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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Berry's show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by Son as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Two six packs, Shiner ninety nine six Putee Ladder, luggas
Jack Center fifth uh. But Retorney General Pam Bondi has
announced that a key figure I've heard Planner, I've heard Masterminder.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I don't know yet. You'll find out.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
A key figure is the term they're using behind the
twenty twelve Benghazi attack. Has been arrested and is now
in US custody. It felt like the right time to
revisit our conversation from a few years ago with former
Army ranger and CIA security contractor Chris Paranto known as Tanto,
(01:09):
who along with his team heroically saved twenty lives during
that attack. So you watched what was unmistakably an attack
on the compound in Benghazi. You were given the stand
down order twice let me not put words three times.
(01:32):
Twenty five minutes in you violated orders and said we're
going in anyway, and you did. One of your buddies
who went in with you was Tyrone Woods, who of
course was was killed in all of this. Uh And
was Chris Darty part of your group?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Two?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, Glenn Doherty Glen Glenn was actually the team from
Tripoli Okay, Grus guys from Triple that came in and Glenn,
you know, thank God for Way because he's the one
that that assisted getting one of the planes to us
for us to get out of there. Okay, and uh yeah,
glennsing hero too. He's an all I worked them in
triplely incredible, incredibly brave individual along with Tyrone incredibly brave people.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So you're making trips in and out over the course
of how much time to keep fighting off these guys, Well.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We we We did it till around midnight, right.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Five o'clock, five o'clock DC time, because that's going to
be important.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah. Yeah. And once we did that midnight, we realized that,
you know what, we're probably not going to be able
to find the ambassador we've been searching for our and
a half. You know, we have been through some counter attacks.
We happened, we shot a couple of their RPG gunners.
They're rock prognade gunners, and we're like, what do we do.
We need to either get back to our place to
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defend it, we're going to stay here and keep looking,
which and we at that time, we didn't know if
he'd been kidnapped. We had no idea if he was
even in in the in that burning building. And that
still haunts me, and I think it hants I the
rest of the guys too, and me definitely that you
never leave a fallen comrade to fall in the hands
of the enemy. And we made the decision to lead,
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and essentially he was found in the very back corner
of a safe room, and it bothered me because we
left it. We left his body there. He was dead,
of course, but we left. Uh. But it was a decision.
It was a tough decision, and and you know, looking
back on that was the right decision because we ended
up fighting three more counter attacks off at our annex,
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at our arts facility, and pretty vicious attacks, and that's
where we lost Ty and Glenn. The last one where
they hit us with mortars, and that's when mark ov
Geist was seriously injured and you know, he Luckily they
were able to reattach his arm, but basically his arm
would have been blown off. And uh and he almost
bled out upon that roof that night too.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now reports that got reports, I got tom toed overre
that y'all killed about forty of their guys and you
saved about Sex Department, State Department employees and evacuated about
another thirty Americans that night.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yes, that's correct, states Bartaan NCIA employees. So that's correct.
And yeah, we we we ended up unofficially and again
we get those counts, and we're very lucky that we
still have some friends within the own department at the
agency that can't give us those numbers, and those numbers
come from the locals on the ground. And that's the
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benefit of doing what we do is we do maintain
friendships with people that are in these countries, locals that
are in these countries, and I feel I have a
heartfeld My heart goes out to them because they're caught
in the middle of all this and there are some
good people there. Not all the Islamis islam Muslims or
terris Islamas are, but not all the Muslims aren't. Some
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of them actually want to help, and uh, you know
now we've left them, and who knows that they're even
alive to this day. But just so people know, I
just want to make sure that our numbers come from
some pretty solid sources, not from the US governments, from
people that are actually on the ground living there. Some
were even locals that actually live in the country. Still.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
So you'all fall back at this point, and you talked
about commandeering the assets that you use to get out
of there, Describe that if you would.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, the Triple A team which consisted of Glenn Doherty,
and there was also three other GRS operators they're still
working so I can't give you their names, and then
two Delta Force operators and then also an interpreter. They
came from Tripoli. They actually paid approximately twenty thousand dollars
to rent a charter jet. The charter jet just like
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chartering a jet here. It's like it looked like a
little in Berrier, you know jet that you'd see United
or Delta fly. And they flew from TRIPLEI to Benghazi.
When we left to go to the airfield that was
sitting there waiting for us. They had no idea, the
crew had no idea what they were getting into because
I remember driving up to the airfield and they were
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all in there in their outfits and the shock in
their eyes when they saw us trying to load our
bloody friends on there, Mark and Dave that had been
severely injured, it was it was almost comedic, to be
honest with you. We got them on there, got the
non shooters, all the State Department guys, all the staffers
that weren't shooters, weren't gun tootors, got them on that plane.
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It wasn't big enough to fit us on there, all
of us shooters, so we ended up waiting it left
got her injured to TRIPLEI. They were saved by some
doctors there in TRIPLEI and so and a special Forces
team that was in TRIPLEI. Uh, they are injured. And
then we waited till about ten o'clock, and we had
to actually speak to the Libyan Air Force to get
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a Liby and see one thirty to fly us out
of there around ten thirty the next morning with the
with the bodies, which we we did make. We did
finally get in Bachelor Stevens body back and we had
Sean I.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Got a minute left in this segment, Tonto how did
you get his body back?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A local local, the locals, there's some lot local friends
found his body at the at the hospital that Antosharia
had controlled. Managed to talk them into giving his body
to him, and they drove him back to us. So
he was found in the hospital that Antos Sharia had controlled,
A controlled and I be honest with you, I don't
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know how he got to that hospital. I know that
Anchal Sharia had his body and they managed to give
him back to us so we could fly him back
to Tripley and get him home.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Had his body been mutilated?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No. I looked at it, and I looked at it
from a foot away. I examined his entire body. He
looks fine. I also examined the bag to make sure
there was the IDs on it. And me being a
ranger from the Blackhawk down days, I wanted to make
sure he wasn't mutilated. And also working at Blackwater during
the during those days that our guys were mutilated there,
I wanted to ensure that. So, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
There were reports I got twenty seconds, there were ports
that his body was defiled in a sexual way.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That is absolutely not true.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's not from what I wrot now I did. I
didn't pull his hands down and look at it look
at his bribe all I looked at it from its
faith direct his body. But I'll tell your truth. I
didn't look down and it did pull its pants down.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
All right, Tonto hold, I will die over the country.
I will die for discs to Michael Berry, show is
the big honor to be living in the United States.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Bound Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that a key
figure I've heard planner, I've heard masterminder.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I don't know yet. We'll find out. A key figure
is the term they used it.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Behind the twenty twelve Benghazi attack has been arrested and
is now in US custody. It felt like the right
time to revisit our conversation from a few years ago
with former Army ranger and CIA security contractor Chris Paranto,
known as Tonto, who along with his team, heroically saved
(09:03):
twenty lives during that attack. So Tanto, do y'all get
on this, Do y'all get on this UH plane to
get out of Benghazi?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And then what happens?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well about that, you know that time, it was right
around ten thirty that that's it. We get there, we
were we're flying home, and yeah, pret tired, I'm pretty
wore out from the night. But you're you're kind of
digesting things in your mind. You're flying. You know, we
didn't have body bags for all the guys, so you know,
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we had sheets over land and tie and and Sean
and you know, you're just you're just sitting with them
in there, and you're you're kind of thinking yourself, you know, what,
what the heck has happened? But in my mind, I'm
you know, more or less, it's it's where where was
our support? What happened? What happened with that? Why are
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we Why are we sitting on a plane? Why did
we come? And there have to come? Girln aircraft? Get
out there and you think the negative things, but then
you come back to the positive things. You look around
and you see your buddies that are still with you,
and you just you get a feeling of uh, it's
it's a very very strong good feeling to know that
you got brothers that are willing to die for you,
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and it's it's, uh, you know, I I try to
find the positives out of that, and it's it's it's
still it kind of brings a tear to my content.
It kind of jokes me up right now just talking
about it, because you went through hell with your brothers,
you were left behind, you lost a couple of your brothers,
but you're still there with you still have friends that
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are still alive and and that that sacrifice themselves for you,
And uh, you just don't get that anywhere else. I
miss it immensely. I I really missed the job immensely.
I would go over back again in a heartbeat and
do it all over again.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
What is the American public not know about what happened
that night? That is most important for us to know?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I think the biggest thing. The politics are gonna play
themselves out, all right, They're gonna they're gonna do what
they need to do, the partisan politics. I don't want
to get involved. And all that which American people don't
know is the heroism and the courage that went on
that night that has been lost, and that that upsets
me a bit because my friends sacrificed their life. My
teammates sacrifice themselves to defend the American soil, to do
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the right thing, and they gave themselves, they gave up
themselves some gave them one hundred percent and gave them
all and uh, that's lost and that's when I speak,
that's what I go into. I won't be able to
remember the heroism, the courage that went on that night.
And and we have been involved with the movie immensely
that Michael Bates coming out coming out with and I
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think that's gonna really bring it to the American police,
to the people that this isn't all politics. These guys
actually sacrificed a lot and went through a lot to
say of others. And that's where I want people to
remember and know the most about is that there are
still guys out there that are willing to give their
lives up to protect others. And uh, and I think
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that's been missed a lot in the last two years
because of all the politics that have been drawn out
with this.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm stumped.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
What what lingering question do you have that is not
secured classified information that you can't share, but is a
question that you have and you just wanted answered.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, I would have a question of within the United
States government, who knew what was going on that night
and why weren't the right decisions made and decisions being
support you know who who who did not allow support
to come up or who made that decision? And where
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we're where were certain efficient Look, I was there too,
Where were certain fishes located while this was going on
that night? Where was the administration? What was the State
Department doing? And what was our people atop CI, Patreus
and Morrell doing when all this was going on? What
were they doing throughout? I would like to know that. Uh,
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the email controversy that's out there. I think that's pretty
much what's black and white. If people can't see that,
there's there's some shenanigans going on with that. I don't
know what else I can do to help help help
in sway their minds at.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Once the attack began, and you guys responded, what work
could have been done?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well, you know, I do still believe and I said
this to Dallison tel subcommittee, Mike Rodgers Committee, and they
didn't do us any favors at all either that if
we would have been turned loose, if they would have
let us do our job and get over there and
at least get eyes on of what was going on
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or somehow get involved in the firefight. And initially within
the first five minutes we were ready, and Master Steve
and the Shahnson will still be alive. So making the
right decisions would have been would have been key by
our leadership, which would have been letting the subject matter
experts with which are us get involved with what was
going on in a combat situation. My other thing would
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be allow support. When was the support? Why didn't you
allow the support the military guys that were in the
area that we knew in Singamella and all be on
on our base in Djibouti, Africa, you know, within power,
if even that two hours away, why didn't you let
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them get involved? And if General ham did get his
guys moving and they were turned around, and I don't
know for sure, I don't know for sure, but if
he did and they were turned around, why did why
were they turned around? That's my two big questions right there.
It's a military operation with the military and those that
are involved in those inferial military operations handle it, and
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the government officials that are want to be involved get
out of the way, and they muddy up everything. And
that's what they did that night. And now I foresee
as being a cover up not just from one side,
but from both people on the political spectrum. But again,
I don't know how much I want to get into that,
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because then I'm mundy. The water up with getting in
the heroic heroic acts that night that happened, and I
want people to see that and then they can draw
their own conclusion of what they think happened and what
should have been done and what wasn't done, and what
might have been done correctly, what might not have been
done correctly. Just be well informed. Thank you, Tonto, Thanks Michael,
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I have a great day. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
This, Sir, amaze me that you have.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
These individuals in public life. If you have a low
standard for politicians, these are people who are so stupid,
I mean just really really really dumb, so dumb that
they can't hide it for five seconds. One of them
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is the fat black woman Trope. She's loud and proud,
she's been told that she's a warrior for civil rights,
and so she just keeps saying ridiculous things about white people.
And we have these people in our government and as
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mayors of of of of communities and commissioners, and it's
really this is this is not how you run anything decent,
and it's embarrassing, and it just keeps happening again and again.
Let's take Frederica Wilson, stupid, fat black woman. All those
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things are true. Sorry, that offends you. She boycotted President
Trump's first State of the Union because she was outraged
over him calling certain countries like Haiti a craphole country,
which it is. Now she's demanding that President Trump not
send three hundred and fifty thousand Haitian nationals back to
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their country. Now, remember she didn't like that he had
said that Haiti is a craphole country. Now she's saying,
you can't send three hundred and fifty thousand Haitian nationals
back to Haiti because of the quote warfare, rape and violence. Wait,
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those sound like the hallmarks of a crap whole country.
She said, to send them back to this crap whole
country would be quote inhumane. But you said when Trump
pointed out that that country is an open sewage ditch,
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you said that was racist and.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Mean and you didn't like it.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now that he says, okay, well they're here illegally, I'm
sending them back to that great country that you esteem
so highly.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Say ooh, you can't do that.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
So here she was in twenty eighteen boycotting the President's
State of the Union address.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I'm not going because to go would be to honor
the president, and I don't think he deserves to be
honored at this time, after being so hateful towards black
people and then black countries, Haiti and the whole continent
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of Africa.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It hurts, it's hurt.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
It hurts, and he has brought the White House to
the lowest and I don't think he needs to be
honored with my.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Presence because the presence of Frederica Wilson would be such
an honor. And now she says, you can't send the
Haitians back to that country that she doesn't want to
calling a crap hole because.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It sounds like because it sounds like it's a crap hole.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
And they are terrorized, they are terrorized Haitian nationals. This
is cruelty, this is inhumane, and this is a death
sentence because we are already know the consequences because in
Haiti there's open warfare and raped, there's ravaging violence against
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women and children. There are no school days, no work schedule.
You do what the gangs want you to do.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Speaking of crap whole countries. Frederica Wilson once described the
fact that her constituents eat dog food.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Snap food stamps, however you phrase it, it's fundamental to
the nutritional supplement of millions of Americans, black, white, feeble seniors,
struggling mothers, disabled veterans, and hungry children. Mister speaker, it
was reported to me that there are I think is
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in my district who eat dog food when their food
stamps run out. I was a polls and went to
see for myself, and.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I was dumbfounded. Oh I fixed the situation.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
But that's somewhere in America today.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Oh, some poor soul is relying on dog food to
take them through the muth. Mister speaker, please do not
hurt or destroy what is the mainstay and the lives
of so many Americans who are just trying to get by.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Do not remove nutrition.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Including the foodstunt program, from.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
The bomb bill.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
It's wrong, it's punitive, and it's cruel.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh, I take offense.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
How do you think the dogs feel when you say
humans shouldn't be able to eat their food. Let's hear
some more from Frederica Wilson, one of our elected officials.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Three months without our girls means that the time is now.
To keep pressure on the Nigerian government. We must tweet
with the fervent passion that extends beyond the glamour of
a breaking news.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What should we do? We cannot slow down? Should we tweet?
Cannot lose momentum?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
We cannot rest until our girls at home. Every morning
between nine and twelve, tweet bring back our girls with
the hashtag bring back our girls, Bring back our girls
hashtag Joe and Rep. Wilson, hashtag Join Rep Wilson, hashtag.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Tweet tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet tweeting.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Until we twitted back our girls?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What was the song I walked into the all day
Long rock and Robin tweet tweet betted it. That's where
she got that from, isn't it? We did all the
people the tweet. Y'all tweet tweet nine and eleven, you'all
tweet and put my name in there.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Put with our girls hashtag Joe and reps Wilson, hashtag
join Rep Wilson hash some hashtag tweets tweet, tweet.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Tweeting until we bring back a broll some hashtag.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Yes, tweet, tweet tweet keeping tweeting, bring.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Back the hashtag, put the hashtag in the front, hand
in the back.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Yes, three months without our girl hashtag tweeting, hashtag on.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This way, we'll get them back.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Keep tweeting, just tweet tweet, tweeting.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Tell I can see the Nigerian government.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Tweet that, tweeting, that's kind of Russian Nigerian, I said,
tweet tweet that's the worst Nigerian accent ever. But you
don't know what they're saying, some version of I don't
know what's happening. But we've been We're having tweets raining
down on us. Make it stop, Give the girls back,
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give our sex slaves back.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
They're tweeting, they won't stop tweeting on us. Tweet tweeting.
They're just tweeting away.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yell the.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Tweet, tweet keep until.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Without tweet tweet, tweet, we pray back, tweet tweeting, tweet
tweet what a maroon.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
The head of the Minneapolis Teachers Unit admitted that city
officials are participating in signal groups coordinating anti ice resistance activities,
including vehicle patrols and license plate tracking. Quote. Our bosses
are in the signal chats with us. Our elected officials
are in the chats with us end quote. So how
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many police and city resources are being used to coordinate
with violent anti ice efforts? Here is Marsha Howard.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
The notion that.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
People that are actively engaged in ice watch, in being
vigilant in protecting our neighbors in signal chat groups, running
plates in their cars, doing patrols, that somehow we're ashamed
of that activity, that somehow you could call our bosses
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or show our faces and then we would be shunned
by our community. Our bosses are in the signal chats
with us, Our elected officials are in the chats with us.
Are nanas, the hockey coaches, the soccer moms, everybody that's
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anybody is doing the work of protecting our neighbors because
that's how we show up in Many St.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Paul.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
That's how we show up as neighbors in Minnesota. And
that's why they can't break us. They picked the wrong state.
That's well they did. They need to admit it, and
that's why that escalation is about to turn into de escalation.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You will remember the name James O'Keefe with Project Veritas.
He has his own project now. He split with Project Veritas.
It got pretty nasty over there. We don't need to
rehash that. You can pick whichever side you want. I
really don't care. But he points out the fact that
his newsroom was raided by the Biden administration Department of
Justice because they wanted Ashley Biden's diary. Remember Joe Biden's
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daughter when she was in a halfway house, she had
a diary about her daddy coming in naked and showering
with his teenage daughter. Most everybody thinks that's really creepy. Well,
the people that didn't say a word about that, journalists
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having their evidence confiscated by the Department of Justice, men
with badges and guns breaking in so silence, people asking questions.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
About the president's daughter and her her diary.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Well, now, Don Lemon must be protected at all costs,
because Don Lemon, he's a he's a hero. Is don
a hero? I tell you, James O'Keefe telling the.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Story's invasion of our First Amendment rights should send shivers
down the spine of every journalist around the country. Months ago,
I explained how the government conducted pre dawn raids at
my home and at the homes of two former Project
Bearitas journalists. Many came to our defense, including the ACLU,
the Society of Professional Journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists,
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Orders Committee for Freedom of the Press, as well as
the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Federal prosecutors from the
Department of Justice in the Southern District of New York
and the FBI appear to have targeted Project Veritas because
of our investigative journalism. In twenty twenty, we lawfully received
material from sources concerning Ashley Biden's diary and what it
said about her father, then the presidential candidate, Joe Biden.
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We ultimately decided not to publish the story and worked
with local law enforcement to return these materials to her.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
What you've just seen.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Is an effort by the government to intimidate and silence
us as journalists. But Project Veritas will never be silenced.
The First Amendment protects journalists and all people who speak out.
We will stand firm to vindicate our own First Mienment
rights fight for the rights of our fellow journalists and
all Americans.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Seems raised from one to me. Now that's a rivalry game.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The Tuskegee University head basketball coach was handcuffed and taken
off the court following their game rival Morehouse College. These
are HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities. He says players
from Morehouse College's football team were acting aggressively toward Tuskegee
players and asked an officer at the game to remove
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the football players from the court because they did not
belong there. That's when the officer instead took him away
in handcuffs. That's his story anyway. The coach says he
has hired an attorney to fight back.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Tuskegee University is standing in support of the school's head
basketball coach this after video shows coach Benji Taylor being
put in handcuffs by police following the team's game at
Morehouse College on Saturday. Now, the video shows coach Taylor
being cuffed after a brief interaction with an officer. Now,
A spokesperson for the coach said Taylor was asking police
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to intervene after some Morehouse students walked into the court
during the post game handshake and started acting aggressive league
The coach was escorted from the court but was not
charged with a crime. In a statement, Tuskegee President doctor
Mark Brown said the coach was only acting to protect
his student athletes, and that he is concerned about the
securities he break down. We've reached out to Morehouse College
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for comment but have not heard back.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I like to call it racism when it's black people
mad at black people. It's fun to call it racism.
That story from WVTMTV in Birmingham, one of our favorite
places in America because the listeners in Birmingham are so
loyal to our show. Chris Dudley played for the Portland Trailblazers.
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Chris Dudley was wasn't a superstar, but he was a
very solid player. Is a good technique player, and he
was kind of what you'd call a lunch pale player.
Chris Dudley showed up to work every day, Chris Day.
Chris Dudley didn't never made it about himself. He was
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a team player. He was a hard worker. He might
not have had the most talent of any player on
the FIA on the court. He wasn't Michael Jordan or
Bill Russell, but he worked hard. He was a fan favorite,
and he's by all accounts a pretty good guy. I
don't know him, i'd like to and I will be
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supporting him He's the former NBA player who ran in
twenty ten, and we supported him heavily against John Kitzhaber
for governor. He lost forty nine point three to forty
seven point eight as a Republican running in Oregon. That
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was pretty darned impressive. I fear that the state has
turned more blue, but I respect the fact that Chris
Dudley is willing to run, and he will, of course
have our support.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
He's got probably the best of anybody I've seen.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
If you're gonna win a blue state as a Republican,
you're gonna have to have something extra going for you.
I know Jesse Ventura ran as an independent, but a
Jesse Ventura in Minneapolis or Schwarzenegger in California, you're gonna
have to have some star power that can draw people
over in a way that they wouldn't maybe otherwise. University
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of Miami linebacker Mohammed Toure has been granted another year
of eligibility by the NAACP.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
It's by the NC double A, not NC double A.
This will be his eighth year of eligibility.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
New Jersey native started his collegiate career with Rutgers back
in twenty nineteen as a three star recruit out of
high school, red shirted as a true freshman with the
Scarlet Knights of Rutgers.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
N C.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
DOUBLEA granted all players a three year of eligibility because
of the COVID shortened season. Then he lost two entire
seasons twenty two and twenty four as a member of
the Scarlet Knights because of ACL injuries, which ultimately resulted
into medical red shirt.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
With all those combined, he.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Was able to get back four years of college of eligibility,
which will make twenty twenty sixth his eighth and final season.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
He's not an ELMS Nights left their ability, Thank Hill
and good Night.