The Faulkner Focus 10_3_23 [ Full HD ] - BREAKING NEWS TODAY October 3, 2023
The Faulkner Focus 10_3_23 [ Full HD ] - BREAKING NEWS TODAY October 3, 2023
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00:00 way into court today. President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was in and out relatively quickly
00:04 on federal gun charges and its jury selection day in the case against accused crypto crook
00:10 Sam Bankman Freed. From those legal cases to a congressman carjacked at gunpoint. I'm
00:17 Harris Faulkner. You are in the Faulkner Focus. Let's begin with the 40 something year old
00:23 son of President Biden. Hunter had to take a drug test today and reportedly passed with
00:29 a negative result from drugs. He arrived and left the Delaware courthouse all in under
00:34 an hour. He faces three charges, two for lying on federal gun forums and another for illegally
00:40 possessing a firearm while using drugs. His plea not guilty. The arraignment coming after
00:46 his controversial sweetheart deal that fell apart over the summer and that drug testing
00:51 was on the list of things that the judge in that plea deal falling apart gave him on that
00:56 day over the summer. All right. It's just a small piece, though, of an investigation
01:01 that's been going on for years into him. It's smoking gun after smoking gun after smoking
01:07 gun. And God bless James Comer for unearthing all this damning information. You have a Department
01:12 of Justice that is weaponized against President Trump and the political enemies of Joe Biden
01:18 and that is using every resource it has to shield the Biden family and its criminal corrupt
01:22 influence peddling scheme. Fox News Justice correspondent is outside the courthouse in
01:28 Wilmington, Delaware. And David, I it's 53. He's 53 years old. Hunter Biden. I still had
01:36 him in his 40s. Fifty three years old. And it appears this will head toward trial. As
01:42 you mentioned, Harris, this is just one piece of the overall puzzle involving Hunter Biden
01:48 investigations. This specifically deals with the purchase and possession of a gun five
01:52 years ago in the fall of twenty eighteen. We have video of Hunter Biden leaving the
01:57 federal courthouse about 30 minutes after he arrived. This was a quick arraignment today,
02:02 much quicker than what we saw back at the end of July when he expected to walk out the
02:07 door with a plea deal in hand. Of course, that did not happen after things fell south
02:11 after multiple hours. But that's why we're here today, because that plea deal fell through
02:16 in July. Now, Hunter appeared before a magistrate judge today, not the district judge, Mary
02:21 Ellen Norica, who famously blew up that plea deal in July. But Harris, let's go over these
02:26 conditions of release. He has to seek employment. He has to communicate all international travel
02:31 plans. He cannot possess a firearm. He cannot use alcohol or drugs. All medications must
02:36 be prescribed. He must get drug tested randomly and he must participate in substance abuse
02:42 counseling. As you mentioned, he did pass a drug test. He was charged with lying about
02:46 his gun use on a form to purchase a gun, lying to the employee at the local Delaware gun
02:50 shop and physically owning the gun. Though his attorney maintains he only had it for
02:54 less than two weeks. Now, part of that plea deal, Harris included what's called a diversion
02:58 agreement. If Hunter pleaded guilty, which he expected to back in July, he would have
03:02 avoided jail time on this. And even though Abby Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, says
03:07 both sides, meaning the government and Hunter's team, signed that plea deal. David Weiss,
03:12 the special counsel, says it is null and void. And do not, as you mentioned, this could be
03:17 a bigger investigation. Do not forget those tax charges. Special counsel Weiss indicated
03:21 in a court document he would likely refile those tax charges in either Washington, D.C.
03:26 or California, where Hunter Biden lives on these specific gun charges. I know we're talking
03:30 about a lot of charges here, but on the gun charges, he could face up to 25 years behind
03:34 bars. The key word could because he does not have a prior felony record. Harris. All right,
03:41 David, a lot of charges, a lot of details there. We appreciate all of it. All of it
03:45 is shorthand for it's going to be a while for Hunter Biden and his dad. It's going to
03:50 be a while. Leo Terrell, attorney and Fox News contributor. Leo, let's start there.
03:55 And really what Hunter Biden is facing. And it isn't about him. It really is about what
04:00 leads to his father, then vice president. And some of the things that they're looking
04:04 at to our current with the president being in office right now, just what he knew when
04:10 he knew it, that sort of thing. Absolutely. And so the gun charge has nothing to do with
04:16 Joe Biden. It's the tax charges. It's the possible conspiracy of sex trafficking. Harris,
04:23 there's a variety of things that David Weiss basically cut out the gun charge. But the
04:28 big issue is what connects Hunter Biden to Joe Biden. We're going to get those answers,
04:34 not from David Weiss in the Department of Justice, but from the House Republicans with
04:38 the Oversight Committee. Harris, and there's a lot to be told later. But this case is very
04:43 narrowly tailored about the gun charges. All right. You mentioned sex trafficking. I want
04:48 to get to this. You just touched on it. New Treasury documents are revealing that bank
04:54 investigators at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase suspected Hunter Biden of being associated
04:59 with a sex trafficking ring, which was based in Eastern Europe, and that he falsified checks
05:06 to pay prostitutes. That's according to suspicious activity reports that Hunter Biden's accounts
05:11 were being monitored as late as December of twenty nineteen. So remember, I said this
05:15 isn't so far ago in the past. The feds actually raised the possibility of charging Hunter
05:22 Biden for crimes related to sex trafficking, according to IRS whistleblower documents made
05:28 public by the House Ways and Means Committee last week. A Justice Department tax division
05:33 prosecutor outlined nine instances in which Hunter Biden appeared to be communicating
05:39 with prostitutes and coordinating their travel across state lines, so on and so forth. Leo,
05:46 why didn't they charge him? Harris, I want to be very clear to your Fox viewers, we're
05:52 not going to get charges from this Department of Justice. You got you got Merrick Garland
05:58 going on a campaign, a PR campaign on 60 Minutes. The evidence is there. You just articulated
06:05 probable cause. You just laid it out as an attorney for 30 years. There is overwhelming
06:09 evidence to pursue this. You have the IRS agents who testify that Hunter Biden tried
06:15 to use these sex charges and write them off as a tax write off. There's evidence. But
06:20 if you honestly believe there is going to be a pursuit of these charges, it's not going
06:24 to occur through the Department of Justice. Wow. And you talk about those two tiers of
06:29 justice. What else are Americans supposed to see when they look at this one for them
06:34 and one for the extremely privileged and politically powerful? All right. It is day two of former
06:40 President Trump's civil fraud case in New York. Attorney General Letitia James wants
06:46 him on the hook for 250 million dollars in fines. She also wants to ban him from doing
06:52 business in the state. Yeah, they'd like to rip his name off of everything. And it's all
06:56 up to that one judge, the former president, tearing into both of them ahead of today's
07:03 proceedings.
07:04 Judge Angaran has been given false and extremely misleading information. He's been given false
07:13 information, misleading information and corrupt information by a very corrupt and incompetent
07:20 attorney general, Letitia James. This woman is grossly incompetent.
07:25 So the former president's legal team are upset because they never even had an option for
07:31 a jury. They say that that there is a form that you fill out. Watch this.
07:37 There is no option to check a box. They brought this under a consumer fraud statute. It has
07:41 never been used in this way for a reason, because this judge who oversaw the special
07:47 proceeding has given them everything they wanted effectively for years. And they wanted
07:51 to keep it in this division as opposed to the commercial division where we would have
07:56 had a normal judge. So no, everyone, I didn't forget to check a box.
08:02 So I saw you nodding. What is the problem with this? What's problematic?
08:05 Well, Harris, I've been practicing law for 30 years and there usually are some forms
08:10 where you have to make a check, a little X there saying you want a jury trial. But what
08:17 I'm perplexed about is the Trump team could have appealed this, could have challenged
08:21 this before they commit the start of this proceeding. So I'm a little confused as far
08:26 as, hey, why don't you challenge it if you honestly feel you have a right to pursue this
08:32 jury trial? Can they still do that?
08:34 Well, the proceedings have started, Harris. So I think if they're going to preserve this
08:39 charge, they're going to follow it on appeal. But I think Trump got some favorable rulings
08:43 at the end of that proceeding yesterday when the judge chastised the prosecution for a
08:49 statute of limitation issue related to charges that they cannot proceed upon.
08:54 Boy, you would have thought that those hungry prosecutors would have caught that. I mentioned
09:00 moments ago having to do with Hunter Biden, that the two tiers of justice. And is this
09:05 a case of the powerful privileged going after a political opponent? Or is this fair game
09:12 with Trump? What's your take on all of it?
09:15 Let me think about that. Yes, Harris, this is this is a perfect example of a dual system
09:20 of justice. Letitia James, before she had this case, before she was attorney general,
09:26 she targeted President Trump. She went tooth and nail to find something to bring up against
09:32 President Trump. President Trump is a victim of a two tier system of justice where you
09:38 look at Hunter Biden and he's got very wealthy lawyers working for him and he's unemployed.
09:45 They're going after President Trump because he's running for president. And that's a clear
09:50 case here in this particular case where there's going after him on a proceeding that really
09:55 has never been used before in this manner, downplay the value of his property to justify
10:01 trying to close him down in New York City, Harris.
10:04 All right, Leo Terrell, always great to have you in focus and set us up for these legal
10:08 cases today. Appreciate your time.
10:12 Thank you, Harris.
10:14 Nine year old little girl that police say was kidnapped Saturday in New York state is
10:20 now safe at home with her parents. Police found Charlotte Sena yesterday, late yesterday
10:25 after a terrifying and exhausting 48 hours. She was hidden inside a cabinet in a camper
10:32 behind her suspected kidnappers. Mom's trailer. Wow. I mean, listen to the winding road on
10:39 getting to her. She vanished while out on a bicycle ride during a family camping trip
10:44 in a state park just north of Albany, the capital of New York. Police arrested 46 year
10:50 old Craig Nelson Ross Jr. and prosecutors have charged him with kidnapping. Investigators
10:55 say he dropped a ransom note in Charlotte's parents mailbox early yesterday morning. A
11:01 DUI charge back in 1999 led to his capture and Charlotte's rescue.
11:07 A fingerprint was found that matched what was found on the ransom note.
11:13 They're highly trained, highly capable unit that we use for just this type of thing. This
11:17 is what they train for. This is what they live for, is to make entries like this and
11:22 save someone's life. Charlotte's aunt made this statement. We are thrilled that she is
11:26 home and we understand that the outcome is not what every family gets. A huge thank you
11:32 to the FBI, the New York State Police, all of the agencies that were mobilized, all of
11:36 the families, friends and volunteers. The suspects preliminary hearing is set for nine
11:42 a.m. this Friday. We will stay on the story and bring you any new information as it develops.
11:49 Well, look who is heading south of the border, not the vice president, the czar of the border,
11:55 not Kamala Harris. It will be New York City Mayor Eric Adams, once a Republican, now a
12:02 deep blue Democrat. His mission is to convince illegal immigrants not to come to America.
12:08 Do you think they'll listen to him? And no one is safe from Washington, D.C.'s crime
12:13 wave, not even members of Congress.
12:17 We had another lawmaker who was a victim of crime just in the recent past. What is going
12:25 on in D.C.? I know what's going on. It's won by ineffective blue leaders. They need to
12:32 step aside.
12:33 A congressman was carjacked at gunpoint about a mile from the Capitol building, and he's
12:38 not the only member, as you heard him say, to become a D.C. crime victim in just the
12:44 last few months. Fellow Congressman Tony Gonzalez in Focus Next.
12:55 And here is Hunter Biden departing court in Wilmington, Delaware. Just moments ago, he
13:00 pleaded not guilty to all three federal gun charges against him. The conditions of his
13:07 release now, a new list. Remember, when that plea deal fell apart, he got one list. These
13:13 are the current conditions. He has to get a job. He needs to seek employment, communicate
13:19 all international travel plans, cannot possess a firearm, cannot use alcohol or drugs. All
13:30 medications must be prescribed. He must get drug tested randomly, like today. And he passed
13:37 that one. Must participate in substance abuse counseling. The judge has not yet set another
13:44 court date. However, both the defense and the prosecution have 30 days to file any new
13:50 motions. So November 3rd, we'll keep you posted.
13:54 Washington, D.C.'s crime crisis is sparing no one. Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar
14:01 of Texas was carjacked at gunpoint yesterday about a mile from the Capitol. The armed suspects
14:07 were told are still on the run. Congressman Cuellar is the second House member attacked
14:13 in the area this year. In February, you may recall a man violently assaulted Minnesota
14:19 Congresswoman Angie Craig in the elevator of her apartment building. She was able to
14:24 get away by throwing hot coffee on him. Washington, D.C. is seeing a staggering increase of violent
14:32 crime homicides up 38 percent, more than 200 murders already this year. Hitting that grim
14:38 milestone is the earliest it's happened since 1997. Robberies and car theft skyrocketing.
14:45 Two weeks ago, members of Congress and law enforcement held an open forum on the dangers
14:50 of the D.C. area and how to try to stay safe.
14:55 How many people at some point in the past year felt unsafe for their personal safety
14:59 in Washington, D.C.? Overwhelming. This year, U.S. Capitol Police has made 412 arrests.
15:07 We're seeing assault with dangerous weapons, the unauthorized use of vehicles, which consists
15:12 of carjackings. Why do we see this significant increase over the past few years? It really
15:17 has to do with staffing. The entire ecosystem is really broken. And the reason it's broken
15:22 is because our city council has legislated it to be broken. Griff Jenkins has more from
15:27 Washington Griff.
15:28 Harris, good morning. And when I came in this morning and started looking at the D.C.'s
15:35 carjacking dashboard, it said there had been 750 carjackings this year. Since then, I just
15:41 looked before this hit, it's up to 753. It's not even noon. Let me give you a look here
15:47 outside of Congressman Cuellar's building. You can see the U.S. Capitol Police has posted
15:51 an officer right out front. And then here, you can see the building just about a five-minute
15:57 walk blocks from the U.S. Capitol, where a half a dozen members of Congress live here,
16:02 including minority House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. We're also just a few blocks from
16:08 the Major League Baseball Nats Stadium. It's called the Navy Yard. Very popular. A lot
16:13 of restaurants. However, obviously, they are seeing a spike in these crimes. In fact, one
16:19 of the members who lives here, Dan Kildee, Democrat from Michigan, I asked him about
16:23 it. He said he talked to Cuellar, was glad he was okay, but concerned that they keep
16:27 seeing crime in this neighborhood. Now, Congressman Cuellar is talking about what happened last
16:31 night on Capitol Hill. Here's a little bit of what he said. Take a listen.
16:35 Yeah, I was just coming into my place. Three guys came out of nowhere and they pointed
16:43 guns at me. I do have a black belt, but I recognize when you got three guns. I looked
16:50 at one with a gun, another one with a gun, another one behind me. So they said they wanted
16:55 my car. I said, sure. Congressman Cuellar also here says that he
17:01 hopes there's something done about the security. Not sure exactly what the remedy is, but I'll
17:05 tell you that of the 753 carjackings, the stats from the police are that 75% involved
17:12 a gun, but yet only 25% had a resolution. I'll leave you with one last thing, and that
17:18 is you had a shooting just about a 10 minute drive from here last night. Three shot as
17:23 well. It's a problem plaguing the nation's Capitol, Harris.
17:26 Wow. No doubt. Well, it's all over the country and particularly in blue led cities. There
17:30 are some things that they can do. We'll have to see if they'll do them. Griff, thank you.
17:35 Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez of the great state of Texas, now member of the House
17:39 Homeland Security and Appropriations Committee. So good to have you in focus. Look, I want
17:43 to learn right away what was being said on Capitol Hill after that hearing about how
17:48 to protect yourselves. We're all concerned. Thank you for having me,
17:52 Harris. We're all concerned. I mean, I think Americans do not feel safe, whether that's
17:57 in DC, whether that's in Washington, certainly in Eagle Pass along the border. But lawmakers
18:02 are concerned. We've seen this happen over and over again. How do we protect ourselves,
18:07 not only in DC, but all throughout the country? Because this is getting worse. It starts by
18:11 the lawlessness. We have to stop the lawlessness and throw the book at the criminals that are
18:16 conducting this. Yeah. You know, let's get to brass tacks. I
18:20 mean, when you hear someone who's in charge of your safety, Capitol Police, any of those
18:24 people saying, well, you know, it's just a staffing issue and I'm not really sure what
18:29 to do to go next. I mean, how does that make you feel? You just nailed it. You got it.
18:33 You got to nail these guys with the law. Why can't they get that done?
18:37 Yeah, it makes you feel as if you're on your you're on your own a little bit. And what
18:41 the boils down to is we have to enforce the laws. We have to make examples out of criminals
18:47 and we have to show to the world, not only in Washington, but all throughout the country,
18:51 that the lawlessness is going to stop. We've had enough. And that is it. Talk is cheap.
18:56 It's all about actions and it's all about throwing behind bars some of these bad criminals
19:02 that are that are hurting everyday people. Yeah. Talk is cheap and it can be dangerous
19:05 and deadly. We are so, so fortunate and he is blessed to be OK today. Congressman Quay
19:11 are. All right. Let's move to this. New York City Mayor Adams is actually going to Central
19:17 and South America this week to try to convince people below our border not to come to New
19:23 York City. The mayor's office is build the four day journey as a chance to foster relations
19:30 with local leaders and migrant hot spots and learn more about the path asylum seekers take
19:36 his first stop, Mexico City. Adams trip comes as New York reportedly preps for a possible
19:41 record breaking surge and new asylum seekers. The city's interim director of asylum operations
19:47 recently warned of up to forty two hundred asylum seekers in a single week. Well, that
19:52 would be that'd be a big deal here in New York because they struggled with one hundred
19:56 ten thousand people while your state had more than seven million crossover last year. I
20:01 don't know how they're going to get this done, but he's going south of the border. Governor
20:05 Kathy Hochul of New York now is calling for limits on border crossings and making headlines
20:10 with those remarks. A quick watch. Instead of gambling with the future of this country,
20:17 why don't you roll up your sleeves and sit down with Democrats and get in a room and
20:20 don't come out until you figure it out? It's not that complicated. I could do it in about
20:24 five minutes. Really? Could she? You know, I appreciate the engagement. I think there
20:31 needs to be more engagement. But the mayor of New York City should be focused about New
20:35 York City. He shouldn't have to go all these other places. All he has to do is turn on
20:39 Fox News to see what's happening across the the the southern hemisphere and to figure
20:45 out that our border is out of control. I met yesterday with the ambassador to Panama and
20:49 he told me two years ago they had a thousand people come over illegally. Last year, they
20:54 had two hundred and forty thousand people coming over illegally. This year, there's
21:00 this year they think 700000 people are coming are going to come over illegally. So this
21:05 is where the United States has to be a leader. There's going to be a Latin American summit
21:09 on immigration here this month. I'm urging Secretary Blinken to be at that meeting, not
21:16 someone less than that. This has to be at the secretary of state level. Bring all the
21:20 ministers from all these different countries and sit down and figure out how we have a
21:25 solution to some of these problems. Do you think that, though, that's the message that
21:28 they get from from the man in the White House, that it's that critical that a secretary show
21:33 up? They need to have that message, because this isn't just impacting Eagle Pass, Texas.
21:39 It's not just impacting New York City. It's Chicago. It's L.A. It's every little small
21:43 town and big city in the entire country. And we have to put an end to that. That's why
21:48 I introduced the Safer Act on Friday. It's it does three simple things that we all should
21:53 get behind. It raises credible fear, which is important. It surges immigration judges
21:58 to the to the border. That way we can get rocket dockets, meaning the last person that
22:03 comes over gets their case heard. And then the third piece, which is the most important,
22:07 you deport people that do not qualify for asylum. This is what we have to do as a country,
22:13 not as Republicans and Democrats. If we want to get this border under control. Congressman
22:17 Tony Gonzalez, you are on the front lines in a border state. Thank you so very much
22:22 for your leadership. Good to see you. Thank you. Free speech seems more free for some
22:28 than others on college campuses. A new poll shows a deep partisan divide on the issue.
22:33 Plus, the Bowman fire alarm controversy is raging. Either he's completely, completely
22:41 incapable of making very, very simple decisions or he's trying to hide the fact of what he
22:47 was really trying to do, which was to obstruct an official proceeding, delay the vote. And
22:53 so that's the real issue here. Far left Congressman Jamal Bowman's efforts at damage control now
23:01 are only feeding the flames. Well, his story's changed a couple of times. His office referring
23:06 to some Republicans as Nazis now. Ben Domenech and Focus Next. You probably never even knew
23:19 his name before, but Congressman Jamal Bowman is managing to ignite even more outrage over
23:26 his fire alarm fiasco. The far left lawmaker is already facing a Capitol police investigation
23:33 and Republicans want to. We expel him from the House. He claims when he pulled that fire
23:41 alarm just before a government shutdown vote on Saturday, he thought it was the door handle
23:47 to open the doors you see behind him. Yeah, he got caught on video. Then his office tried
23:52 to do some damage control and get Democrats to publicly defend him by using this talking
23:58 point. Here it is. Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of
24:04 their party before anything else. Wow. Bowman then tried to walk that duck back. Quote,
24:15 there was an inappropriate use of the term Nazi without my consent. Well, when is it
24:20 appropriately used with your consent? Would be my question. Here's Karl Rove. It wasn't
24:26 an accident. It's incidentally. I mean, he's standing at a door that says, you know, emergency
24:31 exit only. And he goes to a box that says fire alarm and pulls it. What did he think
24:36 it would do? He was deliberately calling a fire alarm in order to delay the vote on the
24:43 continuing resolution. And he should be in some way, shape or form punished for this.
24:50 I can't wait for Ben Domenech to weigh in. Fox News contributor now, Ben. Well, look,
24:57 we always hear about, you know, shouting fire in a crowded theater. This was shouting fire
25:02 in a busy Congress, you know, an attempt to really shut down a vote that was of the essence.
25:07 You know, not every vote that Congress takes has to do with the timing involved, that you
25:12 get something passed in order to get it across the finish line before a certain time it comes
25:17 in and you have, you know, a number of different things that happen. But when it comes to shutdowns,
25:22 that's exactly what's going on. You need to know in order to have a shutdown avoided,
25:26 you have to have these votes take place in certain times in order to get everything through
25:31 and avoid a shutdown. Clearly, clearly, this was a move. Try trying to slow down the vote,
25:37 trying to prevent this shutdown from being avoided, because, you know, frankly, there's
25:41 some in the Democratic Party who believe that Republicans would own it. It would stand to
25:45 their benefit. And I think that Jamal Bowman clearly was one among them. Everyone knows
25:49 how these doors work. As a former staffer myself, I certainly know how they work. And
25:54 the idea that he would stand in this moment and look at a fire alarm, which is recognizable
25:58 to everyone who's ever been in a public building or in a public school or even, you know, a
26:03 nonpublic one that has these types of alarms, they know what they do. We all know what they
26:07 do. And there's a degree of stupidity here that I think was originally, you know, sort
26:12 of at play where, you know, I'm just too dumb. I didn't know what was going on with this
26:15 door. It's just this newfangled thing that I've never run into before that just doesn't
26:19 pass muster. And then to have the Nazi claim on top of it, it was just embarrassing. And
26:24 I think that that's why it's gone beyond the conversation around censure and about whether
26:28 we even want this person to be in Congress anymore.
26:30 Yeah. And what kinds of conversations were going on with the staff in their offices about
26:35 what they could do to stop certain things that they didn't like? I mean, it just stinks.
26:40 But remember, I just called the Nazis, Harris. That'll distract from everything we just did.
26:44 Yeah, no. Well, and at first, his story was that he uses that door to go vote. And then
26:50 my question would be, well, if you use it all the time, how did you know that the fire
26:54 alarm that's marked with big white letters on a red background fire was the button to
26:59 get the door open? Like what? Why would you even think that if you use that door all the
27:03 time? So the story has had inconsistencies at best. All right. Let's get to this. Absolutely.
27:08 Our own Peter Ducey asked Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre about what was going on
27:13 at yesterday's briefing. Watch it.
27:17 When President Biden ever tried to get out of a meeting by pulling a fire alarm.
27:21 Are you talking about something specifically?
27:25 A Democratic member of Congress pulled a fire alarm around a series of votes. No fire. Is
27:34 that appropriate?
27:35 What I can tell you is I'm not talking to the spoken to the president about this. And
27:40 so just not going just not going to comment. I will leave it up to you. I know there's
27:44 a House process moving forward right now. Leave it to the House.
27:48 Ben, your reaction?
27:49 Look, I realize that Corrine Jean-Pierre's natural posture is to spin everything. But
27:55 in this case, she should have just responded. No. Next question. This is the easiest question
28:00 in the world. It seems easy. But unfortunately, even on this, she has to engage in this kind
28:05 of idiotic spin. And I think that that's a sign, again, of just how embarrassed that
28:10 some Democrats are by what Jamal Bowman did in this circumstance.
28:14 And again, this is a circumstance where, you know, that every entrance in Congress in these
28:20 offices has cameras all around. He knows some level that we're going to see the imagery
28:26 of what's going on. And and that to me is like, I don't know what was going on in his
28:31 brain, but it's just the kind of thing where are you too stupid to be a member of Congress?
28:36 Is there some sort of cut off here? We talk about age limits and the kind of thing. I
28:40 think this is absolutely something that he intended to go the way that Carl said that
28:44 it did to try to slow things down, try to throw a wrench in the works. And it didn't
28:48 work out.
28:49 There's a there's a Capitol Hill, a Capitol Police investigation into this member of Congress
28:55 caught on camera, as you pointed out. All right. Growing concerns now about the First
28:59 Amendment and politics on campus. I know you know a lot about this. You talk about it a
29:04 lot. A new polling finds 47 percent of Americans surveyed say liberals have a lot of freedom
29:11 to express their views to students, but only 20 percent say that conservatives have a lot
29:18 of freedom to confess their points of view on campus.
29:23 Your take. You know, one of the things that we're seeing happen right now across the country
29:27 is a lot of the most esteemed centrist and right of center voices in major programs,
29:34 major educational institutions, respected people, individuals in law schools, in graduate
29:41 programs and the like, announcing effectively that they're retiring or leaving to go into
29:46 the think tank space.
29:47 We see people, you know, for instance, you know, respected right of center legal scholars
29:52 who are at places like UCLA who are leaving to go into the Hoover Institution and the
29:56 like. We see it overseas even now with Eric Kaufman, one of the most respected sort of
30:03 professors who's studied a lot of things about American politics, you know, announcing that
30:07 he feels that he is no longer welcome in these major university environments.
30:11 And and frankly, that is trickling down to all of the different students who go there
30:16 specifically to learn from those kinds of voices, to sit at their knee and to and to
30:20 be able to hear from them on all manner of things that we used to respect and value as
30:25 part of our academic freedom.
30:27 Yes, to all of that.
30:28 And also just the ability to hear someone that you may never have heard from before
30:32 or a point of view that you may not agree with.
30:34 But to be able to take that in and to have an open conversation, I honestly, your brain's
30:40 going to shrink if you don't use it.
30:43 That's what runs through my mind.
30:44 And I'm raising teenagers.
30:45 You've got children.
30:46 They need to run into everything so that they are ready for the world.
30:50 All right.
30:51 I got to let you go.
30:52 You make us to be challenged anymore.
30:53 Harris.
30:54 Good to be with you.
30:55 Good to be with you.
30:56 The trial of accused crypto fraudster Sam Bankman freed is underway right now.
31:02 He's facing several counts and what some are calling one of the biggest financial crimes
31:07 of all time.
31:08 Plus, most top Democrats going all in on President Biden for twenty twenty four in public.
31:15 But it's what they're saying in private now that's getting reported and a lot of attention.
31:20 And they sound worried about his reelection bid.
31:24 Our panel next.
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