Full Video Of Covington Catholic HS Debacle

Nathan Phillips stopping several feet between two groups on the Lincoln Memorial mall

A witness to the entire Covington Catholic High School debacle mocking Native American Nathan Phillips recorded the entire incident and posted it to YouTube.

The first hour and twelve minutes are the African American group on the Lincoln Memorial mall having their own protest. Along comes the Covington teens, and things get tense.

Around the 1:12:00 mark, Phillips enters the scene with his drum, clearly intent on diffusing the tensions before they escalate. He clearly stops yards away from both groups. The teens then approach him.

Some students from the school have attempted to say Phillips was the aggressor with the boy. We do not see Phillips step up to the primary MAGA-hatted teen in the other videos.

This video doesn't show the close-up of the Vietnam Veteran and the boy, but it does support Phillip's story - along with several witnesses - that he was trying to stop something before it escalated into worse.

Hit play and the video will start shortly before we see Phillips.

In an email exchange with a reporter at Heavy.com, a woman who claimed to be the teen's mother said that it was Phillips, who she referred as “this man,” who was drumming close to the teen’s face.

She added that the students were harassed “by black Muslims," later identified as members of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

The Covington Catholic mother wrote, “Shame on you! Were you there? Did you hear the names the people where calling these boys? It was shameful. Did you witness the black Muslims yelling profanities and video taping trying to get something to futher (sic) your narrative of hatred?? Did you know that this “man” came up to this one boy and drummed in his face? Shame on you. Only reporting what you want. More fake news.”

Somehow, the woman was attaching the behavior of the African Americans to the Indigenous group, who we don't see yelling any profanities in any video at the teens.

When the Heavy reporter thanked her for the correspondence and explained that it would be added to the story, she demanded her emails be erased.

Australian Prime Minister Mocks Trump's "Winning, Winning, Winning" Schtick

This probably won't do much to warm up the chilly relationship between President Trump and Australia's Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.

At a recent event down under, Turnbull's off the record speech to journalists included mimicking Trump's attacks on fake news, "winning," and ties to Russia all done in the Donald's now famous hyperbole.

From The Guardian:

In his speech to the Canberra press gallery’s Midwinter Ball, the Australian equivalent of the White House correspondents’ dinner, Turnbull says: “The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls. We are winning so much, we are winning, we are winning like we have never won before. We are winning in the polls. We are, we are. Not the fake polls. Not the fake polls. They’re the ones we’re not winning in.

“We’re winning in the real polls.

“You know, the online polls. They are so easy to win. I know that. Did you know that? I kind of know that. They are so easy to win. I have this Russian guy.

“Believe me it’s true, it’s true.”

Speeches at the press gallery Midwinter Ball are intended to be light-hearted. For a decade, the speeches made at the dinner have been widely regarded as being off-the-record. However, the most senior press gallery journalist, Channel Nine’s Laurie Oakes, routinely refuses to attend the ball and has consistently said he is not bound by the off-the-record convention.

I do think that if the annual ball's antics are agreed to be "off-the-record," then Oakes is something of a dick to publish even if he didn't attend.

Listen to Turnbull's comments below.

Trump Spokesman: Why Are You Listening To What Trump Says As Opposed To What's In His Heart?

Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway tried in vain to divert from the fact that we were all reminded last night of Donald Trump's disgusting mocking of a New York Times reporter during the presidential campaign.

After Meryl Streep's comments during the Golden Globe Awards last night, Team Trump is again on defense about the hideous mocking of Serge Kovaleski.

Via Mediaite:

During Meryl Streep‘s fiery speech against the president-elect at the Golden Globes, she brought up the moment in the 2016 election where Trump seemed to crudely mock the disability of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. Conway was asked about this by CNN’s Chris Cuomo, where he pressed her to explain why Trump couldn’t just admit to what he did, apologize for it, and move on.

“That is not what he did,” Conway said when asked if what Trump did was wrong. Cuomo brought up how Trump can deny mocking Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as much as he wants, and yet, there’s a great deal of evidence to show that that is what he did.

“Why can’t you give him the benefit of the doubt…,” Conway asked, to which, Cuomo answered “because he’s making a disgusting gesture on video about Serge.”

The two of them continued to spar as Cuomo pointed out Trump’s actions, while Conway continued to insist that the mocking behavior was about Kovaleski “groveling.”

“Why don’t you believe him? Why isn’t it taken at face value?” Conway said in exasperation. “You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart? You want to go with what’s come out of his mouth rather than what’s in his heart.”

Wait - did we read that correctly? Conway wants us to stop listening to what's coming out of Trump's mouth and instead of "what's in his heart???"

Good for Chris Cuomo for not letting her divert from the issue.

"Why can't you give him the benefit of the doubt?" Kellyanne Conway says Trump wasn't mocking reporter's disability. https://t.co/3LAWwTIME4

— New Day (@NewDay) January 9, 2017