On today's show, my friend Congressman Andy Ogles (R-VA) joins me to talk about his new bill to make Greenland great again, and we talk about the devastating wildfires that have ravaged California and other parts of the country. Plus, a woman who claims to have slept with over 1,000 men.
00:01:16.960First, though, go to preborn.com slash Knowles.
00:01:19.700This Sanctity of Life Month, we are remembering the lives of over 66 million babies lost to abortion since Roe v. Wade.
00:01:25.700What is particularly concerning is that even after Roe was overturned, access to abortion has actually increased because of the abortion pill,
00:01:32.680which now accounts for more than 60% of all procedures.
00:05:14.380The fact that sometimes LA catches fire.
00:05:16.260LA has been catching fire since time immemorial.
00:05:18.800That's why California used to have forest management policies that would clear brush, that would perform controlled burns, that would make sure that the water systems were ready to put out fires that cropped up.
00:05:29.920All of those things failed in recent years.
00:05:32.640President Trump himself warned Gavin Newsom about this going back to 2018 and 2019 and even more recently, even earlier this year.
00:05:42.420He said, you know, California, you've got to get back to clear and brush, otherwise you're going to have a catastrophic fire.
00:05:47.060Hey, California, you've got to stop pouring rainwater to the tune of 95% of your rainwater from the Delta into the Pacific Ocean.
00:06:18.340But just in this, what is the argument?
00:06:19.620What is the argument that there's a connection between climate change and these fires?
00:06:22.560The reason that this CNN guy is panicking over people not making the connection between climate change and the L.A. fires is not because of some crisis of scientific literacy.
00:06:35.760Ordinary people are far more scientifically literate than the climate change alarmists.
00:06:40.580The reason that the CNN guy is panicking, the reason that the liberal media are panicking more broadly, is because of the waning influence of a specific kind of propaganda.
00:06:51.960Back in 2004, during the heyday of climate alarmism, during the era of Al Gore and that stupid movie with the PowerPoint that won him an Oscar, even though the PowerPoint was totally bogus.
00:07:03.020That movie that had so many factual errors in it that the United Kingdom required classrooms to present a warning before playing the movie because it was so factually incorrect.
00:07:17.620At that point, yeah, people were searching climate change.
00:07:20.060And then it turned out the predictions being made by the climate alarmists weren't true.
00:07:24.160Just like in the 1970s when the climate alarmists, not only in the media, but within the scientific community, were making warnings about global cooling.
00:07:33.940At a certain point, you say, all right, guys, your predictive power is virtually nonexistent.
00:07:38.520We're going to tune in to other people, especially here when climate change is being used so cynically as a way for bad and irresponsible politicians like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to deflect criticism.
00:07:50.020Now, speaking of ridiculous propaganda, Joe Biden is making a claim as he leaves office that is even crazier than the economic claim he made two days ago.
00:08:02.860Two days ago, he said, I'm leaving the American economy in the greatest shape ever.
00:08:07.760Now he's claiming that when he became president, illegal border crossings came way down.
00:08:13.360Let's get something in mind about the border.
00:08:17.840When I became president, the numbers came way down, number one.
00:08:21.500Number two, we had a circumstance where I pushed very hard for a bipartisan agreement to put more people on the border, more secret services.
00:08:42.600I had an agreement that was going to really tackle the issue of illegal crossings, which I had already tackled previously.
00:08:49.040I just told you I'd already tackled that issue and it was not an issue anymore.
00:08:51.980But now for the purposes of my second argument, it was a big issue and I was going to fix that issue, except Donald Trump didn't want to fix it.
00:08:58.920That bipartisan border bill would have made the border crisis worse.
00:09:01.820It would have given mass amnesty to people.
00:09:03.800It would have left the door wide open until you reached a threshold of thousands and thousands of illegal crossings per day.
00:09:11.720And then it temporarily would have shut down the border.
00:09:14.420But it was only going to exacerbate the problem of illegal immigration.
00:09:20.580His first claim is that when he took office, illegal crossings went way down.
00:09:24.880Here I have a graph from the BBC, not exactly a right wing news source that shows migrant numbers at the U.S. border, total number of encounters by U.S. border patrols per month.
00:09:38.900Here's 2018 was Trump's president below 50,000, below 50,000, right around 50,000 here up until 2019, just a little bit above 50,000.
00:09:46.880And then it spikes a little bit once the bureaucracy had undermined President Trump's ability to control the border.
00:09:55.600It was clear after those early days of the Trump administration that a lot of people could still get through.
00:10:22.840They more than doubled, certainly more than doubled, at least went up, what, two and a half percent or two and a half times, maybe even more.
00:10:29.920And then they've stayed up there and they spiked even higher in 2024.
00:10:51.040Americans realize that eggs are expensive.
00:10:52.880Americans realize that it's harder to pay their bills.
00:10:55.500You can't lie to people about the basic realities of their life forever.
00:11:00.000However, this is this is how the Democrats lost in such a cataclysmic way in 2024 is that the Democrats were pursuing a strategy common to derelict Italians in New York, which is deny till you die.
00:13:13.460It gives you the exact same service on the exact same towers for half the cost.
00:13:19.020There's no need to spend $85 or $100 per person on your wireless bill when you can get unlimited talk, text, and 15 gigs of data with mobile hotspot for just $35 a month.
00:14:26.300We've brought so many people from the most backwards country in the world, so many people in the most notorious hotbed of terrorism in the world.
00:14:36.200Well, we brought them totally unvetted into your communities.
00:14:44.640First of all, to brag about bringing all these Afghanis here just reminds people that the reason he had to bring Afghanis here is because of his disastrous and deadly pullout from Afghanistan, during which the Taliban immediately took over again.
00:15:00.240So the only reason we had to bring these people here is because they couldn't continue to live in Afghanistan because Joe Biden conceded Afghanistan to the enemy we had been fighting for 20 years.
00:15:10.400So not a great accomplishment, so-called, to leave office on.
00:15:17.060But then at a deeper level, this reveals Democrats' political problem right now.
00:15:22.080The Democrats' biggest political problem right now is that their base supports things that most Americans hate.
00:15:30.120So the things that they have to brag about to rile up their base are things that are going to turn off most Americans, like bringing a ton of Afghanis to America.
00:16:14.400When Joe Biden says that he understands the plight of Hamas or whatever, when he comes out and he defends people that most Americans don't like, maybe the base loves it.
00:16:25.340Maybe Greta Thunberg wearing the keffiyeh is cheering in the streets.
00:16:33.560When Joe Biden says, we're going to defend trans kids, we're going to trans your kids, parents, and you're not going to do a damn thing about it.
00:16:50.960When your base is so divorced from reality, you can't win an election without your base.
00:16:56.560I have sympathy for Joe Biden and the Democrats' political problem here.
00:17:00.460But it's why as he's leaving office, he's caught between a rock and a hard place.
00:17:06.900Anything that he touts as a great accomplishment, as a great part of his legacy, some huge faction of his Democrat audience is going to hate it.
00:17:19.220Now, speaking of legacies, President Trump has the opportunity for an even more historic legacy than he's already gotten.
00:17:34.620He has recalibrated the Republican Party after decades of stagnation.
00:17:39.080And now he might expand the territory of the United States by bringing in our Arctic neighbors and liberating them from their Danish tyrannical overlords.
00:17:49.300And he will do that with the help of my friend, Congressman Andy Ogles.
00:17:54.620Andy, thank you for coming on the show.
00:18:11.060And everyone made fun of him and everyone laughed.
00:18:12.700And then in the last month or so, President Trump brought up this Greenland idea again.
00:18:18.860People still thought he was joking, but, you know, he's been telling this joke for a while.
00:18:23.640Maybe it seems like there's some truth to it.
00:18:25.360And then just yesterday, I believe, you introduced a beautifully named Make Greenland Great Again bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to do what?
00:18:39.040Well, it would authorize the purchase of Greenland.
00:18:42.920And so, you know, essentially what would happen is that the president would begin negotiations with Denmark, come up with some sort of deal, and then he would transmit the details of that bill to Congress.
00:18:53.840And look, it might sound crazy, and one might ask, why would you want Greenland?
00:18:58.840But when you look at the activities of China and Russia in the Arctic Circle, they're literally operating on our doorstep.
00:19:06.180Not to mention that Greenland is rich with resources, and China has been making a play for those resources.
00:19:12.980So we have an obligation to the American people, to North America, quite frankly, to secure that territory.
00:19:19.560And Denmark has acknowledged that they have failed in securing it.
00:19:23.660I mean, we have a larger military security presence in Greenland than freaking Denmark does.
00:19:28.620Look, they're pissed off at me, quite frankly.
00:19:30.440Obviously, they called yesterday and demanded a meeting.
00:19:33.260But look, at the end of the day, it's America first, right?
00:19:38.460We're not isolationists, but we have to take care of ourselves because when the world gets in trouble, who are they going to call?
00:19:44.560They're going to call the United States of America.
00:19:46.680And if we're not taking care of ourselves, it can be hard-pressed to take care of anyone else.
00:19:51.000They're not calling Denmark, I'll tell you that.
00:19:52.560But I think that the Greenland issue is a great political IQ test, actually.
00:19:59.280Because if you ask the average Democrat establishment media listening lib on the street, you say, what do you think Trump wants to buy Greenland?
00:20:16.980One sees the United States has been attempting to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland for about 150 years now.
00:20:24.480This has been going on since the 19th century, shortly after the Civil War.
00:20:27.440Then again, after World War II, President Truman tried to purchase Greenland because of its strategic significance, both as a matter of geography and also a matter of resources.
00:20:36.520This is actually one of the most longstanding plays of the U.S. State Department.
00:20:43.040So on the contrary, it's not some crazy shoot-from-the-hip kind of idea.
00:20:49.880And to your point, Andy, with China and other adversaries moving in on our turf, it would seem to be actually incumbent upon us to protect our interests.
00:21:01.660So nuts and bolts, what are the odds that this happens?
00:21:05.340You know, some people will say the president can just try to acquire Greenland on his own.
00:21:10.640Why does he need the U.S. Congress to authorize this sort of thing?
00:21:14.300And how likely is it that Greenland actually becomes a part of the U.S.?
00:21:20.200Well, to be determined, what I will say is that there's a poll out there, and the majority of Greenlanders would prefer to be a territory of the United States versus attached to some, you know, woke state in Europe.
00:21:31.020That being said, you know, I think this has got more momentum than I think people realize.
00:21:37.280Obviously, we've got to get to the 20th and all that is going to go on over the next few days.
00:21:42.380It's a very exciting time here in D.C.
00:21:44.020But that being said, is there's interest in the Senate to have a companion bill to actually push this thing through, to send a message to Europe, Denmark, and to Greenland that we're serious about this.
00:21:54.400Like you said, this is a historical play.
00:21:57.460It's been in our best interest for a very long time.
00:21:59.540And now we have bad actors, Russia and China, who are literally, literally operating on our doorstep.
00:22:05.380And if we were to acquire Greenland, that gives us a 200-mile radius there, nautical miles that we would control and have sovereignty over.
00:23:11.860I think it is quite wise and prudent for Congress to say, all right, we're backing this play, Mr. President.
00:23:18.460If you want to engage in negotiations to acquire green, we're with you.
00:23:21.500Hopefully, we can get the Senate on board as well, and hopefully Republicans can actually use the power that the voters have given them in a unified way and protect the interests of the U.S.
00:23:30.300Andy Ogles, one of the very best in Washington, D.C.
00:23:33.860Thank you for coming on the show, and I look forward to seeing you at inauguration later on this week and early next week.
00:23:48.780Now, we turn from this very happy, exciting story to a more unsettling story, a really disgusting story, actually.
00:23:57.460But before we get to that, history is about to be made, and The Daily Wire will be live from D.C. to bring you every moment as Donald John Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
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00:24:40.180We've got to get to something that is truly revolting.
00:24:43.300But we'll get through it quickly, and there will be a lot of political significance to it.
00:24:49.000Some horrifying, succubus-infected woman has claimed to have slept with 1,000 men in 12 hours.
00:24:55.940I am not going to promote her or her video.
00:24:59.880I'm not going to play the video of her bragging about this, though her video bragging about this has actually underscored a point that I made about how perverse our society has become.
00:25:11.280I made this point last week, which is that the most prominent pornographic moments of the last few months have involved women not even taking their clothes off.
00:25:23.260They've merely—they involved that one gal who said she slept with 100 men in one night, and she wanted to sleep with 1,000, and she broke down crying.
00:25:29.800But the video that went viral wasn't some explicit video.
00:25:33.900It was her crying about it in a documentary.
00:25:37.120Then this gal, this horrifying woman, also went viral earlier this month for walking into a Five Guys burger place and saying,
00:27:41.120According to the Washington Examiner, which is being cited here by Newsweek, there are 3 million women, or I guess some men too, but mostly women, prostituting themselves on OnlyFans.
00:27:53.080And 67% of the revenue goes to Americans.
00:27:56.720So this platform isn't releasing its exact user numbers, but the examiner found that 1.4 million American women are OnlyFans creators.
00:28:06.540The outlet went further saying 2% of American women aged between 18 and 45 are making pornography on that platform.
00:28:15.380So I don't know if those numbers are true.
00:28:17.440It's very difficult to arrive at those numbers, but let's say that that's right.
00:28:20.080Let's say the Washington Examiner and Newsweek are correct.
00:28:24.080That means that 1 in 50 American women between 18 and 45 are actively making pornography on OnlyFans.
00:29:05.840Just to even consider what that number might be causes one to shudder.
00:29:08.880And I know that people are going to say, Michael, you're making a false equivalency here between people who actively perform in pornography or take pornographic photos and women who just, you know, take nude photos and send them to a boyfriend.
00:29:44.940You think anything is private that you do on your cell phone?
00:29:47.380It's a private photo between you, your boyfriend, and the NSA.
00:29:51.800It's a private photo between you, your boyfriend, and the internet service provider.
00:29:56.960Furthermore, you might break up with your boyfriend or you might have a dirtbag boyfriend who's showing that picture around to other people.
00:30:03.460How many women, how many court cases have there been of these photos leaking?
00:30:07.540The photos might leak even without the will of the boyfriend.
00:30:13.720That's not, those pictures often don't remain private.
00:30:15.760But even if they did remain private, it's still pornography.
00:30:18.780And there are a lot of guys now who are thinking, well, I don't want to marry a woman who's involved in pornography.
00:30:26.760And I am fully of the Christian belief that people can repent.
00:33:47.700An email pops up, you just send it in.
00:33:49.200Or you can send in a voicemail back question, which are my favorites.
00:33:52.900To do that, you just record your voicemail question.
00:33:56.460Keep it to under a minute, please, so I can play it on the show.
00:33:59.420Some people want to send me their life story, their audio book of six hours, less than a minute, 30 seconds is even better.
00:34:04.640You record that, just attach it to the email, send it in, and then I can hear your mellifluous tones and your beautiful questions on Friday.
00:36:24.300It took him a little, he's a little thick in the head, but he finally figured out boys and girls are different.
00:36:28.020Or, Zuckerberg is caving to political pressure because Trump is about to become president in a matter of days,
00:36:34.420and Republicans are going to have a unified government.
00:36:36.640And Republicans have not yet forgotten how Facebook punished them for years.
00:36:43.240How Facebook censored conservatives, tried to limit our reach, went all in on booting Trump out of office in 2020.
00:36:52.000How Zuckerberg personally helped to rig that election to give Democrats an advantage in ballot drop boxes and in all of the rule changes that came into play because they used COVID as an excuse.
00:37:04.740Zuckerberg realizes he is on the wrong side of the new sheriffs in town, and he is doing everything he can to get ahead of the investigations,
00:37:14.600to plead and beg for mercy and to suck up to the Republicans who are coming into power,
00:37:20.080and to make these minor little gestures to suggest to the Republicans that he's really on their team.
00:37:34.000But I remember when your company nearly destroyed my company.
00:37:39.220I remember, and it's not just the Daily Wire, though Daily Wire was probably the most prominent on the right,
00:37:44.380really probably the most prominent in news on Facebook.
00:37:47.560And then one day, Facebook decided to limit our reach by, what was it, 90%?
00:37:53.220It wasn't just us, it was other right-wingers as well.
00:37:56.640Certainly other people within the MAGA orbit.
00:37:59.620Was that because of a change in market dynamics?
00:38:02.280No, that was because censors at Facebook, radical leftists, decided to put their fingers on the scale and try to control our public square.
00:38:09.860And in a self-governing republic, if you control the public square, you more or less control the political order.
00:38:16.500So, good, get the tampons out of the men's bathroom, that's great.
00:38:19.340Good, cave to political pressure, that's smart to do.
00:38:23.500You don't get off the hook that easily.
00:38:26.560That would be my message to members of Congress.
00:38:28.780I would not let big tech off the hook that easily.
00:38:30.860Because if Zuckerberg's going to cave to political pressure with Trump coming into office, guess what he's going to do when the Democrats win?
00:38:36.560It's going to be the exact same thing.
00:38:37.720We're going to be right back where we started.
00:38:40.580Now, speaking of big tech, Steve Bannon is going to war with Elon Musk.
00:38:48.240There is a fight within MAGA, within Trump world.
00:38:52.900Steve Bannon, who was the chief strategist of the first Trump campaign, he was in the White House as a strategist.
00:38:58.540Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, who is now President Trump's right-hand man, who dumped an absurd amount of money into the campaign, who really injected a lot of excitement into the 2024 campaign, who purchased Twitter to give right-wingers at least a little bit of a foothold into big tech.
00:39:16.900So he's got a lot of goodwill in his own right.
00:39:22.080Bannon says, I will have Elon Musk run out of here by election day.
00:39:25.440He said this in an interview with the Corriere dell'Acero, which is an Italian newspaper.
00:39:29.100He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy.
00:39:33.480I made it my personal thing to take this guy down, Bannon says of Elon, because before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it.
00:39:41.280I'm not prepared to tolerate it anymore.
00:40:06.680Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans?
00:40:11.580We have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States.
00:40:14.620Now, this is really shocking because the second part here is an attack from the left.
00:40:20.420It's Bannon attacking Musk from the left.
00:40:22.640He's saying Thiel, who's been a big supporter of conservative causes, big supporter of our vice president, soon to be vice president, J.D. Vance.
00:42:11.900We like some Indians, but we've got to make sure that we keep social cohesion, that we defend American families, that we defend American workers, that we look after Americans first before we look to other people around the world.
00:42:23.860And that we're not just merely cogs in a machine trying to tick the GDP number up a little bit, but we are American citizens who are trying to have a good, strong, thriving country for good, strong, thriving people.
00:42:45.840Now, the libertarians and the neocons and the liberals and that side of the conservative movement of the American right, they're going to say, look, we want efficiency.
00:43:06.720We believe in the principles of America.
00:43:08.360And some of those people out there in Uttar Pradesh, those guys are actually more American than the people who go back 10 generations in West Virginia.
00:43:18.220Because those people believe in the ideas of America.
00:43:59.220And those fissures could create a real political problem for Trump.
00:44:03.800Because he has to keep that coalition together.
00:44:06.180Which is why my resolution to this, withholding my personal views on particular aspects of this question of migration and the economy, is we need unity.
00:44:18.900We need Republican unity for like 100 days.
00:44:23.080And we're probably going to not get much more after that.
00:44:25.740But we've been given unified government.
00:44:27.720We have this major mandate for President Trump elected to a non-consecutive second term.
00:44:31.400Wins the popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years.