A LOT OF REACTION POURING IN AT
THIS MOMENT INCLUDING FROM THE
FORMER NEW YORK GOVERNOR, ANDREW
CUOMO.
HE SAYS TODAY’S VERDICT IS A
STAIN ON THE SOUL OF AMERICA AND
SENDS A DANGEROUS MESSAGE ABOUT
WHO AND WHAT VALUES OUR JUSTICE
SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO PROTECT.
WE MUST STAND UNIFIED IN
REJECTING SUPREMACIST
VIGILANTEISM AND WITH ONE VOICE
SAY THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE.
THAT IS FROM THE FORMER
GOVERNOR, ANDREW CUOMO WHO
STEPPED DOWN AND RESIGNED AFTER
A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT HE WAS
DEALING WITH IN NEW YORK.
SO THERE’S THAT.
LET’S BRING IN JOE CONCHA,
COLUMNIST FOR THE HILL AND A FOX
NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THE
COMMENTS FROM THE FORMER
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK FIRST, JOE?
>> YEAH, TO QUOTE LEO TERRELL,
HE’S AND IDIOT.
JUST LIKE THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK
CITY, BILL de BLASIO INSERTING
THEMSELVES IN TO THIS.
I DIDN’T HEAR ONE STRONGLY
WORDED STATEMENT FROM FORMER
GOVERNOR CUOMO OR SOON TO BE
EX-MAYOR AS FAR AS WHEN A POLICE
OFFICER WAS ATTACKED IN NEW YORK
CITY DURING ALL OF THOSE RIOTS,
DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020 THAT
THEY DIDN’T DO ENOUGH TO STOP,
THEY DIDN’T HAVE THE POLICE AND
EVERYBODY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT,
THEIR BACKS.
SO NOW BOY, THEY’RE PASSIONATE
ABOUT THIS, AREN’T THEY?
WHEN IT CAME TO LAW ENFORCEMENT,
IT WAS SILENCE OF THE LAMBS FROM
CUOMO AND de BLASIO.
>> Martha: A GREAT POINT.
IN MY MIND, WHEN I THINK ABOUT
LAST SUMMER AND THE RIOTS THAT
WE SAW ACROSS THE NATION, I GO
BACK TO THAT NIGHT IN
MINNEAPOLIS AND THE THIRD
PRECINCT. THE MOMENT THAT THE CALL WAS
THE MOMENT THAT THE CALL WAS
MADE BY THE MAYOR OF MINUTENEAPO
TO ABANDON THE POLICE PRECINCT.
WE SAW THEM GET IN THEIR CARS
AND DRIVE AWAY FROM THE
PRECINCT.
THE NEXT SCENES THAT WE SAW WERE
PEOPLE RUNNING IN TO THE
BUILDING, WATER EVERYWHERE,
PIPES BROKEN, EVERYTHING KNOCKED
OVER, EVERYTHING BROKEN.
I WAS AT THAT PRECINCT A FEW
MONTHS BACK.
IT STILL BOARDED UP.
IT’S STILL LEFT THAT WAY.
SO YOU HAVE AN ABDICATION OF
RESPONSIBILITY THAT HAPPENED
FROM THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THESE
CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
IT APPEARS THERE’S NO
RECOGNITION OF THAT YET FROM
GOVERNOR CUOMO OR MAYOR
de BLASIO.
WE’LL SEE WHAT WE HEAR FROM
OTHERS IN LEADERSHIP.
NO RECOGNITION THAT SAFETY AND
PROVIDING SAFETY IN YOUR CITY IS
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THESE
LEADER WAS.
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF MEMBERS OF
MEDIA.
LET’S LOOK AT JOY REID AND WHAT
SHE SAID ABOUT THIS TRIAL.
WATCH THIS.
>> IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY
CRITICAL RACE THEORY EXISTS,
LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE TRIAL
OF KYLE RITTENHOUSE.
THE WHOLE BREAKING DOWN AND DRY
HEAVING IN COURT, MAKING HIMSELF
THE VICTIM AND MAKING HIMSELF
SEEM MORE INNOCENT.
>> IT REMINDED PEOPLE A LOT OF
SOMETHING, THE BRETT KAVANAUGH
HEARINGS.
IN AMERICA, THERE’S A THING
ABOUT BOTH WHITE VIGILANTEISM
AND WHITE TEARS, PARTICULARLY
MALE WHITE TEARS.
>> THIS FEELS LIKE THOSE CASES
IN THE 1950s WHERE IT WAS IN AND
OUT, IN AND OUT, IN AND OUT
FAST.
WHITE MALE KILLS SOMEONE.
IN AND OUT FAST.
>> Martha: JOE?
>> THIS HAS BEEN AN ATROCITY ON
SO MANY FRONTS, MARTHA.
THAT WAS EXHIBIT A, B, C, D AND
E RIGHT THERE.
THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE KYLE
RITTENHOUSE STORY ARE LIKELY
MULTIPLE DEFAMATION LAWSUITS
AGAINST NOT ONLY SEVERAL MEDIA
OUTLETS BUT MSNBC IN PARTICULAR
AND A HOST, JOY REID, WHO WE HAD
THE PLEASURE OF HEARING.
THIS IS THE SAME MSNBC WHO
FOLLOWED THE JURY VAN IN AN
ATTEMPT TO PHOTOGRAPH JURORS AND
RUNNING A RED LIGHT TO DO SO,
WHICH COULD BE ARGUED WAS
ATTEMPTED HARASSMENT OR
INTIMIDATION.
FOR MRS. REID AND MULTIPLE
CONTRIBUTORS CALLING RITTENHOUSE
A WHITE SUPREMACIST AND GUILTY
UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT, COVINGTON
CATHOLIC WHEN SUED CNN NORFOR $2
MILLION FOR WHAT HAPPENED ON
THAT JANUARY DAY A COUPLE YEARS
AGO.
NICHOLAS SANDMANN FORCED THEM TO
SETTLE.
YOU’LL SEE THE SAME KIND OF
NUMBERS IN A LAWSUIT AGAINST
NSNBC, CNN AND CERTAIN
POLITICIANS LIKE WE TALKED
ABOUT.
THEY SHOULD BE PUT ON NOTICE,
EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE IT
THAT CALLED RITTENHOUSE A WHITE
SUPREMACIST AND CONGRESSWOMAN
PRESLEY WHO CALLED HIM A
DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
THESE FOLKS SHOULD LAWYER UP.
IT’S HARD TO SEE RITTENHOUSE NOT
TAKING ACTION ON THESE FRONTS
HERE.
GIVING THE PRECEDENCE OF
COVINGTON CATHOLIC, HE HAS A
GOOD SHOT TO WIN OR SETTLE MOST
LIKELY.
>> Martha: YEAH.
NICHOLAS SANDMANN HIMSELF SAID
HE HOPES KYLE DOES WHAT IS RIGHT
FIGHTING BACK AND PROTECTING HIS
NAME.
IT’S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
PEOPLE IN POWER TO JUST GO TO
THE VERY BASIC NOTION OF
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
YOU CAN COVER THE STORY,
ANALYZE, DISCUSS THE DIFFERENT
ANGLES.
THIS YOUNG MAN WAS INNOCENT
UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
HE WAS NOT GUILTY TODAY.
THE INABILITY TO WAIT AND
WITHHOLD UNTIL THERE’S MORE
EVIDENCE TO BE CONSIDERED IS
REALLY SHOCKING.