00:01:02.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:01.000Starting at age four, we had six row seats behind the bench.
00:02:05.000When we moved to Bloomington in the early 70s, Bob Knight had just taken the job at IU after having come from West Point, and he accumulated this group of four or five doctors who were all about Knight's age.
00:02:52.000So we're going to get a lot of hate mail because our audience doesn't like it when we talk sports because they say it's all woke, it's all terrible.
00:02:57.000I just love, I love, I love college basketball, and that's not going to change.
00:03:01.000So, Kane, several topics I want to explore with you, but when you're on the program, it seems you and I are in harmony.
00:03:07.000And I looking at your website, I can kind of get a little bit into your own personal calculus, especially when what stories you're elevating and which ones you're highlighting.
00:03:18.000Which you had a really powerful warning the other day where you said, MAGA World, get ready.
00:03:24.000Trump is probably going to be indicted.
00:03:54.000A long story, but there's no way you can read that story, which has in-depth interviews with several of the jurors of the grand jurors.
00:04:03.000There's no way you can read that without coming to the conclusion that they recommended that President Trump be indicted, amongst others.
00:04:11.000But I'll quickly say, you know, you wonder, well, how do you read the tea leaves?
00:04:14.000You know, they were talking about the heartstrings they had for Ruby Freeman and about the election workers who had received threats and stuff.
00:04:26.000So it was just so obvious from reading that.
00:04:30.000You know, the jurors are only allowed to say so, the grand jurors are only allowed to say so much.
00:04:35.000And it was obvious with what they were saying that they recommended that Fanny in Fulton County file charges.
00:04:46.000I think it's important that we get ahead of this and we make sure people are expecting an indictment, because then I think it will kind of get rid of some of the sizzle.
00:04:55.000I think that we need to brace the base for impact on this and then speak openly and honestly about what that means.
00:05:05.000And so let me ask you, let's say Trump gets indicted in Fulton County and Manhattan.
00:05:11.000I don't legally, I don't think it can bar him from running in any state as even if he becomes a convicted felon, which would be so ridiculous and so outrageous and so awful.
00:05:20.000But do you think that helps him, hurts him, or it makes him stay neutral in a Republican primary?
00:05:27.000Yeah, that's it's a really great question.
00:06:39.000You know, they talk about that in the Axios article.
00:06:42.000Did the, you know, the Biden classified documents, does that dilute the potential of a Mar-a-Lago case, DOJ, Mar-a-Lago case against Trump?
00:06:51.000But there's still the January 6th case.
00:06:54.000So I'm going to say that I think there will probably be at least two indictments, Manhattan and Fulton County, and the potential for a third from DOJ.
00:07:03.000Now to your question of, is it important that we talk about this ahead of time?
00:07:16.000If we know that this stuff is coming and we can sort of plan for it and do some war gaming, then we're going to be better prepared.
00:07:23.000And then the last part of your question was about what does it do to Trump?
00:07:28.000Well, what we saw in Mar-a-Lago, right, when they seized the documents, everybody rallied around Trump.
00:07:34.000Even the never Trumpers rallied around Trump.
00:07:37.000So I think the initial reaction to a Manhattan indictment or a Georgia indictment will be rallying around him.
00:07:44.000But what Democrats are hoping, and this is why I talked about the three potential indictments, they're obviously hoping that they can kill Trump with innuendo, right?
00:07:55.000Get it out there so that every time CBS mentions his name, it's the triple indicted President Trump.
00:08:02.000You know, it's all about dragging him down in the press, in the media, and perception.
00:08:09.000And then that's when we'll see if there's anyone from the, you know, the other Republicans who would rise up.
00:08:16.000Yeah, in the primary, I think that in certain states, this helps him because Trump's most powerful shtick is they are doing everything they can to prevent me from fighting from you for, right?
00:08:28.000Like that they are throwing everything at me.
00:08:31.000And I mean, after two impeachments and after all these investigations, if you're trying to tell me that the Republican base is going to be moved by some stormy Daniels Michael Avenati thing that, I mean, are you kidding me?
00:08:46.000Or some phone call to Fulton County while violent crime is going up and we have 5,000 people coming across our border every single day, that the top concern of the Manhattan and the Fulton County DA is, you know, Donald Trump's singular phone call and something it's so outrageous.
00:12:22.000One of my buddies growing up, who's a chemist for Eli Lilly, he flies out to Las Vegas for these five days.
00:12:29.000He leaves his wife, his two children, flies to Las Vegas, and goes into sort of a betting orgasmic euphoria, euphoria for five days and just playing all these games.
00:12:44.000But so great on Northwestern and great on schools like Northwestern, Princeton, and Stanford, who can field outstanding basketball teams, you know, against SEC and Big Ten and other Big Ten teams with no academic standards.
00:12:58.000Yeah, I mean, like, yeah, Pac-12 Arizona lost to Princeton.
00:13:06.000I really, really couldn't believe Princeton came back and won that game.
00:13:08.000But anyway, so what's on people's radar?
00:13:11.000Well, obviously the bank stuff, right?
00:13:13.000Let's talk about the bailouts a little bit because there's some weird stuff going on.
00:13:18.000Janet Yellen was in the Senate yesterday and she flatly refused to say that every bank in America is protected in the way that Silicon Valley Bank is, meaning that deposits above 250,000 would be covered.
00:13:34.000And I made sure to put this headline on CFP earlier in the week.
00:13:37.000In our history, since the FDIC was created, every single bank that has failed, depositors got 100 cents on the dollar for uninsured deposits in every single case except for IndyMac.
00:13:51.000IndyMac failed in 2009, I think, along with Washington Mutual and several of the others.
00:13:57.000And IndyMac really, so my point is, it's been a standard thing that we handle uninsured deposits, but SV Bank is an outlier because 97% of their deposits were uninsured, right?
00:14:10.000And so banks generally are not that way.
00:14:15.000And I'll tell you one other thing that gave me some, you know, some pause on this is I feel like, look, if they don't bail out, if they don't generally take care of uninsured depositors, two things are going to happen.
00:14:28.000One, when the MAGA bank fails, we know they're not going to take care of them, right?
00:14:32.000And number two, that it causes, it causes all wealthy individuals and all corporations to leave regional banks, right?
00:14:42.000If you put a million dollars in a regional bank and it's essentially an unsecured loan to that bank above the 250 limit, why would you do that?
00:14:52.000That's going to be second tier if you can go into any of the too big to fail banks when your deposit is absolutely safe.
00:14:59.000So it sort of creates this moral hazard.
00:15:02.000And I think that's what we've been, you know, I've had CNBC on all week and I'm a former trader and investment banker and I love this stuff.
00:15:09.000And that's what the street is trying to figure out is: are all banks safe?
00:15:14.000You know, if Old National Bank in Indiana collapses, are deposits above 250,000 safe.
00:15:20.000So, so bank deposits, so the bank bailouts have been a really, really big thing.
00:15:26.000Yeah, this is more of a system question.
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00:17:17.000Joining us now is Libby Emmons, Human Events, and also the post-millennial.
00:17:22.000Libby has done a considerable amount of research that helps me and also has been really helpful to all of us to learn about how the heck did the riot happen this week at UC Davis.
00:17:33.000And one of the reasons the riot happened is because an unsubstantiated internet rumor that originated from a trans hoaxer called Aaron Reed, a man who thinks he's a woman.
00:17:46.000This hoaxer said that Charlie Kirk stands, Charlie Kirk believes that trans people should be lynched.
00:18:07.000Libby, what have you learned about this individual?
00:18:09.000Yeah, so this person is Erin Reed, a trans activist, a male who poses as a woman and goes on Twitter to talk all about various kinds of legislation that are being passed in the U.S. and specifically digs into those bills,
00:18:28.000tracks them, and also decided that your comments when you were speaking with swimmer Riley Gaines were tantamount to calling for trans people to be lynched.
00:18:40.000Anyone who watches those comments knows for sure that that's not what you were saying.
00:18:45.000Anyone who listens to you speak also knows for sure that that's how you were saying.
00:18:55.000Yeah, so Reed's comments were then picked up by the Sacramento Bee and others who determined that Reed was correct without looking into it at all.
00:19:09.000And I was actually sort of stunned that then those comments actually made their way to the chancellor of UC Davis where you were speaking on Tuesday.
00:19:18.000And that chancellor, while not exactly repeating those comments, clearly was under the impression that comments like those were accurate.
00:20:38.000I said, we might have a problem here from this internet rumor because I was doing a change my mind type open table deal, as you've seen me do before, Libby.
00:21:49.000There are other examples where there was an incident in North Carolina.
00:21:54.000I don't know if your viewers will remember, but in North Carolina, there was a power station that was vandalized and another trans activist who also spreads hoax, whose name is Alejandra Caraballo, who testified before the Congress, in fact, and testified to all sorts of things that also are not true.
00:22:16.000Caraballo said that it was right-wing fascists that sabotaged this power plant.
00:22:22.000The investigation there is still ongoing, but Reed picked it up and said that it was the Proud Boys and the Patriot Front.
00:22:31.000No evidence at all that this was true.
00:22:35.000And the scary part to me is that Reed is a voice expressing displeasure with bills across the country in various states, Tennessee, Texas, and other locations, Kentucky, and is saying directly that these are bills that harm trans kids.
00:22:55.000These are bills that are a danger and are going to cost lives.
00:23:00.000And Reed is someone who should not be trusted and has made themselves a name as sort of an expert on these bills and is someone who lies, who makes things up to boost their own narrative, goes into this with bias, goes into this reporting with a narrative that Reed is trying to uphold.
00:23:19.000And I think that that's the scariest part is that the people who are following along and saying, oh, these bills are anti-trans kids are not aware at all of Reed's fabrications and calls for violence in the past.
00:24:24.000Their legal department said, well, we don't think this crosses the threshold.
00:24:27.000And then a couple hours later, they issue an apology and they take it down because I think it got kicked up to somebody who actually went to law school, not just some intern.
00:24:35.000And they're like, yeah, this is not even close to the truth.
00:24:52.000It's also true, however, that the same people who are making up these lies about you are making up lies about reality and demanding that everyone believe them.
00:25:02.000They are very interested in making sure that all of us believe the entire complete fabrication that a person can change sex simply by saying so or simply or going through medical procedures that change the appearance of the body and genitals.
00:25:23.000Riley Gaines knew it was a lie when she was speaking to you and had actually seen Leah Thomas's entire situation in a locker room, which is something that no woman should be subjected to if that's not what she's trying to get involved with.
00:25:39.000And I think it's clear that the swimmers who were competing against Thomas and the NCAA were not signed on for having a grown man in the locker room with them, watching everybody get undressed.
00:25:53.000So I don't think that it's necessarily surprising that these people are making up facts about you, making up facts about other people who are speaking out against these lies because they are intentionally perpetrating lies anyway.
00:26:07.000That's a huge part of what they're doing.
00:26:10.000And so if they can convince us that you're lying or calling out, you know, making calls for violence, which you obviously are not doing, you're someone who actively courts the people that disagree with you to come talk and have debate.
00:26:24.000So then if they can make up lies about you and make up lies about reality, they can do whatever they want.
00:26:30.000You know, they'll just steamroll over everybody.
00:26:34.000So yeah, I think that I think that it's important that people know that Aaron Reed is lying about you and also take a closer look at what Reed is saying about these bills across the country because I think Reid is probably making up lies about that as well.
00:26:51.000It is a fascinating, I mean, when you are delusional, which is unfortunately this person is, they're delusional about their own reality, then why wouldn't they just lie?
00:27:01.000I mean, truth is not a left-wing value.
00:27:32.000And then the Sacramento Bee comes up and then reiterates their apology.
00:27:36.000But Rosie Hollow Alamunda, this is a reporter for the Sacramento B, right?
00:27:41.000During the riot, was saying several dozen people protest outside an event hosted by a conservative student group featuring right-wing speaker who has advocated violence against transgender people and misinformation.
00:27:54.000I mean, you're in the middle of the riot.
00:27:57.000You need to be held accountable for all of this.
00:27:59.000And if you look at the footage from that night, I know that there were a bunch of reporters out there covering what was going on.
00:28:08.000The, you know, the conservative students were not out there being violent.
00:28:12.000They were not out there shutting people down or vandalizing the campus.
00:28:16.000They were not out there breaking windows or doing any of that kind of stuff.
00:28:21.000And I think another key aspect of this, and as you said, the left has been lying for some time.
00:28:27.000The left has said over the past several years, has gone on to say that words are violence.
00:28:34.000They've been very specific in saying that words are violence.
00:28:37.000And when you delude yourself into believing that what somebody says, whether you agree with it or not, is violence, then you can justify to yourself taking violent action in retaliation for those words.
00:28:51.000Libby, let me ask you, you know, you do a lot of coverage of stories and you're very careful and you know the rules around that.
00:28:57.000But how should people personally deal with being lied and slandered?
00:29:01.000I mean, it's one thing to lie and slander about me.
00:29:03.000We're going to hold these people accountable.
00:29:17.000Yeah, so there's a lot of different advice that goes on to people how to deal with being slandered in the workplace or even just among friends and family.
00:29:27.000And we see on Twitter all the time and social media people saying, you know, I cut my family out of my life because they're voting conservative.
00:29:35.000Or, you know, I can't talk to my family anymore because they don't think that trans kids exist or whatever it is.
00:29:43.000And I think that the only thing to do, Charlie, is to stand your ground and to stand on the truth.
00:30:19.000And, you know, it's really, it's interesting.
00:30:22.000This is the trouble of the my truth movement because my truth versus another truth, you're all, I mean, the trans activists will say, no, it's my truth that Charlie said lynching.
00:30:45.000I was actually giving this some thought yesterday when I was considering relativism and how relativism led to the my truth concept and where that came from and what it's about.
00:31:04.000It is important to know the differences.
00:31:06.000When you say that something is your truth, what you are saying is, this is my bias and this is my perception.
00:31:14.000And I'm not interested in questioning that or weighing that perception or bias against other facts or other opinions or reality.
00:31:23.000So, as soon as you start crossing your arms and saying, This is my truth, and you can't contradict that, what you are saying is not only that you are lying, you are lying to others, you want them to lie back to you, and you have no interest in actual reality or truth.
00:31:40.000Well, so a person's constantly, yeah, you need to question what it is you believe and why you believe it.
00:31:47.000And if you can't actually find the underpinnings of your belief system, then you really got to start over and take a much closer and harder look at what it is that you purport to believe and figure out how to justify it.
00:32:01.000Because if you're making decisions based on a false worldview, you're going to come out in a really bad place at the end.
00:32:09.000If you argue with reality, welcome to hell.
00:32:12.000And that's where so many people are living.
00:32:14.000And the acceptance of reality takes courage, it takes the reality of your own circumstance, the circumstance around you, and to be anchored in reality and anchored in the truth.
00:32:25.000Part of wokeism is built on a fiction that you can determine your own reality based on your own story, your own wishes, your own will.
00:32:38.000Wokeism is a generally catch-all term, but I think it's pretty good.
00:32:42.000Closing thoughts here, Libby, on this topic and the need to fight back against the lies.
00:32:47.000Yeah, I would say also that even though we're calling it wokeism now, this is not necessarily something new.
00:32:54.000Henrik Ibsen, the famed Norwegian playwright, talked about this in his play The Wild Duck, where there was a man who did not want to face the brutal reality that his life turned into.
00:33:08.000And I think that so many people in America are living the life lie, refusing to look at reality and refusing to, therefore, take action in reality to better themselves, to better their lives, to better society at large.