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you never miss an episode. don't forget tomorrow night, full coverage, pennsylvania primary going on. a lot at steak. anyway don't forget foxnews.com, hannity.com, in the meantime let not your hearts be troubled, laura ingraham, the ingraham angle is next and we hope you have a great night. ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle live from new york city tonight. the real accomplice. that's the focus of tonight's angle. now, when the ccp cease incident building anywhere inside china, it moves really quickly to shut it down scrubbing all of it from their social media. such as what happened over the weekend when more than 200 students protested all those harsh covid measures that are in place at me king university, brave kids. because if the offenders views are viewed to be a danger to the
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communist state, a real danger they'll be arrested and if released their passports confiscated. that's what they did to the poor cardinal joseph zen in hong kong. the reflex to silence opposition voicess in a toll tarn state is one thing but now it's the democrats here. with november on the ropes they're acting like president xi is bill clinton. their new motto seems to be if you can't beat them use your corporate shills to sensor them. the justification is always some horrific shooting or a protest that goes wrong. and if the facts line up just right for them, they tag republicans for it and they did that, of course, with this week in horrific attack in buffalo by a deranged racist. >> social media platforms that need to be monitored and shut
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down the second these words are as powsed out there has to stop. >> obviously pre speech issues but freedom is so important to us but that freedom also carries a public safety with it and we have to balance those. >> laura: oh, thanks nancy because it's always portrayed, isn't its, as a noble endeavor when the lefted wants to limit your speech. only a few key words. >> key words show up, they need to be identified, watch it and shut it down the second it appears. and short of that, we will protect the right to free speech, but there is a limit. >> laura: perhaps she thinks, i don't know, we're as stupid as her party in albany is corrupt but we're not. the ingraham as always condemns all violence and believes in the most vin gentleman prosecution of all violent crimes like the overwhelming majority of law
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abiding americans we think all ethnic hate tremendous black on white white on black or chinese on taywan ease to be repugnant. yet the first amendment exists to protect speech we don't like, not just speech we agree with. there are only narrow exceptions to the absolute right to political free speech such as a clear incitement to violence for instance. if any different the party in power will find any excuse to stifle free expression in order to ins late itself from accountability and criticism. now focal thinking is so warped that she thinks there should be limits on speech but none on abortion. in fact, the woman just committed $35 million to urgently support her state's abortionists. oh, these people are true humanitarians, aren't they? and, look, we don't need to belabor the point that these so-called liberals never move to
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circumstance scribe expression when the killer is a neo marxist, an msnbc fan, no, no. in those cases it's a lone window. the killer always has complex motivations and hard to pin down etiology. you read the story. but the truth is the 2019 daytona connor bet tweeted support for antifa and extreme anti-police protesters. but the media, they took great pains to describe him as just a deranged nut who was obsessed with guns. move right along. even when buffalo authorities confirmed that the buffalo killer was a lone wolf, the gonzo journalists at rolling stone say no, no, no, no, no. there are accomplices here. the republicans. it's so weak i don't even want to talk about it tonight because it's so predictable and so lame. because the real accomplices are in the media.
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the media that are propping up an administration that has brought this country to its knees with policies making american families poorer every single day. and they've tried this tact so many times. they tried to sensor opposing views during covid including ours. they tried to criminalize their political opposition after january 6th and none of the anti free speech tactics ever works. eventually what happens is the truth comes out. most of the covid protocols were counter productive and highly damaging to children, we said that almost from day one, and americans just don't think that january 6th defiance the gop. in fact, most americans think that joe biden is a complete and total disaster on every level. think about it this way. we've had the equivalent of 20 buffalo shootings in chicago just over the past five months.
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do democrats seem to care? do they look into the root causes? what to do about it? not really. no, i'd say. it's all become a political game to them. it always has been. governing matters, policy matters eeducation and the border matters and crime matters, too, and the democrats are 100% incapable of stopping it. instead, they're using the federal government to cannon eyes their sick narrative and elevate their selective concern for life. >> so your assessment, the premise, extremists are the most lethal threat we face in the homeland today. >> mr. chairman, i do believe that the intelligence reflects the fact that, indeed, that is the case. >> laura: okay. we had a hundred thousand drug overdoses in the last year
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alone. it was fed largely by china and mexico, the cartels. but white supremacy is the problem to him? if that's the case, that is horrific. it's terrible. but it's weird, though, that when recently pressed for specifics on this urgent threat, mayorkas came up empty. >> how many cases involving white supremacists and domestic terrorists have you referred to doj for prosecution. >> congressman. >> do you not have the numbers. >> you've made some profoundly inaccurate statements. >> no. >> and i would like the opportunity to correct. congressman, i will provide you with that information. >> so you don't know. >> subsequent to this hearing. >> i do not have -- >> so you can't name one case yet according to the u.s. department of justice almost half of those prosecuted were aliens charged with crimes ranging from drug trafficking to murder and to kidnapping. >> laura: look, the secretary of homeland security is just not a serious person.
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he has zero credibility on any threat assessment. after all he presides over the inhumanity and criminal ality taking place every day and night at our southern border. democrats are losing america, including their once unshakeable grip on minorities as well. and voters know dam well what matters most right now. baby food, it's gas line, it's the border, it's wasted money in foreign wars that we haven't even declared. and they want killers, no matter what their bizarre etiology prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. and we know now why today's liberals love china so much don't they? because when things go bad there, they can just shut down entire cities round up and silence political opponents, and even, even make them disappear. but we're the united states of america. and we're not falling for their games of distractions and demonization. and that's the angle.
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joining me now is michael balboni founder of red land strategy former deputy secretary for new york's office of public safety. good to see you tonight. i know you've been talking all day long to your sources in law enforcement at the federal and state level. what can you tell us about the buffalo shooter? >> what is very trilogy of this event is when you look at an 18 year old who does this kind of preparation, travels 200 miles, picks a place nowhere near where he would know, and then goes out and kills innocent people like this, it's chilling. then you read the manifesto where you realize that he wanted to do more. he wanted to kill other groups as well, just didn't have time. and what you see is that this is somebody who is truly evil but somebody who is so hard to stop. that's the thing that is such a tragedy for everybody. everyone expects that we have this system where we can pick out people just right. we have just the information, just in time to stop them and unfortunately that's really not the case. >> laura: didn't he show up at
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school and comment in school that were shocking lee deranged and talking about suicide and shooting and so forth? isn't that a bit of a red flag? >> it is absolutely a red flag, but so many other cases, like the orlando shooting, the chelsea bombing, the marathon bomber, people had information, the fbi had information. >> laura: there were missed signs, there were missed signs in parkland were there not. >> and part of the challenge is you get so many of them. i remember talking to an fbi agent when i began a job and he said the amount of tips you get you spend all your time tracing and tracking them down you wouldn't do anything else. >> laura: the democrats would say look it's just time to limit speed in the united states, certain words pop up shut down those web sites and facebook pages. is that the answer. >> unfortunately, it would never work that way. >> laura: aside from being unconstitutional, incitement to violence. >> that's the thing you can't draw that connection. you can be inspired by a million different things. >> laura: from what you saw in that, i hate even calling it a
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manifesto, i think it gives it too much credence mpr was right when they were just a ranting. >> it is. >> laura: most taken from the christ church shooter. even looking through the mismatch of copy and paste crap from all over the place. wa do we take from it in the end? anything. >> the rantings of someone who really was not in reality. and when you -- you mentioned new zealand shooter same mo putting the camera on the helmet, going into this event, shooting people because of a racist motivation, he took that right from the play book from new zealand. so there's nothing original or inspired about this. >> laura: a former official on msnbc today. >> this is so much more than politics, it's not politic, it's never been positively diction for my it's about national security and a party that's aligned themself aligning with conspiracy theories, lies, violence. we get that.
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>> laura: i love how he says it's not political but then goes on to say this is all republicans. is that help snl law enforcement's trying to put all these people together drinking from a fire hose of all this information out there, what does that do to advance the narrative. >> any investigator worth their salt you don't prejudge any incident. you go where the evidence takes you. so there's still a lot of things that are being processed right now. but to blame a party, any political party for an act of violence, that doesn't help. in fact, it's irony. you're saying that this is a result of a divisive culture of a society like this and yet you're pointing blame at somebody else? how does that help or lessen the temperature? how does that bring people back together. >> laura: to say that a political party is an accomplice to a mass shooting event, when we have mass shooting events almost on a weekly basis in major urban americans, major cities in urban america today which get almost no coverage.
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>> the big problem again is how do you lessen the temperature. how do you get people to recognize, everybody has a right to say what they want but then raise the flags, try to stop. come together as a community and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, how did this person get these guns? did anybody notice what was going on? >> and also where's the family. i mean, family, community in. there's a lot of input there. michael great to see you tonight. >> nice to see you too, laura smei speaking of shutting down speech zach was the former director of data science at thompson reuters until he got fired. his job was to sift through reams of numbers and figure out what they meant. he decided to look at police-involved shootings and whether lethal force was deployed more frequently against black suspects than white ones. he said the data was unequivocal and cut against the narrative from the summer of 2020. joining me is zach former data scientist at thompson reuters. explain to the audience what
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happened when you brought the data to your boss? >> yeah, thanks for having me on, laura. so basically what happened was, i had been following this -- the research coming out of major universities and i had compiled it into a summary and i posted that to our internal collaboration platform to start to try to build some kind of discussion around the fact that, you know, what we were reporting to the public and what we were, you know, and the assumptions that we had within the company, just did not match the data. and when i posted that on our internal message forums to try to get that conversation started, what happened was it immediately made me the target of a barrage of really intensely hateful and ultimately racial iced attacks. and then the company's reaction to that was basically just to shut down, you know, to sensor everything that i had written,
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sensor any kind of criticism of the black lives matter movement and shut down the conversation. >> laura: so you were just bringing the actual facts, though, or were you editorializing on the facts? were you telling them this is the number that i came up with without a political commentary? >> no, it really wasn't a political commentary. it really was just focusing on the facts. i looked at statistics from the government. i looked at the best studies, probably the best one coming out of harvard by one of the most, you know, a very famous and well-respected researcher, rowan friar. that still stands as probably the best study on police bias on lethal shootings and i was really just trying to put together the whole, the whole picture that's coming out of these research institutions.
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and, yeah, no one wanted to hear it. >> laura: well, i want to play for you what the co-founder of blm, the movement, said today addressing her mounting financial scandals. watch. >> the way that the right wing media specifically has characterized the mistakes are truly anti black. they are about this idea that black people, especially black women, don't know how to manage money, don't now how to manage if you understand, don't know what to do with money and the reality is, within the organization receives tens of millions of dollars in one to two months time everybody would be trying to figure out what you do with it. >> laura: zach there seems to have been a circling the wagons for blm when this news started to trickle out and it seems to happen in corporate america as well. >> yeah. i mean, it's really not surprising in a sense.
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like the ethical sort of failures that would lead to sort of spreading these lies about police bias seems like the same failures with massive financial scandals where millions, some people say billions of dollars are unaccounted for in organizations. in a sense it would not be surprising you have activists. there's activists through all political strifes that are probably unethical. the problem to me is our media institutions and our other social institutions raise these acts visits up and promoted their messages. >> laura: without questioning, zach. without any questioning. no account ability. i mean, what's amazing and i don't mean to interrupt you but you actually were bringing data to the equation, the science and data people, right? they don't want to hear the science and data. they're not interested in it unless it advances their particular narrative. i'm sorry about what happened to you zac your story is an
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♪ >> laura: five states tomorrow have senate primary contests but there's one race in particular that has captivated the nation, pennsylvania's gop senate primary. voting begins in the keystone state in just over eight hours or so but it's still kind of anybody's race. in a poll released today, shows having despite having the highest unfavorables among republican voters, dr. oz is leading with 28% of likely voters, kathy barnette second with 24%, david mccormick close behind with 21%. now most importantly 15% of likely voters still say they're undecided. here now is republican pennsylvania senate candidate david mccormick. dave, you have the highest favorable in this race. wait a second. can it be that nice guys really finish last or are you going to make that a different story?
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how are you going to close that gap if indeed that poll is correct. >> it's been a great day laura. thanks for having me. i had three big rallies today, i started in harrisburg and then to my home town of bloomsburg at my high school where i grew up and then a final rally tonight in pittsburgh. and there were hundreds and hundreds of people at these rallies, and i think what it indicates is the point you made which is, there's lots of people who are still figuring out who they're going to vote for. and they're zeroed in and they're asking themselves three questions. who's going to represent and fight for the conservative values that i hold dear? who can win the general election in november, because the stakes are so high. this is really to push back on the wokeness and weakness going in the wrong direction under chuck schumer and joe biden and nancy pelosi. and then who can get to the senate and make a big difference on day one? i'm feeling great support. there's many voters coming my way i hear that throughout the day and throughout the last
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couple weeks and i'm optimistic that tomorrow we'll have a great result. but it's very much, as you said, it's very dynamic. >> laura: everybody has to get out and vote if they're interested in the future of the country and the future of pennsylvania. now, oz was on hannity tonight and he's saying he's the real outsider, second amendment guy, pro life guy in this race. watch. >> president trump warned me because i'm an outsider like he was, they're going to have a lot of insider establishment types coming ave. you. pennsylvanians are sharp they know i'm for these ideas and pro life. life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. life starts at conception and i know nine months later those beautiful sacred hearts are still in there with those babies. >> laura: dave that's a beautiful statement about life. >> the one thing that ma met oz and i agree are that pennsylvanians are smart. and they'll see he's had a whole
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series of positions opposite of what he has now. he's a hollywood liberal flip flopping on these positions. he had flip flopping on pro abortion, wasn't gun, proceed transition for kids, anti fracking, pro a bama care and pennsylvanians know that and that's why despite president trump's endorsement he has not gotten more momentum in the polls and that's the debate with voters right now and they're saying who is truly conservative. i've been america first my whole life from the time i volunteered from the military and served under ronald reagan at the age of 18, and who can win the general election. >> laura: so kathy barnette, david, again, you see what oz is doing he has a lot of name recognition. you have the favorability. kathy barnette has the late surge momentum. she's been doing the rounds on tv the last few days. this is what she says. >> while they were attacking one another on television, i was out here with the people.
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we spent less than $2 million, and they're mad. they're mad because i didn't ask for permission to be in the this space, i just walked in. because this is my country, and our country is in trouble. and i don't believe we have anymore room to elect warm bodies with an r next to their name. >> laura: david, would you consider having barnett work in some way, shape, or form, in your office or for your efforts in pennsylvania if, in fact, you won tomorrow? >> well, listen, i respect kathy and i've gotten to know her on the campaign trail but kathy's been tested. kathy was tested 18 24 months ago when she ran for the congressional seat and lost by 20 points and now what's happening is there's a lot of focus on her. she has the spotlight on her because people recognize the stakes are so high and she's being asked to answer questions that are the very same questions i answered on the first day about my background military experience all those things. totally legitimate questions. and the reason that those
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questions are so important is, whatever, you know, back and forth is going on in the primary or whatever, you know, tough attacks are happening, it's going to be ten times worse in the general election. because this is like the super bowl. this is the race that sends chuck schumer packing back to new york on with his suit indicate to move back permanently to new york. so we've got to have the right person that can marshall a team, credibility, resilience, to win this. this matters for our country. so, listen, i think we should all be scrutinized and i've certainly undergone that scrutiny and i understand it and kathy needs to do the same thing. she needs to answer these questions being asked and i think voters are discerning. i think they're discerning on values, i think they're discerning on credibility and that's why i think in the end that pennsylvania voters will go my way. we'll see tomorrow but i'm pretty optimistic about it. >> laura: we'll be here tomorrow night sitting right here waiting for those returns. dave we really appreciate it. we'll be watching this closely >> now in kentucky a recognizing
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star in the gop has just announced his candidacy for governor in 2023. >> andy is not uniting kentucky. this governor does not reflect our values. he's never going to change, so we have to change our governor. kentucky needs a governor who uses common sense. one bold enough to defend innocent life. a governor who understands that only faith can keep us strong. >> laura: joining me now is kentucky attorney general and candidate for governor, daniel cameron. daniel, great to see you tonight. i think it was a morning consult poll found than andy beshear the incumbent governor is the most popular in the country? did kentucky miss something about the covid vols in your state? what's that all about? >> yeah, well, i think that, look, when you think about what we're trying to do in terms of establishing common sense and making sure that's in our governor's office. you look at this governor who,
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in the midst of the pandemic decided to shut down churches and shut down small businesses. he recently vetoed legislation that would ensure the integrity of women's sports. and then he's vetoed and fought against pro life legislation. i think the more that we're able to share that message and people recognize the track record i have as attorney general standing up for the values of men, women and children of all 120 counties i think come november of 2023 they'll be ready to make a change in our governor's office. >> laura: now, kentucky democrats are terrified of you. i think they have been from the beginning. now they've filed an ethics complaint against you because you've apparently politicized the office by investing a political opponent. we talked a lot about phoney investigations of political opponents on this show. so your response to those allegations. >> well, look, i think you're right. i think as soon as i announced the democratic party here in
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kentucky had a game plan, which is to attack me and attack the role and the job that we've been doing since i was sworn in i've told folks that i'm going to do my job in the ag's office without fear or favor. i will not be intimidated. and i think the brashear team and the kentucky democratic party will find that out. me and my wife mckenzie are ready and we're ready to defend the values of the men, women and children of all 120 counties. i've shown over the course of almost three years that i've got a stiff backbone and i'm going to do what's right regardless of narratives that are out there, regardless of what others might say in the national media. we're going to do what's right by the values of the men, women and children here in kentucky. >> laura: and ba shear also vetoed an abortion bill didn't he that banned most abortions after 15 weeks and the kentucky legislature overrides that veto? so did he undermine his
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constituents with that veto? >> that's exactly right. you're exactly right laura. he has, again, time and time proven that he is not in alignment with the values of the men, women and children of all 120 counties and as i talked about in my office and my role as attorney general i've been standing up for constitutional rights, defending the rights of our citizens, whether it's from governor bashier or from the biden administration. we need somebody in the governor's office that will be an advocate for all nebul kentucky and that's what i intend to do. >> laura: mr. attorney general, great to see you tonight. thank you so much >> up next some big surprises at a music show you shouldn't miss appear and a boldly gone too far. raymond arroyo has it all, seen and unseen next. rk for your life. so we offer a complete exam and x-rays free to new patients without insurance - everyday. plus, patients get 20% off their treatment plan.
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. >> laura: it's time for our seen and unseen where we explore the big cultural stories of the week and for that we turn to ramond arroyo.
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there was a big tv premier today. >> indeed. it wasn't yellowstone or ozark laura. a mini series i overheard people talking about this all weekend and it says a lot of the state of television when after a whole weekend of high ate as the johnny dep and amber heard is the most anticipated of the week. rep dep made the claim she left fecal matter in his bed. today, herd blamed the dog. >> she had eaten johnny's weed when she was a puppy and had bowel control issues for his entire life and sometimes it happened on the bed. >> laura i wish people were this attentive to covid relief bills, what their member of congress or their local city councilmen are up to but they're focused on amber heard and johnny depp as if life and death depend order what was said at this trial. >> laura: tabloid trudgeity dv combo because it's a tragic
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relationship and tabloid. >> the other piece is it's really the pirate movie. johnny depp said he's not doing any of those movies. this is pirates of the care bean the poopy poop deck. >> laura: maybe they should have a ride at des any. >> this is my bed. you know what show is really making an impact, when it's on spinoff. now a ramon simone video resurfaced. >> the girl next to us right now is amber heard. oh, my god, cutted my finger off and exclaim it. oh, my god i wish i could feel this right now. >> she's crazy. >> every b list celebrity is getting in on the game. it's become the television event of the spring and now the summer but the deptford show is not the only reboot out there. star trek has a show called
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strange news words and it certainly looks that way. captain pike of the enterprise warns a far away planet about their future by recalling our past, our recent past. >> the conflict also started with the fight for freedoms. we called it the second civil war and the eugenics war and then finally world war three. >> laura: that's good acting. >> no mention of antifa or the chinese people enslaving them of religion but january 6th leads to armageddon. >> laura: forget the thing about million people in reeducation camps and forget all that. >> brandy and the rotunda taking selfies. and this comes after you'll remember star trek discovery laura. that reboot unveiled the president of earth, president stacey abrams. now star trek has always been laura a point of unity for in other words everywhere. i don't know why they've decided to divide the audience by
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dropping these polarizing political figures into the voyagings of the star trek enterprise. imagine if they cast sarah palin as the president of earth. would that have gone well? put an actress into the world. but if you're looking for someone to really bring people together and help them work together. there is a politician who's been practicing and rehearsing lines daily. >> laura: who is it. >> we will work together and continue to work together to address these issues, to tackle these challenges and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together on, we will work on this together. >> laura: look at old mayor pete sitting there, saying thank god this isn't a drinking game i would be drunk every time she said together. >> on second thought that will not work laura, you would have to set your taser to snooze
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mode. and laura the billboard music awards just happened last night. >> laura: more like the bill boobs awards. did you see those outfits? my goodness. >> i did notice there were a few high beams and dangerously plunging neck lines. megan fox. >> laura: beautiful people. but it's like the challenge of the plunging neck lines that's what it was, who's going to win the battle. >> i have had some guesses. but there was one thing that occurred there and this is an important note about the billboard music award. more gain wallen is the best selling country artist in the country. he not only played at the music awards he took home the award for best country artist. this is a big deal because he has been cancelled laura after he was caught using the n word on tape. he was talking with friends, but still. sean diddy combs produced and hosted the billboards awards. he not only lobbied for wallen to play but also for travis scott as well and he said as a musical family none of us are saints so one of the things i'm
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doing directly is uncancelling the cancelled. that's breaking news because people haven't been about uncancelling but cancelling is a trend that needs to stop. laura, this is great. >> laura: this is great news. >> redemption in the pop culture. look, you can't stay in the punished corner forever there has to be a path for redemption not only music stars for everybody in public life when they say something that crosses a line. >> laura: especially when it's, you know, tweets from years ago or you and your high school, you know, play and you said this. i mean, at some point. >> i agree. >> laura: raymond it's so good to be in the studio with you with all of our friends. >> working together laura, working together. >> laura: exactly. all right we couldn't believe this story when we read it. three eighth grade boys are being accused of sexual harassment for using incorrect pronounce when referencing a classmate. one of those boys and his mom here exclusively next.
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♪ >> laura: this next story is pretty hard to believe. three wisconsin middle school boys are being accused of sexual harassment. so what are the specific charges? using the wrong pronounce. i kid you not. here's what reportedly happened.
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in march a student decided to start going by they/them. in april, the accused boys got into some, you know verbal argument of the whole issue. the mother of one of the boys said the student was screaming at them to use the proper pronounce calling them a profanity. my son came up and defended him saying he doesn't have to use the pronounce it's a constitutional right. the school filed a title nine complaint against all the boys involved. here exclusively is raymond and his mother rose and deputy council for the constitutional law and liberty. braden, how did this fight happen? >> so there was a student in my music class that came out as non-binary and chose they/them as pronounce. the pronounce were extremely confusing to me so i spoke to my mother who said to call her by
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name. i tried to do that but i accidentally slipped up and used the wrong pronounce, and before i knew it, i was slapped with a letter that said that i was accused with sexual harassment. >> laura: oh, my -- rose, how did the school tell you about this? >> hi, laura. thank you so much for having us on. the elementary school principal gave me a call forewarning me that he was going to be sending me an e-mail over with the accusations. and as soon as i heard sexual harassment, i'm thinking, oh, my gosh. you know, i'm thinking the worst. rain, incest >> laura: can't be incest, right? >> inappropriate touching. >> laura: you thought it was something, you know, crazy.
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>> horrible, yes. and when i said, you know, what is it that my son did? he said he didn't use the right pronounce. and i just -- i couldn't believe it. i was appalled. he said i would be receiving an e-mail with a letter and i received an e-mail and the letter was nothing more than a standard letter with a blur be that said sexual harassment for not using proper pronounce no details or nothing. >> laura: i want to read a part of the letter rose and your lawyer, lou, can respond. the following allegations that potentially constitutes sexual harassment. after being informed that a student's preferred pronounce were they/them, redacted name engaged in conduct based on gender identity toward the student including using incorrect pronounce and conduct that was harassing in nature.
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luke, using i guess they call it misgendering, do they? that's sexual harassment. is that typically covered by title nine? i'm sure you can find some lefty judge that would say it is. >> not remotely. this is troubling on a lot of different levels. first schools should not be forcing their preferred mode of speech on students especially minor students this is basic first amendment 101 stuff. second even if a school district could compel speech and they can't they absolutely shouldn't be using sexual harassment charges as the bludgeon don't fit and third the district's deeply troubling, didn't provide any advance warning to the parents and they didn't even provide the details of the allegations before they interrogated the student. so if there's an issue with students, the first thing the school should do is reach out to
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the parents, get all the students in the room, and work through it. none of that happened here. they just dropped title nine charges on these students and that's totally inappropriate. >> laura: braden, have you had any disciplinary problems in the past? targeting other kids? being mean to other kids? ever? >> no. i mean, i'm generally really like a shy person. i'm more like to myself. i don't really interact with other people that i don't interact with on a daily basis. >> laura: rose, your son does pretty well in school, i understand. >> he does. he has always done well, he started school early. he has straight as. he's looking forward to college. he wants to be a lawyer. and he's very concerned about what this is going to do with his permanent record. >> laura: luke, this can't
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stand. this cannot stand. >> absolutely. >> laura: this kid could be going on to something really great in life and this cannot stop him. >> yeah. this is totally inappropriate and so we've asked the school district to immediately dismiss the charges, remove them from his record, and make changes to make sure that nothing like this happens again because this is totally inappropriate. middle schoolers should not be your punishment for not complying with the current speech code whatever that happens to be. >> laura: braden, rose, luke we're going to be watching this very carefully and this is why people have to get involved with their local school boards. this stuff has to stop. thank you all >> we have final thoughts from new york when we return. my name is trisha. i'm 70 and i live in mill valley, california. my biggest passion is gardening. i love to be outdoors. i have jaybirds that come when i call. i know how important it is to feed your body good nutrition. i heard about prevagen and i heard about the research behind it.
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