The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 139 - Bombing The Middle East： An American Tradition


Summary

The hypocritical left and the excitable right are both losing their minds over President Trump s successful attack on Syria on Friday. We ll analyze the case for the strikes, how bombing the Middle East is an American tradition, and why everybody should just keep calm and covfefe. Then, despite the constant negative press, Trump s approval rating tops 50%, and finally, on this day in history, the Inauguration of George Washington.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The hypocritical left and the excitable right are both losing their minds over President Trump's successful order to attack Syria on Friday.
00:00:09.040 We will analyze the case for the strikes, how bombing the Middle East is an American tradition, and why everybody should just keep calm and covfefe.
00:00:16.780 Then, despite the constant negative press, Trump's approval rating tops 50%, and finally, on this day in history, the inauguration of George Washington.
00:00:25.900 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 So much to get to today.
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00:02:57.860 Back to bombing the Middle East.
00:02:59.760 Bombing the Middle East is an American tradition.
00:03:02.760 There is nothing new about this.
00:03:04.320 For those of you who are not history buffs,
00:03:06.440 here is some, I think, archival footage
00:03:08.800 of a joint CIA military intervention in the Middle East in 2004.
00:03:12.980 Muhammad Jihad Allah, Durka, Durka, Muhammad Jihad!
00:03:16.640 Muhammad Jihad!
00:03:17.400 Oh, sh**.
00:03:18.660 Come on, Gary.
00:03:19.800 Act.
00:03:20.540 You have the power.
00:03:23.980 F**k, Durk, Durka, La.
00:03:28.280 Durka, Durka, Muhammad Jihad.
00:03:31.500 Hakka, Sherpa, Sherpa.
00:03:33.020 Abakala.
00:03:35.580 Oh, Durka, Durka, Durka.
00:03:40.020 All right, Gary!
00:03:41.060 I told you he was Top Gun.
00:03:43.480 It's amazing footage.
00:03:44.520 I think we got that from WikiLeaks,
00:03:46.260 and it's pretty incredible that, you know,
00:03:48.160 the government tries to obviously cover some of those things up,
00:03:50.920 but really harrowing footage
00:03:52.200 from another intervention in the Middle East.
00:03:54.380 Here is President Trump announcing the strikes on Syria.
00:03:57.440 The purpose of our actions tonight
00:03:59.180 is to establish a strong deterrent
00:04:02.060 against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons.
00:04:06.840 That's the limited strike.
00:04:08.220 That's what it's about.
00:04:08.880 It's not an all-out war.
00:04:11.400 It's not a ground invasion.
00:04:12.720 It's about going in and deterring the use of chemical weapons,
00:04:15.940 which are prohibited by about a gazillion international treaties
00:04:19.360 and the policy of the United States.
00:04:21.120 So there are reports that Defense Secretary Mattis
00:04:24.300 convinced Donald Trump not to take a more robust action here.
00:04:28.760 President Trump has given different signals
00:04:30.420 on how he wants to approach the military.
00:04:32.320 What basically happened is we sent powerful missile attacks
00:04:36.760 against three targets aimed at stopping the Syrian regime
00:04:39.880 from using chemical weapons
00:04:41.120 and to deter Bashar al-Assad from using those weapons.
00:04:45.360 Again, this was the most conservative proposal.
00:04:47.380 It could have gone a lot further than this.
00:04:48.980 We could have bombed more chemical weapons research facilities.
00:04:52.540 We could have bombed all over the country.
00:04:54.220 We could have hit military command centers.
00:04:56.440 We even could have hit Russian air defenses in Syria,
00:05:00.040 which would have seriously struck a blow against Syria's military.
00:05:03.720 It could have really depleted that military force.
00:05:06.900 But President Trump used a lot of caution here,
00:05:08.880 and he did basically the most conservative action he could have done
00:05:12.420 while still being somewhat effective.
00:05:14.800 Apparently, Mattis, these are just reports that are coming out,
00:05:17.400 so who knows if the leaks are true,
00:05:18.800 but Mattis urged restraint
00:05:20.100 because also we don't want to provoke Iran and Russia
00:05:23.060 into escalating this conflict.
00:05:24.420 We don't want to get bogged down in a major war.
00:05:27.500 Also, we cannot tolerate the use of chemical weapons.
00:05:30.840 Some people have suggested that Syria doesn't use chemical weapons
00:05:33.900 in these attacks,
00:05:35.260 that really the chemical weapons are being used by other forces,
00:05:39.440 forces that are opposing the Assad government.
00:05:41.600 This is a very complex war that's multilateral.
00:05:44.220 There are a lot of different sides fighting for different things here.
00:05:47.100 We should at least dispel with the absurd notion
00:05:49.800 that the Syrian government doesn't use chemical weapons.
00:05:52.360 We know that they use chemical weapons.
00:05:54.420 We know that they have lied about using chemical weapons.
00:05:56.680 We know that they've lied about using chemical weapons
00:05:58.900 because they admitted to having chemical weapons in 2013
00:06:02.640 and at other times,
00:06:05.340 even after they denied having them in the first place.
00:06:08.300 So you can't trust the Syrian regime.
00:06:10.700 The guy is a butcher,
00:06:11.700 and his father was a butcher too.
00:06:13.960 What's interesting here too is the national security advisor.
00:06:16.540 So John Bolton is the relatively newly minted national security advisor.
00:06:20.260 This is one of his first actions here.
00:06:22.500 And he's clearly changed his thinking in some ways on Syria.
00:06:25.480 Or he's allowing other forces in the room
00:06:28.100 to have more of a say early on in his tenure at that job.
00:06:31.640 Or Donald Trump just wanted to send a message to Syria.
00:06:36.640 John Bolton had said that Syria is a sideshow,
00:06:39.480 that the real threat is Iran.
00:06:41.000 And most serious thinkers on foreign policy
00:06:44.160 and the Middle East recognize that.
00:06:46.260 Iran is the threat in the region.
00:06:48.240 And so that plays a little bit into the calculation here
00:06:50.420 because Iran is exerting a lot of influence on Syria.
00:06:53.780 We also have a geopolitical adversary in Russia,
00:06:56.520 and Russia is exerting a lot of influence on Syria.
00:06:59.000 So you have to calibrate a response to that effect.
00:07:02.460 There are provocations here.
00:07:04.000 Do you remember when Barack Obama said,
00:07:05.580 if there's a use of chemical weapons,
00:07:07.460 that would be a red line?
00:07:09.620 The minute he said that,
00:07:10.660 he had to justify that threat,
00:07:12.480 except he didn't because he was weak
00:07:13.960 because he just ran his mouth all the time
00:07:15.780 and didn't actually back it up with action.
00:07:17.800 The credibility of the United States is very important here.
00:07:20.620 And that demands a response.
00:07:23.020 Bad actors all around the world
00:07:24.440 are always trying to provoke the United States
00:07:26.220 to push the boundaries.
00:07:27.780 China does it.
00:07:28.700 North Korea does it.
00:07:29.720 Syria does it.
00:07:30.460 Russia does it.
00:07:31.580 Every one of our geopolitical foes does this.
00:07:34.480 And you have to respond.
00:07:35.880 It's like a little kid with daddy, you know,
00:07:37.860 and the little kid, you know,
00:07:39.740 starts eating all the cookies out of the cookie jar.
00:07:41.940 And if the dad doesn't punish him,
00:07:43.220 what's he going to do?
00:07:43.740 He's going to eat more cookies.
00:07:44.700 Or he's drawing all over the wall.
00:07:46.100 It's just pushing boundaries to see,
00:07:47.760 how far can I go?
00:07:48.500 How far can I go?
00:07:49.280 And we have to smack them down.
00:07:50.880 This will get to an important aspect
00:07:52.300 of what I think should become the Trump doctrine
00:07:54.860 and American foreign policy in the 21st century.
00:07:57.180 But we'll get to that in a bit.
00:07:58.600 To compliment Donald Trump even more,
00:08:00.900 this was good diplomacy.
00:08:01.860 He got the British and the French in line here.
00:08:03.880 This was a coordinated effort
00:08:05.960 between two of our biggest allies.
00:08:08.040 I'll try to refrain from making French military jokes
00:08:10.600 because they helped us out in this action.
00:08:12.900 But, you know, those abound.
00:08:14.800 There are a lot of jokes about the military
00:08:16.860 and waving things like that.
00:08:19.880 This all seems reasonable enough.
00:08:22.560 Here is how some of Trump's allies on the right
00:08:25.920 have responded to these strikes.
00:08:27.400 Damn it, man.
00:08:29.120 What the f***?
00:08:31.280 Is there nobody f*** here in this goddamn f***ing world?
00:08:35.180 See, I'm f***ing pissed right now.
00:08:37.300 Syria fought Al-Qaeda.
00:08:38.620 They fought ISIS.
00:08:39.400 They fought it all.
00:08:41.100 And now you got Mattis and f***ing all these people
00:08:44.100 sh***ing all over us.
00:08:46.460 And the goddamn f***ing liberal fascists
00:08:49.260 censoring us everywhere in the last two days.
00:08:51.720 We did an emergency 36-hour broadcast
00:08:54.660 trying to stop this sh***
00:08:56.300 that could lead to World War III.
00:08:57.720 And you f***ing liberal pieces of f***ing
00:09:00.720 you f***ing liberals f***ing support this.
00:09:04.240 F*** you.
00:09:05.100 You f***ing damn degenerate f***s.
00:09:08.880 And f***ing Mueller and f***ing Comey.
00:09:11.180 And f*** you.
00:09:11.880 Every major analyst.
00:09:15.280 See, I shouldn't even be on air right now.
00:09:17.880 Every analyst agrees
00:09:19.360 this could trigger World War III
00:09:21.000 unlike anything in our history.
00:09:22.600 And the Russians were the good guys
00:09:24.040 battling ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
00:09:25.920 I'm not a Russophile.
00:09:27.520 I've never been to Russia.
00:09:29.360 But I've studied the geopolitics.
00:09:31.320 They are the white knights.
00:09:33.680 And our military five years ago
00:09:35.200 joining the Russians
00:09:36.120 to block Obama
00:09:37.820 and the Arab Spring
00:09:38.480 and do the right thing
00:09:39.180 did the right thing.
00:09:40.000 And now Mattis
00:09:42.160 and Mattis
00:09:44.620 looks like a f***ing Emperor Palpatine.
00:09:47.660 All right, we'll cut it there.
00:09:49.820 I think that's enough.
00:09:50.960 I think we actually bleeped out
00:09:52.520 more of that clip than we heard.
00:09:55.000 I think the majority
00:09:56.200 gotta love Alex Jones.
00:09:57.860 I really, I find the guy very entertaining.
00:09:59.720 I do like watching him.
00:10:01.520 He's not pleased.
00:10:02.480 He was not pleased.
00:10:03.060 How do you really feel, Alex?
00:10:04.420 What do you really think about those strikes?
00:10:06.500 So, by the way,
00:10:07.640 he said that this is going to cause
00:10:09.140 World War III.
00:10:10.360 And he tweeted this out.
00:10:11.400 He said,
00:10:11.620 World War III has just begun.
00:10:13.180 World War III.
00:10:13.900 And you hear this from these guys
00:10:15.560 who are prone to hysteria
00:10:18.760 on the radio and on TV.
00:10:20.240 So I tweeted out.
00:10:21.160 I said,
00:10:21.540 this was on Friday or Saturday.
00:10:23.340 I said,
00:10:24.140 Alex,
00:10:24.560 I bet you $10,000
00:10:25.720 this isn't World War III.
00:10:28.380 And he didn't respond.
00:10:29.600 I said,
00:10:29.800 do you take the bet?
00:10:30.520 And he didn't respond.
00:10:31.220 Because I was thinking,
00:10:31.980 you know,
00:10:32.220 I've got a pretty good track record
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00:10:34.720 as my framed Ben Shapiro check
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00:10:38.780 a cool 10K
00:10:39.600 and pay for,
00:10:40.640 you know,
00:10:41.540 at least two days of drinks
00:10:42.980 on my honeymoon or something.
00:10:44.560 But unfortunately,
00:10:46.100 he didn't take the bet.
00:10:46.740 Because I don't know
00:10:47.280 if he really believes
00:10:48.000 any of that.
00:10:49.020 We have to get to
00:10:49.880 his assertion
00:10:51.020 that the Russians
00:10:51.500 are the good guys here.
00:10:52.720 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:12:43.560 On the Russians
00:12:44.220 being the good guys.
00:12:45.080 So he says,
00:12:45.620 the Russians are the good guys here.
00:12:46.920 The Russians are the good guys here.
00:12:48.260 We should just pause for a moment
00:12:50.340 to analyze the Syria strikes
00:12:52.140 in light of the
00:12:52.980 Russia collusion narrative
00:12:54.240 which even Van Jones admitted
00:12:55.860 is an absolute nothing burger
00:12:57.380 but the left is still insistent on.
00:12:59.900 They're still insistent
00:13:00.720 that Donald Trump,
00:13:01.520 a man that we've known
00:13:02.100 for 40 years,
00:13:03.260 is secretly Boris
00:13:04.260 from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
00:13:05.560 He's a Manchurian candidate
00:13:06.800 from Moscow.
00:13:08.060 Let's just analyze.
00:13:08.840 So in just recent days,
00:13:10.760 Donald Trump has expelled
00:13:12.000 60 Russian diplomats.
00:13:13.860 He did that in March.
00:13:15.080 This was a major hostility
00:13:17.080 and he said
00:13:18.420 it's brought our relations
00:13:19.800 with Russia
00:13:20.280 to the worst point
00:13:21.000 including the Cold War.
00:13:22.300 Might be slightly hyperbolic
00:13:23.820 but pretty bad.
00:13:24.740 He slapped a bunch
00:13:25.440 of sanctions on Russia
00:13:26.600 and he's moving
00:13:27.500 to institute more
00:13:28.460 and now we are literally
00:13:30.060 bombing Russian-backed
00:13:31.800 forces in Syria.
00:13:33.600 Will this finally,
00:13:35.000 Democrats,
00:13:35.600 all the Democrats
00:13:36.240 watching this show,
00:13:37.400 will this finally put an end
00:13:38.860 to the Russia collusion narrative?
00:13:40.920 I know the answer to that.
00:13:41.860 I know it won't.
00:13:42.580 Of course it won't
00:13:43.200 because what they're going
00:13:43.680 to say is they're going
00:13:44.260 to say,
00:13:45.080 well, Donald Trump,
00:13:46.960 you know,
00:13:47.420 if he really wanted
00:13:48.520 to hide the fact
00:13:49.480 that he's colluding
00:13:50.380 with Russia,
00:13:51.300 you know what,
00:13:51.800 he would place sanctions
00:13:54.280 on Russia
00:13:55.000 and he would really,
00:13:56.340 he would expel diplomats
00:13:57.700 and he would bomb Russia
00:13:58.760 so that we wouldn't know
00:13:59.860 that he secretly loves Russia
00:14:01.140 and he's helping Russia.
00:14:02.100 Ha ha, we've got him.
00:14:03.240 That's what they're going
00:14:03.680 to say.
00:14:04.180 But it's absolutely ridiculous.
00:14:07.600 To say they're the good guys
00:14:08.680 here is absurd.
00:14:09.580 I, you know,
00:14:09.960 we can work with Russia
00:14:10.780 when we can work with Russia.
00:14:11.780 They've been our geopolitical
00:14:12.680 adversary for a hundred years.
00:14:14.000 That didn't just stop
00:14:14.880 when the Berlin Wall
00:14:15.780 came down.
00:14:16.680 We know that they try
00:14:17.400 to interfere in our politics.
00:14:18.840 We try to interfere
00:14:19.600 in their expansionist ideas too
00:14:22.840 and that's perfectly well and good
00:14:24.800 but we shouldn't pretend
00:14:25.760 that they're our buddies
00:14:26.500 or something
00:14:26.960 and they really have
00:14:27.900 the best interests
00:14:28.580 of the U.S. at heart.
00:14:29.940 Did they swing the 2016 election?
00:14:31.680 No.
00:14:32.280 Do some Twitter accounts
00:14:33.520 and some Facebook ads
00:14:34.460 really matter to American politics?
00:14:36.340 Absolutely not.
00:14:37.460 Are there greater threats
00:14:38.660 in many areas?
00:14:40.140 Absolutely true.
00:14:40.940 But they're not like our BFF man.
00:14:42.880 That's a little too much.
00:14:45.120 So to the issue at hand,
00:14:46.980 President Trump bombed
00:14:48.080 the Middle East.
00:14:49.540 This is a rite of passage.
00:14:51.040 This is a rite of passage
00:14:52.040 for American presidents.
00:14:53.580 In 1998,
00:14:55.100 I remember this,
00:14:55.840 I was eight years old
00:14:56.640 and we were bombing Iraq.
00:14:58.520 Bill Clinton decided
00:14:59.260 to bomb Iraq
00:15:00.020 and I asked my mother,
00:15:01.180 I said,
00:15:01.700 are we going to war in Iraq?
00:15:03.320 Why are we fighting Iraq?
00:15:04.580 Why are we bombing Iraq?
00:15:05.920 And she said,
00:15:07.200 she explained foreign policy to me.
00:15:09.120 This is one of the best explanations
00:15:10.120 I've ever heard,
00:15:10.800 which was,
00:15:11.440 oh, Michael,
00:15:12.320 you know,
00:15:12.840 it's an American pastime.
00:15:14.380 It's an American tradition
00:15:15.460 and it's Bill Clinton's turn.
00:15:17.200 Also,
00:15:17.500 he wants to clear the newspapers
00:15:18.680 out of his other stories,
00:15:19.940 which is true
00:15:20.920 because at the time,
00:15:21.900 all you could see on TV
00:15:22.960 was Lewinsky
00:15:23.640 and he bombed Iraq
00:15:25.380 and it got Lewinsky
00:15:26.440 out of the headlines
00:15:27.100 for a little bit.
00:15:28.040 I mean that to say,
00:15:29.620 he bombed Iraq
00:15:30.280 for a few days in 1998
00:15:31.680 and it didn't cause
00:15:32.780 World War III.
00:15:33.460 It didn't cause
00:15:33.800 the end of the world.
00:15:34.460 It worked out just fine.
00:15:36.220 And it actually
00:15:37.440 led in
00:15:38.480 not strongly enough,
00:15:39.920 but it did feed into
00:15:40.600 a U.S. policy
00:15:41.300 which was to oppose
00:15:42.060 Saddam Hussein.
00:15:43.720 It didn't really do much
00:15:44.840 one way or the other.
00:15:45.460 It didn't cause
00:15:45.840 World War III.
00:15:47.020 Every day of Barack Obama's
00:15:48.400 presidency
00:15:48.780 was spent
00:15:49.400 attacking the Middle East.
00:15:50.820 George Bush,
00:15:51.500 obviously,
00:15:52.000 after 9-11,
00:15:52.800 after we were attacked,
00:15:53.940 the worst attack
00:15:54.620 in American soil,
00:15:55.980 we had to deal
00:15:58.520 with those countries
00:15:59.080 in the Middle East.
00:15:59.700 Bill Clinton,
00:16:00.600 obviously,
00:16:01.080 George Bush I.
00:16:02.540 George H.W. Bush
00:16:03.740 led the Gulf War.
00:16:06.640 Ronald Reagan
00:16:07.440 sent peacekeeping forces
00:16:08.620 to Lebanon
00:16:09.260 during that country's
00:16:10.280 civil war
00:16:10.860 to maintain order
00:16:11.840 in the region.
00:16:12.780 Jimmy Carter didn't,
00:16:13.560 but Jimmy Carter's
00:16:14.100 a terrible president,
00:16:14.900 so who cares what he did.
00:16:16.660 Richard Nixon
00:16:17.480 backed Israel
00:16:18.400 after Egypt and Syria
00:16:19.760 invaded during
00:16:20.460 the Yom Kippur War.
00:16:21.560 At one point,
00:16:22.280 Richard Nixon
00:16:22.740 actually ordered
00:16:23.480 an airlift
00:16:24.500 to resupply
00:16:25.240 the Israeli forces
00:16:26.060 so they didn't get
00:16:26.680 wiped out
00:16:27.260 by the invading
00:16:28.240 Muslim forces.
00:16:29.920 That's certainly
00:16:30.540 an intervention.
00:16:31.600 Dwight Eisenhower
00:16:32.380 overthrew the Iranian
00:16:33.440 election in 1953
00:16:35.120 to reinstall the Shah.
00:16:37.000 This is a long-standing
00:16:38.320 tradition.
00:16:39.200 This is nothing new
00:16:40.000 with Donald Trump,
00:16:41.100 and people on the left
00:16:42.040 and the right,
00:16:42.840 on the extreme left
00:16:43.560 or the extreme right,
00:16:44.260 should not freak out
00:16:45.020 about this.
00:16:45.760 This transcends
00:16:47.360 political boundaries.
00:16:48.940 And also,
00:16:49.740 this implies a strategy
00:16:51.060 that irks a lot
00:16:52.240 of conservatives
00:16:52.960 from the libertarians
00:16:54.440 to the traditionalists,
00:16:55.520 and that's mowing
00:16:56.240 the lawn.
00:16:57.200 This probably should be
00:16:58.400 the Trump doctrine.
00:16:59.680 This probably should be
00:17:00.740 American foreign policy
00:17:01.780 in the 21st century.
00:17:03.900 Mowing the lawn.
00:17:05.540 The left
00:17:06.100 and the isolationist
00:17:07.440 right blame the U.S.
00:17:08.920 for the Middle East's
00:17:09.720 problems.
00:17:10.400 They say,
00:17:10.760 you know,
00:17:11.020 if we just didn't
00:17:11.880 interfere in the Middle East,
00:17:13.380 then they would
00:17:13.960 really like us.
00:17:15.120 If we didn't interfere
00:17:16.060 in the Middle East,
00:17:17.240 then the civilization
00:17:18.640 that has been at war
00:17:19.840 with the West
00:17:20.440 for 1,400 years,
00:17:21.680 they'll like us then.
00:17:22.880 Then they'll really like us
00:17:23.780 and stop trying to invade.
00:17:24.780 I know they've been
00:17:25.240 trying to invade
00:17:25.900 since the year 732,
00:17:27.240 but they'll probably stop
00:17:28.580 if we just,
00:17:29.320 it's America's fault
00:17:30.280 because they've been
00:17:31.080 doing it since 732
00:17:32.080 and America's been around
00:17:33.500 since 1776,
00:17:34.940 but they'll probably
00:17:35.820 just stop.
00:17:36.760 That isn't,
00:17:37.540 that's ridiculous.
00:17:39.820 Certainly in the 20th century,
00:17:41.240 after independence
00:17:41.900 for a lot of these countries
00:17:42.960 and the Islamic resurgence
00:17:44.580 in those countries
00:17:45.220 have brought a lot of
00:17:45.920 instability to the region
00:17:47.060 and sometimes
00:17:48.020 you have to mow
00:17:49.220 the lawn.
00:17:50.340 And by mow the lawn,
00:17:51.380 I mean,
00:17:52.160 you know,
00:17:52.660 be in America,
00:17:53.640 preserve our liberty,
00:17:54.620 keep our money,
00:17:55.460 build a great country,
00:17:56.240 be a beacon of liberty
00:17:57.120 to the rest of the world,
00:17:58.160 facing out to the rest
00:17:59.560 of the world,
00:18:00.260 decide who wants to come in,
00:18:01.480 try to help people out,
00:18:02.620 be overall good
00:18:03.680 and productive
00:18:04.180 and lift everybody
00:18:05.560 up in the world.
00:18:06.660 A rising tide lifts all ships.
00:18:08.240 And then,
00:18:09.380 every once in a while,
00:18:10.560 when they start to act up
00:18:11.660 over in that
00:18:12.200 godforsaken region,
00:18:13.360 go over and bomb them
00:18:14.320 a little bit
00:18:14.820 and get it all back in line
00:18:16.360 because this sounds
00:18:17.900 like it's a,
00:18:19.120 like it's some bellicose thing
00:18:20.640 or like it's very hawkish,
00:18:22.280 but it's,
00:18:22.700 I think it's actually
00:18:23.200 the opposite of hawkish.
00:18:24.260 I'm not saying we should invade
00:18:25.540 and run their countries forever
00:18:26.960 and do all of this,
00:18:28.040 but you have to maintain stability
00:18:29.680 or these events
00:18:30.840 can spiral out of control.
00:18:32.580 There can be major crises,
00:18:34.040 whole genocides,
00:18:35.240 the use of awful weapons
00:18:36.700 like chemical weapons
00:18:37.620 or nuclear weapons.
00:18:38.720 You have to maintain
00:18:39.700 some order
00:18:40.500 to preserve the peace.
00:18:42.040 You need peace
00:18:42.820 through strength.
00:18:44.320 You're not going to get peace
00:18:45.540 through weakness.
00:18:46.740 That doesn't happen.
00:18:47.860 Through weakness,
00:18:48.460 you get chaos and terror.
00:18:49.920 Between 1969 and 2009,
00:18:51.980 there were 38,345 terrorist attacks
00:18:56.060 around the world.
00:18:57.920 The lion's share of those,
00:18:59.980 a higher percentage
00:19:00.680 than against other countries,
00:19:01.900 were against the U.S.
00:19:02.820 7.8% of those attacks
00:19:04.740 were just against the U.S.
00:19:06.240 2,981 attacks.
00:19:08.180 Those numbers come
00:19:08.840 via the Heritage Foundation
00:19:09.900 and the RAND database
00:19:11.520 of a worldwide terrorism instance.
00:19:13.940 You can't just leave
00:19:15.000 that region alone
00:19:15.780 because they'll come to get us.
00:19:17.640 This was the fiction
00:19:18.840 that we labored under
00:19:19.940 for a while
00:19:20.580 that you could just leave it alone
00:19:22.400 and then they won't get us.
00:19:25.100 You do you,
00:19:25.840 we do us.
00:19:26.780 But then they flew airplanes
00:19:28.600 over here
00:19:29.040 and they did get us.
00:19:30.420 And they target
00:19:31.160 American interests
00:19:32.260 and American posts overseas.
00:19:34.180 And they come over here
00:19:35.400 and they cause trouble.
00:19:36.600 They cause terrorist attacks.
00:19:38.480 They become breeding grounds
00:19:39.840 for people
00:19:40.600 whose only goal in life
00:19:42.140 is to destroy
00:19:42.840 the United States,
00:19:43.740 who hate our freedom
00:19:44.860 because of what it is
00:19:46.480 and because of who we are
00:19:47.840 and because of the way
00:19:48.560 that we live,
00:19:49.460 who have a long-standing tradition
00:19:51.560 of despising the West
00:19:53.460 and despising the civilization
00:19:55.020 of the West
00:19:55.700 and they're going to come get us
00:19:57.080 because now it's easier
00:19:58.080 to get over here.
00:19:58.980 There isn't an ocean
00:19:59.720 separating us
00:20:00.680 permanently
00:20:02.900 or with great difficulty
00:20:04.300 one from another anymore.
00:20:05.300 It's very easy
00:20:06.000 to get over here.
00:20:06.880 The instability over there
00:20:07.900 can and will reach us.
00:20:09.480 You have to go in
00:20:10.100 and you have to mow the lawn
00:20:11.340 every once in a while.
00:20:12.120 That's just the way
00:20:12.940 that these things work.
00:20:14.280 We are the world's superpower.
00:20:15.940 We don't have to be
00:20:16.740 the world's superpower.
00:20:17.480 We are because we choose to be.
00:20:20.200 We have a massive economy.
00:20:22.500 We have productive citizenry.
00:20:24.500 We have a stable country,
00:20:25.880 relatively stable country.
00:20:27.360 Sometimes with the tweets
00:20:28.420 you think that maybe
00:20:29.140 it's not that stable
00:20:29.820 but it is a stable country
00:20:31.460 and we have the military force
00:20:33.560 of the world.
00:20:34.400 We defend all of our allies.
00:20:36.100 They have relatively small
00:20:37.620 military forces
00:20:38.420 and Americans get indecisive
00:20:40.800 on this question.
00:20:42.300 Sometimes we want to be
00:20:43.080 the superpower.
00:20:44.120 Sometimes we want to pretend
00:20:45.320 that it's the 18th century
00:20:46.820 and we can just be agrarians
00:20:48.160 and can rely on the ocean
00:20:50.040 to protect us.
00:20:50.880 The ocean didn't even protect us
00:20:52.220 in the 17th and 18th
00:20:53.760 and 19th centuries,
00:20:54.740 did they?
00:20:55.620 The oceans didn't protect us then.
00:20:57.840 We had a revolutionary war
00:20:59.280 and then we had a second
00:21:00.500 revolutionary war in 1812
00:21:01.940 when the British
00:21:02.480 tried to invade again.
00:21:03.740 Even that dream of isolation
00:21:05.980 was I think largely a fantasy.
00:21:08.560 And if the nations of the world
00:21:10.600 look to us to preserve
00:21:11.740 the world order,
00:21:12.640 we have to do it.
00:21:13.560 I guess we cannot do it
00:21:15.740 but then somebody else
00:21:17.640 is going to come in.
00:21:18.600 Then a bad guy
00:21:19.340 is going to come in.
00:21:20.020 Then China is going to run
00:21:20.900 the world order
00:21:21.420 and they're going to dictate
00:21:22.120 the world order.
00:21:22.900 Do we want to live in that period?
00:21:25.160 Do we want to live
00:21:25.760 in that framework?
00:21:27.200 No nation would seriously
00:21:28.620 challenge us
00:21:29.280 in an all-out war.
00:21:31.040 That would not happen right now.
00:21:32.620 We spend more on our military
00:21:33.740 than China, Russia,
00:21:34.820 Saudi Arabia, India, France,
00:21:36.180 the UK,
00:21:36.780 and Japan combined at least.
00:21:39.460 Actually significantly more
00:21:40.740 than all of them.
00:21:41.420 That's a good thing.
00:21:42.280 I'm glad that we do that
00:21:43.740 because that is so far
00:21:45.940 from the majority
00:21:46.700 of our federal budget.
00:21:48.180 The majority of our budget
00:21:49.140 is unfunded liabilities
00:21:50.260 and entitlement programs
00:21:51.320 in the welfare state.
00:21:52.640 And for a relatively
00:21:53.800 small amount of money,
00:21:55.020 we get to run the world
00:21:56.520 the way that we want
00:21:57.220 to run the world
00:21:57.740 which coincidentally
00:21:58.520 is the best way
00:21:59.860 for us and everybody.
00:22:01.520 It's the fairest.
00:22:02.400 It's the freest.
00:22:03.200 It's the most just.
00:22:04.260 It's the most equitable.
00:22:05.600 It's the most prosperous.
00:22:07.280 We shouldn't back away from that.
00:22:08.440 That's not a bad thing.
00:22:09.700 And if it means we have to go
00:22:10.820 mow the lawn every once in a while,
00:22:12.720 so be it.
00:22:13.900 So be it.
00:22:14.580 What was the problem
00:22:16.500 that happened
00:22:17.320 with the strikes in Syria?
00:22:18.980 What was the real cost
00:22:20.120 to America?
00:22:21.320 There was no cost
00:22:22.060 of American lives,
00:22:23.300 thankfully.
00:22:23.900 There was no cost
00:22:24.920 to American politics, really.
00:22:27.680 And it was a pinprick strike
00:22:29.720 that took out
00:22:30.320 a lot of chemical facilities.
00:22:31.760 That's fine by me.
00:22:33.280 And it defended
00:22:34.320 the credibility
00:22:34.900 of the United States.
00:22:35.700 To Alex Jones' point,
00:22:37.680 is there a possibility
00:22:38.740 of a superpower conflict?
00:22:40.140 Of course there is.
00:22:41.020 There's always
00:22:41.440 a possibility of that.
00:22:42.900 And there's been
00:22:43.820 one building for a long time.
00:22:45.280 We have trade tensions
00:22:46.020 with China.
00:22:46.680 China's aggressing
00:22:47.360 into the South China Sea.
00:22:48.920 The leader of China,
00:22:49.760 Xi Jinping,
00:22:50.380 is now pretty firmly established
00:22:51.940 as practically a dictator.
00:22:54.640 Similarly,
00:22:55.420 Vladimir Putin
00:22:56.020 is practically a dictator
00:22:57.140 in Russia.
00:22:58.240 If not de jure,
00:23:00.100 then certainly de facto.
00:23:01.820 And Russia
00:23:02.700 aggresses into Ukraine,
00:23:04.100 starts invading
00:23:04.700 its neighbors,
00:23:05.460 interferes in Western politics,
00:23:06.800 poisons, defectors
00:23:08.500 in the United Kingdom.
00:23:09.680 That's the backdrop
00:23:10.440 to all of this.
00:23:11.300 So I suppose
00:23:11.880 an all-out war
00:23:14.260 between superpowers
00:23:15.740 or midpowers
00:23:16.840 could occur,
00:23:17.940 but it's not going to occur
00:23:18.960 because we shot
00:23:19.700 some missiles into Syria
00:23:20.740 and mowed the lawn
00:23:21.560 and defended the credibility
00:23:23.060 of the United States.
00:23:24.080 Absolutely not.
00:23:25.540 I still have a little bit of time
00:23:27.020 to cover the good domestic news,
00:23:29.680 and then we're going to have
00:23:30.500 to get to this day in history.
00:23:31.880 In some good domestic news,
00:23:34.480 Democrats'
00:23:35.020 relentless attacks
00:23:36.420 on Donald Trump
00:23:37.260 are not working.
00:23:38.940 They actually aren't working.
00:23:40.180 It seems like
00:23:40.660 it's a constant barrage
00:23:41.840 of attacks,
00:23:43.120 and they just aren't working.
00:23:44.460 So, you know,
00:23:45.520 special counsel Robert Mueller
00:23:47.480 raided Trump's lawyer's property,
00:23:51.500 Michael Cohen.
00:23:52.340 This creates a problem,
00:23:53.260 by the way,
00:23:53.520 because the president
00:23:54.100 is having trouble
00:23:54.740 getting a lawyer.
00:23:55.840 If you're Trump's lawyer,
00:23:56.780 you know you're going
00:23:57.100 to get your house raided.
00:23:58.600 You know it's going to be
00:24:00.100 a difficult political situation.
00:24:01.980 Five large firms
00:24:02.900 have passed on representing
00:24:04.440 President Trump
00:24:06.140 in this investigation,
00:24:07.640 and so you have
00:24:09.140 this whole backdrop.
00:24:10.100 You have the Mueller investigation
00:24:11.440 expanding to anything.
00:24:13.100 You know,
00:24:13.360 a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
00:24:14.760 that Donald Trump
00:24:15.480 ate in the 60s.
00:24:16.480 They're going to analyze that
00:24:17.760 and find some way
00:24:18.800 to indict him for it.
00:24:20.180 Then you have James Comey.
00:24:21.840 James Comey's ridiculous book
00:24:23.460 and ridiculous interview.
00:24:24.860 This happened last night.
00:24:25.800 Here's just a quick clip
00:24:26.700 to give you a sense
00:24:27.420 of James Comey.
00:24:28.160 I don't buy the stuff
00:24:30.080 about him being
00:24:30.840 mentally incompetent
00:24:32.560 at the early stages
00:24:33.340 of dementia.
00:24:34.160 He strikes me as a person
00:24:35.260 of above-average intelligence
00:24:36.500 who's tracking conversations
00:24:38.380 and knows what's going on.
00:24:39.560 I don't think he's
00:24:40.620 medically unfit
00:24:41.460 to be president.
00:24:42.080 I think he's morally
00:24:42.740 unfit to be president.
00:24:44.740 By the way,
00:24:46.180 Comey worked for Bill Clinton.
00:24:49.100 I just want to remind
00:24:49.800 everybody of this.
00:24:50.960 James Comey was the
00:24:52.020 managing assistant U.S. attorney
00:24:53.480 to Bill Clinton.
00:24:54.940 But no,
00:24:55.580 Trump is morally unfit
00:24:56.860 because maybe he had
00:24:58.000 a one-night stand
00:24:58.740 with a porn star
00:24:59.520 10 years before
00:25:00.680 he became president
00:25:01.660 and Bill Clinton
00:25:02.500 was creating human humidors
00:25:03.940 in the Oval Office
00:25:04.740 during his tenure.
00:25:05.780 But oh,
00:25:06.260 but no,
00:25:07.260 he,
00:25:07.620 Donald Trump
00:25:08.680 is morally unknown.
00:25:11.080 He's upset
00:25:11.800 because he got fired.
00:25:12.960 And he's talking
00:25:13.540 to George Stephanopoulos,
00:25:14.960 Bill Clinton's
00:25:15.560 communications director.
00:25:17.180 This is,
00:25:17.600 this is the most ridiculous
00:25:19.020 kind of kabuki theater
00:25:20.120 I've ever seen
00:25:21.280 in politics,
00:25:22.040 I think.
00:25:22.560 You have this guy,
00:25:23.340 this jilted lover,
00:25:24.520 James Comey,
00:25:25.540 this disgruntled
00:25:26.660 former employee
00:25:27.560 who is a self-aggrandizing
00:25:29.880 nut,
00:25:31.460 you know,
00:25:31.860 who has lied publicly,
00:25:34.080 who tried to insert himself
00:25:36.220 into the presidential election,
00:25:37.800 who tried to play politics.
00:25:39.240 He thought,
00:25:39.760 oh,
00:25:40.140 he actually admitted to this.
00:25:41.400 He said,
00:25:41.800 I thought I had to release
00:25:43.040 the Hillary letter
00:25:43.980 at the end of the campaign
00:25:45.040 because when Hillary won,
00:25:47.180 I didn't want her
00:25:47.740 to be illegitimate.
00:25:48.600 So he's,
00:25:49.340 he's obviously has
00:25:50.160 all these political considerations
00:25:51.380 in his head.
00:25:51.980 And then he's talking
00:25:54.080 to George Stephanopoulos
00:25:55.180 whose main claim to fame
00:25:58.040 is that he is the guy
00:25:59.560 who spins the news
00:26:00.300 for the Clintons.
00:26:01.100 That was his job.
00:26:02.240 That's why we know his name.
00:26:04.100 That's how he got his job
00:26:04.800 at ABC.
00:26:05.720 There was nothing
00:26:06.480 in this interview,
00:26:07.120 by the way,
00:26:08.300 nearly 10 million people watched.
00:26:10.120 They got nothing for it,
00:26:11.620 really,
00:26:11.920 just,
00:26:12.260 just insults saying,
00:26:14.360 oh,
00:26:14.460 he's not fit.
00:26:15.440 He's not,
00:26:16.160 he isn't,
00:26:17.620 he's mean.
00:26:18.220 He had a porn star.
00:26:19.300 Another nothing burger
00:26:20.720 to use Van Jones's term.
00:26:23.640 And,
00:26:23.720 and then speaking
00:26:24.940 of the porn star,
00:26:25.900 that's another aspect
00:26:26.880 the media keep throwing at us
00:26:28.120 to get Trump's approval
00:26:28.960 rating down.
00:26:29.720 That porn star
00:26:30.660 describing the details
00:26:32.380 of her one night stand
00:26:33.400 with Donald Trump.
00:26:34.920 Just to give you a sense
00:26:36.140 of Stormy Daniels,
00:26:37.640 it's not like she's this,
00:26:38.880 you know,
00:26:39.640 she used to have
00:26:40.600 this sordid past
00:26:41.560 and Trump took advantage
00:26:42.440 of her and now
00:26:43.220 she's gotten her life together
00:26:44.340 and she's damaged
00:26:45.260 and me too
00:26:45.840 and all this.
00:26:46.460 She's still a stripper.
00:26:48.260 She still does
00:26:49.180 all of this stuff.
00:26:49.940 She's,
00:26:50.200 she's a sex worker
00:26:51.540 to use the modern phrase.
00:26:53.560 She,
00:26:53.760 a political operative
00:26:54.540 friend of mine
00:26:55.140 invited me
00:26:55.900 to a Stormy Daniels show.
00:26:57.420 He thought it'd be funny
00:26:58.260 that I could wear
00:26:59.260 like a Make America Great Again hat
00:27:00.840 and go see Stormy Daniels
00:27:02.720 dance or something.
00:27:04.020 I ran it by
00:27:04.520 Sweet Little Elisa.
00:27:05.340 Surprisingly,
00:27:05.780 she wasn't that
00:27:06.400 supportive of the idea
00:27:07.460 and,
00:27:08.420 you know,
00:27:09.220 that's the kind of person
00:27:10.640 we're talking about.
00:27:11.280 We're talking about
00:27:11.720 a currently working stripper
00:27:13.760 who was arrested
00:27:15.120 in 2010
00:27:15.740 for domestic violence.
00:27:18.120 At that time,
00:27:18.920 Stormy Daniels
00:27:19.720 was thinking about
00:27:20.400 running for Senate
00:27:21.240 against Vitter,
00:27:22.220 I think,
00:27:22.600 against another Republican.
00:27:23.960 So she's clearly
00:27:24.660 had it out
00:27:25.340 for Republicans
00:27:26.080 for a long time now
00:27:27.880 and she's clearly
00:27:28.440 wanted to aggrandize
00:27:29.420 herself on the
00:27:30.520 political stage
00:27:31.180 for a long time
00:27:31.920 and she's also
00:27:33.160 a working stripper.
00:27:34.160 That's what we're seeing
00:27:34.880 and they're using that.
00:27:36.180 She's like this pinnacle
00:27:37.000 of virtue and honesty
00:27:38.080 and James Comey,
00:27:39.440 a guy that all the Democrats
00:27:40.760 a year and a half ago
00:27:41.960 said was basically
00:27:42.960 the scum of the earth.
00:27:44.160 Now they like him
00:27:44.820 because he's hitting
00:27:45.380 Donald Trump.
00:27:46.500 With all of that,
00:27:49.220 guess what Donald Trump's
00:27:50.200 poll numbers are?
00:27:52.040 Take a guess.
00:27:52.620 Do you want to guess?
00:27:54.140 51%.
00:27:54.620 51% approval
00:27:56.860 according to Rasmussen
00:27:58.380 which is the only
00:27:59.960 daily presidential
00:28:00.820 tracking poll left.
00:28:02.960 All of that,
00:28:04.120 the entire apparatus,
00:28:05.700 you've got the bureaucracy
00:28:06.560 working against him,
00:28:07.800 you have the Democrats
00:28:08.660 ginned up like they
00:28:09.580 haven't been since
00:28:10.320 the last Republican president
00:28:11.460 and you've got
00:28:12.460 half of the Republican Party
00:28:13.800 too timid
00:28:14.560 to support their own guy.
00:28:15.980 You've got all of these things
00:28:17.620 working against Donald Trump
00:28:20.080 and yet more than half
00:28:21.420 the country still approves
00:28:22.260 of this job.
00:28:23.780 Day to day.
00:28:24.660 Day to day.
00:28:25.520 That's the last daily
00:28:26.780 tracking poll left.
00:28:28.260 Donald Trump's numbers
00:28:29.260 by the way
00:28:29.600 have been hovering around
00:28:30.420 there for quite a while
00:28:31.300 and they're higher
00:28:32.280 than Barack Obama's
00:28:33.280 approval ratings
00:28:33.940 at this time
00:28:34.580 in his presidency.
00:28:35.860 At this time
00:28:36.400 in Obama's presidency
00:28:37.560 it was 47, 48%.
00:28:39.020 Now I know what you're
00:28:40.280 going to say.
00:28:40.640 You're going to say,
00:28:41.040 yeah, but at this time
00:28:42.500 in Barack Obama's presidency
00:28:43.800 he was headed for a wipeout
00:28:45.420 in the midterms
00:28:46.320 and it's true
00:28:47.100 the 2010 midterms
00:28:48.100 did wipe out the Democrats
00:28:49.220 but that seems like
00:28:51.520 a good point
00:28:52.020 until you look
00:28:52.740 a little deeper into it.
00:28:53.860 The trouble with
00:28:54.440 Barack Obama
00:28:55.160 his electoral troubles
00:28:56.240 in those midterm wipeouts
00:28:57.920 were never his problems.
00:29:00.260 He always remained popular.
00:29:02.300 48% is a solid number
00:29:04.120 a solid approval rating
00:29:05.960 if you're president.
00:29:06.640 Not as good as 51%
00:29:07.920 which Trump has
00:29:08.640 but it's a very solid number.
00:29:10.980 Barack Obama
00:29:11.660 always remained popular.
00:29:12.760 That's why
00:29:13.640 the Congress
00:29:14.820 the Republicans
00:29:15.760 totally took over
00:29:16.560 the Congress
00:29:17.080 but Obama
00:29:17.880 got re-elected.
00:29:19.320 That's why people
00:29:20.160 hated Obama's policies
00:29:21.340 but they liked him personally.
00:29:23.780 And even with that
00:29:24.780 Donald Trump's
00:29:25.900 approval rating
00:29:26.420 is still higher
00:29:27.140 than Donald Trump's.
00:29:28.340 This will be shocking
00:29:29.260 to people
00:29:29.780 who believe
00:29:30.480 what they see on the news
00:29:31.360 who watch ABC
00:29:32.440 and George Stephanopoulos
00:29:34.000 former Clinton employee
00:29:35.560 former Clinton flack
00:29:37.080 and they say
00:29:38.120 wow, I can't believe
00:29:38.920 everyone hates Trump
00:29:40.540 oh, except for
00:29:41.260 more than half the country.
00:29:42.180 Right.
00:29:43.300 Conventional wisdom.
00:29:44.320 What does this mean
00:29:45.060 for the midterms?
00:29:46.820 The conventional wisdom
00:29:47.660 says Republicans
00:29:48.720 are going to get blown out
00:29:49.620 in the midterms.
00:29:50.580 Democrats only have to flip
00:29:51.700 24 congressional seats.
00:29:53.660 It's the House
00:29:54.800 so every seat
00:29:55.600 is up for grabs.
00:29:57.040 48 seats
00:29:57.940 are considered
00:29:58.460 competitive here
00:29:59.460 so more than enough
00:30:01.820 almost twice
00:30:02.420 you know
00:30:02.700 exactly twice as many
00:30:04.300 as need to be flipped
00:30:05.940 and the vast majority
00:30:07.680 of competitive seats
00:30:08.920 are in Republican districts.
00:30:10.820 Okay, that's bad
00:30:12.480 that doesn't look good
00:30:13.260 and historically speaking
00:30:14.800 the party in power
00:30:16.160 always gets tossed out
00:30:17.060 in these midterms
00:30:17.780 but drill down a little bit
00:30:19.860 only 22 seats
00:30:21.720 right in 2018
00:30:22.880 are considered a toss-up.
00:30:25.180 26 seats lean
00:30:26.280 slightly one way
00:30:27.080 or the other
00:30:27.460 and of those
00:30:28.700 lean one way
00:30:29.380 or the other
00:30:29.760 16 lean Republican
00:30:31.200 10 lean Democrat.
00:30:32.960 that kind of tempers
00:30:35.480 the views of this
00:30:36.120 blue wave
00:30:37.140 like Morgan Freeman
00:30:38.100 in Deep Impact
00:30:38.900 seeing the thing come
00:30:39.660 I don't know
00:30:40.540 the numbers
00:30:41.040 I don't know
00:30:41.880 if they necessarily
00:30:42.620 back that up
00:30:43.320 the history
00:30:44.100 seems to imply that
00:30:45.180 but to the numbers
00:30:46.060 on the ground
00:30:46.680 does the daily
00:30:47.420 presidential approval
00:30:48.300 writing
00:30:48.680 I don't know
00:30:49.540 do the tax cuts
00:30:51.200 that Americans just got
00:30:52.280 I don't know
00:30:53.200 in the Senate
00:30:54.060 there are a lot more
00:30:56.420 vulnerable Democrats
00:30:57.400 than Republicans this year
00:30:58.620 there's obviously
00:30:59.540 a thin GOP minority
00:31:00.700 in the Senate
00:31:01.240 but it's not a good map
00:31:02.600 for Democrats
00:31:03.260 next time will be
00:31:04.000 a good map for Democrats
00:31:04.840 this year doesn't look
00:31:05.880 great for them
00:31:06.320 so the conventional wisdom
00:31:08.080 says this is going to be
00:31:08.840 a bad year for Republicans
00:31:09.980 even with all of those
00:31:11.480 details I just gave you
00:31:12.620 you still think it's going
00:31:13.780 to be a bad year
00:31:14.260 for Republicans
00:31:14.880 except that conventional wisdom
00:31:17.280 is only reliable
00:31:18.240 in conventional times
00:31:19.520 these are not
00:31:20.940 conventional times
00:31:21.820 as the former FBI director
00:31:25.100 you know
00:31:25.840 having like a war of words
00:31:27.860 and yelling insults
00:31:29.220 at Donald Trump on TV
00:31:30.200 and then the porn star
00:31:31.100 from 2006
00:31:31.800 going on
00:31:32.780 and she's still stripping
00:31:33.640 but she's also
00:31:34.320 and then the raid
00:31:35.160 of the president's lawyer
00:31:36.100 and then half the
00:31:36.720 these are not normal times
00:31:38.540 and President Covfefe himself
00:31:40.280 of not
00:31:41.580 last but not least
00:31:42.920 of the abnormal things
00:31:44.380 going on in this political time
00:31:45.640 these are not normal times
00:31:48.120 my recommendation
00:31:50.480 to Republicans is
00:31:51.620 by all rights
00:31:52.860 by all rights
00:31:53.640 Republicans should get
00:31:54.620 blown out in the midterms
00:31:55.620 all of the indicators
00:31:57.160 seem to point that way
00:31:58.320 and yet below the surface
00:31:59.700 I don't know
00:32:00.340 and yet these aren't
00:32:01.300 conventional times
00:32:02.100 and yet Donald Trump's
00:32:03.520 a survivor
00:32:04.020 and yet the media lie to us
00:32:06.220 Republicans have to go
00:32:08.100 out there and vote
00:32:08.740 if we can hold the Senate
00:32:10.540 and possibly hold the House
00:32:12.800 or not lose too many seats
00:32:13.940 in the House
00:32:14.420 or whatever
00:32:14.860 if we can do that
00:32:16.140 this
00:32:17.140 the mainstream media
00:32:18.940 will crack
00:32:19.700 they will cry
00:32:20.460 they will fill up
00:32:21.760 this leftist here's Tumblr
00:32:22.920 most importantly
00:32:23.640 it will be a wonderful thing
00:32:25.080 for American politics
00:32:25.980 it will be
00:32:26.860 so unexpected
00:32:28.160 it will be 2016
00:32:29.100 all over again
00:32:29.960 maybe even better
00:32:31.060 because they really think
00:32:31.740 they've got him again
00:32:32.460 but it'll fill up
00:32:33.780 the leftist here's Tumblr
00:32:34.600 and that's why you have to go
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00:33:21.600 because the
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00:33:24.880 I'll just
00:33:25.780 I'll take a little
00:33:26.740 little smell to
00:33:27.740 oh the fragrance
00:33:29.380 this is the
00:33:30.220 James Comey
00:33:31.380 2018 vintage
00:33:32.680 it's just
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00:33:55.000 all right
00:34:09.240 it's time for
00:34:09.900 this day in history
00:34:11.100 on this day in history
00:34:14.220 George Washington
00:34:15.960 leaves Mount Vernon
00:34:17.120 to be inaugurated president
00:34:19.000 on this day in 1789
00:34:21.600 newly elected president
00:34:22.700 and father of his country
00:34:24.100 George Washington
00:34:25.340 left his home
00:34:26.300 in Mount Vernon, Virginia
00:34:27.320 and headed to New York
00:34:28.520 to be sworn in
00:34:29.380 as the first president
00:34:30.660 and I actually used to live
00:34:33.240 in New York
00:34:33.860 right by where
00:34:34.540 Washington was sworn in
00:34:35.600 it's very cool
00:34:36.700 it's downtown in New York
00:34:37.760 he went all the way up there
00:34:38.660 and he did not
00:34:39.320 want to go up there
00:34:40.240 before leaving
00:34:41.360 George Washington
00:34:42.220 addressed a group of citizens
00:34:43.620 about how much
00:34:44.780 he did not want
00:34:45.440 to be president
00:34:46.020 this is not just
00:34:46.960 private writings
00:34:47.640 he's at Mount Vernon
00:34:48.760 he's in Virginia
00:34:49.580 he's about to go
00:34:50.720 become the first president
00:34:51.700 of the United States
00:34:52.400 and he decides to convene
00:34:54.280 a group of people
00:34:55.340 and complain about it
00:34:56.820 because he doesn't want
00:34:57.440 to do it
00:34:57.820 he says
00:34:58.420 at my age
00:34:59.220 what possible advantages
00:35:01.020 could I gain
00:35:01.760 from public life
00:35:02.780 and Washington
00:35:04.180 at the time by the way
00:35:05.040 was only 57
00:35:06.220 young man
00:35:07.780 even for his era
00:35:08.940 not some old man
00:35:10.660 but the Washingtons
00:35:12.100 tended to die early
00:35:13.420 his father
00:35:14.000 his great grandfather
00:35:14.980 his grandfather
00:35:15.700 they all died
00:35:16.840 pretty young
00:35:17.440 and Washington
00:35:17.980 was keenly aware
00:35:18.920 of this
00:35:19.380 he wrote in his diary
00:35:20.960 about leaving
00:35:22.240 to be inaugurated
00:35:23.080 he said
00:35:23.460 I bade adieu
00:35:24.540 to Mount Vernon
00:35:25.380 to private life
00:35:26.460 and to domestic felicity
00:35:27.520 and with a mind
00:35:28.640 oppressed
00:35:29.200 with more anxious
00:35:30.260 and painful sensations
00:35:31.520 than I had words
00:35:32.960 to express
00:35:34.060 that doesn't sound
00:35:36.180 very excited
00:35:36.700 he had already
00:35:38.520 resigned his military
00:35:39.760 commission
00:35:40.200 at the end
00:35:40.900 of the revolutionary war
00:35:42.040 so he leads
00:35:43.380 the army
00:35:44.040 throughout the revolution
00:35:45.140 he really is
00:35:46.260 the father
00:35:46.620 of his country
00:35:47.200 and then he resigns
00:35:49.100 his military commission
00:35:49.960 and there was some question
00:35:51.140 will he
00:35:51.680 will he become a king
00:35:52.760 will he rule
00:35:53.580 the country himself
00:35:54.440 but he went
00:35:55.340 and he asked congress
00:35:56.820 he said
00:35:57.080 how do you want me
00:35:57.600 to resign
00:35:58.060 I'm going to resign
00:35:59.160 how do you want me
00:35:59.740 to do it
00:36:00.180 and then they told him how
00:36:01.460 and King George III
00:36:02.720 his foe
00:36:03.680 in that war
00:36:04.660 because he did this
00:36:06.040 called Washington
00:36:06.920 the most distinguished
00:36:08.160 of any man living
00:36:09.680 the greatest character
00:36:11.180 of the age
00:36:11.960 that was his last foe
00:36:13.500 this was a heroic act
00:36:14.500 then he goes to Mount Vernon
00:36:15.440 and he lives a happy life
00:36:16.600 he didn't want to be president
00:36:18.120 he certainly didn't want
00:36:19.420 to leave his wife behind
00:36:20.420 to go up to New York
00:36:21.340 and he also didn't want
00:36:22.400 to leave his servant
00:36:23.020 Billy Lee behind
00:36:23.800 he just didn't want
00:36:24.440 to leave his life
00:36:25.180 he liked his life
00:36:26.100 he had a good life
00:36:26.840 and he wasn't just kidding
00:36:28.420 by the way
00:36:28.900 I think we now
00:36:30.660 look back on Washington
00:36:32.180 who says
00:36:33.600 oh I don't want to be president
00:36:34.560 I don't want to be president
00:36:35.360 I don't want to do this
00:36:36.580 I don't want to do this
00:36:37.260 and we think he was just kidding
00:36:38.520 or he didn't
00:36:39.660 he was playing coy
00:36:40.560 you know
00:36:41.100 he obviously
00:36:41.660 wanted to be president
00:36:42.600 but he couldn't say that
00:36:44.900 and it was just politicking
00:36:45.880 or whatever
00:36:46.300 no
00:36:47.080 he wasn't kidding
00:36:48.040 he really did not want
00:36:49.260 to be president
00:36:49.800 he took up that job
00:36:51.260 only because rival
00:36:52.800 political factions
00:36:53.700 in the US
00:36:54.500 were already threatening
00:36:55.940 the independence
00:36:56.880 that was won
00:36:57.800 in the American Revolution
00:36:58.840 I think some people
00:37:00.240 like to pretend
00:37:01.140 that the political factions
00:37:02.400 the federalists
00:37:03.380 and the anti-federalists
00:37:04.300 they sort of sprung up later
00:37:05.880 and that's when
00:37:06.540 the parties began
00:37:07.500 not true
00:37:08.500 they began immediately
00:37:09.360 because it's the natural
00:37:10.380 state of politics
00:37:11.280 as politics should be
00:37:12.800 different people
00:37:13.560 with different visions
00:37:14.340 and different interests
00:37:15.200 organize into different groups
00:37:16.840 and then they try to
00:37:18.180 enact their vision
00:37:19.600 over someone else's vision
00:37:20.640 that's the natural
00:37:21.520 state of politics
00:37:22.300 we shouldn't wish
00:37:23.800 to get rid of parties
00:37:25.260 political parties
00:37:26.000 are a wonderful thing
00:37:26.940 they help us organize
00:37:28.220 our political visions
00:37:29.200 and affect them
00:37:29.960 so at this point
00:37:31.540 the federalists
00:37:32.360 guys like
00:37:33.820 John Adams
00:37:34.660 or Alexander Hamilton
00:37:35.600 they are begging
00:37:36.860 Washington to be president
00:37:38.700 in 1788
00:37:39.980 Alexander Hamilton
00:37:41.020 wrote to Washington
00:37:42.240 basically demanding
00:37:43.400 that he do it
00:37:44.100 basically saying
00:37:44.820 you're going to have
00:37:45.320 to be president
00:37:45.880 Washington responded
00:37:47.500 to that letter
00:37:48.860 and he responded
00:37:50.160 on the quote
00:37:50.960 delicate subject
00:37:52.340 with which
00:37:53.100 you conclude your letter
00:37:54.200 I can say nothing
00:37:55.520 because the event
00:37:56.700 alluded to
00:37:57.240 may never happen
00:37:58.020 and because
00:37:58.760 in case it should occur
00:37:59.800 it would be a point
00:38:00.840 of prudence
00:38:01.340 to defer forming
00:38:02.180 one's ultimate
00:38:02.980 and irrevocable decisions
00:38:04.440 it is my great
00:38:06.040 and sole desire
00:38:07.220 to live and die
00:38:08.700 in peace and retirement
00:38:10.420 on my own farm
00:38:11.540 I don't
00:38:12.740 you can't say it
00:38:13.500 much more clearly
00:38:14.160 than that
00:38:14.640 I want to live
00:38:15.700 he didn't just say
00:38:16.460 I want to live
00:38:16.920 you know
00:38:17.440 politicians do this today
00:38:18.640 they say
00:38:18.980 oh I'm really enjoying
00:38:20.100 what I'm doing
00:38:20.720 oh I really like
00:38:22.080 running my business
00:38:22.860 oh yeah no
00:38:24.040 I don't want to run
00:38:24.800 for president
00:38:25.280 until the next
00:38:25.980 possible opportunity
00:38:27.080 and then I'll do it
00:38:27.720 Washington is very clear
00:38:29.320 with his words
00:38:29.880 he was meticulous
00:38:30.960 he chose his words carefully
00:38:31.920 I want to live
00:38:33.260 and die
00:38:34.080 in peace
00:38:34.720 here
00:38:35.400 on this farm
00:38:36.500 stop bothering me
00:38:37.480 Alexander
00:38:37.880 he wrote
00:38:39.160 also
00:38:39.700 George Washington
00:38:40.640 I should
00:38:42.120 unfeignedly rejoice
00:38:43.780 in case the electors
00:38:45.320 by giving their votes
00:38:46.520 to another person
00:38:47.700 would save me
00:38:48.680 from the dreaded
00:38:49.640 dilemma
00:38:50.080 of being forced
00:38:51.060 to accept
00:38:51.720 or refuse
00:38:52.280 if that may not be
00:38:54.380 I am
00:38:55.280 in the next place
00:38:56.240 earnestly desirous
00:38:57.980 of searching out
00:38:58.700 the truth
00:38:59.200 and knowing
00:38:59.880 whether there
00:39:00.360 does not exist
00:39:01.040 a probability
00:39:01.700 that the government
00:39:02.680 would be just
00:39:03.440 as happily
00:39:03.980 and effectually
00:39:04.720 carried into execution
00:39:05.740 without my aid
00:39:07.320 leave me alone
00:39:08.420 leave me alone
00:39:08.980 leave me alone
00:39:09.500 leave me alone
00:39:10.020 he then goes on
00:39:11.000 to say
00:39:11.340 I call heaven
00:39:12.560 to witness
00:39:13.160 that this very act
00:39:14.760 would be the greatest
00:39:15.900 sacrifice
00:39:16.660 of my personal feelings
00:39:18.220 and wishes
00:39:19.140 that ever I have been
00:39:20.620 called upon
00:39:21.280 to make
00:39:21.980 this is a guy
00:39:22.960 who spent his entire life
00:39:24.840 getting shot at
00:39:25.660 this is a guy
00:39:26.580 who spent his entire life
00:39:27.520 in squalor
00:39:28.480 terrible conditions
00:39:29.940 starving
00:39:31.120 not with adequate clothing
00:39:32.800 not with adequate ammunition
00:39:33.980 shooting at people
00:39:35.300 and being shot at
00:39:36.620 and he says
00:39:37.800 that's basically
00:39:38.480 a cakewalk
00:39:39.120 compared to making me
00:39:40.180 leave my farm
00:39:41.140 and become president
00:39:41.960 that he
00:39:43.020 you cannot interpret this
00:39:45.100 as some coyness
00:39:46.080 he's saying it
00:39:47.180 as clearly as he can
00:39:48.120 now
00:39:48.940 if
00:39:49.840 Washington
00:39:51.160 had to be president
00:39:52.140 he wrote
00:39:53.540 that he hoped
00:39:54.060 that at a convenient
00:39:55.360 and early period
00:39:56.380 my services
00:39:57.460 might be dispensed with
00:39:58.640 and that I might be
00:39:59.600 permitted once more
00:40:00.520 to retire
00:40:01.120 to pass an unclouded evening
00:40:02.940 after the stormy day
00:40:04.460 of life
00:40:04.940 in the bosom
00:40:06.040 of domestic tranquility
00:40:07.940 and he did it
00:40:09.480 you know
00:40:09.900 some people say
00:40:10.640 they're amazed
00:40:11.180 that Washington
00:40:11.840 didn't go for
00:40:13.520 a third or fourth term
00:40:14.680 but anybody familiar
00:40:15.980 with Washington's
00:40:17.240 thoughts on this
00:40:17.780 should be amazed
00:40:18.680 that he accepted
00:40:19.300 a second term
00:40:20.000 you know
00:40:20.560 he just didn't want it
00:40:21.700 FDR
00:40:22.320 if he had lived
00:40:23.120 probably would have
00:40:23.640 served 16 terms
00:40:24.920 he wanted to be a king
00:40:26.620 he made himself
00:40:27.640 an American king
00:40:28.500 but George Washington
00:40:29.880 really didn't want
00:40:31.500 to do it
00:40:31.940 and that is a real
00:40:33.020 attitude to look for
00:40:34.340 in our political leaders
00:40:35.360 and here's why
00:40:36.420 that's not just
00:40:37.020 some platitude
00:40:37.700 that's not just saying
00:40:38.700 oh we want the
00:40:39.360 reluctant leader
00:40:40.260 oh that's nice
00:40:41.340 it shows he's kind of
00:40:42.200 got control of himself
00:40:43.640 and his ambitions
00:40:44.480 that's actually not why
00:40:46.520 running for president
00:40:48.900 certainly
00:40:49.580 holding that office
00:40:50.580 really holding
00:40:51.100 any political office
00:40:52.040 but especially
00:40:52.780 those big ones
00:40:54.040 destroys your family
00:40:55.840 you don't get to
00:40:56.940 see your family
00:40:57.560 you're lambasted
00:40:59.280 in the press
00:40:59.920 lies and calumny
00:41:01.320 and all sorts
00:41:01.900 of awful things
00:41:02.580 are told about you
00:41:03.980 certain things
00:41:05.520 from your past
00:41:06.220 that you don't want
00:41:06.800 to cut
00:41:07.040 skeletons come out
00:41:07.820 of the closet
00:41:08.340 it opens you up
00:41:09.480 to constant assault
00:41:10.560 by just absolute
00:41:12.160 villains
00:41:12.800 maybe they'll find
00:41:14.560 some villains
00:41:14.920 or some skeletons
00:41:16.520 in your closet
00:41:17.100 or they'll just
00:41:18.360 make it up
00:41:18.900 they'll just
00:41:19.520 completely fabricate
00:41:20.680 things as they do
00:41:21.420 all the time
00:41:22.060 with everybody
00:41:22.660 who runs for
00:41:23.180 that high office
00:41:23.860 it entails
00:41:24.800 grave responsibility
00:41:25.760 for the safety
00:41:26.520 and security
00:41:27.040 of your fellow
00:41:27.880 countrymen
00:41:28.420 it ages you
00:41:29.400 dramatically
00:41:29.960 it depletes
00:41:31.020 your wealth
00:41:31.600 or it should
00:41:32.720 you're not supposed
00:41:33.300 to make money
00:41:33.860 in office
00:41:34.620 and there are
00:41:35.980 a lot of watchdogs
00:41:36.880 and you know
00:41:37.520 you make money
00:41:38.020 maybe after office
00:41:38.920 if you're Barack Obama
00:41:39.900 or Bill Clinton
00:41:40.540 or somebody
00:41:41.060 but it depletes
00:41:42.060 your wealth
00:41:42.540 and it obliterates
00:41:44.060 your privacy
00:41:44.560 it's just a terrible
00:41:45.480 thing
00:41:45.860 it's a terrible
00:41:46.880 awful burden
00:41:47.700 to do that
00:41:48.300 if somebody is eager
00:41:50.180 to forfeit
00:41:51.080 all of those things
00:41:52.040 he's probably not
00:41:53.740 the man for the job
00:41:54.540 if somebody's eager
00:41:55.400 to do it
00:41:56.000 he would have
00:41:57.040 to be psychotic
00:41:57.820 why would you
00:41:59.500 want to do it
00:42:00.080 when you could
00:42:00.440 live in private life
00:42:01.340 and have a good life
00:42:02.180 if you have your life
00:42:04.460 in order
00:42:04.820 and you've got
00:42:05.540 your Mount Vernon
00:42:06.220 and you've got
00:42:06.780 your Martha Washington
00:42:07.600 and you've got
00:42:08.200 your private business
00:42:09.060 and your business
00:42:10.040 is ideally run
00:42:10.900 out of your home
00:42:11.620 and you've just
00:42:12.680 got your life
00:42:13.460 in a nice balance
00:42:14.380 why would you
00:42:15.240 want to sacrifice
00:42:15.880 all of that
00:42:16.560 for a thankless job
00:42:17.980 that will have you
00:42:18.580 pilloried
00:42:19.080 keep you away
00:42:19.860 from your family
00:42:20.500 and losing money
00:42:21.280 you'd have to be insane
00:42:22.840 but a lot of people
00:42:23.600 are insane
00:42:24.100 and they want to do it
00:42:24.820 because they want fame
00:42:25.780 and they want power
00:42:26.560 and they want to
00:42:27.740 use it for grift
00:42:29.040 and make money afterwards
00:42:29.960 like the Clintons
00:42:30.720 lots of politicians
00:42:32.800 start running for office
00:42:34.740 right after college
00:42:36.180 or law school
00:42:36.800 in their 20s or 30s
00:42:37.940 running for office
00:42:39.020 is not honorable
00:42:40.380 in and of itself
00:42:41.340 it isn't
00:42:42.740 it can be honorable
00:42:44.280 what George Washington
00:42:45.280 did was honorable
00:42:46.660 and admirable
00:42:47.300 the country
00:42:48.100 would have fallen apart
00:42:49.280 if he had not agreed
00:42:50.080 to be the first president
00:42:50.900 I'm pretty convinced of that
00:42:52.280 it just would have
00:42:52.980 disintegrated
00:42:53.700 and all of the
00:42:54.540 hard fought victories
00:42:55.300 of the Revolutionary War
00:42:56.300 would have been for nothing
00:42:57.140 and the country
00:42:58.220 might have ended up
00:42:58.820 worse than it was before
00:42:59.900 or the British
00:43:01.420 would have just invaded again
00:43:02.400 as they did in 1812
00:43:03.460 it's not
00:43:05.980 it's not admirable
00:43:06.860 in and of itself
00:43:07.580 Bill Clinton
00:43:08.040 is not George Washington
00:43:09.040 he's just a crass politician
00:43:10.640 who started running
00:43:11.680 for office
00:43:12.160 in his own mind
00:43:12.860 probably at the age of three
00:43:13.920 and in reality
00:43:15.680 after law school
00:43:16.500 some of the greatest
00:43:18.100 politicians
00:43:18.660 in our history
00:43:19.300 have been citizen
00:43:20.120 legislators
00:43:20.940 you know
00:43:21.920 they've been people
00:43:22.520 who have lives
00:43:23.620 who have done things
00:43:24.520 in their life
00:43:24.980 and have a nice farm
00:43:25.800 at Mount Vernon
00:43:26.360 and cute little old
00:43:27.660 Martha sitting there
00:43:28.520 stitching up American flags
00:43:30.180 or whatever she was doing
00:43:31.060 and they decide
00:43:33.540 that for the good
00:43:34.020 of their country
00:43:34.580 and because they feel
00:43:35.680 that it's virtuous
00:43:36.900 and it's their duty
00:43:38.100 to help their country
00:43:39.160 they'll go and do a stint
00:43:40.300 and then they'll go back home
00:43:41.220 and hang out with Martha
00:43:42.380 when lifelong politicians
00:43:45.240 all start pilloring
00:43:47.200 a citizen legislator
00:43:48.640 or a citizen executive
00:43:49.640 or one of the guys
00:43:50.720 who's actually doing that
00:43:51.720 when all these guys
00:43:52.840 who have been in politics
00:43:53.860 since they were
00:43:54.540 you know 22
00:43:55.460 they ran for elective office
00:43:56.840 the first time
00:43:57.500 they've been in DC
00:43:58.100 that whole time
00:43:58.740 when those guys
00:43:59.980 start pilloring people
00:44:00.940 who are following the model
00:44:02.620 of living a normal life
00:44:04.040 and then doing your duty
00:44:06.060 for the country
00:44:06.700 for a little bit
00:44:07.340 that's usually a sign
00:44:08.700 that that citizen legislator
00:44:10.340 or executive
00:44:10.900 is the right man
00:44:11.940 for the job
00:44:12.720 important things
00:44:14.280 to consider these days
00:44:15.240 okay that's our show
00:44:16.100 I am heading out
00:44:17.600 like right now
00:44:18.640 to get on a plane
00:44:20.800 I'm going to Alabama
00:44:21.880 I'll be speaking
00:44:22.360 at the Alabama Policy Institute
00:44:23.740 in Mobile
00:44:24.420 tomorrow night
00:44:26.020 and that should be
00:44:27.220 a lot of fun
00:44:27.760 by the USS Alabama
00:44:28.860 so if you're in the neighborhood
00:44:30.020 go get a ticket
00:44:30.820 at Alabama Policy Institute
00:44:32.500 and then I'll be speaking
00:44:34.100 at Trump University
00:44:35.000 on Thursday
00:44:36.380 it's the University of Pennsylvania
00:44:38.240 it's his alma mater
00:44:39.940 but I refer to it exclusively
00:44:41.520 as Trump University
00:44:43.320 I think they appreciate that
00:44:44.720 and it'll be at Huntsman Hall
00:44:46.600 I actually worked for John Huntsman
00:44:47.800 we're going to be
00:44:48.580 at the Republican epicenter
00:44:49.980 of the Northeast
00:44:50.600 it's going to be
00:44:51.600 I'll be speaking there
00:44:52.520 on reasons to vote
00:44:53.680 for Donald Trump
00:44:54.260 in John Huntsman Hall
00:44:55.360 John Huntsman Jr.
00:44:58.460 is the current ambassador
00:44:59.640 to Russia
00:45:00.200 so I'll probably collude
00:45:01.080 with the Russians
00:45:01.560 a little bit
00:45:02.040 and we'll be at
00:45:03.140 Trump University
00:45:04.020 so come on out
00:45:04.800 if you're there
00:45:06.340 and it should be
00:45:07.380 a pretty fun talk
00:45:08.140 the talk is on
00:45:08.880 reasons to vote for Trump
00:45:09.960 I promise it will be
00:45:10.980 quite different than my book
00:45:12.040 and then we'll keep
00:45:13.480 the shows going all week
00:45:14.300 we've got some great guests
00:45:15.080 this week
00:45:15.540 get your mailbag questions in
00:45:16.820 I'm Michael Knowles
00:45:17.460 this is The Michael Knowles Show
00:45:18.400 I'll see you tomorrow
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