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Show with your host, Allen Bartleman. We're broadcasting from the
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to be even simple enough for Donald Trump to remember.
The only rule on this show is that we ask
that you be civil. We don't want to hear any
bad language. We don't want to argue with you. We
want to see if we can reason together and come
to a common ground. So tonight, what's going on in America? Well,
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freedom of speech is under great assault and Charlie Kirk,
thank Goodness, is still dead. Some are recommending from the
Christian right that we need to drive a steak in
a wooden stake into his heart. I don't agree with that.
I don't think he's a vampire. I just think he
was an evil, misguided individual. I don't think that he
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deserved to die. But on the other hand, I don't
think that he deserved to be spewing his hate out
over the airwaves. And quite frankly, if Charlie Kirk can
get away with saying the anti gay, homophobic calls to
violence that he was making, why is Jimmy Kimmel suspended?
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Why is Stephen Colbert losing his contract? It's because Donald
Trump is an extortionist. Donald Trump and his Republican Maga friends, well,
probably not friends, I think that's too strong a word.
His accolades, anybody will kiss up to him is great.
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In his book, He's a sucker for flattery at any rate.
He's found a way, or he thinks he's found a
way to use the FCC to extort concessions from the
major networks, and maybe he has. So far, the major
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networks haven't shown a whole lot of Intestine, little fortitude.
Remember their corporations, and they feel their duty is to
their shareholders to make money. They don't feel like they
have a greater duty to the Constitution of the United
States to try and uphold free speech. And maybe one
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day with they're all having to sit behind their microphones
and say seeghile, seeghile, Donald, they'll realize they went down
the wrong path by terminating Colbert and suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
We all know in the radio business, even in this
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small little end of it that I'm in, that there's
certain things that you can't do on public broadcasting on
the radio or television that is generally broadcast to the
public for no cost. You all know the seven words
you can't say on television if you haven't, just googled that,
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and I'm sure George Carlin's routine will come up with you. Now,
that's a reasonable rule because those seven words are generally
considered obscene and or offensive to the average person. And
I agree with that. I've never used those words. I
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rarely use them. Well, I take that back, except with
regard to politics and Donald Trump. I rarely use them
at all. And most of us can abide by that rule.
But that's a whole lot different than the First Amendment
that calls for freedom of speech. Let me, let me
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see if I can find the First Amendment here and
read that to you and tell you why it's so
important that we be able to criticize our government, our president,
so long as it's so long as it's truthful or
believed to be true. And the First Amendment protects freedom
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of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press. And
it's put in our constitution first for a reason, because
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the first thing that the King George the third did
was trans suppress speech of Americans so far from England.
And so the founders of this country, in their wisdom,
so far as it went, set the First Amendment in
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there to make sure that the rights of Americans to
do certain basic political things were guaranteed for our constitution.
Donald Trump, however, and his minions think that they're too
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good for the First Amendment, They're too good for the
Constitution of the United States. So they think that they
can establish a national religion of white nationalism. They think
that they can stop any other religion or lack of
religion from practice. They think that they can abridge the
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freedom of speech of radio and television personalities. Donald Trump
has sued what is it, The New York Times and
the Washington Post for just outrageous amounts of money that
are beyond belief, beyond comprehension, but probably makes sense in
his muddled mind, alleging that, well, let's take the first one.
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That's he's alleging. I think that Rupert Murdoch and the
Washington Post printed fake news about Donald about sending a
birthday card to Epstein. Now, if he could have just
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waited a few weeks, the death of Charlie Kirk would
have driven Epstein right off the front pages, and it
seems to have done so, except over in England where
they're asking him and noticed that the British withdrew their
ambassador to the United States over his friendship with Epstein.
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Nothing to do with child molesting, nothing to do with
rape of young girls, but a mere friendship. Because the
British understand propriety, They understand that birds of a feather
flock together, and that we have choices to make in
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life of who we hang out with and who we
send birthday cards to. So what Donald Trump wants us
to believe now is that somebody forged his name on
a birthday card years and years ago, before Epstein was
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even charged with the crime, before it was even dreamed
that he was committing crimes, at least dreamed by law enforcement,
that somebody forged a birthday card talking about secrets and
put that into Epstein's birthday book in order that if
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Donald Trump ever became president of the United States, that
birthday card would be used to embarrass him. Well, who
did that, Donald? Who wrote that card? Who forged your
name on it? Donald? Tell us who the likely suspects are?
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And why would somebody forge your name to a card
so many years ago and put it into Epstein's birthday book. Hmm, oh,
I know, Donald. Now your excuse is the whole thing's
a Democratic hoax. Whole thing's a hoax brought on by
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the Democrats. Ah, Epstein case is a complete hoax. Well, Donald,
if the Epstein case was a complete hoax, why is
his co defendant in prison for it? Is she in
prison for a hoax?
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Really?
Speaker 12 (17:33):
And Donald, Little Donald, dear little Donald. If it's a hoax,
why has the Department of Justice investigated it for years
and now doesn't want to release the entire file showing
that it's a hoax. Why little Donald? Why well Donald,
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It's because the truth is ob that you wrote the
birthday card, that you send it to Epstein, and that
you ful well knew what he was up to. And
maybe some people are saying, people are saying that you
participated in his nefarious acts. I'm not saying that. I'm
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just saying people are saying. So. I guess the question
comes down to this, does political violence stop any movement
in America? Does the murder of Charlie Kirk, no matter
how onerous his opinions and his speech was, does that
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solve a problem? I don't think it does. I think
it makes a problem worse because it's energized a whole
bunch of people who would otherwise probably be coming to
their senses about Charlie Kirk and his drivel and his
idiotic opinions and his racism and his homophobism. Is that
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a word? Well it is now who would have soon
tired of all this hate and chucked him to the side,
But instead it's probably temporarily re energized his little blonde wife,
who's going to go out there and make cow eyes
and cry about dear Charlie being gone and their poor
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little orphaned children. Oh, it's just terrible. Well, maybe jd
Vance will take her on as a second wife. He
doesn't think that women ought to have any rights, so
you know, maybe go go see mister Vance. So we've
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got to call online one. Let's find out what's on
Jaya's mind tonight. Hi, Jaya, can you hear me? And
what's on your mind tonight?
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (20:03):
I hear you.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
Well, it's quite a predicament, isn't it. Apparently Jimmy Kimmel
got suspended only for saying that he thought that the
shooter was from the Maga party, so that it doesn't
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even make sense either.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Once again, well.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
What's your opinion of that was the shooter? You know?
Was the shooter? Shooter a friend of Charlie Kirks an admirer?
Speaker 13 (20:45):
You know, Actually, I have no idea. It's just what's
happening after any event is such a story of propagation,
and that I'm very disappointed that, you know, Radio Free
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America has been lost from the budget, TBS has lost
the budget, you know, and now and now the comedians
are getting in trouble for saying very minor thing. And
you know, I really just don't even care about Charlie
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Kirk so much that you know, it's better if we
have no violence, that's for sure, and there is no
excuse for violence. But it's just very very very sad,
very pitiful.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
I agree with you. I also would add that there's
you know, no excuse for wholesale violations of our First
Amendment rights exactly. And uh, you know, kim O may
have said something stupid, but that's what comedians do.
Speaker 13 (22:07):
It's their job.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
It's their job. It's their job to be fools. Uh,
going back, going back to the ancient days. You know,
the fool in King Lear is actually the wisest character
in the play because he understands fully what's going on.
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While poor Lear is blinded by his obsession whether or
not his daughters hate him. The fool sees it as
the king not not being able to rule his own
kingdom because of his foiables. So I completely agree with
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you on that point.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
What do you think Jay about Trump going after as
was reported in the news today. Let me see if
I can find the La Times article. He says he's
going to go after Antifa. Do you know what Antifa is.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
Well, it's supposedly an organization that is against.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Nazism, right, it's anti fascist. It's a it's an idea,
is it? Is it an organization?
Speaker 13 (23:28):
I don't think it actually is. I think it's just
a bad word that the Republicans made up so they
could use it.
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Yeah, well, I don't know that the Republicans made it up.
There's a whole lot of people out there with you know,
Antifa flags and all that, and basically they're an anti
fascist movement. But to say that it's somehow organized, that
it's a group that you know, sits down and has
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meetings and sides, policy and plans, I think that's giving
these Antifa people way too much credit. They don't appear
to be anywhere near that organized. Well, thank you, Jeff
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for your call. Let me go on and thank you
very much for your participation. Let's take a look at
some of the local news in what's happening in Los Angeles.
You know a lot of people were arrested during the
time the National Guard and was called out here in California.
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There was a whole lot of a whole lot of
to do, a whole lot of claims that the crowds
were attacking the National Guard, attacking the border patrol. But
in Washington, d C. The Washington d C Grand Jury
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has rejected time after time felony charges against protesters against
the Trump administration in DC. For those of you who
don't know what a grand jury is, it's a special
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jury that sits for a special purpose for a limited
amount of time. In this case, the grand juries in
both Los Angeles and in Washington, d C. Are sitting
and being presented with evidence to bring an indictment against
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people for criminal acts. The only one present there with
the grand jury is the prosecutor. There is no defense,
Nothing is ever heard from the other side of the story.
It's just all one way. And it's often been said,
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especially among lawyers, that a prosecutor could get an indictment
on a ham sandwich because it's so easy. There's nobody
else there to contradict the alleged facts of the prosecutor.
Is an extremely rare occasion for a grand jury of
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any kind, federal or local, to turn down a prosecutor's
request for an indictment. It is a slap in the
face to a prosecutor that he can't get an indictment
with only their own facts or alleged facts. That means
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that the grand jury simply does not believe what the
prosecutor is saying. That seems to indicate a whole lot
of loss of faith in the Department of Justice of
the United States. And here in California, where we have
a radical MAGA prosecutor, Bill is Saley. I hope I'm
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pronouncing that right. He's been a right winger and sort
of a a stuffedest almost said one of those seven words,
a stuffed disturber in California for a long time. And
now he's acting attorney because he hasn't been confirmed yet.
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And he tried a trial where a protester was alleged
to have assaulted a federal agent during the widespread progress
against immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles. So what they had
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for their evidence is one Border Patrol agent US Border
Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, the one who led his
military personnel into MacArthur Park to arrest no one just
a little walk in the park. And he was the
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sole witness against the defendant, Brian Ramoso Brito, who was
accused of striking a federal agent. So they flew in
Bovino from Chicago to testify, and he testified that despite
what the video showed, he was able to see that
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the defendant clearly struck a Border patrol agent. Well, the
jury heard his evidence from this Border Patrol Sector chief Boveno,
and it said, no, we don't believe you, and they
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brought back a verdict of not guilty. Now, the one
thing that has protected America today from fascism, if it's
protecting us at all, is the court system. I don't
have a whole lot of faith in our Supreme Court
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or any of the Trump accolade judges, but I do
have faith in juries because I've seen a lot of
juries in my life. I've faced a lot of juries
in my life. I've won a ton of jury trials
in my life and lost a couple two. But in
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every case, I have found that the jury is pretty
darn sharp. That they have questions in their mind that
I never even thought of. They have questions about items
of evidence or testimony that I completely missed. But afterwards,
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when I talked to those jurors about why they came
back in favor of my client, They'll tell me the
most interesting little points that made them doubt district attorney's case.
And believe me, it is not a good day for
a deputy district attorney when he has to slink back
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into his office and say he lost a jury trial
to Bartlement. It's a good day for me, but not
a good day for Deputy DA and I hope it's
not a good day or a good week for our
acting US Attorney, Bill Assaili. Don't try to pull this
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oops almost said one of those seven words. Don't try
to pull this bologney on our jurys, mister Assaili. If
you've got a decent case, bring it, but don't try
to fool the people. Let's go on to what's going
on now in California with Proposition fifty. The price tag
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estimated to bring Proposition fifty is two hundred and eighty
two point six million dollars, and the Republicans, suddenly sophiscally responsible,
are now crying, Oh, we could use that money for police,
We could use that money for public service, We could
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use that money to pave the roads. We don't need
a special election. Well, not only do we need a
special election, but you never voted to get more police.
You never voted to get more paving on our streets.
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You never voted for any of this stuff until now,
And now it's so important to the Republicans because Proposition
fifty is going to cost some money. Well, the way
the Democrats look at it, they're not going to be
hamstrung by the Republicans fixing the election in other states.
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We've got to fight fire with fires, say the Democrats.
And the only way to do that is to engage
in the same jerry manderin as Donald Trump is. Donald
Trump's got a history of this. Little Donald has been
known to call the governor of Georgia and say, oh,
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just find me a certain number of votes, just one
more than that number that I was legally defeated by
in your state. Just find me those votes somewhere, just
like a mafia don litl Donald. They call him in
the mafia for good reason, not only his brain, but
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they're parts of him, and they take Little Donald at
his word, except the governor of Georgia wouldn't do that.
So when they try to jerrymanned and change the voting results,
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when they say that voting machines are corrupt and fixing
the election, even without any evidence, and they spread that
big lie over and over and over again. They stir
up people who otherwise are good Americans to believe that
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our system is corrupt. You know, our voting machines are
not corrupt. Every one of them has a receipt available,
and everyone every vote in their can be traced and counted.
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Your anonymity is still protected, but the vote itself can
be traced and counted. There is no way if people
are doing their jobs and they were, that the national
vote can be manipulated. And Donald Trump went to court.
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I think was it twenty different courts? Don't quote me
on that was a number of different courts, even with
some of his own appointed judges, and he and his
mouthpiece Rudy Giuliani lost every one of them. And then
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Donald says, well, all those judges are corrupt. Everybody's against me,
says little Donald. This just shows you that the man
has absolutely no scruples. He has absolutely no love for America.
He has love for himself. In the meantime, he allows
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Russia to oppress Ukraine, to kill Ukrainian children, to kill
Ukrainian non combatants, while he says, oh, we got to
cut off their gasoline. Donald You could have done a
lot more than that if you just allow the Congress
and tell your Republican Congress to pass the Sanctions Act
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against Russia. But you don't want to do that, do you,
little Donald, because that would tick off your friend Putin.
Vladimir Putin plays little Donald Trump like a fiddle. Vladimir
Pruden is ten times as crafty and as smart as
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Donald Trump. And I'll bet your dollars to donuts it'll
come out one day that if Donald Trump isn't actually
a Russian agent or a convenient fool, a convenient idiot
is what the Russians call them, that he's actually being
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blackmailed by Putin. I want to go back to the
alleged peepee tapes from Donald Trump. I think he's stupid
enough to get himself involved in that. He's stupid enough
to think that he is not being observed for every
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minute when he's in Russia or the Soviet Union. He's
stupid enough to let himself get blackmailed with some really
horrible sexual things. I'll bet you that's what happens one day.
I'm not saying it's true, but little Donald, you're just
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the kind of fool that the Russians loved to blackmail,
because that's how the Russians do business. They do business
by blackmail. They do business through hatred, they do blackmails
through duplicity. That's the way Russia does business. So a
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little musical interlude for us tonight, if we can get
this cueued up. When I was a boy, Kate Smith
was one of the hits biggest stars in America or
her singing voice and for her patriotism and she re
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she sang this song that I think, more than ever
America needs.
Speaker 14 (39:12):
Now let night through the night with the light from
the ball, from the mountain to the press to the
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old whine with all America America.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Live.
Speaker 14 (40:00):
I know.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Sid that.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was a night line probable, from.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
The mall, the press.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
To the old lie, with all.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Very my.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Sweet, the male, the b my my we.
Speaker 12 (41:39):
Oh thank you. Kate Smith takes me back to my
childhood on the Washington scene. As I alluded that Bill
as Salee is losing cases that should easily be won
here in Los Angeles Federal Court. An article in the
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La Times by Michael Kunzelman says that more than fifty
people that faced federal charges in Washington since President Trump's
emergency law and order surge began last month. Already, prosecutors
have dropped at least eleven of those cases, an unusually
high collapse rate that judges say is wasting court resources.
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These dismissals highlight the risks of Trump's emergency status strategy.
An unprecedented flood of arrests that has produced headline grabbing
numbers but faltered under judicial scrutiny. Was some of the
most serious cases, from assaults on federal agents to gun charges,
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unraveling before they ever reached trial. That's not the United
States Attorney's office that I knew in the very limited
accident that I've had with United States attorneys. They don't
bring bad cases. They only bring winners that they are
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convinced that they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But
I think that the atmosphere in the Justice Department today
is so fearful of retribution from Little Donald that prosecutors
are just bringing the charges and saying, let's let the
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jury sort it out so they don't have to take
the blame from Little Donald. The problem with that is
it comes up the courts. You bring all these worthless cases,
and believe me, a worthless case takes as long to
pick a jury, if not longer than a viable case.
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You're still going to have defense attorneys in there, You're
still going to have to assemble a jury panel, You're
still going to have to cross examined jurors on vordyr,
You're still going to have to put on the trial,
and it's probably going to be defended a little bit
more strongly than a stronger case would. So on Tuesday,
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the United States Magistrate Judge Scharbaugh dismissed two felony assault
cases at the request of United States Attorney Jeanie Piro's office.
You remember Jeenie Piro. She was the TV lawyer in
the TV Judge. She's probably doing a lot better on
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TV than she is in the US district court. But
the judge told her, and he questioned whether prosecutions are
making charging decisions before cases are properly investigated and vetted.
The judge said, quote, that's not the way it's supposed
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to work, and it has real world consequences. This is
becoming a real concern for the court just given the
sheer numbers unquote. Judges aren't the only ones pushing back
Grand juries have refused to indict indictments in at least
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eight times, in six separate cases. That's an extraordinarily rare occurrence. So,
Little Donald, you're sending the troops into DC, You're sending
the troops into Los Angeles, and you're threatening to send
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them to Chicago. Do you really want to do that
given that the results are that you're not getting getting
the violent reaction from the citizenry that you would hope for.
That you'd hope to incite the citizens to violence because
so you could shoot us down in the streets. And
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I think Little Donald will probably keep it up. He's
never one to give up on a bad idea. And
now he's using all the powers of his office, the
Federal Communications Commission, to cut down on our freedom of speech.
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He's using the Health and Human Services and Crazy Kennedy
to make Americans afraid of vaccines and to probably in
the future unless his rules are rescinded, to cause many deaths,
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primarily among our children. Measles isn't such a big deal
now for most of us of Western European heritage, we
have a certain amount of immunity to measles, and even
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with the addition of vaccines, or because of the addition
of vaccines. I should say Measles is rarely found in
vaccinated populations in America until recently, and because of or
(47:48):
due to Little Donald's scaring people about vaccines, people are saying, well,
I think I'd rather take a chance on having my
child have a disease because I believe the lies of
this administration. I don't know. That seems like a terrible
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way to treat your children to me. And I'm sitting
here freshly vaccinated for the flu and two weeks ago,
freshly vaccinated for COVID for people over age sixty five,
and I feel pretty good. But I've seen a whole
lot of people who were anti vaxers that are now dead.
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And I guess we all have to make our own choices,
but they should be wise choices. This whole anti science,
anti vaccine, anti intellectual bent of Little Donald in his accolae,
pardon me saying you don't have to You don't have
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to believe the experts. You know, just because a guy's
got a PhD in immunology, that doesn't mean that he
knows anything. Donald Trump, who has absolutely zero medical education,
knows better. So we get some guy like crazy Kennedy
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or little Donald firing the Center for Disease Control leader
and endangering our children. Vaccines are given when the risk
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of the vaccine outweighs the risk of contracting the disease.
I have been vaccinated for everything under the sun. I
remember in the Marines being given the whole set of
vaccinations and there was no chance to object. We were
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lined up and injected and set off to fight. And
none of those hurt me or anybody else that I
know or ever heard of. Interesting news in Australia, they've okay,
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a vaccine against chlamydia to protect koala bears. Yeah, you
heard right, Australia. Okay's a vaccine against chlamydia to protect
koala bears. I don't know what's going on with the
koala bears in Australia or how they're getting chlamydia, but
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the Australian seemed to be seemed to be determined to
stop it. Well, you know what, if a koala bear
could get a vaccination, why can't an American child. Australia
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takes better care of its koala bears than we do
of our children in some states. I would not want
to be a citizen of Florida now and being told
that we'll just let disease run rampant. There was an
(51:51):
interesting post on one of the social media that I
saw the other day, and it said, you know, Disney
and those responsible for Jimmy Kimmel and the network's responsible
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for canceling Colbert, there's something we can do about that.
We don't have to watch them, And I would recommend
boycotting anything to do with Disney at this point, and
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that would include their theme parks. That's my opinion. I'm
not going to go to Disneyland. I'm not going to
go to Disney World. I'm not going to go to
a Disney film. I'm not going to turn on the
Disney Channel. I am not going to buy any product
that is advertised on Disney media. That's how strongly I
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feel about my freedom of speech. And if Disney is
going to roll over for the fascists, I'm not rolling
with them. I'm not going to make it easy for them.
If they thought that they were saving money by rolling
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over for Little Donald, I'm determined, at least for one
person to show them why it's not economically valuable to
do it, or viable to do it well. Charlie Kirk
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is going to be aggrandized by some and demonized by others,
and that'll all play. And I don't think anybody's going
to change their initial opinion or be brought over or
converted by his untimely death. And I don't think that
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Tyler Robinson is going to be proven to be the
last assassin that America will see. And we'll have a
whole number of problems stemming from this fascist attempt to
take over by Donald Trump. We're going to have more
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problems from that than from anything else. Yeah, certainly, political
assassinations are harmful, There's no doubt about it. It harms
our society, it harms the individual, it harms everybody involved.
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And the repercussion of political assassinations and political violence are
difficult to gauge unless you take a long term look
at the situation. So we will see how this all
plots out. But before we go, I just want to
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say once again, God bless America, and let's hear from
Kate Smith again because I think we need it. And remember,
you know, God, for most of us, doesn't teach us
to go out shooting one another, to go out vilifying
one another, to go out robbing one another of free speech.
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I don't know that any of the Abrahamic religions require that.
So I hope that if there is a God, that
she blesses America. This is Alan Bartleman and the Reformer
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and God bless every one of you.
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All right, thank you, Kate Smith. I'd like to remind you,
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The only rule on this show is that we ask
that you be civil. We don't want to hear any
bad language. We don't want to argue with you. We
want to see if we can reason together and come
to a common ground. So tonight, what's going on in America? Well,
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freedom of speech is under great assault and Charlie Kirk,
thank Goodness, is still dead. Some are recommending from the
Christian right that we need to drive a steak in
a wooden stake into his heart. I don't agree with that.
I don't think he's a vampire. I just think he
was an evil, misguided individual. I don't think that he
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deserved to die. But on the other hand, I don't
think that he deserved to be spewing his hate out
over the airwaves. And quite frankly, if Charlie Kirk can
get away with saying the anti gay, homophobic calls to
violence that he was making, why is Jimmy Kimmel suspended?
(09:11):
Why is Stephen Colbert losing his contract? It's because Donald
Trump is an extortionist. Donald Trump and his Republican Maga friends, well,
probably not friends, I think that's too strong a word.
His accolades, anybody will kiss up to him is great.
(09:36):
In his book, He's a sucker for flattery at any rate.
He's found a way, or he thinks he's found a
way to use the FCC to extort concessions from the
major networks, and maybe he has. So far, the major
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networks haven't shown a whole lot of Intestine, little fortitude.
Remember their corporations, and they feel their duty is to
their shareholders to make money. They don't feel like they
have a greater duty to the Constitution of the United
States to try and uphold free speech. And maybe one
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day with they're all having to sit behind their microphones
and say seeghile, seeghile, Donald, they'll realize they went down
the wrong path by terminating Colbert and suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
We all know in the radio business, even in this
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small little end of it that I'm in, that there's
certain things that you can't do on public broadcasting on
the radio or television that is generally broadcast to the
public for no cost. You all know the seven words
you can't say on television if you haven't, just googled that,
(11:05):
and I'm sure George Carlin's routine will come up with you. Now,
that's a reasonable rule because those seven words are generally
considered obscene and or offensive to the average person. And
I agree with that. I've never used those words. I
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rarely use them. Well, I take that back, except with
regard to politics and Donald Trump. I rarely use them
at all. And most of us can abide by that rule.
But that's a whole lot different than the First Amendment
that calls for freedom of speech. Let me, let me
(11:52):
see if I can find the First Amendment here and
read that to you and tell you why it's so
important that we be able to criticize our government, our president,
so long as it's so long as it's truthful or
believed to be true. And the First Amendment protects freedom
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of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press. And
it's put in our constitution first for a reason, because
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the first thing that the King George the third did
was trans suppress speech of Americans so far from England.
And so the founders of this country, in their wisdom,
so far as it went, set the First Amendment in
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there to make sure that the rights of Americans to
do certain basic political things were guaranteed for our constitution.
Donald Trump, however, and his minions think that they're too
(13:41):
good for the First Amendment, They're too good for the
Constitution of the United States. So they think that they
can establish a national religion of white nationalism. They think
that they can stop any other religion or lack of
religion from practice. They think that they can abridge the
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freedom of speech of radio and television personalities. Donald Trump
has sued what is it, The New York Times and
the Washington Post for just outrageous amounts of money that
are beyond belief, beyond comprehension, but probably makes sense in
his muddled mind, alleging that, well, let's take the first one.
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That's he's alleging. I think that Rupert Murdoch and the
Washington Post printed fake news about Donald about sending a
birthday card to Epstein. Now, if he could have just
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waited a few weeks, the death of Charlie Kirk would
have driven Epstein right off the front pages, and it
seems to have done so, except over in England where
they're asking him and noticed that the British withdrew their
ambassador to the United States over his friendship with Epstein.
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Nothing to do with child molesting, nothing to do with
rape of young girls, but a mere friendship. Because the
British understand propriety, They understand that birds of a feather
flock together, and that we have choices to make in
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life of who we hang out with and who we
send birthday cards to. So what Donald Trump wants us
to believe now is that somebody forged his name on
a birthday card years and years ago, before Epstein was
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even charged with the crime, before it was even dreamed
that he was committing crimes, at least dreamed by law enforcement,
that somebody forged a birthday card talking about secrets and
put that into Epstein's birthday book in order that if
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Donald Trump ever became president of the United States, that
birthday card would be used to embarrass him. Well, who
did that, Donald? Who wrote that card? Who forged your
name on it? Donald? Tell us who the likely suspects are?
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And why would somebody forge your name to a card
so many years ago and put it into Epstein's birthday book. Hmm, oh,
I know, Donald. Now your excuse is the whole thing's
a Democratic hoax. Whole thing's a hoax brought on by
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the Democrats. Ah, Epstein case is a complete hoax. Well, Donald,
if the Epstein case was a complete hoax, why is
his co defendant in prison for it? Is she in
prison for a hoax?
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Really?
Speaker 12 (17:33):
And Donald, Little Donald, dear little Donald. If it's a hoax,
why has the Department of Justice investigated it for years
and now doesn't want to release the entire file showing
that it's a hoax. Why little Donald? Why well Donald,
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It's because the truth is ob that you wrote the
birthday card, that you send it to Epstein, and that
you ful well knew what he was up to. And
maybe some people are saying, people are saying that you
participated in his nefarious acts. I'm not saying that. I'm
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just saying people are saying. So. I guess the question
comes down to this, does political violence stop any movement
in America? Does the murder of Charlie Kirk, no matter
how onerous his opinions and his speech was, does that
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solve a problem? I don't think it does. I think
it makes a problem worse because it's energized a whole
bunch of people who would otherwise probably be coming to
their senses about Charlie Kirk and his drivel and his
idiotic opinions and his racism and his homophobism. Is that
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a word? Well it is now who would have soon
tired of all this hate and chucked him to the side,
But instead it's probably temporarily re energized his little blonde wife,
who's going to go out there and make cow eyes
and cry about dear Charlie being gone and their poor
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little orphaned children. Oh, it's just terrible. Well, maybe jd
Vance will take her on as a second wife. He
doesn't think that women ought to have any rights, so
you know, maybe go go see mister Vance. So we've
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got to call online one. Let's find out what's on
Jaya's mind tonight. Hi, Jaya, can you hear me? And
what's on your mind tonight?
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (20:03):
I hear you.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
Well, it's quite a predicament, isn't it. Apparently Jimmy Kimmel
got suspended only for saying that he thought that the
shooter was from the Maga party, so that it doesn't
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even make sense either.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Once again, well.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
What's your opinion of that was the shooter? You know?
Was the shooter? Shooter a friend of Charlie Kirks an admirer?
Speaker 13 (20:45):
You know, Actually, I have no idea. It's just what's
happening after any event is such a story of propagation,
and that I'm very disappointed that, you know, Radio Free
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America has been lost from the budget, TBS has lost
the budget, you know, and now and now the comedians
are getting in trouble for saying very minor thing. And
you know, I really just don't even care about Charlie
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Kirk so much that you know, it's better if we
have no violence, that's for sure, and there is no
excuse for violence. But it's just very very very sad,
very pitiful.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
I agree with you. I also would add that there's
you know, no excuse for wholesale violations of our First
Amendment rights exactly. And uh, you know, kim O may
have said something stupid, but that's what comedians do.
Speaker 13 (22:07):
It's their job.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
It's their job. It's their job to be fools. Uh,
going back, going back to the ancient days. You know,
the fool in King Lear is actually the wisest character
in the play because he understands fully what's going on.
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While poor Lear is blinded by his obsession whether or
not his daughters hate him. The fool sees it as
the king not not being able to rule his own
kingdom because of his foiables. So I completely agree with
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you on that point.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
What do you think Jay about Trump going after as
was reported in the news today. Let me see if
I can find the La Times article. He says he's
going to go after Antifa. Do you know what Antifa is.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
Well, it's supposedly an organization that is against.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Nazism, right, it's anti fascist. It's a it's an idea,
is it? Is it an organization?
Speaker 13 (23:28):
I don't think it actually is. I think it's just
a bad word that the Republicans made up so they
could use it.
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Yeah, well, I don't know that the Republicans made it up.
There's a whole lot of people out there with you know,
Antifa flags and all that, and basically they're an anti
fascist movement. But to say that it's somehow organized, that
it's a group that you know, sits down and has
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meetings and sides, policy and plans, I think that's giving
these Antifa people way too much credit. They don't appear
to be anywhere near that organized. Well, thank you, Jeff
(24:19):
for your call. Let me go on and thank you
very much for your participation. Let's take a look at
some of the local news in what's happening in Los Angeles.
You know a lot of people were arrested during the
time the National Guard and was called out here in California.
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There was a whole lot of a whole lot of
to do, a whole lot of claims that the crowds
were attacking the National Guard, attacking the border patrol. But
in Washington, d C. The Washington d C Grand Jury
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has rejected time after time felony charges against protesters against
the Trump administration in DC. For those of you who
don't know what a grand jury is, it's a special
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jury that sits for a special purpose for a limited
amount of time. In this case, the grand juries in
both Los Angeles and in Washington, d C. Are sitting
and being presented with evidence to bring an indictment against
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people for criminal acts. The only one present there with
the grand jury is the prosecutor. There is no defense,
Nothing is ever heard from the other side of the story.
It's just all one way. And it's often been said,
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especially among lawyers, that a prosecutor could get an indictment
on a ham sandwich because it's so easy. There's nobody
else there to contradict the alleged facts of the prosecutor.
Is an extremely rare occasion for a grand jury of
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any kind, federal or local, to turn down a prosecutor's
request for an indictment. It is a slap in the
face to a prosecutor that he can't get an indictment
with only their own facts or alleged facts. That means
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that the grand jury simply does not believe what the
prosecutor is saying. That seems to indicate a whole lot
of loss of faith in the Department of Justice of
the United States. And here in California, where we have
a radical MAGA prosecutor, Bill is Saley. I hope I'm
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pronouncing that right. He's been a right winger and sort
of a a stuffedest almost said one of those seven words,
a stuffed disturber in California for a long time. And
now he's acting attorney because he hasn't been confirmed yet.
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And he tried a trial where a protester was alleged
to have assaulted a federal agent during the widespread progress
against immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles. So what they had
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for their evidence is one Border Patrol agent US Border
Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, the one who led his
military personnel into MacArthur Park to arrest no one just
a little walk in the park. And he was the
(28:46):
sole witness against the defendant, Brian Ramoso Brito, who was
accused of striking a federal agent. So they flew in
Bovino from Chicago to testify, and he testified that despite
what the video showed, he was able to see that
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the defendant clearly struck a Border patrol agent. Well, the
jury heard his evidence from this Border Patrol Sector chief Boveno,
and it said, no, we don't believe you, and they
(29:39):
brought back a verdict of not guilty. Now, the one
thing that has protected America today from fascism, if it's
protecting us at all, is the court system. I don't
have a whole lot of faith in our Supreme Court
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or any of the Trump accolade judges, but I do
have faith in juries because I've seen a lot of
juries in my life. I've faced a lot of juries
in my life. I've won a ton of jury trials
in my life and lost a couple two. But in
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every case, I have found that the jury is pretty
darn sharp. That they have questions in their mind that
I never even thought of. They have questions about items
of evidence or testimony that I completely missed. But afterwards,
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when I talked to those jurors about why they came
back in favor of my client, They'll tell me the
most interesting little points that made them doubt district attorney's case.
And believe me, it is not a good day for
a deputy district attorney when he has to slink back
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into his office and say he lost a jury trial
to Bartlement. It's a good day for me, but not
a good day for Deputy DA and I hope it's
not a good day or a good week for our
acting US Attorney, Bill Assaili. Don't try to pull this
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oops almost said one of those seven words. Don't try
to pull this bologney on our jurys, mister Assaili. If
you've got a decent case, bring it, but don't try
to fool the people. Let's go on to what's going
on now in California with Proposition fifty. The price tag
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estimated to bring Proposition fifty is two hundred and eighty
two point six million dollars, and the Republicans, suddenly sophiscally responsible,
are now crying, Oh, we could use that money for police,
We could use that money for public service, We could
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use that money to pave the roads. We don't need
a special election. Well, not only do we need a
special election, but you never voted to get more police.
You never voted to get more paving on our streets.
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You never voted for any of this stuff until now,
And now it's so important to the Republicans because Proposition
fifty is going to cost some money. Well, the way
the Democrats look at it, they're not going to be
hamstrung by the Republicans fixing the election in other states.
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We've got to fight fire with fires, say the Democrats.
And the only way to do that is to engage
in the same jerry manderin as Donald Trump is. Donald
Trump's got a history of this. Little Donald has been
known to call the governor of Georgia and say, oh,
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just find me a certain number of votes, just one
more than that number that I was legally defeated by
in your state. Just find me those votes somewhere, just
like a mafia don litl Donald. They call him in
the mafia for good reason, not only his brain, but
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they're parts of him, and they take Little Donald at
his word, except the governor of Georgia wouldn't do that.
So when they try to jerrymanned and change the voting results,
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when they say that voting machines are corrupt and fixing
the election, even without any evidence, and they spread that
big lie over and over and over again. They stir
up people who otherwise are good Americans to believe that
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our system is corrupt. You know, our voting machines are
not corrupt. Every one of them has a receipt available,
and everyone every vote in their can be traced and counted.
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Your anonymity is still protected, but the vote itself can
be traced and counted. There is no way if people
are doing their jobs and they were, that the national
vote can be manipulated. And Donald Trump went to court.
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I think was it twenty different courts? Don't quote me
on that was a number of different courts, even with
some of his own appointed judges, and he and his
mouthpiece Rudy Giuliani lost every one of them. And then
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Donald says, well, all those judges are corrupt. Everybody's against me,
says little Donald. This just shows you that the man
has absolutely no scruples. He has absolutely no love for America.
He has love for himself. In the meantime, he allows
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Russia to oppress Ukraine, to kill Ukrainian children, to kill
Ukrainian non combatants, while he says, oh, we got to
cut off their gasoline. Donald You could have done a
lot more than that if you just allow the Congress
and tell your Republican Congress to pass the Sanctions Act
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against Russia. But you don't want to do that, do you,
little Donald, because that would tick off your friend Putin.
Vladimir Putin plays little Donald Trump like a fiddle. Vladimir
Pruden is ten times as crafty and as smart as
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Donald Trump. And I'll bet your dollars to donuts it'll
come out one day that if Donald Trump isn't actually
a Russian agent or a convenient fool, a convenient idiot
is what the Russians call them, that he's actually being
(37:31):
blackmailed by Putin. I want to go back to the
alleged peepee tapes from Donald Trump. I think he's stupid
enough to get himself involved in that. He's stupid enough
to think that he is not being observed for every
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minute when he's in Russia or the Soviet Union. He's
stupid enough to let himself get blackmailed with some really
horrible sexual things. I'll bet you that's what happens one day.
I'm not saying it's true, but little Donald, you're just
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the kind of fool that the Russians loved to blackmail,
because that's how the Russians do business. They do business
by blackmail. They do business through hatred, they do blackmails
through duplicity. That's the way Russia does business. So a
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little musical interlude for us tonight, if we can get
this cueued up. When I was a boy, Kate Smith
was one of the hits biggest stars in America or
her singing voice and for her patriotism and she re
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she sang this song that I think, more than ever
America needs.
Speaker 14 (39:12):
Now let night through the night with the light from
the ball, from the mountain to the press to the
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old whine with all America America.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Live.
Speaker 14 (40:00):
I know.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Sid that.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was a night line probable, from.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
The mall, the press.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
To the old lie, with all.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Very my.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Sweet, the male, the b my my we.
Speaker 12 (41:39):
Oh thank you. Kate Smith takes me back to my
childhood on the Washington scene. As I alluded that Bill
as Salee is losing cases that should easily be won
here in Los Angeles Federal Court. An article in the
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La Times by Michael Kunzelman says that more than fifty
people that faced federal charges in Washington since President Trump's
emergency law and order surge began last month. Already, prosecutors
have dropped at least eleven of those cases, an unusually
high collapse rate that judges say is wasting court resources.
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These dismissals highlight the risks of Trump's emergency status strategy.
An unprecedented flood of arrests that has produced headline grabbing
numbers but faltered under judicial scrutiny. Was some of the
most serious cases, from assaults on federal agents to gun charges,
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unraveling before they ever reached trial. That's not the United
States Attorney's office that I knew in the very limited
accident that I've had with United States attorneys. They don't
bring bad cases. They only bring winners that they are
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convinced that they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But
I think that the atmosphere in the Justice Department today
is so fearful of retribution from Little Donald that prosecutors
are just bringing the charges and saying, let's let the
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jury sort it out so they don't have to take
the blame from Little Donald. The problem with that is
it comes up the courts. You bring all these worthless cases,
and believe me, a worthless case takes as long to
pick a jury, if not longer than a viable case.
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You're still going to have defense attorneys in there, You're
still going to have to assemble a jury panel, You're
still going to have to cross examined jurors on vordyr,
You're still going to have to put on the trial,
and it's probably going to be defended a little bit
more strongly than a stronger case would. So on Tuesday,
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the United States Magistrate Judge Scharbaugh dismissed two felony assault
cases at the request of United States Attorney Jeanie Piro's office.
You remember Jeenie Piro. She was the TV lawyer in
the TV Judge. She's probably doing a lot better on
(44:46):
TV than she is in the US district court. But
the judge told her, and he questioned whether prosecutions are
making charging decisions before cases are properly investigated and vetted.
The judge said, quote, that's not the way it's supposed
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to work, and it has real world consequences. This is
becoming a real concern for the court just given the
sheer numbers unquote. Judges aren't the only ones pushing back
Grand juries have refused to indict indictments in at least
(45:29):
eight times, in six separate cases. That's an extraordinarily rare occurrence. So,
Little Donald, you're sending the troops into DC, You're sending
the troops into Los Angeles, and you're threatening to send
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them to Chicago. Do you really want to do that
given that the results are that you're not getting getting
the violent reaction from the citizenry that you would hope for.
That you'd hope to incite the citizens to violence because
so you could shoot us down in the streets. And
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I think Little Donald will probably keep it up. He's
never one to give up on a bad idea. And
now he's using all the powers of his office, the
Federal Communications Commission, to cut down on our freedom of speech.
(46:45):
He's using the Health and Human Services and Crazy Kennedy
to make Americans afraid of vaccines and to probably in
the future unless his rules are rescinded, to cause many deaths,
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primarily among our children. Measles isn't such a big deal
now for most of us of Western European heritage, we
have a certain amount of immunity to measles, and even
(47:26):
with the addition of vaccines, or because of the addition
of vaccines. I should say Measles is rarely found in
vaccinated populations in America until recently, and because of or
(47:48):
due to Little Donald's scaring people about vaccines, people are saying, well,
I think I'd rather take a chance on having my
child have a disease because I believe the lies of
this administration. I don't know. That seems like a terrible
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way to treat your children to me. And I'm sitting
here freshly vaccinated for the flu and two weeks ago,
freshly vaccinated for COVID for people over age sixty five,
and I feel pretty good. But I've seen a whole
lot of people who were anti vaxers that are now dead.
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And I guess we all have to make our own choices,
but they should be wise choices. This whole anti science,
anti vaccine, anti intellectual bent of Little Donald in his accolae,
pardon me saying you don't have to You don't have
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to believe the experts. You know, just because a guy's
got a PhD in immunology, that doesn't mean that he
knows anything. Donald Trump, who has absolutely zero medical education,
knows better. So we get some guy like crazy Kennedy
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or little Donald firing the Center for Disease Control leader
and endangering our children. Vaccines are given when the risk
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of the vaccine outweighs the risk of contracting the disease.
I have been vaccinated for everything under the sun. I
remember in the Marines being given the whole set of
vaccinations and there was no chance to object. We were
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lined up and injected and set off to fight. And
none of those hurt me or anybody else that I
know or ever heard of. Interesting news in Australia, they've okay,
(50:38):
a vaccine against chlamydia to protect koala bears. Yeah, you
heard right, Australia. Okay's a vaccine against chlamydia to protect
koala bears. I don't know what's going on with the
koala bears in Australia or how they're getting chlamydia, but
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the Australian seemed to be seemed to be determined to
stop it. Well, you know what, if a koala bear
could get a vaccination, why can't an American child. Australia
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takes better care of its koala bears than we do
of our children in some states. I would not want
to be a citizen of Florida now and being told
that we'll just let disease run rampant. There was an
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interesting post on one of the social media that I
saw the other day, and it said, you know, Disney
and those responsible for Jimmy Kimmel and the network's responsible
(52:12):
for canceling Colbert, there's something we can do about that.
We don't have to watch them, And I would recommend
boycotting anything to do with Disney at this point, and
(52:37):
that would include their theme parks. That's my opinion. I'm
not going to go to Disneyland. I'm not going to
go to Disney World. I'm not going to go to
a Disney film. I'm not going to turn on the
Disney Channel. I am not going to buy any product
that is advertised on Disney media. That's how strongly I
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feel about my freedom of speech. And if Disney is
going to roll over for the fascists, I'm not rolling
with them. I'm not going to make it easy for them.
If they thought that they were saving money by rolling
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over for Little Donald, I'm determined, at least for one
person to show them why it's not economically valuable to
do it, or viable to do it well. Charlie Kirk
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is going to be aggrandized by some and demonized by others,
and that'll all play. And I don't think anybody's going
to change their initial opinion or be brought over or
converted by his untimely death. And I don't think that
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Tyler Robinson is going to be proven to be the
last assassin that America will see. And we'll have a
whole number of problems stemming from this fascist attempt to
take over by Donald Trump. We're going to have more
(54:37):
problems from that than from anything else. Yeah, certainly, political
assassinations are harmful, There's no doubt about it. It harms
our society, it harms the individual, it harms everybody involved.
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And the repercussion of political assassinations and political violence are
difficult to gauge unless you take a long term look
at the situation. So we will see how this all
plots out. But before we go, I just want to
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say once again, God bless America, and let's hear from
Kate Smith again because I think we need it. And remember,
you know, God, for most of us, doesn't teach us
to go out shooting one another, to go out vilifying
one another, to go out robbing one another of free speech.
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I don't know that any of the Abrahamic religions require that.
So I hope that if there is a God, that
she blesses America. This is Alan Bartleman and the Reformer
going out with Kate Smith tonight, with God bless America,
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and God bless every one of you.
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Less through the.
Speaker 6 (56:32):
Night, with the life, from the ball, from the mountain
to the preser to the old wine, with all.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
Of America, America.
Speaker 6 (57:03):
Line, I send me through the night, line probable, from
the mall.
Speaker 14 (57:21):
To the fred.
Speaker 6 (57:24):
To the old.
Speaker 15 (57:27):
Line, with alle may mine.
Speaker 3 (57:43):
Sweet, the male tau the.
Speaker 6 (57:58):
Li mo.
Speaker 14 (58:34):
Wee.
Speaker 12 (58:42):
All right, thank you, Kate Smith. I'd like to remind you,
all of you out there, whether you're ideologically aligned with
me or not, to remind you, if you were a patriot,
examine yourself. What have you done for your country? Not
for yourself, not mouthing off on social media, not carrying
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a gun, demonstrating against others. What have you done? Have
you served in the military, have you given up anything
for your country? What have you done? Let's all examine
ourselves and our beliefs and hopefully we can have one
loving America again. Thank you very much. This has been
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Alan Bartleman, your host for the Reformer. Farewell, good luck, goodbye.
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