The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1483 - Mark Hamill Destroys Star Wars To Praise Biden

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00:00:30.000 As Joe Biden continues to flail in the polls,

00:00:33.100 the White House is calling on its cheerleading squad in Hollywood.

00:00:37.140 It's a tried and true strategy for Democrats.

00:00:39.520 When the news isn't going their way, just dazzle the people with celebrities.

00:00:45.320 So on Friday, old Joe brought out the big guns.

00:00:49.060 That's right, you guessed it.

00:00:51.160 I'm talking about Mark Hamill.

00:00:53.160 Mark Hamill has decided to join us on this wonderful Friday,

00:00:56.860 and I am really excited to turn it over to Mr. Hamill.

00:01:01.740 Here we go.

00:01:02.260 Just remember, okay.

00:01:03.200 How many of you had Mark Hamill lead the press briefing on your bingo card hands?

00:01:09.060 Yeah, me either.

00:01:10.220 And look, I just got to meet the president.

00:01:11.760 He gave me these aviator glasses.

00:01:14.120 I love the merch.

00:01:17.640 Love it all.

00:01:18.500 But listen, I just wanted to say I was honored to be asked to come to the White House

00:01:23.240 to meet the president, the most legislatively successful president in my lifetime.

00:01:33.060 And, you know, I don't have to go through the list, the bipartisan infrastructure law,

00:01:37.740 the PAC Act, the CHIPS Act, all of that, inflation, 15 million jobs.

00:01:42.020 It's all good.

00:01:43.120 You know, I called him, Mr. President.

00:01:44.700 He said, you can call me Joe.

00:01:46.720 And I said, can I call you Joe B. Wan-Kenobi? 0.99

00:01:48.520 Joe B. Wan-Kenobi.

00:01:52.240 It is taking every ounce of effort I've got to prevent my face from becoming stuck in a

00:01:56.760 permanent cringe.

00:01:58.340 That wasn't even the worst part of the presser.

00:02:00.680 The first part was even worse when Mark Hamill slurred his way through the talking points that

00:02:04.860 Biden's staff had obviously handed him.

00:02:07.680 It sounded like he'd had a few too many in the cantina before even making it to the White

00:02:11.220 House.

00:02:11.640 But why was he there in the first place?

00:02:14.180 The best the White House could do was a man whose only notable film role dates back to

00:02:20.660 1977.

00:02:22.800 Even if the White House had wanted to capitalize on Star Wars Day, May the 4th, couldn't they

00:02:29.220 have gotten any of the good actors from those movies?

00:02:32.460 Mark Hamill was probably the weakest part of the whole original franchise.

00:02:35.800 But I suspect the answer is no.

00:02:37.860 Harrison Ford endorsed Biden last time, but he's MIA this cycle and would probably rather

00:02:42.460 smoke a joint at his home than deal with the house plant in the White House.

00:02:46.380 James Earl Jones, Darth Vader is a Republican as far as I can tell.

00:02:50.620 He's Catholic too.

00:02:52.100 Gina Carano got canceled for not being woke.

00:02:55.060 Peter Cushing's dead, which I guess actually makes him the most likely of the cast to vote

00:02:59.180 for Biden.

00:03:00.180 Yoda's an alien.

00:03:01.920 Same story for him.

00:03:03.780 This is the best they've got, not only in the Star Wars universe, but more broadly throughout

00:03:09.680 Hollywood, where the woker celebs have turned on Biden thanks to the wedge issue of the war

00:03:14.880 in Gaza.

00:03:16.320 The Biden White House is in a generational political conundrum.

00:03:20.100 The sort of crisis you could not wish on a more deserving hive of scum and villainy.

00:03:26.700 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:27.400 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:28.240 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:48.980 A frat star has gone viral for wearing American flag overalls and dancing around and yelling

00:03:55.040 at a pro-Palestine protester.

00:03:58.720 We will get to all the story at Ole Miss and the rest of the schools in a moment.

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00:04:33.820 Speaking of those anti-Israel protesters, the Intifada at UCLA has just issued a statement

00:04:41.720 that further underscores the ultimate point of all of these protests in their own words.

00:04:47.320 You're just a white, you're just a white, you're just a white, you're just a white person. 0.95

00:04:51.840 You're a white person.

00:04:52.620 Get out.

00:04:53.100 We don't like white people. 0.99

00:04:54.900 Free, free Palestine.

00:04:58.280 You're just a white person and we don't like white people. 0.93

00:05:01.600 Free, free Palestine.

00:05:03.000 That sums it up.

00:05:04.100 That sums it up.

00:05:04.840 That's really what it's about.

00:05:06.660 Maybe some of these people could point to the Palestinian territories on a map.

00:05:11.100 Maybe.

00:05:11.640 They now know the colors of the Palestine flag.

00:05:14.500 They would probably confuse it for a Jordanian flag too, but they roughly know the colors

00:05:19.020 and they wave it.

00:05:20.180 But really what this is about is they hate white people and they specifically hate white

00:05:25.700 men and probably they hate their dads because that's really what all of liberalism is about.

00:05:31.160 But that's it.

00:05:32.260 It has very, very little to do with the Israel-Gaza war.

00:05:37.720 It's not that the Israel-Gaza war is not an interesting political matter.

00:05:41.280 It's not that it doesn't have some effect on U.S. policy.

00:05:44.400 It does.

00:05:45.240 It's not that it's not worth debating.

00:05:47.340 It certainly is worth debating.

00:05:49.280 That's not what these protests are about.

00:05:51.360 It has basically nothing at all to do with it.

00:05:55.500 There was another demonstration at LSU.

00:05:59.020 And at LSU, the counter-protesters outnumbered the actual pro-Palestine protesters by a lot.

00:06:07.900 And what were they chanting?

00:06:09.160 Were they chanting, you know, here we go, Gaza, here we go, let's go, Israel, let's go.

00:06:15.520 No, they weren't chanting that.

00:06:17.600 It was actually the chants pertains to American politics.

00:06:22.420 And the counter-protesters were chanting USA.

00:06:25.000 USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

00:06:40.080 So you see, even here, we'll get to the Ole Miss video in a second.

00:06:44.000 But even here, most of the counter-protesters seem like normal frat stars wearing Nantucket reds and that kind of thing.

00:06:49.100 And they're chanting, USA! USA!

00:06:53.800 This reminds me so much of Occupy Wall Street.

00:06:56.840 When I was in college, the big encampment, weeks, months-long protest campaign was Occupy Wall Street,

00:07:03.740 which then went to all these campuses all around the country.

00:07:05.940 Occupy Connecticut.

00:07:06.900 Occupy California.

00:07:07.380 And what was so striking about it was the issue was not necessarily left or right-coded.

00:07:19.060 Or it wasn't, sorry, I'll rephrase that.

00:07:21.440 The issue wasn't necessarily a left-wing or right-wing issue.

00:07:25.440 Meaning, you know, these bankers on Wall Street manipulating the system, buying off politicians,

00:07:31.240 getting themselves bailed out because their banks were too big to fail.

00:07:33.640 Well, it's not exactly the height of conservatism.

00:07:37.620 It's not as though we say, we conservatives, we believe in life, liberty, and the total immunity of Wall Street from any consequences of their actions.

00:07:47.440 We don't, no, it's not true.

00:07:48.360 And the bankers on Wall Street and the hedge fund guys and private equity guys, they're broadly Democrats anyway.

00:07:54.780 So it's not, but it became a left-right issue.

00:07:59.420 Meaning the protesters were leftists and the counter-protesters were conservatives.

00:08:03.640 It was coded left and right, even though the issue wasn't necessarily that.

00:08:07.960 Same thing goes for the Israel-Gaza war.

00:08:11.480 There are plenty of right-wing objections to Israeli policy.

00:08:16.120 There are plenty of left-wing reasons to support the state of Israel.

00:08:20.120 But that's just not how this is coded.

00:08:22.060 The way that this is coded at all of the protests is the pro-Palestine people are leftists.

00:08:26.300 They're communists.

00:08:27.180 They're anarchists.

00:08:27.960 They're gender studies majors who hate their dad, and they especially hate you, white man.

00:08:32.280 Okay, and the counter-protesters, the pro-Israel side, is normal pro-American right-wingers.

00:08:41.000 And that's just it.

00:08:42.780 And a lot of those guys probably can't point to Israel on a map either.

00:08:46.160 But they wear their red, white, and blue overalls, and they chant USA, USA because of the people involved.

00:08:52.380 You know, a friend of mine says facts don't care about your feelings.

00:08:55.720 There's a lot of truth to that.

00:08:56.640 But politics largely cares about your feelings, and politics is largely about people.

00:09:02.700 It's kind of all about people.

00:09:04.080 It's not just about some policy that some wonk writes up on a white paper at a think tank.

00:09:08.780 It's about people.

00:09:09.800 It's about teams.

00:09:10.900 It's about friends and adversaries, okay?

00:09:14.380 And so in these protests, I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing.

00:09:18.760 I'm just making the, I think, incontrovertible observation that people protesting for the pro-Palestine side are the leftists.

00:09:27.380 Therefore, the people counter-protesting are the conservatives.

00:09:30.560 And most of this has nothing to do with the Middle East.

00:09:33.140 So this brings us to the viral video that came out of Ole Miss where some frat star wearing aviators, much more persuasively than Mark Hamill did, dressed up in red, white, and blue, stars and stripes, overalls, is counter-protesting a sole pro-Palestine protester.

00:09:54.100 So the counter-protester is a straight white man, the worst kind of person in the world.

00:10:01.700 And then the pro-Gaza protester, the pro-Palestine protester, is a black woman who is somewhat corpulent. 1.00

00:10:09.460 I only observe that because a lot of the guys were chanting things like Lizzo, and they were saying, they were being kind of mean about it.

00:10:18.880 Now, it's a little unclear in the video what exactly people are saying.

00:10:24.100 Now, cops are trying to break him up.

00:10:38.240 They're kind of just yelling ambiguous insults.

00:10:44.020 They're waving at her.

00:10:47.520 I can't quite tell.

00:10:48.820 The most damning video, I actually couldn't even really see it in this cut,

00:10:52.980 is at one point it looks like someone's jumping around like a monkey.

00:10:56.560 So some people were saying that that was a racial attack.

00:11:00.380 And I don't, I don't, I could have been.

00:11:02.280 I just don't know.

00:11:03.380 Maybe it might have just been like making fun of leftists for behaving like animals.

00:11:07.740 And I had nothing to do with race.

00:11:09.040 Or it could have been race.

00:11:09.880 I have no idea what it was.

00:11:13.240 First of all, I have two big observations about this.

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00:12:30.440 Two big observations and a caveat.

00:12:32.680 First of all,

00:12:35.940 in America, this is my caveat.

00:12:38.160 In America, the left can burn the country down for eight months

00:12:41.800 on an explicitly racial campaign called Black Lives Matter

00:12:45.700 that explicitly said white lives do not matter.

00:12:48.180 All lives do not matter. 1.00

00:12:49.420 Only black lives matter. 1.00

00:12:50.720 And we're going to burn the country down.

00:12:52.320 We're going to murder dozens of people.

00:12:53.900 We're going to loot stores.

00:12:55.680 We're going to shut the country down

00:12:58.300 and terrify people in their neighborhoods.

00:13:00.080 And you will never hear one counter signal from the hard left.

00:13:05.360 You won't, or even from the mainstream left.

00:13:07.160 You're going to have the current vice president of the United States

00:13:09.280 bail these guys out of prison, bail them out of jail.

00:13:11.500 And you're going to have staffers for the current president

00:13:13.220 bail them out of jail.

00:13:14.480 So I don't want it to seem like I'm counter signaling

00:13:17.740 or going squishy.

00:13:18.700 We don't even know really what we're seeing in this video.

00:13:20.620 But my first observation is our opponents sometimes lead us

00:13:28.040 to do things that are degrading to ourselves.

00:13:31.640 The perfect example of this was some years ago,

00:13:34.720 there was a right-wing activist at a college campus 0.93

00:13:38.480 who was protesting safe spaces.

00:13:42.340 Right when safe spaces were first coming to the public imagination.

00:13:47.080 And so he drew up a fake safe space.

00:13:49.000 And then he dressed in a diaper and, you know,

00:13:52.320 had a pacifier or something and kind of made fun of the leftists.

00:13:56.540 And the observation was that the leftists are behaving like babies.

00:14:00.720 But the problem was he had allowed his opponents to drive him so mad

00:14:04.660 that he ended up degrading himself and dressing in a diaper with a pacifier.

00:14:10.060 It didn't look good.

00:14:11.640 It was kind of a self-own.

00:14:13.640 So that sometimes happens.

00:14:15.360 I know people get rowdy in college,

00:14:16.820 but you shouldn't say nasty things.

00:14:19.000 To women especially.

00:14:20.960 And, you know, you want to comport yourself with some dignity.

00:14:23.420 Especially, this brings me to my second observation,

00:14:26.420 in an age where everything is videotaped.

00:14:29.300 The most striking thing about this to me

00:14:31.280 was that this was not a political protest.

00:14:34.700 This was not a political demonstration.

00:14:37.140 This was certainly not a debate.

00:14:38.980 This was two groups of people making separate, albeit interconnected movies.

00:14:48.960 The most striking thing about it to me was not the pro-Palestine lady.

00:14:52.320 I couldn't even hear what she was saying.

00:14:54.020 For all I know, she was saying things just as nastier and nastier

00:14:56.560 than what the people on the other side were saying.

00:14:58.800 And the most striking thing to me was all the cameras.

00:15:04.340 Every person there, just about, had a camera out and was filming.

00:15:09.540 And you're going to see coverage of this today from two angles.

00:15:11.980 You're going to see the pro, the left.

00:15:16.100 I'll even take Israel and Palestine out of it. 1.00

00:15:18.200 I didn't see any Israel flags there.

00:15:19.460 I didn't see any Palestine flags there.

00:15:20.720 I saw a guy wearing the red, white, and blue overalls

00:15:24.040 and shrieking that basically unrelated things.

00:15:27.860 From the leftist side, you're going to see the narrative

00:15:31.180 of poor, oppressed black woman 1.00

00:15:35.220 who is standing up against the straight white males,

00:15:42.400 the conservatives who oppose freedom and black people and body positivity.

00:15:46.420 And she is the sole hero standing up against this vile force of bigotry.

00:15:50.720 And then, you're going to hear from the right wing,

00:15:54.620 you're going to, the hero's going to obviously be the guy in the overalls

00:15:58.060 and say, this is a guy standing up for truth, justice in the American way

00:16:01.400 against the barbarian hordes who support terrorism, anti-Semitism,

00:16:07.960 who support DEI, radical gender theory, radical racial theories

00:16:14.140 that denigrate men and white people and peddle intersectionality

00:16:19.460 and degrade our forebears in our country 0.99

00:16:21.640 and say, our country is dirty, rotten, and evil from the beginning.

00:16:25.080 And you're going to see those two stories

00:16:26.540 and you're going to watch those two movies.

00:16:27.800 And the two movies are going to have the exact same footage,

00:16:31.200 albeit from a different vantage.

00:16:33.860 A lot of these protests are not even really protests

00:16:37.040 because there's nothing to be done.

00:16:41.120 None of them are going to have any effect

00:16:43.100 probably on policy in the Middle East.

00:16:47.720 It's much closer to performance art.

00:16:51.920 It's a, in the same way, I'm noticing increasingly

00:16:56.020 that political commentary is increasingly divorced

00:17:00.220 from what's actually going on in politics.

00:17:02.740 That's why on this show, I do try to bring it back to earth

00:17:05.320 every so often.

00:17:06.120 You know, we talk about theology, we talk about philosophy,

00:17:08.420 we talk about history, but I try to ground it

00:17:10.300 in actual political events that are going on right now

00:17:12.440 for a lot of political media

00:17:14.820 and political commentary that's going on.

00:17:16.560 I'll refrain from examples because, you know,

00:17:18.520 some of them are friends

00:17:19.280 and then the others are on the left.

00:17:21.340 But it's totally divorced from the 2024 election,

00:17:24.800 from Trump, from Biden, from policies

00:17:26.640 that could possibly be put into place.

00:17:28.100 It's just kind of out there in the ether

00:17:29.980 and LARPing and abstract.

00:17:32.380 And I'm noticing that now,

00:17:34.800 even with the kind of grassroots political media

00:17:37.000 that's being filmed.

00:17:37.760 The stuff that's going on on these campuses,

00:17:40.780 it's not about pushing one policy or the other.

00:17:44.340 It's performance art.

00:17:47.700 It's a kind of performance art.

00:17:50.060 What does that mean when your political activism

00:17:52.720 is detached from the political realities of your,

00:17:55.100 what it probably means is you have a government

00:17:57.620 that is largely unresponsive to the people.

00:18:00.600 And so there's no point in pushing

00:18:03.700 for this policy or another.

00:18:04.760 We know we're going to keep funding Ukraine. 0.93

00:18:06.420 We're just going to do it.

00:18:07.880 Every single Republican in America could be against it

00:18:10.200 and half the Democrats could be against it.

00:18:11.680 We're just going to keep funding it

00:18:12.800 because it's part of the global empire.

00:18:14.160 It's our satellite state out there in Eastern Europe

00:18:16.200 and we're just going to do it.

00:18:17.560 So there's no point in political activism

00:18:19.580 against it most of the time.

00:18:23.160 When the political activism

00:18:25.200 becomes detached performance art

00:18:26.960 and the actual politics is unresponsive to the people,

00:18:29.480 that creates a real danger

00:18:32.300 and a real political crisis.

00:18:33.560 Now, speaking of actual political things going on

00:18:37.220 that are tethered to the earth

00:18:38.400 and also sort of the putative subject of these debates,

00:18:43.400 President Trump has come out

00:18:44.900 to exploit this wedge issue on the left.

00:18:49.500 He's come out in opposition to the Palestinian state.

00:18:52.680 What he said in a recent Time magazine interview is,

00:18:55.440 I'm not sure a two-state solution anymore is going to work.

00:18:59.120 Everybody was talking about two states,

00:19:01.040 even when I was there.

00:19:02.880 There was a time when I thought two states could work.

00:19:05.520 Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough.

00:19:08.000 I think it's going to be much tougher to get.

00:19:10.080 I also think you have fewer people that liked the idea.

00:19:13.000 You had a lot of people that liked the idea four years ago.

00:19:15.120 Today, you have far fewer people that liked the idea.

00:19:17.200 There may not be another idea.

00:19:21.000 Very true.

00:19:22.300 His analysis of the Israel-Palestine conflict is right. 1.00

00:19:25.980 There's obviously no workable two-state solution.

00:19:28.380 Certainly not now.

00:19:30.200 The reason being that the,

00:19:33.100 as I've said before and gotten in trouble for saying before,

00:19:35.700 the rational grand strategy for both sides of this conflict

00:19:40.400 is the ethnic cleansing of the other.

00:19:43.440 They might not all say it explicitly.

00:19:46.380 In Israel, very few, some politicians,

00:19:48.580 but not all politicians would say that explicitly.

00:19:51.260 In the Palestinian territories, they do. 0.55

00:19:53.460 They say, from the river to the sea,

00:19:54.420 you get rid of all the Jews, you know, 1.00

00:19:56.020 it's in the Hamas charter to abolish the state of Israel.

00:19:58.900 But I'm not even saying that's what the politicians are saying.

00:20:02.720 I'm just pointing out that is the rational policy prescription.

00:20:06.120 The Arab argument is that the state of Israel is illegitimate,

00:20:10.320 and they took their land, and they want it back.

00:20:13.860 And the Israeli argument is,

00:20:17.380 this is our land.

00:20:18.380 It's our land going back millennia,

00:20:19.760 and then we got it again as a matter of geopolitics,

00:20:23.600 and the UN said we can have a state,

00:20:25.000 and that's then.

00:20:25.460 We built a big state here, and it's flourishing.

00:20:27.020 We're not going anywhere.

00:20:28.600 And we'll try.

00:20:29.240 And so, you know,

00:20:31.560 maybe in the 90s,

00:20:34.500 you could have argued for a two-state solution.

00:20:36.040 But just now,

00:20:37.860 especially after the attack on October 7th,

00:20:41.040 Israel is going to look at Gaza 0.99

00:20:42.500 and say this is unacceptable security risk.

00:20:45.240 And the Palestinian Arabs are still going to say 1.00

00:20:46.780 that the state of Israel is illegitimate.

00:20:48.940 So there's just no,

00:20:49.460 what's the solution?

00:20:50.960 Trump says there's no solution here.

00:20:53.300 So what is he actually suggesting?

00:20:58.300 He's suggesting that the GOP maintain its position,

00:21:01.180 and its position is broadly to be pro-Israel.

00:21:04.680 I've got the charts here.

00:21:05.840 This is from Pew, I think.

00:21:07.280 No, it's from Gallup, sorry.

00:21:10.520 America's favorability of Israel and Palestine.

00:21:14.240 You can look through all of the numbers.

00:21:16.320 Support for the state of Israel

00:21:17.600 has plummeted among young people,

00:21:19.820 especially on the left.

00:21:21.780 But when you look at 35 to 54 years old and 55 plus,

00:21:25.060 which are the real voters

00:21:26.460 that candidates are looking at in this election,

00:21:28.640 they're still broadly pro-Israel.

00:21:32.580 This is 55%, even today,

00:21:37.420 used to be a little higher than that,

00:21:39.020 but it's still 55% of 35 to 54-year-olds

00:21:42.080 and 71% of 55 plus-year-olds support Israel.

00:21:46.940 Support for the Palestinian Authority much, much lower.

00:21:50.360 Even among the young people

00:21:51.960 for whom support of the state of Israel has cratered,

00:21:55.680 they're still more likely to support the state of Israel

00:21:57.560 than they are to support the Palestinian Authority.

00:22:00.080 38 favorable to Israel,

00:22:02.560 32% favorable to the Palestinian Authority.

00:22:05.660 Now, the breakdown between Democrats and Republicans

00:22:08.420 is what's really key here

00:22:09.420 because what Trump is focusing on

00:22:11.380 is not some conflict overseas.

00:22:13.240 It's how to create a winning political coalition

00:22:16.980 here in the U.S.,

00:22:17.920 and I think he's doing a good job.

00:22:19.160 There's so much more to say.

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00:23:25.320 You know, when I travel to these college campuses,

00:23:29.240 whether they have an intifada

00:23:30.280 or some protest or whatever,

00:23:32.260 often I'm protested.

00:23:34.140 And then my professor,

00:23:35.860 excuse me, my producer Ben Davies goes out.

00:23:38.300 He meets the protesters.

00:23:39.720 Occasionally I get to sit down with them

00:23:40.960 as I did at Utah.

00:23:43.400 Is it a safe place for your conservative students?

00:23:45.740 Of course.

00:23:46.120 How would they know that coming in here

00:23:47.600 when there's a sign that literally says

00:23:49.460 they are not welcome?

00:23:50.340 Now, why on earth would conservative students

00:23:53.040 not feel welcome on a public university campus?

00:23:56.000 I made Michael Walls from public night!

00:23:59.780 Trump and power!

00:24:02.260 Power!

00:24:03.280 What does your sign say?

00:24:04.500 So respect existence or expect resistance.

00:24:08.120 The protesters were nearly all students

00:24:09.920 in the College of Social Work.

00:24:11.580 It seems very few of them

00:24:12.620 had ever listened to a word that I've said.

00:24:14.280 From what I know about him,

00:24:16.160 he has promoted the annihilation of trans people.

00:24:21.360 I don't want to say that for sure.

00:24:24.460 When my producer, Mr. Davies,

00:24:25.920 gave them the chance to discuss their views with me,

00:24:28.360 pretty much all of them declined.

00:24:30.380 Personally, I have a really hard time

00:24:32.520 staying cool, calm, and collected

00:24:34.080 when talking to someone like that.

00:24:36.080 So I think I'm going to take the high road,

00:24:38.200 not even go there.

00:24:39.480 However, after the TikToks were posted

00:24:42.020 and the mob felt that its objective was complete,

00:24:45.700 one student decided to peek his head in.

00:24:48.460 Like most students,

00:24:49.780 Daniel had never actually listened to my show

00:24:52.100 or to any of my speeches.

00:24:53.980 He simply came to protest

00:24:55.400 because his friends said he should.

00:24:57.680 Because, they said, the speaker was a bad guy.

00:25:01.520 Happily, Daniel decided to investigate the matter himself

00:25:04.620 and cross the picket line

00:25:06.180 to hear what I had to say.

00:25:12.020 Go check it out.

00:25:13.080 It's on my YouTube channel.

00:25:13.880 Go check out Across the Picket Line.

00:25:16.420 We call the series Cross the Line right now.

00:25:20.480 So, Trump on Israel.

00:25:21.980 He comes out, he says,

00:25:22.580 two-state solutions will be very, very hard.

00:25:24.380 So he's kind of talking around it

00:25:25.860 because his argument is to maintain

00:25:28.020 the status quo Republican position,

00:25:29.700 which is probably smart.

00:25:32.080 Trump and the GOP are pro-Israel.

00:25:35.780 Democrats, increasingly, are anti-Israel.

00:25:39.180 Most of America is pro-Israel. 0.54

00:25:41.000 I think that's pretty much where

00:25:43.240 President Trump's reasoning begins

00:25:44.960 and ends on this issue.

00:25:46.820 He might have some natural sympathies

00:25:48.560 for the state of Israel,

00:25:49.560 but I think that's most of it

00:25:53.160 is the political calculation here.

00:25:54.420 And you look at the numbers.

00:25:55.340 These are very recent numbers,

00:25:56.500 I think from March, from Gallup.

00:26:00.100 You can see a decline in support

00:26:02.540 for the state of Israel.

00:26:03.600 A nine-percentage-point decline

00:26:07.440 among Democrats.

00:26:10.020 Among Republicans, the decline in support

00:26:11.700 is much smaller, five points.

00:26:15.200 Palestinian Authority also has had

00:26:17.160 a decline in support.

00:26:19.660 The Middle East sympathies

00:26:21.560 have largely been unchanged by the war,

00:26:24.980 except for these,

00:26:26.280 finally taking down a little bit

00:26:30.560 of the Democrat support.

00:26:31.660 So the Democrat support for Israel 0.59

00:26:34.300 is now below 50%.

00:26:36.320 Independents are still at 51%. 0.80

00:26:40.620 Republicans are still at 77%.

00:26:42.680 It's down across the board,

00:26:44.280 but now you've got Republicans,

00:26:45.660 or Democrats rather,

00:26:46.520 under 50%,

00:26:47.280 and you've got those young Democrat people

00:26:49.500 really cratering here.

00:26:50.680 This is a great opportunity

00:26:52.040 for Trump to exploit.

00:26:54.600 And especially that it's still

00:26:56.160 so contentious in the Democrat party,

00:26:57.980 and there's such a divide

00:26:58.920 between the activist base

00:27:00.500 and the donor class.

00:27:02.460 Exploit that all you can.

00:27:05.100 Trump is, as far as I can tell,

00:27:07.280 just living his best life right now.

00:27:08.900 After court the other day,

00:27:11.080 last week,

00:27:11.820 he decides he's going to go deliver pizzas

00:27:14.340 to a New York fire department.

00:27:20.680 He goes in there.

00:27:25.840 Shaking hands with the guys.

00:27:27.100 Save our country.

00:27:28.600 Everyone says,

00:27:29.060 save our country,

00:27:30.560 Mr. Trump.

00:27:32.400 The Democrats are so dumb.

00:27:37.880 I'm talking about the Democrats

00:27:39.300 in New York

00:27:39.920 and elsewhere in the country

00:27:41.420 who are indicting him

00:27:42.500 and prosecuting him.

00:27:43.800 They thought this was going

00:27:45.040 to stop his campaign.

00:27:48.740 This is the greatest campaign

00:27:50.240 opportunity imaginable.

00:27:52.460 And what the Republicans

00:27:53.960 will argue is,

00:27:54.580 well, if Trump didn't have

00:27:55.360 to defend himself in court,

00:27:56.320 he could be holding rallies in Iowa.

00:27:57.740 He could be,

00:27:58.080 yeah, I guess that's true.

00:27:59.300 He might also just be playing golf

00:28:00.600 or something, though.

00:28:01.260 It's still kind of early on in the year.

00:28:04.000 Instead, what he's doing,

00:28:06.200 and I think this is more valuable

00:28:07.500 than holding the rallies in Iowa,

00:28:10.100 Trump is going every day after court.

00:28:12.160 He's going to that bodega 0.58

00:28:13.340 in West Harlem.

00:28:15.200 He's going now to the FDNY.

00:28:17.420 And he's getting big support.

00:28:18.820 And he's bringing him pizza.

00:28:20.980 And he's going to Chick-fil-A.

00:28:22.100 And he's just doing stuff

00:28:24.200 that looks so good.

00:28:25.140 And he's out.

00:28:26.120 And it seems unscripted.

00:28:27.920 And it's extemporaneous.

00:28:29.360 And it's just really,

00:28:30.700 this is good campaigning.

00:28:32.940 The Democrats are Wile E. Coyote.

00:28:35.400 Donald Trump is the roadrunner.

00:28:37.040 They bought a big Acme anvil

00:28:39.040 in the form of this

00:28:40.200 New York prosecution.

00:28:41.900 And somehow the roadrunner gets away

00:28:44.120 and the anvil is falling

00:28:45.420 on their head.

00:28:46.340 Then, some more good news

00:28:48.500 for the Republican Party.

00:28:50.360 President Trump

00:28:51.220 and Governor Ron DeSantis

00:28:53.300 just had a little meeting

00:28:54.960 over the weekend.

00:28:56.660 President Trump says,

00:28:58.340 I'm very happy to have

00:28:59.640 the full and enthusiastic support

00:29:00.780 of Governor Ron DeSantis

00:29:01.600 of Florida.

00:29:02.220 We had a great meeting.

00:29:03.540 The conversation mostly concerned

00:29:04.980 how we could work closely together

00:29:06.120 to make America great again.

00:29:07.740 Also discussed was the future of Florida,

00:29:09.920 which is fantastic.

00:29:11.460 I greatly appreciate Ron's support

00:29:13.580 in taking back our country 0.95

00:29:14.860 from the worst president

00:29:15.720 in the history of the United States.

00:29:17.040 November 5th is a big day.

00:29:19.300 Whoa, this is crazy.

00:29:20.620 This is such a change in tone

00:29:23.380 from the way that President Trump

00:29:25.080 was speaking during the primary.

00:29:27.660 Wow.

00:29:28.620 Now, I'm not surprised by this.

00:29:31.060 You're not surprised by this.

00:29:33.260 But naive people in politics

00:29:36.100 and people who have been driven mad

00:29:38.340 by primary partisanship,

00:29:40.700 they will be surprised by this.

00:29:42.440 But it was so nasty.

00:29:44.680 And during the primary, Mr. Trump,

00:29:46.100 you said that DeSantis

00:29:47.440 was a bad governor,

00:29:48.480 but now you're saying

00:29:49.060 he's a good governor.

00:29:50.020 And during the primary,

00:29:50.900 you said you hated DeSantis,

00:29:52.120 but now you say you like DeSantis.

00:29:54.340 Yeah.

00:29:55.120 Yeah, man.

00:29:55.740 It's called politics.

00:29:56.920 I don't, you know,

00:29:58.060 my position.

00:30:00.200 Man, I feel so vindicated.

00:30:01.480 We'll get to what DeSantis said

00:30:02.400 about the meeting in a second.

00:30:04.500 My position early on in the primary,

00:30:06.400 I said,

00:30:07.040 I'm not going to wait

00:30:08.860 into the primary.

00:30:09.440 I very rarely wait

00:30:10.660 into Republican primaries.

00:30:11.860 I don't see the point

00:30:12.880 because I don't think

00:30:13.640 that's my role in my position

00:30:15.500 in media and politics.

00:30:17.720 So I'm just going to call it

00:30:19.200 like I see it.

00:30:19.840 And I'm going to cover Trump

00:30:21.600 and I'm going to cover DeSantis.

00:30:22.580 And I said nice things

00:30:23.340 about both guys.

00:30:24.240 And I said tough things

00:30:25.600 about both guys.

00:30:26.460 And I covered the other candidates too.

00:30:28.380 And I said,

00:30:29.780 look,

00:30:30.220 these are both tough guys.

00:30:33.160 They got thick skin.

00:30:34.620 They can handle a primary.

00:30:36.260 Don't worry.

00:30:36.980 Don't be shedding tears

00:30:38.260 about, oh no,

00:30:39.640 Trump said this about DeSantis.

00:30:41.380 Oh no, poor,

00:30:42.120 it's DeSantis okay.

00:30:43.660 Oh, DeSantis said this about Trump.

00:30:45.560 The tough guys,

00:30:46.260 they'll work it out.

00:30:47.040 So here's what DeSantis said.

00:30:49.960 DeSantis said he's going to be active

00:30:51.140 in a variety of capacities

00:30:52.280 to help Trump

00:30:52.960 and the other Republicans

00:30:53.780 win this fall.

00:30:54.780 It was a good meeting

00:30:55.640 and a good conversation.

00:30:57.100 He, Trump,

00:30:57.920 understands the importance

00:30:58.720 of this election.

00:30:59.900 He understands the damage

00:31:00.820 that Biden is doing.

00:31:01.680 And I think you would see

00:31:02.440 180 degree different policies

00:31:03.880 if we're able to win in November,

00:31:05.300 which is important to do.

00:31:07.960 There you go.

00:31:10.240 For all that we hear

00:31:11.700 about Donald Trump

00:31:12.580 being a narcissist

00:31:13.480 who can't take any criticism,

00:31:16.580 who's just,

00:31:17.360 he holds grudges,

00:31:18.680 and this,

00:31:19.360 this guy seems to take

00:31:21.840 nothing personally.

00:31:25.120 He takes loyalty very seriously.

00:31:28.180 He takes,

00:31:29.680 whether you're his friend

00:31:30.580 or his enemy,

00:31:31.180 very seriously

00:31:31.940 at any given time.

00:31:33.180 But he doesn't seem

00:31:34.180 to take insults,

00:31:36.400 personally at the very least.

00:31:38.700 He knows this is politics.

00:31:40.900 To quote Hyman Roth

00:31:41.900 in The Godfather Part 2,

00:31:43.300 this is the business

00:31:44.960 we've chosen.

00:31:48.240 That's what it is.

00:31:49.140 And so,

00:31:49.920 the minute

00:31:50.460 that Trump gets what he wants,

00:31:52.740 the game is over,

00:31:54.960 then he can be warm

00:31:56.240 and fuzzy again.

00:31:57.280 Say,

00:31:57.500 oh yeah,

00:31:57.840 we love Ron.

00:31:58.400 He did the same thing

00:31:59.020 with Ted Cruz.

00:31:59.740 He accused Ted Cruz's dad

00:32:01.320 of murdering JFK,

00:32:03.200 okay,

00:32:03.620 among other things.

00:32:04.740 And then,

00:32:05.700 the primary's over.

00:32:06.660 He calls him Lion Ted.

00:32:07.860 Remember,

00:32:08.060 L-Y-I-N, 1.00

00:32:09.140 Lion Ted.

00:32:10.100 And then the primary's over.

00:32:11.400 They patch things up.

00:32:12.980 They have a good

00:32:13.560 working relationship.

00:32:14.520 He goes,

00:32:15.140 I don't call him

00:32:16.000 Lion Ted anymore.

00:32:17.060 He's Beautiful Ted.

00:32:18.080 I call him Beautiful Ted.

00:32:19.220 And they have a good

00:32:19.860 working relationship.

00:32:22.140 It's not,

00:32:22.660 I'm doing a lot

00:32:23.840 of Godfather quotes here,

00:32:25.100 but to quote

00:32:25.520 Michael Corleone

00:32:26.180 in The Godfather,

00:32:26.680 it's not personal,

00:32:27.440 Sonny.

00:32:28.140 It's strictly business.

00:32:29.740 That's what it is.

00:32:30.380 And you need this

00:32:31.040 because DeSantis

00:32:31.540 is a great governor

00:32:32.300 and he's a prominent

00:32:33.740 figure in the GOP.

00:32:35.260 Trump is the leader

00:32:36.000 of the GOP,

00:32:36.840 undisputed at this point.

00:32:39.260 We got to have

00:32:39.960 all the guns blazing,

00:32:41.140 you know,

00:32:41.540 the political guns

00:32:42.460 aimed on our opponents.

00:32:45.200 Not literal guns

00:32:46.200 for the leftists

00:32:47.600 that are going to be

00:32:48.340 clipping out my show

00:32:49.620 as they usually do.

00:32:50.300 But the political guns,

00:32:51.980 the rhetorical guns,

00:32:53.020 they've all got to be

00:32:54.300 aimed on our opponents,

00:32:56.880 not on ourselves,

00:32:58.260 which is what

00:32:58.660 Republicans love to do.

00:32:59.680 We love to turn

00:33:00.400 the guns on each other.

00:33:01.840 You put a hundred

00:33:02.460 conservatives in a room,

00:33:03.420 they'll find the one thing

00:33:04.040 they all disagree on.

00:33:05.320 It's not going to work.

00:33:06.100 You're not going to beat

00:33:06.740 Joe Biden in November

00:33:08.240 that way.

00:33:09.960 So DeSantis and Trump

00:33:11.520 focused on conserving things.

00:33:12.880 Trump just got in trouble

00:33:13.720 for a comment he made

00:33:15.700 about the nature

00:33:16.900 of conserving things,

00:33:19.440 specifically with regard

00:33:20.760 to London and Paris.

00:33:22.300 Look at Paris.

00:33:24.500 Look at London.

00:33:26.160 They're no longer

00:33:27.000 recognizable.

00:33:28.080 And I'm going to get myself

00:33:28.920 into a lot of trouble

00:33:29.740 with the folks in Paris

00:33:30.960 and the folks in London.

00:33:32.860 But you know what?

00:33:34.280 That's the fact.

00:33:35.460 They are no longer

00:33:36.580 recognizable.

00:33:37.640 And we can't let that

00:33:38.560 happen to our country.

00:33:39.700 We have incredible

00:33:41.220 culture, tradition.

00:33:43.220 Nothing wrong with

00:33:43.900 their culture,

00:33:44.560 their tradition.

00:33:45.560 We can't let that

00:33:46.220 happen here.

00:33:46.840 And I'll never let it

00:33:47.680 happen to the United

00:33:48.600 States of America.

00:33:49.620 What's wrong with that

00:33:52.360 statement?

00:33:53.660 You know the libs. 0.93

00:33:55.180 He says, I'm going to get

00:33:55.840 myself in a lot of trouble

00:33:56.780 with Paris and London.

00:33:58.060 Well, he's already gotten

00:33:58.700 himself in trouble with

00:33:59.640 the left, which has

00:34:00.280 criticized him for this

00:34:01.100 and called him racist.

00:34:02.820 He says, London and Paris

00:34:04.240 are unrecognizable.

00:34:05.140 What do you mean by that?

00:34:07.220 Are you talking about the

00:34:08.660 fact that they've had

00:34:09.540 mass migration for decades

00:34:10.820 now and you can hardly

00:34:12.760 find an Englishman in 0.94

00:34:13.740 London anymore?

00:34:14.360 Or is that, how dare you

00:34:17.700 say, yeah, well, what's

00:34:19.300 wrong with that?

00:34:20.100 What's wrong with saying

00:34:21.100 that we like things the

00:34:25.240 way they are?

00:34:25.840 And it's not that we

00:34:26.320 don't like foreigners and 1.00

00:34:27.260 it's not like we don't even

00:34:27.980 like foreigners to come in 1.00

00:34:29.240 every so often, but I like

00:34:31.920 London.

00:34:32.600 I like England.

00:34:33.720 I like England in part

00:34:34.840 because it's English.

00:34:35.980 I like France and well, you

00:34:37.740 know, the French or another

00:34:38.660 story, but one likes to

00:34:41.280 visit France because of the

00:34:42.460 French.

00:34:42.900 They're a certain way and

00:34:43.500 the Italians are a certain 0.99

00:34:44.340 way, just as one likes to

00:34:46.560 visit, I don't know, Japan

00:34:49.140 because the Japan's are a 1.00

00:34:50.180 certain, the Japanese are

00:34:52.040 a certain way and there's a

00:34:53.720 culture and it doesn't mean

00:34:54.680 that it's entirely total.

00:34:56.200 Well, Japan actually is.

00:34:57.060 They basically don't allow

00:34:57.860 any immigration, but it's

00:35:00.180 not that cultures are

00:35:00.900 totally, entirely rigid.

00:35:02.020 It's not that people can't

00:35:03.120 come in and join a culture.

00:35:05.480 It's the sort of thing we

00:35:06.420 see throughout antiquity.

00:35:07.480 We see it in the Bible

00:35:08.260 that, you know, one can say,

00:35:09.700 well, your people will be

00:35:10.860 my people.

00:35:11.340 Your God will be my God.

00:35:12.420 That happens, but that's

00:35:14.660 that's not a call to just

00:35:15.840 abolish cultures, abolish 1.00

00:35:18.860 whole peoples, abolish whole 1.00

00:35:20.300 countries.

00:35:21.260 That's crazy.

00:35:23.060 To say, I want London to

00:35:25.360 look like London.

00:35:26.100 I want Paris to look like

00:35:27.120 Paris.

00:35:27.480 I want Djibouti to look like 0.99

00:35:28.640 Djibouti.

00:35:30.120 Is to say, I kind of like

00:35:32.580 things as they are.

00:35:33.960 And you know what?

00:35:35.200 It's okay to like things as

00:35:36.860 they are.

00:35:37.860 The left doesn't think it's

00:35:39.320 okay.

00:35:39.600 The left always wants you

00:35:42.120 to be angry and upset and

00:35:44.220 resentful and anxious about

00:35:46.940 how, but it's okay to like

00:35:48.380 things as they are.

00:35:50.660 That's, that's a conservative

00:35:51.900 impulse.

00:35:53.240 And maybe you say, well, I'm

00:35:55.460 content in my family and I

00:35:57.380 want to preserve that.

00:35:58.000 Or you might say, you know,

00:35:58.920 I miss the way things were

00:36:00.260 even five, 10 years ago.

00:36:01.380 And I'd like to maybe restore

00:36:03.240 some of what made that

00:36:05.600 moment nicer than this

00:36:06.900 moment.

00:36:07.240 That's a conservative

00:36:09.160 impulse.

00:36:10.580 That's really why the left

00:36:11.740 hates it.

00:36:12.220 And they'll call you racist or

00:36:13.220 whatever for, for articulating

00:36:14.960 it is because that does

00:36:16.980 resonate for a lot of

00:36:17.820 people and it resonates for

00:36:19.200 people who are generally a

00:36:20.800 little more well-balanced and

00:36:22.280 well-grounded and content.

00:36:24.500 Yeah.

00:36:25.100 We don't need to constantly be

00:36:26.960 just upending everything and

00:36:29.060 tearing down.

00:36:29.900 It's okay.

00:36:30.900 It's okay to like things the

00:36:34.520 way they are.

00:36:34.860 Now, speaking of cultures

00:36:35.780 changing, this is a weird

00:36:37.940 one.

00:36:38.180 I meant to get to this last,

00:36:39.280 last week.

00:36:40.060 I'll get to it now though.

00:36:41.880 There's a, there's a

00:36:44.200 Mexican senator who has, has

00:36:48.920 just ritually sacrificed a

00:36:51.140 chicken to a demon tasked with 0.86

00:36:52.780 producing rain.

00:36:54.620 I, you can see there's a

00:36:57.140 video of it.

00:36:57.720 I probably wouldn't have

00:36:58.680 believed it if I didn't see

00:36:59.680 it.

00:36:59.840 A member of the Mexican

00:37:02.520 Senate going out and

00:37:07.820 ritually sacrificing a

00:37:10.480 chicken to produce rain.

00:37:15.100 And I, I'm not really, I'm not

00:37:17.500 shocked by it in as much as

00:37:20.380 this is what they were doing

00:37:21.520 in Mexico before the Spanish

00:37:23.760 got there and before the

00:37:26.200 Christians got there and got 1.00

00:37:27.420 rid of the paganism, but, but

00:37:29.880 now Christianity is waning 0.97

00:37:34.140 in certain parts of our

00:37:35.020 civilization and nature

00:37:37.060 abhors a vacuum.

00:37:38.280 So what happens when we turn

00:37:40.220 away from the true God is we

00:37:42.260 get a bunch of false gods and

00:37:45.100 demons, basically.

00:37:46.020 People just worship the

00:37:46.860 demons and so they return to

00:37:48.340 paganism, but it's even worse

00:37:49.720 than the original paganism

00:37:50.920 because it's a paganism of an

00:37:52.460 apostate civilization.

00:37:54.980 So we, we actually did worship

00:37:56.760 the true God and things got a

00:37:57.860 lot better and we turn away

00:37:58.720 from the true God.

00:37:59.400 We're, we're left even worse

00:38:00.560 than we were before.

00:38:01.400 You see this in scripture.

00:38:03.160 The man who goes in, he's got

00:38:04.780 a bunch of demons in his

00:38:05.560 house and he cleans them out,

00:38:07.000 you know, he sweeps 0.56

00:38:07.460 everything and he just, you

00:38:08.820 know, everything's nice and

00:38:09.660 neat, but then he turns away

00:38:11.780 from the faith.

00:38:12.620 And so now you're going to get

00:38:14.460 a bunch more demons who are

00:38:15.540 going to come in because

00:38:16.320 they're going to find a nice

00:38:17.080 clean swept house.

00:38:17.940 That's, that's how, what it's

00:38:18.840 like in our civilization.

00:38:20.340 Okay.

00:38:21.180 And, and you're going to see

00:38:22.960 more of this.

00:38:23.400 I was speaking with a friend of

00:38:24.260 mine last night about it.

00:38:25.740 It is basically impossible to

00:38:28.460 imagine how dark the pagan world

00:38:32.480 was before Christianity came. 0.89

00:38:35.240 Especially now, because we're

00:38:36.100 taught this nonsense in school

00:38:37.160 that like Christianity is really

00:38:38.260 bad and, you know, oppressed

00:38:39.800 people or whatever, which is all

00:38:41.060 nonsense.

00:38:41.940 But, but before Christianity in, 0.98

00:38:45.280 you know, in antiquity and then

00:38:47.080 before Christianity made it to the 0.94

00:38:48.240 new world, people were regularly

00:38:51.160 murdering their children,

00:38:52.220 regularly sacrificing their

00:38:53.760 children to demons.

00:38:55.100 In this case, I'm glad the

00:38:56.320 Mexican senator is not yet, we

00:38:57.960 still do it today, I guess,

00:38:59.100 through abortion.

00:38:59.860 We sacrifice 800,000 children a

00:39:02.440 year to our false gods, but at

00:39:04.520 least we lie about it to

00:39:05.500 ourselves.

00:39:06.320 Hypocrisy is the tribute vice

00:39:07.360 based to virtue.

00:39:07.940 At least we pretend that that's

00:39:08.960 not what we're doing in

00:39:10.080 antiquity and in, just in

00:39:11.500 paganism generally, they, they 0.99

00:39:12.760 do it very self-consciously.

00:39:15.360 At least here, the Mexican 1.00

00:39:18.040 senator is sacrificing a

00:39:19.120 chicken rather than a baby.

00:39:22.760 But how, how long is that

00:39:24.560 going to persist before we get

00:39:26.280 even to the fuller, realer

00:39:28.260 paganism?

00:39:29.340 I don't know.

00:39:30.440 I don't know.

00:39:31.060 Our, our political decay is

00:39:32.880 happening very, very quickly.

00:39:35.760 There's a lot of, a lot of

00:39:37.080 harm coming to animals.

00:39:39.080 You know, it's the, the

00:39:40.100 chickens, Christy Noem's dog.

00:39:42.160 Before we get to Christy Noem,

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00:42:32.840 Ready for you.

00:42:34.520 Now I mentioned

00:42:35.320 Kristi Noem before.

00:42:38.680 I was, I think,

00:42:41.360 the one conservative in America

00:42:43.920 who was sort of defending

00:42:45.320 Kristi Noem over

00:42:46.560 over Cricketgate last week.

00:42:49.080 And it was not,

00:42:49.720 I felt it was stupid politically

00:42:51.980 to talk about how she killed her farm dog.

00:42:55.240 I thought it was, you know,

00:42:58.860 not a good calculation.

00:43:02.200 She thought it would make her look tough.

00:43:03.720 It kind of made her look like a psycho. 1.00

00:43:04.900 And, but now it's getting tougher and tougher

00:43:07.380 to defend Kristi Noem

00:43:08.300 because after Cricketgate,

00:43:11.860 she just suffered this unforced error

00:43:16.200 in the book

00:43:17.400 in which she talks about shooting her dog.

00:43:19.680 She also talks about meeting

00:43:22.580 Kim Jong-un,

00:43:24.740 which is something I had never

00:43:26.960 heard that she did.

00:43:29.200 So CBS News asked her about this

00:43:31.740 and her answer is

00:43:33.040 one of the strangest answers

00:43:35.080 I've ever seen in politics.

00:43:36.460 You talk about meeting some world leaders

00:43:39.480 and one specific one.

00:43:41.560 Quote,

00:43:41.780 Did you meet Kim Jong-un?

00:43:56.320 Well, you know,

00:43:56.620 as soon as this was brought

00:43:57.380 to my attention,

00:43:58.540 I certainly made some changes

00:44:01.280 and looked at this passage.

00:44:03.940 And I've met with many,

00:44:05.040 many world leaders.

00:44:06.200 I've traveled around the world.

00:44:08.280 As soon as it was brought

00:44:09.220 to my attention,

00:44:10.580 we went forward

00:44:11.580 and have made some edits.

00:44:13.280 So I'm glad that this book

00:44:14.600 is being released

00:44:15.680 in a couple of days

00:44:16.640 and that those edits

00:44:17.360 will be in place

00:44:18.140 and that people will

00:44:19.140 have the updated version.

00:44:21.140 So you did not meet

00:44:22.000 with Kim Jong-un.

00:44:23.040 That's what you're saying.

00:44:24.100 No, I met with many,

00:44:24.960 many world leaders.

00:44:25.600 Many world leaders.

00:44:26.800 I've traveled around the world.

00:44:27.940 I think I've talked extensively

00:44:29.280 in this book

00:44:30.020 about my time serving in Congress,

00:44:32.200 my time as governor,

00:44:33.020 before governor,

00:44:34.200 some of the travels

00:44:34.980 that I've had.

00:44:36.260 I'm not going to talk

00:44:37.220 about my specific meetings

00:44:38.580 with world leaders.

00:44:39.620 I'm just not going to do that.

00:44:41.620 This anecdote

00:44:42.520 shouldn't have been in the book.

00:44:44.040 And as soon as it was brought

00:44:44.820 to my attention,

00:44:46.140 I made sure that

00:44:47.120 that was adjusted.

00:44:49.280 What?

00:44:50.840 Huh?

00:44:52.840 So,

00:44:53.280 there are two possibilities

00:44:55.800 for what happened here.

00:44:57.120 First is,

00:44:58.540 first we know

00:44:59.660 she did not write this book.

00:45:01.280 None of these politicians

00:45:02.360 write their own books.

00:45:03.340 Very few do.

00:45:05.700 Senator Cruz,

00:45:06.360 for instance,

00:45:07.240 will write.

00:45:09.100 The Senator Cruz

00:45:09.660 will acknowledge,

00:45:10.180 I'll sometimes work

00:45:10.860 with a writer

00:45:11.360 or an editor,

00:45:12.120 but then he'll go in.

00:45:13.060 I just happen

00:45:14.660 to know this personally.

00:45:15.540 He'll go in

00:45:16.000 and extensively rewrite.

00:45:17.480 But, you know,

00:45:18.320 Senator Cruz is

00:45:19.240 like a Princeton

00:45:20.560 debate champion.

00:45:21.440 You know,

00:45:21.540 he's the kind of guy

00:45:22.160 who's going to write

00:45:22.600 his own book.

00:45:23.420 The vast majority

00:45:24.480 of politicians

00:45:25.160 hire some ghost writer.

00:45:27.580 Not only do they

00:45:28.260 never write their books,

00:45:29.960 they probably never

00:45:31.040 read their book.

00:45:32.520 And that,

00:45:33.100 so that's one possibility here.

00:45:35.400 She hired a ghost writer.

00:45:37.240 The ghost writer

00:45:38.880 threw in this weird anecdote.

00:45:41.980 It didn't happen.

00:45:43.340 Now they've got to take it out

00:45:44.280 and it's really embarrassing.

00:45:45.140 And she didn't want to cop

00:45:45.940 to the fact that she

00:45:46.640 obviously hired a ghost writer

00:45:47.780 and probably hadn't

00:45:48.500 read her own book.

00:45:49.080 So now she has

00:45:50.720 to dance around

00:45:51.340 and say,

00:45:51.600 oh yeah,

00:45:51.960 no,

00:45:52.260 I,

00:45:52.940 the editors removed that.

00:45:54.160 I've met with many world leaders.

00:45:55.440 Yeah,

00:45:55.520 but did you meet

00:45:55.940 with the one you said?

00:45:56.600 No,

00:45:56.700 I met.

00:45:57.260 It was,

00:45:57.640 it was confusing.

00:45:58.660 I took it out.

00:45:59.400 Okay,

00:45:59.580 that's one.

00:46:00.180 The other possibility,

00:46:01.340 and I guess this one

00:46:02.280 would be even weirder.

00:46:05.460 Did she meet

00:46:06.100 with Kim Jong-un?

00:46:07.840 She might have met

00:46:08.700 with Kim Jong-un.

00:46:10.280 The only way I think

00:46:11.500 she would have met

00:46:12.040 with Kim Jong-un

00:46:12.780 is if she had joined

00:46:14.560 President Trip,

00:46:15.940 President Trip,

00:46:16.560 President Trump

00:46:17.240 on his trip

00:46:18.000 to North Korea.

00:46:19.640 Remember,

00:46:20.080 during the Trump administration,

00:46:21.200 Trump went over

00:46:21.800 and met with Kim Jong-un.

00:46:23.720 And I guess,

00:46:24.940 I don't know,

00:46:25.240 she was a Republican governor.

00:46:27.040 I guess she could have joined that. 0.92

00:46:28.240 We didn't hear about

00:46:28.980 her joining that trip.

00:46:31.320 It's possible that she did.

00:46:33.580 And then maybe

00:46:34.280 she would have met him there.

00:46:35.480 I don't,

00:46:36.700 and then maybe

00:46:37.920 she wouldn't want,

00:46:39.520 maybe she wouldn't want it 0.94

00:46:40.520 in the book

00:46:40.940 because it wasn't,

00:46:43.480 she didn't want to say

00:46:44.560 that she went on the trip.

00:46:45.400 I don't see any world

00:46:46.920 in which she met

00:46:48.240 with Kim Jong-un

00:46:49.240 apart from

00:46:50.700 the Trump trip.

00:46:52.880 Right?

00:46:53.340 She's the governor 0.94

00:46:53.940 of a small state.

00:46:54.880 It doesn't,

00:46:55.460 that wouldn't make any sense.

00:46:57.560 And then she didn't want it

00:46:58.520 in there because it was,

00:47:00.280 it had to do with the Trump trip

00:47:01.340 and it wasn't publicized

00:47:02.240 or something.

00:47:02.760 I don't,

00:47:03.780 probably the more likely story

00:47:05.320 is she never met

00:47:06.280 with Kim Jong-un

00:47:07.020 and it,

00:47:08.420 just the ghostwriter

00:47:09.220 threw it in there.

00:47:09.860 The only reason I think

00:47:11.040 maybe there's a chance

00:47:12.740 she did

00:47:13.260 and she accompanied Trump

00:47:14.100 or something is,

00:47:15.740 it's a weird story

00:47:16.820 to make up.

00:47:17.920 What kind of ghostwriter

00:47:19.100 worth his salt

00:47:19.960 would just make that up?

00:47:21.820 That's crazy.

00:47:22.360 That's,

00:47:22.700 it's obviously a,

00:47:24.240 an historically verifiable

00:47:26.320 episode.

00:47:29.940 And,

00:47:30.460 and it's obviously one

00:47:31.780 that is of public interest.

00:47:33.880 So,

00:47:34.500 I,

00:47:34.800 I have no idea.

00:47:35.780 The whole thing

00:47:36.140 is really weird.

00:47:37.360 Kristi Noem

00:47:37.820 clearly only wrote this book

00:47:39.440 because she wants to be

00:47:40.020 the vice president

00:47:40.660 or president someday.

00:47:41.640 And I just,

00:47:43.080 every,

00:47:43.820 every anecdote

00:47:45.260 that comes out of the book

00:47:46.240 seems to make that

00:47:47.600 less and less likely.

00:47:49.760 Now,

00:47:49.960 obviously there are

00:47:50.580 political forces right now

00:47:51.620 who are trying to shoot

00:47:52.200 Kristi Noem down

00:47:52.920 because they want someone else

00:47:54.320 to be the vice president.

00:47:55.280 But,

00:47:55.920 this is bizarre stuff.

00:47:59.160 In,

00:47:59.500 no,

00:47:59.860 whatever the explanation,

00:48:01.340 really,

00:48:01.920 really sloppy,

00:48:03.060 does not show great

00:48:04.300 political instincts,

00:48:05.680 and,

00:48:06.860 probably not going

00:48:08.980 to turn out well.

00:48:10.000 And,

00:48:10.180 and,

00:48:10.460 listen,

00:48:10.880 I guess I'm the number one

00:48:12.100 Kristi Noem defender

00:48:13.280 in the country.

00:48:15.320 As I said,

00:48:15.940 in principle,

00:48:16.440 there's nothing wrong

00:48:17.080 with shooting a farm dog

00:48:17.860 on a farm.

00:48:18.540 But,

00:48:19.420 I don't,

00:48:19.920 there is something wrong

00:48:21.020 with making up a meeting

00:48:21.860 with Kim Jong-un.

00:48:23.720 Or of putting,

00:48:24.800 or of having actually met with him

00:48:25.960 and then taking out the episode

00:48:26.940 or I don't know.

00:48:27.600 The whole thing's a little weird.

00:48:28.820 Now,

00:48:29.680 what does this all come down to?

00:48:31.460 This whole culture war.

00:48:33.180 The culture war between

00:48:34.480 the left and the right.

00:48:35.900 The culture war between

00:48:36.640 the pro-Palestine people

00:48:37.880 on the college campuses

00:48:38.820 and the pro-Israel people.

00:48:40.660 The,

00:48:40.820 the culture war between,

00:48:42.340 you know,

00:48:42.620 the guys wearing the

00:48:43.780 American flag overalls

00:48:45.600 and the pro-Gaza protest.

00:48:47.240 The,

00:48:47.480 what,

00:48:48.680 the Mexican senator

00:48:49.840 sacrificing a chicken

00:48:51.040 to a demon.

00:48:53.200 What it comes down to

00:48:54.360 is something that

00:48:54.980 John Cleese

00:48:55.480 from Monty Python

00:48:56.160 has just gotten

00:48:56.860 a big,

00:48:57.340 big deal of trouble

00:48:58.180 for observing,

00:48:59.340 which is that

00:48:59.880 some cultures

00:49:01.580 are superior

00:49:02.920 to others.

00:49:04.440 and we were not

00:49:06.180 allowed to say that

00:49:06.800 for a long time.

00:49:07.440 We were stuck

00:49:07.760 in a period

00:49:08.180 of cultural relativism.

00:49:10.280 But now I think

00:49:11.140 we're back

00:49:11.900 to being able

00:49:12.500 to admit

00:49:12.920 that some cultures

00:49:14.280 are superior

00:49:15.660 to others.

00:49:16.620 We can't get into

00:49:17.380 this story.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 06, 2024

Ep. 1483 - Mark Hamill Destroys Star Wars To Praise Biden

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