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And the first thing we're gonna talk about today
is entertainment, pop culture, news,
specifically about and surrounding rapper, 6ix9ine,
aka Daniel Hernandez.
And as you may or may not remember this guy
he was facing a number of charges.
People were talking about him facing up to 30 plus
or even life in prison.
All right, but then, he ends up pleading guilty
to racketeering and a number of charges.
He's starts cooperating with the authorities.
While publicly that has made his name synonymous
with snitching, with ratting.
Legally, it reduced his sentence to just 24 months in prison
with five years supervised release.
And then, he actually ended up getting released early
last month due to the coronavirus.
All right, he's released, he's put under house arrest,
but he's allowed to make and put out music.
And over the weekend, that is exactly what we saw,
and he did it in record-setting fashion.
One, he made his general public return on Instagram Live
and just crushed the Instagram Live record.
The previous records were in the hundreds of thousands
and Hernandez got two million concurrent.
All right and in that live stream in addition to him
kind of egging on the people he called haters.
- And I've seen everything.
Everybody wanna be quiet now.
For two years, y'all made fun of me.
Y'all done been making memes of me.
Y'all done threw my name in the dirt,
yo rap bitch, fucking (random mouth noise)
Y'all didn't go through what I went through.
And I still came home and I'm a legend
at the age of 24-years-old because I came home
and a rat is doing more numbers than you.
I would be mad, too.
I would.
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
- He also defended himself regarding the snitching label,
essentially saying why would I be loyal to people
that weren't loyal to me, and also were actively hurting me.
- And there is a street code, right?
There is a street code and there's something
so-called as loyalty and everything
and no snitching and all of that.
I get it, right?
But where was the loyalty when you was sleeping
with my baby mother?
Where was the loyalty when you was calling the wire tap
trying to kill me?
Where was the loyalty when you tried to kidnap my mother?
Where was the loyalty when you was stealing
millions of dollars from me?
Where was that?
So who broke it first?
All right, I get it.
Don't fight fire with fire.
I'm sorry.
But what did I do wrong?
Be loyal to that fuckin,
my baby moms.
Be loyal to that,
kidnap me.
Beat the shit out of me on video and everything.
- And ultimately promoting his new music video for Gooba
that was out on YouTube.
That push was incredibly effective because not only
as I'm recording of this video,
is he at 97 million views and counting on this thing
that was just released on Friday.
He reportedly got the most views in the first day
of a hip-hop song on YouTube with 43 million,
meeting the previous record holder, Eminem, for "Killshot",
which of course was his Machine Gun Kelly diss back in 2018,
which, I mean, wow.
Those are insane numbers.
Now, with that said, even though all views
are essentially equal, it is also important
with this story to look into, well, how many people
are watching it because they like him.
And so for that, we look for the likes versus the dislikes
and there we see 4.2 million likes,
453,000 dislikes.
So, actually a very warm welcome, all things considered.
But, of course, those dislikes aren't something to scoff at,
especially because the general idea of hate towards him.
You get into dangerous territory, I mean, essentially
there is this understanding that he has
a massive target on his back.
And to make this an even more concerning situation for him,
over the weekend he was doxxed.
And according to his attorney, he has now had to relocate
because his home address was leaked.
But ultimately, that is where we are with this situation,
and it's gonna be a very interesting one to watch.
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but with that said, of course, I'd love
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And then, we need to talk about the updates
around the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Now, we initially talked about this situation
in greater detail on the Thursday Philip DeFranco Show.
I'll link down below,
but, briefly, to give you a quick condensed summary.
On February 23, Arbery reportedly went out jogging
in the coastal town of Brunswick, Georgia.
A little bit later, someone calls 911,
saying that Arbery is in a house that was under construction
You also had another person, 64-year-old, Gregory McMichael
saying that he thought Arbery was the culprit
behind a recent series of break-ins.
He and his 34-year-old son, Travis,
then grabbed their guns, they go chase Arbery
down the road in their truck,
all before, allegedly, gunning him down and killing him.
And after that, you had tons of people confused,
outraged, why did this happen?
And that grew even more, when last Tuesday,
a video of the incident linked.
And notably, from that incident in February,
all the way until last Thursday,
the McMichaels were never charged with Arbery's death.
But, after the show, Thursday night we see
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced
that it had arrested both Gregory and Travis McMichael
for Arbery's murder.
The next morning, the GBI held a press conference
where we saw Director Vick Reynolds say,
- I'm very comfortable in telling you that there's more
than sufficient probable cause in this case
for felony murder.
- And at that press conference, Reynolds also addressed
questions about potentially arresting a third person.
And that's because, according to a former prosecutor
on this case, another man joined the McMichaels
in hot pursuit of Arbery.
And currently, that is believed to be William Bryan
who filmed that leaked video.
Regarding Bryan, Reynolds said that he along with others
is being investigated.
While Reynolds said more arrests could be made,
he also stressed that the agency is going
to be guided by facts before making any more arrests.
It's also important to note here that Bryan's lawyer
also said that Bryan has fully cooperated
with the investigation and that he is simply a witness
to the tragic shooting.
That and that there had been a number of crimes
in the neighborhood and Bryan didn't recognize Arbery
and a vehicle that he did recognize was following Arbery.
But, seemingly countering that testimony,
according to the police report, Gregory McMichael said
that Bryan actually attempted to block Arbery
as the men pursued him but was unsuccessful.
Now, on top of that, one of the other big developments
we saw in this case was that on Saturday,
several local outlets published more footage
of Arbery just before his death.
In that footage, you can see what appears to be Arbery
going into a house that was under construction.
He was only there for a few minutes.
He doesn't appear to take anything.
And then a second piece of footage, another person runs
up to a stand of trees across the street
and appears to be watching what's going on.
And ultimately, that footage ends with Arbery leaving
and just running back down the street.
After this, you had the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
confirming that this video is part of its investigation
but notably, they wouldn't say if the figure
in the video was, in fact, Arbery.
However, later on Saturday, you did have the attorney
for Arbery's family, Lee Merritt, saying in a statement
that his office believes the person in the video is Arbery.
Saying, "He engaged in no illegal activity
"and remained for only a brief period.
"Ahmaud did not take anything from the construction site.
"He did not cause any damage to the property."
And going on to add, "Ahmaud's actions at this empty home
"under construction were in no way a felony
"under Georgia law.
"This video confirms that Mr. Arbery's murder
"was not justified and the actions of the men
"who pursued him and ambushed him were unjustified."
Now, in this time, we also saw more videos showing a man
that could be Arbery at that house at night.
Some of these videos reportedly from
as far back as October 2019.
However, I should note here, this video has not yet
actually been confirmed to be Arbery
and we don't actually know why this man was there.
Currently, there's little information
and large-scale reporting on it.
And, in fact, according to an Atlanta-based
criminal defense lawyer, even though Arbery was in this home
that's not necessarily a crime.
And even if it was considered one,
it would be a misdemeanor unless he was found
to have taken anything.
And the reason I mention that is actually very important
because according to Georgia law,
a citizen can only arrest a person
if that person is committing a felony.
And, on top of that, even if it was a felony,
which we are not saying that it is,
they reportedly would only be able to use reasonable force
to detain a person unless they're preventing
a forcible felony or using self-defense.
But, of course, the McMichael's allegedly initiated
this attack with their guns,
which is why we saw that Atlanta-based lawyer say,
"If you initiate an assault you don't get
"to then claim self-defense if the other person reacts
"to them being assaulted."
Also, we should talk about the person
that actually owns this home, Larry English.
You see him telling media outlets that his construction site
was not robbed.
Saying, "I've never had a police report
"or anything stolen from my property,
"or any kind of robbery."
Also, very notably, according to Glen County police records,
there have not been any recent burglaries
in the neighborhood, except for one filed on January 1st,
when someone stole a handgun from an unlocked truck
parked at the McMichael's house.
And all of that brings us to yesterday,
where we say Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr
asking the Department of Justice to investigate
how local authorities handled this case.
And like we talked about on Thursday, you had not one
but two prosecutors who are recusing themselves
from potential conflicts of interests
because they have professional connections
to Gregory McMichael.
Notably that second prosecutor, George Barnhill,
also advised police not to arrest the McMichaels
as he was removing himself from the investigation.
At that time saying, "It appears their intent was to stop
"and hold this criminal suspect
"until law enforcement arrived.
"Under Georgia law, this is perfectly legal."
It's also now come out that Barnhill reportedly
told detectives that Arbery's killing
was a justifiable homicide.
This, even though now you have the GBI director saying
they have sufficient probable cause for murder.
And actually, this morning, we saw the DOJ saying
that it is considering AG Carr's request.
And according to spokesperson, Kerrie Kupec,
the DOJ is actually "assessing all of the evidence
"to determine whether federal hate crime charges
"are appropriate."
You know, as we've seen new developments,
we've also seen new reactions.
Some of the notable ones, including Michael B. Jordan,
saying, "I'm sick to my stomach
"and could barely watch the video.
"Another one of our future kings and leaders was murdered."
We also saw Taylor Swift saying, "I'm absolutely devastated
"and horrified by the senseless, cold-blooded,
"racially motivated killing of Ahmaud Arbery."
We also saw the likes of Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Yo Gotti,
and Meek Mill all penning a letter through Roc Nation
addressing Georgia governor, Brian Kemp,
AG Carr, the third prosecutor in the case, Tom Durden.
They are calling the arrest of McMichaels a positive step
on the long road toward justice.
Adding, "But it only strengthens our resolve
"to see that justice is eventually served."
In it, they also call for Durden to recuse himself
and for Carr to appoint a special prosecutor.
Actually, just this morning, we're now seeing reports
that Durden will step aside.
And that Cobb County district attorney, Joyette Holmes,
has now been appointed to lead the prosecution
against the McMichaels.
And ultimately, that is where we are right now.
Obviously, we're gonna wait to see what happens next,
but I do want to note something.
All right, that's the story and this is me
giving an opinion.
The number of people I've seen using the video
of Arbery looking through a house on construction
and using that as a justification for him
being shot and killed.
That's disgusting, it's ridiculous and it saddens me.
No weapon, no stolen property was found on his body.
From all the videos that we've seen released thus far,
it does not appear that he stole anything.
Nor should that be something that justifies
what happened to this man.
Also, people can project and assume
why this man was on the property.
It's very easy to do but it doesn't solidify anything.
But hell, as a much younger man
with nothing else better to do,
I've walked construction sites before.
And, of course, as always with these things,
understand I say this while open to more information,
open to more evidence,
open to a further investigation.
But ultimately, with this story,
of course, I do want to pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this story and why?
And then, let's talk about a big story
that really is a piece of a much larger topic
that we're gonna be talking about over the coming months
and that is lockdown and reopening.
So if you haven't seen, Tesla has filed a lawsuit
against Alameda County in California,
arguing that its Fremont factory should be allowed
to operate during the coronavirus pandemic
under the governor's new guidance
for reopening some businesses.
And some background here, that factory has actually
been shut down since March 23rd after the county called
for its closure as part of social distancing measures
and stay-in-home orders, but the company
has been pushing to resume production.
All right, so you have that situation
and then this last Thursday, we see California governor
Gavin Newsom announcing that he's going to allow
for sectors like retail, manufacturing, and logistics
to reopen with quote, "modifications that reduce risk."
However, and this is a big point here,
he's stressed that local officials still have the authority
to speed up or slow down reopening at the county level.
So then, the next thing we see is that on Saturday,
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, expresses his frustration publicly
about local resistance Tesla has faced.
With Musk announcing on Twitter,
"Tesla is filing a lawsuit
"against Alameda County immediately.
"The unelected and ignorant 'Interim Health Officer'
"of Alameda is acting contrary to the governor,
"the President, our constitutional freedoms,
"and just plain common sense."
Then adding, "Frankly, this is the final straw.
"Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs
"to Texas slash Nevada immediately.
"If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all,
"it will be dependent on how Tesla
"is treated in the future.
"Tesla is the last carmaker left in California."
All right, and then Elon's frustration here
isn't seemingly out of nowhere.
I mean, it was reported late last month he ranted
about stay-at-home orders in the company's April 29th
first quarter earnings call.
On it, reportedly calling the restrictions fascists
and a violation of people's constitutional rights.
Also, we saw the same day that Musk tweeted his threat,
Tesla released a blog post about how it will get
its employees back to work safely.
And in that post, the company notes
that it's the last major carmaker in the state
as well as one of its largest manufacturing employers
with more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory
and 20,000 statewide.
With Tesla again, arguing that its Fremont plant
should be allowed to reopen under Newsom's recent guidelines
but it also said that it should've always had permission
to continue production because the state
and federal government classifies vehicle manufacturing
as national, critical infrastructure.
With the company also arguing that "Alameda County,
"where our factory resides, and Santa Clara County next door
"have stated in their return to work order FAQs
"that the manufacturing of distributed energy resources
"which is defined in state law to include electric vehicles,
"solar and battery story, is permitted to resume."
And along with these points, the company explained
that it has worked hard on a robust restart plan,
saying "It was modeled after the comprehensive return
"to work plan we established at our Shanghai Gigafactory,
"which has seen smooth and healthy operations
"for the last three months."
Also noting that these restrictions were being laid on them,
"not for a lack of trying or transparency."
And this because they said that they've met
and collaborated on restart plans
with Alameda County Health Care Services Agency.
But then, also claiming that the county public health office
are making decisions about reopening
has not returned their calls or their emails,
which they say listed out detailed restart plans,
factory layouts and more.
And so saying that the county's position left them no choice
but to take legal action.
Now following this, we saw Fremont mayor, Lily Mei,
responding to Tesla Saturday afternoon, saying,
"As the local shelter-in-place order continues
"without major provisions from major manufacturing activity,
"such as Tesla, to resume, I am growing concerned
"about the potential implications for our regional economy.'
And adding, "We know many essential businesses have proven
"they can successfully operate using strict safety
"and social distancing practices.
"I strongly believe these same practices could be possible
"for other manufacturing businesses,
"especially those that are so critical
to our employment base."
She then encouraged the county to work with local businesses
to reopen with acceptable guidelines.
And shortly after, we saw Alameda County's health department
release a statement saying it had engaged
in a collaborative, good faith effort to develop
and implement a safety plan that allows
for a reopening while protecting Tesla workers.
Adding, "We look forward to coming to an agreement
"on an appropriate safety plan very soon."
However, it stressed that quote,
"It is our collective responsibility to move through
"the phases of reopening and loosening the restrictions
"of the shelter-in-place order in the safest way possible,
"guided by data and science."
We also notably heard from Scott Haggerty,
supervisor for the Fremont district of Alameda County,
who spoke with the New York Times on Saturday.
And he explained quote, "We were working on a lot
"of policies and procedures to help operate that plant
"and quite frankly, I think Tesla did a pretty good job,
"and that's why I had it to the point where on May 18th,
"Tesla would've opened."
But then noting, "I know Elon knew that.
"But he wanted it this week."
And by this week, he was referring
to Musk wanting a May 8th start date.
All right, so essentially, it looked like Tesla
was going to get a green light.
Could still, we don't know the exact time line now.
All right, so part of the question here is,
are those moving threats, is this whole kind of craziness
over a difference of ten days?
Which it appears is something
that some Californian lawmakers were not happy about.
This including California's state assemblywomen,
Lorena Gonzalez who really, you know, she dug deep
and kind of greatly explained the situ---
I'm kidding.
He essentially added fuel to the fire
because after Musk tweeted, she tweeted "Fuck, Elon Musk."
And then later, on Sunday, she followed it up by saying,
"California has highly subsidized a company
"that has always disregarded worker safety and well-being,
"has engaged in union busting and bullies public servants.
"I probably could've expressed my frustration
"in a less aggressive way."
But then adding, "Of course, no one would've cared
"if I tweeted that."
And adding, "The deaths from COVID-19 in California
"are disproportionately Latino.
"Our communities have been the hardest hit. By far.
"Maybe that's why we take the public health officials'
"warning and direction so seriously."
But, that said, at the federal level,
we have seen support of Tesla.
Specifically, from the likes of U.S. Treasury secretary,
Steve Mnuchin, who backed Musk on Monday telling CNBC,
that California should help Tesla reopen its plant.
Also noting, "They're going to find that if he's threatened
"he's going to move his production to a different state."
Though there, you've had people argue
that moving Tesla's headquarters,
especially during the pandemic would prove
to be difficult and costly.
With Wedbush security analyst, Daniel Ives,
writing in a note to investors,
"Moving away from Fremont would take at least 12
"to 18 months and could add risk to the manufacturing
"and logistics process in the meantime."
However, this situation might just be the nudge
that Elon Musk has needed.
All right, I mean, Elon has previously hinted
that he's eyeing other places to build his cybertrucks
and expand production of his model Y crossover.
And you know, there are a number of experts right now
that believe that Elon Musk would save billions
of dollars over time if he actually did move there.
I mean, very notably, both Nevada and Texas
have no income tax.
Whereas California has a 13.3% income tax
on the highest earners.
But hey, that's also just one small part
of a much larger consideration.
But ultimately with that said,
that is where we are right now.
Of note, regarding the automobile industry,
we are starting to see factories reopen
in the United States.
Toyota is restarting their production today,
while General Motors, Ford, and Fiat, Chrysler are all
planning to restart their plants gradually on May 18th.
Also notably, regarding Tesla, even though there's
this whole legal situation and public outcry.
We've seen reports that the Fremont, California plant
actually started back up over the weekend.
And according to a report, you had two employees saying
that over the weekend they made around 200 cars,
Model Y and Model 3 vehicles.
And actually, as we are finishing today's show,
Musk has admitted that he is restarting production
against County rules.
Also saying that he "will be on the line
"with everyone else."
And that if anyone is arrested,
he ask that it only be him.
But hey, like I said, that's where we are right now.
And with this story, I would love to know your thoughts.
Do you agree with Elon Musk here?
Yes, no? Why, why not?
Also, do you feel like Elon Musk being public
about this, right, is meant to put pressure
on the government, or, maybe it's more of an
and or situation as a part of a public push
to get Nevada and Texas to try and bid for the company
to come to them?
But yeah, like I said,
I'd love to know what you're thinking on this one.
And that is where I'm going to end today's show.
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