Donnybrook
February 1, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 5 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Wendy Wiese, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Season 2024 Episode 5 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Wendy Wiese, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> "DONNYBROOK" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THOMAS PATTERSON FOUNDATION AND THE MEMBERS >> THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF "DONN MY GOODNESS, IT WAS 63 DEG TODAY AT 2:00.
WHILE IN KEY WAS ONLY 66. WHO NEEDS FLORIDA WEATHER LIKE THIS.
AND A PANEL LIKE AROUND THE BIG TABLE STARTING WITH WENDY WIESE FROM THE BIG 550 KTRS.
LOUIS POST DISPATC HARTMANN, ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FOUNDERS.
TIMES.
SUBSTACK.
ALVIN REID FROM THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN WHERE HE WRITES A COLUMN AND EDITS THE NEWS VERY SAD NOTE TO BEGIN THIS EVENING'S SHOW, AND THAT IS THAT WE LOST FORMER U.S. SENATO CARNAHAN WHO DIED UNEXPECTEDLY THIS WEEK AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS.
SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO REPRESENT MISSOURI IN THE U.S. SENATE.
RAY, I WAS IMPRESSED NUMBER OF PEOPLE F OF THE AISLE WHO TOOK TIME OUT OF THEIR DAYS TO EXTEND THEIR CONDOLENCES TO THE CARNAHAN FAMILY, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.
SH NICE PERSON.
SHE HAD AN AMAZING FOO SHE WAS REMARKABLY TALENTED.
CERTAINLY THE CARNAHANS ARE KNOWN AS A GREAT POLITIC FAMILY.
SHE WAS SO GRACEFUL AND HAD THAT HORRIBLE TIME WHEN SHE LOST HER HUSBAND AND HER SON IN THE PLANE CRASH.
BUT SHE LIVED.
LUNCH WITH HER.
SHE INTRODUCED ME ON THE HILL LAST YEAR.
SHE WAS SO WITTY, INTELLIGENT, BRIGHT AND KIND, AND I FILLED IN ON DECEMBER 29th.
I WANTED TO HAVE HER ON TH SHOW.
YOU TALKED ABOUT, AND SHE SAID NO, I'M GOING TO BE ON THE FARM, AND THE PHONE DOESN'T WORK TOO WELL.
TO THE FOOD BLOG, WHICH IS AMAZING WORK.
SHE HAS REVIEWED HUN RESTAURANTS.
JANUARY 20th.
SHE LI >> SHE WAS A GREAT REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR STATE.
>> OUR THOUGHTS AND TH E CARN HAN CARNAHANS TIME.
CONGRESSWOMAN FROM ST. LOUIS THIS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS INVESTIGATING HER OVER WHAT THEY, I GUESS, THINK IMPROPRIETIES WITH CAMPAIGN SPENDING.
SECURITY THAN ANY OTHER MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OVER THE PAST YEARS, MORE THAN $700,000.
SOME OF IT GOING TO HER NOW HUSBAND WHO STARTED OFF AS A BODY GUARD AND THEY BECAME -- I GUESS THEY FELL IN LOVE.
SHE SAID THERE'S NOTHING THESE ALLEGATIONS.
DO YOU T HER?
WHAT'S YOUR TAKE HERE?
>> HARD TO TELL.
THE FACTS AREN'T GREAT, BUT I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS.
FOR ON OF HERS AT THIS POINT.
PART OF ME, I DON'T AGREE.
SHE DID THE STANDARD POLITICIAN THING, IT'S A CONSERVATIVE WITCH HUNT OR SOMETHING.
IT'S NOT I DON'T QU I DON'T LOVE THE TIMING.
THERE'S A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME THAT THE GOVERNOR HAS FOR AN ELECTION THAT THEY WON'T INDICT SOMEBODY.
IN T ABOUT THE TIMING I MONTHS BEFORE THE PRIMARY AND BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION.
THE OTHER THING I WILL SAY IS I DON'T KNOW IT WILL HURT HER FOR THE REASON SO MANY OF THESE ALLEGATIONS DON'T HURT PEOPLE.
PEOPLE ARE SO EN THEIR BASES AND FOLLOWERS AND IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO READ WHETHER SHE WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE THESE AND RAISE MONEY OFF OF IT.
>> AS FAR AS THE TIMING GOES, THESE CONGRESSWOMEN HAVE TO RUN EVERY TWO YEARS.
YOU ARE ALWAYS COMING UP ON A PRIMARY OR COMING UP ON AN ELECTION.
THAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR HER DEFUND THE POLICE STUFF, THAT SHE'S SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY ON SECURITY RAISES EYEBROWS, THINK AS FAR AS POLITICS GO, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT WILL HURT HER, BUT I THINK IT HELPS BIDE WHEN ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE BEING OUT ALL THE MAGA PEOPLE, AND YOU SAY THE SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY, MENENDEZ AND LIBERAL DEMOCRAT FROM MISSOURI CORI BUSH.
>> I THINK IT'S MORE THAN THE AMOUNT O I THINK IT'S WHO IT WAS SPENT WITH.
BELIEVE IF I RAN FOR OFFICE AND IN AN OFFICE, IF YOU ARE MY WIFE, DAUGHTER, WHATEVER, YOU ARE NOT GOING OFFICE OR FOR ME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
MAYBE I WILL GET YOU A JOB SOMEPLACE, NOT GOVERNMENT, BUT I HAVE ALWAYS TOOK A DIM VIEW OF THAT, A THINK THERE'S ENOUGH AMERICANS THAT AND I THINK IT WOULD BE MORE S THAN A LIBERAL WITCH HUNT CONSERVATIVE WITCH HUNT.
AS FAR AS CORI BUSH IS CONCERNED, I THINK THIS MIGHT BE COMING >> FIVE ON YOUR SIDE AND TH E OTHER ARTICLES THEY WERE MAKING WAS THAT MAYBE SHE HAS -- BECAUSE THIS IS JOE BIDEN'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
IT WAS INFERRED THAT MAYBE SAID SOMETHING THAT HE WASN'T TOO KEEN ON.
THE FACT THAT SHE' COURTNEY MERIT'S POSITION, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH SECURITY EXPERIENCE IF YOU A GOING ALSO THE FACT THAT S MEMBERS OF HER TEA TEAM HAD WARNED HER AGAINST DOING THIS KIND OF THING BECAUSE OF THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY.
THAT WANTS TO DEFUND THE POLICE AND SPENDS THE MOST ON SECURITY.
I RECALL WHEN I INTERVIEWED CLAIRE MCCASKILL.
WOULD DRIVE HERSELF TO ONE MEMORIAL DRIVE.
GUARD.
>> DANGEROUS NOW THAN THEY WERE THE '60s?
>> I DON'T THINK SO.
1968, WHAT KIND OF MEMORY DO YOU HAVE?
>> CHARLIE.
I GREETLY DISAGREE WITH IT.
IN THE '60s THEY WER POLITICIANS TO THE FAVORITE RESTAURANTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
>> I REALLY OBJECT T WHOLE -- BOTH SIDES DO IT.
IN HER CASE, TRYING TO MAKE -- GO TO THE MOTIVES OF THE PROSECUTION.
MADE HERE.
AS WOULDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM IF THEY WERE BRINGING THE CASE.
BUT I DON'T LOIK THE FACT THEY ARE LEAKIN NOW.
LEAKING.
>> DIDN'T SO HOUSE FLOOR THAT THERE IS -- RATHER THAN EVERYBODY.
>> I WILL GIVE YOU THE SERGEANT IN ARMS.
HE AS FAR AS YOUR POINT, AND I SA IT'S BAD FACTS.
I'M NOT DEFENDING HER AT A OTHER THAN TO SAY ON THE SECURITY POINT.
FOR HAVING TOO MUCH SECURITY BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTROVERSIAL I THINK IT'S WRONG.
I'M NOT WORR WHAT ALVIN POINTED OUT >> SHE'S NOT A D, SHE'S A P. AND THIS IS MONTHS AFTER THE WAR IS RAGING IN GAZA, MONTHS AFTE SHE MADE WHAT WAS REALLY BELIEVED TO BE AROUND THE WORLD, UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU ARE PRO PALESTINIAN, CALLING FOR WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAELI AID THE DAY OF THE MASSACRE, THAT PUT A VERY BRIGHT.
>> REAL QUICK.
POLICE DON'T PRO PEOPLE.
THINK THE POLICE NEED TO B LOOKED INTO, AND THEY AR AND ALL THAT.
BUT HYPOTHETICALLY NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FROM, WH PROBLEM YOU MAY HAVE WITH POLICE, THAT'S NOT WHO PROTECTS YOU WHEN YOU ARE IN WASHIN D.C. > THAT.
WENDY, JOSH HAWLEY, THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI HAS GOT OVER THE NATION.
HE YESTERDAY'S JUDICIARY MEETING WHEN THERE WERE FIVE HEADS OF SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, INCL MARK ZUCKERBERG FROM META.
HE OVERSEES FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM AND OTHERS.
AFTER GRILLING ZUCKERBER SOME OF THE PROBLEMS HAWLEY SEES WITH INSTAGRAM, IN PARTI HOW THERE WERE PREDATORS ABUSING AND THREATENING KIDS.
HE ASKED ZUCKER BER ZUCKER APOLOGIZE.
FAMILIES IN THE AUDIENCE AND DOESN'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY BUT SAYS HE'S SORRY FOR WHAT HE WENT THROUGH.
HE HAS DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLI BEHIND HIM ON THIS MATTE DID HE WIN HIS REELECTIO YESTERDAY AFTERNOON?
>> IT DID NOT HURT HIM.
I KNOW HOW SENATOR DANFORTH FEELS ABOUT SENATOR HAWLEY, BUT IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS AS I MEAN IT AS A COMPLIMENT TO SENATOR HAWLEY AND COMPLIMENT TO SENATOR DANFORTH.
HE REMINDED ME OF DANFORTH IN TERMS OF COMPOSURE.
SOCIAL MEDIA WAS QUICK TO POINT OUT, HE NEVER DEMANDED THE SAME KIND OF APOLOGIES OF THE GUN MANUFACTURERS AFTER SO MANY SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN TERM HEARINGS.
BUT HE WAS -- TO BE ABLE TO GET SOMEBODY LIKE MARK ZUCKERBERG TO PROFUSELY PRES PERSPIRE AND TURN AROUND LIKE HE WAS A PUPPET ON A STRING AND APOLOGIZE TO THESE PEOPLE, IT WAS NOT A BAD DAY FOR HIM.
APOLOGIZED.
IN.
SHOVING PEOPLE OUT THE WAY WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO RUN OUT CAPITOL FOR THE RIOT HE STARTED.
NO.
>> IT DID NOT HELP HIM WITH YOU OR PEOPLE THAT ARE VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED TOM.
THINK YOU MIGHT LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY.
WHAT POLICIES CHANGED?
NOTHING.
STORY.
REALLY?
>> AS FAR AS HIS CHANCES IN MISSOURI, HE'S ALREADY THE POLITICAL PARTNER, SOLID REPUBLICAN.
SAFE SEAT.
IT'S CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.
THE BIG UNKN WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
THE DEMOCRATS, I THINK THEY ARE BEHIND LUCAS COONS WHO IS A TERRIFIC CANDIDATE.
HAWLEY BUT IT WOULD TAKE A MAJOR PROBLEM AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET.
NONE OF THIS MOVES THE NEEDLE.
>> IT'S NOT 1975.
TODAY THE ISSUES DON'T ARE YOU IN THE NEWS A LOT?
WHETHER YOU ARE CORI BUSH OR WHETHER YOU ARE JOSH HAWLEY.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
>> EXCEPT FOR TRUMP.
>> CONGRESSMAN SANTOS WAS IN NEWS EVERY DAY.
>> HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE REELECTED.
>> DESANTIS IN THE NEWS EVERY DAY.
TO YOU GUYS IN THE MEDIA.
>> HE'S IN A COURTROOM EVERY FIVE MINUTES.
>&g RECOGNITION IN THE COUNTRY, AND HE'S KNOWN TO A LOT OF JOSH HAWLEY, FOR HIS FIST.
>> THAT IS TRUE.
IT REMAINS T HELPED HIM OR HURT HIM OVERALL.
ALL RIGHT.
WHAT'S N BILL MCCLELL ABOUT THE EARNINGS TAX, THIS TIME NOT A REPUBLICAN FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY OR ST. CHARLES COUNTY BUT A DEMOCRAT FROM THE CITY.
STEVE BUTZ, SO INTRODUCED A MAJOR WHICH WOULD EXEMPT THOSE WHO MAKE LESS THAN 150% OF THE POVERTY LEVEL OR $22,000 FOR AN INDIVIDUAL, THEY WOULD BE EXE EARNINGS TAX, THAT 1% TAX THAT RESIDENTS AND WORKERS IN THE CITY HAVE TO PAY.
THERE'S WOULD EXEMPT REMOTE WORKERS, THOSE WHO WORK FOR COMPANI ST. LOUIS BUT THEY ARE ACTUA DOING THE WORK I THEY WOULD BE EXEMPT, TOO.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS?
IS THIS CHANGING THE DYNAMIC O THE EARNINGS TAX ISSUE?
>> I'M IN FAVOR OF THE EA TAX, BUT I THINK ANY EFFORT TO GET POOR PEOPLE EXEMPTED FROM ANY TAX, I THINK THAT'S A REASONABLE POSITION.
IF YOU ARE AND THE LEGISLATURE WANTS TO EXEMPT YOU FROM THE TAX, I SAY FINE.
REMOTE WORKERS, I THINK THEY STILL OUGHT TO PAY THEM, JUS BECAUSE THE CITY -- IF THE CITY GOES COMPLETELY BROKE, IT HURTS EVERYBODY.
WHO ARE MAKI BREAK22 GRAND ABREAK.
>> AND IF YOU DO THAT, YOU DO THAT.
IF YOU TAKE 1% FROM THE PEOPLE MAKING LESS THAN $22,000 IN THE CITY, THE CITY HAS PROBABLY LOST $22,000 OR SOMETHING.
>> 2.5 MILLION.
THAT.
>> I I DON'T.
CALL IT A PAY FOR IN CONGRESS, WHICH IS HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR THIS TAX CUT.
ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO BRING UP AN ISSUE LIKE THIS, WHICH SOUNDS NICE, SHOULD ALSO BRING UP HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR I HAPPEN TO THINK -- EVENING THE CITY EARNINGS TAX IS LOGICAL AND FINE AND REASONABLE.
I DO.
I HAVE ALWAYS TH I WILL SAY THE O FELT LIKE MIGHT HAVE AN ARGUMENT, AND I DON'T HAVE THE PAY FOR FOR IT A WHO LIVE IN THE CITY WHO HAVE TO PAY WHEN THEY WORKOUTS THE CITY, WHICH I THINK THAT IS THE CASE.
THAT I THINK IS THE PROBLEM.
I DON'T LIKE PENALIZING PEOPLE IN THE CITY FOR WORKING OUTSIDE.
>> THE LAW SAYS, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THAT IF YOU WORKOUTS THE CITY, YOU CAN PRORATE YOUR PAY.
THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS SINCE COVID.
RULES.
A YEAR IN PORTUGAL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE THREE MONTHS.
IT CHANGED DURING COVID.
>> HE USED TO HELICOPTER IN, AND SAY I DO MOST OF MY WORK ON THE TELEPHONE AT HOME AND HE DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY 1% ON.
>> YOU DON'T THINK THERE ARE ACCOUNTANTS THAT FIGURED THAT OUT JUST LIKE ALL THE PI FROM THE CARDINALS.
>> I DON'T K AIN'T GOT TO PAY, THEN THE CITY.
>> IF HIS ACCOUNTANT DIDN'T TELL HIM THAT, THAT ACCOUNT NT HA MALPRACTICE.
MALPRACTICE IS, THE PEOPLE THAT YELL THE LOUDEST ABOUT THE CITY EARNINGS TAX HOW BAD IT IS ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO YELL ABOUT THE 911 SERVICE NOT WORKING AND ALL THE SERVICES, ALL THE THINGS.
>> OKAY.
EVERYBODY IS YELLING A IT'S GREAT, WHETHER IT THAT WANTS TO TEAR THIS DOWN.
NAME ME WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO.
>> YEAH.
>> $260 MILL MINUTES.
FRAUD -- WASTE AND FRAUD.
>> ACTUALLY IN THIS CITY PROBABLY COULD GET A LOT OF MONEY.
MISSOURI.
DUNNE, THE SPOKESPERSON FOR MAYOR JONES WAS RESPONDING TO THE STORY, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT PUBLIC SAFETY WOULD PROBABLY BE HARDEST HIT.
I THOUGHT I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD START THERE, PUBLIC SAFETY ALREADY HAS ITS OWN ISSUES.
>> IT'S PROBABLY WHERE BIGGEST BILL IS WOULD BE THE ONE.
>> ALVIN, SPEAKING SAFETY, WHERE DO W THE BAR PM EPISODE.
ON DECEMBER 18th, A POLICE CRUISER CRASHED INTO A BAR IN THE 1700 BLOCK OF SOUTH BROADWAY.
I THINK, WHO WAS L HANDCUFFS.
ITSELF?
>> THE NEX DECEMBER 19th, THE CITY SENT A LETTER SAYING YOU HAVE 60 DAYS TO REPAIR THIS PLACE OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE OUT OF CODE AND THE DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 19th.
AND THAT LETTER SURFACED THIS WRITE.
THE CITY DID ISSUE AN APOL SAYING WE ARE NOT GOING TO SHUT YOU DOWN OR CONDEMN YOU BE OF THE DAMAGE WE CAUSED.
>> THIS WHOLE THING IS SO NUTTY AND THE VIDEO IS WHAT THE VIDEO IS.
EVERYBODY OUT OF THEIR MIND THAT NIGHT?
2, IT'S ONE THING LIKE SOMEBOD HITS A PUBLIC BAR OR WHATEVER.
IF THE POLICE OR ANYBODY ELSE RAN TO YOUR HOUSE, YOUR FIRST RESPONSE MIGHT BE KIND OF UGLY.
BUT AS FAR AS THAT LETTER IS CONCERNED, I WILL SAY ONE TIME A LIMB FELL AND TOOK OUT THE POWERLINE IN OUR HOUSE.
KIRKWOOD CAME AND FIXED IT.
AND IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER THEY SAID YOU HAVE TO GET THIS FIXED FOR REAL OR ELSE.
I DIDN'T FEEL THREATENED BUT I'M SURE THAT LETTER WAS GENERATED IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, YOU KNOW, SAID HEY THIS HAPPENED, THUS, WE GOT THAT LETTER.
WITH THE BAR.
SOMEBODY COMES TO INSPECT AND THEY INSPECT TO SEE CAN YOU BE OPEN TOMORROW.
ONCE IT IS DETERMINED THE LETTER COMES OUT AUTOMATI WHOLE SCENE SHOULD GO AWAY.
NOBODY SHOULD BE CHARGED, LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
FIX THE HOLE.
>> T REALLY SORRY ABOUT THIS, BUT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER.
AND THE MAYOR SAID THIS IS AWFUL, BUT WE ARE STILL SENDIN HIM OUT THE LETTER.
>> I THINK THE LETTE LIKE THE LETTER -- IT ALMOST SOUNDED LIKE THE LETTER WAS SENT SO AUTOMATICALLY THAT THEY PROBABLY OVERLAP BETWEEN THE MAYOR'S STATEMENT.
>> KIRKIRKWOOD WOULD WE IMMEDIATELY GOT THIS LETTER.
>> TO ME, IT'S SO OUTRAG AND I TALKED TO KHAZAELI, AND HE HAD A BIG SETTLEMENT OVER THE KETTLING INCIDENT, GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY, AND I THINK DESERVES A LOT OF CREDIT HERE.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE' GOING TO WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE IS.
WAS BEATEN UP BY THE COPS THAT HASN'T BEEN ON THE VIDEO.
THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THEY MESSED UP.
THE FIRST ONE IS UNBEL THEY HAVE TO DROP THE CHARGES, AND HE HASN'T, AND THE GUY HAS A HEARING FRIDAY, TOMORROW.
BUT UNBELIEVABLY, IF YOU SAW T VIDEO, THE POLICE OFFICER, WHO IS NOT IDENTIFIED, JUST HAPPENED TO GO ACROSS BROADWAY, RAMMED INTO THIS BUILDING.
THE IDEA THA HIM A BREATHALYZER IS SO CRAZY.
THEN A DIFFERENT OFFICER IS THE ONE WHO IS ALLEGED TO HAVE FILED A COMPLAINT FOR BEING PUSHED IN THE CHEST.
IF VIDEO, HE'S A VERY LARGE MAN.
IF YOU SEE THE PERSON WHO IS ALLEGED TO HAVE PUSHED HIM IN THE CHEST.
>> EVERYONE BEHAVIOR BADLY, DIDN'T THEY?
>> I THINK OF ALL TH SHOULD BE GIVEN A PASS FOR BEHAVING BADLY IS THE FIRST HOUR AFTER IT CRASHES INTO YOUR BUSINESS.
SAW THE VIDEO OF THE ENCOUNTER, AND I THOUGHT THE VIDEOGRAPHER WAS WAY OUT OF LINE DROPPING F BOMBS AND YELLING AT PEOPLE DRIVING BY AND GETTING IN THE OFFICER'S BUSINESS.
AND THE RESPONDI RUDE.
THERE WHO DIDN'T HAND OVER HIS ID WAS OUT OF LINE, TOO.
>> I DON'T.
>> POLICE HIT MY DAUGHTER'S PARKED CAR.
I WAS UPSET.
AND SIT ON THE CURB.
I LATER TOLD A FRIEND I'M A MIDDLE CLASS WHITE GUY AND I'M USED TO THE POLICE.
ALL THE SUDDEN I SAW THE POLICE.
SO I CAN UNDERSTAND THE GUY GETTING UPSET.
BU YELLING.
LESSON THAT I THINK WE ALL LEARNED THIS WEEK.
I DON'T THE GUY'S SHOES.
HE LOST HIS DAUG ACCIDENT AT A BEAUTY SALON WHERE HIS DAUGHTER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING A MANICURE, WOMAN WHO BACKED INTO THE SALON AND KILLED HIS DAUGHTER CALLED HIM THE NEXT DAY TO APOLOGIZE AND HE SAID IT WAS A MISTAKE.
MISTAKES HAPPEN.
>> HE KNEW THE WOMAN.
THEY WERE FRIENDS.
SHE WAS A FR DAUGHTER.
I THOUGHT WHAT A NICE STORY.
>> AND WE DON'T KNOW THAT TO BE TRUE.
>> ON WHAT PLANET DO THE CR ASH.
>> AND IF WE CRASHED INTO A TREE WE WOULD GET IT.
IF WE CRASHED INTO A BAR.
>> IF YOU CRASHED INTO A GAY BAR, IT WOULD BE A HATE CRIME.
>> THROW IN THE FACT THE POLICE OFFICIALLY -- THE OFFICIAL POLICE SAID IT WAS A DOG, AND THEN IT WASN'T A DOG.
THEN HE WAS DISTRACTED BY HIS POLICE RADIO, WHICH IS A VERY BIZARRE CASE.
ACTIONS HAPPEN.
>> IT'S TRUE, AND I THINK ALVIN IS RIGHT.
SOMEON GOT CONNECTI TRADES.
HOURS AND DO THE GO FUND ME, AND THE POLICE, YOU HAVE GOT TO SEND OVER SOME FLOWERS AND STEAKS, WHATEVER IT IS.
>> THE CITY SHOULD BE PICKING THIS UP.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
SAY ABOUT LAST WEEK'S PROGRAM.
SHALL WE?
>> I WAS DISAPPO ISRAELI OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY MORE THAN ONE PANELIST PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES HAVE SUFFERED UNTHINKABLE TRAGEDIES PILED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER AND THE ONLY HOPE FOR PEACE IN THE FUTURE IS LOOK AT BOTH SIDES AND FIND SOME COMMON GROUND.
FROM UNIVERSITY CITY.
WHEN DO THEY BAN GASOLINE DOWNTOWN?
YEARS AGO GARAGES AND PARKING LOTS USED TO SELL GASOLINE.
NIC USED TO HAVE G THE PARKING LOT.
MANSION HOUSE USED TO HAVE A GAS STATION AS P THAT FROM BILL, OF ROCKHILL.
CRAIG WROTE I LIVED IN THE BUILDING AT 1300 CONVENTION PLAZA, WHICH IS THE SHELL STATION.
THAT STATION CON STILL HAS A GAUNTLET OF PANHANDLERS STANDING OUTSIDE.
AND REMOVING THE UP AN HANDLERS WILL BE A STEP IN THE WRITE DIRECTION.
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