Ep. 1244 - Trump Destroyed CNN's Town Hall With 4 Hilarious Answers
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Trump's CNN Town Hall Town Hall was a big win for Trump, but it was also a win for the Libs, as they now have an excuse to prosecute Trump for committing murder on national television. Michael Knowles explains why.
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President Trump appeared on CNN last night. The town hall was a big win for Trump. I don't just
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say it because I like the guy. Even liberal journalists and politicians are admitting it.
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It was a big win for Republicans in that the appearance taught us, by my count,
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five important facts about where the Trump campaign stands right now. And the appearance
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was even a big win for the Libs, as they now have an excuse to prosecute Trump for committing
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murder on national television. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. In just a moment, we will answer a question that liberals raise
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very often, at least a few times a year. This one came from Joy Behar on The View. The question is,
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why don't the police just shoot people in the leg? A question that keeps the Libs up at night.
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We'll get to that in a second. First, though, we've got to get through this town hall. If you
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didn't watch it, I recommend you watch the whole thing. It was absolutely delightful. It was
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delightful largely because Trump totally owned the Libs with facts and logic. And it was just
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marvelous to watch. You kind of felt like you had that old energy back again, right? But the reason
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that I want to cover it, and I'll try to do it relatively quickly, I want to hit on five points
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because I think that the Trump town hall appearance, beyond delighting everybody with
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Trump's zingers, showed us five important things about his 2024 campaign. First one is Trump is going
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to bring receipts. They were breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows, injuring police officers.
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Why did it take you three hours to tell them to go home?
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I don't believe it did. Oh, let me pull it out. I have to pull it out.
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So if you look at, on January 5th, the day before, I said, please support our Capitol
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police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. Stay peaceful.
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This was the day before, and this was in the form of Twitter. Now use truth, truth social. I think it's
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far superior, okay? I hope everybody's on it. I hope everybody's on truth. If you look,
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January 6th, this is before 2.30. I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful.
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This is right after as it was happening. But what happened is they took it down. I don't know why.
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I think they took it down because it was so good. They didn't like it being up there.
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So I am asking, this is, and we didn't know until I got it back because now I have 90 million people
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waiting for me to go back. But I'm on truth and I'm staying on truth.
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You didn't say anything for 700 hours after. Actually, I did. Boom. And he just pulls out
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that sheet of paper. This was in a way an answer to that infamous incident between Mitt Romney and
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Barack Obama and Candy Crowley, the moderator, I think also from CNN, back in 2012 when Mitt Romney
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said, you didn't call the Benghazi terror attack a terror attack until long after the attack. And
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Candy Crowley intervened on Barack Obama's behalf and said, actually he did. Governor, he did. And then
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it turned out she was just making that up. That wasn't true. This was kind of the opposite where you
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had the moderator or the hostess, Caitlin Collins. She says, you didn't talk about this for hours and
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hours. And Trump says, I got my own receipts. Here we go. Good to know that. It's good to know
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that Trump is going to have the facts at his fingertips when you hear all of these kinds of
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charges that are inevitably going to come up throughout the 2024 campaign. Next thing it showed
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us is that Trump is thoughtful. Trump is thinking in a nuanced way about major political issues,
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notably foreign policy. Do you want Ukraine to win this war?
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Uh, I don't think in terms of winning and losing, I think in terms of getting it settled. So we stop
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Now, what do you, can I just follow up on that? You said you don't think in terms of winning and
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losing. You have to get, you have to get your follow up on that. Cause that's a really important
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statement. Excuse me. Let me just follow up. Can you say if you want Ukraine or Russia to win this
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war? I want everybody to stop dying. They're dying Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying
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and I'll have that done. I'll have that done in 24 hours. I'll have it done. You need the power of
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the presidency to do it. But you won't say that you want Ukraine to win. You, you know what I'll say?
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I'll say this. I want Europe to put up more money because they're in for 20 billion. We're in for
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170 and they should be, and they should equalize. They have plenty of money. They should equalize.
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This is a very thoughtful answer on Ukraine. The liberal view on Ukraine is rah, rah,
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world war three. Let's start dropping bombs on Moscow. Let's go after the Kremlin. Let's assassinate
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Putin. Forget about just chasing Russian influence out of Ukraine. We want Ukraine to go in and let's
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have them invade Russia. Let's, let's go, baby. NATO on the move. That's the liberal view.
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The conservative view is a little more restrained than that. It's a little bit more conservative.
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The conservative view is the view that has been articulated by statesmen going back 30 years now,
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by George Kennan, author of the long telegram, by people like Henry Kissinger, by people like Daniel
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Patrick Moynihan and Sam Nunn, people who said, you know, we've got to be a little bit careful about how
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NATO expands and actually buffer states aren't the worst thing in the world because they,
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they mediate between great powers. And so what are we going to do here in Ukraine? Are we really
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going to rout Russia? We're going to call for regime change in Russia. What are we going to do?
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We're going to get Russia out of Crimea. What are we going to do? We're going to invite Ukraine to
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join NATO. What, is that really going to deescalate this situation or no? Is that going to send us
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hurtling toward world war three while you've got China aggressing in Taiwan and the South China Sea?
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That doesn't seem to make sense. And so, so Trump knows this. Trump knows that if he says,
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I want Ukraine to win, first of all, you're going to just be affirming what Russia's already said,
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which is that the U.S. is a belligerent in the Ukraine war. And the U.S. is not just waging a
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kind of cold war here, that the U.S. is waging a hot war with Russia. You're only going to escalate
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that, which is what all the liberals and the hawks are doing on this particular issue. And Trump says,
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no, I just want to wind down the conflict, which a lot of wise statesmen think the United States
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could do if it felt that it were in its interest to wind down the conflict. So really nuanced answer
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here from Trump, not just a total dove, not just a total hawk. He's giving a thoughtful answer.
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The next thing we learned about Trump is that the guy is still super funny.
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I never met this woman. I never saw this woman. This woman said, I met her at the front door of
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Bergdorf Goodroom, which I rarely go into other than for a couple of charities.
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I met her in the front door. She was about 60 years old. And this is like 22, 23 years ago.
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I met her in the front door of Bergdorf Goodroom. I was immediately attracted to her and she was
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immediately attracted to me. And we had this great chemistry. We're walking into a crowded
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department store. We had this great chemistry. And a few minutes later, we end up in a room,
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a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodroom, right near the cash register. And then she found out there are
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locks in the door. She said, I found one that was open. She found one. She learned this at trial.
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She found one that was open. What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up? And within
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minutes, you're playing hanky panky in a dressing room. Okay. I don't know if she was married then
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or not. John Johnson. I feel sorry for you, John Johnson.
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Think of it. They said he didn't rape her. And I didn't do anything else either. You know what?
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Because I have no idea who the hell she is. I don't know who this woman is.
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Can I ask you, given you're recounting your version?
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And I tell you this. Are you ready? And I swear on my children, which I never do,
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I have no idea who this woman is. This is a fake story, made up story.
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So it's really funny. Because we could only put a short clip in there,
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you might lose a little bit of the context that when he's recounting that tale at the beginning,
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he's saying this is her version of events. I walk into Bergdorf Goodman, which I pretty much never
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did. I'm in a crowded department store. And then the whole rest of it reads like a romance novel.
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And that last part I think is important too, because Trump obviously has engaged in hyperbole,
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exaggeration, let's say a little bending of the truth every now and again. And he was a billionaire
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playboy for a long time. But at the end there, when he says, listen to me, I swear on my children
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and I never do that. I have no idea who this woman is. This did not happen. One feels that
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that is sincere. One has the impression that that is sincere. And he's funny the whole time. It's the
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only way to deflate this. They're accusing him of the worst things you can be accused of.
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They're accusing him of rape. And he's saying, either you say, no, I didn't do it. Kind of like
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when someone wants to set you up, they say, hey, do you still beat your wife?
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And any way you answer, you look bad. And so what does he do? He just makes fun of the whole
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situation of this romance novel situation that appeared on an episode of Law & Order SVU seven
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years before the woman published her claims. He mocks it. He hits you with sincerity. It's very
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persuasive on the campaign trail. And then the final point that we learned from the CNN town hall,
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and this is the most important thing, I think, for the Trump campaign to convey to the GOP base,
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is that Trump, this go-round at least, intends to be disciplined.
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You still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. Why should Americans put you back
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in the White House? Because we did fantastically. We got 12 million more votes than we had in,
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as you know, in 2016. I actually say we did far better in that election. Got the most that anybody's
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ever gotten as a senior president of the United States. I think that when you look at that result,
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and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you're a very stupid person,
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you see what happens. A lot of the people, a lot of the people in this audience, and maybe a couple
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that don't, but most people understand what happened. It was a rigged election, and it's a
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shame that we had to go through it. It's very bad for our country. All over the world, they looked at
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it. Mr. President, back to what you just said there, though, it was not a rigged election. It was not a
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stolen election. You and your supporters lost more than 60 court cases on the election. It's been nearly
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two and a half years. Can you publicly acknowledge that you did lose the 2020 election? Let me just
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go on. If you look at Truth of Vote, they found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras,
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where they were stuffing ballot boxes. There's even more to it. We had to cut the clip to keep it a
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little tighter for the show. Trump, at that first debate with Joe Biden, would never have allowed
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that woman to get her nonsense interjection in there. Oh, Mr. President, actually, fact check,
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you lost, you lost. The election was not rigged. It was totally the most fair, wonderful beep-boop
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election in beep-beep-boop. There were no questions about. And had this been the first
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debate of 2020, had this been a less disciplined campaign, Trump would have come in and gotten into
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a shouting match with her and gone back and forth. He exhibited incredible restraint there. In fact,
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he exhibited more restraint than I just exhibited, even listening to what she had to say. And there is
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no question in my mind that that was intentional. And it's to convey to the GOP base that this
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campaign is going to be disciplined. The most important line of the night, most important line
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of the night, did not come during the town hall. The most important line of the night, and probably
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the line that bodes best for Trump's campaign, came before the town hall when Trump announced it.
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I'll be doing CNN tonight, live from the great state of New Hampshire, because
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CNN is rightfully desperate to get those fantastic Trump ratings back.
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They were ratings like none other, and they want them back.
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So sitting with sweet little Elisa last night, we were listening to the town hall. And Elisa said to
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me, she goes, seriously though, why did CNN agree to do this town hall? And then just before I could
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answer, she answered it herself. She goes, is it literally just because they want those fantastic
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Trump ratings? And the answer is yes. And this is why Trump is going to get all that free media.
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He got billions of dollars worth of free media in 2016. This is why CNN is going to have him back on.
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This is why they're all going to have him back on.
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This is why his poll numbers are going up, because you can't look away. You might say,
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well, other political candidates, they've proven themselves to be more effective at wielding power
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or more nuanced about policy, or maybe that's true. I'm not even going to weigh in there. I'm just
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telling you, this guy is a singular political talent. He's an American original. His worst aspects
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are American original. His best aspects are American original, okay? There's no copy of him.
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Now, there are other candidates in the race, and there's one candidate who is posing something of
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a challenge to him. And while Trump is demonstrating his campaign prowess on TV, this other guy is passing
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So while Trump is dazzling on CNN, what's going on with his primary opponent, Ron DeSantis?
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He's passing some really important stuff down in Florida. A very different approach to campaigning.
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Trump putting on the old razzle-dazzle, DeSantis keeping his head mostly down,
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just trying to rack up those legislative wins to give him more ammo going into the campaign once he
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officially announces. So really great news at the New College of Florida. This is a public liberal arts
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school in Florida that Ron DeSantis has taken a particular interest in reforming. And some new
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reform that has been brought to that college is that the school will start to accept the classic
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learning test, which is an alternative to the SAT. It's a standardized college entrance exam that is
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meant for students with classical and Christian educations. So whereas the SAT and the ACT increasingly
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are geared toward people who have received lib crazy educations, the classical learning test will
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focus on the older, more traditional, superior kind of education. DeSantis also recently appointed
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six conservative leaders and academics to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees.
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The point of this is to purge the leftists out of that school and to wield some political power.
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DeSantis on top of that just signed E-Verify into law in Florida. So employers are going to have to
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make sure that the people they're hiring are not illegal aliens. Florida becomes the largest state
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in the country to do so. So it's a very different campaign, at least in these early stages.
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What DeSantis is betting on is that he can keep his head down, rack up win after win after win,
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not get too much fanfare, not get too much pushback. And then when he makes his announcement,
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he can say, look at my list of accomplishments. Maybe I don't have the razzle dazzle. Maybe I'm not
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the entertainer or the showman that Donald Trump is, but I can get the job done. And Trump's campaign
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is going to say, I'm a unique figure. The libs uniquely hate me, which tells you that maybe I'm
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the man for the job. I uniquely am able to own these guys on TV with facts and logic and my zingers.
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We didn't include half the zingers in this. And so you got to vote for me because I break the mold
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because the way that the political structure is set up, it is rigged against Republicans.
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I uniquely break that mold. DeSantis is going to say, well, I got reelected by a huge margin in
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Florida and you, Donald Trump, lost the 2020 election. This is why Donald Trump has to continue
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to focus on the way in which that election was rigged. And I know a lot of people want to say
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that there were no problems with the 2020 election. I don't know. Look at Pennsylvania. Look at the way
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they changed the election laws to contradict even the state constitution there. Look at those pipes
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bursting in the middle of the night. Look at how long it took to count the ballots. I look at the
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way that they spread widespread mail. And I think it's not a distraction for the Trump campaign to
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keep mentioning, not to harp on it, but to keep mentioning the issues with the 2020 election.
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Because the biggest attack on Trump is that he lost to Joe Biden once. How's he going to beat him
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the second time? They have to focus on that. They're running in the same lane, Trump and DeSantis,
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but they're running very, very different campaigns. One of them just got a big showcase. Let's see
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what happens when DeSantis finally goes out there. Now, Trump is not the only Republican politician
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that the liberal establishment is trying to throw behind bars. Another one would be the colorful
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It's a witch hunt because it makes no sense that in four months, four months, five months,
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I'm indicted. You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine, nine family members
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receiving money from foreign, from foreign destinations into their bank accounts. It's been
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years of exposing. A lot of you here have reported on them and yet no investigation is launched into them.
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I'm going to fight. I'm getting back to that. I'm going to fight my battle. I'm going to deliver.
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I'm going to fight the witch hunt. I'm going to take care of clearing my name and I look forward to
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doing that. So we've got a 13 count indictment against George Santos, the Republican representative
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from New York who lied about his education and his professional background, possibly his sexual desires,
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maybe his ethnic or religious background. It's all, it's a little bit unclear.
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The 13 count indictment is the kitchen sink. It's everything. He committed wire fraud, they say.
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He took a $500 unemployment check when he really was working. I mean, everything they could find,
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they threw at this guy. And he made false statements to the House of Representatives,
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blah, blah, blah. Okay. I'm not downplaying this. I think fraud is pretty much the worst crime you can
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commit. I think it is pretty much the worst sin you can commit. I think that there's a reason that
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Dante puts the fraudsters in almost the very lowest pit of hell. So I'm not defending any of that.
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But I am looking at the political system and I'm wondering, hold on, the same day that we see evidence
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that pretty much the entire Biden family was on the take committing the same kinds of crimes that
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they're accusing George Santos of. In some cases, worse crimes because the Bidens had more power
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and more influence that they could sell to make money from some of the worst people on earth.
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You're telling me we're going to go after this random congressman who's been in office for five
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seconds? It's like going after a drug dealer for selling a dime bag of marijuana, but you're going
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to let the cartel leaders off the hook. Are you kidding me? What is this about? Would seem to me
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that Republicans have a razor thin majority in the House of Representatives. They want an unlikely seat
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in New York. They see a particularly weak member of Congress that they can pinch off. And then that's
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going to turn the Republicans' thin majority into an even thinner majority. And it does not seem to
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me to be based on principles or the blind execution of justice. This seems to me not quite a witch hunt.
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I'm sure George Santos did all sorts of terrible things. But it seems to me a selective prosecution
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by the liberal establishment to weaken Republicans. And I don't think Republicans should give this any
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quarter at all. I think we should totally ignore this nonsense. We should, as a political matter,
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defend George Santos, at least against the predations of a corrupt Biden DOJ. I wouldn't
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trust George Santos with $5 to go get me a cup of coffee. But I'm not going to throw this guy under
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the bus. I'm not going to say he should be prosecuted. I'm not saying he should resign from Congress.
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No way. Give up the Bidens. Put the Bidens in orange jumpsuits. And then talk to me about George
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likeness of God, it means that there is an ethical and spiritual infrastructure to reality. We are
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supposed to behave according to the God who made us in his image. Exodus features a roundtable of
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wonderful minds who've gathered to discuss topics like this through one of the most important books
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in the Bible. There's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, the very foundation
00:24:27.440
for that equality in Western culture, i.e. the idea that human beings are made in the imago Dei,
00:24:34.940
in the image of God, has been lost, of course. So it's almost as if because of the erosion of this
00:24:41.140
foundation, the drive for equality is stressed all the more. That's exactly what Nietzsche,
00:24:48.680
that's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, well, when he's particularly in
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Beyond Good and Evil. He said that was, that was an inevitable, that would be an inevitable
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00:25:11.140
Speaking of scams and scammers, not quite, we'll move on from George Santos and the Biden DOJ. We
00:25:19.980
will focus on something that isn't even human. Focus on AI. There's a story, it came out last month,
00:25:28.720
but it's just starting to get some attention, of a new AI scam. You could find yourself picking up the
00:25:35.400
phone, hearing a desperate plea from a loved one in the voice of that loved one, begging for money to
00:25:44.460
be sent to that person's kidnappers. And it could all be a scam. This mom got the scariest phone call
00:25:51.540
of her life. On the other end, she hears her daughter crying. She's like, mom, I messed up as
00:25:57.720
she's crying and sobbing. Then a man gets on the line and claims he's kidnapped her 15-year-old
00:26:02.860
daughter, Bree. He's like, listen here, I've got your daughter. You're not going to call anybody.
00:26:07.740
You're not going to call the cops. And I just put the phone on mute and started screaming for help.
00:26:12.640
The kidnappers demand $1 million before reducing it to $50,000. I, at that point, started screaming at
00:26:19.720
them that I want to talk to my daughter again, which they refused. But here's the thing. Her daughter
00:26:23.940
had not been kidnapped, and that was not her begging mom for help. Her voice had been duplicated
00:26:29.600
by a scammer using artificial intelligence. It's Allison. This is going to be hard to believe,
00:26:35.540
but I've been kidnapped. They want $1 million ransom. Otherwise, they say they'll hurt me.
00:26:40.540
I don't know what's going to happen. They want me to hang up now. I've got to go. I love you.
00:26:44.920
That's pretty creepy. It's very creepy. It isn't quite there yet. There are these software
00:26:52.280
programs where you can just put in 30 seconds, one minute of voice audio, and they will be able
00:26:59.340
to clone your voice and then spit out whatever you type in in 60 seconds. It costs nothing. It
00:27:03.680
could cost $5 a month. But it's not quite there yet. You'd assume if you were being kidnapped and
00:27:08.520
held for a million dollars ransom, you probably wouldn't say, hello there, mom. I'm very nervous
00:27:12.860
about being murdered by my kidnappers. Please send a million dollars. I love you. But it's pretty close.
00:27:18.700
And there have been similar scams in recent years. This happened to my grandparents, actually.
00:27:23.680
My grandparents got a call from a guy who said, hey, it's your grandson, and I need this amount
00:27:29.980
of money. And they gave some details about this cousin of mine, their grandson. And luckily,
00:27:36.760
they kind of got tipped off that things were a little strange, and my grandpa handed the phone
00:27:40.040
to my grandma or vice versa, something like that. And they figured out what it was. But imagine if the
00:27:44.620
phone call had been in the person's voice. You're going to see this proliferate. It won't just be
00:27:52.960
six months, two years from now. This is going to happen everywhere like tomorrow. And this ties into
00:27:58.600
a story from the top cyber spy over in Britain, former top cyber spy, who says that AI fakes and lies
00:28:06.080
are going to destroy society. So this professor, CRN Martin, is just the latest figure or top figure
00:28:18.440
from the tech world to say that AI is going to, quote, undermine the fabric of our society because
00:28:24.940
we're not going to be able to trust anything. He says, quote, AI is now making it much easier to fake
00:28:29.460
things, much easier to spoof voices, much easier to look like genuine information, much easier to put
00:28:34.580
that out at scale. So having a sense of what is true and reliable, it's going to become much more
00:28:38.700
difficult. And that's something that risks undermining the fabric of our society. This is a fair thing to
00:28:43.260
be worried about. If you can't tell the difference between truth and falsehood, then you can't have
00:28:47.540
a functioning society. This is just an acceleration of the problem of transgenderism. This is why people
00:28:56.600
are so focused on transgenderism. It's not just because of the sexual fetishes of a handful of people
00:29:01.900
and not even because of the social contagion and not even because it's now affecting children,
00:29:06.020
but because transgenderism is a means to transhumanism. Because with transgenderism,
00:29:15.180
the premise is we can't really know what a man is and what a woman is. And so you might be a fella
00:29:19.480
who wants to have a normal traditional life. And if somehow the surgeries and the procedures
00:29:24.420
became advanced enough that they actually worked. And now if a man tries to chop himself up to look
00:29:30.320
like a woman, you can tell. 99.9% of the time, it's pretty clear that the dude who looks like a
00:29:38.020
lady is really a dude or vice versa. But let's say it did become more advanced, you would not be able
00:29:43.060
to know. And so your inability to discern the truth would certainly affect your life. It'd be
00:29:48.520
very awkward when the two of you try to have children. At 10 years into your marriage, you decide,
00:29:53.040
okay, maybe we're going to have a child. And the guy says, oh, actually, funny story. I'm actually a
00:29:58.460
dude. So that would be part of it. And the transhumanism aspect is that we're just going
00:30:05.360
to modify our bodies to such a degree that we're totally untethered from reality. But I think
00:30:11.280
there's a silver lining to the storm cloud, which is, yes, deep fakes and cloned voices and fake
00:30:17.980
images and videos. It's going to make it hard to know whether that video of a politician caught in
00:30:26.340
a scandal, whether that's real, whether that means that we should kick the guy out of Congress or the
00:30:31.400
Senate, or is it just a fake? Pretty soon, we're not going to be able to know. In some ways, political
00:30:38.260
scandals will probably abate. Because even if you catch the guy dead to rights, he's got three hookers
00:30:43.740
and a big bag of crack cocaine, and you got him on three different cameras. The politician could
00:30:50.520
probably just say, yeah, well, it's a fake. It's a deep fake, and you can't prove otherwise. Okay,
00:30:56.400
yeah, that's a bad thing. But the silver lining to that is politics, I think, then is going to become
00:31:04.300
much more local, much more immediate. It's going to return to being more incarnational, physical.
00:31:12.840
We're going to be forced to think beyond science. Okay, back to the real, human, tangible stuff.
00:31:24.680
Say, I don't know if that phone call I just heard is real. I don't know if that video I just saw is
00:31:28.260
real. But I'm talking to a politician right in front of me, and I know that guy is real. I'm at
00:31:33.940
the town hall. I'm in the town square. I don't know if I can believe the nonsense coming out of
00:31:39.780
Brussels or Washington, D.C. or wherever. But I can trust the people in my local community.
00:31:45.180
You could see a return to tradition. In fact, you are seeing that. Now, one of the big reactions
00:31:50.740
against our increasingly technocratic, metaverse, virtual reality kind of society is to leave it,
00:32:03.580
to leave the cities, to go out, get a little bit of land, maybe get some chickens. I don't know.
00:32:08.420
Maybe you're going to leave the school system. You're going to start homeschooling your kids.
00:32:11.560
You're going to take a much more active role in the life of your own family. That means an
00:32:17.380
investment of time and energy and just your physical presence. That's the reaction. Now,
00:32:23.640
is that going to compensate for the vast majority of people who are just going to plug themselves into
00:32:27.880
the matrix and that's that? Maybe not. But it will present an alternative. Now, speaking of
00:32:33.760
local politics, E. Jean Carroll is the woman who accused Trump of raping her 27 or 28 years ago.
00:32:41.740
We don't really remember. And actually, it wasn't rape. Oh, no, actually, it was rape. And I know the
00:32:46.680
jury didn't find him liable for rape, but so they think that I'm lying about that. But maybe I was,
00:32:51.600
maybe I should still get $5 million anyway. So this lady, clearly a little, little strange.
00:32:57.940
We then just got an answer to one of the strangest questions about this whole civil suit against
00:33:03.500
Trump, which is, how is it that you can take a guy to court for something that allegedly happened
00:33:10.980
27, 28 years ago, long after the statute of limitations runs out, not only on a criminal
00:33:15.720
case, but even on the civil case? How is, oh, because there was this law that was passed in 2022
00:33:22.060
to create a temporary window where you could take someone to a civil court for something that
00:33:30.360
happened decades ago on issues like sexual assault and rape? And why did that law get passed?
00:33:37.680
Can I end on something that I think is really important in all of this? And it's the fact that
00:33:41.900
New York passed this law, the Adult Survivors Act. They passed it just a few years ago. Were it not
00:33:47.880
for that law, you never would have been able to bring this case. And I just think it speaks to the
00:33:52.040
importance for a lot of other survivors. Exactly. This would never, I would never have
00:33:58.580
this window, this year of having the ability to bring a lawsuit for rape. Robbie can explain it
00:34:07.220
better. Well, E. Jean actually helped to get that law passed. It passed last year. So E. Jean Carroll's
00:34:14.360
attorney here just made a big mistake. She said the part that the libs were trying to conceal,
00:34:20.440
which is, oh, yeah, they did it for us. We got that law passed. They did it. The whole point of that
00:34:26.680
law was to bring Trump to trial. It had nothing to do with victims of rape or sexual assault. It was
00:34:32.380
just another way to get Trump. So it was specifically for our case. You'd see the CNN hosts, oh, no. If not
00:34:40.480
for that wonderful law, don't tell them that they did it for you to get Trump. And then you can hear
00:34:47.020
from E. Jean Carroll. This woman, whatever you think about Trump, this woman is not all there.
00:34:55.100
We played the Anderson Cooper interview yesterday from 2019, where she goes on about how, oh, he didn't
00:35:01.020
really rape her. And actually, rape is sexy. And wow, Anderson, you're fascinating to talk to.
00:35:06.200
And she's just, she's the Christine Blasey Ford of 2023. Remember Christine Blasey Ford,
00:35:13.640
the accuser against Brett Kavanaugh, and the media portrayed her as this dignified woman finally
00:35:19.140
coming forward after, what, like 50 years or something? She's going to come forward and tell
00:35:24.560
her truth finally. And then whenever she would get on the microphone, she sounded like a complete
00:35:28.880
loony tune. And her details of her story were changing constantly. And then certain facts that she
00:35:34.300
stated turned out to be lies, demonstrable, proven lies. And then there was no evidence that she ever
00:35:39.680
even met Brett Kavanaugh. And you almost didn't want to blame Christine Blasey Ford, because every
00:35:45.340
time she spoke, she sounded like she was a couple fries away from a Happy Meal, okay? Not all there.
00:35:54.120
And the same is true of this woman. So E. Jean Carroll, she says, yes, we came forward. We had to come
00:35:59.480
forward. Okay, let's let my attorney do all the talking now. I don't, what are we talking about?
00:36:03.660
What's this about? You're a fascinating person to talk to. Christine Blasey Ford, part two.
00:36:10.400
Speaking of law enforcement, there's some good news coming out of Texas. The whole story today is
00:36:16.960
little silver linings in big gray storm clouds. We have 10,000 people plus per day, foreign nationals,
00:36:24.420
pouring across our southern border, because we effectively don't have a southern border anymore.
00:36:27.800
And that's because Joe Biden has intentionally opened up that border by repealing Title 42.
00:36:34.780
So you've got all these people pouring across the border. Biden sends some troops down to the border,
00:36:41.320
but not to repel the invasion. He just sent the troops down to go help the border patrol agents
00:36:47.020
process the people coming into the country. He sent the troops down to help facilitate the invasion.
00:36:55.980
So fortunately, the governors also have a say about the state national guards. And so Governor Greg Abbott
00:37:02.840
down in Texas called to the Texas national guard down there. And they weren't shooting people and
00:37:08.140
they weren't clubbing people on the head. They were just standing at these border points, these illegal
00:37:13.640
points of border entry, and stopping the foreign nationals from coming through and turned them around.
00:37:21.960
Really great stuff. And it teaches you an important lesson about politics. Not just about immigration,
00:37:28.200
not just about who should come in, not just about should we allow four million, four and a half
00:37:32.900
million people come into the country every year, or maybe try to limit it to just three and a half
00:37:37.320
million, or wherever the ridiculous immigration debate is today. No. It teaches you a lesson about
00:37:44.060
subsidiarity. Subsidiarity is a deeply conservative principle. And you can see the principle of
00:37:49.760
subsidiarity in the American founding. You can see the principle of subsidiarity in the Habsburg
00:37:54.800
Empire. It doesn't matter the scale of your political community. The principle of subsidiarity
00:38:01.460
means that you will push down to the most local level decisions that can competently and appropriately
00:38:08.360
be made by that local level. So you're not going to usurp power at the higher or centralized level
00:38:13.540
when those decisions and that power can be exercised at a lower level. And that's what's
00:38:18.200
going to work. Washington, D.C., controlled by the Libs, is never going to stop illegal immigration.
00:38:26.280
They are only going to encourage it. It is in their political interest. Either it doesn't affect
00:38:31.200
them at all, and so they'll be negligent and not do anything about it, or they actually want to
00:38:35.900
undermine the border because it helps the Democrats politically. Either way, you cannot rely on
00:38:40.120
Washington, D.C. to do it. The only way that we're going to repel any of these waves of migration
00:38:45.400
is going to be through the conservative states. California is obviously not going to do it,
00:38:50.860
but states like Texas perhaps will. And Greg Abbott showed that that could happen yesterday. Now,
00:38:59.060
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that's a little teaser for you. Make sure you get your copy though now. Pre-order it if you have not
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ordered it already. My favorite comment yesterday is from Susan Bailey, who says the actual verdict in
00:39:56.440
the Trump trial, we don't think Trump did anything to this woman, but we hate him. Yes, that's true.
00:40:04.440
They passed the law to allow this to go to trial strictly to get Trump. It had nothing to do even
00:40:13.600
with the preposterous allegation that the woman made against him. Now, speaking of law enforcement,
00:40:20.060
if you've ever had a conversation with a lib about gun control, if you've ever been kind of a lib
00:40:26.920
yourself, which some of us have gone through more lib phases of our lives, okay, there but for the
00:40:31.180
grace of God, go we. You may have heard this argument. I'll say, why did that private citizen
00:40:39.880
who was protecting himself and his family and his property against a criminal, why did he have to
00:40:44.740
shoot the criminal in the chest? Why couldn't he just shoot the criminal in the leg? And that way,
00:40:51.180
the criminal could live maybe, and he would still be able to stop the bad guy. Why did the cops,
00:40:59.780
those terrible, awful cops, why when they were in a shootout with a criminal, why didn't they just
00:41:07.420
shoot him in his ankle? And that way, they could stop the bad guy, maybe, and he wouldn't have to
00:41:13.960
die. Joy Behar just raised this question on The View. I don't understand why people go for the,
00:41:19.820
it's like police sometimes when they shoot somebody. It's like, can't you shoot them in
00:41:23.280
the leg? Why do you have to shoot them in the head? Well, that's a false, actually, having dated a
00:41:26.660
homicide detective, he used to tell me when he hears that on TV, his eyes roll, because you have to shoot
00:41:31.260
when you're trained with a weapon for the mass of the body. So to shoot a leg or a wrist happens in a
00:41:36.120
James Bond film, but in real life, that's actually not something that they can do. Why? Because it's
00:41:40.600
hard enough to hit a target. So when you're shot, you target practice on a mass, which is the main
00:41:45.920
part of your body, your torso. So if it's hard to hit a target, why do these gun toters want us to
00:41:51.680
constantly have guns when we're not trained to even shoot as well as a police officer? So she tries to
00:41:57.520
save her stupid question. She goes, well, then why does it, why do they want us to have guns if we're
00:42:02.040
completely untrained? I don't want you to have a gun if you don't know how to use it.
00:42:08.520
That's a straw man. I certainly don't want people who are completely ignorant about what firearms do
00:42:15.740
and how to use them. I do not want any of you to have a firearm for your own sake as much as for the
00:42:21.160
rest of us, because if you don't know how to use a firearm, it's probably not going to work out well
00:42:26.040
for you. If you don't know how to hold a firearm, if you don't know how to use it when there's a bad
00:42:32.860
guy approaching, most likely the bad guy's just going to take it from you and use it on you.
00:42:37.940
So no, we don't, we want people to be responsible and trained and be knowledgeable about these things
00:42:42.940
that they're using. This is the consequence of ignorance. Very often the people who are the
00:42:49.620
loudest activists, very often the people in office who are regulating all of these rights and
00:42:56.100
instruments in our society, they don't even understand the mechanics of the things that
00:43:02.460
they're regulating. Not only do they not understand the philosophy of why we have a second amendment,
00:43:09.100
of why we have a right to protect ourselves, of what, where that comes from, what that means.
00:43:13.820
They don't even understand how the pew pew thing works. They don't even know what the trigger does.
00:43:17.680
They don't know what it's like. Their understanding, as that woman on The View said,
00:43:22.400
their understanding of shooting a gun comes from James Bond movies.
00:43:26.000
Oh, well, why did the cops have to stand there and shoot the gun in the chest? Why didn't they just
00:43:32.260
run up, jump sideways, hold the gun sideways, and shoot the gun out of the other bad guy's hand?
00:43:38.400
You know, come on, I saw that in a movie once. Why can't they just do that?
00:43:43.340
These people have never been to a gun range. They've probably never held a gun in their lives.
00:43:46.700
And this is true beyond gun policy. This is true at all levels of politics.
00:43:51.820
The people who are doing the regulating increasingly don't understand anything about what they are
00:43:58.680
regulating. The people who are passing laws about abortion, the left-wingers passing laws about
00:44:07.060
abortion, increasingly they don't have children, so they physically don't understand what it's like
00:44:13.400
to have a baby. They often have not become pregnant. It's kind of like an inversion of
00:44:19.980
the Libs argument. If you're a man, you shouldn't be able to have an opinion about abortion. Well,
00:44:25.100
okay, is the same true of a childless woman? Is the same true of a single woman who doesn't want to?
00:44:32.360
Well, that's one aspect of knowledge, but then there are more important degrees of knowledge.
00:44:36.060
I don't need to have cancer to learn something about cancer. A doctor doesn't need to have cancer
00:44:42.100
to know how to treat cancer. I don't need to have committed a murderer to know how to pass a law
00:44:47.940
against murder. I don't need to have been a cop to pass a law against murder. What is required,
00:44:54.440
though, is some basic understanding of morality, ethics, philosophy, theology, ultimately.
00:45:02.680
You need to know these things. In order to be a statesman, you should have a serious education in
00:45:09.020
all of these subjects. You should be able to understand what the law even is, not just the
00:45:15.860
positive law that we all pass and we vote upon the bill on Capitol Hill, but what the law even means.
00:45:21.440
Is the law merely an imposition of my will because I want such and such to be so in society? Or is the
00:45:27.280
law primarily a matter of interpretation, that there is such a thing as the natural law,
00:45:31.980
that there are eternal principles of justice, and there is an objective moral order, and we can
00:45:37.900
perceive this and interpret this, and then through a process of translation, translate the eternal
00:45:44.600
moral order into the positive law and the civil law and all the rest of it? Of course that's what law
00:45:49.220
is. Well, okay, that means we need to know something about ethics and morality. Where do we get our
00:45:54.040
notions of good and bad from? How can we know anything at all? The people passing our laws increasingly
00:46:00.300
don't know anything about that. Now, before we go, I'm just going to tease something before we go, okay?
00:46:12.880
An elderly senator has just returned to the Senate. She's a Democrat. Her name is Dianne Feinstein. She's
00:46:18.420
pushing 90. She's been out of the Senate for some months now because she had shingles, and she's
00:46:23.440
finally made it back, and she's in a wheelchair, and she looks a bit frail, and she looked a bit frail even
00:46:27.320
before she left the Senate, and there are a lot of people calling for her to resign. A lot of
00:46:34.600
Republicans calling for her to resign, a lot of conservatives, and a lot of liberals, probably more
00:46:40.000
liberals, actually, than conservatives, and the reason for that is because the libs want the governor
00:46:47.140
in California, Gavin Newsom, to be able to appoint a much younger, more left-wing senator. Dianne Feinstein,
00:46:53.200
for all her sins and problems, is not even close to the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate.
00:46:59.700
And so as Dianne Feinstein gets readjusted to the Senate, I want to hear every Republican,
00:47:04.580
I want to hear every single conservative come out there and say, Dianne, six more years, six more,
00:47:11.100
I support Dianne Feinstein for re-election. I want Dianne Feinstein to be re-elected three more times.
00:47:17.780
Because I never want Dianne Feinstein to leave the Senate. Why is that? Some conservatives disagree
00:47:23.320
with me. We'll get into a little bit more tomorrow. We're out of time now. And we've got to get to
00:47:26.440
Lindsey Graham, not the U.S. senator, someone far more exciting. Lindsey Graham, known as the Patriot
00:47:33.400
Barbie. We covered Lindsey on the show some time ago. She defied the lockdowns in Oregon in 2020.
00:47:40.660
She stood up against wokeness in schools. And she is coming on the show. So stay tuned. The rest of
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