The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1597 - My Reaction to Kamala Harris' Bret Baier Interview

00:00:00.000 Kamala Harris sat down for her first non-friendly interview in at least four years and probably 0.83

00:00:06.420 ever last night. It did not go well. We will hit the highlights, but the biggest highlight is this.

00:00:13.040 There is a reason that political parties usually hold primaries to pick their nominees.

00:00:18.200 They didn't do that for Kamala Harris. And if that destroys her already flailing campaign, 0.61

00:00:24.280 as well it might, the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:00:29.940 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Are there any men left for Kamala?

00:00:53.000 Is there anybody left for Kamala? I don't know. After last night's interview, I'm not so sure.

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00:02:05.920 I'm just going to jump right into it. This might be my favorite interview I've ever seen

00:02:09.680 in my life. It was so magnificent. I kept wondering, why is this such a magnificent

00:02:15.380 interview? Is it just because I dislike Kamala Harris? No, there are plenty of politicians I 1.00

00:02:21.620 don't like. Is it just because I like Bret Baier? Bret Baier is a very good journalist,

00:02:26.440 but no, there are plenty of journalists I like. It's because other candidates, Joe Biden,

00:02:33.620 Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, for that matter, Bernie Sanders, other candidates

00:02:40.260 have conducted lots of hostile interviews. They've been put through the ringer.

00:02:48.660 Kamala Harris has not. Kamala Harris ran for president once, not even this cycle. She ran for

00:02:56.240 president once in 2020. She was out before the first primary votes were cast. She then got the 0.99

00:03:03.100 nomination. This time, by default, she didn't have to run. Before that, she was in pretty friendly

00:03:07.700 elections. She has never sat down, certainly not in four years, maybe not ever. She's never sat down

00:03:14.100 for an act, not even a hostile interview, just a non-friendly interview. She doesn't even do well

00:03:20.760 in the friendly interviews. So she sits down with Bret Baier on Fox News. Here's how it opens.

00:03:26.020 How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country

00:03:33.620 over the last three and a half years? Well, I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because I 1.00

00:03:38.120 agree with you. It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have. And you know what I'm

00:03:45.700 going to talk about. Yeah, but just a number. Do you think it's one million, three million?

00:03:49.700 Bret, let's just get to the point. Okay. The point is that we have a broken immigration system.

00:03:56.020 That needs to be repaired. So your Homeland Security secretary said that 85% of apprehensions.

00:04:01.460 I'm not finished. We have an immigration system. It's a rough estimate of six million people have

00:04:05.740 been released into the country. And let me just finish. I'll get to the question, I promise you.

00:04:09.900 I was beginning to answer. And when you came into office, you're-

00:04:13.340 Put a pause right here. So Kamala Harris immediately launches. It's a simple question

00:04:17.920 from Bret Baier. How many illegals came in on your watch? And she says, Bret, I think illegal

00:04:24.200 immigration is a good thing to talk about. And she's trying to go through her memorized line

00:04:28.280 on just immigration in general. And Bret Baier is not having it. Bret Baier says, yeah, well,

00:04:33.160 hold on. Simple question. All right, you're not going to answer that. Let me at least get to the

00:04:37.000 broader question. And she goes, no, no, I'm not finished. I'm answering. What are you answering?

00:04:40.880 You're not answering the one question he asked. So now he's trying to get you to a broader question.

00:04:44.060 The moment, this is the first moments of the interview. And the moment that Bret Baier just

00:04:50.300 kept plowing ahead with his question and did not allow her to filibuster him, I thought of the Star

00:04:55.240 Wars prequel, Star Wars episode one, when there's that giant bug thing, merchant in the desert.

00:05:00.700 Your Jedi mind tricks do not work on me. Luke Skywalker or whatever it was, you know, her little

00:05:09.020 tricks, her little evasions might work in a friendly interview. They ain't going to work 1.00

00:05:15.740 in a more contentious interview. They're certainly not going to work on a serious journalist like

00:05:21.520 Bret Baier. They go on. Office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border

00:05:27.580 policies. Most significantly, the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through

00:05:33.700 deportation, either in the U.S. or in Mexico. And you switch that policy. They were released from

00:05:39.960 custody awaiting trial. So instead, included in those were a large number of single men, adult men,

00:05:47.140 who went on to commit heinous crimes. So looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate,

00:05:54.540 remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration? At the beginning of our administration,

00:05:59.780 within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill that we offered Congress before

00:06:08.620 we worked on infrastructure, before the Inflation Reduction Act, before the Chips and Science Act,

00:06:16.800 before any, before the bipartisan Safety Communities Act, the first bill, practically within hours of

00:06:24.420 taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system. Yes, ma'am. It was called the U.S. Citizenship

00:06:30.800 Act of 2021. Exactly. It was essentially a pathway to citizenship for the... May I please finish? 0.86

00:06:36.360 Yes, ma'am. May I finish responding, please? But you have to let me finish, please. You had the White 0.98

00:06:41.080 House and the House and the Senate, and they didn't bring up that bill. I'm in the middle of responding

00:06:44.600 to the point you're raising. Okay. And I'd like to finish. Yes, ma'am.

00:06:48.140 But we recognized from day one... Put a pause, put a pause here. So she thought she could just do the

00:06:57.040 stump speech. And we did the Inflation Reduction Act, which didn't reduce inflation. And we did the

00:07:02.260 Infrastructure Act, which didn't fix our infrastructure. And we did, and we did, and we did. And within

00:07:06.560 minutes, we had an immigration bill. And Rupert goes, yes. Uh-huh. Okay. Thanks. Yeah, gotcha. The bill was

00:07:11.960 called this. The bill came out in this year, I know. And it would have given a pathway to citizenship,

00:07:17.100 would have given amnesty to a ton of illegals. That's why it died. But you guys had a unified

00:07:21.860 government. You didn't really do anything. So he politely waits for her to finally get to her

00:07:27.540 point. And then he just completely destroys her point. And what does she have left? She's sputtering.

00:07:31.800 She says, uh, well, excuse me. Uh, excuse me. She's trying to have that moment she had on a debate

00:07:36.340 stage, you know, where she says, uh, you know, it's, I'm speaking, I'm speaking now. But then

00:07:40.260 Brett Baer, because he's a good, polite journalist, says, okay, answer. And then when it, when she is

00:07:47.260 able to speak, she has nothing to say. Keep going. Recognized from day one, that to the point of this

00:07:53.860 being your first question, it is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people.

00:08:00.260 And our focus has been on fixing a problem. And from day one, then we have done a number of things.

00:08:09.780 You have Brett Baer just staring. For those of you who are only listening,

00:08:13.760 I wish you could see this because it's, it's Kamala flailing. And then Brett Baer,

00:08:18.320 who just looks like a building. I don't know. He's just so solidly built. And he's there with that

00:08:24.960 stone face, just waiting for an answer. And what is her answer? Her answer in effect is,

00:08:29.620 I don't know how many illegals came in on my watch. I certainly don't want to tell you how

00:08:34.200 many illegals came in on my watch. I, I had a bill, even though we reversed Trump border policies, 0.89

00:08:40.020 I had a bill, but we didn't really do anything with the bill. And that's why we're so focused

00:08:43.980 on illegal immigration. We got to fix it. And Brett Baer is looking at her. It reminds me of that scene

00:08:49.980 in, it's always sunny in Philadelphia, when the Harvard trained lawyer is talking to Charlie

00:08:54.420 and Charlie, you know, who's this kind of scatterbrained janitor who just makes up things about

00:08:59.580 the law. And, and the, the Harvard lawyers looking at him like he's got three heads.

00:09:04.080 He's trying to understand how someone could seriously say the things that he's saying.

00:09:09.160 That's Brett Baer to Kamala here. So then because they had a limited time and that we'll see how,

00:09:14.780 how limited their, their time was. Uh, Brett Baer moves on, but still on the topic of immigration,

00:09:19.460 he wallops her with facts and logic, but also the testimony of the victims of Kamala Harris's

00:09:28.440 policies. And this election in 20 days will determine whether we have a president of the

00:09:35.000 United States who actually cares more about fixing a problem, even if it is not to their political

00:09:41.560 advantage in an election, because there was a solution, Brett. Madam vice president, it was a policy 1.00

00:09:47.500 decision in the early part of your administration. I will let one of the mothers talk about it.

00:09:52.760 Take a listen. Because of the Biden Harris administration, open border policies, catch and

00:09:59.300 release, they were enrolled in the alternatives to detention program. This meant that they were

00:10:04.240 released into the United States. It was not even a full three weeks later that they would take my

00:10:09.560 daughter, Jocelyn Nungare's life. I believe the Biden Harris administration, open border policies are

00:10:15.240 responsible for the death of my daughter. That's the early days. So do you owe them an apology is

00:10:22.760 what I'm saying. I will tell you that I am so sorry for her loss. I'm so sorry for her loss.

00:10:28.960 Sincerely. Since I'm sincere, unlike when I'm usually cynical and dishonest, this time I'm being

00:10:34.940 sincere. She had nothing. She act. Brett Baer is such a good interviewer. And, and even beyond him being a

00:10:42.660 good interviewer, the facts are just so obvious here that Kamala Harris had to say, yes, I owe them

00:10:50.900 an apology. That's what she says. Do you owe people an apology? She's trying to deflect. She says, oh,

00:10:56.240 it's Trump killed this border bill. Brett Baer says, no, the, the border bill that would have granted

00:11:01.680 amnesty, that would have made illegal immigration worse that you're referring to Kamala, that Trump did

00:11:06.840 lobby to kill. That happened much later. We're talking about the early days of your administration

00:11:11.320 here. We're talking about people killed because of the policies in the early days of your administration.

00:11:16.260 You can't blame it on Trump. These were decisions you made. Do you owe Americans an apology for all of

00:11:23.520 the people who have been killed because of your border policies? And what is her answer? She has no

00:11:30.180 other answer but to say, yeah, I'm sorry. Absolutely devastating. There's so much more to say. First

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00:12:46.180 baby, or go to preborn.com slash Knowles. Kamala and Brett Baer then move off the specific issue of

00:12:53.640 immigration and get to a broader point in the campaign, which is Kamala's running as a challenger 0.99

00:12:59.500 candidate. She's running as a change candidate. She and Tim Wohl said, we can't take four more years of

00:13:04.360 this, except she is currently in office. She's the sitting vice president. No one has really called her

00:13:11.400 out on that to her face yet. Trump did a little bit at the debate, but she's gotten away with it. 0.99

00:13:16.540 Brett Baer sticks her on the point. More than 70% of people tell the country is on the wrong track.

00:13:22.460 They say the country is on the wrong track. If it's on the wrong track, that track follows three

00:13:28.400 and a half years of you being vice president and President Biden being president. That is what

00:13:34.220 they're saying, 79% of them. Why are they saying that? If you're turning the page, you've been in office

00:13:40.120 for three and a half years. And Donald Trump has been running for office.

00:13:45.440 But you've been the person holding the office. Come on, come on. You and I both know what I'm

00:13:49.420 talking about. You and I both know what I'm talking about. I actually don't. What are you talking about?

00:13:52.940 What I'm talking about is that over the last decade, people have become. But listen, over the last

00:14:01.600 decade, it is clear to me and certainly the Republicans who are on stage with me.

00:14:06.600 How is she this bad at this? How? I'm not taking a cheap shot. How is the vice president

00:14:14.240 and current Democrat nominee this bad at this?

00:14:20.840 Ma'am, you're in office now. Why are things going so poorly?

00:14:24.440 Uh-huh. Yeah, well, I'm in office, but Trump has been running for office.

00:14:27.680 Yeah, but you're in office. Yeah, he's been running. A lot of people have been running for office,

00:14:33.320 but you're in office. Yeah, okay. Well, I think, I think you know what I'm, I think you know what

00:14:38.920 I'm talking about. And there's Brett Baer, not trying to get a zinger in, I think just genuinely

00:14:44.420 befuddled and bemused. He looks at her, he goes, ma'am, I have no idea what you're talking about. What,

00:14:49.760 what are you talking about? Okay, well, I think we know that. This is the point, I think.

00:14:58.620 If it hadn't happened already from the first question, this is the point at which I think

00:15:02.420 Kamala's staffers started rending their garments and gnashing their teeth. Because this, this was 0.92

00:15:10.260 the reveal that, that this lady's got nothing. She has no answer for anything, even the most basic 1.00

00:15:16.440 question she should have prepared for. She then goes on. You call Donald Trump, you call Donald

00:15:24.680 Trump, he's misguided. You say now he's unstable. He is unstable. He's not well. You say he's mentally

00:15:33.040 not stable. He's not stable. Let me ask you this. You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his

00:15:39.100 game, that ran around circles on his staff. When did you first notice that President Biden's mental

00:15:44.560 faculties appeared diminished? Joe Biden, I have watched in, from the Oval Office to the Situation

00:15:54.200 Room, and he has the judgment and the experiment, and experience to do exactly what he has done in

00:16:01.860 making very important decisions on behalf of the American people. There were no concerns raised?

00:16:07.020 Joe Biden is not on the ballot. I understand. And Donald Trump, Donald Trump is.

00:16:10.680 Exactly. He talked about it. And Donald Trump is. After George Clooney said within a few minutes

00:16:14.680 of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not the same Joe Biden

00:16:19.260 that we saw on the debate stage. Donald Trump is on the ballot. I understand.

00:16:23.500 Do you see the perfect, perfectly impossible position she's in? She goes, Brett lures her in. He says,

00:16:32.440 you say Trump's crazy, right? Yeah, he's crazy. He's nuts. He's deranged. He's this. He's that.

00:16:40.060 Okay. When did you find out that Biden was slipping? And she flips back to her line about this from May

00:16:50.920 and June before Biden had dropped out of the race. Joe Biden is great. He's perfect. He's good in the

00:16:57.780 situation room. He's totally fine. But that can't be true. If Biden were in perfect mental fitness,

00:17:03.800 Kamala wouldn't be the nominee. Biden would be the nominee. Biden was kicked out for one reason and

00:17:10.140 one reason only that he's not mentally fit to do the job anymore. That's how she got. So

00:17:13.620 she sticks to her old script. Okay. That totally undermines her candidacy. 1.00

00:17:19.080 Or she can say, yeah, Biden is deranged, but that implicates her in the coverup.

00:17:25.600 So she has nothing. And she, you could see that look of just pure confusion on her face

00:17:31.300 and she's glitching out. It's like she didn't get the update to the talking point.

00:17:36.720 I look, I could go through every single minute of this interview. I will not. I might go back and

00:17:41.920 just rewatch it because of how savory and delicious it is. This interview went so poorly

00:17:49.220 that Kamala's staff ended it early. Kamala's staff called it, Brett Baer's sitting there. He goes,

00:17:56.960 I'm being told we have a hard out. You have a hard out here. Okay. I guess we'll end the interview.

00:18:03.700 And Kamala says, okay, basically. Brett Baer was so astounded by how this was conducted

00:18:11.560 by Kamala's staff that he reported on it afterward. Dana, you've been on the other side.

00:18:17.540 You've been on the rapper as a press secretary interviewing a president. And, you know, I'm

00:18:24.120 talking like four people waving their hands. Like it's got to stop. So Martha final. Yeah.

00:18:31.700 I had to dismount there at the end. There's so many things and she maybe should do more of these.

00:18:36.900 I love what the understatement of the decade. Maybe she should do more of these, but it's too

00:18:42.680 late to do more of these is the problem. So whatever spin you're going to hear today from the

00:18:48.580 left, Kamala's staff ended this interview early. So if the left says, oh, she did great. It was

00:18:56.120 wonderful. She went to the lion's den. She stood up. She stood tall. Just remember, that's not what

00:19:01.040 Kamala's staff thought. If Kamala's staff thought she was handling this well, they wouldn't have

00:19:06.320 pulled her from the interview. And Brett Baer is not some wild, you know, he's not even really an

00:19:15.880 opinion journalist. He's certainly not a bomb thrower or a provocateur. He's a straight shooter

00:19:22.940 respected by both sides, but he's serious. He's a serious journalist and Kamala Harris is not a

00:19:29.560 serious candidate. Absolutely devastating. It shows you how total the Libs control over the 0.98

00:19:38.480 political order is. The fact that this woman could make it this far without ever once facing a serious 0.56

00:19:44.480 interview. The fact that Joe Biden could pretend to be the president for years without ever facing

00:19:53.680 really serious questions or having it revealed that he was clearly in decline. It shows you how total

00:19:59.500 the left's control over the political order is, and it shows you how fragile that political order

00:20:05.700 is. That's why they've got to clamp down so hard. If you just get one social media platform,

00:20:11.880 not even the biggest one, you can get the smallest one, X, you can get the word out. If you just get

00:20:16.300 one interview with the candidate, why did Kamala's staff let her do this? Kamala's staff let her do this 1.00

00:20:23.420 because obviously the internal polling is not looking good for them right now. So they have

00:20:28.360 to do something to shake up the race, but they regretted it. The final moment I'll leave you with

00:20:33.560 from this interview, the sputtering with the staffers yelling and waving their arms off camera.

00:20:41.020 He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him. This is a democracy.

00:20:47.200 And in an inner democracy, the president of the United States in the United States of America

00:20:53.320 should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he'd lock people up for doing it.

00:21:01.460 Again, if you're just listening, she's shaking her shoulders. She's doing like the, I don't know,

00:21:06.160 the Harlem jive or something. I don't know what this is. Kind of like a crazy up and down.

00:21:10.360 I don't know. This kind of, it reminds me of like people dancing in Scooby-Doo or something. She is

00:21:15.040 moving, man. But what is she saying? She's saying in the United States of America, the president of

00:21:23.440 the United States of America, in the United States of America needs to be able to handle criticism.

00:21:28.840 Okay. This is the first time that this woman has had to face serious criticism,

00:21:33.080 not even criticism, just questions. And she completely folded. You want that woman 1.00

00:21:36.980 negotiating with Xi Jinping? You want that woman negotiating with Vladimir Putin? 1.00

00:21:41.060 Do you think that woman could run a Chuck E. Cheese franchise? No. 1.00

00:21:48.060 The only way that this doesn't seriously damage the Kamala campaign is if the libs succeed at

00:21:54.460 completely suppressing that interview. The libs on CBS, they support her by re-editing her whole 0.96

00:22:03.640 interview, copying, pasting to make her seem coherent. The way the conservatives attack Kamala Harris 0.99

00:22:09.040 is just showing her speaking in her own words. There's so much more to say. First though,

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00:23:19.860 Head on over to puretalk.com slash Knowles. Enough of the greatest interview ever. Let's move to the

00:23:26.920 running mate, Tim Walls. Tim Walls. You think, okay, maybe this guy could do a little bit better than

00:23:31.920 Kamala. He was just asked on a local news affiliate. This is not CBS 60 Minutes. This

00:23:38.160 is not Fox News Channel. This is WGAL NBC affiliate Channel 8. He's asked a serious question about

00:23:48.100 the border. Here's his answer. U.S. Customs and Border Protection say there were 10 million

00:23:53.860 illegal crossings in the first years of the Biden administration. Was it a mistake to overturn

00:23:58.940 former President Trump's border policies and talk negatively toward the wall?

00:24:04.400 Well, the first day in office, President Biden and Vice President Harris put a proposal forward.

00:24:08.440 And what we know is, is that crossings are down now than when Donald Trump left office.

00:24:12.480 We also know that there is a solution to this. It's a bipartisan bill crafted by the most

00:24:17.200 conservative Republican senators, the Border Patrol agents. And the only reason that that's not in place

00:24:22.740 right now is Donald Trump wanted it to fail. And now over the weekend, he makes up some ridiculous

00:24:28.220 number that he wants to fix the border. Donald Trump's not interested in fixing the problem.

00:24:33.000 Donald Trump wants the problem. It allows him to talk about it and allows him to spread file

00:24:37.620 and quite honestly, just absolutely false information about people.

00:24:42.200 So he's a little slicker than Kamala. He's a better salesman than Kamala. He can at least use

00:24:46.200 the English language with relative fluency. But the answer is weak. And the reason the answer is

00:24:52.760 weak is right there in the question. Hey, on your watch, you've had 10 million illegal crossings.

00:24:58.920 You repealed Trump's border policies. Trump's border policies were more effective than yours.

00:25:05.080 Do you regret repealing Trump's border policies? And Walls and Kamala will say, well, we had a really

00:25:11.040 great bill that would have been really, really great. And we did this and we did that and we could

00:25:14.980 have done this. And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. And if turnips were watches, I'd wear

00:25:21.060 one at my side. But, you know, it would have been what a shoulda coulda. If ifs and buts were candy

00:25:25.740 and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. The way you know that you don't need this border bill

00:25:32.240 that the Democrats focus on, that would have made illegal immigration worse and would have effectively

00:25:36.640 given amnesty to a lot of people, would have increased crossings. But the way you know you don't

00:25:41.260 need that bill is. Trump enforced the law without the bill. Trump didn't need the bill. How come

00:25:47.980 Trump could enforce immigration law without that new bill? And you can't. You obviously could,

00:25:54.120 you just don't want to. So Walls comes up with the best version of it that he can. I don't think

00:25:58.960 that persuades anybody. And that's backed up by the polls. There's a poll out now by Gallup. So it's

00:26:03.460 not even a right wing polling firm. It's Gallup polling shows that Americans are considering

00:26:09.740 themselves Republicans over Democrats by a seven point margin. That's Republicans or Republican

00:26:17.540 leaning by a seven point margin. So according, this is a conducted October 1st through 12th,

00:26:26.460 which is, and it's measuring the change from just a few weeks ago and back in September.

00:26:32.740 Republican self-identification, 31%. That's up four points in about three weeks. Democrat, 28%. So it's

00:26:40.320 lower than the Republicans already. And it's down three points in about three weeks. Independent,

00:26:44.640 41%. That's down one point. But when you zoom into the independents, when you include independent

00:26:54.100 leaners, Republican ID, 49%, that's up four points. Democrat, 42%. That's down seven points.

00:27:02.440 So more people are identifying as Republicans and the independents are breaking clearly for the

00:27:07.840 Republicans. Why? Because no one can name the issue that breaks for Democrats right now.

00:27:17.040 The Democrats have failed on everything, which is why if you zoom out to the broader election,

00:27:21.780 I mean, we are now days away, weeks away from, from the election, but really you can count it in

00:27:26.140 days. We currently have the most ideal conditions one can expect to win the election. Not the ideal

00:27:36.280 conditions for the country, poor conditions for the country, which is why it's ideal for a challenger

00:27:40.280 party right now, the Republicans, but we currently have the ideal conditions. The incumbents are

00:27:48.040 underwater on the economy, on immigration, on a lot of social policy, though not all social policy,

00:27:55.640 on foreign policy, on everything, on certain civil liberties, on election integrity. They're

00:28:05.960 underwater on everything. Their candidate is possibly the worst major party nominee ever nominated by any

00:28:13.480 major party in the United States. And our major party nominee, the Republican nominee, Trump,

00:28:20.320 though he has some unfavorables with certain segments of the population, was very nearly

00:28:24.760 assassinated, twice. So he even has that kind of political sympathy. And the vast majority of

00:28:32.260 Americans believe he's being unjustly prosecuted and persecuted by the Democrats in office. Even the

00:28:39.120 people who don't like Trump agree with that. We have the ideal political conditions, which is why

00:28:44.500 if we can't win now, I worry that we just can't win. If we cannot win the presidency in this election

00:28:56.020 and win the Senate and do well in the House and win at the state level, if we can't win with the ideal

00:29:06.460 political conditions, I worry that we just can't win. The Democrats have been playing a real long game

00:29:13.880 to radically change the demographics of the country and to radically change the way that our elections

00:29:20.200 are conducted and to radically change the structure of the government. And they've been playing that game

00:29:25.780 for a long time. They've been talking since the early 2000s about how they're going to change the

00:29:29.600 demographics of the country to bring in people who are more likely to vote for Democrat and discourage

00:29:33.840 people who are more likely to vote for Republican. And I fear if we can't win now, this were 30,

00:29:42.640 40 years ago, same kind of conditions in the country, the Republican would win every state.

00:29:47.780 And you think about Ronald Reagan in 84, won 49 states. And the campaign manager of Reagan's 84

00:29:54.280 campaign once told me that he thinks they won Minnesota too, but they didn't want to look petty.

00:29:57.320 So if this were 30 years ago, 40 years ago, Trump would win every single state. The fact that this

00:30:03.880 is close shows you how successfully Democrats have changed the long-term political trajectory of the

00:30:09.960 country and the political conditions. If we can't win this time, I don't know. I wouldn't hold my

00:30:16.060 breath for the next time. This is why Elon, by the way, says this is the last election. He says just

00:30:20.840 because of migration. That alone could so change the demographics, which in a self-government is how

00:30:28.340 the elections are conducted. It could so radically change that, that there will be elections, but

00:30:33.440 they'll be kind of meaningless. Now there is one prominent figure who appears to be siding more with

00:30:39.140 the left than the right these days appears. That would be Seinfeld. You remember Seinfeld came out a few

00:30:44.520 years ago and he said, this woke left, they're totally nuts. They're killing comedy. They're, you know,

00:30:49.500 the college shows are annoying now, all this kind of stuff. Well, Seinfeld just came out and he

00:30:54.400 recanted it. He said, quote, I don't think the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art

00:31:00.240 of comedy. I'm taking that back now officially. They have not. Do you like it? Maybe, maybe not.

00:31:07.020 It's not my business to like or not like where the culture's at. It's my business to make the gate.

00:31:13.200 He's using a skiing analogy here. He says, it's my business to make the gate. If I'm skiing,

00:31:18.880 I got to make the gate. You make the gate or you're out. If you're Lindsay Vaughn,

00:31:22.580 if you're a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain. She's going to

00:31:26.760 make the gate. That's comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. We don't make the gate. We're

00:31:30.980 out of the game. The game is, where's the gate? How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I

00:31:34.400 want to? I've never gone skiing in my life, so I really don't know what he's talking about, but I guess

00:31:37.760 it's a skiing analogy and it's a good one. This is being reported as Jerry Seinfeld flips. He no longer

00:31:46.300 blames the left. He no longer blames the woke. He no longer thinks the left is bad for comedy. He

00:31:50.500 retreats. He recants. Not really. What's he saying here? He's not saying that the libs are not culpable

00:31:57.360 for screwing up the culture. He's saying it doesn't really matter. You got to be in the game. This is

00:32:05.260 where I really have no use for the black pill doomer types who say it's all over, you know, 1.00

00:32:12.780 Western civilization is totally dead. There's nothing to do. Go sit home and cry.

00:32:18.240 Because I'm sympathetic to many of their observations. The Democrats have changed all

00:32:23.060 the election laws. They've perverted people's education in the schools for decades now. 0.67

00:32:28.200 They've obliterated the institution of marriage. They've changed the demographics of the country 0.99

00:32:34.600 cynically in their favor. They've done this. They've done that. Yeah, it's all true.

00:32:38.900 But so what? If this is the game, you got to make the gate. I don't know what else you

00:32:44.580 the black pillars and the doomers and the people who are given to despair, despair, which is a mortal

00:32:51.320 sin, by the way, these people, they act like they're so above it all, you know, like they're

00:32:56.340 so sophisticated. They're seeing something that everyone else isn't seeing. No, they're just cowards.

00:33:01.320 That's what they are. They're just losers and cowards. Because you can totally grant that the

00:33:09.200 system is unjust. It's unfair. It's rigged against us. It's very difficult to really get any win at all.

00:33:16.220 If Trump's going to win this election, he's going to have to win by a lot so that the shenanigans

00:33:19.380 don't overwhelm it. Yeah, I agree with all of that. What's the alternative? Surrender?

00:33:25.500 Total concession of the whole culture? Yeah, no thanks. Count me out. I don't want to be a loser,

00:33:32.300 okay? I want to win. This is like the people. You hear this even from conservatives. They say,

00:33:37.580 Michael, do you really want to die on the hill of, and then they'll name some principled point in

00:33:44.660 politics, on the hill of, I don't know, bioethics or marriage or abortion or I don't know. And I think,

00:33:51.360 I don't intend to die on any hills. I don't know about you. I'm willing to risk

00:33:57.880 certain things in politics. I'm willing to, in the pursuit of principle and in the pursuit of the

00:34:05.480 common good, I'm willing to take chances that might come back and hit me. But I don't intend to

00:34:10.600 die. I don't want to be a loser. I intend to win, man. That's the point Seinfeld's making. I think

00:34:16.520 he's right. He's basically saying, you know, what's the deal with complaining about the left?

00:34:23.440 It's pointless. It doesn't matter. Seinfeld's going to go out there and win. Donald Trump,

00:34:27.380 he's going to go out there. He's going to do everything he can to win. And that's what I'm

00:34:31.500 going to do too, okay? No, I'm not. Forget about the despair. I don't care. Oh, the political orders

00:34:37.340 aren't just. It's unfair. Yeah. Wow. Good morning. Oh, you just noticed that? Oh, okay.

00:34:42.780 Okay. Welcome. Welcome to adulthood. Welcome to politics. That's how it works, man. I think it

00:34:49.140 was cocaine Mitch McConnell who made the point. It's a very good point. The winners go to Washington,

00:34:53.100 the losers go home. Let's not be losers. Let's win. The moment you've been waiting for is almost

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00:35:34.120 yesterday is from Days Gone Sequel, who asks, why is Greta's even famous? What did she do besides cry

00:35:41.880 and scold conservatives about something that's not even real? Well, she skipped school. So she was a 0.99

00:35:46.600 truant and she also sailed a sailboat across the ocean to make a point about climate change

00:35:52.520 at, after which she was met by her handlers who flew over in jet planes, spewing much more

00:35:58.560 pollutants into the air than would have occurred had she just bought a coach seat on an airplane like 0.52

00:36:04.700 a normal person. So that's, that's also why she's famous. And now she's famous for, you know, I don't

00:36:09.360 know, waving the scimitar, wearing a keffia. Speaking of a rigged game, Fox News is hitting the Kamala

00:36:19.860 Harris campaign by asking her questions and showing her answers. CBS face the nation is hitting

00:36:27.980 Republicans. This is after the egregiously deceptively edited, uh, 60 minutes interview.

00:36:35.660 They now had a house speaker, Mike Johnson on, on face the nation. They, they did it again.

00:36:42.660 They deceptively edited his answers again. Mike Johnson happily, uh, had a staff member recording

00:36:48.560 his full answers in the little van where they do the hits. So you're able to see side by side

00:36:53.940 what CBS did not want you to hear. You know that it is against the law for non-citizens to vote in

00:37:01.240 federal elections. That's established law. Of course it is. Of course it is. But of course it is. But

00:37:05.940 here's the problem. There's a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship when

00:37:10.880 illegals or non-citizens register to vote. We know that's happening, but respectfully, everybody

00:37:15.640 should want the law to be followed. You know that it is against the law for non-citizens to vote in 1.00

00:37:21.820 federal elections. That's established law. Of course it is. Of course it is. But of course it

00:37:26.580 is. But here's the problem. There's a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship

00:37:30.960 when illegals or non-citizens register to vote. We know that's happening. Look, Glenn Youngkin in

00:37:36.300 Virginia, I was going to say, he issued an executive order to clean up their voting rules, uh, heading into

00:37:40.800 the election. Less than 30 days out, a couple of days ago, the Obama, I mean, the Biden administration,

00:37:46.180 Department of Justice, Biden-Harris administration, sued the governor and the state, the Commonwealth of

00:37:51.060 Virginia, to try to prevent them from cleaning up their voter rolls. See, that kind of thing creates 1.00

00:37:55.540 a lot of doubt and concern in the minds of a lot of the American people. Why would they do that?

00:38:00.720 Um, we want, everybody should want the law to be followed.

00:38:03.960 So every Republican needs to start doing this. There is no journalistic reason to cut out the

00:38:11.060 meat of Speaker Johnson's answer there. The challenge is this doesn't happen. It's already

00:38:16.460 illegal to vote, uh, if you're an illegal alien in these jurisdictions and it's already, it's already

00:38:21.740 bunk. And then in the, the answer that CBS played, he flops around and doesn't have an answer,

00:38:28.340 but in his actual answer, the part they cut out was the substance, was the evidence, was the proof.

00:38:33.520 It's not just on voting. He was asked about, uh, the hurricane, hurricane recovery efforts.

00:38:39.720 Here's what they play versus what he actually said.

00:38:42.440 So that's a different accounting than this 2% you say was distributed.

00:38:46.180 Yeah. So they've obligated some funds, but they've only distributed 2%.

00:38:50.120 The rescue and recovery efforts still going on. And then we address the rest of it.

00:38:53.860 So that's a different accounting than this 2% you say was distributed.

00:38:57.460 Yeah. So they've obligated some funds, but they've only distributed 2%. And when I was there on the

00:39:02.400 ground and you should go, I mean, bring the cameras and talk to the people there. They'll

00:39:05.560 tell you, don't, don't take politicians words for this or the administration's word. Talk to the

00:39:10.360 people there on the ground. They had not been provided the resources almost two weeks out from

00:39:15.220 the storm that they desperately needed. And when I was there 13 days post, uh, you know, post the

00:39:20.500 storm hitting that state, people are still being rescued. They're stuck in the higher elevations in

00:39:24.700 the mountains because the roads are down and all the rest. So they need every, every, uh,

00:39:29.220 available resource and all hands on deck, the rescue and recovery efforts still going on.

00:39:33.240 And then we address the rest of it. Even if you wanted to give CBS the benefit of the doubt and

00:39:37.920 say, well, they were editing down for time to air on television. And so it could only be five minutes

00:39:44.300 instead of six minutes. Okay. Then how come you keep cutting out the most substantive parts of his

00:39:49.640 answers? How come you specifically keep excluding all the important parts?

00:39:55.620 It's got to be intentional. So at this point, I think the Republicans should do live interviews

00:40:03.400 if they can. And if it's not a live interview, they got to do exactly what Mike Johnson did.

00:40:08.200 It's just like how the, the Democrats cheat in elections by stuffing the voter rolls with people

00:40:14.460 who are not eligible to vote. And the Republicans cheat in elections by taking those ineligible voters

00:40:19.960 off the rolls. So it's not really cheating. It's just, it's that the Republicans cheat by being honest.

00:40:23.820 Same thing here. The Democrats cheat by carving up and cutting up what politicians say and making

00:40:30.360 their Democrats look good and the Republicans look bad. Republicans cheat in the media by showing the

00:40:36.220 Democrats in their own words. They cheat by being honest. I want to talk about a rigged game,

00:40:41.020 especially when it comes to voting. The Nebraska Supreme Court has just restored voting rights to

00:40:46.900 7,000 felons. This is an order. There was an order by the Republican Secretary of State, Bob Evnan,

00:40:54.380 that would have kept 7,000 or so Nebraskans from voting in the upcoming election because they were 0.85

00:41:01.860 felons and they didn't have a right to vote. But now the Nebraska court says, no, they actually,

00:41:05.620 they do have a right to vote. And so what does this matter? You say Nebraska is a Republican state,

00:41:10.460 right? Sure. It's a Republican state, but Nebraska is one of two states that apportions electoral votes

00:41:16.120 by district. Maine is the other one. So it's a Republican state, sure. But they have a district

00:41:20.920 in Nebraska that went Democrat in 2008 and 2020. So when it was Biden-Harris, this one district went

00:41:28.960 Democrat. That means that Democrats could get a little juice in the electoral college simply by

00:41:38.960 the Democrats trying to make sure that felons vote. Why am I picking on the felons? Listen,

00:41:46.100 I think people should be reintegrated back into society after they've done their time,

00:41:52.080 even for serious crimes. If they've done their time, they need to be reintegrated. I totally

00:41:55.660 agree with that. I don't think people should be ostracized from society forever just because

00:41:58.900 they've been to jail. And actually, some people can really be reformed in jail. I know people who've

00:42:03.220 really had their lives turned around in prison. That said, there is a reason that we prevented

00:42:09.160 felons from voting for a lot of, it's just not, I guess you just have to think about what voting is

00:42:14.620 for. And the Democrats get this totally backwards. We vote, we have people vote in America because we

00:42:20.680 think that will give us the best kind of government. You're going out to the ballot box, or these days,

00:42:27.060 I don't know, you having a ballot harvest or Democrat come and, you know, take your stack of

00:42:30.680 balance. You vote for good government. The purpose of voting is to get good government.

00:42:37.640 For the Democrats, it's the opposite. For Democrats, they pretend as though the vote is an end in itself,

00:42:43.600 that the vote is intrinsically good. The vote is not intrinsically good. The vote is instrumentally

00:42:48.280 good. It's for good government. So you think, okay, who should vote? Should five-year-olds vote?

00:42:54.520 No. Well, Democrats probably would say, yes, they should. But no, five-year-olds should not vote. 1.00

00:42:58.540 Why? Aren't they then being governed without having a direct representation? Yeah, I guess

00:43:05.320 that's true. But, you know, they're kids. And you wouldn't have a good country if you had kids

00:43:09.880 making all your decisions. So kids don't vote. Foreigners don't vote. Certain people who are not 1.00

00:43:18.660 able to take care of themselves generally don't vote. And people who can't show an ID, they can't 0.98

00:43:23.800 prove who they are. They really should not vote. And we say, okay, felons probably in a lot of cases

00:43:29.540 should not vote. Democrats say, no, no, no. We do really well with children. That's why they want to

00:43:35.620 lower the voting age. We do really well with illegal aliens, foreigners, people who aren't 1.00

00:43:39.280 American. We want them to vote. And we do really well with felons. What does that tell you about the

00:43:44.580 Democrats? What does that tell you about how they appeal to people? By the way, felons overwhelmingly

00:43:50.540 vote for Democrats. Overwhelmingly. And it's not just felons who are in prison. It's once they get

00:43:57.520 out of prison. It's especially when they get out of prison. There was a study in 2019, Ragnar Labs.

00:44:02.160 Currently incarcerated felons are more than three times as likely to be registered as Democrats

00:44:07.180 or as unaffiliated than as Republicans. Ex-felons are four times as likely to be Democrats or 1.00

00:44:16.920 unaffiliated. So you're more likely when you actually get out of prison. And then the gap

00:44:24.360 between Democrats and unaffiliated voters is lower among the active population. It's plus seven

00:44:31.360 dem. When you get to the released population, it's plus 28 dem. So that why are they doing this

00:44:38.960 in Nebraska? Because they know it's going to give them a huge advantage. It might help them out in the

00:44:41.940 electoral college. Who knows? Maybe they think it could sway the election. I mention all of this

00:44:46.280 because it's just one of the many shenanigans that the Democrats are engaging in. But also

00:44:49.540 because it gives you a simple rule of thumb to understand politics. Sometimes we get lost in

00:44:54.140 our head on ideology, on history, on this and that. A really simple heuristic, a really simple rule of

00:45:01.280 thumb here for understanding politics. If you want to understand a policy proposal, just ask yourself who

00:45:08.180 it benefits. If you want to understand why the Democrats are trying to make children and

00:45:13.600 foreigners and felons vote. Don't, you don't need to read 500 page philosophical tomes about the 0.99

00:45:21.360 rights of illegal alien child felons. You need to ask yourself, who does that benefit? Oh, it benefits 0.99

00:45:27.700 Democrats. They're three to four times as likely to vote for Democrats as for Republicans. So they

00:45:31.720 want to enfranchise them. Illegal aliens, overwhelmingly likely to identify as Democrats. The children of 0.80

00:45:36.800 illegal aliens and of migrants broadly, overwhelmingly likely to vote for Republicans. The handful of

00:45:42.540 immigrant groups, or I'm sorry, overwhelmingly likely to vote for Democrats. The handful of immigrant

00:45:47.160 groups who do vote a little bit for Republicans, I think of Cubans, the Democrats shut down immigration

00:45:52.960 from those places. Barack Obama never met an illegal alien he didn't like until it came to Cuba. Because the 0.98

00:45:58.300 Cubans vote for Republicans. And he ended wet foot, dry foot. Simple way to do it. This is hard-nosed 0.94

00:46:03.980 politics. And especially when the Democrats are losing on the issues, especially when the Democrats can't answer

00:46:08.620 one simple question from one serious journalist, the only way that they're going to win this thing

00:46:12.860 is by turning up the shenanigans, turning up the cynicism, and ramming their candidates through.

00:46:20.040 Now, speaking of philosophy, I have one of the great minds of our era. I mean that sincerely.

00:46:26.400 I hate to compliment him. I won't do it to his face when he's actually on the show. But truly,

00:46:30.180 one of the most brilliant people speaking in public right now, my friend of many, many years,

00:46:33.240 who has a new book out. That would be Dr. Spencer Clavin. The rest of the show continues.

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00:47:03.020 to see Am I Racist? This is all I have. Did you want to? I can help you guys out. Yeah.

00:47:09.220 Go to amiracist.com and sign up now. I've been told because I'm a white male, kind of at the top

00:47:15.020 of the pile, how do I get down from the top? I don't think you necessarily can.

00:47:20.080 They're good past all the talk about racism. We have to love each other. It can't be that simple.

00:47:24.760 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? 0.60

00:47:28.940 It's good to talk to you.

00:47:31.640 We're still on a journey, all of us together. I think you've got some journeying to do.

00:47:34.600 Just talk to me about the statistics. We have an epidemic.

00:47:36.740 20 million crimes a year, 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes. No, there's no epidemic.

00:47:41.900 Why are we talking about statistics? This is not a matter of statistics.

00:47:45.140 Well, you asked me about the statistics.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 17, 2024

Ep. 1597 - My Reaction to Kamala Harris' Bret Baier Interview

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