'Sup, you beautiful bastards?
I hope you're having a fantastic Monday.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing I want to talk about today is an insane update to one of the worst people we talked about in
2016 and you actually may remember and we're talking about Brock Turner. If you want the full more in detailed story you can go to
brockturnerrapst.com. just a brief recap:
in January 2015,
two graduate
students see Brock Turner raping an
unconscious woman. He tries to run away, they grab him and they turn him over to the police and Turner is eventually charged and found guilty of
Three counts of sexual assault and this story blew up for several reasons that the story itself was
horrible victims impact statement when viral judge despite being able to sentence brock turner to up to 14 years
sentenced him to 6 months
Which he only had to serve half because of good behavior 3 years of probation and brock Turner was required to register as a sex
Offender there's also the statement from Brock Turner's father that went viral
He wrote these verdicts have broken and shattered him in our family in so many ways his life
Will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve
This is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life
Which of course most people responded hey fuckface when the action is a ray
It should probably massively affect his life
But then for the most part like most stories that eventually went away
Like I said Brock Turner served his time or rather half his time returned to Ohio where he was required to register as a sex
Offender then we got the news over the weekend that Brock Turner's lawyers have filed an appeal and they claim that their client was denied
due process
During the 2016 trial and called it fundamentally unfair and here's a real thing from the appeals lawyers argue that the assault of this young
Woman did not happen behind the dumpster the assault didn't happened behind a dumpster the victim wasn't found behind a dumpster
She's found behind a three-sided trash enclosure and a basketball court
I'm not kidding they argue that this phrasing implied an intent of the appellants part to shield and sequester his activities and implied moral depravity
callousness and culpability on the appellants part because of the inherent connotations of filth garbage d'etre tests and criminal activity frequently associated with
Dumpsters additionally the appeal claimed that Turner was denied a fair trial because witnesses that might have otherwise
Convinced them that Turner was telling the truth when he claimed that the sex was consensual
Or excluded by the court the document also takes aim at judge
Erin Persky for not instructing jurors to consider a lesser criminal charges also claiming prosecution failed to present
Constitutionally sufficient evidence to support the three counts of conviction when speaking to the media Brown Turner's legal advisers said what we are
Saying is that what happened is not a crime it happened
But it was not anywhere close to a crime but to all of that
I want to remind you talking about a situation where not only the woman said she was raped where you have two eyewitnesses
That said they came across a scene at first they were like oh, maybe that's consensual
Then realizing the girl was unconscious who witnesses it said Proctor ran away from the scene of the crime
they
100% know it was him because those witnesses then chased him down and were able to hold him until police got there it also seems
Insane to me that they would go after the judge who gave by far one of the most lenient
Sentences we have ever seen in a case like this so Brock Terra can say all he wants that this was consensual
Let's say there were no eyewitnesses. We didn't even have the victims testimony an unconscious person cannot consent
It's just that simple and that's before even putting everything else into the story together. That said as of right now
We do not know what's gonna happen with this appeal, but as soon as we get any updates to it
You will be damn sure I will be covering it
Then let's talk about house of cards house of cards horse the massively successful
Netflix series starring Robin Wright Kevin's space seduction was shut down after all of those
accusations came out against Kevin Spacey since then more
Accusations against Spacey have been piling up but along with that many people were wondering what is going to happen to house of cards we
Got the news today that the production for the final season of house of cards will start back up early
2018 and it will be returning without Kevin Spacey
instead the main focal point will be Robin Wright which I will say as a fan of the show does seem to make sense she
Has become more and more important to the series
I don't wanna give out any spoilers there
But if you've watch a show you know that I'm interested to see how they get rid of Kevin Spacey's character
Which it's it's not an insane thing to do in fact in the book that inspires the Netflix series Frank Underwood character dies
We'll see what happens next from that I want to share some stuff
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It's eight episodes around fifty minutes a pop do yourself a favor then we had Jordan Peele working with Vanity Fair doing a video around
Fan theories around his movie get out
Maybe the small little teaser for the new Jurassic Park fallen Kingdom then just in time for Christmas
Season we got Lindsey Stirling and carol of the bells
You also got a brand new teaser for another episode of Black Mirror and just release the season Netflix
What do we have to do Netflix?
We will do it. Just release it killing us I get that that's the point come on. Please then in space awesome
You got a video from seeker on how close we are to photographing a black hole
I put my seemingly random and irrational fear of black holes to the side
And it was about awesome video if you want to see the full versions everything
I just share the secret link of the day
Anything at all links as always are in the description down below and let's talk about the time person or people of the year for
2017 since 1927 time has always announced a Person of the Year next to recognize the person or a group that has most
Influenced the news cycle that year so it's not necessarily a hey
You're awesome award. It's hey you're one of the biggest names and news right now
We may have already seen this year that there was our
Controversy around it on the 24th of last month Trump tweeted Time magazine called to say that I was probably going to be named man
Person of the Year like last year and I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot
I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks. Anyway, which Time magazine responded the president is incorrect
How we choose Person of the Year time does not comment on our choice until?
Publication which is December 6 now as of today Time magazine has released their?
Shortlist their top 10 for who could be the Person of the Year the finalist on that list are Jeff Bezos
Amazon CEO now richest man in the world the dreamers the thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to United States by their parents when they were
children
Aaron uncertain times because Trump's position on daca Hattie
Jenkins who's the director of Wonder Woman which also made her the first woman to direct a film that made over 100 million dollars in
Its opening weekend kim jeong-hoon the North Korean leader fuck boy extraordinaire the reason why we are worried about a nuclear war again Colin
Kaepernick who for many ways the match that lit the fire that led to all those sports
Protests the entirety of the me2 movement feels like every day
We have a new story of sexual harassment and sexual assault being shared robert muller of course was appointed a special
counsel after commis
Firing besting the potential involvement of the Trump campaign with Russian so far charges have been brought against four people Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman he's been pushing through massive changes in Saudi Arabia many people see him as the future of Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump
Maybe have heard of him, maybe you've seen the news cycle now in the president of the United States some people would say
Opinionated and finally Xi Jinping. He's the president of China has gained a lot more power this year
And is seen as one of the most powerful leaders in China in decades so for better or for worse
Those are your top ten we will know who the time person of the year is Wednesday
That's the question off to you
Who do you think should be the time person of the year and remember it doesn't matter if you like them or not this is?
about world conversation being in the news
I love that your answer to this and your thoughts on why that person or those people then let's talk about this
Disturbing story that blew up over the weekend it starts with this video that was originally posted on snapchat it shows a teenage boy
Holding a cat and then hurling it into the street. I'm not going to show the video here
I'll link out to other versions that have since been posted
It's truly
Disturbing and this guy just chalks this cat into the street it hits the pavement in here at whimpering before the video cuts out someone
Saw that they then posted it to Twitter and it blew up multiple versions of this video getting
Thousands and thousands of retweets many people saying we need to find out who this is the Internet did its thing and quickly did that?
Be sharing his name in this video, which I'll get to the reason for that in a second
I've set people on the internet they found out his name
What school he went to the local police department number anything you imagine they could find on him they found it
They don't Saturday
We saw the Fontana Police Department tweeting that they had been contacted by several people regarding the video tweeting we are aware of a video
That depicts the abuse of a cat
We thank everyone for contacting our department with the video it has been determined that the incident took place outside our city and we are
working with the appropriate jurisdiction
To find the cat in the suspect then soon after the Ontario Police
Department issued a press release saying they received information on Saturday regarding the abuse of a kitten by a young man police saying they identified
a 16 year old suspect
But would not be disclosing his name due to his age
Authorities adding on Saturday night that the suspect has not yet been located and arrest and on that note I asked you to the people
of Ontario if you if you live around Ontario if you see this
Disgusting human being please contact the authorities now regarding the cat there are many reports circulating online saying the cat died from internal bleeding
broken skull broken ribs
But the police department revealed that the cat was actually okay at a fractured leg what I was going to survive due to a regular
Blood test we also know the cat suffered internal injuries once again police are going door-to-door trying to find this suspect
They still do not have him for now. That's where the story ends once again
if you know who this is
Please report Heather's disgusting and horrible people in the world that when you get that chance to hold someone accountable
He's half to you to make the world just that much less shitty and very briefly. I want to talk about tax reform
You might have seen over the weekend in the Senate a vote of
5149 for tax reform at a reminder from the last time we talked about this it is not all done right now the US Senate
And House have passed different bills there are different things in each one and we're talking basics and specific example the Senate bill has 7
Tax brackets whereas the house only has four as of right now Congress is set to adjourn on December 15 House
Speaker Paul Ryan said that he had actually keep the house in session to make sure this passes now with that said if the house
In the Senate that they go to conference they come up with a singular bill
And then they pass that bill as a right now
It looks like a lot of the provisions in this tax reform would be pushed through
January first lot you will personally feel the changes until next year this will not affect your 2017 tax returns
And so one slash if there is a singular version will go into the specifics of that
Also, if you'd like to look further into some of the things that they are proposing with this tax reform
I'll link to a video where I covered it last time as well as other sources on more updated information
Then let's talk about Michael, Flynn Brian Ross and ABC so if you didn't see last Friday Michael
Flynn pled guilty this the charge is aligned to the FBI about the nature of his conversations with then Russian ambassador of the United States
Sergei kis Li act during the presidential transition those conversations
Led Russian officials to temper their response to increase US sanctions those charges carry a maximum of five years, though
He's most likely going to face six months at most due to his cooperation
As he might imagine when this news started coming out the media was all over it
But one report really stood out and that was the one from
ABC via Brian Ross Brian Ross reported on Flynn in the situation saying he's prepared to testify
We are told by a confident against President Trump against members of Trump family and others in the White House
He's prepared to testify that President Trump as a candidate Donald Trump
Ordered him directed him to make contact with the Russians which contradicts all that Donald Trump. Has said at this point
It was huge news collusion definitive evidence
Then later after that report ABC had to issue a correction the key focal point of that report was that
Candidate Trump ordered this they then have to issue a correction saying oh
Actually, it was president-elect Trump saying their source later clarified that during the campaign Trump assigned
Flynn and a small circle of other senior advisors to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other hotspots and shortly after the election
president-elect Trump flin to contact russian officials on topics that included working jointly against isis that is
Immensely different no in addition to that tweet Brian Ross on ABC later that night issued that clarification
For many people that was nowhere near enough
because the news had already spread and the reason for that is one would assume on such a
Serious top on such a pivotal topic that if a source like ABC is reporting on something. They've done their work
They've made sure it's factually accurate and so many people take it as unfettered truth
And then people just start spreading it like crazy when the best and kind of now
Hilarious examples of that was the views Brian Ross is reporting Michael. Flynn promised full cooperation to the Muller team and
Is prepared to testify that as a candidate Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians?
Beginning to look a lot like Christmas and it's beginning to look a lot like collusion yeah
From Brian Ross reports of the view reports and it spreads to more outlets more peep it's also part of the problem because when you
Have to issue a correction which 100 cent we should always have to issue
Correction is very rare for the correction to get in front of as many people as the false information
Seemingly to try and make good ABC announced on Saturday that they were
Suspending Brian Ross for four weeks in their statements saying we deeply regret and apologize for the serious error
We made yesterday
Reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards
Process as a result of our continued reporting over the next several hours
ultimately we determined the information was wrong we corrected the mistake on-air and online it is vital we get the story right and retain the
Trust we have built with our audience. These are our core principles
He fell far short of that yesterday
effective immediately
Brian Ross will be suspended for four weeks without pay and Brian Ross tweeted a response later saying my job is to hold people accountable
And that's why I agree with being held accountable myself president Trump
Also responded to all of this Whedon
Congratulations to ABC News for suspending Brian Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia Russia
Witch-hunt more networks and paper should do the same with their fake news so he attacked news in general
But also kind of commended ABC until Sunday when he tweeted people who lost money when the stock market went down
350 points based on the false and dishonest reporting of Brian Ross of ABC News he has been suspended to consider hiring a lawyer and
Suing ABC for the damages this bad report has caused any millions of dollars, although. I will say on that note
That's a little pot calling the kettle black in my opinion President Trump has several times in the past said things that were either
untrue or to straight-out attacked companies we've seen how that temporarily affects the market
That's where we are right now incredibly damaging and embarrassing for ABC and Brian Ross
I think to hit on is that this is damaging to more than
ABC and Brian Ross well when anyone in the mainstream s is up it affects the
Entirety of the mainstream not always I know a good number of people that don't see Fox News as mainstream media
That's just a different hue of bullshit, and that's not me trying to shit on any single place
I think one of the most important things for people to realize is that every place even what whether its intended or not that there
There is bias the quality of reporting is often how?
Much someone can separate themselves from their own buyers one of the best things once you realize that people are coming from different
Aspects it gives you stuff to compare and contrast
And the net result of that shouldn't just be that you get to cherry pick and choose what you want to believe
It's just so that you can you can help break down what's actually happening. That's where I leave that one
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