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🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | We will stand and we will fight and we will die after government tries to |
0:05.8 | press the Bungies. Investigators describe Jared and Amanda Miller as anti- |
0:10.0 | government and on a mission to kill police officers. They basically stated that |
0:14.3 | this is the beginning of the revolution. |
0:20.0 | The Bundy Family story spans so many years and involves so many people that at |
0:26.1 | times I've lost perspective on what's really at stake here. Sitting in court |
0:31.0 | hearings and listening to the same theories and stories over and over again, |
0:35.9 | it's easy to become numb to the weight of the Bundy's actions. But there's a lot |
0:41.0 | on the line. When the BLM went to round up Cliven Bundy's cattle in 2014, they |
0:48.6 | put out this map. It showed the area they'd closed because Cliven's cows were |
0:53.2 | roaming free on the range. The map has a large red area with diagonal lines on it. |
0:58.7 | Its eastern border is the Muddy River. To the north is Interstate 15 and then it |
1:05.0 | stretches west to the Virgin Mountains. It's hundreds of square miles of |
1:09.6 | territory boiled down to little more than some red ink. So on one of our last |
1:14.9 | days in Nevada, producer Ryan Hassan I decided to go there and see it in person. |
1:19.8 | So where are we? Not really sure. Somewhere I'm the gold butte now. |
1:24.2 | I'm on the monument. What if that was a tortoise and I was just stuffed on it? |
1:27.7 | It's cow poop. Gold butte is a sprawling desert landscape covered in scrub |
1:33.4 | brush and cacti. You can see Lake Mead when you first enter the monument, shimmering |
1:38.5 | in the distance like a mirage. But we didn't come here for the awesome views. We |
1:43.5 | came here to see for ourselves whether it matters where Cliven Bundy's cattle |
1:47.4 | are grazing. We're two or three miles into the gold butte |
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