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Justice Prevails: A$AP Rocky's Verdict Explained
We, the jury and the above entitled action, find the defendant, rakim Mayers, not guilty. I'm not getting the audience, I'm not getting the audience.
Speaker 3:I'm not getting the audience.
Speaker 4:Mother of God, I'm going to be at the scene. Repeat again we, the jury above your type of actions.
Speaker 1:Find the defendant, joaquin Mayers. Not guilty of a crime of a semi-automatic fire accident and violence in vehicle. Section 245, section B a felony is charged in count one of the information this 18th day of February. Not guilty of the crime of assault and violence in a penal code, section 245, section B, a felony is charged in count two of the information this 18th day of February. I want to thank God first. I got to thank God first.
Speaker 1:You know, what I'm saying, amen. I really want to thank the jury for making the right decision, you know, and I'm just so thankful. This is crazy right now. This whole experience has been crazy for the past four years, but I'm thankful Nonetheless. I'm thankful and we're blessed to be here right now, to be a free man talking to y'all. Thank you.
Speaker 5:Peace, peace, and welcome back to Freeman's Affairs Radio, the Free Biz Network. I'm your host, vaughn Black, and today, today, wisdom Power, the 25th of February 2025. We're dealing with Wisdom Power, and the bridge between wisdom and power is understanding, and we're going to try to get some understanding up here and right out the gate. I want to apologize for the late start. We got a very late start, uh, this sunrise. I'm way behind, hours behind, but nonetheless we are here and we're going to get into some things.
Speaker 5:That opening sequence that I opened up with was the not guilty verdict of our brother, asap Rocky Let me turn the music down just a little bit and that was the not guilty verdict read by the judge from the jury in the ASAP Rocky gun trial and the shooting trial. As you know, he was charged with shooting up a reckless endangerment or shooting up some outside event or someplace by one of his former friends ASAP Rel that's the guy's name, I think it is and God testified against him and it was looking dim for our brother, asap Rocky. I'm glad he was acquitted. It really touched me and I'm thankful that he was acquitted in that case and he got a shot at living his life and being with his children and family. As you know, rihanna was in the courtroom with him and that was the big scream, the commotion that you heard. That was her exhaling and letting out some joy behind the verdict.
Speaker 5:And yeah, let's see, I'm going to see. Can I go dig into the story here a little bit? We'll get a little bit from that. Hold on just a second.
Speaker 1:People of the state of California versus Joaquin Mayers, case number BA-508142-01. We, the jury of the above entitled action, find the defendant Rakim Magers, not guilty.
Speaker 5:Okay, we played that part. We played that part. I just wanted to do that again, but to get to give you just a little backstory to it and try to get this, get the report in so we can move on. Rocky Rockies, whose real name is Rocky Myers, was charged with two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm. Rocky could have faced up to 24 years in prison if convicted on all charges, according to prosecutors, rocky was arrested on april to april, in april of 2022, and pleaded not guilty to the charge charges. Later that year, as jury selection began, he turned down a plea agreement. That would have meant 180 days in jail, and I don't want to go through the long haul of the story. Well, you know what let's let's do it to do to do asap rel. This is him. Him his name is uh.
Speaker 5:Tyrell Epron testified that he and Rocky, members of ASAP, a crew of of creators at a New York high school, had been close, but their relationship in uh eroded after fame came for Rocky. Epron, known as ASAP Relly, said their relationship had been strained for years and was getting worse in the days leading up to the incident, but he was still furious when Rocky pulled a gun on him after a scuffle that began the moment the two met up near the W Hotel on November 6, 2021, he dared him to use it. He had been shouting angrily at Rocky, who was walking away after an initial confrontation and scuffle. When Rocky pulled a gun from his waistband and held it in the air, a$ap really testified he turned around and then it was like boom testified he turned around and then it it was like boom. He told the jury the whole thing was like a movie. He kind of like pointed down and he shot the first shot. He said I felt my hand hot and and later added I was hit or was grazed. I didn't have a hole or nothing.
Speaker 5:Rocky's lawyer says the shots he fired were not even from a real gun. They were blanks from a starter pistol that he carried as a prop. The lawyer said Relly knew this and that was why he was so fearless walking after him. Two days after the shooting, relly himself brought two shell casings to police that he said he had found at the scene. After seven police officers searched the scene and found nothing. This guy's a rat. He's a big time rat Testaments. During the testimony of Sergeant Thomas Zia, the jury saw body camera footage of officers searching the area with flashlights and remarking on the lack of evidence at the scene. Yeah, this, this, this really dude is asap, really dude was. He was a rat and he uh you know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 5:Uh, I from what I could get from the report that these guys were friends before the fame and fortune came. Once the fame and fortune started coming for ASAP Rocky, I think this might have left a kind of bitter taste in this guy for his friend or former friend, and that's something this is. This is is a lesson, a teaching moment in this family. This is a teaching moment in this that that sometime we surround ourselves with people and when we start having seeing a little bit of success, you're thinking those people are happy for you and they, they wrote with you from the beginning and you would think they would be happy for you. But that's not the case and a lot of times there's there's, there's um, hidden, uh, envy brewing when, when you start seeing success and people that were there with you from the beginning, you would think they would be happy, but they're not. It's like they say they don't want what you give them. You could be looking out for them and you know y'all going places. You're in my entourage, you're going to concerts with me, you're doing shows with me, I got you producing and putting money in your pocket. They don't want what you give them. They want what you got, because he feels like, well, we started this together, why am I not? Why is he shining and I'm not shining, not realizing you got to play your position if you're down together. You started from from nothing together and one of us broke and and made success. Right, we was in this together. You're going to be with me. You just have to fit into the lane that that that's open for you. Maybe your success will come later on, but right now, we're going to take care of this the way it is. You're going, we're going to be together, you're going to be with me or whatever, and I'm going to put you in a position to win. A lot of cats don't want that. They want your spot Later, before we did this together, they want what you got. You got that beautiful woman, the Rihanna woman, and they having kids. I guess they married or whatever and that's what the envy comes in at you, seeing all the success.
Speaker 5:Rocky is a good guy. I met him before. In fact, I met him at the premiere for the microphone check the red carpet there. I met A$AP Rocky Now, in the past, a$ap, he's made some goofy statements, but you know one thing that I like about him. He owned up to it and he said at the time he was off code and he admitted it and he evolved from that and that's one thing I respect about the young man Seems like a real even-keeled, level-headed young man. Like I said, I met him, he was very cordial and polite and I liked the way he carried himself and I'm glad he beat these charges and he was acquitted and he's going to have a opportunity to go on with his life and and do some good things. So we, um, we, we give him, give, give, give props to him for that. We give props to him for that. We give props to him for that. Good for him, good for him, good for H, yeah, family, yeah, family, oh man, it's been a crazy, crazy few days, crazy few days.
Speaker 5:We want to take you to another story here I have and this is, you know, in the criminal justice system as well, and this report I got from. Now there is. We told you before, and a couple episodes before, that there was a murder that took place, a killing that took place in in a new york state correctional facility of one, robert brooks, remember that. Anyway, now there was at the time they were saying there was 13 or 14 of these people correction officers and other staff, faculty members that were involved in the beating death of this inmate, robert Brooks, and um, now six, six of them has been charged and I want to go to this guy here, stephen A he's on. I want to go to the story by Stephen A Smith. You know I saw this and I thought it would be good. I thought it would be good to bring it up here. Hold on just a second and we're going to bring it right in. Hold on. Let me cue it up While handcuffed.
Speaker 8:he wasn't just killed, he was tortured on camera.
Speaker 4:It was caught on video. Where are the arrests? I want names, I want faces. The governor of New York is going to come out and says 13 correctional officers. I want to know all 13. I want their names, I want their faces. I want them on camera, every one of them, every one of them.
Speaker 8:Welcome back to the Stephen A Smith show Right here, with Digital Airways and YouTube and, of course, iheartradio. That was me speaking on December 31st, upon learning about the story that I'm about to reiterate to you right now, because in the latest on this story we discussed on this show when it happened in December, murder charges have been announced in the death of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old inmate who was beaten by guards at a prison in upstate New York. Governor Kathy Hochul announced the charges Thursday. In a statement. Hochul said quote Robert Brooks should be alive today. The brutal attack on Mr Brooks was sickening and I immediately moved to terminate the employment of those involved. End quote In a grand jury indictment, six correctional officers were charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Two of them were also charged with gang assault. The six charged with second-degree murder are Nicholas Anzalone, david Kingsley, anthony Farina, christopher Warrith, matthew Gallagher and an unnamed person. You see their faces right there. Take a look. Let's pause for a second. Let's look at their faces right now.
Speaker 4:Every one of them. I don't like the fact that they turned sideways.
Speaker 8:Personally, I want to see the frontal view. Like Anzalone, I want to see who the rest of them are. Why is Kingsley, farina, wrath and Gallagher sideways? That's what I want to know. But I digress.
Speaker 8:17 employees, including four sergeants and two nurses, were alleged to be involved in the death and were suspended as a result of the incident. Four others were charged in the grand jury indictment in connection with the case on varying charges, including manslaughter and evidence tampering. The body cam footage from December 9th shows Brooks with his hands cuffed behind his back at the Marcy Correctional Facility as multiple guards punched and kicked him. Brooks was on an infirmary bed when the attack occurred and at one point in the video his face was visibly bloodied. He was taken to the hospital and died the following day. An autopsy report declared Brooks' manner of death was homicide, according to his family's attorney, attorney Elizabeth Mazur told NBC News that Brooks died due to compression of the neck and multiple blunt force injuries.
Speaker 8:Second degree murder, aggravated assault, stuff like that why isn't it first degree murder, I want to know. I guess when you look at the charges, I mean they could all be looking at 25 years in prison or whatever. I mean a man is dead. I wouldn't be mad if they got the death penalty. And I don't know how. I'm amazed, how folks can plead not guilty. You caught on video the man is cuffed with his hands behind his back on an infirmary bed and you're beating him to a pulp and you're saying you're not guilty. How, how? You know this is not police officers, this is correctional officers. You know this is not police officers, this is correctional officers. But law enforcement is law enforcement, right? Unarmed black man is an unarmed black man, right? Was he armed? Wasn't his hands cuffed behind his back and you literally beat him to death? Obviously, there was a whole bunch of people complicit First 13, now we hear about six being indicted and then, the next thing, you know, 17 other folks.
Speaker 8:It was, I mean damn. It was a coordinated attack, evidently. So these bastards should be under the jail. There's no way that they should get off. No way in hell. They took him out. Take them out, at least take them off the streets for the rest of their natural lives. They committed murder. What you gonna say? I only punched him twice. The other person punched him five times. Anybody that was involved needs to go down. Go down.
Speaker 4:Anybody that was involved that put their hands their feet, a club or whatever it is on that man. They need to go down All of them.
Speaker 8:All of them. You know, when you see stuff like that because we saw the video just take a moment to ask yourself what if that had been you? Do you understand when your hands are cuffed behind your back? You don't even have the ability to cover yourself and to shield yourself from the punishment being inflicted upon you. You don't even get to curl up in a ball and cover yourself for protective measures and cover yourself for protective measures. You don't even get to do that. Do you realize that? That's what they did to that man? That's what they did to that man, similar to the kind of things that used to be done to us.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, so the thing is family. This is not an isolated incident. This happens all the times and I can tell you first account, firsthand, that this happens all the time in the state of New York and those prisons upstate. Not saying that sometimes inmates are unruly and things happen and you know the police get involved, but when those correction officers upstate, most of them are white from those little white towns upstate New York and those prisons are the economy for a lot of those little rural areas in upstate New York. That's the economy there is those prisons. This is why there's so many of them. Or rural areas in upstate New York, they, they. That's the economy. There is those prisons. This is why there's so many of them. I think New York state has the most prisons in the country, state prisons, that is. And um, whenever those officers see a, a opening for a free kill, they're going to whip you. They're going to whip you out. They're going to pound you out. They're going to pound you out. They're going to beat the brakes off you. I'm telling you firsthand, I have firsthand knowledge of it. I'm telling you, take my word for it, it's a fact. Whenever they see a free kill, they're going to beat the brakes off you. Now. It's unfortunate that they beat this man till he was dead. He was murdered. And uh, let me, let me excuse the uh there's. There's a little bit of uh sound coming from the outside. I have the windows open, as you notice, this place stays hot in here, so I have to open the windows and some of that air is coming from the outside, but anyway anyway. And there's a little bleeding in the sound here, but anyway, at any rate, this is not an isolated. This happens all the time. It's just that this one here end up in a tragic loss of life, and this happens all the time. So what I'm saying to you, family, if you have a relative or a loved one or someone you care about that's incarcerated, in prison I don't care if it could be New York State, anywhere go check on them, even if you just write letters or just call a prison and check and check their well-being. Let them know that they have outside people that care about them, even though they're incarcerated. And you know, I promised that I would stay on, stay on top of the story, and that's what we're doing here. That's. This is why I'm reporting on it, because of that and uh, yeah, so we're gonna see, we're gonna keep a close eye on that and see how the trial goes and make we're gonna try to make sure that that these guys don't get off with some slap on the wrist type of thing.
Speaker 5:And like steven a smith said and I'm not a steven a smith guy he's, he's, he's. I gotta give it to him. He's good at what he does. He carries that podcast. He started it and it's growing and everything and he's funny, he's very entertaining. He a broken clock is, has the correct time at least twice in in a 24-hour period. So you gotta give the brother props where he's, where it's duet. And I didn't disagree with anything he said in that piece. I didn't disagree with anything.
Speaker 5:And uh, I, I kind of like Stephen, even though he's I gave him I think it was a couple of years ago. I gave him the Kuhn Kuhn of the year award. About two years ago I gave him the award. That was a year before last when we closed out the new year. Uh, we, we had, we did the the awards, the freedman's affairs uh awards program, and uh, he got the coon of the year award because he was making them coony statements.
Speaker 5:And, uh, now stephen a smith is starting to tippy toe around the political arena, if you will, and he's getting his feel around and he just went through a big thing with james carville. They had a back and forth thing. Oh, you know, they went, went at each other. Well, actually, steven a responded to to james carville some statements that he made. But yeah, um, before I go into further, because I wanted to wanted to get a little bit about this Joy Reid thing. As you know, this Joy Reid, she's been fired from, canceled, her show has been canceled from MSNBC.
Speaker 5:But before I go into that, I want to get this story on this chick, this, let me see, can I bring it up here. This Erin Strotman remember I reported on her a few weeks ago, a couple of podcasts ago. I did a podcast and I was talking about that was the chick that worked as a nurse at the childbirth part. What do they call that thing? Anyway, she was charged with breaking the bones of black children, right, and she just bonded out. She just bonded out, for she was bonded out for a $25,000 bond, which she only had to put up 10%, so that's $2,500. And she's out, she's out, she's been released and let's see, can we get that story in here? Hold on.
Speaker 9:They want her under the jail.
Speaker 10:Somebody's got to be held accountable.
Speaker 9:This NICU nurse in Virginia accused of the unthinkable going on a spree, breaking baby's bones on purpose.
Speaker 10:I've got to do something.
Speaker 9:Hospital staff told his dad that one of his twins had a broken leg.
Speaker 10:It was pain. That was their first emotion.
Speaker 9:And it allegedly happened to over a half dozen babies at the same hospital, all of them with one similar trait. I'm Justin Carter. This is TSR Investigates. It may be easy to justify one baby breaking a bone in a neonatal intensive care unit, also known as a NICU, in a hospital, but seven babies over the course of a year or so. It's why the NICU at the Henrico Doctors Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, is shut down right now. In 2023, the hospital started noticing quote unexplainable fractures amongst their newborn babies. Dominique Hackey was one of the first parents to come forward after one of his twin boys suffered an unexplainable tibia fracture. It would take a year for him and his family to realize that they wouldn't be the only family going through the same thing.
Speaker 10:It's the ultimate level of betrayal.
Speaker 9:Because on August 25th 2023, dominique Hackey and his wife they were already going through it. Their twins were two and a half months premature. One twin baby, micah, was having breathing issues. However, his brother, baby Noah, thankfully was born completely healthy. But about a week into their NICU stay, his wife got a heads up.
Speaker 10:The nurse told her she wasn't allowed to hold.
Speaker 9:Noah, why is that? Did they notice something was wrong?
Speaker 10:So at that point we didn't know. They just said you know it's up to the nurse's discretion whether you know you can hold the baby because he was so small.
Speaker 9:He was three pounds. The very next day, another red flag.
Speaker 10:So September 3rd we both go into the hospital. Nurse is swaddling Noah and just kind of like looks back over his shoulder, just kind of like that and was like, hey, just wanted to let you know. I noticed his foot was discolored. He's not moving it like the right foot. So we went and got some x-rays, determined that he had a fracture. Do you want to hold him? And I said no.
Speaker 9:By that point he still hadn't held Noah at all and knew that something was going on. So he told his own mother, who's a director of nursing herself in Washington DC.
Speaker 10:She was the first person to say that that's not right. We sit with the doctor on staff. He kind of walks us through. Well, hey, you know we're thinking it could have been an injection that was given too rough and that's what fractured his tibia.
Speaker 9:Which is basically your shin. It's the biggest bone in your lower leg.
Speaker 10:Oh my God, oh my goodness. They said they were opening an internal investigation in the hospital.
Speaker 5:My goodness, I gotta pause this for a moment. Family. I gotta pause it for a moment. This is heartbreaking. I'm sitting here and, as you are, listening to the report and I can't even imagine what that father. He's sitting there doing the interview with the news person, the um, the media, and I can't even imagine him. I would be flipping out probably. I can't imagine what's going through his mind, that this would be allowed to happen.
Speaker 5:You see, the point I want to make here is you got a bunch of people, and these are black-skinned people. I'm not even going to call them freedmen. Some of them are descendants of the emancipated and you have silly people that make comments. Like you know, we are professional victims. They call black people victims. We always we we love being victims. Now these are Brent newborn children, newborns.
Speaker 5:Why don't we have a hate crime protecting us? According to the FBI data, american blacks are the number one target of hate crimes in the United States of America. This is empirical data from the Justice Department, due to a report in the FBI. But yet we don't have a hate crime protection. We don't have that. But you have people, so-called some of them so-called Christians and whatnot. They do these little podcasts and they tell you you know you're a victim by choice. There ain't no racism. You have to function in your freedom.
Speaker 5:I'm not even going to say the name up here, but these are silly people because these are innocent children. They are victims. Not victims not one, two or three. This is a. This is a practice. This young lady made it a practice and yet they gave her $25,000 bond where she only had to, uh, come up with 10% of that for uh what? $2,500? And she's walking free after she's done this to children, babies, newborns. You imagine that you go to the hospital to see your newborn and they're not moving limbs because the limbs are broken. Just put yourself in that mindset. Think about that. This is why I stopped the recording. That's why I stopped the recording, because I wanted you to focus on that thought. Right, let us continue. Let us continue.
Speaker 10:They'll just update us along the way. A couple of weeks fast forward, they tell us you know, hey, we were unable to find the person responsible, but we're going to put some cameras in, we're going to implement new trainings on the proper way to get injections.
Speaker 9:Henrico police told them that they too were opening up an investigation, but as time passed, here from Henrico Police Department.
Speaker 10:Again, we're closing your case. Nobody was criminally liable. We were unable to find the person who did this. However, we did determine that this was child abuse. Somebody intentionally abused your child. You're telling me, somebody abused my child but you're doing nothing about it. Okay, all right, tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 9:Months later CPS also came back with a level one report in Virginia. That means it's quote injuries or conditions, real or threatened, that result in or were likely to have resulted in serious harm to a child. End quote. But again he says they couldn't quite prove who was responsible.
Speaker 10:But they were telling us again. Case is closed.
Speaker 9:That was until December 2024 when Hackey finally got some answers. Henrico police arresting 26-year-old Aaron Strotman, a NICU nurse at Henrico Doctors Hospital, in connection with a separate incident that occurred in November. In a news release, henrico police said, in part quote, that the police division is utilizing all available resources to ensure a thorough investigation into this matter. This involved reviewing dozens of videos from inside the NICU. As previously mentioned, detectives are reexamining the 2023 and 2024 cases as part of the broader investigation. End quote. When you see her mugshot, when you see her, what goes through your mind?
Speaker 10:Anger, anger. Honestly, I don't think I have any words that you could post or do anything with, but it's just sheer anger and angry that she smiled at so many people's faces and was doing this behind their backs.
Speaker 9:He says he does remember Strotman, but she wasn't a nurse that they had many interactions with. She seemed nice, she seemed normal, but nonetheless he says that he will not stop until there's justice for not only his son but at least those seven other babies involved. He made contact with the other victims' families during Strottman's arraignment last week. He learned that all of the newborn victims were boys, with a range of injuries from forearm fractures, broken ribs, knees and tibia bones. One child victim had 12 fractures.
Speaker 10:Their first emotion was pain, and that haunts me. I'm not going to stop until Henrico Hospital is held accountable for that, because it's too much, it's too many people, it's such a short period of time.
Speaker 9:Somebody's got to be held accountable, that there were multiple failures across the board. He says that it took the hospital 19 days to even report baby Noah's case to CPS. He then says CPS, they dropped the ball because they purged all of the calls related to the case, because they were told by a hospital physician that there was nothing malicious that came out of the investigation. But that certainly wasn't true because Hackie says they received a letter from the hospital saying that child abuse was being reported. Now the hospital in a statement they said in part quote that we are both shocked and saddened by this development in the investigation and we're focused on continuing to care for our patients and providing support to our colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted by this investigation. We're grateful to those colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted by this investigation. We're grateful to those colleagues who have dedicated their professional lives to the care and safety of our patients, as well as to law enforcement and other agencies who have worked aggressively and tirelessly with us on this investigation. Our labor and delivery services continue uninterrupted. For babies needing NICU care, we'll assess them, stabilize and facilitate a transfer to an appropriate facility. The good news is that Hackey says that his twins they are happy. They're thriving young toddlers, despite the fact that their first few days were very traumatic. Now, as far as Erin Stroutman, her next court date is March 24th. She faces malicious wounding and felony child abuse charges. Of course, we'll let you know what happens For TSR Investigates.
Speaker 9:I'm Justin Carter.
Speaker 5:Yeah, family, like I said, this woman, erin Stroutman, has been bonded out on $25,000 bond and she only had to put up 10%. So for $2,500, she's out walking free after she has harmed these children and yeah, that's where we at with it. Family, that's where we at, like I said, this is why we fight for the things. We we uh fighting for, not just reparations or free, uh, uh, compensatory justice for the freedmen. That's the. That's the new way that we're. We're um, that we're framing it Well up here on this program. That's the new way we're going to frame these things from now on, not just reparations, because we have lexiconized that into the conversation, the national conversation, that word reparations. So now we're going to move on from that and we're going to call a compensatory justice for the descendants of the emancipated, called the freedmen. So that's where we're going with that, yeah, but anyway, yeah, so this this is very upsetting that this woman is bonded out and, uh, we're going to keep our eye close eye on that case and the robert brooks case. We're going to keep close eyes on that and this is what we. This is part of the work we're doing up here. Family this is part of the work we're doing and why we're so serious on it.
Speaker 5:This is a new day. This is a new day where legacy media is not trusted anymore and you have content creators and common, common, common commenters on things such as myself, and just it's like. This new black media thing is like the wild west well, media period now. You have podcasters, you have people different on different platforms, doing, doing different things and following stories. So it's like the Wild West here, where people are not really depending on the legacy media or the traditional media, where you watch NBC, cbs, abc, cnn and Fox. You're not just depending on that ABC, cnn and Fox, you're not just depending on that.
Speaker 5:You have guys like myself. People like myself are doing work and they're reporting on these stories and bringing the news. It's a good thing, but it's a big field, very competitive, and you have to be on your stuff. So this is why we stay on these cases, these kind of stories, the way we do, and speaking of that, speaking of that, you know family with this doge thing. Let me pull it up with this doge thing. You, you have, um right, you have our good friend Stacey Abrams in the crosshairs of media now, because the Doge thing has opened up and uncovered a lot of corruption and money laundering at the highest levels of government. And let me see, can I bring that story up, story up with Stacey Abrams?
Speaker 12:Hold on Meredith reports from the news North Lawn at the White House. Hey, mark, good morning.
Speaker 13:William and Dana, good morning to you both. The president, as he just said, is thrilled with the idea of being able to save taxpayer money, paying down the debt and potentially giving money back to taxpayers, but at this point, no final decisions made. This is something still up for discussions. Meantime, republicans up on the hill cheering these latest spending cuts, while Democrats warned that they could risk Americans' public safety, their financial future as well as the future of government agencies overall. Today, the IRS the Internal Revenue Service expected to issue a number of pink slips, reports upwards of 6,000 people expected to be cut, and it comes just as tax season gets underway. The president also issuing an executive order Wednesday cutting federal spending on programs meant to help migrants who are now in the US illegally.
Speaker 14:You cannot continue to waste American taxpayer dollars on giving it to illegal immigrants as the president has announced he will no longer do and taking money from Americans, spending it frivolously and then not being accountable for where that money has gone.
Speaker 13:The Department of Housing and Urban Development says it's making cuts too. Hud Secretary says it's time to show the American people this is not business as usual.
Speaker 15:Today we're announcing that we cut $4 million in DEI contracts here at HUD, which were supposed to be for culture, transformation and mindset, outward mindset thinking and subscription services.
Speaker 13:Democrats, warning though this could have impacts. We heard a letter from Senator Patty Murray who says without sufficient staff to run these programs, community and economic development projects, disaster recovery efforts and housing across the country will be delayed and could come to a grinding halt. Epa Administrator Lee Zeldin says he's on a mission to track down billions of dollars that were either misspent or parked in accounts meant to boost liberal activists. The latest focus is on a nonprofit with ties to former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Speaker 10:Stacey Abrams.
Speaker 13:The Free Beacon says the EPA is looking to where some $2 billion ended up, the Beacon writing out in their story that they have been looking into whether or not this money, through the Powered Ford communities, received the green energy grant, despite the fact that it was founded months earlier, in late 2023, and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure. Now Abrams just this week was pretty vocal on X saying she's no fan of these Doge cuts. We'll look to see if this group responds to the accusation about the money being misspent and we're also looking to see if the president talks about what it's been like as he marks one month in office today.
Speaker 12:Bill. Okay, good deal, Mark. Thanks, the plate is full and it's 9 am. Nice to see you, sir.
Speaker 16:And Senator James Langford, Republican of Oklahoma, joins us now. I just want to ask you something on that money that went to Stacey Abrams and was supposedly misspent. That's what the accusation is. Can Congress claw that money back?
Speaker 6:Yeah, that becomes a challenge. You tell me if we can get enough Democrats to be able to join us in the Senate to be able to do that. The president can do that, though, with the oversight that's actually happening and to say how are we going to actually make sure that this is actually done? The Department of Justice can say if this is fraudulently done, they can actually work to claw it back. It is interesting to me to be able to watch early days of the Biden administration. They were creating DEI programs. He was requiring all agencies to find Green New Deal ways to be able to engage and he was cutting off oil and gas production on all federal lands. Flip the script four years later we're cutting government size and we're opening up American energy. Dramatic difference between side by side in the first month.
Speaker 12:OK, so Elon Musk is the lead blocker on this play here. He was with Sean last night on solving the deficit, if possible.
Speaker 2:I really want to emphasize to people that this is a very important point. If we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care, there won't be money for Social Security. We either solve the deficit or all we'll be doing is paying debt Nobody. So it's got to be solved. Or there's no medical care, there's no Social Security, there's no nothing. It's got to be solved. It's not optional.
Speaker 12:America will go bankrupt if this is not done. That's why I'm here. I want you to react to that and this is the breakdown of the money that we're hearing. Ok, they're saying two trillion I don't know where they get the number. Others say one trillion, but we'll see how it plays out. And then you give four hundred billion back to the house in per household. If you're trying to save money, does all that add up for you Go?
Speaker 6:Our first priority is actually get the debt down. Everyone wants free checks in the mail there's no doubt about that but we've got to be able to solve the debt and the deficit issues. On that Elon is correct, in that we are going to continue to have high inflation and not be able to spend on the things that are critical for us infrastructure, health care, education, national defense if we actually continue to run this debt. And as people talk about power around the world on this, china continues to be able to influence other countries where we are not able to.
Speaker 5:All right, family. That's enough of that. I just wanted to bring attention to the to the Stacey Abrams thing. Now, this is the same woman. Same woman when she was running in her state of Georgia I believe it was Georgia. She was running in and there was a guy she was going to some restaurant or something and had all the cameras and the media following her. So it was a young gentleman in the crowd, had asked, was able to get her attention long enough to ask her a question, and the question was is she in favor of cash rep, cash payment reparations? You know, you know this uh, big old uh looked like a walking pickle pig foot woman, said no and ran away from the guy, just just straight up. No, but yet now she's caught in this, in this uh scam here. This scam over two billion dollars from a, a non-profit startup, that that uh, when initially started it was $100. They drafted up the grants and it came out to over $2 billion that are unaccounted for. They don't know where the money's at and her name is right in the middle of it $2 billion, $2 billion. You understand, but you tell us no for cash payments or any kind of compensatory justice for Friedman. This is what I'm saying, family. This is what I'm saying Now, with this Doge thing.
Speaker 5:All of the Democrats are kicking and screaming about the Doge and he's the Elon Musk is not a government elected official, and all of this other stuff. Well, what about when? When? Um back here a couple of years ago, when we was in the, in the, in the um, in that big situation there where a lot of people were losing their lives every day, and this dude, um, he wasn, wasn't, he wasn't an elected official, but we was, we was taking um, we was told to take certain precautions because of, uh, what? What was this guy? Who's this? What's his name? Um, not jeff bezos, the other one other big billionaire. He wasn't an elected official, but Biden had him on a microphone persuading people to take these, um, these precautions. Quote unquote from a, from a Dr Fauci who I hope they go after and and uh, charge and indict him and prosecute him to the fullest. That's my, that's my posture on this.
Speaker 5:Anyway, going forward, family, going forward, what else we got here? What else we got up here? Because we can't get out of here. It's been, we've been up here a little bit and I don't want to keep you, like I said, we had a late, very late start today and I want to't want to keep you. Like I said, we had a late, very late start today and I want to, I want to. I don't want to keep you longer than necessary, but just wanted to bring out you know now that did the um, the Democrats, they have to. They're trying to figure out a way let me get a bed back up in here. They're trying to figure out a way, a way to reset themselves, because they're starting to realize they failed, because the the only strategy that they ever had was, uh, pointing the finger at the, at the republicans. They're racist, they're this, they're dead, they're white racist. Look, look, look, see republicans, bad, bad, and you're no better. You're no better, you're just no better, you're just as racist. And we're finding out Now.
Speaker 5:Trump had that big White House party for Black History Month and they lost their minds for that. You know why they lost their minds Because Trump. Now, I'm not a supporter. So let's get that clear, let's make that abundantly clear here. I am not a supporter of Trump, I didn't vote for the guy. But I gotta tell you A masterful job, because every day when you wake up or you cut the TV on or you walk by a newsstand and see a paper.
Speaker 5:There, the headlines is what Trump done did today, what he did yesterday, what he's doing today, every single day. He has overtook the media and he's not giving them a chance to breathe. Every day he's signing a new executive order. He's done this. Or he's not giving them a chance to breathe. Every day he's signing a new executive order. He's done this. Or he's popped up here. He's at the daytona 500. He's over here at the superbowl. He's over there. He's doing this.
Speaker 5:Him and elon holton joint uh press conferences in the oval office. It's just non-stop and he's killing the headlines and he's beating the democrats to the punch every time. It looks like a young olympian in the ring with a with a 95 year old boxer. You're just too slow. And he's beating you to the punch on an every single category and all they can do is whine and cry. And and Trump is you know they're pushing this young girl out here. What's her name? Jasmine Crockett, with the eyelashes and her that messed up weave. She be wearing the wigs. She be wearing those lace fronts and them lashes and talking all that sassy talk, because that's supposed to appeal to us? The sassy talk and that foul language. You know those Negroes, they like that.
Speaker 7:They like that fancy, that sassy talk.
Speaker 5:No, we don't. I don't care nothing about that. I don't care how sassy she is. None of that moves me. You know, what moves me is the policies, policies.
Speaker 5:I'm not impressed by her sassy, filthy mouth and how sassy she can be, and them two inch long eyelashes and that messed up lace front. She wears that thing. Be looking toe up sometime, don't it? I'm talking, I'm speaking to the ladies, I'm speaking to the sisters. Now, sisters, don't come out with your hair looking like that. We don't do that, not in our culture. We don't come out with your hair looking like that. We don't do that, not in our culture, we don't do that. Now, she's, from what I understand, she's, she's a, she's a freedman, she's not a, a foreigner, and I don't at least I don't think so, but she, they pushed out there and I think she's from texas somewhere and they push the pushing her out there because that's that sass is supposed to appeal to us. They don't have nothing else. You don't have nothing else. You're sending this bozo out there. Uh, al shopton, you're sending him out there doing these marches and all this performative garbage. You know, you know they, they don't have. No, you know how the young people look at al shopton. He just old negro with a perm in his hair. These kids ain't paying. No, you know how the young people look at Al Sharpton. He's just an old Negro with a perm in his hair. These kids ain't paying no mind to no Al Sharpton. You send Al Sharpton to talk to them. Old church crowd people, that's who you send. When they did that thing to you a couple of weeks ago and did that little stunt there at Costco, called a buy-in or whatever they're supposed to be boycotting, I think in March they're at Costco, called a buy-in or whatever they're supposed to be boycotting. I think in March they're going to start boycotting Target. I'm going to Target, I don't care what they're talking about. I'm going to Target Right over here, gateway, brooklyn. I'm going to Target. So I ain't studying about what them people talking about. But yeah, all of this performative for the cameras. These people don't care nothing about black empowerment or the black community.
Speaker 5:Al Sharpton is an opportunist, you know. I calls his show. You know his show. He does that show on WBLS in New York on Sunday and I called up there one time. It wasn't his show, it was another show I called up and this is during the time, uh, they were campaigning, doing before the election, and they were up there, you know, bigging up Kamala and this and me and another brother had called up there and we lit into them. He, the brother, lit in first and then I lit into him. It was the guy that the um, he's a Caribbean guy. He got a morning show up there with them, I think from eight to nine or something like that. I called in his show and went off. You know I can't even get back up there, I can't get, but they got my number on block. I don't know if they have a block, but they got me where I can't get through to to talk to, to Al Sharpton or whatever when I call his show, because they screen those calls, they screen them. So this is I'm just doing this letting you notice this, show you how phony these people are. You know he'll get up there now.
Speaker 5:Dimitri k from from the uh, from the uh diaspora news, she called up there and she was saying that she had a uh aha moment with Al Sharpton. When I listened to the playback it really was. You kind of let him off a little easy. You didn't really give him that work like that, but she called him off guard and he didn't really have no answer. He just deflected and, you know, went on, you know got all hurry up and got off the phone. But these dudes, man, let me tell you that dude him, the Congressional Black Caucus and the people of that ilk, they are actually enemies to the black community family. Listen to me what I'm telling you.
Speaker 5:I'm telling you, these people are enemies. They're there to suppress any kind of black empowerment for the descendants of the emancipated. That's what they dare for and all that stuff that martin is performing. If I can't stand this dude and I used to love reverend al back in the 80s and 90s I loved it did your fat perm wearing reverend al? You know, back then I guess he was, he was, you know, he was, uh, he was an advocate at that time but he'd have been brought and paid for and he is nothing but a Democratic milk toast sucker. That's what he is now and I don't mean to call people names up here, but we don't want to get in the habit of that. But I'm just being truthful with you. That's what he is, all that performance stuff.
Speaker 7:We're going to be marching. We're going to be marching down to City Hall After church. Let out. On Sunday we're going to be marching. We're going to start at the National Action Network. We're going to march all the way down to City Hall. We want you to come out and join us. We're going to have plenty of ice water in case you get thirsty. We're going to be selling plates of food when you get hungry. We're going to have fried chicken and Kamala Harris collard greens. So y'all, come on out and join us down to the march. We're going to start at the National Action Network and we're going to march all the way down to City Hall after I finish preaching on Sunday morning. Ain't nobody going to be in the building, but we're going to let them know we was there.
Speaker 5:That's him. That's him doing that with that performative, all that performative garbage. You ain't doing nothing. You're marching and ain't saying nothing. This just performative bootlicking, you know. And then you know, with this Joy Reid thing. Now she's just been canceled from MSNBC and she's out here crying alligator tears and carrying on. That was the same woman, same woman. Now she's Congolese. I think her parents are from Congo, one of them places in Africa. She's an immigrant, a foreigner, and she has always, always undermined anything we were doing on the grassroots or in the black community, the foundationals or the freedmen. She's always talked mess about us and undermined any movement we had. She always said she was calling us Russian bots because we were talking about reparations. Russian bots because we were talking about reparations and this is a misinformation campaign. She called us a misinformation campaign, russian bots, don't listen to these people Just undermining us. She had a long run with MSNBC what 11 years. And they finally got out the paint. They finally got out the paint.
Speaker 11:Canceled and fired Joy reed. Interesting, right, they were so excited and congratulated her on her naacp awards, but now she's fired. This just goes to show how this regime has blackmailed and threatened our mainstream media here in the US. Grow a spine, grow some balls or perhaps do your job, because right now we're in a crisis in this country, but we know who you're loyal to. You're loyal.
Speaker 5:They're loyal to that Democratic Party. They ain't loyal to nothing but that Democratic Party. Al Sharpton, all of these bozos. Let me get Megyn Kelly in here. I like the way she put it. Hold on.
Speaker 16:I'm so torn. Oh Victor, I'm so torn. You know I'm thrilled she's gone. She literally was the most racist person on television, her and her most favorite guest, eli Mistal, or Ellie Mistal. So they deserve 100 percent both to be fired. But you know, it's like we won't have her to kick around anymore. There's a little sadness in that. This is one of the many reasons why most of us are absolutely delighted to see her get fired from this show and it appears from MSNBC um tonight, we believe will be here last night.
Speaker 3:Uh, a little walk down memory lane in sat one but in America there's a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears, really white tears in general, because that's what carrots are right. They carry out and then, as soon as they get caught, breathe waterworks. Ronda santos has been waging a full-scale war against the black past. It's illegal to make white people feel uncomfortable in florida. You also have the restrictions in schools over what can be taught about race and gender, for fear white children might feel bad when they find out that not all white people in history were heroes. Any of you guys trust uncle clarence. These republicans are dangerous. They're dangerous to our national security because stoking that kind of soft white nationalism eventually leads to the hard from the tea party on. They're voting on the idea that they can't get whatever job. They want a black.
Speaker 5:Yeah, family, she said none slick there. Yeah, that is true. What she was saying was she told a half truth and she they love to point to the Republicans, but the Democrats are just as racist, if not more, if not more. So so we not. Do we not listen, man? Like I said, that Trump dude, he is doing a masterpiece in the media because he's dominating all the headlines, he's beating them to every punch. They were complaining about him with the what was that?
Speaker 5:About a week ago, they had the big event there in the White House about the Black History Month event and I thought I thought it was cool. You know I, you know I'm not excited about it because it's all symbolism. But the Democrats do the same thing. Now they're crying about it. They're crying about it, jamila Hill and all of them, they're crying about it. Oh, it's just symbolic, symbolic gestures that well, you do the same thing, you do the exact same thing, and he's beating you to the point. So now, when you come back around to us this is why I told, I told you from this microphone, right here, family I told y'all that all we gotta do is to stay on code and stay focused and we'll be in a very prime, pivotal position going forward and it's playing out. It's playing out that now, when the Democrats because they're trying to, I guess, trying to reset or recalibrate or whatever, but they can't come up with nothing Only thing they could do is point to Trump and say see bad, he racist.
Speaker 7:See see bad man, bad man, bad, Bad, bad bad.
Speaker 5:That's all they can do. You're going to have to come with some policies and set it on the table and deal with it that way. And we're not taking no promises, no promissory notes about when we get back in power. Not taking no promises, no promissory notes about when we get back in power. We're going to do this and do that and do this. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to have to show up front what you got. You're going to have to show up front. And this is prime.
Speaker 5:Because now, yeah, that little thing at the White House the other day, it was symbolic nothing to me. You want to put statues of Muhammad Ali and a great freedom finders and Harriet Tubman and Dr King and these different athletes and stuff, kobe Bryant, and, yeah, you can't go wrong with that. Beautiful, it's a fine thing, but it means nothing at the end of the day because it's nothing tangible to empower us. It's a great gesture. Do it, fine, by all means, do it. Go ahead, nice. I might even go visit it myself and look at it. Take some pictures, fine, it's great that you're recognizing our lineage. It's a wonderful thing. These are all black American people you're talking about.
Speaker 5:Making statues of Right, wonderful, doesn't mean anything when it comes to policies that will empower the community. So let's not get it twisted. But what they have done, what I respect, what they have done, they took that away from the Democrats. So because the Democrats love to come at us with all this symbolic nothingness, they love to come at us with that. But now what Trump has done, he's took that away from them. So now they can't come with. Well, we're going to build some statues. We already got that. What else you got?
Speaker 7:What else you got?
Speaker 5:We got that. He's taking that away from them so they can't use that and he's going to continue taking away all of this symbolic stuff and that's going to put pressure on them and in the coming weeks I'm going to be reporting on that with so many Republicans out there in California that Tariq and them are involved with involved with, from what I understand, he's been talking to some of them and they're trying to get involved in that, in the uh, in the reparations conversation out there, the Republican on the Republican side, even though that is a democratic state. But they're trying to get involved. See, I told you, family, I told you this is a part of what we do up here looking at trends and where things are headed, paying attention to the trends and which way things are headed, and that will put us in a prime position Once we can see. Staying on code is the main thing, staying on code right and being aware, wisdom, power right, the 25th today and being aware, understanding where we at, because that's the bridge between wisdom and power is understanding. That is the bridge.
Speaker 5:But, family, we're going to get ready to get out of here. We're going to get ready to get out of here because we got to go and y'all got to go. Enjoy your day, stay safe, remember, respect life, love, justice, cherish freedom and treasure the peace. This is Vaughn Black here and we'll be back. We'll be back next week and talk. We're gonna talk again. Take care, thank you, bye.
