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I'm gettin ready for a fuckin all, but about it a big weekend of football. So, looking forward to that, Europe should be submission. One's got my titans on Saturday afternoon against the Bengals who have been hot have great quarterback. And then I guess, I'm Sunday we have a big bills. Chief chiefs match up yeah yeah yeah, get the games are good on a matter. As I told my pig for those Superbowl is the year is the ran from the bill so By the time we get back next week, I'll probably have no thieves left, but that's my taken on second will arise. But let us at this button press conferences briefly just astonishing. I am not sure, there's ever been a worse presidential press conference, obviously Trump Hudson.

deuces, I'm not sure anything Trump ever said, was as potentially as consequential harmful. As what Biden said about Russia yeah thought rich. It was one of those things where, when you're listening to it, you know you heard what he said, but it We believe it so I figured I must have had it now. I M feeling you and I and I had to Europe Fortunately, you know we were run a lot of personal commenting endless at the same time, so I quickly saw that I wasn't the only one part it that way, and it was long before he doubled down on it. So really it wasn't he had said it by the end of the press conference. He had made the same point two or three times, and I can't-

thinking. You know here these journalists who are clearly you know their pro democratic, but they were asking none. They were asking sugar coated questions, but they kept going back to it because they were trying to help and dig out at the all many just just kept making it worse. So I think the first thing up as a little that went to the reaction that, though you you're just alluding to the we all had to do just scoop started. You just say that excuse to just green light, a minor incursion, but at the same reaction. You did. I do see it and on twitter before I believed it, which reminds me a little bit our colleague Jean nor Layer, occasionally jokes about how now you he doesn't. He doesn't stick his hand out the window to see what the weather is. He looks at his phone and This experience the other day ass. It is called here in the northeast, and I was I was in a parking lot of a grocery store

and I was debating whether I had my heavy winter coat Missy back to me, whether it put it on its cumbersome, and I don't have that far to walk and I had the door of the car open, but I still had to look at my phone to see actually what the temperature do. I didn't trust my own judgment, of what the air temp. was. But so, where are you on Russia, Ukraine? There there's splits on it the right on this, where folks, who are more, a real Esther, Paleo and Eve youve been been associated. Lieutenancy allow things democracy building in the Middle EAST etc. Where, where are you on how harmful it would be if, if Putin goes in and what we do about it, but I think it would be very harmful

I would not be willing to commit american troops to two to Ukraine, but I do think we should we should on them. I might have mine, kind of torn on this rich, because I've never changed on Russia. You know like I'm, a in that way, on a kind of been unreconstructed called warrior that I think they're an enemy it in the United States and I've been very critical in our pages over the years of both republican and democratic administrations. Who regard in Russia expressly as a strategic partner like a country that we really relying on and that we had a mutual interest with an you know. As a result, we could define common ground and work together with them, where I think that Russia

he's just always looking to make trouble for the United It's this Russia, obviously, is an epoch gone compared to the Soviet Union, and I think sometimes we talk about Putin like ten feet tall and I think of a more like a kind of a mafia. so at. I think. Sometimes we do not react to Russia and I think, there are a lot of things that we can do short and having them introduce american troops and combat theater to make life miserable. If we were wrong, if we willing to do them I always think reality starts with recognising what you deal with and what we're dealing with here is an enemy of the United States. Not one not origin, that can be appeased or convinced and to see things our way and that doesn't mean we have to be a war with them. I just need, I think, when we deal with the we need to recognise what we're dealing with and the debt

the threats always topical J about Russia. When republicans are in power, particularly problems, but we all know that the minute troubles gone. They would go back to the play book, which is to appease them return, although the degree to which Biden has done so and particularly with this minor and courage The other day is just astonishing. On the other side of the coin, you don't we talk about Ukraine and I I went into this a lot my book, a bowl of collusion about Russia, gate insanity, but we talk about Ukraine as if it was dislike sword. Single stratum, unified country that wants to be part of the west

I think that Ukraine is much more complicated than that, not least because you know, unlike cunning, he's in the west, but I can say and think whatever they want to think about Russia, Ukraine, Skype, very long border with the hostile country that it can as a practical matter, defend itself and by the way it can't as a practical matter, defend itself from Russia for large with with the United States having done an awful lot to bring about that condition include, ninety ninety eight getting them to give up their nukes on the on the promise that, their security, would be taken care of by Russia and the United States and Britain, which is preposterous.

and then when Obama was the senator, he led a big initiative in Congress to get the Ukrainians to give up a lot of their conventional weapons as well. So Europe to the economy The Ukrainians are behind the April here. Our hands are not very clean in that regard as a result of that, I do think that we have some stepped up obligation because we actually did convince them to disarm themselves. But at the same time, you dont, Ukraine's allows each country when trumps said he frame was a lousy country. He was wrong about you know they have it it's a very complicated country. They have you no Ellen

set Wanta be probably a preponderance of the country that wants to be with the west, but they have a lot of problems. Russia elements in the east and a big part of the power structure of the company of the country. Why? These oligarchs, like like their fellow oligarchs in Russia, who got who got wretchedly. kind of wild West Europe of Capitalism right after the Soviet Union fell. This is this is like mafia capitalism were whose survival of the fittest. And that's how all these guys ended up by becoming a multi billion airs, basically by a cash or in the country's resources

I'm a move along a disturbing elements in Ukraine, so I just think it's a very complicated country and I think we should help them because we ve had a lot to do with disarming them and big boys pretentiously anything that's bad for Russia's, but for us I don't wanna oversimplify it, but I think that continues to be So I think we ought to make this punishing for Russia as we can without having to commit american troops. But I do pretty much anything else besides come in at the american troops, but I also think rich. That sanctions are work a lot better. If you just resolve Russia is an enemy, we're very about what we do with them, because it with a ran like the DE yeah, the bite afforded and progressives of

foreign policy community in Washington always thinks we're like young, just around the corner from the big deal with the ran, we were just going to be this rapprochement, everything's going to be wonderful and, of course it never happen But all we really do is signal to them that were so desperate to get a deal that we can be happy and we frequently are had. I think we do the same thing with Russia. Think things would work a lot better if you just recognise that they are so. Let us be another big story which is a Texas hostage taking from last weekend's S small matter business here

pronunciation of the perpetrator. Akron is this last name? Your crime, I believe, is how wrong answered. So he comes here. He is a bread, but but he comes here on a tourist visa stays briefly and hotel and queens, and an heads too, to Texas and engages: is this horrific a hostage taking? Fortunately, no one was hurt sides himself who in he was shot and killed, but what what? What basically a land here and admit that the big question is how did this guy with his back?

a ground and get into the United States yet rich. This was really infuriating story in the sun set as it as I do the column I wrote about this right after it happen with Europe. Basically, the F b I save the day and then must everything with messaging, and it is probably yeah, but they did not everything with the messaging, but it's not even clear they save the day, but the Vegas. You know the thing that got the most attention once the FBI's ten year messaging and whether they were straight with people about what actually happened in the master resulted in Mali final problem. Being killed like did he chewed himself? The de did the hostage rescue buys the FBI's only trained ask you passed addressed you unit today that they take em out

What actually happened in there? So we don't really know the answers to that yet, and that is what pretty much consume people, but, but I really think it as you suggest, thee Big issue here is how on earth did this guy get into the United States, understand I'm stances we're on the federal law. Numb we're not talking about policy. Now we're not talking about like the bided administration. a proclivities about you know, ends in immigration and enforcement, nor myself budgets talking about like federal law. You or explainable as an alien. If you have a criminal record, that has what they call crimes of moral turpitude, which is unfair that's right at this guy easily checks the box on. He had a criminal record in Britain. If, We have a history of mental illness. This guy

evidently had that as well, and if you I've been a member of or in any way endorsed terrorism. Remember about a terrorist organisation and this guy not only in do, the nine eleven attacks. In a very unusual move? He was actually banned from a courthouse in his home town in Britain and the court went to paper and basically said he had many people After nine eleven in in rhetoric that was very prone to terrorism, eleven and had set expressly that he wished. He had been there with the men had taken one of the plains and floated into the targets were nearly three thousand Americans will kill

my point, Lange that out is that any one of those three things criminal record mental illness. Terrorism would be enough to two ding someone to make them excluded all disqualified from entering the United States. He has all three and we know that Britain is, a visa waiver, contrary, which means that many its citizens, don't have to comply with the normal visa requirements to come to the United States. We have reciprocal arrangements with them about that you're, not qualified for the visa waiver. Program, if you have even had a rests, not forget about convictions so I for one would not have been qualified to go into the visa waiver pocket. He. I've had to. In order to come to the United States, he would have had to apply for a visa the regular way, which means there should be

level with scrutiny to the application, and it should it is clear that he wasn't qualified to come here. then, you have the situation of counter terrorism, cooperation between governments, the United States and Britain are supposed to be. the gold standard in the first world for counter terrorism, cooperation I mention that because our problem was entered into the year twenty twenty on Britain's watch list of what they call persons interest and for them that's like their highest level of watch list. Now I want to be fair to rights, because this is a very hard job in recent years where's the number of people that they have monitored for fears about terrorist activity.

Doubled from twenty seventeen to now, they ve gone from about twenty one. thousand to forty three thousand. They have forty three thousand people that their monitoring to some degree or another, and they eighteen two lists: one is persons adventurous. Those are the ones that, if there are most concerned about and there's about three thousand of them, right now, and then they have another list of mainly people who were persons person's adventurous, but they ve clear them so thereon like they're, like former persons of interest on their forty thousand about now. If we just stick with the three thousand, The expert estimates from within british law enforcement and academia that studies the stuff is it takes about twelve agents you. Don't intelligent agents, law enforcement agents to affair

actively monitor a single terrorists if they're gonna watch him all the time, so it just doing the math. If you take, you know the fact that they have three thousand people, that their subjecting to this kind of scrutiny. They don't have. They wouldn't have resources to do any other law enforcement. Intelligent were intelligence. If that's all they did so. There is there's a lot of pressure to clear people, we're on the list. who shouldn't be was not because they're trying to preserve resources, but because They need to make sure that it did not wasting their time on somebody who that you shouldn't be following: and missing somebody who they should be, so I think they probably clear people they shouldn't clear and they do it faster. Should an evidently with our problem. sometime in twenty twenty. They moved him from you now that the top list, the person's adventurous list to the other west.

It seems to me, even though they moved him from one less to the other. That doesn't mean if he had to apply for a visa Our intelligence service should not have known from the british intelligence service that here somebody they were monitoring for. Fear of jihadist acted so even be science, the fact that he should have been automatically excludable because of because about- categories I mentioned at the beginning. He should have been. He should have been fleshed out just by intelligence sharing between the two countries which is why I come to what I think is the biggest concern here that has gotten the least attention which is, and I know a little bit about this rich because Is the one aspect of trumps campaign biggest concern here that has gotten the lease attention. It is- and I know a little bit about this work because

the one aspect of trumps campaign in twenty twenty- I'm sorry, not twenty change. sixteen where I got ass to give them a little bit of advice. And that was trumped wanted to ratchet up vetting. for aliens who are coming to the United States. Places around the world that were obvious hotbeds of jihadist ideology. Now he didn't put it that way. put it in his clumsy way. I think. Ultimately, you don't. We call them Muslim Ban and he said enough things along those lines that it could be confused? for a muslim ban, but the people who were trying to give him advice on how to do this. Like me, we're trying to figure out a way you could categorize jihadist ideology as a counter constitutional

political ideology that should be disqualifying, as opposed to learn that has first a man protection. In other words, more talking about all Muslims, we're talking about people were demonstrated, connection either to organizations were to places that were hotbeds jihadist ideology and they're, not that hard to map, we met them all the time for various intelligence reasons on all of this advice that God in twenty sixteen resulted Lee in some executive worries that he issued at the beginning of his administration and by the time they were issued and and refine they were completely legal and what they made. What, but they urged are agencies to do within the bounds of american statutory constitutional law, was to heighten vetting for people who were coming to

the United States from various areas of the world that were note areas for jihadist ideology and all or two to the extent that people had certain attributes like we discuss with ACT Grammy on these visa, categorical reasons that you would keep people in the country to subject those people to heighten, brutally before letting them come in the country. I lay that all that out, because when Biden came into office, one of the first things he did was counter man trot. Guidance on heightened vetting for aliens coming into the United States, and what I am fearful. Love is He thought of in a minute. Better administration comes obviously from the top and if the president instructs everyone that vetting of aliens wanna come into the,

I did. States is no longer a priority for the United States government and then you see in this particular instance somebody who for about likes Ways to Sunday should have been excluded from the United States gets into the country and then in know, committee to a terrorist terrorist activity you're, obviously to into four we're. Not we're not were asleep switch with reason Stopping people who shouldn't be in the United States were coming in and I think we have a government wide problem here. This is not just about this one particular incident at the synagogue. I think people are rightfully worried that we have let our guard down about, but who were led. In this country and the only reason for them to have done. That is because it was trumps policy to heighten very.

and that seems to me to be like a stupid reason to not do that yeah. So you eluded earlier to hear your car saying the F B. I did a good job, operational aid, but then script communication afterwards and has been allow mockery. Now, about the statements we heard from from Biden and others. We don't know this guy's Motor Vinos. It's still mystery to us you. It wasn't ultimately targeting Jews, although how to get really out of his way to find out a synagogue, So what you make that aspect of this well, I was willing to cut the bureau some slack, and this is a rich. This is like grading on it on a very look,

right. So you know we ve heard the FBI, and especially during the Obama administration, when they were talking nonsense about. You know, man caused disasters and- and you know that whole glossary that we we pump fund for eight years while we had terrorist attack a terrorist attack. to his credit, I think, Biden came out rapidly and said this was a terrorist attack which it was so you know this is removed from the worst of the farmer stuff and as far as what this agent had to I should point out here that the agent who made the statements that people rightfully What type of that is a guy named Matthew just saw now, and some would, I think if you read some of the coverage. You would say Well, you know. Look it's just a spokesman for the F B. I got them messaging. Screwed up the sky is

I merely a spokesman for the FBI, he's a special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Office, which is one of them. You know them area wise. It's when the biggest offices in the FBI and the country and its one, the most important jobs and of the FBI in the country. I sold he's, not just you dont, like oppressed person, who got it wrong. This is like a guy who is in the upper ranks of the FBI, Who knows exactly what the messaging is and whether the are where the bureau's coming from on this stuff? So he comes out. and he says we do believe, for more engagement with IRAN. They weren't meant that they weren't mentioning his name at this point. This is sadly nightmare in this all brok. We believe from our engagement with them. he wasn't. This is a quote singularly focused on one issue and it was not. Specifically related to the jewish community, now

obviously what he did was related to the jewish community he traveled Sixteen thousand six hundred miles from in to Fort worth to get to a synagogue he wanted to be in Fort worth, and this is where the Sarno, obviously meant by He was singularly that I found was singularly focused on one issue. I from was trying to extort the United States government to release another jihadis, whose name is obvious in some of the tabloids you she's been referred to as Madame more lady Al Qaeda, she somebody to materially supported the Taliban. an american aid, I think the native Atta Stani American educated academic, whose often

describing the media's a neuro scientist. I think it be more obvious, she's a biologist, an archaeologist but in any event, she's radical Islamist and she provided material support to the Taliban. She ended up. Divorcing her husband and marrying the nephew of Collegiate Mohammed D Item masterminded, the nine eleven attacks on the base intelligence that was available to the FBI, which, by the way, we all know that the government into View K S and a great life. She was doing to a jihadist, sell that was scrub, purportedly plotting.

Attacks in the United States, written and Pakistan genes are getting captured in Afghanistan during the war with the Taliban among other enemies there and when they went to interview her Somebody in the military got careless with the fight will she managed to grab and shot? I think two of our troops with didn't, kill anyone, but equally attempted murder them. So, That's her background, she's also rapidly anti semitic during her terrorism trial. Yes, the judge, if they could do genetic testing on the jurors, could she wanted to determine whether they have had the jewish blood? So you know she's a winner and this is the woman, her release has been kind of a cause. So I in islamist circles

There's been a number of caravans, there's been a number of these big islamic organizations in one of the big car prices. Is you free doktor city? because they, essentially they misrepresent what her background was in London and what crime she was convicted of, but she's? doing an eighty six year, terrorism themselves and they have her in a prison. Federal government does about twenty four miles from whether this boss was. in this little town called. How are you bill, which is on the outskirts of Fort Worth, So that's the reason the guy was in Fort worth, but. He he was at a mosque because as anti Semitism is a key component jihadist ideology. We shouldn't you know what the FBI is frightened to death is, The wrath of these islamic organisations, especially when there's a democratic restoration in power, because

the islamic organizations have alone influence with the democratic Administration say a little ones Republic in administration still, but they have a lot with democratic demonstrations and the FBI, as it has always been, fraid of saying anything that would he perceived what could be twisted into their saying that all Muslims or anti Semites. So there. You know they trip over their language all the time and they say stupid, stuff. So what this guy said was that from was singularly focused on one issue and not specifically related to the jewish community. Obviously his plot was real. It's the jewish community cause. He took hostages in a cynical which he went, Two on Saturday, when he knew there would be services there, which was an opportune time to take jewish hostages. So to say that it was

specifically related to the jewish community stupid. But what I think he was trying to convey is that our main objective, ways to get the release subsidy to trade hostages, to get the american government to release CD, and the FBI did not believe that this incident meant that there were, a more general and broad based conspiracy to attack jewish synagogues throughout the United States than take hostile. the problem is widely just say that in that, if this thing that he said, which was which was idiotic and- and they were rightly ridicule forward, but I don't think he was trying to Service- had nothing to do with the jewish community. What I think he was trying to convey was that there was no general plot jewish community feeling, like you, VE, had a war with your investment strategy, or maybe you ve been burned by the stock market. You many times is the star the pandemic. What, if I told you,

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India is got a lot of attention. Last couple weeks, Alvin Bright, classic incidence of one of these progressive prosecutors who has zero interest and prosecuting released a first date Nemo. That was just astonishing. That said, our unwrought robberies could be treated as misdemeanours, huge fear, driven by the near posed others and he's been backtracking. Last several days you you ve, tried to say well that this is a miscommunication and I could have put a better and the memo and mammals full legal leaves I should ve known, would be misunderstood by a lot of people and an yesterday were, according early Friday afternoon here I held a press conference or some sort of precedent, the boy where he cut back off at least some of the memo. So who is this guy? What did the first members say and how much of it it has he?

back. Well, he's a yeah he's a former federal prosecutor who also worked for senator tumor on the Judiciary Committee he's a friendly with Pre Ferrara, He worked with horror, I think, on sugar staff. He may also bitterness just at the sudden district There are always do you to turn him up certain about that but you know visa fees he's a self described for breakfast prosecutor. Ah enrich, I have to say you know, but for a port of part of the world, well? Well, I am an! U worm grew to be were New York

earth. People have lived in New York. We hate to see what happened to the city, especially given the thirty years that it's up to take the city from the bad, lands that it was a by ninety ninety, and that was like a twenty five year period of the dysfunction and crime to being the safest, big city in the world. So to watch that you don't day after day to watch all that progress can wash down the drain because people don't wanna enforced, the losses is terrible, but at the same time, often brag did not misrepresent who he was when he was running for district attorney and just to be clear to people. Yes, New York is a one party state, but they had a very competitive primary. This time

around, and he had. There were a number of people who are running against him worse we left the sun or people- it's almost like its baked in Cancun, New York anymore, that that's how it has to be, but you know that much more reasonable people who could have been, who could have been elected and this guy ran is a progressive prosecutor who said that the Euro, basically law enforcement under disparate impact theory racist than we are universal stomach racism and the only way to deal with it is not to prosecute people and not incarcerate. so in a lot of ways. You know new friend How about you say you know New York he's getting what they voted for with this guy he didn't it's not like one these situations where he pretended. He was one thing and then he got into office and in turn to something else, the men although J one member that is now so notorious is pretty that's what he ran on it. It's just it's very different widen,

his campaigning and he closed himself as a social justice, warrior who's upset about George Floyd, and then he gets into office. Now he's responsible for the lives of people and now suddenly people like when when you said you were going to prosecute, we didn't build thinking like you, weren't a prostitute That, then, is a classic version of the so called Kinsey Gap, which was saying something it's true it, and that this this was a vertical saying something he believed clearly, yet exactly it totally certainly correct, and what underscores how totally director is riches? The fact when people, objected to it. He seemed shocked, but he's like he's really a little bit, because these, like a puppet number one. This is what I ran up and number two. How could anyone else think any other way you know so you know but he's he's not a good person like all of these, all of these progressive, the prosecutors, my

and it took about them. Is you know if they want to be defence lawyers they should be, defence lawyers and is a place for good defence lawyers, who are very effect. but you don't want somebody who doesn't philosophically believed that in forcing the laws, that is a good idea to be the chief prosecutor. There's a lot of you, not legitimate job. You could do. That's not it's not one that you wanna. One put someone like that said, and I think you know the thing with the memo which he's now lying about the memo, because he realizes that politically now that he's in a different job other than a besides being a campaigner he's now what would sponsible on a cannibal he's now try to pretend that the memo, suddenly it doesn't, which shone Angelina's us. For example, you mentioned the New Yorkers, caught him on dead too right, where you noted basically said that people just didn't understand what the memo said and she was like now,

we understand what it says and she laid out exactly what the law ones that he was talking to, Any clearly was saying that he was not going to prosecute armed robbery. Is a felony hears it? Here's the thing with these progressive breast, Peters and I'm gonna write about this for the for the weekend com. But the thing I think people need to focus on with this is the concept of prosecutor oriental discretion because by distorting that concept, what these guys are doing is exactly what conservatives for half a century has been very effective at outing. Judges over, which is their job, is not to make the law. You know with weeping very effective reached and thank God for Justice Valea on this one

but it is now except in law in the United States, a boy why does needed to be an argument who knows, but it is now an accepted principle. That a judge this job is to apply the law as it were not to make up the law and that it is such an accepted concept that at this point, that even progressive judges when they have confirmation hearings at least have to pretend that they respect the text of those. and were and judges, don't respect the text as a sad when they don't even look with act like it's important. Judges almost never do that anymore because they get reversed so frequently, so we A very good job, I think, of communicating to people that it's the judges job to apply the law as Rick not to make up the law, as the judge goes along, and I think that that,

I think that's been drilled into one oh by conservatives, into the public consciousness enough that its doubt become a real standard in judicial evaluation, judicial confirmations in life. We don't, terrible job. Unfortunately, understanding that it's the same principle when you're talking about prosecutes daddy is Prosecutors job is to enforce the laws that Legislature has written not to rewrite the wars and not to make up new laws as they got along and for the rest and try to get around this two ways, one they say well prosecutors at the different, an executive officials in general, a different from judges because their accountable they get elected. You know

If the people want it, you know if it is often brag runs around says, I'm not enforce the law and then the people let them and he died. and enforce the law. Then no progressive say this is what people voted for You look at Philadelphia. Larry pressure is yeah he's like the model of what brag wants to. come, not only got elected. He got reelected with like three quarters of the vote, so you know they say. Look politically. These people are just doing what the public What I think the answer to that is too, for one is a lot of the public is voting with their feet. in the sense that bill leaving these jurisdictions. You know so big. Is that there are even more captured by these. echo elements but young people who care deeply about law and order It's not like the being outvoted that leave and the ones remain are getting out voted, but there are fewer and fewer of them,

and, secondly, and more importantly, in a constitutional republic, an election is not a licence to ignore the law. On the whole point of having a constitution is to defend the rights of mainly of civil rights, him, my darling, So when somebody gets elected, they don't get to say that while I got elected sorting, do whatever the hell I want nuggets still have you know they taken. Also, To follow the law and their job is to faithfully execute. Belongs that's what the gig it's so, though, the fact that these guys have been elected does not relieve them of the obligation to enforce the law. which gets to brags main argument here and the main argument that used by progressive prosecutors and that is this idea of prosecutor your discretion. Now.

this is another one. These things like you know brag saying. While you just didn't understand my memory, because it was all that legal staff- and you know, if you're not trained, you don't really understand, you, don't have the rooms at a stone to digress my meaning here, prostitute, burial discretion is a concept like that it yeah they think they can. They can just say, prosecutor oil discretion. That means I can basically make the light to what I wanted to do and, as we discussed a few times on, the pot cast over the years, prosper tutorial discretion. Is simply a resource allocation doctrine which stands for the unavoidable proposition that there is, more crime than there are resources to combat crime. So what do you have to target your prostitute, Oreo resources in the places where they're gonna have the most daring?

the facts are you go for the union, the more serious crime and, if ends up mainly you let some of the less serious stuff go. That's a sensible, location of resources, It is not a licence either to turn learn to something that it's not all work, to suggest that the crimes that you're not prosecuting cause, you don't have the resources to prosecute them or not actual crimes that its now innocent behaviour, and yet this is what these prosecutors private do. So one of the things that I thought was most offensive in breast Applause, for example, is he instructs followed? The idea is the assistant district attorney's workforce. We already here is going to be accountability, not years of sentence. It's there

telling thing to say, even though it sounds innocent enough at accountabilities, a nice word, you don't just like the equity in, and sustainability in all those towards the left, loves much, but what he means by accountability is well. Let me just take it the other way if a prosecutor is looking at years of sentence in excess, the prosecutor, aerial discretion, what that means is the prosecutor is applied, the laws but that the legislature has written, which basically say you know if you commit acts crime, you get why seconds if you permit armed robbery, this is the status. If you commit murder This is the second. What brand is saying is we're gonna go with accountability, and what that means is that prosecutor should evaluate how serious the prosecutor things to conduct is an then up with some way to treat it, whether it's some diversion from certain from being sent to you from a sentencing.

Incarceration? You know some way, not to imprison some way to plead the case, so that, the that's charges no longer representative of the conduct that happened and we walk away from that, even though we have been applied, even though the ledge later has said when someone commits armed robbery. This is the sentence. What we come away, from the saying is we ve looked at this and we determined in fairness. This is how this person could have been treated, and then we write up the charges whatever way, we think we need to write them up in order to achieve that result. So, in effect what you're doing is rewriting the lot and you're telling people that I am allowed to do this, because the constitution says prosecute prosecutors, have discretion. The legislature can't tell me what crimes due to prosecute. So, therefore, this is how,

I'm doing and that's not what prosecutor discretion is at all and what these guys are doing is just is offensive is what judges do when they make up the laws they go along, which is, they are completely rewriting the statutes and it has significant was his walk back less than meets the eye. He said I did say that arm. You know if you, he was a gun become the robbery that that's a felony, which is a departure from what the man must send someone? That's it. see what he dies and in that sense it walked back rich. A lot of what he said yesterday was prosecuted aerial discretion and he insisted that he was holding the law by exercising it because ass it, but because prosecutor aerial discretion is in the constitution, he can

it used to claim the people misunderstood what he wrote- and you know the other thing he said was like, for example, with respect to people who saw police. He said that those people are gonna be held accountable. He didn't, those people are gonna, be subjected to the law to the way the law is written. So, still has the weasel further out that yeah they're gonna. Look it up case and they are going to decide what fear, treatments and they're not going to apply the laws as written

what he means by accountable, what he means by accountable and what you think you here when he sends a cannibal, I think, are two different things. So let us help one less than four. We go also involves prosecutors, not prosecuting crimes and horrendous consequences. From that from that this, just amazing story, though we would, in the twenty first century, have train robberies in the west to get by you, you happy with focus last in this report out there there took some some video. This went viral. There's been a lot of focus now, just this astonishing level of packages stolen from trade coming out. I guess of of and if you ve written very powerful about the powerful about this goin on here, and how can we stop it God, these images, Richard just I mean no one I don't wanna

I would say that people should people should look at them for the cell for themselves. It is shocking. The only thing I can compare it to. I was enough: I was in Kenya, after the. U S, embassy, got born there. I was there after they had jumped weeks after they had the cleaned up, the main of it. But you know it's still. It looks like a it looks like a war zone, and you know you look at these images. stop strewn all over the young mounds and mount the mounds and goods you're right, in the sun blowing in the breeze mounted all over the young all over the rail. Your hearts. and it's just a minute, shocking in the United States to see that in this day and age and what's happening, but you know that they are on Fourchan maybe comparison to the to the nineteen

century wild West ends because in the wild west of the nineteenth century, if you got caught robbing a train, there was- we do not want it to be Albin brag, just like actual prosecution and you're sentences with the with real teeth. So the problem in cattle pointed out? Is the situation obtains because the rule of law no longer exists in LOS Angeles area, the prosecutor, their George Gas Gandhi, yeah? Another progressive prosecutor must end was basically has standards that you don't between. How bad the laws already or could begin within California, and then his exercise, a prosecutor, indiscretion, nobody gets prosecuted so What the legislature in California has done is basically make any fast.

of nine hundred and fifty dollars or less is going to be treated as a misdemeanor spot things that you would think of his Gran larceny in grand theft or being played down, when he prosecutes than mall at all there being by down too simple, try as pass, which means the people a centrally dont get prosecuted at all and because ball of not only the people who would be inclined to commit crimes but more importantly, organised crime networks which have sufficed It had shouted channels of obtaining an fencing, stolen goods. Have left on this so what work finding. According to Union Pacific, whose coups freight trains have been the most targeted by this on Ninety freight trains a day or being robbed.

robberies year over a year as at the end of this year, are of a hundred and sixty percent from October of twenty twenty two October, twenty one. It was three hundred and fifty six percent up. We talking about millions and millions and millions of dollars worth of goods, including think, like you know, these deserve quick tat. Kids were covered, nineteen, which are such a thing and net Biden is talking about the difficulty of getting them out and love and apologizing. That is behind the April when that if you really looking for one instant places until recently, you have been better off. You go into the to the brain yard, in LOS Angeles and looking along the train tracks than going to your local Walgreens, because you know you are more apt to find them there, and what happens is that you know these steeds get

on the train, the train slow down at well known in areas in someplace? What buildings are happy, he's people get on, they pull the break, the train completely stops, and then these these mobs get on. They cut the locks which show that the Union Pacific hasn't done a good job of their era, locking systems into modern times, and then they get access to the to the Frank cars and they just take everything out. They rifles row it. What's what looks good? They keep. What doesn't look good

they pro on the tracks and then the other scavengers come to the tracks to pick out what's been left behind and what people are finding is aid they won't be prosecuted and be they might find that able stuff the bacon fence war. You know cylinder places the people's cell items debate obtained and there you know they can make money off it. So it's no risk and there's reward attached to it. So they say you unity, a huge advocate, a federal power in distances says, but they think there is a case for the feds getting involved here and you're rich, because you know there's a lot of situations. I think we're the feds muscle line in places that their unnecessary in their superfluous, but the whole rationale for having federal law enforcement in the first place is interested in international commerce. I mean everything, better

there were prosecutor to do including enforced. The federal narcotics was its based on interstate commerce. So as much as its tempting to say you don't look if these None skulls in LOS Angeles, Wanna Elect George, That's gone is there as their district attorney, then they should live with the what they elected, and it is didn't you say that, but this is not a war. Sensual was from or even its California problem. It is a national problem, especially at a time when we supply chain problems arising, cost inflation, empty shells etc. We have millions of dollars and of stuff which is very consequential to the broader economy, is being stopped and we're talking about a substantial amount of stop, I think, are dominant Pino, wrote about this as well that the two,

the major ports and the United States are adjacent the LOS Angeles area and forty percent of the goods that come into the United States, come in through those ports so which fucking about the rail transportation component of the goods that come into the United States, which is a goodly percentage of it. This is a very significant. problem, both interstate and international commerce. So it's a classic case of federal bra. And it's part of the reason why you don't that with the federal, statute. Books are festival with stolen property provides. You know whether its transport stolen goods or receipt of stolen goods are fencing of stolen goods does all kinds of even before you get to racketeering and other things that you can

target organizations with an enhanced sentences with there's a ton of theft, crimes in the federal called bettering, bought a bet with the nexus forward. Is interested in international commerce, so I think that with the federal it has a real obligation to do something about this and when alarms me is, there is no evidence at the moment that they're doing anything about it I dont want to say they are not because you know maybe they're maintaining investigators. secrecy in any day now we're gonna get a big prosecution, but I wrote the columns I wrote this week on this. I looked at the website of the: U S: turn office. In LOS Angeles, and the website of the FBI's field office in LOS Angeles, and they both have places on their websites that items you every single big case, that they brought, that they want to call attention to, and the media coverage of those cases and there's not a whisper

about what's going on, on this area of the year of the union. Pacific train lines near LOS Angeles. Ok,