In Mecklenburg County, shooting into an occupied vehicle or dwelling will get you a suspended sentence and probation. And for some reason, local officials are perplexed why the violent crime rate is high.
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[00:00:28] All right, so I am on a distribution list, an email distribution list. And it comes from the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office. And they send out press releases as, like, that's not really surprising, but they send out press releases as they are known to do. And the other day they sent one out about their violent crimes team and the disposition of the state.
[00:00:58] disposition of a number of the cases. And they do this regularly, by the way. And usually, I mean, a lot of times it gets caught in my spam folder, so I end up deleting it accidentally, but I do try to read them. And so, but I, and I've read one before a couple of weeks ago. So I got one a couple days ago, and I thought as a public service, I would relay to you the disposition of about a dozen trials that occurred.
[00:01:28] The Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office.
[00:01:41] The Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office.
[00:02:02] John Curiton, John Curiton, Jacqueline Grant, David Strickland. They list all the judges, okay? So here's the judge's name that, I don't know, just something seemed a bit off when I was reading through the press release.
[00:02:16] Jacqueline Grant.
[00:02:18] Judge Grant.
[00:02:21] So, first up, we've got the case of Davion Reed.
[00:02:30] 20 years old.
[00:02:32] Tried for robbery with a dangerous weapon.
[00:02:34] The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged.
[00:02:37] Judge Strickland sentenced Reed to 51 to 74 months in prison.
[00:02:43] So, that's like almost, what, five years, right?
[00:02:46] A little bit over four, but all the way up to six.
[00:02:49] So, four to six years, I guess.
[00:02:51] They do it by months.
[00:02:52] So, 51 to 74 months.
[00:02:54] Next up, Jahani McMillan.
[00:02:59] Jahani?
[00:03:00] I don't know.
[00:03:01] It's J-H and then apostrophe and then A-N-E.
[00:03:06] Like, I don't, how do you even pronounce a J-H next to each other like that?
[00:03:11] Jah.
[00:03:12] Jah.
[00:03:13] Jah.
[00:03:14] And then there's an apostrophe there, so I'm not really, yeah, I don't know.
[00:03:19] Anyway, this person, 25 years old, tried for discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
[00:03:26] The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged.
[00:03:30] Oh, all right, good.
[00:03:32] So, two for two so far.
[00:03:33] Good job, Mecklenburg juries.
[00:03:35] Discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
[00:03:38] Guilty as charged.
[00:03:39] At the sentencing hearing, the state sought an active prison sentence.
[00:03:44] In her discretion, Judge Jacqueline Grant imposed a suspended sentence.
[00:03:52] 23 to 40 months.
[00:03:55] So, between two to three years.
[00:04:00] But suspended.
[00:04:02] On the condition that Jahani McMillan successfully complete 36 months of supervised probation.
[00:04:12] So, this 25-year-old shot a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
[00:04:23] I'm not sure there's a good version of that story.
[00:04:26] Like, just those details I've given you, I'm not sure there's a better version of that story besides what I'm conjuring up in my head, which is people in a car, maybe a road rage incident, or drug deal gone bad, or words exchanged.
[00:04:41] You insulted me, disrespected me, whatever.
[00:04:44] Pow, pow.
[00:04:45] Into an occupied vehicle.
[00:04:46] Apparently didn't kill anybody, but discharged a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
[00:04:51] The jury convicted this person of that charge, and the judge suspended the sentence.
[00:04:57] No jail time.
[00:04:59] I wonder why we get people firing weapons into cars.
[00:05:04] Anyway, next up.
[00:05:06] Israel Johnson.
[00:05:10] I-Z-R-E-A-L.
[00:05:13] Israel, right?
[00:05:15] Or I-Z-Real Johnson.
[00:05:17] Anyway, 20.
[00:05:18] Charged for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
[00:05:22] Resisting a public officer.
[00:05:25] The jury verdicts.
[00:05:27] Not guilty to the firearm charge, but guilty.
[00:05:31] To the resisting a public officer.
[00:05:34] The judge sentenced Johnson to 45 days in jail.
[00:05:38] Suspended.
[00:05:39] That judge was Archie.
[00:05:43] Carla Archie.
[00:05:45] Next up.
[00:05:46] Yes, I am, by the way, naming these judges on purpose.
[00:05:49] These are elected positions.
[00:05:50] You're going to keep getting what we got until you say enough.
[00:05:55] Next up.
[00:05:56] Ryhan Hankins.
[00:05:59] R-Y-H-A-N.
[00:06:02] Ryhan.
[00:06:04] R-Y-H-A-N.
[00:06:05] R-Y-H-A-N.
[00:06:07] Hankins.
[00:06:08] 25.
[00:06:09] Tried for possession of a firearm on educational property.
[00:06:13] The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
[00:06:16] Kavon Belton.
[00:06:18] 20.
[00:06:19] Pled guilty.
[00:06:20] Six counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon.
[00:06:22] Two counts of attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
[00:06:25] Judge Strickland sentenced Belton to a total of 80 to 120 months in prison.
[00:06:31] Judge Strickland.
[00:06:33] David Strickland.
[00:06:34] Good job, David Strickland.
[00:06:37] Because that's what?
[00:06:39] Six to 10 years in prison for six counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and two counts
[00:06:45] of attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
[00:06:46] Yeah, this guy's a menace.
[00:06:49] Tyree Knight.
[00:06:50] 20.
[00:06:51] Pleaded guilty.
[00:06:52] Two.
[00:06:53] Discharging a firearm into occupied property and larceny from that person.
[00:06:59] Judge Grant.
[00:07:00] There she is again.
[00:07:01] Jacqueline Grant.
[00:07:02] Sentenced Knight to 20 to 36 months in prison.
[00:07:07] But, that's right everybody.
[00:07:09] That sentence was suspended.
[00:07:12] On the condition that Knight successfully complete 36 months of supervised probation.
[00:07:18] But, hang on, there's a special provision here.
[00:07:22] He has to do 20 days in jail.
[00:07:26] 20 days in jail for a game.
[00:07:29] So, this Judge Grant, apparently not a big opponent of shooting into occupied property.
[00:07:38] Whether it's a house or a car.
[00:07:40] Doesn't really matter to her, it seems.
[00:07:43] Next up, we got Jordan Johnson.
[00:07:45] 22.
[00:07:46] He pled guilty to assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
[00:07:51] He got sentenced by Judge Johnson.
[00:07:54] Let's see.
[00:07:55] That is...
[00:07:58] Oh, where's Johnson?
[00:08:01] There's Strickland.
[00:08:02] There's Curitan.
[00:08:03] Oh, I don't...
[00:08:03] It doesn't say what...
[00:08:04] Okay, it doesn't have Johnson's first name on here for some reason.
[00:08:06] Okay, well, Judge Johnson...
[00:08:10] Oh, no.
[00:08:11] Sorry.
[00:08:12] Judge Strickland.
[00:08:13] Yes.
[00:08:14] So, oh, Strickland was the other...
[00:08:15] It was the one who sent the other guy away for like 10 years.
[00:08:18] There's Strickland sentenced this one to 51 to 74 months.
[00:08:21] The defendant was named Johnson.
[00:08:24] Pled guilty to assault with a deadly weapon.
[00:08:26] Tavion Wells.
[00:08:28] 26.
[00:08:29] Pled guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon.
[00:08:32] Four counts of assault by pointing a gun.
[00:08:34] Archie, Judge Archie, sentenced Wells to 54 to 77 months.
[00:08:38] Good job on that one, Archie.
[00:08:41] Archie also sentenced another one who pled felony, guilty to a felony hit and run.
[00:08:45] They got two years in prison.
[00:08:48] Markel Parker, 25.
[00:08:50] Pled guilty to conspiracy to commit discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle in operation.
[00:08:57] Oh, so that sounds like it was moving at the time.
[00:09:01] This is Judge McKnight.
[00:09:02] Reggie McKnight, a Superior Court judge.
[00:09:06] Judge McKnight sentenced Parker to 20 to 36 months in prison.
[00:09:11] But suspended.
[00:09:14] Suspended.
[00:09:15] If you do probation for 24 months.
[00:09:18] So once again, another discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
[00:09:24] You get suspended sentences.
[00:09:28] Justin Johnson.
[00:09:30] Another Johnson.
[00:09:31] 20.
[00:09:31] Pled guilty to discharging a firearm into occupied property.
[00:09:35] Possession of a weapon of mass destruction.
[00:09:37] That sounds bad.
[00:09:39] Our pal Judge Jacqueline Grant sentenced him to 31 to 50 months in prison.
[00:09:47] But suspended the sentence pending 36 months of supervised probation.
[00:09:53] But, as part of the sentence, the defendant must serve seven months in prison.
[00:09:57] And upon completion of that sentence, the defendant will be placed on six months of house arrest.
[00:10:02] So once again, discharging a firearm into occupied property.
[00:10:06] Not that big of a deal.
[00:10:08] And Larry Bethea pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon carrying a concealed gun as well.
[00:10:16] Judge Grant sentenced Pathea 13 to 25 months in prison.
[00:10:23] But that sentence was suspended pending the defendant's successful completion of 30 months of supervised probation.
[00:10:29] I am sensing a pattern here with Judge Jacqueline Grant.
[00:10:37] Remember, this stops when you want it to.
[00:10:42] So, Amy sends me a tweet.
[00:10:45] It's a Pete tweet, she says.
[00:10:46] Which, by the way, that's one of the reasons why I'm refusing to call it X.
[00:10:51] Because Pete tweet is way better from a branding perspective.
[00:10:55] So, Amy says, shooting into occupied property sounds a lot like attempted murder to me.
[00:11:02] But then, I'm not a lawyer or a judge.
[00:11:05] Yeah.
[00:11:06] That's what it kind of sounds like to me, too.
[00:11:08] There's a person in the occupied property, right?
[00:11:14] It's right there in the description.
[00:11:16] Occupied property.
[00:11:18] Somebody is inside.
[00:11:19] And you shot into that inside.
[00:11:21] Where the person was.
[00:11:23] Otherwise, it would be unoccupied.
[00:11:25] I'm a bit of a word smith.
[00:11:27] Don't try this at home, okay?
[00:11:29] I'm a trained professional here.
[00:11:30] But I'm not a lawyer either.
[00:11:32] There I'm no judge, definitely.
[00:11:34] Didn't get the wardrobe change.
[00:11:36] But it sounds like that could be attempted murder.
[00:11:40] Maybe these are the plea deals.
[00:11:42] You know?
[00:11:43] Maybe.
[00:11:43] Because a lot of those crimes that I just read,
[00:11:46] the disposition of those crimes from the DA's office,
[00:11:48] a lot of them were that the defendants pleaded guilty.
[00:11:52] And so you pleaded guilty because you're avoiding a trial.
[00:11:57] Why?
[00:11:57] Because there's so much evidence.
[00:11:58] And usually they throw a whole bunch of charges at you.
[00:12:01] And then you agree to some of the lower charges.
[00:12:04] And part of the plea deal sounds like you get suspended sentences.
[00:12:09] Isn't that lovely?
[00:12:11] Don't you do that again.
[00:12:15] So, yeah.
[00:12:16] I'm just reading between the lines there.
[00:12:17] I don't know for sure.
[00:12:18] I'm just going by what the DA puts out in their press release.
[00:12:25] But good for them for the couple of jury trials that they did score convictions on.
[00:12:31] Unlike what's going to happen up in Washington, D.C., I'm sure,
[00:12:34] where a whole bunch of anti-Israel protesters got arrested
[00:12:39] and had all of their misdemeanor charges dropped yesterday.
[00:12:43] One day after they, you know, vandalized monuments, federal property,
[00:12:50] they burned an American flag.
[00:12:53] The charges for 11 protesters who had their cases dropped included
[00:12:58] crossing police lines and disorderly conduct
[00:13:01] at the protest that was attended by thousands in Washington on Wednesday.
[00:13:06] That according to the Washington Attorney General's Office.
[00:13:10] Additionally, at least six people charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington
[00:13:15] were released pending their court hearing.
[00:13:17] According to Washington Superior Court records obtained by the Washington Examiner,
[00:13:22] which is where I'm reading this.
[00:13:24] It's a piece by Kalan Deese.
[00:13:27] Kalan Deese.
[00:13:29] Okay.
[00:13:29] The protesters, given release conditions,
[00:13:33] face charges such as assault on a police officer,
[00:13:37] attempted assault with a deadly weapon,
[00:13:39] making threats,
[00:13:40] and attempted second-degree theft.
[00:13:42] And they have been issued a stay-away order
[00:13:46] to avoid the Union Station grounds
[00:13:48] until they head to preliminary hearings in late August.
[00:13:52] Or else...
[00:13:54] What exactly?
[00:13:56] What exactly?
[00:13:58] What?
[00:14:00] Like what?
[00:14:01] What happens if they don't stay away from Union Station grounds?
[00:14:05] Oh, then we're really going to be mad at you.
[00:14:07] Oh no, don't release me even harder.
[00:14:10] Altogether, there were 23 total arrests made on Wednesday
[00:14:13] in connection to the demonstrations
[00:14:14] against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
[00:14:21] The protests involved thousands
[00:14:23] and led to tense confrontations with police.
[00:14:26] More than 1,424 defendants have been charged, by the way,
[00:14:32] just for comparison,
[00:14:33] 1,424 charged since the January 6th protest.
[00:14:41] About 350 people from that event were charged with assaulting,
[00:14:45] resisting, or impeding officers or employees,
[00:14:48] including about 110 who used a deadly or dangerous weapon
[00:14:53] to cause serious harm to a law enforcement officer.
[00:14:56] At least 145 people have been sentenced to prison terms
[00:15:00] over 151 months,
[00:15:03] and roughly 172 defendants have been sentenced
[00:15:06] to periods of home detention,
[00:15:07] including about 30 who were sentenced
[00:15:09] to a period of incarceration.
[00:15:13] Kenneth Spencer is the chairman of the Park Police Union,
[00:15:18] and he attributed the limited number of arrests
[00:15:20] to staffing and resource constraints.
[00:15:24] It's almost as if there may have been
[00:15:30] some sort of a policy decision somewhere along the line
[00:15:37] to, there's a word for it,
[00:15:40] like reduce the money paid to law enforcement.
[00:15:46] There's a term, ah, man, it'll come to me.
[00:15:50] There's a, oh, that's right, defund the police.
[00:15:53] That's right, yes, defunding the police.
[00:15:56] And now they don't have enough police
[00:15:59] to not just police a riot or protest,
[00:16:03] but they don't have enough police to catch the people
[00:16:06] to then get them in front of judges
[00:16:09] who will then, like, let them go.
[00:16:11] So, yeah, it's a system failed,
[00:16:14] as Brett Winterbull might say.
[00:16:15] The system failed after we starved out of money.
[00:16:18] I have a message here from Mike.
[00:16:20] He says, Pete, one of the hardest positions to vote for
[00:16:23] is that of judges.
[00:16:25] The reason being, the public rarely gets updates
[00:16:28] to what judges do, like you are giving today.
[00:16:31] These judges get reelected
[00:16:33] because nobody really knows much about them.
[00:16:35] I sincerely appreciate this information on the judges,
[00:16:38] which I will write down and make sure
[00:16:40] that they do not get my vote.
[00:16:44] Thanks, Mike.
[00:16:45] I appreciate you listening.
[00:16:45] And let me see here.
[00:16:49] Jan says,
[00:16:51] 25 years ago, some were shot into the vehicle
[00:16:55] I was riding in when charges were filed.
[00:16:58] It was damaged to an aircraft
[00:17:01] and firing it into an aircraft.
[00:17:03] The FBI agent and other officers explain
[00:17:05] that attempted murder requires proof of intent to kill,
[00:17:08] which is very, very difficult in these situations.
[00:17:12] I was just shooting into the car.
[00:17:15] I wasn't trying to kill anybody.
[00:17:18] Come on.
[00:17:24] Hang on a second.
[00:17:25] I had a, I thought I had another.
[00:17:31] Oh yeah, here it is from Chris,
[00:17:33] who says, Pete, love your show.
[00:17:35] Your sense of humor helps me to cope
[00:17:37] with the mess our country is in.
[00:17:40] The insights you provide give me hope.
[00:17:42] See, so that's, that is what I provide.
[00:17:43] Cope and hope.
[00:17:44] Hope and cope.
[00:17:47] By the way, the, the humor I have determined,
[00:17:49] I am funnier, 52% funnier when I play the rim shot.
[00:17:54] I have determined that.
[00:17:58] What?
[00:17:59] No, it's true.
[00:18:02] See, look, you laughed right there.
[00:18:04] See what I mean?
[00:18:05] Like, come on.
[00:18:06] Okay, 52%, at least.
[00:18:08] Maybe 54.
[00:18:10] All right, let's talk a little bit about the debates.
[00:18:12] Or as Kamala Harris would call it,
[00:18:14] the debates.
[00:18:15] Hee, hee, hee, hee.
[00:18:17] So Donald Trump, you may recall,
[00:18:19] he told Joe Biden,
[00:18:21] anytime, anyplace.
[00:18:23] And then proceeded to agree to the terms
[00:18:26] that Joe Biden demanded for the first debate.
[00:18:30] And it did not go well for Joe Biden.
[00:18:35] Right, so Donald Trump said anytime, anyplace,
[00:18:38] agreed to the debates,
[00:18:39] and then Joe Biden dropped out.
[00:18:44] Joe Biden did so poorly,
[00:18:46] he had to leave the race entirely.
[00:18:48] Okay.
[00:18:51] Now,
[00:18:52] the Trump campaign issued a statement.
[00:18:55] Stephen Chung,
[00:18:57] the Trump campaign communications director,
[00:19:01] said, quote,
[00:19:02] given the continued political chaos surrounding crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party,
[00:19:08] general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee.
[00:19:14] There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party,
[00:19:18] namely Barack Hussein Obama.
[00:19:20] Mm, mm, mm.
[00:19:21] I threw in the mm, mm, mm part.
[00:19:23] But he used the full name.
[00:19:25] But there is a strong sense by many in the party that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud
[00:19:31] who cannot beat Trump,
[00:19:32] and they are still holding out for somebody better.
[00:19:35] Therefore,
[00:19:36] it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris
[00:19:39] because Democrats very well could still change their minds.
[00:19:46] Right?
[00:19:47] But it's true.
[00:19:49] That's true, guys.
[00:19:51] I, like,
[00:19:52] I don't know what to tell you.
[00:19:54] I'm sorry you're in this position, Democrats.
[00:19:56] Like, sorry in a way.
[00:19:58] Like, if you needed my help, I probably wouldn't give it to you.
[00:20:00] But I'm still sorry that you're in this position.
[00:20:04] But you did it to yourselves.
[00:20:06] You put yourself in this position.
[00:20:09] So Donald Trump agreed to debate Joe Biden.
[00:20:14] And not Kamala Harris.
[00:20:16] He said to Joe Biden anytime, anyplace.
[00:20:19] And considering what you guys just did to Joe Biden,
[00:20:23] and the completely democracy honoring process you guys are running through right now,
[00:20:29] we don't know who your nominee is going to be.
[00:20:32] You guys seem to be in a bit of a, dare I say, disarray.
[00:20:37] So why don't you do your convention,
[00:20:40] get your nominee all squared away and do all of that,
[00:20:43] and then we can work on the details of a debate.
[00:20:47] Pete Buttigieg says,
[00:20:50] has a presidential nominee ever agreed to a debate and then pulled out?
[00:20:56] Yes, Pete.
[00:20:58] Yes.
[00:21:00] I have a pretty recent example, actually,
[00:21:03] of a presidential nominee who agreed to a debate
[00:21:07] and then pulled out.
[00:21:09] It's your boss, Joe Biden.
[00:21:13] Unless you're telling me he's going to be doing the debate anyway?
[00:21:17] Is he still going to?
[00:21:18] Now, that would be awesome.
[00:21:21] That would be ratings gold, I tell you.
[00:21:25] Gold, right?
[00:21:27] To have Joe Biden back up on the stage
[00:21:29] with his orange spray tan going
[00:21:33] and Trump up there.
[00:21:34] I don't know if they would have an audience or not
[00:21:36] at the second debate or what,
[00:21:37] but there was supposed to be an ABC debate scheduled, right?
[00:21:40] So put him up there, right?
[00:21:43] Why not?
[00:21:44] He's still the president.
[00:21:46] Are you saying he can't do it?
[00:21:48] I thought he agreed,
[00:21:50] and there's been no,
[00:21:51] according to Pete Buttigieg,
[00:21:52] there's no other example
[00:21:54] of a presidential candidate
[00:21:56] pulling out of a debate
[00:21:58] when they agreed to one.
[00:22:00] So Kamala Harris,
[00:22:04] I did like this one.
[00:22:05] Somebody called her Kumala.
[00:22:08] As in Koo?
[00:22:11] Kumala?
[00:22:14] Yeah, I don't know.
[00:22:16] I'm not a big fan of the lie in Kamala
[00:22:19] because it's just...
[00:22:22] But Kamala Harris' Twitter account
[00:22:25] said,
[00:22:26] what happened to anytime,
[00:22:28] anyplace?
[00:22:30] Brian Fallon from the Harris campaign
[00:22:32] said,
[00:22:33] Vice President Harris just announced
[00:22:34] she will be ready to debate
[00:22:36] Donald Trump on ABC on September 10th
[00:22:38] as he previously agreed to.
[00:22:40] Okay,
[00:22:40] he did not agree to debate
[00:22:42] Kamala Harris on ABC
[00:22:43] on September 10th.
[00:22:45] He agreed to debate Joe Biden,
[00:22:47] who at that time
[00:22:48] was
[00:22:49] the party's
[00:22:51] nominee,
[00:22:52] right?
[00:22:52] That's who
[00:22:53] everybody was lining up.
[00:22:54] They shut down primaries over him,
[00:22:56] right?
[00:22:56] They were like,
[00:22:57] nobody's allowed to vote for anybody
[00:22:58] except Joe
[00:22:59] because he's so awesome.
[00:23:01] He's so awesome
[00:23:02] that he's not running again.
[00:23:04] And he won't tell us why.
[00:23:05] He won't bestow more awesomeness on us
[00:23:08] for another four years.
[00:23:12] Dylan Byers
[00:23:13] with Puck News.
[00:23:15] That's a P right there, people.
[00:23:17] It's a P-U-C-K.
[00:23:19] Puck.
[00:23:19] Like a hockey puck.
[00:23:20] I don't know why he calls it that.
[00:23:22] But,
[00:23:22] he's a founding partner
[00:23:23] and senior correspondent
[00:23:25] at
[00:23:26] Puck.
[00:23:27] Okay.
[00:23:28] I think he used to work at
[00:23:29] Politico.
[00:23:30] He said,
[00:23:31] Trump backs out of presidential debates
[00:23:33] for now.
[00:23:35] Right?
[00:23:36] So this is the new narrative
[00:23:37] that the media is carrying
[00:23:38] for Kamala
[00:23:39] that
[00:23:40] Donald Trump
[00:23:41] is afraid to debate
[00:23:42] Kamala Harris
[00:23:44] because he backed out
[00:23:46] of the debate
[00:23:46] and they're going to keep
[00:23:47] screaming about this.
[00:23:48] So,
[00:23:49] it got me wondering,
[00:23:51] like,
[00:23:51] why is this?
[00:23:52] I mean,
[00:23:52] I understand
[00:23:54] the benefit
[00:23:55] of
[00:23:56] the branding right now.
[00:23:57] Like,
[00:23:58] oh,
[00:23:58] Trump's scared of Kamala.
[00:23:59] Ooh,
[00:23:59] he's so afraid of a girl.
[00:24:01] No,
[00:24:01] I guess you can't say that.
[00:24:02] Never mind.
[00:24:03] Okay,
[00:24:03] but,
[00:24:03] like,
[00:24:04] I understand
[00:24:05] why they would be,
[00:24:06] you know,
[00:24:06] beating Trump over the head
[00:24:08] with this,
[00:24:08] that he's canceled,
[00:24:09] he's afraid,
[00:24:10] he's running scared,
[00:24:11] all of this.
[00:24:12] Even though it's quite obvious
[00:24:13] that he agreed to a debate
[00:24:14] with Joe Biden.
[00:24:15] But,
[00:24:15] why would you agree
[00:24:16] to a debate
[00:24:17] with Kamala Harris anyway?
[00:24:20] Because she has admitted
[00:24:22] that she will say anything
[00:24:23] in a debate.
[00:24:24] She'll lie about people
[00:24:25] in debates.
[00:24:27] So,
[00:24:27] why bother?
[00:24:30] I have her,
[00:24:30] I have the video,
[00:24:31] or the,
[00:24:32] yeah,
[00:24:32] I have the video,
[00:24:32] but I have the audio clip.
[00:24:33] I played it the other day.
[00:24:35] We'll take another listen,
[00:24:36] just in case you forgot.
[00:24:38] Here is the clip
[00:24:39] of which I spoke.
[00:24:40] This was during COVID.
[00:24:41] It was after the presidential
[00:24:43] debates
[00:24:45] in the Democrat primary
[00:24:48] where
[00:24:50] Kamala Harris
[00:24:52] called Joe Biden
[00:24:54] a racist.
[00:24:55] And
[00:24:56] Stephen Colbert
[00:24:58] or Colbert
[00:24:59] has Kamala Harris
[00:25:01] on to discuss
[00:25:02] that debate
[00:25:05] and then subsequently
[00:25:07] being named
[00:25:08] Biden's vice president.
[00:25:10] Because in those debates,
[00:25:12] you landed
[00:25:13] haymakers
[00:25:14] on Joe Biden.
[00:25:16] I mean,
[00:25:16] they were,
[00:25:17] his teeth were like
[00:25:18] chicklets all over the stage.
[00:25:19] And now,
[00:25:20] I believe you
[00:25:21] that you're fully supportive
[00:25:22] of him.
[00:25:23] How does that transition
[00:25:24] happen?
[00:25:25] How do you go
[00:25:26] from being such
[00:25:27] a passionate opponent
[00:25:28] on such bedrock
[00:25:30] principles for you
[00:25:31] and,
[00:25:32] and now,
[00:25:34] you guys
[00:25:35] seem to be pals?
[00:25:36] All right,
[00:25:36] so hang on a second.
[00:25:38] That's a long way
[00:25:39] of asking why.
[00:25:40] And that's
[00:25:41] Colbert's
[00:25:43] mistake.
[00:25:44] He asked her
[00:25:46] why.
[00:25:47] I don't know
[00:25:48] if he realized it,
[00:25:49] but he's asking her,
[00:25:50] why are you pals
[00:25:51] with him now?
[00:25:53] You called him
[00:25:54] a racist,
[00:25:54] you said these things,
[00:25:55] whatever,
[00:25:55] whatever,
[00:25:56] but the question is
[00:25:57] why?
[00:25:58] And let's hear
[00:25:59] what she says.
[00:25:59] Here's her
[00:26:00] in-depth explanation.
[00:26:02] It was a debate.
[00:26:06] Not everybody
[00:26:07] landed punches
[00:26:07] like you did,
[00:26:08] though.
[00:26:09] It was a debate.
[00:26:13] That's it.
[00:26:14] That's the explanation
[00:26:15] for why
[00:26:16] she's pals now
[00:26:17] is that it was a debate.
[00:26:19] Yeah,
[00:26:19] all right,
[00:26:20] so I called him
[00:26:20] a racist.
[00:26:21] Whatevs.
[00:26:22] You know,
[00:26:22] like,
[00:26:23] that's,
[00:26:23] it's a debate.
[00:26:24] It's a debate.
[00:26:30] I did see a message
[00:26:32] that,
[00:26:34] oh,
[00:26:35] here,
[00:26:35] let me just take,
[00:26:36] I'll take Jim.
[00:26:36] I won't steal your thunder.
[00:26:37] Jim,
[00:26:38] welcome to the program.
[00:26:39] Yeah,
[00:26:41] Pete,
[00:26:41] look,
[00:26:41] I'd be very disappointed
[00:26:43] in Donald Trump
[00:26:44] if he didn't realize
[00:26:46] that this was a golden
[00:26:47] opportunity
[00:26:48] to deflate Kamala
[00:26:49] and turn the tables
[00:26:51] on the Democrats.
[00:26:52] He should say
[00:26:53] to Kamala,
[00:26:55] why wait
[00:26:56] till September?
[00:26:58] I'll debate you
[00:26:59] in one week.
[00:27:01] And the reason
[00:27:02] being,
[00:27:03] the reason being,
[00:27:04] I want to give
[00:27:05] the Democratic Party
[00:27:06] before the convention
[00:27:07] plenty of time,
[00:27:09] the time they will need
[00:27:11] to find a new nominee
[00:27:12] other than you.
[00:27:13] Donald Trump
[00:27:16] has the antidote
[00:27:18] to Kamala.
[00:27:20] Well,
[00:27:20] right,
[00:27:20] yeah.
[00:27:21] Three days,
[00:27:21] three days preparation
[00:27:22] with Tulsi Gabbard
[00:27:24] who has done nothing
[00:27:25] but study Kamala
[00:27:26] for two weeks.
[00:27:28] He is missing
[00:27:29] an opportunity
[00:27:30] and if nothing else
[00:27:32] he can say,
[00:27:33] hey,
[00:27:33] I don't need to wait
[00:27:34] for September.
[00:27:35] I'll debate you
[00:27:36] in ten days.
[00:27:38] Or,
[00:27:38] he should just tell her,
[00:27:40] look,
[00:27:40] I'm doing you a favor
[00:27:41] by not debating.
[00:27:42] The last Democrat
[00:27:43] I debated
[00:27:44] had to drop out
[00:27:44] of the race.
[00:27:45] No,
[00:27:46] I would tell her,
[00:27:47] I want to debate you
[00:27:48] because the Democrats
[00:27:49] will be looking
[00:27:49] for a new nominee.
[00:27:51] And that would stop
[00:27:53] all this stuff
[00:27:53] about Donald Trump.
[00:27:54] Right,
[00:27:55] but what if you get
[00:27:55] somebody who's worse
[00:27:57] than her?
[00:27:58] Well,
[00:27:59] right,
[00:28:00] and by worse,
[00:28:01] I mean somebody
[00:28:01] like,
[00:28:01] what if you get
[00:28:02] it like,
[00:28:03] all right,
[00:28:03] so let's game it out.
[00:28:05] Trump says
[00:28:06] what you want him to say
[00:28:07] and then now
[00:28:08] Kamala's backed
[00:28:09] into a corner.
[00:28:10] She's got to do it.
[00:28:11] So now she's in this debate
[00:28:13] before the convention
[00:28:14] and she performs
[00:28:16] as we expect she would
[00:28:17] which is not well
[00:28:18] and then what?
[00:28:19] Now,
[00:28:20] the convention
[00:28:20] gets thrown open.
[00:28:22] She is not the nominee
[00:28:23] and now you end up
[00:28:25] with somebody
[00:28:25] who actually could
[00:28:27] beat Donald Trump
[00:28:29] as the nominee,
[00:28:30] right?
[00:28:31] Like,
[00:28:31] what if the Democrats
[00:28:32] end up with a better
[00:28:33] candidate through
[00:28:34] an open convention
[00:28:36] process or a contested
[00:28:37] convention?
[00:28:37] Yeah,
[00:28:38] well,
[00:28:38] we could hit
[00:28:38] the hidden meteor
[00:28:40] tomorrow,
[00:28:41] you know?
[00:28:41] No,
[00:28:42] that no,
[00:28:43] Jim,
[00:28:43] you don't get to
[00:28:44] pull the escape hatch
[00:28:45] and jump away.
[00:28:46] I'm not pulling it.
[00:28:47] Yeah,
[00:28:47] yeah,
[00:28:47] yeah,
[00:28:48] yeah,
[00:28:48] let's game it out.
[00:28:49] This is your recommendation.
[00:28:50] If you are,
[00:28:51] you're advising the president
[00:28:52] on strategy,
[00:28:53] you said he should do this.
[00:28:55] So,
[00:28:55] what if he is successful?
[00:28:57] Best case scenario,
[00:28:58] he mops the floor with her
[00:28:59] like he did Joe Biden
[00:29:00] and then what?
[00:29:02] Did the Democrats,
[00:29:03] do they do another
[00:29:04] Operation Ripcord
[00:29:05] and replace her?
[00:29:07] The American people
[00:29:08] will see what she is.
[00:29:10] The Democrats
[00:29:11] and the media machine
[00:29:13] are still going to say
[00:29:15] that she wiped the floor
[00:29:16] with Donald Trump.
[00:29:17] So,
[00:29:17] you don't think
[00:29:18] there is a possibility
[00:29:19] that she would drop out
[00:29:20] after,
[00:29:21] or the Democrats
[00:29:22] would try to replace her
[00:29:23] if she performs
[00:29:25] really badly.
[00:29:26] What I am saying is
[00:29:28] it would take away
[00:29:29] her narrative,
[00:29:30] take away her narrative
[00:29:32] about Donald Trump
[00:29:33] not wanting to debate.
[00:29:34] I understand that,
[00:29:35] Jim,
[00:29:36] but I'm asking
[00:29:36] what happens
[00:29:37] when you actually
[00:29:37] go through
[00:29:38] with your advice.
[00:29:40] Well,
[00:29:41] you know,
[00:29:42] I think...
[00:29:42] But you can't just
[00:29:43] throw out some advice
[00:29:44] and be like,
[00:29:44] I'm so smart,
[00:29:45] this is my advice,
[00:29:46] he should do this,
[00:29:47] and then not have a...
[00:29:48] Not explain what happens
[00:29:50] if you're successful.
[00:29:51] She is the best
[00:29:53] they have right now,
[00:29:54] and I think fatigue
[00:29:55] would set in
[00:29:56] for the Democratic Party
[00:29:57] if they had to
[00:29:58] redo Kamala.
[00:30:00] See,
[00:30:00] there's an answer.
[00:30:01] Okay,
[00:30:01] so right,
[00:30:01] so that's the answer.
[00:30:02] So you think
[00:30:03] that even if
[00:30:04] she gets up there
[00:30:05] and makes Joe Biden
[00:30:06] look like Obama,
[00:30:09] right,
[00:30:10] and she's just
[00:30:11] terrible on the debate stage,
[00:30:12] you think that
[00:30:13] the Democrats
[00:30:13] are stuck with her
[00:30:14] so they wouldn't
[00:30:15] do it again.
[00:30:16] They wouldn't try to...
[00:30:17] If you remember
[00:30:19] how Tulsi
[00:30:20] illuminated her record,
[00:30:21] it would give
[00:30:22] Donald Trump
[00:30:23] a very quick way
[00:30:24] to neutralize her
[00:30:26] and bring the...
[00:30:27] Everybody's gonna be watching
[00:30:28] and bring her record out.
[00:30:31] All he has to do
[00:30:32] is not insult her,
[00:30:33] just...
[00:30:36] That might be
[00:30:37] a bit of a...
[00:30:37] That might be
[00:30:38] a bit of a steep ask.
[00:30:40] All right,
[00:30:40] I appreciate the call, Jim.
[00:30:42] All right,
[00:30:42] that'll do it
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