Point of View August 20, 2024 – Hour 2 : Today’s Top Stories

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Yesterday of course we had a chance to watch the first night of the Democratic National Convention

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_02]: of course in the daytime they also ratified the platform.

[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_02]: We will talk more about that a little bit later this hour if we have some time.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Tonight of course you will have a number of speeches and they will be from former

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_02]: presidents and I think you will appreciate some of the conversation there.

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_02]: You will also in many cases hear statements that are not accurate and I think that's all

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_02]: the more reason why we keep saying that we need fact checkers and we need sometimes fact

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_02]: checkers to check the fact checkers.

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Last night some of the statements made by President Biden or not accurate they have

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_02]: been actually long ago dismissed by snopes and political fact and others and he says

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_02]: that we should not be surprised.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_02]: While I am talking about President Biden and we will get into more of that in just a minute

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_02]: because one of the articles I have posted gives you a little bit of a summary of what

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_02]: he said.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I do wonder why there aren't at least more individuals who are delegates at the convention

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_02]: that aren't saddened by the way he has been treated.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean think about this for just a minute.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_02]: He has been the standard bearer.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_02]: He is the individual that won enough delegates four years ago to be the individual that was

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_02]: the Democratic nominee.

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_02]: He has served three and a half plus years and as a result it was just a few weeks ago

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_02]: that he was told to step down and again there are delegates there who are sure to have

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_02]: voted for him and then to see that as the program unfolded last night I can't remember

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_02]: if this happened before after Hillary Clinton's speech.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it might have happened before but it was after it is even worse because no I think

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_02]: it actually happened before because they were already saying we are running 35 minutes

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_02]: behind and then you had a two minute standing ovation for Hillary Clinton and all sorts

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_02]: of other people being brought to the podium and I am thinking Monday night is supposed

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_02]: to be Joe Biden's night.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean originally he was supposed to have Thursday night as the nominee.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Well at least moving him to Monday night at least having come on during prime time by the

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_02]: time he got up to speak a lot of people were in bed by the time he was done I guarantee

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_02]: a whole lot more people at least on the east coast and even the central time zone were

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_02]: in bed and it was unfortunate the way he was treated in that regard as well.

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Nevertheless that is their decision and we will talk more about that in the future

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_02]: and we will get to that in all sorts of issues that I have posted here one talking about

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Kamala Harris and the black swan summer the GOP's black wall we used to hear about this

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_02]: idea of a blue wall a democrats blue wall and then of course one that I will get to in

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_02]: just a minute about Donald Trump.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_02]: But let me also talk about is the first article a piece by Dan McLaughlin in which he

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_02]: actually argues that Kamala Harris may yet regret sitting on her lead.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_02]: There seems to be a mindset not only from her but from her campaign that while we've got

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_02]: the lead we sit on the lead.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I didn't play a lot of basketball but enough in high school to be qualified as an

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_02]: individual knows a little bit about what happens when you try to sit on a lead and

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_02]: back in those days we did not have a shot clock so as a result sometimes I would

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_02]: see teams that maybe would gain a little bit of a lead over my team as we were out there

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_02]: on the court and they would just start doing kind of four corner passing and not even try

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: to score and what sooner or later would happen is we'd steal the ball come down and

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_02]: score and pretty soon that lead would evaporate.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And so this idea of sitting on a lead I use a basketball metaphor but you can use

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: another one and that is football where we'll now use a prevent defense because

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_02]: we have a lead in football or whatever illustration you want to use is never a good

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_02]: idea in sports and it's not a very good idea in politics but nevertheless this is

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: how Dan McLaughlin put it.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Since Kamala Harris was awarded the Democratic presidential nomination less than

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_02]: a month ago her campaign has ridden a wave of relief and vibes to an

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_02]: increasingly strong position in the polls pulling her into a lead in the

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: national poll average also having leads if you assume these polls I have my

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: questions but we'll leave it at that in Wisconsin and Michigan and perhaps

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Pennsylvania which could give her the presidency and at least competitive in

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Georgia Arizona and perhaps even North Carolina those are the so-called

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_02]: swing states she has responded with what amounts to a strategy of trying to

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_02]: run out the clock or sit on your lead whatever illustration you want to

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_02]: have she's had no interviews or press conferences and very few unscripted

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: remarks from the candidate and until Friday really no platform even that

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_02]: one didn't turn out so well and if you talk about unscripted remarks when

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_02]: she made a surprise visit last night that may be one of those few but I

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02]: think she could be trusted or anybody could be trusted to come up with a

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_02]: few unscripted remarks to just say hi to everybody and then say we're

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_02]: looking forward to honoring Joe Biden which they did after 11 o'clock Eastern

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: time but anyway we'll get back to that in a minute and so as a result the

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_02]: argument is right now that there are one of three reasons why she is doing

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: this he says number one Harris genuine believe she's got this thing in the

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_02]: bag and doesn't need to do anything but run TV ads number two Harris

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: thinks that Trump is already well-defined with the public and that

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_02]: relying on sympathetic press coverage and ads is enough to overcome any

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_02]: efforts by Trump to define her or or and number three Harris is so terrified

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_02]: of making mistakes that it is freezing her from doing unscripted

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: things are making decisions I think it could be a little of all three but

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: that third one let me come back to for just a minute before we take a break

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_02]: and that is as he points out

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: um... dine mclaughlin these are not mutually exclusive explanations

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_02]: well it's almost certainly true that truck trumps images set in stone and

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_02]: he may have a

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_02]: a ceiling of which he can't go any higher he's not going to necessarily

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: convince

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: anymore individuals to vote for him that could be true

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_02]: matter of fact it may be true

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: but then also this overconfidence in the idea that the press will

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_02]: protect her and certainly remind everybody how awful

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump is according to her perspective but I think the third is also true as well

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_02]: she is notorious

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_02]: as he points out for over worrying

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_02]: and under preparing

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and perhaps the best example is when she appeared on with lester holt june

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: of twenty twenty one

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_02]: when she had been described by many people including lester holt and other

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_02]: people in the mainstream media

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_02]: as being the

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_02]: borders are

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_02]: and he asked her why

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_02]: she still hadn't visited the border

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_02]: and her answer was well i have been europe either

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_02]: that uh...

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: disaster

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: because it was well known

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: among the campaign staffers

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_02]: that that was not the kind of answer that you should have given

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_02]: and uh... that she actually was not going to visit the border and wasn't

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_02]: planning to

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_02]: there is a sense in which she has been very cautious

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_02]: and oftentimes reluctant to uh... even

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... participate in events that aren't tightly controlled even choreographed

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_02]: so after the break i want to give you another example for that because there

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_02]: are some people that are saying

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_02]: that common Harris

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_02]: is borrowing a strategy from joe biden

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_02]: joe biden's was the basement strategy

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_02]: hers tends to be many people calling it

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_02]: the teleprompter strategy

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_02]: perhaps

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_02]: but i think there's some other issues going on and that's why i thought this would

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_02]: be

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_02]: helpful

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_02]: because if you want to understand what the next seventy plus days look like

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_02]: i think we have a pretty good indication so far for combat and talk

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_02]: about that

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_02]: right after this

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_01]: this is viewpoints with curbie anderson

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_02]: three months ago i wrote about the disconnect between the mainstream media

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and american citizens concerning crime statistics

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_02]: the media says that crime is decreasing but according to the latest gallup

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_02]: survey on the subject nearly all republicans and a majority of democrats

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_02]: thought crime was increasing

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_02]: the disconnect now seems to be between the members of the biden

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_02]: administration and the public

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_02]: secretary of transportation pete buddhaj went on television to argue that

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_02]: if you look it up at home you'll find that crime went down under biden and

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: crime went up under trump why would america want to go back to the higher

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: crime we experienced under donald trump

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_02]: as explained back in my previous commentary if you decide to defund the

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_02]: police arrest rates will go down and people will be less inclined to report

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: crime

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: professor john lotte writes about the truth about the crime explosion

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: the american people can see that crime is increasing he says when they go to a

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_02]: cvs or wall greens and find many of the products behind class

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: but not only is property crime increasing but so is violent crime

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_02]: explains that crime is reported in two ways

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the first issue the fbis national incident-based reporting system which

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_02]: only counts crime reported to police the others than national crime victimization

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_02]: survey that asked about two hundred and forty thousand people each year whether

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_02]: they have been victims of crime those numbers are much higher

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_02]: if there are fewer police on the street there will be fewer arrests

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_02]: and if people think criminals won't be caught and punished there are less

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_02]: likely to report a crime to the police

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_02]: and some d.a.'s have been actually downgrading felonies to misdemeanors

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: there's a crime explosion even if the media and the administration refused to

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_02]: admit it

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_02]: i'm curbie anderson

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_02]: and that's my point of view

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_01]: for a free booklet on a biblical view of anti-semitism go to viewpoints dot

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_01]: info slash anti-semitism viewpoints dot info slash anti-semitism

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: you're listening to point of view

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_01]: your listener supported source for truth

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_02]: we'll get back to some of the things happening last night in democratic

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_02]: national convention

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and there was quite a bit but i think it's worth just another minute or two

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_02]: focusing on this uh... first article by dan mclaughlin because he reminds us

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: that

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: this tendency to not want to go to unscripted events

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: events that don't have a lot of choreography

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_02]: are pretty much typical

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_02]: of what we have from the vice president who is now the presidential nominee

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_02]: he points out for example that she the white house really wanted uh... comal

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_02]: harris to be

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_02]: the headlining speaker

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_02]: at their traditional gridline dinner but she resisted

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_02]: and they ended up sending the secretary of commerce instead

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... she in some respects has actually stepped away from

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_02]: very useful things that would be helpful to her

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_02]: future campaign for example

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... during that same year

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: she was a guest for a dinner

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_02]: at the news mogul david bradley

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and that's in washington dc and so this is a place where you would gather

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_02]: together

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_02]: at bradley's home

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_02]: i assume it was in georgetown don't know that for sure but i think so

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_02]: and uh... this would be a number of washington journalists and newsmakers

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_02]: this would have been a great opportunity for the vice president comal

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_02]: harris to

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_02]: actually deliver some remarks get to know these people better

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_02]: maybe even

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_02]: agrees the skids for a future presidential run

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_02]: but her anxiety level was so high

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_02]: that the staff finally decided

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_02]: that in order to help her do this

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_02]: they actually held a mock dinner are you with me on this

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_02]: and so

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_02]: they had the staffers actually around the dinner table

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_02]: playing the participants

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_02]: and then there was even such attention to detail

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_02]: that they even considered including wine in the mock prep

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_02]: so that

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_02]: harris

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_02]: that is comal harris could practice with a glass or two

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and eventually they gave up they said

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_02]: this woman is too

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_02]: afraid of what could happen in that event

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_02]: that they ended up walking away from

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_02]: in some cases the gridiron dinner

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_02]: the dinner at uh... david bradley's house and many others

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: which then brings me to one other piece and we're gonna move on

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_02]: a rather lengthy but i think telling commentary

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_02]: it comes

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_02]: in this article from a writer for slate

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_02]: now you have to understand when i'm quoting from slate i'm quoting from

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_02]: a left of center fairly liberal progressive

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_02]: organization

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_02]: and news outfit

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_02]: and yet here is what christina

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_02]: cut her seat cut to receive a guess is how she pronounces the name at slate said

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_02]: about

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_02]: comal harris at that time

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_02]: she said

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: her dazzling presence in plans speeches

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_02]: and gotcha moments flickered out when she was forced to think or to relay

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_02]: a coherent policy position on her feet

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: she says it was a spectacular let down that contained a lesson about

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_02]: electoral politics

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_02]: candidates who look promising on paper

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_02]: can easily flounder under pressure

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_02]: she goes on to say that she may be very sympathetic to come with her say the

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: common errors

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_02]: is a proven dot of a presidential candidate

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_02]: who has done little to distinguish yourself since

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_02]: is not a good choice for the democrats top billing

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_02]: and so the argument being made in this article was

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_02]: it might even be time for joe biden to replace comal harris

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_02]: again the mainstream media will not remind you that those kind of articles

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_02]: came out but that is the case

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_02]: but again christina says it's not just a common errors was a bad presidential

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: candidate

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: she was also a bad vice presidential one too

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: she says i will never forget how clumsily she struggled to respond

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_02]: to what should have been an easy predictable question

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: this is the response of a candidate who when pressed

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_02]: for a point of discomfort on matters of policy

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: instinctively pivots to her biography

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_02]: and of course there have been people that have reminded us that when she was

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_02]: the vice president

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_02]: she certainly churned through staff on a regular basis

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_02]: and certainly i think is illustrative of the fact

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_02]: that if you think that this uh... attempt to

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_02]: really stay away from press

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_02]: coverage and various kinds of

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... one-on-one interviews

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_02]: even press conferences

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_02]: is something that it probably will fade

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_02]: there's a good deal of evidence to suggest

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_02]: that that may be the strategy all the way up

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: to november fifth

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_02]: this was a very telling article

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_02]: and also had had the title

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_02]: comal harris may yet regret sitting on her lead

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: and if indeed you are trusting the polls

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_02]: you've heard me say it before the only poll that really matters

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_02]: takes place in november but nevertheless

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... some show her an elite in some places and in certain swing states

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: we'll see where that goes over the next couple of months but sooner or later

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_02]: we will have a decision about who the next president is and it could be

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_02]: comal harris could be donald trump

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: and we will certainly

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_02]: talk about that as time goes on

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_02]: but i would be remiss of a did not mention that last night

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: what as matt vespa in our article that we've posted

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_02]: that best of put it this way

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_02]: what was supposed to be joe biden's night

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_02]: ended up being a late-night lecture into the early morning hours

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_02]: day one of the convention is over but you need he says an avalanche of

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: adville to survive it

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: here is a person he argues says

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_02]: hurt the country with high inflation

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_02]: shoddy job creation and of course illegal alien invasion

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and yet he says the president if you listen to his speech still thinks he

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_02]: has some kind of historic record of accomplishment

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_02]: that is worthy of a second term

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_02]: course the theme of the democratic national convention has been what

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_02]: well of course democracy

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_02]: he says democracy is prevailed

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_02]: democracy has delivered

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_02]: democracy must be preserved

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_02]: and yet uh... this is uh... certainly kind of the message that he was giving

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_02]: and as i mentioned before it is at least a note

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_02]: of the fact that every time he has a chance to give a speech

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_02]: he always likes to bring up two stories

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_02]: that are fixed in his mind which are not true

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_02]: one of them is the very fine people we've talked about this

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_02]: so many times but let me again in case we have some new listeners

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_02]: the argument that donald trump referred to

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_02]: of the neo-nazis and others at uh...

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_02]: charlotte's bill

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_02]: as individuals that were very fine people

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_02]: you can watch the video there's a very good dentist prager video out on that

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_02]: there are so many ways

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_02]: you can also of course go to snopes and find

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_02]: that that is not true

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... he very much condemn those individuals that were white supremacist

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: neo-nazis

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_02]: but he was arguing that there were other people some on both sides

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: wondering whether or not we should pull down the statue of robert

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: yelee

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: okay

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_02]: and they also talked about the other one that trump referred to the people

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_02]: killed during normandy were

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_02]: losers and suckers there's not anybody you can find

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_02]: who remembers

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_02]: in the presence of donald trump him saying anything like that and on and on

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_02]: but i thought what was so intriguing

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_02]: is that a time when he was using the argument that donald trump

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_02]: said that there were

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_02]: very fine people on both sides

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_02]: in a unscripted part because we know what was supposed to be on the

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_02]: teleprompter

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: joe biden

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_02]: actually said

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_02]: that he thought that the pro-hamas protesters have a point

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_02]: and again as uh... kind of a comment you probably wouldn't want to make when

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_02]: you just made a comment about trump

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_02]: in the idea there as well

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_02]: and then finally course a lot of people said that this speech

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_02]: looks a little bit like a carbon copy of his speech that he gave in twenty

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_02]: twenty two you might remember that with the red background

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: and the whole issue of maga republicans

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_02]: and it does seem to me that uh... we're kind of seeing the same again

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_02]: and that's

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_02]: again sad that an individual that is served

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_02]: in so many years in political office and served as a president whether you like

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_02]: him or not

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_02]: treated in such a way that by the time he actually got to the podium

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_02]: i'd have to say that a lot of people on the east coast and maybe even in the

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_02]: central

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_02]: time zone

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_02]: for a sleep

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_02]: and that was not the best way to treat an outgoing president of the united

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_02]: states

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_02]: one interesting irony i got a point out there you have uh... the michigan

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_02]: state senator malary mccore morrow

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... who brought a copy or actually a large copy of the project twenty twenty

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_02]: five

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_02]: in argued that under project twenty twenty five

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_02]: donald trump would be able to weaponize the department of justice

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_02]: to go after his political opponents

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_02]: he would even turn the fb i and his own personal police force

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_02]: and i've seen a lot of people on xane

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_02]: do we need to tell this uh... state senator from the eighth district in

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: michigan

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_02]: that's happening right now

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... but nevertheless i've you just you can't uh... even believe

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_02]: does she really not know that there are people

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_02]: legitimately people saying that that's exactly what's happening under joe biden

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_02]: and then to warn that that's

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_02]: quote what would happen

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_02]: if indeed under project twenty twenty five

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_02]: donald trump would actually do that

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_02]: by the way he rejected the idea of project twenty twenty five really

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_02]: disavowed it

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_02]: but more importantly

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_02]: just to not even have any kind of self understanding that

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_02]: the very thing she is saying donald trump

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_02]: might do

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_02]: is something that

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: the biden administration has been doing

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_02]: but you can't make some of that up

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_02]: let's take a break though if you'd like to join the conversation that number

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[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_02]: right after this

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_01]: it almost seems like we live in a different world from many people in

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: positions of authority

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: they say men can be women and women men

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: people are prosecuted differently or not at all depending on their politics

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_01]: criminals are more valued and rewarded

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: then law-abiding citizens

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_01]: it's so overwhelming so demoralizing

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: you feel like giving up

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[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_01]: we must not

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[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_02]: two one two we'll get to some of those calls in just a minute

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_02]: but i brought this particular article to you as well and this comes from

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_02]: jonathan alter

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_02]: uh... an individual that is one emi's uh... he is by his own definition left of

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_02]: center a liberal journalist a writing for the washington monthly

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_02]: but i entitled it come a harris and the black swan summer because that's the

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_02]: title he gave to it

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_02]: in which he says it's hard to imagine events in the recent months including

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_02]: the felony convictions of one president don trump of course

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_02]: the abrupt end of another campaign that would be joe biden

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_02]: and the surge of vice president of the common harris

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_02]: make this the most improbable political season in memory

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_02]: what he's doing is giving you a little bit of a preview of his book coming out

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_02]: called american reckoning

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_02]: inside trumps trial

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_02]: in which as he was talking with his son they talked about this idea black

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_02]: swans in his son tommy brought that up

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_02]: now if you're not familiar course we've used the phrase before black swans

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_02]: were named for the rare birds

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_02]: that were found by a dutch explorer in australia

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_02]: and it uh... was a phrase that then actually had

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_02]: common com account kind of common understanding

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_02]: from a writer who wrote a book called

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_02]: the black swan the impact of a highly improbable event

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_02]: and of course you can see that a black swan event could be

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_02]: the nine eleven attack or a variety of others they're extremely rare

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_02]: extremely impactful and oftentimes not easy to predict

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_02]: and the point that his son tommy was making

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_02]: was the we have the only felony conviction of an american president you're

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_02]: going to be hearing that a lot over the next couple of days at the democratic

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_02]: national convention

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_02]: as well as the

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_02]: um unlikely withdrawal of a president

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and uh...

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_02]: ascendancy of kamala harris which is i just pointed out

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_02]: wasn't necessarily seen as the best possible candidate on the democratic party

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_02]: he goes to some other examples and basically saying

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_02]: you know what we got here is two black swans

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_02]: at basically

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_02]: if you will nuzzling one another

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_02]: and the point that he makes here is a lot of people keep forgetting about these court cases

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_02]: and whereas in the debate joe biden

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_02]: only mentioned donald trump having reference to having sex with a porn star

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_02]: kamala harris is going to use that a lot as a prosecutor

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_02]: she's going to keep bringing up the fact that trump

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_02]: is a felony convict convict

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_02]: last night

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_02]: helery clinton mentioned 34 guilty counts

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: and uh... then the idea of locking him up in all that you're going to hear a lot more about that

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and i think it brings us back to the fact that

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_02]: um... there are some that are kind of really pro trump that are convinced that

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_02]: all of these particular convictions go nowhere

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_02]: but even if indeed donald trump wins

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_02]: some of his appeals

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_02]: and i'm not sure that's happening before the election

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_02]: you have something coming up and you might as well mark your calendar it's on september 18th

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_02]: and what happens there is judge merchant

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_02]: has to decide on sentencing and he's got one of five

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_02]: possibilities that jonathan alter talks about

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_02]: postpone sentencing

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_02]: the idea that sentencing jay trump to jail before an election would be too inflammatory so he might kick the can down the road

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: or it could be jail time

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_02]: and we've asked

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_02]: hypothetically could a presidential candidate run a campaign from the jail

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_02]: another would be community service which is a non-starter if you think about that given the difficulty

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: of securing outdoor venues

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_02]: as much as some people like to see don trump picking up trash or whatever it might be

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_02]: the assassination attempt set that one aside real quickly home confinement

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_02]: maybe that'd be like the basement strategy of joe biden

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_02]: or a stiff fine but again any fine is going to be probably insignificant to the wealth of donald trump

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_02]: so i think we still have a lot of uncharted territory

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_02]: which i think then gets us to some of the questions so let's first of all

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_02]: head out to california on the internet david thank you for joining us today here on point of view

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: oh i could be uh yeah i um it's interesting as you were talking about uh trump there with his felony convictions

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_00]: has he ever asked for forgiveness on that

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_02]: that is one of the things that the evangelicals for kamala they have that don't they have that on that video

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_02]: you've probably seen the video in which uh no i'm yeah go ahead

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_00]: well i know i haven't seen a video about it but if you think about it

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_00]: he keeps asking for immunity which means that he did it you know it's a an

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_00]: request for immunity is basically a confession of guilt and that he's claiming that he did it

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: but he was allowed to do it whatever it was yeah and so in each of the four different trials

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_00]: whether it's stealing documents or stealing the property of israel or uh uh you know the

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: fraud convictions or um you know he was always asking for immunity which is a confession

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and i've never heard that donald trump asked for forgiveness yeah when that's a lot of

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_00]: discussion about whether or not he's the antichrist i don't personally i don't personally believe

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_00]: in uh a single figure who is the antichrist but i think there are people who go out of their way to

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_00]: you know to uh break every one of the ten commandments and you know they get a kick

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_00]: out of doing it and uh so it's uh you know when you see his his upbringing his father

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_00]: basically was using him as a money laundering tool when he was three years old

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_00]: and he his father really didn't want him going out to play because he might confess uh to how

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_02]: his father was using him to hide money again i've never heard that but um again the whole righteousness

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_02]: issue and honesty issue um i think that's one of the reasons why my commentary yesterday was on

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_02]: the three p's because right now when you look at personality or likability or honesty um or transparency

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_02]: i think you got a problem with both candidates i really honestly think that that is going to be

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_02]: one of those topics but again you i have not seen some of the videos from evangelo calls for

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_02]: kamala we probably need to have a conversation about that i might do that friday because that

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_02]: would be a good time to uh maybe get into that a little bit more but one of the videos

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_02]: of actually is where he was asked and i believe it was by one of those individuals that does

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_02]: a lot of these focus groups uh if he'd ever asked for forgiveness and of course you were

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_02]: asking about that and so that's in the video the more recent one of course uh raising other

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_02]: questions about that and uh one of the more prominent people behind the evangelo calls for

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_02]: um kamala harris is the granddaughter on um gg trevation side of billy graham so you're going

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_02]: to be hearing more of that i think you're raising one of the very important questions because

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_02]: when you evaluate people just on their personality or their lack of honesty i think in the best

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_02]: of all worlds we would love to have a president we would love to have any candidate whether

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_02]: it's for the united states senate for the house of representatives whether it's the governor

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_02]: the mayor city council whatever to be honest forthright people and the sad reality is sometimes

[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_02]: we have those but this time we don't on either side and i think you're going to have to deal

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_02]: with whatever is the other parts of that p and that's why i've said so much look at policy

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_02]: because ultimately you're going to be affected more by these laws these regulations these rules

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_02]: that come down from the executive branch of the federal government or these laws that are passed

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_02]: by the house of representatives of the united states senate or even the various edicts that come

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_02]: from the governor or laws that come from your state legislature and in the other area you

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_02]: really need to evaluate the personnel that they have chosen to actually be part of that program

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_02]: because in the case of a president or a governor or even a mayor they are enacting some of those

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_02]: policies but more cases as i said before personnel is policy and that is certainly the case in

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_02]: those issues when we come back from the break i do want to get to one other article

[00:32:34] [SPEAKER_02]: because it also relates very much to donald trump even though we have the democratic national convention

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and some way specs donald trump and jd vance are part of it as well because either they're

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_02]: making statements about it or statements are being made about them and this particular article by

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_02]: an african-american pastor is what he calls the republicans black wall to explain that we'll

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_02]: come back and illustrate the fact that donald trump when he ran in 2016 wanted to essentially

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_02]: breach what was called the blue wall that is those particular states that had always voted

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_02]: democratic but this time might be able to vote republican and one of those states for our

[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_02]: listeners in wisconsin was that state which had not actually voted for republicans since ronald

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_02]: reagan took it in 1984 but he won it and became the 45th president mark liddy little who was an african

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_02]: american says we now have a different wall it's the black wall can this president reach into the

[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_02]: black community we'll talk about that right after this you're listening to point of view

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_01]: your listener supported source for truth back once again let me just mention one of the other

[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_02]: articles this one's by mark little mentioned him a minute ago of course his book the prodigal republican

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_02]: african-american commentator podcaster and the rest but he calls this the republicans black wall

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_02]: again just to give you an understanding there has always been what was called the blue wall

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_02]: they're just a certain number states that was just assumed that they will always go to the

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_02]: democratic nominee for president and one of those was wisconsin and donald trump i used his

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_02]: instincts to say you know what i'm not going to concede that and campaign in wisconsin breached the

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_02]: blue wall won wisconsin and he was the first republican to win wisconsin since ronald reagan

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_02]: wanted in 1984 when he won 49 states so again that is something that is significant and he

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_02]: refused to let this conventional belief about the blue wall define his path to the 270 electoral

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_02]: college votes well mark little makes it very clear that black voters are likely the going to be the

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_02]: constituency that could indeed elect the next president of the united states now you have

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_02]: to put them in different categories there are some individuals for example that are never

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_02]: going to seriously think about donald trump because they're african-american and one of

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_02]: the examples he uses and you can read this article in its entirety is the fact that you

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_02]: have a very significant number of african-americans who are in the federal bureaucracy um partially

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_02]: because a lot of the people that work in the government african-american are in living

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_02]: in washington dc in the district of columbia they comprise 18 percent almost 19 percent of

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_02]: the federal bureaucracy and so as a result you can see that those individuals are not going to

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_02]: vote against a bureaucracy that feeds him or feeds them and so he says those are not the people

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_02]: we're talking about but we do need to find some individuals that would be open to donald trump

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_02]: but it seems at least from mark little's point of view that donald trump and his campaign

[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_02]: and even jd vance aren't doing anything to actually change that matter of fact they may

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_02]: be doing some things to actually make that worse when you have donald trump running against a

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_02]: biracial woman we have a debate about how black she is and all that but that's a conversation that

[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_02]: has no relevance to the conversation we have here that is he says i can assure you that while

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_02]: trump calling comlahara stupid may be personally gratifying for him it's going to simply add

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_02]: a surge of black women that will guarantee you can guarantee will not vote for him and so

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_02]: what he says mark little says is that donald trump must now redefine the other historic wall

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_02]: in the republican party and that is the black wall there have been some that have tried to

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_02]: reach out to african-american voters some have been more successful than others

[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_02]: donald trump does seem to be pulling a more significant percentage of african-american men

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_02]: but that is not enough and he says the little secret is that the republican party so far has no

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_02]: robust field operation in the battleground states to penetrate the likely black voters

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_02]: in 2024 against an individual who is of course already identified as someone that would be sympathetic

[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_02]: to the black vote and is part of the black community and so he says the black wall is thus

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_02]: the republican national committee republican donors refuse to engage black voters any longer

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_02]: as a high dollar priority he says the black wall is a billionaire telling me it's tapped out

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_02]: this cycle while openly hosting mega donor fundraisers and he says failing to knock down this

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_02]: black wall in the cycle starting today may spell the end of the republican party after democrats

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_02]: expand the supreme court add the district of columbia and port orico estates with senators

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_02]: and add 20 million illegal aliens to the federal voting rolls all of this he says will

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_02]: happen under a harris presidency and he sounds more like kelly shackle for there doesn't he just

[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_02]: for a moment and he then if you think that he is necessarily against donald trump he reminds you

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_02]: that he was one of the individuals that was able to lay hands on then president donald trump pray

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_02]: over him in the cabinet room in 2020 he says i've been an active participant in the historic

[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_02]: coalition of conservatives but again if we don't see any kind of desire to reach out to that community

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_02]: he's predicting that number one kamala harris will be the next president and then number two all

[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the things that he gave us as a parade of horribles will take place so there are a lot of people

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_02]: that are actually convinced that this is going to be a much closer election than many people

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_02]: believe just a few months ago when it was joe biden running there's a lot of people that believe

[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_02]: that there are things that the current republican presidential candidate donald trump could be

[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_02]: doing but is not doing and the republican party is not doing and so again i think we have

[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_02]: heard from in one case an individual that would be a liberal journalist and in the case an individual

[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_02]: that probably will vote for donald trump and he's even prayed over him but nevertheless acknowledges

[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_02]: that there are some things that should be done that aren't being done there are other things

[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_02]: are being done that are actually harmful to the candidacy and if indeed you want to get

[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_02]: those requisite 270 electoral votes there are some action items and some mid-course corrections

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_02]: probably need to take place as we go through the week let me just mention and we'll certainly do

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_02]: this all through the campaign that sometimes you'll hear some statements and you'll probably

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_02]: hear it tonight but my commentary is based upon something that pete budges has said on one

[00:40:25] [SPEAKER_02]: of the talk shows recently and that is simply that if you look this up at home you will know that crime

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_02]: went down under biden and crime went up under trump and he asked why would america want to go back to

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_02]: a higher crime we experienced under donald trump and so while it is true that indeed the crime

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_02]: statistics have gone down it doesn't seem to correlate with our own experience as we've

[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_02]: pointed out before you have a lot of anecdotal experiences and nearly all republicans and even

[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_02]: a majority of democrats believe that crime is increasing and so this is why again this particular

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_02]: piece by john lot is helpful because he says first of all just think of the anecdotes when you

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_02]: walk into a cvs or a walgreens and you find all sorts of products behind glass that suggests you

[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_02]: that maybe property crime is going up but he says not only his property crime going up so

[00:41:23] [SPEAKER_02]: was violent crime and it turns out that there are two different ways that crime is reported

[00:41:29] [SPEAKER_02]: the first is through the fbis national incident based reporting system it only counts crime

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_02]: reported to the police whereas you have the national crime victimization survey that

[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_02]: asks a quarter of a million people whether they've been victims of crime and those numbers

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_02]: are going up much higher and i think again as i've mentioned if you have indeed been calling for

[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_02]: defunding the police and in many cases we have fewer police out on the street there's going to be

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_02]: what fewer arrests and if people think that crime criminals won't be caught and punished

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_02]: they're also less likely to report crime to the police and then of course some cases even

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_02]: da's have downgraded felonies to misdemeanors so my article today is just helpful to recognize

[00:42:20] [SPEAKER_02]: that when you'll hear some statements over the next couple of days that crime has gone down

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_02]: under joe biden and you're thinking no i don't think so you're not wrong it's just that they

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_02]: are quoting statistics that are not accurate and we give you the reasons for why you should

[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_02]: challenge those those are the kind of things we like to do on point of view each day so

[00:42:40] [SPEAKER_02]: that you will have more facts at your disposal more discernment making some decisions about

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_02]: what's going to happen in the future well tonight we're gonna hear some more speeches and we'll

[00:42:51] [SPEAKER_02]: talk about that tomorrow here on point of view if you'd like to know more about the book by

[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_02]: drew hammer it's on the website at point of view dot net i want to thank megan for help

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