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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that sign sign sign time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Barry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
President Trump met with the deputies who stopped the bad
guy who intended to murder him.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know, a lot of people have advice for what
Trump should do, Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Should do, what Trump should take, what Trump should say.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Everybody has advice for Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What Trump should say is he ought to say, hey,
come on, well, if you did this, then uh, why
don't you do this? And I hear it all day
every day, and I think, so, you've got to advice
for what Trump should do because that would win the race?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, uh well.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Just out of curiosity. I appreciate the free advice you're giving.
As the consultant you've become. What are you doing to
help win the race? Probably not a damn thing except
sitting around telling Trump what he should do. But are
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you are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Anything to help win this race at all?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
A social media post, maybe, phone call, emailing five friends? No,
probably not, just what Trump should do differently. And I
get it all the time. I see it on TV.
I see it. Everybody has a way Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Didn't do this right?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And Trump, let me tell you something. I'm fifty three
years old, and I've been reading about politics, interacting with politics,
sitting in the room where strategy is made on elections
and governance, serving in public office, talking to some of
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the best minds in the country for years and years
and years decades. Okay, there is one candidate and one
candidate only. That is the juggernaut that is Donald Trump.
No one else even comes close, not even Reagan, what
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at not Barack Obama, who would probably be number two,
with Clinton as a number three.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You don't have to like people, don't take me wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
In terms of engagement, in what we call activation.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Trump's the top of the heat. Never seen anything like this.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
He draws rallies bigger than the Rolling Stones could draw
because he's not singing. If the Stones held a rally
and didn't perform, they couldn't draw the.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Crowds he does.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
And by the way, the Stones have a whole crew
out there and they're they're doing all that before they've
got venues and mailing lists. Trump some of these rallies
they hold at the last minute. Sometimes he'll have ten
twenty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I don't know the number.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And for some reason, people really really get particular about
ah it wasn't nine thousand, it was only eighty three hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was so dumb. It's so dumb. But whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
But he'll have ten thousand people, let's say, at a
rally in a town that has eight hundred people. Do
you understand how crazy this is? It is it's unheard of.
So you do understand that he came out of nowhere
a president who had never been elected to any office before.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That doesn't happen. There were almost twenty candidates running.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You had governors, senators, You had a Bush that had
almost one hundred million dollars. You had Ted Cruz who
raised one hundred million dollars by the time the primary
was over. You had Scott Walker and Rand Paul who
has his own kind of cult, libertarian cult, and I
love it. You had all these This was the strongest
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field in a presidential primary in history, in my opinion,
and I'm not the only one who believes that. And
Trump not only won it, he wanted handily. It's incredible
what he did. Okay, why am I making that point?
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Because you don't know how to go from being a
guy that was a cultural phenomenon to being the nominee.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You have no idea what he did.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Now, you want him to win, and he wants to win.
We can agree on that part. But how he gets there.
He doesn't need more advice, and I don't need more
advice to pass to him. And you don't need to
waste more time worrying about his strategy because you're not
actually helping. What you need to do is focus on
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the x'es and o's of getting people to vote.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
People spend all day every day.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
They watch all the Fox News, they listen to all
the radio, stay on the internet all the time, and
they're just mad all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's always something got him mad every day.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But then it comes election time and they don't do anything.
They may vote at the most, they may vote themselves,
probably don't have everybody in their home voting, But that's it.
It's somehow we win on the left. You ever notice
I never go anywhere that somebody is registering voters for Republicans.
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My son's in college in Austin at the University of Texas,
so my wife were up a few weeks ago moving
him in, and I went to law school in Austin,
and my wife came up as a visiting student for
one year. She was also in law school, a year
ahead of me, and we had a lot of fun
In Austin. It was just kind of funky back then.
Now it's gone weird. I mean weird in the way
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that weird, in the way it's got an element, the
same way that Portland went from kind of funky to
what they called weird to what I call weird, which
is dangerous and radical. Whereas Portland and Austin both used
to be very very charming, charming, charming towns, now they're
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full blown cities without most of the charm they once had.
And I'm told that has also happened to Seattle. I
know it has happened to San Francisco, which, while it
was a city, still had a charm. It was funky,
you know. Sure it had the whole gay thing, but
it had a lot more than that. It had a
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Gary Street, you know, the Asian restaurants, the first generation.
It was a real melting pot of funky and West Coast.
You know, it has a music scene, it had a
theater scene. It had the Chinese immigrants and their restaurants.
It had a thriving Jewish community, it had it had.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
A business community, all of those things.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Its retail was as good as any any place in
the country, including New York, and then it became a
tech town. But somewhere along the way, as often happens,
white liberals will screw things up. Rich, white, peaceful, safe liberals.
And this is what you're seeing in Scandinavia. They sit
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around and go, we're too rich and too white. Let's
bring a bunch of terrorists from Syria in. Let's show
how great we are. And in a very brief period
of time their town collapses.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And unfortunately that's what happened. Anyway, I was talking about
Austin for some reason. Why was the time about Austin.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
If you're listening to this show to hear me complete
a thought, you're going to be very disappointed.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
If you're new to the show, you're going to be
very disappointed. Eighteen we're talking about paper ballance. But that
actually might be one of the smartest systems the Michael
Ferry Show, because Russia cannot hack a piece of paper.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So an unfolding news story in Houston, Texas today. These
are the anecdotes. These are the Springfield, Ohio stories. I
got news this morning because I'm a cop guy. That
there was a cop who was shot, that he had
interrupted a home invasion and the bad guys had shot him.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I found this out for my cop friends.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Shortly thereafter, I found out from a buddy of mine
who lives across the street from where all this happened,
that this had just happened. He's in the process of
moving out to the country before all this started, because
he's tired of hearing gunshots. Then I get an email
from the family as to they were the victims. Their
listeners to the show, and they wanted me to know
that when they watched the debate the other night and
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they heard that conversation about America being safe and David
Muir saying, you know, Trump, don't say America's not safe.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Crime is down. This is what is happening.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
This is what happens when you put bad guys back
out on the streets. The homeowner was kind enough to
talk to us, And this was a few hours ago earlier.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Today, here was that conversation. Ben Bates.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes, well, I received your email. It's been a traumatic day. Obviously,
with your permission, I'll read this email and we can
begin our conversation. Sure, you say, I am the homeowner
and so the headline officer involved shooting in Spring Branch.
This is on the same street as a friend of mine.
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And first of all, so I know one of your neighbors.
And secondly, I was advised by an HPD officer who
was on the scene when Officer Scott Durphy was shot
that he had been shot and that they were on
their way and I was getting updates. So when I
got your email, I'm the homeowner and two armed gunmen
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forced their way into our home. My twenty six year
old daughter was there with her one and three year old.
She's traumatized. Officer entered and was shot in the leg.
The bad guys return fire. Two men apprehended, but still
looking for the driver of the stolen white Camra. We
haven't been let back into our home yet. I heard
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on the debate the other night that violent crime is down.
Facts on the ground do not indicate that, Ben. By
the way, facts on the ground and actual data do
not prove that you are absolutely right. But what you're experiencing,
we're seeing all over the country, and I'll bet these
guys are going to turn out to be out on
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a warrant with a long criminal record and one of
Rodney Ellis's criminal judges will have released them again to
go out and do this. But walk me through if
you would, Ben, I guess first of all. First things, first,
nobody in your family is harmed.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, that's a blessing.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
And my understanding is Officer Durfy, who took the shot,
is wounded, but he's going to survive, so that's good news.
So tell me what was happening at the house and
is were you there at the house when this happened.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I was not.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
I was in work and it was real was odd
because I've been texting my daughter about something else and
the next thing I know, my neighbor called me.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He's like, are you at the house. I'm like no,
and he says you should get there.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
There's a you know, a bunch of cop cars and gunshots.
I heard gunshots, and so I kind of dropped everything
and headed over there. So I since had an opportunity
to talk to my daughter and look, I've got a
ring I've got ring cameras on the front of my house.
So I actually saw the guy who was he had
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called me kind of pulled up. He walked up walked
back to the car, walked up, walked back to the car.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Third time. He came up with a red.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Door dashbag and said he was there for food delivery,
and my daughter, you shouldn't have let's see, opened the
door to telling me he's that the wrong address, and
he forced his way inside with a gun held on her,
and then a second bad guy.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Ran in and they closed the door.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
They zipsied my daughter and they started ransacking the house,
and they kept asking her like, where's the safe, where's
you know, where's the jewelry?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
And you know, we're not we don't have a safe,
we don't have expensive items. So but it just she
was just really terrorized by the whole situation. But my
neighbor saw them casing the place and he called the police,
and the police arrived within five minutes. They entered the
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house with the bad guy still inside. One was in
the back room and one was was right there, and
they fired on that officer and then they returned fire.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And I really don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I think they have apprehended both of these gas they're
sitting in the back of a cruiser right now. My
daughter did her best identify they're wearing COVID masks, which
is convenient.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I guess, yeah, very So at what time did this happen?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
This was at nine thirty six. Nine thirty six is
when they came. And the officers came like five or
six minutes from the time they went into the house.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And there were two who entered the house and one
who was outside in the stolen white to a camera.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Correct, Yeah, and they're still looking for that camera. But
I don't think they've got a bead on it. But
it has stolen plates or something like that.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, of course it does, because they're in the middle
of a crime spree. They're just committing crimes all day long.
What do these guys look like?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
How old? What's their skin color?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I mean, they're really covered up, but they sound they
seemed to be Hispanic males. But that's what I heard
the police say.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So did they speak to your daughter when they came
into the house.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
They did. Yeah, I actually have the audio of them
speaking to her.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Did she detect an accent or did she get anything
from that?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
She did?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I haven't had a chance to really there. She's handling
her her little ones right now.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
So when they zip tied her up, was it just
her and the two babies?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So the babies were left there? What were they just
walking around?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
How then they had her.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
They took her into some of the rooms and they
were like, where's a safe, you know, and she's like,
we don't have a safe, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And they were kind of you know, they.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Were demanding that she wasn't being very cooperative and threatening
to kill her.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
So then, so was she zip tied during that or
they zip tide her after that?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
She was hip tied during that? Wow?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So when the officers arrive, is the door still closed
she's in? How does she stay out of the middle
of being taken as a hostage.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Or whatever else?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I think she was back in our family room, and
when the officers came in, I think she ducked down
behind the couches and and so I think she was
able to avoid the cross Foker.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And the bad guys start shooting at the cops. Officer
Durfy fires back. Obviously they hit him. Were the bad
guys ever hit.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I do not know? Wow?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Wow, So you're not back in your house yet?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
No, there's still crime scene unit's been on it for
a couple hours now, so we did just get some
They did just bring us a diaper bag so we
can change the diapers on the little one.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So that's progress.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And is your wife there?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
My wife is here, both my daughter who was in
the house. My other daughter came from work. So our
whole family's here except my son.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Still at school. Wow. We're across the street at a
neighbor's house.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know, he's very, very hospitable colitis hang out there.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I know that neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Well, I've gone over to visit my friend Bryant Reckling
and his bride, and they have little babies, as were
a lot of little kids in that neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know, this is horrible. It's awful.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I'm going to find a silver lining and everything I
try to I try to do that. The good news
is that no one in your home was physically harmed.
The police officer was, and hopefully he's going to heal up.
I'm happy for your family in that way and grateful
that that in and of itself is a blessing.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I appreciate you sharing your story. I hope this wakes
people up to exactly what's going on. Thank you, sir,
You've got so Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
The Bible says, in the words of Jesus Christ, the
truth shall set you free. How many people really live
in truth? I'm not being existential here. Think about how
we have allowed ourselves to live lies, to drive a car.
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We can't afford live in the house. We can't afford
to be married to someone who was never good for us,
doesn't love us, or we don't love them. You see
this happen all the time. I will tell you, and
people will say, how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I married someone that I liked to be around. She's
a very, very pretty girl. But even if she wasn't,
I like to be around her. I'm just lucky she
takes such great care of herself. But even if she didn't,
I still want to be around her. We make each
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other laugh, we have fun together. I look forward to
a car ride together. I don't think to myself. When
you live in honesty and truth, life becomes a lot better.
Now are we living in honesty and truth? When when
we allow people to bully other people over race, for instance.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Is affirmative action? Living in honesty and no, it's not.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You've got people who are benefiting from affirmative action that
were already rich or already connected. You've got poor white
people that are being victimized by terrible policies like this.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Let's make it stop.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Boise State University ordered to pay a coffee shop nearly
four million dollars in damages after an administrator forced the
shop to close their on campus shop, which they built
out because they displayed a thin blue line flag sticker
to support the police. Supporting the police got them kicked
off the campus.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
The story from KTVB Television.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
A year's long battle over First Amendment rights at Boise
State has just come to a close. After a three
week trial, a jury has decided that Boise State's administrator
retaliated against Big City Coffee based on the coffee shop's
protected First Amendment rights. The decision came down just over
an hour ago. After several hours of deliberation, a jury
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sided with the coffee shop, awarding them a total of
four million dollars. Big City Coffee's owner, Sarah Fenley, was
emotional in court as the jury's verdict was being read.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Question number one, did plaintiffs prove their First Amendment retaliation claim?
Against Leslie Webb as described in Instruction number thirteen.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Answer yes.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Question number two did Leslie Webb's violation of plaintiffs First
Amendment rights described in question one above cause injury to
plaintiffs answers yes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Question number four.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Did plaintiffs prove their First Amendment retaliation claim against Alicia
st as described in Instruction number fourteen?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Answer yes.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Big City Coffee filed a ten million dollar lawsuit against
two BSU administrators back in twenty twenty one. The case
revolved around a thin blue line sticker which Fenley had
up in her downtown location since twenty sixteen. The thin
line represents support of law enforcement. Fenley claimed she was
forced to close her Boise State location shortly after it
opened in twenty twenty after backlash from some students who
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called on others to not support the business following nationwide
protests against police brutality and calls for reform. Her attorney
says BSU administrators asked her to sign a statement saying
the departure was mutual. Fentley declined that request, believing she
was forced off campus again. Big City was awarded a
total of four million dollars. That's three million dollars for
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the Boise State administrator's retaliation and one million dollars in
punitive damages.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So let's have this conversation right now. Who are the
people who hate the police, because that's what this is.
If you get a coffee shop kicked off of campus
for displaying a sticker that says I support first responders,
if you do that, you hate police. Why do you
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hate police because of police brutality? Okay, what about the
fact that a number of black perpetrators of violence in
say Chicago. What if I were to show you numbers
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and I don't know what the number is, let's say
eighty percent of the perpetrators of violence in Chicago or black?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Would you then hate black people.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Because that's what we've worked against, isn't it. Don't blame
all black people for a few bad black people. Don't
blame all cops for a few bad cops. Except that's
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not really what this is about, is it? Police brutality?
Police are so awful. Let's look at the Tyreek Heel case.
I'll have this conversation. How fast was he driving when
they pulled him over? You notice that story went away?
Why did he keep rolling up his window? What were
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the officers supposed to do? See, everybody loves to criticize
the cops. How would you like to walk up on
cars every single day and you don't know which one's
going to pull a gun on you and shoot you
because they got a warrant out and they're going back
to prison for life because they've been there and they've
committed all these violent crimes.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And you don't know that. You ever notice an officer
when they walk up on a.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Car, they put their hand on the the trunk of
the car, that just touch it for a second. You
know why they're putting their palm print on there so
that after you kill them and drive off, that's proof
they were there, so if nothing else, that guy could
be prosecuted. You ever had to confront that all of
this cop hating, I'm tired of it. The cops do
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a good job. You know who doesn't like cops? People
that commit crimes. Sure, there's some bad cops. There's also
some bad black people and Hispanics and white people and
fat people and gay people.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You don't hate them, do you? Is not a criminals
Michael Arris, Joe, he has a correct.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Course in this conversation you're gonna have to adjust your
opinion of Ron De Santis. I'm sorry, you just are.
I'm not going to argue with you on this. Just
trust me. We've got to build a farm team. Friends,
We're not gonna have Trump forever. I don't care how
great your quarterback is or your starting pitcher or your
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point guard. Chicago destroyed, destroyed, the greatest team ever. Early,
but the day was gonna come. Colangelo knew that was it.
Jerry Colangelo says his name. Yeah, he's an idiot, absolute idiot, ego, maniac, idiot.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Needed again.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
So many fellas ruined wonderful things because of their own
personal ego. But anyway, back to Ron de Santis. Ron
DeSantis is a good man. He's a great governor. He's
the best governor in the country, no questions asked. When
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he ran, I don't think he thought Trump would run
because he knew he couldn't beat Trump. But then Trump
did run, and he stayed in the race because it
would be awkward if he got out. And at that
moment I watched I had I knew a lot of
people that were supporting him, and I told them he
needs to get out because it's going to destroy him.
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Trump supporters are so loyal. Trump supporters are so loyal
that they will destroy DeSantis. I know, I was a
Cruise guy in sixteen. Cruise is a different breed. You
can knock him down. He's like Bill Clinton, gets back
up again and again and again. And I think DeSantis
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has proven to be that as well. But in any case,
Desantas is a good guy. He's a good governor. We
want him doing what he's doing in Florida. And I'll
give you a great example. He announced today that he
has moved the would be Trump assassin Ryan Road's case
under Florida state jurisdiction.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
But today I'm signing an executive order assigning the case
involving the attempt at assassinate a former President Donald Trump
to the office of statewide Prosecutor under the supervision of
Attorney General Ashley Moody. The suspect, Ryan Rouths believed of
committed state law violations across multiple judicial circuits in the state,
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Palm Beach Judicial Circuit, the judicial circuit including Martin County,
as well as perhaps the judicial circuit represented by Broward County. Also,
the state of Florida has jurisdiction over the most serious,
straightforward defense, which is attempted murder. I've directed state agencies
to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public.
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In my judgment, it's not in the best interest of
our state or our nation of the same federal agencies
that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump leading this investigation,
especially when the most serious, straightforward defense constitutes a violation.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Of state law but not federal law.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
In addition to holding the suspect accountable, the public deserves
to know the truth about how this assassination came to be,
and I've directed all state agencies to work expeditiously to
be able to uncover the truth in addition to holding
this suspect accountable.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
So what he's doing is making sure they can't do
what they did in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FEDS and just
cover this thing up, because you and I know that's
what they'll do. You know that's what they'll do. Here's
Donald Trump telling the story. Listen how calm he is
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talking about somebody waiting in the bushes to murder him.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
This is leadership right here. Song freud, cold blood, I
mean cool in.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
The pocket So I was playing golf with some of
my friends, who was on a Sunday morning and very peaceful,
very beautiful, whether everything was beautiful, it was a nice
place to be.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And all of a sudden we heard shots.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
Being fired in the air and I guess probably four
or five and it sounded like bullets, But what do
I know about that?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
But Secret Service knew.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Immediately it was bullets, and they grabbed me, and I
think probably the other one was one of the people
see would cover, a great friend of mine, a great,
great businessman from mostly New York and Florida, great businessman
and more importantly, just a fantastic person. So we're in
the group and everybody just we got into the carts
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and we moved along pretty good.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
I was with an agent, and the agent did a
fantastic job. There was no question that we were off
that course. I would have loved to have sank that
last part.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But we decided to get out of here.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
And what the gunfar was actually, interestingly was a Secret
Service agent had seen.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
A barrel of a.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
AK forty seven, which is a very powerful guy, and
he started shooting at the barrel, started shooting in the bushes.
We could only see the bar How good is that right?
We could only see the barrel. Based on that, he
started shooting and ran toward the target and was shooting
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a lot of I mean, those were the shots we heard.
The other one never got a shot off, and he
ran across the street and grabbed his car, hopped into
his truck or car, and amazingly, a civilian in that
area saw something and it looked very suspicious and in
the car, drove their car to the back of his
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truck of some kind and took pictures of the license plate,
gave him to the sheriff's office. Sheriff Branshaw was fantastic,
very great sheriff for a long time, and within a
fairly short period of time they tracked.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Him down on the highway.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Was pretty high speed chase and they ended up getting him.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
They got him.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
You wouldn't want to have somebody like that out there,
you know.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
He dropped his gun, the AK forty seven. He left
his gun, and he left a cameras behind, left a
lot of things behind. So the agent did a fantastic job.
The civilian did a phenomenal job. A woman, I mean,
who would think he could take a thousand times like that,
how many people would have the brain power to follow
him and how many hues of the back of his
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truck so that they end up getting And the key
was the license, so they got the license, and after
they had the license shoe, there's all sorts of technology
where they can literally pinpoint where this truck is. I
never knew something like that existed. And they pinpointed him
on the highway. They got him with a high speed chase,
so they got him.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It was amazing.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
So Secret Service did a great job, and I think
I could say honestly, at the sheriff's office, the law enforcement,
everybody really did a great job.
It's that sign sign sign time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Barry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
President Trump met with the deputies who stopped the bad
guy who intended to murder him.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know, a lot of people have advice for what
Trump should do, Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Should do, what Trump should take, what Trump should say.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Everybody has advice for Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What Trump should say is he ought to say, hey,
come on, well, if you did this, then uh, why
don't you do this? And I hear it all day
every day, and I think, so, you've got to advice
for what Trump should do because that would win the race?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, uh well.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Just out of curiosity. I appreciate the free advice you're giving.
As the consultant you've become. What are you doing to
help win the race? Probably not a damn thing except
sitting around telling Trump what he should do. But are
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you are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Anything to help win this race at all?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
A social media post, maybe, phone call, emailing five friends? No,
probably not, just what Trump should do differently. And I
get it all the time. I see it on TV.
I see it. Everybody has a way Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Didn't do this right?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And Trump, let me tell you something. I'm fifty three
years old, and I've been reading about politics, interacting with politics,
sitting in the room where strategy is made on elections
and governance, serving in public office, talking to some of
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the best minds in the country for years and years
and years decades. Okay, there is one candidate and one
candidate only. That is the juggernaut that is Donald Trump.
No one else even comes close, not even Reagan, what
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at not Barack Obama, who would probably be number two,
with Clinton as a number three.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You don't have to like people, don't take me wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
In terms of engagement, in what we call activation.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Trump's the top of the heat. Never seen anything like this.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
He draws rallies bigger than the Rolling Stones could draw
because he's not singing. If the Stones held a rally
and didn't perform, they couldn't draw the.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Crowds he does.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
And by the way, the Stones have a whole crew
out there and they're they're doing all that before they've
got venues and mailing lists. Trump some of these rallies
they hold at the last minute. Sometimes he'll have ten
twenty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I don't know the number.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And for some reason, people really really get particular about
ah it wasn't nine thousand, it was only eighty three hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was so dumb. It's so dumb. But whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
But he'll have ten thousand people, let's say, at a
rally in a town that has eight hundred people. Do
you understand how crazy this is? It is it's unheard of.
So you do understand that he came out of nowhere
a president who had never been elected to any office before.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That doesn't happen. There were almost twenty candidates running.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You had governors, senators, You had a Bush that had
almost one hundred million dollars. You had Ted Cruz who
raised one hundred million dollars by the time the primary
was over. You had Scott Walker and Rand Paul who
has his own kind of cult, libertarian cult, and I
love it. You had all these This was the strongest
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field in a presidential primary in history, in my opinion,
and I'm not the only one who believes that. And
Trump not only won it, he wanted handily. It's incredible
what he did. Okay, why am I making that point?
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Because you don't know how to go from being a
guy that was a cultural phenomenon to being the nominee.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You have no idea what he did.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Now, you want him to win, and he wants to win.
We can agree on that part. But how he gets there.
He doesn't need more advice, and I don't need more
advice to pass to him. And you don't need to
waste more time worrying about his strategy because you're not
actually helping. What you need to do is focus on
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the x'es and o's of getting people to vote.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
People spend all day every day.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
They watch all the Fox News, they listen to all
the radio, stay on the internet all the time, and
they're just mad all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's always something got him mad every day.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But then it comes election time and they don't do anything.
They may vote at the most, they may vote themselves,
probably don't have everybody in their home voting, But that's it.
It's somehow we win on the left. You ever notice
I never go anywhere that somebody is registering voters for Republicans.
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My son's in college in Austin at the University of Texas,
so my wife were up a few weeks ago moving
him in, and I went to law school in Austin,
and my wife came up as a visiting student for
one year. She was also in law school, a year
ahead of me, and we had a lot of fun
In Austin. It was just kind of funky back then.
Now it's gone weird. I mean weird in the way
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that weird, in the way it's got an element, the
same way that Portland went from kind of funky to
what they called weird to what I call weird, which
is dangerous and radical. Whereas Portland and Austin both used
to be very very charming, charming, charming towns, now they're
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full blown cities without most of the charm they once had.
And I'm told that has also happened to Seattle. I
know it has happened to San Francisco, which, while it
was a city, still had a charm. It was funky,
you know. Sure it had the whole gay thing, but
it had a lot more than that. It had a
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Gary Street, you know, the Asian restaurants, the first generation.
It was a real melting pot of funky and West Coast.
You know, it has a music scene, it had a
theater scene. It had the Chinese immigrants and their restaurants.
It had a thriving Jewish community, it had it had.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
A business community, all of those things.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Its retail was as good as any any place in
the country, including New York, and then it became a
tech town. But somewhere along the way, as often happens,
white liberals will screw things up. Rich, white, peaceful, safe liberals.
And this is what you're seeing in Scandinavia. They sit
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around and go, we're too rich and too white. Let's
bring a bunch of terrorists from Syria in. Let's show
how great we are. And in a very brief period
of time their town collapses.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And unfortunately that's what happened. Anyway, I was talking about
Austin for some reason. Why was the time about Austin.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
If you're listening to this show to hear me complete
a thought, you're going to be very disappointed.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
If you're new to the show, you're going to be
very disappointed. Eighteen we're talking about paper ballance. But that
actually might be one of the smartest systems the Michael
Ferry Show, because Russia cannot hack a piece of paper.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So an unfolding news story in Houston, Texas today. These
are the anecdotes. These are the Springfield, Ohio stories. I
got news this morning because I'm a cop guy. That
there was a cop who was shot, that he had
interrupted a home invasion and the bad guys had shot him.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I found this out for my cop friends.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Shortly thereafter, I found out from a buddy of mine
who lives across the street from where all this happened,
that this had just happened. He's in the process of
moving out to the country before all this started, because
he's tired of hearing gunshots. Then I get an email
from the family as to they were the victims. Their
listeners to the show, and they wanted me to know
that when they watched the debate the other night and
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they heard that conversation about America being safe and David
Muir saying, you know, Trump, don't say America's not safe.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Crime is down. This is what is happening.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
This is what happens when you put bad guys back
out on the streets. The homeowner was kind enough to
talk to us, And this was a few hours ago earlier.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Today, here was that conversation. Ben Bates.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes, well, I received your email. It's been a traumatic day. Obviously,
with your permission, I'll read this email and we can
begin our conversation. Sure, you say, I am the homeowner
and so the headline officer involved shooting in Spring Branch.
This is on the same street as a friend of mine.
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And first of all, so I know one of your neighbors.
And secondly, I was advised by an HPD officer who
was on the scene when Officer Scott Durphy was shot
that he had been shot and that they were on
their way and I was getting updates. So when I
got your email, I'm the homeowner and two armed gunmen
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forced their way into our home. My twenty six year
old daughter was there with her one and three year old.
She's traumatized. Officer entered and was shot in the leg.
The bad guys return fire. Two men apprehended, but still
looking for the driver of the stolen white Camra. We
haven't been let back into our home yet. I heard
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on the debate the other night that violent crime is down.
Facts on the ground do not indicate that, Ben. By
the way, facts on the ground and actual data do
not prove that you are absolutely right. But what you're experiencing,
we're seeing all over the country, and I'll bet these
guys are going to turn out to be out on
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a warrant with a long criminal record and one of
Rodney Ellis's criminal judges will have released them again to
go out and do this. But walk me through if
you would, Ben, I guess first of all. First things, first,
nobody in your family is harmed.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, that's a blessing.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
And my understanding is Officer Durfy, who took the shot,
is wounded, but he's going to survive, so that's good news.
So tell me what was happening at the house and
is were you there at the house when this happened.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I was not.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
I was in work and it was real was odd
because I've been texting my daughter about something else and
the next thing I know, my neighbor called me.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He's like, are you at the house. I'm like no,
and he says you should get there.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
There's a you know, a bunch of cop cars and gunshots.
I heard gunshots, and so I kind of dropped everything
and headed over there. So I since had an opportunity
to talk to my daughter and look, I've got a
ring I've got ring cameras on the front of my house.
So I actually saw the guy who was he had
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called me kind of pulled up. He walked up walked
back to the car, walked up, walked back to the car.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Third time. He came up with a red.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Door dashbag and said he was there for food delivery,
and my daughter, you shouldn't have let's see, opened the
door to telling me he's that the wrong address, and
he forced his way inside with a gun held on her,
and then a second bad guy.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Ran in and they closed the door.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
They zipsied my daughter and they started ransacking the house,
and they kept asking her like, where's the safe, where's
you know, where's the jewelry?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
And you know, we're not we don't have a safe,
we don't have expensive items. So but it just she
was just really terrorized by the whole situation. But my
neighbor saw them casing the place and he called the police,
and the police arrived within five minutes. They entered the
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house with the bad guy still inside. One was in
the back room and one was was right there, and
they fired on that officer and then they returned fire.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And I really don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I think they have apprehended both of these gas they're
sitting in the back of a cruiser right now. My
daughter did her best identify they're wearing COVID masks, which
is convenient.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I guess, yeah, very So at what time did this happen?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
This was at nine thirty six. Nine thirty six is
when they came. And the officers came like five or
six minutes from the time they went into the house.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And there were two who entered the house and one
who was outside in the stolen white to a camera.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Correct, Yeah, and they're still looking for that camera. But
I don't think they've got a bead on it. But
it has stolen plates or something like that.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, of course it does, because they're in the middle
of a crime spree. They're just committing crimes all day long.
What do these guys look like?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
How old? What's their skin color?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I mean, they're really covered up, but they sound they
seemed to be Hispanic males. But that's what I heard
the police say.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So did they speak to your daughter when they came
into the house.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
They did. Yeah, I actually have the audio of them
speaking to her.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Did she detect an accent or did she get anything
from that?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
She did?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I haven't had a chance to really there. She's handling
her her little ones right now.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
So when they zip tied her up, was it just
her and the two babies?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So the babies were left there? What were they just
walking around?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
How then they had her.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
They took her into some of the rooms and they
were like, where's a safe, you know, and she's like,
we don't have a safe, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And they were kind of you know, they.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Were demanding that she wasn't being very cooperative and threatening
to kill her.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
So then, so was she zip tied during that or
they zip tide her after that?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
She was hip tied during that? Wow?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So when the officers arrive, is the door still closed
she's in? How does she stay out of the middle
of being taken as a hostage.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Or whatever else?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I think she was back in our family room, and
when the officers came in, I think she ducked down
behind the couches and and so I think she was
able to avoid the cross Foker.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And the bad guys start shooting at the cops. Officer
Durfy fires back. Obviously they hit him. Were the bad
guys ever hit.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I do not know? Wow?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Wow, So you're not back in your house yet?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
No, there's still crime scene unit's been on it for
a couple hours now, so we did just get some
They did just bring us a diaper bag so we
can change the diapers on the little one.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So that's progress.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And is your wife there?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
My wife is here, both my daughter who was in
the house. My other daughter came from work. So our
whole family's here except my son.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Still at school. Wow. We're across the street at a
neighbor's house.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know, he's very, very hospitable colitis hang out there.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I know that neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Well, I've gone over to visit my friend Bryant Reckling
and his bride, and they have little babies, as were
a lot of little kids in that neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know, this is horrible. It's awful.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I'm going to find a silver lining and everything I
try to I try to do that. The good news
is that no one in your home was physically harmed.
The police officer was, and hopefully he's going to heal up.
I'm happy for your family in that way and grateful
that that in and of itself is a blessing.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I appreciate you sharing your story. I hope this wakes
people up to exactly what's going on. Thank you, sir,
You've got so Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
The Bible says, in the words of Jesus Christ, the
truth shall set you free. How many people really live
in truth? I'm not being existential here. Think about how
we have allowed ourselves to live lies, to drive a car.
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We can't afford live in the house. We can't afford
to be married to someone who was never good for us,
doesn't love us, or we don't love them. You see
this happen all the time. I will tell you, and
people will say, how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I married someone that I liked to be around. She's
a very, very pretty girl. But even if she wasn't,
I like to be around her. I'm just lucky she
takes such great care of herself. But even if she didn't,
I still want to be around her. We make each
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other laugh, we have fun together. I look forward to
a car ride together. I don't think to myself. When
you live in honesty and truth, life becomes a lot better.
Now are we living in honesty and truth? When when
we allow people to bully other people over race, for instance.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Is affirmative action? Living in honesty and no, it's not.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You've got people who are benefiting from affirmative action that
were already rich or already connected. You've got poor white
people that are being victimized by terrible policies like this.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Let's make it stop.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Boise State University ordered to pay a coffee shop nearly
four million dollars in damages after an administrator forced the
shop to close their on campus shop, which they built
out because they displayed a thin blue line flag sticker
to support the police. Supporting the police got them kicked
off the campus.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
The story from KTVB Television.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
A year's long battle over First Amendment rights at Boise
State has just come to a close. After a three
week trial, a jury has decided that Boise State's administrator
retaliated against Big City Coffee based on the coffee shop's
protected First Amendment rights. The decision came down just over
an hour ago. After several hours of deliberation, a jury
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sided with the coffee shop, awarding them a total of
four million dollars. Big City Coffee's owner, Sarah Fenley, was
emotional in court as the jury's verdict was being read.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Question number one, did plaintiffs prove their First Amendment retaliation claim?
Against Leslie Webb as described in Instruction number thirteen.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Answer yes.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Question number two did Leslie Webb's violation of plaintiffs First
Amendment rights described in question one above cause injury to
plaintiffs answers yes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Question number four.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Did plaintiffs prove their First Amendment retaliation claim against Alicia
st as described in Instruction number fourteen?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Answer yes.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Big City Coffee filed a ten million dollar lawsuit against
two BSU administrators back in twenty twenty one. The case
revolved around a thin blue line sticker which Fenley had
up in her downtown location since twenty sixteen. The thin
line represents support of law enforcement. Fenley claimed she was
forced to close her Boise State location shortly after it
opened in twenty twenty after backlash from some students who
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called on others to not support the business following nationwide
protests against police brutality and calls for reform. Her attorney
says BSU administrators asked her to sign a statement saying
the departure was mutual. Fentley declined that request, believing she
was forced off campus again. Big City was awarded a
total of four million dollars. That's three million dollars for
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the Boise State administrator's retaliation and one million dollars in
punitive damages.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So let's have this conversation right now. Who are the
people who hate the police, because that's what this is.
If you get a coffee shop kicked off of campus
for displaying a sticker that says I support first responders,
if you do that, you hate police. Why do you
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hate police because of police brutality? Okay, what about the
fact that a number of black perpetrators of violence in
say Chicago. What if I were to show you numbers
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and I don't know what the number is, let's say
eighty percent of the perpetrators of violence in Chicago or black?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Would you then hate black people.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Because that's what we've worked against, isn't it. Don't blame
all black people for a few bad black people. Don't
blame all cops for a few bad cops. Except that's
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not really what this is about, is it? Police brutality?
Police are so awful. Let's look at the Tyreek Heel case.
I'll have this conversation. How fast was he driving when
they pulled him over? You notice that story went away?
Why did he keep rolling up his window? What were
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the officers supposed to do? See, everybody loves to criticize
the cops. How would you like to walk up on
cars every single day and you don't know which one's
going to pull a gun on you and shoot you
because they got a warrant out and they're going back
to prison for life because they've been there and they've
committed all these violent crimes.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And you don't know that. You ever notice an officer
when they walk up on a.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Car, they put their hand on the the trunk of
the car, that just touch it for a second. You
know why they're putting their palm print on there so
that after you kill them and drive off, that's proof
they were there, so if nothing else, that guy could
be prosecuted. You ever had to confront that all of
this cop hating, I'm tired of it. The cops do
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a good job. You know who doesn't like cops? People
that commit crimes. Sure, there's some bad cops. There's also
some bad black people and Hispanics and white people and
fat people and gay people.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You don't hate them, do you? Is not a criminals
Michael Arris, Joe, he has a correct.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Course in this conversation you're gonna have to adjust your
opinion of Ron De Santis. I'm sorry, you just are.
I'm not going to argue with you on this. Just
trust me. We've got to build a farm team. Friends,
We're not gonna have Trump forever. I don't care how
great your quarterback is or your starting pitcher or your
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point guard. Chicago destroyed, destroyed, the greatest team ever. Early,
but the day was gonna come. Colangelo knew that was it.
Jerry Colangelo says his name. Yeah, he's an idiot, absolute idiot, ego, maniac, idiot.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Needed again.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
So many fellas ruined wonderful things because of their own
personal ego. But anyway, back to Ron de Santis. Ron
DeSantis is a good man. He's a great governor. He's
the best governor in the country, no questions asked. When
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he ran, I don't think he thought Trump would run
because he knew he couldn't beat Trump. But then Trump
did run, and he stayed in the race because it
would be awkward if he got out. And at that
moment I watched I had I knew a lot of
people that were supporting him, and I told them he
needs to get out because it's going to destroy him.
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Trump supporters are so loyal. Trump supporters are so loyal
that they will destroy DeSantis. I know, I was a
Cruise guy in sixteen. Cruise is a different breed. You
can knock him down. He's like Bill Clinton, gets back
up again and again and again. And I think DeSantis
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has proven to be that as well. But in any case,
Desantas is a good guy. He's a good governor. We
want him doing what he's doing in Florida. And I'll
give you a great example. He announced today that he
has moved the would be Trump assassin Ryan Road's case
under Florida state jurisdiction.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
But today I'm signing an executive order assigning the case
involving the attempt at assassinate a former President Donald Trump
to the office of statewide Prosecutor under the supervision of
Attorney General Ashley Moody. The suspect, Ryan Rouths believed of
committed state law violations across multiple judicial circuits in the state,
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Palm Beach Judicial Circuit, the judicial circuit including Martin County,
as well as perhaps the judicial circuit represented by Broward County. Also,
the state of Florida has jurisdiction over the most serious,
straightforward defense, which is attempted murder. I've directed state agencies
to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public.
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In my judgment, it's not in the best interest of
our state or our nation of the same federal agencies
that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump leading this investigation,
especially when the most serious, straightforward defense constitutes a violation.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Of state law but not federal law.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
In addition to holding the suspect accountable, the public deserves
to know the truth about how this assassination came to be,
and I've directed all state agencies to work expeditiously to
be able to uncover the truth in addition to holding
this suspect accountable.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
So what he's doing is making sure they can't do
what they did in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FEDS and just
cover this thing up, because you and I know that's
what they'll do. You know that's what they'll do. Here's
Donald Trump telling the story. Listen how calm he is
(29:38):
talking about somebody waiting in the bushes to murder him.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
This is leadership right here. Song freud, cold blood, I
mean cool in.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
The pocket So I was playing golf with some of
my friends, who was on a Sunday morning and very peaceful,
very beautiful, whether everything was beautiful, it was a nice
place to be.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And all of a sudden we heard shots.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
Being fired in the air and I guess probably four
or five and it sounded like bullets, But what do
I know about that?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
But Secret Service knew.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Immediately it was bullets, and they grabbed me, and I
think probably the other one was one of the people
see would cover, a great friend of mine, a great,
great businessman from mostly New York and Florida, great businessman
and more importantly, just a fantastic person. So we're in
the group and everybody just we got into the carts
(30:34):
and we moved along pretty good.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
I was with an agent, and the agent did a
fantastic job. There was no question that we were off
that course. I would have loved to have sank that
last part.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But we decided to get out of here.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
And what the gunfar was actually, interestingly was a Secret
Service agent had seen.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
A barrel of a.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
AK forty seven, which is a very powerful guy, and
he started shooting at the barrel, started shooting in the bushes.
We could only see the bar How good is that right?
We could only see the barrel. Based on that, he
started shooting and ran toward the target and was shooting
(31:17):
a lot of I mean, those were the shots we heard.
The other one never got a shot off, and he
ran across the street and grabbed his car, hopped into
his truck or car, and amazingly, a civilian in that
area saw something and it looked very suspicious and in
the car, drove their car to the back of his
(31:39):
truck of some kind and took pictures of the license plate,
gave him to the sheriff's office. Sheriff Branshaw was fantastic,
very great sheriff for a long time, and within a
fairly short period of time they tracked.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Him down on the highway.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Was pretty high speed chase and they ended up getting him.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
They got him.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
You wouldn't want to have somebody like that out there,
you know.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
He dropped his gun, the AK forty seven. He left
his gun, and he left a cameras behind, left a
lot of things behind. So the agent did a fantastic job.
The civilian did a phenomenal job. A woman, I mean,
who would think he could take a thousand times like that,
how many people would have the brain power to follow
him and how many hues of the back of his
(32:25):
truck so that they end up getting And the key
was the license, so they got the license, and after
they had the license shoe, there's all sorts of technology
where they can literally pinpoint where this truck is. I
never knew something like that existed. And they pinpointed him
on the highway. They got him with a high speed chase,
so they got him.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It was amazing.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
So Secret Service did a great job, and I think
I could say honestly, at the sheriff's office, the law enforcement,
everybody really did a great job.
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