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Michael sure we'll be here now %uh we got a big
our have news for you we are of course going to talk about bridge gate there
are a couple of interesting developments in bad today
let's see we've got over Riley going crazy about criticism love him that was
on The Daily Show
we've got some louie Gohmert being really just
elton in thing as usual but this time he explains why he got into politics in the
first place
and his reasoning for that is absolutely despicable
and we've got some other stuff that's awesome as well but we'll be starting
off
with the continuing bridge gate scandal bridge
got bridge gate day too it's now been about 48 hours in chris Christie is
stepping up to explain his role
he says he was really involved but is trying to apologize trying to get some
of the heat off themself
now for those are you were not familiar with the basic facts the bridge Katie
and I why people care about this let me catch up really fast
so affectively last year I had
there was mark SoCal its a Fort Lee New Jersey he's a democratic mayor Fort Lee
he declined to endorse chris Christie in his reelection bid for new jersey
governor
now I as we show you didn't really matter whether endorsed him or not but
eighteens up chris Christie and possibly we might find out chris Christie himself
decided to take some former political vengeance
on marzo college and so they shutdown are coupled lanes on the bridge over
Fort Lee
this cause massive traffic problems because emergency vehicles have problems
getting to people needed them
and the time this would be on the first day of school so obviously the problem
for the kids
as well now I David Weinstein is a close supporter of chris Christie he's the guy
who actually up ordered
those lanes to be shut down and then bill Baroni another
a supporter of chris Christie said that the reason that it happened
was that they were doing a traffic study he has also
resigned now so the people under chris Christie have been just falling to the
wayside
another close aide of chris Christie I was fired or chose to resign today
as there's increasing scrutiny over this now the problem is that
emails came out showing that these aids and chris Christie were enthusiastically
celebrating the fact that they were able to shut down the bridge
and cause harm presumably poorly in possibly specifically to Mark's ok
allege
now we have to say that at this point there's no firm evidence or proof
saying that chris Christie ordered it or knew about it
although there is some information that might lead you to
to believe that we'll be covering that right now so first in his press
conference today
chris Christie answering a lot of questions about what what what happened
and one of the things that he said struck me as a little bit odd
he was asked if the scandal is gonna go beyond the bridge closure is a possible
there was anything else that was done
as a form of political revenge and this is what he said
I don't have any evidence before me as we speak that went beyond this
incident but I can tell you that I know for sure
but I can tell you that I know for sure as to every aspect everything
now have to be much more circumspect to that prior to yesterday believe that if
I look someone in the eye who I worked with
and trusted and asked them that I wouldn't honest answer
maybe that was naive but that's what I believed so now I'm going in digging in
asking more questions but I can't make a warranty on that
I wall what I did there for weeks ago I wound up being wrong
now what I find to be interesting about that is the particular words that I use
he says
I don't have any evidence before me as we speak that it went beyond this
incident which seems to be I'm trying to say
will look there's no paper on the podium that shows that we did other things
toward democratic opponents
and it might be that eventually something will come out he's trying to
head that off by saying
maybe maybe other political revenge
and here's another reason that I believe that he might be concealing something
he is still sticking to an excuse for what happened an explanation for what
happened it was discredited
over a month ago he says what I was told
was that it was a traffic study in there was no evidence to the contrary until
yesterday
delivering that line today there still may have been a traffic study that now
has political overtones to it
but now unfortunately for the governor
we knew a month ago that there was no traffic study but he is still trying
that line down saying that that's what he thought was happening
back in December December December 9 specifically
3 Port Authority official said there was no traffic study being conducted while
access lanes from Fort Lee on the George Washington Bridge or closed in September
so that's what they said last month and yet chris Christie is still saying that
that's all a new man I was involved
and look the goings-on at the Port Authority I wouldn't expect that most
governors would know
but this has been a scandal for almost two months now you don't think that
chris Christie is following up on that
trying to figure out what the media is buying what they're not buying
what port authority officials have said in public in testimony
no course he knows about that incident with the fact that he still using that
excuse
tells me that he doesn't want to admit that maybe he knew more than he is
aiming to right now
and also there was an odd question was asked to them and it was about how this
is affecting him
and he said that he's had two nights that were sleepless to sleepless nights
that he's just been mulling over this is how horrible it is that this happened
and yet he also said the first he heard about the emails
was yesterday morning sofa you only found out about it yesterday why did he
have
to sleepless nights it might've been a Freudian slip indicating that at the
very least other members wouldn't have is
administration told him look these emails got hacked or take and how they
found out about it
and so heads up this is gonna be a huge problem it could be that he slipped in
either case may be set to any meant one
or maybe is indicating the actually knew about this before he's admitting to
at least at this point and so look it seems like this could be a big problem
for chris Christie and certainly people are talking about it's all over the
media at
most to the media as all get to on one-party bridge k in particular might
hurt chris Christie beyond just this month it might even her is long-term
political chances are becoming president
lawrence O'Donnell was talking about one particular part of it there's a
91-year-old woman who needed help
and the emergency response vehicles took much longer to get to our
than they would have if not for the bridge closures now this woman
eventually died
and while we don't know at this point that her death was was specifically
because of the delay
that this political revenge caused it certainly doesn't look good for
for the governor so lawrence O'Donnell is an interesting idea about how he
thinks
other Republicans and possibly democrats we use this one when chris Christie runs
for president rituals I spent some time today we have been able to do it but to
get the name of the 91-year-old woman
I who was delayed medical treatment that day
because at this a traffic jam and
a and eventually died and we don't know whether she died because the delay in
treatment
I R but that put in politics that's not the way they play this anime
in politics she won we have her name
is going to become the willie horton of chris Christie's
presidential campaign and his opponents are going to pan with that name
on him this woman is dead because I've
action taken by the yesterday
now up we'll have to see if Republicans and Democrats choose to do that as
lawrence O'Donnell says there we don't yet know the identity of the 91-year-old
woman we don't have her name
we don't have a picture but if that information comes out and I think it's
likely that at some point it will
is certainly possible that I'll be there will be used in I
political campaigns now if you're not familiar with the work willie horton i
ads i'd from over twenty years ago it was used to show that dukakis was was
soft on crime that he was furloughing these criminals
and the the face in that ad became a symbol for the entire campaign
now is this at the same level as that I don't know at this point
as we said we don't know for sure that it was even responsible for the woman's
death but it certainly doesn't look good
now %ah this question or this topic actually came up at the press conference
and chris Christie did address
soulful now I've also seek a foot to report about what the cause of death was
a ever but it doesn't matter
it's awful here listen all I can do is apologize for the conduct the people who
work for me
I can't do anything else i cant were first-time
if I could believe me I would but I'm just gonna apologize I think that we can
do
nm Thursday really nothing else you can do well
the governor looking very calm there he doesn't seem like a guy embroiled in a
controversy that could theoretically at least bring down his governorship
possibly ruin his chances are running for president
I certainly media hisham remembers the media are speculating that this could be
the end of his presidential
aspirations SE Cup saying on CNN that he should resign
of course the reason she said he should resign is a very good focus on running
for president
and she thinks that the people in New Jersey will not only forget about this
Brit lit bridge closer
but might think that look he resigned his this magnet wonderful guy who's
willing to give up his governorship
set to make right on what his aids dead think that's
a pretty bad evaluation of what's going on here but lawrence O'Donnell
does perhaps have a point there now I was talking with Ben make which is not
about this earlier today and he made the point that chris Christie has been
relatively untouchable
now he's done things like pouring I the beaches when Sandy hit with Obama
certainly republicans didn't like that
but they have been able to stick anything really horrible to a
right-winger to him just yet
but look people are gonna like this especially once the the woman's face
comes at once a picture ever comes out
and traffic as a general issue usually something that strikes a chord with
people
and so it's his belief that this is the sort of issue that will transcend the
normal things that people tune in to the news for
is not some arcane policy doesn't obey its not about funding levels this is
about
basically at all school-based level politics where you use your political
power to punish people you don't like
or help people you do like and I think that that's the sort of thing that's
simple enough that it will resonate with the average voter
and look will the ads work will they actually bring down Christine
that I don't know but I do expect the republicans will try to use this against
him
and you can see in Fox's at least starting to cover this
that baby might be willing to at least talk about it and perhaps republicans
will take that and run with that
so let's switch it up let's talk about Fox News Bristol briefly because they
cover this in a slightly different way than everyone else
you heard basically wall to wall coverage a bridge gay it's on CNN it
summit on
MSNBC all over the internet one place you probably haven't heard anything
about it though
is Fox News yesterday on Wednesday the day that the scandal broke box
affectively didn't talk about it at all
in fact on up Bill O'Reilly show in on Sean Hannity's show it was not mentioned
once despite the fact that everyone else
across the media was talking about it and that seems like an odd omission
now it was talked about at least a little bit about Meghan Kelly did
address it
but bear talked about it briefly but when we talk about the actual number is
a
what different networks thought about the significance of the scandal
Fox News covering it for just 15 minutes compared to CNN's 150 minutes
now look I'm gonna be honest I have almost as big a problem with that number
for CNN as they do for Fox
I certainly think that wanted more than 15 minutes above coverage on Fox
especially because this was the day that the big part of it broke
but 150 minutes seems like an unnecessary amount of scrutiny
when chris Christie hadn't even talked about yet on
and you can expect that number will be even higher today
now but certain it did come up a little bit more today on Thursday Fox deciding
that look we actually do have to cover it
although the way that they addressed it especially in Fox's morning shows was a
little bit interesting
but Steve do see Hasselbeck we're talking about the gates book on a bomb
in the military
and they're not happy at all with all this bridge talk watch
imagine the commander in chief claiming that he supports you but not your
mission how do you separate
the two and how do you separate yourself the commander in chief from your trip
information that you're putting forward it just doesn't make sense
doesn't make sense on paper doesn't make sense on air doesn't make sense
from the president the United States to hear any other that coming forward
on in this in this book is just shocking yeah
and Anne they and I was watching one a news channel yesterday
you would think that this would be a big story who all about to the bridge thank
with *** we're gonna be talking about that little while yeah
there Steve do see keeping up on all the relevant news talking about the bridge
thing
I don't even think it's news we'll talk about it the next segment by the way
so I love that so they are talking there about bob gates book that says that
basic or
their interpretation other is that Brock Obama doesn't care for the military
doesn't support their mission
our gates did not agree with the Brock Obama lot of his military decisions now
I have to admit I have not actually read the book which means that I have
something in common with every conservative comments are on the
internet and on Fox News
none of them have actually read the book and people who actually read the book
say that the Conservatives are completely misinterpreting
what Kate said now certainly Gates is not gonna be huge fan
Obama but they're selectively taking a couple of quotes out of context
to reinforce a narrative that they've been pushing for years that Barack Obama
doesn't care for the military at all
and and by the way so Hasselbeck there
it doesn't it doesn't make any sense to me that he would say this it doesn't
known
any level does it make sense then perhaps you don't actually know what
you're talking about it doesn't even convinced you in your room
readily predisposed to believe the sort of BS and so if they want to get past
the chris Christie stop now that doesn't mean that they are big fans are chris
Christie
it's just their general like standing ovation a standard operating procedure
is why should we be sacked a republican
when there's a perfectly good democratic president to attack and so they're gonna
folk
focus on the gates thing now I can't say at this point what sort of legs
the bridge big *** conspiracy will have and perhaps if Melissa harris-perry
talked about Karen Romney
a couple days later would still be discussing that but people got sick of
talking about the Romney child and so now we've moved on a bridge gate
hope will last for at least a few days just because I want to know if there's
any way that they can't I chris Christie to this
because look he seems like the sort of guy who probably would be
Bain & pedi enough to use as political power to
to damage democrats that he didn't was in favor of
and and just as a way of illustrating how petty it actually was
they use this political power to hurt at the Fort Lee mayor
chris Christie was not in any danger of losing
that mayors supporting or not supporting chris Christie his reelection bid
was almost 100 percent meaning like that had no influence whatsoever on the
actual come out the vote
in which chris Christie won by like 30 points and so
I would think that you just celebrated be happy that your guy Chris Christie
had won reelection
but instead they immediately begin plotting how they can take down those
damn democrats didn't support them
so that seems petty it seems childish and for those two reasons I think that
people might actually care about it whether Fox News wants to cover it
wanna so that's all the bridge gate for today there I'm sure they'll be more
prolly talk about in the power panel tomorrow but let's move on to
something else something welfare related
we here at tyte are not big fans louie Gohmert we don't like when he talks
about Hobbit holes when he can
but implicates the UN and conspiracies to take down the US government
I also don't like it when he talks about welfare now I
he was recently I on the House floor talking about the subject
it got a couple course who are covered the first let's hear louie Gohmert
dollar terms of
in the 60s the federal government
desiring to help
poor moms who are dealing with deadbeat dads that we're helping decided
will help will give a check for every child you can have out-of-wedlock and I
keep wondering mister speaker women have been better in the sixties you say you
know what
we realize your deal with their be bad there we know you'll be better off with
a high school education so instead of giving you a check
for every child you have our wedlock how bout if we give you some day care for
that child
show you vanish high school and get you on the gentleman's time has expired
that would have made it more different for more americans love their radio back
so you'll just have to trust me that that video was recorded in the last
couple days it sounds like it comes out at the eighties the is actually there on
the house floor railing against welfare queens
what decade is that and so is that a couple other things not just that he
doesn't like welfare but welfare and welfare abuse is why louie Gohmert
actually got into politics in the first place is what he said
it weren't for the policies in this war on poverty declared fifty years ago it
may well be that I would have never run for Congress
because what got me thinking about a person's state District Judge back in
Texas we're seeing more and more young women and single women coming before me
single moms charged with welfare fraud
one woman and had 15 kids didn't even know where they all were
that was the most I ever dealt with it began to really eat away with me that in
the sixties the federal government desiring to help poor moms who are
dealing with deadbeat dad decided
will help will get a check for every child you have out-of-wedlock
I've got a couple of problems with that first of all he's talking about how
this was really eating away at him in the sixties like this is a big issue
louie Gohmert I found out and doing a little bit every search on Wikipedia
was born in 1953 that meant that means that during the sixties he was between
seven and 17 years old
he's an oddly s do viewer of news if he was that word about welfare fraud when
he was
eight or nine years old and so I have a problem with what he said they're just
because it doesn't seem actually factual
but the bigger problem is that he's talking about welfare
welfare fraud and specifically the idea that's been trotted out for decades by
conservatives that women are purposefully having children
just learning at a bigger check or get a check in the first place
and that's something that they often just say wouldn't it be great if we had
*** research and whether there's any evidence that that actually happens
oh wait we do I found it easily by searching on the internet back in the
90's
researchers at Rutgers compared birth rates between thousands of welfare
recipients
and a control group that did not receive any welfare and I found that there was
no statistical difference whatsoever between the two groups when it comes to
birth rates
and I know that some people maybe the liberals hate when I bring up the
studies
but the idea that you can simply go up there and say they're having kids so
they can get money something that seems so
on its face absurd is not outside
over the range of science science can actually investigate that you can ask
these questions
and find answers using actual data about Americans
and they did that back in the 90's spin eighteen years
maybe he has had time to look that up but more specifically about louie
Gohmert there is not a problem with this
is that's why he got into politics
but think about all the potential things I could drive a person
to be interested in politics in the first place or to think I need to be a
part of that
like maybe you see a war that you think is is a waste of money is immoral
it's killing innocent people I gotta get elected so I can stop this war
something like that that would seem understandable the idea that these
single moms these poor moms are purposefully pumping out children
sitting get bigger checks
that's the great moral outrage that launched louie Gohmert
onto the national stage that should seem ridiculous to him
but he's a pretty dim *** it should at the very least seem ridiculous to us as
people who have to
consume louie Gohmert political products
so that bothers me not a fan in louie Gohmert which he'd stayed out of
politics although
perhaps as one up 404 435 members of Congress is doing less damage to the
country
that he would if he was still a judge in Texas so at least we got that going for
us
now other welfare fraud welfare fraud goes beyond just louie Gohmert
and his idea that women are purposefully having children to get bigger checks
%uh the governor of Maine is a Wayne part paul LePage
he's a really despicable Kyle show you some examples of why in just a minute
but first
he decided to do a big investigation on welfare fraud
in Maine and it actually turned something up between January 1st 2011 in
November 15th 2013
he found that there were three thousand transactions that bars
sports bars and strip clubs made with DDT cars loaded with tan
and food stamp benefits how
3 thousand transaction thousands of times
that people that are on welfare are going in strip clubs and bars and places
like that and wasting taxpayer money that seems
that seems so significant I mean granted it without contacts perhaps if we
offered up some context it would seem less significant how many total
transactions were there during that time
main well turns out that their 1.8 million total transactions
50,000 per month over that time and get added that 1.8 million sorry the dollar
sign should not be there
three thousand of them were fraudulent in his view by being from strip clubs
and bars
that amounts to just two-tenths of one percent to the total purchases and ATM
withdrawals
and this is the result of his big investigation on welfare fraud in Maine
they should be ashamed of himself for at least embarrassed but his inability to
turn up some significant fraud
but no he's not he says this information as I opening indicate the larger problem
than initially thought
these benefits are supposed to help families children and our most
vulnerable mainers
instead we've discovered welfare benefits are paying for alcohol
cigarettes
and other things the hard working taxpayers should not be footing the bill
for
now look no politician has ever gone broke in America or lost office because
they denigrated the poor
in america we seem to love that stuff especially on the right wing ended up
and we elected into office many decades in a row
but I think that is going too far here because this isn't the only time that he
specifically singled out and attacked
the poor the unemployed basically though is that that are hurting the most in
maine the state that he supposedly
loves so much he ran for governor for
know it's happened before I earlier out last year
he claimed that 47 percent of those in Maine don't work
they just choose not to work echoing in that way what Mitt Romney said during
the last presidential election
well %uh he made a mistake there because he forgot that math exists in statistics
and people investigate the sort of thing
and it turns out that no 65 percent people in maine are actively working or
seeking a job
and the remaining percentage is made up mainly of the disabled
retirees students and homemakers so it turned out that he was
that not correct there which is wonderful that's good for main but look
at what happened
undergird that belief in his own state
that he thinks that nearly one out of two people in maine are so god damn lazy
that they're just sponging off the state just taking up his tent that benefits
and going to a bar in buying a drink he despises
at least half of his state now
also he said that people who are on wouldn't have a job to get off the couch
get themselves a job back in 2012
despite the fact that in his stay in particular there were relatively flat
few job openings
they're not understanding or not appreciating empathizing with those have
a problem finding work
he also pushed for a five-year capital welfare benefits
taking out benefits for fifteen hundred families including 27
100 children so look at this guy
who has been quietly working behind the scenes to become perhaps the craziest
republican governor
in the country now the deep south that even in the southwest or anything like
that this guy up in maine
I don't think that the people may not gonna stand for this for another a term
as good actively thinks the poor he aids those who are having the hardest time in
his state
and he expects that those people in enthusiastically vote him back in office
I hope that's not the case there's as i said sum up precedent
for people accepting the stuff because a specially when economic times are hard
people want to believe that there are some billing to put their harsh feelings
are there bad feelings onto
it's very easy to say look these lazy poor people are taking your hard-earned
money
people do it that up but he's talking about their neighbors he's talking about
their relatives he's talking about in some cases their children
are the grandparents going to lay the in thing that they refuse to work
hopefully that will penetrate the the conscious about conscience UHV
the average Mainer but maybe I'm asking for too much there
anyway that's the reality of welfare fraud in america today
women are not pumping out children so they can get checks it turns out when
the when you look at the actual numbers
there's no indication of that and the idea that they're all just trying to get
lap dances on the public dollar also
ridiculous and not shown by his own investigation there
and also one last point I think about this but so I'm kinda excited I guess
that these republican governors around the country are actually starting to use
science to investigate the crazy claims they make
am doubly excited because it never seems to verify what they believe
this is his investigation welfare fraud they could not turn up
any significant amount a bit over in Ohio
they didn't investigation the Republican Secretary of State spend a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars as part of a larger investigation
a voting fraud and they found and convicted five people
a voter fraud in a state that has millions a registered voter so
look I'm happy that they decided to use science I have a feeling it's probably
not gonna last much longer because it doesn't seem to agree with them
but I mean it's a at american politics today when take a short break when we
come back we got a little bit more on main for you a little bit more
horrendous NIS from up all the page
we actually
welcome to the second hour beyond took some Ana Kasparian John adderall is
filling in for jane ke din x1 first hour for those of you who missed it
if you have to watch it I was part of a group in pieces
I should live stream time to time if you are sick ***
I your money that way
I love our audience 2007 the perverted things you guys say
now with that said we have a lot I really great stories for you guys I
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I am Susan singer says stupid question how do you study traffic when you've
blocked it
hash tag to it. live john you have anything to say about that
%uh yeah I R oh you did yet it's growing up they got lied to
this hasn't been updated yet so always girl our next break to return to the 280
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but before you get to that I know that someone you on the live stream side but
John slip portrait I should say on one of our level some
it's called a prop Paul added on her *** I I was in a Chevy Chase cool
County Sobol the buzzer disaster today because I actually fell
earlier as you were doing the first hour I sit our yoga ball which is documented
on my Instagram page
arm and we have two daughters to your right now i cant stop taking pictures at
that they're so cute
so I kinda stood up in the other ball to take the picture
and as I did that I didn't realize at the you know the wall had world away
I was the doubt and of course I fell
and I couldn't stop laughing as I was aware and broke her tailbone
think I did not I'm totally fine I might have a little bruising but
it'll be okay perfect alright I want to start off with some updates to stories
that we did yesterday were actually gonna do an update about
Omaha Police Association story that we did yesterday
my views on that might change a little bit we'll discuss that in greater detail
but before we get to that I wanna talk about dennis rodman a little bit
so as you know dennis rodman was on CNN
and as he was talking to cuomo
about his trip to North Korea for Kim Jong Un's birthday
he was asked about Kenneth bAE what is he gonna do too
try to get or convince authorities in the North Korea to
let Kenneth Bager 0 well rodman didn't really like that question he didn't take
kindly to it and for those of you who didn't see the clip take a look at this
got 10 guys all these guys here
to be what understand that we do and we appreciate that now we wish them well
with culturally the Koro
same know I'll have the on last saturday on
pay I'm saying to you geyser
muaaa but that is not what happened there don't use them as an excuse
behavior that you're making you enjoy your shower
so he kinda went ballistic
it possible that he has watched wrestling in his life
and that was a very wrestling promoter and yet he did not handle it in the most
professional way & Poor's in like to be criticized but even when you're being
criticized its not usually good idea to kinda blow up like that
well his publicist has released an apology to the Associated Press
and Robin basically says that he was unfortunately under the influence of
alcohol when he was doing that interview
again not so professional but I would like to read you guys his apology and
you can judge for yourself whether or not
you want to accept that apology he says I want to apologize I take full
responsibility for my actions
it had been a very stressful day some of my teammates were leaving because the
pressure from their families and business associates
my dreams a basketball diplomacy was quickly falling apart
he continues to say I had been drinking it's not an excuse
but by the time the interview happened I was upset I was overwhelmed
it's not an excuse it's just the truth yet
this is I can perhaps the perfect example of what
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show that it's just we we can talk about
potheads and say they're stoners you know it's ridiculous they do what they
do but drinking is wholly socially acceptable
drinking has now become the catch-all excuse for any kind of behavior
I know you can smoke crack or launched a tirade
against %uh CNN host and your case it's perfectly fine
I don't think people are going to read that statement thing is perfectly fine I
i mean we coherent
yeah and he was he was but then I remember once he started talking
a few was but he's kind of like told them to stop
I don't know if you noticed that huh there's a minute I got lucky said
something along those lines i'm paraphrasing I remember the exact
wording a bit
but someone tried to stop him probably because they knew would be a really bad
idea for him to answer that question
and you got overly emotional and that's another thing that I thought found
interesting about his critics right no one says that he's over leap
emotional right they say that he goes ballistic I guess that means he's a
motional but
if I'll yeah it was like Diana Taurasi or something I think they'd be like oh
she's like that is why she going so crazy
dramatic yeah motion all you their goal I thought about was really interesting
but look at the end of the day we have to chalk it up to the fact that
he is just a former basketball player okay he's not there for diplomacy
I think that this is a great opportunity for him to get back into the
you note the limelight and that's exactly what happened
he doesn't really care about Kenneth bAE what he said about Kenneth Bay was so
incredibly insensitive
because he basically indicated in that interview that can it be deserved to be
detained
and the reality is north Korea has a really specified why they detained him
in the first place
yeah so I'm not even listening to anything he has to say about creating
diplomatic ties between North Korea and the United States you bring up a good
point see say that you're not gonna listen anything he says about that
I feel like I don't determine these things you and jiang determine if things
do you think that we should institute dennis rodman BM
not just because he's ridiculous but also because I I can I do think that
he's doing at least
some small damage and allowing this veneer
love I guess cosmopolitan like
in in north korea the fact that look we can get dennis rodman come here things
are so bad
yes you help legal right to me starve you but we get basketball star
yeah I think he's doing bad things that he done I think is definitely doing bad
things as well but at the same time
I at this point I do wanna ban so if there's another dennis rodman story that
doesn't really have any type of love
influence on society then I'm not doing it right but there could be something
that happens that's really really important I want to share with the
audience so
it will be I have a delight bad yet over it will be like the supreme court will
have different levels of scrutiny
on this story like he it has to be good con uste is an angle but the
yeah okay but no we well yeah what one final point on it but this
so it's easy to look at him as being all crazy in things like man this guy
doesn't know what's going on
but they didn't show wisdom in one thing but
in the first half of the game that they play against North Korea yeah I played
against the north koreans
the north korean scored 47 points the American scored 39
in the first half at the gate yet after that the company's the mix the TPS that
way and no one would get killed
you know it but it might liked the idea that they're getting beaten by the North
Korean team which is all malnourished and prolly tiny
that seems ridiculous but I think that's similar to playing board games against
the Wookie
when you're playing best will not create you let them win
yes definitely def by me that would have been a really tricky situation because
as the American team do you allow the north koreans to win because you don't
want to get
murdered or eaten by dogs yeah I i mean %uh
that would have been really difficult so and that's another thing while they're
in north korea
I don't believe for a second that they're going to be even if they wanted
to say anything negative toward the country or Kim Jong Hoon
with a willing to take that risk I certainly wouldn't let me that he loves
being friends dennis rodman but that doesn't mean that he can't be put over
the edge and and and snap and kill 'em
why not the penal consequences for him he's like joffrey from Game of Thrones
glass bead rightfully mentioned earlier today
alright but now that we have concluded that's alright let's move on to a
different update
the Omaha Police Association had recently released a video that they
found online
love a black kid in diapers who was being yelled out
and encouraged to also say profanity is
up a little boy also star stock up his middle finger
and what they did was basically make a point that this is part of the so-called
bug cycle
that this is what these police officers have to deal with
and is it a shame that this kid has to grow up in this type of environment
well they got a lot of criticism for that we covered it recently on the Young
Turks show
now I want to show you guys a little more the video in its entirety and I
want to do it update on it because something has happened to that child
and other children involved in this story so let's first take a quick look
at the video in question
this is not the right video
do you own nation even
I'm makes me very proud owner of a lonely here are you mad hoe
thought you doing there but you can be governor of New
so nice to know you I'm 42 for a bit
me know probably thought might be a fun run
this a case I presume you'll be my
*** so bad video
is obviously difficult to watch at the time that we did the show live yesterday
up the video
we did not have the video I'm but
look I think it's really important to clarify something before we do that
though I just want to mention that the inflated
and three other children have been detained by child protective services
now when the Omaha Police Association which is the Union for the police
officers in that area
posted that video they had admitted that on its face
enough itself nothing illegal was shown in that video yelling profanities at a
child
even though it's wrong and you absolutely should not do it is not
legal however authorities did go in and investigate
do I think that they should have investigated yes I do
apparently in the video the name again and if you feel that
this child might be in any type of danger if you want investigated as Child
Protective Services
you should be able to do it right given the evidence that they had in that
and footage but I don't know why they decided to detain the kids they haven't
released details about what they found they might have found something that
puts these kids in some sort of danger
so we have to wait to see what kinda details emerge from that but I do 10
you know basically bring up the point that I made yesterday about how it's
still wrong
for that police union to post that video because it does push stereotypes
and the Omaha Police Department has dealt with many issues regarding racial
profiling
which we'll get to in a second but John I want you to jump in for a sec yes so I
wasn't
on the original videos is my first chance to say that I absolutely despise
I personally think that
that affectively you have to be to some extent ruining the future chances that
child by teaching them that this is how we're supposed to trust people
because no child that age has the mental faculties to like
know that language isn't appropriate I think I'm going to talk otherwise no
they can't do that
like that is what he is being taught is normal and okay
he's being he's gonna have a much harder time in school in his future career
it's just its awful now as well go into a little bit little bit later after our
details
how the only form a child indoctrination I find to be actually disgusting but
yeah absolutely i meani if you were to said
take a look at the way is some parents raise their children i mean they're
hideous things happen behind closed doors which is why we don't detain kids
for
use of profanity by itself right but again
if the police officers police officer spotted there was a threat there
and they wanted to investigate it I don't think that it's far-fetched for
them to
investigate I don't think it's wrong to detain them they need more evidence of
wrongdoing you can't just be because a profanity
and as I mentioned we don't know why the detainees children at that point
now let's go to racial profiling if you put everything into context the reason
why I was wrong for that police union to put that video up
is because again its singling out one case its isolating one case
and is perpetuating stereotypes about the black community now the police
department has had a history of racial profiling
when you put all that in context it makes you question what the intentions
were
up the police union so in March 2 2013 at there was a case involving
a man by the name about TV is Johnson apparently a tow truck was trying to
tell his vehicle
he came outside his home and he wanted to ask what's going on why is this
happening
apparently they exchanged words and the tow truck driver call the authorities
well hope arrived on the scene not knowing that someone
in a home nearby I was filming everything as it was taking place
the cop looked around to see if there was anyone there and then he
up put the put up Toby up I'm sorry up TBS Johnson in a chokehold
and then pulled into the ground and proceeded to punch him multiple times
then 20 police officers arrived
on the scene why 20 police officers at this point right
they proceeded to up enter
up TV is Johnson's home without a search warrant
his at was there in a wheelchair that knocked her over at the wheelchair was
on top for
and other police officers 10 into the house trampled all over her
and went after his brother and proceeded to beat him as well
now the ACLU file charges against the police department
and as a result four police officers were fired from their jobs
okay and one police officers facing felony charges
because once they found out that someone had been filming this they
up took the footage and they destroyed it so are they tended to destroy
and that a courses tampering with evidence so
as a result they have to follow these new rules and regulations to prevent
racial profiling the future
when you know that this case just recently happened it's really
irresponsible to single out one video posted
and then say hey this is an example up subculture
and listen to the wording there do you think doug halter issues with
everyone I mean let's keep it real yet know when like a frat boys so where's or
something that I like are you
dog not only better they say bro at worst and yet
it was bad timing I think its horrible that the use the videotape
totally unrelated but horrible that the family wanted people to see the video
and so they willingly put it up
on be I think if you will watch that video
and you don't think that their scarring the child to bring the child has a
fundamental way I think that's ridiculous you should be
you should be outraged in the same way that we are and I'm glad that people are
because that shows
a level up empathy and compassion I think America needs more out
but you have to be consistent you can't simply be mad at it
when they're swearing first to give the middle finger when it's a black family
okay when a family is teaching their child that every gay person is doomed to
burn in hell for the rest their life
or that once a woman has sex if she's not married she's now worth less
or if it's a different religion and they teach them that yet women should have
their generals mutilated
there's a lot of bad things that you can indulge in a child into
and sometimes it's not like family sometimes the family looks a lot like
yours and it shouldn't be
any less outrageous how often of do we do stories and children that
have cancer or some sort a terminal illness or not terminal illness but some
sort of illness that can be treated
they have some hope to live alright ed there
spit over religious families don't want to take them to a doctor because they
believe hey you know what I can pray for my kid and he'll get better yeah
right that actual child abuse that leads to death do those stories go viral
no stories don't go viral but post like this involving a diaper
black kid for some reason get a lot of attention and people love to play on the
hate
toward you know that particular community so I think that's problematic
into tonight that race has absolutely nothing to do with this story is
incredibly naive
so incredibly naive and and if you look at the history and the police department
and past instances the racial profiling it's not farfetched to think that race
might have motivated the reasons for putting up on the blog
alright %uh some let's move on
so a father posted a image onto his blog where he is
doing his but little girls hair she's six months year to six months old
a let me start that again kitchen sink not six months so she's two-years-old
alright do enrichment up posted a picture on his blog where he is
fixing his 2-year-old hair well he's also holding his 6-month-old in one of
those little
carrier things which i think is super cute army
and that I actually went viral now he says the reason why
he posted that picture was because his wife was late for work one day
she was really stressed out and she he basically told her you know I don't
worry about it
I got this I can do it I can be I can get them ready for school
he actually took paternity leave so we can spend some extra time with his
daughters
now that's a super sweet story well
something BBQ about the role the store to get to in just a sec are
but he posted a and he um immediately got about five thousand shares 3,000
comments 190,000 likes
and that's within hours okay but some other feedback that he got
was not so positive some people wrote the following he probably rented those
kids they don't even look like him
another person said I would but anything that you're a deadbeat
UK yeah I
I don't understand like like a dead bee is someone who does not take care of
their family and their
their personal responsibilities this is a photo the only piece of evidence that
you have a lot on
in any regard is these taking care of his kids me and that
ends up with Andy I know it's incredible what you can you can save a kitten from
a tree
and catch it on all all on film and put it up on YouTube yeah
and people will still have something negative to say bow
his or her shorts are not the right color 0
it looks like her hair has been brushed today I think you're being too nice the
comment would be con-
yeah or something like that that's what they would say look at your country
behavior
think it would be something like that for sure %uh so
what I love is that rich man's is not allowing people to get him down
I like the fact he put that picture up because he points to really really
important flaw that we have in society when it comes to
mandatory maternity leave and paternity leave okay we'll get to that in a second
but let me tell you a rich man's had to say
he said this picture stirs emotions for a few reasons
the media doesn't portray fathers as caregivers were seen as bumbling force
trying to figure out Parenthood
more macho men pushing their kids into the NFL the other issue is that there's
a stereotype that block bothers
are deadbeats your so I think that he's actually very accurate there
but what I like the most is how he talks about gender roles
and oftentimes mentor thought I love as complete fools
people that do not participate in household duties
but increasingly with more more women entering the work force
men definitely have participated way more when it comes to child-rearing
um you know taking care of the home and they deserve some credit for it and
instead giving him credit people are just talking *** for absolutely no
reason
yes so stupid with with the things that we've cited or just using the term
mister mom like overlook you've made yourself a female by being a responsible
family
our Father and yeah I I love this image I have to assume that this
image %uh eight other black parent taking close care intention of the
children
will probably built be posted on the Nebraska police blockade at right
because it shows what you're dealing with a community I'll definitely care
about their children just like about the day-to-day life
yeah I'm sure this late in a while lot of attention abuse in Los Angeles so I
told the Los Angeles police union has anything
similar to what the Omaha I police association has lobbied LAPD has a
history is the racial misgivings
they from time to time be to have no no we fight about never never really got to
get not an issue okay we've already conquered all that don't have any
conversation you race-baiting right now
anyway another thing that go in Richmond says is memo to the small pocket have
mail heaters I have
why don't you put big boy shorts on and getting that revolution a good fathers
which I love and he also says it's not a good look to tear down doubts for doing
the work your wives wish you were mad enough to do
on your own if you don't believe me just ask your spouse's
they'll tell you yeah doing Richards knows what your wife wants
I'm and if not you but
anyway yeah i i think that I said for it what what story were doing but
I i think people should give up with the whole this is what a man is this is what
a woman is stop defining
brother people what they're supposed to be like judging the way other people
you know decide to run their households
if this is what works for them who cares like I people always have something
negative status
to say yeah you know anyway Times Square yet we got to take a quick break when we
come back
private prisons are at it again what are they doing to stop
prison reforms in oklahoma I'll tell you that and also
jus really crazy numbers on the number out on how many white
and black males get arrested by the time they're 23 years old