The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1616 - Elon and Vivek Get To Work on DOGE

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00:00:17.380 victory, the establishment press is crumbling. We're talking mass layoffs. We are talking major

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00:00:35.300 between the Republican Party and the media. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:39.320 Welcome back to the show. The Massachusetts governor, the liberal Massachusetts governor,

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00:01:53.040 of these broader news stories, we have to do a catch-up on the Trump nominees. Trump is moving

00:01:59.220 really fast, picking his cabinet secretaries, picking senior staff. I think he is doing a

00:02:05.580 phenomenal job at that. We covered a few of them yesterday, but there are some wild picks that came

00:02:10.480 in last night as I was flying back in from Iowa into Nashville. Top one Secretary of State is Marco

00:02:16.080 Rubio. I'd mentioned on the show yesterday that the three big options for Secretary of State were Bill

00:02:24.800 Haggerty here, the senator from Tennessee, former ambassador to Japan under Trump. Rick Rennell,

00:02:29.800 former acting DNI under Trump, former ambassador to Germany. And Marco Rubio, obviously senator from

00:02:35.320 Florida. And I pointed out that you can't really go wrong with those choices. I think there were other

00:02:40.140 names that were up for consideration that might have given conservatives more pause.

00:02:44.040 But of those three guys, I thought they were all pretty solid. They had different strengths

00:02:47.980 generally. Of the three, Rubio is probably the most, what would you call him, new right or common

00:02:55.580 good conservative or all around kind of traditional conservative. So some people are going to have

00:03:01.900 issue with Marco Rubio on various votes he's taken in the Senate. Let's just, one example that dogged

00:03:07.140 him during the 2016 presidential run when he ran for president was that he had voted for a kind of

00:03:13.560 amnesty package in his early days in the Senate. So people are going to say, I don't know if we

00:03:17.200 trust Marco Rubio. But as I've pointed out with some of the other nominees, whatever weaknesses a

00:03:24.040 candidate might have on this vote or that vote or this thing he said, if you look at the roles that

00:03:29.380 these people are being put into, they don't really seem to matter. Okay, Marco Rubio some years ago took

00:03:35.040 a vote that was a little weaker on immigration than conservatives would like. Okay, but how would that

00:03:40.220 affect his position as secretary of state? He's not going to be having any say over the border.

00:03:46.560 Trump already put the borders R in and the borders R is extremely hardcore and is exactly the kind of

00:03:51.580 guy you'd want him in charge of deportations. For Marco Rubio, in secretary of state, I think he's

00:03:56.160 actually a really good pick. Now down from there, we've got Mike Huckabee next came in. He's the pick

00:04:02.740 for the ambassador to Israel. This is a great choice. There is basically no one in America who has a

00:04:09.900 better relationship with the state of Israel than Mike Huckabee does. He's an all-around great guy,

00:04:14.780 conservative, loyal to Trump. Obviously, his daughter was President Trump's press secretary.

00:04:19.240 Then his daughter, Sarah, is now the governor of Arkansas. That was after Mike Huckabee was the

00:04:24.180 governor of Arkansas. A very, very solid conservative who's been on the national scene

00:04:29.060 since he ran for president in 2008. Obviously, good choice for ambassador to Israel.

00:04:34.200 So then we have the big one, the big one that is making the Libs' heads completely explode. 1.00

00:04:40.840 That would be Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense. Now, if you're not familiar with Pete,

00:04:46.360 you probably are familiar with Pete, but if you're not, Pete is one of the hosts on the Fox News morning

00:04:51.420 show, Fox and Friends. I've known Pete for years. He's got a really great background. He's got,

00:04:58.280 I think, a couple of bronze stars. He's a combat veteran. He's a graduate of Princeton and Harvard.

00:05:04.860 And he's been very successful on TV and in conservative media and in spreading conservative

00:05:10.900 ideas. So this is making the Libs' heads explode because they're saying, well,

00:05:15.620 this man, he's never even worked for a defense contractor. He's never worked as a lobbyist for

00:05:22.620 the military industrial complex. This man can't be the secretary of state. What qualifications does

00:05:27.420 Pete Hegseth have for secretary of defense, rather? What qualifications does he have? And I thought,

00:05:34.080 well, I don't know. Combat vet, served in the military for many years, graduate of two prestigious

00:05:40.660 universities. He ran a nonprofit for veterans, I believe. He's run for office before.

00:05:48.800 What's the problem? I don't really see what the problem is. Is the problem that he's young? Well,

00:05:53.220 we'll get to that in a moment. I think that's a strength. But then the problem, the reason that

00:05:58.020 anyone is criticizing the Pete Hegseth nomination is because he's also good on TV. That's it. They're

00:06:04.660 saying, what is this TV host doing in the cabinet? You guys remember Trump was a TV host, right? You

00:06:11.600 remember that? You know, being a TV host, being able to communicate on camera, that's actually a

00:06:17.300 strength in politics. Ronald Reagan was once asked if an actor could be the president. And he said,

00:06:22.020 how could the president not be an actor? And he's absolutely right about that.

00:06:26.060 A chief part of your job in politics is to communicate with people. The fact that you've

00:06:33.840 got a guy with a serious military pedigree, with a serious base of political knowledge,

00:06:39.440 who also happens to be a good communicator, that seems like an ideal pick for Secretary of Defense.

00:06:44.980 So anyway, Pete's going to do great in the job. I think that's fabulous. I am elated to hear that

00:06:49.880 news. Then you go to Department of Homeland Security. You've got Kristi Noem, 0.50

00:06:53.460 Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota. I hear some people are wondering, does she have the

00:07:00.080 tough enough stuff for DHS? Again, she was pretty tough during COVID. Let's not forget,

00:07:04.580 she was one of the few governors that was skeptical of the mass lockdowns. If she treats the cartel

00:07:12.160 criminals at the border the way that she wrote about that dog in her memoir, then we're going to

00:07:15.680 be in a good position. But even furthermore, if you think, okay, I don't know, she's a little too 0.93

00:07:19.740 moderate or something to be at the border. Again, I don't really see evidence of that.

00:07:23.980 Don't forget, we already have a border czar. We have Homan at the border who's going to be in

00:07:28.920 charge of the deportations. So for DHS, it's a broader department. And Kristi Noem is a good

00:07:37.180 communicator. She's good on TV. She's been loyal to Trump. Seems like a fine pick to me. White House

00:07:43.360 counsel, William McGinley is getting plaudits all around from conservative lawyers with credibility.

00:07:49.420 John Ratcliffe for CIA director. He was former director of national intelligence.

00:07:54.400 He's also a former Texas congressman. Seems fine to me. And then another favorite pick for people,

00:07:59.940 that would be the new two leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

00:08:09.200 That would be Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Killer choice. Love it. It's awesome.

00:08:17.380 We knew that Elon was going to be put in charge of some kind of cost-cutting program in the

00:08:23.920 government. Elon came out and he said that the government is too bloated. There are way too

00:08:29.180 many departments. They have overlapping responsibilities. It's completely ridiculous.

00:08:33.520 Elon was going to come in and cut a big chunk out of the federal budget. Now, some people asked, 0.69

00:08:39.660 does Elon Musk really have time to do this? He's running the biggest, most exciting car company in

00:08:46.920 the world, and he's launching rocket ships and catching them with new technology, and he wants

00:08:51.560 to colonize Mars. He's running X, one of the major social media platforms. The guy's got a lot on his

00:08:57.100 plate. He's got a lot of kids. Does he have time to do this? And so he's sharing the role with

00:09:02.880 one of the most exciting figures to appear in the Republican Party and the conservative movement

00:09:07.520 in decades. Vivek Ramaswamy, extremely intelligent guy, like Elon, extremely intelligent, extremely

00:09:15.720 successful, extremely ambitious. And furthermore, think about this brilliance. I go right back to

00:09:23.160 the point I was making earlier about some of the nominees. Some people are going to say,

00:09:27.880 oh, I don't know if I agree with this nominee on this issue. Bobby Kennedy, I don't know,

00:09:31.560 he might be a little tough on energy and natural gas and oil. But what does Trump say when Trump

00:09:37.800 goes out and he says, hey, we're going to unleash Bobby Kennedy on big pharma. We're going to unleash

00:09:42.640 Bobby Kennedy on the FDA. He says, but we're not going to unleash him on the oil industry.

00:09:49.800 Hey, I agree with Bobby on this stuff, but I don't agree with him on that stuff. And so we're going to

00:09:53.360 focus on the stuff we agree on. And so many of Trump's picks, okay, they're a little wishy-washy on

00:09:58.040 this issue or that issue. So Trump puts them into an area where they have responsibilities in the

00:10:02.660 areas of agreement and the areas where they're really strong. So there's one disagreement between

00:10:08.920 Vivek and some of the rest of Trump's team, which is that Vivek is more in favor of free trade.

00:10:14.540 He's a little more skeptical of tariffs. He's a little bit more classically liberal.

00:10:17.860 And a lot on Trump's team are pro-tariff. They're a little more pro-protectionist,

00:10:21.760 more traditionally conservative. Okay. So what better place to put Vivek Ramaswamy than in the

00:10:28.740 Department of Government Efficiency, where the job is to cut, to cut away at that fat and the

00:10:33.660 bureaucracy that's not just blubber, that's not just inefficient, but it's actually corrosive and

00:10:39.220 corrupting. Great. That's exactly the guy you want to unleash there. And who better to partner up with

00:10:44.640 Elon Musk, who's one of the smartest, most impressive men in the world, than Vivek Ramaswamy,

00:10:48.320 who's extremely smart, who's extremely successful, who comes from the world of business.

00:10:52.540 I think the picks are just fantastic. And there's another point that a friend pointed out to me last

00:10:57.400 night, and this number is going to change as new appointments come in. But my friend pointed out

00:11:03.040 the average age of Trump's cabinet, if taken together with some of the other top picks,

00:11:09.820 is 47. That's the average age. The average age of Joe Biden's cabinet, according to Brookings

00:11:16.500 Institution, was 59. On average, a dozen years older than the Trump cabinet. This is shaping up to be

00:11:25.080 a young administration, which I think is really, really smart. I visited Hungary twice last year.

00:11:31.500 I was giving a speech in Estregom, and then I also visited Budapest again after that.

00:11:38.660 And I got to tour around and speak with some members of the government. And something that impressed me was

00:11:44.240 the Orban government, probably the most successful right-wing government in Europe,

00:11:48.560 not just probably, it definitely is, and by a lot. It's a young government. They put young people

00:11:55.000 in who were competent, who were educated, who were energetic, who were in tune with the present state

00:12:01.780 of politics, who were not beholden and imprisoned by decrepit ideologies that no longer really apply.

00:12:08.740 I think Trump is doing exactly the same thing here, which gives President Trump a massive opportunity

00:12:16.040 to reset the relationship between citizens and the government, and to reset the relationship

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00:13:42.300 opportunity that Trump has here with the press, let's not brush over his opportunity with the

00:13:48.120 government. Here is Elon sitting down with Tucker talking about his ambitions for how to trim back

00:13:54.380 the federal government. I kind of like those. It's more fun. And we just take a look at all the

00:14:05.720 federal agencies and say, do we really need whatever it is, 428 federal agencies? Because

00:14:12.440 there's so many that people have never even heard of and that have overlapping areas of

00:14:16.660 responsibility. We should, I don't know, probably we should get, I mean, there are more federal

00:14:21.980 agencies than there are years since the establishment of the United States, which means that we've

00:14:26.960 created more than one federal agency per year on average. That seems a lot.

00:14:33.380 That's a lot.

00:14:34.240 That's a lot. So we should, that seems crazy. I think we should be able to get away with 99 1.00

00:14:42.860 agencies. I don't know. That seems a lot like a lot of agencies.

00:14:46.380 It's a lot.

00:14:47.040 Yeah.

00:14:48.220 Two per state.

00:14:49.040 Yeah, exactly. We should have fewer agencies. And they certainly shouldn't have overlapping

00:14:57.220 responsibilities. And then we need some kind of, we just need a review of regulations to

00:15:04.200 say which ones are sensible and which ones are not.

00:15:06.640 I love the way Elon's talking about this. He's not talking about this like some nerdy

00:15:10.820 ideologue at a think tank with some white paper. He's just saying, you know, we have more agencies

00:15:16.380 than years the country's been around. We have 428. Seems like a lot. So I'd like to get

00:15:24.880 it down to, I don't know, 99. Doesn't that seem like, he's not, why does he say 99? Because

00:15:30.080 that seems like a lot, doesn't it? I don't, that seems just common sense. Just common sense.

00:15:34.700 To me, this is the common sense administration. This was the common sense election. This election

00:15:40.060 brought in people who had differing ideologies, if they had any ideology at all, but they did

00:15:47.080 have one thing in common, which was some sense of the common sense. This was the subject of my

00:15:53.560 speech at the University of Iowa, which is on YouTube. It's on the Young America's Foundation

00:15:57.880 YouTube channel. To go from 428 to 99 by my calculation means that Elon wants to cut 329 federal

00:16:07.180 agencies, which to me sounds like a good start. Seems like a really, really great idea. Now,

00:16:17.300 I want to get back to the media. Trump is very clearly resetting the relationship between the

00:16:24.120 citizen and the government, and he's doing it fast. What about the relationship between the citizen and

00:16:31.020 the media, specifically conservative citizens, Republicans and the media? There was a story

00:16:36.680 I told you about, I guess it was yesterday on the show. A FEMA supervisor told, according to documents

00:16:46.620 that were obtained by the Daily Wire first, a FEMA supervisor told employees and volunteers not to

00:16:54.860 provide disaster relief to Trump supporters after Hurricane Milton. So this was demonstrable. We have

00:17:06.800 the documents said, if there is a Trump sign, do not go and provide disaster relief. This vindicated a claim

00:17:13.820 that Trump had made just weeks earlier after Hurricane Helene, when President Trump said that FEMA, that

00:17:22.340 disaster agencies were not providing support to Trump supporters, the New York Times followed that up with

00:17:29.440 a fact check that said, Trump is lying here. There is no evidence whatsoever that FEMA is not providing

00:17:37.200 relief and not helping out Trump supporters. Fake news, fact check, 300,000 Pinocchios. Then this document comes

00:17:45.340 out and says, well, hold on, now we have proof that that was happening in Hurricane Milton. So the last little

00:17:50.560 shred of credibility that the Libs could hold on to was they could say, well, Trump made the claim

00:17:55.040 about Hurricane Helene. This incident that you have documents on that Daily Wire acquired, that was

00:18:02.040 Hurricane Milton. That was separate. This is an isolated incident. This is not a systemic problem.

00:18:06.820 This is being corrected. The employee in question has been fired. Okay, well, the employee in question

00:18:13.360 has now given an interview and contradicted all of those liberal fake news reports because she says

00:18:22.280 that avoiding the homes of Trump supporters was a policy. It was standard operating procedure.

00:18:28.840 It had been going on not just in Florida during Hurricane Milton, but much more widely.

00:18:34.440 I was notified after I demodeled. The next morning, they told me verbally I was fired, but they never

00:18:43.280 provided me anything in writing stating that I was fired. They all alleged that these actions were made

00:18:51.020 on my own recognizances and that it was for my own political advances. However, if you look at the record,

00:18:59.320 there is what we call a community trend. And unfortunately, it just so happened that the

00:19:04.800 political hostility that was encountered by my team, and I was on two different teams during this

00:19:10.760 deployment, they just so happened to have the Trump campaign signage. FEMA always preaches avoidance 0.99

00:19:18.900 first and then de-escalation. So this is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance,

00:19:25.640 not just in the state of Florida, but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas. Senior leadership

00:19:32.160 will lie to you and tell you that they do not know. But if you ask the DSA crew leads and specialists

00:19:38.440 what they are experiencing in the field, they will tell you. Demand for FEMA to give you those

00:19:43.860 incident reports. They will substantiate what is happening to us in the field.

00:19:48.820 Demand that FEMA give you those reports. This is not an isolated event. This is happening in the

00:19:55.760 Carolinas. That means it's happening during Hurricane Helene. It's coming from higher-ups

00:20:01.900 at FEMA. This means that President Trump is 100% vindicated yet again. He already was, in my view,

00:20:09.760 vindicated in principle when what he claimed about Hurricane Helene was proven with Hurricane Milton,

00:20:15.520 which followed just on the heels of Helene. But now, according to the fired FEMA supervisor in

00:20:21.280 question, it was going on in Hurricane Helene too. And it's actually a broader policy from FEMA to

00:20:26.900 discriminate in disaster relief against Trump supporters. The fake news completely, completely

00:20:34.000 blown out of the water yet again. Totally proven wrong, all the way up to the New York Times.

00:20:39.440 Which brings us to President Trump's opportunity here. Once in a generation opportunity. This is an

00:20:49.500 opportunity specifically for the White House Press Office to radically change the way that

00:20:55.820 conservatives and just normal people broadly interact with the media. It's not as though the

00:21:02.140 White House Press Office has been around since George Washington, okay? It's a relatively recent

00:21:05.820 creation. It really only took on prominence a little bit into the 20th century. The way that

00:21:13.540 it operates has changed over the decades as it necessarily must, as any institution must.

00:21:19.720 And the time for change in the White House Press Office is now. We'll get to that in one moment.

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00:22:58.100 CNN is planning massive layoffs. CNN already had massive layoffs over the summer. CNN is planning

00:23:04.520 another round of massive layoffs. This will affect not just behind the curtains employees,

00:23:10.220 but also employees in production, also potentially some of the big stars at CNN. Why is that?

00:23:16.420 Because CNN's ratings have collapsed. In 2016, CNN averaged 13.3 million viewers in primetime.

00:23:22.760 Today, it's just 800,000 viewers in primetime. Chris Wallace, big, big talent from Fox that left

00:23:29.680 Fox, goes over to CNN. Chris Wallace has just left CNN. He's leaving CNN saying that podcasting and

00:23:36.440 streaming is where it's at. That's where the conversations are happening now. That's where

00:23:41.140 influence is had in media now. Cable news is old and dying. So, Chris Wallace is leaving now that

00:23:48.900 his contract is up. Others might be leaving CNN willingly or unwillingly. There will be massive

00:23:54.580 layoffs. There is a media shift that is happening, and the Trump election is exacerbating that to some

00:24:00.680 degree because the establishment media have been so corrupt. They've lost so much credibility in the

00:24:05.800 lies that they've told specifically about President Trump, but more broadly about conservatives and

00:24:10.060 Republicans. That's all true. The fact that President Trump's interview on Joe Rogan is easily the most

00:24:17.760 significant media event of the last 10, 15 years, easily, no question about it, I think is proof of

00:24:26.080 this. But you take this even beyond the Trump election. The media were already heading in this

00:24:31.880 direction. Cable news was already dying. Cable news has been dying for 10 years, more than 10 years.

00:24:37.960 There's been a long way for cable news to fall. There's been a long way for print newspapers to

00:24:43.960 fall. There's been a long way even for terrestrial radio to fall. So they've been able to maintain some

00:24:51.880 money and power along the way, but it's been falling for a long time. The new media, podcasting,

00:24:58.720 streaming, live forms like the Daily Wire have been gaining traction steadily, sometimes exponentially

00:25:06.740 for many years now. That's just happening. That's not just a Trump thing. It's not just because the

00:25:13.080 media have squandered their credibility. It's also a technology thing. It's just how the media have

00:25:18.280 developed. The next White House press secretary should take these new circumstances into account.

00:25:25.480 This is a generational opportunity. The press has been one of the most persistent problems

00:25:32.420 for conservatives and Republicans and normal people for decades now, because the press have lied with

00:25:38.900 impunity. The press have defamed people. The press have spread hoaxes and told lies. And then after the

00:25:45.540 lies have their consequence, weeks and months later, they'll maybe issue a correction, but they'll run the

00:25:51.120 story above the fold on page one and they'll run the correction on page 2073 where nobody sees it.

00:25:56.620 And they get away with this time and time again. And it has taken down good people and it has impeded

00:26:02.220 good policy and it has stymied the desires of voters who are supposed to have some control over

00:26:07.540 our government. It's been a big problem. And we now have an opportunity, thanks to the development

00:26:12.620 of technology and thanks to the way that the press have declined themselves, specifically in the face of

00:26:17.180 Donald Trump. We have an opportunity right now to reset that relationship. Look at this chart.

00:26:23.780 Here's a chart. This is just the chart as of 2022 for the White House briefing room. I can't find a more

00:26:30.320 recent chart published online, but look at the names that are on this chart. You got front row, row, row A,

00:26:39.540 NBC, Fox, CBS, AP, ABC News, Reuters, CNN. Okay. Left and right, a number of these players are going to

00:26:49.100 stay, but CNN? CNN doesn't get any ratings. Why would CNN be in the front row? That doesn't make

00:26:54.400 any sense to me. Next row, you look at NPR. NPR consistently lies about Trump. NPR is subsidized

00:27:03.600 by taxpayers. How are NPR's ratings? I don't know. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Second

00:27:09.500 row. USA Today, New York Times, also Washington Post. The Washington Post and the New York Times

00:27:15.180 ran hit pieces within the last few weeks. Well, the New York Times ran a hit piece with my face as the

00:27:21.960 center of it, and the Washington Post ran a hit piece on Ben, both of which pointed out that podcasts

00:27:29.400 and streaming and the new media are totally eating the old establishment media's lunch.

00:27:33.400 So you got the Washington Post and the New York Times admitting that the people with influence

00:27:37.240 are the podcasters, the new media companies, the streamers. Okay, well then why are the Washington

00:27:42.800 Post and the New York Times sitting there in the second row? It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:27:47.080 Especially when you take into account that the Washington Post and the New York Times consistently

00:27:51.200 lie with impunity. I mean, just to use the example of that story, the New York Times runs this piece,

00:27:55.780 says election misinformation, election falsehoods flying around YouTube with no consequence.

00:28:01.620 My picture, my face is the center of that. And then I said, what falsehood are they calling me

00:28:06.540 out on? I've been precise in my language. What would they get me on? And the answer is nothing.

00:28:12.060 They don't quote me once in the article. They don't mention me in the article. They just put my face

00:28:17.500 front and center because they don't like my podcast and they view us as competition and they want to

00:28:21.920 kick us off YouTube. They want to pressure big tech to censor the conservatives. That is

00:28:25.740 egregious journalistic malpractice. The next White House press secretary, I think, should seriously

00:28:32.000 consider revoking the New York Times's pass, period, full stop, for the specific misdeeds that

00:28:39.360 the New York Times has committed. And as an example to the rest of the press, that we're not going to

00:28:44.080 tolerate this anymore. This monopoly over communication that the press has been able to amass in recent

00:28:49.560 years and the grave injustices that they have committed with that monopoly. USA Today? USA Today?

00:28:57.820 I don't know. USA Today still has relatively wide distribution. How's their track record on

00:29:03.820 accountability? I don't know. I'm not saying kick them out of the briefing room entirely. Should

00:29:07.000 they be in the second row, though? Next one, Politico, LA Times. Okay. Oh, then hold on. Row D here.

00:29:15.060 We've got MSNBC. MSNBC barely exists anymore. Within the next month, MSNBC might not even exist.

00:29:24.360 They're in row D. I mean, look, we could go on and on through all of the Huffington Post. When was

00:29:29.580 the last time anyone read the Huffington Post? Give me a break. This doesn't make sense.

00:29:37.560 Joe Rogan should be in the front row. Joe Rogan has other things to do. He's probably not going to be

00:29:41.280 sitting in a White House briefing all day. But you see my point. Maybe Joe Rogan sends a

00:29:47.160 representative, a reporter. Maybe Tim Kast has a seat in the front row. Maybe. My point is,

00:29:53.780 this chart doesn't make any sense. Both from the perspective of the credibility of the outlet

00:29:59.740 sitting there, but also from the perspective of influence. Even for the basic purpose of the

00:30:05.200 White House press office, which is to communicate what is happening within the government to the

00:30:11.420 people. That has not happened. We've had mission drift here, folks. That is not what occurs here.

00:30:16.920 Instead, what this briefing exists for now is for dishonest leftist reporters with waning influence,

00:30:22.960 if they have any influence at all, to try to spread lies about the government.

00:30:28.200 We can't have that. These kinds of technological changes, these kinds of media changes don't happen

00:30:35.340 all the time. Nothing like this has happened in our lifetime. And as President Trump's administration

00:30:40.960 is obviously dynamic, it's obviously energetic, it is young, President Trump is ready to go in there

00:30:48.360 and break things that need to be broken. I think this is a key area of responsibility and a key

00:30:55.520 opportunity. This is a real legacy move for President Trump, who's already cemented his legacy

00:31:02.200 as the second in American history, a president to be elected to a non-consecutive second term,

00:31:09.480 much more impressive than Cleveland in the fact that Trump was able to do that while being prosecuted,

00:31:14.740 while Democrats were trying to kick him off the ballot, while liberals were trying to assassinate him.

00:31:20.700 President Trump managed to do that. Okay, great. Well, let's do it, baby. Let's go all the way.

00:31:24.500 Let's go all the way. This could be truly one of the pivotal presidencies in American history.

00:31:31.740 Now, speaking of silly reporters, Mayor Adams in New York was just asked a question.

00:31:40.620 Mayor Adams, Eric Adams, is a Democrat, but he's a Democrat who breaks with the extreme liberals. 0.75

00:31:48.240 He's the mayor of New York, so he has to recognize issues like illegal immigration are really hurting him.

00:31:54.920 As Adams pointed out, he said illegal immigration could destroy New York City.

00:32:00.080 So now Trump is elected. He appoints this great border czar who is promising to carry out deportations.

00:32:07.440 Democrat mayors and governors are saying, we will not comply. We will not comply.

00:32:10.240 Eric Adams says, you know, I'm open to working with the federal government.

00:32:16.460 Will you express concern about mass deportations in the city?

00:32:21.560 My concern is one concern. We keep tinkering around the edges. We keep having this philosophical

00:32:28.080 conversation about it. The voters communicated loudly and clearly. We have a broken immigration 1.00

00:32:36.220 system. It needs to be fixed. That's the only conversation I want. New York City was devastated

00:32:41.400 by that broken system. 220,000 migrants and asylum seekers have made their way here.

00:32:47.280 How can migrant New Yorkers be sure that they won't happen here, given that ICE can make 1.00

00:32:52.760 arrests in New York City without police cooperation? Why should New Yorkers, including migrant New 1.00

00:32:58.200 Yorkers, trust that you will advocate for them with the new Trump administration?

00:33:02.840 But you said, how can I advocate for New Yorkers? So I should only advocate for one type of New 0.96

00:33:09.200 Yorker or all New Yorkers. Oh, listen, look, listen to this lexical prison that this reporter

00:33:15.440 is trying to trap Mayor Adams in and trying to trap us all in. What are you going to say to migrant

00:33:21.620 New Yorkers? Hold on, put a pause here. What's a migrant New Yorker? I'm a New Yorker by birth and by

00:33:29.000 upbringing. I have immigrants, legal immigrants in my family line. What do you mean by a migrant New 0.86

00:33:36.360 Yorker? You're not talking about someone who came here legally. You're talking about someone 0.84

00:33:41.400 who broke the law, crossed our border illegally, or overstayed a visa, and is now living in our

00:33:46.820 country against our laws. How's that person in New Yorker? How's a Venezuelan migrant who worked 1.00

00:33:54.600 with Trende Aragua or MS-13 to cross our border illegally, who's in debt to the cartel, who's a

00:34:00.640 gangster, who's committing all sorts of crimes, who doesn't speak English, who doesn't know the

00:34:05.860 Statue of Liberty from the Empire State Building? How is that person a New Yorker in any way?

00:34:11.360 It's not a New Yorker. He's a foreigner. He's a foreign national and a criminal who's here illegally 1.00

00:34:16.560 who needs to be deported. That's what he is. But what about the migrant New Yorkers? 1.00

00:34:22.680 It's the same. This is the new version of undocumented American. What's an undocumented 1.00

00:34:27.380 American? You mean not an American. That's what that means. But it's these lexical prisons. 0.50

00:34:32.740 This is something that I think Trump is really, really good at. And I think that the Trump

00:34:37.400 administration, specifically the people dealing with the press, need to be good at. They need to

00:34:41.380 recognize that language is not neutral. This is the subject of my book, Speechless, Controlling

00:34:47.660 Words, Controlling Minds, available now number one national bestseller. Thank you very much.

00:34:50.880 It's not neutral. These terms don't merely color the way we view the world. They actually constitute

00:34:57.080 the way that we view the world. An undocumented American or a migrant New Yorker has every right 0.99

00:35:03.000 to be in America and New York respectively because they're Americans and New Yorkers. But on the

00:35:07.200 contrary, an illegal alien has no right to be in America, has no right to be in New York.

00:35:14.620 They're foreigners who are here illegally. The words that we use are going to totally color, 1.00

00:35:21.740 not just color, they're going to constitute how we view the world.

00:35:23.880 And if the Trump administration really carries out these deportations, which I hope and trust will 1.00

00:35:30.540 occur, the press is going to go into overdrive. This, that little interview you heard there with

00:35:37.880 Mayor Adams, that is a little lamouse bouche of what you're going to see. The poor dreamer,

00:35:42.720 undocumented American, migrant American, New Yorker, wonderful dreamers are being deported by the

00:35:49.920 heartless, cruel. And everyone knows that this has to be done. The Democrat mayor of New York knows

00:35:55.820 this has to be done. But can we overcome the corrupt institutions that have prevented the

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00:36:52.360 My favorite comment yesterday is from T. Rexness, who says, I wish Trump would have picked a more

00:36:58.660 libertarian and the UN type of person for UN ambassador. Our government shouldn't even be

00:37:03.540 involved with the UN. Well, it's funny you say that. We did, in recent memory, have that kind

00:37:09.480 of UN ambassador. And that was John Bolton. I remember once I was speaking to another former

00:37:14.760 UN ambassador. And one of us at this lunch asked, if you have to support the UN in order to be UN

00:37:21.540 ambassador. And this former official said, yes, I think so, unless you're John Bolton. You know,

00:37:27.200 John Bolton went out there. He said to the UN, I think you could destroy multiple floors of the

00:37:31.420 UN building in New York wouldn't change a thing. The UN is a joke and we will work with it when it

00:37:36.220 is in America's national interest, but we will ignore it when it's not in America's national

00:37:40.180 interest. So what's just a little ironic is that many people who don't like John Bolton

00:37:44.720 now would call for that kind of rhetoric. And Trump, however, is, you know, Trump did hire

00:37:52.600 John Bolton to be his national security advisor as a way, as he says, to kind of spook foreign

00:37:57.340 adversaries, to have a team that on the surface seemed incoherent, but it was really in furtherance

00:38:04.040 of an effective grand strategy. So in this case, President Trump wants to be maybe a little bit

00:38:09.500 more diplomatic, but still have a pretty tough, tough lady out there. So I trust his picks. I think

00:38:14.360 his picks broadly, certainly since the first round in 2016, 2017, I think his picks have been

00:38:22.960 really quite good. Okay. Some Democrats don't want to play ball. Eric Adams wants to deport the

00:38:29.500 illegals. Some do not. Maura Healy, governor of Massachusetts, says she will not comply.

00:38:35.220 If the Trump administration requests it, would the Massachusetts state police assist in mass deportations?

00:38:43.100 No, absolutely not. But, you know, let me say this. I do think it's important that we all recognize

00:38:52.700 that there's going to be a lot of pressure on states and state officials. And I can assure you,

00:38:57.380 we're going to work really hard to deliver. Some realities also need to be, you know, noted. And that

00:39:04.260 is in 2016, we had a very different situation in the courts. And while I'm sure there may be litigation

00:39:11.880 ahead, you know, there's a lot of other ways that people are going to act and need to act for the

00:39:17.920 sake of their states and their residents. There's regulatory authority and executive powers and the

00:39:23.560 like. There's legislation also within our states. So I think that the key here is that, you know,

00:39:29.400 every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, to protect our residents,

00:39:34.220 and protect our states, and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic

00:39:40.620 principle, right? Yeah, yeah. So we're just not going to, we're going to, we're going to use our

00:39:45.980 power in the states. We are not going to go along with the federal government. Okay.

00:39:51.520 Send in the feds would be my take. You've got a governor of a state who is actively undermining

00:39:58.200 federal law, specifically federal law that was at the top of the priority list for voters who just

00:40:03.980 overwhelmingly voted in people who want to enforce federal law. Okay. Send in the feds. Happily,

00:40:10.840 that appears to be the position of the new border czar. Some of these democratic governors say they're

00:40:17.520 going to stand in the way. They're going, they're going to make it hard for us. Well, I, you know,

00:40:21.340 a suggestion. If you're not going to help us, get the hell out of the way, but we're going to do it.

00:40:25.040 So if we can't get assistance from New York city and I may have, you know, we may have to double

00:40:30.840 the number of agents we send in New York city, because we're going to do the job. We're going

00:40:35.100 to do the job without you or with you, but it's much easier to arrest the bad guy. Like I just said,

00:40:39.620 we're concentrating on public safety threats of human and national security threats. It's much

00:40:44.320 easier to arrest the bad guy in the jail. Give us that sister right to resign that we've been kicked out 0.55

00:40:48.940 of. Let us get the bad guy in the jail. They're safer for the alien is safer for the officer is safer for

00:40:54.340 the community. Get them out, get them out. That's what you got to do. I think this guy,

00:41:01.320 if you went to central casting and you said, Hey, uh, give me the perfect man to run the deportations.

00:41:09.160 I think this is probably the guy that you would, you would be dealing with. Of course you have to do

00:41:15.720 that. Of course it's the only way we can have a country. The only way we can have a country is if

00:41:22.160 we can enforce national laws, if it is not possible to enforce national laws, including

00:41:26.520 the most basic national laws, like the laws pertaining to our border, the very thing that

00:41:31.380 delineates our country. If you can't do that, then you effectively do not have a country. You have a

00:41:37.680 hodgepodge of States. And really what you have is a kind of blob-ish liberal, uh, establishment

00:41:47.280 that selectively enforces national laws, but, but selectively refuses to enforce them. You have

00:41:53.080 some, I don't know, you have some kind of mush, but you don't have a country. That guy, that guy

00:41:59.300 seems to me the man for the job. So you know what? This is going to cue. This is going to cue

00:42:07.140 the laments from the press about the destruction of norms, standards and norms that this Trump

00:42:16.680 administration is, is blindly refusing to acknowledge. Uh, okay. MSNBC, take it away.

00:42:26.620 The tension you described as the New York times reported on within the transition team was described

00:42:31.440 to us as a battle between the normies and the crazies. Although of course the people we're talking

00:42:36.080 about would disagree with that characterization. We focused on a couple of lawyers. One is one's 0.68

00:42:40.780 named Mike Davis. He's a very conservative, kind of a bomb throwing provocateur who used to clerk for

00:42:46.940 justice Neil Gorsuch. He's an advisor to the transition team. And he has been out there

00:42:51.300 publicly saying that Donald Trump should prosecute people like, uh, the attorney general Tish James

00:42:56.280 and Jack Smith, the special counsel that his justice department should do that. He's actually

00:43:00.880 articulating which crimes they should be prosecuted for. Uh, and he's making no bones about that

00:43:05.660 laying the legal groundwork. Now that the thing about that is that would violate five decades of

00:43:11.180 norms of post Watergate, which said that the justice department should be independent from

00:43:15.200 the president, that the president should never say, go investigate that person. Uh, these people are

00:43:20.140 suggesting that Donald Trump should be able to do that with his justice department. And as a legal

00:43:24.100 matter, they're right. Uh, we're talking about norms here. Okay. So legally, uh, Trump is totally

00:43:29.760 right, of course, but, uh, but as a matter of norms, it would be so wrong of the Trump administration

00:43:36.360 to maybe take a peek into the woman who was prosecuting the former president and current 1.00

00:43:45.020 leader of the opposition. Don't you think that defied norms a little bit more egregiously than Trump

00:43:52.640 having the DOJ maybe take a peek into massive corruption in New York and already very corrupt state

00:43:58.800 government. Don't you think trying to imprison the former president, like we're some banana Republic,

00:44:05.400 some tin pot dictatorship, trying to imprison the then current leader of the political opposition

00:44:11.180 who became the nominee and then who was elected president. Don't you think that might upend norms

00:44:16.700 in a, in a bit more of a dangerous way than having the DOJ look at, look into crooked New York figures,

00:44:22.640 Joe Biden's DOJ, Joe, the federal prosecutors were looking into Eric Adams because he was defying the

00:44:30.280 Trump administration on immigration. Give me a break. And I love to say ever since Watergate,

00:44:34.680 we've had these norms. Yeah. Okay. Ever since the last time the bureaucracy overthrew an extremely

00:44:39.340 popular Republican president based on mostly nonsense. Ever since then, we've had these norms

00:44:45.220 that so benefit the liberals that the liberals disregard whenever they like, including five minutes

00:44:50.080 ago, including currently when the Democrats are still trying to prosecute Trump. Yeah. Sorry.

00:44:54.800 Save me the, the sob tail. I'm not sure that, that I can really go along with that. You want to talk

00:45:00.480 about norms. You people have, have justified the assassination of this man, which almost occurred

00:45:05.680 twice and left him with a hole in his ear. You want to talk to me about norms, norms, you people parade

00:45:12.340 naked adults through the streets and you, you introduce pornography to little kids. And you want to tell me 0.66

00:45:17.840 about standards and norms. Give me a break, go pound sand. I can't wait for the Trump administration

00:45:23.320 to hold these people to account so that we can restore actual standards and norms in this country,

00:45:30.440 which we had for a long time until the libs tore them down, burn those standards to the ground.

00:45:36.680 Now, speaking of burning things to the ground, one, look, we don't have time. There's so, there is so

00:45:42.140 much going on in politics right now that we actually don't have time to get through everything. So I'll just

00:45:46.580 give you a little bit of a tease. President Trump, to begin the process that Elon and Vivek are, are tasked

00:45:53.200 with achieving of eliminating lots of federal agencies. President Trump is promising to do something

00:46:00.820 that every Republican candidate for president just about in my lifetime has, has promised to do, and none

00:46:07.420 of them have done it. He wants to begin this process of government efficiency by abolishing the

00:46:14.840 Department of Education, which we'll get to, I don't know, I guess we'll get to it tomorrow.

00:46:20.140 There's too much going on. Today is Woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 13, 2024

Ep. 1616 - Elon and Vivek Get To Work on DOGE

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