Sunday, December 07, 2014

Meet The Press – December 7, 2014

Guests:

Esaw Garner – Widow of Eric Ganer
Al Sharpton
Amy Walter
John Stanton
Rick Santelli
Mayor Kasim Reed (D-Atlanta)
Mayor Michael Nutter (D-Phila.)

Cyrus Vance - Manhattan DA

Charles Ramsey - Phila. Police Comm.

Chuck Caterbury - President Fraternal Order of Police

Greg Abbott - Gov Elect (R-TX)



Todd: OMG thousands are

protesting coast-to-coast



Todd: amazingly though Republicans

and Democrats alike came together in

reaction the Eric Garner decision to

cry out with one voice “what the fuck??”



Eric Holder: I heard the grand jury

decision and was all 'what the fuck'



Boehner: I saw the tape

and was all like 'holy fuck'



Obama: seriously what

the ever loving fuck



George W Bush: I was talkin' to

black folks and we all said well

jesus fucking christ



de Blasio: I had to talk to my black

son about Eric Garner and we

were like motherfucking Staten Island



[ break ]



Todd: welcome Mrs. Garner



Garner: good morning



Todd: my condolences on your loss



Garner: thanks Charles



Todd: your husband is the face

of bias in law enforcement



Garner: it's not a black and white thing



Todd: no?



Garner: I don't see it that way



Todd: how do you see it



Garner: the police knew us –

they would see us on the street

and make fun of us and

harass us all the time



Todd: interesting



Garner: they knew him and 
wouldn't leave us alone and then 
they straight up murdered him



Todd: you're looking for a day in court



Garner: I can't let my sons outside the house



Todd: wow



Garner: my other son is in college

and I'm afraid of the police



Todd: are you really?



Garner: hell yes – that's why

I fled Staten Island



Todd: I don't blame you for that



Todd: the police union says

Eric Garner had to be killed

because he resisted arrest



Sharpton: look at the video

they choked him to death!



Todd: that's true



Sharpton: it's absurd



Garner: look my husband was

arrested lots of times and he

never resisted arrested



Todd: I see



Garner: I seen lots of people

resist arrest – hell I seen people pull

guns on cops and not be choked to death



Sharpton: so what if he did resist

the penalty is death??



Todd: what about the economic aspects?



Sharpton: yes – we need more jobs

and to build infrastructure



[ break ]



Todd: white people don't think

there is a lot of racism

Audience: no!



Todd: Mayor Reed is your city's

police department racist?



Reed: um candidly the history of

Atlanta is it was home to racists 
but also to Martin Luther King



Todd: uh right



Reed: we need to support police

but react to wrongs as well



Todd: got it



Reed: and we're going to

have cameras – count on it



Todd: this police brutality proves

Republicans are right to not

to trust government



Santelli: exactly hey I'm from the

financial sector where we make

enormous amounts of money but

then the government caused us

to to take huge risks and wreck the country



Todd: that's so sad



Santelli: but look at the Rolling Stone

article – the real victims of this

conversation will probably end

up being privileged white men



Stanton: in America people see

young black men as killers



Todd: that goes back hundreds of years



Walter: a long time



[ break ]



Todd: Mr Ramsey what will

your task force do?



Ramsey: in 90 days we have to create

a plan to fix law enforcement in America



Todd: problem solved



Ramsey: we'll look at trust and

also technology and stuff



Caterbury: look the grand jury

system works



Todd: um ok



Caterbury: but cops have always 
wanted more training



Todd: good



Caterbury: the media is blowing

this all out of proportion –

very few cops are indicted



Todd: um some people 
think that's part of the problem



Caterbury: it's all those poor

people committing those crimes



Todd: can District Attorneys fairly

prosecute cops when they 
need them every day?



Vance: cops and DAs need

to be friendly but not cozy



Todd: friends with benefits?



Vance: I have prosected cops sometimes



Todd: what about a special prosecutor?



Vance: yes but look at Ken Starr –

we gave him an infinite budget

and unlimited power and the

guy went total psycho



Todd: even conservatives are

wondering if 'broken windows' logic

is broken which means we're now

allowed to talk about it



Nutter: we can't allow people

to commit crimes Todd



Todd: so zero tolerance?



Nutter: but we do need to ask why

cops keep killing unarmed black men



Todd: yes



Nutter: people are afraid of cops

and cops are afraid of police



Ramsey: the broken windows

strategy alienated the community



Todd: what about bias?



Vance: I'm against it



Todd: thanks for coming everyone



[ break ]



Todd: OMG a Democrat will not

represent Louisiana in the Senate

for the first time in 100 years



Audience: Katrina is the gift

that keeps on giving



Todd: House Republicans have their

biggest majority since the Hoover Administration



Audience: what could possibly go wrong



Todd: people think members of

Congress are out of touch and don't

care about their problems or needs



Audience: no!



Todd: the median income is $53,000

and members of Congress make $174,000
and that doesn't even count 
spouses and that sweet lobbying money



Todd: also Congress does better

their income grew 15%

Audience: what a surprise



Todd: and their average net 
worth is one million dollars

Audience: poor things



Todd: 5% of America are millionaires

but for Congress it's ten times higher

50% are millionaires



Audience: sweet



[ break ]



Todd: the GOP hate Obama but

can't decide what do about it



Cruz: shut down the government!



King: then burn it to the ground!



Sessions: Obama is right –

we can't deport 11 million people

except criminals!



Rubio: Obama is right – 
the status quo is amnesty!



Tea Party: heretic!



Boehner: shut up tea party



Graham: if we don't pass immigration

reform the Republican party will die



[ break ]



Todd: welcome Mr Abbott



Abbot: hi Todd



Todd: you're suing the President



Abbott: you're darn right I am



Todd: do you have standing?



Abbott: yes because Texas borders

a poor and hostile land filled with

people desperate to escape for a better life



Todd: enough about Oklahoma



Abbott: Obama did deferment and

streams of dangerous refugee

children came to Texas and ruined it



Todd: but those kids were caught

at the border and most were deported



Abbott: some were not



Todd: but most were



Abbott: I have no idea –

but there are illegal kids in our schools 
and now we have spend a fortune 
teaching them Jesus rode a dinosaur to church



Todd: I've read if illegal immigrants

left Texas it would cause a recession

worse than the last one Republicans caused



Abbott: the point is Obama is a dictator



Todd: George W. Bush says

illegal immigrants represent family values



Abbott: my wife is hispanic



Todd: es ella caliente?



Abbott: Obama is an Emperor!



Todd: is illegal immigration

good for Texas?



Abbott: no it's not



Todd: but it's good for

the Texas economy?



Abbott: Americans are tied

of the President failing to act!



Todd: you're suing him for acting



Abbott: except for that



Todd: what do you mean

by 'secure the border'?



Abbott: where no one

ever crosses illegally



Todd: like everyone?



Abbott: yes zero



Todd: that sounds

a tad unrealistic



Abbott: I'm a dreamer



Abbott: which crazy Texan

do you support for President?



Abbott: all of them



[ break ]



Todd: panel what about immigration?



Santelli: we should turn border

security over to Google



Todd: you seem smart



Santelli: me is smart



Todd: what if the House

GOP passed laws and stuff?



Walter: or even said what they support



Todd: that's crazy talk



Walter: the GOP House doesn't

reflect the people of America



Santelli: they just elected them!



Walter: no voters in gerrymandered 
districts did



Santelli: those are the rules



Walter: well the rules are rigged



Todd: Jeb and Hillary are trying to look authentic



Stanton: Hillary Clinton is 
not a real human being



Todd: she's had secret service

protection for 22 years like a cyborg



Todd: what about 2016



Reed: the results of that election

will depend on how crazy the GOP



Todd: Jeb Bush is so authentic he

even supports common core which

sounds like communism



Santelli: who gives a shit about Common Core

teachers are poor and annoying



Todd: liberals want me to point out the

economy is doing well under Obama



Santelli: don't get too excited –

there are still poor billionaires

who need a tax cut



Reed: we've had a record 51 straight

months of job growth – it's fantastic news



Santelli: that's in spite of Obama

not because of him



Reed: that's not what you said

when Bush was President motherfucker



[ side eye ]



Todd: and that's another

episode of Meet The Press

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