we found out the thing was paid up. there is no tv station. there was no award. it s pretty clear that sasha baron cohen wanted me to say something pretty crazy about guns like in america, we ought to arm pre school kids. did an alarm go off in your head, congressman? its did, michael, it was too late, because i was in the middle of this 15-minute thing talking about all the great things israel does. so the alarm went off, it really went off about 3:00 that next morning when i said, oh my god, i have been duped. we hired an attorney, we looked into it. we found out quickly it was this new special on showtime that he was producing, sasha was producing. we found out as you said, michael, i wasn t alone, dig kane, sarah palin, a bunch of us were duped.
there was no award, and it s pretty clear that sacha baron cohen wanted me to say something pretty crazy about guns like in america we ought to arm preschool kids. did an alarm go off in your head, congressman? yeah. it did, but again, michael, it was too late, because i was in the middle of this 15-minute thing talking about all the great things israel does. so the alarm went off, but the alarm really went off about 3:00 that next morning when i said oh, my god, i ve been duped, and then we hired an attorney. we looked into it, and we found out pretty quickly that it was this new special on show time that he was producing, sacha was producing, and we found out i wasn t alone. a bunch of us were duped. so relative to governor
mechanism that would trap him at the point of entree. in parkland, an alarm went off and made kids sitting ducks. here an alarm went off. we don t know the full focus of events. people are listening and watching you, someone they deeply result because you re on top of this. what is to stop my kids and others from saying, next time they have an alarm go off, i m not going where the crowds are going. i m avoiding them. it s human nature. it s extremely difficult. go back to when the towers got hit. certain people were told to stay and they knew, particular livids that were there in 93. that i were the first to bolt down the stairs and run across the brooklyn bridge. neil: so your advice, bolt, leave? pat brosnan s advice is difficult to say. there s so many different moving parts to the scenario.
you ve heard stories where inmates will take civilians hostage or whatever. he always would say i never had anything to worry about. he would make sure that i was safe. reporter: did you take that to mean that he personally would or that he also had connections within the prison where he could protect you in other areas as well? i took it, at first, personally. reporter: that he would protect you? > yeah, he would protect me personally. reporter: did an alarm go off in your body at that moment? was there some internal alert that said, joyce, this is a slippery slope ? yes. there was. and did anybody ever stop you as you were having some of these conversations with the inmates and say, you know, joyce, back off a little bit. get back behind the desk. treat them like inmates. stop being such a nice person. stop being friends with them. they never actually told me to stop, but they did say, you
civilians hostage or whatever. he always would say i never had anything to worry about. he would make sure that i was safe. do you take that to mean that he personally would, or that he also had connections within the prison where he could protect you in other areas as well? i took it, at first, personally. that he would protect you? > yeah, he would protect me personally. did an alarm go off in your body at that moment? was there some internal alert that said, joyce, this is a slippery slope ? yes. there was. and did anybody ever stop you as you were having some of these conversations with the inmates and say, you know, joyce, back off a little bit. get back behind the desk. treat them like inmates. stop being such a nice person. stop being friends with them. they never actually told me to stop, but they did say, you know, you re - - you re too