CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY?
>> YES.
>> THANK YOU, AGAIN.
MR. BLAKE AND LETETRA, I HAVE TO
ASK, HOW IS JACOB DOING?
HOW IS HE THIS MORNING?
>> YOU KNOW, JACOB GOT SHOT IN
HIS BACK SEVEN TIMES.
SO I CAN ONLY EXPECT HE’S DOING
AS SOMEONE WOULD THAT HAD GOTTEN
SHOT IN THE BACK SEVEN TIMES.
I KNOW HE’S GONE UNDER A LOT OF
STRESS, TRAUMA, AND HE IS
PROBABLY VERY EXHAUSTED.
HE’S MEDICATED HEAVILY FROM THE
PAIN.
SO I MEAN, THAT’S HOW HE’S
DOING.
>> YEAH.
MR. BLAKE, HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO
HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR
SON OR IS HE JUST NOT AT THIS
POINT ABLE TO DO THAT?
>> HE’S -- YESTERDAY HE WAS IN
AND OUT, YOU KNOW, HE’S HEAVILY
SEDATED.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
SO YOU MIGHT GET TWO, THREE
MINUTES OF -- AND THEN NONE FOR
THE REST OF THE CONVERSATION.
>> YEAH, THAT MUST BE INCREDIBLY
DIFFICULT AND OUR THOUGHTS ARE
WITH YOU.
MR. CRUMP, GIVEN ALL THIS, CAN
YOU PROVIDE SOME CLARITY?
WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE
POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE THAT HAS
OVERLAID THIS.
I SPOKE WITH MARK MEADOWS WHO
SAID THE PRESIDENT WAS IN TOUCH
WITH THE FAMILY’S PASTOR, THE
PRESS SECRETARY SAID THIS
MORNING THERE HAS BEEN OUTREACH
ON THE PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE,
BUT THEY HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO
CONNECT.
BEN, WHAT IS THE STATUS OF A
POTENTIAL CONVERSATION BETWEEN
MR. BLAKE’S FAMILY AND PRESIDENT
TRUMP?
>> WELL, HALLIE, THANK YOU
FOR -- JACOB BLAKE AND HIS
FAMILY.
MY OFFICE RECEIVED NO CALLS TO
SET UP ANY KIND OF MEETING.
I KNOW WHEN VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN
AND SENATOR HARRIS WANTED TO
MAKE CONTACT WITH THE FAMILY,
THEY SIMPLY CALLED MY OFFICE AND
WE COORDINATED SUCH A MEETING.
BUT RIGHT NOW THIS FAMILY IS NOT
FOCUSED ON POLITICS.
HALLIE, THEY ARE FOCUSED ON
TRYING TO HELP A YOUNG MAN WHO
HAS SEVEN BULLETS GO THROUGH HIS
SPINAL CORD, FRACTURE HIS
VERTEBRAE, GO INTO HIS COLON, HE
LOST HIS COLON, GO INTO A SMALL
INTESTINE, HE LOST MOST OF HIS
INTESTINES, GOING INTO HIS ARM,
GO INTO HIS KIDNEY, THEY WERE
ABLE TO SAVE HIS KIDNEY, TWO
HOLES IN HIS STOMACH.
HE LOST PORTIONS OF HIS BOWELS,
HE LOST PORTIONS OF HIS ORGANS
AN HE IS DEVASTATED KNOWING THAT
HE CAN’T MOVE HIS LEGS AND THAT
HIS THREE YOUNG BOYS WITNESSED
HIM BEING SHOT IN THAT CAR.
AGES 8 YEARS OLD, 5 YEARS OLD
AND 3 YEARS OLD.
AND SO YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE THESE
BABIES ARE GOING TO HAVE FOR
REST OF THEIR LIVES AND THE
8-YEAR-OLD -- FOR THE REST OF
HIS LIFE.
>> AND IT IS A LITANY OF
OBVIOUSLY DIFFICULTIES THAT
JACOB FACES.
AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF
THOSE.
LETETRA, FIRST, DO YOU WANT TO
TALK?
I KNOW VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN AND
SENATOR HARRIS REACHED OUT.
DO YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN
SPEAKING TO PRESIDENT TRUMP?
>> BEING THAT MY PARENTS ARE HER
AND LIVING, AND THEY’RE THE HEAD
OF THIS, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING
THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE. IT IS NOT FOR ME TO DECIDE.
IT IS NOT FOR ME TO DECIDE.
I’M DEFINITELY HERE TO --
>> I DON’T WANT POLITICS.
