The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1388 - Epstein’s Flight Log Protected By A Top Democrat

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00:00:30.300 Remember a few years ago when Jeffrey Epstein allegedly killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell

00:00:35.660 and how we never learned a single thing more about a single person involved

00:00:40.460 in his international sex trafficking ring that included many of the most famous and powerful people on earth?

00:00:46.200 Well, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin,

00:00:50.100 the reason we never learned anything more is because no one cares.

00:00:54.840 Chairman Durbin, can I ask you a quick question?

00:00:57.080 Why won't you subpoena Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs?

00:01:00.820 So, who are you?

00:01:02.320 Hillary Vaughn with Fox.

00:01:03.820 With Fox, of course.

00:01:05.620 I don't know anything about his flight logs.

00:01:08.000 But why won't you subpoena them?

00:01:09.220 Why don't you want to know?

00:01:10.680 I don't know the issue.

00:01:12.220 I know who Epstein was, but I certainly don't know anything about the issue.

00:01:16.200 Well, he was charged with sex trafficking, so why don't you want to know who was utilizing his private plane?

00:01:22.420 Never been raised by anyone.

00:01:24.260 Well, Senator Blackburn has wanted to subpoena them, and there hasn't been a vote in your committee.

00:01:28.920 He said a word to me, not a word.

00:01:30.880 But aren't you curious, like, what high-profile or powerful people might be closeted predators and pedophiles?

00:01:38.040 Doesn't that concern you?

00:01:39.260 Of course.

00:01:40.360 So why won't you subpoena them if you can't?

00:01:42.560 It's the first time anyone has raised it.

00:01:44.420 Thank you, Fox.

00:01:45.860 So, are you curious about it?

00:01:47.880 Will you do it?

00:01:50.180 Why haven't we seen the flight log?

00:01:52.200 No one's ever asked for it.

00:01:54.540 That's the first time ever hearing of it.

00:01:56.280 No one has even raised the topic, except, of course, for lots of people, as Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn quickly reminded him.

00:02:05.760 I understand you made some statements about the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs.

00:02:11.220 I had not spoken to you one time about this issue.

00:02:14.300 Since we're in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here are a few more that I've filed.

00:02:21.600 A subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane, given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and sexual abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein.

00:02:38.500 Now, I bet there are some more examples.

00:02:41.780 Even that one, pretty devastating.

00:02:43.160 And I think Dick Durbin is right, in a way.

00:02:45.660 There are a lot of people who do not want to see the Epstein flight log, namely, the people who are on it.

00:02:53.600 And I'm not even accusing Tricky Dick Durbin of having flown on the Lolita Express.

00:02:58.240 I have no reason to think that he did.

00:03:00.940 But we know for a fact that some of his friends did.

00:03:05.140 Most people think D.C. elites are stonewalling the release of the Epstein flight log because they're on it.

00:03:11.860 And perhaps, in some cases, that's part of their reluctance.

00:03:14.260 I think the bigger reason, though, for the delay is that the Epstein sex ring was obviously a massive intelligence operation.

00:03:23.740 First of all, all of his properties had cameras all over the place, including in the rooms where the weird stuff went on.

00:03:30.220 The guy had logs and logs of this kind of material.

00:03:33.680 Epstein's madam, his business partner who procured the girls, is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a known spy for Mossad, six serving and former leaders of which attended his funeral.

00:03:46.300 And it wasn't just Israel that Robert Maxwell spied for.

00:03:48.960 The British foreign office suspected him of working for the KGB and of being a double or even a triple agent, a justified suspicion since Maxwell also spied for British intelligence, MI6.

00:04:00.040 But forget about Robert Maxwell for a second.

00:04:02.540 We also have an ungood authority that Jeffrey Epstein himself was connected to American intelligence.

00:04:08.680 Alex Acosta, President Trump's labor secretary, famously reportedly testified that when he was U.S.

00:04:14.880 attorney prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein the first time, he was told to lay off because Epstein, quote, belonged to intelligence.

00:04:22.040 The fact that prominent Americans were Epstein's customers is scandalous enough.

00:04:27.940 But that is nothing compared with the fact that political elites seem to have been involved on the business side of things, too.

00:04:35.640 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:05:21.320 We will get to that in just a moment.

00:05:22.460 First, though, speaking of deep state spying, Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, was just asked by Republican Senator Josh Hawley to give some account of what we now know to be a pretty broad and significant operation of the FBI to spy on Catholics.

00:05:46.300 This came out because there was a leaked memo that showed that the Biden, DOJ, and FBI were spying on traditional Catholic parishes.

00:05:55.380 And initially, the FBI denied this and said, no, no, it was a mistake.

00:05:59.080 We had no idea.

00:06:00.300 We're disgusted.

00:06:01.680 It was a one-off.

00:06:02.820 It's been taken out of the FBI database.

00:06:05.000 But then it turns out there were other field offices involved as well.

00:06:08.260 This was obviously a broad operation.

00:06:10.540 So Hawley asks Christopher Wray about this.

00:06:13.120 Here's Wray's non-answer.

00:06:14.660 How many other parishes around the country have priests or choir directors been approached?

00:06:19.860 By the way, are Catholic choirs now, are they breeding grounds for domestic terrorism?

00:06:24.180 Is this your latest theory?

00:06:25.460 How many other parishes have FBI agents approached priests and choir directors to ask about parishioners?

00:06:32.360 Look, Senator, we do not and will not conduct investigations based on anybody's exercise of their constitutionally protected religion.

00:06:39.220 You have done so, and your memo explicitly asks for it.

00:06:42.920 Your memo labels traditional Catholics as racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists in need of investigation.

00:06:52.240 You have a list of churches, a list in the memo.

00:06:56.520 You've repeatedly said we don't target churches.

00:06:58.660 We don't list churches.

00:06:59.580 They're listed in the memo.

00:07:01.300 So how many other parishes have you gone to to talk to choir directors, for heaven's sake?

00:07:08.900 Know the answer to that question.

00:07:12.040 No, I don't know the answer to that question.

00:07:14.900 No, I don't.

00:07:16.320 The original answer he knew was no, we've never done this.

00:07:19.000 It's never happened.

00:07:20.240 How dare you suggest, Senator Hawley, that we would ever do this?

00:07:23.480 Hawley says, it's in your own words.

00:07:24.800 You think we would target parishes?

00:07:28.120 I have the list of the parishes you were targeting.

00:07:30.020 Oh, you got that?

00:07:31.660 You got that memo, huh?

00:07:33.340 Yeah, okay.

00:07:33.960 I don't know.

00:07:34.760 Plead the fifth.

00:07:36.080 Beats me.

00:07:38.420 Obviously, it was extensive, this operation.

00:07:41.480 And Senator Hawley here is doing an excellent job in his grilling of Ray of expressing the outrage that a lot of Americans feel.

00:07:52.260 And I am outraged, but I'm not surprised in the least.

00:07:56.840 Of course, Americans, of course, the American regime is going to protect liberalism.

00:08:03.780 Liberalism is the dominating force now in recent decades of the American regime.

00:08:10.320 And, of course, liberals are going to view Christians as enemies of that regime.

00:08:15.540 Rightly so.

00:08:16.920 The two don't really go together all that well.

00:08:21.040 Liberalism, certainly traditional Christianity or conservative Christianity or whatever modifiers these libs want to throw onto the faith that has animated our whole civilization.

00:08:33.900 Certainly that is opposed to liberalism.

00:08:37.240 And as our Lord reminds us, a man cannot serve two masters.

00:08:42.360 So, in as much as liberalism and Christianity conflict, in as much as they make different claims about the good and the true and the beautiful and how we ought to behave and what society ought to look like, in as much as they disagree, and they disagree pretty significantly, compare, oh, I don't know, the streets of San Francisco today.

00:09:02.040 And the laws that govern the laws that govern the streets of San Francisco with, say, the laws of Christendom and its height.

00:09:07.200 They're pretty different.

00:09:08.760 Well, in as much as they conflict, the political establishment is going to pick liberalism.

00:09:13.600 And it's going to view Christianity as the enemy, rightly so. 1.00

00:09:16.860 Christianity is an enemy of modern, decadent, degenerate liberalism. 0.97

00:09:21.300 It's just a fact. 0.87

00:09:22.780 Now, people in Hollywood are trying to explore this theme as well.

00:09:27.400 Rob Reiner, Meathead, you know, from All in the Family, Reiner is making a documentary on Christian nationalism.

00:09:35.960 And Reiner is an atheist, and he's a big lib, and there's no doubt about that.

00:09:39.760 He has said nice things about Christianity in the past, in fairness.

00:09:44.220 He's said that he's not a Christian, but he tries to live like a Christian.

00:09:47.040 He's said that, you know, love your neighbor as yourself is as good a maxim as he's ever heard.

00:09:52.980 So he's attracted to some kind of single aspect of Christianity.

00:10:01.780 But he doesn't, even though he's attracted to that, it's an important rule, he does not, he's not sufficiently attracted to embrace the whole faith.

00:10:09.140 In fact, he seems fairly opposed to the faith, and he's certainly opposed to the faith in forming American politics.

00:10:14.320 And that wouldn't be a big story.

00:10:17.080 Libs are going to make anti-Christian movies. 1.00

00:10:19.020 They do it all the time.

00:10:20.140 The bigger part of the story is that major evangelical leaders, major Christian leaders at some point or another, have actually joined Rob Reiner in attacking Christian nationalism.

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00:11:54.620 Rob Reiner, going after Christian nationalism.

00:11:57.240 America and Christianity are like baseball and apple pie, and we celebrate them together.

00:12:06.700 I was 16, 17 years old when I became a Christian.

00:12:10.480 I'm an evangelical minister.

00:12:11.960 I've been a Christian my whole life.

00:12:16.180 I'm a Christian nationalist.

00:12:18.100 I have nothing to be ashamed of because that's what most Americans are.

00:12:22.340 Is Christian nationalism Christian?

00:12:24.020 Um, no, it isn't.

00:12:28.840 We should be blazing forth as a countercultural example, and instead, we're leading the charge of malice and division. 1.00

00:12:36.080 Christian nationalism uses Christianity as a means to an end. 0.83

00:12:41.380 That end being some form of authoritarianism.

00:12:44.700 Being a Christian is about the values of inclusion.

00:12:51.120 Christian nationalism is certainly not based on the values of the gospel.

00:12:54.160 This is not a movement about Christian values.

00:12:56.380 This is about Christian power. 0.82

00:12:58.820 Okay.

00:12:59.680 I don't recognize anyone in this movie other than David French, who is exactly the sort of person I would expect to be in this movie.

00:13:06.320 David French, a former writer for National Review, a libertarian or neoconservative-minded right-winger.

00:13:13.820 But he wrote for conservative publications, and he was a member of conservative organizations.

00:13:19.760 And then Trump, I guess, radicalized him, and now he's pretty clearly on the left.

00:13:24.740 He was writing for The Atlantic for a while.

00:13:26.380 Now I think he's writing for The New York Times, and his raison d'etre appears to be to attack from the authority of an American evangelical, a conservative, but not that kind of conservative, you know, a court jester in the kingdom of liberalism.

00:13:41.680 From his self-styled identity as a conservative Christian, he attacks conservatives, and he attacks Christians.

00:13:50.560 Now the reason I don't know any of the other people in here, and the only reason I know David French is because he ran in conservative circles for some time, is this is all Protestants who are in this movie.

00:14:03.960 There are no Catholics, and it's no knock on Protestants, certainly no knock on evangelicals.

00:14:09.320 Many of my best friends are evangelicals and Protestants, but I'm not. 0.98

00:14:13.240 I'm a Catholic, and so I'm just not as familiar with these leaders of the evangelical movement.

00:14:20.280 So, why is that?

00:14:23.740 Why is it that it's evangelicals in this movie? 0.87

00:14:26.040 Well, it's no knock on evangelicals exactly.

00:14:28.960 It's more to do with Christian nationalism.

00:14:31.900 Christian nationalism is a fundamentally Protestant movement.

00:14:37.920 Now, in practice, I support Christian nationalism, and in practice, I guess David French and those evangelicals in this movie oppose Christian nationalism.

00:14:46.480 The reason that I support Christian nationalism practically is because we have a nation.

00:14:52.140 I respect our nation.

00:14:53.260 I'm a patriot.

00:14:54.120 Love my country.

00:14:54.900 It's an extension of filial piety.

00:14:56.700 And the soul of our nation is Christian.

00:14:59.420 It was founded explicitly as a Christian nation in 1620 by the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, who sailed here on the Mayflower, which is the name of an excellent brand of cigars.

00:15:08.160 And the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony called this a model of Christian charity, a shining city on a hill.

00:15:16.560 Our founding fathers spoke in broadly Christian terms.

00:15:19.120 John Adams said that our morality in America would have to be a Christian morality.

00:15:22.920 John Jay said exactly the same thing.

00:15:25.200 George Washington gave thanks to God.

00:15:27.060 Abraham Lincoln never wrote or spoke without in some way channeling the King James Bible.

00:15:33.960 We've got in God we trust on our money.

00:15:36.460 It's a Christian country.

00:15:37.500 Most people are Christian.

00:15:38.320 It's just a Christian country.

00:15:39.180 There's no other way to put it.

00:15:40.780 So if we're a nation and we're going to be Christian, well, I guess that's Christian nationalism, right?

00:15:45.460 But the liberals don't like that because the liberals don't like Christianity and they don't like nation states.

00:15:49.700 What they want is liberal globalism.

00:15:51.500 Now, the reason I say Christian nationalism is fundamentally Protestant is because nationalism is fundamentally Protestant.

00:15:58.020 Nationalism is a product of the Westphalian system, the Treaty of Augsburg and the Peace of Westphalia, which put an end to the religious wars, which came about as a result of the cracking up of the unity of Christendom.

00:16:09.180 So before all of that happened, Europe, Christendom broadly, was united in one faith with lots of different political entities.

00:16:18.320 But there was a connection between the unified faith and all of the different political entities, notably the Holy Roman Empire, but even other little political entities.

00:16:28.580 And therefore, the civilization had a unity.

00:16:33.220 We all had the same faith.

00:16:35.540 And that faith was expressed visibly in political life because our faith is an incarnational faith because our Lord is incarnate.

00:16:43.980 He's not just floating in the sky.

00:16:45.780 He enters into history in time and space.

00:16:47.860 He picks specific apostles.

00:16:49.480 He gives them the keys to the kingdom of heaven.

00:16:51.260 He says, go forth and make disciples of all nations.

00:16:53.160 He says, go feed my sheep.

00:16:55.200 He says, on this rock, I will build my church, Simon Peter.

00:16:57.680 You're now Peter, which means rock.

00:16:59.240 He says these things, and then there's a visible expression.

00:17:01.960 And the apostles go off to all the corners of the world.

00:17:05.120 And St. Thomas makes it all the way to India.

00:17:07.760 And Peter and Paul go to Rome.

00:17:09.360 And what separates Christianity from other religious traditions is that you can trace it through journalism.

00:17:20.580 You can trace it not just through philosophy or abstract theology, but with real people in real time and space.

00:17:28.500 There's an apostolic succession going all the way back to our Lord.

00:17:33.800 Which means that if you are Christian, you must believe that the faith has some kind of physical expression and a community expression.

00:17:47.000 Unfortunately, though, certain branches of branches of sects of branches of modern Christianity have ignored all of that.

00:17:54.920 And they want to just abstract everything about the faith.

00:17:57.280 And they want to make religion something that you just do in your own little head, maybe quietly at night in your room, but that has no visible expression anywhere.

00:18:04.840 But we can't do that.

00:18:05.960 Christianity spreads as a community, and because we're social creatures, because we're the political animal, even the very ability to pray will expand or diminish based on political circumstances.

00:18:21.140 Do we live in a culture that's conducive to prayer, that's conducive to the flourishing of the religion, or not?

00:18:26.880 Don't forget, Christianity is not a polytheistic religion, okay?

00:18:31.500 Our God is a jealous God, and we'll have no other gods before him.

00:18:36.520 So, when you have people here saying, look, I'm a Christian.

00:18:39.700 Oh, I'm a Christian, I love Christianity and everything.

00:18:41.820 But Christian nationalism is not.

00:18:46.320 It's not Christian at all. 0.99

00:18:48.540 It's opposed to Christianity. 0.98

00:18:49.840 It's authoritarian.

00:18:51.700 What does that mean?

00:18:52.820 It certainly makes demands of you.

00:18:55.080 It certainly gives a shape to public life.

00:18:58.380 I wouldn't call that authoritarian, but yeah, it's not liberal, I guess.

00:19:02.940 Yeah, that's true.

00:19:03.560 It's about power.

00:19:04.540 Yeah, well, yeah, there is.

00:19:05.760 I mean, we think that Jesus Christ is king of the universe.

00:19:08.240 Yeah, there's power there.

00:19:09.600 Yes, there's authority.

00:19:11.280 What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

00:19:12.680 What you lose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

00:19:13.920 That implies authority.

00:19:15.640 Yeah.

00:19:16.400 But it's not liberal.

00:19:17.600 Well, there it is.

00:19:18.480 You've hit the nail on the head.

00:19:20.400 And so, this is the question for the people in Rob Reiner's movie.

00:19:23.200 This is the question for David French.

00:19:24.720 Are you first a Christian or are you first a liberal?

00:19:30.300 Which is it?

00:19:31.500 Many are going to want to say, well, I'm both.

00:19:33.900 Oh, okay.

00:19:35.120 You can serve two gods?

00:19:36.480 You can serve two masters?

00:19:37.940 You got to pick one.

00:19:39.100 Which is it?

00:19:40.220 And there are many people.

00:19:41.420 Look, I don't mean to only single out the evangelical Protestants.

00:19:44.600 There are many Catholics who think in this way too.

00:19:46.600 Though it's not a traditionally Catholic way of thinking.

00:19:50.060 Which means that the FBI is not going to investigate this way of thinking.

00:19:53.520 But these ideas, in as much as they conflict, are going to require that we choose one or the other.

00:20:04.620 Which is it?

00:20:05.700 Which is it, folks?

00:20:06.700 Are we in a Christian nation or are we in a liberal, globalist, hodgepodge of just vague nothingness? 0.81

00:20:14.460 For me, if I got to pick one, just a practical reality, I'll choose the former.

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00:22:26.100 Speaking of the FBI and D.C. investigating things, an FBI agent was just carjacked.

00:22:36.940 An FBI agent was carjacked in Washington, D.C., according to authorities.

00:22:43.020 This is another high-profile incident in D.C. in which a rampant crime has affected not only the ordinary citizens,

00:22:50.700 but also federal officials and their families.

00:22:53.520 You remember a few weeks ago, the president's granddaughter was carjacked,

00:22:58.300 and Secret Service was with her, and they actually ended up firing on the suspect, and he still got away.

00:23:03.400 And now you've got an FBI agent.

00:23:05.020 There's some good news here.

00:23:07.100 The good news that comes out of stories like this is that, contrary to what many conservatives fear,

00:23:16.080 the liberal establishment is not omnipotent.

00:23:20.060 Far from it.

00:23:21.240 They're not.

00:23:21.580 They're not there.

00:23:22.500 They can't just exercise total power over you.

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00:23:29.360 They can't even stop their own agents from getting carjacked.

00:23:32.040 They can't even stop the president's granddaughter from getting carjacked.

00:23:34.160 And they can't even shoot the guy when he starts to do it.

00:23:37.840 They're not omnipotent.

00:23:40.180 That's the good side.

00:23:42.620 The bad side of this is things are spiraling out of control.

00:23:45.640 The bad side of this is they can't even stop their own guys from getting carjacked,

00:23:48.940 which means that chaos is going to abound.

00:23:55.220 And chaos abounding is not good for anyone.

00:23:58.260 That is very bad news.

00:23:59.680 It's true that'll harm our opponents and enemies, but it's going to harm us too.

00:24:04.160 And things can spiral out of control very, very quickly, as our elites are seeing,

00:24:10.460 which is why some Democrats actually are beginning to change their rhetoric.

00:24:18.020 You want to talk about nationalism?

00:24:19.300 John Fetterman, who is the Pennsylvania senator who doesn't want to wear a suit, and he suffered

00:24:25.600 a stroke, and he's had all sorts of brain problems and went into rehab or some kind

00:24:29.760 of rehabilitation facility to try to work on his cognitive abilities.

00:24:34.560 Well, John Fetterman is a lot smarter than he might seem.

00:24:38.520 Because John Fetterman has just come out and said, quote,

00:24:40.960 I hope Democrats can understand that it isn't xenophobic to be concerned about the border.

00:24:45.720 This is what he told Politico.

00:24:46.740 It is a reasonable conversation.

00:24:48.220 Democrats should engage.

00:24:49.420 This is the same John Fetterman who hired George Santos through Cameo, which is an app that allows

00:24:57.580 you to get famous people or slightly famous people to give you personalized messages for

00:25:02.580 hundreds of dollars.

00:25:03.780 So now disgraced and exiled Republican Congressman George Santos made this Cameo video, presumably

00:25:12.600 secretly for John Fetterman.

00:25:15.040 And the video was attacking Fetterman's Senate colleague, Democrat Bob Menendez.

00:25:20.620 Hey, Bobby.

00:25:22.360 Look, I don't think I need to tell you, but these people that want to make you get in trouble

00:25:28.220 and want to kick you out and make you run away, you make him put up or shut up. 0.78

00:25:33.780 You stand your ground, sir, and don't get bogged down by all the haters out there.

00:25:38.920 Stay strong.

00:25:39.960 Merry Christmas.

00:25:41.700 Hilarious.

00:25:42.320 Really, really great.

00:25:43.480 I'm sure Santos had no idea what he was doing here.

00:25:46.320 Fetterman or whoever's running Fetterman's communications, really brilliant troll of Menendez.

00:25:51.380 But it makes you ask, why is John Fetterman turning on his Senate colleague, Bob Menendez,

00:25:57.660 another Democrat?

00:25:59.280 To me, it's simple enough.

00:26:00.500 The reason the Democrats want Menendez out is because every day that that guy remains

00:26:04.100 in office, it becomes harder and harder for the Democrat who will replace him to actually

00:26:10.000 win.

00:26:11.280 The corruption is going to be exposed for so much longer to the voters that it's going

00:26:16.080 to harm all the Democrats, maybe even threaten their majority.

00:26:19.040 So it's not that the Democrats here have suddenly found integrity.

00:26:21.860 It's that they realize it's hurting their own political interest to let this guy stay in

00:26:25.180 office.

00:26:26.920 Menendez doesn't want to go anywhere.

00:26:28.220 So John Fetterman comes out and he starts trolling him really, really hard.

00:26:33.880 Harder than any Democrat in the Senate.

00:26:35.900 He's made other statements too.

00:26:37.480 And then to come out and say, hey, border security should not be a partisan issue.

00:26:42.520 We should all want border security.

00:26:45.000 What Fetterman realizes is something that the Democrats broadly have forgotten, which is

00:26:50.040 that the loss of working class credibility is absolutely devastating.

00:26:57.640 It is deadly to the Democrat political project.

00:27:01.700 Devastating.

00:27:02.520 And Fetterman knows this because Pennsylvania is a Rust Belt state.

00:27:06.320 And so the Democrats there tend to be a little bit more blue collar than they are in California

00:27:10.320 or New York.

00:27:12.380 Fetterman's saying, out of his own political interest, I'm sure.

00:27:15.020 Hey, if we truly become the party of limousine riding, latte sipping, private jet taking,

00:27:22.460 climate change, John Kerry, yacht going, frou-frou libs, then we're going to lose.

00:27:29.620 Or we're not going to, I'm going to lose in Pennsylvania.

00:27:31.960 So he comes out and he starts to adopt these more basic meat and potatoes kind of issues.

00:27:39.080 Pretty smart.

00:27:39.900 But luckily for us, Fetterman seems to be the only Democrat who's getting the message,

00:27:43.740 at least on the border issue.

00:27:45.940 A lot of Democrats are getting the message when it comes to Joe Biden's unpopularity,

00:27:50.300 including the fill-in host for The Daily Show.

00:27:52.700 Daily Show, founded by Craig Kilbourne, many of you are not old enough to remember that,

00:27:57.140 then becomes very popular, at least among D.C. journalists, and makes a big splash under Jon

00:28:03.740 Stewart.

00:28:05.040 Then it's taken over by Trevor Noah, who has never said a funny thing ever once in his life.

00:28:09.920 And they let him keep that show for a while.

00:28:11.720 Eventually he leaves.

00:28:12.620 Now it's just been a cycle of fill-in hosts.

00:28:14.680 This guy is Charlemagne the God, is his stage name.

00:28:18.880 And he's a radio host.

00:28:19.920 We've played clips of him before.

00:28:21.460 He's pretty funny.

00:28:22.820 He's obviously a big lib.

00:28:23.820 And here is Charlemagne the God's take on President Biden.

00:28:29.520 So Donald Trump is currently running on a platform of dictatorship, and the only man

00:28:33.140 standing in his way is President Joe Biden.

00:28:36.280 Seen here looking at his own approval ratings.

00:28:39.500 I know he thinks he's got this in the bag, but the polls say otherwise.

00:28:43.520 I want Biden stepping in to beat Trump the way I want him stepping in to defend me at a

00:28:47.800 bar fight.

00:28:49.680 I appreciate you caring, but I don't like our chances.

00:28:52.280 The point is, we don't need Biden to beat Donald Trump, just like we didn't need RBG

00:28:58.740 to stay on the court, okay?

00:29:00.660 Maybe if RBG had retired during the Obama years, we'd still have Roe v. Wade.

00:29:05.540 Maybe.

00:29:06.660 But people said, no, she needs to be here to protect Roe.

00:29:08.840 And now, look, both of them are gone.

00:29:12.760 It's true.

00:29:13.420 They're both gone.

00:29:15.980 See, the facts are, Biden's not getting any younger.

00:29:18.740 He's not going to get any more popular.

00:29:20.060 And he's not getting a new running mate.

00:29:21.720 So please, Mr. President, give America the ultimate Christmas gift and step aside.

00:29:28.120 You know, this is not the funniest monologue I've ever seen.

00:29:31.940 But compared to years of Trevor Noah, this guy is Norm MacDonald, Bob Hope, and Rodney

00:29:40.160 Dangerfield all rolled up into one.

00:29:41.500 You know, this guy is really, really much funnier than Trevor Noah.

00:29:46.560 And his point is much better.

00:29:49.000 Yeah.

00:29:50.000 Joe Biden is a major liability for the Democrats.

00:29:52.800 I agree.

00:29:54.000 Donald Trump could conceivably beat Joe Biden if the libs don't rig it.

00:29:57.920 I totally agree.

00:30:00.000 Maybe even if the libs do rig it.

00:30:01.600 It's just Biden's approval ratings are so low, and Trump seems to be doing pretty well head

00:30:05.020 to head.

00:30:05.340 All that said, though, I bet that Biden is still the nominee.

00:30:11.080 I'm not sure about that.

00:30:12.600 I know there are a lot of Democrats and Republicans who are saying, no, he's at the last minute,

00:30:16.940 he's going to step aside.

00:30:17.880 No, he's not.

00:30:18.720 He can't run again.

00:30:19.520 He's too old.

00:30:20.200 He's too senile.

00:30:20.980 It's not going to happen.

00:30:22.980 I'm not betting the farm, but I would bet a small amount of money Joe Biden will be the

00:30:28.240 Democrat nominee for president.

00:30:30.720 Barring some, you know, major health incident.

00:30:33.300 I just don't think this guy is going to step aside voluntarily.

00:30:36.760 I think Joe Biden has wanted to be the president since he was in the womb.

00:30:41.840 I think it would be embarrassing to leave after one term.

00:30:44.560 It would be a sign of failure.

00:30:45.800 And I don't think he wants to do it.

00:30:47.020 And he doesn't like Kamala Harris.

00:30:48.240 He hates her.

00:30:48.900 Kamala Harris launched her campaign calling Joe Biden a racist. 0.56

00:30:52.680 Joe Biden has no love for Kamala Harris.

00:30:54.400 He's not going to do it for Pete Buttigieg.

00:30:55.880 Give me a break. 0.99

00:30:56.960 The silly mayor of South Bend. 0.98

00:31:00.560 Uh-uh. 0.98

00:31:00.880 You know, you don't get to go on maternity leave when you're the president of the United 0.51

00:31:04.460 States.

00:31:04.820 He's not doing that.

00:31:05.680 He's not.

00:31:06.100 Maybe Gavin Newsom.

00:31:07.360 He's the most in the Biden mold.

00:31:09.620 But I don't think Biden cares about anybody really.

00:31:11.440 I think Biden cares about Biden.

00:31:12.580 And furthermore, even from the perspective of the Democratic Party, it just looks bad to

00:31:20.880 lose your nominee.

00:31:21.740 Even if Biden is polling in pretty bad numbers right now, it's a sign of weakness.

00:31:28.880 This is why you always hear this.

00:31:30.300 When a president is running for re-election, they say, will he change his running mate?

00:31:36.440 Oh, that running mate's not that popular.

00:31:38.000 Kamala Harris is.

00:31:38.700 First of all, presidents often benefit if they have a slightly weak running mate because it's

00:31:41.980 an argument against impeachment or assassination.

00:31:44.320 But two, if you change things up, you are admitting that you have failed.

00:31:49.740 And right now, the Democrats are still straight facing Biden.

00:31:52.600 He's achieved so much.

00:31:54.240 So much.

00:31:55.820 Oh, things have never been better.

00:31:58.240 A gallon of milk costs $300 now, but things have never.

00:32:00.920 We've got World War III breaking out in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East.

00:32:04.060 But no, things are just, thank goodness it's not like it was under Trump when the economy

00:32:07.940 was great and we had world peace.

00:32:09.460 Yeah, no, thank goodness now everything's broken.

00:32:12.960 But they're straight facing it.

00:32:14.300 And if they're going to straight face it, then they got to keep the nominee.

00:32:17.640 To lose the nominee is to admit that the guy failed.

00:32:19.960 That he was too old.

00:32:20.620 He was too weak. 1.00

00:32:21.760 Too incompetent. 0.99

00:32:22.780 Never underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.

00:32:25.000 To quote the former Democrat president.

00:32:27.320 So my money, a modest amount of money, he's still the nominee.

00:32:31.260 Now, speaking of the presidential nominees, a poll has just come out from three groups.

00:32:37.100 You know, they always say it's like the ABC, Harvard poll or whatever.

00:32:42.160 Well, this is the 538 Washington Post Ipsos poll.

00:32:45.000 So goodness gracious, that's three groups.

00:32:46.640 And they say that Ron DeSantis won the fourth Republican debate.

00:32:52.760 And I basically agree with that.

00:32:54.840 He won in the sense that he was the most steady, the most presidential.

00:33:01.420 Sure.

00:33:02.360 Okay.

00:33:03.500 I think that the debate was the best debate by far.

00:33:06.380 I think Megyn Kelly by far was the best moderator we've seen at any of these debates. 1.00

00:33:10.300 Really at any debate in recent years.

00:33:11.700 But so what?

00:33:16.360 So what?

00:33:16.960 Ron DeSantis won the debate.

00:33:18.420 Cool.

00:33:19.540 How are the poll numbers moving?

00:33:21.440 Uh, not at all.

00:33:23.980 Why?

00:33:26.020 Sometimes winning a debate helps.

00:33:27.880 The problem is these debates were not actually presidential debates because the guy who's

00:33:34.160 leading the pack by 40 or 50 points even didn't show up.

00:33:38.380 So it was a fun little exercise.

00:33:40.200 It was a simulacrum of a presidential debate.

00:33:43.820 It was a distant, faint echo of a president.

00:33:45.980 But even if you hate Trump and you like DeSantis or Vivek or Haley or Chris Christie, if you're

00:33:50.700 the one guy out there, me, who just loves the chrysons and is waiting for the croissons

00:33:54.780 to just totally, then even still, I think you have to admit, it just doesn't matter.

00:34:01.400 That and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee.

00:34:05.320 Here's some further proof of that.

00:34:06.420 You don't even need to just look at the polls.

00:34:07.980 The political powers that be on the conservative side, especially actually on the establishment

00:34:13.140 and more centrist side, the fence-sitting side, they hate Donald Trump in the establishment. 0.99

00:34:19.520 They hate his guts. 0.89

00:34:20.160 They've tried to destroy him for seven, eight years. 0.56

00:34:21.660 But the establishment will survive, okay? 0.99

00:34:25.120 They are like cockroaches. 0.98

00:34:26.960 They will not go quietly. 0.99

00:34:30.620 They will not go down for valor or integrity.

00:34:33.860 They will survive, and they are seeing the writing on the wall.

00:34:37.640 So the political establishment, at least this slightly more conservative part of the

00:34:42.360 political establishment, McCarthy, former Speaker of the House, slightly more conservative

00:34:48.160 than the previous Speakers of the House, than the previous slimy establishment in D.C.

00:34:54.880 McCarthy just endorsed Trump.

00:34:56.880 Will Donald Trump be the nominee?

00:34:58.760 Yes.

00:34:59.500 And the Republican Party?

00:35:00.420 Yes.

00:35:00.660 And if Biden stays as the nominee for the Democrats, I believe Donald Trump will win.

00:35:06.860 I believe the Republicans will gain more seats in the House, and the Republicans will win

00:35:10.120 the Senate.

00:35:10.680 Can he count on your support?

00:35:12.040 Yes.

00:35:12.980 That's an endorsement.

00:35:14.480 I will support the president.

00:35:15.940 I will support President Trump.

00:35:17.500 Would you be willing to serve in a Trump cabinet?

00:35:19.880 In the right position.

00:35:21.160 Look, if I'm the best person for the job, yes.

00:35:24.260 Look, I've worked with President Trump on a lot of policies.

00:35:27.560 We work together to win the majority, but we also have a relationship where we're very

00:35:32.960 honest with one another.

00:35:35.060 This is the GOP establishment coming to terms with reality.

00:35:39.900 Now, Kevin McCarthy has supported Trump in the past, and Trump has supported McCarthy in

00:35:43.260 the past.

00:35:43.800 And I've said it before.

00:35:44.980 This is always my caveat.

00:35:45.900 I know McCarthy's very unpopular now.

00:35:47.400 Now, by establishment standards, he's about as good as they get.

00:35:52.200 Damning with faint praise, perhaps, but still, McCarthy endorsing here so openly is a sign

00:36:00.240 of the establishment coming to grips with reality.

00:36:03.900 And there's an even clearer sign of that, and it's coming from the GOP presidential field.

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00:37:31.980 My favorite comment on Friday is from Jacob Lehman, who says,

00:37:34.360 I fell for the 2006 time person of the year joke.

00:37:37.240 What joke?

00:37:38.460 It's one of my most cherished awards that I've ever gotten.

00:37:41.260 Put it right on my CV.

00:37:43.880 There's even clearer evidence that the establishment is coming to terms with the likelihood that Trump

00:37:49.180 is the GOP nominee.

00:37:50.620 That's from within the presidential field.

00:37:52.380 It's Nikki Haley asked if Trump is fit to be president.

00:37:59.340 Now, someone who thinks that he or she is on the brink of destroying Trump as a candidate,

00:38:07.980 taking that nomination away from him, the answer would be, no, no way.

00:38:12.060 Get out of here.

00:38:12.880 That guy's a total joker.

00:38:13.980 I'm the one who's fit.

00:38:15.640 Here is Nikki's answer.

00:38:16.900 Ambassador, certainly a big surge in the polls lately.

00:38:20.840 I want to start where the last debate left off, where one question went unanswered as far as,

00:38:26.280 is Donald Trump fit to be president?

00:38:28.580 Chris Christie said he's unfit.

00:38:30.320 I want to just put that directly to you in a yes or no.

00:38:33.340 It's not about fitness.

00:38:34.800 I think he's fit to be president.

00:38:36.660 It's should he be president.

00:38:38.160 I don't think he should be president.

00:38:40.000 You know, I thought he was the right president at the right time.

00:38:42.760 I agreed with a lot of his policies.

00:38:45.280 The problem is, you see, our country is in disarray.

00:38:49.080 Our world is on fire.

00:38:50.720 And you can't defeat Democrat chaos with Republican chaos.

00:38:54.360 And Donald Trump brings us chaos.

00:38:58.020 It's a good answer from Nikki Haley.

00:39:00.880 Nikki is a very talented politician.

00:39:04.260 That's a hedge, is what that is.

00:39:06.620 In part, Nikki has to give this sort of an answer because she worked for Trump.

00:39:10.520 She was Trump's very public, very prominent UN ambassador.

00:39:13.980 She previously said she wouldn't run for president if Trump ran again.

00:39:19.280 Then she ran for president. 0.99

00:39:21.320 But what she said was, yeah, I just don't think he's the right guy at this time.

00:39:26.360 Then she was much harsher on Trump.

00:39:28.320 And now you're seeing back, yeah, of course he's fit.

00:39:31.420 I just don't think he's the ideal candidate right now.

00:39:34.580 That is a hedge.

00:39:35.500 People like to make fun of politicians on the debate stages, the ones that don't seem to be doing very well.

00:39:43.580 If you make it to a presidential debate stage, I don't care if you're Doug Burgum, okay?

00:39:48.120 I don't care if you're Asa Hutchinson.

00:39:49.560 If you make it there, you're a pretty good politician.

00:39:52.320 If you manage to get yourself elected governor of your state, there's a good chance you're a pretty good politician.

00:39:59.280 If you manage to make it to the United States Senate, you're a pretty good politician, okay?

00:40:05.280 And good politicians know how to survive.

00:40:09.780 And what you are seeing here and what you're probably going to start seeing from the rest of the not only GOP field, but even just the political establishment more broadly,

00:40:21.580 is people are going to start speaking in much more glowing terms about Donald Trump.

00:40:26.980 Even people who have previously attacked him.

00:40:28.960 Even people who have endorsed Trump's primary opponents and issued invective after invective against Trump.

00:40:35.180 And the reason for that is, no strategy thus far has seemed able to take him down.

00:40:42.780 DeSantis is the best governor in America.

00:40:44.540 He's the best governor in my lifetime.

00:40:47.100 Nothing he's done has worked.

00:40:49.380 That's why now you're seeing the big establishment money start to switch over to Nikki Haley. 1.00

00:40:54.940 That's why you're seeing these moderators and these interviewers say, oh, you're surging in the polls.

00:41:00.320 What does surging in the polls mean?

00:41:01.600 When the leader in the party is at 53, 54 percent, you're at 10 percent or 12 percent.

00:41:07.480 That's not, I guess it's surging from 8 or 9 percent, but it's just, the gap is just too big.

00:41:14.060 The head start is just too big that Trump had because he's been running for president for four years now.

00:41:17.760 He's been running for president for seven years now.

00:41:20.840 So what are you going to do?

00:41:22.600 If you're one of these guys, even if you were the biggest anti-Trumper, you are going to start tempering your attacks.

00:41:29.380 Now, I will happily support whoever can beat Joe Biden.

00:41:34.340 I'm not one of these people who says, I'll only vote for Trump or I'll only vote for DeSantis or I'll only vote for Nikki Haley or something.

00:41:39.980 I would happily vote for anyone who could beat Joe Biden.

00:41:43.340 Not because I think all the candidates are perfect.

00:41:45.260 I certainly don't.

00:41:45.840 But because I think Joe Biden is just that bad.

00:41:47.700 There is a rule that has been proposed by the Biden administration to discriminate against Christian couples in adopting children that would effectively bar practicing Christians from adopting children nationwide.

00:42:03.660 This is Biden's HHS, Health and Human Services Department, requiring that foster or adoptive parents support a child's gender transition.

00:42:14.120 So he's saying, if you don't believe in transgenderism, if you don't believe that a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy, if you don't believe that the body and the soul are not linked in a hylomorphic union, which is a basic premise of the Christian view of human nature.

00:42:29.560 If you're a Christian or a conservative Jew or a Muslim or just a normal, sensible, agnostic or atheist relative to that view, you're not allowed to adopt kids. 0.76

00:42:47.300 That's our supposedly Catholic president. 0.72

00:42:50.220 The caretakers would have to affirm the child's preferred pronouns, their chosen name, and allow the child to dress in a way that reflects that gender identity.

00:42:59.560 There's no neutrality here.

00:43:03.760 I've said it many times.

00:43:04.660 I won't belabor the point. 0.99

00:43:06.520 We think, we, you and I, the Christians and the conservative Jews and the Muslims and the reasonable atheists and agnostics, we think it's child abuse to chop off a kid's genitals. 0.99

00:43:21.300 The libs think that it's child abuse not to chop off a kid's genitals. 1.00

00:43:26.900 That's their perspective.

00:43:27.820 They really think that the body and soul have nothing to do with each other, that a boy can be born in a girl's body or vice versa, and that it's helpful and therapeutic and conducive to flourishing to lie to them about their, I mean, they wouldn't even consider it a lie.

00:43:40.720 They think it's conducive to their flourishing to just chop them up and deny what would appear to be physical reality because they don't recognize that physical reality.

00:43:50.520 And there's a whole host of ancient heresies that feed into that view, none of which they're aware of.

00:43:58.560 But in any case, that's their view.

00:44:00.420 And there can't be an accommodation of both of those views at the same time.

00:44:05.300 I talked earlier about how we're a Christian nation and always have been.

00:44:09.240 A Christian nation can accommodate lots of other views.

00:44:13.920 A Christian nation can accommodate Jews, as we have from the beginning, can accommodate Muslims.

00:44:22.240 There weren't that many Muslims here for much of American history, but now there are, and we can accommodate a lot of that.

00:44:26.980 We can accommodate reasonably polite agnostics and atheists to some degree.

00:44:34.200 John Locke didn't think we could, but I think we can.

00:44:38.020 A Christian nation can allow for lots of toleration.

00:44:45.380 But it's going to insist upon certain standards and norms and views of human nature, at least, in the public square. 0.97

00:44:52.140 It's going to say that you shouldn't chop off kids' genitals. 0.95

00:44:55.360 The libs are coming in. 0.98

00:44:58.300 And ironically, in the name of tolerance, in the name of inclusion, they're going to kick all of those people that I just mentioned.

00:45:06.300 They're going to kick all of them and their views out of the public square.

00:45:09.360 And they're not going to tolerate a thing.

00:45:11.760 And I don't think tolerance is even the absolute highest good.

00:45:14.940 I'm in favor of it.

00:45:16.700 As a matter of prudence, I think it's perfectly acceptable.

00:45:22.220 The libs don't.

00:45:23.020 But liberalism often and increasingly expresses itself as a totalitarian system.

00:45:32.740 And if you consider yourself a liberal Christian or a liberal Jew or a liberal Muslim, I don't know many liberal Muslims. 0.62

00:45:39.700 There are some, actually.

00:45:41.120 Or a liberal normal person.

00:45:46.100 You're going to have to choose.

00:45:47.220 Those views are going to come into conflict.

00:45:50.880 And only one of them will win.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 11, 2023

Ep. 1388 - Epstein’s Flight Log Protected By A Top Democrat

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