The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1244 - Trump Destroyed CNN's Town Hall With 4 Hilarious Answers

00:00:00.000 President Trump appeared on CNN last night. The town hall was a big win for Trump. I don't just

00:00:06.800 say it because I like the guy. Even liberal journalists and politicians are admitting it.

00:00:12.560 It was a big win for Republicans in that the appearance taught us, by my count, 0.95

00:00:18.100 five important facts about where the Trump campaign stands right now. And the appearance

00:00:24.660 was even a big win for the Libs, as they now have an excuse to prosecute Trump for committing

00:00:31.420 murder on national television. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.020 Welcome back to the show. In just a moment, we will answer a question that liberals raise

00:00:46.140 very often, at least a few times a year. This one came from Joy Behar on The View. The question is,

00:00:52.260 why don't the police just shoot people in the leg? A question that keeps the Libs up at night. 0.95

00:00:58.880 We'll get to that in a second. First, though, we've got to get through this town hall. If you

00:01:03.860 didn't watch it, I recommend you watch the whole thing. It was absolutely delightful. It was

00:01:09.500 delightful largely because Trump totally owned the Libs with facts and logic. And it was just

00:01:16.180 marvelous to watch. You kind of felt like you had that old energy back again, right? But the reason

00:01:21.860 that I want to cover it, and I'll try to do it relatively quickly, I want to hit on five points

00:01:28.020 because I think that the Trump town hall appearance, beyond delighting everybody with

00:01:32.320 Trump's zingers, showed us five important things about his 2024 campaign. First one is Trump is going

00:01:41.980 to bring receipts. They were breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows, injuring police officers.

00:01:48.280 Why did it take you three hours to tell them to go home?

00:01:51.840 I don't believe it did. Oh, let me pull it out. I have to pull it out.

00:01:54.860 So if you look at, on January 5th, the day before, I said, please support our Capitol

00:02:09.420 police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. Stay peaceful.

00:02:15.520 This was the day before, and this was in the form of Twitter. Now use truth, truth social. I think it's

00:02:21.280 far superior, okay? I hope everybody's on it. I hope everybody's on truth. If you look,

00:02:26.980 January 6th, this is before 2.30. I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful.

00:02:33.940 This is right after as it was happening. But what happened is they took it down. I don't know why.

00:02:41.600 I think they took it down because it was so good. They didn't like it being up there.

00:02:45.080 So I am asking, this is, and we didn't know until I got it back because now I have 90 million people

00:02:51.200 waiting for me to go back. But I'm on truth and I'm staying on truth.

00:02:54.320 You didn't say anything for 700 hours after. Actually, I did. Boom. And he just pulls out

00:03:00.160 that sheet of paper. This was in a way an answer to that infamous incident between Mitt Romney and

00:03:05.320 Barack Obama and Candy Crowley, the moderator, I think also from CNN, back in 2012 when Mitt Romney

00:03:13.180 said, you didn't call the Benghazi terror attack a terror attack until long after the attack. And

00:03:18.400 Candy Crowley intervened on Barack Obama's behalf and said, actually he did. Governor, he did. And then

00:03:23.640 it turned out she was just making that up. That wasn't true. This was kind of the opposite where you

00:03:27.900 had the moderator or the hostess, Caitlin Collins. She says, you didn't talk about this for hours and

00:03:34.560 hours. And Trump says, I got my own receipts. Here we go. Good to know that. It's good to know

00:03:39.600 that Trump is going to have the facts at his fingertips when you hear all of these kinds of

00:03:45.600 charges that are inevitably going to come up throughout the 2024 campaign. Next thing it showed

00:03:50.380 us is that Trump is thoughtful. Trump is thinking in a nuanced way about major political issues,

00:03:59.700 notably foreign policy. Do you want Ukraine to win this war?

00:04:05.400 Uh, I don't think in terms of winning and losing, I think in terms of getting it settled. So we stop

00:04:11.220 killing all these people and breaking down. 0.51

00:04:14.440 Now, what do you, can I just follow up on that? You said you don't think in terms of winning and 0.98

00:04:21.800 losing. You have to get, you have to get your follow up on that. Cause that's a really important

00:04:24.940 statement. Excuse me. Let me just follow up. Can you say if you want Ukraine or Russia to win this

00:04:29.480 war? I want everybody to stop dying. They're dying Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying 1.00

00:04:37.680 and I'll have that done. I'll have that done in 24 hours. I'll have it done. You need the power of

00:04:43.660 the presidency to do it. But you won't say that you want Ukraine to win. You, you know what I'll say?

00:04:47.600 I'll say this. I want Europe to put up more money because they're in for 20 billion. We're in for

00:04:52.240 170 and they should be, and they should equalize. They have plenty of money. They should equalize.

00:04:58.220 This is a very thoughtful answer on Ukraine. The liberal view on Ukraine is rah, rah,

00:05:04.860 world war three. Let's start dropping bombs on Moscow. Let's go after the Kremlin. Let's assassinate 0.99

00:05:09.700 Putin. Forget about just chasing Russian influence out of Ukraine. We want Ukraine to go in and let's 0.98

00:05:15.900 have them invade Russia. Let's, let's go, baby. NATO on the move. That's the liberal view.

00:05:21.640 The conservative view is a little more restrained than that. It's a little bit more conservative.

00:05:26.620 The conservative view is the view that has been articulated by statesmen going back 30 years now,

00:05:33.140 by George Kennan, author of the long telegram, by people like Henry Kissinger, by people like Daniel

00:05:37.340 Patrick Moynihan and Sam Nunn, people who said, you know, we've got to be a little bit careful about how

00:05:41.500 NATO expands and actually buffer states aren't the worst thing in the world because they,

00:05:46.480 they mediate between great powers. And so what are we going to do here in Ukraine? Are we really

00:05:51.320 going to rout Russia? We're going to call for regime change in Russia. What are we going to do?

00:05:55.280 We're going to get Russia out of Crimea. What are we going to do? We're going to invite Ukraine to 1.00

00:05:59.380 join NATO. What, is that really going to deescalate this situation or no? Is that going to send us

00:06:04.800 hurtling toward world war three while you've got China aggressing in Taiwan and the South China Sea?

00:06:09.300 That doesn't seem to make sense. And so, so Trump knows this. Trump knows that if he says,

00:06:13.640 I want Ukraine to win, first of all, you're going to just be affirming what Russia's already said,

00:06:17.600 which is that the U.S. is a belligerent in the Ukraine war. And the U.S. is not just waging a

00:06:22.740 kind of cold war here, that the U.S. is waging a hot war with Russia. You're only going to escalate

00:06:27.740 that, which is what all the liberals and the hawks are doing on this particular issue. And Trump says,

00:06:33.600 no, I just want to wind down the conflict, which a lot of wise statesmen think the United States

00:06:38.800 could do if it felt that it were in its interest to wind down the conflict. So really nuanced answer

00:06:44.200 here from Trump, not just a total dove, not just a total hawk. He's giving a thoughtful answer.

00:06:49.180 The next thing we learned about Trump is that the guy is still super funny.

00:06:54.740 I never met this woman. I never saw this woman. This woman said, I met her at the front door of 0.94

00:07:02.000 Bergdorf Goodroom, which I rarely go into other than for a couple of charities.

00:07:05.140 I met her in the front door. She was about 60 years old. And this is like 22, 23 years ago.

00:07:11.840 I met her in the front door of Bergdorf Goodroom. I was immediately attracted to her and she was

00:07:16.720 immediately attracted to me. And we had this great chemistry. We're walking into a crowded

00:07:22.500 department store. We had this great chemistry. And a few minutes later, we end up in a room,

00:07:28.220 a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodroom, right near the cash register. And then she found out there are

00:07:33.860 locks in the door. She said, I found one that was open. She found one. She learned this at trial.

00:07:38.460 She found one that was open. What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up? And within

00:07:43.420 minutes, you're playing hanky panky in a dressing room. Okay. I don't know if she was married then 1.00

00:07:49.360 or not. John Johnson. I feel sorry for you, John Johnson.

00:07:51.920 Mr. President, can I answer this?

00:07:54.300 Think of it. They said he didn't rape her. And I didn't do anything else either. You know what?

00:07:58.680 Because I have no idea who the hell she is. I don't know who this woman is. 1.00

00:08:01.480 Can I ask you, given you're recounting your version?

00:08:04.080 And I tell you this. Are you ready? And I swear on my children, which I never do,

00:08:09.520 I have no idea who this woman is. This is a fake story, made up story.

00:08:15.500 So it's really funny. Because we could only put a short clip in there,

00:08:19.540 you might lose a little bit of the context that when he's recounting that tale at the beginning,

00:08:23.480 he's saying this is her version of events. I walk into Bergdorf Goodman, which I pretty much never

00:08:28.100 did. I'm in a crowded department store. And then the whole rest of it reads like a romance novel.

00:08:32.180 And that last part I think is important too, because Trump obviously has engaged in hyperbole,

00:08:38.460 exaggeration, let's say a little bending of the truth every now and again. And he was a billionaire

00:08:42.700 playboy for a long time. But at the end there, when he says, listen to me, I swear on my children

00:08:47.500 and I never do that. I have no idea who this woman is. This did not happen. One feels that

00:08:54.400 that is sincere. One has the impression that that is sincere. And he's funny the whole time. It's the

00:08:58.560 only way to deflate this. They're accusing him of the worst things you can be accused of.

00:09:02.840 They're accusing him of rape. And he's saying, either you say, no, I didn't do it. Kind of like

00:09:08.820 when someone wants to set you up, they say, hey, do you still beat your wife?

00:09:11.900 And any way you answer, you look bad. And so what does he do? He just makes fun of the whole

00:09:18.680 situation of this romance novel situation that appeared on an episode of Law & Order SVU seven

00:09:25.820 years before the woman published her claims. He mocks it. He hits you with sincerity. It's very

00:09:31.000 persuasive on the campaign trail. And then the final point that we learned from the CNN town hall,

00:09:37.900 and this is the most important thing, I think, for the Trump campaign to convey to the GOP base,

00:09:45.680 is that Trump, this go-round at least, intends to be disciplined.

00:09:53.460 You still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. Why should Americans put you back

00:09:59.880 in the White House? Because we did fantastically. We got 12 million more votes than we had in,

00:10:05.820 as you know, in 2016. I actually say we did far better in that election. Got the most that anybody's

00:10:12.620 ever gotten as a senior president of the United States. I think that when you look at that result,

00:10:18.980 and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you're a very stupid person, 1.00

00:10:23.380 you see what happens. A lot of the people, a lot of the people in this audience, and maybe a couple 1.00

00:10:28.580 that don't, but most people understand what happened. It was a rigged election, and it's a

00:10:34.000 shame that we had to go through it. It's very bad for our country. All over the world, they looked at

00:10:37.860 it. Mr. President, back to what you just said there, though, it was not a rigged election. It was not a

00:10:42.300 stolen election. You and your supporters lost more than 60 court cases on the election. It's been nearly

00:10:48.480 two and a half years. Can you publicly acknowledge that you did lose the 2020 election? Let me just

00:10:53.420 go on. If you look at Truth of Vote, they found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras,

00:10:59.140 where they were stuffing ballot boxes. There's even more to it. We had to cut the clip to keep it a

00:11:05.020 little tighter for the show. Trump, at that first debate with Joe Biden, would never have allowed

00:11:12.360 that woman to get her nonsense interjection in there. Oh, Mr. President, actually, fact check, 1.00

00:11:17.420 you lost, you lost. The election was not rigged. It was totally the most fair, wonderful beep-boop

00:11:22.740 election in beep-beep-boop. There were no questions about. And had this been the first

00:11:29.040 debate of 2020, had this been a less disciplined campaign, Trump would have come in and gotten into

00:11:33.380 a shouting match with her and gone back and forth. He exhibited incredible restraint there. In fact,

00:11:37.600 he exhibited more restraint than I just exhibited, even listening to what she had to say. And there is

00:11:43.840 no question in my mind that that was intentional. And it's to convey to the GOP base that this

00:11:50.920 campaign is going to be disciplined. The most important line of the night, most important line

00:11:57.920 of the night, did not come during the town hall. The most important line of the night, and probably

00:12:04.860 the line that bodes best for Trump's campaign, came before the town hall when Trump announced it.

00:12:10.020 I'll be doing CNN tonight, live from the great state of New Hampshire, because

00:12:15.140 CNN is rightfully desperate to get those fantastic Trump ratings back.

00:12:21.040 They were ratings like none other, and they want them back.

00:12:24.800 So sitting with sweet little Elisa last night, we were listening to the town hall. And Elisa said to

00:12:30.780 me, she goes, seriously though, why did CNN agree to do this town hall? And then just before I could

00:12:39.040 answer, she answered it herself. She goes, is it literally just because they want those fantastic

00:12:44.540 Trump ratings? And the answer is yes. And this is why Trump is going to get all that free media.

00:12:48.800 He got billions of dollars worth of free media in 2016. This is why CNN is going to have him back on.

00:12:54.280 This is why they're all going to have him back on.

00:12:55.900 This is why his poll numbers are going up, because you can't look away. You might say,

00:13:02.100 well, other political candidates, they've proven themselves to be more effective at wielding power

00:13:07.180 or more nuanced about policy, or maybe that's true. I'm not even going to weigh in there. I'm just

00:13:13.200 telling you, this guy is a singular political talent. He's an American original. His worst aspects 0.99

00:13:23.720 are American original. His best aspects are American original, okay? There's no copy of him.

00:13:30.020 Now, there are other candidates in the race, and there's one candidate who is posing something of

00:13:34.580 a challenge to him. And while Trump is demonstrating his campaign prowess on TV, this other guy is passing

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00:15:07.520 So while Trump is dazzling on CNN, what's going on with his primary opponent, Ron DeSantis?

00:15:15.220 He's passing some really important stuff down in Florida. A very different approach to campaigning.

00:15:21.480 Trump putting on the old razzle-dazzle, DeSantis keeping his head mostly down,

00:15:26.740 just trying to rack up those legislative wins to give him more ammo going into the campaign once he

00:15:31.220 officially announces. So really great news at the New College of Florida. This is a public liberal arts

00:15:36.120 school in Florida that Ron DeSantis has taken a particular interest in reforming. And some new

00:15:44.600 reform that has been brought to that college is that the school will start to accept the classic

00:15:50.340 learning test, which is an alternative to the SAT. It's a standardized college entrance exam that is

00:15:57.260 meant for students with classical and Christian educations. So whereas the SAT and the ACT increasingly

00:16:03.340 are geared toward people who have received lib crazy educations, the classical learning test will

00:16:10.460 focus on the older, more traditional, superior kind of education. DeSantis also recently appointed

00:16:19.420 six conservative leaders and academics to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees.

00:16:26.340 The point of this is to purge the leftists out of that school and to wield some political power.

00:16:34.000 DeSantis on top of that just signed E-Verify into law in Florida. So employers are going to have to

00:16:40.540 make sure that the people they're hiring are not illegal aliens. Florida becomes the largest state

00:16:45.820 in the country to do so. So it's a very different campaign, at least in these early stages.

00:16:53.160 What DeSantis is betting on is that he can keep his head down, rack up win after win after win,

00:17:00.000 not get too much fanfare, not get too much pushback. And then when he makes his announcement,

00:17:04.700 he can say, look at my list of accomplishments. Maybe I don't have the razzle dazzle. Maybe I'm not

00:17:09.540 the entertainer or the showman that Donald Trump is, but I can get the job done. And Trump's campaign

00:17:16.200 is going to say, I'm a unique figure. The libs uniquely hate me, which tells you that maybe I'm

00:17:23.500 the man for the job. I uniquely am able to own these guys on TV with facts and logic and my zingers.

00:17:29.200 We didn't include half the zingers in this. And so you got to vote for me because I break the mold 1.00

00:17:36.900 because the way that the political structure is set up, it is rigged against Republicans.

00:17:42.340 I uniquely break that mold. DeSantis is going to say, well, I got reelected by a huge margin in

00:17:49.000 Florida and you, Donald Trump, lost the 2020 election. This is why Donald Trump has to continue

00:17:54.300 to focus on the way in which that election was rigged. And I know a lot of people want to say

00:17:59.160 that there were no problems with the 2020 election. I don't know. Look at Pennsylvania. Look at the way

00:18:05.180 they changed the election laws to contradict even the state constitution there. Look at those pipes

00:18:09.660 bursting in the middle of the night. Look at how long it took to count the ballots. I look at the

00:18:13.100 way that they spread widespread mail. And I think it's not a distraction for the Trump campaign to

00:18:20.000 keep mentioning, not to harp on it, but to keep mentioning the issues with the 2020 election.

00:18:24.680 Because the biggest attack on Trump is that he lost to Joe Biden once. How's he going to beat him

00:18:28.260 the second time? They have to focus on that. They're running in the same lane, Trump and DeSantis,

00:18:34.880 but they're running very, very different campaigns. One of them just got a big showcase. Let's see

00:18:41.140 what happens when DeSantis finally goes out there. Now, Trump is not the only Republican politician

00:18:46.060 that the liberal establishment is trying to throw behind bars. Another one would be the colorful

00:18:52.160 representative from New York, George Santos.

00:18:55.440 It's a witch hunt because it makes no sense that in four months, four months, five months,

00:19:03.300 I'm indicted. You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine, nine family members

00:19:12.020 receiving money from foreign, from foreign destinations into their bank accounts. It's been

00:19:18.160 years of exposing. A lot of you here have reported on them and yet no investigation is launched into them.

00:19:24.480 I'm going to fight. I'm getting back to that. I'm going to fight my battle. I'm going to deliver.

00:19:31.360 I'm going to fight the witch hunt. I'm going to take care of clearing my name and I look forward to 0.63

00:19:35.340 doing that. So we've got a 13 count indictment against George Santos, the Republican representative

00:19:42.940 from New York who lied about his education and his professional background, possibly his sexual desires,

00:19:49.260 maybe his ethnic or religious background. It's all, it's a little bit unclear.

00:19:53.200 The 13 count indictment is the kitchen sink. It's everything. He committed wire fraud, they say.

00:20:00.240 He took a $500 unemployment check when he really was working. I mean, everything they could find,

00:20:06.060 they threw at this guy. And he made false statements to the House of Representatives,

00:20:10.760 blah, blah, blah. Okay. I'm not downplaying this. I think fraud is pretty much the worst crime you can

00:20:16.340 commit. I think it is pretty much the worst sin you can commit. I think that there's a reason that

00:20:22.860 Dante puts the fraudsters in almost the very lowest pit of hell. So I'm not defending any of that.

00:20:31.140 But I am looking at the political system and I'm wondering, hold on, the same day that we see evidence

00:20:38.500 that pretty much the entire Biden family was on the take committing the same kinds of crimes that

00:20:44.340 they're accusing George Santos of. In some cases, worse crimes because the Bidens had more power

00:20:49.480 and more influence that they could sell to make money from some of the worst people on earth.

00:20:54.180 You're telling me we're going to go after this random congressman who's been in office for five

00:20:58.400 seconds? It's like going after a drug dealer for selling a dime bag of marijuana, but you're going

00:21:08.060 to let the cartel leaders off the hook. Are you kidding me? What is this about? Would seem to me

00:21:13.620 that Republicans have a razor thin majority in the House of Representatives. They want an unlikely seat

00:21:18.260 in New York. They see a particularly weak member of Congress that they can pinch off. And then that's

00:21:24.040 going to turn the Republicans' thin majority into an even thinner majority. And it does not seem to

00:21:30.860 me to be based on principles or the blind execution of justice. This seems to me not quite a witch hunt.

00:21:38.440 I'm sure George Santos did all sorts of terrible things. But it seems to me a selective prosecution

00:21:42.860 by the liberal establishment to weaken Republicans. And I don't think Republicans should give this any

00:21:49.260 quarter at all. I think we should totally ignore this nonsense. We should, as a political matter,

00:21:57.620 defend George Santos, at least against the predations of a corrupt Biden DOJ. I wouldn't

00:22:03.680 trust George Santos with $5 to go get me a cup of coffee. But I'm not going to throw this guy under

00:22:09.720 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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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 1.00

00:28:56.600 are so focused on transgenderism. It's not just because of the sexual fetishes of a handful of people 0.79

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 0.73

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 0.96

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 0.77

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. 0.69

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 1.00

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 I've got some bad news for you. It's bittersweet.

00:39:01.000 Once again, my game, yes or no, the greatest board game on the internet has sold out at

00:39:09.960 dailywire.com slash shop. You can't say I didn't tell you so. I warned you. I said the first time

00:39:15.420 we ordered a thousand of these games sold out almost instantly. Next time we ordered many thousands

00:39:20.360 more games, I said, guys, you got to get it now. It's going to sell out. And then some people waited a

00:39:26.200 little too long. Well, okay. The creme de l'achem who managed to get their hands on a copy,

00:39:31.880 you got it. It's coming. For the rest of you who missed out, do not despair. You can still pre-order

00:39:36.500 the game over at dailywire.com slash shop. Do not miss out on getting the greatest game on the

00:39:41.800 internet. We've got more exciting stuff coming about the yes or no game. All right, I'm just going to,

00:39:45.580 that's a little teaser for you. Make sure you get your copy though now. Pre-order it if you have not

00:39:50.060 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, 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.72

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.77

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? 0.87

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 0.63

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. 1.00

00:47:40.660 She stood up against wokeness in schools. And she is coming on the show. So stay tuned. The rest of 0.92

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 11, 2023

Ep. 1244 - Trump Destroyed CNN's Town Hall With 4 Hilarious Answers

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