The mayor of Nashville is accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants; reaction and analysis from Judge Jeanine Pirro on ‘Fox & Friends.’
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Mayor John Cooper has
mayor, John Cooper has
betrayed our town.
He has betrayed music city.
He is a judist of this town.
He is now the deblasio of the
South,
Brian theres no question, and
there is a lot of people who
paid the price because hes
playing politics by lying about
the number of positive cases in
Nashville, basically shutting
down the honks tonks, the bars
and restaurants. That was John
Rich, of course, hes, not only a
music superstar, but he also
owns one of those great
restaurants,
Ainsley. Well, the criticism
comes as the mayor and city
officials deny accusations of
hiding the low number of
Covid 19 cases linked to the
bars in order to keep them
closed
Steve. We just saw the brand new
book of the author of the brand
new book. Dont lie to me:
Judge Jeanine Pirro.
We actually lead with the
product before we introduce
a guest
Brian. Its a new thing were
doing
Steve nice to see you
Ainsley. Is that your message to
the mayor down there dont lie
to me
yeah. Actually, I talk about
it in my book and in fact I was
just going through it as this
morning, and I said you
know theres so much of what
they what is going on in
Nashville its consistent with
what I say in my book.
Look. The american people have
known that this lockdown this
shuttering in place is
something that is being conduct
ed in many cases by small
time. Politicians who feel that
they have the now power to keep
us shuttered in place, and here
in Nashville, is a specific
example.
The evidence is there
e mails from the Mayor Office
and the City Health Department,
where they have something like
twenty two cases from bars and
restaurants and honky Tonks and
the Mayors office says no, so
they keep it on the wraps.
Why would they do it and not
share with the public isnt? It
great were beating this
coronavirus, and now we can
go back to work,
the musicians, the servers, the
bartenders, all of the
people, the security guards,
the cleanup people and the
people who want to go out.
They want to keep us locked down.
We saw it in Michigan when a
peaceful protest came out.
We want to go to work.
We know what to do
Brian yeah Pennsylvania as
well.
The mayor denies the coverup,
even though we have the e mails,
and one of them is from the
health Department, official
Leslie, Waller E mailed Benjamin
Eagles, a senior advisor to the
mayor, just to confirm that were
going to this is going to be
public. Think us is not going to
be public release right,
correct, no public consumption of
this information.
The mayor comes back and tries
to cover himself. He says, of
course, theres no effort to
withhold information.
Well, do all we can to open up
everything
think about the carnage, the
financial carnage that has
taken place,
its not just about Luke Bryan,
its not just about kid Rock and
John Rich.
The people that work there and
the managers have all been out
of work.
Well, they say correct. We
want to keep it from them. They
dont want to publicize. This is
all about the election
im telling you its about the
election.
Brian people, dont matter fog,
politics, matters,
politics matters to them,
because we want to keep people
home and afraid and use those
mail in ballots which are
just teed up for corruption and
ballot harvesting, and in the end
this is going to be fine and
Americans know what to do
clean. Your hands. Wear your mask
s. You know, dont, go into
places that you might catch the
disease from if youre, in a
high contact area. But you know
what,
if you want to protest in New
York, ten thousand at a time without
masks have at it
black lives matter wants to go
out. Deblasio says its your
moment in history.
This is all political.
We know what to do
were big boys and girls,
Steve thats, exactly right,
weve heard what the CDC says
and we know whose vulnerable and
take care of that and until the
coronavirus vaccine comes
along. We just have to do our
best.
Meanwhile judge the President
has been calling out how the
Democratic Party during the
Dnc, they did not denounce
the chaos in the streets that
led to violence and looting, and
things like that, and he was
yesterday out in the great
state of Wisconsin, where he
talked about. Some of the other
party has treated the police
President Trump, the rhetoric of
Biden and the radical left put
your law enforcement in serious
danger,
Joe Biden and the Democrats. They
condemn America and war is
always waged on our great law
enforcement.
He calls for police and calls
them all the time the enemy
he says they are the enemy and
he just thinks its terrible,
Steve Judge. We know that
particular message is potent to
his base, but what he needs to do
to win the election is convince
moderate Democrats who are
persuadable and independents
that that is a powerful message.
Is he doing a good job at that?
I think hes doing a great
job at that, because again,
Americans are not stupid.
Eighty percent of the African Americans in
the inner city want police to
come back.
They want them in their
neighborhoods.
They know theres only going to
be more problems and more crime,
and a majority of Americans want
police in their neighborhoods.
Look. This attempt to over throw
the whole criminal justice
system and to subvert the power
of law enforcement is coming
from a small minority of people
in this country who have a
really big mouth and are trying
to convince Americans that
police are serial racist murders.
Well, its just the opposite.
The police are the ones
protecting us from the serial
murders and, finally, the deadly
attacks are leading to a
shortage of police officers and
the police officers retiring,
the police officers, who are
being told to stand down and not
being deployed its making
America an even more dangerous
place.
I believe Steve that this
election will be a loud
signal to the country and to the
Democrats.
You didnt talk about black
lives matter and you talk about
black lives matter, but you
didnt talk about the chaos the
looting in the streets,
Joe Biden didnt talk about it
for one hundred days. They didnt talk
about it at the Dnc.
Everyone in America is afraid
that these people are coming to
their town, that they will be
sitting out at a restaurant.
Someone will come over and take
their drink or their food and
force them to say black lives
matter with a fist up.
This is not the America that we
bargained for.
This is not the agreement.
Government works on the consent
of the governed,
this small group of people who
are trying to convince us
through the one thousand six hundred and nineteen project that
were a bad racist nation. This
is the greatest nation on
earth
its. Why people die to come here
its why people fight when they
have to leave here.
As far as were concerned, I
think well see all of that in
November
Ainsley its interesting that
you bring that up judge, because
that brings us to our next topic.
I was outside of fox talking to
a police officer, and he said
after nine slash eleven. We were so Appreciat
Ed and now its hard to
wear the uniform, because we
dont want someone to come up
and shoot us while were sitting
in our car
scary times. You know
so there was go ahead.
Well, it should be a hate crime
to attack a police officer.
If a police officer were not in
that uniform, he or she would
not be shot like the deputies.
If they werent in a squad car,
they wouldnt have been shot
its time to increase penalties
for anyone who assaults a police
officer
Ainsley. The president agrees
with you. He said that in his
rally this week
is there a war on police in
America today?
That was the question that Rasmu
Ssen asked. Almost sixty percent
said. Yes, twenty nine percent said no twelve percent
undecided
your thoughts.
Well, my thoughts are that
the people who say no are many
of them believe that its a
justified assault,
justified attacks,
everything they are thinking is
backwards, just like Milwaukee
Milwaukee voted to defund the
police, and now that crime is
up duh, they call the police
and then say: why is crime up
I mean: are these people stupid
too?
Do they not understand that blue
line is one line between
civility and chaos and we cannot
survive as a country without
that blue line?
We have to support the police,
support the military and
understand that this is a
country thats, a democracy and
a few people who dont like it,
who have different ideas, cant,
take to the streets and decide
to overthrow things like statues,
assault and kill, police
officers and thats got to be
ended.
No more
Americans will not tolerate it.
Democrats alike.
Brian, coming up on your show,
Shawn Hannity is working a
weekend. I dont to how much you
had to pay him. Lara Trump is
trying to be the best in law in
the Trump family and Peter
Navarro. There is an ongoing
competition. No one wants to talk
about, and Sarah Sanders has a
book out and Congressman Matt G
Oetz
its going to be fun.
Well, thanks,
you hit it all thanks
Steve, and when does your book
come out
Brian its out?
It comes out on Tuesday, but
you can pre order it now on
Amazon.
Dont lie to me. If you like
the way I sound when you read my
book, youll hear me
Brian or get the book on tape.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-18.