Ep. 244 - The Midterm Grand Finale
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Kanye West lashes out at Candace Owens, says he s been used to push a political message he doesn t support, Paul Ryan lashes at President Trump over birthright citizenship, and Don Lemon lashes at white men. Meanwhile, Americans donate $600,000 to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for some reason, and Jon Stewart slams the media.
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Ah, future president Kanye West lashes out at Candace Owens, saying he's been used to push
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a political message he doesn't support. Paul Ryan lashes out at President Trump over birthright
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citizenship, and Don Lemon lashes out at white men. Meanwhile, Americans donate $600,000 to
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Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh, for some reason. Democrats can't win for losing,
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and Jon Stewart slams the media. I'm Brett Kavanaugh, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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It's Halloween. It's Halloween, Senya. It's Halloween. Yeah, I like Halloween. I still
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like Halloween, okay? I eat candy. I would eat candy with my friends, okay? Sometimes we would
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eat candy. Sometimes we would eat too much candy, and our stomachs would hurt, and our bellies would
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ache, and our teeth would rot, and we would go to the dentist. Do you go to the dentist, Senya?
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Have you ever been? When do you go to? What dentist do you go to? I like Halloween.
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I still like Halloween. I like candy. We have a lot to get to today. We have a whole lot to get to on
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and then they send me more, and I get to wear different ones. So Kanye West is coming out now,
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and he says that he feels that he has been used to spread a political message that he does not believe in.
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That's what he says, and that's the headline you've seen. The headline that you've seen everywhere.
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Kanye West feels used, leaves politics. They would have you believe that he's taken off the MAGA hat,
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burning it in a pile, that he's leaving the Republican Party. He regrets everything he said.
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Nothing could be further from the truth. What Kanye tweeted out is, quote,
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Okay, that's fine. Obviously, this guy's been getting so much hate ever since the Oval Office
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meeting, even before that. Remember that video of TMZ sitting there saying, take the hat off. Don't
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wear the hat. He said, I love wearing the hat. You can't make me take the hat off. So he's been doing
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that, and now the media are running with this right before the midterms. They're saying Kanye
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is turning his back on Trump, except you've got to read down the line. As you know, all of these
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mainstream media articles, they will occasionally put some true things in there, but they bury them
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at paragraph 75. So in the reporting on this, what you may have missed is this, quote, from TMZ,
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Kanye contacted us to make it clear he did not mention Donald Trump in his tweets, and he's getting
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out of politics altogether. They go on. As for being used, he says he was specifically referring to
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Blexit, and that's it. He was specifically referring to this new clothing line that Candace Owens
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is releasing about black people leaving the Democrat party. He made it quite clear he was not talking
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about Trump. He's not talking about himself being a Republican or him supporting the president. He is
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simply talking about the Blexit line of clothing that Candace Owens has released. Okay. Now, Candace,
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I texted Candace once Kanye tweeted about how he loves her thinking. I texted her, and I said,
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I know the process for canonization takes a very long time. It's usually after someone dies,
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but you can be up for sainthood now because she has influenced the biggest pop star in the world
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into supporting the Republican president. That's a great thing. And he still seems to support the
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Republican president. It's like the beer thing. I like Donald Trump. I still like Donald Trump,
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but he doesn't like his face being on this Blexit campaign. That's fine. That's his right.
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And, you know, Democrats buy records too. Probably more Democrats buy pop records than Republicans,
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so he's got to watch out a little bit. Totally get it. Kanye is completely within his rights to do
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that. This has some conservative saying that we never should have rejoiced when Kanye went to the
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Oval Office in the first place. Don't play around with Kanye. You can't play around with Kanye now and
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then be sad when he turns his back on you or turns his back on some part of the conservative movement
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or whatever. Yes, we can. Why not? Why not? First of all, what he's saying here is that he doesn't
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want to be associated with this one little t-shirt campaign. And he's making clear that he still
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likes being associated with the president. He still likes Trump. Okay. But also it's fine to take the
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win. It's fine. When Kanye West came out, their biggest pop star in the world came out and said,
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I love Trump. That's a huge win for conservatives on the culture and politically. In so much as Kanye
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West has influence over people, he will now influence them to support the Republican president.
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That's great. And then he comes out and says something else. Who cares? Who cares? And we can
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just move on. Man, this is really, don't typically have beer at noon, but that's fine. That's five
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o'clock somewhere probably. That's absolutely fine. We can celebrate that. I know the thing that's
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driving this is people want politics to be like philosophy. People want politics to be just like
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it is in theory and it has to be absolutely perfect. Let's not let the perfect get in the
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way of the good. That's one of the lessons of the Trump era. President Trump comes out. He
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ostensibly has no coherent conservative political philosophy. He hasn't been steeped in the Heritage
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Foundation luncheons. He probably hasn't read a lot of Edmund Burke or Michael Oakshot or Russell
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Kirk or Hayek or what, all of those books that you're supposed to read to be the young conservative.
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Who cares? He's working in practice. And when he stops working, when he says something that's
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bad, when he goes off the deep end, then we can say, okay, we got good stuff. Now we're
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going to move on. That's how we can be about Kanye. Like Kanye, but Kanye can go do whatever
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he wants. He can make more videos in those weird suits, singing the most horrific things
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I've ever heard in a song. That's fine. He can go do that. He already helped us out a
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little bit. And, uh, and let's just take the win. Let's just accept that win and move on.
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There are other, uh, other battles to fight. One of those battles is coming up right now,
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which is this battle over birthright citizenship. So, uh, birthright citizenship has, uh, uh,
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been long debated in American history. Uh, the legal question here comes from, uh, a case
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before the Supreme Court in 1898 called U.S. versus Wong Kim Arc over whether a child born
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to legal permanent residence in the United States would have U.S. citizenship. And it was ruled
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that yes, he would have U.S. citizenship. Um, this doesn't touch on illegal aliens and the,
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the legal question over whether illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens should have
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birthright citizenship is much more confused than that and much more hotly debated. There
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are two aspects to the question, the legal and the political. The, uh, on the legal question,
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now it's being brought up. Now we're debating it. We're debating whether or not the 14th
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Amendment, first of all, says that illegal aliens get birthright citizenship, whether the 14th
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Amendment should say that, whether Congress has the right to, uh, to explain what the 14th
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Amendment says, as has been the case before when Congress changed the status of Native Americans,
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for instance, under the 14th Amendment. So maybe Congress has some right to do it. And President
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Trump, in his theatrical way, is now bringing that issue to the forefront. So people, uh, they're
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getting bogged down. Even conservatives are getting bogged down. They're saying, he can't do it. He
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can't change birthright citizenship by executive order. Okay. Sure. Fine. That's fine. Maybe he can't,
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maybe he can, maybe he can't. At least he's bringing it up. You know, so we talked about the
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legal question. The, the political question is at play here. And that is how Donald Trump is thinking.
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I don't think that he's studied constitutional law for a decade, but he's very good at politics and the
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media aspect of politics. And on this political question, the left has immediately handed Trump a
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win. The second that he said he might end birthright citizenship by executive order and they all lost
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their minds. They handed him the win. They handed conservatives a win right before the midterm
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elections. Why? Because now for the American people, they are watching the democratic party say
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that we do not support enforcing the law. We essentially support open borders. We're going
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to prioritize the demands of foreign nationals over what American citizens want. Illegal immigration
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is intensely unpopular in the United States, not just on the right, but on the left as well,
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not just among Republicans, but among Democrats as well. And Donald Trump taunts them into defending
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the indefensible. Don't take my word for it. Here is Harry Reid, former majority leader of the,
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the Senate majority leader of the Democrats law. I mean, I think he's been a Democrat politician
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since probably since 1898, probably since the Wong Kim arc case. Here is Harry Reid in 1993,
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explaining his position and the position at that time of the democratic party on birthright citizenship
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and illegal immigration. If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a
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reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break
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our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child
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with U.S. citizenship and guarantee a full access to all public and social services this society provides.
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And that's a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense
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at country county run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?
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That guy sounds further to the right than Donald Trump does. And that guy is, was the head of the
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Democrat party for a very long time. The head of Senate Democrats for a very long time.
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A lot has changed since 1993. I don't think the feeling of the country really has changed. What
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has changed is that the Democrat party is now beholden to the extreme left, the extreme left-wing
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base, which is typically the socialist white liberals like Liz Warren, like Liawatha. This puts them at odds
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on a number of questions with identity politics groups, the groups that they have cultivated through
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identity politics to vote consistently to elect Democrats. A lot of the policies that are favored by the
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leadership of the Democrat party are deeply unpopular among huge swaths of the Democrat electorate. Black
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voters and Hispanic voters in particular, which is why you're seeing something of a realignment, which is why
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you're seeing, according to Rasmussen, 40% of black Americans having a favorable view of the Republican
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president. This is basically an unheard of number. And other polls back this up. This is why you're
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seeing support among Hispanics for Republicans surging. It's why you see Donald Trump doing so
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well. He identifies these issues and he goes for wedge issues. Skilled politicians know this, especially
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when you get close to election time. You've got to try to identify wedges that can separate a politician
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from a politician's supporters. Illegal immigration is a perfect one, especially with this caravan hurtling
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toward the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, in the heat of all of this, Paul Ryan has come out and he has
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said, absolutely not. We can't. Oh, you know, I'll let Paul Ryan say it himself. Well, you obviously
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cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order. We didn't like it when Obama
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tried changing immigration laws via executive action. And obviously, as conservatives, you know,
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we believe in the Constitution. You know, as a conservative, I'm a believer in following the
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plain text of the Constitution. And I think in this case, the 14th Amendment is pretty clear.
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And that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process. But where we obviously
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totally agree with the president is getting at the root issue here, which is unchecked illegal
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immigration. Absolutely right. Absolutely right that what we have to do is get down to the issue
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of unchecked illegal immigration. He's not exactly right on this first part, by the way, where he
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says that the plain text of the Constitution is clear that the 14th Amendment offers birthright
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citizenship to illegal aliens. By the way, even I was reading through the Wong Kim Ark decision that we
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talked about earlier. I was reading through that today. Even Wong Kim Ark is far from clear on this
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question. And perhaps we should do an entire episode on this because it's a little complicated.
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But what you're going to hear from the left over the next few days is that the issue was decided
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most spectacularly by Wong Kim Ark. And that isn't true because in the discussions in that decision,
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you'll see questions being raised as to what happens to the children of hostile or invading powers,
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people that shouldn't be there who are in the country illegally. And it seems actually pretty clear
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Covfefe, C-O-V-F-E-F-E. God bless America. When you look at it, the issue is obviously much more
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complicated and you can't fit it into a five-second soundbite, but suffice it to say, it is not plain
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text. It is not plainly clear from the 14th Amendment. The issue is far from decided and it
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should be decided either by the courts or by the American people. Ultimately, probably these things have to be
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decided by the American people, but there are different ways to do that. All of which is to say that
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we should defend Paul Ryan coming out there and expressing his point of view because this is the
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theatrics. This was the point. This is what we, you know, are you not entertained? Is this not why you are
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here? We are how many days out now from the midterm elections? Midterm elections are on Tuesday, less than a
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week away. Six days away now. We are seeing the final fireworks. It's why President Trump released
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this a few days ago on Axios HBO. It's why we're all talking about it now. It's why you're seeing
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fireworks on the left and the right. This is an issue that really fires up Americans broadly and
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especially conservatives in the Republican base. And he's bringing it up because it will spark a
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legitimate discussion. So President Trump in his typical Trumpy way fired back. He said, quote,
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Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the majority rather than giving his opinions on
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birthright citizenship, something he knows nothing about. Our new Republican majority will work on
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this, closing the immigration loopholes and securing our border. Okay. Typical Trump, right? He says to his
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opponents, even his opponents who are technically on the same side as him, you don't know anything. I know
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everything and blah, blah, blah. And it's bluster and it's this and it's that, and it's so entertaining.
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We can't help but watch it. And it's focusing our attention on an issue where our attention should
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be focused to maximize our chances of maintaining the Republican majority, which Trump is, or which
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Trump has mentioned in that tweet. And it shows a legitimate disagreement and a legitimate debate that
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we can have. Can President Trump reinterpret or clarify the 14th amendment through executive order?
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Probably not. Probably he can't do it because what's going to happen is some court is going to
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put a hold on it and then it's going to work its way up through the court. It'll be perhaps decided
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by the Supreme Court. Perhaps not. Perhaps Congress will intervene and explain, explain this provision
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beforehand. They'll explain it and perhaps they'll get away with that. Perhaps that will be challenged
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by the courts. It'll work its way up to the courts. We are far from a solution on this issue,
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but at least now we're having a legitimate debate. This is a big winner issue and just pay attention
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to the theatrics of it. You know, we elected President Trump because we couldn't stop watching
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the show, right? He was the most interesting guy, or very often the most interesting guy gets elected
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president anyway, but we just wanted to see what comes next. We wanted to see that next episode and
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we want to see the next episode here, not just for the fights, but for the next episode of what
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our constitution means, whether we are one of the few countries on the face of the earth to grant
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birthright citizenship to illegal aliens. Maybe we just want to see what happens and the mainstream
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media are falling for it, hook, line, and sinker. We have had some of the greatest media fails just in
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the past week. If you missed this clip, I think this is finally evidence that Don Lemon is working
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for the GOP, that he's working for the conservative movement. I, you know, he, when you watch him,
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you think this guy is so absurd. This guy is so self-humiliating, self-beclowning. There's no way
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that he's very earnest. I'm now convinced of it. He's a GOP operative. Take it away, Don Lemon.
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We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white
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men. Most of them radicalized right up to the right. And we have to start doing something about
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them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on, you know, they had the Muslim ban. There
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is no white guy ban. So what do we do about that? You know, we have to stop drinking beer and we have
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to remember that beer is delicious and quenches your thirst. And that's why we have to stop
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drinking beer. You know, that is what he just said. He said, we have to stop demonizing people
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and remember that white men are evil. We have to stop demonizing people and we need a travel ban on
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white men. By the way, I don't think a travel ban is going to do a lot. The white men are already here.
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The white men are in your midst. They are already in the country. Obviously, who knows even where to
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begin on this? Because just on the point, I hate even to bring it up, but Don Lemon brought it up,
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so I have to answer. Just on the point, he's saying that the great terror threat in America
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is from white men. Any way you slice that assertion, it is patently false. There is just no evidence for
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it whatsoever. To begin, violent crime is at 30 year lows. There are actually a number of studies that show
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that people year over year always think that crime is increasing. I think it's just the bias of living
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in the present and of watching media and reading the newspapers. Crime, violent crime is at 30 year
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lows. That said, when you just talk about terrorism, there have been 97 Islamic terrorist attacks in the
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US since September 11th. Now, fortunately, some of those have been thwarted like the car and knife plot
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at Ohio State in 2016. Many of those have not been thwarted, like the Pulse nightclub shooting,
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which was done in the name of ISIS and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But 97 Islamic terrorist attacks in
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the US since 9-11. How many terrorist attacks by white guys? I'm not saying none. There have been a
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couple. There was that kid who shot up the black church. You remember him? That seemed to have been
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a terrorist attack. We have to define our terms, too. Terrorism has a meaning. Terrorism is when you
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target civilians to advance a political agenda. That's why we have the Geneva Conventions, is to
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protect civilians. That's why terrorists are not covered by Geneva Convention protections, because
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terrorists undermine those very protections, those very incentives. Terrorists target civilians to
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advance a political agenda. So maybe that kid who shot up the black church could be a terrorist attack.
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Maybe a few others. Some are just what would be called hate crimes. Some don't really have a
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political agenda. They just, you know, a guy in Pittsburgh hates Jews. I can't exactly see what
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his political agenda is. I'm not sure that he exactly has one. I suppose it's debatable, but that
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that is just a horrific crime. The Islamic terrorist attacks are there to advance a political agenda,
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to advance a terrorist organization that seeks political goals, that seeks the conquest of territory,
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the Islamic State and its various agencies. So on that point, obviously it's absurd.
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But let's say that Don Lemon is speaking just about murder or something, just about killing
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broadly, and that's why they're the source of terror. According to the FBI in 2016, in the year
00:23:43.840
2016, I think that's the most recent we have numbers for, around 1,400 murderers in the United States
00:23:50.080
were non-Hispanic whites. Around 1,700 murderers were black. Now, obviously, 12% of the population is
00:23:57.940
black, 80, not 88% of the population is white, but a majority of the population is white. So the
00:24:04.020
murder rate among, just among black people is significantly higher. Now, a lot of this is
00:24:11.240
gang related. A lot of this is in particular hotbeds of crime. I am not suggesting any racial
00:24:17.480
correlation, any innate aspect of race that causes criminality. I'm not suggesting that at all.
00:24:22.920
I'm responding to Don Lemon. Who is suggesting that? Who brought it up? And one has to respond
00:24:29.020
to it because his claim is so wildly absurd. But just consider how race-obsessed the left is now
00:24:35.100
that we're even having this discussion. What are the causes of crime? The causes of crime are evil.
00:24:40.080
What are the causes of evil? Well, there's the personification of evil. And then there are people
00:24:44.240
who, through bad culture, through bad character, through bad situations, through bad family
00:24:49.920
experiences, are more likely and more prone to fall into that sort of evil. But Don Lemon goes
00:24:56.740
right for race. And the left broadly goes right for race. Obviously, Don Lemon is not a serious person.
00:25:02.400
Don Lemon is the guy, when that Malaysian jetliner went down in 2014, you remember it was this bizarre
00:25:07.640
mystery. Nobody knew where the Malaysian jet was. It was Don Lemon who went on television and suggested
00:25:13.420
that there was a supernatural cause, that the jetliner was abducted by aliens or something.
00:25:19.360
We have known for at least four years that Don Lemon is not a serious person. But it's very easy
00:25:23.860
to mock him and other media figures when they're suggesting that E.T. abducted a jetliner full of
00:25:29.480
200 people. It's a little more frustrating when he starts spouting just sheer racism, sheer uninformed
00:25:37.480
racism on CNN. But that's the left for you. And he's not the only one. Not to be outdone
00:25:43.280
on racism. Somebody who has a lot more to lose, Joe Donnelly in a very tight race, Senate Democrat,
00:25:50.120
really, really tight, statistically dead heat in Indiana. Listen to what Joe Donnelly thinks about
00:25:56.580
race. Senator. We want everybody to have a chance in Indiana and in America. And my offices reflect
00:26:04.580
that, both on the campaign side and on the Senate side. Our state director is Indian American.
00:26:13.220
But he does an amazing job. Our director of all constituent services, she's African American.
00:26:21.540
But she does an even more incredible job than you could ever imagine.
00:26:25.400
I could imagine it, Joe Donnelly. It's actually, to me, it doesn't seem bizarre or out of the realm
00:26:34.780
of possibility that a black woman could do a good job. I think that's perfectly to be expected.
00:26:40.600
But to you, pal, it's absurd that a black woman could do a good job. What does he say? He says,
00:26:46.120
you know, our director of this and that, he's an Indian American. But he's one of the good ones.
00:26:50.860
But he does an amazing job, as though the expectation is that an Indian can't do anything
00:26:58.600
right. I only know of one Indian who can't do anything right, and her name is Elizabeth Warren.
00:27:03.400
All of the other Indians I know are perfectly competent people, perfectly intelligent. And
00:27:08.400
the way that you know that this wasn't just a slip of the tongue, that this was a little bit more
00:27:13.700
like a Freudian slip, where you say one thing, but me and your mother, the way that you know that
00:27:17.080
this was more of a Freudian slip is he did it twice in a row. He doubled down,
00:27:20.860
somehow he didn't hear himself saying, well, he's an Indian, but. Butts negate sentences,
00:27:26.460
buddy. Butts subvert your expectations. Well, and she's an African American, but she does a very
00:27:33.300
good job. A much better job than you could ever imagine. Than some people could ever imagine. Fine.
00:27:39.480
This is pretty devastating. Because again, look, Don Lemon is not a serious person. CNN is not a
00:27:44.020
serious news outlet. So when they push this sensationalist, racist drivel and slander,
00:27:51.300
it's what we expect. They're behaving how we expect them to. But Joe Donnelly is supposed to
00:27:55.700
be a skilled politician who's in a very tight race, who's in the fight of his political career now
00:28:00.800
in Indiana. We'll see if he can preserve it on Tuesday. Then to come out with that statement,
00:28:05.780
it's so sloppy. It's so lazy. And maybe it reflects what he actually believes. Because if that wasn't
00:28:12.260
enough, let's forget about Don Lemon. Let's forget about Joe Donnelly, those pipsqueaks,
00:28:18.260
that minor league. Let's go right to the queen bee herself, Hillary Clinton, in conversation at the
00:28:24.340
92nd Street Y with her opinion on black people.
00:28:27.060
What do you think of Cory Booker's and you didn't come on him and you feel free to?
00:28:31.380
What do you think about him saying, kick them in the shins, essentially, start to get to that
00:28:47.320
If you weren't able to see that, I can just do the impression for you of Hillary. She goes,
00:28:58.920
They're all laughing and the whole crowd is laughing. Oh, ha, ha, ha. Look, I've been
00:29:02.560
to a lot of events at the 92nd Street Y. The 92nd Street Y in Manhattan is where all of
00:29:08.880
the cultural, sophisticated people go. You know, they all have glasses that look like
00:29:13.540
this and they all drink Chablis and they go there and listen to, they probably watch
00:29:17.780
TED Talks, you know, that kind of thing. They're all left of Lennon. They're all laughing.
00:29:24.580
Look, what's interesting about this joke, look, she made a joke and she's making a joke about
00:29:29.100
this other woman who can't, who is confusing two very different black men. Okay, she's
00:29:36.860
kind of making the joke on the other woman. Hillary's been here before. She's made some
00:29:40.900
of these racial jokes before and they've fallen flat, so I'm confused as to why she would keep
00:29:45.400
doing it. A few years ago, she went on stage with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and they
00:29:50.620
made a joke about how they showed up late because they were running on CP time. He said,
00:29:55.400
CP, you mean colored people time? And she says, no, cautious politician time. Ha, ha, ha. The joke
00:30:02.680
being that black people show up late. Okay, this fell flat. Apologies were demanded. And then she
00:30:11.380
made this one again. And this joke wasn't scripted. This one just kind of came from her and she said,
00:30:15.760
I know they all look alike, don't they? Ha, ha, ha. I'm not hitting her for making a racial joke.
00:30:22.040
I actually think the world would be a lot better off if we felt more comfortable making racial jokes
00:30:26.240
about everybody, about black people, Italian people, Irish. But I think it's a little looser.
00:30:31.300
People, people always kind of laugh and giggle at these jokes in private. You know, the, you make a
00:30:37.060
joke for like, for instance, when you make a joke about an Irishman drinking a little too much,
00:30:40.720
people laugh about them in private and then they have to pretend that they don't laugh about them
00:30:46.060
in the public and they're very solemn. I think it would be better off if we could all loosen up a
00:30:49.640
little bit, but it's Hillary Clinton. It's the democratic party. It's the left that is pushing
00:30:55.480
this neopuritanism. It was calling president Trump racist. I mean, Hillary Clinton herself calls
00:31:01.440
Donald Trump racist. They're calling him a bigot. They're calling him an anti-Semite. They're
00:31:06.040
calling him all of these things. They're the one making these comments. They're the
00:31:10.580
one saying that black, it's surprising when black people do a good job. It's surprising
00:31:15.540
when Indians do a good job. Black people all look alike. They're the ones making these comments.
00:31:20.380
Don Lemon over there, so race obsessed. And this, by the way, is why they're so fluent in
00:31:26.880
white nationalism. You know, they see white nationalists everywhere. White nationalism,
00:31:31.000
which is a contradiction in terms. There has never been a nation of the whites. There has
00:31:36.880
capital W whites. Actually, one of the arguments against nationalism is that in the white continent
00:31:43.760
in Europe, there are so many different peoples and so many different nations that they're always
00:31:48.540
fighting and killing each other. So we need to unify them in some way. Ironically, white nationalism is
00:31:54.220
anti-nationalist. But I digress. The reason that the left is so fluent in what all of these racist
00:32:01.020
people say, Richard Spencer, David Duke, all of these comments in the sewers of the internet where
00:32:07.820
50 people read what the blogs say, is because they themselves are obsessed with race. It's all they
00:32:14.280
can possibly see. And conservatives don't really pay attention to it. How many conservatives do you
00:32:19.160
know who could explain what the alternative right is? You know, I did a video for Prager about the
00:32:24.560
alternative right. I had to really research it. I had to dig pretty far down and read certain books and
00:32:29.600
read this and that because we just don't see it. We don't talk about it. We don't think in that way
00:32:34.420
at all. But the left, because the alternative right is a mirror image of the left and the left's
00:32:40.020
identity politics, they're fluent in it. They talk about it all the time. They can rattle off what
00:32:45.140
these people say on their message boards and in their blog posts and wherever because they're so
00:32:50.160
fluent because it's so similar to the left. It's really bizarre, you know. And the media and Democrats
00:32:56.580
here are making, they're humiliating themselves because they automatically hate anything that
00:33:03.220
Trump does. Anything that Trump does, they have to react against. And they get really tribal about
00:33:08.580
it. They get really tribal. They get really protective of each other and they humiliate
00:33:13.880
themselves. You know, when you get angry, you get mad and you get stupid. I know you're on the edge of
00:33:18.340
your seat because Jon Stewart did something right. You can only see it if you go to dailywire.com.
00:33:22.600
What do you get? You get me. You get the Andrew Klavan show. You get the Ben Shapiro show.
00:33:25.700
You get to ask questions in the mailbag. You get to ask questions in the conversation. That's coming
00:33:29.200
up. And get your mailbag questions in soon. None of that matters because you get a leftist tears
00:33:34.540
tumbler. Now, I don't have my leftist tears tumbler today because I like beer and I still like beer.
00:33:40.600
I like beer and sometimes I drink a little too much beer. Well, you know what? Sometimes I drink a
00:33:44.660
little too much leftist tears and I get very dehydrated because they're extremely salty. So you need balance in
00:33:50.460
your life. But go because it's the only FDA approved vessel to hold those salty and delicious leftist tears.
00:33:55.020
We will be right back. Stay tuned for a lot more.
00:34:07.720
Jon Stewart gets this completely right on the media. I know it's shocking. He, about once a year,
00:34:14.500
Jon Stewart would get something right when he was on TV. He's not on TV anymore, but he gets this right.
00:34:18.920
He's talking to CNN about how the media are reacting to Trump, how they're covering Trump,
00:34:23.980
how they're being triggered by Trump. And he puts it right in their face. Here he is.
00:34:29.200
Do you think, because obviously we're all caught up in this sort of daily
00:34:33.080
Trump fest. I mean, every single newspaper, every radio station, every bit of social media.
00:34:41.900
You got bills to pay, man. You got electric bills. You got food. You know, this guy is,
00:34:46.560
he's giving you all cash. The cash flow in the Trump era for, uh, for these TV stations and for
00:34:54.840
these. Can I say that might've been an issue and maybe it still is an issue for the people who are
00:34:58.900
the bean counters, but we, the journalists, we, I think, believe that our job is to navigate the
00:35:05.720
truth and to do the fact checking and all the rest of it. So I think that's what motivates.
00:35:09.120
But I think the journalists have taken it personally. They're personally wounded and
00:35:13.700
offended by this man. He baits them and they dive in. And what he's done well, I thought,
00:35:18.700
is appeal to their own narcissism, to their own ego. Because what he says is these are the,
00:35:24.100
and the journalists stand up and say, we are noble. We are honorable. How dare you, sir?
00:35:28.780
Exactly right. Just think of Jim Acosta. When, when was the last time that Jim Acosta wasn't
00:35:39.040
looking in a mirror? Because when he's on camera, you know, the camera lens is a little mirror. He
00:35:42.580
can see himself. I think when that camera goes off, he immediately just turns to the mirror. He says,
00:35:47.060
oh, there you are, Jim there. You're a great American. You're strong. You're good enough,
00:35:51.560
smart enough. And gosh, darn it. People like you. That is what the media have become because they've
00:35:56.540
made it all about themselves. One of the rules in journalism is you're supposed to not make
00:36:01.000
yourself the story. You are not the story. You're supposed to be covering the story.
00:36:04.660
But because these people are all narcissistic bobbleheads, they make themselves the story.
00:36:09.580
They want to be the center of attention. And Donald Trump is more than happy to oblige
00:36:13.360
because the American people don't like these news anchors. They don't like Jim Acosta. They don't
00:36:20.280
like them one little bit. They don't like people going on television and telling them they're being
00:36:25.680
objective and actually just spewing left-wing propaganda. The American people don't like
00:36:30.360
it when you boof on their leg and tell them that it's windy. They don't want this one little bit.
00:36:36.100
Boof. Boof, Senator. It's flatulence. We were 16, Senator. That's what it is. That's how you define
00:36:40.060
it. They don't like that either. I mean, they don't like it to become a circus. They don't want their
00:36:45.120
politics to be made into a circus. And he recognizes that. And the other thing Stewart recognizes
00:36:50.020
is that the media secretly love Donald Trump because he makes them so much money. And this is
00:36:57.780
why as we go into the midterms, I think conservatives have their priorities in order. I think they saw
00:37:03.740
the lynch mob that went after Brett Kavanaugh. They've seen the tremendous gains of the Trump
00:37:07.560
era economically and foreign policy, judicially. And they're saying, we want more of this. And
00:37:13.460
they're shutting out the noise. They're putting on their blinders. They're going in. They're going to
00:37:16.840
get the job done. The left has been really distracted, whipped into a frenzy. And it's
00:37:22.100
because they believe the mainstream media who are milking them to make money. There is a compilation
00:37:28.180
online. It goes on for several minutes. I'll just give you the first little taste of it.
00:37:31.820
This goes chronologically from August 2017 up through the present day. Just listen to how MSNBC,
00:37:41.080
CNN, all of these other networks are covering President Trump and the White House day to
00:37:48.980
Is this the tipping point? I know we've said it over and over.
00:38:14.940
This is a very dramatic day, and I think it might be near a tipping point.
00:38:38.240
Because the beginning of the end was, I guess, in August 2017.
00:38:41.740
Then September was still the beginning of the end.
00:38:43.880
Then October was the middle of the beginning of the end.
00:38:47.520
The video goes on for two more minutes, probably.
00:38:51.040
I couldn't even, that just takes you to December 2017.
00:39:06.880
It's not even the pre-show of the beginning of the end.
00:39:11.440
Right now, the big scoop, the big story which Politico got is that special counsel Bob Mueller
00:39:18.760
may have subpoenaed Donald Trump to appear before the grand jury.
00:39:25.420
On the record, he could be caught in a perjury trap here if he speaks loosely.
00:39:31.400
And what Politico is reporting is, quote, since mid-August, he may, Mueller may have been
00:39:38.800
locked in proceedings with Trump and his lawyers over a grand jury subpoena in secret litigation
00:39:44.120
that could tell us by December whether the president will testify before Mueller's grand
00:39:55.240
What I do know is it's not the beginning of the end.
00:39:57.800
It's not the beginning of the end because I just don't believe it anymore.
00:40:01.740
I sort of believed it the first 7,000 times they told me this would happen, and then it
00:40:08.140
As Jon Stewart says, they are raking in money on this hysteria, but the hysteria is false.
00:40:14.900
You know, I've been traveling around the country doing these speeches, and when I stopped by New
00:40:19.800
And I couldn't believe that they actually believe this stuff.
00:40:23.700
They actually believe that Trump is doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin.
00:40:27.460
They don't know anything about the Russian, but they just believe it because they heard
00:40:30.600
it, because it's breaking news, and it's the beginning of the end.
00:40:43.460
You know, the reason we haven't heard a lot from Mueller until today is that you're really
00:40:48.740
not supposed to release damaging information about political candidates before an election.
00:40:58.320
It's why the Democrats were very upset at James Comey before the 2016 presidential election,
00:41:03.940
is that he came out to cover his own rear when he thought Hillary was going to win, and
00:41:07.980
came out and said there are some more questions about Hillary Clinton.
00:41:12.580
So Bob Mueller has thus far honored it, but you do have to wonder how does this story come
00:41:17.140
out today, just a few days, six days before the midterm elections.
00:41:21.720
Maybe it was just regular shoe-on-the-ground, old-fashioned reporting from Politico.
00:41:34.980
We'll all tune in to see Trump testify, and it won't be the beginning of the end.
00:41:40.500
So, right before we go, I have to point out that, so far, Christine Blasey Ford, the woman
00:41:48.680
who testified against Brett Kavanaugh, who we were told had nothing to gain from testifying
00:41:54.300
before the Senate Judiciary Committee, nothing to gain, everything to lose, nothing to gain.
00:41:58.940
She's made a million dollars on this whole charade.
00:42:02.160
She's made a million bucks through GoFundMe accounts.
00:42:04.580
She's now getting book deals and book offers from people.
00:42:07.520
She's making a lot of money on this whole thing.
00:42:11.720
Brett Kavanaugh has just been offered, through a GoFundMe campaign, $600,000.
00:42:21.280
He paid off those baseball tickets on his credit cards that Democrats were giving him
00:42:25.340
trouble for before they decided to invent ridiculous sexual harassment claims.
00:42:29.900
But they're offering him this money on GoFundMe.
00:42:36.580
Third, why are either of these people getting money on GoFundMe?
00:42:39.700
Why are you, who works for your money, giving money to this college professor with 17 different
00:42:45.980
stories about how Brett Kavanaugh looked the wrong way at her in 1742?
00:42:50.880
And second, even more insane, why are you, presumably conservative people, giving money
00:43:08.200
Two, it's because we feel that this is the best way to express our political point of view.
00:43:14.920
This is a way that we can express our political beliefs and that we can engage in political
00:43:20.860
Because after this, after Christine Ford makes a million bucks on her stories, after Brett
00:43:26.260
Kavanaugh has to refuse $600,000 because it would be a gross ethic violation, so that
00:43:33.260
I never want to hear a left-winger complain about Citizens United again.
00:43:39.500
I never want, you know, we heard all the way up to Barack Obama, Democrats complaining,
00:43:46.700
Citizens United was wrongly decided because money isn't political speech.
00:43:56.060
You're not donating because they're destitute on the street, because of your Christian charity.
00:44:01.000
You walked by these two bums when they said, please spare a little change, sir.
00:44:04.620
You're doing it because of your political point of view and your political advocacy and because
00:44:11.540
It's political speech and it is the perfect distillation of money being speech.
00:44:17.280
Some people who are pretending otherwise no longer can pretend that way.
00:44:20.560
And I will point out, Justice Kavanaugh is giving all that money to charity.
00:44:28.820
He's refusing it and the guy who organized the GoFundMe is donating it to charity.
00:44:42.940
It's time for me to go finish my beer because I like beer.
00:44:49.600
Sometimes I go a little too long on my podcast.
00:44:58.260
In the meantime, have a very happy Halloween and I will see you tomorrow.
00:45:06.940
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