDEA. DON JR. PUSHED BACK ON THE IDEA. GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES AND MANY GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES AND MANY DEMOCRATS CALLING TO REINSTATE DEMOCRATS CALLING TO REINSTATE THE BAN. THE BAN. REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE OPPOSED THAT IDEA. OPPOSED THAT IDEA. HERE WAS THE PRESIDENT TODAY HERE WAS THE PRESIDENT TODAY WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS POSITION. WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS POSITION.>>IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU CAN SPEAK>>IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU CAN SPEAK AND DO YOUR OWN POLLING. AND DO YOUR OWN POLLING.>>JOINING ME NOW IS OUR>>JOINING ME NOW IS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THANK YOU EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. FOR JOINING US.>>NO POLITICAL APPETITE.>>NO POLITICAL APPETITE. THESE ARE THESE MOMENTS IN THESE ARE THESE MOMENTS IN HISTORY WHERE LEADERSHIP IS HISTORY WHERE LEADERSHIP IS IMPORTANT. IMPORTANT. THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT POLL THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT POLL WELL AND SOMETHING THAT DON’T. WELL AND SOMETHING THAT DON’T. IN THE FACE OF THESE MASS IN THE FACE OF THESE MASS KILLINGS AND THE TIES NOW OF KILLINGS AND THE TIES NOW OF WHITE NATIONALISM IN SOME CASES. WHITE NATIONALISM IN SOME CASES. I AM NOT SURE A POLITICAL I AM NOT SURE A POLITICAL APPETITE SHOULD BE OUR GUNS AND APPETITE SHOULD BE OUR GUNS AND PRINCIPLES. PRINCIPLES.>>ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAD SO>>ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAD SO MANY YEARS OF THE NRA AND GUN MANY YEARS OF THE NRA AND GUN LAWS. LAWS. WE HAVE SEEN POLITICIANS HAVE WE HAVE SEEN POLITICIANS HAVE NOT BEEN REPRESENTING THE WILL NOT BEEN REPRESENTING THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHEN IT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES TO THE NEED OF GUN SAFETY. COMES TO THE NEED OF GUN SAFETY. SO YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SO YOU KNOW THERE IS NO POLITICAL WILL, THAT COULD BE POLITICAL WILL, THAT COULD BE BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE FILLING BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE FILLING THE POCKET OF THE NRA. THE POCKET OF THE NRA. WE KNOW MAJORITY OF THE WE KNOW MAJORITY OF THE AMERICANS SUPPORT RESTRICTIONS AMERICANS SUPPORT RESTRICTIONS ON LARGE CAPACITY AND AMMUNITION ON LARGE CAPACITY AND AMMUNITION MAGAZINES AND ASSAULT WEAPONS. MAGAZINES AND ASSAULT WEAPONS. THAT’S THE MAJORITY OF GUN THAT’S THE MAJORITY OF GUN OWNERS. OWNERS. THERE IS NO POLITICAL APPETITE THERE IS NO POLITICAL APPETITE BECAUSE THESE POLITICIANS DO NOT BECAUSE THESE POLITICIANS DO NOT GET REALIZE DSD THAT THE AMERICA GET REALIZE DSD THAT THE AMERICA PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO PUT UP PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH THIS. WITH THIS. WE SAW A COMPLETE CHANGE. WE SAW A COMPLETE CHANGE. WHAT USED TO BE A THIRD RAIL WHAT USED TO BE A THIRD RAIL ISSUE IS AN ABSOLUTE CENTRAL ISSUE IS AN ABSOLUTE CENTRAL ISSUE TO VOTERS. ISSUE TO VOTERS. WHEN WE SAW THE LAST WHEN WE SAW THE LAST CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION, IT WAS CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION, IT WAS NOT A HUGE TRANSITION IN NOT A HUGE TRANSITION IN CONGRESS. CONGRESS. WE SAW DOZENS AND DOZENS OF WE SAW DOZENS AND DOZENS OF THESE CANDIDATES RUNNING ON A THESE CANDIDATES RUNNING ON A GUN SAFETY PLATFORM AND WINNING GUN SAFETY PLATFORM AND WINNING AND EVEN IN STATES LIKE TEXAS AND EVEN IN STATES LIKE TEXAS AND GEORGIA AND COLORADO, THIS AND GEORGIA AND COLORADO, THIS IS NO LONGER A THIRD RAIL ISSUE. IS NO LONGER A THIRD RAIL ISSUE. THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT THE THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING ON. ON.>>DONALD TRUMP JR. SAYS IT GOES>>DONALD TRUMP JR. SAYS IT GOES AROUND DUE PROCESS. AROUND DUE PROCESS. RED FLAG LAWS TO BE ADJUDICATED RED FLAG LAWS TO BE ADJUDICATED OR SOMEONE DETERMINED TO BE A OR SOMEONE DETERMINED TO BE A THREAT, THEY CAN BE DELAYED IN THREAT, THEY CAN BE DELAYED IN ACQUIRING A GUN. ACQUIRING A GUN.>>THE WAY IT WORKS IS SIMPLY>>THE WAY IT WORKS IS SIMPLY SIMILAR TO A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SIMILAR TO A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION. PROTECTION. YOU CAN GO IN AND SOMEBODY YOU CAN GO IN AND SOMEBODY SHOWING REAL SIGNS OF BEING A SHOWING REAL SIGNS OF BEING A DANGER TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS. DANGER TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS. THERE IS A TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF THERE IS A TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF THAT PERSON’S GUN TO BY GUNS THAT PERSON’S GUN TO BY GUNS PENDING A FULL HEARING WITHIN 14 PENDING A FULL HEARING WITHIN 14 DAYS. DAYS.>>BY DEFINITION DUE PROCESS.>>BY DEFINITION DUE PROCESS.>>YOU CAN’T GO OUT AND TAKE>>YOU CAN’T GO OUT AND TAKE SOMEBODY’S GUN AWAY. SOMEBODY’S GUN AWAY.>>EVEN JUST TO DO THE INITIAL>>EVEN JUST TO DO THE INITIAL REMOVAL, THERE HAS TO BE REMOVAL, THERE HAS TO BE CREDIBLE EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO A CREDIBLE EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO A JUDGE IN ORDER TO TEMPORARILY JUDGE IN ORDER TO TEMPORARILY REMOVE WEAPONS. REMOVE WEAPONS. THERE WAS A LOT OF CARE TAKEN IN THERE WAS A LOT OF CARE TAKEN IN WRITING THESE LAWS TO MAKE SURE WRITING THESE LAWS TO MAKE SURE TO PROVIDE IT. TO PROVIDE IT.>>INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO — IN>>INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO — IN SOME CASES THESE ARE COMPROMISE SOME CASES THESE ARE COMPROMISE ARRANGEMENTS. ARRANGEMENTS.>>THE DRAFTING WAS DONE>>THE DRAFTING WAS DONE CAREFULLY TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CAREFULLY TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT OF PROCESS AND SECOND AMENDMENT, OF PROCESS AND SECOND AMENDMENT, TO ENSURE THIS IS A CRISIS TO ENSURE THIS IS A CRISIS TEMPORARY MEASURE WHEN WE HAVE TEMPORARY MEASURE WHEN WE HAVE SIGNS. SIGNS. YOU LOOK AT PARKLAND, THIS WAS A YOU LOOK AT PARKLAND, THIS WAS A SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS SO SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS SO MUCH EVIDENCE OF THE THREAT AND MUCH EVIDENCE OF THE THREAT AND RISK OF THAT INDIVIDUAL RISK OF THAT INDIVIDUAL PRESENTED IN THE COMMUNITY. PRESENTED IN THE COMMUNITY. THERE WAS NOTHING IN PLACE TO THERE WAS NOTHING IN PLACE TO TEMPORARILY REMOVE THOSE GUNS. TEMPORARILY REMOVE THOSE GUNS. THESE LAWS, I GET ASKED THESE LAWS, I GET ASKED QUESTIONS WHAT LAWS WILL PRESENT QUESTIONS WHAT LAWS WILL PRESENT IT? IT? I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT BEFORE I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT BEFORE WE LOOK AT PASSING FEDERAL RED WE LOOK AT PASSING FEDERAL RED FLAG LAWS OR THE LEGISLATION FLAG LAWS OR THE LEGISLATION THAT IS, WE MUST PASS A THAT IS, WE MUST PASS A UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK LAWS. UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK LAWS. THEY CAN’T ACTUALLY BE PROPERLY THEY CAN’T ACTUALLY BE PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT UNIVERSAL IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS EVEN IF YOU BACKGROUND CHECKS EVEN IF YOU HAVE A RESTRICTION, IF YOU CAN HAVE A RESTRICTION, IF YOU CAN JUST GO TO A GUN SHOW OR ONLINE. JUST GO TO A GUN SHOW OR ONLINE. THOSE LAWS WON’T BE EFFECTIVE. THOSE LAWS WON’T BE EFFECTIVE.>>YOU DEAL WITH IT ALL THE>>YOU DEAL WITH IT ALL THE TIME. TIME. DO YOU SENSE THE MOMENTUM. DO YOU SENSE THE MOMENTUM. DOES THE PRESIDENT SAY WE SHOULD DOES THE PRESIDENT SAY WE SHOULD DO THIS? DO THIS? WILL THAT TIP THE BALANCE OF WILL THAT TIP THE BALANCE OF ANYTHING? ANYTHING? WILL IT GET US A VOTE IN THE WILL IT GET US A VOTE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE? UNITED STATES SENATE?>>IT SHOULD FOR SURE.>>IT SHOULD FOR SURE.>>RIGHT NOW THE OBSTACLE IS>>RIGHT NOW THE OBSTACLE IS MITCH McCONNELL. MITCH McCONNELL. HE HAS NOT BROUGHT IT, HE NEEDS HE HAS NOT BROUGHT IT, HE NEEDS TO CALL THE SENATE BACK IN. TO CALL THE SENATE BACK IN. THEY NEED TO VOTE ON THIS. THEY NEED TO VOTE ON THIS. THE PRESIDENT IS BEHIND THIS. THE PRESIDENT IS BEHIND THIS. WE KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WE KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING IT. DEMANDING IT. CONGRESS ARE BEHIND IT. CONGRESS ARE BEHIND IT. MITCH McCONNELL WHO ARE IN THE MITCH McCONNELL WHO ARE IN THE POCKET OF THE NRA TAKING MILLION POCKET OF THE NRA TAKING MILLION OF DOLLARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND OF DOLLARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND REFUSING TO CALL IT FOR A VOTE. REFUSING TO CALL IT FOR A VOTE. WHEN 90% OF AMERICANS LAUNCH WHEN 90% OF AMERICANS LAUNCH THIS. THIS. HE REFUSED TO CALL IT FOR A HE REFUSED TO CALL IT FOR A VOTE. VOTE. WHO DOES HE REPRESENT? WHO DOES HE REPRESENT? HE DOES NOT REPRESENT THE
>>>THIS MORNING A SERIES OF NEW>>>THIS MORNING A SERIES OF NEW REPORTS HAVE FOCUSED ON REPORTS HAVE FOCUSED ON ANSWERING ONE LINGERING QUESTION ANSWERING ONE LINGERING QUESTION IN THE CASE AGAINST JEFFREY IN THE CASE AGAINST JEFFREY EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. THE FINANCEER WHO PLED NOT THE FINANCEER WHO PLED NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES OF SEX GUILTY TO CHARGES OF SEX TRAFFICKING OF TEENAGE GIRLS. TRAFFICKING OF TEENAGE GIRLS. HOW ON EARTH DID EPSTEIN MAKE HOW ON EARTH DID EPSTEIN MAKE ALL OF HIS MONEY? ALL OF HIS MONEY? ACCORDING TO THE “NEW YORK ACCORDING TO THE “NEW YORK TIMES” HE HAD DEEP TIES TO SOME TIMES” HE HAD DEEP TIES TO SOME OF WALL STREET’S TOP FIGURES. OF WALL STREET’S TOP FIGURES. “THE TIMES” DETAILS EPSTEIN, “THE TIMES” DETAILS EPSTEIN, QUOTE, LIKED TO PORTRAY HIMSELF QUOTE, LIKED TO PORTRAY HIMSELF AS A FINANCIAL WIZARD, SOMEONE AS A FINANCIAL WIZARD, SOMEONE WHOSE BUSINESS AND INVESTING WHOSE BUSINESS AND INVESTING ACUMEN MADE HIM INDISPENSABLE TO ACUMEN MADE HIM INDISPENSABLE TO CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND OTHER CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND OTHER LEADERS BUT THERE IS VERY LITTLE LEADERS BUT THERE IS VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT NOTION. EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT NOTION. MR. EPSTEIN NONETHELESS MANAGED MR. EPSTEIN NONETHELESS MANAGED TO AFFIX HIMSELF TO A HANDFUL OF TO AFFIX HIMSELF TO A HANDFUL OF PROMINENT WALL STREET VETERANS. PROMINENT WALL STREET VETERANS. MEANWHILE AN ARTICLE IN “VANITY MEANWHILE AN ARTICLE IN “VANITY FAIR” DIVES INTO EPSTEIN’S FAIR” DIVES INTO EPSTEIN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH BILLIONAIRE RELATIONSHIP WITH BILLIONAIRE HEDGE FUND MANAGER GLEN DUBIN HEDGE FUND MANAGER GLEN DUBIN AND HOW EPSTEIN TURNED PERSONAL AND HOW EPSTEIN TURNED PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS INTO MULTIMILLION RELATIONSHIPS INTO MULTIMILLION DOLLAR DEALS FOR HIMSELF. DOLLAR DEALS FOR HIMSELF. WHY EXACTLY THESE WALL STREET WHY EXACTLY THESE WALL STREET VETERANS STAYED BY HIS SIDE FOR VETERANS STAYED BY HIS SIDE FOR SO MANY YEARS. SO MANY YEARS. JOINING ME NOW BILL COEN WHO JOINING ME NOW BILL COEN WHO ALSO DUG INTO EPSTEIN’S WALL ALSO DUG INTO EPSTEIN’S WALL STREET NETWORK. STREET NETWORK. IN HIS MUST READ “VANITY FAIR” IN HIS MUST READ “VANITY FAIR” PIECE AND THE EDITOR BEHIND THE PIECE AND THE EDITOR BEHIND THE STUNNING “NEW YORK TIMES” STUNNING “NEW YORK TIMES” REPORT. REPORT. KATE, WALK US THROUGH THE KATE, WALK US THROUGH THE NETWORK THAT EPSTEIN BUILT. NETWORK THAT EPSTEIN BUILT. THE FACT THAT THE HEAD OF THE FACT THAT THE HEAD OF JPMORGAN’S PRIVATE BANK VISITED JPMORGAN’S PRIVATE BANK VISITED EPSTEIN NOT IN HIS MANSION, NOT EPSTEIN NOT IN HIS MANSION, NOT AT HIS ISLAND, BUT IN HIS WORK AT HIS ISLAND, BUT IN HIS WORK RELEASE PRISON OFFICE. RELEASE PRISON OFFICE.>>RIGHT.>>RIGHT. IT’S PRETTY PHENOMENAL. IT’S PRETTY PHENOMENAL. LET’S TALK ABOUT STALEY FIRST. LET’S TALK ABOUT STALEY FIRST. AT THE TIME A SENIOR EXECUTIVE AT THE TIME A SENIOR EXECUTIVE AT JPMORGAN RUNNING THE ASSET AT JPMORGAN RUNNING THE ASSET MANAGEMENT DIVISION. MANAGEMENT DIVISION. WHEN HE STARTED IN THE JPMORGAN WHEN HE STARTED IN THE JPMORGAN ROLE HE WAS TOLD HE NEEDED TO ROLE HE WAS TOLD HE NEEDED TO KNOW JEFFREY EPSTEIN BECAUSE HE KNOW JEFFREY EPSTEIN BECAUSE HE WAS A RAINMAKER OF SORTS WHO WAS A RAINMAKER OF SORTS WHO BROUGHT CLIENTS TO JPMORGAN AND BROUGHT CLIENTS TO JPMORGAN AND WAS A CLIENT HIMSELF IN THE WAS A CLIENT HIMSELF IN THE PRIVATE BANK. PRIVATE BANK. SO HE DID MEET HIM. SO HE DID MEET HIM. EPSTEIN APPARENTLY DID STEER EPSTEIN APPARENTLY DID STEER CLIENTS TO STALEY AND JPMORGAN. CLIENTS TO STALEY AND JPMORGAN. DOZENS OF THEM. DOZENS OF THEM.>>BEING A CONNECTOR ISN’T THAT>>BEING A CONNECTOR ISN’T THAT ODD. ODD. YOU GET PAID TO BE THE MIDDLE YOU GET PAID TO BE THE MIDDLE GUY. GUY.>>SURE.>>SURE.>>BUT WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON?>>BUT WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON?>>SO STALEY, ANOTHER IMPORTANT>>SO STALEY, ANOTHER IMPORTANT PIECE TOUCHING ON GLEN DUBIN AS PIECE TOUCHING ON GLEN DUBIN AS WELL. WELL. STALEY MEETS GLEN DUBIN WHO RUNS STALEY MEETS GLEN DUBIN WHO RUNS HIBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT HIBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT THROUGH EPSTEIN AND MAKES THIS THROUGH EPSTEIN AND MAKES THIS CONNECTION AND THEN BUYS THE CONNECTION AND THEN BUYS THE WHOLE THING A NUMBER OF YEARS WHOLE THING A NUMBER OF YEARS LATER. LATER. IT REALLY HELPS INCREASE THE IT REALLY HELPS INCREASE THE SUCCESS OF THAT BUSINESS. SUCCESS OF THAT BUSINESS. IT GROWS THE AUM BY A WIDE IT GROWS THE AUM BY A WIDE MARGIN AND MAKES STALEY AND MARGIN AND MAKES STALEY AND DUBIN BOTH SORT OF BUSINESS DUBIN BOTH SORT OF BUSINESS HEROES. HEROES. STALEY IS SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS STALEY IS SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS HELP THAT HE ACTUALLY VISITS HELP THAT HE ACTUALLY VISITS EPSTEIN DURING 2008 OR 2009 AT EPSTEIN DURING 2008 OR 2009 AT THIS TIME AS YOU SAID WHEN HE IS THIS TIME AS YOU SAID WHEN HE IS INCARCERATED AND HE’S WORKING INCARCERATED AND HE’S WORKING OUT OF AN OFFICE IN PALM BEACH. OUT OF AN OFFICE IN PALM BEACH.>>AMAZING.>>AMAZING. BILL, IN YOUR PIECE YOU DESCRIBE BILL, IN YOUR PIECE YOU DESCRIBE AN INTERACTION BETWEEN EPSTEIN AN INTERACTION BETWEEN EPSTEIN AND A PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT HIGH AND A PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT HIGH BRIDGE. BRIDGE. I WANT TO READ IT BECAUSE THE I WANT TO READ IT BECAUSE THE DESCRIPTION IS SO OUT OF THE DESCRIPTION IS SO OUT OF THE ORDINARY. ORDINARY. THIS IS ACCORDING TO SOMEONE WHO THIS IS ACCORDING TO SOMEONE WHO HEARD THE STORY. HEARD THE STORY. KUSNAN WENT TO EPSTEIN’S KUSNAN WENT TO EPSTEIN’S TOWNHOUSE AND WAS USHERED INTO A TOWNHOUSE AND WAS USHERED INTO A LITTLE ROOM BY A BUTLER. LITTLE ROOM BY A BUTLER. THERE HE SAW EPSTEIN SITTING THERE HE SAW EPSTEIN SITTING ATOP A RAISED PLATFORM LIKE A ATOP A RAISED PLATFORM LIKE A THRONE WITH TWO STRIKINGLY THRONE WITH TWO STRIKINGLY GORGEOUS YOUNG EASTERN EUROPEAN GORGEOUS YOUNG EASTERN EUROPEAN WOMEN STANDING BESIDE THE CHAIR. WOMEN STANDING BESIDE THE CHAIR. EPSTEIN ASKED KUSNAN A FEW EPSTEIN ASKED KUSNAN A FEW QUESTIONS AND THEN QUICKLY QUESTIONS AND THEN QUICKLY DECLARED THAT HE WAS DISMISSED. DECLARED THAT HE WAS DISMISSED. THE BUTLER ESCORTED KUSNAN OUT THE BUTLER ESCORTED KUSNAN OUT OF THE MANSION. OF THE MANSION. HE WALKED BACK TO HIS OFFICE AND HE WALKED BACK TO HIS OFFICE AND SITTING ON THE FAX MACHINE WAS SITTING ON THE FAX MACHINE WAS THE SIGNED PAPERWORK FROM THE SIGNED PAPERWORK FROM EPSTEIN AGREEING TO MAKE A EPSTEIN AGREEING TO MAKE A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT MULTIMILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT IN KUSNAN’S FUND. IN KUSNAN’S FUND. THIS IS NOT A NORMAL THIS IS NOT A NORMAL INTERACTION. INTERACTION. A HEDGE FUND MANAGER DOESN’T GO A HEDGE FUND MANAGER DOESN’T GO TO A WEALTHY GUY’S HOUSE AND TO A WEALTHY GUY’S HOUSE AND GREET HIM ON A THRONE SURROUNDED GREET HIM ON A THRONE SURROUNDED BY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND THEN BY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND THEN YEARS LATER WHEN THE FUND MAY YEARS LATER WHEN THE FUND MAY LOSE SOME MONEY AN INVESTOR LOSE SOME MONEY AN INVESTOR DOESN’T GET TO THEN GET ALL THE DOESN’T GET TO THEN GET ALL THE ORIGINAL INVESTMENT OUT. ORIGINAL INVESTMENT OUT. WHY ON EARTH WOULD THIS SCENE WHY ON EARTH WOULD THIS SCENE HAPPEN? HAPPEN?>>I THINK IT HAPPENED,>>I THINK IT HAPPENED, STEPHANIE, BECAUSE OF GLEN DUBIN STEPHANIE, BECAUSE OF GLEN DUBIN WANTING IT TO HAPPEN. WANTING IT TO HAPPEN. BOTH JOSEPH KUSNAN WHO DID SPEND BOTH JOSEPH KUSNAN WHO DID SPEND TIME AS A PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT TIME AS A PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT HIGH BRIDGE AND DAN ZWORN WERE HIGH BRIDGE AND DAN ZWORN WERE SETTING UP THEIR OWN FUNDS SORT SETTING UP THEIR OWN FUNDS SORT OF LIKE TIGER CUB KIND OF CUBS OF LIKE TIGER CUB KIND OF CUBS FUNDS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF GLEN FUNDS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF GLEN DUBIN AND GLEN HAVING THIS DUBIN AND GLEN HAVING THIS BIG-TIME RELATIONSHIP WITH BIG-TIME RELATIONSHIP WITH JEFFREY DUBIN, DIRECTED THEIR — JEFFREY DUBIN, DIRECTED THEIR — HIS AFFILIATES TO ESSENTIALLY HIS AFFILIATES TO ESSENTIALLY ACCEPT THIS MONEY FROM JEFFREY ACCEPT THIS MONEY FROM JEFFREY EPSTEIN NO QUESTIONS ASKED. EPSTEIN NO QUESTIONS ASKED. AND OF COURSE IN TYPICAL AND OF COURSE IN TYPICAL NOUVEAU, HEDGE FUND MANAGER WAY NOUVEAU, HEDGE FUND MANAGER WAY THEY DIDN’T ASK MANY QUESTIONS THEY DIDN’T ASK MANY QUESTIONS EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN’T ALLOWED EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN’T ALLOWED TO AND OF COURSE THEY ACCEPTED TO AND OF COURSE THEY ACCEPTED THE MONEY BECAUSE IT WAS A LOT THE MONEY BECAUSE IT WAS A LOT OF MONEY. OF MONEY.>>BUT WHAT WAS JEFFREY>>BUT WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S SPECIAL TALENT? EPSTEIN’S SPECIAL TALENT? THIS IS WHAT I DON’T GET. THIS IS WHAT I DON’T GET. RIGHT? RIGHT? WHY WOULD THEY ALL STAND BY HIM WHY WOULD THEY ALL STAND BY HIM AND FOR SO LONG, KATE? AND FOR SO LONG, KATE? WE GO BACK AND WE THINK BERNIE WE GO BACK AND WE THINK BERNIE MADDOFF. MADDOFF. ALL THOSE PEOPLE FLOCKED TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE FLOCKED TO MADOFF BECAUSE OF OUT SIZED MADOFF BECAUSE OF OUT SIZED RETURNS. RETURNS. TALKING ABOUT AN AMAZING TALKING ABOUT AN AMAZING INVESTOR, LOOK AT HIS RETURNS, A INVESTOR, LOOK AT HIS RETURNS, A JOHN PAULSON DURING THE SUB JOHN PAULSON DURING THE SUB PRIME. PRIME. YOU’D SAY, AH. YOU’D SAY, AH. THIS WAS THE MAGIC. THIS WAS THE MAGIC. WHERE WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S WHERE WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S MAGIC THAT HAD SOME OF THE MAGIC THAT HAD SOME OF THE BIGGEST GUYS, LEON BLACK THE BIGGEST GUYS, LEON BLACK THE FOUNDER OF APOLLO, WHAT IN THE FOUNDER OF APOLLO, WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES HE NEED OR GET FROM WORLD DOES HE NEED OR GET FROM EPSTEIN? EPSTEIN?>>I THINK THERE WERE TWO>>I THINK THERE WERE TWO NARRATIVES SURROUNDING JEFFREY NARRATIVES SURROUNDING JEFFREY EPSTEIN AT LEAST UNTIL HE BECAME EPSTEIN AT LEAST UNTIL HE BECAME INFAMOUS FOR THESE OTHER INFAMOUS FOR THESE OTHER REASONS. REASONS. HE MANAGED LESLIE WEXNER’S HE MANAGED LESLIE WEXNER’S FORTUNE, FOUNDER OF L BRANDS, A FORTUNE, FOUNDER OF L BRANDS, A BILLIONAIRE DECADES AGO AT A BILLIONAIRE DECADES AGO AT A TIME WHEN THERE WERE LESS TIME WHEN THERE WERE LESS BILLIONAIRES AND HAD A FAR BILLIONAIRES AND HAD A FAR REACHING ALL ENCOMPASSING ROLE REACHING ALL ENCOMPASSING ROLE MANAGING HIS INVESTMENT MONEY, MANAGING HIS INVESTMENT MONEY, HIS PHILANTHROPY, DOING FAMILY HIS PHILANTHROPY, DOING FAMILY OFFICE TYPE DUTIES. OFFICE TYPE DUTIES. I DON’T THINK WE EVEN KNOW THE I DON’T THINK WE EVEN KNOW THE FULL EXTENT YET BUT IT WAS WIDE FULL EXTENT YET BUT IT WAS WIDE RANGING. RANGING. HE WAS KNOWN FOR THAT AND HE GOT HE WAS KNOWN FOR THAT AND HE GOT WEALTH EIGHT LEAST LARGELY IN WEALTH EIGHT LEAST LARGELY IN PART BECAUSE OF THAT. PART BECAUSE OF THAT. PEOPLE KNEW THAT. PEOPLE KNEW THAT. HE ALSO HAD A REPUTATION FOR HE ALSO HAD A REPUTATION FOR BEING SAVVY WHEN IT CAME TO TAX BEING SAVVY WHEN IT CAME TO TAX STRATEGIES AND ESTATE PLANNING. STRATEGIES AND ESTATE PLANNING. NOW, WHERE HE GOT THAT NOW, WHERE HE GOT THAT REPUTATION BEYOND WEXNER I’M NOT REPUTATION BEYOND WEXNER I’M NOT SURE BUT IT WAS ENOUGH THAT LEON SURE BUT IT WAS ENOUGH THAT LEON BLACK HIRED HIM OVER A COURSE OF BLACK HIRED HIM OVER A COURSE OF 15 OR SO YEARS ON AND OFF TO DO 15 OR SO YEARS ON AND OFF TO DO THIS WORK FOR HIM. THIS WORK FOR HIM.>>SO LEON BLACK WHO RUNS>>SO LEON BLACK WHO RUNS APOLLO, HAS DOZENS OF TAX APOLLO, HAS DOZENS OF TAX SPECIALISTS WHO WORK FOR HIM. SPECIALISTS WHO WORK FOR HIM.>>RIGHT.>>RIGHT.>>HE NEEDS JEFFREY EPSTEIN>>HE NEEDS JEFFREY EPSTEIN FORMER MATH TEACHER FROM DALTON? FORMER MATH TEACHER FROM DALTON?>>APPARENTLY.>>APPARENTLY. WHO DOES NOT HAVE A BACHELOR’S WHO DOES NOT HAVE A BACHELOR’S DEGREE. DEGREE. WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE TO WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE TO ESTABLISH THAT RELATIONSHIP, ESTABLISH THAT RELATIONSHIP, BLACK TRUSTED HIM ENOUGH THAT HE BLACK TRUSTED HIM ENOUGH THAT HE KEPT HIM ON AND OFF FOR MORE KEPT HIM ON AND OFF FOR MORE THAN A DECADE AND HE ALSO ADDED THAN A DECADE AND HE ALSO ADDED HIM AS A DIRECTOR, WHICH IS WELL HIM AS A DIRECTOR, WHICH IS WELL KNOWN AT THIS POINT, TO LEON’S KNOWN AT THIS POINT, TO LEON’S OWN FAMILY FOUNDATION BOARD OWN FAMILY FOUNDATION BOARD AROUND THE YEAR 2000. AROUND THE YEAR 2000.>>MANY OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS>>MANY OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS STAYED WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN STAYED WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN THROUGH HIS PRISON SENTENCE AND THROUGH HIS PRISON SENTENCE AND AFTER. AFTER. GLEN DUBIN IS ONE OF THEM. GLEN DUBIN IS ONE OF THEM. COULD IT POSSIBLY BE THESE COULD IT POSSIBLY BE THESE PEOPLE DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW THE PEOPLE DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW THE EXTENT OF WHAT HE HAD DONE? EXTENT OF WHAT HE HAD DONE? IF HE WENT TO JAIL FOR IF HE WENT TO JAIL FOR SOLICITING A PROSTITUTE THAT SOLICITING A PROSTITUTE THAT COULD BE SOMETHING PEOPLE WOULD COULD BE SOMETHING PEOPLE WOULD SAY, LISTEN. SAY, LISTEN. THIS ISN’T GOOD. THIS ISN’T GOOD. IT’S NOT GREAT BUT I FORGIVE IT’S NOT GREAT BUT I FORGIVE YOU. YOU. IS THERE A CHANCE THEY DID NOT IS THERE A CHANCE THEY DID NOT KNOW THE EXTENT TO THE POSSIBLE KNOW THE EXTENT TO THE POSSIBLE WRONGDOING OR WHAT HE IS ACCUSED WRONGDOING OR WHAT HE IS ACCUSED OF NOW? OF NOW?>>LOOK, STEPHANIE, KATE, KELLY>>LOOK, STEPHANIE, KATE, KELLY IS A FABULOUS REPORTER AND I IS A FABULOUS REPORTER AND I RESPECT EVERYTHING SHE DOES. RESPECT EVERYTHING SHE DOES. I’M REALLY WONDERING FRANKLY I’M REALLY WONDERING FRANKLY WHETHER THERE’S JUST A LOT OF WHETHER THERE’S JUST A LOT OF MYTH MAKING GOING ON NOW ABOUT MYTH MAKING GOING ON NOW ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND HIS, YOU JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND HIS, YOU KNOW, TAX AND ACCOUNTING KNOW, TAX AND ACCOUNTING PROWESS, HIS MONEY MANAGEMENT PROWESS, HIS MONEY MANAGEMENT PROWESS. PROWESS. I THINK THIS IS ALL A NARRATIVE I THINK THIS IS ALL A NARRATIVE BEING CREATED TO COVER UP BEING CREATED TO COVER UP SOMETHING MUCH DEEPER AND DARKER SOMETHING MUCH DEEPER AND DARKER THAT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS YET, BECAUSE I’M SORRY YOU DON’T YET, BECAUSE I’M SORRY YOU DON’T GIVE SOMEBODY A MANSION ON EAST GIVE SOMEBODY A MANSION ON EAST 71st STREET THAT’S NOW 71st STREET THAT’S NOW APPARENTLY WORTH $77 MILLION APPARENTLY WORTH $77 MILLION JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE MANAGING HIS JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE MANAGING HIS MONEY. MONEY.>>WE DON’T HAVE EVIDENCE OF>>WE DON’T HAVE EVIDENCE OF THAT THOUGH. THAT THOUGH. AT THIS POINT, GIFTING A MANSION AT THIS POINT, GIFTING A MANSION TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN AT THIS POINT TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN AT THIS POINT IS URBAN LEGEND. IS URBAN LEGEND. IT MAY BE TRUE BUT WE DON’T KNOW IT MAY BE TRUE BUT WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE. FOR SURE.>>I THINK BILL MAKES A GOOD>>I THINK BILL MAKES A GOOD POINT THOUGH. POINT THOUGH. I THINK THERE WAS BLUSTER AND I THINK THERE WAS BLUSTER AND WHITE LIES PROBABLY ALSO WHITE LIES PROBABLY ALSO OUTRIGHT LIES IN TERMS OF OUTRIGHT LIES IN TERMS OF EPSTEIN AND THE WAY HE DESCRIBED EPSTEIN AND THE WAY HE DESCRIBED HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE BUSINESS FIGURES. BUSINESS FIGURES. I THINK A LOT OF IT WAS BS OR I THINK A LOT OF IT WAS BS OR GREATLY EXAGGERATED. GREATLY EXAGGERATED. HE DID ENTERTAIN AND HAVE PEOPLE HE DID ENTERTAIN AND HAVE PEOPLE OVER AND DID MEET PEOPLE IN OVER AND DID MEET PEOPLE IN OFFICES AND AT FUNCTIONS. OFFICES AND AT FUNCTIONS. THE INTERESTING THING WE FOUND THE INTERESTING THING WE FOUND THAT IN ADDITION TO THAT AND WE THAT IN ADDITION TO THAT AND WE HAVE SOME EXAMPLES OF THE HAVE SOME EXAMPLES OF THE BLUSTER IN OUR STORY, THERE WERE BLUSTER IN OUR STORY, THERE WERE THESE REAL CONNECTIONS. THESE REAL CONNECTIONS. THEY MAY HAVE BEEN ONLY A FEW THEY MAY HAVE BEEN ONLY A FEW BUT IT WAS ENOUGH THAT HE SORT BUT IT WAS ENOUGH THAT HE SORT OF LEVERAGED THAT INTO ACCESS TO OF LEVERAGED THAT INTO ACCESS TO PEOPLE AND BUILDING THIS PEOPLE AND BUILDING THIS REPUTATION, EVEN IF IT WAS REPUTATION, EVEN IF IT WAS LARGELY HOT AIR. LARGELY HOT AIR.>>MY GOODNESS.>>MY GOODNESS.>>I AGREE WITH KATE COMPLETELY>>I AGREE WITH KATE COMPLETELY ON THAT. ON THAT. THE QUESTION IS, WHY WAS HE ABLE THE QUESTION IS, WHY WAS HE ABLE TO LEVERAGE THESE RELATIONSHIPS TO LEVERAGE THESE RELATIONSHIPS AND FOR SO LONG AS YOU ASK,
she's joining me now to weigh in an all-star cast David Drucker senior political correspondent for the Washington Examiner Victoria DeFrancesco professor at the University of Texas and an MSNBC contributor my dear friend Peter Wayne a former speechwriter for President Bush who also served in both the Reagan and George HW Bush administration's and the author of the death of politics how to heal our frayed Republic after Trump and Basil's Michael is in the building Democratic strategist and former director of the New York state Democratic Party daveed to you first we know it was a concession but the president is certainly not treating it that way it's as if he fumbled the ball and then spiked it so help us understand how all of what happened yesterday will be read by the American people well look I think this is one of those issues that is going to break down according to how you see the president if you see him as somebody who's fighting and never backs down you're gonna look at his pivot on this and say look he's still gonna try and collect this information he was thwarted by enemies and that's not his fault and if you don't like what the president was doing if you think that he was threatening a constitutional crisis by potentially going around the courts then you're sort of spiking the ball the other way to borrow the analogy and you're saying yourself the guy is all talk he's a blowhard he lost and now he's trying to spin it and I think with President Trump Stephanie the one thing we've learned is there's no gray area people either like him or they don't like him and that seems to color their opinion of how they see what he does that doesn't mean there's not a factual basis from which to look at this it just means that he inspires deep heartfelt opinions one way or the other for most Americans and I think that's why we've seen a very stark divide and also why we've seen his approval ratings generally stay within the range that they are which is anywhere from the high 30s when he's doing not so well and up to the mid 40s when he's doing a lot better which these days he seems to be in a decent place at least based on where he's been throughout the course of his presidency so he wins the spin but two facts matter Peter based on what David is saying it doesn't sound like any of this moves the needle the Washington Post points out that the executive order the president calling this a new proposal isn't one it's what the Census Bureau told the administration months and months ago so what's your take on how all this played out well I think that's right it's not going to move the needle because in the Trump era that needle doesn't move much it at all there's been an amazing amount of stability as David was saying for the for the trump presidency so want to add one element to this to pull back a little bit and put this in context if you read Justice Roberts a majority opinion it wasn't that he said that the president didn't have a right to put there's a question on what he argued is that the Trump administration why in their explanation for it and that in a way is is emblematic of this entire administration which is it is an administration that's built on and rests and perpetrates lie after lie after lie it's just a fundamentally dishonest administration and that's the reason that they got tripped tripped up to here here and it's a good news in this sense as well which is the Supreme Court spoke and Donald Trump didn't challenge it and that has happened before so a lot of times he's bluster he Huff's and he puffs but he backs down and he's done this on this issue and he's done it on others as well the border wall and a lot of others that's actually good because it means our institutions are strong enough to check him Victoria what struck you about the way this ended the president did get our attention and get all of those national news cameras on him and not at the border looking at children in detention centers Stephanie what stood out most to me yesterday was what was unspoken which is the Voting Rights Act because for 18 months this whole charade has been about we need to include the citizenship question in order to properly enforce the Voting Rights Act but nothing of that was said so I've been a little bit more pessimistic this morning in terms of the count and in terms of immigrant rights because I think the damage has been done so the citizenship question is not going to be on the actual census but within the community the immigrant community the minority community there is this pervasive fear of if I answer this question maybe they'll come after me so I think we're still going to see the sizable undercount and put this in the context of what's likely to happen this weekend we see that there's likely to be large-scale ice raids across the country so there's already this pervasive fear it kicked off in January 2017 with all of the executive orders it leads up to today so I think the end result is a severe undercount so I think it was a lose-lose quite frankly for the Republican administration and for the census count more generally Basile what's your take was the president successful in his ongoing agenda to deter and strike fear in those immigrant communities I absolutely agree with what was just said in my community Upper Manhattan with large immigrant population there have been Flyers up for weeks telling residents about their rights if ice comes to their door so there there has been a lot of activity at mobilization around this I think the citizens citizenship question certainly adds to that and it's and the president's motives are clear to make these districts older and wider that's the kind of legislature legislature in these states that he wants to see that's the kind of legislature he's trying to build in Congress and I wonder if there was another motive as well if evangelicals and Republicans who went to him and said look we got you elected in part to put certain types of judges in these seats and he did that and by trying to push this census question he's actually going against the Supreme Court and some of his supporters are saying well look we want you to put certain types of judges in these chairs you can't then go against them because we need them to be there we need their credibility to be in place so I wonder if some of the some of these folks didn't go to him and say look you can't do this because it undermines all of our efforts I wouldn't be surprised that that's part of this equation and to be honest this question has come up since the war of 1812 presidents have been trying to put this question on the census so I don't think it actually stops here all right if we're talking judges David we must talk about Attorney General Bill Barr so many scratching their heads today he blamed of all people the media for the confusion surrounding this is executive order I want to share what he said some in the media have been suggesting in the hysterical mode of the day that the administration has been planning to add the citizenship question to the census by executive Fiat without regard to contrary court orders or what the Supreme Court might say this has been based on rank speculation and nothing more rank speculation and nothing more on Monday of this week in an interview with The Associated Press that man right there William Barr said that in the coming days the Trump administration will quote take action he believes will allow the government to add the controversial census question so what in the world is Bill Barr talking about blaming speculation and hysterical media those were his words on Monday right well look we're a convenient punching bag because a lot of people especially among president Trump supporters don't trust this one bit and that's fine leave us believe him don't believe your line up believe your lyin eyes or something like that look Stephanie it's it's very easy when you get caught in a pickle on the right or the left and this happens actually quite a bit on both sides these days just in different ways to blame the media for getting it wrong saying it wrong or just flat-out making things up and this is not only a way to deflect some of the obviously internal struggles the administration has had in terms of trying to figure out what to do about this but it's also a way to tell voters that matter in 2020 and just about every action taken right now needs to be seen in that context at least in part that it's not really the president who's the problem here it's the people making stuff up about the president and it's also for Bill Barr who has figured out a way to gain Trump's trust a way to continue that because the way you do that is to shield the president let him know very publicly right next to him that he's great and everybody else is the problem it's simplistic but that how it works and that's if you want the trust and the belief and what you're doing by the president if you want him to let you act then you make sure you sort of keep him in the loop that way and so I think it was nothing more than that in bar knows it's very effective at doing that and and you know quite frankly nobody's going to cry when the media is getting beat up and so it's easy out nobody crying but facts are facts somebody who is not in the predator who the president is not currently a fan of is Paul Ryan Peter in an excerpt from Tim Oberg Alberta's new book released in The Washington Post this week he details some criticisms none other than Republican Paul Ryan had about President Trump Ryan telling him this I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right because I'm telling you he didn't know anything about government I wanted to scold him all the time well no surprise President Trump did not like this hitting Paul Ryan in a series of late-night tweets calling Ryan a lame duck failure with poor leadership what's your take here Peter well I think what Paul Ryan is saying is in a state secret this he's giving voice to to what everybody virtually knows I do I know Paul and he's a friend of mine I do wish that Paul actually had said this while they would speaker the house and had resigned in principle I'm having made that argument I understand what he was trying to do which is work behind the scenes to keep Donald Trump from making worse mistakes than than he otherwise made but but just trashing the president now make up for that I don't think so I don't think so I mean I'm fine it's giving to telling what really happened is better late than ever but you know my critique of the Republican Party which is in real-time there haven't been enough Republicans who have stood up to the president and I think that's done tremendous damage to the country I think it's done damage to to the party and doing it after the fact is is not ideal but probably the biggest picture here that we have to keep in mind is that you know eighty-five percent people in Congress who deal with Donald Trump would essentially say the same thing I think relations privately privately they should say it publicly but they but it they will say it privately and what it means is that you have a man who is president who was emotionally and psychologically and in terms of his intellect not fit to be to be president but but he is and and that's what we're dealing with well if you say one thing publicly and another thing privately what does it say about you hey there I'm Chris Hayes from MSNBC thanks for watching MSNBC on youtube if you want to keep up to date with the videos we're putting out you can click subscribe just below me or click over on this list to see lots of other great videos
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