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Attorney Eric Guster: George Floyd death shows power of ‘tapes, sound, and audio’ to showcase police actions

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Civil and criminal defense attorney Eric Guster told “The Daily Briefing” Friday that incidents like the death of George Floyd after his arrest by Minneapolis police are coming to national attention in part because they are easily filmed and disseminated.

“This is one incident that is on tape,” Guster told host Dana Perino. “The minority communities and poor people have been victimized by police brutality for centuries. And part of what we are seeing now, we have people who have iPhones now … wherein recording things are much easier than even ten years ago or earlier.”

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“So now, these things are being brought to the forefront because you have video evidence from what is occurring,” he added. “You have tapes, sound, and audio to show what police officers are saying and doing to these people in this community.”

Guster told Perino that many of those protesting Floyd’s death this week have tried to sound the alarm about police misconduct for years, but have been ignored.

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“Often times, people take the outrage and then they go and try to make their voices be heard,” he continued. “That is why so many people have pent up frustration because when you are black in America, you are afraid sometimes to walk down your own street because you may be accused of a crime.”

Guster cited the recent case of a white woman who called police and claimed she was being threatened by an African-American man who confronted her about letting her dog off the leash in “The Ramble” section of New York’s Central Park.

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“She made it seem like she was being victimized,” Guster said. “If he did not have his camera at that point on his phone, he could have easily been arrested and charged with attacking the lady.”

“And that is a reality of what so many African-Americans go through, Dana, this [George Floyd’s death] is the one thing that was on video.”

Biden camp denies ex-VP confused D-Day with Pearl Harbor Day during fundraiser

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Joe Biden‘s campaign on Wednesday denied that the former vice president had confused the date of the D-Day invasion of northern Europe in World War II with the date of Pearl Harbor Day during a fundraiser.

During a livestreamed discussion with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Biden appeared to switch the June 6 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France in 1944 with the Dec. 7 anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941.

Biden said his home state of Delaware “declared our independence on December the 7th, by the way. And it’s not just D-Day.”

The Biden campaign claimed he was referring to “Delaware Day,” telling Fox News Wednesday night: “Since 1933, the governors of Delaware have proclaimed December 7 as Delaware Day in honor of that day in 1787, when Delaware became the first state to ratify the Federal Constitution, thus making Delaware the first state in the New Nation.”

The state website’s page about Delaware Day makes no mention of the anniversary being referred to as “D-Day.”

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“We’re an incredible, incredible country,” Biden had said earlier in the event, which was meant to mark Wolf’s endorsement of his candidacy and touched on topics like the commonwealth’s coronavirus recovery.

“One of the things that I see, Tom — the old joke was that people used to say, ‘You know that arc that goes into Pennsylvania [is] quote-unquote “in Delaware,'” Biden said.

Delaware’s northern border with Pennsylvania is famously defined by a 12-mile arc extending outward from the courthouse in New Castle.

“I had somebody once say, ‘The best part of Delaware’s in Pennsylvania,'” Biden said. “It’s not, we have a whole state, but my point is, we’re very close.”

Wolf then stated that Delaware was itself once part of the Pennsylvania colony. The three counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex later became their own entity at the time of the Revolutionary War.

Earlier in the interview, the former vice president highlighted his connection to the Keystone State, remarking that during his tenure in Congress, he was often nicknamed “Pennsylvania’s third senator.”

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Biden, 77, has a history of gaffes, including his statement during a radio interview with Charlamagne tha God last week that African-American voters “ain’t black” if they can’t decide whether to vote for him or President Trump in November.

Earlier Wednesday, the Trump campaign’s deputy director of communications, Zach Parkinson, tweeted about Biden’s “D-Day” remark during his discussion with Wolf, saying: “All of this is wrong.”

Medicare chief Verma blasts Cuomo for trying to deflect blame onto White House for NY nursing home deaths

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma fired back at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday after he claimed last week to be following “what the Republican administration said to do” when he ordered nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients who had been discharged from hospitals.

Verma told “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Fox News Radio that neither she nor Trump instructed governors to place infected patients back in their original nursing home setting.

“President Trump took very early actions when it came to nursing homes,” Verma said. “We prohibited visitors [and] put out guidance to both nursing homes and states.”

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Cuomo claimed Saturday that New York’s original nursing home policy was in line with a March 13 directive from CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that says “nursing homes should admit any individuals that they would normally admit to their facility, including individuals from hospitals where a case of COVID-19 was/is present.”

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“What New York did was follow what the Republican administration said to do,” Cuomo said. “That’s not my attempt to politicize it. It’s my attempt to depoliticize it. So don’t criticize the state for following the president’s policy.”

In another clip Kilmeade played for Verma, Cuomo told reporters that one facility “should have referred that [COVID-positive] patient and should have told the Department of Health ‘I can’t take that patient’.”

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“The issue the governor is bringing up — which I disagree with — is that somehow federal guidance said you should put people who are COVID-positive in the nursing home,” Verma responded.

“Yes, a nursing home will have COVID-positive people,” she added, emphasizing that coronavirus patients can return to nursing homes if a particular facility is properly prepared.

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Verma stated that federal policy is, in the event that a nursing home resident infected with coronavirus cannot return to that facility, the government will subsidize that patient’s continued stay in the hospital as if they are back in their personal care facility.

“Under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients’ needs.”

As of Wednesday, New York state officials reported that 6,035 residents of nursing homes or long-term care facilities had died of COVID-19. However, that tally does not include deaths that occurred outside of nursing homes or long-term care facilities, such as at a hospital.

Karl Rove: People will want to ‘see and hear a little bit more’ from Biden as coronavirus exits headlines

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Former deputy White House chief of staff and Fox News contributor Karl Rove told “Bill Hemmer Reports” Tuesday that former Vice President Joe Biden‘s public reemergence Monday was a chance for the presumptive Democratic nominee to make a low-risk appearance after being confined to virtual rallies and remote interviews for more than two months.

Host Bill Hemmer had asked Rove if the Biden campaign would have been tempted to “dig in and ride it out” given the former vice president’s consistent lead over President Trump in the national polls.

“I think they’ve said, ‘As long as it’s working, let’s keep doing it,'” Rove said, “[But] I think they recognize, at some point, just the chatter about him only being seen broadcasting from his rec room would begin to bite.

“They wanted to start to move before that. So for, Memorial Day, [to] have him go to the Delaware Memorial to the fallen and have him start to be seen — The question is, are they going to be able to sustain it? Keep it up? They probably need to do it.”

Rove added that due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and other considerations, Biden and his team have to return to the campaign trail “gingerly.” Trump has already expressed interest in resuming his signature campaign rallies.

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“People do want to start to see and hear a little bit more from Joe Biden as coronavirus stops taking all the oxygen out of the air, if you will, in our political discussions,” he said.

However, Rove warned that Biden’s recent public remarks should be a source of concern for his handlers.

“I’ve been reading a lot of those and if I were inside the Biden high command,” he said,  “I’d be very nervous about what I’m seeing in those transcripts.”

Pete Hegseth praises ‘revolt of the gym owners, revolt of the salon owners’ against lockdown orders

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“Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth extolled what he described as “the revolt of the gym owners” against coronavirus-induced lockdown orders, which have endangered the livelihoods of millions of people.

“I love that this is the revolt of the gym owners, the revolt of the salon owners, of the barbershops, of the restaurants, of the tattoo parlors,” Hegseth told “The Ingraham Angle” Friday. “Sometimes the revolt comes from the most unlikeliest of places.”

“This is how the elites look at it, ‘They just own a gym or a hair salon,'” Hegseth added. “No, these are hardworking entrepreneurs who understand their rights and they are standing up for the rest of us … this is not left versus right, this is liberty versus lockdown … this is common sense.”

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Host Laura Ingraham updated Hegseth on what she called the “ridiculous and draconian” lockdown order from Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

On Friday, Wolf announced that several rural counties would be allowed to transition to either the “yellow” or less restrictive “green” phase of reopening, which mandates restrictions such as 50 percent capacity at restaurants. Much of the eastern half of the state, including Philadelphia and the Poconos, remains locked down in Wolf’s so-called “red” phase.

Ingraham quoted from a Philadelphia Inquirer story in which one Democratic state representative told Wolf “her constituents have not yet seen evidence that your administration recognizes and sympathizes with the added physical, emotional, and financial suffering they are facing.”

Late Friday, the Round the Clock Diner in Springettsbury, Pa., whose owner Demos Sacarellos had been interviewed on “Fox & Friends” earlier in the day, received word from the commonwealth’s Department of Agriculture that their business license had been revoked due to noncompliance with Wolf’s health emergency order.

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Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture spokesperson Shannon Powers told the York Dispatch that the establishment had been issued two prior warnings for remaining open, which led to her office revoking the restaurant’s license. Wolf’s order prohibits dine-in service in counties not in the “green” phase.

On “The Ingraham Angle,” Hegseth said the nation’s “elites” reject “common sense wisdom” when they issue business lockdown orders.

“They don’t respect people enough to let them make their own risk calculation, and people are starting to say ‘It’s time to open up across the board, I don’t care where you live,'” he said, “and that is a reflection of the fact that we should respect people … that is what free people do, Laura.”

Barstool Sports founder Portnoy says ‘I don’t trust’ Fauci: ‘He’s on different sides depending on the day’

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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy joined “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Friday to discuss his recent profane rant against National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“I don’t mean to pile on Fauci, but we are making very important decisions based on what he’s saying,” Portnoy told host Tucker Carlson, “and I think it’s OK to say ‘I really don’t know, guys’.

“But I get the feeling if you asked him this question, or ‘What does one plus one equal?’ you’re going to get seven different answers.”

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Portnoy’s Friday diatribe was in response to a CNBC interview in which Fauci admitted Americans “can’t stay locked down for such a considerable period of time [or risk] irreparable damage and have unintended consequences including consequences for health.”

“He thinks we should start opening the country. What the f–k are we talking about? This is my whole point,” Portnoy said on Instagram. He later added that Fauci should “pick a [expletive] side or at least say you don’t know.”

“I was taken off-guard,” the man known as “El Presidente” told Carlson. “I thought I was taking crazy pills for a second.

Last week, Portnoy went on a similar rant that emphasized that small business owners shouldn’t have to start over because of coronavirus-related shutdowns and guidelines.

“I think at this point, you let people — individuals — make decisions for themselves,” he told Carlson Friday. “The only thing, as I said before, that we absolutely know for certain is if you continue the quarantine, tons of people are going to lose their livelihoods.”

In states like Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, California and New York, much of the population remains under strict lockdowns that have shuttered businesses and risked the livelihoods of those who own or work at them.

“Listen, Fauci may be the nicest guy in the world, but he said wear masks [then] don’t wear masks. He said the lockdown may go on indefinitely [then] we have to end the lockdown,” Portnoy said. “It’s tough to put that much stake in what he’s saying when I just don’t think he knows.”

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“Right now, I don’t trust what he says, I don’t know how anybody could,” he concluded. “I don’t know if it’s intentional, I just honestly think this thing moves. There [are] videos of Fauci all through this, he’s on different sides depending on the day, depending on the mood, we are making seemingly life-changing decisions for other people based on facts that are clearly not facts.”

Laura Ingraham reveals how Michael Flynn was ‘targeted by Jim Comey’s FBI’

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Laura Ingraham opened “The Ingraham Angle” Wednesday by reporting that much of the coverage of the “unmasking” controversy surrounding then-national security adviser designate Michael Flynn in the final days of the Obama administration had missed a key detail.

“We now know that 39 Obama aides submitted dozens of unmasking requests for calls that involved Flynn,” Ingraham began. “The first was made by [then-Ambassador to the United Nations] Samantha Power on November 30, 2016, with the bulk being made between December 14 and 16 of that year.

“Yet what everyone missed was that there was no unmasking request made for the call that set the criminal case against Flynn in motion: his December 28, 2016, call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.”

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Ingraham explained that “a high-ranking source with direct knowledge of the situation” had informed her that it was the FBI, not any agency or office within the intelligence community, that was monitoring the call.

“When the FBI circulated the report [on the call], they included Flynn’s name from the beginning because it was essential to understanding its significance,” she said. “There were, therefore, no requests, we can conclude, for that unmasking about information.”

Ingraham noted that it is possible that other figures in the Obama administration had access to the call transcript as a potential “second ‘insurance policy’ against the new administration.”

“Or maybe they thought it could be weaponized if Flynn was asked about it later, a few days later, and lied,” she added. “We are bound to find out more.”

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“Now, I’ve seen many in the NeverTrump World scoff at any suggestion that there was anything improper in these flurry of unmasking requests,” Ingraham concluded. “Yet I think it’s wrong to focus on the unmasking itself, which is legal. For years, the Deep State lackeys like [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper and [former CIA Director John] Brennan claimed Flynn’s call was scooped up incidentally, as if it happened almost just by accident.”

On the contrary, Ingraham stated Wednesday, it has become even more clear that Flynn was not “swept up” by an tangential investigation but was instead “targeted.”

“And specifically, he was targeted by Jim Comey’s FBI,” she said.

“Again, Flynn had every right to talk to the Russian ambassador. He had every right to discuss any aspect of policy and any suggestions that the Logan Act was somehow a legitimate concern of the Obama people is just preposterous.”

Gaetz shreds ex-Obama adviser over declassified email: ‘If lies were music, Susan Rice would be Mozart’

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House Judiciary Committee member Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told “Hannity” Wednesday that former National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s now-declassified email to herself from Inauguration Day 2017 is highly incriminating.

“If lies were music, Susan Rice would be Mozart,” said Gaetz.

“If I were writing myself an email where three times I had to say I did everything ‘by the book,’ that is certainly more incriminating than it is exculpatory,” he added.

Gaetz then turned his ire on former FBI Director James Comey by citing two recent tweets. One of the tweets contained criticism of the Justice Department “which is probably investigating him” and the second implied praise for former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., who recently stepped down from that post amid an investigation into suspicious stock transactions prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

“If Ric Grenell had been the director of national intelligence back in 2017, Jim Comey would probably already be under the jail,” Gaetz said, “because the Grenell disclosures laid bare the coup before the American people.

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“Obama was involved, Biden was involved, Susan Rice was involved and Jim Comey was set up to be the inside man…,” he said.

“Remember all that weird journaling he was doing to try to set the president up on obstruction of justice? Well, now it is exposed.”

Ex-WHO official says coronavirus not increasing in reopened spots: ‘It’s as though something has changed’

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Dr. Karol Sikora, an oncologist and former chief of the World Health Organization‘s Cancer Program, told “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday that locations that have lifted coronavirus-induced restrictions on economic and other activities are not seeing the feared spike in case rates.

“It strikes me, as you look at all of the data all around the world where people have come out of lockdowns, things are actually going along quite nicely on the whole, and it’s strange,” he said. “it’s as though something has changed, and none of us can explain why.

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“We need to make a vaccine, of course,” Sikora added. “We need … to try to get one. Let’s hope that we don’t need to wait until … 60 percent of the community [are infected] because that could certainly take until next year.”

Sikora, the chief medical director at U.K.-based Rutherford Health, went on to suggest that the “fear factor” surrounding the virus has prevented people from making themselves available for crucial screenings and other procedures, putting them at greater risk.

“There are… three factors that end a pandemic,” he said. “The first, our behavior … how humanity reacts to it: social distancing, avoiding crowds, that sort of thing, the very fear [of] this virus changes our behavior pattern.

“The second thing is the virus itself: how it deals with the fact that [there are] increasing immunities out there in its host. And it’s changing; the summer weather has come to Europe and North America, and things are moving on.

“The third thing, of course, is what actually happens in terms of the fear factor and how we go into the autumn and [if we] see another wave,” Sikora added. “I’ve heard all of the doom-laden theories. I’m an oncologist, I can’t treat cancer patients properly because they’re not coming forward for diagnostic service at the moment, so I am incentivized to get things moving.”

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Sikora also questioned the prevailing view that the virus will almost certainly return with a vengeance sometime in the future, noting that past outbreaks dating back to Biblical times have been wound down by one “immune mechanism” or another.

“Every pandemic, from the plagues in Venice, from the plague in Egypt way back in the times of Christ, we’ve seen them just peter out and we don’t understand this petering out. Despite the very sophisticated computer mathematical models we’ve seen, we just don’t know what is going to happen,” he said.

“But I need to be optimistic, otherwise more people will die from cancer than have died from COVID.”

Cotton calls for withholding stimulus funds from states, cities where illegal immigrants get payments

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Senate Armed Services Committee member Tom Cotton, R-Ark., joined “Hannity” Tuesday to discuss his proposed legislation that would prevent the federal government from sending taxpayer-funded stimulus dollars to states or cities that issue payments to people in the U.S. illegally.

“We shouldn’t be spending hard-earned taxpayer dollars on illegal immigrants at a time when 35 million Americans are out of work,” Cotton said. “If we are going to be giving relief checks to those people who are out of work, we need to focus on American citizens, not illegal immigrants.”

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Under Cotton’s No Bailouts for Illegal Aliens Act, states or cities must certify that illegal aliens are not receiving coronavirus stimulus checks or other payments. State and city governments that refuse to comply with the certification requirements will not be eligible for funds from the CARES Act.

Paycheck Protection Program loans, unemployment benefits and relief checks sent to American citizens in those locations would not be affected.

“New York, Illinois, New Jersey, California have some of the highest state income taxes in the entire country,” host Sean Hannity told Cotton. “Now, there is more waste, fraud, abuse, debt, deficits. They are now trying to get people like yourself and people in red states that elect responsible politicians that don’t tax and spend to death to bail them out. That means bailout their stupidity.

“You talk about illegal immigration,” Hannity added. “How much is that costing the state of California every year, the state of New York every year? A lot of money.

Cotton also told Hannity that he is still looking to legislate a policy that will encourage domestic production of pharmaceuticals.

While many major pharmaceutical companies currently make their home in places like California, New Jersey and Connecticut, many of the necessary ingredients are sourced from overseas.

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“Unfortunately, Sean, it is a tragic irony that the country that unleashed this pandemic on the world also controls many of the most basic pharmaceutical ingredients for the United States,” he said. “That does have to stop.

“I’ve got legislation that would give incentives to build more manufacturing capacity right here in the United States and ultimately ban the import of pharmaceuticals from China many of which are adulterated to begin with.”