WEBVTT 00:00.223 --> 00:07.230 [HEATED DISCUSSION] 00:17.941 --> 00:19.008 >> "DONNYBROOK" IS MADE POSSIBLE 00:19.142 --> 00:21.778 THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF 00:21.911 --> 00:22.078 KETC. 00:26.312 --> 00:27.346 >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, 00:27.479 --> 00:29.415 IT'S COLD OUTSIDE BUT, 00:29.548 --> 00:31.517 HOPEFULLY, WE'LL WARM YOU UP 00:31.650 --> 00:33.886 WITH OUR HOT TOPICS AND WARM 00:34.019 --> 00:34.520 PERSONALITIES. 00:34.653 --> 00:35.754 THANKS TO EVERYONE AT THE 00:35.888 --> 00:37.356 GATESWORTH FOR MAKING THIS 00:37.489 --> 00:38.958 PROGRAM POSSIBLE AS YOU DO WEEK 00:39.091 --> 00:40.159 IN AND WEEK OUT. 00:40.292 --> 00:41.961 A BIG SHOUT-OUT. 00:42.127 --> 00:44.029 LET'S MEET THE PANELISTS JOINING 00:44.163 --> 00:45.331 US FOR THE PROGRAM TONIGHT. 00:45.464 --> 00:48.233 STARTING WITH THE MEDIA VETERAN 00:48.367 --> 00:51.303 HERSELF, WENDY WEISE. 00:51.437 --> 00:57.977 FROM THE POST-DISPATCH AND STL 00:58.110 --> 01:00.779 STLMAG.COM BILL McCLELLAN, AND 01:00.913 --> 01:03.315 FROM ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE RAY 01:03.449 --> 01:06.085 HARTMANN AND FROM STLMAG.COM AND 01:06.218 --> 01:07.086 BEYOND, ALVIN REID. 01:07.219 --> 01:10.022 I WANT TO ASK YOU FIRST OF ALL, 01:10.155 --> 01:12.291 WELCOME BACK AFTER A WEEK'S AND 01:12.424 --> 01:13.058 SENSE. 01:13.225 --> 01:16.328 CHANGES IN THE RESTAURANT SCENE 01:16.462 --> 01:19.298 IN DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS WITH MIKE 01:19.431 --> 01:20.966 SHANNON'S HAVING BEEN IN 01:21.100 --> 01:23.836 DOWNTOWN FOR 30 OR SOME YEARS 01:24.003 --> 01:25.604 ANNOUNCING ITS GOING TO SHUTTER 01:25.738 --> 01:28.874 ITS DOORS AND THE SAME IS TRUE 01:29.008 --> 01:31.310 FOR HARRY'S, BEEN AROUND FOR 25 01:31.443 --> 01:31.744 YEARS. 01:31.877 --> 01:33.679 A LOT OF YOU THINKING IT'S 01:33.846 --> 01:37.316 BECAUSE OF BALLPARK VILLAGE. 01:37.549 --> 01:38.884 >> I GIVE MAYOR SLAY A LOT OF 01:39.018 --> 01:41.920 CREDIT. 01:42.087 --> 01:45.624 TALKING ABOUT TAX SUBSIDIES AND 01:45.758 --> 01:47.660 THOUGHT IT COULD TRANSFORM 01:47.793 --> 01:48.060 DOWNTOWN. 01:48.193 --> 01:49.695 I'M AFRAID IT HAS. 01:49.828 --> 01:50.129 [LAUGHTER] 01:50.262 --> 01:53.766 THE BALLPARK ISN'T THE ONLY 01:53.899 --> 02:01.440 THING, CRIME DOWNTOWN, AND I 02:01.573 --> 02:04.677 THINK DOLLARS SHANNON AND DAN 02:04.810 --> 02:12.718 HARRY, BOTH FELT THAT. 02:12.985 --> 02:16.088 >> MILE 277, LIKE SUNSET HILL, 02:16.255 --> 02:17.890 THEY'RE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, 02:18.023 --> 02:19.558 SAYING THE IMPACT, I THOUGHT 02:19.692 --> 02:20.125 THAT WAS -- 02:20.325 --> 02:25.130 >> I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE -- 02:25.297 --> 02:26.899 BUT I WILL SAY THAT PLACES THAT 02:27.066 --> 02:28.801 HAVE BEEN THERE FOR LITERALLY 02:28.934 --> 02:30.869 DECADES AND WITHIN TWO YEARS OF 02:31.003 --> 02:32.538 BALLPARK VILLAGE OPENING THEY'RE 02:32.671 --> 02:34.373 SHUTTERING THE PLACES. 02:34.506 --> 02:35.441 THERE'S GOT TO BE A CONNECTION 02:35.574 --> 02:39.478 BETWEEN THE TWO. 02:39.645 --> 02:44.116 WHEN -- WHAT I FIND DISCONSUMER 02:44.249 --> 02:45.284 ALERTING, IF IT'S THE CARDINALS 02:45.451 --> 02:48.287 THAT ARE REMOTELY IN ANY KIND OF 02:48.420 --> 02:51.190 WAY INVOLVED IN SOMETHING TO BE 02:51.323 --> 02:53.158 LOOKED UPON NEGATIVELY, 02:53.292 --> 02:55.094 INSTANTLY, OH, NO, IT'S NOT 02:55.227 --> 02:56.562 BALLPARK VILLAGE, IT'S THIS AND 02:56.729 --> 02:58.397 THAT, AND CRIME IS ONE OF THOSE 02:58.597 --> 02:59.665 THINGS -- IT'S PART OF IT BUT 02:59.798 --> 03:02.968 THE WHOLE THING -- NO, THAT -- 03:03.102 --> 03:04.269 NO, THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS. 03:04.403 --> 03:06.705 I'M NOT BUYING THAT. 03:06.905 --> 03:09.074 >> I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT 03:09.208 --> 03:13.479 THIS, MIKE SHANNON'S AND HIS 03:13.612 --> 03:14.313 RESTAURANT, WONDERFUL 03:14.480 --> 03:15.948 INSTITUTION, INDEPENDENT OF ONE 03:16.081 --> 03:18.050 ANOTHER, MIKE SHANNON ANNOUNCED 03:18.183 --> 03:19.718 HE'S CUTTING DOWN AND THEN THE 03:19.852 --> 03:21.887 RESTAURANT, WHICH IS A FINE 03:22.020 --> 03:24.156 RESTAURANT AND HARRY'S, ALSO AN 03:24.289 --> 03:26.291 INSTITUTION AND A GREAT RUN, YOU 03:26.425 --> 03:28.694 HAVE TO REMEMBER ONE THING -- 03:28.861 --> 03:30.562 RESTAURANTS GENERALLY AND BARS 03:30.696 --> 03:31.964 WEREN'T BUILT TO LAST FOREVER. 03:32.097 --> 03:34.533 IF YOU START A RESTAURANT, IT'S 03:34.666 --> 03:36.969 GOT LESS THAN A LIFE 03:37.102 --> 03:38.971 EXPECTANCY -- AND 25 YEARS, 23 03:39.104 --> 03:41.774 FOR HARRY'S IT WAS A GREAT RUN 03:41.907 --> 03:44.610 WITH GREAT OWNERSHIP AND 03:44.743 --> 03:46.245 MANAGEMENT, THE BALLPARK 03:46.378 --> 03:48.080 VILLAGE, I WAS AGAINST THE 03:48.213 --> 03:53.018 SUBSIDY, BUT IT'S DANGEROUS TO 03:53.152 --> 03:54.119 START TRYING TO SATELLITE ANY 03:54.253 --> 03:55.020 PARTICULAR RESTAURANT. 03:55.154 --> 03:59.424 LIKE YOU SAY, RICKWOOD. 03:59.625 --> 04:04.229 >> I THINK THERE ARE A LOT -- 04:04.363 --> 04:04.696 KIRKWOOD. 04:04.963 --> 04:05.697 >> TALKING ABOUT CRIME BEING ONE 04:05.831 --> 04:09.134 OF THE FACTORS, YES, CRIME BEING 04:09.268 --> 04:10.869 A FACTOR BUT IT'S HARD REALLY TO 04:11.003 --> 04:13.071 BE CLEAR, TO SAY, WELL, THE 04:13.205 --> 04:16.208 RESTAURANT DIED BECAUSE OF 04:16.341 --> 04:18.777 BALLPARK VILLAGE. 04:19.011 --> 04:19.978 >> PLACES GENERALLY DO WELL FOR 04:20.112 --> 04:21.580 A BALLGAME. 04:21.713 --> 04:23.982 THE CARDINALS HAVE 81 GAMES A 04:24.116 --> 04:26.285 YEAR AND THAT'S A BIG BOOST TO 04:26.451 --> 04:27.486 LOCAL BUSINESSES AND WHEN YOU 04:27.619 --> 04:33.091 HAVE A PLACE THAT GOES WITH 04:33.258 --> 04:37.396 THAT, TAKES AWAY FROM A 04:37.596 --> 04:40.399 SHANNON'S OR HARRY'S -- 04:40.599 --> 04:42.267 >> I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY A 04:42.401 --> 04:45.771 VARIETY OF REASONS WHY SHANNON'S 04:45.904 --> 04:48.674 IS CLOSING AND HIS DAUGHTER, 04:48.807 --> 04:51.109 PAT, HIGHLY THOUGHT OF IN THE 04:51.243 --> 04:52.311 COMMUNITY, SHE SAID THEY'RE 04:52.444 --> 04:54.613 GOING AFTER THEIR -- THEIR -- 04:54.746 --> 04:56.782 THE FRANCHISE IN TERMS OF THE 04:56.915 --> 04:58.217 SHANNON'S GRILL AND AS A THAT 04:58.350 --> 04:59.651 KIND OF THING BUT FOR 30 YEARS, 04:59.785 --> 05:01.887 TO HAVE A RESTAURANT 30 YEARS IN 05:02.020 --> 05:03.922 A DOWNTOWN AREA, THAT'S 05:04.056 --> 05:04.489 REMARKABLE. 05:04.623 --> 05:07.492 AND HE WAS -- I MEAN, IT WAS ALL 05:07.626 --> 05:08.727 ABOUT DOING THE BROADCAST AFTER 05:08.894 --> 05:10.162 THE GAME FOR HIM. 05:10.295 --> 05:11.730 SO HE'S SLOWING DOWN A LITTLE 05:11.864 --> 05:12.931 BIT AND EARNED THE REST. 05:13.131 --> 05:14.466 >> I THINK SO FOR SHUFFLE I 05:14.600 --> 05:18.103 AGREE WITH RAY, AT THE RISK OF 05:18.237 --> 05:19.471 BORING EVERYBODY BECAUSE WE'RE 05:19.605 --> 05:21.173 AGREEING, YOU KNOW, COMPETITION 05:21.306 --> 05:24.943 IS GOOD, I JUST DON'T THINK THE 05:25.077 --> 05:26.378 COMPETITION SHOULD BE SUBSIDIZED 05:26.511 --> 05:28.280 AND WE DO THAT TOO MUCH. 05:28.447 --> 05:30.849 THERE WAS TAX INCREMENT 05:31.016 --> 05:33.018 FINANCING FOR BALLPARK VILLAGE 05:33.151 --> 05:34.987 AND WE CAN AGREE IT WASN'T 05:35.153 --> 05:35.487 NECESSARY. 05:35.687 --> 05:36.388 >> THAT'S CLEAR. 05:36.521 --> 05:41.460 YOU CAN'T GO IN AND -- BY THE 05:41.627 --> 05:43.662 WAY, IF YOU WANT TO BE MAD, I 05:43.829 --> 05:44.796 DON'T THINK RIGHT NOW, ANYONE 05:44.930 --> 05:47.799 HAS A REAL APPETITE IN THIS TOWN 05:47.933 --> 05:50.369 TO BE BEATEN UP, THE ST. LOUIS 05:50.502 --> 05:52.004 CARDINALS OR BLUES RIGHT NOW. 05:52.137 --> 05:54.439 SO RIGHT NOW, I DON'T THINK -- 05:54.573 --> 05:58.043 IF YOU WANT TO BE DOWN ON 05:58.210 --> 05:59.378 BALLPARK VILLAGE -- 05:59.711 --> 06:00.245 >> THERE ARE RESTAURANTS IN 06:00.379 --> 06:00.979 CLAYTON THAT CLOSED. 06:01.113 --> 06:03.015 LIKE ONE OF OUR FAVORITE, 06:03.148 --> 06:05.284 JIMMY'S CLOSED ON JANUARY 4th. 06:05.450 --> 06:05.717 SO -- 06:05.918 --> 06:06.685 >> THEY DO THAT. 06:06.818 --> 06:07.686 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 06:07.886 --> 06:08.854 >> THEY COME AND GO, THAT'S WHAT 06:08.987 --> 06:14.893 THEY DO. 06:15.127 --> 06:16.561 >> THAT'S THE OTHER THING, 06:16.695 --> 06:18.230 BALLPARK VILLAGE, AT LEAST I WAS 06:18.363 --> 06:19.765 TOLD, CAME TO THE LOCAL 06:19.898 --> 06:22.334 OPERATORS TO GET THEM TO TAKE 06:22.467 --> 06:25.570 SOME OF THESE ENORMOUS -- IT WAS 06:25.704 --> 06:27.306 LIKE 35 BUCKS A FOOT AND A LOT 06:27.439 --> 06:29.574 OF TIMES PEOPLE WERE UPSET, THEY 06:29.708 --> 06:31.944 HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO THERE 06:32.077 --> 06:33.412 AND I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY IT 06:33.545 --> 06:34.746 WOULD WORK FOR A NATIONAL 06:34.880 --> 06:36.882 OPERATOR AND NOT A LOCAL 06:37.015 --> 06:38.450 OPERATOR BUT THEY REALLY DID TRY 06:38.583 --> 06:40.819 TO GET THE LOCAL FOLKS BEFORE 06:40.953 --> 06:42.254 THE NATIONAL. 06:42.454 --> 06:44.156 >> ALVIN REID, SPEAKING OF 06:44.289 --> 06:47.292 RESTAURANTS, JOHN SARACINO, 06:47.459 --> 06:50.929 WHO -- MICHAEL SARACINO, WHOSE 06:51.063 --> 06:54.933 UNCLE OWNED CHRISTMAS PANCAKES 06:55.067 --> 06:58.570 WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN 06:58.704 --> 07:01.540 FEDERAL PRISON BY A JUDGE WHO 07:01.673 --> 07:04.343 ANNOUNCED THAT THE COUNTY 07:04.476 --> 07:08.180 EXECUTIVE STENGER AND POLICE 07:08.313 --> 07:13.085 CHIEF, DON BELL FAR -- BELMAR 07:13.218 --> 07:16.288 WROTE LETTERS TO THE JUDGE 07:16.421 --> 07:20.692 URGING LENIENCY AND CAUSED A 07:20.826 --> 07:26.698 FEWEFUROR AND ASKED BOTH OFFICIALS 07:26.832 --> 07:28.800 TO WRITE LETTERS ON BEHALF OF 07:28.934 --> 07:30.435 HIS NEPHEW. 07:30.569 --> 07:31.770 DO YOU THINK IT WAS APPROPRIATE 07:31.903 --> 07:33.638 HE RESIGN FROM OFFICE? 07:33.839 --> 07:34.873 >> I THINK IT WAS APPROPRIATE, 07:35.007 --> 07:36.475 AND I THINK IT WAS TOTALLY 07:36.641 --> 07:37.876 INAPPROPRIATE FOR THE POLICE 07:38.010 --> 07:39.344 CHIEF TO WRITE A LETTER. 07:39.478 --> 07:42.514 YOU KNOW, ASKING FOR LENIENCY 07:42.647 --> 07:45.050 AND THEN THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE 07:45.183 --> 07:46.451 WHO I GUESS APPOINTED THE 07:46.585 --> 07:49.855 GENTLEMAN TO THE JOB AND A 07:49.988 --> 07:51.890 SUPPORTER, THIS IS JUST -- THIS 07:52.024 --> 07:53.792 IS SCANDALOUS ON ITS OWN. 07:53.925 --> 07:55.527 BUT LET'S TURN BACK THE CLOCK 07:55.660 --> 07:57.963 TWO YEARS AGO AND THE SITTING 07:58.096 --> 08:00.298 COUNTY EXECUTIVE HAD ONE OF HIS 08:00.432 --> 08:02.234 MAIN STAFFERS RESIGN BECAUSE HE 08:02.401 --> 08:04.903 WAS SUPPORTING THE STAFFER'S SON 08:05.037 --> 08:07.773 WHO HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF A 08:07.906 --> 08:10.575 FELONY DRUG CHARGE, THIS WOULD 08:10.709 --> 08:16.748 BE THE ATOM BOMB OF -- ATOMIC 08:16.882 --> 08:18.283 BATON ROUGE OF SCANDALS. 08:18.417 --> 08:19.684 AND TO DISMISS -- 08:19.951 --> 08:21.953 >> YOU'RE SAYING IT COULD HAPPEN 08:22.087 --> 08:25.390 ON DULY'S WATCH -- 08:25.590 --> 08:27.959 >> IT'S HORRIBLE IT HAPPENS ON 08:28.093 --> 08:28.727 ANYONE'S WATCH. 08:28.960 --> 08:29.761 >> I DON'T KNOW. 08:29.961 --> 08:32.597 >> I THINK WE HAVE ALL -- WE ALL 08:32.731 --> 08:35.834 HAVE NIECES AND NEPHEWS WE WOULD 08:35.967 --> 08:36.902 DO ANYTHING FOR. 08:37.035 --> 08:39.037 THE FACT THAT MR. SARACINO SAID 08:39.171 --> 08:47.279 IT'S BEEN GROSSLY MISCONSTRUED. 08:47.412 --> 08:52.017 $130,000, CONSTITUENT RELATION, 08:52.150 --> 08:55.020 BUT WHEN YOU'RE PART OF A 08:55.153 --> 08:56.254 GOVERNMENT, YOU HAVE TO 08:56.388 --> 08:58.090 UNDERSTAND THAT THE APPEARANCE 08:58.223 --> 09:01.293 OF IMPROPRIETY IS A VERY, 09:01.426 --> 09:01.726 VERY -- 09:02.060 --> 09:03.228 >> IN THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, IF 09:03.395 --> 09:07.499 THEY HAD -- IF THEY HAD 09:07.632 --> 09:10.635 INTERFERED WITH THE ARREST, I 09:10.802 --> 09:13.071 COULD SEE THAT, BUT ONCE THE 09:13.238 --> 09:14.606 SENTENCING IS -- EVERYBODY IS 09:14.739 --> 09:16.408 INVITED TO WRITE A LETTER, 09:16.541 --> 09:18.743 CONNECTED AND NOT CONNECTED AND 09:18.877 --> 09:19.911 IT'S NOT NECESSARY THAT THE 09:20.045 --> 09:22.914 JUDGE READ THE LETTER BUT ANYONE 09:23.048 --> 09:24.683 CAN WRITE A LETTER. 09:24.850 --> 09:26.184 I'VE DONE IT, YOU'VE PROBABLY 09:26.318 --> 09:28.687 DONE IT. 09:28.920 --> 09:29.488 >> CHARLEY -- 09:29.688 --> 09:31.990 >> FIRST OF ALL, I -- I DON'T 09:32.124 --> 09:34.259 SEE THE SCANDAL IN THIS AT ALL, 09:34.392 --> 09:36.962 ON ANYONE'S PART AND BY THE WAY 09:37.095 --> 09:38.396 CHARLEY APPOINTED SARACINO TO 09:38.530 --> 09:40.031 THE POLICES FOR. 09:40.165 --> 09:43.201 I DON'T THINK THAT'S SCANDALOUS. 09:43.401 --> 09:44.202 >> [INAUDIBLE] UNDER ARREST? 09:44.402 --> 09:46.138 NO, I'M SAYING, JOHN SARACINO, I 09:46.271 --> 09:47.305 DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JOHN 09:47.439 --> 09:49.875 SARACINO, A LONG STAY ON THE 09:50.008 --> 09:52.277 POLICE FORCE, IT'S A NEWS STORY 09:52.410 --> 09:54.646 IF SOMEONE UP FOR FEDERAL 09:54.779 --> 09:55.914 SENTENCING DOESN'T GET LETTERS 09:56.047 --> 09:56.715 WRITTEN FOR THEM. 09:56.848 --> 10:02.420 AND I'M WITH YOU, IF STENGER OR 10:02.554 --> 10:03.622 BELMAR HAD MEDDLED AND BEHIND 10:03.755 --> 10:06.391 THE SCENES AND THE POST-DISPATCH 10:06.525 --> 10:11.663 FOUND OUT, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT 10:11.796 --> 10:13.231 STORY. 10:13.365 --> 10:16.067 IT'S NEWS, BUT IT'S NOT 10:16.201 --> 10:17.702 SCANDALOUS, IT'S OPEN AND 10:17.836 --> 10:19.171 TRANSPARENT AND I WANT TO SAY 10:19.304 --> 10:22.774 THIS, AS FAR AS BELMAR SAID, HE 10:22.908 --> 10:28.213 DID NOT ASK FOR LENIENCESY, HE 10:28.380 --> 10:34.286 SAID I'M ASKING -- LENIENCY, I'M 10:34.419 --> 10:35.787 ASKING IN FOR OF THE FAMILY. 10:35.987 --> 10:38.323 >> THE LETTERS WERE SEALED. 10:38.456 --> 10:40.358 ASKED THE JUDGE TO UNSEAL THE 10:40.492 --> 10:40.892 LETTERS. 10:41.126 --> 10:47.432 I THOUGHT IT WAS SCANDALOUS AND 10:47.566 --> 10:49.901 BELMAR WROTE ON BEHALF OF THIS 10:50.035 --> 10:52.337 YOUNG MAN WHO WAS ARRESTED ON A 10:52.470 --> 10:53.705 DRUG CHARGE. 10:53.838 --> 10:58.143 IT WASN'T JUST DRUGS, HE HAD 10:58.276 --> 11:01.379 FIRE-BOMBED A HOUSE. 11:01.546 --> 11:02.414 AND -- 11:02.614 --> 11:04.149 >> I FOUND FAULT WITH THE JUDGE, 11:04.282 --> 11:07.018 WHO I LIKED BUT FOUND FAULT WITH 11:07.152 --> 11:09.688 HER FOR ALLOWING THE DEFENDANT, 11:09.821 --> 11:13.658 DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO HIS WEDDING 11:13.792 --> 11:17.996 AT CAPTIVA ISLAND, SOMETIMES 11:18.163 --> 11:20.966 THESE FEDERAL JUDGES -- 11:21.166 --> 11:22.067 >> FIRST, I DON'T THINK I DON'T 11:22.200 --> 11:23.735 DISAGREE WITH THE LAST THING YOU 11:23.868 --> 11:25.237 SAID ABOUT THE JUDGE, BUT KEEP 11:25.370 --> 11:27.472 IN MIND, AMONG THE PEOPLE 11:27.639 --> 11:29.274 CALLING FOR LENIENCY, WAS THE 11:29.407 --> 11:32.644 GOVERNMENT AND THE ARRESTING 11:32.777 --> 11:35.146 FOLKS BECAUSE -- THEY ASKED FOR 11:35.280 --> 11:37.148 A HEAVIER SENTENCE THAN HE GOT, 11:37.282 --> 11:39.351 RAY, AND THEY -- AND THEY 11:39.484 --> 11:40.485 SPECIFICATIONALLY TALKED ABOUT 11:40.619 --> 11:43.655 THE LETTER IN A NEGATIVE WAY. 11:43.822 --> 11:45.724 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 11:45.957 --> 11:48.526 >> IT IS TRUE, THAT SOMEONE IN 11:48.660 --> 11:50.629 THE SYNDICATE FIRE-BOMBED 11:50.762 --> 11:52.664 SOMEONE'S HOUSE BUT THE YOUNG 11:52.831 --> 11:55.066 MAN WASN'T CHARGED WITH THAT -- 11:55.200 --> 11:55.700 LET ME SPEAK. 11:55.834 --> 11:58.470 HE WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSING 11:58.637 --> 12:00.171 MARIJUANA WHICH MOST PEOPLE ON 12:00.372 --> 12:02.207 THIS PANEL SEEM TO THINK IT'S AN 12:02.340 --> 12:02.974 OK THING. 12:03.108 --> 12:05.877 AND WHY IS IT THAT HE'S BEING 12:06.044 --> 12:08.280 CRUCIFIED FOR DOING WHAT IS 12:08.446 --> 12:10.282 ACTUALLY LEGAL IN COLORADO 12:10.415 --> 12:10.815 AND -- 12:11.016 --> 12:12.083 >> THE QUESTION WASN'T WHETHER 12:12.217 --> 12:13.685 HE WAS INVOLVED IN SELLING POT. 12:13.885 --> 12:15.487 I COULD CARE LESS. 12:15.654 --> 12:18.189 THE FIRE-BOMBING THING IS A 12:18.323 --> 12:19.958 SERIOUS THING BUT ONCE YOU'RE 12:20.091 --> 12:21.660 CONVICTED OF SOMETHING, I DON'T 12:21.793 --> 12:23.328 LIKE THE IDEA OF THE CHIEF OF 12:23.461 --> 12:25.030 POLICE WRITING A LETTER TO THE 12:25.163 --> 12:26.164 JUDGE THAT THIS IS A GREAT 12:26.298 --> 12:30.201 FAMILY AND -- AND STEVE STENGER, 12:30.335 --> 12:34.272 THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ASKING FOR 12:34.406 --> 12:35.273 LENIENCY. 12:35.473 --> 12:37.509 >> IT'S PART OF PROCESS, I DARE 12:37.676 --> 12:39.411 YOU TO FIND A FEDERAL OTHER 12:39.544 --> 12:41.846 STATE CASE IN SENTENCING WHEN 12:41.980 --> 12:42.881 LETTERS WEREN'T WRITTEN. 12:43.081 --> 12:44.616 >> HERE'S THE POINT -- 12:44.816 --> 12:45.984 >> HERE'S PEOPLE WHO HAVE 12:46.117 --> 12:49.621 WRITTEN LETTERS. 12:49.754 --> 12:53.958 MAYA ANGELOU -- 12:54.159 --> 12:55.393 >> THIS IS WHY THIS IS 12:55.527 --> 12:56.895 SCANDALOUS, CHARLIE, THEY'RE NOT 12:57.028 --> 13:00.765 WRITING LETTERS FOR LENIENCY, 13:00.932 --> 13:02.067 BUT ONLY BECAUSE IT'S THEIR 13:02.200 --> 13:03.802 BUDDY AND PAL. 13:03.935 --> 13:05.470 THEY PROBABLY WON'T WRITE 13:05.603 --> 13:07.672 ANOTHER LETTER OF LENIENCY FOR 13:07.839 --> 13:08.707 ANYONE. 13:08.840 --> 13:11.276 A 75-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO SOLD A 13:11.409 --> 13:15.447 DIME BAG -- 13:15.580 --> 13:16.781 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 13:16.981 --> 13:18.416 >> ALVIN, YOU WRITE THEM FOR 13:18.550 --> 13:22.821 YOUR FRIENDS -- 13:23.021 --> 13:25.857 >> STOP, BY THE WAY -- 13:26.057 --> 13:27.359 >> I UNDERSTAND, BILL'S POINT, 13:27.492 --> 13:28.927 BUT I THINK -- I DO UNDERSTAND 13:29.060 --> 13:31.730 THAT, IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT 13:31.863 --> 13:33.231 THE CONNECTION IT MIGHT BE TO 13:33.365 --> 13:34.833 YOUR POINT, HE WASES A POLICE 13:34.966 --> 13:36.067 COMMISSIONER AND YOU'VE GOT A 13:36.201 --> 13:37.202 POLICE OFFICIAL, I UNDERSTAND 13:37.335 --> 13:39.371 THAT, BUT I ALSO THINK -- KEEP 13:39.571 --> 13:41.873 IN MIND SOMETHING ELSE, THE HEAD 13:42.040 --> 13:43.775 OF THE POLICE UNION IS TRYING TO 13:43.908 --> 13:46.378 MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS, IS 13:46.511 --> 13:48.580 COURAGELY NEGOTIATING -- HE SAID 13:48.713 --> 13:54.753 SOMETHING ABOUT BEMMAR. 13:54.886 --> 13:55.620 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 13:55.754 --> 14:00.992 A VOTE OF NO CONVERSATION ABOUT 14:01.159 --> 14:02.327 BELMAR, DON'T -- OTHER THAN THIS 14:02.494 --> 14:04.629 STORY, DO WE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE 14:04.796 --> 14:05.497 UPSET ABOUT? 14:05.697 --> 14:08.099 >> I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'LL SAY 14:08.233 --> 14:08.566 THIS -- 14:08.767 --> 14:09.968 >> IF -- HE'S GOT TO STOP. 14:10.168 --> 14:12.937 >> BUT THE UNION -- THE UNION 14:13.071 --> 14:16.374 PRESIDENT IS USING IT AS PART 14:16.508 --> 14:16.808 OF -- 14:17.008 --> 14:17.976 >> IF BLACK LIVES MATTER SAY 14:18.109 --> 14:19.210 THEY HAVE NO CONVERSATION IN THE 14:19.344 --> 14:20.779 CHIEF, I CAN SEE WHY THEY SAID 14:20.945 --> 14:21.179 THAT. 14:21.379 --> 14:24.682 >> I WROTE A LETTER ON BEHALF OF 14:24.816 --> 14:26.084 [INAUDIBLE] 14:26.284 --> 14:27.118 >> SO WHAT? 14:27.252 --> 14:28.420 NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT. 14:28.553 --> 14:29.888 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 14:30.155 --> 14:31.990 >> I DID IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT 14:32.157 --> 14:34.058 SOME OF HIS WORK WITH THE -- 14:34.192 --> 14:36.995 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 14:37.195 --> 14:38.563 >> A SUPERSTAR BUT YOU'RE NOT AN 14:38.696 --> 14:44.536 ELECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. 14:44.669 --> 14:46.204 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 14:46.438 --> 14:47.205 >> ALL THE TIME AND BY THE WAY, 14:47.338 --> 14:53.411 STENGER HAS A GUY, THE ACTUAL 14:53.545 --> 14:54.112 DEFENDANT -- 14:54.312 --> 14:55.680 >> IT'S NOT A SCANDAL. 14:55.880 --> 14:58.183 >> FINAL WORD, IF THE KID DID 14:58.316 --> 15:00.485 THE CRIME, HE SHOULD DO THE TIME 15:00.652 --> 15:02.187 BUT ANYONE IS ALLOWED TO WRITE A 15:02.320 --> 15:05.056 LETTER TO A JUDGE. 15:05.190 --> 15:06.891 IT'S THE JUDGE -- IF THE JUDGE 15:07.025 --> 15:08.927 TAKES MONEY OR SOMETHING, THAT'S 15:09.060 --> 15:09.627 ANOTHER THING. 15:09.828 --> 15:12.397 >> WHAT HE -- LIMBAUGH DOWN 15:12.597 --> 15:13.832 THERE, WRITING A LETTER, 15:13.965 --> 15:18.269 EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE HELPED 15:18.403 --> 15:21.139 SOMEONE, ALWAYS SCRUTINIZED. 15:21.272 --> 15:24.142 BUT -- BUT FOR SOME IT'S A-OK IN 15:24.275 --> 15:27.178 ST. LOUIS COUNTY. 15:27.378 --> 15:28.046 >> I WILL SAY -- 15:28.179 --> 15:29.581 [SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY] 15:29.814 --> 15:31.182 >> ALL RIGHT, GOT TO -- GOT TO 15:31.316 --> 15:33.184 MOVE ON, GUYS, TO WENDY WEISE 15:33.318 --> 15:35.520 WITH A FRONT PAGE STORY IN THE 15:35.787 --> 15:37.922 "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ABOUT A 15:38.056 --> 15:39.390 ST. LOUIS COUPLE HERE ON THE EVE 15:39.524 --> 15:43.228 OF THE 43rd ANNIVERSARY OF THE 15:43.394 --> 15:44.762 ROE V. WADE DECISION. 15:44.896 --> 15:47.298 THIS COUPLE, NOW DIVORCED, 15:47.432 --> 15:49.968 CREATED EMBRYOS WHILE THEY WERE 15:50.134 --> 15:51.736 MARRIED AND NOW THEY'RE DIVORCED 15:51.870 --> 15:53.505 AND SHE WANTS TO PROCREATE WITH 15:53.638 --> 15:58.676 THEM, HE WANTS THEM DISCARDED 15:58.810 --> 16:01.479 BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT HER TO 16:01.613 --> 16:04.382 GIVE BIRTH TO HIS PROGENY. 16:04.616 --> 16:06.784 >> I KEEP THINKING OF THE LATE 16:06.951 --> 16:08.152 GREAT FICTION WRITER MICHAEL 16:08.286 --> 16:13.558 CITEN SAID, JUST BECAUSE -- 16:13.691 --> 16:15.894 CREGHTON SAID JUST BECAUSE WE 16:16.027 --> 16:16.895 CAN, SHOULD WE? 16:17.028 --> 16:20.298 THE FACT THAT IT WASN'T A ACT -- 16:20.431 --> 16:22.200 THAT IT WAS A ACRIMONIOUS 16:22.333 --> 16:24.736 DIVORCE, COMES INTO PLAY AND THE 16:24.869 --> 16:27.138 FACT THAT THE EMBRYOS ARE 16:27.305 --> 16:28.373 CONSIDERED MARITAL PROPERTY, 16:28.506 --> 16:30.808 THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. 16:30.942 --> 16:31.976 I DON'T UNDERSTAND AND, OF 16:32.143 --> 16:33.511 COURSE, A SCIENTIST WOULD GIVE 16:33.645 --> 16:40.285 YOU A MUCH BETTER DESCRIPTION OR 16:40.451 --> 16:42.554 DEFINITION BUT TO MY MIND, THIS 16:42.687 --> 16:46.591 BATCH OF EMBRYOS CREATED 16:46.724 --> 16:47.959 CHILDREN, THIS COUPLE, TO 16:48.092 --> 16:50.595 BASICALLY SAY, MY SCOURING PAD, 16:50.728 --> 16:54.098 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THAT PETRI 16:54.232 --> 16:57.135 DISH -- I THINK IT'S GRIZZLY. 16:57.368 --> 16:58.002 >> I'M ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 16:58.169 --> 16:58.503 THAT. 16:58.636 --> 17:01.539 BUT -- BUT, I MEAN, IT'S A VERY 17:01.673 --> 17:02.640 DEEPLY PERSONAL EMOTIONAL 17:02.774 --> 17:03.541 RELIGIOUS ISSUE. 17:03.675 --> 17:05.510 AND I HAVE NO DESIRE TO ARGUE 17:05.677 --> 17:07.478 YOU'RE WRONG, OTHER THAN THAT I 17:07.612 --> 17:09.380 DON'T THINK IN IT CASE THE LAW 17:09.514 --> 17:11.416 SHOULD APPLY TO PEOPLE WHO MIGHT 17:11.549 --> 17:13.051 NOT SHARE YOUR VIEWS. 17:13.184 --> 17:18.756 BUT THE GENERAL ISSUE OF 17:18.923 --> 17:20.491 EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS, IT COMES 17:20.625 --> 17:23.595 DOWN TO WHETHER YOU CONSIDER THE 17:23.728 --> 17:24.662 EMBRYOS TO BE HUMAN BEINGS OR 17:24.796 --> 17:25.029 NOT. 17:25.163 --> 17:26.431 BUT IN THIS CASE, IT'S 17:26.564 --> 17:29.834 COMPLICATED BY A CONTRACT. 17:29.968 --> 17:33.538 I HAPPEN TO SIDE WITH THE DAD 17:33.671 --> 17:36.941 BEING RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH THAT HE 17:37.075 --> 17:39.544 DOESN'T WANT HIS ESTRANGED, 17:39.677 --> 17:41.045 ACRIMONIOUS DIVORCE, THAT HE 17:41.179 --> 17:42.513 DOESN'T WANT HER TO HAVE HIS 17:42.647 --> 17:44.649 CHILDREN AND I SIDE WITH HIM, 17:44.782 --> 17:46.651 BUT THEN THERE'S THE OTHER 17:46.784 --> 17:47.652 QUESTION WHETHER HE HAD AGREED 17:47.785 --> 17:50.989 TO IT OR NOT, WHICH MAKES IT A 17:51.122 --> 17:54.292 COMPLICATED CASE BECAUSE I AGREE 17:54.425 --> 17:57.161 WITH THE ATTORNEY SAID REALLY 17:57.295 --> 17:58.262 YOU SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN 17:58.396 --> 18:01.399 YOU ENTER INTO ONE OF THESE. 18:01.532 --> 18:02.834 BECAUSE THAT'S A BIG PART OF 18:02.967 --> 18:05.370 THIS CASE, WHETHER HE AGREED TO 18:05.503 --> 18:07.205 IT OR NOT. 18:07.405 --> 18:09.674 >> ANOTHER TOPIC, BILL, THE 18:09.807 --> 18:12.810 STATE AUDITOR, NICOLE GALLOWAY, 18:12.944 --> 18:17.281 RECENTLY ISSUED AN AUDIT ON THE 18:17.415 --> 18:17.782 RECORDER. 18:17.915 --> 18:20.885 DEEDS AND MISDEEDS, SHARON 18:21.019 --> 18:24.088 CARPENTER SAYING SHE BOUGHT A 18:24.222 --> 18:25.890 $2,700 RUG FOR HER OFFICE, 18:26.024 --> 18:27.759 DIDN'T KEEP TRACK OF EMPLOYEE 18:27.892 --> 18:28.826 VACATION TIME. 18:28.960 --> 18:30.495 DIDN'T KEEP THE MILES ON THE CAR 18:30.628 --> 18:31.863 THAT WAS ISSUED TO HER. 18:31.996 --> 18:35.633 AND ISSUED ABOUT $200,000 OF 18:35.767 --> 18:37.068 IMPROVEMENTS IN NO GOOD 18:37.201 --> 18:38.903 CONTRACT -- NO-BID CONTRACTS. 18:39.037 --> 18:40.805 DO YOU THINK SHE'S IN TROUBLE? 18:41.005 --> 18:43.908 >> NO, NO, ADMITTEDLY I LIKE 18:44.075 --> 18:45.777 SHARON CARPENTER, MY ONLY GRUDGE 18:45.910 --> 18:48.680 IS I THINK SHE'S AT AN AGE WHERE 18:48.813 --> 18:49.714 SHE SHOULD HAVE RETIRED AND 18:49.847 --> 18:51.482 LIVED ON A PENSION. 18:51.616 --> 18:53.918 AS FAR AS THE AUDIT, THERE 18:54.052 --> 18:55.319 WASN'T MUCH NEW THERE. 18:55.486 --> 18:58.589 NOT KEEPING TRACK OF HER 18:58.723 --> 18:59.691 EMPLOYEES' VACATION, AS AN 18:59.824 --> 19:00.825 EMPLOYEE, GOOD FOR SHARON. 19:00.958 --> 19:02.427 THE MAIN THING I LOOK AT THAT 19:02.560 --> 19:05.263 AUDIT AND THINK, WE'VE SPENT 19:05.396 --> 19:08.366 $16 MILLION ON THIS GOOFY 19:08.499 --> 19:10.168 STADIUM PROJECT, AND NOTHING'S 19:10.301 --> 19:12.503 EVER GOING TO COME OF IT. 19:12.704 --> 19:13.538 >> YOU'RE RIGHT. 19:13.738 --> 19:14.806 >> AND YET PEOPLE GOT HUNDREDS 19:14.939 --> 19:17.375 OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND 19:17.508 --> 19:18.576 SPENT $16 MILLION AND EVERYBODY 19:18.710 --> 19:20.578 IS TRYING TO SAY, LET'S FORGET 19:20.712 --> 19:22.580 ABOUT THIS AND MOVE ON AND DAVE 19:22.747 --> 19:25.483 PEACOCK DID A WONDERFUL JOB AND 19:25.616 --> 19:29.120 BOB, AND NOW WE'RE AFTER SHARON 19:29.253 --> 19:32.256 CARPENTER FOR A $2,700 RUG. 19:32.390 --> 19:33.357 I DON'T GET IT. 19:33.558 --> 19:35.126 >> THAT'S HARD TO ARGUE, BUT 19:35.259 --> 19:37.962 SHE'S A RECORDER AND ATTENTION 19:38.129 --> 19:39.797 TO DETAIL IS BENEFICIAL. 19:39.931 --> 19:43.835 AND I THINK THAT WHEN YOU HAVE 19:43.968 --> 19:46.671 FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN 19:46.871 --> 19:48.673 ALLEGEDLY ACCORDING TO THE 19:48.806 --> 19:51.309 AUDIT, FROM THE RECORD 19:51.442 --> 19:53.511 RESTORATION ACT AND THEY TURN 19:53.644 --> 19:56.681 INTO CARPETING OR ENTERTAINMENT 19:56.814 --> 19:58.549 OR FURNISHINGS OR DECORATIONS, I 19:58.683 --> 20:01.986 LOVE A NICE DECORATED OFFICE AS 20:02.186 --> 20:03.855 MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE. 20:04.055 --> 20:04.756 >> [INAUDIBLE] 20:04.956 --> 20:05.790 >> BUT THIS IS -- YOU KNOW, THIS 20:05.923 --> 20:08.659 IS THE RECORDER OF DEEDS. 20:08.793 --> 20:09.727 SO YEAH, PLEASE FOLLOW THE 20:09.861 --> 20:11.863 LETTER OF THE LAW. 20:12.063 --> 20:14.132 AND BE -- FUNDS HAVE BEEN -- 20:14.332 --> 20:15.900 >> I THOUGHT IT WAS SILLY TO 20:16.033 --> 20:19.370 HAVE A $2,700 CARP ETC. ON THE 20:19.537 --> 20:21.639 FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER. 20:21.839 --> 20:23.808 >> I ONLY FEEL A LITTLE, I FELT 20:23.941 --> 20:26.611 KIND OF -- JUST SAD WHEN ONE OF 20:26.744 --> 20:33.050 OUR BIG SCANDALS -- CAN DO 20:33.184 --> 20:34.919 BETTER THAN THAT. 20:35.052 --> 20:38.589 MAYBE BECAUSE I WOULD NOT 20:38.723 --> 20:40.792 NORMALLY AGREE, BUT BECAUSE IT'S 20:40.925 --> 20:42.960 SO FRESH AFTER THIS STADIUM -- 20:43.094 --> 20:44.529 LIKE WE'RE STARTING TO SEE -- 20:44.662 --> 20:47.165 SOME GUY, I GUESS HE USED TO 20:47.298 --> 20:50.902 WORK FOR A CONGRESSMAN, GOT 20:51.035 --> 20:55.773 $75,000 FOR DESIGNING A MINORITY 20:55.907 --> 20:59.644 EMPLOYMENT PLAN, WHATEVER IT 20:59.777 --> 21:03.014 WAS, AND BLESS THEIR HEARTS HOW 21:03.147 --> 21:07.151 HARD THEY WORK, $900,000 AND 21:07.318 --> 21:09.720 WHEN WE'RE FRESH OFF THIS 21:09.887 --> 21:11.789 PAINFUL STADIUM ISSUE, IT REALLY 21:11.923 --> 21:15.359 IS HARD TO BE TALKING ABOUT A 21:15.493 --> 21:16.294 $2,700 RUG. 21:16.494 --> 21:19.063 >> I WILL SAY THIS, HE HAS -- 21:19.197 --> 21:20.765 HAD TO RESIGN AND THEN RUN AGAIN 21:20.965 --> 21:23.367 AND WON, IF I HAD BEEN IN THE 21:23.501 --> 21:25.703 OFFICE THAT LONG AND AN AUDIT 21:25.837 --> 21:28.339 WAS DONE ON ME AND THIS IS ALL 21:28.506 --> 21:30.041 OF THE SOUND, IT WOULD NOT BE A 21:30.174 --> 21:30.408 STORY. 21:30.541 --> 21:33.177 IT'S A STORY BECAUSE OF THE 21:33.344 --> 21:33.678 BAGGAGE. 21:33.878 --> 21:35.813 >> RAY HARTMANN, LET ME MOVE ON 21:35.947 --> 21:38.616 TO YOU, LAST WEEK WE TALKED 21:38.749 --> 21:41.385 ABOUT THE TEAM LEAVING 21:41.519 --> 21:41.919 ST. LOUIS. 21:42.153 --> 21:44.288 BUT NOW SUING BECAUSE THEY 21:44.455 --> 21:45.289 BELIEVE THEY HAVE CONTRACTS 21:45.423 --> 21:46.257 BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY PAID 21:46.390 --> 21:47.992 MONEY FOR A TEAM THAT'S SUPPOSED 21:48.125 --> 21:49.126 TO BE HERE. 21:49.260 --> 21:50.928 DO YOU THINK THEY'LL WIN IN 21:51.062 --> 21:51.662 COURT. 21:51.863 --> 21:54.765 >> NO, BUT I'M ROOTING FOR THEM 21:54.899 --> 21:55.867 PARTICULARLY IF THEY'RE 21:56.000 --> 21:56.801 INTERESTED IN MAKING A CLASS 21:56.934 --> 21:57.501 ACTION LAWSUIT. 21:57.635 --> 22:00.004 AND I WOULD BE HAPPY IN ANY PART 22:00.137 --> 22:02.073 OF MY MONEY CAME BACK TO ME AS A 22:02.206 --> 22:03.908 MATTER OF PRINCIPLE. 22:04.041 --> 22:06.644 FOR THE DEPART, FOOTBALL TEAM. 22:06.777 --> 22:07.678 I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE MUCH OF 22:07.812 --> 22:09.714 A CHANCE BUT I THINK THEY HAVE 22:09.847 --> 22:12.116 AT LEAST A -- BECAUSE I DON'T 22:12.250 --> 22:13.551 THINK THEY DO. 22:13.684 --> 22:16.520 BUT THEY HAVE AN INTERESTING 22:16.654 --> 22:19.590 ARGUMENT WHICH IS WE BOUGHT IT 22:19.724 --> 22:20.992 IN 1995 THINKING WE HAD THE 22:21.125 --> 22:22.660 RIGHTS TO OUR SEAT FORCE 30 22:22.793 --> 22:24.629 YEARS AND ONE WOULD HAVE 22:24.829 --> 22:26.097 EXPECTED THAT IF THEY HAVE HAD 22:26.230 --> 22:28.366 FOUND -- NOW, I -- . 22:28.566 --> 22:29.467 >> SUE THE NFL OR -- 22:29.667 --> 22:30.501 >> I THINK THE TEAM. 22:30.635 --> 22:32.503 I THINK YOU'D SAY THE TEAM WAS 22:32.637 --> 22:36.340 THE ONE -- THE RAMS, THE PSL AND 22:36.474 --> 22:37.475 I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO WIN 22:37.642 --> 22:41.045 BUT I LIKE THE SPIRIT OF IT. 22:41.245 --> 22:43.047 >> THE THING ABOUT THAT, THE 22:43.180 --> 22:46.250 PSLs WERE USED TO PAY OFF THE 22:46.384 --> 22:48.920 BOND IN ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA AND 22:49.053 --> 22:53.257 NO ONE IS PAYING OFF OR BONDS, 22:53.391 --> 22:53.991 ARE THEY? 22:54.191 --> 22:55.393 >> NO, THEY'RE NOT. 22:55.559 --> 22:57.995 THIS CLASS ACTION -- HERE WE 22:58.129 --> 23:00.665 ARE, LIKE YOU SAID, OH, YEAH, 23:00.798 --> 23:02.767 LET'S GET $1,000, MEANWHILE, 23:02.934 --> 23:06.037 EVERYBODY SAID, WE GOT IT FOR 23:06.170 --> 23:07.071 $16 MILLION BUT PEOPLE WANT A 23:07.204 --> 23:08.506 COUPLE OF THOUSAND BACK. 23:08.639 --> 23:10.207 WE'RE ALL FOR THEM. 23:10.341 --> 23:12.610 FIGURE OUT WHERE THE 23:12.743 --> 23:14.412 $16 MILLION WENT. 23:14.545 --> 23:16.814 GOD BLESS THEM WHO HAVE THE PSL, 23:16.948 --> 23:18.983 THE RIGHT TO BUY SOMETHING? 23:19.116 --> 23:24.555 I DON'T GET THAT. 23:24.755 --> 23:25.957 >> I'M -- CONTRADICT MY OVERALL 23:26.090 --> 23:28.125 THEME ON THIS, WE NEED TO MOVE 23:28.259 --> 23:30.561 ON AND STOP THE PITY PARTY AND 23:30.695 --> 23:32.196 MOVE AHEAD AND REALIZE WE NEVER 23:32.330 --> 23:32.964 HAD A TEAM. 23:33.097 --> 23:36.867 IT WAS A ECHO CHAMBER. 23:37.068 --> 23:39.737 >> DID YOU READ HARRY POTTER? 23:39.971 --> 23:41.872 >> I'M GETTING THROUGH -- 23:42.139 --> 23:44.875 >> I PROPOSE THAT THE RAMS 23:45.009 --> 23:49.080 BECOME THE LORD VOLTEMOR OF THE 23:49.213 --> 23:50.881 CITY. 23:51.115 --> 23:52.583 >> ALVIN REID -- 23:52.783 --> 23:53.884 >> DOUBLED THE PRICE ALREADY. 23:54.085 --> 23:54.485 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 23:54.685 --> 23:55.853 >> I WANT TO ASK YOU, ALVIN, 23:55.987 --> 23:59.690 ABOUT A COLUMN IN THE 23:59.824 --> 24:02.526 POST-DISPATCH BY THE FOOD WRITER 24:02.660 --> 24:05.363 WHO WROTE ABOUT DOGS HE SAW AT A 24:05.496 --> 24:07.531 GREAT BREWERY IN THE GROVE AND 24:07.665 --> 24:11.202 UPSET THAT ONE OF THEM EUROPEAN 24:11.335 --> 24:14.772 NATURED ON THE FLOOR AND -- YOUR 24:14.939 --> 24:21.712 HONOR NATUREAND URINATED ON THE FLOOR. 24:21.846 --> 24:24.515 WE LIVE IN A WORLD WITH 24:24.648 --> 24:25.983 CREATURES THAT HAVE BODILY 24:26.117 --> 24:26.617 FUNCTIONNESS. 24:26.851 --> 24:27.852 >> I THINK YOU PUT YOURSELF IN 24:27.985 --> 24:29.787 THE PLACE OF THE PERSON, NOT 24:29.920 --> 24:33.190 CRIME AND HORROR, BUT I'M AT THE 24:33.324 --> 24:37.495 EVENT, SITTING HERE WITH A DOG, 24:37.628 --> 24:39.296 ON THE FLOOR, NOBODY CLEANS IT 24:39.430 --> 24:40.197 UP. 24:40.331 --> 24:42.400 THIS GUY RATTING PEOPLE OUT OR 24:42.533 --> 24:44.335 JUST LET IT GO. 24:44.468 --> 24:47.405 I THINK DOGS REALLY SHOULDN'T BE 24:47.538 --> 24:48.606 INSIDE A RESTAURANT. 24:48.739 --> 24:50.408 OUTSIDE, IS OK. 24:50.541 --> 24:53.377 I LOVE DOGS, I LOVE DOGS. 24:53.511 --> 24:57.715 BUT IF YOU CALLED THE HEALTH 24:57.848 --> 25:00.117 DEPARTMENT, I'D RETURN THE CALL 25:00.251 --> 25:02.653 BUT I DON'T THINK I'D SEND THE 25:02.787 --> 25:04.088 HEALTH SWAT TEAM. 25:04.221 --> 25:07.792 YOU KNOW -- I DON'T KNOW, IT'S. 25:07.992 --> 25:09.660 >> IT'S A PART OF NATURE, YOU 25:09.794 --> 25:14.031 DON'T WANT IT IN THE KITCHEN. 25:14.231 --> 25:15.433 >> [INAUDIBLE] 25:15.633 --> 25:16.233 >> PEOPLE HAVE DOGS IN THEIR 25:16.367 --> 25:18.335 HOME, SOME PEOPLE HAVE LIKE 25:18.469 --> 25:21.138 THREE CATS AND ONE DOG. 25:21.305 --> 25:24.141 IT'S LIKE NOAH'S ARK. 25:24.341 --> 25:25.976 >> SO SOMEONE IS GOING TO BRING 25:26.143 --> 25:27.411 THEIR QUARTER HORSE NEXT. 25:27.545 --> 25:28.546 THIS IS GOOFY. 25:28.679 --> 25:30.381 IT DOESN'T BELONG IN -- 25:30.581 --> 25:32.283 >> YOU GO TO HOMES WHERE PEOPLE 25:32.416 --> 25:34.685 HAVE TOGS. 25:34.852 --> 25:36.420 -- DOGS. 25:36.620 --> 25:38.055 >> THEIR DOG COULD JUMP ON THE 25:38.189 --> 25:40.291 TABLE AND EAT PART THE DINNER 25:40.424 --> 25:41.926 AND I WOULDN'T BE OFFENDED BUT 25:42.059 --> 25:43.360 IF I'M HOW TO OUTPUT WITH 25:43.527 --> 25:46.897 FRIENDS OF MINE AND A DOG 25:47.064 --> 25:49.200 URINATES, I THINK WHAT ELSE IS 25:49.333 --> 25:50.468 GOING ON? 25:50.701 --> 25:52.036 >> BACK IN THE KITCHEN. 25:52.269 --> 25:53.904 >> I READ THAT AND THOUGHT, 25:54.038 --> 25:55.606 THAT'S AN INTERESTING LITTLE 25:55.773 --> 26:00.644 TALE. 26:00.878 --> 26:02.146 >> I DON'T HAVE ANY DOGS IN THE 26:02.279 --> 26:03.581 FIGHT. 26:03.714 --> 26:12.289 BUT -- URBAN CHESTNUT, BOY -- 26:12.490 --> 26:13.791 >> ALL RIGHT, FINE BEER, WE KNOW 26:13.924 --> 26:14.091 THAT. 26:14.225 --> 26:15.493 LET'S GET TO THE LETTERS AND SEE 26:15.626 --> 26:17.461 WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT 26:17.595 --> 26:18.929 LAST WEEK'S PROGRAM. 26:19.063 --> 26:20.931 WHENEVER PEOPLE START TO HOLD 26:21.065 --> 26:23.567 SOMEONE ACCOUNTABLE, YOU CAN BET 26:23.767 --> 26:26.570 ON ONE THING -- NO ONE WILL BE 26:26.704 --> 26:29.406 HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 26:29.540 --> 26:32.276 IT'S FROM KENNETH. 26:32.443 --> 26:34.445 AND IN MY OPINION IT, TAKES A 26:34.578 --> 26:37.681 PILLAGE, A BALLPARK PILLAGE TO 26:37.815 --> 26:38.916 RAZE A CITY. 26:39.049 --> 26:40.384 THANK YOU. 26:40.518 --> 26:42.553 RON OF ST. LOUIS WROTE -- PEOPLE 26:42.686 --> 26:44.288 ARE FIGURING OUT THAT THE NFL IS 26:44.455 --> 26:45.189 A HUGE MOOCH. 26:45.322 --> 26:48.759 YOU CAN WRITE US CARE OF 3655 26:48.893 --> 26:49.793 OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS, 26:49.927 --> 26:53.497 MISSOURI 63108. 26:53.831 --> 26:56.033 DON'T FORGET THE LETTERS AT 26:56.167 --> 26:57.968 KETC.ORG AND THOSE TWEETS. 26:58.102 --> 27:00.137 DON'T GO AWAY, WE'VE GOVERNMENT 27:00.471 --> 27:00.938 "DONNYBROOK, YOUR TURN." 27:01.071 --> 27:02.740 BILL AND I WILL BE TAKING YOUR 27:02.873 --> 27:03.641 PHONE CALLS. 27:03.774 --> 27:06.377 SEE YOU NEXT WEEK AT THIS TIME 27:06.510 --> 27:07.511 THANKS FOR JOINING US, DON'T GO 27:07.645 --> 27:07.811 AWAY. 27:13.551 --> 27:14.585 >> "DONNYBROOK" IS MADE POSSIBLE 27:14.718 --> 27:15.319 THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF 27:15.452 --> 27:16.687 THE MEMBERS OF KETC.