The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1310 - Libs Embarrass Themselves In Shocking Trump Indictment

00:00:00.000 Now that the dust has settled on the liberals' latest indictment of President Trump,

00:00:04.080 the precise nature of the charges is becoming a little bit clearer.

00:00:08.200 They're not getting him on a campaign donation this time, as they tried in New York.

00:00:12.820 And they're not getting him on inciting an insurrection, as they tried in D.C.

00:00:17.960 And they're not getting him on keeping White House souvenirs, as they tried in Florida.

00:00:22.620 In Georgia, the Libs are arresting the former president and current leader of the political

00:00:27.040 opposition for tweeting out a TV show.

00:00:33.120 I'm not joking.

00:00:34.920 This is verbatim text from the indictment.

00:00:38.220 Quote, on or about the third day of December 2020, Donald John Trump caused to be tweeted

00:00:44.280 from the Twitter account, Real Donald Trump.

00:00:47.720 Georgia hearings now on OANN Amazing.

00:00:52.040 This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

00:00:57.040 And again, you tweet at a TV show, you could go to the clink for many years.

00:01:01.840 It's not just TV show tweets, though.

00:01:04.520 No, no, no.

00:01:05.480 This indictment also includes the crime of asking someone for an elected official's phone number.

00:01:13.500 Here is another charge from the indictment.

00:01:15.620 This one relating to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

00:01:18.540 This was verbatim from the text of the indictment.

00:01:21.380 Quote, on or about the 21st day of November 2020, Mark Randall Meadows sent a text message

00:01:27.960 to U.S. Representative Scott Perry from Pennsylvania and stated,

00:01:32.660 Can you send me the number for the speaker and the leader of the PA legislature?

00:01:38.140 POTUS wants to chat with them.

00:01:39.420 This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

00:01:44.520 These are the kind of charges on which the libs are building the case that a bunch of Republicans,

00:01:50.720 including Donald Trump, engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow our sacred democracy.

00:01:56.760 But by the standards in this indictment, countless Democrats should be behind bars.

00:02:03.000 Al Gore and his supporters in 2000.

00:02:05.620 Hillary and her supporters in 2016.

00:02:07.980 By this standard, not only have Democrats committed these sorts of crimes many times in the past,

00:02:14.900 but Stacey Abrams did it just five years ago in the state of Georgia. 0.98

00:02:20.480 As far as I know, she still hasn't conceded that election.

00:02:22.800 The charges are flimsy and preposterous.

00:02:27.140 In a more civil and law-abiding age, we would laugh at them.

00:02:31.000 But that era of law and order is over.

00:02:33.680 The very fact that the charges are even being brought proves that we no longer live in that reasonably lawful country.

00:02:40.620 We are living in an age of the raw exercise of power.

00:02:44.960 And if the Democrats get their way, Trump will be one of the first, but certainly not the last,

00:02:49.920 to get a taste of that power.

00:02:51.420 To the tune of, at present count, potentially 727 and a half years in prison.

00:03:01.600 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:02.400 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:28.180 A jury has just awarded a woman $1.2 billion from her ex-boyfriend because he sent revenge porn out.

00:03:36.920 We'll get into the intricacies of that case.

00:03:38.680 I love this decision.

00:03:40.480 We will get into it in a moment.

00:03:41.700 First, though, I don't want to gloss over the Trump indictment.

00:03:45.240 I know I have to be more specific than that.

00:03:47.500 This is the most recent Trump indictment, this one, in the state of Georgia.

00:03:50.600 So this is not a federal charge.

00:03:52.220 This is a state charge, which means it's going to be a little hairier for Trump to pardon himself if somehow they let him get elected again.

00:03:59.600 And, well, we're in uncharted territory, so we just don't really know what it looks like.

00:04:03.480 The Georgia indictment, though, is not just against Trump.

00:04:06.740 Georgia indictment is against Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, great guy.

00:04:13.040 Former Republican Party chairman of Georgia, David Schaefer, another great guy.

00:04:17.440 Former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, great guy.

00:04:20.700 I'm a New Yorker, so I obviously love Rudy.

00:04:22.480 And many other people.

00:04:24.800 State Senator Sean Still, attorneys John Eastman, a wonderful man, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, my friend.

00:04:31.680 Bob Cheely, Ray Smith III, Kenneth Chesbro, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, GOP strategist Michael Roman, former Coffey County election supervisor Misty Hampton, Coffey County GOP chairman Kathy Latham, Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Hall, publicist Trevian Cuddy, Illinois pastor.

00:04:53.560 Of course, we've got a pastor in there, Stephen Cliffguard, Lee, Harrison Floyd, who ran for office.

00:04:59.800 Because the list is so long, so full of people, a reminder that this is not really about Trump.

00:05:08.700 It is in that Trump is the lightning rod.

00:05:11.500 Trump is the one who changed the GOP.

00:05:14.680 Trump is the one who threatened the liberal political order.

00:05:17.380 And so Trump is getting all of the attacks.

00:05:18.980 And it's ironic that it's Trump because the liberals love Trump for his entire career and he was a big celebrity, fed it in Hollywood, fed it in New York, lauded in all sorts of hip-hop songs and popular music.

00:05:30.160 The moment he decides to be a Republican and a populist conservative at that, they all turn on him.

00:05:35.440 But it's not really about Trump in as much as, even if you're a Republican who hates Trump, they'll get you to eventually.

00:05:44.240 They'll get you to.

00:05:46.140 This is a shift and we're not going to go back to the old normal.

00:05:52.740 The Democrats have decided to make political dissent illegal, even at the highest levels.

00:05:59.440 It's not unprecedented in American history to litigate the fringes of political dissent.

00:06:07.720 But we've obviously never thrown a former president in prison.

00:06:09.800 We've obviously never thrown the leader of the opposition in prison.

00:06:12.980 And we've never thrown into prison all the people around him.

00:06:16.960 That's what's going on here.

00:06:18.100 So it's the criminalization of politics, in this case specifically conservative politics.

00:06:24.020 I don't see how you go back from that.

00:06:26.160 And if you're one of these Republicans who doesn't like Trump or who thinks it's convenient to distance himself from Trump,

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00:06:38.020 They're going to come for you too.

00:06:39.560 Jenna Ellis is promoting DeSantis right now.

00:06:43.660 Jenna's not working on the Trump campaign. 0.91

00:06:46.020 She was Trump's lawyer.

00:06:47.740 Now she's, and there are plenty of Republicans who they work for one politician, 1.00

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00:06:52.800 But they don't care here, the liberals.

00:06:55.880 They don't care.

00:06:56.360 They're going to go after all of them.

00:06:58.840 John Eastman, very respected conservative lawyer.

00:07:03.140 Rudy Giuliani, America's mayor.

00:07:06.940 Everybody.

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00:07:09.320 They'll go after you too.

00:07:10.120 It's not just about Trump and Republicans will join together or die apart.

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00:08:31.120 So Trump now is having his indictment hinge.

00:08:37.900 On one little phrase.

00:08:40.120 The phrase is, find me the votes.

00:08:42.620 Maybe you've heard that if by some chance you were walking through an airport and therefore CNN was on one of the TVs.

00:08:48.680 And you happen to hear CNN or MSNBC or one of these liberal channels.

00:08:52.080 They'll say that Trump called the Georgia Secretary of State and told him to find me the votes.

00:08:58.000 So that he could flip the election in that state.

00:09:02.560 The problem for the prosecution is that the liberal media are lying about that phrase.

00:09:08.380 Trump never said that.

00:09:10.380 We have the transcript.

00:09:11.380 In fact, if you go to the CNN website, you can get the transcript of this phone call between Trump and the Georgia Secretary of State and some of the legal counsel in that office.

00:09:19.660 And you'll see he didn't say, find me the votes.

00:09:21.640 He said something very different.

00:09:24.620 In fact, I'll read it in full.

00:09:26.260 This is, that's not in full.

00:09:27.620 This was a long phone call.

00:09:28.400 But this is a good chunk of the relevant portion here.

00:09:33.220 So Trump says to the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, quote,

00:09:37.100 I think you're going to find that they, by the way, little information, I think you're going to find that they are shredding ballots because they have to get rid of the ballots because the ballots are unsigned.

00:09:47.160 The ballots are corrupt and they're brand new and they don't have a seal.

00:09:50.700 And there's the whole thing with the ballots, but the ballots are corrupt.

00:09:53.060 Very Trumpian kind of diction.

00:09:54.300 But the ballots, you know, and the ballots and people are going to say, many people are talking about the ballots.

00:09:58.120 And so he says, but the ballots are corrupt and you are going to find that they are, which is totally illegal.

00:10:03.540 It is more illegal for you than it is for them because you know what they did and you're not reporting it.

00:10:09.980 Put a pause here.

00:10:10.820 I don't want to interrupt it too much.

00:10:11.980 But you realize here that Trump's diction is like it's out of a David Mamet play, which makes sense, I guess.

00:10:19.520 Mamet writes like people talk in real life and maybe it's a little exaggerated and it's especially kind of New York-y.

00:10:24.320 Well, that's Trump.

00:10:25.280 But he keeps coming back to this.

00:10:26.440 He goes, but the ballots, but the ballots, but the ballots.

00:10:28.120 They're not legit.

00:10:30.640 And so he says, you're not reporting it.

00:10:33.160 That's a criminal.

00:10:34.240 That's a criminal offense.

00:10:35.720 And you can't let that happen.

00:10:37.240 That's a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer.

00:10:39.620 And that's a big risk.

00:10:40.740 But they are shredding ballots, in my opinion, based on what I've heard.

00:10:45.300 And they are removing machinery and they're moving it as fast as they can, both of which are criminal fines.

00:10:51.220 And you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen.

00:10:54.500 You know, I mean, I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen.

00:10:57.660 So look, all I want to do is this.

00:11:00.880 I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.

00:11:09.060 And flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, because you know, this is, it's a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it.

00:11:17.800 If it was a mistake, I don't know.

00:11:19.700 A lot of people think it wasn't a mistake.

00:11:22.060 It was much more criminal than that.

00:11:24.020 But it's a big problem in Georgia and it's not a problem that's going away.

00:11:27.300 I mean, you know, it's not a problem that's going away.

00:11:30.060 And then a lawyer in the Secretary of State's office, Mr. Germany, says, Mr. President, this is Ryan.

00:11:37.460 We're looking into every one of those things that you mentioned.

00:11:41.220 Trump says, good.

00:11:41.900 But if you find it, you've got to say it, Ryan.

00:11:45.880 Okay.

00:11:46.680 It was a lengthy bit from this transcript, but it's really important because what you glean from that transcript, I think, incontrovertibly, what you have to infer from that transcript is that Trump believed that the election was being stolen in Georgia.

00:12:03.240 And after all those reports of pipes bursting and after the count of the vote was paused in the middle of the night, took a lot longer, I think a lot of people were thinking that.

00:12:15.300 And he said, what I'm hearing is the President of the United States says, what I'm hearing is that ballots are being shredded, that ballots are not legitimate, that are being counted here, that they're moving the machinery, and that's illegal.

00:12:28.860 And he says, I'm notifying you, I'm notifying you that if you find that these things are true, you have to report it.

00:12:36.240 And I fear that you're not reporting it, but if, here's the big if, that's the important conditional, saying if you find that that's true, then you have to report it.

00:12:45.480 This phrase, find me the votes, he never said it.

00:12:48.340 He said, I just want to find 11,780 votes.

00:12:53.400 He wants to find it because he was down by one fewer vote than that, and he's just said that he thinks this election is being systematically, egregiously stolen.

00:13:07.260 So when he says, I just want to find 11,780 votes, he's not saying, you better find that number, you better make it up.

00:13:12.660 He's saying, I think there are probably many more votes that are for me, but I just want to find 11,780.

00:13:22.520 I don't even care to uncover the scope of the corruption here.

00:13:26.960 I believe that there is all of this corruption, but I just want to find the bare minimum to stop this election from being stolen.

00:13:35.480 You might say, well, he was full of it.

00:13:38.540 Well, there was no evidence of that.

00:13:40.300 Well, I think this was the cleanest election ever.

00:13:42.540 Well, there's no way that the Democrats did anything corrupt in Georgia in 2020.

00:13:45.820 And you're entitled to that opinion, and that opinion is completely irrelevant to the question at hand.

00:13:52.080 The question at hand is, did Donald Trump engage in a conspiracy to overturn election results and lead a coup d'etan and insurrection in America?

00:13:59.360 And the plain text of the transcript shows you not even close.

00:14:04.040 He very clearly, sincerely believed that this was happening.

00:14:07.820 A lot of other people rather believe that too.

00:14:11.540 And he qualified, he didn't say, go out there and find that this is a demand from your president.

00:14:16.340 And he says, this is what I want to find.

00:14:18.660 And he even qualified his one demand, which was his legal right and, frankly, responsibility to demand of the Georgia Secretary of State.

00:14:27.080 He qualified it.

00:14:29.020 He said, if you find it, then you got to report it.

00:14:34.940 If you find it.

00:14:36.080 And the legal aid to the Georgia Secretary of State says, yeah, we're looking into all of those things.

00:14:43.940 Okay.

00:14:45.460 Does that matter, though?

00:14:47.240 Does it matter that this case is preposterous?

00:14:49.720 I don't think so.

00:14:51.740 Haven't they crossed the Rubicon?

00:14:53.100 They've indicted the former president, the leader of the opposition.

00:14:56.140 Joe Biden's own political hatchet men have done that.

00:14:58.660 It's the DOJ.

00:15:00.300 So I'm not convinced that the legal arguments really matter all that much, and Georgia's not a favorable place to Donald Trump.

00:15:06.060 Depends on the jury, but it doesn't seem very favorable.

00:15:09.640 Now, here's a low coincidence.

00:15:12.020 Totally off the question of the indictments.

00:15:15.500 Cable news viewership, sorry, cable viewership period has hit an all-time low.

00:15:20.660 Right now, if you take cable TV and broadcast TV, which is obviously a much larger pool of people,

00:15:25.980 it dropped to a new low in July 2023 in terms of total share among American viewers,

00:15:34.580 dropping below 50% of total TV usage in the United States for the first time.

00:15:39.580 That's according to Nielsen.

00:15:42.420 Cable's share fell below 30% for the first time ever, losing a full share point right now.

00:15:49.880 Broadcast usage fell 3.6%, which is down 0.8 points.

00:15:53.280 Year-over-year basis broadcast is down 5.4%.

00:15:56.440 Cable viewing down 12.5%, so way, way down.

00:16:00.840 Meanwhile, YouTube and Netflix, just those two companies accounted for a record 38.7% of US TV usage total.

00:16:09.960 Why do I throw all of those numbers at you?

00:16:12.220 Because now you've got, you're approaching parity between people when they turn on the TV.

00:16:18.780 Are they turning on broadcasting cable or are they turning on YouTube and Netflix?

00:16:23.700 And Netflix is pretty lib, but there's still a wide smattering of on-demand shows,

00:16:28.020 whereas cable and broadcast is pretty much just what the networks want you to see at any given time.

00:16:33.540 I think that this is no mere coincidence that the ruling class is clamping down on dissent more than at any point in at least the last hundred years.

00:16:42.920 They're doing it right now at exactly the same time that the media landscape is cracking up.

00:16:50.540 And the reason for that is, this is a point I've made on the show.

00:16:53.560 I haven't made it recently, but I used to make it a lot.

00:16:58.260 There will be order.

00:17:02.360 Power will be enforced.

00:17:05.180 And if we in our communities are able to maintain order, that's fine.

00:17:11.040 If we can't maintain order, then order will be imposed from above.

00:17:15.600 But there will be order.

00:17:17.180 Order was maintained, not necessarily with the heavy hand of the state, the police forces, the DOJ and the FBI, or even the states and the localities.

00:17:36.640 Order was maintained in many ways through the manufacturing of a consensus through a liberal establishment media.

00:17:44.640 Where in the early days, there were just three news channels.

00:17:48.560 Now, there are more than three news channels, but they all have the same talking points.

00:17:51.920 Statistically, all of them are pushing the same political propaganda.

00:17:55.160 And that makes the people fairly docile, easy to manipulate, and roughly on the same page.

00:18:02.540 As that started to crack up, as that media stranglehold started to crack up, I'm thinking 10, 15 years ago, what happens?

00:18:10.360 You start to see the rise of populism on the right.

00:18:12.520 For the first time, in a strong way, in a very long time.

00:18:15.180 You saw the rise of the Tea Party.

00:18:16.900 You saw the rise of the MAGA movement then, some years later.

00:18:20.640 And now you're seeing a strong conservative Republican Party that breaks away from some of the orthodoxies of the Republicans of the Uni Party.

00:18:36.260 You know, there was this weird fact for years that you could elect a Democrat, you could elect a Republican, you were always going to get more in migration.

00:18:44.000 You could elect a Democrat, you could elect a Republican, you were always going to outsource more jobs.

00:18:47.660 You could elect a Republican, you could elect a Democrat, you were always going to get a lot more debt and a lot more foreign wars and basically the same foreign policy.

00:18:55.160 And then you see these populist elements creep in.

00:19:00.220 I don't think that the two are disconnected at all.

00:19:03.360 And the media landscape is not going to come back together anytime soon.

00:19:07.820 You're going to continue to see a crack up and people are going to, look at this, we're broadcasting right now.

00:19:12.220 In part on a traditional media landscape, or at least on terrestrial radio right now, but mostly this is in new media.

00:19:22.520 And then your liberal aunt is watching MSNBC or CNN right now. 1.00

00:19:28.520 And you are living in two totally different media universes because we have two different political visions for the country that are increasingly clear.

00:19:36.680 And you've got two different political communities in the same place.

00:19:40.860 And right now the liberals are the ones that have all the power.

00:19:44.820 And as we become a little more vocal, as we become a little bit more coherent and cohesive in our views, the liberals are not going to tolerate that.

00:19:55.660 And they are going to criminalize not all politics, just our politics.

00:19:59.900 And they're going to make an example of people.

00:20:02.120 And they might even throw the leader of the political opposition into prison.

00:20:05.160 And they're doing that in part because they hate that opposition leader.

00:20:10.000 They truly hate Donald Trump.

00:20:13.200 But the bigger reason they're doing it is because they hate you more.

00:20:16.780 And they do not want you, even beyond their feelings of love and hate, they do not want you to threaten their power.

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00:21:35.900 Speaking of staring at screens, this is a feel-good story.

00:21:41.480 The jury, jury in Texas, just awarded a woman $1.2 billion after her boyfriend engaged in revenge porn.

00:21:53.540 Now, before you say that seems a little steep, $1.2 billion, that's a—listen, there are a lot of people who don't even have $1.1 billion, you know, much less $1.2.

00:22:03.780 Before you say it's a little steep, this guy wasn't engaging in run-of-the-mill revenge porn.

00:22:11.820 I think all revenge porn is pretty egregious and should be punished pretty severely. 0.99

00:22:15.800 But this guy was obviously a complete lunatic. 0.97

00:22:20.760 The ex-girlfriend filed a lawsuit which alleged, and I guess the court has ruled in her favor, 0.99

00:22:27.760 that this guy created a website and a publicly accessible Dropbox folder and fake social media profiles to disseminate porn of this woman.

00:22:37.620 How did he get the porn?

00:22:39.840 You might say, well, that woman shouldn't have sent him naughty pictures. 1.00

00:22:42.600 That's not exactly what happened.

00:22:44.600 The guy obtained the porn by accessing security cameras in the woman's home

00:22:51.880 and taking pictures and video of her when she was unaware.

00:22:56.420 That's according to the Washington Post.

00:22:58.140 Then he emailed her and said, you will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet.

00:23:05.800 Happy hunting.

00:23:07.440 He continued to just harass this woman and try to ruin her life. 1.00

00:23:11.920 He's obviously really, really sick, really perverted guy and a psycho in all sorts of other ways. 0.98

00:23:19.820 And anyway, after this long and drawn-out breakup, he decided to just try to ruin her life. 0.97

00:23:28.460 So the jury awards her $1.2 billion.

00:23:30.620 I think this is great.

00:23:32.600 It's fine.

00:23:34.100 This is really psycho behavior and people who engage in it should have the steepest punishments.

00:23:39.640 The other reason this is really good, just from a political perspective, is in this decision, this court is acknowledging the value of honor,

00:23:51.140 which is something that democracies in general don't always place a high enough value upon.

00:23:57.980 And degraded democracies that degrade into mob rule or oligarchy or something like that, they really don't place value on honor.

00:24:05.840 One of the pitfalls of democracy is that it can become too materialistic and it can become too full of envy and resentment,

00:24:14.080 too focused on just stuff and coveting other people's stuff.

00:24:18.520 And what this decision says is, look, what happened here is a guy spread some pictures of his ex-girlfriend around.

00:24:26.420 It's not like he went and stole her car.

00:24:30.520 He didn't steal her laptop.

00:24:32.240 He didn't steal her jewelry.

00:24:33.620 He stole her honor.

00:24:34.900 He stole her reputation.

00:24:37.400 And what the jury is saying is, had he stolen her car, they might say, okay, he owes you 20 grand.

00:24:43.080 Stole some jewelry, okay, he owes you five grand.

00:24:46.180 Stole some, but he stole your honor, well, he owes you $1.2 billion.

00:24:51.860 That's good.

00:24:53.280 We must restore a sense in this country of the importance of honor and the importance of modesty.

00:25:01.400 Why is it a big deal that he got some naked pictures of her?

00:25:04.900 What the liberals will say is, well, because she didn't consent to it.

00:25:09.660 Sure, that's part of it.

00:25:12.720 But consent is not the only moral criterion, of course.

00:25:16.840 It's not the most important one, not by a long shot.

00:25:18.960 If it were merely a violation of consent, it would be serious.

00:25:25.280 Would it be $1.2 billion serious?

00:25:28.080 No.

00:25:28.600 I don't think, had he just taken a picture of her sitting on a beach?

00:25:32.520 Well, that's a bad example because she'd be wearing a bikini. 1.00

00:25:34.520 If he took a picture of her sitting in a burka and posted it, they might say, well, that's creepy and weird, but we're going to award you, I don't know, 100 bucks, 200 bucks, 300 bucks.

00:25:43.460 No one would be awarding this woman $1.2 billion.

00:25:47.400 They're awarding her that money because they're acknowledging that modesty is a virtue.

00:25:54.240 It's valuable.

00:25:55.460 People cherish it.

00:25:57.100 And when that is taken away from somebody, that is a more egregious offense than a mere violation of consent.

00:26:03.380 It's a really good decision.

00:26:04.240 I'm not sure that this was all conscious in the minds of the judge or were there jurors here?

00:26:09.840 I'm not even sure.

00:26:11.260 But that is the effect of the decision.

00:26:14.540 And it's something that you see this in the trad wife movement. 1.00

00:26:19.300 You see this in the movement away from feminism and some aspects of the sexual revolution.

00:26:24.200 In a way, you kind of see it with the Me Too movement, which fizzled.

00:26:27.900 Hollywood made sure to stamp that one out real quick, destroy their whole business model, threaten their whole business model.

00:26:33.360 But you saw those inklings there, a turning away from this shallow language.

00:26:39.000 Liberal, liberal, libertarian kind of language, whereby consent is the only important moral category.

00:26:46.320 No.

00:26:47.580 There are more important things.

00:26:49.660 Honor is important too.

00:26:51.260 Speaking of women's issues. 0.97

00:26:56.460 So I didn't believe it the first time I saw it.

00:26:59.160 I played it on the show yesterday, and some people didn't believe it either. 0.81

00:27:05.000 A spokesman for the Ukrainian military is an American transvestite. 0.60

00:27:11.840 Because, of course. 0.99

00:27:13.720 If you look at Putin's mouth, you'll notice that blood drips from it. 0.99

00:27:19.420 He's a vampire, carrying out genocide against both Ukrainians and Russians alike. 0.99

00:27:24.760 Vlad Putin bathes in the blood of innocent children and enjoys it. 0.97

00:27:30.840 And this is why the dictator of the Russian Federation must be deposed.

00:27:36.060 And why peace talks have to be focused on President Zelensky's 10-point peace formula and the full liberation of Ukraine.

00:27:45.360 When I first saw that, I said, this is AI, this is not real, this is an SNL skit.

00:27:52.900 Well, SNL wouldn't make this skit anymore, but it can't, this can't be real.

00:27:57.520 I found out it was real.

00:27:59.340 But many of you were as skeptical as I am.

00:28:02.020 There are more videos. 0.99

00:28:04.020 Vladimir Putin, you are already in hell. 0.98

00:28:09.080 We are counting your days down now. 0.99

00:28:11.260 You, your fascism, your totalitarianism, will not get a monument, Vladimir Putin.

00:28:22.520 Slava, Ukraine.

00:28:26.500 Slava, Ukraine.

00:28:28.340 You will not, Putin!

00:28:29.960 Leave Britney alone! 1.00

00:28:31.220 I'm sure that Vladimir Putin is quaking in his boots at this American transvestite, 1.00

00:28:38.560 proving his point that this is just a proxy war with the United States, 0.87

00:28:43.840 and that it's just liberal Americans who are using Ukraine as a vassal state to pose Vladimir Putin.

00:28:51.560 Just truly, Hollywood couldn't have scripted it any better.

00:28:56.780 And Hollywood, I guess, did script this one.

00:28:59.000 So, of course, that is the case.

00:29:01.780 Why would Ukraine allow this?

00:29:05.420 This is so embarrassing, so humiliating.

00:29:09.080 I said it on the show yesterday.

00:29:10.600 I'm not rooting for Putin, but these guys make it really hard.

00:29:14.400 They make it really hard when they say,

00:29:16.320 you need to support Ukraine so that we can have transgenderism everywhere.

00:29:20.000 No!

00:29:21.280 Oh, no, are you going to make me?

00:29:22.680 I don't like Putin.

00:29:24.200 Do I have to?

00:29:25.380 Oh, no.

00:29:26.540 Oh, no.

00:29:27.880 Why?

00:29:28.420 Why would Ukraine do this? 0.81

00:29:29.200 I get why Ukraine would put an American transvestite as the face of its military. 0.88

00:29:35.960 This is a recognition by Ukraine that its chief support comes from the American left.

00:29:42.920 That is the reason that this war is still going on.

00:29:46.080 That is the reason that Ukraine is still in the war.

00:29:48.540 Now, some people will say, well, it's good that the war is still going on,

00:29:50.760 because it means that Russia hasn't come to dominate Ukraine

00:29:53.560 and installed some new puppet regime or taken the Donetsk

00:29:57.480 or taken parts of eastern Ukraine.

00:29:59.860 Sure.

00:30:00.280 Okay, maybe that's your opinion.

00:30:01.580 That's obviously the opinion of American liberals,

00:30:03.420 is this war should go on forever and ever, at least for a very long time.

00:30:07.260 But that is why the war is going on.

00:30:09.600 Had the U.S. not backed Ukraine,

00:30:12.120 not sent $100 billion,

00:30:13.360 and not sent all sorts of missiles and weapons and armaments,

00:30:16.700 the war would have been over within two weeks.

00:30:19.300 But the U.S. decided to do it,

00:30:21.840 and this was led especially by the liberal establishment.

00:30:24.100 Some conservatives supported the war in Ukraine.

00:30:26.720 Now they do not.

00:30:27.920 Now the American people broadly oppose greater funding for the war in Ukraine.

00:30:34.340 That's all Americans, not just conservatives,

00:30:35.880 and the Republicans have turned significantly against the war in Ukraine.

00:30:39.780 So what does that leave the Ukrainians with?

00:30:41.780 Well, if Zelensky wants to continue to get that sweet, sweet dollar

00:30:45.100 and those nice American weapons,

00:30:48.040 then he's got to appeal to the last constituency that really strongly supports him,

00:30:52.320 and that is the American left.

00:30:53.800 And how do you do that? 0.97

00:30:55.040 You put a transvestite on TV. 1.00

00:30:57.900 You get them to whine in America, 0.92

00:31:00.260 and you dress an American man up like Karen,

00:31:03.740 who makes a video begging, demanding to see Vladimir Putin's manager

00:31:08.420 because she is going to file a complaint,

00:31:10.840 and then you get more American money.

00:31:13.260 Speaking of the American left,

00:31:15.100 this is going to be controversial.

00:31:17.400 I don't even know if I should say this.

00:31:19.760 I'm going to irritate people,

00:31:20.880 but I'm not here to pander to you, okay?

00:31:23.480 I'm not here to tell you just what you want to hear.

00:31:25.420 I'm here to tell you the truth.

00:31:28.540 There's a study that shows that

00:31:30.980 half of U.S. residents have tried Marijuana.

00:31:34.920 Okay.

00:31:36.280 I puffed the devil's lettuce once or twice in my wayward youth.

00:31:39.040 All right, we've all tried it.

00:31:41.180 Half of us, I guess, have tried it.

00:31:42.440 Okay, I'm not, listen, people make mistakes.

00:31:45.380 They experiment.

00:31:48.140 17% of Americans currently regularly smoke the sin spinach,

00:31:55.540 the Peruvian parsley, California cumin.

00:31:59.060 You know what I'm talking about?

00:32:00.740 Jazz cigarettes.

00:32:02.000 You know what I mean?

00:32:03.880 Hashish.

00:32:04.800 I guess hash is actually a little bit different.

00:32:06.040 You know, the Haitian oregano.

00:32:10.420 Talking about pot, man.

00:32:12.340 They smoke it.

00:32:13.260 This is according to a new Gallup survey

00:32:15.020 released on Thursday.

00:32:16.900 And I know, before, I'm not even,

00:32:18.160 I'm not going to go get on my high horse,

00:32:21.720 start talking about how pot is bad 0.82

00:32:25.120 and makes you kind of chubby and lazy

00:32:31.440 and less funny, 0.67

00:32:33.020 though you think everything else is funnier.

00:32:34.300 I'm not going to get on that high horse.

00:32:38.220 But to the people,

00:32:39.400 the conservatives who say,

00:32:40.660 oh, it's totally fine,

00:32:41.580 legalized pot, have everyone smoke. 1.00

00:32:43.040 I just have one question.

00:32:44.280 This is just a basic political question.

00:32:46.520 Do you think

00:32:47.860 that

00:32:49.300 the spread of marijuana use

00:32:52.900 is likely to make Americans

00:32:55.520 more conservative or more liberal?

00:32:58.180 What do you think?

00:32:59.080 Do you think just

00:33:01.200 all things being equal,

00:33:03.740 you got a guy,

00:33:04.740 he's kind of politically neutral,

00:33:06.120 and you say,

00:33:06.620 hey, buddy,

00:33:07.640 come on over here to the cigar bar,

00:33:09.420 and we're going to talk about

00:33:11.420 G.K. Chesterton and Edmund Burke.

00:33:13.860 Or you get a guy,

00:33:14.480 you say,

00:33:14.660 hey, buddy,

00:33:15.300 come on down to the cool bar,

00:33:17.320 and we're going to throw back some beers,

00:33:18.860 not Bud Lights,

00:33:19.800 and we're going to hang out

00:33:21.460 with the boys and play poker.

00:33:23.660 Okay, that's going to push a guy

00:33:25.200 into a certain culture.

00:33:27.000 Or you say,

00:33:27.540 hey, buddy,

00:33:28.240 come on over here

00:33:29.340 and start ripping out of this bong, 0.89

00:33:31.180 and then we can all be in a drum circle

00:33:32.820 and engage in witchcraft.

00:33:34.520 Like,

00:33:34.880 what

00:33:35.080 direction do you want to push people in?

00:33:38.960 Does anybody seriously believe

00:33:41.080 that more

00:33:43.160 potheads

00:33:44.760 is going to make America

00:33:45.920 more conservative?

00:33:47.120 Well, if it's not,

00:33:48.060 if it's obviously going to make America

00:33:49.780 way more hippie and dippy and liberal,

00:33:51.860 then why would we be encouraging this?

00:33:54.420 Well,

00:33:55.280 say the libertarians,

00:33:56.180 well,

00:33:56.740 because of the sacred right

00:33:58.180 to smoke

00:33:59.380 dope.

00:34:01.060 What right?

00:34:01.920 What right?

00:34:02.300 You think James Madison

00:34:03.420 wrote a right

00:34:04.540 to smoke pot

00:34:05.780 in the Constitution?

00:34:06.700 I don't see that.

00:34:08.340 What right?

00:34:08.960 The right

00:34:09.420 that

00:34:09.900 Russell Kirk

00:34:11.920 and

00:34:12.860 Ronald Reagan

00:34:14.060 and

00:34:15.080 I don't know,

00:34:16.000 any conservative,

00:34:17.280 you name it,

00:34:17.620 John Adams,

00:34:18.420 any conservative in American history,

00:34:20.280 you think

00:34:20.780 they really believe

00:34:23.040 there's some fundamental

00:34:23.920 constitutional national right

00:34:25.360 to smoke pot?

00:34:27.560 No,

00:34:27.900 obviously not.

00:34:29.120 So why would we want it?

00:34:31.260 Cut it out, guys.

00:34:32.400 Just going to make people

00:34:33.140 big libs.

00:34:34.880 Speaking of cultural influence,

00:34:36.120 we have some great cultural influence

00:34:37.340 from that

00:34:38.220 good old boy

00:34:39.280 from the South

00:34:39.880 who has that

00:34:40.520 song about the rich men

00:34:42.100 from Richmond,

00:34:43.220 which we'll get to in one second.

00:34:44.680 That's my little tease

00:34:45.640 before the sub-reg.

00:34:46.440 But

00:34:46.720 whether it's changing

00:34:48.200 the definition of words

00:34:49.320 or trying to convince you

00:34:50.520 that 2 plus 2 equals 5

00:34:52.120 sometimes feels like

00:34:53.280 the current culture

00:34:53.940 is doing its best 1.00

00:34:54.640 to make you stupid. 1.00

00:34:55.880 When wokeness 1.00

00:34:56.660 permeates every aspect

00:34:57.920 of your life,

00:34:58.500 it's hard to know

00:34:59.180 where to turn for guidance.

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00:36:16.220 My favorite comment yesterday

00:36:17.360 is from Garrett Harriman,

00:36:18.660 6333,

00:36:19.980 who says,

00:36:20.420 I just want to know

00:36:21.200 how that mother effer 0.96

00:36:22.360 wasn't real.

00:36:23.600 What did she see?

00:36:25.420 I know I wanted to do that too.

00:36:26.560 I was so dismayed

00:36:27.720 that she put out

00:36:28.740 that apology video.

00:36:30.060 And she didn't do it

00:36:30.880 just to get attention.

00:36:31.620 She did it

00:36:32.180 because apparently

00:36:33.340 journalists hounded her down

00:36:35.240 and ferreted her out.

00:36:36.140 And I think it's just so sad

00:36:38.580 that they did that.

00:36:39.700 It's so irresponsible.

00:36:41.160 There is absolutely

00:36:42.260 no public interest

00:36:43.400 in finding out

00:36:44.300 who this poor woman is 1.00

00:36:45.660 who had some kind of 0.61

00:36:47.300 psychotic

00:36:48.700 or pharmaceutical

00:36:49.740 or otherwise

00:36:50.860 just embarrassing episode

00:36:52.080 on an airplane.

00:36:52.920 There's no public interest

00:36:54.060 in that

00:36:54.380 other than to humiliate her

00:36:55.420 and ruin her life.

00:36:56.380 I was very sorry to see that

00:36:57.380 and I was sorry to see

00:36:57.920 that she apologized.

00:37:00.320 She,

00:37:01.060 as far as I can tell,

00:37:02.360 unless she was in full

00:37:03.440 control of her faculties

00:37:05.880 and she just decided

00:37:06.700 to put on some performance art,

00:37:08.300 she didn't really have anything

00:37:09.600 to apologize for

00:37:10.440 and I kind of want to know

00:37:12.580 what she saw.

00:37:14.240 But alas,

00:37:15.740 I'm not even going to invite her

00:37:17.120 on the show

00:37:17.480 because I don't want to

00:37:18.620 make her life worse

00:37:19.320 than it is.

00:37:21.280 Speaking of cultural influence,

00:37:24.560 Oliver Anthony.

00:37:26.040 Oliver Anthony is the singer

00:37:28.400 behind the song

00:37:30.120 about the rich men

00:37:31.000 from Richmond

00:37:32.120 and I perused

00:37:34.400 his YouTube channel

00:37:35.380 because that song

00:37:36.660 is good.

00:37:37.360 He's obviously

00:37:37.920 a real talent.

00:37:39.800 It's not,

00:37:40.200 you know,

00:37:40.500 it's not the greatest

00:37:41.620 song I've ever written

00:37:42.200 but he's a real talent.

00:37:43.820 I love that the song

00:37:44.700 went viral.

00:37:45.900 He seems great

00:37:46.500 and I was perusing

00:37:47.220 his other songs.

00:37:48.080 His other songs

00:37:48.600 are better than the one

00:37:49.480 that went viral.

00:37:51.300 His other,

00:37:51.560 he's just a real

00:37:53.480 musical talent.

00:37:54.140 He's got this great voice

00:37:55.140 kind of like Levon Helm.

00:37:56.640 He's a terrific

00:37:57.640 little dobro guitar player

00:37:59.220 and his other songs

00:38:01.220 frankly are even more

00:38:02.680 musically interesting

00:38:03.700 and more my style

00:38:05.320 at least.

00:38:05.840 My style's probably

00:38:06.320 not indicative of

00:38:07.180 popular music tastes

00:38:08.820 so maybe that's why

00:38:09.900 the other one went viral

00:38:10.720 but maybe the best thing

00:38:12.620 that guy has done

00:38:13.260 is he was just

00:38:14.080 opening up a show,

00:38:15.460 his first show I guess

00:38:16.640 since all of this went down

00:38:18.160 and he opened it up

00:38:19.400 by reading the Bible.

00:38:20.580 Before we start singing

00:38:22.720 and I mean we

00:38:24.360 because I hope y'all

00:38:25.100 are going to be singing too.

00:38:28.080 I just had something

00:38:29.100 I felt compelled

00:38:30.040 to share with you.

00:38:33.360 This is in Psalm

00:38:34.800 Psalm 37

00:38:37.740 12 through 20.

00:38:40.840 The wicked plot

00:38:41.920 against the righteous

00:38:42.760 and gnash their teeth 0.69

00:38:44.400 at them

00:38:44.820 but the Lord laughs

00:38:46.380 at the wicked

00:38:46.900 for he knows

00:38:47.660 their day is coming.

00:38:48.720 And it goes on and on

00:38:50.340 he reads this long

00:38:51.440 Bible passage

00:38:52.320 and I thought

00:38:53.680 this is great

00:38:54.180 and by the end

00:38:54.740 people applaud.

00:38:56.260 They shout woohoo

00:38:57.220 and then he starts

00:38:57.740 singing his song.

00:38:58.460 This is really great stuff

00:38:59.700 because

00:39:02.220 it shows that

00:39:04.780 this guy's purpose

00:39:06.160 is not just to make money.

00:39:08.640 This guy's purpose

00:39:09.540 is not just to

00:39:10.580 become famous.

00:39:11.800 This guy's purpose

00:39:12.540 is not just to

00:39:13.800 get his one song

00:39:16.040 out there.

00:39:16.440 This guy's doing

00:39:18.560 all those things.

00:39:20.160 I can't even imagine

00:39:21.180 how much money

00:39:21.680 this guy's made

00:39:22.280 in one weekend

00:39:22.880 when he went that viral

00:39:24.140 got the number one song

00:39:24.980 in America.

00:39:25.820 He obviously got very famous.

00:39:27.900 A lot of people

00:39:28.480 have heard his music.

00:39:31.460 He would seem

00:39:33.140 from just that

00:39:34.380 one little clip

00:39:34.960 he would seem

00:39:35.480 to be doing it

00:39:36.140 not just for his own

00:39:37.280 self-aggrandizement

00:39:37.980 but for the glory of God

00:39:39.900 which is really

00:39:40.480 what it's all about.

00:39:41.280 I just love that.

00:39:42.500 I just love that.

00:39:44.020 I've been going back

00:39:44.660 through Aristotle's

00:39:45.540 Nicomachean Ethics

00:39:46.460 and Aristotle points out

00:39:47.960 all these different

00:39:48.540 kinds of virtues

00:39:49.260 and he says

00:39:50.680 wealth is not a virtue.

00:39:53.420 It's nice to have

00:39:54.280 material stuff.

00:39:55.840 You need it

00:39:56.400 for a happy life.

00:39:57.560 You need some material stuff

00:39:58.600 but it's not

00:39:59.660 a virtue

00:40:00.720 because it's not

00:40:02.000 for itself.

00:40:02.760 It's an instrument.

00:40:03.820 Wealth is just there

00:40:04.480 to get you something else.

00:40:06.840 This is true of so much.

00:40:08.480 Your professional success

00:40:09.380 what's it for?

00:40:10.780 So that you can

00:40:11.520 hang a trophy

00:40:12.200 on your wall

00:40:12.740 at the end of the day?

00:40:13.460 So that you can get

00:40:14.420 employee of the month?

00:40:16.260 What's it for?

00:40:18.380 Fame.

00:40:18.880 What's it for?

00:40:19.640 So that people can be

00:40:20.780 nice to you

00:40:21.360 when you walk down the street?

00:40:23.280 And so people can ask you

00:40:24.140 for pictures?

00:40:24.740 What's it for?

00:40:25.580 Is it

00:40:25.920 to bring glory to God

00:40:28.660 and to bring people

00:40:29.320 closer to him?

00:40:29.940 That's ultimately

00:40:30.560 what it ought to be for.

00:40:32.680 Right?

00:40:33.740 And that appears to be

00:40:34.540 what he's doing.

00:40:35.440 Seems to have his priorities

00:40:36.340 in order.

00:40:37.040 Now

00:40:37.360 that brings me to

00:40:40.020 the other populist

00:40:41.580 candidate in the race

00:40:42.340 not Trump

00:40:42.820 but Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:40:44.440 Someone who does not

00:40:45.580 seem to have his priorities

00:40:46.460 in order.

00:40:47.980 RFK Jr.

00:40:49.020 has gained

00:40:50.200 some support

00:40:50.880 on the right

00:40:51.600 because he

00:40:53.200 opposes

00:40:54.120 some of the corruption

00:40:55.280 in the Democrat Party.

00:40:56.660 He was right about COVID.

00:40:58.480 He's right about

00:40:59.160 Big Pharma

00:41:00.280 and some of the

00:41:01.480 capture,

00:41:03.180 corporate capture

00:41:03.860 of the federal

00:41:04.560 regulatory agencies.

00:41:06.200 But RFK Jr.

00:41:07.340 now that he's being

00:41:07.900 floated as

00:41:08.440 a potential running mate

00:41:10.000 for Donald Trump

00:41:10.800 was asked

00:41:11.960 his views

00:41:12.860 on important issues

00:41:14.080 that matter to conservatives.

00:41:15.600 Notably

00:41:16.080 the issue of life

00:41:17.680 and abortion. 0.95

00:41:19.060 Here's Kennedy's answer.

00:41:20.680 Would you sign

00:41:21.480 a federal protection

00:41:22.400 to protect the rights

00:41:23.860 that were in the Roe precedent

00:41:25.200 if you were president?

00:41:26.300 I believe

00:41:27.400 that

00:41:27.780 a decision

00:41:29.800 for a ported child

00:41:30.940 should be up to the women 1.00

00:41:32.320 during the first

00:41:33.280 three months of life.

00:41:34.340 So you would cap it

00:41:35.200 at 15 weeks?

00:41:37.520 Yes.

00:41:38.040 Or 21 weeks?

00:41:40.600 Yeah,

00:41:41.000 three months.

00:41:41.960 So three months.

00:41:42.880 You would sign

00:41:43.360 a federal cap on that?

00:41:45.400 Yes, I would.

00:41:46.560 Okay.

00:41:47.100 So not unlimited

00:41:48.620 access to abortion

00:41:49.700 as many in the

00:41:50.740 Democratic Party.

00:41:51.140 I think the states,

00:41:52.860 you know,

00:41:53.220 once a child

00:41:54.940 is viable

00:41:55.660 outside the womb,

00:41:58.680 I think then

00:41:59.360 the state has an interest

00:42:00.500 in protecting that child

00:42:01.760 that is

00:42:02.500 that supersede.

00:42:04.060 And, you know,

00:42:04.440 I think the state

00:42:05.320 has an interest

00:42:05.840 at every level,

00:42:06.820 but at some point

00:42:08.140 I don't,

00:42:09.780 you know,

00:42:10.060 I'm against,

00:42:11.060 I'm for medical freedom.

00:42:12.500 I think individuals

00:42:13.320 ought to be able

00:42:14.220 to make their own choices.

00:42:15.320 Which is why I'm surprised

00:42:16.340 to hear you say you have it.

00:42:18.120 Well, because,

00:42:19.420 you know,

00:42:19.740 I think at some point

00:42:20.860 you could say,

00:42:21.580 the state,

00:42:22.260 I would personally not,

00:42:24.340 I think the states

00:42:25.440 have a,

00:42:27.100 you know,

00:42:27.900 have a right

00:42:28.540 to protect a child

00:42:32.560 once the child

00:42:33.620 becomes viable.

00:42:34.160 Very sad answer.

00:42:36.600 Very sad answer

00:42:37.220 because it's totally

00:42:38.080 incoherent.

00:42:39.720 And

00:42:40.100 the reason it's

00:42:43.460 incoherent

00:42:44.260 is good,

00:42:45.320 actually.

00:42:45.840 It's because

00:42:46.260 Bobby Kennedy

00:42:46.780 is not just

00:42:47.520 a run-of-the-mill Democrat

00:42:48.980 who just regurgitates 0.99

00:42:50.080 all the crazy Democrat 0.67

00:42:51.260 points,

00:42:52.180 which now

00:42:52.980 the Democrat

00:42:53.440 talking point

00:42:53.900 on abortion

00:42:54.340 is that

00:42:54.800 we ought to

00:42:55.340 have abortion

00:42:55.940 to the eighth

00:42:56.520 trimester.

00:42:57.480 You know,

00:42:57.680 it's a wonderful thing

00:42:58.880 and we should

00:42:59.180 celebrate it.

00:43:00.180 And Kennedy's saying,

00:43:00.780 no, no, no,

00:43:01.060 I don't think that.

00:43:01.940 I mean,

00:43:02.060 I support it.

00:43:02.680 I support abortion. 0.96

00:43:04.600 I'm not one of those

00:43:05.080 crazy pro-lifers,

00:43:06.060 but I support it 0.72

00:43:07.440 for the first three months.

00:43:08.420 It's okay.

00:43:10.720 She says,

00:43:11.220 only three months, huh?

00:43:12.340 He goes,

00:43:12.680 yeah, yeah,

00:43:13.160 only the first three months

00:43:13.940 of life.

00:43:14.600 Oh, hold on.

00:43:15.200 Wait,

00:43:15.400 you're admitting

00:43:16.280 that it's life,

00:43:17.540 that you're ending

00:43:18.040 a human life

00:43:18.780 in abortion. 1.00

00:43:20.440 So he's kind of

00:43:21.780 a little bit

00:43:22.400 approaching

00:43:23.280 the pro-life side.

00:43:24.780 He's obviously

00:43:25.420 at least open to it.

00:43:26.480 He says,

00:43:26.740 but no,

00:43:27.120 but you should,

00:43:27.880 obviously,

00:43:29.180 I'm a Kennedy.

00:43:29.860 I'm a Democrat.

00:43:30.460 I have,

00:43:30.740 of course,

00:43:31.200 abortion's good. 0.99

00:43:32.680 But it is a life.

00:43:33.800 But okay,

00:43:34.420 so really little,

00:43:36.240 really vulnerable life, 1.00

00:43:37.080 it's okay to kill that.

00:43:37.940 But the older life, 0.97

00:43:38.880 no,

00:43:39.100 the state has an interest

00:43:39.840 in protecting that life.

00:43:41.340 Hold on,

00:43:41.760 so you think,

00:43:42.380 she asks him,

00:43:43.280 you think that

00:43:44.180 you shouldn't be able

00:43:45.800 to have an abortion

00:43:46.300 later on,

00:43:46.940 that the state

00:43:47.320 should stop you?

00:43:47.860 Well,

00:43:48.420 I'm for medical freedom.

00:43:50.700 So am I pro-abortion?

00:43:52.800 Well,

00:43:53.100 I'm for medical,

00:43:53.800 but I don't,

00:43:54.340 but I don't think

00:43:54.900 we should kill babies 0.99

00:43:55.660 all the time. 1.00

00:43:56.600 And,

00:43:57.160 well,

00:43:57.360 but,

00:43:57.680 but I would,

00:43:59.060 I wouldn't personally

00:44:00.100 oppose abortion.

00:44:03.100 Personally,

00:44:03.420 I'm fine with abortion 1.00

00:44:04.340 up until the moment of birth,

00:44:05.300 but I just think,

00:44:06.380 and you can tell,

00:44:06.780 it's just a man

00:44:07.280 who doesn't know

00:44:07.640 what he thinks about it,

00:44:08.540 which is fine.

00:44:09.120 So I don't want

00:44:09.680 to be too harsh on him.

00:44:10.600 I want to be encouraging

00:44:11.500 of Bobby Kennedy

00:44:12.980 to just examine

00:44:14.220 this issue further

00:44:14.900 and follow his,

00:44:16.740 I think,

00:44:17.300 probably correct

00:44:18.320 recent intuitions

00:44:19.600 on this issue

00:44:20.180 to their logical conclusion.

00:44:22.280 If it's human,

00:44:23.580 if it's life,

00:44:25.160 if we want to protect people,

00:44:26.920 supposedly his entire career

00:44:28.420 is about protecting people

00:44:29.380 and the environment

00:44:30.060 and from predatory

00:44:31.320 pharmaceutical companies,

00:44:32.620 then you got to protect life.

00:44:35.040 You got to protect human life.

00:44:35.900 It's as simple as that.

00:44:36.560 You got to be pro-life.

00:44:37.620 He doesn't know that.

00:44:38.440 So maybe he could get

00:44:39.880 on our side someday.

00:44:40.780 Maybe not.

00:44:41.200 I don't know.

00:44:41.460 But he's obviously

00:44:42.880 not on our side now.

00:44:43.840 And it's just a reminder

00:44:45.080 that it's encouraging

00:44:48.200 to see him oppose

00:44:49.340 some of the craziness

00:44:50.440 on the left.

00:44:51.700 But he's not there yet.

00:44:54.420 He's not going to be

00:44:55.060 Trump's vice president.

00:44:56.120 He's not going to be

00:44:56.560 any Republican's

00:44:57.220 vice presidential running mate.

00:45:02.220 Kennedy's great contribution

00:45:03.960 to this race

00:45:04.800 is to show

00:45:05.540 that there is discontent

00:45:07.780 in populism,

00:45:08.800 serious populism,

00:45:09.560 17% of the party,

00:45:10.700 even on the left.

00:45:13.120 And that should make us happy.

00:45:14.460 Now, when you want to be happy,

00:45:16.140 what do you do?

00:45:18.480 My friend, Dr. Gad Saad,

00:45:20.560 has some thoughts

00:45:21.280 on Woke Wednesday.

00:45:23.200 The rest of the show

00:45:23.920 continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 16, 2023

Ep. 1310 - Libs Embarrass Themselves In Shocking Trump Indictment

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