The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1632 - Why Are We Celebrating Terrorists Taking Over Syria？

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00:00:53.920 There's good news and bad news in geopolitics over the weekend.

00:00:59.080 You want the good news first?

00:01:00.100 All right, I'll give you the good news first.

00:01:01.160 The good news is that a brutal Middle Eastern dictator has been overthrown. 0.59

00:01:07.160 Now, the bad news is the guy who overthrew him is a leader of Al-Qaeda.

00:01:13.080 Formerly, maybe he's changed.

00:01:14.580 Not ideal, you might say.

00:01:16.020 But par for the course when it comes to our foreign policy establishments blunders.

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00:02:47.140 I can't believe it, but we're going to have to begin today with foreign policy.

00:02:54.300 No one ever really cares about foreign policy, including me, really.

00:02:58.240 You know, it's just, it's so complicated and there are all these alliances.

00:03:01.060 But this one does show you a certain aspect of domestic politics too, namely how the media

00:03:09.100 work and how our foreign policy establishment doesn't ever seem to have its priorities in

00:03:15.240 order.

00:03:16.620 Bashar al-Assad, the leader of Syria until about five minutes ago, has been overthrown after

00:03:23.620 a quarter century in power.

00:03:25.440 And that is after his father ruled for a quarter century.

00:03:27.800 So the, the Assad family has been running the show in Syria for a long time. 0.85

00:03:32.700 And then all of a sudden he's out.

00:03:34.660 This is after a 13 year civil war.

00:03:36.680 I looked at first as though Assad was going to go 10 years ago, whatever it was.

00:03:41.280 And the international community and all the Democrats and all the Western powers said,

00:03:45.600 this guy's got to go. 0.62

00:03:46.820 He's the worst dictator ever. 0.98

00:03:48.240 And then he just managed to cling on to power. 0.94

00:03:50.200 And then we all made nice with Assad again, but now he's gone.

00:03:53.020 And the person who replaced him is an Islamist named Abu Muhammad al-Golani.

00:04:00.200 His name is also pronounced al-Julani.

00:04:03.000 It's a little confusing because that's not even really his name.

00:04:05.540 That's his nom de guerre.

00:04:06.780 I forget what, whatever his real name is, but he goes by Abu Muhammad al-Golani, the nom

00:04:13.080 de guerre referring to the Golan Heights, which is currently controlled by the state of Israel,

00:04:17.540 but at other times is controlled by Syria.

00:04:19.980 And in Arabic, you pronounce Golan, Julan.

00:04:23.400 And in the West, we pronounce it, you know, in Hebrew and in English, we pronounce it Golan.

00:04:29.240 So anyway, whatever you want to call him, al-Golani or al-Julani, call him whatever you like.

00:04:35.360 Just don't call him late for dinner.

00:04:36.600 He showed up and led this offensive through Syria. 0.73

00:04:40.480 He is one of the rebels. 0.90

00:04:41.960 Now, in the Western media, we've been told that Bashar al-Assad is the really evil, terrible man, 0.63

00:04:48.900 and he represses his own people.

00:04:51.520 And he's legitimately done very terrible things, tortured people.

00:04:54.280 He's accused of using chemical weapons against his own people.

00:04:57.640 And then this guy is one of the rebels.

00:05:00.060 And we're told the rebels are the good guys because they're overthrowing the oppressive leader.

00:05:03.660 The problem is that the rebels are made up of guys who served in al-Qaeda, guys who served in ISIS.

00:05:10.340 Actually, this guy, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, served in both of those.

00:05:16.360 And then he started his own group.

00:05:18.200 And he led this coalition to topple Assad and to take over Syria.

00:05:24.060 Now, he is, in the words of Bill Rogio, who is a managing editor of Long War Journal,

00:05:29.160 he is a, quote, specially designated global terrorist.

00:05:32.940 He was a member of al-Qaeda.

00:05:34.800 The U.S. keeps him on that list for a reason.

00:05:36.920 So now I've got to ask this question.

00:05:38.960 After we hear all the great media reports, so good, Bashar al-Assad is gone.

00:05:43.280 A wonderful day for freedom.

00:05:45.160 Now the Syrian people have their spring, a chance at freedom and independence.

00:05:50.920 Hold on.

00:05:53.480 Can anyone explain to me why I am supposed to celebrate that Bashar al-Assad was replaced by a member of al-Qaeda?

00:06:02.940 Say what you will about Assad.

00:06:04.500 I've made temperate defenses of Assad and of his father, by the way, for years at this point. 0.94

00:06:09.720 Because nasty fella, total butcher, all sorts of bad things as dictators and totalitarians do.

00:06:16.540 But one thing that he did right, that he made a key aspect of his presidential propaganda and of his administration, was to protect religious minorities. 0.96

00:06:28.900 Syria is mostly Sunni Muslim.

00:06:32.080 Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite.

00:06:33.780 So it's a break off of Shia Islam. 0.91

00:06:36.580 But there are all sorts of other people in Syria.

00:06:38.540 10% of Syria is Christian.

00:06:40.260 And so this is really what gets to my interest here.

00:06:44.380 When I think about all these countries that have all sorts of problems, probably my chief interest is the protection of Christians.

00:06:51.840 The Middle East, this area right here, the Levant, is the birthplace of Christianity.

00:06:57.800 These are the oldest Christian communities in the world.

00:07:00.180 They have been subjected to absolute misery and terror, in particular over the last quarter century, though many times over the last 1,400 years or so.

00:07:09.420 And Bashar al-Assad, say what you will about him, was pretty good at protecting the Christians in Syria.

00:07:16.040 When these Islamists take over, the Christians get absolutely decimated, further decimated than they are before. 1.00

00:07:23.740 So I'm not celebrating the overthrow of Assad.

00:07:26.120 Say what you will about Assad.

00:07:27.760 He basically kept things together and basically protected the Christians.

00:07:31.480 I see no reason to believe that things will improve in Syria with Assad gone.

00:07:36.240 Just as, remember all the Democrats told us it'll be so great when Gaddafi's gone in Libya.

00:07:40.460 There'll be freedom and a new spring for the Libyan people.

00:07:42.920 And that's why the U.S. has to put its thumb on the scale and overthrow Gaddafi.

00:07:46.400 Things didn't get better.

00:07:47.160 Things got a lot worse.

00:07:48.920 Basically, the same thing was true with Mubarak in Egypt.

00:07:52.260 A lot of our interventions in the Middle East only seem to make things work.

00:07:55.760 The overthrow of Saddam, did that really help the region?

00:07:58.360 Did that even advance our stated goals of countering Iran? 0.95

00:08:02.580 No, not at all.

00:08:03.860 Just a blunt.

00:08:04.720 It seems as though the Western forays into the Middle East are a series of one blunder after another.

00:08:11.880 And we never learn the lesson that sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

00:08:17.100 So now Assad is gone.

00:08:18.320 And why is the foreign policy establishment happy about this?

00:08:22.200 Because Bashar Assad was a proxy of Iran in particular and a proxy of Vladimir Putin.

00:08:27.780 And we don't like Iran and Vladimir Putin.

00:08:30.100 Iran is the chief enemy of Israel. 0.98

00:08:32.060 Israel is the closest American ally in the Middle East.

00:08:34.900 And Iran and Russia are both on the same page when it comes to Syria.

00:08:38.540 And we've been fighting Russia for about 70, 80 years now. 0.85

00:08:41.720 The Cold War is ostensibly over.

00:08:43.400 But Russia still has a lot of missiles pointed at us.

00:08:45.460 So now that you've got the Turks, who are a NATO ally, even though we don't really like the Turks that much.

00:08:51.680 And the West has been fighting the Turks for also like a thousand years now. 0.90

00:08:55.560 You know, it's a big feature of the Crusades.

00:08:56.920 But we are friends with the Turks for the purposes of the Cold War.

00:09:00.960 And we've maintained Turkey in the NATO alliance.

00:09:03.360 And Turkey was funding the rebels.

00:09:05.520 And so that, I guess, is good.

00:09:07.260 And Turkey is allied not only with NATO in the U.S., but also allied with Israel, which makes it really complex in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

00:09:14.520 Because in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian Christians, the only oldest Christian nation in the world, is actually allied with Iran.

00:09:20.480 And the Azerbaijanis are allied with Turkey.

00:09:24.180 And I don't like the Azerbaijanis in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. 0.96

00:09:28.300 But I guess we sort of like Turkey.

00:09:29.580 And anyway, as you can see, it's very, very confusing.

00:09:34.280 Very, very confusing.

00:09:36.080 But if I'm trying to simplify it, and I just look at this today, I say, this is a bad thing for Christians in the Middle East.

00:09:42.540 The U.S. foreign policy establishment might say, okay, well, this sort of advances our grand strategic goals.

00:09:48.100 And, okay, good luck with that.

00:09:49.680 I need a little bit more of a track record of our grand strategic goals working out after 25 years of just absolute chaos and blunder and failure in the Middle East. 1.00

00:10:00.400 All right, I ain't celebrating that.

00:10:01.860 I know that all the newspapers want me to celebrate Assad is leaving.

00:10:04.640 I'm not celebrating that.

00:10:05.820 Now, speaking of historic drubbings, Assad run out of Syria to Russia, where he got asylum in Moscow for supposedly humanitarian reasons, not just because he was a puppet of Russia.

00:10:17.600 President Trump just gave a brutal drubbing to NBC and meet the press.

00:10:23.040 He went on this classic establishment media show.

00:10:27.000 And a lot of people were wondering, why?

00:10:30.560 Why does Trump want to go on these shows?

00:10:31.920 He won.

00:10:32.460 Why does he care what these people think?

00:10:33.840 Why doesn't he just boot him out of the press room and move on?

00:10:36.260 No one really likes NBC anymore.

00:10:37.760 No one likes any of these outlets.

00:10:39.300 Well, he went on anyway.

00:10:40.220 And it did work out because he did not take their bait at all.

00:10:46.040 And he just gave it back to them.

00:10:48.300 Whatever they were giving to him, he gave it to them three times over.

00:10:50.920 Here is the first time that Welker on Meet the Press tries to lead Trump into questions about the 2020 election.

00:11:00.160 Sir, I don't have to tell you this because you've talked about it.

00:11:03.120 It comes at a time when the country is deeply divided.

00:11:07.760 And now you're going to be leading this country for the next four years.

00:11:11.680 For the sake of unifying this country, will you concede the 2020 election and turn the page on that chapter?

00:11:19.560 No.

00:11:20.640 No.

00:11:21.040 Why would I do that?

00:11:22.020 But let me just tell you, when you say the country is deeply divided, I'm not the president.

00:11:27.000 Joe Biden is the president.

00:11:28.060 But you're going to be the president.

00:11:29.080 No, no.

00:11:30.240 I'm not the president.

00:11:31.460 So when you say it's deeply divided, I agree.

00:11:34.120 But Biden is the president.

00:11:35.360 I'm not.

00:11:36.500 And he has been a divider.

00:11:38.080 And you know where he divided it more than anything else and it probably backfired on him?

00:11:41.840 I think definitely is weaponization.

00:11:44.380 When he weaponized the Justice Department and he went after his political opponent, me,

00:11:48.640 he went after his political opponent violently because he knew he couldn't beat him.

00:11:52.840 And I think it really was a bad thing.

00:11:54.420 And it really divided our country.

00:11:58.900 So she goes, will you, just for unity, because if I divided, we are, will you admit that you

00:12:04.820 lost the 2020 election and then, the implication is, you led an insurrection to try to overthrow

00:12:11.600 it.

00:12:11.700 And he just goes, no, I'm not.

00:12:15.180 And the way he can get away with this is not only because he has gulions of steel, but

00:12:19.000 also because he just won in a landslide, an electoral college landslide, and he won the

00:12:23.980 popular vote.

00:12:24.800 So if the American people really believed that Trump were an existential threat to democracy,

00:12:28.940 he were causing the division, they wouldn't have elected him, including the majority of

00:12:33.700 married women and 40 percent of women under 30 and one of five black guys and almost half

00:12:37.960 of Hispanics and just a good chunk of every single group in the country voted for him.

00:12:43.700 So he says, no, I'm not going to give you anything.

00:12:47.360 The country is divided.

00:12:48.860 It's not divided because of me.

00:12:50.440 Here's the proof.

00:12:51.460 Biden is the president and everyone just reelected me.

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00:14:17.020 The libs then believe, before we get to the major policy announcement that Trump just

00:14:22.040 made here, the libs believe that in the Meet the Press interview, they got a real gotcha

00:14:26.980 on him.

00:14:27.800 And that is over the question of tariffs.

00:14:30.560 I want to delve into one of your signature promises on the campaign trail, which was to

00:14:35.980 end inflation, to lower prices.

00:14:39.120 You are now proposing tariffs against the United States' three biggest trading partners,

00:14:44.600 economists of all stripes, say that ultimately consumers pay the price of tariffs.

00:14:50.560 I don't believe it.

00:14:50.980 Can you guarantee American families won't pay more?

00:14:54.460 I can't guarantee anything.

00:14:55.900 I can't guarantee tomorrow.

00:14:57.560 I love that.

00:14:58.940 This is another example of him just swatting down the premise.

00:15:03.120 Can you guarantee that your major economic policy will not increase the cost of goods in

00:15:08.600 any way on anything?

00:15:09.420 And he looks at her like she's got three heads.

00:15:12.640 He goes, I can't guarantee anything.

00:15:15.300 I can't guarantee tomorrow.

00:15:17.500 What are you talking about?

00:15:18.200 I'm talking about a major economic upheaval.

00:15:21.420 And so the libs think, ha ha, here's the gotcha.

00:15:24.120 Trump is admitting that his economic policies might increase the cost of goods and services.

00:15:28.780 That's not a gotcha, guys.

00:15:32.680 None of a, I think that there is a good case to be made, not only for tariffs as a tactical

00:15:38.740 matter in a negotiation, but also for tariffs as a way to raise revenue and support the economic

00:15:44.080 health of the country by increasing domestic manufacturing.

00:15:47.240 I think there's a good argument for tariffs, okay?

00:15:50.620 But I'm not going to suggest that tariffs won't possibly raise the prices of goods.

00:15:56.200 That's how tariffs work.

00:15:57.320 So what Trump is saying is, I think by implication, in the short run, tariffs might increase the

00:16:03.860 cost of certain goods.

00:16:05.900 And that's going to be a little bit of pain in the short run.

00:16:08.260 But in the long run, that redounds to the health of the country.

00:16:11.580 Because one, whatever that price spike is, could come down substantially once we start making

00:16:16.760 those goods here in America, which is the point of the tariffs.

00:16:19.820 The point of the tariffs is not just to punish people overseas, not just to punish China for

00:16:26.580 manufacturing goods and selling them to us.

00:16:28.660 The purpose of the tariffs is to create an incentive for American companies to produce goods

00:16:33.820 here, to create an incentive for American consumers to buy goods that are bought here.

00:16:39.240 And maybe it'll be a little bit more expensive because China has slave labor in concentration camps,

00:16:43.440 and we don't.

00:16:45.440 But so first of all, there's just an ethical argument to pay a little bit more anyway,

00:16:49.500 because we don't want to be supporting slavery.

00:16:52.160 But even beyond that, it's a matter of national security.

00:16:55.200 We saw during COVID that when we don't control our manufacturing, if supply chains get disrupted

00:17:00.500 for anything, for the Wu flu, for a little cough coming out of a lab in Wuhan, that Americans 0.98

00:17:06.680 might not get their medicine, might not get their goods, might not get their food, for

00:17:09.820 goodness sakes.

00:17:10.640 So it is a matter of pressing national security that we start making some goods here again.

00:17:16.480 And Trump is saying, yeah, look, I'm willing to take the short-term political hit.

00:17:20.940 I'm willing to deal with a little short-term economic difficulty for a long-term economic

00:17:26.220 and political gain.

00:17:28.480 But then he announces, he announces the big policy that he's talking about.

00:17:33.740 And he begins with the question of deportations.

00:17:37.220 Here's what the libs say.

00:17:38.640 Trump says, we need to deport the criminals who are in this country illegally. 0.89

00:17:43.980 And the libs say, no, but what about the sweet little dreamers?

00:17:48.540 You know, and the dreamers at this point are like 50 years old.

00:17:50.840 And they try to pretend that it's, you know, six-year-olds, doe-eyed, who are brought across

00:17:54.600 the border without their consent, without their knowledge.

00:17:57.380 What about the dreamers?

00:17:58.640 What about, even beyond the dreamers, the people who are born in this country?

00:18:05.160 He says, you know, you have a situation where you've got illegal aliens crossing the border.

00:18:09.160 Then they have a kid.

00:18:10.160 They have an anchor baby.

00:18:11.440 The baby is granted American citizenship at birth.

00:18:14.420 So are you really going to deport the family members of that person who's given birthright

00:18:20.480 citizenship?

00:18:20.940 In other words, they're trying to smuggle in 11 million, maybe as high as 20 million 0.56

00:18:27.640 people, because they say, look, some of them have had anchor babies, so you can't deport

00:18:30.980 any of them.

00:18:31.680 Trump says, nah, I'm afraid we're going to enforce the law.

00:18:35.060 The estimated 4 million families in America who have mixed immigration status.

00:18:39.240 So I'm talking about parents who might be here illegally, but the kids are here legally.

00:18:44.640 Your borders are Tom Homan.

00:18:45.220 You're talking about separation?

00:18:46.240 Yeah, well, I mean, there are two aspects to this.

00:18:49.460 Your borders are Tom Homan said they can be deported together.

00:18:52.280 Is that the plan?

00:18:53.220 Well, that way you keep the, well, I don't want to be breaking up families.

00:18:57.180 So the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send

00:19:00.780 them all back.

00:19:01.520 Even kids who are here legally?

00:19:03.660 Well, well, what you're going to do if they want to stay with the father, look, we have

00:19:07.300 to have rules and regulations.

00:19:08.520 You can always find something out like, you know, this doesn't work.

00:19:11.460 I'll tell you what's going to be horrible when we take a wonderful young woman who's 0.94

00:19:17.920 with a criminal and they show the woman and she could stay by the law, but they show the

00:19:25.440 woman being taken out or they want her out and your cameras are focused on her as she's

00:19:31.640 crying as she's being taken out of our country.

00:19:34.120 And then the public turns against us, but we have to do our job.

00:19:37.680 So he's, he's saying, look, I know exactly your game plan.

00:19:41.560 I know what you're going to do.

00:19:43.580 You're going to just give all the hardest cases possible where you've got some criminal,

00:19:49.620 some economic migrant who came over blatant violation of our laws and she's a pretty young 1.00

00:19:54.220 gal and they want to, you know, get married or something like that, but we got to deport

00:19:58.220 the criminal.

00:19:58.740 He goes, and you're going to try to turn that on me, but look, I'm willing to take the short

00:20:02.160 term political hit.

00:20:03.000 This is the, they always say Trump is just reactive and he just goes wherever the wind

00:20:07.360 blows and he's so emotional, but, but think about what he's saying here on tariffs.

00:20:11.540 He goes, look, I'm going to do the responsible thing for our country.

00:20:14.160 Even if it hurts me and my, my ratings in the short term on immigration, he goes, look, I

00:20:19.260 know what you're going to do.

00:20:20.060 I know my approval rating is going to go down.

00:20:21.580 I know you're going to attack me unfairly and I'm willing to take the hit because we have

00:20:26.200 to do our job.

00:20:27.000 I wasn't elected necessarily just to be popular.

00:20:32.300 The knock on Trump, he's a populist.

00:20:34.600 He doesn't care about the long-term health of the country.

00:20:37.420 He's, he's just reactive.

00:20:39.180 No, I think you're seeing the opposite here.

00:20:41.640 This guy is taking a mature statesmanlike approach to these issues.

00:20:46.680 And he is actually demonstrating the political courage and discipline and even humility to

00:20:51.760 do what his predecessors, including the Republicans refused to do because they were too afraid

00:20:55.840 of being unpopular.

00:20:56.660 Then you get the big answer to this question.

00:21:01.480 The problem here is you have families with mixed citizenship because you got the anchor 1.00

00:21:05.860 babies and you got some parents who are here illegally. 0.98

00:21:10.160 What are you going to do about that?

00:21:11.540 Trump goes all the way.

00:21:12.740 He says we need to rescind birthright citizenship.

00:21:17.660 You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. 0.96

00:21:20.800 Is that still your plan?

00:21:21.920 Yeah, absolutely.

00:21:22.780 The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens.

00:21:28.200 Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?

00:21:30.920 Well, we're going to have to get a change.

00:21:31.700 We'll maybe have to go back to the people.

00:21:33.800 But we have to end it.

00:21:34.880 We're the only country that has it.

00:21:36.260 Through an executive action?

00:21:37.140 You know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don't need to on our land.

00:21:44.900 Congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America. 0.92

00:21:48.540 Yes, we're going to end that because it's ridiculous. 0.85

00:21:51.120 Through executive action?

00:21:52.900 Well, if we can, through executive action.

00:21:55.100 I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be

00:21:58.800 honest with you.

00:22:00.860 We have to end it.

00:22:02.320 Now, there's a little trick that that journalist slipped in there.

00:22:05.980 She left out a few words from the 14th Amendment that I think speaks to Trump's point.

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00:23:27.940 NBC News, after Trump says, we're going to get rid of birthright citizenship.

00:23:32.540 NBC News says, well, hold on.

00:23:35.460 The 14th Amendment, the greatest amendment ever to the Constitution, the amendment that lets 0.66

00:23:41.300 us do whatever we want and we can justify basically anything by twisting its words.

00:23:44.720 It says that any person born in the United States is a citizen.

00:23:51.640 But she left out a few words there.

00:23:53.980 Any person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof is a citizen.

00:24:01.920 The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to make black people into citizens.

00:24:07.820 There had been controversy over whether black people were citizens, could ever be citizens,

00:24:13.320 could actually participate in American political life, even after being freed slaves.

00:24:18.520 And 14th Amendment, 13th Amendment abolishes slavery.

00:24:21.640 14th Amendment says, yes, they're citizens.

00:24:23.120 This doesn't mean that if the ambassador to Mexico's child is born while he's on duty in

00:24:31.580 America, that the child of the ambassador to Mexico is a citizen.

00:24:35.660 He's not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

00:24:38.000 There was an open question as to whether or not foreign nationals born here are citizens.

00:24:42.840 And that was resolved to some degree in 1898 in the Wong Kim Ark case, which follows English

00:24:49.920 common law.

00:24:50.540 So it actually does go back even further.

00:24:51.840 It goes back to the 17th century when the English said, if you are born on the soil,

00:24:57.580 you are subject to the king and you have the privileges and protection and rights given

00:25:03.640 to you by being a subject of the king.

00:25:06.520 So that's where you get the use solely in the American tradition, the right of the soil.

00:25:11.220 But there's another kind of right, which would be use sanguinis.

00:25:15.460 And we have that to the right of blood.

00:25:16.600 So if you are born to American citizens overseas, you are an American citizen at birth, even if

00:25:23.920 you're not born in the United States.

00:25:25.120 This is part of why the controversy over Barack Obama's citizenship was a little bit of a

00:25:30.380 misdirection.

00:25:31.520 Because even if Barack Obama had been born in Kenya, even if he had been born on planet 0.86

00:25:36.980 Mars, his mother was an American citizen, he would have inherited American citizenship at

00:25:41.460 birth immediately.

00:25:42.720 So the question here is, are we going to maintain on the basis of a tenuous reading of the 14th

00:25:50.040 amendment and following this one Supreme Court case, one Kim Ark in 1898, are we going to

00:25:55.480 continue to create a major incentive for foreign nationals to break our laws, come to America, 0.99

00:26:01.660 bring a ton of drugs, bring a ton of crime, all in the hope of getting one of the most valuable

00:26:06.740 commodities in the world, which is American citizenship, are we going to do that?

00:26:11.620 And I think Trump's answer is a very practical answer.

00:26:14.240 And I think it's obviously the right answer, which is he's not getting into constitutional

00:26:20.080 debates over Wong Kim Ark or the 150-year reading of the 14th amendment.

00:26:25.740 He's saying, look, we can all say, we can all know, actually, the people who drafted the

00:26:30.740 14th amendment did not intend for the amendment to create automatic citizens out of 20 million

00:26:35.360 Venezuelans.

00:26:36.220 Okay, that was not the, I can promise you that, that wasn't the purpose of it.

00:26:39.120 And even if you have this tradition of right of the soil, of, you know, coming from the

00:26:43.880 English common law, we now have a particular political problem, a particular political

00:26:48.760 crisis.

00:26:49.420 And so we just have to deal with that.

00:26:50.820 And maybe that means that we need to circumscribe the rights of so-called birthright citizenship

00:26:55.900 so that we stop creating the incentive for all these people to come over.

00:26:59.220 It's bad for them.

00:27:00.000 60 to 80% of women and girls who come across that border illegally are raped along the way,

00:27:04.280 according to Fusion Amnesty International, reported in the Huffington Post.

00:27:07.420 That's a left-wing paper.

00:27:09.040 We know that the people who come here are often paid lower wages.

00:27:12.900 That's one of the arguments from the supposed people on the right who support the open border

00:27:19.060 is they say, look, we need to pay off our gardeners.

00:27:22.900 You know, we need to pay our domestic help. 0.93

00:27:24.720 A lot of liberals say that too.

00:27:26.080 Good luck finding someone to mow your lawn for a cheap price.

00:27:30.420 If you, yeah, right.

00:27:31.740 But I don't think it's a good thing to keep these people in a state of perpetual indentured

00:27:35.340 servitude.

00:27:35.980 I don't think that's, I think it's good to pay people slave wages.

00:27:39.420 So there are all these problems.

00:27:42.400 It harms the people who come over. 1.00

00:27:44.180 And more importantly, it harms us.

00:27:46.760 We're no longer allowed to have our own borders.

00:27:48.980 We're now no longer allowed to make our own immigration laws.

00:27:51.740 The most basic aspect of having a country we're not allowed to do.

00:27:54.960 So Trump says, yeah, we got to fix that.

00:27:56.620 So that's a problem.

00:27:57.940 It wasn't a problem in the 1860s, 70s, 80s.

00:28:00.800 It wasn't a problem in 17th century England, but it is a problem now.

00:28:05.480 And so we're just going to use the law to deal with that.

00:28:07.440 And I think he's absolutely right.

00:28:09.640 Speaking of birth, horrific story out of, out of the UK, I believe a man has just been

00:28:17.420 sentenced to jail for 12 years for slipping a woman, an abortion pill in her drink.

00:28:23.840 You know, the woman gets up to use the bathroom. 1.00

00:28:26.040 The man slips, not a Mickey, not a, not a roofie. 1.00

00:28:28.400 He slips an abortion pill to kill her child. 0.98

00:28:32.420 This, this woman was 15 weeks pregnant. 0.98

00:28:34.600 If you've ever been pregnant or if your wife's ever been pregnant, you know, 15 weeks.

00:28:39.700 This is a baby.

00:28:41.120 This is a pretty big baby.

00:28:42.320 This baby's moving around.

00:28:43.360 This baby is totally recognizable as a baby.

00:28:45.440 You are, I mean, you are on the way.

00:28:47.340 Five more weeks, the baby can survive in some cases outside the womb.

00:28:50.060 So, abortion is wrong at all stages, but it's viscerably, knowably wrong at, at 15 weeks.

00:28:59.420 This guy slips her an abortion pill. 0.93

00:29:01.100 She starts to bleed.

00:29:02.480 She then, the baby is murdered by the pill.

00:29:05.800 And then this man is brought up on charges.

00:29:08.500 Stuart Warby, 40 years old.

00:29:11.800 He apparently also gave her a bunch of other abortion tablets to try to make sure that this 1.00

00:29:16.280 would work.

00:29:20.020 Now, the woman has lifelong anonymity because she's a victim of a sexual offense, but she 1.00

00:29:26.480 miscarried.

00:29:27.100 She was horrified.

00:29:27.760 She said, look, this might be the only time I can get pregnant. 0.97

00:29:29.880 I am permanently traumatized by this.

00:29:31.540 It's true.

00:29:33.480 In reality, this guy should at the very least be imprisoned for life and probably should be 0.94

00:29:39.860 executed by the state for what he did because he murdered a little baby. 0.64

00:29:42.960 He jeopardized a woman's life.

00:29:46.520 He murdered a woman's child, also happened to be his child, and forget whose child it

00:29:52.180 is, he murdered a little innocent baby.

00:29:54.340 This guy, at the very least, should be imprisoned for life without parole and more likely should 0.88

00:30:00.040 be executed by the state for what he did.

00:30:02.060 If that kind of a crime does not merit the death penalty, I don't know what does.

00:30:07.920 Or he should not be punished at all.

00:30:10.740 Those are the two options.

00:30:11.780 The only punishment that doesn't make any sense is 12 years in prison.

00:30:18.460 What is 12 years in prison?

00:30:20.560 If the baby had been born and he walked up and took a sledgehammer and smushed the baby,

00:30:24.820 would he be given 12 years in prison?

00:30:26.340 No, he'd be given life in prison or executed.

00:30:28.620 Or if it wasn't really a baby, if he just walked up to a clump of cells, like a mass of, I don't know,

00:30:39.280 an amoeba or something, and smashed that with a sledgehammer, he would be given no prison time.

00:30:44.720 But what is 12 years?

00:30:48.440 12 years sentence for this crime is a perfect representation of our total incoherence on this issue.

00:30:57.360 We can't resolve, as in our civilization, whether we want to protect babies or not.

00:31:03.920 We don't want to answer that question.

00:31:05.940 So we split the baby.

00:31:07.340 This is a punishment of splitting the baby.

00:31:11.940 But in the Bible, when splitting the baby comes up, it is used as an example to show the absurdity.

00:31:18.800 You can't really split a baby.

00:31:20.900 That's the worst possible.

00:31:22.500 But here, that's what we're trying to do.

00:31:24.700 Totally incoherent punishment.

00:31:26.840 Louis C.K. made this point.

00:31:28.160 He goes, you know, I think that abortion, look, it's a woman's choice.

00:31:32.420 It's a woman's health care. 1.00

00:31:33.640 It's like sitting down and using the toilet.

00:31:36.700 Okay?

00:31:36.960 It's just a bodily function.

00:31:38.560 It has no moral significance.

00:31:40.940 Or it's murder.

00:31:43.000 But those are the only two things.

00:31:44.560 It can't be some moderate crime.

00:31:47.920 It's either nothing or it's infanticide.

00:31:50.700 But I don't even understand what the argument would be that it's just this kind of moderate crime.

00:31:56.820 And you get, you know, 12-year sentence, but you only serve five, and then you get probation.

00:32:02.600 This isn't insider trading.

00:32:04.520 It's either murdering a baby or it's nothing.

00:32:10.220 But they can't resolve it.

00:32:12.000 So they give the actual worst sentence, which is a handful of years in prison.

00:32:19.840 Okay.

00:32:20.640 All right.

00:32:21.000 That guy, he's lucky.

00:32:21.780 He got off the hook for murdering a kid and killing a woman's kid and endangering her health.

00:32:30.940 I guess he should count his lucky stars.

00:32:33.040 But what a poor reflection on us.

00:32:37.500 I remember during college, we were debating all of the incipient debates over rape culture on college campuses and the Title IX lawsuits.

00:32:46.580 And a lot of it seemed really incoherent because on the one hand, you'd have these leftists and feminists arguing that sex was not meaningful at all.

00:32:54.820 You should just go out and engage in the hookup culture.

00:32:57.440 There was no difference between how men and women approached sex. 0.99

00:33:00.420 It was just a casual, fun thing, kind of like shaking someone's hand.

00:33:04.120 But on the other hand, sexual assault was the worst crime ever.

00:33:08.040 It was so serious that you shouldn't even be entitled to a trial by a jury of your peers.

00:33:12.900 You should just immediately be expelled and have your life ruined if you were even suggested to have maybe engaged in any improper sexual activity.

00:33:19.600 And it didn't make any sense. 0.98

00:33:20.580 If sex is meaningless, then why is sexual assault different than any other assault?

00:33:25.360 Why is it different than giving someone a shove or slapping them in the face?

00:33:28.580 It's an incoherent point of view to hold.

00:33:31.160 The left wanted to have it both ways.

00:33:32.760 Our culture wants to have it both ways here.

00:33:35.020 Doesn't make sense.

00:33:35.780 Speaking of the sexual revolution, back here in America, our own Department of Health and Human Services is celebrating Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day.

00:33:47.880 I hope you all had a blessed Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day.

00:33:51.360 This was two days after the Feast of St. Nicholas.

00:33:56.380 One day before today's feast, which is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, HHS was celebrating what they considered to be a much more important feast on the liberal liturgical calendar.

00:34:07.780 That is Pansexual and Panromantic Pride. 0.65

00:34:11.500 What does HHS say about it?

00:34:14.120 Today on Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day, everyone deserves to feel seen, respected, and supported no matter who they love.

00:34:21.360 Create a world where everyone feels proud to be themselves.

00:34:26.020 So a lot of people are going to ask, what does pansexual mean?

00:34:28.800 What does panromantic mean?

00:34:30.140 And I googled it.

00:34:31.900 I was curious.

00:34:34.040 Pansexual and panromantic is apparently just bisexual, but through the lens of transgenderism.

00:34:41.460 So it just means that you'll date or hook up with whoever.

00:34:45.900 But whereas bisexual believes that sex and gender are basically the same thing, now we live even further through the looking glass. 0.99

00:34:57.500 So pansexual thinks that there's a difference between sexual, biological sex, and gender identity.

00:35:04.040 And they say that if you're pansexual, you can be attracted to anyone.

00:35:11.620 A man who thinks he's a woman, a woman who thinks she's a man, a man who thinks he's a man, or a woman who thinks she's a woman. 0.79

00:35:16.820 So it's just bisexual, but with a few extra fantastical steps in your own mind. 0.85

00:35:22.480 Why is HHS celebrating this?

00:35:26.400 This concept, which is totally counter to science, it's supposed to be a scientific department, counter to health, certainly mental health.

00:35:34.140 Because we're going to have feast days, that's why.

00:35:37.220 Just another reminder, we are going to have feast days.

00:35:39.880 We're going to have holidays.

00:35:41.220 That's just what culture does.

00:35:42.860 That's what every people has done for all of history.

00:35:45.040 So for the secularists, the people who want to separate church and state, so we got to get our religion out of the state. 0.53

00:35:52.840 We're going to have feast days.

00:35:54.160 We're going to have holidays.

00:35:55.480 And a holiday is a holy day.

00:35:56.800 That's what's in the word. 0.55

00:35:59.000 So the question is, are we going to have good holidays or ridiculous holidays?

00:36:03.680 That's the only question.

00:36:05.160 Are we going to celebrate the Feast of St. Nicholas around Christmas time?

00:36:08.760 Or are we going to celebrate pansexual, pan-romantic pride day? 0.51

00:36:12.400 Are we going to celebrate people of heroic virtue?

00:36:16.340 Or are we going to celebrate the queen of all vice, pride? 0.67

00:36:19.360 That's the only question.

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00:36:51.560 My favorite comment yesterday is from Chemical Prophecy.

00:36:54.440 He says, does anyone actually know where Biden is?

00:36:57.480 Who?

00:36:58.060 I almost forgot about that guy.

00:37:00.320 Joe Biden.

00:37:01.000 Who is that guy?

00:37:02.860 I don't know.

00:37:03.400 He's totally, totally forgotten.

00:37:07.780 Now, I want to skip ahead a little bit.

00:37:09.820 We've been going back and forth between England and America, England and America.

00:37:14.560 But as we look ahead to our political future, don't think that the threats to your political life have gone away.

00:37:21.420 A cop has just gone viral in the UK for attempting to arrest a man for Facebook comments.

00:37:27.780 Times, 20 to 3, 1440, arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic communications network.

00:37:37.960 What?

00:37:38.280 1, 2, 7, communications act, okay?

00:37:41.460 So you do not have to say that it may harm your defence if you don't mention one question, support you later or I am caught.

00:37:46.900 Anything you do say may be given evidence.

00:37:48.640 Do you understand that?

00:37:50.000 So I'm actually being arrested?

00:37:51.260 You're going to be arrested, okay?

00:37:52.920 Right.

00:37:53.340 So you go to the peace station.

00:37:54.920 Right.

00:37:55.240 Okay, this is in relation to some comments that you've made on a Facebook page.

00:38:01.020 Oh, really?

00:38:01.500 Oh, it's a Facebook crime, is it?

00:38:03.280 Okay.

00:38:04.100 Right.

00:38:04.340 So we need to ask you some questions about that.

00:38:08.620 Right.

00:38:09.260 I'm going to be arrested for posting on Facebook.

00:38:11.320 I've made some comments that are offensive, obscene, and people have made a complaint about that.

00:38:18.800 And it's...

00:38:19.380 Can you tell me what this comment was?

00:38:22.780 Okay, we'll do that on the interview.

00:38:24.780 All right.

00:38:25.560 And so what, am I going to be locked up for the night or...

00:38:27.980 Hopefully not.

00:38:28.460 Hopefully not.

00:38:29.540 Well, you know, listen here, Governor.

00:38:31.180 Yeah, yeah.

00:38:31.740 We've got to rest you now.

00:38:32.980 Yeah, we've had a few too many likes on Twitter from some right-wing content.

00:38:36.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:38:37.260 Get in the back of the patrol buggy.

00:38:39.160 Yeah, hey.

00:38:40.980 That's my best British cop accent.

00:38:44.060 This has gone viral.

00:38:45.260 However, there's a little context needed.

00:38:46.800 This is not a recent video.

00:38:48.440 This video is from back in June, June of this year.

00:38:51.440 The guy who was arrested, it's not clear what he was arrested for.

00:38:54.240 Was he posting about, you know, men are not women or some basic sort of thing?

00:38:58.000 Or was it something a little more serious?

00:39:01.360 According to the UK government, he violated Section 127 of the UK Communications Act in 2003,

00:39:08.700 which criminalizes matter that is, quote, grossly offensive or indecent, obscene, or menacing in character.

00:39:15.260 So it could have been just offensive by today's standards, which is, you say, a baby is a baby.

00:39:19.100 You know, that's deeply offensive.

00:39:20.280 But it might have been indecent, might have been obscene, might have been menacing in character.

00:39:23.500 And we have laws against that stuff in America, too.

00:39:26.020 And we have prosecuted people for that stuff in America for all of American history,

00:39:29.860 even back in the good old free, you know, early constitutional days.

00:39:34.940 And even recently, we prosecuted and imprisoned at the federal level a pornographer in 2008,

00:39:40.860 right as Barack Obama was about to take office.

00:39:42.660 So we do that, too.

00:39:44.820 It's kind of my point on the holidays and the holy days.

00:39:47.760 We're going to have rules against certain speech and behavior.

00:39:50.700 We have for all of American history, and we've enforced them.

00:39:53.880 The question is, what are you going to go to jail for?

00:39:56.660 Are you going to go to jail for showing pornography to kids in schools?

00:40:00.840 No.

00:40:01.360 Now you're going to be put on the board that is establishing curricula standards,

00:40:06.020 because that happens in elementary schools.

00:40:09.140 Are you going to go to jail for exposing kids to pornography?

00:40:11.400 Or are you going to go to jail for questioning transgenderism?

00:40:16.360 But it's not, are you going to be punished for certain kinds of speech?

00:40:21.260 That's always been true.

00:40:23.280 And if we ignore that substantive question, we only focus on procedural matters,

00:40:27.820 hearkening back to some halcyon libertarian era when we didn't in any way enforce speech

00:40:34.000 standards that never existed, we're just going to keep losing.

00:40:37.480 We're going to cede the ground to the left.

00:40:39.260 Now, what is going to inform us can either be the degeneracy, the culture of selfishness

00:40:47.800 and atheism that the libs are pushing, or it can be our traditional moral standards.

00:40:52.420 And there's some good signs on that front.

00:40:56.300 Bible sales are up 22% year over year, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:41:01.820 According to the Wall Street Journal, if you look October 2024 versus October 2023,

00:41:06.600 Bible sales are up 22%.

00:41:08.500 This is despite nearly a third of US adults identifying as religiously unaffiliated.

00:41:14.920 So they're not exactly saying they're atheists.

00:41:16.620 They're just saying we don't have a religion.

00:41:18.160 A lot of them were raised without a religion, or they were raised in some incoherent kind of

00:41:22.280 religion.

00:41:22.720 You know, I have a lot of friends like this, who they grew up in New York, and one parent

00:41:28.700 is Christian, one parent is Jewish.

00:41:30.740 And so rather than coming to a decision and say, okay, what are we going to teach our kids

00:41:36.240 about the eternal fundamental questions?

00:41:38.260 They say, oh, we'll do both.

00:41:39.560 You know, you'll go to Sunday school, and then you'll go to Hebrew school.

00:41:42.320 And in one, they'll tell you that Christ is Lord, and in the other, they'll say that he

00:41:46.300 isn't.

00:41:46.900 And you'll just have these two contradictory religious systems.

00:41:51.120 And what's the result of that going to be?

00:41:52.960 The real result is not going to be that you're Christian or Jewish.

00:41:56.100 The real result is you're not going to have any religion.

00:41:58.760 You're going to be completely confused.

00:42:00.860 You're not going to take religion seriously.

00:42:03.560 And to you, if you do vaguely end up Christian, it's going to be Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 0.98

00:42:07.680 and a Christmas tree.

00:42:08.540 If you vaguely end up Jewish, it's going to be bagels and a sense of history, the tragedy 1.00

00:42:16.740 of the Holocaust and, I don't know, going back to the exodus of Moses. 0.62

00:42:20.640 But that's it.

00:42:21.240 It's not going to actually have meaning to you.

00:42:24.540 And so these people, I have great sympathy for them, grow up without much religion, and

00:42:30.300 now they're buying Bibles.

00:42:32.920 And why are they buying the Bibles?

00:42:35.580 They're buying the Bibles because the eternal questions remain.

00:42:42.260 The libs didn't get rid of them. 0.99

00:42:43.920 The secularists didn't get rid of them. 0.98

00:42:45.460 The new atheists didn't get rid of them. 1.00

00:42:47.060 Chris Hitchens could turn a witty phrase with that silly accent of his. 0.99

00:42:50.880 I'm being really tough on the Brits today, huh? 0.96

00:42:52.540 He could turn a clever phrase, but there wasn't much substance there.

00:42:57.780 He didn't really make arguments. 1.00

00:42:59.280 I remember I read his stupid book, God is Not Great. 1.00

00:43:01.240 He never actually makes the argument that God is not great. 1.00

00:43:03.360 He just whines and complains about religion.

00:43:06.820 And I think the new atheism really ran its course because it was based on lies.

00:43:10.360 You know, it was based on, and there were historical lies, historical moments that they

00:43:14.720 seized upon.

00:43:15.400 But it was based on the lie after 9-11 that all religion's the same. 0.67

00:43:19.180 So you think Islam is bad, but you don't want to criticize Islam.

00:43:22.040 So let's criticize Christianity instead. 0.99

00:43:24.540 But Islam and Christianity are not the same. 1.00

00:43:27.240 Religions are not. 1.00

00:43:27.840 They believe different things about basic questions.

00:43:29.580 It was based on the lie that the Catholic Church sex scandal was the worst sex scandal ever.

00:43:35.440 There was a scandal.

00:43:36.920 There's no doubt about that.

00:43:38.500 But turns out, with the light of data and retrospection, we can see the sex abuse scandal

00:43:46.800 in the Catholic Church was no worse than in any other religious group.

00:43:50.340 It was actually significantly lower in frequency and severity than some other religious groups.

00:43:58.140 And it was about half the rate of public schools.

00:44:01.320 So that goes out the window, too.

00:44:04.220 Why else?

00:44:05.200 Why else are people drawn to the Bible?

00:44:07.480 I have a theory, even beyond those sociological observations, that is politically incorrect,

00:44:14.360 but I think it explains it.

00:44:15.940 And that is that the Bible is the inerrant word of God.

00:44:18.300 It actually is what the church says that it is.

00:44:21.440 And that draws people back.

00:44:23.780 And the fundamental things apply as time goes by.

00:44:28.220 And the revolutionaries and the social engineers and the people who want to rewrite the world,

00:44:33.120 they can try as they might to stop it, but it's not going to work.

00:44:36.800 Now, before we go, I do want to get to an important case.

00:44:39.880 Daniel Penny, a real moral matter.

00:44:42.240 Daniel Penny, who is that hero Marine who protected people on the subway when a crazy person was threatening them,

00:44:49.640 but then the guy ended up dying as Daniel Penny was restraining him,

00:44:53.160 he just had his top charge dismissed.

00:44:55.780 That was second-degree manslaughter.

00:44:58.600 That was dismissed.

00:44:59.500 There was just the jury said, no, we can't convict him of this.

00:45:02.740 They were hung up on it, so that's thrown out.

00:45:05.360 But because the judge, in an unusual way, threw out the top charge,

00:45:09.860 the judge will now have the jury consider a lesser charge,

00:45:12.880 but still a serious charge that carries four years of jail time.

00:45:15.400 That is criminally negligent homicide.

00:45:19.340 And Daniel Penny's lawyers have objected to this, said, hold on, you can't,

00:45:22.340 you're just basically trying to have a redo.

00:45:23.780 You knew you weren't going to get him on what you're going after him for,

00:45:26.180 so you're trying to, you're begging the jury, please give him the lesser verdict,

00:45:29.660 so that we can still send him to jail.

00:45:31.140 But the evidence is clear enough.

00:45:34.040 Several subway riders said they were terrified that Jordan Neely,

00:45:37.160 the man who, the guy with a long, a rap sheet a mile long,

00:45:41.000 who was, by the account of the defense, schizophrenic and high on drugs,

00:45:46.940 he was on a drug called Spice, which is synthetic cannabinoids,

00:45:50.400 it's much more serious than marijuana, tries to mimic that though,

00:45:53.620 that this guy was a real threat to them.

00:45:58.260 That's what the subway riders say.

00:45:59.560 He says, restraining him for the moment was a relief,

00:46:02.820 but if he would have gotten up, he would have done what he would have done,

00:46:05.040 says subway rider, Cadran, shrunk.

00:46:08.040 So, but they're still going to try to get him,

00:46:09.560 and they're going to try to get him,

00:46:11.420 in part because they have this racial politics that says black people are always innocent, 0.80

00:46:15.420 white people are always guilty. 0.85

00:46:16.500 So that's part of it, that's obviously informing it. 0.74

00:46:19.060 But also because the libs are responsible for Jordan Neely's behavior,

00:46:24.080 to no small degree. 0.96

00:46:25.220 The libs say we can't lock up lunatics. 0.94

00:46:28.920 The people need to have the liberty and the freedom to roam the streets and shoot up drugs.

00:46:32.940 The libs want to legalize drugs. 1.00

00:46:35.320 The libs want to decriminalize and liberalize drugs.

00:46:38.080 The libs think that law enforcement is somehow evil,

00:46:42.540 so they want to reduce law enforcement.

00:46:44.620 They want to get cops off the streets. 0.97

00:46:46.120 They want to get criminals out of jail.

00:46:47.380 So they created the conditions for this kind of incident to occur.

00:46:51.780 And then when one hero stands up and says,

00:46:54.760 hey, no, we're not going to do that.

00:46:58.940 I'm going to protect you if your civil authority won't.

00:47:02.380 They have to go after that guy.

00:47:05.140 Because Jordan Neely, the criminal, is the avatar for the liberal establishment.

00:47:10.520 And Daniel Penny is standing in their way.

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00:47:26.420 Okay .

00:47:26.900 Yeah.

00:47:30.200 That's the first time I was was in when I saw this,

00:47:31.660 because I became a member of his and my friends in seasonata band.

00:47:37.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:37.760 Right.

00:47:38.340 Okay.

00:47:38.900 So great.

00:47:41.460 Mm-hmm.

00:47:41.780 Yeah.

00:47:42.380 Mm-hmm.

00:47:43.460 Mm-hmm.

00:47:43.840 Mm-hmm.

00:47:43.940 Mm-hmm.

00:47:44.380 Mm-hm.

00:47:44.940 Mm-hmm.

00:47:45.820 Mm.

00:47:46.420 Mm-hmm.

00:47:46.800 Mm-hmm.

00:47:46.820 Mm-hmm.

00:47:48.840 So great.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 09, 2024

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