Build the Wall GoFundMe Shut down? Alex Jones Sandy Hook lawsuit update, and more! — Transcript
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- 0:00and we're back mike cernan cernovich.com
- 0:04some controversy today build the wall
- 0:07controversy
- 0:08we're gonna figure it out we're gonna
- 0:11figure out what is going
- 0:12on here so let's catch up
- 0:16we all have seen the build the wall
- 0:19gofundme campaign right it raised
- 0:21oh i believe last we knew it was 20
- 0:25million dollars
- 0:30excuse me among 33 000
- 0:34330 000 viewers big project
- 0:38super big project super big project
- 0:44and now nobody knows now nobody knows
- 0:48hold on a sec people i'm having a little
- 0:51low glitch dude a little glitch
- 1:03here we go so what do you think what's
- 1:06going on
- 1:10let's try to figure out what's going on
- 1:11people
- 1:17according to gofundme colfage has
- 1:19updated the campaign
- 1:20to build the wall himself he's formed a
- 1:22non-profit to move the money
- 1:24and he has a team
- 1:30new info here it is a ride so the trump
- 1:33wall
- 1:35is being moved from gofundme they raised
- 1:3820 million dollars is moved from
- 1:40gofundme so let's read the update
- 1:42eight days before christmas i started a
- 1:45gofundme
- 1:50campaign because i was tired of watching
- 1:51the us government's inability to secure
- 1:53our border
- 1:54like most americans i see the poorest
- 1:56southern border as a national
- 1:57security threat the plan of action was
- 1:58simple and straightforward to raise
- 2:00money to construct a wall on our
- 2:02southern
- 2:02border
- 2:06what do you guys think my hair looks
- 2:08better you like my hair today
- 2:09thank you i'm glad you uh
- 2:13i'm glad you like my hair today i like
- 2:15my hair today too
- 2:18it's important good hair good hair is
- 2:20important to me i like having i like
- 2:22having my good hair
- 2:27i immediately sought out and consulted
- 2:28with some of our country's leading
- 2:30professionals blah blah blah the federal
- 2:32government won't be able to accept the
- 2:33donations anytime
- 2:35soon we are better equipped than our
- 2:37government to use
- 2:38the donated funds and it sounds like
- 2:41they want to
- 2:42build their own wall
- 2:45here here's who they have on their board
- 2:47they have eric prince
- 2:49chris korbach
- 2:52sheriff clark sarah carter
- 2:56tom tancredo i don't know who he is
- 2:59angel dad steve ronabek
- 3:00media consultant jennifer lawrence and
- 3:02many others
- 3:04so they are taking action they want
- 3:05sounds like they want to build their own
- 3:06wall all right i'm just reading this in
- 3:08real time by the way
- 3:09so if you're wondering what i'm doing
- 3:11i'm reading it in real time
- 3:12so let i think i have it figured out by
- 3:14the way that's what i do i read things
- 3:15in real time so i think i haven't
- 3:16figured out
- 3:17a gofundme was started to raise a
- 3:19billion dollars to the wall as we all
- 3:21know
- 3:22it was a blockbuster viral success they
- 3:24raised
- 3:2520 million dollars 330 000 donors
- 3:30now because they believe they can't give
- 3:32the government
- 3:34the money they're now starting their own
- 3:36501 c
- 3:374 which is uh it's not a non-profit per
- 3:40se
- 3:41there's a special term for first that
- 3:43slips in my mind right now
- 3:44they're allowed to do issue advocacy
- 3:47but not political advocacy so you can
- 3:50argue for a wall but you can't
- 3:52argue or more than 50 percent of your
- 3:54business can't be to argue for
- 3:56campaigns they're starting a c4
- 4:01but now gofundme is saying now the
- 4:04gofundme is saying there's a problem
- 4:07now gofundme is saying there's a problem
- 4:09and they're saying that
- 4:11he didn't keep his promises they're
- 4:13going to refund all the money
- 4:15so the question is where is the money
- 4:17going to go now that
- 4:19he is not
- 4:22then not the go phone is shut down so
- 4:24now now we're in the controversial
- 4:26roller
- 4:26and we need to interview this guy we
- 4:28need to interview
- 4:29we need to interview brian and find out
- 4:31what exactly is going on
- 4:33he's an honorable guy but it seems to me
- 4:35i don't think there's a
- 4:37a big issue but
- 4:40we need to you know we need to interview
- 4:41them we definitely
- 4:43we definitely need to interview them so
- 4:47gofundme is saying that
- 4:51so it's confusing if a donor does not
- 4:53want a refund they must proactively
- 4:54elect to redirect the door or
- 4:56donation that organizes okay gofundme is
- 4:58going to refund everybody's money
- 5:00unless the person says give it to the
- 5:02new organization
- 5:03the new organization has sheriff clarke
- 5:06sarah carter
- 5:07eric prince chris korbach and a bunch of
- 5:09other people on it
- 5:11makes total sense now actually makes
- 5:13total sense what is going on
- 5:14so the gofundme is more or less over
- 5:18for all practical purposes the gofundme
- 5:20is over
- 5:22but they're going to transfer it to a
- 5:24new organization
- 5:26oh now they're saying they're
- 5:27automatically refunding the 20 minutes
- 5:28so we're we're in confusion people
- 5:32we're in confusion people all right we
- 5:34need to interview brian
- 5:36um and find out what the heck is going
- 5:37on so a few questions about the gofundme
- 5:40thing
- 5:41and we need that we need to we need to
- 5:43interview brian and we just we need to
- 5:44find out what is what is going on here
- 5:46so according to brian
- 5:48according to brian the money will
- 5:52transfer to the new organization within
- 5:5490 days
- 5:55but now they're saying
- 5:58that they're going to automatically
- 5:59refund the money so nobody knows man
- 6:04so nobody nobody knows what is going on
- 6:07so brian is saying the money will go
- 6:10forward to
- 6:12somewhere else but gofundme is saying
- 6:15that they're just going to refund
- 6:16the money but they're also saying if the
- 6:18donor does not want to refund the pro
- 6:19they must proactively elect to redirect
- 6:21the donation of that organization this
- 6:23is confusing people
- 6:25if you're if you're confused if you're
- 6:28confused
- 6:29you're no different than me because i'm
- 6:31confused
- 6:32i don't know i don't know what the heck
- 6:34is happening um
- 6:37i don't i don't know what that is
- 6:38happening so we're gonna have to
- 6:39interview brian maybe we can get an
- 6:40interview here with brian
- 6:44and find out um and find out what is
- 6:47what is going on yeah so we need to find
- 6:49out what is going on from
- 6:50brian because we um you know we don't
- 6:54know that's fine i'm sure
- 6:55i'm sure we'll figure it out all right
- 6:58i'm getting
- 6:59um one person texts me all funds
- 7:02contributes
- 7:02from this point on does not need to opt
- 7:06in but you do need to opt in okay i
- 7:09think we have it figured out
- 7:11okay a source tells me
- 7:17previous donors to the build the wall
- 7:20go fund me must
- 7:24opt in to have their contribution
- 7:28transfer transfer
- 7:32to brian
- 7:36colfage's new organization
- 7:41which has eric prince
- 7:45chris korbach
- 7:49and sarah carter among
- 7:52others on the board
- 7:55all right so i think we're getting
- 7:57answers this is developing a story
- 8:00and by the way this really does show why
- 8:03if you're in brian needs to get on you
- 8:06know
- 8:07brian needs to get on and find out what
- 8:10exactly
- 8:11the heck is going on
- 8:15because people are gonna
- 8:18you know start narrative form right now
- 8:20brian is what i call the narrative
- 8:22formation
- 8:23aspect of the story
- 8:27narratives are forming people are going
- 8:29to call it a scam people are going to
- 8:30call this people are going to call it
- 8:32that
- 8:32and you have to get online right away
- 8:35before this narrative forms
- 8:36once the narrative forms you can't you
- 8:39you can't break free from it
- 8:40i call it it's a lot like if somebody
- 8:42throws a bunch of cement on you
- 8:44if you're thrown into a cement pile
- 8:47you got to keep moving you got to shake
- 8:48off the cement and if you shake it off
- 8:51you'll be fine but the minute you let it
- 8:52solidify that's it
- 8:54that's how media narratives work
- 8:57this right now there's a media narrative
- 8:59forming that there's something shitty
- 9:01going on here that there's something
- 9:03untoward going on here that narrative is
- 9:05forming in real time
- 9:06and brian has to get ahead of all of
- 9:10this
- 9:13all of oh he has to get ahead of this
- 9:15man
- 9:17that that there's just no other way to
- 9:19put it brian has to get ahead of this
- 9:20right now
- 9:22get on social media get on the airwaves
- 9:25get
- 9:25somewhere get somewhere because this is
- 9:29quite confusing i'm confused and i'm a
- 9:31pretty
- 9:32sharp guy i'm not the
- 9:37i'm not the smartest i'm definitely not
- 9:39the smartest guy i'm a pretty pretty
- 9:40sharp guy
- 9:41um i'm definitely pretty hold on we're
- 9:43going to go live here on
- 9:45let me see if i can get live here on
- 9:49on periscope we're having some issues
- 9:50here with uh as always
- 9:53there's always something
- 9:56welcome periscope we're back mike
- 9:58cernovich cer in ovich we're providing
- 10:00an update on
- 10:01the build the wall fund gofundme there's
- 10:03a big media narrative forming
- 10:05not a lot of people know what's going on
- 10:07i'm tapping into my source network to
- 10:08try to figure out
- 10:10what is happening i think i have it
- 10:11figured out now
- 10:14there was a gofundme the gofundme raised
- 10:16over 20 million dollars
- 10:17330 000 backers and it was a major major
- 10:21blockbuster viral success
- 10:23there was some discussion in congress
- 10:26about
- 10:26getting the funds transferred over
- 10:30and then it looks like that isn't going
- 10:31to happen or can't happen so what brian
- 10:34has done
- 10:35according to the most recent press
- 10:37release is he started a c4
- 10:40and he has chris korbach angel mom
- 10:43marianne mendoza
- 10:45sarah carter eric prince and a number of
- 10:47other people on the board
- 10:49they want to take the money and build
- 10:50the wall privately they want to
- 10:52they want to provide a private sector
- 10:56solution to the wall so it seems
- 10:59right so a lot of people are going what
- 11:01i don't know man
- 11:02i'm figuring out myself too in real time
- 11:04and brian
- 11:05definitely needs to get maybe we'll try
- 11:08to interview him later today he
- 11:10definitely needs to get on
- 11:11the pipeline and figure it out so it
- 11:13seems like this is going to happen where
- 11:14what's going to happen to 20 million
- 11:17this is what i've concluded
- 11:18the 20 million dollars will be refunded
- 11:21to donors
- 11:22unless they affirmatively say i want the
- 11:25money to go
- 11:26to the new organization if they say
- 11:29affirmatively i want the money to go the
- 11:31new organization
- 11:33then the money will go the new
- 11:34organization if they say
- 11:37nothing then they'll be refunded
- 11:40and then this new organization will
- 11:42start raising funds
- 11:43with this new board
- 11:46i got an email says mike brian has kept
- 11:49donors updated
- 11:50we received an email to make a choice
- 11:52another p so
- 11:53people here have backed okay so i will
- 11:55be reading your comments in real time
- 11:57have you backed the build-a-wall thing
- 11:59and if so what are you hearing
- 12:01from people because i personally did not
- 12:03back it because that would be
- 12:05uh journalistic ethics violation for me
- 12:07to to financially support something that
- 12:09i'm
- 12:10reporting on so what what's happening is
- 12:14it seems like donors
- 12:15know what is going on but on the other
- 12:18hand
- 12:20there's a media narrative forming that
- 12:22cast brian in a bad
- 12:24light so what what i'm interested in
- 12:26doing and what interests me
- 12:28yeah somebody says is it still up you're
- 12:29so confused yes confusing there's
- 12:32right now there's chaos and during chaos
- 12:35narratives form
- 12:36and that is why we need to get brian on
- 12:39the show or we need to interview brian
- 12:41and find out what exactly is going on
- 12:44here
- 12:45how's it going to work what is the
- 12:47logistics of it
- 12:49do people who backed it do they get
- 12:51their money back my understanding is
- 12:53that you you're going to be refunded
- 12:54unless you say i want my money to go in
- 12:55the new organization
- 12:56logistically i don't know how gofundme
- 12:58is going to handle 330 000 people
- 13:02right um so if you have if you where are
- 13:06you going to email gofundme will it be a
- 13:07checkbox
- 13:09a click box or something like that um i
- 13:12don't know
- 13:13but that is hey babe come on in we're
- 13:16streaming
- 13:18what i don't know
- 13:22um i can do it like five what what
- 13:26why oh cause you're getting it cleaned
- 13:27or whatever how much is it heavy stuff
- 13:31it's not heavy you're just being lazy
- 13:34i'm gonna have a baby in like ten days
- 13:36all right okay i'll
- 13:38i'll wrap this up in a couple minutes no
- 13:39no i don't want you straining yourself
- 13:41all right i'm gonna wrap this up real
- 13:42quick i gotta help my wife
- 13:44empty out her car she's gonna take it to
- 13:46get it cleaned and detailed
- 13:49and everything else all right i gotta
- 13:51get going guys
- 13:52we'll we will part two of this
- 13:56part two of this we will go into
- 13:59more of what is going on maybe we will
- 14:02interview
- 14:03brian and find out what is going on and
- 14:05i also want to talk about
- 14:07when we come back think of this as like
- 14:09a commercial break right
- 14:10all you people listen to talk radio or
- 14:12you watch tv and
- 14:14everything else like that so if you
- 14:16you're used to commercial breaks you
- 14:17just don't actually get commercial
- 14:19breaks with me
- 14:20so when we come back i want to
- 14:24find out and talk more about the lawsuit
- 14:27the sandy hook lawsuit
- 14:29against alex jones and what that means
- 14:33and legally the implications of it and
- 14:37everything like that so we're going to
- 14:38come back we're going to talk more
- 14:39about the gofundme law pro or the
- 14:41gofundme wall project
- 14:43and we're also going to talk about the
- 14:45sandy hook lawsuit
- 14:47go have a i don't know go make yourself
- 14:49some coffee i'm going to go actually
- 14:50make myself a coffee
- 14:51i'll talk to you in 5-10 minutes
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