>> We don't give a, I
could care less. And that's why we should be exterminated. That's what we should be off,
Because we don't, That the fact that we're doing damage. It's the very thing that gives us life,
we have no sense of it and don't want to know, Which means you're gonna be exterminated.
Pray to your face falls off. Do you not think the Jews who had outs with didn't pray?
Do you think the Jews that had broken about didn't pray and pray and pray to their God,
come and say through their God? And these are people that supposedly the original people.
>> That video is an excerpt of just part of one of the apparently
multiple rants that have been uploaded to YouTube by Frank James who is considered the
lead. The only suspect in the attack on the New York subway this week. He
had been considered a person of interest upgraded to suspect earlier this morning.
And if you missed the news that developed earlier this week, a gunman in a subway alleged now to
potentially have been Frank James wore a gas mask and began shooting detonating smoke grenades. And
we have even more details now with the hindsight of one day of investigation. But New York city
Mayor Eric Adams says that the investigation right now, the focus is entirely on Frank James.
There's a lot more of his rants online. We obviously believe that the portions we felt
necessary. And I don't feel the need to platform too much more of that, but I want you to know
that this is who is currently being investigated. And we're going to continue to give you details
despite the fact that apparently over the last day, fox anchors are saying that the
media is going to bury this story now that the person of interest is black.
That is a bizarre theory. It says a lot more about those hosts like Tucker Carlson than it
does about the media because I'm looking around the news today and it doesn't appear that it's
been buried. Certainly not on this channel and not all over the place. So we're gonna move on.
Their interest apparently is focused entirely on the fact that the person of interest is black, not
the fact that he's still on the run that he didn't attack. Apparently wants to kill as many people
as possible. That's what's being alleged, and might well conduct another attack at any point.
Weird to not focus on that part of it. But anyway, the NYPD has put out some information,
some photos to help people potentially identify
Frank Robert James. They gave information about the identity and the phone number
for crime stoppers. Now, a little bit more information of what's been found in the last day,
Chief James Essig told reporters that officers recovered a cache of weapons at the scene.
This is guns, ammunition, a hatchet and gasoline. Keys to a U-Haul van as well, which apparently is
how they identified him. So again, we this is an allegation. This is the prime suspect. That
does not mean that it was definitely him. That is just what they think at this point is the case.
Yas, what do you think about this? >> There's a lot going on here. I
mean first of all, whenever this happened, one of the first responses from the New York city
government specifically the mayor was that they were going to have even more cops available
around the subway stations.
Which was unfortunately pretty predictable I thought. Whether or not it should have had
that response is up for debate I guess, but it was pretty predictable. And then his manifesto,
that video is a little confusing, but it's also, he does talk about his mental health.
I don't know if it was in that clip or in other clips, but I think it's a really interesting
commentary on the fact that so many people have been living with so little hope for so long.
Even if you look back just to 2020 or you can go back to 2016 or even further back if you want.
This generation of people and by generation,
I mean like everybody living on the planet right now is dealing with some
astronomical issues and there's little hope that any of it will actually get addressed.
And every time you try to focus on one, you realize that you have to
keep going further and further up and then you just get hit by corruption. So
I don't want to say that you can't blame people for taking action or for acting out,
but at the same time you kind of have to expect that there is a mental health
crisis in this country and that is going to have some consequences.
And we can't just keep brushing it under the rug. >> Yeah, no, I definitely agree. I mean,
obviously, I'm gonna say maybe I want to speak for myself, we are all responsible
for the things that we actually do. At the mercy of societal conditions,
the people around us, the lack of support structures, the lack of
an emphasis on let alone funding for thank you, mental health care and all of that.
At the end of the day, we're still responsible for what we do. And if it turns out that it was him,
one would hope that one would wish that someone might have seen this stuff
earlier and potentially try to get him help. Maybe they did. We don't know, there's so much
that we don't know about this, including whether it was actually the person that we believe it was.
But I agree like we are one of the reasons that we as progressives focused so much on changing
some of the foundational structures of our government, of our society, of our economy
is to fight back against that hopelessness. That feeling that the traditional routes to economic
stability to the sort of life that you are told as a kid you'll someday have, have been so cut off.
They are so ephemeral now, we don't want that to be. We don't want people
to feel desperate, to feel like the government has no interest in them, let alone representing them
long since dispense with those thoughts. >> But well, John, what was he saying
about thoughts and prayers or to pray and see what was happening.
I couldn't quite catch what he was saying,
but it seemed like he was making a reference to any time something is actually happening.
You just get told thoughts and prayers and that's kind of it. That's all the response
that you get from your elected officials. But what is that what he was talking about?
>> I don't know. Look, we're trying to understand someone who obviously has some
major issues. I don't know. Maybe it's a reference to that, to the specific invocation
of thoughts and prayers we often hear. Maybe it's just
referring to what we were talking about people feeling hopeless in the face of so many issues.
I do know this other desperate people, other people who have also been left behind
economically in so many different ways. Killing them not the solution, not on the same continent,
the same planet in the same solar system as a solution to any of those problems.
Now, I want to give you just a couple more key updates, including that
mayor of New York said just earlier this morning, that quote.
There is no evidence that indicates at this time that there was an accomplice
and that quote, it appears the shooting suspect was operating alone. That is potentially good news
because they haven't found them. We want them to be as few as possible. And as of right now,
hospitals have treated at least 29 people for injuries, 10 of them by gunfire.
We talked about that on the show yesterday. Others for a smoke inhalation. Remember some
of these were, these were people who were in subway cars in subway stations. It's not a
it's not a big place, obviously. Others were injured in the rush to get out of the station.
And right now five of the victims remain in critical but stable condition. We talked about
that yesterday, all are expected to recover. None are facing what is seen at this point as
life threatening injuries at this point. Yes, so
some good news in a difficult situation that has left a lot of people feeling at risk.
And until they find this individual, there is going to be a great deal of
fear. And I don't begrudge people that. >> Yeah, and this one especially is hard
because I was just there, I was just there in Brooklyn. And I know a lot of people
who live over there and it is hard to see when, whenever anything like this happens.
It's hard regardless of where it happens, but especially with Fox there in New York, like this
guy is on the loose and they're in New York and they're trying to formulate some narrative. To be
fair, they're not riding the subway in Brooklyn, but it just speaks to how disconnected all these
people are from what's actually happening in their own city, in their own backyard.
They don't care. >> 100% no, this is,
it's all about scoring points again, as we've pointed out a million times as media matters,
been trying to educate people for more than a decade. Fox News has
news in the title and that's the only place news shows up. It's not a news.
>> Fox news, I just call them Fox from now on. >> It's it's Fox and that as someone who used
to watch married with children on Fox back in the late eighties, I don't necessarily like
to smear regular Fox. But no, it is not about news, it is not about making sure that people
know what is going on, it is about producing political outcomes by producing crazy people.
So in any event that's the latest, we're going to continue to follow this story
against the predictions of Tucker Carlson. I'm sure he'll be going on air tonight to say, well
turns out I was wrong, I'll be waiting for that.