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00:00:00.000 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:00:04.920 just attended a special session of the Canadian Parliament to honor a 98-year-old Nazi.

00:00:12.080 We have here in the chamber today Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian-Canadian world veteran

00:00:17.360 from the Second World War who fought the Ukrainian independence against the Russians

00:00:23.040 and continues to support the troops today, even at his age of 98.

00:00:30.000 His name is Yaroslav Hunka, and I was going to say he's in the gallery, but I think you beat me to that.

00:00:46.580 But I'm very proud to say that he is from North Bay and from my writing of Nipissing to Miskaming.

00:00:51.860 He's a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service. Thank you.

00:01:04.500 Yes, one more standing ovation, please. The Ukrainian hero and the Canadian hero.

00:01:20.920 Now, it turns out that person is Yaroslav Hunka, who at 18 decided to volunteer for the Waffen-SS.

00:01:29.600 And though Hunka's 14th Regiment of the Waffen-SS was not specifically found guilty of war crimes,

00:01:37.880 it has been linked to some pretty nasty stuff, including a reported massacre in Huta Pyrnyaka,

00:01:44.560 which housed hundreds of Jews, as well as numerous mass executions.

00:01:49.600 The whole incident was particularly embarrassing because Vladimir Putin's justification for invading Ukraine

00:01:55.900 was to denazify the country. A problem that the Ukrainian leadership has said does not exist,

00:02:02.500 a case that is now more difficult to make since the leader of Ukraine is on camera giving a standing

00:02:07.960 ovation to a Nazi. The whole episode is just so unbelievably funny. It's out of a movie,

00:02:18.120 a dark comedy, certainly, but it could have been written by Hollywood.

00:02:21.740 Not only because Trudeau and Zelensky and the entire Canadian parliament accidentally applauded

00:02:29.640 a Nazi, not even just because after a lifetime of anonymity, this extremely old man who appeared

00:02:37.640 so happy to have his war service recognized by the prime minister of his adoptive country has now

00:02:43.560 been universally disavowed and become the living face of Nazism. What is most funny

00:02:48.340 is the historical ignorance of Trudeau and Zelensky and the Canadian MPs who put this together?

00:02:57.620 The man was being honored for fighting against the Russians in World War II.

00:03:03.620 Who did they think was fighting against the Russians when he says he's a World War II hero

00:03:08.940 for Ukraine and for Canada? They were on opposite sides of the war, guys. This should not.

00:03:18.640 Sorry. I'm sorry. I've got to get it together. This should not have been a surprise.

00:03:24.080 Has Justin Trudeau never opened a history textbook? Probably not. Probably none of these people

00:03:29.720 have taken much time to read history, which is probably why we're all doomed to repeat it.

00:03:35.960 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:38.940 Welcome back to the show. Speaking of switching sides, AOC has called on Democrat Senator Bob Menendez

00:04:02.520 to resign. She is turning on her own fellow Democrat. We'll get to that in just a moment. First,

00:04:08.240 though, speaking of lapses in memory and the Nazis, Joe Biden just a few days ago was at a New York

00:04:15.500 campaign stop, and he told a story about the whole reason he ran for president in 2020, the whole reason

00:04:21.320 he's president right now. And the story was that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people

00:04:27.280 in Charlottesville. And we've heard this before. It was the very first piece of rhetoric from Biden's

00:04:34.480 2020 campaign. So he gets through this spiel. And then about five seconds later, he just repeats

00:04:41.860 the spiel again. He repeated almost word for word the very same story to the very same small group of

00:04:49.720 people. And the best part is, the most fitting part for Biden, is that it was not true either time

00:04:55.860 because Donald Trump did not call neo-Nazis very fine people at Charlottesville. He specifically said,

00:05:00.960 I'm not talking about neo-Nazis. I'm not talking about white supremacists. They should be condemned

00:05:04.600 totally. But he repeats it. Joe Biden obviously doesn't care one iota about the truth. And that's

00:05:12.620 been true for his entire career. But for most of his career, he was able to get by with the slick

00:05:18.360 rhetoric of a career politician. Now that's beginning to fade. And he's just doing the thing that old

00:05:24.180 people in the throes of senility do, which is repeat himself. This is a big problem for the

00:05:31.040 Democrats. Because you don't nominate Joe Biden for president because of his conviction. He doesn't

00:05:37.500 have any convictions. In fact, you nominate Joe Biden for president specifically because he has

00:05:41.540 no convictions and he can be an empty vessel for wherever the party wants to go. You don't nominate

00:05:46.760 a candidate like Joe Biden for his youth and sexiness. Okay. He gave that up a little while

00:05:53.220 ago. Joe Biden is just the symbol of normalcy, a return to the old ways after the tempestuous years

00:06:00.640 of Trump. Joe Biden doesn't know what room he's in or what his name is. Then the normalcy argument

00:06:07.260 goes away. Joe Biden is a good politician because he can glad hand and he can backslap and he can

00:06:16.520 simper and he can repeat the talking points. That's the only talent the man has in politics.

00:06:22.400 And if he can no longer do that, then he's good for nothing. If the salt loses its savor,

00:06:27.480 then it's good for nothing and needs to be thrown out and trot underfoot.

00:06:31.120 Which is why Democrats are beginning to look for alternatives. And the window is closing. I mean,

00:06:36.380 if someone really wants to make a move for the 2024 race in either the Republican camp or the

00:06:41.480 Democrat camp, they're going to have to do it within about five weeks or so.

00:06:44.460 But certain candidates are beginning to position themselves to do that. Gavin Newsom,

00:06:50.420 Governor Patrick Bateman over there in California, has just vetoed a bill that would have made judges

00:06:57.460 consider parent affirmation of transgenderism during custody battles. This was a very controversial bill,

00:07:05.340 but it was sailing through the California legislature. And then Newsom, who is quite pro-trans

00:07:12.440 in his rhetoric, he shuts it down. And why did he shut it down? Because Gavin Newsom is preparing to

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00:08:29.500 right now, text Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 989898. What did Newsom say when he vetoed the Trans Your

00:08:36.320 Kids bill? He said he feared that the bill might be used to limit the civil rights of vulnerable

00:08:44.080 minorities. Now, this is really brilliant political stuff because Gavin Newsom knows that he can't come

00:08:53.220 out and say, hey, boys are not girls, and it's wrong to trans your kids. He can't say that.

00:08:59.560 That's not how our moral language works in America anymore. The only moral cause that we can make in

00:09:06.880 liberal public life is for the rights, the supposed rights of aggrieved minorities. That's the only way

00:09:15.080 we can talk. The civil rights language is the only moral language left in mainstream America.

00:09:21.040 So that's what he did. What does he even mean by that? The civil rights of vulnerable minorities.

00:09:25.800 Does he mean traditional Catholics? Does he mean Orthodox Jews who don't want to trans their kids?

00:09:31.060 Probably not. But it just sort of sounds good. Oh, yeah, it is true. And I'm sure, by the way,

00:09:37.600 that there are plenty of black guys who don't want to trans their kids. I'm sure there are plenty of

00:09:41.300 Hispanic immigrants who don't want to trans their kids. So it does work for the favored minority groups

00:09:46.960 of the Democrats. But the groups that are most interested in not transing their kids are

00:09:51.980 traditional people, people who practice Christianity, people who practice Judaism,

00:09:57.800 who take their religious life seriously. And so Newsom can use this line, and it just

00:10:02.280 sort of squeaks him by. He then says, I appreciate the passion and values that led the author to

00:10:08.180 introduce this bill. I share a deep commitment to advancing the rights of transgender Californians,

00:10:13.320 an effort that has guided my decisions through many decades in public office. That said, I urge

00:10:17.900 caution when the executive and legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate

00:10:22.120 in prescriptive terms that single out one characteristic legal standards for the judicial

00:10:27.260 branch to apply. Other-minded elected officials in California and other states could very well use

00:10:34.120 the strategy to diminish the civil rights of vulnerable minorities. I challenge anybody to decipher

00:10:40.960 that gobbledygook. Can anybody, does anybody speak liberal con man so that you can decipher what

00:10:49.840 that nonsense means? That is such mealy-mouthed, well, I actually agree with everybody. And you know,

00:10:58.500 really, man? And it's so ridiculous that it might just get him elected president. Because the last time

00:11:06.000 that I heard gobbledygook jargon that good was Bill Clinton. This reminded me of Bill Clinton right after

00:11:14.740 the Gulf War, the first Gulf War in the 90s, when Bill Clinton was asked, the Gulf War was very

00:11:20.240 successful. It was controversial at the time, but it was very successful. George H.W. Bush was starting to

00:11:26.280 take some credit for it. And in the 92 presidential race, Bill Clinton kept being asked, would you have

00:11:31.200 supported the Gulf War or not? You were unclear on your feelings on the military action. And his

00:11:36.720 response, it's always stuck with me. He said, what I said was that I had a great deal of sympathy with

00:11:43.120 those who were arguing that sanctions had not been given adequate time, but that the Congress could not

00:11:49.020 afford to go on record in my judgment undermining the U.N. position that the war was legal on January

00:11:54.860 15th. And that I thought the Congress should vote to support the U.N. resolution to make the war

00:12:00.300 legal on January 15th. And that they could argue tactically if they wished whether hostilities

00:12:06.500 should commence on the 15th or on some later date. Yeah, I feel your pain. I thought, what a

00:12:14.700 masterful piece of political rhetoric. What he's saying is, do you support the Gulf War? He said, well, listen,

00:12:23.420 I've sympathized and agreed with the one side of the debate. And I also sympathized and agreed with

00:12:31.280 the other side. Leadership. That's right. That's me. And Newsom is doing the exact same thing.

00:12:40.980 Newsom is so clearly copying the Bill Clinton playbook that he is now even adopting Bill Clinton's

00:12:48.980 economic policy vis-a-vis Republicans, Ronald Reagan in particular's economic policy. He made

00:12:55.980 this clear on Meet the Press. You look at that trip and it made you think nicely of Nixon and Reagan.

00:13:02.180 Why? Just makes me think that we've lost. I'm just dumbfounded when I think about the Republican

00:13:09.680 Party today and how far they have fallen from Reagan, Reaganism, Reaganomics in some respects,

00:13:17.280 how different the party is today. I mean, the idea that you'd have a Republican president that

00:13:22.040 supported Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and created the EPA in Nixon. The fact that the

00:13:27.100 modern environmental movement in many respects started with Ronald Reagan. In 1989, he was out

00:13:32.040 there promoting Reagan, assault weapons ban. He was defending the LGBT community.

00:13:38.940 He's pretty good. He's pretty good. He's leaning into being the moderate Democrat candidate who is

00:13:45.640 still, he's still supporting the far left of the party. He's still pro-trans. He just told you,

00:13:52.740 he's still really pro-trans. He supports transgender rights. He's got a deep commitment to it. But

00:13:57.580 he recognizes, look, this might be used to harm vulnerable minority groups. So we got to be

00:14:04.660 careful here. Oh yeah, I'm a tried and true Democrat, but I love those old Republicans.

00:14:10.160 You know, those old, I love Ronald Reagan. I even love Richard Nixon. What happened to that

00:14:15.520 Republican Party? Gosh golly. And then the clincher for me is he says, even Reaganomics, usually if the

00:14:24.220 Democrats were ever going to praise Reagan, they'd say, I like his sunny disposition, but his economic

00:14:28.500 policy was evil because it let those fat cats get rich. And it was trickle down economics or whatever

00:14:36.040 slogans they use. Now today, the Democrats simply are the fat cats. So I think they have more of an

00:14:42.040 incentive to align themselves with Reaganomics. But the adoption of Reaganomics was one of the

00:14:48.340 brilliant aspects of Bill Clinton's political career. Bill Clinton said, I'm a new Democrat.

00:14:55.040 After the 1994 Republican victory in the House, Bill Clinton came out and he said,

00:14:58.420 the era of big government is over. And this became the standard for Western politicians,

00:15:03.580 especially in the Anglosphere. You then had Tony Blair, who was elected as a laborer, a liberal left-wing

00:15:10.200 kind of leader. But he was just the Bill Clinton of Great Britain, a little bit more moderate,

00:15:15.700 especially on fiscal policy, a little bit more pro-growth and socially fairly liberal.

00:15:22.820 And that typified the 80s through the 90s, really into the early 2000s. And that was smacked down

00:15:33.600 with the presidency of Barack Obama, who was far more radical than the Democrats who came before him.

00:15:40.040 And it really reached the end with Donald Trump, who turned his back on some key aspects of

00:15:48.160 Reaganomics. And Reaganomics is a little distinct from the actual economic policies of Ronald Reagan

00:15:53.340 because the promoters of Reaganomics like to forget that Ronald Reagan increased tariffs on steel,

00:15:58.380 for instance, like to forget that Ronald Reagan used protectionist policies when he felt it was in

00:16:03.620 a national interest. But Donald Trump said, no, we want mercantilism for the 21st century.

00:16:09.560 Donald Trump said, we want more tariffs. We want to keep more manufacturing here in the United States.

00:16:14.540 We want, well, I stand with workers. We want to raise wages for workers. That's what is now called

00:16:20.040 populism on the right. So the question for Newsom is, is America ready for Bill Clinton again?

00:16:27.700 Is America ready for the 80s through the 90s again? Are we sufficiently nostalgic?

00:16:33.220 The election of Joe Biden was, well, if it was, if the man, all right, I'll leave it at that. I want

00:16:40.740 to remain on social media platforms today. But if Joe Biden were elected president, the reason for it

00:16:46.420 would be this longing for a return to normalcy. Well, what does normalcy mean? Does normalcy mean

00:16:54.580 Gavin Newsom? That is what he is betting on. And that Clintonian kind of policy,

00:17:00.820 fiscally pro-growth and socially liberal. I don't like it. I don't like the socially liberal part.

00:17:06.080 I think it destroys our whole civilization. I think that the decay of that is evident all around us,

00:17:11.280 but it has been electorally successful. Speaking of that social liberalism, there's been a debate

00:17:18.780 that's erupted on the right. And that debate is over marriage. And I think I might be somewhat

00:17:25.000 responsible for it. Because, you know, we put out some extra content on the weekends, and often I'm

00:17:29.260 reacting to different people in the culture. And I don't really know anything about these people.

00:17:33.340 It's usually my producer, Ben Davies, and Professor Jacob, associate producer, will find these clips and

00:17:38.060 say, Michael, what's your take on this? So one of them was from these guys who are part of the

00:17:42.420 red pill movement. And the red pill movement is this movement of men who are basically sick of

00:17:49.720 the way that society treats men, which is fair enough. Society treats men in a rather unfair and

00:17:55.760 unjust way. But their response to this is to not get married. They say marriage is really bad because

00:18:01.680 the family courts and divorce favors women. And men can be completely destroyed and have their finances

00:18:07.520 emptied out and not get to see their kids. And it's just absolutely brutal. So better not to

00:18:12.400 get married at all. And I have a great deal of sympathy for these guys. Because it's true. I mean,

00:18:20.180 the liberalization of divorce has been probably the greatest evil perpetrated in our country in the

00:18:25.560 last hundred years. Probably. I mean, because it just first cracked up the fundamental institution

00:18:32.640 of politics, which is the family, and the institution most dear to all of our hearts.

00:18:38.960 And it led to then the further collapse of marriage down the line with its radical redefinition.

00:18:45.060 That starts with divorce. We focus on no-fault divorce, which is obviously a contradiction in

00:18:51.120 terms. A divorce is a violation of one of the most sacred agreements that you could possibly make. So

00:18:57.060 somebody's got to be at fault. Maybe it's both of you, but it's certainly not no one. And the way that

00:19:02.240 divorce works now is that men get destroyed and they can lose their kids and there's really nothing

00:19:07.320 they could do about it. So that's all true. And I agree that should be legally changed. And I have

00:19:11.360 sympathy for the guys who've been burned this way. But their whining and their suggestion that

00:19:17.260 there's nothing to be done about this and their really perverse conclusion that men shouldn't get

00:19:23.780 married at all is just deeply wrong. It's the flip side of feminism. And it's wrong because man is a

00:19:32.680 social creature and a coupling creature. And men need women and women need men. And we want the

00:19:38.000 love between men and women to be so real that it creates another person. And we want that bond to

00:19:42.500 be indissoluble. What God has joined, let no man separate. So just as some really practical advice

00:19:46.820 for these guys in the red pill movement, I would point out, yes, it's true. Divorce rates can be very,

00:19:52.120 very high. Depending on which statistics you believe, it could be over 40%. That's true.

00:19:57.300 The divorce rate for Catholics is significantly lower than that. And that's for all Catholics.

00:20:02.140 That's even the Joe Biden Catholics who clearly don't believe key aspects of their faith.

00:20:06.180 That's for the cafeteria Catholics who pick and choose. That's for the types of Catholics who have

00:20:10.800 been pulled away by the tides of liberal modernity. And even when you consider all of the Catholics,

00:20:17.840 the divorce rates are much lower. But then when you look at a subgroup, the so-called traditional

00:20:22.000 Catholics, meaning the people who still believe the faith the way that the faith was taught and

00:20:26.080 practiced for 2,000 years, those divorce rates drop to next to nothing. Okay? So I agree with you

00:20:31.700 that, yes, we have a political problem that our political leadership is trying to destroy the

00:20:38.460 family and largely has. But there are things that you can do. If you practice a religion that not only

00:20:43.980 forbids divorce but denies its very possibility, then your likelihood of being divorced is going to be

00:20:50.120 greatly diminished down next to the point of nothing. Now, that means that you have to not just reject

00:20:59.040 the parts of liberal modernity that you especially don't like, like divorce law. You have to reject

00:21:03.860 basically all of it. You have to reject the feminism. You have to reject the hyper-individualism.

00:21:08.860 You have to reject the cultural and moral relativism. You have to reject the secularism.

00:21:15.640 You've got to practice a rigorous religion that will not, that will tell you that you are severing

00:21:23.160 a very, very sacred bond and that there is no remarriage afterward and there's no second act

00:21:31.100 and there's no, well, we'll just move on. That you are married to this person until death do you part,

00:21:35.780 so help you God. That is going to be one way to put yourself in a position where it's probably

00:21:40.940 not. Look, all of life has risk, but that's probably going to put yourself in a pretty solid

00:21:47.360 position. But it requires something of you and what it requires is that you stop listening to guys who

00:21:53.520 call themselves pickup artists and start listening to, among other things, the word of God, which is

00:21:59.500 good advice not only for men who have been done wrong by our present political situation but for the

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00:24:37.960 up with Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and calling on him to resign. Should he resign? And what do you think

00:24:44.340 of his statement that it has to do with him being a Latino? Well, I think the situation is quite

00:24:52.660 unfortunate, but I do believe that it is in the best interest for Senator Menendez to resign in this

00:24:58.600 moment. As you mentioned, consistency matters. It shouldn't matter whether it's a Republican or a

00:25:03.940 Democrat. The details in this indictment are extremely serious. They involve the nature of not just his,

00:25:12.600 but all of our seats in Congress. And while, you know, as a Latina, there are absolutely ways in

00:25:20.900 which there is systemic bias. But I think what is here in this indictment is quite clear. And I believe

00:25:27.860 is in the best interest to maintain the integrity of the seat. This is a pretty good answer. Why is AOC

00:25:34.480 turning on her man, her compatriot here? Well, because they got him dead to rights. Everyone knows that

00:25:42.780 Menendez is corrupt. We've known it for a decade now at least. And because New Jersey is safe. So they'll just

00:25:47.720 appoint some other Democrat there who's probably going to be better, who's probably going to be closer to the AOC

00:25:52.160 line of thinking. Bob Menendez is not the most far left radical in the Senate. And who's probably going to be

00:25:56.940 younger, who's going to be there for longer. So it's a simple calculation if you're AOC. In politics,

00:26:03.020 you got to know when to hold him, no one to fold him, no one to walk away, no one to run. And Bob

00:26:07.240 Menendez is just totally toxic. Here's Menendez's excuse. The feds catch him with $480,000 in cash

00:26:15.640 stashed around his house and stuffed into the pockets of his clothing in envelopes. They didn't

00:26:20.980 even take it out of the envelopes from the bribes. They find bars of gold. I mean, they find bribes.

00:26:27.640 And his excuse is this. For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal

00:26:34.800 savings account, which I've kept for emergencies. And because of the history of my family facing

00:26:40.320 confiscation in Cuba. Now, this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal

00:26:46.220 savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years. I look

00:26:51.520 forward to addressing other issues at trial. You know, it's probably the best he could have come up

00:26:58.540 with, but this is so preposterous. He's saying, look, he's saying the same excuse that he said right

00:27:07.240 away. Right away when they caught him, he said, look, they're just coming after me because I'm Latino.

00:27:11.380 I didn't even know Bob Menendez was Latino. I know he has a Hispanic last name, but you look at him,

00:27:15.540 he just looks like an ordinary white guy. He looks like every mildly Italian man that I know

00:27:20.960 from the tri-state area. But he's a slightly different kind of swarthy. So he gets to say

00:27:27.200 that he's Latino and they're coming after me because I'm Latino. They waited a long time to do it,

00:27:31.720 but now they're coming after me because I'm Latino. They don't understand the only reason I had a half

00:27:35.400 million dollars in cash stashed around my house is because I'm Latino. And I remember the dark days of

00:27:41.060 Castro. And that's why I need to keep half a million in cash around my house. It was all lawfully

00:27:47.380 withdrawn from my lawful earnings from my bank account. Did he also withdraw the bars of gold

00:27:53.920 from his bank account? Did he? I didn't know because I know you go to the ATM and you click,

00:27:58.820 do you want 20s? Do you want 50s? Do you want bars of gold? That's great. That's cool. I'm glad.

00:28:04.880 Maybe I'll try that in the future. They're kind of expensive though, aren't they?

00:28:07.200 Can you withdraw a Mercedes from your bank account? No, I was just withdrawing it from my

00:28:12.820 earnings. How about home furnishings? How about mortgage payments? Can you withdraw? You could

00:28:18.220 withdraw those from your bank account, but that would come from your bank account, not someone

00:28:21.200 else's. When the investigators went around this guy's house, they found on the envelopes of the

00:28:27.360 bribes, they found the fingerprints of the crooked businessman who bribed him. They have got this guy

00:28:33.360 completely dead to rights. And the proof that they got him dead to rights is Menendez just hired a

00:28:39.220 lawyer to defend him. And the lawyer he hired is the same lawyer that Hunter Biden hired.

00:28:46.000 There you go. Just book him at this point. This is according to CNBC. Menendez has hired

00:28:50.900 Abe Lowell to represent him in this case. He already hired that lawyer in 2015. I guess

00:28:56.460 Abbey Lowell is just the Democrat lawyer who represents crooked Dems. That's it. If you are

00:29:05.720 a high-ranking crooked Democrat who they've got dead to rights, you hire this guy. And yet,

00:29:14.280 according to experts, the evidence in this case is much, much stronger than was in the 15th case. So

00:29:19.180 Democrats are going to flee. Probably he'll have to resign. Speaking of politicians' careers ending,

00:29:24.180 we've got the second Republican presidential debate coming up. Trump will not go there. So

00:29:30.160 you can't even really call it the presidential debate in that the guy who's leading with 53%

00:29:36.460 of the vote or more, 59% of the vote, according to some polls, is not participating. So anyway,

00:29:41.760 it's the undercard. It's the people who are hoping that Donald Trump slips and falls,

00:29:46.240 either metaphorically or physically. But one guy is not going to be there in addition,

00:29:50.680 and that is going to be Asa Hutchinson. Asa, we hardly knew you. Asa has not qualified. His polling

00:30:00.360 is pretty low. Doug Burgum, the North Dakota governor, is somehow going to appear at this

00:30:06.640 debate. Doug Burgum, you will recall, is the man who paid people to donate a dollar to him. So if you

00:30:14.220 donated a dollar to the Doug Burgum campaign, you'd get a $10 or $20 gift card in return.

00:30:19.400 I have friends and family members, actually, who did this very thing, and they said it works,

00:30:23.220 so that he actually sent them the gift card, which is very funny. So Burgum will be there.

00:30:27.500 Christie will be there. The Chris-a-sants lives to fight another day. Chris-a-sants.

00:30:30.700 Ron DeSantis, obviously, will be there. Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Vivek, Tim, Scott. That'll be at the

00:30:36.380 Reagan Library. Asa will not. What differentiates Asa Hutchinson from all the rest? What

00:30:43.540 differentiates him from Doug Burgum or Chris Christie? I mean, these are not guys that are

00:30:47.940 polling very high right now. Asa Hutchinson said that he would trans the kids. That's the difference.

00:30:55.660 And so what we're being told by all the genius GOP consultants is we got to turn away from the

00:31:01.340 culture war issues. We've got to focus in on the bread and butter dinner table issues. No one wants

00:31:07.120 to hear about transing the kids or anything like that. That is the issue that was decisive in this

00:31:13.340 case. That is the issue that destroyed Asa Hutchinson's career. That is the issue that got

00:31:18.920 Glenn Youngkin elected governor in Virginia. That is the issue, one of two, that is one of two issues

00:31:25.160 that made Ron DeSantis the number two guy in this presidential race, having been relatively unknown

00:31:31.600 just a few years ago in Florida. This is not just some fringe online thing. Transing the kids

00:31:38.620 resonates nationwide and motivates people to go out and vote. Now, speaking of Ron DeSantis and debates,

00:31:47.340 DeSantis and Gavin Newsom are going to be having their own quasi-presidential debate moderated by

00:31:53.220 Sean Hannity. Here's DeSantis on the debate. I think it's an important debate for the country,

00:31:59.140 not like saying who's better Florida, California, because that debate is over because people have

00:32:03.920 voted with their feet. They've left California and come to Florida, not the other way around.

00:32:07.900 He has lost massive amounts of population. No governor in California history has ever witnessed

00:32:14.440 population loss at all on net. And he's had it because it's because of the policies he's driving

00:32:20.200 people away. But what's the future for the country? The future for the country, for what the left would

00:32:26.880 want to do, is just double down on the California policies. And so I think it's going to be an important

00:32:31.840 debate. I think, I mean, I think he's definitely angling for it. I think Biden, I don't think Biden is going to

00:32:37.500 step down willingly. I think it's harder to dislodge somebody who's an incumbent president than people

00:32:43.080 assume it would be. But I think the Democrat establishment really, really is concerned,

00:32:49.280 particularly, you know, if they have to run against somebody like me. I think that their view

00:32:53.160 on Trump is that he will help energize their base to come out in ways that maybe some other

00:32:59.180 Republicans won't. I don't know if that's true per se, the way they're thinking it, but I do think

00:33:03.620 they think that. I love the way DeSantis gives that line. He goes, look, look, look, it was very

00:33:09.000 Trumpy in a way. He says, look, many Democrats are saying that if you nominate Trump, you're

00:33:13.660 definitely going to lose because all the Democrats are going to come out. And maybe, you know,

00:33:16.160 they're more afraid of running against, you know, maybe like another candidate whose name rhymes with

00:33:20.080 like Bong DePantis. You know, I don't know. I'm not saying it. I don't, what do I know? I'm not,

00:33:24.820 I'm just saying many people are talking about it. Okay. And it's a good answer.

00:33:27.460 And it's, he's absolutely right too about the debate. The debate has already been settled.

00:33:32.500 The U-Hauls are moving from California to Florida, not the other way around.

00:33:37.180 So the debate is settled. Florida wins. That's, that's where people want to live.

00:33:42.480 That model of life is better. And that is due in large part to the policies put in place by Ron

00:33:47.480 DeSantis. So he's won that debate. But my fear is, will Newsom trick everybody?

00:33:57.460 My fear is that good policy and competence and vision and all the rest of it don't always win

00:34:06.580 in lowercase d Democrat politics. Sometimes demagogues win. Sometimes hustlers win.

00:34:13.820 Sometimes Patrick Bateman over there in California wins. And so this is going to be a really good

00:34:18.260 debate. I mean, I'm excited for this debate in that it will have to be substantive. There are no two more

00:34:24.800 different states in America right now than Florida and California. So even if politicians,

00:34:30.080 especially like Newsom, don't want the debates to be substantive, this one will have to be somewhat

00:34:33.120 substantive. It's two different visions for America. And it's going to let us see if Ron DeSantis

00:34:39.800 has the charisma to go toe to toe with a very charming candidate.

00:34:46.200 Newsom is a perfect test run in this way in that he is 100% charm, 0% substance, 100% slap you on the

00:34:56.960 back, make you feel kind of good, 0% effective policies for government and flourishing. And so we'll

00:35:04.560 see. If DeSantis could beat Newsom in a debate on the day, not broadly speaking, which state's doing

00:35:13.200 better, but I mean a debate on the day on TV, that could be a boost to his presidential campaign.

00:35:19.060 Now, is it going to bring him from 15% up to 59% where Trump is? No, it's not. In many ways,

00:35:25.960 DeSantis agreeing to do this debate is an acknowledgement, finally, that he is not in

00:35:30.420 the same tier of candidate as Donald Trump. It's an acknowledgement that he's not the frontrunner,

00:35:36.340 even though some people were describing him as a potential GOP frontrunner, someone who could

00:35:40.780 deal a knockout blow to Trump. That hasn't panned out. And what the DeSantis campaign has been doing

00:35:46.640 for the last couple of months is just pretending that reality is other than it is. And I thought

00:35:52.060 that was a huge mistake, and it hasn't helped his poll numbers. It's only hurt his poll numbers.

00:35:55.320 So here what DeSantis is doing is kind of risky because he's acknowledging, yeah, I'm not the

00:36:00.460 frontrunner. I'm not the top. I'm the undercard guy. And so I'm going to be in the undercard debate.

00:36:05.740 I'm not going to be debating Joe Biden. Trump is going to debate Joe Biden if Biden agrees to do it.

00:36:09.800 But I'm going to debate Gavin Newsom, who's, he's the undercard guy for the Democrats.

00:36:14.560 And we're just going to present our show to the world. And both of these candidates benefit from

00:36:19.700 it. And Ron DeSantis stands to benefit the most, though there's also a fair bit of risk here because

00:36:26.180 if Newsom beats him, then the argument for a DeSantis candidacy is going to collapse. But good,

00:36:32.640 I'm glad that DeSantis is taking this risk. If he continues to play it safe, he's going to go

00:36:37.020 nowhere. He's going to be the, he's going to be the most competent number two or number three guy

00:36:41.920 in the race. He's got to take bold risks. And so he's venturing a lot here, but nothing ventured,

00:36:48.880 nothing gained. And it could, could be a good show. I look forward to seeing it. Speaking of candidates,

00:36:53.620 we've got a new Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, not mercifully, Dr. Oz. Very happy about that.

00:37:02.020 We have a new candidate, but it's another name that you've heard before, David McCormick,

00:37:05.200 who's the guy who ran against Dr. Oz in the primary last time. He lost in the primary.

00:37:10.200 He's running again. I thought he was basically a better candidate than Dr. Oz. But I think

00:37:16.740 Republicans in Pennsylvania and nationwide looking at Pennsylvania are missing a key fact about how

00:37:23.580 conservatives can win in Pennsylvania. We'll get to that in one second. First though, my favorite

00:37:26.700 comment yesterday is from Daniel Plainview, 2584, who says, Marina Abramovich isn't even Ukrainian.

00:37:33.000 This is that witch that Zelensky appointed ambassador. You also missed the part where

00:37:37.900 she's in charge of rebuilding schools now as well. Right. I did see that. This of course seems to

00:37:45.040 follow perfectly from her appointment. If you're going to appoint an actual witch to a position of

00:37:52.080 power in your government, you're probably going to put the witch in charge of kids, right? That's how it

00:37:56.860 would be in the Grimm's fairy tale. That's how it would be. That's of course, that's what the witches

00:38:02.020 are after in our country, around the world, and apparently in Ukraine as well. David McCormick

00:38:10.420 running for Senate. He's a former hedge funder. He could be a self-funder. He's a very competent guy.

00:38:15.680 He's obviously a very intelligent guy. I felt he was a better candidate than Dr. Oz in the last cycle

00:38:22.020 in Pennsylvania. He wants to take over the seat as Bob Casey, Democrat in Pennsylvania,

00:38:29.140 becomes more vulnerable as a result of how terrible a job Biden has done. He's a fine candidate, but he's

00:38:35.000 socially pretty liberal. On the social issues, things like marriage, rock ribbedness on issues of life,

00:38:46.180 McCormick is not the most hardcore right-wing guy in the world. Now, the argument for someone like

00:38:52.620 a McCormick, or even for a Dr. Oz, is, well, look, it's Pennsylvania. You're not going to run a far

00:38:59.660 right-wing candidate. You're not going to run a rock-ribbed conservative and win there. So just

00:39:05.960 take the squish and be happy that you get anyone with an R next to his name. I just don't think that's

00:39:12.380 necessarily true. It wasn't so long ago that Rick Santorum was senator from Pennsylvania.

00:39:18.080 Rick Santorum, one of the most rock-ribbed, traditional, socially conservative, right-wing

00:39:23.640 candidates that we've had in recent history. And by the way, the guy almost got himself the

00:39:27.280 nomination for president. Don't forget, when he was running against Mitt Romney.

00:39:32.840 Pennsylvania liked Rick Santorum. Eventually, he lost, but he served some time in Pennsylvania.

00:39:37.720 Why can't we nominate a Santorum? You want to talk about Mitt Romney?

00:39:41.900 Mitt Romney lost Pennsylvania. Donald Trump won Pennsylvania. Donald Trump, a much more right-wing

00:39:47.040 figure than Mitt Romney. Are we really so convinced that to win Pennsylvania, you need to have some

00:39:53.440 meek and mild, totally acceptable to the liberal mainstream kind of candidate? I'm not convinced

00:40:01.200 of that at all. It's the Rust Belt, baby. In some ways, a hedge funder is anathema to the way that

00:40:07.100 Pennsylvanians view their politics. I don't really want to diss McCormick. I think in many ways,

00:40:11.720 he's a good candidate, and I would have supported him over an Oz last time. But are there other

00:40:17.120 candidates? Could we get a Santorum-like figure? Could we get a Trump-like figure, a Trump-like

00:40:22.760 figure who is suited to Pennsylvania? Romney lost, McCain lost, I don't know. Where's the

00:40:29.680 Santorum figure? We just get Santorum to run again. That'd be great. I would love that. Speaking of

00:40:34.860 partisans, Maxine Waters is coming out strong against Republicans, insisting that Republicans

00:40:40.600 today are not patriots. When you take a look at what they're doing, it shows that the Republicans

00:40:47.120 who have claimed patriotism, claimed that they love this country, they don't care if they will allow

00:40:54.640 seniors and veterans not to be able to get their disability checks, for example. They don't care.

00:41:01.900 If they would allow education to be dismantled in this country, they don't care. If they don't care

00:41:08.480 about the people sleeping on the streets, the homeless, and they're cutting housing vouchers,

00:41:13.980 they're not patriots. They are basically not only disrupting this country, they're destroying it.

00:41:20.860 And they cannot claim patriotism anymore. We who fight for the people claim patriotism. We're the

00:41:28.060 patriots, not them. For the Republicans, patriotism is lost. It's gone.

00:41:33.520 Auntie Maxine is a little outdated on her talking points, I think. She's speaking like it's 2012.

00:41:41.040 She's speaking like Republicans' big issue is austerity and cutting spending and cutting social

00:41:47.340 welfare programs. And it just isn't. That just isn't the way the Republican Party is functioning today.

00:41:52.660 Republicans are not harping on the need for entitlement reform. That was what we did in

00:41:59.240 the Paul Ryan days. Donald Trump ran for president explicitly saying, I am not going to touch

00:42:04.320 entitlements. You might say that's a terrible thing because our debt to GDP is insane right now.

00:42:09.440 And it's leading us off a fiscal cliff. And you might say, I disagree with Trump. But

00:42:12.580 even if you do, it is simply a fact that the Republican Party is not as she describes it.

00:42:18.020 That's the first thing I noticed. The second thing that I noticed is that's not what constitutes

00:42:23.720 patriotism. Patriotism is love of country. And when it comes to love of country, it is simply a fact

00:42:27.800 that Republicans are more patriotic than Democrats. Some people are going to want to say, no, neither

00:42:33.280 party is more patriotic than the other. They're just, we're all, just, we're all friends and we're

00:42:38.040 all, we just have different views on it. But that, no, that isn't true. What Maxine Waters said is the

00:42:44.240 opposite of the truth. Republicans are in fact more patriotic than Democrats because Republicans

00:42:50.060 love their country. They love their nation. They have an attachment to their nation in a way that

00:42:56.600 Democrats do not because Democrats tend to be globalists. Democrats tend to use phrases like

00:43:01.940 citizen of the world. Democrats tend to oppose the very notion of nation and nationalism. Democrats,

00:43:10.780 they have other attachments. They have attachments to the UN. They have attachments to the humanity.

00:43:17.980 They have attachments to all those things, but not to nation. And this is going to continue to be a

00:43:24.480 defining feature of elections. It's been building for almost a decade now. The Donald Trump election

00:43:32.580 was about nationalism versus globalism. It wasn't about raise welfare spending or cut welfare spending.

00:43:37.700 It wasn't about reform entitlements or leave entitlements as they are. It wasn't, it was about

00:43:43.220 nationalism versus globalism. And you saw this on the debates over trade. And you saw this on the

00:43:47.760 debates over immigration. And you saw this on the debates even over voting and how the, how the

00:43:51.940 elections would be conducted. Does everybody get to do it? Do you get to just enter into this country

00:43:57.260 and then you're automatically registered to do, to vote or to get an ID card? Or do you have to show

00:44:01.660 your ID card when you go vote? Or do you have to be a citizen and prove that you're a citizen?

00:44:05.340 That's what this is about. And that's what Brexit was about. And that's what the election of Orban

00:44:09.660 is about. Orban rather in Hungary. That's what the election of Meloni in Italy is about. That's what

00:44:14.940 this is going to continue for a very long time. Now, speaking of globalism, before we go,

00:44:20.540 I'll just give you a little tease, just a little something to keep you up at night.

00:44:25.560 The Wuhan Institute of Virology is a warning that another coronavirus outbreak is highly likely,

00:44:32.820 which is right about on time. I mentioned when the Democrats started bringing back

00:44:38.220 the masks, a little just here and there, Lionsgate in LA, Morris Brown College in Atlanta,

00:44:45.140 Rutgers in New Jersey. And now, okay, we're going to bring back a little, maybe mask in public in New

00:44:49.200 York. Okay. Well, get your booster shot. We haven't talked about the boosters in a while. Get

00:44:53.160 your booster. I said, they're doing COVID again. And now here's the latest proof, which is the

00:44:57.060 Wuhan Institute of Virology, which leaked the virus the first time, most people think.

00:45:01.700 It says another one is highly likely. This is according to a study published

00:45:05.280 by the WIV in July. There were as many as 20 species of coronavirus that are highly likely to

00:45:12.540 cause an outbreak among humans, especially around polling places in 2024. So watch out for those

00:45:18.700 mail-in ballots. I will be in Washington tonight. I'm going to be speaking at Georgetown. If you happen

00:45:23.740 to be in the DC area, tickets are free. You can find them at the YAF website, yaf.org. Or if you go to

00:45:29.040 my website, michaeljnouls.com, there should be a link somewhere. You just have to register

00:45:32.440 so that people can vet you and make sure that you're not Antifa trying to blow me out.

00:45:36.880 We will be discussing, I had this very controversial take, which I knew would be

00:45:40.560 somewhat spicy. I didn't think it would be as controversial as it became, which is that

00:45:43.780 I'm sorry to say that I'm beginning to think that Joe Biden is a more evil ruler,

00:45:49.580 even than our evil opponents overseas, Chairman Xi in China and Putin in Russia. I'm beginning to fear

00:45:57.520 that Biden is at least as evil and maybe more evil a ruler than they. And people reacted with

00:46:05.860 such shock and horror. A senior presidential campaign staff member was quite opposed to this

00:46:12.580 and made that clear on Twitter and all sorts of people in the political media. So anyway,

00:46:17.540 I'll be making my case for that tonight over at Georgetown. Make sure if you're in the

00:46:22.340 neighborhood to come stop by. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it.

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