CBS: Ammon Bundy Urges Oregon Protesters To Go Home

‘Go home and hug your families; this fight is ours for now in the courts’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

ROSE: “Three more members of an armed group who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon are in custody and their surrender came as their leader Bundy urged the followers to end the occupation. He made a court appearance Wednesday in Portland. Bundy said in a statement, quote, ‘Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now in the courts.’”
KING: “And all 11 members of the group have been arrested and face felony charges. Some holdouts remain inside the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. Carter Evans is in Burns, Oregon. Carter, good morning.”
EVANS: “Good morning. Locals here want the occupation to end as soon as possible. Of one man, as many as ten anti-government protesters remain hunkered down and vowing to make a last stand.”
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UNKNOWN MAN: “This is a free for all Armageddon!”
EVANS (voice-over): “That is the message from one man still inside the Malheur Wildlife Refuge and he is calling for reinforcement.”
UNKNOWN MAN: “They stop you from getting here! Kill them!”
EVANS (voice-over): “He and others are refusing to end the armed occupation which began as a protest over federal land ownership. This, even as their jailed leader, Ammon Bundy, urges them to go home.”
ARNOLD: “Mr. Bundy wants everybody to remember that somebody died. And this is not just about him right now.”
EVANS (voice-over): “Bundy and several others were arrested Tuesday when law enforcement stopped them on a road about 20 miles from the compound. Bundy’s brother Ryan was injured and the group spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was killed and he had recently told reporters he would rather die than be caged.”
FINICUM: “I’m going to not spend my days in a cell.”
EVANS (voice-over): “Supporters are calling him a martyr.”
C. BUNDY: “She said they cold blooded shot him and she figures at least six times. Three or four of the times after he was on the ground dead.”
EVANS (voice-over): “But authorities put the blame squarely on the protesters.”
BRETZING: “Let me be clear. It is the actions and choices of the armed occupiers of the refuge that has led us to where we are today.”
EVANS (voice-over): “11 people, including Bundy, now face felony charges of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States through the use of force, intimidation, or threats.”
WARD: “This can’t happen anymore. This can’t happen in America and it can’t happen in Harney county.”
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EVANS: “The FBI has blocked off all roads into the wildlife refuge and the federal criminal complaint revealed that the occupiers are believed to have had explosives inside their compound.”
O’DONNELL: “Wow. All right, Carter, thank you very much.”

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