Candace Owens - March 11, 2025


Should We Feel Bad For Blake Lively？ ｜ Candace Ep 157


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Candace gives her thoughts on Blake Lively's appearance at the SXSW premiere with Anna Kendrick and why we should all be a little more compassionate toward her. Plus, a story about a pro-Palestinian student protestor who is being deported by the Trump administration.

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00:00:00.000 All right, guys, happy Tuesday. Well, at least I'm happy. People on the Internet are not happy. They never seem to be happy. Right now we have two great Internet debates that are waging. First and foremost, I'm sure you have seen this, but was the Trump administration correct in deporting a student Palestinian activist from Columbia University? Did you agree with that? Are you following the story? I'm very interested to hear your guys' perspectives.
00:00:24.640 Also, should we now begin feeling bad for Blake Lively because she appeared at her Simple Favor 2 premiere and people are noting that she seems increasingly uncomfortable and anxious and maybe it really is just a lot for her to deal with. So we should discuss that. Should we be more compassionate toward Blake Lively? Let's jump right into this. Welcome back to Candace.
00:00:54.640 I already know that I'm going to upset a lot of people in this podcast. It's this thing that I do. I just try to be ideologically consistent. And sometimes that means that you're defending people on the left. Sometimes it means you're defending people on the right.
00:01:10.880 And the people in the middle are always like, well, why don't we just defend ideas? Before we get into the meat and potatoes of today, which is the pro-Palestinian student protester that is being deported by Trump's DOJ, I very quickly want to at first give you my opinion on Blake Lively's appearance at the Simple Favor 2 premiere, a South by Southwest premiere. There she is alongside Anna Kendrick.
00:01:35.860 And I should say, first and foremost, regarding Anna Kendrick, we already knew that she was somewhat upset leading up to this premiere for obvious reasons. I mean, you imagine you work your butt off. You're in this movie. You're fighting with Blake Lively about who should be more prominently featured on all of the materials and the advertisements.
00:01:54.020 Because I guess that's a thing, like where you're featured on the movie poster. And Blake Lively wants to be prominently featured. And then she gets herself into this huge situation worldwide.
00:02:04.840 She is sort of despised alongside her husband. And now you've got to recognize that this movie is probably not going to do so well because people are just not going to watch a movie with Blake Lively in it.
00:02:18.280 And the rumors were that she felt that Blake Lively didn't do anything to dispel that. She didn't come out and make a statement. She didn't come out, you know, with her heart in her hand or say anything.
00:02:27.720 She just kind of allowed this movie to be like an innocent bystander to everything that went on with It Ends With Us. It Ends With Us, pardon.
00:02:35.920 So leading up to this red carpet, all eyes were kind of on Blake. People were wondering if she was going to bring Ryan.
00:02:42.000 I said, definitely not. That's not going to happen.
00:02:44.160 And obviously she's adjusting and she's realizing what a bad decision SNL was. People don't like Ryan Reynolds, especially.
00:02:51.640 So she did show up alone. And when Anna Kendrick was asked on about Blake Lively on the red carpet, she was a bit pithy and I would say maybe trying to be funny, but definitely made a statement when she was asked about working with Blake. Take a listen.
00:03:09.780 Anna, what does it mean to be working with Blake again?
00:03:12.100 Just, oh, you know, sort of a thing. And there were tons of rumors that, by the way, on the first movie, they didn't get along fantastically.
00:03:22.560 Obviously, they got along enough for them to do the second movie.
00:03:25.760 But you can sense that she's a little bit annoyed and she knows a lot of questions are going to be coming her way about Blake Lively.
00:03:31.240 And specifically when she was asked directly by a reporter about everything that was going on, she definitely gave a very cutthroat answer.
00:03:39.760 Here's what she had to say.
00:03:41.500 Yeah. So now the other thing I want to ask you, how do you feel like the every how does it feel like the movie's being impacted kind of by everything happening around going on in the world?
00:03:49.460 Why? What happened?
00:03:50.280 I did ayahuasca and the last year of my life is just gone, but I've heard the movie's amazing.
00:03:55.260 Wait, thank you.
00:03:56.120 So I thought it was really interesting and I'm not sure if anybody has pointed this out yet that she chose to say ayahuasca and that she couldn't remember anything as her reason as to why she can't respond to this.
00:04:08.980 And I was wondering whether or not that was potentially a nod to the now infamous skit where Ryan Reynolds directed the promo of It Ends With Us, brought his mother and had Brandon Sklenar there.
00:04:22.940 And Brandon Sklenar, I guess, was supposed to be the Justin Baldoni and said that he had taken a lot of ayahuasca that just kept happening throughout the skit.
00:04:31.600 And we weren't sure why they were focusing on ayahuasca.
00:04:33.860 It was quite strange.
00:04:35.040 Take a listen.
00:04:35.520 Just jogging your memory here.
00:04:36.520 My heart is beating like crazy right now.
00:04:40.260 This reminds me of when I went on that meth journey.
00:04:42.120 Confront my inner child and I just...
00:04:44.240 It wasn't a meth journey.
00:04:44.640 I think you mean like ayahuasca, like a South American plant known for its medicinal benefits.
00:04:49.860 Definitely not meth.
00:04:51.560 You should not be doing a meth journey.
00:04:53.280 I've been on a meth journey for about six months now.
00:04:55.100 I mean, I'm not a doctor, but you're probably going to die.
00:04:57.520 I don't feel well.
00:04:58.480 You don't look well.
00:04:59.300 I was expecting not to like him.
00:05:01.280 Oh, yeah.
00:05:01.780 But he is so nice.
00:05:03.680 So nice.
00:05:04.240 He's the nicest guy.
00:05:05.360 So funny, charming.
00:05:07.080 Yeah.
00:05:07.560 What a wonderful guy.
00:05:08.880 What is ayahuasca?
00:05:11.380 So I was wondering if she said that on purpose.
00:05:14.280 We obviously never know the answer to that.
00:05:16.180 But what we do know is that there has definitively been a noticeable transition in Blake Lively's
00:05:20.220 public demeanor, right?
00:05:21.700 We're kind of used to seeing, and pardon my language here, but we're very used to seeing
00:05:24.920 like a bitchy Blake, right? 1.00
00:05:26.420 She's very unkind to reporters. 0.80
00:05:28.260 And genuinely, I think that there's just a lack of a better word there.
00:05:31.340 She seems to hate the press junkets over the years.
00:05:34.100 She barely seems to enjoy her fans.
00:05:36.520 She kind of thinks that she's above her fans, thinks she's above the press, and it's just
00:05:40.680 always rude, right?
00:05:43.000 But throughout these last two public appearances, since everything has kind of been falling apart
00:05:46.920 for her and Ryan, she does seem, and I will agree, admittedly, very uncomfortable.
00:05:52.140 And I said that immediately when she was on the red carpet with Ryan.
00:05:55.440 He didn't, obviously, because he is, I think, just a narcissist to his core.
00:05:59.020 But, you know, they chose to walk the red carpet, and he was kind of pointing at her and wanting
00:06:04.200 the cameras to capture him and her.
00:06:05.880 And then he notoriously, now we know, wrote another line into that script to sort of mock
00:06:10.560 the circumstances of everything that was going on.
00:06:12.960 But when you zoomed in on her face in that moment, and you saw Kevin Costner kind of looking
00:06:17.920 down in that SNL moment, she doesn't look comfortable.
00:06:21.800 She doesn't.
00:06:22.340 She looks anxious.
00:06:23.500 She looks like she doesn't really want to be out in public when she knows that the public
00:06:27.380 does not like her.
00:06:28.660 And we saw this similarly at the event for South by Southwest.
00:06:31.900 Some people are noticing that she's rambling when she's speaking on stage to the point of
00:06:37.220 almost incoherency, rambling to deal with her angst, right?
00:06:42.200 And I'll just give you a sample of that.
00:06:44.440 Take a listen.
00:06:45.720 What happens in the third one?
00:06:47.100 I'm joking.
00:06:48.540 Capri in Rome, honestly.
00:06:50.100 So, Paul, we really wanted to make this the second movie.
00:06:53.340 And I was like, Paul, he wanted to shoot in Capri.
00:06:55.980 And I was like, that sounds amazing.
00:06:57.380 And it's very expensive.
00:06:58.360 And let's just, you know, shoot in Connecticut.
00:07:00.000 That's where the first one took place.
00:07:01.340 I didn't understand why I needed to be Capri.
00:07:03.120 And now I want to live there.
00:07:05.160 I love it so much.
00:07:06.700 They serve you ice cream and lemons.
00:07:09.040 And it's just magical.
00:07:10.700 And they sell hats.
00:07:11.520 That crazy, beautiful hat was just a hat in a store.
00:07:15.120 Humans buy that.
00:07:18.560 And I'll also add to that, she's definitely rambling.
00:07:21.400 And you can sense she's uncomfortable and a lot of hand movements.
00:07:23.480 But I'll also add that even when you see her walking the red carpet, she's suddenly very
00:07:27.240 nice to fans.
00:07:28.340 It's a totally different Blake Lively.
00:07:30.140 And she just seems so grateful for every fan that's coming up to her and asking for
00:07:33.960 a picture and like a hug.
00:07:36.100 We even saw that on the red carpet with SNL.
00:07:39.040 I think it was.
00:07:39.660 I can't think of the woman's last name, Amy.
00:07:41.960 One of my producers will say it in my ear.
00:07:43.300 But when they were speaking and they were hugging and they just sort of looked at each
00:07:46.820 other, and she just seems so much more compassionate now, right, where you can see that she's
00:07:50.760 had some sort of an internal breakdown.
00:07:53.380 And I noticed that following that ramble session, which was posted on Instagram over and over
00:07:58.340 again, some of the comments in response to it were quite sympathetic to Blake, right?
00:08:03.380 They said that you can really feel her anxiety through the screen.
00:08:07.740 One Instagram user was actually even empathetic to the matter and saying that they similarly
00:08:12.060 ramble when they are on their anxiety meds.
00:08:14.820 And I would not be shocked at all, by the way, if Blake during this moment was taking
00:08:19.140 anxiety meds.
00:08:19.920 I believe truly it is not an act to suggest that Blake Lively is anxious at this moment
00:08:25.920 in time with so much on the line and everything that she feels that she's worked for essentially
00:08:30.840 being wiped out with one case.
00:08:33.780 So the question that people are asking is, should we be the better person?
00:08:37.920 Should we take the Justin Baldoni approach?
00:08:40.400 Should we take a look at this situation, assess the monster that lived inside of her and show 0.82
00:08:45.980 her some compassion, especially because many of us agree that Ryan Reynolds was the leader
00:08:50.780 in this.
00:08:51.400 I believe that.
00:08:51.940 I believe Ryan Reynolds was the leader and is the leader in everything that she does.
00:08:56.180 So should we be compassionate?
00:08:58.980 And the answer is no, my friends.
00:09:01.120 We obviously should not be compassionate.
00:09:03.460 You know, that's not how this works.
00:09:05.980 When you get caught doing something that is purely evil, the task is not on the people
00:09:14.700 who caught you doing that thing to extend forgiveness to you when you have not asked for forgiveness.
00:09:22.560 That is the important part here, okay?
00:09:25.200 Something that I actually learned from my father-in-law, something my husband always says, when people
00:09:29.060 say, do you forgive that person, the question is, have they asked for forgiveness?
00:09:35.960 And Blake Lively has not.
00:09:37.720 She has not said sorry.
00:09:39.160 She has not even said sorry to the court.
00:09:40.840 She has not dropped the lawsuit.
00:09:42.200 She has not made a statement.
00:09:43.300 She has not apologized to anyone for attempting to execute an act of perfect evil.
00:09:48.800 And she would have gotten away with it.
00:09:50.940 Think of Scooby-Doo.
00:09:52.140 I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
00:09:55.460 We are the meddling kids.
00:09:57.300 Yes, this was meant to be an act of evil against a harmless person.
00:10:01.780 She sensed his weakness and she went for it.
00:10:04.780 And yes, I too would be anxious and uncomfortable if the world finally saw me for exactly what I was, right?
00:10:12.460 If I had perfectly curated this idea of me caring about various causes and caring about people.
00:10:18.320 And in reality, I get caught in my own text messages as being a very mean girl who will even use A-list power
00:10:24.880 and the threat of dragons to take somebody down who just wanted to bring forth a movie that they were passionate about,
00:10:31.440 a book that they were passionate about.
00:10:33.260 Taking a book and turning it into a movie because he wanted to tell a story about domestic violence.
00:10:37.940 Okay, so I just want to remind you guys that whenever and if ever you begin to feel an iota of sadness for Blake Lively,
00:10:43.520 I want you to remember all the things that she did to Justin Baldoni.
00:10:47.680 I want you to revisit the website that Brian Friedman put up and I want you to read her text messages and how horrific they were,
00:10:53.900 how quickly her and Ryan decided to use the threat of Taylor Swift to take down Justin Baldoni and make him feel like he was powerless in the world of Hollywood.
00:11:05.080 I want you to remember their agents, Baldoni, Baldoni, Baloney, Ari Emanuel, okay?
00:11:11.300 Still bullying him after lawsuits have been filed because they view themselves to be that powerful, okay?
00:11:18.000 We're the giants here and there's nothing that Justin can do about it.
00:11:21.220 And I will promise you that when you recapture that in your own imagination,
00:11:26.600 recapture how Justin Baldoni and his family must have felt realizing that if it wasn't for us meddling kids, okay? 0.98
00:11:33.600 If it wasn't for us meddling kids, he would have effectively been branded as a sexual pervert. 0.96
00:11:40.900 That would have been the story of Justin Baldoni. 0.70
00:11:43.040 We would have been an actor who did a movie, who then moved to direct a movie,
00:11:48.020 and then it was discovered thanks to the wonderful feminist that Blake Lively is 1.00
00:11:53.400 and her wonderful feminist friends who march in songs to take down Katy Perry. 1.00
00:11:59.020 Thanks to her, we recognize that actually he was a sexual pervert 0.99
00:12:02.220 who both thought she was ugly but also couldn't look away from her 1.00
00:12:05.420 and irresistibly needed to stare at her, him and Justin Heath, when she was breastfeeding
00:12:09.980 because they're just so into those sorts of things.
00:12:12.220 Who was into a category of porn that nobody has ever heard of, which is a woman giving birth. 0.99
00:12:17.580 Realize that they sat down, they made threats in an effort to take over his movie,
00:12:22.280 and when they didn't get what they wanted,
00:12:23.600 they were willing to brand him as a sexual predator via one of the most powerful news organizations in the world,
00:12:31.860 the New York Times, and they were able to do that because of their connections.
00:12:36.200 So, no.
00:12:37.680 The answer to people that are wondering in the comments if you should feel bad because she looks anxious,
00:12:42.980 the answer is no, you shouldn't feel bad, and she should be anxious, okay?
00:12:46.160 After a person goes on a murder spree, to give you an example,
00:12:51.420 and if they're home and they're dumping their clothes and getting rid of all the evidence,
00:12:55.560 then they hear sirens outside, they start to feel anxious.
00:12:59.360 We don't go, oh my gosh, I feel so, he's going through a moment of anxiety,
00:13:03.460 recognizing that he might really get caught.
00:13:06.920 That he really might actually have to serve a sentence for this horrific act that he committed.
00:13:12.740 No, we keep marching until she gives us the mea culpa,
00:13:17.000 and she recognizes and thinks about the anxiety that his wife must have gone through,
00:13:21.740 recognizing that it was a plausibility that her kids could grow up and believe that their father was a monster, okay?
00:13:28.360 Maybe think about how Justin Baldoni felt when he was in that basement at his own movie premiere,
00:13:34.120 and they were laughing and dancing upstairs, thinking that they had almost done it,
00:13:39.540 that it was almost completed, and that they had taken over his movie.
00:13:44.680 And by the way, if you were on the fence about how involved Blake Lively was,
00:13:48.720 I certainly was at moments going, was this just being driven by Ryan?
00:13:52.540 Was she even on the set when he did these Deadpool things?
00:13:55.860 Was she even aware of the lines that he was writing since she played Lady Deadpool,
00:14:00.280 but she only did the voiceover and she wasn't actually on set?
00:14:03.220 Did she know that he was going to over-murder him and do all of these horrific, toxic things?
00:14:08.120 Well, we got our answer when somebody on TikTok was able to find that present at that shoot that we just showed you,
00:14:14.740 where he brought his mom in to mock Justin Baldoni and to make fun of him and his background and his family and ayahuasca.
00:14:22.180 Blake Lively was present when that was shot.
00:14:24.560 Here is a backstage at the It Ends With Us Ryan Reynolds promo shoot.
00:14:30.020 It says the one and only Blake Smollett, and for those of you that are listening on the podcast,
00:14:47.240 it is her laughing and speaking.
00:14:49.560 It looks like she's directing almost Ryan's mother to say lines.
00:14:54.060 And we know that she was saying lines about Blake, that Brennan was meant to be Justin Baldoni.
00:14:59.120 And this was really, truly just high school bullying done to the Hollywood extreme.
00:15:07.200 So I don't forgive it.
00:15:08.740 I will not forget it.
00:15:09.660 But when she comes down and asks for an apology, then we can revisit that question.
00:15:15.280 Okay.
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00:16:19.380 Okay, now it's time for me to get into some trouble.
00:16:22.240 Okay, I'm old, by the way, 35 years old.
00:16:24.860 I'm so old that I remember when conservatives were against the weaponization of the Department
00:16:29.520 of Justice.
00:16:30.060 I remember there was this event called January 6th, and the aftermath of it, I remember the
00:16:35.820 media, which is so good at brainwashing us, repeatedly showing videos of people breaking
00:16:40.820 through barriers.
00:16:41.720 And what was happening outside of this media depiction was this sweeping justification for
00:16:47.880 the harassment of Americans who were simply there that day, many of whom never entered
00:16:53.360 the Capitol building.
00:16:54.440 They literally just listened to Trump speak and went home.
00:16:58.260 Why do I know this?
00:16:59.000 Because I had friends from my hometown who only attended President Trump's speech, and then
00:17:04.320 they went home.
00:17:04.840 And then the FBI arrived at their door to question them about why on earth they went to the rally
00:17:12.280 at all.
00:17:13.100 Okay, that is the reality of circumstances.
00:17:14.820 And I know people that are now watching my series and seeing me do all these investigative
00:17:18.180 things.
00:17:18.840 You are starting to reexamine your relationship with the media.
00:17:22.060 It's amazing what can happen in moments of confusion, what you're allowed to happen in
00:17:26.380 moments of confusion when a story is presented to you.
00:17:29.820 The message that they received when the FBI showed up at their door, okay, literally kids
00:17:35.340 that I went to elementary school with, is essentially they were being threatened for political reasons.
00:17:40.620 And many people allowed that to happen because the media convinced them through the repetition
00:17:44.880 of videos and words, words like domestic terrorism.
00:17:48.780 It's terrorism.
00:17:49.440 It's a terroristic threat.
00:17:50.460 The overuse of the word terrorism has been used to propagandize people into believing that
00:17:57.180 if they don't acquiesce to whatever the government wants, well, your nation is going to somehow
00:18:01.900 be harmed because these are terroristic threats.
00:18:04.340 Hello, 9-11.
00:18:05.660 Right?
00:18:05.920 Why are we now?
00:18:06.580 Why do we all have to like get naked at the airport?
00:18:08.980 Because after an event like 9-11, there was so much confusion.
00:18:11.880 We were told the Middle East, we don't even know how we got into war, but it was like,
00:18:15.300 take your belts and shoes off at the airport or you're all going to die.
00:18:18.900 And we were like, okay, sure.
00:18:19.800 That seems like a fair trade-off.
00:18:21.300 And now we look back and we go, goodness, when we're emotional and we're fired up about stuff
00:18:25.800 or we hear certain trigger words, we allow a lot of over-governance.
00:18:31.600 I'm also so old, okay, that I remember two weeks ago on this podcast when I showed a tremendous
00:18:37.900 clip of Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:18:40.320 He went over to Europe and he rightfully told the leaders, European leaders, that they had
00:18:45.940 become what they hated.
00:18:47.200 Remember the Munich Security Conference?
00:18:49.140 He was saying, you guys are sending police officers to the doors of your own citizens for
00:18:54.500 wrong think, because rather than try to understand the ideas and see which way the wind is blowing
00:18:59.880 in your countries, you're telling them it's just not allowed.
00:19:02.460 Who are you?
00:19:03.620 How can you purport to be people that defend freedom when actually you're trying to prosecute
00:19:08.280 it?
00:19:08.640 And he was right.
00:19:09.320 And I applauded that.
00:19:11.060 And I'm getting so old, you guys, that I remember BLM protests on campus.
00:19:15.240 Who was there?
00:19:15.740 Who was alive?
00:19:16.500 Am I the only dinosaur here?
00:19:18.040 And some of them grew extremely violent.
00:19:20.340 Not all of them, but some of them definitely grew extremely violent all across cities.
00:19:25.160 I gave speeches on college campuses during that time.
00:19:28.040 And I remember having students that were blocking and barricading doors, blaring music.
00:19:32.840 I was traveling with Charlie Kirk.
00:19:34.500 They were fighting police officers.
00:19:36.360 I got chased down by Antifa in a diner in Philadelphia with Charlie Kirk. 0.50
00:19:41.100 You can still find that clip.
00:19:42.460 Totally insane stuff.
00:19:43.600 People that were masked.
00:19:44.980 And it wasn't okay.
00:19:46.100 So I have to tell you that as someone who personally survived the Antifa and the BLM
00:19:52.240 riots, I was very understanding when Trump said that he was going to be cracking down
00:19:57.720 on illegal protests, operative word being illegal.
00:20:02.480 And he said this on March 4th when he posted this to Truth Social.
00:20:05.840 He wrote, all federal funding will stop for any college, school, or university that allows
00:20:11.420 illegal protests.
00:20:12.540 Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came.
00:20:17.800 American students will be permanently expelled depending on the crime.
00:20:22.220 Arrested.
00:20:23.040 No masks.
00:20:24.420 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:20:27.340 Cool.
00:20:28.020 I said, okay, that actually works for me.
00:20:31.780 Then we found out via a tweet yesterday that he had arrested a person named Mahmoud Khalil.
00:20:40.240 Okay.
00:20:41.180 And I'll just read you the Trump, the Truth Social tweet.
00:20:45.460 I don't know if they call them tweets on Truth Social, but he wrote, following my previously
00:20:49.020 signed executive orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a radical foreign
00:20:56.360 pro-Hamas student on the campus of Columbia University.
00:20:59.480 This is the first arrest of many to come.
00:21:02.000 We know there are more students at Columbia and other universities across the country who
00:21:05.620 have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.
00:21:08.980 And the Trump administration will not tolerate it.
00:21:11.280 Many are not students.
00:21:12.140 They are paid agitators.
00:21:13.340 We will find, pardon, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country 0.94
00:21:19.300 never to return again.
00:21:21.900 If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your
00:21:26.080 presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome
00:21:30.620 here.
00:21:31.240 We expect every one of America's colleges and universities to comply.
00:21:35.280 Thank you.
00:21:35.780 OK, then the White House blared this out across their social media pages, writing on top of
00:21:45.480 a photo of this student activist, Shalom Mahmoud.
00:21:51.180 And they wrote, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil.
00:21:54.240 So to be clear, this wasn't done quietly.
00:21:56.020 This was done loudly.
00:21:57.800 They called him a pro-Hamas student.
00:22:00.020 And obviously, people are then going to look into this person because this is an example
00:22:04.300 of the policy.
00:22:05.160 You said illegal protesting.
00:22:06.580 So I thought, OK, this is going to be pretty simple.
00:22:09.380 I abstained yesterday from all the chatter about it because I knew I just knew in my gut
00:22:14.500 that this person had to have been arrested for doing something that was illegal, engaging
00:22:19.760 in an illegal protest.
00:22:21.060 He must have been arrested on a campus.
00:22:22.820 And therefore, because he was on a student visa, he had to leave.
00:22:26.900 And I was OK with that.
00:22:28.760 But something else was presented to the public.
00:22:31.680 OK, here are the facts.
00:22:33.540 Yes, he is a Palestinian activist.
00:22:35.240 His name is Mahmoud Khalil.
00:22:36.720 He was, in fact, detained by ICE over Columbia University protests.
00:22:41.820 He had completed work on his master's degree from Columbia University in December.
00:22:46.340 But he is a legal resident of the United States.
00:22:49.620 OK, he is a green card holder.
00:22:51.280 That is very different from somebody who is here on a student visa.
00:22:54.820 OK, that means you essentially have all of the rights that are afforded to you.
00:22:59.200 You can't vote, but you can have legal green card residency for a very long time.
00:23:04.480 So he was arrested and detained by federal agents after his lawyer said that his green card
00:23:09.360 was revoked by the Trump administration, despite the fact that he hadn't been arrested
00:23:14.140 for engaging in illegal protests.
00:23:16.460 So that made me go, OK, wait, what's this?
00:23:18.080 What's going on?
00:23:18.680 His attorney, a woman named Amy Greer, said that Khalil's wife, who is, in fact, an American
00:23:24.560 citizen, was also present during his arrest.
00:23:27.380 And she's eight months pregnant.
00:23:29.340 She's eight months pregnant. 0.81
00:23:30.180 She finds out her green card holding legal permanent resident husband is about to be kicked
00:23:36.900 out of the country and he hasn't been arrested yet.
00:23:39.720 So I'm going, there must be something here that we're missing.
00:23:41.980 OK, clearly, I got to kind of get through all of the fodder on social media.
00:23:46.340 Because, you know, you're going to get he was a Hamas supporter.
00:23:48.680 I've been called a Hamas supporter for pointing out that I don't like dead children that are
00:23:52.680 Palestinian, like truly survive my last year. 0.98
00:23:56.640 Everything that I was called.
00:23:57.820 That's why I don't react when I hear these names.
00:23:59.780 I actually look for the truth.
00:24:00.840 I look for the source.
00:24:01.480 I want to hear what he said.
00:24:02.740 I want to see what he did.
00:24:04.360 I no longer believe in smears and libels and name calling ad hominem attacks.
00:24:09.580 Just show me the video of what this individual did, what he said that showed that he was supporting
00:24:16.240 a terroristic group overseas.
00:24:17.580 And you will have me committed to your beliefs.
00:24:20.400 But 24 hours later, we couldn't find this.
00:24:23.000 We could not find this.
00:24:24.180 Nobody was able to present anything other than ad hominem attacks.
00:24:27.820 OK, we looked into it a little bit further in an interview with CNN last spring.
00:24:33.240 Khalil Khalil said that he was born a Palestinian refugee in Syria.
00:24:37.080 OK, so he is Palestinian.
00:24:38.160 That's why he obviously is going to have some feelings about what's happening to Palestinians.
00:24:42.040 Palestinians, the innocent Palestinians, OK, people who think that innocent children and 0.98
00:24:47.600 women being bombed is wrong, are not necessarily Hamas supporters.
00:24:52.660 We're conflating.
00:24:53.480 OK, we are conflating and we're doing it because it's disingenuous.
00:24:57.580 Then we learned that his family is from Tiberias, an Israeli city that was once known for its
00:25:02.420 mixed Jewish and Arab population.
00:25:04.660 He grew up in Syria.
00:25:05.460 He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Lebanese American University,
00:25:11.080 at least according to his LinkedIn profile.
00:25:13.180 And then in 2023, he began studying to earn his master's in public administration at Columbia's
00:25:18.380 School of International and Public Affairs.
00:25:21.140 After October 7th, there was a coalition of students that established encampments at Columbia
00:25:27.000 University.
00:25:27.820 They held rallies.
00:25:29.300 They staged teach-ins. 0.91
00:25:30.760 But the movement, of course, was also being tainted by people who just hated Jews, which,
00:25:36.660 by the way, on CNN, Khalil himself disavowed.
00:25:39.940 He said, quote, there is, of course, no place for anti-Semitism.
00:25:44.040 What we are witnessing is anti-Palestinian sentiment that's taking different forms.
00:25:49.080 And anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism are some of these forms.
00:25:54.300 He added at that time that he chose not to participate directly in the student encampments because he
00:25:59.320 did not want to risk the university revoking his student visa.
00:26:02.020 So he was conscious of that.
00:26:04.080 Instead, he just gave speeches and was one of the students that was selected to lead the
00:26:07.300 discussions with the university administrators because they began negotiating with the student
00:26:12.440 activists.
00:26:13.380 And he represented them at Columbia University, a coalition called Apartheid Divest that demanded,
00:26:20.760 among other things, that the university divest from its financial ties to Israel until there was a
00:26:26.020 ceasefire in Gaza. Days after he spoke to CNN, the university missed its deadline to reach an
00:26:32.060 agreement on that divestment. And in response, a bunch of students, as well as people that were
00:26:37.040 not affiliated with the school at all. So these were just like protests that were happening
00:26:40.140 everywhere, entered Columbia's Hamilton Hall and they barricaded themselves inside.
00:26:44.800 Now, he was not one of these students. The university thus far, no one has proclaimed he barricaded
00:26:51.780 himself into this university. The university then requested police assistance. They removed the
00:26:57.480 protesters and more than 280 people were arrested from Hamilton Hall. Good. You can't barricade yourself
00:27:03.800 inside a school. That's you breaking the law. He just wasn't one of these students. After those
00:27:08.600 demonstrations, the university moved to suspend him. But then they reversed the decision because after
00:27:14.480 reviewing the evidence, they realized they didn't have any evidence to warrant suspending him.
00:27:20.320 So in his view, the suspension was completely random. Now, I can tell you that and I would say
00:27:27.940 until we get answers, this is this is actually something I agree with. A federal judge has moved to block
00:27:33.480 the effort of the Trump administration to deport him. Judge Jesse Furman ordered a hearing on the case to be
00:27:40.020 held on Wednesday morning in New York City. And so I will be following that tomorrow because I don't
00:27:45.340 understand why he was selected to be deported. People are outraged because despite making a giant
00:27:53.740 splash and announcing his arrest, the politicians in the follow up discussions seem completely unable to
00:28:01.640 answer specific questions about which law he broke. They're just kind of reminding us that, well, green card
00:28:07.600 holders can be revoked at any time. OK, yeah, sure. But is your you just you don't you don't like his
00:28:12.700 speech. You don't like his opinion. Is that what we're getting at? And I'll show you what I'm talking
00:28:16.400 about. Here's Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, who was pointedly asked about what which law this
00:28:21.780 individual broke. And he's going to say a lot of words, but he's also going to say absolutely
00:28:27.100 nothing. Take a listen. Yeah. In your estimation, what crime did not commit to warrant his arrest,
00:28:34.600 detention? Let me tell you something. I went face down the angry mob at Columbia at the height of
00:28:39.840 that stuff when when the pro-Palestinian pro-Hamas protesters were there. I'm telling you, this is my
00:28:46.080 own observation, not something I read in the newspaper. It was dangerous. I met with Jewish 1.00
00:28:50.080 students before he went to campus who were hauled away off campus because they were instructed by the
00:28:54.740 administration not to come to class, which they paid for, for fear of their physical safety.
00:29:00.020 The administrators there refused to take control of that campus. They refused to allow the PD to come
00:29:05.020 the police department to come in and take control. And it turned into a chaos. The president has since
00:29:10.700 been removed. And now they got the same problem again. Columbia and other universities. They have to
00:29:15.480 keep control of campus. The first responsibility of an administration is ensuring the safety of the
00:29:20.860 students who are paying tuition to be there for crying out loud. This madness has to stop. We have
00:29:26.540 to get control of it. This guy apparently was a mastermind of those very things when the gnashing of
00:29:31.380 teeth and the ripping of clothes and the people screaming at me wanting to rip me limb from limb
00:29:35.180 because I was there talking about moral clarity and how there's a right and a wrong.
00:29:38.180 They were doing that. They disrupted the campus. They were threatening physical violence of their
00:29:43.860 fellow students. If you're on a student visa, I'm going to say this clearly. If you were on a student
00:29:48.260 visa and you're in America and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish 0.99
00:29:52.660 classmates, you're going home. We're going to arrest your tail and we're going to send you home where you 1.00
00:29:59.140 belong. And that this is just getting started. So, look, I appreciate free speech. I used to defend
00:30:06.240 it in courts. But this is far beyond the pale of that. When you are threatening your classmates and
00:30:10.680 spewing anti-Semitism and all this hatred, it's enough. And I think the American people understand
00:30:15.560 that. They're supporting it. And I'm glad we have a president who's strong enough to lay down the law.
00:30:20.020 Thanks a lot.
00:30:22.940 A lot of words to not tell us what exactly Makoud Khalil himself did. He was apparently a mastermind.
00:30:29.140 What? Apparently a mastermind. What are you talking about? You're personalizing. I was there. I saw.
00:30:34.980 I don't doubt any of that. I was there during BLM protests. I saw BLM protesters get violent.
00:30:41.080 It doesn't excuse me to go arrest somebody who wasn't a part of the violent protests. 1.00
00:30:45.360 I was just supposed to be stupid and accept that. You know what we refer to that to? 0.99
00:30:47.720 The D.C. dip and twirl. For those of you who have seen the movie The Campaign with Will Ferrell,
00:30:53.140 when politicians are really good at dipping and twirling and not answering the questions. Here's a clip from that
00:30:57.960 movie. Cam Brady just gave you the old D.C. dip and twirl. Just danced around the question.
00:31:05.400 Mike Johnson just gave you guys the old D.C. dip and twirl. He just danced around the question.
00:31:10.300 I'm like, OK, what specifically did this kid do? I need to know because you're talking about green
00:31:15.700 card holders, not people that are just here taking a class. You're saying permanent residents of the
00:31:20.720 United States. We can just revoke your green card at any time for wrong think. That's what it looks
00:31:24.740 like right now. Again, I am open, as I have been, to being proven wrong if somebody can present
00:31:30.320 evidence of something that he did. Instead of just saying apparently he was a mastermind,
00:31:34.360 just a mastermind, just a total mastermind. Everything that was happening was because of
00:31:38.480 him. Do you have evidence of that, Mike Johnson? So Caroline Levitt, who is the White House press
00:31:44.160 secretary, was predictably questioned about his arrest today as well. And here is what she says
00:31:50.800 his crime was. Take a listen. Does the administration believe that it needs to charge
00:31:56.840 a green card holder with a crime to be eligible for deportation? Well, in fact, Secretary Rubio
00:32:04.880 reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khalil. And I'm glad you brought this up. Under the 0.99
00:32:11.340 Immigration and Nationality Act, the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa
00:32:18.100 for individuals who serve or are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests
00:32:24.160 of the United States of America. And Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of
00:32:30.220 coming to this country to study at one of our nation's finest universities and colleges. And he
00:32:37.180 took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege, by siding with terrorists, Hamas terrorists who have 0.55
00:32:43.200 killed innocent men, women, and children. This is an individual who organized group protests that not
00:32:49.640 only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe
00:32:56.340 on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda. Flyers with the logo of Hamas.
00:33:04.160 That is what the behavior and activity that this individual engaged in. And I have those flyers on my
00:33:10.080 desk. They were provided to me by the Department of Homeland Security. I thought about bringing them
00:33:14.040 into this briefing room to share with all of you, but I didn't think it was worth the dignity of this
00:33:18.420 room to bring that pro-Hamas propaganda. But that's what this individual distributed on the campus of
00:33:23.580 Columbia University. And this administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the
00:33:28.600 privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed
00:33:34.480 Americans. We have a zero-tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period.
00:33:40.600 Okay, so she is alleging that he distributed materials that are sitting on her desk. Would it not be prudent
00:33:48.900 to just release those flyers? Wouldn't you quiet the noise immediately if what you're saying is true,
00:33:54.400 and there's no reason for us to doubt that what you're saying is true? It's a different answer than
00:33:57.680 everybody else is giving. You're saying he distributed materials that were in support of
00:34:02.740 murder, I'm assuming. And therefore, by the way, I would imagine that he could have been arrested for
00:34:08.840 that. It seems weird, but he wasn't arrested by Columbia University, that he didn't get into any
00:34:14.080 trouble with the police at Columbia University, but now he's in trouble with the feds. That seems like a
00:34:18.660 remarkable jump there in the process. Why not release those flyers? Wouldn't that make sense to you?
00:34:25.120 And then adding insult to injury in terms of just trying to give us an excuse, which I, like I said,
00:34:30.100 I am open to accepting an excuse here. I am. I'm genuinely like, I was like, go get them when we
00:34:36.460 talked about illegal protesting. I've been on the bad end of that. Then you have people who are just
00:34:41.420 making stuff up that actually isn't true at all. Scott Jennings, and I'm sure this was a mistake.
00:34:46.400 I'm sure somebody gave it to him. He thought it was real, and he instantly published it. But he is a CNN
00:34:51.520 opinion contributor who served as the political director for George W. Bush. He went on CNN and
00:34:57.260 said that he was a part of a group that wanted to eradicate Western civilization. He mentioned,
00:35:03.940 and you're seeing this going around, that this group, CUAD, C-U-A-D, essentially called for the
00:35:10.580 eradication of Western civilization. And I can tell you guys that that's been debunked now, okay?
00:35:16.240 There is a Twitter account, Village Crazy Lady, who has tweeted debunking the eradication
00:35:20.900 of Western civilization as an element of the group that he was a part of. And she shows that actually
00:35:26.100 that language was pulled regarding a Bangladeshi group. Take a look at this. This is her tweet.
00:35:32.820 Heads up, this is fake. This statement came from a group called Columbia University Bengali Student
00:35:37.800 Association. It was printed in Mondweiss on August 4th, 2024, in a much longer essay expressing solidarity
00:35:46.040 with the student movement in Bangladesh. On August 8th, 2004, Instagram accounts called
00:35:52.060 Jews in Schools and Anti-Semitism Today posted this picture claiming that it was from CUAD's page
00:35:59.820 after an ex-user named StuStuStudio posted the Mondweiss article to his page.
00:36:06.680 This is the evidence of radicalism that all the Zionists are using to attack Mahmoud Khalil today, 0.98
00:36:13.380 a screenshot of a fake IG post. And I have seen this going around and here it is. They're showing
00:36:17.720 this post, but they're pretending that it came from the group that he was a part of. And this is the
00:36:22.560 original post. It had something to do with a Bangladesh group that was on campus. And then she
00:36:26.700 shows in the next slide how that language was actually pulled and verifiably true from Bangladesh.
00:36:33.900 There's a movement for support students in Bangladesh. And so, again, I'm happy to say that people
00:36:40.260 probably wrongly assume that that was true. But why do we have to move to smearing someone?
00:36:45.460 This information should be so easy to garner. You've just moved to deport this person.
00:36:50.580 He should have done something so egregious. Just show us the flyer so we can get on board with this.
00:36:56.740 Show me him calling people for death. And don't say that students feeling unsafe is enough of a reason
00:37:01.920 because this wasn't done. Let's be very clear. This was not done during BLM protests. When Trump was in
00:37:07.960 office, nobody cared about students that were feeling unsafe on campus, which was many. I mean,
00:37:14.160 Michael Knowles was burned in effigy recently. This has been going on forever. Students protesting and
00:37:19.340 protesting getting violent. So I have to say with the information thus far provided, okay, my opinion
00:37:25.800 right now today, which is subject to change if they come out and they show us more information. But thus far,
00:37:32.200 I entirely disagree with this decision. And I have some questions. How, first and foremost,
00:37:36.900 can you retroactively prosecute a law? Okay. If it was not the law or the position when Trump was in
00:37:43.540 office and under the Biden regime, he didn't care about this. How can you go back and prosecute someone
00:37:48.600 for a law that didn't exist when he violated it, which is passing out flyers, apparently,
00:37:54.400 flyers that we're not allowed to see? Why wasn't the exact same thing done when students were harassed by
00:38:00.120 BLM? This is really about protecting students, okay? Some people are saying, oh, well, this is
00:38:05.080 different because Hamas is a designated terrorist group. Okay. Well, you guys are saying this is
00:38:09.520 about protecting students, though. So you could have done this exact same thing to protect students
00:38:13.540 under BLM. You didn't do it. Why? Is it because white people shouldn't be protected? White people 0.81
00:38:17.640 who live here, by the way? Israelis don't live here. So people protesting Israel has less of an impact
00:38:24.560 on the lives of people than people who are saying that all white people are terrorists and that 0.99
00:38:29.520 white people deserve to die and the signs that we saw during these BLM things calling for a white 1.00
00:38:33.840 genocide. Professors that were engaging in that rhetoric calling for a white genocide. That 1.00
00:38:38.680 happened factually in this country. Why didn't we care? To the contrary, when Trump did get involved,
00:38:45.700 when he recognized that conservatives were being chased and violence was happening when we tried to
00:38:51.200 speak on college campuses, he did sign an executive order. But guess what he did? He signed an executive
00:38:55.980 order to increase speech, not to squelch it, to increase it. Here is an old PBS clip following that
00:39:03.420 executive order from 2019, protecting speech due to the way conservatives are being treated on campus
00:39:09.340 because of our perspectives on BLM and other matters. Take a listen.
00:39:13.580 With a stroke of the pen, President Trump issued an ultimatum to U.S. colleges.
00:39:18.520 Universities that want taxpayer dollars should promote free speech, not silence free speech.
00:39:25.280 The executive order signed today requires colleges to certify that their policies support free speech
00:39:32.100 as a condition to receiving federal research grants. It does not affect schools' access to
00:39:37.280 federal financial aid for student tuition. President Trump first proposed the idea to a
00:39:42.820 gathering of conservatives in Washington earlier this month.
00:39:45.780 We believe in free speech, including online and including on campus.
00:39:53.280 He brought on stage conservative activist Hayden Williams.
00:39:57.100 They want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions. They have got to allow people like
00:40:05.600 Hayden and many other great young people and old people to speak.
00:40:11.920 In February, Williams was recruiting on UC Berkeley's campus when he got into an altercation with this
00:40:18.480 man, who then punched Williams in the face. That man was arrested and charged with assault,
00:40:23.360 and the university condemned the attack. Williams spoke to the NewsHour while in Washington earlier
00:40:28.160 this month.
00:40:28.740 So the question is, why didn't the Trump's Department of Justice move at that moment to begin deporting
00:40:48.520 people who held perspectives that were radically pro-BLM, that were calling for the genocide?
00:40:54.720 I'm just genuinely asking this question for those of us who voted for Trump and support Trump.
00:41:00.540 And here's what I want to say, by the way, to the people who are extraordinarily Zionist,
00:41:04.720 who support Israel in everything that they do, the people who dropped the Israeli flag in the chat,
00:41:09.740 thinking that it's going to transform opinions somehow.
00:41:13.440 This is going to backfire. Take it from me. Take this to the bank. This is going to massively
00:41:17.800 backfire. So if your stance in this is, let me defend this action because I have to defend Israel,
00:41:24.180 the exact opposite thing will happen. Do you guys remember this earlier this week when the Gallup
00:41:29.620 poll was released the other day? I can show you this headline. Less than half in the U.S. now
00:41:35.580 sympathetic towards Israeli Israelis. OK, they and then it says support for the establishment of an 0.96
00:41:41.320 independent Palestinian state remains at majority level. And they were reporting this all across
00:41:45.720 that they've never seen such low support for Israel in America ever. And you want to know why that
00:41:51.260 is. It's not because you can legislate people to support Israel. It's not because you can deport
00:41:56.960 people to support Israel. It's because the opposite thing is more likely to happen because
00:42:01.600 it looks like politicians are willing to forego American principles when it comes to the topic of
00:42:06.100 Israel. Again, I would feel great about this if you told me that the Department of Justice did this 0.87
00:42:09.800 under Trump to protect white Americans at school during BLM riots. And are we supposed to all
00:42:16.140 magically forget while this is going on that back in 2020, Bibi Netanyahu was sounding like a gangster
00:42:23.200 saying that he was going to get speech laws passed in America and any person that boycotted Israel 0.91
00:42:29.360 would themselves suffer. Let's take a listen to Bibi Netanyahu. And this is going to be in Hebrew,
00:42:34.100 but don't worry, I will interpret it for you and then give you some tweets. This is Bibi Netanyahu.
00:42:38.220 He is saying we will punish people who boycott Israel. This is a foreign leader of a foreign state 0.99
00:43:02.140 saying whoever boycotts Israel will themselves be boycotted. We are getting laws passed. There are
00:43:07.780 laws passed in most states against boycotting us and you will be punished. How's that for gangster
00:43:14.060 speech? And to back that up, they tweeted it in perfect English, by the way, on the Israel Twitter
00:43:18.700 account. They wrote, this is 2020, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, whoever boycotts us will be boycotted.
00:43:24.980 The UN Human Rights Council is a biased body that is devoid of influence. Not for nothing,
00:43:29.200 I have already ordered severing ties of it. Guess what, guys? That has now happened in here in
00:43:34.240 America. It was also not for nothing that the American administration has taken this step
00:43:38.280 together with us. In recent years, we have promoted laws in most U.S. states which determine that strong
00:43:43.100 action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel. Fascinating that he can do that,
00:43:50.640 that he can say that, that we are supposed to be a party that is America first. And it seems that
00:43:54.340 laws are being dictated according to what this guy wants. And I've been very clear in my stance on him.
00:43:58.840 I think he's a monster. I think he's a gangster. And he's acting like a gangster. And now it seems 1.00
00:44:02.940 that politicians are just following his every order. They're just following his order. Just
00:44:06.640 gonna, well, we, doesn't matter why we got ready for Bibi Netanyahu wanted us to. You know what
00:44:11.000 actually, what we wanted as the American people? We want you guys to focus on the Epstein files and
00:44:16.780 the JFK files that were promised. Okay? This isn't where we need you guys to flex your muscle
00:44:21.640 on mock mood. Khalil, who doesn't have a criminal record here and has a wife that's pregnant for
00:44:27.340 eight months, like, wasn't at the top of my list. I gotta be honest. Wasn't even on my list, if I'm
00:44:31.160 being honest. And it's interesting to hear when people recognize that and ask that question,
00:44:36.900 whoa, what about these Epstein files and JFK files that were promised to be released on day one?
00:44:41.400 Here is how Caroline Levitt answers. A week ago, Attorney General Bondi said a truckload of Epstein
00:44:48.320 files had been delivered to her office from the SDNY. When can we expect those files to be released
00:44:53.500 to the public? I would defer you to the Department of Justice. I don't have a timeline here. Do you
00:44:57.520 have any update on the JFK files? I don't at this moment. Again, I would defer you to our DNI
00:45:03.100 director, Tulsi Gabbard, and also the Department of Justice. I know that they are working on that
00:45:07.420 diligently, as the president requested them to do.
00:45:11.400 All I'm saying, guys, is I don't like it. I don't like the way it feels. I don't like that
00:45:16.820 it seems increasingly that we are abandoning our values. Again, I had these same values when
00:45:22.440 people were taking extraordinary efforts under the Biden regime's DOJ to go after American
00:45:26.560 citizens for practicing their speech and rightfully assembling, rightfully assembling to support
00:45:31.760 Donald Trump. And this feels like the exact same thing in both regards, calling people terrorists
00:45:36.480 and telling people not to look at the details. And I'm looking at the details. I'm looking for the
00:45:39.480 details. And I'm happy to correct this report if more comes out. But don't put that on us. Don't
00:45:45.140 say, well, how dare you ask for more questions? OK, you are the ones who waved this flag. You are the
00:45:49.520 ones who put it all on White House and said, look what we did. We're so proud of this. And now people
00:45:53.960 are saying we didn't answer because we can't just be kicking out legal permanent residents because
00:45:58.880 they've spoken in ways that we disagree with. If you called for death, murder, the slaughter of
00:46:03.960 children, I'm willing to partner with you. But at this moment, I don't see it. All right, you guys,
00:46:10.840 before I get into some of your comments to see what you guys are thinking, maybe, Skylar, we should put
00:46:15.000 up a poll while I am getting through these ads, a poll of whether or not the Department of Justice
00:46:20.540 was justified against Khalil. If you want to get that poll going on YouTube, I will read the results
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00:48:33.880 going to get to this poll. Okay, what was the question we asked? We're at 67% no, but I don't
00:48:41.220 know exactly what Skylar asked. Did we ask whether or not Trump was correct, right? So it's a yes or no
00:48:46.980 question. Was Trump correct? Was the Trump administration correct to move on Mahmoud Khalil?
00:48:53.080 Right now we are at 66% no, 34% yes. So, and that is out of just 2,300 votes. We're going to still
00:49:03.560 allow that to climb. By the way, guys, I'm really proud of this. A year ago in March, I was fired and
00:49:11.040 it was a huge headline all across the world. And my family went through a lot and I just felt really
00:49:15.620 good to know that fast forward a year. And this was the Wall Street Journal today doing an article
00:49:21.340 called Beyond the Manosphere, a new wave of popular political podcasts ascends and buried in this
00:49:26.940 article, actually not buried, it's actually prominently featured in this article is the fact
00:49:30.360 that we have the number three podcast in America. It speaks about how basically people are turning
00:49:37.540 to independent media. It mentions me as a running political show. Oh no, that's not that's actually
00:49:46.820 Candace Owens show, but I'll go to the next page where it talks about me. It says Owens, a former
00:49:52.100 political talk show host at the Daily Wire, launched Candace in June as part of her own
00:49:56.040 independent media company. She said the format allows her to take more risks without corporate
00:50:00.160 checks and balances. Downloads and views of Candace across platforms were nearly 40 million over the
00:50:05.060 past month, according to Podscribe, notching her at number three behind Midas Touch and Rogan.
00:50:10.880 So it speaks about these investigative series that we've been doing and how people are appreciating
00:50:15.180 it. So I wanted to share that with you because that feels like it's a win for us. And for those
00:50:18.920 of you that listen to the show every day, I'm so grateful to you. I know I tell you that way too
00:50:22.060 much, but I'm just going to keep saying it until you're sick of me saying how grateful I am. But it's
00:50:26.680 it is amazing to know that this is one year later. And it's also a reminder to anyone listening to
00:50:31.040 this podcast and you're going through like a moment in life and you're going through like a
00:50:34.580 why moment, like why, you know, you almost are like, why would God allow this to happen
00:50:38.500 to me? Why would God allow this injustice to happen to me? And a bunch of people are
00:50:42.000 betting against you, like to remember that sometimes things when you move through a season,
00:50:46.740 you just don't see the bigger picture and to just trust it, trust the process, trust that
00:50:51.060 maybe it's God just getting you out of a situation and preparing for something bigger.
00:50:54.800 And I know that someone out there needed to hear that today. Maybe someone who literally
00:50:58.740 got fired today needed to hear that. And so just keep on keeping on and pray and be
00:51:04.560 grateful, even if you can't see the big picture. All right, let's read some of your comments.
00:51:09.580 First, let's let me just check what we are at now. Yeah, we are still sitting at 66 percent
00:51:14.400 on that poll of people who believe that the Department of Justice was not justified.
00:51:20.600 Sixty six percent of you think that what Trump did was wrong and 34 percent of you believe that
00:51:26.060 what Trump did was the correct thing to do. OK, a couple of questions. Norma, Norma writes,
00:51:32.840 wow, I agree 100 percent. No forgiveness. This is regarding Blake Lively until the person at least
00:51:38.820 asks for it. Also, you don't need to do drugs except Jesus and God and read the Bible and also
00:51:43.880 congratulations on the baby. And I hope God continues to bless you and your family. Thank you
00:51:47.640 so much, Norma. That is so kind. Jaria Khan writes, Trump and his admin are absolutely losing
00:51:52.800 their base by turning on Massey. This is correct. He also today fired a shot at Thomas Massey asking for
00:51:58.480 him to be primaried. He is very well liked. He's very well liked by me as well. Jaria continues his
00:52:03.840 entire campaign has been focused on a working for a foreign nation and I'm fed up nailing coffin for 1.00
00:52:09.020 me. America deserves better. Massey 2028 to for those of you that don't follow the intricacies of
00:52:14.200 American congressman. Massey is one of maybe three congressmen who does not bend to a pack the
00:52:19.800 American Israel pack. They have long been trying to get him out of office. And today Trump fired a shot
00:52:24.520 saying that someone should primary him and that they would have his support. And it didn't it did
00:52:29.480 not play well in MAGA world. People who voted for Trump love Trump. I love Thomas Massey and I think
00:52:35.400 he's just got this wrong and I won't be supporting that endeavor to primary Massey. And so people are
00:52:40.040 thinking even that is another symptom of him having to having taken a hundred million dollars from
00:52:46.060 Miriam Adelson in the election process. It's a big number, you know, and so who's his master is what
00:52:54.200 people are asking. And so it's unfortunate to hear people saying that it's a nail in the coffin for
00:52:58.700 them. And hopefully Trump turns this around. Who knows? Tara writes, thank you, Candace, for your
00:53:03.300 consistency on this. They have silenced Alex Jones. They are silencing anyone who criticizes. Dina
00:53:08.640 writes, went through all my teenage years without being a groupie of anyone. Now I'm 45 living in
00:53:14.020 Germany. I become a groupie of Candace. You're so sweet. Please add PayPal so I can join club Candace.
00:53:19.080 I didn't know we didn't have that. Skylar, please note that we should add PayPal. Tell I will tell my
00:53:24.180 husband. But Skylar has left me a note here saying that the website works with any credit card and we
00:53:30.340 will indeed look into PayPal. Stephanie writes, Blake and Ryan brought this on themselves. I do not feel
00:53:36.580 even a little bit bad for her. You reap what you sow. That's correct. And and now it is indeed a season
00:53:42.180 of harvest for her. And again, once she if she apologizes, I will have a totally different
00:53:46.360 perspective. But I'm going to need that apology first for my cousin. Maud writes, Candace, can you ask
00:53:51.860 President Trump to release the Tex Watson tapes from the L.A. prosecutor's office to Tom O'Neill,
00:53:56.680 writer of chaos? Tom was looking for them for his book. Oh, speaking of chaos, you guys, tonight we
00:54:02.280 have the book club as we continue this book, which is so beat up because I have just gone through it
00:54:08.020 way too many times. The next, I think, five chapters we're doing tonight. That is at 6 p.m.
00:54:12.720 Eastern and the live chat is working. So I'm so excited. So excited. This book is amazing. As I
00:54:18.160 said, everyone should read it. I didn't know about that. Tex Watson was one of the main guys
00:54:22.380 that executed that murder. So, yeah, allegedly, allegedly, I say now, having read that book,
00:54:29.200 who knows what the heck went down that night. But I look, I got to say regarding asking Trump
00:54:34.860 to release a Tex Watson tapes, I just need those Epstein files and JFK files first, please. And
00:54:41.220 JFK is mentioned in this book. There's still a connection. The 60s was a wild time. The CIA was
00:54:45.560 just doing whatever. Lastly, Abigail Boer writes, Democrat here who found you recently and now
00:54:50.660 questioned a lot of my own social engineering and views. Please have Ian Carroll on. You too would
00:54:55.000 be great. That's a great idea. I'm going to reach out to Ian Carroll and get him on because I feel
00:54:59.860 like that was just kind of providence that he was on Joe Rogan. I was on Theo Vaughn. We both had
00:55:04.980 similar discussions and he's from the left. I'm from the right. But I just I love the work that he's
00:55:09.600 doing because the work that he is doing and I hope the work that you guys see that I'm doing
00:55:12.980 is just to challenge people to think outside of the box. Stop thinking of yourself as a Republican
00:55:18.440 or a Democrat or left versus right. But just try to be ideologically consistent. See what your values
00:55:23.160 are. And don't believe the mainstream media of anything. That is something that I am saying.
00:55:28.060 It is amazing how much they can make you hate somebody and make you believe in a version of
00:55:31.360 events and make you acquiesce to your freedoms being squeezed. And it's just going to take critical
00:55:37.780 thinkers to kind of be able to break that mold. All right, guys, again, we have book club tonight
00:55:43.720 at 6 p.m. Eastern. Also, there will be a new shot in the dark tomorrow that is released. This time it
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