Ep. 285 - Walls Work
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Summary
Trump has a new governing theme: Build a wall, and crime will fall. If the glove doesn t fit, I don t know, there are a lot of things that rhyme. Do walls work? We will analyze.
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President Trump has a new governing theme, build a wall and crime will fall.
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If the glove doesn't fit, I don't know, there are a lot of things that rhyme.
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Do walls work or are they merely a symbol of security?
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Then Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar doubles down on smearing the Covington boys.
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Nick Sandman goes on the Today Show and the culture of death kills from America to Holland.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.
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This is the greatest evidence yet that Donald Trump is listening to Alan Dershowitz,
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that his new governing theme is build a wall and crime will fall.
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Alan Dershowitz famously on the Dream Team defending O.J. Simpson.
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If the glove does not fit, you must acquit and build that wall, which will be good for all.
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And the president is really tall, I don't know.
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Rhymes actually do work because they stick in people's minds.
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And President Trump is absolutely right about this theme.
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Obviously, this argument doesn't make any sense.
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They're saying they're immoral because they keep people out.
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The president's only asking for $5 billion, which is statistically zero of the federal budget.
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Well, let's look at some of the walls that work.
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According to DHS Secretary, former DHS Secretary, Elaine Duke, they work not only around the world,
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On Yuma, they built, right by Yuma in the United States, agents were arresting 800 people per day.
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Trucks were crossing in with a lot of drugs, not through ports of entry, but through little vanishing points
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where they could disappear really quickly and you couldn't catch them.
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So around 2005, you had this huge number of illegal aliens pouring in.
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In 2006, Democrats and Republicans came together for the Secure Fences Act of 2006.
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This is back when Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton and everybody was supporting building a wall
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before they hated building a wall because Donald Trump wants to build a wall.
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When they built that wall, within one year, apprehensions across that border dropped 90%.
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They were one-tenth of what they were before 2005, as of 2016.
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Customs and Border Patrol have saved nearly 4,000 near-death individuals who were lost in that desert.
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AEI showed a great list of these, the American Enterprise Institute.
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In Israel, they have a border wall with the West Bank.
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They didn't build the border wall 60 years ago or 50 years ago.
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They built it in 2001, 2002 after a campaign against Israel, terrorist campaigns.
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Well, successful terrorist attacks dropped 90% after they built that wall.
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How about, also in Israel, the border with Egypt.
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In 2013, again, not ancient history, but relatively recently, Israel reinforced their wall.
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It cut illegal crossings into Israel to almost zero, a massive drop in illegal crossings.
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Outside of Israel, in Morocco, there's a wall between Morocco and Algeria.
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Morocco was fighting off a terrorist campaign during the Cold War by Algeria's proxy, the Polisario Front.
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The Polisario Front lost strength after Mexico built a 1,700-mile wall.
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Wall, fences, minefields, ditches, all these sorts of things.
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The claim that we hear now on the immoral side is that walls are illegal.
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They built a wall in Cyprus, dividing Cyprus between the northern Turkish population and
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the Greek section after Turkey invaded in 1974.
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The international lawmaking body is the group that built it.
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India-Pakistan have been fighting for a very long time.
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Wars in 1947, 1965, 1971, 1999 killed millions of people.
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India built a wall along its border to deter Pakistani terrorist attacks.
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We would know if it doesn't work because those countries have nuclear weapons and they
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So in Turkey, the Kurdistan Workers Party from Syria was attacking Turkey.
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And for the next 15 years after they built that wall, everything remained relatively peaceful
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And actually, the attacks only picked up again after Erdogan, the current leader of Turkey,
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started removing parts of that wall and dismantling parts of that border security.
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Hungary built a border wall because they were being inundated with migrants from the Middle
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It dropped illegal crossings down to just about zero.
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And again, back to the beautiful old United States in El Paso.
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They built the wall, a section of border fencing along there.
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During the five-year period after they built that fencing, illegal crossings dropped 89%.
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And there's been a recent uptick because the Trump economy has been so good.
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Even with the recent uptick, illegal crossings are still below pre-fence levels.
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Other walls work at homes, prisons, schools, the Vatican forts, castles, movie studios,
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Some conservatives, I think, they have this line, which I understand.
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I used to say things like this, which is, well, the wall, it doesn't really matter.
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It matters because Donald Trump needs to show that he's keeping his campaign promise.
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It shows because as a symbol, it is keeping people away and it's saying we're not going
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These numbers that keep popping up, 90%, 89%, 90%.
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There's a reason why people have built walls for all of human history, because they do work.
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And this last example, this gated community, you know, gated communities have walls.
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This, I think, is the analogy for the United States.
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The United States is the gated community of countries.
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We've got a ton of money and people want to come in and rob us.
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People want to come in and get some of that sweet, sweet loot.
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And people in gated communities don't have gates because they hate everybody on the outside,
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because they don't want to talk to everybody on the outside, because they never want to
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leave their gated community or anything, do business with people outside the gate.
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They have the gate up because people are posing a threat to them on the inside, because they
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have really nice stuff and they want to keep it, because they've got a nice little community.
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The current suggestion, apparently being floated to the president, reportedly from Jared Kushner,
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is to give green cards to 700,000 DACA or DREAMers, the people who were brought here when they
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were under the age of 18, some of whom now are 40 years old.
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They're not all cute little kids, you know, sitting around saying Google Gaga.
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Over time, this problem's been unaddressed, and so you've got these older people here now.
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That's a lot to pay for a wall that Democrats voted for 10 years ago.
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It's the sort of idea, I think, that would be embraced by the Wall Street Journal kind of Republicans.
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It would be embraced by liberal Republicans, moderate Democrats.
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We're just doing this to kind of get out of a tight jam politically.
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The reason we want the wall is because we need to be able to control our country.
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We need to be able to control our electoral system.
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There was a poll that showed that the majority of Americans do not simply want to end illegal immigration.
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They want to dramatically reduce legal immigration.
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Currently, our immigration regime permits 1.2 million people to come into this country every year.
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The majority of Americans, according to polling, want to drop that number to about half a million, which is still pretty good.
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We take in so many more immigrants in this country than anybody else in the world.
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So I don't think it's insane to say, okay, we'll take in half a million people a year in a country of 300 million people.
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That's still a lot of people every year rather than more than double that.
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But the reason we want the wall is because when we all take people in, that's all well and good.
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When the people come in, though, in order for that not to destabilize our country, they need to assimilate.
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They have to get on board with the project that we're all doing together.
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The other reason is Democrats realize that a great many immigrants, the majority of immigrants from a lot of places, identify as Democrat.
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You know, the Italians, when they came here, they came to America.
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They quickly learned English, and they assimilated.
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They assimilated so much so that you can't predict an Italian-American's political views.
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I descend from Italian immigrants on my mother's side.
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Antonin Scalia descends from Italian immigrants.
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Justice Scalia and I compared to Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi because you can't predict how someone's going to vote by that ethnicity.
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Unfortunately, because we've got a multicultural regime that is encouraging people to flood into the country and not assimilate,
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and actually not just not assimilate, but de-assimilate, people who are assimilating now should revert to some other culture that isn't actually theirs, according to the left.
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Because of that, you can predict with near certainty the way that people from certain countries are going to vote.
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It means that our culture isn't doing a very good job of bringing them in.
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And so Democrats see that opportunity, and they say, oh, great.
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So we can't win elections with Americans, but if we just import huge numbers of people, more than twice as many people as the country actually wants to take in every year,
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then we can get them to vote for us, flood the country with our voters, and then we can do whatever we want.
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There's nothing, obviously there's nothing legal about it because of our illegal immigration problem, but there's nothing fair.
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So the wall matters in a very tangible, practical way.
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The reason it matters is so that we don't flood the country with people who the country doesn't want to be here.
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And if in exchange for building the wall, you legalize nearly a million people who Democrats are hungry to legalize because statistically they're going to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats,
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You've built the wall, but you've legalized all of the people that the wall is meant to discourage.
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I mean, Ann Coulter had that funny tweet yesterday.
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She said, okay, if we give amnesty to a million people in exchange for 200 miles, if we give amnesty to a billion people, maybe we can get the whole wall.
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You bring a billion people in and then you don't have a country anymore.
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I hope the president doesn't take it seriously.
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And I hope that it's being floated out there to get the opinions of President Trump's base in which I find myself.
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The vast majority of Americans don't care about it.
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Many people don't even know that the government is shut down.
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The president was elected to build the wall and stop illegal immigration.
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The majority of Americans want to reduce legal immigration.
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They would have elected Democrats if they wanted you to do this.
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So don't, I mean, the Democrats do this all the time.
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Because they control the media, they're able to make it seem like there's this huge public pressure to give them exactly what they want.
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No, they want you to pass what will end up being a very unpopular policy.
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These Covington, there are more, there are new developments.
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You thought you'd seen it all with that absolute media hit job.
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Well, now we see there was initially this very short video floating around the internet.
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And then this Twitter account, this mysterious Twitter account posted it and said, these kids are harassing a Native American.
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We don't know if this account was from some foreign agent trying to stir up trouble.
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We don't know who it is, but it's been taken off of Twitter.
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When all of the video came out, we found out that narrative was completely false.
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The mainstream media, parts of the Catholic Church, a ton of Democrat politicians, even many conservative pundits, piled on these kids with no evidence.
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Most of the conservatives at this point have apologized.
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Now, Ilhan Omar, that freshman congresswoman from the Democrats, is doubling down.
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The boys were protesting a woman's right to choose and yelled, it's not rape if you enjoy it.
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They were taunting five black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants.
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Sandman's family hired a right-wing PR firm to write his non-apology.
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Yeah, it's a non-apology because he's got nothing to apologize for.
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I pray that video footage will awaken them to the evil doings of Ilhan Omar.
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And points to those of you who caught that reference.
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So the boys were protesting a woman's right to choose.
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They were protesting the slaughter of millions of babies, 60 million babies since Roe v. Wade.
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Because, well, because it's the wholesale slaughter of 60 million babies since Roe v. Wade.
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Also because they're Catholic, but the Democrat Party despises religious freedom and particularly Catholicism these days.
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We see this in Dianne Feinstein trying to disqualify judges for being Catholic.
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Kamala Harris trying to do exactly the same thing.
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Omar alleges that they were shouting, it's not rape if you enjoy it.
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There was some video of some other people around them.
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Because other people obviously came into the melee.
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But it seems to have been in response as a joke, albeit maybe a bad joke, to some of the black Israelites.
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Now it's being alleged that that person doesn't go to Covington Catholic.
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The reason that we have to believe the kid didn't go to Covington Catholic is because there were a lot of girls around there too.
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Certainly that wasn't, by the way, that wasn't in the original video.
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So the fact that Ilhan Omar is doubling down on this is absurd.
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They're just trying to distract because they can't admit that they were wrong.
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Now Ilhan Omar, while not apologizing and while not apologizing for that tweet, did delete the tweet.
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The other new information we've gotten in the last few days is that Nathan Phillips, you remember?
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He didn't even fight in Vietnam, which was the headline blared on every newspaper for the past three days.
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He served, I think, 1972 to 76, something like that.
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But I bring this up because he's using this phrase, Vietnam times veteran.
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And he's allowing this misinformation to go around all the mainstream.
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The phrase Vietnam times veteran, when you use it to boast about yourself, is an intentionally misleading phrase, which is crafted to imply wrongly that you served in combat in Vietnam.
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I said, the first show back, I said, he uses this strange phrase.
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I didn't want to accuse him, obviously, without evidence, because I'm not a member of the mainstream media.
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So if I had been for the Washington Post, I would have immediately had a giant headline, this guy's a dirty, rotten monster who didn't serve in Vietnam.
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It turns out that he led, just around the day of this incident, 20 Native Americans to disrupt a vigil mass that was occurring.
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This was just reported from the Catholic News Service.
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He tried to break into a church and disrupt a vigil mass because he's a huge jerk.
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They said, fortunately, the guards were basically able to keep him out.
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And the mainstream media are lunatics and liars.
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Now we're seeing the replay of this Brett Kavanaugh incident.
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We're seeing the replay almost exactly with this kid, Nick Sandman, who was the leader of the Covington students.
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He was the one sitting there, standing there while the Native American banged a drum in his face.
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So now he's getting the full Kavanaugh treatment.
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He was brought on the Today Show to discuss his experience.
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Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology?
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As far as standing there, I had every right to do so.
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I don't, I, my position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips.
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I mean, in hindsight, I wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole thing.
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But I can't say that I'm sorry for listening to him and standing there.
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This morning, 16-year-old Nick Sandman, standing by his actions in this moment, gone viral.
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The junior at Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School, now the face of this Lincoln Memorial confrontation with Native American elder Nathan Phillips.
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Nathan Phillips is the face of the confrontation because he started the confrontation.
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He marched up out of nowhere and started banging a drum in some poor kid's face.
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The victim of the confrontation is Nick Sandman, this kid.
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I would not have had the restraint that he has.
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I wouldn't have had the restraint on the National Mall.
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I wouldn't have had the restraint on the Today Show.
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He said, no, I don't feel sorry for standing and having a Native American bang a drum in my face.
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I don't know how familiar you are with mortal and venial sins, but this is not a sin to stand there and take abuse from some lunatic Native American activist banging a drum in my teenage face.
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So he handled himself with incredible maturity, incredible restraint.
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You'll remember, by the way, the comparisons between this and Brett Kavanaugh.
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When I drink too much, I don't bang drums in teenagers' faces because I'm a normal person, not a lunatic actor.
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They might as well call it Kavanaugh-vington High School at this point in Kentucky.
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And there are people, by the way, members of the media, who posted pictures of the two of them because for some people, what this is really about is how much they hate white guys, specifically conservative white guys.
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He's even a little kookier, but I say, oh, just a little bit.
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Nathan Phillips is a demonstrable liar whose story keeps changing and who the mainstream media keep giving cover to even after the story changes and changes and changes.
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I've never seen people so happy to destroy a kid's life when that becomes the norm in the media in America simply because they're associated with this president.
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That is disgraceful and that should never happen.
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Let's hope that this is a lesson to all of the media, to everyone.
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Let's focus on getting things right, not getting them first.
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I've never seen people more excited to destroy someone's life since Brett Kavanaugh, since they were begging to destroy.
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Brett Kavanaugh is not a teenager, though you would have thought he was a teenager from everything they were talking about, what he did when he was 16, what he did, what was written in his high school yearbook.
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It's unbelievable, the parallels, and they really wanted to destroy this guy, Brett Kavanaugh, who had unimpeachable character, federal judge for 12 years.
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No one ever questioned his integrity until Donald Trump appointed him for something.
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He associated with a symbol that Donald Trump uses, and so they had to destroy him.
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The only honest take on this was from the left-wingers on The View.
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Many people admitted they made snap judgments before these other facts came in, but is it that we just instantly say that's what it is based on what we see in that moment, and then have to walk stuff back when it turns out we're wrong?
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Because we're desperate to get Trump out of office.
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I think the press jumps the gun a lot because we just, we have so much circumstantial evidence against this guy that we basically are hoping that, you know, Cohen's got the goods and what have you.
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Right, but let's talk about the kids in this particular confrontation, since that's the question at hand.
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You also have Trump supporters that also jump to judgment, too.
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So I wouldn't say it's all to get Trump out of office.
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I think a collective, we as a society, jump to judgment today, and you believe whatever you want to believe.
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If you see that video and it helps the narrative that you believe in, then I think we're quick to jump on that.
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The reason that they jumped on this is because the left is so desperate to get Trump out of office.
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And Abby, the one sort of more right-leaning person on The View, Meghan McCain, I guess, is there, too.
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You see what you want to believe, which is half right.
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The left saw that video, and they saw what they wanted to see, and they ran with that narrative.
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And some right-wingers saw what they wanted to see.
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The right-wingers who opposed Donald Trump saw these MAGA hat-wearing kids, and they immediately condemned them.
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National Review said they might as well have spit on the cross, really reactionary stuff.
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Luckily, at least, the conservative ones apologized.
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When I saw that video, I didn't see what I wanted to see.
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I didn't react to having seen what I wanted to see.
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Maybe I'll keep my mouth shut for, like, 12 hours and see what happens.
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And I'm really glad I did that because 12 hours later, an hour of video came out and flipped the entire narrative.
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It's basically the left that saw what they wanted to see.
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Broadly, the right and independents didn't see what they wanted to see.
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They didn't know what they were quite looking at because it was a very quick video that was very inconclusive.
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Then they waited for 12 hours, and then it was fine.
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This is not a, oh, shucks, it's all of our fault.
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And some trigger-happy people on the right have to do better, too.
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But broadly speaking, the right, broadly speaking, people in the middle, independents, it's not that they have to do better.
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It's everyone who piled on those kids and didn't apologize.
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Okay, we've got to talk about how New York is now legalizing abortion up until the date of birth.
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If you, you know, you're nine months pregnant, you're thinking, oh, oh, I might be going into labor pain soon, time to get an abortion, you can now do that in New York State because of the sick governor there, Andrew Cuomo.
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We will analyze the case for life and the case for death, how it affects New York, how it affects all the way over to the Netherlands.
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But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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This is the entire mainstream media apparatus humiliates and destroys itself blend.
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New York is legalizing abortion up until the date of birth, which I think at the date of
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birth, we can all agree that you just call that infanticide.
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So now, the day before birth, do you call that infanticide?
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It calls it women's health or a woman's right to choose.
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This is a pretty sick governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
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How do you kick off the press conference, Governor?
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First, let's give Barnard and the leadership a big round of applause.
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We're going to kill them right up until the day of birth.
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And then all everybody in the press, yay, yay, yay.
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How exciting is today we now get to kill eight and a half month old babies in the state of
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I was his waiter one time when I was in high school.
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And then I was wandering around New York right as Hurricane Sandy was happening.
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This guy is a pretty no-nonsense bulldog-like character.
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His father didn't run for president, though he was expected to.
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Andrew Cuomo says he's not going to run for president this time around.
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Cuomo initially positioned himself as a sort of moderate Democrat.
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This is about his future political ambitions in a Democrat party that no longer believes
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It believes that you should be able to kill a baby on the very day that he's about to be
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He went with the transition team in 1992 to help out the transition.
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He stuck around Bill Clinton's administration until the very end of it.
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He invited Hillary to the stage while he announced the new reproductive law, the ironically named
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reproductive law, because it's about the opposite of reproduction.
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It's about killing a baby that's about to be born.
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Assemblywoman Deborah Glick was a pioneer and a crusader for women's rights and LGBTQ rights
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before many of the people in this room were even aware of the fight.
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Probably a poor choice of words from the governor.
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Just a rule of thumb if you are announcing that you're going to kill many, many, many,
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I don't think he takes kindly to that sort of thing.
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What about the 30 million baby girls who were killed between Roe v. Wade and today?
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I bet a lot more people would have turned out to the Women's March if those 30 million
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women were still alive, if they hadn't been killed before they were born.
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Only a few thousand people, maybe 10,000 people turned out to the Women's March across the
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Bet 30 million more women would have really helped.
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We're already seeing sex-selective abortion in the United States.
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Sex-selective fertility, certainly, in the United States.
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We're already seeing gene-edited babies around the world.
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We see a lot of selection when it comes to abortion and fertility around the world.
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When they identify the gay gene, this is what scientists are looking for.
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This is what the left's premise, you know, you're born this way.
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This is what this leads to, that there's a gay gene.
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Do we really believe that people won't select against the gay gene?
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The whole argument from the LGBT left is that it's stigmatized, that it's looked on with
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If that is true, and if people are also editing their babies from whole scratch, if they're
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designing their babies, do we really think that they're not going to select against that?
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This has been borne out in a lot of public opinion surveys.
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They already kill people with mental disabilities.
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They said, we have eliminated Down syndrome in Iceland.
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No, you just kill all the Down syndrome babies.
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You haven't eliminated a thing other than their lives.
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Baby girls and gay babies are going to be selected against by this eugenicist agenda.
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It's already happening, and it's already being discussed as a real possibility.
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We have an extreme conservative agenda in Washington.
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It's their interpretation of ethics, and they're going to impose it on you.
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Which, by the way, in this upside-down world, is a total repudiation of conservative theory.
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Because the federal government, they don't know anything.
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State government, local government, people's rights.
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There's nothing anti-conservative about laws against murder.
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I don't know if Andrew Cuomo is stupid or obtuse.
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I don't think he's a stupid man, but he's making a stupid argument.
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Do, do, does any conservative think that laws against murder are wrong because it's big government?
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Are there conservatives marching, saying, we need to repeal laws against murder.
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Even libertarians, to protect life and liberty.
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Their laws against protecting life are not contrary to any conservative or even libertarian point of view.
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He says, oh, well, it's contrary to conservative philosophy, conservative ideology.
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He says, they're trying to impose their morality on us.
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And you're trying to promote your immorality and impose it on us.
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One of the stupidest lines you ever hear in politics is, you can't legislate morality.
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That is a statement that has the same semantic value as, that's what it means.
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Politics is how people live together and govern each other, govern themselves, live in civil society.
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What people do has moral value because there is a moral law and we are moral beings.
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So, if I took this mug and I drink my leftist tears, if I take this leftist tears tumbler and hurl it at Colton's head and knock him in the head, that is immoral.
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When we say we need to raise taxes on the rich because the rich have too much money, you're making a moral argument.
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When Andy Cuomo is standing there saying we need women to have the right to kill their babies, he is making a moral argument.
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What the right is saying is we shouldn't kill babies.
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He says conservatives have the world upside down.
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The conservative worldview must look upside down to Andrew Cuomo, who is a leftist.
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Because leftism gets everything exactly backwards.
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It gets it so backwards that now strength is weakness, that now justice is injustice, that now stealing money from somebody is compassion and generosity, and keeping your own money is greed.
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And there's a line from, I think it's Euripides in the Bacchae.
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He says, talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Andrew Cuomo must think that this entire conservative worldview is upside down because he is standing with his feet firmly planted on the ceiling.
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He's looking out at the entire world and he thinks that the ground is the sky.
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I want to pass this year a constitutional amendment that writes into the constitution a provision protecting a woman's right to control her own reproductive health.
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Is there anything creepier than a man advocating abortion?
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Yeah, women, I can't wait to kill all of those babies that we've given you and take away all of our responsibility.
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The way that you know he's wrong, though, after all of this, after all this creepy press conference he's given with Hillary Clinton there sort of stirring her cauldron,
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she's, she is directly stage right of Andrew Cuomo right now.
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And if you can't see it, I know she's not on screen in this clip, but what you can just imagine is her sitting there, you know, with a giant spoon, a ladle in her cauldron.
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Like, wah, yes, yes, up until the day of birth.
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So she's doing that right after the press conference.
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She hopped, she turned that stick into a broomstick and then flew right out of the area.
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Yeah, the way that you know that this is all wrong is that he can't just say abortion.
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That's how you know that on a deep level he knows that he's wrong.
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He can't just say we're going to make abortion legal up until the day of birth.
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He says we are going to give women control of their own bodies.
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It has a connection to you, not just an umbilical cord.
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In nature, sometimes animals kill their children.
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If you're so proud of it, if you think it's a good thing, shout it.
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Euphemisms are the way that you know that someone is being dishonest.
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Yesterday was the 46th anniversary of Roe versus Wade, which made abortion legal throughout the United States.
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Obviously, there's the immediate tangible effect of Roe versus Wade.
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60 million babies have been killed in the United States since 1973.
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And don't think that that's a scare number from some conservative site.
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That's from the Guttmacher Institute that was part of Planned Parenthood.
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That's a pro-choice, pro-abortion organization that gives that number.
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The conclusion of that is it's no longer safe, legal, and rare.
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The conclusion is Andy Cuomo saying, hey, folks, isn't this exciting?
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And the conclusion of that you see in the Netherlands, which is a culture of death.
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Today, in the Netherlands, 25% of all deaths come by forms of euthanasia and suicide.
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And euthanasia is just a euphemism for suicide.
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In 2015, in the Netherlands, 431 people were killed by doctors without asking for it.
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This now, this slippery slurp of assisted suicide, compassionate suicide, allowing people to escape suffering,
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has now been expanded to making it legal for the government to kill people who have dementia,
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83 people in 2017 were killed in the Netherlands because they had mental deficiencies.
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In 2018, last year, a Dutch doctor killed a 74-year-old woman who was begging him not to kill her.
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He gave her a cup of poison coffee, and she would not drink it.
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He then told the woman's husband and daughter to hold her down while he administered the poison,
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And can you only imagine what the country will look like 46 years from now if we don't overturn it?
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Robert Sterling.
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The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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Remember in your Bible that chief priests and Pharisees who moved among the crowd,
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getting them angry at Jesus so they would call for his crucifixion?
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Only this time, the chief priests and Pharisees are in the news media and their religion is leftism.
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