The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1262 - Ellen Page Hate Crime Hoax？

00:00:00.000 Actress Ellen Page, who now goes by Elliot, has a new book out and coincidentally has revealed

00:00:06.380 that she was the target of a transphobic attack sometime last year. According to Page, a year ago,

00:00:15.380 a hateful stranger approached her in West Hollywood yelling, quote, I'm going to effing

00:00:21.800 gay bash you, F-A-double-G-O-T, at which point he chased her into a shop screaming, this is why I 1.00

00:00:30.660 need a gun. Now, this incident that we are for some reason only hearing about right now obviously

00:00:37.200 happened a long time ago. But it is being reported that police have released a sketch of the alleged

00:00:42.580 transphobe, and he appears to be two Nigerian bodybuilders from the south side of MAGA country.

00:00:48.360 And news reports have not specified whether or not Miss Page was able to hold on to her subway

00:00:53.140 sandwich during the harrowing attack. Perhaps that detail is included in the book that she is now

00:00:59.000 hawking. I'm not saying for certain that it didn't happen. Hollywood has always been weird.

00:01:06.740 Terrible political leadership has let the crime problem in Hollywood get out of control. A friend

00:01:11.440 of mine shortly before we moved out of LA was threatened on the street by a bum with a cross 1.00

00:01:18.320 bow. Okay, there are freaks out there for sure. But even more than criminals and bums, 1.00

00:01:24.900 Hollywood is filled with fabulists and narcissists, people with a very tenuous grip on reality.

00:01:32.920 It just seems unlikely, okay? The big red flag in Ellen Page's story is that phrase gay bashing.

00:01:40.540 No heterosexual uses that phrase. That is a phrase that is used exclusively by leftists and LGBT

00:01:49.540 positive activists. It's the biggest sign of a Hollywood imagination run amok. Unfortunately for

00:01:57.400 us, that Hollywood imagination has run amok all over our country. And as is especially clear during

00:02:05.560 Pride Month, large numbers of Americans can no longer tell the difference between fantasy

00:02:11.000 and reality. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:39.540 that. And on the media front, Tucker is back, baby. Tucker is back on Twitter. He's got very

00:02:45.540 interesting things to say about Ukraine, about aliens, about terrorist attacks. So we will get to

00:02:52.320 that in just a moment. First, though, the Pride Month update. Today's daily Pride Month update

00:02:58.920 comes from Mayor Pete, who was asked why those mean, nasty conservatives would have the gall

00:03:06.760 to criticize certain aspects of the Rainbow Coalition, the Gestapo. And here is Pete's answer.

00:03:14.000 Well, our country is at very real risk of backsliding on freedom and equality. But that is exactly why we

00:03:20.480 continue to push. There has been extraordinary work that's been done just in this presidency,

00:03:25.420 certainly the president being able to sign the Respect for Marriage Act, for example. And if you

00:03:29.720 zoom out to the progress that's been made in the last 10 or 15 years, including the ability of somebody

00:03:34.900 like me to be standing here doing this job, it's extraordinary. And yet now you see the attacks on

00:03:40.440 the LGBTQ community, especially on the trans community and what they are going through. And, you know,

00:03:46.220 I think it's being done out of a perception that it is politically convenient to target vulnerable

00:03:52.740 groups. And honestly, I think where it largely comes from is folks who don't want to talk about

00:03:58.480 why they were against the infrastructure law that's building the roads and bridges. They don't want to

00:04:02.540 talk about why they were against $35 insulin that the president delivered for Medicare recipients.

00:04:08.580 They don't want to explain why they were for these radical positions that speak to what most people

00:04:14.160 are worried about in their everyday lives. Yeah, that's it, Pete. That's it. The Republicans

00:04:18.260 are speaking out against transing little kids, pumping them full of poison, chopping their body parts off 1.00

00:04:25.840 because we're just so afraid of our opposition to an infrastructure law. Yeah, that's it. We know

00:04:36.880 that the people are strongly on the side of building some new bridge somewhere and we've got to run away.

00:04:43.740 From our radical opposition to insulin reform by focusing on this really minor issue that no one's really

00:04:54.240 interested in, namely the fact that Democrats are trying to chop kids' genitals off. That's it. You hit the nail

00:04:59.540 on the head. We just don't want to talk about the real hot button issue, paving roads. Yeah, you got it, Pete.

00:05:06.620 I don't know. I think it probably has more to do with the fact that people around this country,

00:05:14.500 especially parents, but just pretty much everybody, realizes that it's probably not a great idea

00:05:21.140 to turn innocent little kids into eunuchs and sterilize them and chop off their body parts. I 1.00

00:05:27.460 think that's probably why. Can you believe, can you guys believe how radical the Republicans have

00:05:32.420 become, they didn't, the Republicans didn't even want to pursue the particular kind of

00:05:37.660 pharmaceutical insulin reform that I was advocating for? Whoa, that's some crazy stuff, huh?

00:05:43.160 Okay, chop, chop. Get that kid on the operating table. Let's go. Give me the scalpel. 0.96

00:05:50.280 I don't even know what the insulin reform was. I don't even know what stupid infrastructure

00:05:54.700 regulation people do with judges talking about, but I'm willing to bet. I am willing to bet

00:05:58.980 every dollar to my name that if you had these three types of legislation before you,

00:06:05.760 regulate the price of a diabetes treatment, build a certain kind of bridge instead of another kind

00:06:13.080 of bridge, chop off a child's genitals. I am willing to bet every material possession that I have, 0.94

00:06:22.240 the last one is going to be the most radical. And that's why it's not just Republicans who are

00:06:27.220 opposed to it. It's why normal people, centrists, even a number of leftists all around this country,

00:06:33.280 even the feminists, even a lot of people around this country realize that that is a very, very bad 1.00

00:06:39.200 idea. That seems to be the more likely reason. And on that point, even as the people are pushing

00:06:46.200 against trancing the kids, the liberal establishment, especially through the judges,

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00:08:22.960 free at halo.com slash Knowles. Federal judge has just struck down a law in Florida that would ban

00:08:32.320 doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to little kids. Why did the

00:08:39.140 federal judge strike this down? He struck it down because he says that gender identity is real. 0.97

00:08:48.920 That's why. That's the whole reason he struck it down. The judge says, quote, and his name, by the way,

00:08:54.380 is Robert Hinkle. He says, quote, the elephant in the room should be noted at the outset.

00:08:59.540 Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear. What record? I don't know. Nobody knows.

00:09:07.200 He says, despite the defense admissions, there are those who believe that cisgender individuals,

00:09:13.440 that meaning people who understand who they are, properly adhere to their natal sex and that

00:09:18.120 transgender individuals have inappropriately chosen a contrary gender identity, male or female,

00:09:22.300 just as one might choose to whether to read Shakespeare or Grisham.

00:09:25.920 And this is false because gender identity is real. 0.73

00:09:32.620 This is obviously going to be headed for the Supreme Court. You're seeing a lot of liberal

00:09:35.740 judges go in and overturn laws passed by the representatives of the people, duly elected

00:09:40.600 representatives representing the people's will to stop quacks from transing little kids. 1.00

00:09:45.980 The judges come in and say, no, it's unconstitutional not to pump kids full of poison and sterilize them

00:09:53.180 and chop off their body parts. So this is obviously headed for the Supreme Court. Not great for us 0.79

00:09:57.620 because even this conservative Supreme Court has affirmed transgenderism. You saw this especially in 1.00

00:10:03.120 the Bostock decision where Judge Gorsuch, Justice Gorsuch, who is a conservative, came in and said

00:10:09.540 that civil rights law that provides protections on the basis of sex actually secretly provides

00:10:16.600 protections on the basis of gender identity, which is ironic because if the civil rights law protects

00:10:22.020 gender identity, then it very much does not protect sex. If the civil rights law says that men have the

00:10:30.860 right to play on a girl's sports team, then it undercuts what the civil rights law was actually 1.00

00:10:36.540 intended to do, which was to say that women have the right to their own sports teams separate from 1.00

00:10:41.800 men. Because you can't have both. And even a conservative on the Supreme Court sided with

00:10:47.100 the transgenderists here. So this is not great news that it's headed to the Supreme Court because 1.00

00:10:51.100 the court, just judging by precedent, judging by the Harris Funeral Homes case that says that civil

00:10:57.160 rights law means that a man has the right to wear a mini skirt at a funeral home if he wants to, 0.69

00:11:02.520 to express his quote unquote gender identity. That's not great news. It would be really nice if

00:11:08.380 the people could answer this question themselves, wouldn't it? It would be really nice if the people

00:11:14.880 were able to say, no, we actually don't think that men can become women and we're going to 1.00

00:11:19.120 enshrine that in our law and we're going to say don't chop up little kids. But when the people have

00:11:24.100 done that, the liberal establishment has come in through the courts, through the unaccountability of

00:11:27.900 the judiciary, to come in and say, no, actually, never mind. Somewhere in the Constitution, it says

00:11:32.860 that men have the right to pretend to be women. And parents and quacks have the right to poison their 1.00

00:11:38.580 kids. Oh, the civil rights law? Yeah, even though we know for a fact that when the civil rights law

00:11:44.200 was passed, nobody thought the protections on the basis of sex were protections on the basis of gender

00:11:48.420 identity or whatever. Because that concept didn't even really exist at the time. Yeah, well, anyway,

00:11:53.140 now I'm just deciding that's what it is. Do you see how, do you see how circular this argument is

00:11:58.900 from the judiciary? They're saying sex means gender identity because today a significant portion of

00:12:12.380 the people say that sex means gender identity. Not the majority of the people, certainly, but a decent

00:12:19.080 number of the people, including me, we say that. And so that's obviously what it must mean for the

00:12:23.640 purposes of the law, even though the law was written 60 years ago. And so that's what we're

00:12:27.200 going to do. Gender identity is real. Why? Because I say it is. Okay, there it is. All right,

00:12:33.060 I guess we're just ruled by this dictatorship of some random federal judges. It would be really nice

00:12:39.480 if the people had to say here, not only for a procedural matter, not just because I think that

00:12:44.160 the voice of the people is the voice of God. I don't really care about the procedure. I want good

00:12:50.140 government. Whatever just procedure leads me to good government, that's what I want. If the judges

00:12:54.980 give us good government, then let the judges have the say. If the people are going to give us good

00:12:58.560 government, let the people have the say. If the president's going to go then, okay, let the

00:13:01.380 president have the say. But the people happen to be right on this. The people tend to have much more

00:13:05.880 common sense, especially today where our ruling class is entirely liberal. The people are almost always

00:13:11.140 right when they disagree with the ruling class. And you see that here. Okay, you're getting some

00:13:15.360 political pushback, even on the right. The presidential race is heating up. Some Republicans

00:13:21.000 hate this stuff. I love it. Some Republicans are pulling their hair out. No, why? Why is this

00:13:27.520 candidate attacking this candidate? No, they shouldn't do that. They should all get along. That's not what

00:13:31.800 primaries are for. Primaries are when really thick-skinned, really ambitious people

00:13:37.460 just rip each other to shreds. And the benefit of this is not only that it is extremely entertaining,

00:13:44.380 but that it's going to toughen up the eventual nominee so that the attacks from the real opposition,

00:13:51.400 the Democrats, will not be as effective come the general election. So Nikki Haley is kicking this off. 0.97

00:13:57.640 She is attacking Ron DeSantis over this issue of gender identity and the rainbow movement. She's attacking

00:14:04.940 him for turning on Disney. Here you have DeSantis, who accepted 50,000 in political contributions

00:14:13.140 from Disney. He went and put their executives and their lobbyists on prominent boards throughout

00:14:19.240 Florida. And he went and basically gave the highest corporate subsidies in Florida history to Disney.

00:14:27.140 But because they went and criticized him, now he's going to spend taxpayer dollars on a lawsuit.

00:14:34.020 It's just like all this vendetta stuff. We've been down that road again. We can't go down that.

00:14:40.600 Businesses were my partners in South Carolina. We didn't always get along. And I, you know,

00:14:46.100 luckily South Carolina is very anti-woke. But when you have a company like that, don't bring the

00:14:51.820 citizen's taxpayer dollars into it. Pick up the phone, deal with it, settle it the way you should.

00:14:57.020 And I just think he's being hypocritical. I like Nikki Haley a lot. Personally,

00:15:02.920 very nice, nice lady. This was an ill-advised attack on DeSantis because the attack ends up 0.99

00:15:09.780 making DeSantis look good. She's saying DeSantis received a lot of campaign contributions.

00:15:14.740 DeSantis worked very nicely with Disney and put Disney on, on certain boards and gave them some

00:15:20.720 influence. But then when Disney opposed the elected representatives representing their people and the

00:15:28.480 law that they passed to stop transing the kids, then DeSantis turned on Disney. So her attack is that 0.89

00:15:35.800 DeSantis is not totally bought and paid for by his donors, specifically Disney, which ends up making

00:15:42.840 DeSantis look good. I think the point she was trying to make is that DeSantis is showboating here,

00:15:51.020 or he's disrupting business in a way that is not conducive to the flourishing of the state,

00:15:58.460 or it's just nationally self-serving, but doesn't serve Florida. I don't know. I don't know,

00:16:02.620 because she didn't make that point. Instead, she says, hey, DeSantis will take donations from people,

00:16:07.380 but then not just do whatever they say. So if I were running the Haley campaign right now,

00:16:12.840 I would retire that line of attack. I don't think that is going to work very well. But it is attack

00:16:18.180 season. So the attacks are all going to come out, and the attacks are going to come out against

00:16:20.980 DeSantis. They're not going to come out really against Trump. You're seeing attacks from Vivek

00:16:26.520 Ramaswamy against DeSantis. You're seeing Nikki Haley attack Ron DeSantis. There's one candidate who is

00:16:32.800 attacking Trump, brand new candidate in the race who we'll get to in one second. But the attacks are

00:16:38.020 going to come against DeSantis because Trump is so far ahead in the polls right now that if you just try

00:16:42.100 to attack Trump, then he's going to nuke you from outer space, and your campaign's going to be dead

00:16:45.900 in the cradle. You've got to go after DeSantis to weaken DeSantis so that it ceases to be a two-man

00:16:51.820 race, and it becomes a gigantic candidate versus all of the other guys. Then they can all turn on

00:16:58.440 Trump, which if 2016 is any indication, will probably occur once it's too late, which is why Trump likely

00:17:05.920 right now will receive the nomination. But the one candidate who is attacking Trump right now

00:17:10.940 is the new candidate in the race. He's the dark horse that a lot of you have made fun of me for

00:17:15.880 suggesting could have a moment in the campaign. It's the croissants, baby. It's the croissants for

00:17:22.940 short. It is Governor Christie. You might have forgotten about him, but he's popping back up,

00:17:29.600 and he's officially filed paperwork to run, so he hasn't made a formal announcement, but the government,

00:17:34.980 as far as the government is concerned, he's a candidate for president. He said he's going to

00:17:38.820 run as the chief Trump antagonist. He said, I am running my campaign just to attack Trump,

00:17:46.180 which is a big deal because while a lot of politicians in the Republican Party have bad

00:17:50.980 blood with Trump going back a long way, Christie and Trump used to be buddies. Christie was an advisor to

00:17:57.260 Trump. During the 2020 debate prep for Trump and Biden, Chris Christie was Trump's sparring partner,

00:18:03.880 which tells you two things. One, Christie was pretty close to Trump. And two, Christie's a pretty

00:18:09.000 good debater. He's the guy that Trump world picked to be the toughest challenger to prepare Trump for

00:18:16.700 that debate. And now things have changed in the last few years. Christie is really going after Trump,

00:18:22.040 specifically going after Trump's family. Let me tell you something, everybody. The grift from this

00:18:28.140 family is breathtaking. It's breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House

00:18:36.640 and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis. $2 billion from the Saudis. You think it's because

00:18:45.360 he's some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it's because he was sitting next to the president

00:18:50.000 of the United States for four years doing favors for the Saudis? That's your money. That's your money.

00:18:56.360 He stole and gave it to his family. You know what that makes us? A banana republic. That's what it

00:19:03.640 makes us. So he may get 30% again. I'm not sure. Maybe he'll get more. Maybe he'll get less. But let me

00:19:11.420 tell you what he'll know in 2024 that he had no idea of in 2016. He's in for a fight to get it.

00:19:17.340 Okay. That's not very persuasive. What do you mean? Trump didn't know he was in for a fight

00:19:24.460 in 2016. There was a brutal presidential race and there were a bazillion people running.

00:19:29.000 But Christie has a point, which is that in 2016, everybody reserved their fire.

00:19:35.940 Well, the people who attacked Trump got nuked immediately. And then the candidates who were

00:19:39.800 trying to come in number two, they were maybe trying to wait until the very end to edge him out.

00:19:43.520 They held their fire until it was too late. You saw this, especially with the Cruz campaign.

00:19:48.180 You saw with the Rubio campaign. So now Christie's coming out there saying, look at this grift from

00:19:53.800 this family. Now it's tough for Christie because Christie was very close to Trump and he helped

00:19:59.060 Trump for a long time, including up through the 2020 election. So now is Christie running a

00:20:04.260 Liz Cheney kind of campaign? Oh, I've seen the light. I used to do lots of terrible corrupt stuff with

00:20:09.980 those awful Republicans, but now I've seen the light. No, he's not quite running that. He's not

00:20:14.360 quite running on how close he was to Trump, but he's not quite running on being an outsider in Trump

00:20:19.460 world. The message is a little bit confused. And so he's going to get in the race now. And

00:20:26.160 what complicates this even further is the only thing Christie can do in this race is help Trump.

00:20:32.060 He can't, he can't really hurt Trump. There is not one single Trump voter who is going to vote for

00:20:40.020 Christie over Trump unless they throw Trump in the gulag or something and Trump's not available for a

00:20:45.520 campaign. So Christie, even as he targets all of his attacks on Trump, he's still running in the

00:20:51.800 anti-Trump lane. Christie is still the alternative. He is an alternative that is more acceptable to the

00:20:57.240 establishment because his policies are a little more liberal, significantly more liberal than Trump's.

00:21:02.060 But he's got that fight. And so it's, in a way, it's a kind of a smart campaign pitch, which is

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00:21:11.980 Trump's nomination right now. Look at the polls. This is his to lose. And so, okay, the only guy who's

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00:23:43.480 So you got Haley attacking DeSantis, Christie attacking Trump. Now Rubio, Rubio's not even

00:23:49.020 running for president. He's attacking Christie. Rubio is furious because Christie's pitch is,

00:23:54.080 hey, I destroyed Rubio's campaign. I'm going to do it to Trump this time.

00:23:57.960 And you remember there was that great clip. I didn't pull it today. I should have it. But a lot of

00:24:01.480 people have been Googling over the last 24 hours where Christie and Rubio were on a debate stage.

00:24:05.920 Rubio gave some canned 30-second speech about how, we need to dispel what this fiction that Barack

00:24:11.360 Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. And he goes on, and it

00:24:14.080 was some rehearsed line. And Christie made fun of him for it. And he said, that's the thing that's

00:24:17.900 wrong with Washington. He says, that thing, the canned 30-second speech, it's so stupid, it's

00:24:21.940 ridiculous. And it really flustered Rubio. And so Rubio sputtered for a little bit, and then

00:24:26.440 he repeated the line. He didn't know what else to say, so he repeated the line. And Christie just

00:24:31.240 demolished him for it. He said, there it is. There's the line again. Okay, here you go.

00:24:34.720 Proves my point. It was devastating. It was devastating. So Rubio, out of nowhere,

00:24:40.280 tweets out, any political reporter commentator claiming Christie ended my campaign in 2016 is

00:24:44.640 lazy or dumb. New Hampshire debate sucked because instead of hitting back when attacked 0.99

00:24:48.660 like I wanted to, I listened to advice about pivoting and not punching down on Chris Christie,

00:24:52.800 who was at 7% and about to drop out. But it didn't end my campaign. After New Hampshire,

00:24:56.840 I finished second in South Carolina and Nevada, won three primaries, almost won Virginia on Super

00:25:00.940 Tuesday, finished with the third most delegates behind the Trump's historic campaign and was

00:25:06.500 reelected twice by eight and 17 points. Okay, Marco, it's all right. It's all right. Okay,

00:25:11.940 this is not, I like Marco Rubio. But this is a weak sauce, man. His defense is one, I didn't follow

00:25:22.640 my instincts and I listened to whatever the consultants told me. So don't blame me. It's the consultant's

00:25:26.740 fault. Okay, come on. That's not, that doesn't make you look good. And then two is not convincing

00:25:32.660 anybody. In fact, all this tweet is making people do is go look up this very embarrassing moment for

00:25:38.160 Marco Rubio. And there's a political lesson here for all of us. I'm not just beating up on Rubio.

00:25:42.020 The political lesson is don't try to fight yesterday's battles. Yesterday's battles are over

00:25:47.800 and you either won or you lost. And if you lost, then you're not going to win by rehashing a loss.

00:25:56.580 People are just going to be reminded that you lost. And if you won, you actually can lose somewhat

00:26:04.280 by rehashing it. If you're going to reopen that issue and reopen that victory, then people are going

00:26:09.680 to analyze it again. Maybe because political circumstances have changed, they're going to

00:26:14.340 re-examine, maybe, maybe change their perception of what you've done. You can't win. You've got to

00:26:19.900 fight today's battles. You've got to fight on today's terms. You definitely don't want to remind

00:26:24.300 people. For people in politics, for anyone who's got any kind of an ego, who's got any kind of a sense

00:26:30.480 of pride or, you know, wounded dignity or something, those moments where we screw up, where you said the

00:26:37.800 wrong thing, you did the wrong thing, you just, oh, you feel queasy that you've got so much regret.

00:26:41.940 They stick with you forever. And you think that if you just keep bringing them up, you can fix it.

00:26:46.700 You can't. Just move on. Just move on. Don't make people Google the worst moment of your political

00:26:51.620 career. Now, speaking of battles and presidential candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy is going on the offense

00:26:58.180 here. He's not merely attacking the other candidates. Vivek was on ABC News. He was asked by Martha

00:27:04.260 Raddatz to explain his position on Ukraine. And Vivek went a long way to differentiate himself from the

00:27:11.720 rest of the field. You do not believe that Russia taking over Ukraine would be bad for our national

00:27:18.560 interest. I do not think it is a top foreign policy priority for us. I don't think it is preferable

00:27:23.220 for Russia to be able to invade a sovereign country that it's its neighbor. But I think the job of the 0.96

00:27:27.960 US president is to look after American interests. And what I think the number one threat to the US

00:27:32.680 military is right now, our top military threat, is the Sino-Russian alliance. I think that by fighting 0.94

00:27:38.880 further in Russia, by further arming Ukraine, we are driving Russia into China's hands. 0.88

00:27:44.360 And that Sino-Russian alliance is the top threat we faced. And what I've said is I would end this war 0.96

00:27:49.720 in return for pulling Putin out of that treaty with China.

00:27:53.940 How do you do this? No one tells Vladimir Putin what to do.

00:27:57.260 What I think we need to do is end the Ukraine war on peaceful terms that, yes, 0.57

00:28:01.520 do make some major concessions to Russia, including freezing the current lines of control

00:28:06.460 in a Korean war style. Which Ukraine really wouldn't want to do.

00:28:09.880 Which Ukraine wouldn't want to do. And also a permanent commitment not to allow Ukraine to 0.59

00:28:13.460 enter NATO. But in return, Russia has to leave its treaty and its joint military agreement

00:28:18.860 with China. That better advances American interests and actually further deters China

00:28:24.120 from going after Taiwan. It's a great plan. It's a great plan.

00:28:30.060 And it is the best specific plan that anybody in the race has laid out on the Ukraine war.

00:28:39.500 Now, some people might knock Vivek. The only way they could knock Vivek for this answer is either

00:28:45.500 if they're total war hawks who just want NATO to expand around the world and just want to conquer

00:28:49.800 Ukraine. Some people, the establishmentarians will do that. But the other criticism would be,

00:28:57.180 well, you know, you've shown your strategy. You've given up your plan. Okay. Yeah, that's true. All

00:29:01.020 right. I guess it would be better to play close to the vest. But this is a presidential campaign.

00:29:04.140 You got to tell people what you're going to do. Okay. And Vivek's plan here is very, very good.

00:29:09.680 Very, very good one. DeSantis' answer on this question was, hey, we'll see what happens by 2025.

00:29:15.560 Yeah, we'll see. We'll deal with it then. So he's just brushing it off. Trump's answer was,

00:29:19.080 I'm going to end the war on day one. Which is a better answer than DeSantis' answer.

00:29:24.020 saying, we want the war to come to an end. So he's signaling here some of what Vivek is talking

00:29:29.680 about. Maybe exactly what Vivek is talking about. Trump just doesn't want to give the details here.

00:29:33.940 Okay. Why are Trump and DeSantis playing it so safe? They're playing it safe because Ukraine is

00:29:39.060 a wedge issue on the right. The base base, the real, the conservatives of the conservatives are

00:29:45.200 very skeptical of the Ukraine war. They want it to come to an end. They see Ukraine as a buffer state.

00:29:49.500 They don't want NATO to expand. They don't want Ukraine to join NATO, certainly. They don't want

00:29:56.500 to have to fight a world war with a nuclear former superpower over a territory that's been contested

00:30:01.980 for 1,000 years. So that, the base base, the Tucker audience, I don't know, you guys, the base base

00:30:11.180 is with Vivek on this. And I imagine with Trump. And maybe with DeSantis too, he's just not being

00:30:18.320 specific. The sort of base, the kind of more normie GOP voter is reflexively anti-Putin, hates Putin,

00:30:31.580 Putin's the worst guy in the world, still views the world largely through the lens of the Cold War,

00:30:36.200 and wants Ukraine to win, doesn't want Russia to get a single inch of territory, doesn't have any

00:30:43.900 specific ideas for exactly how to wind this war down, but hates the idea of us giving in in any

00:30:49.120 way to Vladimir Putin. So even if their instincts are not exactly realistic or practicable without

00:30:54.800 entering into a major war between the US and Russia, which we were able to avoid for the whole Cold

00:30:59.920 War, but now, who knows, maybe things are dicier because we have weaker leadership. That base probably

00:31:07.420 won't like Vivek's answer. And so it's a wedge issue. So why is Vivek being specific here? Because

00:31:14.200 Trump, and to a lesser degree DeSantis, are way up in the polls. So they don't need to get specific

00:31:18.440 foreign policy. It's usually not the determining factor of presidential campaigns. And so they kind of

00:31:26.060 want to avoid it. Vivek is running an insurgent campaign at a left field. No one knew this guy

00:31:30.500 was going to run in 2024. So he doesn't have the luxury of waiting on this. And I think not only is

00:31:37.440 his view right, I think politically it's wise for him to make this argument. Yeah, it's high risk,

00:31:45.160 but there can be some real reward here too. This is actually exactly what Trump did in 2016.

00:31:50.060 Trump in 2016, on that debate stage, was asked about the Iraq war. And all the Republicans were

00:31:55.100 asked about the Iraq war. And they knew public opinion had turned against the Iraq war.

00:31:58.960 But a lot of them still wanted to defend it because they had been defending the Iraq war for

00:32:02.580 15 years at that point. And Trump comes out and he says, oh, the Iraq war was a mistake. George

00:32:08.240 Bush made a dumb policy, foreign policy error, and we're paying for it now. Gasps in the room. You can't

00:32:15.860 upend the GOP line on Iraq. Yeah, well, I did anyway, because I'm not even really a Republican that

00:32:21.920 much. I'm just Donald Trump and I do whatever the hell I want. You can't say that. But a lot of people

00:32:27.140 agreed with Trump's position, including in the GOP base. And he was rewarded for that. I think you could

00:32:33.620 see a similar kind of political reward for Vivek here, for getting specific on Ukraine. Now, speaking

00:32:40.380 of Ukraine war skeptics, Tucker's back, baby. Tucker on Twitter, available to stream now. I lost count of

00:32:49.380 how many views it has. Tucker on Twitter has got like a bazillion views, a hugely successful launch.

00:32:57.920 The episode is about 10 to 11 minutes. And I thought, well, wait, he's not doing his whole 30

00:33:02.240 minute show. Or I guess it was an hour long show on Fox. But then I remembered that when it's on cable

00:33:06.640 news, half of that is commercials. So you're actually not losing too much Tucker content. It was an excellent

00:33:12.120 first episode. And he went even further than he would on cable. It was a similar kind of show,

00:33:20.280 but he went even further because now he's not constrained by the rules of one of these big

00:33:25.320 establishment news corporations. The Russians are dying. It's the best money we've ever spent, 1.00

00:33:31.040 Graham says. A smile spreads across his thin, quivering lips as he forms the words. He looks like

00:33:37.400 a starving man contemplating a breakfast buffet. The aroma of death has aroused Lindsey Graham.

00:33:43.420 Thanks so much, replies Zelensky. He feels the same way. See, there's nothing dark here. Just two

00:33:49.180 middle-aged guys celebrating the killing of a population. They don't seem like the kind of

00:33:53.260 people who'd enjoy flooding villages or starting a famine. And in any case, who cares if they are?

00:34:00.180 It's really not your business. Your job is to support Ukraine. The media lie. They do.

00:34:05.180 But mostly, they just ignore the stories that matter. What's happened to the hundreds of billions

00:34:11.140 of U.S. dollars we've sent to Ukraine? No clue. Who organized those BLM riots three years ago? 0.88

00:34:18.160 No one's gotten to the bottom of that. What exactly happened on 9-11? Well, it's still classified.

00:34:24.140 How did Jeffrey Epstein make all that money? How did he die? How about JFK? And so endlessly on.

00:34:29.540 Not only are the media not interested in any of this, they are actively hostile to anybody who is.

00:34:37.660 In journalism, curiosity is the gravest crime.

00:34:40.420 Great stuff. One, Tucker's writers, and Tucker himself is a writer. He's a very talented writer

00:34:48.020 himself. They're just phenomenal. That bit about Lindsey Graham's quivering lip as he thought about

00:34:55.220 the war in Ukraine is so mean, so vivid, so really good stuff. And then Tucker's beginning to answer

00:35:03.400 one of the big questions about the future of his show, which is, does Tucker work without

00:35:10.400 the constraints of cable news? Part of what made the Tucker show so great was that he was saying it

00:35:16.940 on cable news. Cable news, which had been so milquetoast and reigned in, and a lot of these hosts,

00:35:24.200 even the conservative ones, just kind of towed the uniparty liberal line. And Tucker comes out,

00:35:28.400 and he contradicts it. A lot of people on Fox News even, but throughout the cable news,

00:35:33.780 they wouldn't invite really conservative people on the air. Oh no, the real conservatives,

00:35:39.680 they're going to be blacklisted. And then Tucker comes on, he says, yeah, no, forget about that.

00:35:43.320 We're going to have all these guys on. I'm going to have whoever I want on the show.

00:35:47.120 Well, the question was, does that work when you take away the constraints? And the answer I think is

00:35:51.060 yes, Tucker is doing the same kind of show, but going further, talking about aliens, talking about

00:35:58.980 foreign policy, talking about 9-11, raising questions about 9-11, raising questions about

00:36:04.480 the JFK assassination, and saying, I'm going to go further. I'm going to push further than I

00:36:08.760 previously could before. It's just a way forward. If this works, Tucker leans in and adapts himself

00:36:15.400 to the media, which he obviously is doing. This could be a real death blow for the establishment,

00:36:22.500 longstanding legacy media. We're now premiering movies on Twitter that get a bazillion views,

00:36:28.940 like we did with What is a Woman last week. We're now premiering presidential campaigns on Twitter,

00:36:35.620 not the smoothest rollout ever, but impressive that it happened. RFK Jr. now, Democrat presidential

00:36:43.740 candidate, using Twitter to advance his campaign for a town hall. Now, Tucker Carlson, biggest

00:36:49.920 cable news host ever, coming to Twitter, getting bazillions and bazillions of views.

00:36:58.300 If this succeeds, every sign says that it has. The media landscape has fundamentally changed and

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00:38:15.400 wireless for Americans by Americans. My favorite comment yesterday is from Edgar Hoods, who says,

00:38:21.960 he says this of my observation yesterday, that with DeSantis running as Trump 2.0, with DeSantis

00:38:30.660 running as the more competent Trump or the more effective Trump, he's going to have an uphill battle

00:38:35.540 because even if he's right, many people will still prefer Trump. Even if DeSantis is more effective,

00:38:43.440 even if DeSantis is smarter and more precise and all the things, let's say it's all true,

00:38:48.240 many people are still going to prefer Trump. And Edgar Hoods says, it's like the taste test with

00:38:54.200 Coke and Pepsi. People like Pepsi when they're blindfolded, but they like Coke better when they

00:38:59.280 can see it. I think that's true. If you close your eyes and said, hey, what would you think about

00:39:05.300 an executive, a politician who's in an executive role, who bans the porn from libraries and fires

00:39:14.980 Soros prosecutors and fires the weird pro-COVID lockdown health apparatchiks and replaces them

00:39:25.560 with people who are going to take the side of tradition and reason and freedom and all the rest

00:39:29.320 of it? What do you think of someone who's going to take on the administrative state or all of the

00:39:34.760 rest of the things DeSantis is focused on? Close your eyes. You say, okay, I prefer that guy.

00:39:40.900 But then you open your eyes and you say, nah, I'm with Trump. And I'm just telling you, I know

00:39:46.260 there are going to be people who like DeSantis who say, well, why? They shouldn't pick Trump.

00:39:49.400 And I know there are going to be people who like Trump who say, nah, DeSantis, he's not really that

00:39:52.880 good. He's just, only when you close your eyes do you think he's that good. I'm just describing to

00:39:57.200 you the phenomenon and that the Coke-Pepsi analogy is a very good one. Maybe Pepsi is better than Coke

00:40:04.940 and maybe it's not. Many people are going to say Pepsi is better than Coke when they don't know

00:40:10.260 which one they're drinking. But when they open their eyes and they just look at it and they're

00:40:14.420 presented with those two things, people are going to pick Coke. It's the original. That's what you're

00:40:21.980 seeing in the polls right now. And so if DeSantis or any other candidate wants to turn that dynamic

00:40:26.600 around, they've got to differentiate themselves a little bit more, a little bit more than Pepsi has

00:40:32.720 from Coca-Cola. Now, speaking of the media, something very, very telling about this whole

00:40:39.860 point with the way movies are being released now, presidential campaigns being released,

00:40:43.520 Tucker Carlson's new show. There's a UC Davis study out. The UC Davis study asks, can movie reviews

00:40:54.340 predict box office success? And you would think from that question, the question is, if the critics

00:40:59.140 like a movie, does that mean that the movie is going to do well necessarily? And if the critics

00:41:03.520 pan a movie, does that mean that the movie is really dead? No, it doesn't. Actually, the opposite

00:41:10.540 is true. So what the survey found was that positive reviews signal that a film will flop and negative

00:41:19.620 reviews signal that a film will be a hit. This published by UC Davis just a few days ago.

00:41:26.840 What does this tell you? This tells you about a lot more than just movies. This tells you,

00:41:33.280 one, we are living increasingly in a totalitarian state, not just an authoritarian state where the

00:41:43.660 governors, the rulers have a little bit of a heavy hand, a totalitarian state where the ideology of the

00:41:49.340 state seeps heavy handedly into everything, into art, into all forms of education, into all sorts of

00:41:58.680 public rituals, into the language we're allowed to use, into the thoughts that we're allowed to have.

00:42:03.680 That's totalitarian. It's when it's a total state. It would be a distinction here you could see between

00:42:10.700 communist Soviet Union and Francisco Franco's Spain. Francisco Franco was an authoritarian ruler,

00:42:18.700 but he basically tolerated diversity. He tolerated people doing pretty much what they wanted to do,

00:42:24.040 but they couldn't insist upon it in public. They couldn't make a big show about it. They couldn't

00:42:30.500 go out there and march against his regime. He would suppress that kind of stuff, but he didn't send the

00:42:36.540 thought police into your home to tell you that you got to use certain pronouns, okay? He actually had

00:42:40.800 a looser hand than that, whereas the Soviet Union would encourage people to rat on their neighbors, 0.68

00:42:45.920 rat on their family. The communist totalitarian states really insist upon the ideology at every

00:42:50.880 single level all of the time. That's more of the society we're living in now, because the ideology of

00:42:57.000 the state is not just coming from the congressmen or the politicians. It's coming from the movie

00:43:00.920 reviewers. It's coming from the mainstream media broadcasters. It's coming from the teachers.

00:43:05.520 It's coming from the sports. It's coming from ESPN. It's just everywhere, okay?

00:43:10.220 But the people know that it's BS. The people oppose it. And so when the people see that the

00:43:18.820 establishment likes something, they assume it's bad, and they won't go see it. When the establishment

00:43:23.560 sees, when the people see that the establishment hates something, the people will go see it. They will

00:43:27.120 like it. You see it on Rotten Tomatoes. The way you know a movie is going to be really,

00:43:31.360 really good is when it has a very low critic score, and then it will have a high audience score.

00:43:34.240 And now, because Rotten Tomatoes has messed around even with how the audience score works,

00:43:38.780 now even the audience score isn't totally reliable. So that's one thing that it tells

00:43:41.960 you. That's the most important thing that that study tells you. The second thing that

00:43:45.620 the study tells you is that movies are a dead industry. They're effectively a dead industry

00:43:50.020 at this point. The studios are churning out all the same crap. The Oscars don't reward movies that

00:43:55.480 people like. The Oscars only reward movies about like 15-year-old gay cowboys or whatever that

00:43:59.900 nobody's going to go see. And the critics are in on it. The critics are part of the film industry.

00:44:05.580 The studios are part of it. The distributors are part of it. The actors are part of it. The writers

00:44:08.440 are part of it. And it's just kind of dead. And it's been dying for a long time. And so if movies

00:44:15.360 or just premium content generally, meaning miniseries, extended series, middle ground kind

00:44:22.700 of shows, if that's going to have a future, it's not going to have a future in Hollywood.

00:44:25.940 Hollywood. The future of that is going to be outside of Hollywood, maybe places like Tennessee

00:44:29.860 or maybe elsewhere. This is true of politics too. This is another reason why Trump is doing well in

00:44:37.880 the polls. I think, I fear that people who like DeSantis for the nominee in 2024, they think I'm

00:44:45.020 being too nice to Trump. Probably the people who support Trump think I'm being too nice to DeSantis

00:44:50.920 and the other candidates. I'm just calling him like I sees him, okay? I'm describing what I'm

00:44:56.560 seeing. And what I'm seeing here is that Trump is dominating in the polls and he's gaining in the

00:45:01.180 polls. And he's gaining even after his chief primary opponent, Ron DeSantis announces, he's

00:45:06.440 gaining because of the phenomenon that you're seeing in the UC Davis movie review study.

00:45:11.900 Because of the phenomenon that you're seeing in Tucker Carlson getting a bazillion views when he

00:45:15.620 debuts his cable news show on Twitter. It's because negative reviews from the elites is taken as a

00:45:24.520 positive by the people. And the candidate that the liberal establishment hates the most is Trump.

00:45:33.840 Maybe they fear other candidates more. Maybe they think that DeSantis would be more effective. Maybe

00:45:38.200 they, I don't know, they're helping Donald Trump become the nominee by giving him so much media

00:45:43.560 coverage. Okay, sure, whatever. I think we all have to admit they hate this guy. They hate him.

00:45:50.800 They've hated him for so long because of the way he talks and the way he is. And he's so boorish.

00:45:57.620 And he doesn't behave like a nice, fancy, sophisticated person. And he's threatening

00:46:01.320 major entrenched interests on trade and foreign policy. And they're going to try to stop him.

00:46:07.080 And they're going to try to cheat to stop him. And they're going to change all the election laws to

00:46:09.780 stop him. And they're going to shut down the world to stop him. And they're going to throw him in jail

00:46:12.600 if they have to, to stop him. And if they can't get him in jail in New York, they're going to get

00:46:15.220 him in jail in DC. If they can't get him in DC, they're going to get him in Georgia or Florida

00:46:18.900 or wherever else. They just freaking hate this guy. And everybody knows it. They hate him more than

00:46:23.740 they hate the other people. And that's why the people right now are supporting him more.

00:46:30.140 They're supporting him more than Biden, even in important swing states. Right now,

00:46:34.600 Trump is leading Biden in Nevada. Trump is leading Biden 48 to 47. So it's fairly close,

00:46:40.580 but that's according to McLaughlin & Associates, a very reliable poll firm. That's according to

00:46:44.860 former Congressman Lee Zeldin's Leadership American Needs PAC. So it's not just, well,

00:46:51.640 okay, Trump can win the primary, but he can't win the general. At least not according to these polls.

00:46:55.440 And it's not even just national polls. You're seeing this in important states that Trump's got to win.

00:47:01.900 What about with the independents? Well, Trump can't win independents. Well,

00:47:05.080 according to another survey just came out from The Economist and YouGov,

00:47:08.540 more independents prefer Trump than Biden. By a lot. 36% Trump, 26% Biden. It's a 10-point gap

00:47:18.860 among independents. We always hear about the suburban housewife or whatever. We always hear

00:47:24.060 about the moderate voter. Well, according to this poll, at least, and maybe it's not because of

00:47:29.500 anything Trump has done. Maybe it's just because of what a screw up Joe Biden is. But regardless,

00:47:32.960 people are viewing Trump as the likely nominee and they seem to be supporting him more than Biden.

00:47:40.960 That's the state of the race. And it's just, I'm so glad that we're finally out of the kind of dull 1.00

00:47:46.640 season where it's just a little attack here, a little lob here, a little jab there. No,

00:47:50.540 we're getting into real, brutal, bare knuckle politics. If you don't get a kick out of that

00:47:59.140 sort of thing, why do you pay attention to the news? If you don't get a kick out of that sort of

00:48:04.640 thing, get another hobby. Go play ukulele or something. You can play ukulele anyway. That's

00:48:08.140 a fun hobby to pick up regardless. But if you like politics, you got to like this stuff. This is what

00:48:15.120 politics is. Speaking of politics, rehashing old battles and my producers have reminded me of one

00:48:23.840 of the, one of the all-time great political interviews. That would be Hillary Clinton on

00:48:28.660 Between Two Ferns, which we will be delving into all of the important details of this,

00:48:35.620 of this great political interview. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it.

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