On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts, his actions were sickening, this is not appropriate or normal police conduct. Rep. Maxine Waters and President Biden have not been held accountable for their incendiary comments. This case is not indicative of all police interactions in inner cities. The police aren’t killing unarmed people all over the inner city — people in the inner city are killing people in the inner city. The majority of Americans wanted justice in this case. Most agreed that George Floyd was murdered so what were the riots for? No one believed that Chauvin was going to walk, what happened was wrong and justice has been done. Yet, Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, says that this verdict wasn’t justice, it was solely accountability. Later, Chief James Craig of the Detroit Police Department calls in to reject what Rep. Rashida Tlaib said about abolishing all police. Chief Craig shared that his officers have been under attack more than ever. He added that he appreciated the support he receives for his police work from the majority of people he’s encountered across the country.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
So we’re going to start at the top here. We’re going to start at the beginning. Now, May 25th, a year ago. We all saw that video. And we were all appalled by that video. All of us. I don’t think there was any question, as we talked about the other day. That this former officer was going to be found guilty of one form of murder or another. And I am quite surprised that he was found guilty on all three charges. But certainly wasn’t going to escape responsibility. So the Minnesota law. He’s written a certain way. The charges were made. The jury trial took place and he was convicted. I want to mention a couple of things about this. That process that took place in that courtroom, ladies and gentlemen. That process that took place in that courtroom. Was set up by our founding fathers. The founding fathers of the various states and the founding fathers of the nation. Everybody saying the system works. I heard Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, turned this into a left wing systemic problem speech, which it’s not. In fact, the prosecutors in this case were very careful not to condemn all police and not to get into systemic police. Privilege or whatever they call, they avoided it altogether. As they should have. And they would have made up their case. So we don’t need to hear from the politicians, I don’t need to hear from Al Sharpton, I don’t need to hear from Keith Ellison. Joe Biden, I’ll get to him in a minute. Two people who are so thrilled tonight. That there was a complete conviction on every count, and at least for now, there isn’t rioting or Joe Biden and Maxine Waters. Because what Biden did today and what Maxine Waters did the other day. It’s simply appalling. Absolutely appalling. More on that in a moment. So we don’t have the sentencing yet, but he’s guilty on all counts, and he will spend a very, very long time in prison, perhaps the rest of his life, if not most of his life. And then when we hear now we’re going to move on to the Dante rape case. The Adam Toledo case, as if they’re all the same. As if they’re all the same. Do you know murder in this country, in the major cities is up 56 percent. You know the names of all those people who’ve been murdered. Why aren’t they ever talked about? Why aren’t their families ever talked about? Why doesn’t the president call any of them? That is their families. We never see them. We never hear them. We don’t know who they are. I told you about Chicago last weekend, 12 shootings, five deaths, including a little kid, seven years old, murdered in her car while they’re in a drive thru at McDonald’s. Police brutality is not what’s killing people in the inner cities. People in the inner cities is what’s killing people in the inner cities. I don’t need to hear lectures from Attorney General Keith Ellison. That’s a fact. And the other thing here is. A lot of these politicians who speak, they don’t represent everybody in these communities. There was a Gallup poll done this a year or two ago, I think. No, it was done in August. The vast majority. Of minorities, the vast majority people of color in these communities want the police there and they want local police there, the vast majority of them, and a significant percentage want. Most of them. That is more of them. So we have politicians who want to turn this into a war on the cops, that want to turn this into a systemic issue and want to turn this into. A critical race theory issue. It’s not. And that’s why people get upset about this, a lot of Americans get upset about this. They want a cop like this convicted and they want a cop like this to do time. But what they’re not accepting is the broad brush attack. When our police departments in the broad brush attack and push by the. White privilege propaganda crowd. And yet there’s no escaping it. This should not be used to advance a radical political agenda, whether it’s defunding the police or slashing their budgets or talking about a white dominated society, what just took place in that courtroom? There were white people on that jury. The lead prosecutor was a white guy. The judge was a white guy. The due process system, there is a due process system that was supported by our founding fathers, whether the state or the government or the federal government. And not a word is said about the. This has nothing to do with the Dontae Wright case or the Adam Toledo case, the way the left throws all these cases together to make their their argument about the system. The slaughter that’s going on in our cities. There’s nothing to do with the cops. Everything to do with the people who are doing it, you can’t watch that video over nine minutes. What George Floyd cannot get sick to your stomach, you can’t begging for his life. We all talked about it. We heard parts of it, played it here on the radio, on TV. Begging for his life, saying he can’t breathe, calling out to his mother. And then watching the breath go out of this guy’s lungs, I mean, you can’t watch that. And draw any other conclusions. But then when you watch the rioters and the looters and the arsonists. It’s a whole nother story. You can’t watch that either without being repulsed. They can’t watch that either. I make notes to myself to listen to the Minneapolis mayor, Frey, he’s a disgrace. Maxine Waters should be expelled from the House of Representatives. You know what happened today, the Republicans moved to censure. Excuse me to censure her, the Democrats blocked it, a motion to censure was blocked by the Democrats, the same Democrats who impeached Donald Trump, who said nothing like what water said and went after that congressman for tweets and Facebook comments she made before she was even elected. Maxine Waters calls for violence all the time and she’s protected by the Democrat Party. She’s protected by the Democrat Party. Joe Biden’s comments today. We’re Pawling, he said it’s not that big a deal because the jury was sequestered. No, it is a big deal and I want to talk about that, too. I have serious problems with the way this judge handled this case. I think the outcome was. Right, in the sense that he was found guilty. I don’t know if he should have been found guilty of all those counts, but it doesn’t matter. The jury did what the jury did and he clearly was guilty. Of taking. George Floyd’s life. When they contributed to it or didn’t contribute to it, that’s fine, what he did certainly resulted in his death. So don’t call me and pretend it didn’t. Don’t call me and pretend it didn’t. The defense had a hell of a time and there’s a reason for that, no matter what he was introducing, you can’t put your knee on somebody’s neck, the back of the neck with their hands cuffed behind their back. Put the full weight of your body on the back of the neck and do it for over nine minutes. The guy’s begging for his life. And just say, well, you know, that’s the technique we use. No, it’s not. No, it’s not. That’s why we don’t have case after case after that. When you make an argument like that, you’re playing right into the hands of Keith Ellison and others. These are one off cases now. That’s not what cops do. That’s not what cops do. They don’t put their knees on the back of somebody’s neck while they’re handcuffed, face down on the ground and stay there over nine minutes while somebody is pleading for their life. I don’t know if another case certainly not familiar with it, so, no, that is not appropriate or normal police conduct. So don’t call this show and give me that B.S. I don’t want to hear it. You won’t find a stronger support of the cops than me. But not of that period, it was wrong on May 25th. It’s wrong today. Nonetheless. This jury should have been sequestered. I hear some of these former federal prosecutors and defense lawyers saying, well, at least by the time of the of the Wright case, he should have sequestered. He should have sequestered this jury from day one. That’s number one. Number two, which really ought to be number one. This trial should not have taken place in Minneapolis, period. So the the jurisdiction should not the jurisdiction, the location should have been moved. The jury should have been sequestered. I strongly believe this. It’s not possible to expect jurors not to watch TV or text or read stuff like that, you want the most pristine system in place, due process that did not happen here. Do I think it’s enough to overturn? No court’s going to overturn this. No court. Furthermore, if you don’t believe these riots and these mobs. Don’t have some effect on what goes on in that courtroom, you’re wrong. It certainly does. It absolutely does. Why do you think they’re doing what they’re doing? Why do you think these politicians are saying what they’re saying? They are threatening the system. They are threatening the jurors. They are threatening the judge. They are threatening the system. That doesn’t mean what took place in the courtroom wasn’t just. What I’m saying was people are praising this judge, I don’t praise this judge. The location of this trial should have been moved, the jury should have been sequestered. It’s that simple. And if not in this case, where the whole world is watching, where politicians are giving their opinions left and right. Well, then, in what case should that happen, if not this case? And so we raise these issues, what, a couple of days ago, last week, I don’t remember the days kind of come together to me. So the ultimate outcome. Didn’t really surprise anybody who watched that video, despite the best efforts of the defense. I hear the defense is being trashed. The defense did everything it could. It brought up everything it could, all kinds of extenuating circumstances, drugs, a big heart issue narrowed. This is what defense counsel do. OK, fine. I just thought the bar for the specific elements of the two bigger charges. We’re very, very difficult to meet, but it doesn’t matter what I thought, that he was convicted on all three counts. He was never going to walk, period, not with that video. And the video told us a lot. You can’t close your eyes to it. Well, he had drugs. Well, he had enough breath in him and enough wits about him to say, get your knee off my throat, you’re killing me. I can’t breathe. I want my mother. I’m dying. And no human being should have to go through that, no. No human being should have to face that, no. I can’t watch that video anymore, you know that more when I return.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Now, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to speak this evening or tonight about what transpired in the courtroom. I don’t think that’s appropriate. They can make a comment or issue a statement. But the problem is before there was a verdict, Joe Biden spoke. He wasn’t even asked a question. Related to the answer that he gave, and it really is shocking to me. We’re talking about an ongoing case, yet Maxine Waters, who goes into the area to try to stoke a riot, then you have Joe Biden speaking off the cuff even at that point where the jury is sequestered. About what he expects the verdict to be. Overwhelming in his view, which means if the verdict wasn’t what he expected and Maxine Waters didn’t get what she wanted, there would have been a riot. And we can’t have a justice system like this, ladies and gentlemen. We can’t have a system like this where now every case for many of these cases, you’re going to have a riot that is going to overhang the outcome and every jury knows it. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
I can only imagine the pressure and anxiety they’re feeling. And so I waited until the jury was sequestered. And then I called that I wasn’t going to say anything about it, but. Phoniest said today on television, he accurately said it was a private conversation because Joe understands what it’s like to go through loss and they’re good family. Peace and tranquility, no matter what that verdict is, I’m praying the verdict is the right verdict is overwhelming in my view. I wouldn’t say that the jury was sequestered now, not hear me say that. So we just talked to I want to know how they were doing just personally and personally. You know, he talks about the jury was questioned at the time he spoke, but the potential writers weren’t sequestered. He gave people a reason to riot. If there weren’t. If this verdict didn’t take place, Maxine Waters was encouraging people to right now don’t spin what she said anymore than people want to spin that video, don’t spin what she said. She said what she said and everybody knows it. You know, they had to play word games and split hairs when they went after Trump. But in this case, we don’t have to play word games or split hairs at all. We all saw and heard Maxine Waters specifically went to the hotbed, told people to become more confrontational. Everybody knows what she meant. And that’s not the first time she’s done it many times before. And the Democrats block a censure vote on her. I want all of you folks that have a so-called moderate Democrat representing you to understand that. They needed them all to line up. And then we have. Jim Crow, Joe opening at his big mouth and now they’re going to speak tonight. We’re all going to be told about systemic racism, we’re all going to be told about systemic police brutality, both of which are a lie, and this is why people get frustrated. They wanted to see justice in this case. Ninety nine point nine percent of America wanted justice in this case, we all saw when we saw. But we will not be lectured as if we participated in this. So what were the riots for exactly? What were the riots for exactly? Anti film Black Lives Matter, and so what were the riots about? In city after city after we want justice. Well, we had justice, what were the riots for, there would have been justice anyway. There would have been justice anyway, did that county prosecutor look like he wasn’t going to charge Shoven? Did Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, he wasn’t going to get involved in charging Shoven, as a matter of fact, here’s the deal. Here’s the lot. The whole nation came together, white, black and in between police officers. We all came together and said that, that. Is a killing. There was no doubt and then there’s riots. People saying we’re tired of this sort of stuff going on, not riots about murders in our cities, which are through the roof, through the roof. But we want justice. Everybody wanted justice, but they wouldn’t let the system work, so people rioted. And loaded. And Bernard. And killed. And so now we’re supposed to eviscerate police forces, different proposals by cities, by states, by Democrats in Congress, let’s eviscerate police officers because the narrative goes on and on and on and on. But you know what’s interesting, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the same narrative we heard 50 years ago. But today we have a more diverse police force than any time in our history. A diverse police force with more minority police chiefs in our country than any time in our history. We have more diverse communities than any time in our history. It’s not the 1960s. We’re in a whole new century is half a century ago. Nobody believed this guy Chauvan was going to be prosecuted. Nobody. And yet people saying we want justice by doing injustice, by harming other people, by damaging buildings and private property, much of which belong to private citizens. What you have is sort of these neo Marxist radical groups that take over these events and use them as a top opportunity to talk about systemic racism, systemic police abuse, systemic this there are not there is not systemic racism and there is not systemic police abuse. How do I know? I just told you Gallup went into many of these communities, those communities, they want the cops. It’s not even a close call. They want local police and they want them in their neighborhoods. And a significant percentage wants more police in their neighborhoods. Why? Why, because of the gangs. That’s why. And I will say this about the flight family. This is a very respectful family. And the way that they’ve been dealing in the public and so forth, not incendiary, none of that. I think they’re a family of faith and so forth. A very respectful family. Then they lost a father, brother, son. It’s not easy, it’s not easy to see that video over and over and over again. I couldn’t watch it. And not even know George Floyd, I can’t watch it over and over and over again. And you know what? Police officers, police organizations, those of us who support police, we shouldn’t fall on a sword for what took place there, what took place there is unacceptable period. So now what? Now, what Keith Ellison says now, this isn’t justice. This is accountability, and now that we have accountability, we can have justice. I know what he’s talking about with critical race theory. I know what he’s talking about is a Farrakhan acolyte. I know what he’s talking about. Trashing the country, turning it inside out like Black Lives Matter and Antifa and all these other organizations want to do, is that what took place in the in the trial? Is that what we’re on now? So we have exploitation, that’s what we have, and that’s what upsets many of us. We want justice in this case, we want justice in any case, we don’t want cops doing that and we don’t want gang bangers killing little seven year olds either. We want peace. We want law enforcement. We want due process that’s consistent across the board, regardless of race, regardless of background or any of the rest of it. But what some of us cannot tolerate, a lot of us, regardless of race, nobody gets more calls in here or has more of a representative sample of people coming in than this show and shows like it. Not sports shows and these kinds of shows where anybody can dial the number, the toll free number, anybody. You can’t use this as an excuse to destroy America. You know, the most bizarre thing in the world to me is this is a side point. When I listen to Sharpton, when I listen to the lawyer, I think his name’s Krunch. If it’s not, it’s not intended to be rude or Alison. So even Pelosi and Germany listen to them and I say your answer to this is what? To destroy the Constitution, to destroy the people who wrote the Constitution and ratified the Constitution, to pretend that American history began in 1919 and that the independence in 1776, that is America, not American history. That’s what’s going to fix this, embracing a Marxist or neo Marxist ideology that’s responsible for the slaughter of 100 million people. And the enslavement of one point five billion people, you know what’s going on in communist China today? They have two and a half million people in death camps, concentration, two and a half million Muslims. And concentration camps who are being slaughtered, who are being raped, who are being sterilized, their body organs are being cut out of them and sold over all over the world, brings in about one point five billion dollars to the Chinese government. Some of them are being operated on a alive. We haven’t heard of this since Nazi Germany. And yet the people who talk about we want justice and equality from Black Lives Matter and Antifa, they’re Marxists and Marxism. What’s the biggest country with the most people that practices Marxism, quote unquote? It’s communist China. Is that what we want? No, that’s not what we want. They don’t need lectures about justice from Keith Ellison, who spent years under Farakka. I don’t need lectures about justice from Al Sharpton. And what he did in Jewish communities and Korean communities and so forth, that’s the Democrat Party, that’s their great icons. It’s not mine. They’re not mine. Folks, I call it as I see it, I called on a May 25th, as did the rest of the country, what took place was unbelievably horrific and inhumane. This police officer has gone to prison. Even a debate over three charges, two charges, one charges, in the end, he’s going to prison. That we must maintain a due process system. And I don’t think the judge did a great job unlike everybody else. I think that jury should have been in another. In another area, another town, and I think they should have been sequestered for the sake of justice and due process to continue to uphold it, they’re not mutually exclusive. I think what Maxine Waters did was a direct attack on our justice system. For which she should be punished, but the Democrats are protecting her. Now, as I watch. Some of the speakers. And in this, I’m not talking about the Floyd family, but some of the speakers, as I see again, Sharpton and others. They’re celebrating the verdict. They don’t even understand they’re celebrating the founding fathers. They’re celebrating due process. That exists in a few other countries. They’re celebrating the jury system. They’re celebrating American justice. They don’t even get it. And many of the people you will hear from this point forward for the next many days and weeks don’t even get it. And on the one side of their mouth, they talk about an unjust system. A white dominated society and the other side of their mouth are celebrating the verdict. Well, do they know how the verdict came to be? Because of the system, the system, the system got the verdict. So people need to think clearly. The radical agenda, people who want to exploit this in these various Marxist neo Marxist groups who are just stupid people. I really appalling. And in this case. With this officer. And this victim. They worked beautifully, despite everything else would have worked even better had the judge done his job a little bit better than Maxine Waters, not tried to interfere and cause a riot if Joe Biden kept his mouth shut. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
There’s a reason why people are depopulating the cities as a reason why Minneapolis’s population is sinking. New York City’s population is sinking. Portland, Seattle and so forth. It’s not police brutality. It’s anarchy and mayhem in Democrat cities. I mean, people need to be able to enforce the rule of law against any law breakers, whomever they are, wherever they come from. Whether they wear a badge or they don’t wear a badge. Justice is supposed to be blind, but what cannot be tolerated is violent anarchy. Violent anarchy. And while that does happen from time to time spontaneously and people do get involved spontaneously, it’s also organized in this country. What I would say Antonakis organized, but that’s exactly right. That’s what Marxism is about. That’s what it’s about. So justice is one, but let’s suggest if one of those counts he was found not guilty, what would have happened in that city or other cities? Well, the National Guard was out. So obviously, the mayor and the governors thought there’d be a riot, businesses had a board up. They obviously thought there would be a riot. What happened prior to the general election? But the possibility existed, even the probability that Donald Trump might be re-elected as president, the United States police were on full alert. Windows were all boarded up again, why? Why is that? Because riots were threatened if the outcome. Wasn’t as these organizations, many of the Marxist organizations demanded. We cannot live in a country. Well, we sit on the edge of our seats, and if a jury goes one way as opposed to another, cities are going to burn, or if an election goes one way as opposed to another city, you are going to burn. That’s not justice. That’s not democracy. So various ideas swirl through your head in a moment like this. You have to pass them. You have to pass them and the exploitation. Of event. By the radicals, the exploitation of events, quite frankly, by the Democrat Party, the exploitation of events. By the media. They’re destroying our country. They’re destroying our country. Shoven was going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law no matter what. No matter what, he was going to be found guilty of one degree or another murder, everybody knows this. I don’t think anybody could see the video. The jury saw the video over and over again, but the riots didn’t make it possible. Our laws made it possible. We’ll be right back.