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00:00:30.560CNN broadcasting from its own little world is fuming that the left and right in America are living in their own separate worlds.
00:00:38.760We will examine which stories matter and why CNN gets it wrong.
00:00:42.360Then, what open borders Democrats can learn from the psychology of lines.
00:00:46.960How the Mueller report could be politically devastating for President Trump, the universal basic income, political schlock, and the end of Twitter.
00:00:54.840I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:00.000So much to get to. Happy Cyber Monday. We're going to get into some political schlock a little bit later.
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00:05:20.280And by the way, which story do you think is more important?
00:05:22.940The sun monster, which is going to kill us all in 2002 or 2007 or 2013 or whenever now they're predicting that the world is going to end and it never ends.
00:05:32.420Or a real American woman, a real American citizen, a young teacher who was killed by a criminal who was not supposed to be in this country to begin with.
00:05:41.400A guy who was in this country illegally, out on bond for an assault charge, killed her and tried to drive away, tried to flee the scene.
00:05:49.260Which story speaks more to people's lives?
00:05:51.100Obviously, the story about illegal immigration, these are having real effects on people's lives, on the economy, on their jobs, on their families, on obviously people who are injured or killed by illegal aliens.
00:06:05.480That number should be zero because none of them are supposed to be in the country.
00:06:09.760Sometimes the left will come out and say that rates of criminality among illegal aliens are lower than for the general population.
00:06:17.100First of all, that statistic is not true and it's been refuted by a lot of different studies.
00:06:21.420But you have your statistics, I have my statistics.
00:06:24.140I'm sure you can find some surveys that show that that is true.
00:06:27.260The point is it's illegal immigration.
00:06:32.700The true number of people who should be injured or killed by illegal aliens is zero because not a single one of them is supposed to be in this country.
00:06:48.740The network's pro-Trump talk shows are portraying this as an urgent crisis and calling it, look at the banner here, the battle for the southern border.
00:06:58.840It's a vivid example of how two Americas are living side by side.
00:07:02.860We're living in two different realities, supported by two different news worlds.
00:07:06.800In most of the country's news media, this climate report is the big story.
00:07:11.980But over on Fox and on right-wing websites, it's the caravan.
00:07:17.380Brian Stelter is actually making a perfectly correct observation.
00:07:21.340It is right now, if you look at the news media, the mainstream media, and then, you know, I don't know, the Daily Wire or maybe Fox News or a couple newspapers, CRTVs, just a handful of new media right-wingers.
00:08:22.960The issue is which stories are being run and which stories are not being run.
00:08:27.740When Cheryl Atkinson, one of the last journalists in America, when she left CBS, it wasn't because they were yelling at her over something she wrote.
00:08:37.180It wasn't because of anything like that.
00:08:39.520It was that the stories were being killed.
00:08:43.460They wanted to talk about only stories that were favorable to the left, no stories that rightly criticized the left or that were favorable to the right.
00:08:56.580To people like him, to people on CNN, to people at the New York Times, this scary, scary sun monster, as Drew calls it, global warming, global cooling, whatever.
00:09:07.340However, the hypothetical negative effects of climate change, none of which we are experiencing right now, none of which have been credibly and reliably proven to be happening in any short period of time, none of which have been proven, have been demonstrated to be caused by human beings and human efforts.
00:09:28.120They are so much more concerned and worried about that, that religion of environmentalism, that religion of global warming, than they are about illegal alien criminals killing Americans.
00:09:39.000At least he's honest, at least Brian Stelter is honest.
00:09:42.840My worldview is a worldview that prefers the real to the theoretical, the near to the far, the tangible to the abstract.
00:09:52.660And so when I see Americans having their livelihoods disrupted or ended by a major problem, 2,000 illegal aliens crossing the border every single day, at least, you've got a whole horde, a whole caravan marching through, threatening to storm across the border.
00:10:09.800That, to me, is a greater concern than the sun is heating up and the atmosphere is trapping too much heat in and whatever worry they have today.
00:10:51.160So we had global warming through the 1990s and early 2000s.
00:10:56.300And then the world stopped warming for a long period of time.
00:10:58.820So we got the unfalsifiable climate change because you can't disprove climate change.
00:11:04.660We have basically heard the UN admit that that Paris Climate Accord deal would not have done anything to mitigate the apparent effects of climate change.
00:11:16.320It would have maybe contained global warming by two degrees Celsius over the course of a century.
00:11:24.040Two degrees Celsius over what the temperature was before the Industrial Revolution.
00:11:28.100We have these insinuations from the left that forests are being destroyed.
00:11:33.840The California wildfires were caused by global warming.
00:11:38.300There's no evidence that it's causing more wildfires or deforestation.
00:11:41.880We have more forests today in America than we did 100 years ago or 200 years ago or 300 years ago.
00:11:48.000Contrary to the leftist slogan belief, to the global warming alarmists, the native peoples who were here in America were not very friendly to the forests.
00:11:58.680We've done a very good job at conserving and developing our natural environment, especially since the 1940s.
00:12:17.420It's from the executive agencies released because theoretically they work under the White House.
00:12:22.640But those executive agencies aren't staffed exclusively by Trump appointees.
00:12:27.860The vast, vast majority of the people at those agencies are lifetime people.
00:12:32.080They're career bureaucrats who have no particular loyalty to the Trump administration, no similar worldview or ideological view.
00:12:39.240And so if some of them are very concerned about global warming, they'll talk about that.
00:12:43.740But with regard to the rising sea levels, the mass migration, all of that, it has simply been refuted and disputed so many times.
00:12:53.500Just remember that movie from Al Gore.
00:12:56.080We were told the Pacific Atolls, those low-lying islands, were being inundated because of global warming.
00:13:01.740A UK court ruled that they couldn't play that in school.
00:13:05.780And if they did play the movie in school, they would have to correct that fact because there's no evidence of that.
00:13:11.060There's no evidence, as Al Gore and the global warming alarmists claimed, that man-made global warming was shutting down the ocean conveyor in the Atlantic Ocean.
00:13:57.260I'm in New York right now. I'm hopping through here just for a hot second on my way down to give some speeches in Florida.
00:14:03.800Florida, we were told, was going to be underwater. Florida's not underwater either. It's great.
00:14:07.580The only water that I'm seeing in New York and Florida is in my leftist-tears tumbler.
00:14:10.840None of that happened. They're trying to spin it. They're trying to get out of this.
00:14:14.160All of these predictions, so many of them, have been disproven by time.
00:14:19.580That's the trouble when you predict the end of the world, is eventually the date that you're told it's going to happen arrives.
00:14:24.600And when the world doesn't end, you look like a schmuck.
00:14:27.180So that's what they're telling us to worry about.
00:14:30.740Brian Stelter says, you've got to worry about the global warming that's going to sink New York and Florida and the polar bears.
00:14:36.260And you say, Brian, none of that is happening. None of that matters.
00:14:39.360But what about immigration? Well, who cares if one young American woman actually died?
00:14:47.300This is really what the left thinks. I don't mean to be shallow about this.
00:14:51.660The left really believes who cares if one American woman actually died when millions of people are hypothetically dying from global warming.
00:15:02.640Who cares that criminals are pouring across our border?
00:15:05.960Who cares that children have been saved from human traffickers and coyotes in that caravan by Guatemalan and Mexican authorities before they made it to the United States?
00:15:15.640Who cares about that? Those are just a handful of real people.
00:15:19.560But all the millions who are hypothetically going to be, those are the ones that they have to worry about.
00:15:23.640Because the left really cares about humanity, but they don't seem to care much about humans.
00:15:28.060And they prioritize theory over reality.
00:15:31.060This issue, I'm so glad Ryan Stelter brought this up.
00:15:34.200Because those are two worlds. Those are two different worldviews.
00:15:38.100The difference is the left's worldview is a fantasy.
00:15:41.200And the right's worldview is looking around and seeing things as they are.
00:17:05.900What John Kerry is saying here is I'm pro-environment and I'm going to try to convince you to be pro-environment by pointing out how much more immigration we're going to have to get if we don't get pro-environment.
00:17:18.040He's taking an anti-illegal immigration, anti-open borders view here.
00:17:23.280Hillary Clinton has said the same thing in an interview, I believe, with The Guardian.
00:17:27.260She just said, quote, I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame.
00:17:34.540I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken, particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel in Germany.
00:17:42.480But I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, must send a very clear message.
00:17:46.300We are not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support because if we don't deal with the immigration issue, it will continue to roil the body politic.
00:18:02.480This immigration thing really, really matters to people, not just conservatives, not just Republicans, everybody.
00:18:10.720There was a poll that came out, I think at this point now, about a year ago, a little less than a year ago,
00:18:14.400that showed that even Democrats, even when you're talking about dreamers, the kids who were brought to America before they were 18 years old and they've known no other country,
00:18:26.060even the most sympathetic case of illegal aliens, the majority of Democrats did not want to prioritize giving them amnesty.
00:18:33.360People really, really hate illegal immigration.
00:26:18.380This is really shocking when he said it because he seemed to be something of a Trump apologist in these legal discussions.
00:26:24.920Politico is predicting this will be a disappointment.
00:26:28.000This is, according to Politico, their sources are defense lawyers for the president and 15 former government investigators dating back to the Watergate saga.
00:26:40.780So John Q. Barrett, who worked on Iran-Contra, says that the report might not even see the light of day.
00:26:48.840And the way Politico reports it, they say, don't get your hopes up.
00:26:52.180Don't, you know, we might not be able to take Trump down with this.
00:26:55.440This investigation, the Mueller investigation into Trump collusion, is different than Iran-Contra.
00:27:02.440This is different than Monica Lewinsky.
00:27:06.880Both of those occurred under a law that expired in 1999.
00:27:13.920That law that they were working under, the post-Watergate law, required investigators to tell Congress if they found any impeachable offenses.
00:27:24.000This investigation is not operating under those same rubrics.
00:27:26.800So under this rubric, special counsel Robert Mueller just has to tell his boss at DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, and he'll tell him what he finds.
00:27:36.360The DOJ then has the discretion on whether or not to make the report public.
00:31:01.020The universal basic income has been kicked around for a few years as a policy solution to increasing automation or increasing disparities in the economy or basically just us getting too rich and people not having enough jobs, not enough to do it themselves.
00:31:18.080And the idea is that the government will cut you a check, just because, just for breathing, just for existing, to help supplement your lifestyle.
00:31:29.240There have been a few different versions of this.
00:31:31.240Right now, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are both proposing versions of it.
00:31:35.940So it had been on the fringes as an idea.
00:32:51.420And so if we wiped out the whole of the welfare state apparatus and just gave people direct transfer payments, that would be preferable financially and in a moral sense.
00:33:02.100It's so much simpler and it's so much more honest than our current highly abused welfare system.
00:33:13.660The Heritage Foundation said this very clearly.
00:33:15.700Vijay Menon at the Heritage Foundation pointed out that this has been tried before.
00:33:22.500It drives me crazy when some conservatives get into this idea because they think, well, in the future, in the future where the information economy is going to dominate the U.S. economy,
00:33:33.360when the jobs that exist basically just for people who sit and think all day or who code on computers or who are only using their minds,
00:33:41.200people who do not have physical jobs, labor-intensive jobs, more traditional jobs, those guys are all going to be out of work.
00:33:48.820Never mind, by the way, that unemployment virtually does not exist in the United States right now.
00:33:52.960We have many more jobs to fill than people to fill them.
00:33:55.500They say in the future, though, that's not going to happen.
00:33:57.700And we're going to have so much money, we should just pay the little people not to bother us.
00:34:02.220So we'll give them transfer payments, and then they won't argue about, you know, 10 people controlling all of the world's wealth.
00:34:08.940This idea has been tried, and it's a very bad idea.
00:34:11.980Between 1968, as Heritage points out, 1968 and 1980, there were random controlled trials for the universal basic income,
00:34:20.360or versions thereof, across six states.
00:34:25.540These particular trials were testing the negative income tax.
00:34:29.300You know what a positive income tax is?
00:34:30.740Well, the opposite is a negative income tax.
00:34:32.820A negative income tax guarantees a minimum income, and it phases out as earnings increase.
00:34:44.320Were they living more fulfilling, productive lives?
00:34:46.840No, they got lazy, because that's human nature.
00:34:49.780We saw in married men a 9% drop in hours worked.
00:34:54.440So you increase their monthly payments.
00:34:58.260It's not that they use that money and reinvest it in something productive or use that to offset some way to make them work even more or this or that.
00:35:25.940Imagine, just take one little guess, what happened to single men.
00:35:29.720You know guys who are not exactly known for their accountability or responsibility, you know, the unmarried guys just kind of hanging around.
00:35:37.360We saw a decrease in hours worked by single men by 43%, nearly half.
00:35:44.320Which makes sense, because, again, we were talking earlier about the difference between a fantasy world and the real world.
00:35:50.960The left's ideological hypothetical guesses and the conservative acceptance of the world as it is.
00:35:57.380Everyone thinks, you and I both think this, that if we got a check coming in every month for, I don't know, $10,000.
00:36:07.600And you say, oh, I would take that money.
00:36:10.260Oh, what I would do, I would take that money and I would start 17 different companies and then I would hire a million people and then I would fly from New York to here to there and run all of my companies and be on the Forbes 500 list.
00:36:26.040But you would, that's not what you would, you would sit on your couch.
00:36:29.320You would, this is what, it doesn't make people more productive.
00:36:31.420It just takes that money and men, especially single men, would rather work less and maintain the same quality of life than take that money and use it to increase their quality of life.
00:36:45.900Because people are lazy and they don't want to work and they get used to certain lifestyles.
00:36:49.280So, I really, this idea is going to continuously pop up among silly left-wingers and among right-wingers who are too clever by half, who think they've figured out the solution.
00:38:13.740Would you think misgendering is like, when I read that, I thought misgendering was when you referred to a man as a woman or a woman as a man.
00:39:58.620There's that website Gab, which is all for free speech.
00:40:02.260The reason that some people haven't gone on there just yet is it is infested with bigots and all around bad people.
00:40:11.520So obviously, so it's infested with people who had been kicked off of other social media platforms or who didn't want to be on other social media platforms.
00:40:20.520So they don't have a lot of more mainstream voices on there just yet.
00:40:24.240That said, if Twitter is going to start kicking off radio hosts, if Twitter is going to start kicking off journalists, where else can we go?
00:41:17.460And it occurred to me, I'm a little bit of an expert when it comes to political schlock because I did write a best-selling blank book called Reasons to Vote for Democrats.
00:41:24.720So I was wondering, you know, it's not just the left that does this.
00:41:38.600But there's a big difference between the political schlock on the left and the right.
00:41:43.300Because on the right, all of the merchandise, the prominent merchandise that I can name, in recent memory comes from a place of humor and joy and exuberance.
00:41:53.420It comes from people trying to make a point with a little sense of humor about it.
00:41:57.380The blank book or the Trumpy Bear or the hat or whatever.
00:41:59.880On the left, all of the merchandise that I can name comes from a place of anger, emotion, frustration.
00:42:07.960I don't know what point they're making.
00:42:09.740Kathy Griffin, alleged comedian Kathy Griffin, has an entire store, a whole line of products that just say F Trump.