Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY Boston's news video.
Speaker 2: Well, I think all of us have watched the immigration
Speaker 2: battle open up on a lot of fronts, And just
Speaker 2: to put this into a little bit of historical perspective,
Speaker 2: I think there are two viewpoints within this country towards
Speaker 2: what I call illegal immigration and what others will call
Speaker 2: I guess call it by a different name. But in
Speaker 2: the last four years during the Biden administration, there are
Speaker 2: a lot of people who were able to come across
Speaker 2: the border.
Speaker 3: Most of them were coming across for all the right.
Speaker 2: Reasons, but very few of them are going through the
Speaker 2: process correctly which they were supposed to comply with. So
Speaker 2: we now have millions of people in the country who
Speaker 2: we don't know. And that was a big issue in
Speaker 2: the last presidential elections, in which Donald Trump beat Vice
Speaker 2: Resident Harris And although Donald Trump says it was a landslide,
Speaker 2: it was a close election. He won all of the
Speaker 2: battleground states but didn't win them. The overall vote was
Speaker 2: about fifty plus to forty nine plus. The difference was
Speaker 2: a couple of million votes, not again landslide, but it's
Speaker 2: an issue that I think most Americans feel something needs
Speaker 2: to be done, and in the first few months of
Speaker 2: the Trump administration, we've had some very interesting broadsides fired
Speaker 2: from one side or to the other. It doesn't seem
Speaker 2: to be much of an area of agreement. I think
Speaker 2: that there is a general agreement amongst most people who
Speaker 2: are within the great middle in America, who say, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's get the bad people. Let's get the rapists and
Speaker 2: the murderers, the child pornographers, and the people who are.
Speaker 3: Bringing fentanyl into the country. Let's get them out. Let's
Speaker 3: close the border, let's tighten up the border.
Speaker 2: I think there's a consensus on that, and I think
Speaker 2: that on that issue, the Trump administration is trying to
Speaker 2: do their best.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: In some cases, I have criticized the Trump administration because
Speaker 2: some of the arrests seem to me to be a
Speaker 2: little premature. I want to see all the gang members.
Speaker 2: I want to see Trente Daraguara, I want to see
Speaker 2: MS thirteen. I want to see all the real bad
Speaker 2: people who have come into this country for no good purpose.
Speaker 2: I want them gone, and I like them gone yesterday,
Speaker 2: and I think most of you would agree with that. However,
Speaker 2: there are also a lot of people who are here
Speaker 2: who potentially have come here for the right reasons. And
Speaker 2: so therefore one group focuses on the very bad actors
Speaker 2: who are here, and the other group focuses upon the
Speaker 2: eighteen year old student from Milford who was picked up
Speaker 2: when they were really looking for his dad, or the
Speaker 2: the tough's graduate student who's arrested by the the ICE agents.
Speaker 2: And you have again politicians on both sides, uh, basically
Speaker 2: trying to get the public to focus, to basically frame
Speaker 2: the issue as they want now. Uh, Mayor Wu has
Speaker 2: become a target of the Trump administration, and Boston has
Speaker 2: become a target of the Trump administration and of the.
Speaker 3: The Director of Ice, Director.
Speaker 2: Homan, and Mayor Wu in her state at the City address,
Speaker 2: I guess it was actually in March earlier this year.
Speaker 2: She sort of threw down the gauntlet here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And uh, this just gives you a little bit of
Speaker 2: the tone of Mayor Wu in early March here in Boston,
Speaker 2: in the State of the city addressed. This is cutting
Speaker 2: number thirty five.
Speaker 4: Please, Rob, we stand with immigrants. You belong here, so
Speaker 4: almost want to see that, then, miguerants, Boston doesn't back down.
Speaker 4: We are a city where the Irish coffee is strong
Speaker 4: and our opinions are stronger. We may not always agree
Speaker 4: or see eye to eye, but at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, we are a family. If you come for
Speaker 4: one of us, you will get all of us.
Speaker 3: Well. On that point, she's dead wrong. Okay, she's dead wrong.
Speaker 2: She does not distinguish between people who are coming here
Speaker 2: out of desperation and people who are coming here as desperadoes.
Speaker 2: Meaning when she says, if you come for one of us,
Speaker 2: does that refer to the child rapist who's here illegally?
Speaker 3: Do we all stand with that person? I hope not.
Speaker 3: I hope not.
Speaker 2: She was questioned by a congresswoman from South Carolina about
Speaker 2: that very point, and when she appeared in Congress back
Speaker 2: in February, she kind of had to answer questions direct
Speaker 2: questions from Congresswoman Nancy Mace cut number thirty four.
Speaker 5: Please Rob mayor Wu, I have a last couple questions
Speaker 5: for you. Do you believe that ICE arresting a child
Speaker 5: rapist quote threatens everyone's safety?
Speaker 6: End quote?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, No no? Does Ice arresting a murderous MS
Speaker 5: thirteen game member threaten everyone's safety?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I would like to hold up this quote of you
Speaker 5: where you say ICE's efforts actually threaten the safety of
Speaker 5: every one.
Speaker 8: End quote.
Speaker 5: Boston Mayor Michelle Will, you're a hypocrite.
Speaker 2: Tough language from Mace, who's a Republican. Now, the mayor
Speaker 2: has gone on to make some very interesting comments about
Speaker 2: ICE officers, and they have drawn the attention of US
Speaker 2: Attorney Leah Foley, who's a very impressive United States attorney.
Speaker 2: Normally US attorneys stay away from this sort of a fray,
Speaker 2: but I think she is fed up with some of
Speaker 2: the rhetoric from Mayor Wu, and I think she's fed
Speaker 2: up with the lack of cooperation. Boston Police are willing
Speaker 2: to provide federal agents here who are trying to I
Speaker 2: would hope rid the city of people who are here
Speaker 2: for the wrong reasons. So now the the new US attorney,
Speaker 2: she's been in office for I guess a couple of months.
Speaker 2: Lea Foley released a video this morning. The video actually
Speaker 2: runs in its entirety, but just a minute and fifty
Speaker 2: one seconds, but it's pretty powerful. We've cut it into
Speaker 2: three segments, and I want to play those three segments,
Speaker 2: starting off with some comments that again, this is the
Speaker 2: United States attorney. For those of you who are not lawyers,
Speaker 2: the US Attorney is separate and apart from the Attorney general.
Speaker 2: The Attorney General in Massachusetts is the head of law
Speaker 2: enforcement in Massachusetts. The United States Attorney is the chief prosecutor.
Speaker 2: And it's a very busy and a very important office,
Speaker 2: and they prosecute lots of people, sometimes even politicians from
Speaker 2: both sides of the aisle. This is the US Attorney
Speaker 2: the first third of her comments this morning, let us
Speaker 2: go to cut thirty three A rob.
Speaker 6: During a recent interview, Boston's Mayor Michelle wou made reckless
Speaker 6: and inflammatory statements regarding enforcement efforts made by federal immigration
Speaker 6: authorities across the Commonwealth. Referring to federal agents as quote
Speaker 6: secret police is offensive.
Speaker 9: There are no secret police.
Speaker 6: Ice agents, along with other federal law enforcement partners.
Speaker 9: Are making immigration arrests. That is no secret.
Speaker 6: They are arresting individuals who are here illegally, which is
Speaker 6: a violation of federal law. Every enforcement action is conducted
Speaker 6: within the bounds of the Constitution and our laws, with oversight,
Speaker 6: legal justification, and accountability. To claim otherwise is a gross
Speaker 6: misrepresentation and a disservice.
Speaker 1: To the public.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't think that Mayor is going to take
Speaker 2: back the comments that she made. But the language used
Speaker 2: by the US Attorney LEA. Foley and inflammatory, I can't
Speaker 2: disagree with that. I just can't disagree with that because
Speaker 2: there are bad people out there who would take that
Speaker 2: language that the mayor used as if not permission or
Speaker 2: maybe maybe permission at minimum, license to perhaps due harm
Speaker 2: to these people who they may have described as reckless
Speaker 2: and inflammatory. The US Attorney Leo Foley from Massachusetts continues
Speaker 2: in Cut thirty three b rob.
Speaker 6: Federal agents in marked jackets and vests are masking their
Speaker 6: faces because people like Mayor WU have created false narratives.
Speaker 9: About their mission.
Speaker 6: Federal agents and their children are being threatened, docks and assaulted.
Speaker 9: That is why they must hide their faces.
Speaker 6: Furthermore, suggesting that federal law enforcement officers are quote snatching people.
Speaker 9: Off the streets is also false.
Speaker 6: It's offensive to the men and women who risk their
Speaker 6: lives every day to uphold the rule of law.
Speaker 2: Again, what the US attorney is saying is that the
Speaker 2: mayor has engaged in rhetoric which is not disciplined, and
Speaker 2: I think she's correct. Last part of the comment released
Speaker 2: today by the US Attorney Leo Foley, directed exactly precisely
Speaker 2: at Mayor Will cut thirty three c rob.
Speaker 6: On the contrary, every arrest or detention is pursuant to
Speaker 6: and sanctioned by federal law. The US Attorney's Office stands
Speaker 6: in support of our federal law enforcement partners, whose mission
Speaker 6: it is to protect.
Speaker 9: The residence of Massachusetts.
Speaker 6: Regardless of the noise being generated by politicians who either
Speaker 6: do not understand federal law or simply believe our nation's
Speaker 6: immigration laws should not be in force.
Speaker 9: We will not apologize for doing our job.
Speaker 2: So that we invited the US Attorney to join us tonight,
Speaker 2: I didn't expect that she would. I think that statement
Speaker 2: speaks for itself. So now my question from my audience
Speaker 2: is this has taken the fight between the federal government
Speaker 2: and Mayor Wu to another level. To some extent, it's
Speaker 2: going to work to the advantage of Mayor Wu in
Speaker 2: her reelection bid here in Massachusetts, or rather in Boston,
Speaker 2: excuse me, Boston, Massachusetts. But obviously the federal government feels
Speaker 2: at this point that they have no other choice. And
Speaker 2: again it's extraordinary. To the best of my knowledge, I
Speaker 2: have never heard or at least in Massachusetts. The District
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts heard of the US Attorney releasing a prepared
Speaker 2: statement for the purpose of calling on the carpet the
Speaker 2: mayor of Boston or, in this case, a leading Democratic politician.
Speaker 2: Here are the number six, one, seven, five, four, ten thirty,
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty or triple
Speaker 2: eight nine two, nine, ten thirty. Question is very simple.
Speaker 2: Who has the better of this argument? Uh, the US
Speaker 2: Attorney Lea Foley or Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. I think
Speaker 2: Wu's language is undisciplined, and I think she has made
Speaker 2: statements that she needs to apologize for. That's my thought.
Speaker 2: I'd love to know what you think. And I thought
Speaker 2: that the US Attorney today was particularly disciplined and very
Speaker 2: specific in her language. She approached it very much as
Speaker 2: a lawyer would, while Mayor Wu was speaking often either
Speaker 2: from a script or off hand, in using language that
Speaker 2: a politician would. That's my analysis. I'd love to get
Speaker 2: yours six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty, six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty back on Nightside
Speaker 2: right after this.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on radio.
Speaker 2: All right, so we have a the lines are drawn
Speaker 2: here between Boston mayor and Michelle wou and the US
Speaker 2: Attorney Lea Foley. Uh.
Speaker 3: This is this is a real battle. Uh.
Speaker 2: And there may be some political implications in all of this,
Speaker 2: as there often is.
Speaker 3: But I want to know who you think is handling
Speaker 3: it properly. Let me go first up to Frank in Boston. Frank,
Speaker 3: you a first up this hour on nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 7: Yay, both sides are right. We are in a war
Speaker 7: that both sides and the war is being waged against
Speaker 7: the United States of America and its constitution and its people.
Speaker 7: Both sides need to talk. Both sides need to get
Speaker 7: their opinions out there, and we need to fix this
Speaker 7: mess here. So to say that neither side should be talked,
Speaker 7: neither side should be making that point, I think it
Speaker 7: puts one side and a disadvantage. Don't lay down and
Speaker 7: put your head in the sand because you're afraid of
Speaker 7: the other side. You got to say something. You gotta
Speaker 7: do something. Both sides. They got to say something. They
Speaker 7: gotta give us their point and give us an idea
Speaker 7: of what direction they want this nation to go.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this, I think that you could
Speaker 2: not have a clearer indication of the position of both sides.
Speaker 2: I think Michelle Wu has made it pretty clear if
Speaker 2: you come for anyone in Boston, then they're gonna have
Speaker 2: to deal with everyone in Boston. Those were paraphrasing her words.
Speaker 2: And Leo Foley, the US Attorney, is upset with some
Speaker 2: of the language that Wu has directed towards these federal agents.
Speaker 2: And you know what's happening is a lot of these
Speaker 2: guys are getting docks. You know when they say docs,
Speaker 2: do you know what that means? It's a it's a
Speaker 2: term that's kind of a recent term. Somehow they will
Speaker 2: get the name and the address of where these folks
Speaker 2: live and they will put it up on websites, and
Speaker 2: some of them feel that that puts them and their
Speaker 2: families in danger.
Speaker 7: Uh, well, see that's the that's the that's the thing here.
Speaker 7: I don't know what that term is, but I don't
Speaker 7: see anything out there telling us that that is happening.
Speaker 7: This administration has a tendency to lie, lie, lie lot.
Speaker 7: So this for them to be saying that and we
Speaker 7: ain't even seen it, I got it.
Speaker 8: This happened.
Speaker 3: Well it is.
Speaker 2: I can tell you this. I can tell you this.
Speaker 2: It is a practice that has been used.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, but you've got to help.
Speaker 2: You out, man. Let me help you out a little
Speaker 2: bit here. It is a practice that has been used
Speaker 2: against UH by primarily by the extremists on both sides
Speaker 2: of the spectrum against the other side of the spectrum.
Speaker 2: So doxing is a term that has been going on
Speaker 2: for a while.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there were the homes of
Speaker 2: US Supreme Court justices, which for years and years and
Speaker 2: years have been kept very confidential. Uh started to become
Speaker 2: public record back oh six or seven of five or
Speaker 2: six years ago. So doc saying is something that is done, okay,
Speaker 2: and it's not nice because it impacts family members. But
Speaker 2: that is I'm not saying. I'm not saying either US
Speaker 2: Attorney fully or mayor Woo were doing that. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that, but some people on different sides are.
Speaker 3: So that's that's it.
Speaker 7: But that doesn't mean it's happened to these agents. There
Speaker 7: have been instances, none that you explain that there have
Speaker 7: been instances that have heard, but I haven't heard nothing
Speaker 7: going against these agents.
Speaker 3: Well, if I haven't a US attorney, I will tell
Speaker 3: you this. If I have some knowledge of the U
Speaker 3: S Attorney.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the US attorney is a large
Speaker 2: enforcement prosecutor that is appointed by the president, whoever, whether
Speaker 2: it's a Democratic president or Republican president. U S attorneys
Speaker 2: have done a very good job here, with a couple
Speaker 2: of exceptions during during my time appointees of both Democratic
Speaker 2: and Republican presidents. There's a pretty high high standard, uh
Speaker 2: that that U S Attorneys comply with. And if Lea Foley,
Speaker 2: as a US attorney is saying that there are federal
Speaker 2: agents whose identifications and whose home addresses have been docked doxed,
Speaker 2: I think you can take that to the bank. And
Speaker 2: that's what And she was most concerned about, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to interrupt your go ahead, Frank, and
Speaker 3: give you a final one.
Speaker 7: I don't. I don't think her work should be taken
Speaker 7: as truth. I don't. I don't. I think she is compromised.
Speaker 7: I think a lot of these officers that this administration
Speaker 7: is appointed people to have been compromised.
Speaker 3: What I would suggest to you is I don't think
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 7: You, I mean, are wet all we got, dude? Look
Speaker 7: at the headstaff was the Defense Department? What's the name
Speaker 7: and Human and health blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 10: But we can go on.
Speaker 7: A lot of them are unqualified, and they called.
Speaker 2: The departments again, you probably have qualifications. And the next
Speaker 2: time there's a Democrat, uh, look at, look at Frank.
Speaker 2: I hope that next time when your point of view
Speaker 2: prevails and takes the White House, and there will be
Speaker 2: next time, I hope that you're nominated for one of
Speaker 2: these positions, because obviously you're.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't motify it. I wouldn't want it because I'm
Speaker 7: not qualified. I wouldn't want a position that I'm not
Speaker 7: qualified for because it will mess that everything up. And
Speaker 7: you got people's reputation, people's careers that you would affect.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't even I would not do that on.
Speaker 2: My tell stuff. Thank you for being honest, Frank, I think.
Speaker 2: But then, if do you know any let me ask
Speaker 2: you this. Yeah, Frank, just let's have a little bit
Speaker 2: of a conversation. Do you know anything about LEO qualifications?
Speaker 2: Do you know anything about Pete haik Seth's qualifications? Do
Speaker 2: you know where Pete Haikseth went to school? Do you
Speaker 2: know what his military uh involvement has been? What he
Speaker 2: what he did as a member of the active military.
Speaker 2: Do you know any of that or no? Are they
Speaker 2: just names to you? Why did you do me this favor?
Speaker 2: I'm going to challenge you. I'm going to shout, I'm
Speaker 2: going to challenge you here, Frank, Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 2: judge you. I want you to to get on your
Speaker 2: computer and check.
Speaker 7: Out I don't have a computer.
Speaker 3: No, you do, you don't, I do not. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: We'll go to the library and use a computer and
Speaker 2: check out Leofole's qualifications. Check out Pete has hagg Seth's qualifications.
Speaker 2: They are eminently qualified for the positions that they're served.
Speaker 2: With their serving, you might disagree with their positions, Frank.
Speaker 7: You well, I see.
Speaker 2: The only advantage I have, Frank, Frank, The only advantage
Speaker 2: I have is I know what their qualifications are. I've
Speaker 2: looked at their their their curricula VTAI, I've looked at
Speaker 2: their resumes. I understand what their qualifications are. I think
Speaker 2: if you go and you look at their qualifications, you
Speaker 2: are still going to disagree with positions they take, but
Speaker 2: you're you're not going to be criticizing their qualifications, is
Speaker 2: the point I'm trying to make.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 2: Come on, I hate, I hate to confuse you with
Speaker 2: facts and things like that, Frank, but I have no choice.
Speaker 2: I got to run. I hit the newscast. Appreciate you call,
Speaker 2: keep calling I low. Our conversations. Have a great one
Speaker 2: coming back on Nightside right after the news at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the hour. You know, folks, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to sit here and allow people's qualifications to be dragged
Speaker 2: through the mud by people who haven't checked those qualifications out.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray w BZ Boston's News.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to hear from some women on
Speaker 2: this one because we have two leading political figures in
Speaker 2: uh well, a federal prosecutor who's appointed by the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: The federal prosecutors are appointed by the by the the
Speaker 2: White House when you know when they they're elected, and
Speaker 2: of course the Democratic mayor of Boston. Let me go
Speaker 2: to William, my friend William in Baltimore, Maryland. William, welcome,
Speaker 2: How are.
Speaker 3: You, sir?
Speaker 11: How's going man?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just fine, doing just fine. What's your take
Speaker 2: on all of this, William?
Speaker 11: No, I was listening to what you said, but I
Speaker 11: remember when the mayor was that in Washington right back,
Speaker 11: and I heard I listened to all that and her
Speaker 11: and her and the mayor of Chicago, uh, and the
Speaker 11: and the mayor of Denver.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, Denver, Colorado with the three mayors who were
Speaker 2: in the hot.
Speaker 11: Seat, right and uh, the man from New York, Eric Adams,
Speaker 11: like so.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right Adams was there as well. Yep, good,
Speaker 3: good memory.
Speaker 11: And then right and then I remember he did a
Speaker 11: show man about Uh. She brought all the like arcle
Speaker 11: ride the twelve people there and cast for like three hundreds.
Speaker 11: She got a law firm from out of Washington, DC.
Speaker 11: It cost all that money.
Speaker 2: It's about six It was about six hundred. It was
Speaker 2: about six hundred thousand dollars all.
Speaker 11: In, I believe, right, I couldn't believe it. You told
Speaker 11: me that, and I looked it up for the computer,
Speaker 11: and you definitely telling the cheap un believe it. But anyway,
Speaker 11: I think Ms wool Uh, you know, I think she's wrong. Man,
Speaker 11: Like you said, you're an attorney, you know, you know,
Speaker 11: and and uh the lady I didn't. I don't know
Speaker 11: about her backfin, but I take your word for it
Speaker 11: because you're an attorney, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no she is.
Speaker 2: She is a very impressive background worked in driving practice,
Speaker 2: and now she's a United States attorney and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you she's fearless. She got out there today. I've never
Speaker 2: seen a US attorney do what she did today. And
Speaker 2: she basically stepped up and said she felt she had
Speaker 2: to protect the officers in the field who were basically
Speaker 2: making the arrests that her office would would have to prosecute.
Speaker 2: So you know, I I would want to I would
Speaker 2: want to work for a leader like that, to be
Speaker 2: really honest with you, Yes.
Speaker 11: And I think that Michelle Woo. But you know it's
Speaker 11: going to come to a head. Well, I really think
Speaker 11: it's going to come to a head and one of
Speaker 11: these mayors is going to get arrested because uh and
Speaker 11: I think Michelle Woo was the leading and she's a
Speaker 11: lawyer like you, like you kind of let them go
Speaker 11: before that. Lady graduated from Harvard, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah she was. Yeah, she's a Harvard Law school graduate.
Speaker 2: I don't know that she practiced law, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, but I don't know she practiced any law.
Speaker 2: She was a member of the city council and then
Speaker 2: she ran ran from mayor, so I don't know that.
Speaker 2: But but it doesn't it doesn't matter. She went to
Speaker 2: law school. She has a law degree. I'm fine with
Speaker 2: that her she has. She has an impressive set of credentials.
Speaker 3: I'm not in any.
Speaker 2: Way, shape or for I just don't want people like
Speaker 2: the fellow before you Frank was was talking about their credentials.
Speaker 3: He's never looked at their credentials in like.
Speaker 11: You said, Peter blag with a mob and infumps.
Speaker 3: That is correct.
Speaker 11: I don't understand. I don't understand why people say that
Speaker 11: these people are unqualified. I ain't like just learning when
Speaker 11: I was. They've got a bunch of people, you know,
Speaker 11: no kind of no kind of backbone like clarying Bondy,
Speaker 11: I mean, the ladies a crosscut. I mean, come on, man,
Speaker 11: I mean just because you don't like these people.
Speaker 2: Like exactly, yeah, I mean yeah, It's like it's like, look,
Speaker 2: I can root against the Yankees and root for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox, but I can tell you I know that Judges,
Speaker 2: Aaron Judges is a heck of a baseball player. You know,
Speaker 2: we rooted, we rooted against Derek Jeter for years, but
Speaker 2: what a great you know player he was, and I
Speaker 2: just think that's what sports teaches you and I you know,
Speaker 2: it's the ignorant fan who would say, oh that Genie's
Speaker 2: a bomb, he's a boom.
Speaker 3: You know, you never hit fifty. You know, we'd say
Speaker 3: that's not always in his job was? You know?
Speaker 11: Anyway, he's just so so I mean, then, look, let
Speaker 11: me say this to you about missus. Did I hear
Speaker 11: her correctly? And I think was when one another lady
Speaker 11: Nancy Mason's asking her, what are you thinking about the
Speaker 11: wrestled wakes a child molester? She said that. She said no,
Speaker 11: she said no to her, No.
Speaker 3: No, no, what no what you know what she said no?
Speaker 2: What happened was, uh, Congresswoman May said, do you think
Speaker 2: public safety is threatened when a child molester is arrested?
Speaker 3: And she said no.
Speaker 2: So so she's basically agreeing and saying, Okay, arrest the murder,
Speaker 2: arrest the child molester, but don't go out and then
Speaker 2: make a speech. When you come for one, you're coming
Speaker 2: for all of us. Because I don't want to be
Speaker 2: associated with child molesters and murderers. You know, That's that's
Speaker 2: what I think she was trying to.
Speaker 11: Say and I think the thing, you know, because I'm
Speaker 11: just kind of will it's getting really, you know, everybody's.
Speaker 2: Going, well, we had we had a democratic mayor up
Speaker 2: here before Michelle Wou, Mardy Walsh, who was a strong
Speaker 2: union guy, strong labor guy. He eventually ended up in
Speaker 2: the in the cabinet of President Biden uh and is
Speaker 2: now the player representative. He's that he represents the the
Speaker 2: NHL players union. Yeah right, but but he was great mayor,
Speaker 2: great mayor, well in touch with the city. I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you, I think if Bartie Walsh ever came back
Speaker 2: and ran against Michelle Wou, Michelle Wu would have more
Speaker 2: than than she could handle.
Speaker 3: In my in my opinion, could be gone. And there's
Speaker 3: there's there's a candidate.
Speaker 2: Up here, you know, Josh Kraft is running for mayor
Speaker 2: in Boston, the son of Bob Craft, the owner of
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. So we'll see how it's how
Speaker 2: that race, how this race, it doesn't doesn't. We'll get
Speaker 2: settled to early early November. William, you'll have a you'll
Speaker 2: have a front row seat here on night side.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, And let me say this what man, just
Speaker 11: like they was talking about what's his name, Don Robert Kennedy.
Speaker 11: He's another qualified person, even though he got it chicking
Speaker 11: back because there was a guy on the radio down
Speaker 11: here and they calling to learn her on that. You know, well,
Speaker 11: I don't think that was what but UH learned how
Speaker 11: the problems because I heard him, so he was in
Speaker 11: he's in the coming again and he well, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Marty Walsh had been an alcoholic. I have more
Speaker 2: respect for people who have been able to confront one
Speaker 2: of those demons and recover from it. I have a
Speaker 2: friend of mine who I've talked about in the air
Speaker 2: who have tremendous respect for He was dealing with heroin
Speaker 2: and and I knew him and uh and and I
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time talking to him, and and
Speaker 2: he eventually has got himself squared away. Uh and and
Speaker 2: you have to you have to have tremendous respect for people.
Speaker 2: It's like someone who gets sick and somehow is able
Speaker 2: to get themselves on the road to recovery.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Look, you got to have respect for people like that. William.
Speaker 3: You know I did not. I did not know that.
Speaker 2: But but you've just gone up in my book. Actually,
Speaker 2: you were pretty far up in my book anyway, William,
Speaker 2: So you gotta go up much higher. All right, man,
Speaker 2: we'll talk to him. Okay, Thanks, have a great one. Thanks,
Speaker 2: moving back, coming right back here on night Side. I
Speaker 2: got Mark, George, and Fred. I'm going to get them
Speaker 2: all in before ten, and at ten my intention is
Speaker 2: to switch topic, so we Mark, George and Fred. You
Speaker 2: stay right there, I'll get you and we'll be back
Speaker 2: on night Side right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's keep rolling here, going to go to Georgia
Speaker 2: and Arlington. George, you are next time nights. I appreciate
Speaker 2: your patience, George.
Speaker 3: Go right ahead.
Speaker 10: Good evening, Dan, Thank George for doing this show.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 10: I agree with you that the majority of the federal
Speaker 10: attorneys have been very high level, high achieving, very focused people.
Speaker 10: And I also agree as you said that I think
Speaker 10: the majority of the people in this country believe that
Speaker 10: the criminals who are threats to us should be the
Speaker 10: ones that are being taken. Unfortunately, that's not what's been
Speaker 10: happening here. We've seen people snatched off courts in front
Speaker 10: of the court. We've seen e tear rolls. Uh, we've
Speaker 10: seen grad students. There no threat to any of us. Uh,
Speaker 10: if you and I are arrested, Dan, Uh, unless we've
Speaker 10: got a gun in the middle of a creating, you know,
Speaker 10: doing a crime. We're gonna have somebody that has a badge,
Speaker 10: that has a name on the badge of the uniform
Speaker 10: and has an arrest war that's not happening.
Speaker 2: Well, let me let me let me make this George,
Speaker 2: Just so you know, I was very critical of the
Speaker 2: arrest of the Tough's graduate student. I said it on
Speaker 2: the air, so people know what I said. I do
Speaker 2: tell I will tell you this. I thought that that
Speaker 2: was and I said it at the time, horrific optics.
Speaker 2: And I you know, I read the op ed piece
Speaker 2: that she wrote for the Tough newspaper and it was
Speaker 2: it was pablem There was nothing in there that uh
Speaker 2: that was offensive in my opinion. Do I think that
Speaker 2: she's inclined favorably towards Palestinians, Yes, but I don't think
Speaker 2: she should have been a I will tell you when
Speaker 2: she was arrested, because I've looked at the video many times,
Speaker 2: the ice officers showed her a badge and identified themselves.
Speaker 2: I could not hear them telling them telling her who
Speaker 2: they were, but I could tell from the observation. They
Speaker 2: stopped in front of her, held up the badge and
Speaker 2: she was listening. And I'm sure they said we're Ice officers.
Speaker 2: You're under arrest. I'm certain of that. Okay, So the
Speaker 2: eighteen year old kid, I think that that was a mistake.
Speaker 2: Now is the kid here legally?
Speaker 3: No, he was not born here. He's not here legally.
Speaker 3: They were looking for the father.
Speaker 2: They were looking for the father, and they I saw
Speaker 2: the father did a video which was released.
Speaker 3: To the TV news stations.
Speaker 2: I think the father should go down and say, hey, look,
Speaker 2: you want me release my son. I would not be
Speaker 2: sitting at home knowing my son was in some sort
Speaker 2: of an ice detention center.
Speaker 10: You're right, and and what's what's happened here? You know? Man,
Speaker 10: we certainly used rhetoric in a political speech and certainly went.
Speaker 7: Over the line.
Speaker 10: There list a folly house, However, used rhetoric that was
Speaker 10: just as serious, perhaps more damaging than that. The fact is, Dan,
Speaker 10: we're democracy, We're America, United States of America. Uh No,
Speaker 10: no tyrants, you know, no teams and law here.
Speaker 3: You loaded You used a pretty loaded term there. Who's
Speaker 3: the who's the gestapo?
Speaker 10: We're talking about the way these guys go out. It
Speaker 10: dan taking people. The poor guy that that that that
Speaker 10: actually was here legally down I think it was New Bedford.
Speaker 10: They smashed the car windows. There's no need of that,
Speaker 10: there's no need of the way that doesn't agree with you.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, But the vast majority and and
Speaker 2: mistakes should be corrected.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: There are people arrested in this country all the time
Speaker 2: and charge incorrectly with crimes. Okay, you're talking to a
Speaker 2: reporter who spent fifteen years trying to get four guys
Speaker 2: out of prison who were intentionally and wrongfully convicted by
Speaker 2: corrupt FBI agents.
Speaker 3: I think you know that story. I don't.
Speaker 10: I hope I don't know that story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: They are mistakes, but there are mistakes. But there's a
Speaker 2: lot of bad dudes out there, and they're not going
Speaker 2: to go into those places dressed, you know, in bow ties,
Speaker 2: bow ties and clown hats. They're they're going into some
Speaker 2: situations they don't know what's on the other side of
Speaker 2: the door.
Speaker 3: At at five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 10: That's why I'm not arguing any of that, Dan, I'm
Speaker 10: ideing what we're seeing of lee videos taken by people
Speaker 10: on the street of the way things are being done.
Speaker 10: And least the foling's apologize to that and stop it
Speaker 10: or resigned. There's no need of doing going things where
Speaker 10: they are, Dan. The administration lost Trump and the people
Speaker 10: of Washington are now going after the Afghanistans who risk
Speaker 10: their lives, the state servicemen right.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 10: They want to them.
Speaker 3: I guess what. That's a mistake. I will share with
Speaker 3: you that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've agreed with you on a number, but that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean I should not be out there trying to
Speaker 2: get arrest the bad guys.
Speaker 10: That's all, and when I'm not, That's all what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: At the beginning, I said, Okay, agreement, I.
Speaker 3: Got George, I got two others. I'd like to sneak in.
Speaker 10: Voice my opinion to thank you.
Speaker 3: I always want your opinion, you know that, Okay, I
Speaker 3: always want you. Thank you much.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me try to get a couple in here
Speaker 2: real quickly, Mark in New Hampshire, Mark you next on nights.
Speaker 3: I go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean this shouldn't have been no surprise to anyone.
Speaker 8: Donald Trump, in the run up to the election in
Speaker 8: November of last year, studied categorically that if he was elected,
Speaker 8: the southern border would be closed and there would be
Speaker 8: vast deportations. Yes, okay, all right, so and they and
Speaker 8: Tom Holman the borders are had Carrot had stated clearly
Speaker 8: that they were going particularly hard at the so called
Speaker 8: sanctuary states and the cities within those sanctuaries.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely correct, you're absolutely And by the way, by
Speaker 2: the way, when President Obama was president of the United States,
Speaker 2: he oversaw the deportation of three million people.
Speaker 8: Well but so before before you're gonna leave me, I
Speaker 8: just have to say that what Michelle Wu stated was
Speaker 8: app was absolutely apprehensible to say.
Speaker 3: That think you mean, I think you meant reprehensible.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, you're right. Reprehensible to state that set the
Speaker 8: police were snatch people off the street. Michelle, this isn't
Speaker 8: North Korea, this isn't Venezuela, this isn't Cuba. This is
Speaker 8: the United States of America.
Speaker 2: Well, again, there have been some rest they have been
Speaker 2: which remained, which in my opinion, go get the bad guys,
Speaker 2: get the real bad armbres first and then.
Speaker 3: Moved down.
Speaker 10: Still here, but when when the eighteen year.
Speaker 2: Old high school student becomes the focus there, losing the
Speaker 2: argument at that point, That's what.
Speaker 8: They wanted his. They wanted his old man.
Speaker 3: I know I'm very familiar to case Mark.
Speaker 2: I'm up against it, and I gotta let you ride,
Speaker 2: and I apologize for not giving you more time.
Speaker 3: Talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: To those in the line, I'm going to change topics.
Speaker 2: Stay there if you want, but you you've called both
Speaker 2: Matt and Ramon. You've called really late. I'm going to
Speaker 2: change topics. I'm going to talk about the bromance between
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: Is it finally over? We'll be back on Night's side
Speaker 3: after this