December 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Explore how Soros‑backed prosecutors, lenient DA policies, and rising urban crime are reshaping America’s justice system. Michael Berry and legal expert Zach Smith break down the national movement behind rogue prosecutors and the real‑world cases fueling community chaos.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What it's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You tune into any conservative news channel on the radio,
on television, you read any blog, you read any magazine.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You will hear politicians.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You will hear this set again and again and again,
the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorrows prosecutors. We know that
crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities,
and we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler,
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evil people who in past years would have committed their
crime and then they would have been arrested eventually, and
then they would have been sent away first time for
a couple years, they'd get out, they do it again
the next time, for ten years, get out and do
it again.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The next time.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
They'd be in for And they're getting older.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
As this is going on, and as as punks get older,
they tend to be less aggressive and less violent. Well,
what happens if that what if that happens if that
cycle that we just just described, What if instead that
guy may or may not be arrested, but when he is,
he's released. Now instead of being a year, three, five,
ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing
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a lot of them, and they're violent, and each victim.
God help you if you're a victim one of these people,
because you're not a statistic anymore. It becomes you lock
every door obsessively, you go to counseling, you worry over
your family members, the phone rings and you jump, you
worry something. It changes your whole, It steals your innocence.
So we know that George Soros and now his son's
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taking over the operation. We know that I can't stand
the man, and it is bad for America. But one
must marvel at how effectively he has carried out his
agenda by simply recognizing a little quirk, a little loophole.
Go in and get the district attorney, own the district
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attorney in the major city, and you can make criminals
out of innocent people, and you can make innocent people
out of criminals. You can really create a tumultuous situation.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And that has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now you've heard this line from me, from Tucker, from
a lot of other people. We have a guest who's
going to help us dig deeper in actually case in point,
chapter and verse.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
His name is Zack Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and
he is an author of the He is the author
of the book Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows lawyers are
destroying America's communities. It is available now. Zach, let me
start with the question, of all the things you could
write about, why did you choose this?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on
the show today. I really appreciate appreciate the opportunity to
be here and talk about this. But the reason we
chose to write about this my co author and I
we're both former prosecutors, and we started talking to two friends,
former colleagues, and they said, Hey, there are prosecutors coming
into office around the country and they're not prosecuting. They're
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refusing to prosecute certain crimes. They're not seeking veil, even
for repeat violent offenders, and even when someone is convicted
of a crime, they're seeking very lenient sentences for that
convicted criminal. And we started hearing this story more and
more in cities around the country, and so we started
looking into it. We started writing about some of these prosecutors,
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and pretty soon it became apparent there's a thread leaving
all these prosecutors together. This was a national movement that
was very well financed, it back by George Soros and
other left leaning billionaires, and it was a systematic attempt
to fundamentally, and this is their words, reimagine and we
engineer a criminal justice system. And the consequences of this
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effort have been absolutely devastating in the communities where it's
being tried. It's been absolutely devastating for victims, and it's
been absolutely devastating for the rule of law across the country.
And so this is a very important topic. Frankly, I
think it's something not a lot of people realize it
is happening right now, and so we wanted to write
about it, to highlight it and the most importantly, give
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folks a pathway forward if they're confronted with one of
these rogue, radical distance attorneys in their own communities.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Zach, I want to do that, but I want to
devote sufficient time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As much as we.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Possibly can to Let's start, and I want to devote
the time to do this thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Let's start with how this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
To what extent can we say these are Soros prosecutors.
I'm going to make some straw man arguments. I'm going
to be the devil's advocate in this case from truly
the devil's advocate. Let's start with, well, George Soros isn't
the only one supporting these prosecutors, and they are winning
the support of their voters.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How do you respond to his outsized influence.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, I'll make a couple of points in response to that.
First of all, yeah, George Soros isn't the only person
doing it, but he was certainly one of the driving
forces behind this movement. He's certainly been one of the
biggest financial contributors to this movement. In our book, we
have an entire chapter where we go through the funding
of this movement, how it works, what we know. What
we can't definitively know because a lot of the money
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flows through back channels. It's tend from public use. But
what we think we know based on where some of
the money is going with some of the money is
being spent. And it's estimated that in direct campaign contributions,
George Soros has given almost forty million dollars in direct
campaign contributions to support these rogue district attorneys around the country.
Now that is a lot of money. But in politics,
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you may be thinking, well, that's not that much money.
You know, look at how much we spend on the
last presidential election, look at how much is spend on
senate rignatorial races. But the important thing to realize here
is that in different attorney races, these are traditionally low dollar,
low profile affairs. They're often uncontested. Many times, even in
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large cities, a six figure campaign contribution is unheard of.
And so when you you know, inundate these cities for
a seven figure campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also,
we suspect in indirect spending, you know, different infrastructure that's
been put in place, think tanks, support groups that George
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Sorol system spending to support this radical movement in criminal
justice pro reform in general may be approaching a billion,
as it's a billion with a being dollars. And then
quickly to your second point, you said, these individuals received
these supportable voters, they were elected to office. That's true,
but what happened in many of these jurisdictions when these
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folks were first running for office, they use pull tested
language saying they wanted to fair criminal justice system. They
wanted a criminal justice system that didn't unnecessarily incarcerate anyone.
They made pretty uncontroversial statements that you or I or
any reasonable person would agree with. Well, what happened when
these individuals got into office In many cases it quickly
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became a parent what they met by those phrases and
when you or I or the average person would have
understood those phrases to mean are two different things entirely right.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And the amount of money, as you said, it may
not sound like that much money, but it is shocking
how these district attorneys races. Unlike say, congressional seats, one
congressman can't do much if you're not the Speaker of
the House, you're just one congressman. A district attorney has
an incredible.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Amount of power.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We will discuss this issue in greater detail. I'm going
to devote a lot of time on this Evening's program
so that you're aware because this is an issue that
is not getting enough attention and is absolutely destroying America's cities.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Heck, you see what's.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Happening with with Donald Trump and that prosecution alone. More
coming up the book is Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows
lawyers are destroying America's community.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I've almost went the laws to myself the.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Michael Verie Show.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation. The
book is Rogue Prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyer are destroying
America's communities. Folks, I want you to understand, to put
this into perspective. When you talk about presidential elections and
how much money is raised, you take that to the
state level for gubernatorial elections and how much money is raised.
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And the one that gets me is how much money
people will spend on a congressional election. How much money
will be raised, And you think to yourself, of all
those millions of dollars, we could have taken ten percent
of that and focused it on a district attorney's race
in the major.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cities and won some races.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Most people don't know who the district attorney is in
their county. And I'm particularly speaking of the major counties
that the major cities are a part of. Harris County
for Houston, Cook County for Chicago. You see this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland. You know, Monoma County
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used to be kind of a reasonable county, and Portland.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Was a little wacky, weird, harmless.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well that's changed, and now you don't want to run
a foul of the district attorney in those sorts of places.
So for very little money, you talk about bang for
the buck. For very little money, relatively speaking, sorrows can
have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes,
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in saying, well, if you're a young black man who
is engaged in jugging, that's a big thing in Houston
right now. And you follow a little lady from the
bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going because
her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants
to give them some money for their birthday. And that
guy puts a pistol in her face, whips her, takes
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the money, and the cops arrest him. They got him
dead to rights, they got him on video, they've got
her witness account. There's no doubt. You know, there's four
witnesses at the whole deal. And you've got, as we've
seen in Houston, you've got now judges, because beyond just
the prosecutor, you've got the judges.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Now all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We've seen a crime spike in Houston and Harris County
the likes of which we've never seen. And it's not
that there are more criminals, it's that our process is
no longer dealing with them. That's why this issue is
so important because it's a national trend and it's not
accidental rogue prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. Zach,
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I think I cut you off while you were making
your point. I want to make sure you leave nothing unsaid.
We're going to have plenty of time to get into this.
But when you look at the Soros strategy and how
targeted this is, how did he do we understand how
he decided this would be the thing he would focus on.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, we have an entire chapter in the book, and
the way we structured the book, we basically have. The
first chapter talks about the background, the ideological underpinnings of
the movement. It has its roots in a Marxist movement
from the sixties seventies to prison abolition movement. There's actually
a movement where people think no one should go to
prison for any reason. Well, that obviously didn't play well
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with the general public. Most people recognize it for the
radical policy that it was. But what that original Marxist
prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished a
day through the Rogue Prosecutor movement. But what happened back
in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen, Essentially some folks who work
for George Soros or had been affiliated with George sorows
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they recognized how much power the district attorney has. And
there are twenty three hundred local elected das around the country,
and they since we realized, it doesn't matter how many
officers you have on the street. It doesn't matter if
the officers are making arrest. If the prosecutor won't prosecute
the criminals, what a police do doesn't matter. And it
doesn't matter what kind of laws you have on the book.
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If you have mandatory minimums, lenksy sentences for violent crimes,
none of that matters either. If the prosecutor won't prosecute,
because the judge will never see the case, it'll be
dismissed before it ever goes to trial. And so, in
a very ingenious and very diabolical way, these individuals recognized
how much power the da has. They recognize that not
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many people pay attention to the local DA races, and
they recognize that for relatively little money, they could go
in brust their preferred candidates to the top of the
electoral pack and essentially through a very back end way
in active preferred policies, policies that frankly, they likely knew
they could never get pushed through each state's legislature. And
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so they did a test run in Mississippi and Louisiana
with some where they primaried essentially some death penalty DA's,
and they had success. And so then they moved out
and they went national and their first big city prosecutor
they packed was Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook County
District Attorneys. And so the other thing we do in
our book we highlight eight different rogue prosecutors in eight
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different cities around the country. We outlined how they came
to be part of the movement, who backed them, the
policies they've enacted once they got into office, and most tragically,
we focus on true crime stories that would not have
happened brought for these rogue pronsecutors policies. I have to
tell you it's heartbreaking when you see the same results
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playing out in city after city after city, and knowing
that these crimes would not have happened if these prosecutors
would have just done their jobs and would if they
would have sought justice and sought to hold criminals accountable
for their actions.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's a real harsh reality that many people don't want
to accept to understand that there is a prevailing belief
because they don't say it in these words directly, that
a person who commits murder, particularly a person of color,
should simply be released back out on the streets because
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he is a victim of a system. And it's not
until someone is a victim of a crime or has
a family member who is. And we had a series
of crime victims families in the last year during our
during our election cycle.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Step forward and we had the of a woman who
she was run.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Over and then they back up over her to steal
her pursss she exited a McDonald's. And we have teenagers
who are murdered by a gang member and then the
gang members drive by the mom's home and make air
pistol gestures at her, or they're released from prison before
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she's home from a casket or planning the funeral. The
bad guys are released to go back to their home
three doors over from where the bad guy kill their daughter.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It is a level of a depth of depravity.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
That is hard, I think for most people to understand
that these things aren't happening accidentally, that this is a strategy,
a very ill intentioned strategy, and it's working out exactly
the way they planned it because they don't share our
belief that the victim is sacrosanct and criminals should be punkled.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I will die for this country.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I will die for.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Discraft to Michael Berry Show, he's the big honor to
be living in the United States. A year or two ago,
I was watching No Country for Old Men, and Tommy
Lee Jones's character, if you recall, is the sheriff who
never really unholsters his gun. He never has to draw,
and the Mexican cartels have brought a level of violence
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to the streets that he can't even understand. The firepower
far exceeds anything he's got, and he just can't understand
how the world has gone to hell. You just can't
understand it. So he goes to his mentor, and he's
talking to his mentor and his mentor's trying to explain
how crazy the world has become, and he refers to
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Signs and Wonders. And when I heard that, I thought,
you know, that's how I feel about some of the
crazy news stories of how on earth can this action
it happened? How do you reach such a point of depravity?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I really have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to
you from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
It's all the damn money and money and the drugs.
It's just damp beyond everything.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What's it mean? What's it leading to?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
If you'd have told me twenty years ago i'd see
children walking the streets of our Texas towns with the
green hair bones and their noses, I just flat out
wouldn't a bleak Signs and Wonders. But I think once
you quit here in sir and ma'am, the rest of
them to follow.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh it's the tad.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
It's the digital tad.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
It is not the one that the one thing Signs
and Wonders, Signs and Wonders. It's the digital pod Signs
and Wonder, Signs and Wonders.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two
in Chicago, and It's ugly.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs
after teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride.
Robin's Felice a three thirteen year old boys were inside
of a stolen Kia with the driver's side window busted out,
driving on Kedzie Avenue at about two thirty this afternoon.
Police started to follow the Kia when it collided with
another car, killing a seventy one year old man who
was driving. Neighbors tell us the man lived in a
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nearby apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
I don't even think they'd taken driver's eg So how
are you stealing a car?
Speaker 10 (18:37):
She's very unfortunate, said I'm said.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
The teens were all arrested at the scene.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The amazing thing is that that woman is most bothered
that they haven't taken drivers yet.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's the least of their words.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things,
let me remind you of Latarian. Milton Latarian was seven
years old when he stole his grandma's car. When asked
why he did it, he said that he wanted to
do hood rat stuff with his friends.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He wanted to do hood rat stuff with his friends.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
That went viral in two thousand and nine, but you've
already forgotten it. He was seven years old. You have
a seven year old boy stealing a car and saying
funny stuff on the news.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Let's go back to that original report.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
This is a seven year old kid, a first grader.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Credit WPF News in West Palm Beach.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Latarian Milton is not your typical seven year old. If
you his age, have ever driven an suv up and
down several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse.
Latarian says he took the car keys and hopped into
his grandmother's dods DURINGO and.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I came to the back door. I looked on the counter.
My keys were gone.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
I took my grandma carp because they got met my
mom and then I show him. Have my friend come in,
and he smoked with cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
He started the vehicle and put it into gear.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
I yanked the I yanked it. I yanked the.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Thing, and off they went. Two seven year olds alone
on the road. Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park
and Palm Beach gardens.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
We got the one called that he told you about
the driver in the vehicle who looked too short to
be able to see Steio.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
part cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
moving cars near Walmart.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I want to do because it's fun funny do bad
things and drives into a car.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebout it?
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Yes, but I wanted to do her or stuff for
my friend.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
It all ended on Investment Lane and Consumer Drive. That's
where latarian hit the curve inside, swiped the sign. The
SUV took most of the bad snapping off one of
his axles and wheels.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A grandmother's rage.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
I want to whip his behind. That's what I want
to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take
me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You don't think he should be punished for all of this.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
There's a little bit no video games for the whole weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And one unusual story for police. Are you sorry?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You understand that now your grandma's going to have to
pay to have those cars sticks because you hit those cars.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Mom, Mom, I don't know, can you mom help her. Well,
you moved on, as we all did, but Latarian didn't.
Two weeks after that, he attacked his grandmother because she
wouldn't buy him chicken wings. Nine years later, he found
himself in trouble again. Won't to guess what he did.
This time he carjacked a car with his friends once again.
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WPBF twenty five news.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Latarian Milton spent about ten minutes in court this morning.
He learned that he will not be able to go
home anytime soon. He will have to wait to hear
from the judge the next court day. We last spoke
with Latarian Milton in twenty fifteen. He had just completed
middle school and was looking forward to the next step.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I good the school on high school first, he had
down your football team had some good successful.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday
to face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and carjackie.
Balmbe County's here staff and he'say. A lift driver picked
up four young males and a female early Sunday morning
and drove them to a windor away in West Palm Beach.
That's where the female exited the vehicle. Investigator say the
suspects told the driver to take them to another location,
where the driver refused. Authorities say one of the suspects
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pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the
back of the head. The driver says he got out
of the car and was robbed of his walllet and jacket.
He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the
front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's
seat and sped away with the other suspects. According to investigators,
the driver gave detectives a phone number, which led to
the identification of Milton. Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. We
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first met Milton in two thousand and seven, when he
was seven years old. He had just stolen his grandmother's
SUV and went on a joy ride through Lake Park
in Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
I want to do it cause it's fun, funny do
bad things. Drives into a car?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Yes, but I wanted to do hood stuff with my friend.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
whip thisiss behind right now.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Back in court, the judge ordered milton to remain at
a juvenile facility into his next court day.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Miltarian would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison for
that Crown the streets have replaced fathers in the home.
You know, I've played this clip before, but maybe it's
never been more appropriate than now. It was Denzel Washington
when he was asked about the importance of the father
in the home.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman delz into this
the issues around the legal system.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 11 (23:27):
And I think it's more important to make headway in
our own house. By the time the system comes into play,
the damage is done. They're not locking up seven year olds.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three
four weeks ago and we saw these little kids on
bikes with masks on the side of the head.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Like five or six of them.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
And the driver said, yeah, they little yummies. I said,
who said little yummies? Look up Google, little yummy. Little
yummy was eleven year old murderer.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
And you look at his picture, you'll see his head
shot him and he's like this and he got murdered
at eleven by a fourteen year old.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Wow, who's doing life now? And a sixteen year old?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That makes no sense.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
You blame the system. Where was his father? It starts
in the house and starts in the home. And yeah, well,
well when my father got locked up, where was his father?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (24:16):
You know, But like I did, talk about my three
closest friends, and they did you know, fifteen to twenty five,
one did twenty eight this, and that I was the
only one of the three to have a father in
my life, even though my parents were together.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
And they didn't We can blame the system if we want,
but they didn't lock any of us up at seven. Yeah,
we were all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen.
My parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have
anybody to help them, and they kept doing what they
was doing and the system got them. So I don't
the system is rigged, But why all the more reason
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not to help them?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Do you take care of yourself?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Thank you about it, for this is just gets better
and better and better.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Pinched myself.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
President Trump as the head of the Kennedy Center, just
announcing that George Straight will be honored at the Kennedy
Center I as civilian honor you can receive. And I
think about I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about
George Straight being chosen by the Houston Livestock showing rodeo
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to cover a missed date. Do you remember who missed
the date? Who very good to cover for a missed date?
And how that really launched him? Obviously, I think that
was the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV
did for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo did for.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
George Strake.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And I think about this little bitty fellow, little skinny,
fair faced, fresh faced kill boy in his boots and
his jeans creased down the middle, and he's reaching out
there and shaking people's hands, and he's happy to be here.
And that's George Straight, and now he's going to be honored.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Have you been to the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I went up because the kids were interning in Congress
this summer and spent some time, and we went back
to things that I had worked at a law firm
there and I hadn't but I hadn't spent any real
time there in a while, so I had to make
multiple trips to DC, and so sometimes this summer I
was doing my show from my hotel room.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And it's good that you didn't notice.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That means our equipment is good.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And don't try to say you notice now that I
told you.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Anyway, we went to a show at the Kennedy Center,
and I mean it's it's kind of a tired old building,
to be honest with you. But the grandeur and the
fact that Trump understood just like he's taking over the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Why let the left have these things?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So George Strait will be honored, Gloria Gaynor will be honored.
Michael Crawford, I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's
famous for being the voice of the of the Phantom
and Phantom of the Opera. He's kind of the voice
that's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture,
to the to the fine to the performing arts theater.
(27:35):
And then who else, Sylvester Stallone and last but not least.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
Kiss Oh hell, yes, oh yes, this is not about
their daddy.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to
be was a DJ, not a talk show host.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Why even say that? Oh yeah, Trump's gonna do his
Ymca dance to this Hell yes.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
America's back.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh he's gonna be kiss make up with platforms.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
What will his be give it?
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I got it, I got it. He's all white like
a panamion.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
But there's a bullet streak across where the bullet went across,
and his ear is black. Oh hell yes, yes, inshould
the fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
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versions of Nancy.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Throwing eggs in him, and an.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Iron dome emerges and they shatter and crack like Paul
Pelosi's knee, and over to the side, Paul and Nancy
are both getting hammered, but in very different ways, and you.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Die, Oh, I love it, I make it all.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And he's just doing that Ymca dance all around the
stage and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing teeth, nashers
and lamentations as they bow before us, and then stallone
(29:49):
comes out circle rambo yes, and then Gloria Gaynor comes
(30:12):
out looking like Telma Houston Stark in nineteen seventy eight
in a fade down kiss and they make a barbershop
quartet behind them, and she starts into I will survive,
and everyone knows.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
This is a tribute to Donald Trump. Donald J.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Trump was a breed that was doug.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
A fine kept thinking of another without you buy my side.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
But then I spend so min a night thinking how
you did me wrong?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Doctor's wrong?
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Now learned people.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's like that last scene, officer and a gentleman.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Donnay, I just walked the end of partner here with
that Nona face.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I should have changed that.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Stupid to wait a goo, Paul.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
But they're way to go at Donald Trump's like look
at this thirty four convictions.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
And then Stormy daniels.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Over to the side.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Her dress falls off and she is exposed in all
her shame and Ejen Carol is over there in her
eyes have turned blood red, and then she turns to
stone like Medusa.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Well, I want to thank you all very much.
Speaker 13 (31:33):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
These are our friends.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
We have thousands of them, and we said this, and
I won't fight for you, for your family and your future.
Every single day I will be fighting for you.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
So we're gonna make our country.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Better than on the screen has displayed a picture of
Bill Clinton in the blue dress and red high.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Heels with his.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Co f me look on his face like he's in
bride's head revisited that hung in Epstein's New York home
and Hillary just keeps fainting, but they put smelling sauce
(32:22):
under her and say no face the music, Hillary, you
ain't no ways time.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's just how I imagine that might not. I don't know,
that's not official
What it's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You tune into any conservative news channel on the radio,
on television, you read any blog, you read any magazine.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You will hear politicians.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You will hear this set again and again and again,
the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorrows prosecutors. We know that
crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities,
and we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler,
(00:50):
evil people who in past years would have committed their
crime and then they would have been arrested eventually, and
then they would have been sent away first time for
a couple years, they'd get out, they do it again
the next time, for ten years, get out and do
it again.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The next time.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
They'd be in for And they're getting older.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
As this is going on, and as as punks get older,
they tend to be less aggressive and less violent. Well,
what happens if that what if that happens if that
cycle that we just just described, What if instead that
guy may or may not be arrested, but when he is,
he's released. Now instead of being a year, three, five,
ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing
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a lot of them, and they're violent, and each victim.
God help you if you're a victim one of these people,
because you're not a statistic anymore. It becomes you lock
every door obsessively, you go to counseling, you worry over
your family members, the phone rings and you jump, you
worry something. It changes your whole, It steals your innocence.
So we know that George Soros and now his son's
(01:53):
taking over the operation. We know that I can't stand
the man, and it is bad for America. But one
must marvel at how effectively he has carried out his
agenda by simply recognizing a little quirk, a little loophole.
Go in and get the district attorney, own the district
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attorney in the major city, and you can make criminals
out of innocent people, and you can make innocent people
out of criminals. You can really create a tumultuous situation.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And that has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now you've heard this line from me, from Tucker, from
a lot of other people. We have a guest who's
going to help us dig deeper in actually case in point,
chapter and verse.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
His name is Zack Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and
he is an author of the He is the author
of the book Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows lawyers are
destroying America's communities. It is available now. Zach, let me
start with the question, of all the things you could
write about, why did you choose this?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on
the show today. I really appreciate appreciate the opportunity to
be here and talk about this. But the reason we
chose to write about this my co author and I
we're both former prosecutors, and we started talking to two friends,
former colleagues, and they said, Hey, there are prosecutors coming
into office around the country and they're not prosecuting. They're
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refusing to prosecute certain crimes. They're not seeking veil, even
for repeat violent offenders, and even when someone is convicted
of a crime, they're seeking very lenient sentences for that
convicted criminal. And we started hearing this story more and
more in cities around the country, and so we started
looking into it. We started writing about some of these prosecutors,
(03:48):
and pretty soon it became apparent there's a thread leaving
all these prosecutors together. This was a national movement that
was very well financed, it back by George Soros and
other left leaning billionaires, and it was a systematic attempt
to fundamentally, and this is their words, reimagine and we
engineer a criminal justice system. And the consequences of this
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effort have been absolutely devastating in the communities where it's
being tried. It's been absolutely devastating for victims, and it's
been absolutely devastating for the rule of law across the country.
And so this is a very important topic. Frankly, I
think it's something not a lot of people realize it
is happening right now, and so we wanted to write
about it, to highlight it and the most importantly, give
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folks a pathway forward if they're confronted with one of
these rogue, radical distance attorneys in their own communities.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Zach, I want to do that, but I want to
devote sufficient time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As much as we.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Possibly can to Let's start, and I want to devote
the time to do this thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Let's start with how this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
To what extent can we say these are Soros prosecutors.
I'm going to make some straw man arguments. I'm going
to be the devil's advocate in this case from truly
the devil's advocate. Let's start with, well, George Soros isn't
the only one supporting these prosecutors, and they are winning
the support of their voters.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How do you respond to his outsized influence.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, I'll make a couple of points in response to that.
First of all, yeah, George Soros isn't the only person
doing it, but he was certainly one of the driving
forces behind this movement. He's certainly been one of the
biggest financial contributors to this movement. In our book, we
have an entire chapter where we go through the funding
of this movement, how it works, what we know. What
we can't definitively know because a lot of the money
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flows through back channels. It's tend from public use. But
what we think we know based on where some of
the money is going with some of the money is
being spent. And it's estimated that in direct campaign contributions,
George Soros has given almost forty million dollars in direct
campaign contributions to support these rogue district attorneys around the country.
Now that is a lot of money. But in politics,
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you may be thinking, well, that's not that much money.
You know, look at how much we spend on the
last presidential election, look at how much is spend on
senate rignatorial races. But the important thing to realize here
is that in different attorney races, these are traditionally low dollar,
low profile affairs. They're often uncontested. Many times, even in
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large cities, a six figure campaign contribution is unheard of.
And so when you you know, inundate these cities for
a seven figure campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also,
we suspect in indirect spending, you know, different infrastructure that's
been put in place, think tanks, support groups that George
(06:46):
Sorol system spending to support this radical movement in criminal
justice pro reform in general may be approaching a billion,
as it's a billion with a being dollars. And then
quickly to your second point, you said, these individuals received
these supportable voters, they were elected to office. That's true,
but what happened in many of these jurisdictions when these
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folks were first running for office, they use pull tested
language saying they wanted to fair criminal justice system. They
wanted a criminal justice system that didn't unnecessarily incarcerate anyone.
They made pretty uncontroversial statements that you or I or
any reasonable person would agree with. Well, what happened when
these individuals got into office In many cases it quickly
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became a parent what they met by those phrases and
when you or I or the average person would have
understood those phrases to mean are two different things entirely right.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And the amount of money, as you said, it may
not sound like that much money, but it is shocking
how these district attorneys races. Unlike say, congressional seats, one
congressman can't do much if you're not the Speaker of
the House, you're just one congressman. A district attorney has
an incredible.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Amount of power.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We will discuss this issue in greater detail. I'm going
to devote a lot of time on this Evening's program
so that you're aware because this is an issue that
is not getting enough attention and is absolutely destroying America's cities.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Heck, you see what's.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Happening with with Donald Trump and that prosecution alone. More
coming up the book is Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows
lawyers are destroying America's community.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I've almost went the laws to myself the.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Michael Verie Show.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation. The
book is Rogue Prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyer are destroying
America's communities. Folks, I want you to understand, to put
this into perspective. When you talk about presidential elections and
how much money is raised, you take that to the
state level for gubernatorial elections and how much money is raised.
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And the one that gets me is how much money
people will spend on a congressional election. How much money
will be raised, And you think to yourself, of all
those millions of dollars, we could have taken ten percent
of that and focused it on a district attorney's race
in the major.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cities and won some races.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Most people don't know who the district attorney is in
their county. And I'm particularly speaking of the major counties
that the major cities are a part of. Harris County
for Houston, Cook County for Chicago. You see this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland. You know, Monoma County
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used to be kind of a reasonable county, and Portland.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Was a little wacky, weird, harmless.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well that's changed, and now you don't want to run
a foul of the district attorney in those sorts of places.
So for very little money, you talk about bang for
the buck. For very little money, relatively speaking, sorrows can
have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes,
(10:07):
in saying, well, if you're a young black man who
is engaged in jugging, that's a big thing in Houston
right now. And you follow a little lady from the
bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going because
her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants
to give them some money for their birthday. And that
guy puts a pistol in her face, whips her, takes
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the money, and the cops arrest him. They got him
dead to rights, they got him on video, they've got
her witness account. There's no doubt. You know, there's four
witnesses at the whole deal. And you've got, as we've
seen in Houston, you've got now judges, because beyond just
the prosecutor, you've got the judges.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Now all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We've seen a crime spike in Houston and Harris County
the likes of which we've never seen. And it's not
that there are more criminals, it's that our process is
no longer dealing with them. That's why this issue is
so important because it's a national trend and it's not
accidental rogue prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. Zach,
(11:11):
I think I cut you off while you were making
your point. I want to make sure you leave nothing unsaid.
We're going to have plenty of time to get into this.
But when you look at the Soros strategy and how
targeted this is, how did he do we understand how
he decided this would be the thing he would focus on.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, we have an entire chapter in the book, and
the way we structured the book, we basically have. The
first chapter talks about the background, the ideological underpinnings of
the movement. It has its roots in a Marxist movement
from the sixties seventies to prison abolition movement. There's actually
a movement where people think no one should go to
prison for any reason. Well, that obviously didn't play well
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with the general public. Most people recognize it for the
radical policy that it was. But what that original Marxist
prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished a
day through the Rogue Prosecutor movement. But what happened back
in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen, Essentially some folks who work
for George Soros or had been affiliated with George sorows
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they recognized how much power the district attorney has. And
there are twenty three hundred local elected das around the country,
and they since we realized, it doesn't matter how many
officers you have on the street. It doesn't matter if
the officers are making arrest. If the prosecutor won't prosecute
the criminals, what a police do doesn't matter. And it
doesn't matter what kind of laws you have on the book.
(12:35):
If you have mandatory minimums, lenksy sentences for violent crimes,
none of that matters either. If the prosecutor won't prosecute,
because the judge will never see the case, it'll be
dismissed before it ever goes to trial. And so, in
a very ingenious and very diabolical way, these individuals recognized
how much power the da has. They recognize that not
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many people pay attention to the local DA races, and
they recognize that for relatively little money, they could go
in brust their preferred candidates to the top of the
electoral pack and essentially through a very back end way
in active preferred policies, policies that frankly, they likely knew
they could never get pushed through each state's legislature. And
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so they did a test run in Mississippi and Louisiana
with some where they primaried essentially some death penalty DA's,
and they had success. And so then they moved out
and they went national and their first big city prosecutor
they packed was Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook County
District Attorneys. And so the other thing we do in
our book we highlight eight different rogue prosecutors in eight
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different cities around the country. We outlined how they came
to be part of the movement, who backed them, the
policies they've enacted once they got into office, and most tragically,
we focus on true crime stories that would not have
happened brought for these rogue pronsecutors policies. I have to
tell you it's heartbreaking when you see the same results
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playing out in city after city after city, and knowing
that these crimes would not have happened if these prosecutors
would have just done their jobs and would if they
would have sought justice and sought to hold criminals accountable
for their actions.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's a real harsh reality that many people don't want
to accept to understand that there is a prevailing belief
because they don't say it in these words directly, that
a person who commits murder, particularly a person of color,
should simply be released back out on the streets because
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he is a victim of a system. And it's not
until someone is a victim of a crime or has
a family member who is. And we had a series
of crime victims families in the last year during our
during our election cycle.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Step forward and we had the of a woman who
she was run.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Over and then they back up over her to steal
her pursss she exited a McDonald's. And we have teenagers
who are murdered by a gang member and then the
gang members drive by the mom's home and make air
pistol gestures at her, or they're released from prison before
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she's home from a casket or planning the funeral. The
bad guys are released to go back to their home
three doors over from where the bad guy kill their daughter.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It is a level of a depth of depravity.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
That is hard, I think for most people to understand
that these things aren't happening accidentally, that this is a strategy,
a very ill intentioned strategy, and it's working out exactly
the way they planned it because they don't share our
belief that the victim is sacrosanct and criminals should be punkled.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I will die for this country.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I will die for.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Discraft to Michael Berry Show, he's the big honor to
be living in the United States. A year or two ago,
I was watching No Country for Old Men, and Tommy
Lee Jones's character, if you recall, is the sheriff who
never really unholsters his gun. He never has to draw,
and the Mexican cartels have brought a level of violence
(16:27):
to the streets that he can't even understand. The firepower
far exceeds anything he's got, and he just can't understand
how the world has gone to hell. You just can't
understand it. So he goes to his mentor, and he's
talking to his mentor and his mentor's trying to explain
how crazy the world has become, and he refers to
(16:48):
Signs and Wonders. And when I heard that, I thought,
you know, that's how I feel about some of the
crazy news stories of how on earth can this action
it happened? How do you reach such a point of depravity?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I really have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to
you from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
It's all the damn money and money and the drugs.
It's just damp beyond everything.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What's it mean? What's it leading to?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
If you'd have told me twenty years ago i'd see
children walking the streets of our Texas towns with the
green hair bones and their noses, I just flat out
wouldn't a bleak Signs and Wonders. But I think once
you quit here in sir and ma'am, the rest of
them to follow.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh it's the tad.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
It's the digital tad.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
It is not the one that the one thing Signs
and Wonders, Signs and Wonders. It's the digital pod Signs
and Wonder, Signs and Wonders.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two
in Chicago, and It's ugly.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs
after teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride.
Robin's Felice a three thirteen year old boys were inside
of a stolen Kia with the driver's side window busted out,
driving on Kedzie Avenue at about two thirty this afternoon.
Police started to follow the Kia when it collided with
another car, killing a seventy one year old man who
was driving. Neighbors tell us the man lived in a
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nearby apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
I don't even think they'd taken driver's eg So how
are you stealing a car?
Speaker 10 (18:37):
She's very unfortunate, said I'm said.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
The teens were all arrested at the scene.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The amazing thing is that that woman is most bothered
that they haven't taken drivers yet.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's the least of their words.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things,
let me remind you of Latarian. Milton Latarian was seven
years old when he stole his grandma's car. When asked
why he did it, he said that he wanted to
do hood rat stuff with his friends.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He wanted to do hood rat stuff with his friends.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
That went viral in two thousand and nine, but you've
already forgotten it. He was seven years old. You have
a seven year old boy stealing a car and saying
funny stuff on the news.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Let's go back to that original report.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
This is a seven year old kid, a first grader.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Credit WPF News in West Palm Beach.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Latarian Milton is not your typical seven year old. If
you his age, have ever driven an suv up and
down several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse.
Latarian says he took the car keys and hopped into
his grandmother's dods DURINGO and.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I came to the back door. I looked on the counter.
My keys were gone.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
I took my grandma carp because they got met my
mom and then I show him. Have my friend come in,
and he smoked with cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
He started the vehicle and put it into gear.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
I yanked the I yanked it. I yanked the.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Thing, and off they went. Two seven year olds alone
on the road. Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park
and Palm Beach gardens.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
We got the one called that he told you about
the driver in the vehicle who looked too short to
be able to see Steio.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
part cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
moving cars near Walmart.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I want to do because it's fun funny do bad
things and drives into a car.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebout it?
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Yes, but I wanted to do her or stuff for
my friend.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
It all ended on Investment Lane and Consumer Drive. That's
where latarian hit the curve inside, swiped the sign. The
SUV took most of the bad snapping off one of
his axles and wheels.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
A grandmother's rage.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
I want to whip his behind. That's what I want
to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take
me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You don't think he should be punished for all of this.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
There's a little bit no video games for the whole weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And one unusual story for police. Are you sorry?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You understand that now your grandma's going to have to
pay to have those cars sticks because you hit those cars.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Mom, Mom, I don't know, can you mom help her. Well,
you moved on, as we all did, but Latarian didn't.
Two weeks after that, he attacked his grandmother because she
wouldn't buy him chicken wings. Nine years later, he found
himself in trouble again. Won't to guess what he did.
This time he carjacked a car with his friends once again.
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WPBF twenty five news.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Latarian Milton spent about ten minutes in court this morning.
He learned that he will not be able to go
home anytime soon. He will have to wait to hear
from the judge the next court day. We last spoke
with Latarian Milton in twenty fifteen. He had just completed
middle school and was looking forward to the next step.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I good the school on high school first, he had
down your football team had some good successful.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday
to face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and carjackie.
Balmbe County's here staff and he'say. A lift driver picked
up four young males and a female early Sunday morning
and drove them to a windor away in West Palm Beach.
That's where the female exited the vehicle. Investigator say the
suspects told the driver to take them to another location,
where the driver refused. Authorities say one of the suspects
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pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the
back of the head. The driver says he got out
of the car and was robbed of his walllet and jacket.
He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the
front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's
seat and sped away with the other suspects. According to investigators,
the driver gave detectives a phone number, which led to
the identification of Milton. Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. We
(22:34):
first met Milton in two thousand and seven, when he
was seven years old. He had just stolen his grandmother's
SUV and went on a joy ride through Lake Park
in Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
I want to do it cause it's fun, funny do
bad things. Drives into a car?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Yes, but I wanted to do hood stuff with my friend.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
whip thisiss behind right now.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Back in court, the judge ordered milton to remain at
a juvenile facility into his next court day.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Miltarian would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison for
that Crown the streets have replaced fathers in the home.
You know, I've played this clip before, but maybe it's
never been more appropriate than now. It was Denzel Washington
when he was asked about the importance of the father
in the home.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman delz into this
the issues around the legal system.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 11 (23:27):
And I think it's more important to make headway in
our own house. By the time the system comes into play,
the damage is done. They're not locking up seven year olds.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three
four weeks ago and we saw these little kids on
bikes with masks on the side of the head.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Like five or six of them.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
And the driver said, yeah, they little yummies. I said,
who said little yummies? Look up Google, little yummy. Little
yummy was eleven year old murderer.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
And you look at his picture, you'll see his head
shot him and he's like this and he got murdered
at eleven by a fourteen year old.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Wow, who's doing life now? And a sixteen year old?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That makes no sense.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
You blame the system. Where was his father? It starts
in the house and starts in the home. And yeah, well,
well when my father got locked up, where was his father?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (24:16):
You know, But like I did, talk about my three
closest friends, and they did you know, fifteen to twenty five,
one did twenty eight this, and that I was the
only one of the three to have a father in
my life, even though my parents were together.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
And they didn't We can blame the system if we want,
but they didn't lock any of us up at seven. Yeah,
we were all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen.
My parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have
anybody to help them, and they kept doing what they
was doing and the system got them. So I don't
the system is rigged, But why all the more reason
(24:55):
not to help them?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Do you take care of yourself?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Thank you about it, for this is just gets better
and better and better.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Pinched myself.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
President Trump as the head of the Kennedy Center, just
announcing that George Straight will be honored at the Kennedy
Center I as civilian honor you can receive. And I
think about I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about
George Straight being chosen by the Houston Livestock showing rodeo
(25:34):
to cover a missed date. Do you remember who missed
the date? Who very good to cover for a missed date?
And how that really launched him? Obviously, I think that
was the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV
did for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo did for.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
George Strake.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And I think about this little bitty fellow, little skinny,
fair faced, fresh faced kill boy in his boots and
his jeans creased down the middle, and he's reaching out
there and shaking people's hands, and he's happy to be here.
And that's George Straight, and now he's going to be honored.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Have you been to the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I went up because the kids were interning in Congress
this summer and spent some time, and we went back
to things that I had worked at a law firm
there and I hadn't but I hadn't spent any real
time there in a while, so I had to make
multiple trips to DC, and so sometimes this summer I
was doing my show from my hotel room.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And it's good that you didn't notice.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That means our equipment is good.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And don't try to say you notice now that I
told you.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Anyway, we went to a show at the Kennedy Center,
and I mean it's it's kind of a tired old building,
to be honest with you. But the grandeur and the
fact that Trump understood just like he's taking over the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Why let the left have these things?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So George Strait will be honored, Gloria Gaynor will be honored.
Michael Crawford, I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's
famous for being the voice of the of the Phantom
and Phantom of the Opera. He's kind of the voice
that's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture,
to the to the fine to the performing arts theater.
(27:35):
And then who else, Sylvester Stallone and last but not least.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
Kiss Oh hell, yes, oh yes, this is not about
their daddy.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to
be was a DJ, not a talk show host.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Why even say that? Oh yeah, Trump's gonna do his
Ymca dance to this Hell yes.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
America's back.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh he's gonna be kiss make up with platforms.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
What will his be give it?
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I got it, I got it. He's all white like
a panamion.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
But there's a bullet streak across where the bullet went across,
and his ear is black. Oh hell yes, yes, inshould
the fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
(28:59):
versions of Nancy.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Throwing eggs in him, and an.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Iron dome emerges and they shatter and crack like Paul
Pelosi's knee, and over to the side, Paul and Nancy
are both getting hammered, but in very different ways, and you.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Die, Oh, I love it, I make it all.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And he's just doing that Ymca dance all around the
stage and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing teeth, nashers
and lamentations as they bow before us, and then stallone
(29:49):
comes out circle rambo yes, and then Gloria Gaynor comes
(30:12):
out looking like Telma Houston Stark in nineteen seventy eight
in a fade down kiss and they make a barbershop
quartet behind them, and she starts into I will survive,
and everyone knows.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
This is a tribute to Donald Trump. Donald J.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Trump was a breed that was doug.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
A fine kept thinking of another without you buy my side.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
But then I spend so min a night thinking how
you did me wrong?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Doctor's wrong?
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Now learned people.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's like that last scene, officer and a gentleman.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Donnay, I just walked the end of partner here with
that Nona face.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I should have changed that.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Stupid to wait a goo, Paul.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
But they're way to go at Donald Trump's like look
at this thirty four convictions.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
And then Stormy daniels.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Over to the side.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Her dress falls off and she is exposed in all
her shame and Ejen Carol is over there in her
eyes have turned blood red, and then she turns to
stone like Medusa.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Well, I want to thank you all very much.
Speaker 13 (31:33):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
These are our friends.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
We have thousands of them, and we said this, and
I won't fight for you, for your family and your future.
Every single day I will be fighting for you.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
So we're gonna make our country.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Better than on the screen has displayed a picture of
Bill Clinton in the blue dress and red high.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Heels with his.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Co f me look on his face like he's in
bride's head revisited that hung in Epstein's New York home
and Hillary just keeps fainting, but they put smelling sauce
(32:22):
under her and say no face the music, Hillary, you
ain't no ways time.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's just how I imagine that might not. I don't know,
that's not official
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