WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:02.919 To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:06.040 director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, 3 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:08.080 You're doing a heck of a job. The Weekend with 4 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:12.080 Michael Brown. Hey broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado. It's the 5 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:14.279 Weekend of Michael Brown. Really happy to have you joining 6 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.280 the program today. I always appreciate you tuning in, whether 7 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.760 you tune in during the weekday or on the weekend. Now, 8 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.320 you know a couple of rules of engagement. If you 9 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:23.480 want to engage with the program. 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So the Department of 19 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.799 Justice on I Forget Now Wednesday or Thursday confirmed finally 20 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.640 a settlement quote in principle that they've reached in the 21 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.319 thirty million dollars wrongful death lawsuit that was filed on 22 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:08.680 behalf of the estate of Ashley Babbitt. Remember Ashley Babbitt, 23 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:13.640 the young soldier that was killed by a female soldier 24 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.359 that was killed by a cop inside the capitol on 25 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:22.920 that day that democracy almost died January sixth, twenty twenty one. Yeah, finally. 26 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:26.879 Now terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. I 27 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.799 don't know what the specific terms are, but there was 28 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:31.840 a hearing this week in front of Judge Anna Rays. 29 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.840 Both sides during this hearing indicated that it could be 30 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.840 at least a month before the final agreement is before 31 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:41.599 the agreement is finalized and then made public, which is 32 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.799 not uncommon in these They do this they go into 33 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:49.280 the courtroom to announce that, Hey, we judge, we've got 34 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.879 the framework for a settlement agreement. So we would ask 35 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.040 you to put everything on hold, you know, stop the schedule, 36 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.879 stop the discovery, stop the motions, and everything else. Give us. 37 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.280 In this case, they asked for thirty days or more 38 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:07.000 to finalize the agreement. So that's pretty normal. Everything's going 39 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.639 to be worked out. So what Let's go back a 40 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.919 little bit. In January of last year, twenty twenty four, 41 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:18.719 Judicial Watch a great organization. If you're not aware of it, 42 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.080 just go online and check it out. Judicial Watch. They 43 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.800 represented Ashley's widower, Aaron, and they filed a complaint under 44 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.439 the Federal Torque Claims Act, and they accused the government 45 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:36.319 of causing personal injury and death caused by the negligent 46 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.199 or wrongful acts or omissions of one or more employees 47 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:45.759 of the federal government. So you remember what happened around 48 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.240 I don't know two thirty three o'clock in the afternoon 49 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.400 on January sixth, Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police lieutenant, shot 50 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.680 Ashley in the shoulder. She and other protesters were remember 51 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.319 they were packed in this small air outside the Speaker's 52 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:07.599 lobby where two protesters had smashed in windows. According to 53 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.280 the lawsuit quote, Ashley was ambushed when she was shot 54 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.400 by Lieutenant Michael Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, 55 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.400 you killed her. She was thirty five years old at 56 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.960 the time. She was completely unarmed, and if you recall, 57 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:29.360 she was just always just bumfuzzles me because every cop 58 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:34.919 that you know, every cop that I know, every cop 59 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.400 that I've ever represented or dealt with, or had any 60 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.879 occasion to talk to about this knows that before you 61 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.560 fire your service weapon, that you want to make certain 62 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:49.280 that the subject that you're trying to kill is in 63 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:53.360 your line of sight and that there's nobody else around, 64 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.919 or if there's somebody else around, then you either have 65 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.400 to you know, you got to make a split second decision, 66 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:05.560 a nanosecond decision. Do I fire and if there's somebody 67 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.400 standing next to or behind the person that I'm trying 68 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.520 to stop, do I run the risk that I might 69 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:15.520 hit them? Or do I pause and run the risk 70 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.120 that I might get killed. Well, in this case, there 71 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:27.319 were armed cops right behind Ashley Babbitt, So if she 72 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:33.199 were presenting a threat to Captain Bird, they would have 73 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:37.040 or could have seen it, and they could have disarmed her. 74 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:38.959 They could have arrested her, they could have taken her 75 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.519 to the ground. There's a number of things that they 76 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.759 could have done, but they didn't do anything. Now somewhat 77 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.079 in their defense, I'm only what I'm really trying to 78 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:52.000 do is point out that Captain Bird wildly shot into 79 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.360 a crowd in my opinion, and hit Ashley Babbitt, and 80 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.600 or he deliberately took aim at her and shot at her. 81 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.680 But if you recall that video. They're in the stairwell 82 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:06.079 and the crowd is pushing upwards, and she's kind of trapped, 83 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:09.560 and she's kind of being pushed upwards too, and they're 84 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.120 being pushed toward a As you reach the top of 85 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:17.439 the stairs, there is a door. And then as you're 86 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.800 looking at the door where Ashley would be standing, to 87 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:23.720 the left of that door, there are windows, and you 88 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.600 can see through the windows that on the other side 89 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.519 of the windows, perpendicular to those windows is a door 90 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.399 that goes into the Speaker's office. So, Captain Bird, I 91 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:37.439 just want you to think about this. If you were 92 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:42.279 Captain Bird, but you weren't a cop, and you were, 93 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:47.000 let's say, in your home in that situation, and you 94 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.439 could close your door and lock your door, and the 95 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.920 people that were in a other in a stairwell or 96 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:57.399 on a patio or something and trying to break into 97 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.600 your house, but they had not yet broken into your house, 98 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:06.120 would you have been justified in opening the door, stepping 99 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:10.759 out and wildly shooting, And perhaps you shot somebody that 100 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:15.519 was standing out in the yard that had seen the 101 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.279 commotion and stopped to see what was going on, Because 102 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.839 that's in essence what he did, and I think in 103 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.639 that situation it would be a pretty close case in 104 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:27.639 so far as whether it was self defense or not. 105 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.040 But that's it was clearly not self defense here, because 106 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:37.120 you had cops in the stairwell, you had him behind 107 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.639 not only the door that was keeping the crowd at bay, 108 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:43.000 but you had him inside the door that led into 109 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.720 the Speaker's office. And absent any facts that I'd not 110 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:48.639 been able to find anywhere in the lawsuit, there was 111 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.000 no reason why he couldn't have closed the door and 112 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.759 escaped and left and gone somewhere else. But instead he 113 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.920 chose to open the door, stick his arm out, and 114 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:04.680 fire into the crowd. That was on January sixth, Now 115 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.319 the Speaker's lobby. Protesters had smashed some of those windows, 116 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:15.040 but no one had gone through the windows. The lawsuit 117 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.240 seat says Ashley was ambushed when she was shot by 118 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:22.000 Lieutenant Michael Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, you 119 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:27.480 killed her. Now. The Department of Justice under Sleepy Joe Biden, 120 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.800 announced in April of twenty one that it had closed 121 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:38.920 an investigation into the killing. Biden's Department of Justice determined 122 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.639 that Bird did not violate Ashley's civil rights and in 123 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.839 a press release that they sent out in April of 124 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:52.000 twenty one, So just a mere three four months after 125 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:57.000 the event. It's pretty fast investigation, isn't it. The press 126 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.959 release said this, as this requirement has been in turn 127 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.920 violating her civil rights. As this requirement has been interpreted 128 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:10.439 by the courts, evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, 129 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:14.759 or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of 130 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:19.800 intent required. And then what happened, Well, it kind of 131 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.279 got even worse. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Text 132 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.839 the word Michael Michael three three wednes zero three. If 133 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.199 you like what we do on the weekend or you'd 134 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.319 like to listen to the podcast, that's real easy to 135 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.919 do on your podcast app. Search for the Situation with 136 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.440 Michael Brown The Situation with Michael Brown. 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He gets promoted despite a long record 147 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:33.360 of personal and professional misconduct. He's the guy you or 148 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.799 may not remember this story, but you remember prior to 149 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:40.879 January sixth, twenty twenty one, when there was I mean 150 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.799 it was a national news story. I forget whether it's 151 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.879 a tourist or a Capital employee, but somebody walked into 152 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:52.960 a Capital visitors center bathroom. Now, if you're not familiar, 153 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.639 they've and you and I paid for it. They spent 154 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.159 hundreds of millions of dollars to build a visitor center 155 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.120 on the east side of the of the US Capital 156 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.000 so that you come in through this you know, giant entryway, 157 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.039 and you you know, there's all sorts of you know, 158 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:12.559 like museum like displays, and then of course you know, 159 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:16.240 you get uh, you get badged or you get your 160 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.759 little pass and then you go through a tunnel and 161 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:23.200 then you come out into the rotunda. And so it's 162 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.240 a way to funnel all of the visitors in through 163 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:29.960 one way. It's it's enhanced security. It's a TSA like protocol. 164 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:34.399 It's really kind of stupid in my opinion. But nonetheless, uh, 165 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.759 and what's really stupid is how much money we spent 166 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:41.919 on it. But one of those tourists has to pee 167 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.320 real badly or I don't know, maybe number two. I 168 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:47.320 don't know, but they got to go to the bathroom. 169 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.559 It'd be but they've been waiting in line forever drinking 170 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:52.919 too much diaco, and they and they walk into the bathroom, 171 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:58.799 go into a stall, and holy crap, there's a gun. 172 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.159 So they report the gun to the you know, they 173 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.720 stepped back out, you know, find it, you know, a 174 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.720 Capitol police officer somewhere, and say, oh, there's a gun 175 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:13.080 in there on the toilet. So you know, they immediately 176 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.480 you know, block everything off and go in and oh, well, 177 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:24.240 guess what it was Captain Bird's service weapon. I guess 178 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.799 he had to take a whiz real badly or I 179 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:29.679 don't know, maybe number two, but whatever, he took his 180 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:34.240 for whatever reason, took his gun out of his holster 181 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.440 and set it on the toilet or on the floor. 182 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:40.480 I'm not sure where it was and got up and 183 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.840 finished his business and walked out and left his gun. Wow. 184 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.759 And he got promoted. Yes, and that's the guy that 185 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:53.159 shot Ashley Babbitt. But that's not the only thing. There's 186 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.440 a lot of other stuff that only one place that 187 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.720 I know, maybe other places did, the only one place 188 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:02.000 that I know of reported it. And it was all 189 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:07.799 because Congressman Barry Laudermic Laudermilk back in twenty twenty four 190 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.159 wrote a letter to the Department of Justice about Captain 191 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:17.679 Bird and they were conducting a review a hearing, and 192 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.200 his Captain Bird record was uncovered during this House Administration 193 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:29.799 Oversight Subcommittee investigation into just the General Capitol Police disciplinary process. 194 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:35.360 And in the letter, the chairman, Barry Laudermick, he's a 195 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.879 Republican from Georgia, wrote this this subcommittee. His debt is 196 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:44.480 dedicated to ensuring that the US Capitol Police has autonomy 197 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:48.879 from political pressures so it can make operational and personnel decisions. However, 198 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.240 based on the information obtained by the subcommittee regarding the 199 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:55.519 US Capitol Police as handling a Capital Bird following January sixth, 200 00:12:55.519 --> 00:13:01.519 twenty twenty one, and his significant disciplinary history, I have 201 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.919 concerns the congressman wrote about the Capitol Police's decision to 202 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:10.919 promote him to the rank of captain, and then they 203 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.080 go on to describe five incidents, actually more than that, 204 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:18.840 because some of these contain more than one incident, but 205 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:24.480 five categories one. In two thousand and four, there was 206 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.960 an incident where Captain Bird, who was off duty, shot 207 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:32.200 his weapon at a stolen vehicle as it was driving 208 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:36.559 away from him out of his neighborhood. You and I 209 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.200 do that, we're probably going to get charged with menacing 210 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:44.240 or unlawfully discharging a weapon or shooting with you know, 211 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.120 and if we'd hit somebody, perhaps manslaughter because at that 212 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:51.840 point you're not justified in shooting somebody. In fact, don't 213 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.120 even hit with him in his car. It was just 214 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:57.440 a stolen car. Now how he knew that, I don't know, 215 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:03.559 but that's what he did. Twenty fifteen, a fellow officer 216 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:08.159 filed a conduct Unbecoming an Officer complaint after Captain Bird, 217 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.480 again off duty, confronted this other cop while the cop 218 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.320 was working at a high school football game in an 219 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:19.320 incident that apparently had a bunch of racial overtones. The 220 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:24.080 third he got a thirty three day suspension in twenty nineteen. 221 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:28.639 This is what for his leaving the gun in the 222 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:34.039 Capitol Hill bathroom in the visitor center, a thirty three 223 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:40.039 day suspension. Fairly relax, I guess he also was he 224 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:44.759 failed to pass He failed to pass a routine background 225 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:49.279 check just after January sixth, when he was trying to 226 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:53.919 purchase a shotgun for home protection after the United States Capitol. 227 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:58.320 The police was working to provide Bird a department issued shotgun. Instead, 228 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:03.480 he failed the training Wait a minute, I'm sorry, now, 229 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.679 I don't shoot my shotgun a lot. I used to hunt, 230 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:08.799 you know, pheasant and quail all the time, but I 231 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.840 haven't lately. But I'm not quite sure how you fail 232 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.440 a training program in the use of a shotgun. Maybe 233 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:21.000 it's different for a cop. I don't know. And then lastly, 234 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.320 there were three three referrals to the Capitol Police Office 235 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:32.480 of Professional Responsibility for records that they could never find. 236 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:38.840 What was the disciplinary complaint against Captain Bird. This is 237 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.960 one of those cops where I think most good cops 238 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.879 would say, we don't want this guy to be a cop. 239 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.919 But the Biden Department of Justice found no wrongdoing, no 240 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:55.440 wrongdoing whatsoever. Now, Bird's name was initially concealed by the 241 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:59.000 cabal and the Capitol Police for months because of the 242 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:04.440 anger over Ashley's killing. During a really I would call 243 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.879 it a softball interview with Lester Holt in August of 244 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.000 twenty twenty one, Captain Bird refilled himself for the first time, 245 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:16.039 and of course, during that interview he portrayed himself as 246 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.440 the victim, not the perpetrator. And then his name was 247 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:23.039 held from the public for more than seven months because, 248 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:29.240 according to Bird, he kept getting vile threats. Now lester 249 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.679 Holt at least did note the names of officers involved 250 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:39.039 in fatal shootings are often immediately released. Bird said during 251 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.559 that interview, they talked about killing me, cutting off my head, 252 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.240 very vicious, cruel things. But then, when prompted by lester Holt, 253 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.320 Bird claimed that some of the threats were racist in nature. 254 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:51.919 Now I don't know, never mind that he's a black 255 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.639 cop that shot and killed a white woman. I thought 256 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:00.320 it was usually, you know, the other way around. Bird 257 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:05.000 had the audacity tell lester Holt in that interview quote, 258 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:09.400 I believe I show I showed the utmost courage on 259 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:12.960 January sixth, I want to choke when I say that 260 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.960 it was later learning response to these Freedom of Information 261 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:22.319 Act requests from Judicial Watch that Bird and his pet 262 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.920 had been housed in a VIP suite at Joint Base 263 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.000 Andrews and Maryland for more than six months from about 264 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.240 August to twenty one through February twenty two. It cost 265 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.960 the taxpayers about thirty thousand dollars. Bird got a thirty 266 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.000 six thousand dollars retention bonus in August of twenty one, 267 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:46.839 all because they were just trying to protect him. Wow. Uh, 268 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.720 as Reverend Wright might say, the chickens are coming home 269 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:56.960 to roost. Good for Ashley Babbitt's widower, good for Ashley 270 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:01.759 Babbitt's family, and good for Ashley Babbitt. Justice is starting 271 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.839 to be served. What's the date again? Oh yeah, it's 272 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.400 twenty twenty five. So Michael So meeging with Michael Brown. 273 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.279 Text the word Michael Michael to three three one zero three. 274 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:22.160 I'll be right back tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, 275 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.039 the former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, 276 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.079 You're doing a heck of a job The Weekend with 277 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.799 Michael Brown. Hey, So, Weekend with Michael Brown. I appreciate 278 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.880 you tuning in. Don't forget the text line, the numbers 279 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.599 three three, one zero three keyword Michael, Michael, be sure 280 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.480 and go follow me on except Michael Brown USA. So 281 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:42.559 the reason I want to spend so much, First of all, 282 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:47.759 I'm spending time on this particular story because I personally 283 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.720 and I have no relationship it's the Babbitts with her husband, 284 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:57.359 her family, or anybody else. I do have relationships with 285 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.359 law enforcement, and I do obviously have. I mean, I 286 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:05.039 got relationships on Capitol Hill. And I'm just an American citizen. 287 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.640 I'm just a plain, old, simple American citizen. And what 288 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.960 happened on January sixth was not insurrection. By God, If 289 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:17.640 that was an insurrection, and we, as conservatives want to 290 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.480 take over the government, we need a whole new group 291 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:24.599 of people, because that's not how you take over the government. 292 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.799 That wasn't even a good riot. I mean it was, 293 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.279 it was a pretty crappy riot. You had to have 294 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.559 you had to have these agents provocateur inside the group 295 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:37.960 of people that were storming the Capitol in order to 296 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.000 get them to really, like, you know, go on in. 297 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:42.920 Was what was that I forget the guy's name, the 298 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:45.839 one guy that everybody kept ignoring that they wouldn't prosecute, 299 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:48.960 but they just kept you know, you gotta go in, 300 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:51.279 go in, go in, just egging everybody on. You know, 301 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.480 Jimmy Christmas. Can you imagine George Washington trying to get 302 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:57.000 the revolutionaries. Come on, come on, guys, we're going to 303 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.000 cross the Delaware. Come on, get in the boat. Come on, boy, 304 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.640 get in the boat. Get in the boat. I mean that, uh, 305 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:08.759 January sixth is such a joke, an insurrection. So anyway, 306 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:12.519 that's the reason I focus on this because the cabal, 307 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:18.279 the left, the Marxists in our midst have focused on 308 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:24.039 this incessantly, and it's all about you know, you think 309 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:27.839 about all of those people that Trump pardoned, that rotted 310 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:33.480 in that nasty, horrific DC jail. I mean, I've seen jails, 311 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:35.680 not all over the world, but I've seen jails in 312 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:39.559 a few places around the world, and it's probably one 313 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:41.240 of the worst I've ever seen in my entire life. 314 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:48.319 And yet we just let people languish there for charges 315 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:54.680 that in virtually any other jurisdiction for doing exactly the 316 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:59.240 same thing. Trespassing, Oh my god, trespassing. We gotta throw 317 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.920 you in jail. With that any bond that would not happen, 318 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:05.720 I don't think in ninety nine percent of the other 319 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.400 jurisdictions across the country. But it happens in DC. Why 320 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.720 because they got to send a message. It was all 321 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:16.640 about sending a message. And it just pisses me off. 322 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.519 And then Ashley Babbitt and it's something that we watched 323 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:23.720 on television. I mean, you can still I'm sure you 324 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.319 can still find it on YouTube unless they've tried to 325 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.519 censor it, but you can still watch the entire incident unfold. 326 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:36.400 And it just infuriates me. And you think about I mean, 327 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:40.480 it's twenty twenty five and we're just now getting at 328 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.759 least the framework of a settlement in which you and 329 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:45.720 I as taxpayers. This is something I want to make 330 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.480 sure you understand that this settlement will be paid for 331 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:54.519 out of the United States Treasury. Now, the US Capitol 332 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:57.000 Police may or may not have any sort of insurance 333 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:01.599 coverage that may pay for part of these settlement monies, 334 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:07.000 but even if it does, you're still paying the premium 335 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.559 as a taxpayer for that insurance policy. And now that 336 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:14.799 liability is I'm sure they will deny liability in the 337 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:17.880 settlement but now that the insurance company looks and says, well, 338 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:19.720 we had to pay out, and you know, and it 339 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:24.160 could have been if this was a typical lawsuit where 340 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.079 somebody had sued a local comp for violating their civil 341 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:29.480 rights and they were suing let's just say the city 342 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:33.680 in County of Denver where I'm sitting, the insurance company 343 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:37.720 would be driving that litigation, not the city and County 344 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.079 of Denver, because the insurance company and the insurance defense 345 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.400 lawyers are the ones that have to make the logistical, legal, 346 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.200 all of the procedural decisions because they're the ones whore 347 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:50.200 can be paying out. So they know all the details 348 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:54.640 about what happened on January sixth. So once this settlement 349 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:59.079 is a is reached, whether it's thirty thousand dollars, three 350 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:02.200 hundred million dollars, thirty million dollars, three million dollars, whatever 351 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.680 the number is, is immaterial. The insurance company will know what 352 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:09.000 they paid out. And even if there is a clause 353 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:12.279 in the settlement that says, you know, the US Capital 354 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:15.039 Police and the US government and you know, buying through 355 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:18.400 the Department of Justice denies any and all liability, and 356 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:20.599 it's just agreeing to this settlement in order to just 357 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:23.680 you know, save the cost of litigation. The insurance company 358 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:28.599 still knows that there was liability, and so what will 359 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:32.160 they do. They'll either refuse to renew the policy or 360 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.720 they'll renew the policy at a higher premium, which you 361 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:36.839 and I will pay for. Now, that's all assuming that 362 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:41.039 there is an insurance policy. So either way, you and 363 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:44.160 I are paying for this. We're paying for the wrongful 364 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:49.079 actions and the violation of Ashley Babbitt's civil rights because 365 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:52.440 of a cop that should not even have been a cop. 366 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:57.839 In my opinion, yeah, I firmly believe you. If you 367 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:00.400 know any cops, I want you to go ask convince, 368 00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:04.839 if you know of a bad cop on your force, 369 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:07.799 would you rather get rid of that cop or are 370 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:09.920 you willing to let that bad cop stay on your force? 371 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:13.279 Ninety nine point nine percent of the cops will tell 372 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:16.039 you they want that bad cop off the force because 373 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:19.920 it makes their job more difficult. It may it it 374 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:23.599 he increases the potential for liability. Nobody wants to be 375 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.480 a CoP's partner because they know he's a nut job, 376 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:29.200 or that he's a whack of doodle, or he's not 377 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:32.480 very well trained or he's got anger issues, whatever it 378 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:36.000 might be. Cops don't like bad cops, and if a 379 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:37.720 good cop does like a bad cop, then they're probably 380 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:40.640 not a good cop. So yes, this story really gets 381 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:48.279 me wound up. So Biden's Department of Justice refuses to 382 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.119 do anything, covers everything up. So then that the House, 383 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:56.000 the House Oversight Committee or a House administration committee starts 384 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.279 to do this investigation and they uncover all of these things, 385 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.680 and then youjudicial watch, God bless you, Judicial Watch. On 386 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.720 behalf of Ashley Babbitt's husband files the wrongful death lawsuit 387 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:12.519 for Ashley Babbitt's the state, and after all of this litigation, 388 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:15.519 we finally reached the point where, oh, you know, it'skind 389 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:18.240 of like, we didn't need a bunch of new laws 390 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.359 to stop the border invasion. We just needed a new 391 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:27.559 president well justice. We didn't need a judge or anybody 392 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:31.359 else to deliver justice in Ashley Babbitt's case. We just 393 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:35.279 needed an attorney general who saw right from wrong and 394 00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:39.200 understood that, hey, this is something that is just ultimately 395 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:43.000 wrong and for which we are liable and for which 396 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:47.359 we need to do just compensation. That's the difference between 397 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:55.279 Democrats and Republicans. Now, Trump has been very vocal has 398 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:59.960 remained a strong supporter of Babbitt. He actually had used 399 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:02.119 that's her name quite a bit during campaign rallies and 400 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:09.440 even during interviews. According to reports, Trump called Mickey Witthoff, 401 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:13.920