and why is this important? well, because when you win an the next year for the big category, you get to present next year s winner. so the fact he won t be there, it just sort of drags and carries this out. i am not saying it s wrong they decided this. quite frankly, i actually thought they were just going to expel him forever. that he was not going to be able to ever come back but there was a lot of public pressure, a lot of celebrities came out, you know, telling the academy that you did the wrong thing, you should have pulled him out of the oscars, out of the dolby theater and he shouldn t have been able to accept the oscar that night. so they had to do something strong. i wonder if they would have handled it differently in the moment if they would maybe people would have thought his punishment would have been not being there. well, you know, let me let me tell you something. so in this lengthy statement today, i am going to read you just a little bit of what they said. they
the board of governors for the motion picture academy convening today to decide on a punishment for will smith after the actor slapped comedian chris rock live on stage at the oscars cursing rock out and telling him to keep his wife s name out of his mouth. i hate watching that video. i know. hey, it s forever going to overshadow this moment, the most you know, i ve been talking with people recently and it s unbelievable that in less than an hour he had the highest moment of his professional career and the lowest. and so against the image that he has crafted over all these years and so unlike him. what did the academy decide today? so the academy, the board of governors convening today, moving up their april 18th date after will smith resigned banning will from ever attending the academy awards for the next decade. so for ten years he cannot attend any academy events in person, virtually.
he is handling this the perfect way. i wonder what he is going to say. my question is and who knows when he is going to speak out did the academy address chris rock? they did. they praised chris for his composure and the way that he handled himself. and you heard will packer recently say, don, that he thinks chris saved the oscars. i went to a couple of chris s shows in boston last week, and he said i m still processing this. i m going to address this at some point fully. it will be funny. it ll be serious. but, you know, you have had a couple of chris s brothers come out and speak and say they don t accept, you know, will s apology. and chris even said during his shows last week, don, that will had not personally apologized to him. so i really wonder, has will, despite these public proclamations of apology, has he gone to chris and said i m sorry? don t forget, they starred in a movie together once. something interesting i found out, that i didn t realize until recently. madagas
so, they are apologizing again. this was an opportunity for us to set an example for our guests, viewers, and our academy family around the world and we fell short. unprepared for the unprecedented. so, you know, look. i think that, you know, hindsight is 20/20. they had about 40 minutes from the moment the slap happened to the moment that he won best actor. you heard will packer, the producer for the oscars, go on gma and say chris rock also said to him i don t want them to remove will will smith. i don t want them to i don t want to charge will smith is anything. you know, the lapd was ready to arrest will smith for battery. will packer s saying that chris didn t want this to turn into something bigger than it already was. every person, even tonight, just speaking to people, they re of course, they re asking me you know, they talk about the war and the next thing is will smith, right? academy awards. and they said, man, chris rock, he is certainly handled himself well.
and we win or it gets kicked to congress 6th january 2021. this text part of a traunch of thousands of texts from meadows the committee has in its possession. and, don, in addition to these plans don jr. shared to mark meadows about the election certification he was also already talking about his father s second term as president of the united states and the plans he wanted him to implement almost immediately. he said, quote, fire fauci, make grenell the interim head of the fbi, have barr selective special prosecutor, biden crime family. and what you can tell from this text message on november 5th before the votes were even done being counted is that donald trump s closest family members including his son really truly believed that he was going to stay in office. don? ryan nobles, thank you so much. the academy handing down