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personality. that's what she's doing here. >> jimmy, she tried to clean it up today. she said she misspoke, okay, and she regrets it. they did not know what ram was, like how much ram. >> oh yeah that makes it better. >> i'm joking. she said it was -- she misspoke. so we all misspeak when we say people are dumb implicitly. jimmy, sorry to cut you short tonight but don't forget to catch jimmy on the road, he's going to be in boston on may 18th and that is it for us tonight. follow me on social media, we are getting a lot of comments on instagram with the rose video, the new roads video. yes, slightly embarrassing but that's okay. remember, it's america now and forever and i understand jesse might be talking a bit about the travesty in manhattan tonight. he will take it from here. >> jesse: welcome to "jesse watters primetime". tonight...
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>> the student intifada has engulfed the entire country. [ chanting ] >> jesse: the anti-american revolution boiling over. >> i think to prove a point, put him in the clink. >> which prison would be best. >> what about guantánamo bay? >> jesse: the media fantasizes over trump's demise. stormy takes the stand. >> the good news is, they have nothing. >> i started creating synthetic identities and i would buy houses in their name. eventually i went on the run. being on the run was probably one of the best times of my life. >> jesse: how one of america's most prolific conmen got it together. plus... >> it off me! [♪♪] [♪♪] >> jesse: playing a game of
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jihad whack-a-mole. every time they tear down a terror ten, another pops up. university of chicago got riot squads busted and in the dead of night tearing down hamas hudson roping apart -- ripping apart barricades while the anti-the elves were fast asleep. university of san diego sick, 64 arrests, many not even students. cops found wooden stakes, propane tanks, mental shields and a sword. are birds liberation zone still going strong. the university's president told them to clear out but they have not budged. >> the student intifada has engulfed the entire country! these universities care only about their assets. a student movement will become a liability. the student intifada will make each day of continued investment more costly than the last. [ cheering and applause ]
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>> it's these -- if these administrations run their campuses as tyrants, the campus is will become ungovernable. >> jesse: harvard hasn't said in the comps yet but counter protesters are showering them with patriotic anthems. listen. [ national anthem playing ] ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ >> jesse: students at george washington university held a mock tribunal for the school's top brass. everyone was found guilty. off with their heads! [ chanting ] [ bleep ] >> the people fund you -- find you guilty.
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on the charges of using our tuition dollars to fund genocide the people find you... wall-mac guilty! >> jesse: mock beheadings? i'm pretty sure that's against the schools harassment policy. the president of the university is begging the dc police to come in and clear the protesters. the mayor says no, they are mostly peaceful. they won't do anything until it's too late. at ucla, 43 arab spring breakers charged with conspiracy to commit burglary. at the rhode island school of design, dozens of protesters hijacked a building and barricaded themselves inside. the universities presidents negotiating with the terrorist squatters but they are already getting comfortable, rappelling pizza up to the second floor. [♪♪] [ cheering ]
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>> jesse: michael more is cheering them on. >> i think this is just going to continue across the country. i hope it continues. i applaud every student who's taking a stand on their campus at graduation, whatever. this is the purpose of a democracy, to be able to redress your grievances to assemble, to have free speech and to disrupt, yes disrupt, nonviolently disrupt, and i'm talking about nonviolence, i'm not talking about -- you do have the right to take over the administration building. >> jesse: on violent? tell that to mario torres, the janitor held hostage when columbia was taken over. >> i remember looking up and i noticed that the cameras were covered. how did they get up there? that's not like 10 feet, you can't give somebody a boost. these guys were pros. i felt like we had to basically fend for ourselves. we had to play the part of public safety for ourselves and
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just protect ourselves because we did not know what was going on. >> jesse: mario will be on "primetime" tomorrow. when these camps get crushed, protesters take their fights to the streets. last night they rushed the met gala. [ crowd noise ] >> you have to go, sidewalk, sidewalk. >> this is the new york city police department, you are unlawfully in the roadway and obstructing vehicular traffic. >> jesse: funny how the met gala was protected but nothing else is. wealthy costume parties much more sacred than world war i memorials. this is a beautiful memorial that i walked past going to work every day when i lived in the city. i used to stop sometimes and just take it all in. now it's been desecrated. it makes me sad. israel wasn't even a country during world war i but these
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vandals don't know and don't care, they just want to ruin everything and everyone who built the country. the nypd has nothing to do with the war in gaza but somehow this thing morphed into an anti-cop movement. [ chanting ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> jesse: anti-semitism is just an on-ramp to overthrow western civilization. these protesters don't want peace in the mideast, they want to wage war on america and everything we stand for. biden does not want to talk about any of that. >> we've seen a ferocious surge of anti-semitism in america and around the world. jewish students blocked, harassed, attacked when walking to class. anti-semitism, anti-semitic posters, slogans calling for the annihilation of israel. the world's only jewish state.
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>> jesse: nice lines but too little too late and too narrow. young americans are being radicalized just like young muslims were during the war on terror. kids are injected with crt in high school and then freshman year in college, first semester, faculty get their hands on them and teach them the world is comprised of victims and victimizers. and then they are given extra credit for political activism. then an event happens, whatever it is, george floyd dies, trump is elected, war in the mideast, and the students are activated. money pours in tuesday's -- to these left-wing groups who on these professional onto the streets to train and lead the riots. democrat city is buckle and bail them out every single time. they are never charged, they never face consequences and they never learned their lesson. same way hunter never learned his. just as young muslims are radicalized by wicked ideology, young americans, many single,
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depressed, impressionable and angry at the status quo, are being preyed upon and then used by financially powerful interests to just whip the streets up into a frenzy for political purposes. and ultimately to satiate their own emotional problems. get it together. this is a dangerous movement, i'm binding blm, climate, defund, antifa, hamas and it's snowballing and gathering steam, heading straight for the pillars of american civilization. >> agitators, i think our government ought to find out who they are, where they are from and treat them the same way as they do the hostages. these are agitators that are hurting our country. it's happening all over the country. >> jesse: last night a columbia senior told us she's in -- seen isis flags and not the emblems blanketing campus. she saw this right after october
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7th, before israel even began to respond. this is so much more than just anti-semitism. it's literally pro- terrorism. i'm just in disbelief because celebrities are cashing in on it. ♪ blocked the barricade until palestine is free ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] the police ♪ >> jesse: grammy award-winning artist dropped and owed to hamas last night. song will probably be number 1 on the campus caliphate charts tomorrow. but just like the protesters, this guy does not even know what's going on. 's music video? look at that. palestine is misspelled on the front steps of the university. they might not have brains but they are determined. this country needs someone with a backbone to stamp it out because if it continues into the summer it could get a lot
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uglier. we saw what happened when black lives matter was allowed to fester. do not let history repeat itself. senator lindsey graham joins me now. senator, you are a powerful man in a powerful institution. you've got the congress as the power of the purse, subpoena power, you can move the feds into action. what needs to be done here? >> i think the department of justice needs to investigate where the money is coming from. there are two classes of people here, anti-semites. if you say we are hamas and you mean it, you are a religious nazi. if you say we are hamas and you don't know what it's all about, you are dumb. so there are dumb people and terrorist sympathizers and how do you fix this? win in november. here's what i can promise you, donald trump's attorney general would be all over this, these college protests -- presidents would be under the gun to stop
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this. >> jesse: some of them are dumb because they can't even spell palestine. we saw that their inbred graffiti. we just heard from one of your colleagues in the senate, your favorite friend in the senate, here's what senator fedderman had to say. listen. >> i'm not even sure what they are really, you know, protesting about. if you ask them, they are not really sure. now they are not talking about cease-fires anymore, it's working against peace in gaza and hamas is convinced they've won the pr war and they keep seeing all these kinds of protests across the nation on these campuses. it's not helpful but it's actually -- it works against. it's not grassroots, it's just paid kinds of agitation. >> jesse: so he gets it but schumer is quiet and hillary is quiet, she's a professor at columbia, barack obama who went to columbia hasn't said a thing about what's going on. why are these democrats so silent?
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>> they are afraid of the hamas wing of the democratic party and fedderman is not. they are not protesting to have a better life for palestinians, they are protesting to make sure we kill all of the jews. guess what? israel is not going to go down without a fight. here's what i want people to understand. if biden has in fact restricted weapons, put a hold on weapons to israel to defend itself, or withheld ammunition, that is a strategic mistake for the ages. it makes terrorists more likely to keep fighting. it puts israel at a big disadvantage. if the biden a ministration, after giving the speech, of joe biden has withheld ammunition and weapons to the jewish state to defend itself from religious nazi's trying to destroy all the jews in israel, that is a low point in an administration where you think there is no bottom. >> jesse: they impeached trump for delaying aid and that was
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for political purposes. they said this is also for political purposes because this is eating away at it's base in michigan and elsewhere. right now we are looking at massive protests forming outside the new york city public library if you see someone with a headband that screen and says hamas. do you remember back in the day, we never even saw any trump supporters with russian paraphernalia. if anybody had been wearing a putin mask or a russian headband , the fbi would have been knocking at their door. why is there no interest in the foreign this year? >> because the left wing of the democratic party is sympathizing with hamas and the palestinians and supporting the destruction of israel. if a maga hat was out there somewhere, we have a five alarm fire. the pta, someone wanted to take a book out of the library, that's a threat to democracy. you've got people waving isis
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flags, wearing paraphernalia of hamas, walking up and down the street and not one democratic official is saying shame on you, other than john fetterman. >> jesse: this was world war two, he wouldn't be wearing nazi stuff in manhattan or if this was war on terror you are not wearing an isis ball cap. i mean they have hostages, american hostages. >> don't try this inside carolina, it will go over well. but i really want the buy did a ministration to answer the question, are you slow walking weapons to israel? are you stopping the add munition transfers? do you have a policy of restricting weapons and ammunition to israel? if you do, you need to admit you do and let a guy like me respond in kind. this is the worst possible signal to send all the bad guys, that america would be withholding weapons and ammunition to the jewish state was under siege on multiple fronts. that is just inciting more violence. saudi arabia, if you are thinking about doing a defense
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agreement with the biden a ministration, you need to think long and hard if, in fact, biden's withholding weapons. >> jesse: we will see if we can get peter do see to get some answers tomorrow. not holding our breath. thank you. tell everyone in south carolina i say hello. >> all right, thank you. >> jesse: political reporter emmett -- emma joins me now. how would you describe this movement? >> first of all, thank you for having me. so how to describe it is basically like a release of resentment. i've been talking about this for many years and i think that what this is is really an anti-american movement or anti-western movement that is wrapped in a palestinian flag. but this is just the current thing. two or three summers ago it was george floyd. it's all the same people, all the same thing, also occupy wall street axing people, same thing. these are people who are buried
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in credit card debt at 25% a pr, people who will never own a home, people who are also buried in student loan debt because they were told that in order to buy a home and pay off credit card debt they needed higher education. also people facing marriage rights letter through the floor, facing fertility rates through the floor and they are told that there races their defining characteristic and they have to hate people of other races too. if that's your life and you've been in that since you are four years old, your entire education, and anybody who tells you otherwise is a footsoldier of the oppressive system, what are you going to want to do except break things? >> jesse: do you believe they are continuing this assault because there's never consequence? usually when i was growing up and i kind of hit a wall and jesse was not allowed to do something because if he did he was punished severely for that, no one has ever told him no. >> yeah, i mean that's kind of above my pay grade but i think that's what this is, seeking
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boundaries. they are seeking boundaries and they are not getting it from their schools, not from congress , from the police. this is a joke and it reminds me of eight child that's never been told no. >> jesse: that's what senate of florida says, we don't run a daycare. how big of a threat do you think this movement is? sometimes we trivialize it and call them names because they are hoisting pizza to the second floor, but they are doing damage, this is a poisonous movement, and it's growing. how dangerous could again? >> i think it's dangerous to the extent that they enter society with these ideas. they don't to shake off these ideas when they get their diploma and then it's over. >> jesse: so than they just became hand grenades inside corporate america. >> exactly. >> jesse: i think we've seen that with dei. thank you emma-jo. up next, stormy daniels takes the stand. [♪♪]
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[♪♪] >> jesse: fox news alert, a major win for trump and his florida classified documents trial. the judge blew out the next hearing date indefinitely. never set a new one. the whole case looks to be in limbo and there's probably no way it can start before the november election. day 13 of the trump trial, the case were no one can name the crime but it does not matter because the media has made up their minds. since there's no cameras in the courtroom the country has to rely on the same anchors who fed them the russia hoax for honest analysis. instead, pundits who loosely revel and fantasize about how trump will be incarcerated and humiliated. >> i think to make a point, to prove a point, put him in the clink. [ cheering and applause ] >> i don't want this to sound
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like i'm doing wishful thinking. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> but which prison would be best? what about guantánamo bay? >> they also assume or had this thought in their mind that maybe donald trump will go away, maybe he will go to jail, maybe he will die, not to be too morbid. >> this is not a mug shot, this is jail and donald trump is terrified just by his issues with odors and smells. >> jesse: stormy daniels took the stand today, serving up salacious testimony that the judge somehow allowed. this is when the media who gave us lewinsky, me too pretends to be prude. >> i did some of the, you know, stuff that makes your years blush in the last hour. >> daniels says she told trump of the magazine, someone should spank you with that. i'm sorry,. >> there's such a vivid detail you felt like you were with her in the room. when she is describing the
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things he's saying to her, and just how gross so much of it is. >> wearing silk or satin put john most. [ laughter ] >> i'm sorry, i apologize i had to laugh. >> jesse: what about the jury? foxbusiness correspondent lydia hughes outside the court with the latest. >> reporter: good evening jesse. when stormy daniels entered the courtroom today, you could cut the tension with a knife. she entered through a side door like all of the witnesses do and she walked just behind the former president donald trump and his defense council as she made her way up to the seat at the witness stand. daniels appeared comfortable when she did this in casual attire wearing what appeared to be a black longsleeved hooded cover up over a black t-shirt. her hair casually twisted up in a messy style with a clip. overall, daniels was a great witness for the prosecution. not because she helped prove
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their charges that donald trump falsified documents, she was a good storyteller with a salacious story to tell today. from the stand she was animated, she looked at the jurors while answering questions, she even tried to record joke at one point about her adult film producing company sponsoring a celebrity golf tournament back in 2006 when she met donald trump. no one laughed at the joke. but she went on to testify that when she met trump out on the links, that led to conversation, she saw him later at the golf pro shop. she went on to take him up on an invitation for dinner because she thought she could have a chance at landing a spot on the popular television show the apprentice. she says that led to more talks and then a sexual encounter. and about that encounter, daniels said she blacked out. she wasn't drugged but she does not remember any of it, she said. this prompted fierce objections from defense attorneys. they did not want jurors to here
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any insinuations that daniels did not feel safe with trump. even the judge had to cancel daniels -- counseled daniels to limit her answers to the specific questions asked. the heating exchanges lead to a demand from the defense attorneys for a mistrial. they argue that the daniels testimony was so graphic and so disconnected from the charges of falsified documents that jurors cannot now be expected to decide this case fairly. but they heard the testimony. no one can on ring the bell. the judge denied the request for a mistrial. so we did get to cross-examination today and it was really remarkable to see stormy daniels demeanor change. it was like a switch was flipped she went from charming and talkative to combative and kurt. it was defense attorney who led the cross-examination and she got stormy daniels to admit that stormy hates donald trump, that stormy wants to see donald trump in jail. she also pursued a line of
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questioning about stormy's motives behind the nondisclosure agreement and ultimately selling her story. stormy daniels admitted she was motivated by money. no trial tomorrow, trial picks up again on thursday. stormy daniels takes the stand again with cross-examination resuming. back to you. >> jesse: thank you so much. joining me now, formal federal prosecutor. katie, this judge seems like he has no control. he let's this woman testify in just a disgusting manner, total ridiculousness hearsay, and then he says all right jury, you did not hear that, forget you heard that. what kind of judges this? >> i think it's safe to say whoever paid for stormy daniels silence deserves a refund because we've heard every dirty detail and it's irrelevant and should never have come in. i know there have been legal pundits saying that put under the rules of evidence, this is an -- under admissible. it has nothing to do with the charges, it should not have come in.
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it probably constitutes what would be reversible error but likely the prosecution does not care because at that point this is all about the election and i think we see that. but what i will say is that i think the jury might see this as a low blow that it is. and so they may not have the patience for it. this is totally unconnected to any of the charges and has almost no relevance. >> jesse: so they know it's garbage, they are just doing it even if it is inadmissible and could blow up the mistrial, they don't care, they just want to get the dirt and before the election. now how are they blind siding the trump defense with 24-hour notice about who the next witness is going to be? how is that fair, to sandbag the defendant? >> the defense knows generally what witnesses are going to be called. they don't know the order they will be called in. >> jesse: but you need to be able to prepare. >> of course you do. there are no answers from the judge regarding the explanation for why they are being sandbagged in that way so that
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is totally nonstandard. they should be informed, they should have adequate time to prepare. cross examinations take a lot of preparation and there's a lot of prior statements that stormy daniels has given that they need to go over so certainly it's completely unfair but again i think it proves the point that this is not necessarily about keeping a clean record for the appeal because the appeal seems almost a foregone conclusion. >> jesse: we are just hearing more dirty things about two of the prosecutors. one a paid dnc consultant, the other was a biden donor. also, the judge is a biden donor. what do you know. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> jesse: chris hansen on deck [♪♪] ay seem fine down there, but you need to watch out for diseases. i'll be okay. does this look ok?! ugh. how do i protect myself? with the new scotts healthy plus lawn food. it's the only product that prevents 27 diseases while feeding your grass to help keep your lawn healthy this season. want me to show you how to put it on?
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mountainous region where an entire generation of locals have left. where did they go? they walked straight through biden's open border into the american heartland to felt joe cell fentanyl and send the prophets back home. [ speaking alternate language ] >> voice of interpreter: the vast majority of the population travels to the united states and canada but one of the consequences is the lack of jobs and another the economy. the money we make here has no value and in the united states in one week of work or four days we make what we would make in one month here. the children living here, the majority of their father's are in the north and that's why our economy is stable. >> jesse: migrant drug dealers are playing parasite, breaking into our country, selling us poison and then plowing the process -- prophets back across the border untaxed and on detected. the bloodmoney sent back to honduras though their families can live in luxury. gated mansions sprouting out amongst the slums where 40
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niners and broncos flags pay homage to the american cities where they slang the narcotics. look at that. a well oiled machine running up and down the hemisphere that is not slowing down. [ speaking alternate language ] mack about 80% of the youth has migrated to the united states. perhaps due to opportunity for work because sometimes the graduates here cannot find a job. the easiest and practical thing to do is to travel to the united states. here you will see a lot of business because the money from the youth that go to the united states, they make their micro enterprises and provide work which is what we live off of in these municipalities. [ end of interpretation ] >> jesse: host of takedown with prince hanson on true blue and the predators of -- podcast currents hansen joins us now. tell us about the money. if you are making profits selling narcotics in the united states, untaxed, lots of cash, what does that get you in honduras?
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>> in this area of honduras, the average daily salary is about eight dollars. in san francisco and some other cities, home to rent drug dealers here illegally can make 350,000 or $400,000 a year. to buy one of those mansions for about $150,000, it's about five months work slang and fentanyl in san francisco. >> jesse: and they are never arrested and when they are arrested they are let out and no one tells ice because at the century city. >> exactly and if you think you are immune by living outside of a century city, think again. just today i talked to a sheriff who told me last month they uncovered a scheme where fentanyl dealer's were trafficking fentanyl from california, mexico into different states in the southeast including florida, using an app that is like uber or lyft. in that county alone, since
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january of 2023, enough fentanyl has been seized to kill every living human being in florida. >> jesse: so they are getting rich by killing us. >> that's right. there has been some movement. the federal government is starting to crack down and just a few months ago 300 nationals were extradited into california to face charges. but we are talking about 350-400 active illegal hondurans in the drug world in san francisco as we speak. >> jesse: they are telling us that people are coming from honduras because they are fleeing persecution and they fear for their lives in honduras but what is the truth? >> the truth is honduras is one of the deadliest countries in the world so you are not making any money accu can get killed there, yes, and some hondurans are getting into the country and working in construction, honest jobs and sending money back. what we are looking at, that's the illegal drug trade, and they found a home here because in the
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century cities, you know, the judges are letting these people off. the prosecutor gets it in san francisco, the police get it, the federal agents get it by the judges are saying [ inaudible ] >> jesse: unbelievable. can you tease what you have next? >> what we have next is how this drug trade is fuelling a world of retail crime that is ending business not just in san francisco but in the suburbs because now the users of fentanyl, the addicts, are taking the train down into the suburbs, stealing and bringing the money back to buy fentanyl and there isn't open air market. >> jesse: a smash and rab. thank you so much. catch him on true blue. up next, how one of america's most prolific conmen got it together. [♪♪] ♪ that colonoscopy for getting screened ♪ ♪ is why i'm delaying ♪ ♪ i heard i had a choice ♪ ♪ i know the name, that's what i'm saying ♪ -cologuard®? -cologuard.
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[♪♪] >> jesse: in my book, perhaps you've heard of it, people from all walks of life opened up to me. they share their life stories and their deepest secrets. but just because we finished the book doesn't mean to get it
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together series is over. today we are talking to the fbi's most wanted conmen. meet matthew cox. he went from a mortgage broker to america's top fraudster. he was on the run for a decade, evading u.s. marshals, the fbi and secret service on an international goose chase. using identity theft, forgery and fraud, he stole nearly $55 million from american banks. once he was caught, he faced 42 counts and 400 years in prison. but he plea bargains and only served a fraction of the sentence and after 12 years was released in 2019. cox got it together. now working as a true crime writer, podcaster and developing a tv series about his life, his story is described as catch me if you can meets wolf of wall street meets the big short. matthew cox joins us now. so matthew, you were an art major. how did you go from an art major to a mortgage fraudster?
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>> well probably out of necessity. you aren't going to make a lot of money as an art major. [ laughter ] >> jesse: what was the first thing you did that was against the law? >> i mean i committed bank fraud when i whited out a 30 day late on a borrower's verification of rent. i mean, that's fraud. i whited it out and major the lone went through and made a little commission. that was the first thing i did. >> jesse: okay, so how did it get to such a high level where you were ripping off banks are millions? what was the scam like? >> i mean every time i got away with something it just emboldens me. i got more and more brazen and then ultimately it got to a point were even when i would get caught, i typically managed to get away with it. >> jesse: how would you create synthetic identities? >> i convinced social security
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to issue me social security numbers to children that don't exist and then i would get three secured credit cards in their name. >> jesse: you also went through newspaper clippings about car wrecks. how did that scam work? >> well that's part of it. so after you make six months or three month worth of payments and i would stop paying, what would happen is the banks would start to send out collection letters. they want a reason why this person is not paying so what i would do is i would take an article in the newspaper and i would cut and pasted together for let's say a 17 car pileup in tampa and someone was airlifted to general hospital. i would put my fake borrower's name in there and then i would print the article out, write a letter from his sister and say look, my brother was in a
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horrible accident, he's currently in a coma, the doctors say even if he comes out of the coma he will never work again so you might as well take the house. >> jesse: how did you get caught? >> that time i was caught because there was caught prior to that, i was handcuffed at a bank it questioned but i convinced them the bank had committed fraud and they needed to let me go. the bank had realized that i had borrowed like -- they only thought i borrowed three mortgages on the house but i probably had about six. i convinced the detective that the bank and the bank employees may have committed fraud by giving me a first loan and then sending me to another bank to get another and another but i certainly did not do anything. like all e.g. officer, i would not do this. >> jesse: then eventually you did get collard. >> yes, eventually i got caught. there was a tv show called dateline that was coming out on me and so the girl i was seeing found a blog where they were
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posting about it, how they were interviewing people, and so i realized it was happening so started pulling cash out of the bank, we would get a few million and leave, and my girlfriend at the time confided in a friend of hers. she called the secret service, there watched my house for three days and grabbed me. >> jesse: what was it like in prison? >> it was a medium security prison. people are getting stabbed and there's riots and, you know, it's a violent place. i mean i would love to tell you i had to join a gang. nobody wants me in again. >> jesse: but they did want you because they wanted you to tell their stories and that's what you are doing now? >> i wrote my memoir and then i ended up writing a memoir for a guy laid by jonah hill in the movie were hogs. i wrote is memoir and then i got some in rolling stone magazine.
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>> jesse: do you have advice for people going down the wrong road? >> before i went into prison i had all the money in the world. everybody was my friend, i thought everybody was my friend, but the truth is those were really friends and that money did not really mean anything. i was happier in prison writing stories than i ever was prior to prison. i'm happier now than i have ever been in my entire life. >> jesse: well it's great advice and you are probably happier than you ever have been because you are on "jesse watters primetime" and we appreciate that. thank you for sharing your life story with us. it's definitely a doozy. so you got it together, thank you. >> thank you. >> jesse: homeless woman versus bus driver. right back. [♪♪] did i read this? did i get eggs? where are my keys? memory and thinking issues keep piling up? it may be due to a buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain.
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in la you might have to throw down with a homeless person or rather a unhoused person who wants a free ride watch. >> get the. [ bleeps ] off. get the. [ bleeps ] off. get off, to get off me get off of me man. get off of me. >> jesse: she seems nice. the vagrant was eventually arrested in the drivers, okay, just another day in sunny la.
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you can literally change your emotional well-being by being grateful. there's this this whole gratitude movement just happened to it thought it was weird beforehand and no 1 doing a deep dive and loving it. a little smirk on your face 5 minutes a day be grateful for what you have and walk around and be happy to do some texts. hank from pennsylvania i don't think the students hoisting that were majoring in engineering it was sideways. >> jesse: you might get a cheese dribble that would be no good. alex from san juan california shouldn't be so upset over and vandals and you should be met. >> jesse: i'm working on anger issues. chris from pennsylvania how about that john federman? >> jesse: i miss him. jerry from tulsa, the only thing resident trump is guilty of his squatting he's been living
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rent-free in the heads of these democrats 8 years now. patricia from arizona i'm a teacher in arizona i make less than 40 grant a year i'm thinking i should have been a drug dealer from honduras. >> jesse: 5 months of work, through inner and $50,000 wheat don't consider it. mark from new york. how much con can an ex-con on if the ex-con gets it together? and angelo from florida this guy cox was in 5 years in jail for getting 55 million where do i signed up? i have to find it with a layer was. and jesse would you pick to roast you. it would be gutfeld. i'm waters and this is my world. >> ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannity as athi

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