MILLION, A TEEN JUST STARTING TO HEAL AS THE CRIMINAL CASE MOVES FORWARD. >> MAGGIE VESPA AND KATIE BECK WITH THOSE TWO REPORTS RALPH YARL, KAYLIN GILLIS, PAYTON WASHINGTON IN TEXAS WHAT'S THE THREAD BETWEEN THOSE STORIES? >> I WAS SO STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THESE DIFFERENT PLACES, DIFFERENT HISTORIES, DIFFERENT SITUATIONS TWO YOUNG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES AND YET THE BEATS OF THE STORY WERE THE SAME. YOU APPROACH SOMEONE'S HOUSE AND YOU ARE SHOT AND IN ONE CASE KILLED FOR DRIVING UP A DRIVEWAY, KNOCKING ON A DOOR, THESE BASIC THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO IN A FREE SOCIETY WHAT REALLY STRUCK ME WAS SOMETHING THAT A FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME A WHILE AGO. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT INDIA AND THE UNITED STATES. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE HALLMARK OF MODERN SOCIETIES IS ANONYMOUS TRUST. YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW PEOPLE TO TRANSACT YOU WRITE CHECKS TO THEM I'VE HIRED BABYSITTERS FROM A WEBSITE. FOR MANY CULTURES IN THE WORLD, ALL OF OUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOCKED AT THE IDEA OF BRINGING IN A BABYSITTER THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. WE HAVE BUILT SOCIETIES ON THE NOTION OF ANONYMOUS TRUST. IT'S ALLOWED SO MUCH OF MODERN LI LIFE IT OCCURRED TO ME WE'RE NOT JUST DIVIDING AS A COUNTRY. WE ARE DE-DEVELOPING WE ARE MOVING BACKWARDS WITH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, THEIR BRAINS NOW ADDLED BY THIS PROPAGANDA FEELING THAT YOU ARE IN DANGER, EVERYONE IS A THREAT WE'RE GOING BACK TO THIS "GAME OF THRONES" WORLD WHERE A LOT OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS FEEL LIKE THEY LIVE IN A CASTLE AND IF ANYONE CROSSES YOUR MOAT THEY NEED TO BE MURDERED BECAUSE THEY ARE COMING TO MURDER YOU IT IS A NATIONAL BRAIN DAMAGE AND IT IS DEADLY AND IT IS ERODING THE FOUNDATION OF ACTUALLY WHAT MAKES THIS A FUNCTIONAL, FREE, MODERN SO SOCIETY. >> IT IS DEADLY AND IT IS BY DESIGN I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AFTER WACO, AFTER RUBY RIDGE, EVEN OKLAHOMA CITY. I REMEMBER OLDER REPUBLICANS, WELL, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER LONG TIME CONSERVATIVES QUITTING THE NRA BECAUSE THEIR RHETORIC TURNED SO RADICAL TALKING ABOUT FEDERAL AGENTS, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, THE NRA, CALLING THEM JACK BOOTED THUGS FOR FUND-RAISING PURPOSES BECAUSE THEY REALIZED THEY COULD FUND RAISE AND MAKE MORE MONEY IF THEY COULD PLANT IN THE MINDS OF AMERICANS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS COMING TO GET YOU. I HEARD IT WHEN I WAS KNOCKING ON DOORS WHEN I WAS RUNNING, YOU WOULD HEAR THAT SORT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT MILITIAS AND THE BLACK HELICOPTERS. WE ALL LAUGHED THAT OFF, BUT THE NRA KEPT PICKING AT THE SCAB YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR WHEN I TALK ABOUT THIS HYPER INDIVIDUALISM THAT HAS TAKEN SHAPE IN AMERICA AND THAT LACK OF TRUST, THAT LACK OF COMMUNITY THAT BONDS SOCIETIES TOGETHER, THIS DIDN'T JUST HAPPEN BECAUSE. THIS HAPPENED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF A STRATEGY BY GROUPS LIKE THE NRA AND PEOPLE LIKE GLENN BECK AND OTHERS THAT WOULD GET ON TELEVISION AND TELL PEOPLE EVERY DAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS COMING TO GET YOU. THAT MORPHED INTO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS COMING TO GET YOU. WE TALK ABOUT FOX NEWS THEY HAVE TOLD THEIR VIEWERS OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS THAT PROUD MARINES AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMY ARE COMING TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE SAME HELICOPTERS THEY USED IN AFGHANISTAN TO KILL PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP, THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WERE COMING TO KICK DOWN THEIR DOORS FROM THE SAME AGENCIES THAT DONALD TRUMP SAYS WE HAVE TO DEFUND THEM AND THAT THEY'RE COMING TO KILL THEM. YOU HAVE REPUBLICAN SENATORS NOW PICKING UP ON THIS THE OLDEST REPUBLICAN SENATORS SAYING IRS AGENTS ARE COMING TO IOWA AND THEY'RE GOING TO KICK IN THEIR DOORS AND KILL MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS. THIS HAS BEEN A DELIBERATE PLAN FOR 25 YEARS AND WE ASK WHY ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING? WELL, EVERYBODY'S BRANDISHING GUNS, EVERYBODY'S SHOOTING AT EVERYBODY. WE KNOW THE ANSWER IT IS NOT BY ACCIDENT AND IT IS A CHOICE IT'S WHAT I KEEP TELLING OUR VIEWERS. THIS IS A CHOICE THAT PEOPLE ARE MAKING >> IT IS A CHOICE. IT IS A PROJECT. I THINK, FRANKLY, SOME OF THE LANGUAGE WE WERE USING AFTER 9/11 TO DESCRIBE RADICALIZATION AROUND THE WORLD APPLIES VERY MUCH HERE AT HOME. THERE HAS BEEN A PROJECT, A FUNNEL OF RADICALIZATION FOR LOTS OF THESE PEOPLE THE END GOAL IS TO SELL GUNS JUST TO MAKE IT PERSONAL FOR A SECOND, MY PARENTS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE LATE '70s FROM INDIA. THEY MOVED TO SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO MANY THINGS WERE CULTURE SHOCK, BUT ONE OF THEM WAS LIKE PEOPLE SAID HI TO YOU ON THE STREET IN INDIA NO ONE SAYS HI TO YOU ON THE STREET IF THEY DON'T KNOW YOU. WHAT THESE FOLKS AT FOX NEWS AND ELSEWHERE ARE DOING AND THE NRA, NOT JUST TRYING TO SELL GUNS OR ADS ON THEIR NETWORKS, BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO DESTROY SOME OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT AMERICAN CULTURE. THE THING THAT MOST STRIKES IMMIGRANTS THAT COME TO THIS
