Ep. 1067 - Trump Declassified The Democrat's Corruption
Summary
Libs don t understand that the President has the absolute right to declassify whatever he wants, wherever and whenever he wants to. They don t even understand that a former president has never been charged for mishandling classified information. They re already beginning to change their tune after the raid on Mar-A-Lago.
Transcript
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Most political issues come down to first principles, our premises, the basic lens
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through which we view the world, interpretive principles, philosophy, theology even,
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things that reasonable people might disagree over. But sometimes, unfortunately, these debates are
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much dumber. Sometimes these political debates hinge on sheer ignorance over basic facts.
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That is where the debate stands at the moment on the Biden administration's raid of President
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Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago. When it comes to the Mar-a-Lago raid, putting aside all of the complex
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issues that it raises, many libs don't understand or don't want to admit that they understand the
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most basic relevant fact, which is that the president has the absolute authority to declassify
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material. A former president has never been and very likely can never be convicted of
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mishandling classified material because the president can declassify whatever material he
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wants, wherever and whenever he wants to do it. I thought that was common knowledge, but
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apparently lots of people don't actually understand it or want to admit it. I was on two TV shows this
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past weekend, one on C-SPAN, the other on Fox. And I was shocked, genuinely shocked to discover
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that the libs that I spoke with did not seem to know that. So it bears repeating once more for the
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people in the bleachers. The president has the absolute right to declassify whatever he wants,
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even the most super duper extra top secret material, whatever he wants to. There are processes for
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declassifying material. Even so, the president is not bound by those processes. The president doesn't
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need to check with some middling bureaucrat at the DOJ or at any other agency to declassify
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information. The middling careerist might have some authority in some circumstances to declassify
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material, but the middling bureaucrat doesn't outrank the president. The president doesn't need a special
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stamp to declassify material. The very moment that the president decides to declassify material,
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that material is declassified. The very best argument that the libs can make for rating Trump
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over classified material is that we just don't know for sure if it's legit or not because it's
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unprecedented. That's the best spin that the left wing fact check quote unquote website PolitiFact could
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give it. PolitiFact writes quote, we're in uncharted territory on the issue of criminality,
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criminally prosecuting a former president over mishandling classified documents. There is no legal
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precedent to look to for guidance. It raises all sorts of constitutional implications and it is anyone's
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guess how it would play out. Same goes for the New York Times, which admits that quote, the classification
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system is not really enforced by criminal law, but rather just bureaucratic punishments, demotions,
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the loss of security clearances, that sort of thing. Nothing that could possibly affect a president
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on whether presidents have to obey the usual procedures. The New York Times admits quote,
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there is no Supreme Court precedent definitively answering that question. The Times admits that even
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in the case of nuclear secrets, quote, for the purposes of criminal law, there is little
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substantive difference with any other classified material. And finally, the New York Times can't even
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deny that the president's ability to declassify without leaving a written record is clear as Trump
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claims he did. He said that he didn't leave a written record, but he just said it was declassified.
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That's the way it goes. Instead, the New York Times calls the question borderline incoherent,
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because if there's no directive memorializing a decision to declassify information and conveying
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it to the rest of the government, the action would essentially have no consequence as departments
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and agencies would continue to consider that information classified and so would continue to
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restrict access to documents containing it. But of course, the action would and does have a
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consequence in one crucial area. It determines whether or not a president such as Donald Trump
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mishandled classified information, which the president cannot do because he is the president.
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The only reason there is any ambiguity to this question at all is because no president has ever
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been investigated or prosecuted for mishandling classified information because the very thought of
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it is absurd because the president can declassify whatever he wants. And because that right comes
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absolutely from the constitution and is not established by some bureaucratic process,
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he cannot be punished for not following any particular process. And by the way, for anyone out
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there who for whatever reason may still remain skeptical, the way that you can know that I am right
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about this is that the libs are already beginning to change their tune just days after defending the
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raid on that basis. They're beginning to see that the mishandling classified material defense of the
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raid is going absolutely nowhere. That's why they're already beginning to move the goalposts because the
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raid was never about classified documents. Here it is, New York Times right here. Trump claims he
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declassified all the documents. Even if that's true, probably doesn't matter. Yeah, because it was never
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about that. It was never about the Presidential Records Act. It was never about nuclear secrets or any
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other serious national security matter. It's all about getting Trump. It's about stopping him from
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running in 2024. It's a punishment in search of a crime. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles
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goalposts moving already. We've got Trump. We had to raid the home of Biden's chief political rival
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and the former president because he had classified documents. Yeah, but that doesn't matter. Yeah,
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okay, you're right. It doesn't matter, but whatever. It's good that they raided him anyway.
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That's what we're getting right now from the New York Times. Doesn't matter. Who cares if it was
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declassified? Moving on, moving on. This should not surprise us. The libs have been doing this
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since 2016. I love that comment about Bugs Bunny. That's what we keep seeing. They've got him now.
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Oh, the walls are closing in. It's Mueller time. Yeah, we got Trump. We got him because he
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colluded with the Russians. Yeah, we got him now. Oh, that didn't work. Okay. Well, he
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may have slept with a porn star, and that's really bad for some. I don't know why. I mean,
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that's bad. It's morally bad, but we're going to get him on that, I guess. No. Okay,
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we're not going to do that. Okay. Well, okay. He didn't collude with the Russians. Oh, I know.
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He colluded with the Ukrainians. Yeah, we're going to impeach him for that because he colluded with the
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enemy of Russia after he colluded with. No. Okay. All right. We're not going to get him on that,
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are we? Okay. Well, he launched an insurrection. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We got you now, Trump. You dirty.
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No. Okay. All right. We got him. Okay. Well, now we go. But you didn't pay some of your taxes,
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maybe. Do we have you on that? No? Okay. We don't have you on that.
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You had class. It's just going to go on. It's just going to go on forever. And I hope that Trump
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remains bugs and remains one step ahead of the Elmer Fudd Democrats. I hope. I hope that the
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Dems don't finally get him by throwing the entire weight of the liberal establishment behind them.
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But that's all this is. This is a prosecution in search of a crime. I think we're on crime number
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eight that they've tried to throw at this guy. The punishment is always the same. The punishment
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is always you don't get to be president. That's all they really care about. You're disqualified from
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running for president. You're getting impeached and thrown out of office. Your campaign gets killed in
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the cradle. That's always the punishment. Why? Because it has nothing to do with any of the crimes or even
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non-crimes that they're accusing him of. It's all about stopping him from becoming president.
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They want to stop him from becoming president. Not even because he sends mean tweets. He's off of
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Twitter right now. So there's no fear of the president sending mean tweets. They want to stop
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him because he wants to change our trade regime. He wants to stop illegal immigration. He wants to
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take power away from the liberal globalists who are giving away our national sovereignty. He wants to
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change the structure of the political order that the libs have gotten away with for the better part of
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three or four decades, maybe more. That's what this is all about. It's just about stopping a
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conservative from going in and messing up all of the liberals' plans. That's what this is all about.
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Now we find out the FBI apparently seized documents that were covered by attorney-client privilege and
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executive privilege. The FBI took documents that were protected not only by the rights of presidents to
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keep certain information, but even by the right of any client to keep information private between him
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and his lawyer. This is no surprise. They're going to break all the rules. They've committed so many
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crimes. Going back to 2016, the FBI lawyer lied to a FISA court judge, completely made up evidence so that
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they could spy on the Trump campaign. There is no law they will not break. There is no law that they will
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consider too important that they have to respect it. They're going to use everything they can to get this
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guy. And the most frustrating part of it all is not that the libs are doing this. It's not that
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our institutions of government and law enforcement are extremely corrupt. The most frustrating part of
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all, as far as I can tell, is when the squish fake Republicans applaud and go along with it.
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or the App Store. The squishes are still defending the FBI and the DOJ, even after the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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This is a great rule of thumb as to how you can tell a conservative from a squish. Are they defending
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the FBI? Are they defending the DOJ? Even after six, seven years of this, but especially after the
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Mar-a-Lago raid, Asa Hutchinson, who's the squish Republican governor in Arkansas, he says, look,
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FBI was just doing its job. The American public is operating without sufficient information. I think
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we all have to take a deep breath and say, we're going to have to wait to see the facts that come out.
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There is some urgency in it because this is unprecedented. The search of a former president's
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home, the American public wants to understand that. And right now you mentioned the circling of the
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wagons around Donald Trump, and it's simply because they see the establishment as going after Donald
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Trump, and they question whether that was the right move and whether it was less intrusive means to
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accomplish the same purpose. We're going to have to be a little patient. Attorney General did the right
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thing by getting information out this week. Well, the GOP is going to be the party of supporting law
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enforcement. Law enforcement includes the FBI. The FBI is simply carrying out their responsibilities
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under the law, a lawful search warrant that a magistrate signed off on. And they didn't go in
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there with FBI raid jackets. They tried to constrain their behavior carrying out that warrant.
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I really think that the Republicans ought to thank the regime secret police for going in and raiding
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the home of the chief political rival to the president, the former president, unprecedented.
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We should be thankful. They didn't even wear their FBI jackets because they were so ashamed of what they
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were doing because they wanted to hide the fact that the Biden administration was wielding the FBI
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to attack the political opponents. We ought to be, listen, if we're going to be pro law and order,
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we need to support extremely corrupt law enforcement agencies. Do we? I don't think that's true.
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What are you talking about? No, I support the FBI when the FBI is acting in a just and proper manner.
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I don't support the FBI when it's corrupt. And there is no question that the FBI has exhibited
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extremely corrupt behavior in recent years. Don't forget, it wasn't Obama. It wasn't the White House.
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It wasn't even just the DOJ. It was the FBI that made up evidence to get the FISA court judge to allow
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the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign. It was the FBI, Kevin Clinesmith, FBI lawyer that did that.
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I'm not saying it's the regular agents on the ground. I don't think that's true.
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I know a handful of FBI agents who are good, patriotic, strong, conservative Americans.
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But Kevin Clinesmith, he's not. That guy's worse than dirt. That guy's a complete rat who's undermining
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integrity, the integrity of our law enforcement agencies and faith that we have in the system.
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That guy doesn't deserve our support. Are you kidding me? Merrick Garland, the attorney general,
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who's just operating as a complete hatchet man for the Biden administration and wielding
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jackbooted thugs to go attack Donald Trump? That's not back the blue. That's not the thin blue line.
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That's corruption. We support the police. We don't support crooked cops, right? The most
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hardcore defender of the police, the really good policemen themselves, they're going to be the
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most outspoken against the crooked cops because the crooked cops give them a bad name. Same goes for
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the FBI. Same goes for the DOJ. Don't forget, Asa Hutchinson is governor of Arkansas. He's the one
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who defended transing the kids. He refused to sign a bill that said you can't trans the kids anymore.
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So this guy is just the clowniest of fake Republicans. This guy is the court jester in
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the kingdom of liberalism par excellence. You don't want to be on his side. You can notice right now
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some of the moderate Republicans who had been leaning, leaning in that direction of let this
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play out. We've got to just whatever the FBI and the DOJ do, that's totally fine. They're starting to
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walk that back now because they realize they don't want to be on the same side as Asa Hutchinson.
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Tim Scott, who I like personally, I think he's a very nice guy. He really stepped in it last week
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when he said that we need to let the situation play out and not rush to conclusions when the Biden
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administration's raiding Trump's house. And he got a lot of criticism for that, rightly so.
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Now, what's he doing? He's walking those comments back.
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Sean, this is absurd. Think about it. This has been a witch hunt for six years. Think about the
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Steele dossier, the Russia collusion, two failed impeachment attempts, and even more. I can't
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imagine how anyone in our country doesn't look at this with eyes of suspicion. There's no question
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in my mind that this is an overreach at best. And frankly, asking for a criminal
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warrant that gives you a space of time between August the 5th and August the 19th because
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they're looking for national security sensitive information, there's nothing that comes to the
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conclusion that you would ever give someone two weeks to go through that process. This is
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devastating. We're in uncharted waters. It is stunning to our country. And frankly, this is
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something we have to continue to dig into. We got to win the majority, Sean, so that we can actually
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go through the oversight in the majority of this process.
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Okay, that's really well said. I couldn't have said that better myself. I really like that Tim
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Scott. I'm going to vote for that Tim Scott. That's great. That's a 180 degree turn from what
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he said on, I forget which liberal news program on which liberal network it was last week, but that's
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180 degree turn. Last week he said, well, you know, we got to let this play out. We don't want to rush
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to conclusions. And then what's he do on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News? He rushes to conclusions
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and he says, this is ridiculous. And he's right. He's right. The second clip is correct. So I'm glad
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Tim Scott gets total credit. He made a mistake. He went back. He corrected himself. Now we got to make
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sure, especially when it comes to Republican politicians, I'm not just singling out Tim Scott,
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that they're not just saying one thing to the liberal audience and another thing to the moderate
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audience and another thing to the conservative audience. We got to make sure they're consistent.
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What Tim Scott said on that show is absolutely right. He makes a great point. He says, why would
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the magistrate judge that authorized this raid give the FBI two weeks to undertake it?
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This is supposedly, I mean, now the libs have even dropped this kind of argument, but previously they
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were insinuating through anonymous sources, Trump had the nuclear codes. He had, this is urgent,
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sensitive information. That's why they had to raid Trump. They couldn't wait for the lawyers to work it out.
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Oh, okay. Well, if it was so urgent, why did, why did the judge give him two weeks to do it?
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Furthermore, if it was so urgent, why did the FBI get the warrant on August 5th and then they didn't
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undertake the raid until August 8th? I was on a show on Fox over the weekend with the liberal Brian
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Tyler Cohen. And he said, oh, Michael, you know, come on, it was the weekend. It was the weekend.
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Hold on, are you telling me that this is urgent national security, sensitive information? We could be on
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the brink of nuclear war if the FBI doesn't get these codes, but well, you know, I got to crack a
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few ones and have a barbecue with the family. I'll get it on Monday. I don't think so. I don't think
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so. That doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. People know the FBI looks terrible here, terrible.
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John Ratcliffe, who's the former director of national intelligence under Trump, he's suggesting
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that very possibly because of how egregious this action was by the FBI, that Christopher Wray could be
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the last FBI director. He said, Ratcliffe says, Ray already admitted that the FBI fraudulently
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obtained multiple warrants to illegally spy on Trump as a candidate and during the presidency.
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If yet another FBI warrant to raid Trump's home doesn't stand up to scrutiny, Ray may be the last
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FBI director. This seems kind of hyperbolic, but I don't really think it is. The FBI, as we know it
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today, as the FBI, only began in 1935. It's not that old. Christopher Wray is the eighth FBI director.
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Okay? It's not as though this institution's been around since 1776, folks. This is a relatively
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modern institution. Before we had the FBI, we had a different version of the FBI, but it was
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structurally quite different. That only even began in 1908. So yeah, this could change. Okay? The only
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reason that I don't think Christopher Wray will be the last FBI director is because the Republicans
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are cowards and they don't want to wield power. And you're even seeing right now some of the
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moderates in the Republican Party, they're saying, oh no, we can't talk about ending the FBI. We can't
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talk about radically restructuring the FBI. No, that's crazy. That's not, well, what's the alternative?
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What's the, you're telling me that the alternative is we're going to let the FBI just make up
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evidence and start raiding the homes of political opponents to go on fishing expeditions to stop
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them from running for president next cycle. You tell, that's better. That's more law and order.
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That's, that's what serious people do rather than radically restructure the FBI or get rid of it
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altogether. I don't think so. It'd be one thing if this were a one-off incident. This has been a
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consistent pattern of behavior for seven years now, at least. Forget about other abuses that the FBI has
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undertaken. That's not even only against Trump. Let's not forget that the FBI contrived a, an
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assassination attempt, kidnapping attempt rather, against Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor,
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the Democrat governor of Michigan, who now the, when the people were being prosecuted for this,
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the criminals who were kind of entrapped and set up, a number of them got off the hook. The ones who
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didn't confess to the crime got off the hook because it was such a bungle by the FBI. And so you're
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telling me we're going to allow that to continue? Of course not. I wouldn't. If I were in office
00:23:58.300
right now, I think the, your only responsible option is to radically, radically restructure
00:24:03.700
the FBI. You've got to fire. I'm not even saying the regular agents on the ground, a lot of whom do
00:24:08.860
a great job, but you've got to struggle. You've got to restructure the political leadership that is
00:24:13.760
perverting this institution of law enforcement to only attack one party, to only go after one party
00:24:19.020
on behalf of the other party because the other party, the Democrats constitute the semi-permanent
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Many conservatives don't want to admit how politics actually works in this country.
00:25:04.500
Forget about the liberals. They're the ones wielding the power. Even many conservatives,
00:25:09.040
the squishy types, they don't want to admit how politics actually works. They want to pretend
00:25:14.420
that we still have neutral institutions. And it's all, it's just neutral and we play out in
00:25:19.580
the fair marketplace of ideas and we, it's okay. And then some, sometimes we win, sometimes they win
00:25:24.880
and, and that's that. And yeah, I know the New York Times is a little liberal, but you know,
00:25:30.700
look, we've got to respect them. No, we don't. No, we don't. There's no such thing as neutrality.
00:25:35.620
It doesn't exist. Lock that one away with unicorns and Bigfoot. Okay. It's not real.
00:25:42.520
We got more evidence of this just over the weekend when Barry Weiss, who formerly worked
00:25:46.600
at the New York Times, came out on her podcast and told a story that should be shocking to the
00:25:51.680
squishes, probably not so shocking to conservatives who know what's up.
00:25:56.260
Here's what happened. I was at the New York Times and you or your staff sent in an op-ed
00:26:02.520
about the bill and why it fell apart. And this is the part I'm not sure if you know,
00:26:08.480
there was a discussion about the piece and whether or not we should run it. And one colleague,
00:26:14.280
a more senior colleague said to a more junior colleague who was pushing for the piece,
00:26:19.040
do you think the Republicans really care about minority rights?
00:26:23.900
And the more junior colleague said, I think Tim Scott cares about minority rights. And then,
00:26:29.880
here's the pretty shocking part. The more senior colleague said, let's check with Senator Schumer
00:26:38.540
And the colleague, the younger one, refused because he said, because that colleague said,
00:26:48.200
So you can hear the man who's responding, coincidentally, is Tim Scott. And Tim Scott
00:26:52.960
had submitted a kind of police reform, also coincidentally, had submitted a kind of police
00:26:56.860
reform BLM type bill, but a Republican version of it. And he submitted an op-ed to the New York
00:27:03.200
Times. And according to Barry Weiss, the New York Times editors said, hmm, we got to check this one
00:27:08.780
out with Chuck Schumer. You know our boss. We got to run this one by our boss, the Democrat Senate
00:27:13.600
majority leader, because we're the gray lady, all the news that's fit to print, except not really.
00:27:16.880
The New York Times, I think undeniably at this point, is simply an advertising agency for the
00:27:25.420
Democrat Party. So much so that they actually run editorial questions by the Democrat Senate
00:27:34.540
majority leader. Now, of course, the Libs denied this, denied, denied, denied. Nate Hockman over at
00:27:41.160
National Review has sources that are affirming Barry Weiss's account. I totally believe, of course
00:27:47.260
you believe it. How can people believe in neutrality? The false notion of political neutrality
00:27:58.660
is what has gotten us into this mess. This is the subject of my book, Speechless Controlling Words,
00:28:04.320
Controlling Minds. I think that thesis is proven more and more correct every single day. The notion of
00:28:10.280
neutrality in the public square is what gave us Drag Queen Story Hour. The conservative,
00:28:15.220
quote unquote, defense of Drag Queen Story Hour was, well, we need politically neutral spaces.
00:28:20.160
And then what happens? Five seconds after we allow Drag Queen Story Hour in the libraries,
00:28:23.820
it goes to the elementary schools. Five seconds after that, the elementary school administrators
00:28:27.340
are allowed to transgender the kids without asking the parents' permission, without even notifying
00:28:31.240
the parents. It's just that there is no, and by the way, if you refuse to do this, if you refuse to
00:28:37.080
dissent to transgenderism, transvestitism, drag queens, all of that, you will be punished. You
00:28:42.400
will be ostracized from the public square. You can get in trouble at school. You can get in trouble at
00:28:45.840
work. There is no neutrality. There are only standards and taboos. You can't live politics in
00:28:51.340
a vacuum. There is no totally neutral paper. There is no totally neutral outlet. There's none of that.
00:28:58.060
The only people who might be totally neutral are the squish Republicans who have nothing but wind
00:29:02.360
blowing in between their ears, okay? Because they don't believe anything. They don't know anything.
00:29:05.920
They don't have two brain cells to rub together. But everyone else on the left and the right,
00:29:10.560
they are not neutral. They have opinions. They have premises. They have a basic view of the world.
00:29:17.200
All neutrality has done is give cowards an excuse to surrender.
00:29:23.480
Even science, we're told politics, okay, maybe politics isn't neutral, but science is neutral. Even
00:29:29.760
science is not neutral. If you didn't understand that before, if you haven't understood that after two and a
00:29:35.540
half years of Dr. Fauci changing the science based on his personal political preferences
00:29:40.080
at a whim, sometimes multiple times within a couple of weeks, check out Boston Children's Hospital,
00:29:47.500
which has a pediatric transgender department, which is offering pediatric hysterectomies.
00:29:55.220
That means cutting out the wombs of little girls. Now they're going even further.
00:29:59.320
Here, the Boston Children's Hospital is not just talking about cutting out the sexual organs of
00:30:04.780
teenagers. No, no. They're claiming that even toddlers know that they are transgender.
00:30:09.480
A child will often know that they are transgender from the moment that they have any ability to
00:30:14.280
express themselves. And parents will often tell us this. We have parents who tell us that their kids,
00:30:19.540
they knew from the minute they were born practically. And actions like refusing to get a haircut or
00:30:25.760
standing to urinate, trying to stand to urinate, refusing to stand to urinate, trying on siblings
00:30:31.300
clothing, playing with the quote opposite gender toys, things like that. There is more and more a
00:30:38.920
group of adolescents that we are seeing that really are coming to the realization that they might be
00:30:43.780
trans or gender diverse a little bit later on in their life. So what we're seeing from them is that
00:30:48.680
they always sort of knew something was maybe off and didn't have the understanding to know that they
00:30:53.640
might be trans or have a different gender identity than the one they had been assigned.
00:30:57.280
So that is a growing population that we are seeing and that's being recognized as being trans and able
00:31:06.140
Did your kid have any trouble being potty trained? Yeah, probably you should chop off his genitals.
00:31:12.820
Did your little girl sometimes play with like basketballs or maybe G.I. Joe? Did she ever pick
00:31:21.300
that up on, yeah, you should probably pump her full of cross-sex hormones, get her on some
00:31:24.960
testosterone? She's transgender. Because the parents are always, are telling the doctors this all the
00:31:30.600
time. You see these parents who come in with children who in many cases can't even talk because
00:31:36.260
they're toddlers and toddlers can't really talk that well, if at all. They come in and they say,
00:31:41.500
I know. I've known since the moment my child was born that my little boy is really a little girl.
00:31:47.520
How did I know? I just knew. Because my child, my child said, goo, goo, goo, ga, ga.
00:31:55.520
And I could tell, I could tell that the child, it was kind of lilting his voice a little. I know
00:32:01.020
he's a little boy, but it's just the ga, ga. It just sounded, it sounded like he wanted to be
00:32:05.980
a girl. It has nothing to do with me. I'm not just a psycho who wanted a different sex child.
00:32:11.040
I just don't, it's not that I want attention from all my liberal friends and I want to feel like a
00:32:14.800
super special parent. No, no, no. It's my 18 month old is really, is really a category of being
00:32:21.740
that we didn't acknowledge as being ontologically sound until about five minutes ago. That's got
00:32:30.120
to be what it is, right? No, I don't think so. That lady, that lady in that video, she's not a
00:32:36.740
politician. She's a scientist. She's at a very prestigious scientific institution,
00:32:42.420
a medical institution called Boston Children's Hospital.
00:32:47.080
If you still say, well, I trust the doctors. I trust the scientists. I trust the experts.
00:32:53.540
You're not going to make it. I can't help you. I can't help you. This reminds me of,
00:32:57.500
Drew Clavin talks about this. When you read the newspaper and you see some article about Syria
00:33:01.300
and you say, I don't know about Syria. Okay, I guess I believe that. You open up next,
00:33:05.240
it's an article about the stock market. You say, I don't know anything about the stock market.
00:33:08.540
Well, okay, I guess I believe that. Then you open up the next page. It's about the New York
00:33:11.780
Yankees. You do know about the New York Yankees. You say, wait a second, that article's BS. They
00:33:15.880
don't know what they're talking about. Huh? They don't know that. Then you move on. Next article,
00:33:19.320
it's about immigration. I don't know about immigration. Okay, it makes sense. You just
00:33:21.860
believe. The one thing you know about, you know that the experts and the geniuses and the opinion
00:33:28.480
setters, they're wrong about. Yet, you continue to accept their opinions and all the things that you
00:33:34.360
don't know about. That's what it's like with the medical establishment. I've said this on the show
00:33:38.500
multiple times in the last few months. I am much more inclined today to trust an African shaman
00:33:45.880
witch doctor when it comes to medical advice than I am to trust a prestigious senior fellow at the NIH,
00:33:54.000
or than I am to trust anybody on the staff at Boston Children's Hospital.
00:33:58.860
You can't possibly trust them. You can't trust their judgment. This is happening not just with
00:34:04.180
our scientific institutions. You're certainly seeing it with the FBI. I can't trust the FBI.
00:34:07.400
I can't trust the DOJ. When they come out and you hear, oh no, so and so, he's a by the books kind
00:34:14.260
of guy. No, he's a careerist at the DOJ. He's always played it straight. I just can't believe
00:34:19.360
that now because I've seen the corruption. I've seen the terrible judgment that they've exhibited
00:34:24.860
and the malice and the attacks on their political opponents. So that's gone. And you can lament,
00:34:30.120
oh no, we've lost faith in our institutions. Okay, that's not my fault. I'm doing the only rational
00:34:35.800
thing I can do, which is approach these institutions with such a radical skepticism that pretty much
00:34:41.580
anything they say, I'm going to believe the opposite at this point. Anything Dr. Fauci says,
00:34:45.540
I'm going to believe the opposite. Certainly anything that woman says at Boston Children's
00:34:48.920
Hospital, the woman who says that 18 months olds are transgender if they have trouble potty training,
00:34:54.800
whatever she says, I have to assume the opposite is true. Speaking of kids' health, CBS News
00:35:01.340
is taking on this real problem that we have in our country, which is that young people are not as
00:35:09.660
physically fit as they once were. They're not going out, they're not playing around, they're not
00:35:13.100
playing sports, they're not, they're just getting kind of fatter and softer. And this is a big problem.
00:35:17.900
CBS has uncovered why that is. The answer, of course, climate change.
00:35:22.920
The new study showing how climate change, specifically higher temperatures,
00:35:26.280
is making our children more inactive and more obese. The study published in a journal temperature
00:35:32.860
found today's children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age. Fewer
00:35:39.420
children are reaching the World Health Organization's recommendation of 60 minutes of exercise a day.
00:35:46.060
Now, listen, it has been a lot hotter, hotter, and the weather has been crazy. But I think it also
00:35:51.500
has to do with technology. It's one thing not to go outside, but these kids don't go outside because
00:35:57.560
they can stay inside, be on their phones, play video games, and be social without having to go
00:36:02.240
outside and be social. Even the CBS guy cannot do this segment with a straight face. The powers that
00:36:08.940
be sent them this segment. They said, you got to talk about how kids are fat and unhealthy because
00:36:15.180
of the sun monster. That's why. And that guy, I don't even know his name. He's on CBS. He's like,
00:36:20.160
okay, I read all the stuff that I'm supposed to read about the sun monster, but it's just video
00:36:26.440
games and iPads, right? Hold on. You're telling me that because of the allegedly 0.001 degree
00:36:34.280
Fahrenheit that it's hotter today than it was some time ago. That's why kids are all way fatter and
00:36:39.900
less healthy. It has nothing to do with all the extremely processed poisonous food they're eating,
00:36:46.300
has nothing to do with all the drugs that their parents are putting them on,
00:36:49.220
has nothing to do with the iPads and the video games and the TVs that they're all glued to 24
00:36:53.960
seven, just doom scrolling through life. No, it has nothing to do with that. It's because of
00:36:58.180
global warming. Are you? And so the guy, he says, man, come on, this is my, you can't,
00:37:05.200
this is too much even for me. And I work for CBS news. But still, but still, as patently absurd
00:37:14.580
as this story is, the people who set the editorial agenda at CBS, it's probably Chuck Schumer too,
00:37:22.220
these guys are still going to at least present this propaganda. They're going to get it out there.
00:37:26.480
You'll notice something if you've been following meteorological charts, you know, the weatherman
00:37:30.620
on news. You'll notice that they've changed the colors in recent years. It's pretty jarring. But for
00:37:37.180
the very same temperatures that you've seen 10 years ago, even 20 years ago, heat waves happen.
00:37:44.160
It's the summer. Okay. Heat waves happen in hot places, especially. You'll see instead of in the
00:37:48.940
old days, it would be yellow would be the color or green. Now it's always red. It's bright red
00:37:53.020
because it's a climate emergency. Because when it's hot in the summer, that's evidence that you need to
00:37:58.260
stop eating meat and stop driving your car and stay in the pod and eat bugs and don't go anywhere.
00:38:08.200
Meanwhile, of course, John Kerry and Prince Harry and all the rest and Leonardo DiCaprio,
00:38:12.380
they're going to fly around on their private jets and sail on their yachts. But you, look,
00:38:15.780
the color is red. Kids are getting fat and unhealthy because you're eating meat. So you've got to stop
00:38:21.260
global warming. Global warming. And even this guy, he says, guys, come on, can't you be a little more
00:38:26.640
subtle than this? No, kids are fat because of iPads and drugs and crappy food. They're not fat because
00:38:34.240
of the sun monster. Good grief. Regardless, though, of why it is, Americans are not exactly in fighting
00:38:41.720
form, especially young Americans. There is a man who has been around foreign policy and statecraft for,
00:38:50.600
I think, 700 years at this point, Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger was the secretary of state for Richard
00:38:55.360
Nixon. He's now, I believe, 99 years old. He's got his 18th or 19th book out. And the book is worth
00:39:03.800
paying attention to because I don't agree with Henry Kissinger on everything, but he's really good
00:39:08.720
on realpolitik. You know, he's really good on taking the kind of idealism and platitudes out of foreign
00:39:16.800
policy and just talking in terms of cold, hard interests. And Henry Kissinger believes that we are on the
00:39:23.700
brink of war in the United States. And the really bad news here, beyond the fact that our young
00:39:30.100
people are not in fighting form, and I don't think that America right now with one of the worst economies
00:39:35.140
we've ever had in our nation's history and with people who are not exactly patriotic and with people
00:39:40.420
who are physically not very fit. The other problem is Henry Kissinger believes we're on the brink of war,
00:39:45.560
not just with one power, but with two. Kissinger believes that we are on the brink of war with Russia
00:39:51.620
and China. And furthermore, he agrees with me that a lot of it is our fault. Not our fault,
00:39:58.520
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shut up and shave. Henry Kissinger says we're on the brink of war because our stupid leaders
00:40:53.220
have made a lot of bad decisions. I have been saying this for months now, and I have been smeared as a
00:41:02.940
pro-Putin puppet and all sorts of dumb left-wing slogans because of it. But Henry Kissinger says
00:41:10.120
that I'm right. Kissinger makes this point. He says, quote, Americans resist separating the idea
00:41:15.260
of diplomacy from that of personal relationships with the adversary. They tend to view negotiations,
00:41:20.860
he tells me, in missionary rather than psychological terms, seeking to convert or condemn their
00:41:26.900
interlocutors rather than to penetrate their thinking. From the beginning of the war in Ukraine,
00:41:32.060
the approach that I've had to it is from the perspective of what does Putin want? Why is he
00:41:38.440
doing this? What does he want? Why does he think this benefits him right now to do this?
00:41:44.620
The libs and the squishes have approached it from Putin bad. He's the most bad man,
00:41:50.840
the baddest, most bad man ever. And Zelensky, he's a good man, very much the good man and not bad man.
00:41:58.240
You say, okay, maybe all of that's true. I don't know. But it's not going to help you
00:42:01.640
understand anything about the war in Ukraine. It's not going to help you understand how we got
00:42:05.740
here. Certainly not going to help you understand how we get out. Kissinger says, we're at the edge
00:42:10.200
of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created without any concept of how this is
00:42:14.960
going to end or what it's supposed to lead to. I said from the beginning, I said NATO bears a lot
00:42:19.560
of responsibility here for creating a provocative situation. NATO doesn't bear moral responsibility for
00:42:24.280
invading Ukraine, obviously, depending on how you think of the Maidan revolution in 2014.
00:42:29.020
But it's not as though tanks are rolling in from the West into Ukraine. That's not what they bear
00:42:33.260
responsibility for. But they bear, NATO and the United States leading it, bears some responsibility
00:42:38.760
for misplaying our hands. That's what I said. When I said that, what did I, you're a pro-Russia
00:42:47.300
stooge puppet. Kissinger's saying the same thing. He says, we're at the brink of war because of issues
00:42:54.340
that we've partly created. Kissinger said that incautious policies on the part of the US and
00:43:01.100
NATO may have touched off the crisis in Ukraine. He sees no choice but to take Vladimir Putin's
00:43:06.260
stated security concerns seriously and believes that it was a mistake for NATO to signal to Ukraine
00:43:10.480
that it might eventually join the NATO alliance. He said, I thought that Poland and all this,
00:43:16.680
I won't do a Henry Kissinger because you want people to understand a word I say. He said,
00:43:19.900
I thought that Poland, all the traditional Western countries that had been part of Western history
00:43:23.580
were logical members of NATO. But Ukraine, in his view, is a collection of territories
00:43:28.280
once appended to Russia, which Russians see as their own, even though some Ukrainians do not.
00:43:32.980
Stability would be better served by its acting as a buffer between Russia and the West. He says,
00:43:38.200
I was in favor of the full independence of Ukraine, but I thought its best role was something
00:43:41.260
like Finland. This is exactly my perspective on Russia and Ukraine. Border states are good,
00:43:49.000
rather buffer states are good. States between great powers and rival powers. It's good to have
00:43:54.340
a little buffer in between them that plays each side off of the other one. Doesn't make you a Putin
00:44:00.420
stooge, doesn't make you a terror anti-American or anything like that. The people who were urging
00:44:05.440
caution on NATO expansion after the fall of the Berlin Wall were George Kennan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
00:44:10.340
Sam Young, really mainstream people, somewhat liberal people actually. And they were cold warriors who
00:44:16.340
were really tough on the Soviet Union in the Cold War, but they realized that our foreign policy has
00:44:20.720
been really, really stupid. And you're seeing this right now, even with the FBI, even on the domestic
00:44:27.240
front. You are seeing bad political actors let their emotions get away with them and destroy hard-won
00:44:36.100
peace and hard-won stability in our country because they want to get Trump. They hate Trump so much.
00:44:41.980
And we've got to get Putin. And we've got to antagonize Putin. And we've got to go with this
00:44:46.700
guy and get the other guy. And they're not thinking strategically. And they're not thinking
00:44:51.140
from the perspective of what is best for Americans. Before we go, there's a little glimmer of hope here
00:44:58.320
that I want to get to that might improve our state in this country and in the world.
00:45:03.940
A major Democrat congressman, Carolyn Maloney, said, thinking she was speaking off the record that she
00:45:11.360
was not, that Joe Biden is not running again. Carolyn Maloney, when asked, should President
00:45:18.280
Biden run again, also by the New York Times, she said, off the record, he's not running again.
00:45:22.480
And then the Times responded, not off the record, on the record. You're on the record right now.
00:45:26.340
You're not off the record. And she goes, on the record? No, he should not run again. He should not
00:45:31.640
run. Hold on. Wait, I thought you just said off the record, he is not running again. So Biden is going
00:45:35.440
to say that he's running because he has to say that he's running because he doesn't want to be a lame
00:45:38.360
duck. But you've now got really top in the know Democrat elected officials saying he's not running
00:45:46.020
again, which means that as you are seeing all sorts of shenanigans play out from the left to the right
00:45:52.420
to try to take out Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, you are about to see a shiving, the likes
00:46:00.420
of which has not been seen in quite a while between Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom,
00:46:05.880
and whichever other Democrats are going to try to throw their hat in the ring. Before we go,
00:46:12.540
also a line from Al Gore. Speaking of presidential wannabes, Al Gore, for some reason, people still
00:46:18.840
ask his opinion. Al Gore goes on a news show and Al Gore says that the FBI and the Attorney General
00:46:30.780
Merrick Garland acted entirely appropriately. What is your reaction to all we've learned?
00:46:35.700
Does this make sense to you why a former president would have such documents in his Florida mansion?
00:46:42.680
No, it doesn't. But I want to hasten to add, I don't know the facts. I'll tell you what I do know.
00:46:50.460
I know Merrick Garland, and I don't know that our nation has ever had an Attorney General who is more
00:46:58.180
committed to doing things according to the book, according to the proper order. It's unthinkable that
00:47:05.420
he would take any kind of rash step or violate the regular order. I have tremendous confidence
00:47:11.640
in him, his probity, and everyone who knows him and has worked with him feels the same way. So I'm sure
00:47:18.180
the Justice Department and the FBI have acted entirely properly.
00:47:23.400
I'm sure. I mean, why would anyone doubt that? It's not as though they've been caught violating
00:47:30.280
the law when it comes to Trump for seven years. Of course, of course. And it's so funny coming from
00:47:35.240
this guy's mouth because we talk about resisting the peaceful transfer of power. We talk about how
00:47:42.000
Trump undermined our democratic institutions and undermined an election. This freaking guy refused to
00:47:49.220
concede the 2000 presidential election after he lost. He brought this thing all the way up to the
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Supreme Court of the United States totally needlessly because he couldn't take the fact
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that he lost the election. Made us a global laughingstock. The United States, greatest democracy
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in the world, can't conduct its own elections. I'm so glad Al Gore is getting his voice back out here
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because it's a reminder to you that all the things the Libs accuse us of doing, they themselves
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have committed. Up to and including, and most especially, not accepting the results of elections.
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Whatever they say about Trump, no matter how much they move the goalposts, they'll probably
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change the justification for the raid five different times today. Don't believe it. It's
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just totally fake. They have no credibility at all. And most important of all, most important,
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take this lesson to the bank. Do not be a squish. Do not be like Asa Hutchinson. Do not be
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like any of these toadies, these court jester conservatives who are on the same side as that
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guy. We're on the same side as the New York Times. We're on the same side as Boston Children's
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Hospital transing the kids. That's not the side you want to be on. And there's no neutrality either,
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folks. The rest of the show is going to continue now. What do you mean the rest of the show?
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I thought this was the end of the show. No. We've got more show coming. We've got a new feature
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here from the Daily Wire. It's the member block. It's not for you hoi polloi, okay? It's not for
00:49:14.000
you filthy, unwashed masses out there who refuse to sign up and become a Daily Wire member. No, no.
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This is for the Daily Wire members over at dailywire.com. There's one more story I have
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got to get to. This is actually, kind of wanted to get to it in the main show today, but all right,
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we'll get to it in the member block. The Atlantic is now claiming that rosaries, you know,
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like a rosary beads, like Christians pray, that that is now an extremist symbol. So I want to get
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to that story. I also want to get to a real-time music video reaction to compliance by Muse. I do
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some of these kind of things over on my YouTube channel sometimes. Now we've got a lot more in
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the member block. If you're not a member, click the link in the description to join us. All right,
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that's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you next time.