The War Against America - Part 2: Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a six block area referred to as CHAZ. It's being occupied by protestors who have a long list of demands they want met. Newt's guest is Andy Ngo, who is on the ground there reporting the story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Newt, due to the virus I'm recording from home, so you may notice a difference in audio quality. |
| 0:09.0 | On this episode of Loot's World, protesters in Seattle, Washington declared an area that includes the Seattle Police Department's East Presbyt |
| 0:17.0 | as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone after Seattle Police in the National Guard pulled out of the region. |
| 0:24.0 | The six-block region has been declared an Autonomous Zone. |
| 0:28.0 | Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is being referred to by occupants as CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ, |
| 0:37.0 | Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. The occupants of CHAZ are refusing to leave until their demands are met. |
| 0:44.0 | They're just a few of them. The Seattle Police Department and attached court system were beyond reform. |
| 0:50.0 | We do not request reform. We demand abolition. We demand the de-genification of Seattle, starting with rent control. |
| 0:58.0 | We demand the hospital and care facilities of Seattle, employed black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients. |
| 1:06.0 | We demand that the history of black and eating Americans be given a significantly greater focus on the Washington State education curriculum. |
| 1:14.0 | My guest has been reporting from Seattle's Autonomous Zone for the past five days. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm pleased to welcome Andy now, editor at large for the post-millennial and contributor for Newsweek, |
| 1:25.0 | Wall Street Journal and Fox News, and author of the upcoming book, Unmasked, |
| 1:30.0 | Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. |
| 1:45.0 | Let me ask first, Andy, and I really am grateful you took the time to talk this, |
| 1:55.0 | but I know you're right in the middle of covering some pretty amazing stories. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm fascinated because you have quite a reputation as a guy with a lot of courage, |
| 2:03.0 | who goes to some pretty interesting places and has experiences that very few reporters do. |
| 2:09.0 | What's gotten you into that? How did that happen? |
| 2:12.0 | Well, I think that rebellious, flash, dissenting spirits started probably when I was a student in journalism. |
| 2:21.0 | It was just a few years ago, in 2016, 2017, at that time it was candidate Trump and then Trump's election win, |
| 2:33.0 | and I lived through seeing that meltdown from a university student perspective. |
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