IN THE WAY THAT HIS TRAINING AND THE CRIMINAL LAW REQUIRES. >> LONGTIME TELEVANGELIST AND CONSERVATIVE HOST OF THE 700 CLUB PAT ROBERTSON SURPRISED JUST ABOUT EVERYONE YESTERDAY WHEN HE SOUNDED OFF ON THE STATE OF POLICING IN AMERICA. AFTER REPORTING ON THE KILLING OF DAUNTE WRIGHT, HE DID A DEMONSTRATION ONSET, SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GUN AND A TASER. HE THEN SAID THIS. >> I AM PRO POLICE, FOLKS. I THINK WE NEED THE POLICE. WE NEED THEIR SERVICE AND THEY DO A GOOD JOB, BUT IF IF THEY DON’T STOP THIS ONSLAUGHT, THEY CANNOT DO THIS. THE POLICE IN VIRGINIA PICKED UP A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY AND BEGAN TO GIVE HIM TROUBLE AND OUR STATE POLICE ARE HIGHLY TRAINED. BUT WHY THEY DON’T STOP THIS AND THIS THING THAT’S GOING ON, DEREK CHAUVIN, THEY OUGHT TO PUT HIM UNDER THE JAIL. HE HAS CAUSED SO MUCH TROUBLE, KNEELING ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD, ON HIS NECK. IT’S JUST TERRIBLE, WHAT’S HAPPENING. AND THE POLICE, WHY DON’T THEY HOPE THEIR EYES TO WHAT THE PUBLIC RELATIONS ARE? THEY’VE GOT TO STOP THIS STUFF? >> MAYBE THEY NEED MORE TRAINING. CONSISTENT TRAINING. >> I THINK THE PROBLEM IS, WE’VE GOT TO PAY THEM MORE. WE DON’T HAVE THE FINEST IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY’RE LOW-PAID PEOPLE. THEY DON’T GET ADEQUATE. IT’S NOT A QUESTION OF TRAINING, IT’S A QUESTION OF HIRING A MORE SUPERIOR WORKFORCE AND WE AREN’T DOING IT. BUT WE NEED POLICE! WE NEED THEM. AND WE NEED TO HONOR THEM. AND I’M ALL FOR IT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE CANNOT HAVE A BUNCH OF CLOWNS RUNNING AROUND WHO ARE UNDERPAID AND WHO ARE REALLY NOT THE BEST AND BRIGHT ETC. BRIGHTEST. WE’VE GOT TO HAVE THE BEST IN THERE. >> KEISHA, FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T APPRECIATE HOW INFLUENTIAL PAT ROBERTSON, THE 700 CLUB HAS BEEN AN INSTITUTION ACROSS THIS COUNTRY FOR MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS. AND MANY PEOPLE LISTEN TO THE WORD OF PAT ROBERTSON THERE. HE WAS REFERENCING THE STOP OF LIEUTENANT NAZARIO. THAT WAS FOR WHAT THEY SAID HE DID NOT HAVE A TAG. HE DID HAVE THE TAG. AND IT ESCALATED TO THE POINT WHERE HE WAS SPRAYED AND TASED. I GUESS THE QUESTION HERE IS OF ESCALATION. WHY EXPIRED TAGS ARE LEADING TO THE DEATH OF YOUNG MEN IN THIS COUNTRY. COUNTRY. >> ULTIMATELY, HERE’S WHERE WE HAVE TO CONFRONT A PROBLEM WE’VE BEEN AVOIDING FOR A LONG TIME. AND THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BLACK RACISM WHICH AISLE IDENTIFY IN THIS MOMENT. AND THIS IS PARTLY WHY BLACK LIVES MATTER AS A MOVEMENT HAS CERTAINLY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS BEEN TRYING TO GET AMERICANS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE’S NO VALUE WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK PEOPLE’S LIVES, WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE AND WHEN POLICE HAVE ENCOUNTERS WITH FOLKS WHO LOOK LIKE ME. UNFORTUNATELY, AS WE SAW PLAY OUT IN THE PLACE OF DAUNTE WRIGHT. THERE’S NO SYMPATHY, NO UNDERSTANDING ING UNDERSTANDING. THERE IS JUST THIS PERSON ENCOUNTERING AN INDIVIDUAL AND BEING QUITE BELLIGERENT, NOT EVEN ATTEMPTING TO DE-ESCALATE. AND AN INDIVIDUAL DOING THIS WHO HAS 26 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. KIM POTTER IS THE ONLY EVIDENCE YOU NEED THAT SCALD TRAINING IS SIMPLY NOT GOING TO CUT IT. IT’S NOT EFFECTIVE AND IT’S ABOUT TIME THAT WE ACCEPT THE REALITY THAT YOU CAN TRAIN AND TRAIN AND TRAIN ALL DAY, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF SOMEONE IS GOING TO ENCOUNTER SOMEONE WHO LOOKS LIKE ME AND COME INTO THE SITUATION WITHOUT VALUEING M LIFE, GUESS WHAT, THE RESULTING WILL BE THE SAME. >> FOR YOUNGER VIEWERS, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF PAT ROBERTSON’S STATEMENT, YOU AND I AS SOUTHERNERS KNOW THE CULTURE IMPACT THAT HE HAD ACROSS THE SOUTH AND THE NATION. MY GRANDFATHER CONSTANTLY HAD THE 700 CLUB IN HIRER HOME. IN 1998, PAT ROBERTSON RAN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HE BEAT GEORGE H.W. BUSH IN IOWA, AND I BELIEVE BOB DOLE, AS WELL. AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS IT LOOKED THROUGHOUT THE ’90 AND BEYOND WAS SHAPED IN PART BY PAT BEYOND WAS SHAPED IN PART BY PAT ROBERTSON, IN PART BY PAT BU KAN BUCHANAN. EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE GROWING UP WHO MAY NOT HAVE GROWN UP WITH THE 700 CLUB PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND OF GRANDPARENTS AND NEIGHBORS’ HOME, JUST HOW IMPACT THAT STATEMENT IS COMING FROM A CULTURAL ICON LIKE PAT ROBERTSON. >> I WOULD SAY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEING THIS AND SORT OF BEING DISMISSIVE ABOUT ROBERTSON BECAUSE OF HIS LONG HISTORY OF REMARKS AND ACTIVISM, GO GRAB A BIBLE AND GOOGLE THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON. YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING RIGHT YOU WELCOME IT AND YOU WELCOME HIM. ROBERTSON WAS IN MANY WAYS KIND OF THE MAINSTREAM -- THE KIND OF OFFICIAL EMBODIMENT OF THE RIDES OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT, WHICH REALLY BEGAN -- I THINK IT BEGAN WITH THE SCHOOL PRAYER DECISION IN 1962. IT WAS SLOW IN DEVELOPING. A LOT OF WHITE EVANGELICALS STAYED OUT OF POLITICS IN THE MID-1960s, BECAUSE THEY WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS, WHICH WAS A SPACE THAT WAS CLEARLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE BLACK CHURCH. THEN JERRY FALWELL WAS HAVING BREAKFAST IN LYNCHBERG, VIRGINIA, OPENS THE LYNCHBURG NEWSPAPER AND THERE WERE TWO STORIES. ONE WAS THAT LYNDON JOHNSON HAD DIED THE DAY BEFORE AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HARRY BLACKMAN HAD RENDERED A DECISION IN ROE V. WADE. AND FALWELL COULDN’T EAT HIS BREAKFAST AND FELT THIS COME POSSESSION TO GET INTO THE PUBLIC ARENA, IT INTERSECTED WITH THE 1976 BICENTENNIAL, THIS KIND OF PATRIOTISM SURGE WITH THIS RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVE SURGE. BY 1980, IT’S A KEY PART OF THE REPUBLICAN BASE. AND THE TRIUMPH OF RONALD REAGAN OVER GERALD FORD AND GEORGE H.W. BUSH IN THAT AREA WAS A CLEAR SIGNAL. AND EIGHT YEARS LATER, PAT ROBERTSON DECIDED HE WANTED TO RUN HIMSELF. AND WON A BIG MICHIGAN STRAW POLL POLL. IT PUZZLED GEORGE H.W. BUSH. HE THOUGHT MINISTERS HAD A ROLE, BUT HE WAS PUZZLED THEY WERE RUNNING FOR OFFICE. WHAT I THINK THIS TELLS US IS THAT PEOPLE WHO USE THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR EYES AND ARE ABLE TO PUT ASIDE A PRE-EXISTING PRISM AND SEE THINGS FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT ROBERTSON SEEMS IN THIS MOMENT, AND ROBERTSON IS ALSO FULLY CAPABLE OF SAYING SOMETHING ELSE TODAY, SO THE PRODIGAL SUN HAS A VERY SHORT PRODIGAL SUN HAS A VERY SHORT EFFECT IN HIS LIFE, IS THAT THERE IS THE CAPACITY FOR US TO
