The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1514 - 500,000 Illegal Aliens Given Benefits And Amnesty

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, President Biden announced his plan to give amnesty to more than half a million

00:00:04.560 illegal aliens. This program is manifestly unconstitutional. Even Joe Biden's old boss,

00:00:11.240 Barack Obama, admitted repeatedly for his entire presidency that it was unconstitutional until

00:00:18.880 2014 when Obama did it anyway. I taught the Constitution for 10 years.

00:00:24.680 I know some here wish that I could just bypass Congress, change the law myself.

00:00:31.520 But that's not how democracy works. And sometimes when I talk to immigration advocates, 0.83

00:00:39.160 you know, they wish I could just bypass Congress and change the law myself.

00:00:42.740 But that's not how democracy works. That's not how our democracy functions. That's not how our

00:00:50.840 Constitution is written. This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally

00:00:55.580 is just not true. What you're not paying attention to is the fact that I just took an action to change

00:01:03.260 the law. Wait, what? Hold on. Years and years. I can't do this. It's unconstitutional. I taught

00:01:09.320 constitutional law. I can't change the law by myself. I can't change the law by myself. I can't.

00:01:13.560 I changed the law by myself. And he did it. And it was so brazen because he had previously admitted

00:01:20.560 that he couldn't do it. But he did it anyway because why not? Who's going to stop him? And now

00:01:24.340 Joe Biden is doing that same thing again. The way he is working around the law this time

00:01:30.140 is by granting these illegal aliens parole in place. It's a workaround to immigration law that goes even

00:01:36.940 further to give the illegal aliens work permits, social security cards, and eligibility for welfare

00:01:44.120 programs. And that's just while they're waiting for their green cards and eventually for their full

00:01:48.240 citizenship. Joe Biden is calling this policy the keeping American families together order. In fact, the

00:01:56.920 policy would be better named the oh crap, I'm down 20 points among Hispanics order. Biden is not even

00:02:03.900 being subtle about this. The policy specifically benefits illegal aliens who are married to legal

00:02:10.500 U.S. citizens. That is to say, it benefits the spouses of people who can already vote, who are,

00:02:20.240 by the way, overwhelmingly likely to be Hispanic, the group that Biden is losing in droves. This is a

00:02:26.400 naked ploy to buy votes by subverting the law. And unfortunately, thanks to our current political

00:02:32.820 economy. It might work. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.520 Welcome back to the show. A man who pretends to be a woman and who infamously 0.99

00:03:01.480 flashed his artificial breasts at the White House is now being accused of sexual assault by women who

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00:04:18.740 Everyone hates mass migration. Everyone hates it. I don't mean literally everyone,

00:04:24.360 but I mean the vast majority of Americans, Republicans, independents, Democrats, even they

00:04:28.960 hate mass migration. But the powers that be continue to push mass migration. How do they

00:04:34.700 get away with it? The way they get away with it is in large part because mass migration is the only 0.93

00:04:39.980 thing that keeps our economy afloat because Americans don't have kids. And we haven't been 1.00

00:04:44.180 having kids at replacement levels for over 50 years now. So that's the way they can push it

00:04:48.440 through. They say, look, we need to do it just to keep the economy afloat. That's why business gets

00:04:52.500 behind it. That's why established powers are able to push this, even though the American people don't

00:04:57.520 want it. So on that front, I've got a little bit of good news. Some of you might have seen this on

00:05:02.000 X yesterday, but I am doing my part to restore the American birth rate because we welcomed our third

00:05:09.920 child, another boy yesterday. Very exciting. Still did the show yesterday. Did the show today.

00:05:16.740 Daily Wire's paternity leave for the hosts. It's a little lackluster. Though the secret,

00:05:22.660 the secret is, yes, paternity leave seems kind of modern. It seems a little lived. We make fun of 0.90

00:05:28.340 it for that reason. But the real secret as to why conservatives don't like paternity leave that much

00:05:34.960 is because the real paternity leave for men is going to work. Because especially in those days,

00:05:42.480 right after a new child is born, staying at home and helping mama and dealing with maybe with the

00:05:49.960 other kids and juggling all that stuff, that is much, much more work than actually just going to

00:05:54.480 work and doing your job. So that's a little bit of the secret there. I did smoke maybe the best cigar

00:06:00.480 of my life this morning on the drive from the hospital in to do the show. There's an old tradition.

00:06:06.160 I still keep it up around the office. People don't really do it anymore. When a kid is born,

00:06:11.480 you pass out cigars to your coworkers. You say, it's a boy or it's a girl or whatever.

00:06:16.420 And so anyway, if you want to celebrate with me, obviously go to mayflowercigars.com. You have to

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00:06:31.140 I appreciate everyone for sending in congratulations, of course, but also prayers as we've,

00:06:36.140 led up to this moment. Very, very exciting. Baby and mama both doing very, very well.

00:06:42.420 Now, speaking of childhood, we turn from first childhood to second childhood. Joe Biden,

00:06:50.400 in his senility, has frozen up again. You might recall a day or two ago, I played a clip on this

00:06:58.560 show of Kareem Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, denying that Biden is freezing up

00:07:03.340 and doddering around and losing his train of thought and walking into walls and looking like

00:07:09.260 he saw a ghost. And the way Kareem Jean-Pierre denied this was she said the videos going around

00:07:14.180 are cheap fakes, not deep fakes, because that actually refers to a specific type of technology,

00:07:19.980 which is not being used here. The videos going around are just unvarnished videos of Biden looking

00:07:24.160 like a senile old man. So no sooner do the words get out of Kareem Jean-Pierre's mouth,

00:07:30.080 then Joe Biden falls into another one of these little stumbles.

00:07:34.760 I was a congressman, Homeland Security secretary. I'm not sure you're going to do show the way.

00:07:43.340 But I'll keep aside, secretary.

00:07:44.880 And the secretary, and I'm just kidding anyway. And you can look at their faces there. These are

00:07:53.640 all really sharp politicians behind them. You see Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary. You see

00:07:58.560 Chuck Schumer. They're all trying to keep their composure as Biden is just totally losing his train

00:08:03.220 of thought and freezing up in public. But if you look closely on Chuck Schumer's face, even Schumer,

00:08:07.660 a very practiced politician, you can see the alarm bells going off in his eyes. Oh, no. Here we go

00:08:12.660 again. How are we going to spin this? You didn't really see that. These are cheap fakes. This isn't

00:08:18.020 real. Don't believe your lying eyes. Is that a cheap fake, Kareem Jean-Pierre? I don't think so. I think

00:08:24.740 this was video. It was broadcast live to a lot of people, and they all saw it. And we all know it. And

00:08:30.120 that's in part why Biden's poll numbers are so bad. And that is especially why the majority of

00:08:35.720 Democrats right now don't want him to be the nominee in 2024. But too bad for them. It's too late. So

00:08:40.100 they can't replace him. And that means that all they're left to do is just deny and gaslight people

00:08:46.440 and tell them they didn't see what they saw. They got nothing. And they are lying. The funniest version

00:08:52.960 of them lying comes by way of a, I suppose you'd call him a middle-tier liberal commentator. He's

00:09:01.460 this guy, Brian Tyler Cohen. I've chatted with this guy before. He and I had at least one debate,

00:09:07.140 maybe a couple of debates, on Alex Michelson's show in LA. So I've been aware of him for a while.

00:09:14.340 He tweeted out yesterday a picture of Donald Trump shaking a little hand. And if you know the

00:09:20.360 characters involved, you can look down, you see, oh, there's Kimberly Guilfoyle. And oh,

00:09:23.700 that's Don Jr. So he's just holding his son's hand, just shaking his hand a little bit as he's

00:09:27.960 walking off a stage. And what Brian writes is, here is a photo of Trump having to hold someone's

00:09:34.020 hand to guide him off stage. I'm sure this will get just as much coverage as the daily Biden old

00:09:38.540 story gets. So you say, hold on, what do you mean hold someone's hand? That's his son.

00:09:42.240 And it's a still photo of him just lightly touching his son's hand. So is it what Brian

00:09:49.760 Tyler Cohen says it is? Is he grasping on to hold this man's hand so that he can walk off the stage?

00:09:56.020 Well, fortunately, we have video. All the video that's causing all these problems for Democrats,

00:10:00.720 we have video for Republicans too. We have now video of everything because everyone's recording

00:10:04.200 everything all the time. So let's see. Trump's in Hylia, Florida. He's walking off a stage.

00:10:08.980 What do we see? Okay, he's walking. He's applauding. He's looking good, virile, waving to

00:10:16.100 everybody. Then for what? Two seconds, he touches his son's hand. His son is there just looking to

00:10:25.420 shake his dad's hand. Trump's still waving to everyone else. And he looks down. Oh, hey, there's

00:10:29.360 my son. Touches his son's hand for two seconds and walks off stage sauntering like the king of showbiz

00:10:36.240 that he is. This post from Brian Tyler Cohen was a complete lie. And there's a special irony there

00:10:44.420 because this guy Brian Tyler Cohen's show is called No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, soon to be renamed

00:10:50.580 Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen. I think that to say the man is lying is probably the most charitable take

00:10:58.780 here. Because if Brian Tyler Cohen is not lying, he must be the dumbest person in America. And I don't

00:11:05.880 think he's the I'm not saying the guy's a Rhodes Scholar, but I don't think he's so dumb as to

00:11:10.720 believe that that picture represented Trump, you know, holding on for dear life, trying to get off

00:11:15.660 the stage. Surely this guy, Brian Tyler Cohen, would have looked at the video before making this

00:11:21.820 post. Surely he would have done even two seconds research to say, no, that isn't it at all. He just

00:11:28.740 totally misrepresented it. So I think in fullness of charity, I have to say the guy is lying. So why

00:11:37.820 are they lying like this? Because that's the only thing that you can do if you're trying to defend

00:11:45.580 Biden on the charge of senility. If you're trying to distract people away from the fact that this man

00:11:51.240 probably couldn't make himself a fried egg in the morning, much less be the president of the United

00:11:55.740 States with any vigor or competence. And this is really pitiful. I really hope I never become

00:12:02.540 a political commentator like this. The kind of guy, the kind of hack who just has to lie.

00:12:08.840 What? To lie on behalf of some politician? I hope I never become that guy. I am a partisan.

00:12:16.220 I am involved in active politics. I'm not a totally disinterested observer. Far from it.

00:12:25.020 I'm a conservative. I'm a member of the Republican Party. I hope Donald Trump wins the election. I hope

00:12:30.220 Joe Biden loses the election. Absolutely. But I would not lie to you in order to try to score some point

00:12:38.720 for some politician. I would never do that. I would always give a little more grace to my side if I

00:12:45.240 could in good conscience. I would always point out the errors of the other side as long as they're

00:12:52.100 honest errors. But there's so many things that you could try to attack Trump for. This is it.

00:12:58.620 This is the best they've got. Yes. I guess that's the good news. This is the best they've got.

00:13:03.840 If they had anything better, they wouldn't have to lie. They wouldn't have to prosecute him.

00:13:08.500 They wouldn't have to try to change all the election rules. They wouldn't have to try to kick

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00:14:34.780 The big question around Trump right now. Well, I guess the one question is,

00:14:39.240 are they going to throw him in prison? Another question is, is he even going to be able to show

00:14:41.620 up to the convention if the libs put him in prison? But the big question, if you take all

00:14:46.840 their shenanigans out of it, is who is Trump going to pick for his running mate? The veep stakes are on.

00:14:52.800 We've covered some of the possible names out there. People are talking about J.D. Vance.

00:14:58.040 Some people are still talking about Nikki Haley. People are talking about Tulsi Gabbard. She's kind of

00:15:02.400 a real dark horse candidate. Some have suggested Tim Scott, Ben Carson. Boy, wouldn't that be great?

00:15:08.060 Some other names, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum. Doug Burgum, you probably don't remember him.

00:15:12.640 He ran for president this cycle. He was the North Dakota governor, a social liberal,

00:15:16.720 but just kind of a business conservative, nice, amiable fellow, but didn't make a lot of waves.

00:15:21.540 So the Rupert Murdoch empire, at least as expressed in the New York Post, has come out with

00:15:28.240 their favorites. They want Burgum, and if not Burgum, they want Rubio. I joked about the

00:15:34.720 Burgum candidates. I said, we got Burgum-mentum, baby. I joked about it in the same way I joked

00:15:38.200 about Chris Christie. I said, here's the Chris-a-sans, croissants for short. You know,

00:15:42.280 that's it. He's going to rally all the conservatives. Let's go, baby, Chris Christie. Or here we go.

00:15:46.340 We've got Burgum-mentum. Are you feeling the Burg? But nobody was, which is why he dropped out.

00:15:53.480 Doug Burgum had to bribe people to contribute to his campaign. I actually have a family member who

00:16:01.940 did this. Burgum said, in order to get on the debate stage, I need to get X number of small

00:16:07.740 dollar donors. So if you donate even $1 to my campaign right now, I will send you a gift card

00:16:12.880 for $20. A pretty good investment. I should have invested in the Burgum campaign. I could have made

00:16:18.140 20 times my money in Applebee's gift cards or whatever he was giving out. So of course,

00:16:25.540 the more establishment New York kind of conservative media are coming out for Burgum.

00:16:30.980 What's their argument? Their argument is that Burgum, he's a doer when it comes to business

00:16:37.720 deals. He knows his way around the tech world. He worked for Microsoft. He's run several successful

00:16:42.160 companies. And he kind of has a more of a hands-off approach to some of the social issues,

00:16:47.860 to put it diplomatically. But he'd be great on the economy. So let's pick Burgum. And I think the

00:16:53.880 New York Post realizes Burgum, it's not that he couldn't be the VP pick, but he's a little bit of

00:16:59.200 a long shot right now. So if not Burgum, how about Rubio? Why Rubio? Well, because he's experienced in

00:17:06.480 politics. He's served for a long time. He's learned some lessons from his own 2016 run, which didn't go

00:17:10.900 that well. And this is actually a good point. They say he breaks with stale GOP orthodoxy when

00:17:16.680 it comes to the interests of working class voters. That's true. Rubio has repositioned himself as more

00:17:21.680 of a working class hero, a little bit more populist or of a traditional conservative to break away with

00:17:26.840 some of the neoconservative or libertarian talking points that have typified the GOP for the last few

00:17:32.560 decades. He's photogenic. And hey, by the way, he'll appeal to Hispanic voters. Okay, I'm not really 0.99

00:17:38.260 persuaded by either of those arguments or either of those candidates for VP. But then the New York

00:17:44.660 Post, the Murdoch Empire, which includes the New York Post, it includes Fox News Channel, it includes

00:17:51.020 other very powerful right-wing entities. They make a point to say no to J.D. Vance. Do not pick J.D. Vance.

00:18:01.680 He sought to suspend USAID to Ukraine. Oh, you could never do that.

00:18:05.000 Even as Ukraine puts private American citizens and American journalists on hit lists,

00:18:11.580 as you may recall, occurred to yours truly last week when I was informed of that by the U.S.

00:18:16.600 Congress. No, no, no. Forget about it. That's okay. We still got to fund Ukraine.

00:18:20.560 And he says his opposition to abortion goes well past Trump. So he's too pro-life.

00:18:25.640 You can't pick a pro-lifer to be the VP for Trump. That would be very scary 0.64

00:18:28.960 to the New York-style establishment conservatives. Okay. And he's a little young.

00:18:36.520 Nah, can't. He's yet to complete even two years in the United States Senate. That's true. You know

00:18:42.520 who else was only in the U.S. Senate for two years before he decided to have higher ambitions? That

00:18:46.920 would be Barack Obama. He was a pretty successful political candidate, as I recall. No, no. It was

00:18:51.600 fine for Obama. It was bad for Marco Rubio. Give me a break. Who should Trump pick? I think

00:19:00.720 it was clear enough before, but it's especially clear after reading this editorial.

00:19:05.480 J.D. Vance is the favorite of the base, the conservative base. There are always these new

00:19:13.760 terms that crop up. Often, they're old terms that are just making a comeback for conservatives.

00:19:18.660 The new right, the populists, the nationalists, the thisists, the thatists, whatever ism we're

00:19:25.440 talking about that describes the tuned-in, hardcore conservative base. I think pretty

00:19:32.400 clearly they want J.D. Vance of all the options that have been put on the table. The edgy choice,

00:19:38.560 the really edgy, I said the dark horse of the dark horse choices, is Tulsi Gabbard, a former

00:19:42.780 Democrat who's taken a far more, let's say, nationalist or isolationist stance on foreign

00:19:49.380 policy when it comes to Ukraine, when it comes to, she's just unorthodox. She's the really edgy

00:19:55.840 choice. The moderate choice remains Nikki Haley, who, as I've said from the beginning, is a very,

00:20:02.360 very talented politician. She played well with Trump. She played pretty well against Trump. 0.85

00:20:06.220 But during that presidential campaign, she positioned herself as the more moderate

00:20:11.100 establishment, business kind of Republican choice for a president. Probably she's lost a little bit 0.95

00:20:20.280 of her luster because of how tough that race got in the primary between her and Trump.

00:20:24.420 Kristi Noem would have been another somewhat more moderate choice. And it can soften Trump's image,

00:20:30.660 appeal maybe to these suburban women. These are the arguments you heard for these candidates. 1.00

00:20:33.460 Kristi Noem may have shot her political career at the same time that she shot her dog in the back 0.99

00:20:40.280 of the head, or at least when she admitted to shooting her dog. Again, I kind of defended Noem 0.98

00:20:43.760 on the story, but politically, she probably doesn't really play anymore. So because those two choices

00:20:49.520 in the moderate lane are probably off the table now, the New York Post is pushing for Burgum or Rubio.

00:20:57.420 Okay, but why are we going to listen to the New York Post? I like the New York Post. It's one of my

00:21:01.480 favorite papers of many years. I get a kick out of their headlines, their tabloid coverage. But

00:21:05.880 the New York Post came out pretty strongly against Donald Trump for years at this point.

00:21:12.800 On top of that, the New York Post, it always has that American flag in the corner of the paper.

00:21:18.500 This is a paper that was founded by Alexander Hamilton. Well, when the Ukraine war took off,

00:21:22.300 they put a Ukraine flag on the New York Post. Why is there a Ukraine flag on the New York Post,

00:21:26.000 a paper founded by a founding father? They're fanatically in favor of Ukraine funding.

00:21:32.060 Okay, and they don't like that J.D. Vance is opposed to that. So they're going to push Burgum

00:21:36.520 or Rubio? I mean, I have nothing against those guys, really. But it seems a little tone deaf.

00:21:43.980 Why would Trump listen to people who have been actively, fanatically working against him for years?

00:21:50.820 The question for Trump is, what kind of VP does he want? Not just for 2024, but for 2028 and 2032.

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00:23:12.640 Nonetheless, interesting and unexpected analysis from Kamala Harris's former communications director.

00:23:19.500 That would be Ashley Etienne, who went on CNN to give her pick. 0.99

00:23:24.780 It says to me that to some degree that they think that she's somewhat of a threat. I mean,

00:23:29.080 she's a former prosecutor. She spent time in courts defending her clients and defending the interests of 0.74

00:23:34.660 California. So to me, it says that he might be slightly nervous. But I think there's one other

00:23:41.120 thing we're not sort of taking into consideration. And that is, I think J.D. Vance would pose the

00:23:49.180 greatest threat to Kamala Harris in some respects. I mean, he's an incredible debater. I think he

00:23:55.040 has this quality that makes him seem palpable to that one to two percent that actually might

00:24:01.480 vote or that's undecided, that will actually pay attention to the debates because most people don't

00:24:06.720 pay attention to the debates. And I think he's just got a quality about him where he's super smart

00:24:11.380 and sharp and quick-witted. I just think that, like, I think it's going to be a challenge to

00:24:16.480 see the two of them face to face. I mean, maybe it's just me, but I think he's going to be the

00:24:20.540 greatest threat. Totally right. This is really astute analysis. And she couches it in a really

00:24:26.560 smart way, which is she said, look, no one really cares about the VP debate. No, one to two percent of

00:24:31.340 voters maybe will be swayed by the VP debate. People don't vote for president based on the VP

00:24:37.200 debate, really not even based on the VP. But for those voters for whom this matters, J.D. Vance

00:24:44.640 would be the most formidable debate opponent to Kamala Harris. And when she says, don't underestimate

00:24:50.480 Kamala Harris, I think she actually makes a good point, too. I said that way back in 2018, 2019. I said,

00:24:56.240 Kamala Harris is an impressive candidate. Sure, she can barely speak. Sure, her cackle is like 1.00

00:25:02.220 nails on a chalkboard. Sure this, sure that. Sure, she had a kind of interesting way of rising up 1.00

00:25:07.160 through politics. We'll just leave it at that. However, she's made it. In fact, the fact that

00:25:15.300 she does not appear to be a Rhodes Scholar, the fact that she isn't the most impressive when it comes to

00:25:23.400 her recall of facts and events and policy wonkery, the fact that she's made it this far in politics,

00:25:30.920 despite all that, shows you how impressive a politician she is. Don't underestimate her. 1.00

00:25:35.260 And then sure enough, she gets picked for VP by Joe Biden, even after making her campaign about how

00:25:39.960 Joe Biden's a racist. That was how she launched her campaign on that debate stage for the 2020 election.

00:25:45.580 So she is somewhat formidable. And then you add on to that all the identity politics. She's a black 0.99

00:25:51.300 woman, or she's at least dark-skinned. She's got a more heterogeneous ethnic background, but she at 1.00

00:25:59.840 least reads as a black woman. And so that really, that gives her an identity advantage in this 0.98

00:26:05.740 intersectional age in politics. Vance would destroy her on a debate stage because J.D. Vance is extremely

00:26:14.680 intelligent. Not only is he a Yale Law graduate, the elite schools have gone pretty crazy, but

00:26:23.420 especially when you're talking about the law school, they still pick people who generally have

00:26:26.660 pretty high IQ, who are generally really politically ambitious. If you want to be a lawyer, often you go

00:26:32.680 to Harvard Law School or Stanford Law School. If you want to be Secretary of State or President,

00:26:36.680 you go to Yale Law School. Future politicians there. And even among people in his class,

00:26:42.520 he's shown himself to be extremely skilled and talented. He came out with that book,

00:26:48.100 Hillbilly Elegy, at exactly the right time, at precisely that moment when the deplorables

00:26:52.960 were voting for their great new candidate who emerged from the ruins of the Republican Party,

00:26:59.100 Donald Trump. That book became a huge bestseller, then became a movie. Then he parlayed that into

00:27:04.720 getting a seat in the U.S. Senate. This is a really, really impressive guy. So now it sounds

00:27:10.300 like I'm just advocating for J.D. Vance to be the VP. That's not what I intend to do. I love J.D. Vance.

00:27:17.240 He'd be a great VP. But I'm just trying to show you what the field looks like because now Trump has

00:27:23.560 a decision to make. What kind of VP does he want? Does he want a legacy type VP or does he want a lackey

00:27:34.680 type VP? That's the decision. Legacy or lackey? If he wants a lackey, then the New York Post is

00:27:41.200 right. The New York Post is pitching Doug Burgum as a lackey. Oh, he won't upstage Trump. He'll be

00:27:46.740 pretty quiet. He agrees with Trump on a lot of stuff, especially on business. He'll just fade

00:27:51.120 into the background and he'll be a loyal lackey. Okay, if Trump wants a lackey, and maybe Trump does

00:27:57.000 want a lackey, then that's the kind of candidate he should go for. But if he wants a candidate who's

00:28:02.460 going to be formidable in 2028, who maybe could win election and then win re-election in 2032,

00:28:08.480 then he's going to want a younger candidate, won't he? And if he wants a candidate who is more

00:28:13.660 ideologically aligned with him, probably he's going to want a J.D. Vance. Maybe Rubio. Rubio has

00:28:23.980 moved around a little bit during his career in the U.S. Senate and before that in the Florida House of

00:28:29.100 Representatives. He's positioned himself as a couple, at least a couple different kinds of

00:28:33.800 conservative. But Vance seems to be in that lane right now. We saw this in the primary. There are

00:28:39.880 just lanes. You can run in the Trumpian lane, the populist type lane. You can run in the Chamber of

00:28:44.460 Commerce type lane. You can run in the Maverick, reach across the aisle kind of lane. There are set

00:28:51.800 lanes. Vance is the legacy kind of candidate. If he wants to balance the ticket, Vance isn't that

00:29:00.300 guy. Vance agrees with Trump on a lot of stuff, and he's also a white guy. Now, I actually don't

00:29:05.620 think it's the worst thing in the world in this age where everyone is so sick of political correctness

00:29:09.460 and tokenism and picking people because of the color of their skin or their sex or whatever.

00:29:14.300 Picking a white guy is actually kind of a bold choice. It cuts against that current of PC and 0.59

00:29:19.420 wokeness. But if you want to balance the ticket, maybe you pick a woman. Maybe you pick someone 1.00

00:29:24.000 who's black. Maybe you pick, okay. It just, the question for Trump is, not just what does he want

00:29:32.800 to see happen in 2024. What does he want to see for 2028? What does he want to see for 2032?

00:29:37.980 Now, at least one Democrat strategist thinks none of this matters, and he's one of the most

00:29:43.560 famous Democrat strategists of the last 30 years. That would be the raging Cajun, James Carville,

00:29:49.420 who says it doesn't matter who he picks because there are simply not enough MAGA voters for Trump

00:29:54.880 to win the election. There's no Republicans. It's a Trump cult. The Republican Party that I knew,

00:30:00.740 all right, that people knew of Rob Portman or Bob Calker or even Dick Cheney, that no longer exists.

00:30:09.060 And Mike Johnson is literally part of a cult. The bad news is you're not going to change

00:30:14.940 MAGA's mind. The good news is that there's not enough MAGA for Trump to win with. There are not

00:30:21.320 enough of them to win a general election in this country, and they're not very growing. Mike Johnson

00:30:25.880 is not even a Republican in any sense of the word. He's a MAGA theocrat, and that's about it.

00:30:34.280 And they're not there. They know they don't have a party anymore. They have a personality cult.

00:30:40.660 They're not even a Republican anymore. And when I was a boy, we had good Republicans like Abraham

00:30:46.100 Lincoln. We had a lot of good Republicans like Chet Arthur, James Garfield. But we don't have

00:30:51.760 those Republicans no more because they've been dead for 150 years. So now we got these Republicans

00:30:55.640 like Mike Johnson. He's not a Republican. Donald Trump, he's not a Republican.

00:30:59.780 I think they are Republicans because they're the leaders of the Republican Party.

00:31:04.340 But they're not a Republican like the one that I like. First of all, to hear James Carville

00:31:09.120 compliment Dick Cheney, it's so tedious because the Democrats do this all the time.

00:31:16.180 Ask James Carville 20 years ago what he thinks about Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney was the devil.

00:31:19.940 Dick Cheney was Satan himself. Now though, now that Dick Cheney is a billion years old,

00:31:26.820 now that Dick Cheney has absolutely no influence in the Republican Party, now he's a good kind of

00:31:31.560 Republican. Now James Carville and the Democrats have a strange new respect. That's always the

00:31:36.600 phrase they use. It's a strange new respect for Dick Cheney and George Bush. And then who are the

00:31:42.000 other guys he lists? Rob Portman, Bob Corker. These were moderate, pretty liberal Republicans.

00:31:49.460 I like those Republicans who are real liberal and let the Democrat do whatever they want.

00:31:54.100 I'm sure you do. I'm sure those are your favorite. And we do it too. The conservatives during the

00:31:59.240 Bush era would say, I like those Democrats like Joe Lieberman. Yeah, because Joe Lieberman agrees

00:32:02.620 with our president. Of course you like him. I like those Democrats like Joe Manchin when he agrees

00:32:07.980 with us. I like those Democrats. Yeah, sure. Of course. You always like your opponent when your

00:32:11.440 opponent betrays his side and comes and supports your side. Yeah, of course. But that doesn't then

00:32:17.420 define the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. What happened to all them Republicans?

00:32:23.180 These are theocrats. First of all, James Carville, he's got a fair bit of insight into electoral

00:32:30.100 politics. At least he did in the 90s. He was a pretty astute analyst back then. Maybe he still is.

00:32:36.340 He doesn't know the meaning of the word theocracy. We throw these words around. Fascism,

00:32:42.520 democracy. And the way we talk about those words these days often have nothing to do with the

00:32:49.240 real meanings. We say that when most people vote for a candidate the liberals don't like,

00:32:52.780 that's a threat to democracy. Democracy is what most people vote for. That's democracy.

00:32:57.660 Fascism. Fascism is an ideology that comes out of Italy in the early to mid-20th century,

00:33:04.220 and it's expressed by real writers. You can go back and read their writing, Giovanni Gentile or

00:33:08.640 Marinetti or Mussolini for that matter. Fascism is not when a dad in the Midwest doesn't want some

00:33:16.080 hulking dude going into his daughter's changing room. That's not fascism, believe it or not. It

00:33:20.060 has a meaning. The Democrats don't use that meaning anymore. Same goes for theocracy. Theocracy is

00:33:25.400 rule by the clergy, political rule by members of the clergy. Nobody is calling for that.

00:33:33.160 Ironically, he's attacking evangelical Protestants as being theocrats. If there were a theocracy that

00:33:39.720 is ruled by priests and prelates, bishops ruled by the pope, the evangelical Protestants would be

00:33:44.680 the first to decry that because they actually don't recognize the pope and the bishops, and they're

00:33:49.680 relatively anti-hierarchical. No, that's not what theocracy is. What James Carville means is if you

00:33:57.840 have your political vision in any way informed by Christianity, then you're a theocrat. Well, 0.92

00:34:06.000 that's not what the word means, and everybody has his political vision informed by some idea or

00:34:14.260 ultimately by some religion because politics involves practical morality, and practical morality

00:34:20.160 comes from religion. So his problem here is not theocracy writ large. It's not even a religious

00:34:29.540 view writ large. It's that the religion that animates these people is not liberalism. For a lot of those

00:34:34.640 Republicans that he mentioned, all the Republicans he mentioned, they weren't particularly Christian.

00:34:39.640 And on crucial issues, they actually agreed with liberal political philosophy. That's why he

00:34:45.760 at least now grudgingly likes them. This guy did Mike Johnson. He's a member of a cult. I guess he

00:34:53.500 is a member of a cult. He's a member of a religion called Christianity, and James Carville doesn't 0.96

00:34:58.400 like that. Yeah, okay, sure. But the Republican Party now is more openly speaking in Christian terms.

00:35:07.220 And we used to do that 20 years ago. We actually did that too. There was the religious right. There was

00:35:11.500 the moral majority. And we're doing that again. We went through a little period where we stopped

00:35:14.940 speaking in religious terms, and then we lost everything because our ideas didn't make any

00:35:20.640 sense. They were no longer on solid ground. The liberals say what you want about them. They have

00:35:25.820 a pretty clear ideology. It's an ideology that comes out of liberalism that takes a fair bit from

00:35:32.220 Marxism, from socialism, and now I guess we would call it progressivism. And it's clear. They can write

00:35:40.260 down what they believe in a 10-bullet-point manifesto on the back of a napkin, and pretty much they all agree.

00:35:44.940 And even though their views are unpopular, the solidity, the coherence, the relative coherence of

00:35:49.680 those views gives it a certain kind of power. And now the conservatives are recognizing, hey, we haven't

00:35:54.400 even conserved the women's bathroom. Maybe our ideas need to be more coherent, more solid. So what are

00:35:59.480 we conserving? Well, we want to conserve virtue. We want to conserve the American way of life. And

00:36:02.300 ultimately, that means speaking in a Christian way. And the liberals can't stand it. Next Thursday night,

00:36:09.300 June 27th, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will enter the rhetorical gladiator pit for primetime

00:36:14.500 presidential debate. Their mics will be muted occasionally, probably more than occasionally,

00:36:19.660 if CNN has its way with Trump. Our mics will not be muted as we bring you exclusive coverage and

00:36:24.140 commentary during a special Daily Wire backstage. We're giving you an unfiltered live stream experience,

00:36:28.480 free to watch on Daily Wire+. Hear the facts and insights from me and, tangentially, Ben Shapiro,

00:36:33.700 Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring. Our nation teeters on the precipice, beset by soaring

00:36:38.060 inflation and border crisis, deteriorating cities, and rising crime. The 2024 election will be pivotal.

00:36:43.640 Join us next Thursday night at 8.30 p.m. Eastern for the most uncompromising,

00:36:48.040 clear-eyed debate analysis you will find anywhere. No lies, unlike the liberals. There will be no lies.

00:36:54.160 Hear the truth about what unfolds on the stage and what it means for the future of this country.

00:36:57.720 My favorite comment yesterday is from, can I have one dab 724? That's an interesting name.

00:37:05.580 It says, colored glass jars. Excuse me, Mike, the correct term is glass jars of color. You make a

00:37:13.360 good point. If you want to buy the Mayflower candles, we shouldn't say, that is an antiquated

00:37:18.400 and offensive term. We should not call them colored jars. They are jars of color, but they are beautiful

00:37:23.760 colors, and they are marvelous smelling candles. Speaking of attacks on Christianity, Hillary Clinton

00:37:30.900 has just come out. For some reason, she keeps talking. She's still around. She won't go away.

00:37:37.500 Like, I don't know, radon in a home. It's very difficult to get rid of it. Like various pests that

00:37:46.400 live in your walls. They just don't go away. Hillary won't go away. She's now attacking Sam Alito. 1.00

00:37:52.120 You'll notice that the Democrats are increasing their attacks on the Supreme Court, specifically

00:37:57.020 on probably the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court, Sam Alito, the man behind the Dobbs

00:38:01.700 decision, because they are looking ahead at 2024. They are seeing potentially a contested presidential

00:38:09.620 election. They know that the courts will be involved. The courts will certainly be involved

00:38:13.320 in answering questions about the constitutionality, legality of prosecuting Donald Trump, one of the

00:38:18.440 two major party nominees. They might be involved, as they were in Bush v. Gore, in deciding the election.

00:38:22.980 So Democrats are getting out ahead of this and attempting to delegitimize the court, the strategy

00:38:27.760 they've been building on for some years now. Hillary Clinton is joining the fray, and she mentions that

00:38:34.140 she was in the U.S. Senate when Sam Alito, and even when Justice John Roberts, were up for confirmation,

00:38:40.400 and she gives her insight as to why she voted against both of them.

00:38:45.800 You know, I was in the Senate when both John Roberts and Alito were nominated to the court by

00:38:52.620 George W. Bush. Therefore, I had a chance, as you rightly say, to interview both of them. And

00:38:58.680 I found John Roberts to be a kind of conservative, corporate-oriented lawyer who had a kind of

00:39:13.120 preconceived notion of the way things and people should work. And I voted against him because I

00:39:19.520 thought he was, you know, not only a candidate of the far right, the Federalist Society and their

00:39:27.640 agenda, but that his life experience was just too narrow to really be.

00:39:32.560 Put a pause here. Put a pause here before we get on to her invective against Sam Alito.

00:39:37.080 Chief Justice John Roberts is a candidate of the far right. John Roberts, the man who gave us

00:39:44.640 Obamacare, who twisted himself into a logical pretzel to explain why Obamacare, obviously unconstitutional,

00:39:54.120 must be preserved. He's a man of the far right. She just admitted in the same breath,

00:40:00.220 Roberts, he's kind of a business guy. You know, he's like a business Republican.

00:40:04.600 He's not really that concerned with the social issues. He's just like a business guy who,

00:40:08.800 he's a corporate-minded conservative, an institutional man, you might say.

00:40:13.840 But anyway, he's a candidate of the far right. There's another phrase that you're seeing crop up

00:40:16.960 everywhere. The far right, the far right, the far right. The far right now means anyone to

00:40:24.920 even slightly the left of Hillary Clinton. That's everyone. They say it about me all the time. They

00:40:32.260 say it about people at the Daily Wire, people at Fox News, people at the Blaze. These are

00:40:37.040 mainstream conservative outlets. These are the biggest conservative outlets in the country.

00:40:40.600 Everyone is now the far right. And if you were ever tempted to think that they were being honest here,

00:40:48.140 just know they consider John Roberts, the meek and mild-mannered Episcopalian who gave us Obamacare,

00:40:57.920 they consider that man to be on the far right as well. So she voted against him because he just had

00:41:01.680 a preconceived notion about how things are. Who doesn't? Only a child, only a totally ignorant

00:41:10.440 child, bereft even of the ability to speak, doesn't have a preconceived notion of how things are. And

00:41:17.340 actually, because the natural law is inscribed on every human heart, even little children have

00:41:22.040 some preconceived notion of how things really are. What does that mean? You think Elena Kagan 0.99

00:41:27.680 doesn't have a preconceived notion of how things are? You think Sonia Sotomayor doesn't have a 1.00

00:41:32.120 preconceived notion about things? You think Hillary Clinton doesn't have a preconceived notion? Of 1.00

00:41:34.820 course they do. If you've ever thought about anything, that means you have conceived of things,

00:41:39.860 you've conceptualized things. And then, assuming you don't, you're not put up for confirmation to

00:41:46.140 the Supreme Court the very day that you start thinking about things, then you have certain

00:41:50.080 preconceptions because you've thought about them before and you've come to certain conclusions.

00:41:53.580 That's called thinking. That's called education. That's called growing up. And she attacks John 0.98

00:41:58.580 Roberts for this because he came to the wrong conclusions in her mind. He doesn't, actually,

00:42:03.200 I don't even know what he thinks about abortion or whatever, but he's not as liberal as she is,

00:42:08.020 so that's too bad. His life experience is too narrow. Life experience is too narrow means white 0.99

00:42:12.400 guy. He was a white guy. That's why she voted against him. You're not, you think Sonia Sotomayor's

00:42:17.140 life experience isn't narrow? You think she has a broader life experience than John Roberts? I don't

00:42:24.280 think so. I'm not denying that she has a different life experience than John Roberts. She does. But

00:42:29.820 when they use that for a narrow life experience, all they're saying is we don't like white guys. We

00:42:34.020 don't want white guys to be in positions of power. That's what she's saying. That's the way the phrase

00:42:37.920 is used in our DEI gobbledego kind of culture. She goes on to attack the real object of her ire, 1.00

00:42:45.640 Sam Alito.

00:42:47.100 Really be in that position. Alito struck me almost immediately upon sitting down to talk with him

00:42:55.900 as a radical, as a fanatic about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society

00:43:06.680 and his religion, not maybe yours or mine, Marks, but his religion. And I found him scary. And I said 0.89

00:43:14.980 so on the floor of the Senate when I voted against him. We got the judges that had been groomed, put into

00:43:20.780 the pipeline to do what they are now doing. Hillary accidentally gave away the game here 1.00

00:43:26.880 because you hear all the usual stuff. Oh, he was scary. He's far right. And he's far right and scary

00:43:32.280 because he's religious. This is different than John Roberts. He was not that religious, it seems. But

00:43:36.300 Sam Alito, he's real religious. And that scared me because of his religion. Not yours or mine, 0.99

00:43:45.100 an interviewer, but his religion. What she's admitting here is that she doesn't have a problem

00:43:51.980 with religion in politics per se, because Hillary Clinton also is a fairly intelligent person. And 0.94

00:43:58.000 she knows you can't have politics without religion because politics involves applied morality, which

00:44:02.020 comes from religion. Hillary's problem with Sam Alito, the liberal's problem with Sam Alito is not

00:44:08.700 religion. It's his religion. And what is his religion? He's a Catholic. That's what she doesn't 0.96

00:44:15.460 like. This is the most naked anti-Catholic bigotry that I have seen in politics since

00:44:22.480 Dianne Feinstein was grilling Amy Coney Barrett, Amy Coney Barrett, who was up for a federal 0.97

00:44:27.960 judge position. And she said, what worries me about you, Judge Barrett, is that, or at that time,

00:44:35.740 I suppose, Professor Barrett, is the dogma lives loudly within you. It'd be one thing if you were

00:44:43.920 just a kind of mildly religious, or I don't know, if you were Episcopalian or Methodist or something.

00:44:50.480 But you believe in this Catholic dogma, and you really believe in it. It seems, you know,

00:44:55.460 you have a lot of kids, and you practice your faith, and you can't have that dogma live loudly

00:45:00.020 within you. This is the Democrats undermining a basic provision of the Constitution, which is

00:45:06.560 that there will not be a religious test for public office. There were some founding fathers who seemed

00:45:11.080 open to religious tests for public office. John Jay writes about how he thought only Christians

00:45:16.220 should hold public office. John Jay, who is one of the authors of The Federalist, who's defending the

00:45:20.260 Constitution, nevertheless, he says, look, it's a Christian country. We should have Christian politicians.

00:45:24.860 And he writes this in letters. Nevertheless, in the Constitution, we see no religious test.

00:45:32.240 And of course, you need to say, if we had a whole spate of politicians whose religion was

00:45:37.360 the anti-American religion, the anti-Constitution religion, well, that would create a political

00:45:42.880 problem, because the Constitution would have allowed these people to come in to undermine the

00:45:46.480 Constitution, to undermine the whole country. But that's what she's saying here. I don't like

00:45:53.440 Sam Alito because he's a Catholic. We don't want their religion. That's what James Carville is 1.00

00:45:59.440 saying. I don't like Mike Johnson because he's an evangelical. We don't like these Republicans

00:46:06.220 because these Republicans are more openly Christian. They're speaking in moral terms,

00:46:11.940 which for most of our history, going back to the founding of the party, going back to Abraham Lincoln

00:46:15.720 using language straight out of the King James Bible, has typified the Republican Party.

00:46:19.840 We don't like this because when Republicans talk in this way that's based on solid principles that

00:46:25.840 comes from true religion that animates our country and that has animated our country through our

00:46:30.580 country's growth, then they're a real threat. We Democrats don't like that. There's so much more

00:46:36.200 to get to. Speaking of religion, Cori Bush, a liberal Congress lady, has claimed that she's

00:46:41.880 performed miracles and cured tumors through faith healing. We're going to have to wait for that,

00:46:46.180 though. Because you know me. I'm a tease. We've got to get to the member room segmentum. This is

00:46:52.360 Woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it. Become a member.

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