The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1653 - Trump Ends the Israel-Hamas War？


Summary

After 466 days at war, and with 5 days to go before President Trump s inauguration, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and hostage release to go into effect exactly one day before Trump s Inauguration, and he has already brought peace to the Middle East again.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Those sweltering summer nights that leave you tossing and turning,
00:00:02.420 desperately kicking off the covers, don't have to ruin your sleep.
00:00:05.120 Crafted from the finest 100% organic cotton,
00:00:07.540 Boland Branch's premium sheets feature a soft, breathable weave that's built to last.
00:00:11.820 Get the best savings of the season during Boland Branch's annual summer event.
00:00:15.320 Get 20% off plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at bolandbranch.com slash dailywire.
00:00:20.380 That's bolandbranch, B-O-L-L-A-N-D, branch.com slash dailywire to save 20% off and unlock free shipping.
00:00:28.020 Limited time only, exclusions do apply.
00:00:30.440 Inauguration Day, January 20th.
00:00:32.840 Watch it with us.
00:00:34.080 Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring.
00:00:38.000 Live from D.C.
00:00:39.040 Donald Trump's historic second term officially begins.
00:00:42.040 Coverage starts at 8.30 a.m. Eastern.
00:00:44.200 Watch live on Daily Wire Plus.
00:00:47.080 That's right.
00:00:48.000 I'm in D.C.
00:00:49.260 Watch the Daily Wire's live coverage as President Trump is sworn in to be the 47th president.
00:00:55.040 Celebrate with 47% off your Daily Wire Plus membership.
00:00:58.820 Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe.
00:01:02.080 And join us in making history.
00:01:04.020 After 466 days at war, and with five days to go before President Trump's inauguration,
00:01:11.340 Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and hostage release to go into effect precisely
00:01:16.960 one day before Trump's inauguration.
00:01:19.960 The man has not even returned to office, and he has already brought peace to the Middle East again.
00:01:26.660 The good news almost makes one furious to think how much bloodshed and war could have been avoided
00:01:32.480 had Trump simply remained in office after 2020.
00:01:35.640 But he's coming back to office now, and the legend only grows of a man who is, at this point,
00:01:41.560 I think indisputably, a world historic figure.
00:01:45.000 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:45.800 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:46.640 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:07.760 TikTok is set to shut down in the United States.
00:02:11.520 It is imminent, and I have mixed feelings about it.
00:02:16.380 I know a lot of conservatives are so thrilled about that.
00:02:19.340 I'm not so thrilled, actually.
00:02:21.440 We'll get to that in a moment.
00:02:22.580 First, though, I know someone's going to clip that out and say,
00:02:26.380 Knowles says Trump's a world historic figure.
00:02:28.400 Guys, how many things does this guy need to do?
00:02:30.760 He runs for president in earnest one time and wins.
00:02:34.920 He's never held any political office before.
00:02:37.680 He just wins the highest office in the entire world.
00:02:40.680 He takes over the entire Republican Party, then takes over the country, then wins, for
00:02:46.820 the second time in American history, a non-consecutive second term, then survives multiple assassination
00:02:51.440 attempts, survives multiple unprecedented attempts to imprison him and kick him off the ballot,
00:02:56.760 brings peace to the Middle East, so much so that Israel names a town after him.
00:03:01.600 And then, before he's back in office, brings peace to the Middle East again.
00:03:07.580 What more do you expect of him?
00:03:10.920 I don't, what else could you ask?
00:03:12.380 Even Alexander couldn't conquer India.
00:03:14.180 You know, this is pretty impressive.
00:03:16.120 Now, what is the ceasefire deal?
00:03:18.080 The US and Qatar have said that the deal will take effect on Sunday, one day, hours before
00:03:24.940 President Trump is inaugurated.
00:03:27.380 100 hostages are still held captive by Hamas, so there will be three phases of the release.
00:03:31.600 The first is 33 women, children, and older people, and also wounded people.
00:03:37.560 They would be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian women and children who are in
00:03:42.140 prisons in Israel.
00:03:43.400 Then in the second phase, soldiers and other men.
00:03:46.360 We'll see if we get to those phases.
00:03:48.300 The Democrats are going to try to make an argument and say, well, this is all thanks to Biden
00:03:51.500 and Tony Blinken and the Biden administration.
00:03:54.200 Okay, I get that that's going to be the political talking point.
00:03:58.840 Can you really look me in the eye and with a straight face say, given this timing, President
00:04:04.460 Trump was reelected, overwhelming, popular vote.
00:04:09.120 We are now days away from his inauguration.
00:04:11.540 They get a deal that goes into effect hours before his inauguration.
00:04:16.120 You're telling me Biden deserves credit for that and not Trump?
00:04:20.440 Biden has had a year and a half almost to get a deal done.
00:04:23.340 Hasn't happened.
00:04:24.980 Biden is the reason this war kicked off in the first place.
00:04:27.440 I happened to notice that there was ample peace in the Middle East when Trump was president.
00:04:33.020 Then war kicks off after Trump is president.
00:04:35.780 And war seems to be on the way out just before Trump becomes president again.
00:04:39.440 I don't think any fair-minded person, I don't care how Democrat you are, could give credit
00:04:44.180 for that to Joe Biden.
00:04:46.340 Now, some people don't like the deal, not just the pro-Hamas side, even the pro-Israel
00:04:51.300 side.
00:04:51.740 Some of them don't like the deal because they say, well, we need to give Israel a blank check
00:04:57.300 to do whatever they want to Hamas forever, and there should be no limits whatsoever.
00:05:01.180 There are conservative Republicans who say that.
00:05:02.780 However, if you are Israel, if you are pro-Israel, and you don't like this deal, I guess all
00:05:09.700 I would say is Trump gave you fair warning.
00:05:13.020 Remember, when Trump got elected, he said, this war is going to be over before I'm inaugurated.
00:05:18.620 And he was signaling, I think, to Netanyahu, do whatever you got to do, get the job done,
00:05:24.640 but this war ends when I am inaugurated.
00:05:27.460 So that was warning primarily to Hamas, but it was also a warning to Netanyahu.
00:05:31.340 Hey, wrap it up.
00:05:32.480 This has gone on for a while now, and I, Donald Trump, am not going to deal with this when
00:05:37.680 I enter into office.
00:05:40.100 Good stuff.
00:05:40.940 Blessed are the peacemakers.
00:05:42.000 I love it.
00:05:42.520 Now, speaking of the peacemakers and the Trump administration, Trump's Secretary of State,
00:05:46.680 Marco Rubio, was just brought up in front of the Senate, his old stomping grounds, for
00:05:52.180 his confirmation hearings yesterday.
00:05:53.800 And he gave a beautifully articulate and precise view of the Trump doctrine on foreign policy.
00:06:00.980 Out of the triumphalism of the end of the long Cold War emerged a bipartisan consensus.
00:06:07.700 And this consensus was that we had reached the end of history, that all of the nations
00:06:11.400 of the world would now become members of the democratic Western-led community, that a foreign
00:06:16.020 policy that served the national interest could now be replaced by one that served the liberal
00:06:20.560 world order, and that all mankind was now destined to abandon national sovereignty and
00:06:25.900 national identity, and would instead become one human family and citizens of the world.
00:06:30.940 This wasn't just a fantasy.
00:06:35.220 We now know it was a dangerous delusion.
00:06:38.240 Here in America, and in many of the advanced economies across the world, an almost religious
00:06:42.460 commitment to free and unfettered trade, at the expense of our national economy, shrunk
00:06:47.420 the middle class, left the working class in crisis, collapsed our industrial capacity,
00:06:53.260 and has pushed critical supply chains into the hands of adversaries and of rivals.
00:06:59.160 An irrational zeal for maximum freedom of movement of people has resulted in a historic mass migration
00:07:05.440 crisis here in America, but also around the world.
00:07:09.520 It's one that threatens the stability of societies and of governments.
00:07:14.140 Across the West, governments now censor and even prosecute domestic political opponents.
00:07:18.860 Meanwhile, radical jihadists openly march in the streets and sadly drive vehicles into our
00:07:25.200 people.
00:07:26.640 While America far too often continued to prioritize the global order above our core national interests,
00:07:33.720 other nations continue to act the way countries have always acted and always will, in what they
00:07:38.740 perceive to be their best interest.
00:07:41.300 And instead of folding-
00:07:42.200 Okay, put a pause here.
00:07:42.920 So there's so much to say.
00:07:45.020 There's so much to say.
00:07:45.860 This is a really precise statement, though.
00:07:48.860 From a serious-minded Republican.
00:07:51.580 My respect for Marco Rubio is only increasing.
00:07:54.320 This is really smart stuff.
00:07:55.920 When he comes out and he says, look, after the Cold War, we were told by people like Francis
00:08:00.620 Fukuyama, famously, that we'd reached the end of history and liberalism and globalism were
00:08:05.060 going to dominate.
00:08:06.000 Everyone supported free trade.
00:08:07.380 The Clinton Democrats, the Gingrich Republicans, we all wanted more and more and more free trade.
00:08:12.440 And yeah, that was going to hollow out our manufacturing base.
00:08:14.540 But who cares?
00:08:15.240 Because we were going to get cheap electronics and T-shirts from China.
00:08:17.580 And that was going to be good.
00:08:18.840 And the world was flat.
00:08:19.600 And a rising tide lifts all ships.
00:08:21.120 And we were all going to sing Kumbaya.
00:08:22.900 We were going to surrender some national sovereignty to international organizations, not just like
00:08:27.960 the United Nations or the European Union in the case of Europe, but also to the World Trade
00:08:32.600 Organization and also to the International Monetary Fund.
00:08:35.500 And we were going to give that away.
00:08:36.680 And we were all going to just hold hands and sing We Are the World.
00:08:40.540 And that didn't work out.
00:08:43.700 That has not worked out.
00:08:45.400 In fact, very often we have played by the rules, the World Trade Organization rules, all of these
00:08:51.820 international treaty rules.
00:08:53.140 And the other nations have not, especially China.
00:08:56.360 In fact, they've just taken advantage of us.
00:08:58.760 They've taken advantage of our generosity.
00:09:01.560 They've also taken advantage of our idealism.
00:09:04.520 Because it turns out that everything we always knew about foreign policy didn't magically change
00:09:09.760 in 1991.
00:09:11.380 That the motivations of nations, the identity of nations, human nature didn't fundamentally
00:09:18.420 change.
00:09:19.040 And so, so says Marco Rubio, we are now going to return to a foreign policy that considers
00:09:27.360 the American national interest.
00:09:29.200 That just doesn't repeat the same platitudes of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, but responds to
00:09:34.040 legitimate concerns about free trade, about mass migration, about globalism and losing American
00:09:41.240 sovereignty.
00:09:42.480 But that doesn't mean that we're going to become isolationist.
00:09:46.660 It doesn't mean that we're only going to think about America.
00:09:50.340 And so he adds that little caveat.
00:09:51.540 Is your home's title still in your name?
00:09:53.400 With one forged document, scammers can steal your home title and equity.
00:09:57.000 But now you can protect yourself.
00:09:58.500 Home Title Locks at Million Dollar Triple Lock Protection provides 24-7 title monitoring,
00:10:02.820 urgent alerts to changes, and if fraud happens, they'll spend up to a million dollars to fix
00:10:06.920 it and restore your title.
00:10:08.520 Use promo code DAILYWIRE at HOMETITLELock.com for a free title history report, plus a free 14-day
00:10:13.760 trial of their Million Dollar Triple Lock Protection.
00:10:16.160 Head over to HOMETITLELock.com now with promo code DAILYWIRE to ensure your title is still
00:10:21.100 in your name.
00:10:22.340 Senator Rubio finishes up his remarks.
00:10:24.900 And instead of folding into the post-Cold War global order, they have manipulated it
00:10:30.000 to serve their interests at the expense of ours.
00:10:33.280 The post-war global order is not just obsolete.
00:10:37.140 It is now a weapon being used against us.
00:10:42.080 And all this has led to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk
00:10:46.420 of geopolitical instability and of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive
00:10:53.240 and in this room today.
00:10:54.200 Absolutely right.
00:10:57.520 I think he makes a really good point.
00:11:00.320 It is challenging to the thinking of Democrats and Republicans.
00:11:05.280 It was really sober-minded.
00:11:07.260 For his seriousness, and also because he's a former member of the Senate, he will sail through.
00:11:12.600 There's no question about it.
00:11:13.740 Two wonderful takeaways from Rubio's confirmation hearings.
00:11:17.980 One, Trump is offering an alternative.
00:11:20.820 He's entering office offering an alternative on foreign policy from what we've seen out of
00:11:25.200 both parties in recent decades.
00:11:27.540 And two, Rubio's gonna sail through.
00:11:31.020 In fact, I think after the Democrats really failed to lay a glove on Pete Heggseth, I think
00:11:37.400 pretty much all of Trump's nominees are gonna sail through.
00:11:39.700 Including the feistier nominees, like Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, who had a beautiful
00:11:47.860 exchange with some random Democrat senator yesterday.
00:11:51.540 Senator, you were speaking.
00:11:53.160 May I speak?
00:11:54.920 You cut me off when I was speaking.
00:11:56.520 I'm gonna ask you the next question you can speak, and I hope you answer, Ms. Bondi.
00:11:58.120 Well, I'd like to answer the previous one, Senator.
00:12:00.660 When we met yesterday, you pointed your finger at me and said you were speaking.
00:12:02.900 You did not seem to be familiar with the citizenship clause, the 14th Amendment of the United
00:12:09.180 States of America, which was deeply disappointing.
00:12:12.220 I guess you didn't want to hear my answer about Pennsylvania.
00:12:14.560 And I'm hoping you're more familiar with it today after I gave an opportunity to study
00:12:17.400 overnight.
00:12:18.180 So can you tell me and this committee what the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment
00:12:22.180 says?
00:12:23.260 Senator, I'm here to answer your questions.
00:12:26.260 I'm not here to do your homework and study for you.
00:12:28.640 If I am confirmed as Attorney General...
00:12:29.680 You're the one asking for a confirmation vote, ma'am.
00:12:31.460 Hey, you cut me off.
00:12:32.420 Can I please finish?
00:12:33.660 What does the 14th Amendment say?
00:12:35.060 Senator?
00:12:35.360 Senator, the 14th Amendment we all know addresses birthright citizenship.
00:12:39.520 I've been a state prosecutor.
00:12:41.060 I've been a state AG.
00:12:42.580 I look forward to even giving your remarks today, working with you and the people of
00:12:48.480 California, if I am confirmed as the 87th Attorney General of the United States of America.
00:12:54.200 I didn't take your homework assignment.
00:12:56.340 I'm sorry.
00:12:57.040 I was preparing for today.
00:13:00.620 So Rubio might be nice.
00:13:03.240 Pam Bondi, she's a little less nice, but very, very impressive.
00:13:09.540 She absolutely manhandled these Democrat senators.
00:13:13.840 And it wasn't just that guy.
00:13:15.260 I think she reserved her real ire for the man that President Trump refers to as Mr. Pencilneck.
00:13:21.360 That would be Adam Schiff of California.
00:13:23.600 Will it be your advice to the president?
00:13:26.160 No, Mr. President.
00:13:27.300 I need to go over them on a case-by-case basis.
00:13:30.400 Do not issue blanket pardons.
00:13:32.380 Will that be your advice to the president?
00:13:34.400 Senator, I have not looked at any of those files.
00:13:37.360 If confirmed, I will look at the files for the pardons as well as the ongoing investigation.
00:13:40.900 And will you be able to review hundreds of cases on day one?
00:13:44.560 I will look at every file I am asked to look at.
00:13:46.980 Of course you won't.
00:13:47.640 So will you advise the president?
00:13:48.980 Can I answer the question?
00:13:50.400 Well, my question is.
00:13:50.820 I would have plenty of staff.
00:13:52.220 You said, of course you want.
00:13:53.760 You'll be able to review hundreds of cases on first day?
00:13:56.940 Listen, I'm not going to mislead this body, nor you.
00:14:00.220 All right, let me ask another question.
00:14:01.680 You don't want to answer that.
00:14:02.460 Let me ask another question.
00:14:03.180 You were censured by Congress, Senator, for comments just like this that are so reckless.
00:14:06.740 It will also.
00:14:08.920 Oh, and there it is.
00:14:11.160 It comes in just at the end, but that's the right hook at the end.
00:14:14.560 You were censured by Congress multiple times for comments just like this.
00:14:18.620 This woman not only is impressing me, and I'm sure the Republicans on the panel, but this
00:14:26.800 must impress President Trump because this is clearly what he wants in an AG.
00:14:31.320 Trump needs a statesman and a nice guy who can make consensus and friends in the State Department.
00:14:38.280 Trump needs an absolute bulldog in the Attorney General's office.
00:14:42.340 Because you remember what happened the first time.
00:14:45.820 President Trump picked a guy who I think is a good man, Jeff Sessions, to be the AG.
00:14:50.960 I think he's a good man.
00:14:51.820 I think he's a serious conservative.
00:14:53.040 But he was a little nice.
00:14:57.220 And he didn't want to get down in the mud and the dirt and the blood with the Democrats,
00:15:01.360 who very few people predicted were willing to go as far as they did in undermining President Trump's administration.
00:15:09.540 And so Jeff Sessions' refusal to get down and dirty with the Democrats permitted Bob Mueller,
00:15:16.820 crossfire hurricane to take off, all of these kinds of attacks from the Democrats in the administrative state
00:15:24.280 to take down President Trump.
00:15:26.320 And Trump doesn't want to make the same mistake again.
00:15:28.300 I think this is why Trump wanted Matt Gaetz.
00:15:31.660 And the Gaetz nomination was not going to make it through.
00:15:34.460 But he thought, I want a pugilist.
00:15:36.520 I want a vicious, brutal, nasty fighter who is not going to take anything from anyone.
00:15:43.820 And Pam Bondi, I think, really demonstrated that well yesterday.
00:15:48.440 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?
00:15:53.620 That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.
00:15:57.340 Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.
00:16:03.020 Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.
00:16:07.240 Just one simple ingredient.
00:16:08.760 That's meat.
00:16:09.680 Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.
00:16:12.680 So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.
00:16:15.800 Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.
00:16:20.820 That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.
00:16:24.120 Good Ranchers, American meat delivered.
00:16:26.220 Some Democrats are not happy about how well she did.
00:16:29.360 Notably, a major figure in Democrat leadership in the Senate, Dick Durbin,
00:16:34.380 who is apparently very, very worried that Pam Bondi might seek retribution against Trump's political enemies.
00:16:42.980 Let's zero in on the hearing for Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi.
00:16:46.860 In particular, much has been made of Donald Trump's wish for the Department of Justice to carry out a campaign of retribution against his political foes and the like.
00:16:56.300 What sort of questions do you want to pose to her about that particular topic?
00:17:02.120 How grave of a concern is it?
00:17:03.400 Well, it's a very grave concern, and here's the bottom line.
00:17:07.540 Pam Bondi is eminently qualified as a lawyer to be the Attorney General.
00:17:12.040 Ten years in Florida in her own private practice.
00:17:15.560 I mean, she has the legal resume for the job.
00:17:18.820 The question is, does she have the courage and the strength to say no to Donald Trump?
00:17:23.820 So, Bondi is such a good pick that even the top Democrats are not going to say that she's unqualified.
00:17:30.720 They used that attack against Pete Hegseth, but they're not going to use it against Bondi.
00:17:35.060 They're just going to worry out loud that Bondi might use the office of the Attorney General to target President Trump's political opponents.
00:17:43.660 Why might they be worried about that?
00:17:47.280 Where does that grave concern come from?
00:17:51.280 The guilty flee when none pursueth.
00:17:53.680 I remember reading, we're going to be speaking to Father Mike Schmitz from Bible in a year later.
00:17:57.240 I remember that line from the Bible.
00:17:59.660 The guilty flee when none pursueth.
00:18:02.420 Democrats are real concerned about the AG's office wielding the power of the state to persecute political enemies.
00:18:09.580 Might that be because that is exactly what Merrick Garland did for Joe Biden?
00:18:14.380 Might that be because the Attorney General has, in an unprecedented way,
00:18:19.340 sought to prosecute the former president, chief political rival to the sitting president?
00:18:25.320 Might that be even beyond persecuting Trump?
00:18:28.660 Because the Attorney General's office has ignored legitimate terrorist threats in America
00:18:33.940 and instead categorized parents and Catholics and pro-lifers as potential extremists and radicals,
00:18:43.500 spied on them in their churches, shown up to their home in front of all their kids,
00:18:47.560 arrested them for peaceably demonstrating in front of abortion centers?
00:18:53.020 Might that have something to do with it?
00:18:55.160 Might this fear be a projection and a confession from Democrats who realize,
00:19:02.180 shoot, we have been behaving in a very naughty and maybe illegal way,
00:19:07.400 certainly unprecedented way, for four years.
00:19:09.920 And we thought we were always going to be in power.
00:19:11.660 And we thought we had our permanent electoral majority.
00:19:14.620 And uh-oh, not only did the Republicans win, but they won in a total landslide.
00:19:19.300 And they got unified government.
00:19:20.980 And Trump even won the popular vote.
00:19:22.940 And yikes, what's good for the goose might be good for the gander.
00:19:26.600 I think that's what's going on here.
00:19:28.760 I think it's the telltale heart.
00:19:30.160 I think it's a little bit of a guilty conscience, but far more than anything Pam Bondi has said or done.
00:19:35.700 That's what has Democrats worried about her.
00:19:38.720 Now, some good news, just before, even more good news, I guess I should say, just before the inauguration.
00:19:45.280 The FDA has just announced that it will ban red dye number three.
00:19:51.320 The crunchy moms, the right-wing hippies everywhere are going to be thrilled about that.
00:19:56.580 My wife, my wife is going to be thrilled about this.
00:19:59.380 Many women we know.
00:20:00.440 Now, this is unusual because 10, 15 years ago, the left was the political faction that cared about organic food and worried about Monsanto or whatever.
00:20:11.940 And thought that all sorts of things in our water and food supply were going to poison us.
00:20:15.720 And now that's totally flipped.
00:20:17.360 And it's flipped because the Democrats have become the party of corporations.
00:20:21.360 And Republicans have been the party of independents and dissidents and small businesses and local government.
00:20:29.340 That's what started to flip here.
00:20:31.700 Used to be when I was a kid, Republicans were the party of rich Uncle Pennybags and corporate America.
00:20:35.580 And the Democrats were the party of the little guy and the independent, the weirdo and the hippie.
00:20:40.860 And that's totally flipped now.
00:20:42.660 So you got to ask yourself this question.
00:20:46.060 Why is the FDA banning red dye now?
00:20:49.760 The FDA has known since 1990 that red three was linked to cancer.
00:20:56.680 They've known that for 30 years at this point, 35 years.
00:21:01.760 Red dye is linked to, well, it's found in candies, snacks, fruit products.
00:21:08.800 We're one of the last major countries to allow this stuff into our food.
00:21:13.780 The EU stopped its use in 94.
00:21:17.020 Japan, China, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
00:21:20.280 Why?
00:21:20.800 Why is this happening now?
00:21:22.180 Because Trump is about to be inaugurated.
00:21:24.280 And this is a Trump issue.
00:21:25.180 It's kind of like the ceasefire deal in the Middle East.
00:21:28.640 If this had happened six months ago, a year ago, you'd say, okay, it's because of Biden and his political program.
00:21:33.480 Here, this is the FDA trying to get ahead of something.
00:21:36.180 This is the FDA getting ready for Bobby Kennedy to come into office.
00:21:40.760 This is good regulation.
00:21:44.600 And this can happen now in part because of another major political shift,
00:21:50.640 which is that conservatives are warming up to some regulation.
00:21:55.180 When I was a kid, Republicans hated regulation.
00:21:57.460 They wanted to deregulate everything.
00:21:59.400 If they could shrink the government down into nothing, that would be better.
00:22:03.680 Some Republicans spoke as though they were anarchists, for goodness sakes.
00:22:06.780 The Democrats were the party of regulation in the popular consciousness.
00:22:12.080 But, of course, neither party is really totally for regulation or totally against regulation.
00:22:17.460 Democrats are pro-regulation when it comes to killing businesses.
00:22:20.760 They're pro-regulation when it comes to taking your money.
00:22:23.140 They're pro-regulation when it comes to taking children away from their parents and exposing children to radical gender ideology.
00:22:29.400 They're very much in favor of regulation there.
00:22:32.580 They're against regulation when it comes to, well, allowing people to do really weird, freaky stuff.
00:22:38.740 They're against regulation when it comes to drugs.
00:22:40.840 They're against regulation when it comes to sex.
00:22:43.040 They're against regulation, personal sexual behaviors.
00:22:45.340 They're against regulation when it comes to all sorts of derelict things.
00:22:48.940 And same goes for Republicans.
00:22:50.120 We like some regulations.
00:22:51.260 We don't like other regulations.
00:22:52.500 The question is not the procedural norm of do you regulate or not.
00:22:55.260 Now we recognize that the real debate is just over what kind of regulations are we going to have?
00:23:00.620 We're going to have a government.
00:23:01.640 We're going to pass laws.
00:23:03.100 We're going to do good and avoid evil, I hope.
00:23:05.040 So what's good?
00:23:06.820 What are we going to do?
00:23:08.280 What's bad?
00:23:09.260 It seems to me that red dyes that give you cancer so that the Twizzlers look a certain color.
00:23:13.460 That's probably bad.
00:23:15.500 I don't want to besmirch Twizzlers.
00:23:17.440 I don't know for a fact they use red dye number three.
00:23:19.300 I'm just taking a guess here.
00:23:20.820 Red dye is used in a lot of stuff.
00:23:22.740 That's bad.
00:23:23.820 Okay, that's a good regulation.
00:23:25.720 I'll take it.
00:23:26.640 I'll take this new, mature, robust Republican Party that is willing to get down and govern.
00:23:34.580 And we have a reminder here, the Daily Wire will be live in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, as he is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.
00:23:42.340 We are not just watching the story.
00:23:43.720 We are bringing it to you live and uncensored to celebrate the 47th President.
00:23:48.680 We are giving you 47% off new Daily Wire Plus memberships.
00:23:51.940 Plus, we're including a free $20 gift as a thank you for joining the fight.
00:23:55.260 Remember, Daily Wire Plus is the only place where you get our daily shows, ad-free, uncensored, plus unlimited access to premium entertainment, hit movies, groundbreaking documentaries.
00:24:05.320 Join the celebration.
00:24:05.940 Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe.
00:24:09.360 You will get 47% off your membership today.
00:24:12.740 Speaking of other major changes and regulations, TikTok is planning to shut its app for U.S. users on Sunday, just as I was about to become a TikTok star.
00:24:26.200 Federal ban going into effect, unless the Supreme Court blocks it.
00:24:31.880 So the Supreme Court could block this law from going into effect and save TikTok.
00:24:37.000 And I'm sure many Zoomers would like that to occur.
00:24:40.460 Now, China, which created TikTok, is trying to get around this.
00:24:45.560 There's a new app that many, many millions of Americans are downloading to try to evade the ban.
00:24:51.420 But right now, it looks as though TikTok could be killed.
00:24:55.740 And this also would seem to be because President Trump's about to take office.
00:25:01.160 And Republicans have been really vocal about the ban on TikTok.
00:25:04.660 They've been very supportive of it.
00:25:06.000 In principle, I'm supportive of it.
00:25:08.460 I don't think anyone has a right, a natural right, a human right, a constitutional right to this app.
00:25:14.580 I think the app is probably bad for you.
00:25:16.980 So I think social media in general, people should try to minimize their use of it.
00:25:20.940 In principle, I'm all for a TikTok ban, especially because you have an adversarial nation that could easily use TikTok and probably is using TikTok to spread propaganda to our nation.
00:25:33.700 However, I've got to ask myself, who is most in favor of the TikTok ban?
00:25:40.940 It's not Republican congressmen.
00:25:43.360 It's not Republican senators.
00:25:45.060 The people who are most in support of the TikTok ban are Facebook and YouTube and Google.
00:25:54.080 The people who are the most supportive people, that's going to be Mark Zuckerberg.
00:25:57.580 That's going to be Sundar Pichai.
00:25:59.020 That's going to be the big tech bros in America.
00:26:02.320 And why?
00:26:03.920 Well, because if you kill TikTok, you're killing off major competition for Instagram reels and Google shorts, YouTube shorts.
00:26:12.760 That's why.
00:26:14.060 And then I think, all right, well, let me think about those corporations for a second.
00:26:16.640 So I don't love TikTok.
00:26:19.060 I don't love China.
00:26:20.760 But I do know that Facebook and Instagram have been censoring me for years.
00:26:25.160 That's all come out.
00:26:25.960 Zuckerberg's admitted that.
00:26:27.440 He said, hey, now that Trump's coming into office, don't worry.
00:26:29.460 We're going to fire the fact checkers and we're going to, you know, it'll be cool.
00:26:31.960 We're cool, right, Republicans?
00:26:33.220 You definitely don't want to regulate me or wield antitrust against me or anything, right?
00:26:39.240 Too little too late, if you ask me.
00:26:41.240 So I know that Facebook has been trying to kill me for years, kill my political voice.
00:26:46.700 And I know that Google and YouTube have been a little rough on conservatives too, haven't they?
00:26:51.760 They've censored a lot of things that conservatives want to say, a lot of true things, especially, most obviously, during COVID, especially during the contentious 2020 election.
00:27:03.020 But they've censored all sorts of other things.
00:27:06.180 So I think, hold on.
00:27:07.060 I don't necessarily need to conclude that the enemy of my enemy is my friend to recognize that TikTok is a good counterbalance to Facebook and YouTube.
00:27:18.760 And maybe Republicans shouldn't be so fast to celebrate it's shutting down.
00:27:24.780 My ideal world is Facebook and Google and YouTube get in line.
00:27:28.980 And then we can turn off the Chinese app and we can just have good, normal public square in America.
00:27:35.320 If Facebook and YouTube are not willing to play ball, throw a little TikTok in there, make them play ball.
00:27:41.040 Speaking of digital media, Sam Alito, the great Supreme Court justice, has asked a wonderful question about pornography.
00:27:57.040 People are making fun of him for it, but it's actually a really, really good question that gets to an issue far beyond pornography, actually.
00:28:03.260 It gets to questions of free speech in the public square.
00:28:06.400 Sam Alito asked if Pornhub.com has essays in it by Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.
00:28:15.100 He said, this is while they are considering HB 1181.
00:28:21.720 This is a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify the age of users.
00:28:27.080 Very simple stuff.
00:28:28.460 Pornhub repeatedly has demonstrated that it would rather totally cease to do business in a state
00:28:34.780 rather than comply with a simple law that says you got to make sure that kids aren't looking at your product.
00:28:42.340 That's it.
00:28:43.180 To me, that says a lot about a company.
00:28:46.240 But Pornhub is challenging this, of course.
00:28:49.500 And they don't want to, quote, use reasonable age verification messages to limit the distribution of their product.
00:28:57.280 So the Free Speech Coalition, which is a porn association, they call it Free Speech Coalition, but it's just pro-obscenity.
00:29:05.480 It's pro-licentiousness.
00:29:07.840 They're trying to block this law.
00:29:09.900 And Alito says one of the parties here is the owner of Pornhub.
00:29:14.560 Is it like the old Playboy magazine?
00:29:17.420 You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.
00:29:21.460 Everyone's making fun of him.
00:29:22.620 They're saying, you old boomer, you don't know what Pornhub.com is.
00:29:26.060 You know, I think he does.
00:29:27.860 I think Sam Alito, one of the most intelligent men in the country, one of the greatest jurists in the country,
00:29:33.200 I think he knows the answer to his question.
00:29:35.240 And I think most good lawyers know you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer.
00:29:39.520 What he's pointing out is the kind of free speech arguments that were made in defense of Playboy half a century ago
00:29:48.120 do not hold for these digital media porn companies, in this case Pornhub, the biggest porn company in the world.
00:29:57.340 Back in the day, people could say, oh, I read Playboy for the articles.
00:30:01.440 And they were probably being disingenuous, but the pro-porn faction pointed to the essays, pointed to the articles,
00:30:09.020 and said, no, see, this has redeeming artistic merit.
00:30:12.360 And so you can't call it obscenity and you can't ban it as porn.
00:30:16.580 Do you know anyone who watches Pornhub for the articles?
00:30:20.380 Do you?
00:30:20.980 I don't want to ask.
00:30:22.920 Look, who knows?
00:30:23.960 I don't want to log in and check to see if they've got articles on the website.
00:30:30.280 But something tells me they don't.
00:30:33.120 What is the significance of essays?
00:30:37.480 Well, it gets to the Miller test.
00:30:38.800 The Miller test is the court's test to figure out what is obscene.
00:30:43.420 Obscene content is not protected by the First Amendment.
00:30:47.200 There's no right to go strip naked and perform a lewd act in the middle of the street.
00:30:51.720 That's not free speech.
00:30:52.760 So the Miller test says that a work, in order to be considered obscenity, has to appeal to the prurient interest according to contemporary community standards.
00:31:06.820 So it's got to appeal to lust.
00:31:09.280 It's got to depict in a patently offensive way sexual content.
00:31:13.880 And it has to lack serious artistic, political, or scientific value.
00:31:19.140 Beautiful question from Alito.
00:31:20.840 I think it should be absolutely deadly to Pornhub's case here.
00:31:26.960 No one's watching Pornhub for the articles.
00:31:29.260 So they can either institute reasonable age verification measures to make sure that little kids aren't using their product.
00:31:35.120 Or it seems they really don't want to do that.
00:31:37.840 They're just terrified of having to do that to make sure that kids aren't looking at their product.
00:31:42.740 So then they're going to have to stop doing business in places like Texas.
00:31:45.980 Okay, works for me.
00:31:47.040 Speaking of artistic merit, you're going to want to sit down for this one, folks.
00:31:52.220 Pull out a hanky if you have it.
00:31:53.560 Maybe pull out the world's smallest violin.
00:31:54.960 Over 200 Hunter Biden paintings have been lost in the L.A. fires.
00:32:02.740 You know, Hunter has been hiding out in, I think, in Malibu.
00:32:06.320 And he's been doing his little doodles, his little bubble paintings.
00:32:10.180 And he's been selling them for a lot of money.
00:32:12.320 Well, over 200 of his paintings, reportedly worth millions of dollars, have been destroyed in the fires.
00:32:22.180 Okay, I am not doubting that the Hunter Biden paintings have, at some point, been priced at a value worth millions of dollars.
00:32:33.460 I think that's true.
00:32:34.560 But if it makes Hunter Biden feel better, in four days, those paintings were going to be worthless.
00:32:39.600 Because the price of the paintings never had anything to do with the artistic quality of the paintings.
00:32:47.640 The price of the paintings was always just a way to launder money to the Biden family.
00:32:52.760 It was always a way to bribe the Biden family and to purchase political influence.
00:32:56.780 That's all it ever was.
00:32:58.140 I don't know if Hunter started to believe his own press releases, but his paintings are very, very bad.
00:33:05.360 It was just a way to buy off his father.
00:33:09.600 So, okay, it's sad.
00:33:11.260 He loses four days of opportunity to enrich himself even further.
00:33:15.880 But even then, Joe Biden's not running the country.
00:33:17.800 No one thinks Biden is responsible for anything going on in the country right now.
00:33:20.800 So, I guess they were already worthless.
00:33:22.960 Now, speaking of the Bidens, you know, this is totally unsurprising.
00:33:29.220 Biden is trying to take credit for that ceasefire deal.
00:33:32.320 We'll see if his argument holds up.
00:33:33.980 First, I want to tell you about my favorite comment yesterday.
00:33:36.580 It's from Gina.
00:33:37.900 He said, Michael, when you made the comment today about Tim Kaine being almost one heartbeat away from the presidency,
00:33:44.880 I thought you said harpy away from the presidency, which is still fitting.
00:33:49.240 Love your show.
00:33:49.860 Good point.
00:33:50.760 Good point.
00:33:51.840 I could have said either.
00:33:52.720 It would not have changed my meaning.
00:33:54.660 Joe Biden's trying to take credit for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
00:33:58.840 Statement from President Biden.
00:34:02.400 Does anyone think he's even read this?
00:34:04.680 Today, after many months of intensive diplomacy by the United States, along with Egypt and Qatar,
00:34:09.240 Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage deal.
00:34:13.660 I laid out the precise contours of this plan on May 31st, after which it was endorsed by the UN Security Council.
00:34:20.840 So, he's saying, I did this.
00:34:21.960 I did that.
00:34:22.580 This is my plan.
00:34:23.580 Even though it's happening right before Trump gets inaugurated, it's me.
00:34:26.660 Actually, seriously, guys, we welcome the news.
00:34:29.720 I will speak about this soon.
00:34:30.980 I am thrilled for all the stuff that I did.
00:34:35.960 This reminds me of Jimmy Carter and Iran.
00:34:40.260 Some of you are old enough to remember that just as President Reagan was being sworn into office,
00:34:48.960 the Iranians released American hostages.
00:34:51.880 The American hostages had been held for a very long time,
00:34:55.000 and the Carter administration totally failed to get them out.
00:34:58.280 And just as Reagan is being inaugurated, the hostages are released.
00:35:01.840 And the Carter administration tried to take credit for it.
00:35:05.360 So, we're the ones doing the negotiations.
00:35:07.520 We're the ones doing the diplomacy.
00:35:09.540 Yeah, maybe.
00:35:10.480 But had Reagan not been inaugurated that day, do you really think that the hostages would have been released?
00:35:17.360 No.
00:35:18.300 It was so clear.
00:35:19.380 It couldn't have been clearer.
00:35:20.400 However, the Iranians released the hostages because Reagan was coming into office.
00:35:25.660 And the same thing here.
00:35:27.040 This ceasefire is happening.
00:35:28.620 You want to talk about Joe Biden predicting things and offering specific solutions?
00:35:34.500 Donald Trump, after he gets elected, he goes, hey, you're going to wrap up that war.
00:35:39.120 Figure it out.
00:35:40.420 You, Hamas, you're in trouble for the next few months.
00:35:43.440 And you, Bibi, I like you, and I support Israel.
00:35:46.100 It's great and everything.
00:35:47.040 But wrap it up.
00:35:47.820 I am not going to deal with this when I'm president.
00:35:49.800 Figure it out.
00:35:52.180 And guess what happened?
00:35:53.580 We have a ceasefire deal.
00:35:54.580 Now, there's some question over whether or not the sides are going to honor the ceasefire deal.
00:35:59.280 I am fairly optimistic, at least over the next month or so.
00:36:04.300 Because I don't think Trump's going to put up with this.
00:36:06.300 But Trump, ironically, is much, much, much more pro-Israel than Joe Biden.
00:36:14.300 And yet, perhaps even because of that, he might be able to wield a little power to say,
00:36:20.540 all right, Bibi, do what you got to do.
00:36:23.820 Whatever you want.
00:36:24.940 We're going to look the other way for a few minutes here.
00:36:26.620 And then it's over.
00:36:28.620 Okay?
00:36:29.480 And that's not going to be thanks to the diplomacy of Joe Biden, certainly.
00:36:32.660 Now, speaking of the Bidens, I've said for months now,
00:36:38.640 you cannot convince me that Jill Biden and Joe Biden voted for Kamala.
00:36:44.340 In fact, increasingly, I would say, you can't convince me they didn't vote for Trump.
00:36:48.900 Jill shows up on election day to vote, cameras all over, wearing a red dress.
00:36:55.340 After Kamala lost, Joe Biden is making remarks at the White House.
00:36:58.960 And she says, aren't we all just feeling joy this season?
00:37:01.640 Aren't we all feeling so much joy in this Christmas season?
00:37:05.700 Because joy was the pathetic attempt at a campaign slogan.
00:37:08.920 Sort of like fetch in Mean Girls.
00:37:10.560 That Kamala never made it happen, but she really tried.
00:37:13.220 Seemed clear as day to me.
00:37:14.820 Jill, I think, voted for Trump.
00:37:17.320 Joe, I don't know.
00:37:18.260 Maybe Joe wrote in his own name.
00:37:20.260 Maybe Joe wrote in Mickey Mouse.
00:37:21.600 Did Joe even vote?
00:37:22.340 I don't know.
00:37:23.940 But now we got proof.
00:37:25.500 Jill Biden is on the record.
00:37:26.580 She was talking to the Washington Post.
00:37:27.600 First, she was asked about her reaction to the Democrat Party pushing her husband out.
00:37:33.900 And she says, let's just say I was disappointed with how it unfolded.
00:37:38.640 I learned a lot about human nature.
00:37:40.900 She was asked about Nancy Pelosi in particular.
00:37:43.140 And Jill said, I've been thinking a lot about relationships.
00:37:47.960 It's been on my mind a lot lately.
00:37:50.620 And we were friends for 50 years.
00:37:55.000 It was disappointing.
00:37:57.880 50 years.
00:37:58.660 That's right.
00:37:58.920 These people have been around for a long time.
00:38:01.900 Joe Biden got elected to the Senate, what, 1972?
00:38:07.040 Nancy Pelosi has been in the federal government since, I think, 1861.
00:38:11.940 So it was somewhere around there, right?
00:38:13.320 But it's been a long time with these people.
00:38:18.120 And Nancy shoved her good friends, the Bidens, right under the bus the moment it became convenient.
00:38:24.840 And Jill Biden didn't like that.
00:38:28.540 There's a lot of infighting.
00:38:29.840 We always focus on the infighting on the Republican side because there is a lot of infighting.
00:38:35.280 But there is a different kind of infighting on the Republican side versus the Democrat side.
00:38:39.620 The Republican infighting, I think, is primarily ideological because there is no homogeneity to the Republican coalition.
00:38:49.020 You have libertarians.
00:38:50.000 You have neocons.
00:38:51.100 You have traditionalists.
00:38:52.420 You have social conservatives.
00:38:53.340 You have the religious right.
00:38:54.180 You have this.
00:38:54.540 You have that.
00:38:54.860 You have the other thing.
00:38:56.340 On the Democrat side, you just have progressives.
00:38:58.640 Now, you have infighting on both.
00:38:59.720 But on the Republican side, it is ideological.
00:39:04.040 On the Democrat side, I think it is personal.
00:39:06.320 I think it is opportunistic.
00:39:07.620 I think it is cynical.
00:39:09.800 And that's what you saw here.
00:39:11.360 Nancy Pelosi, to this day, by the way, still defends pushing Biden out.
00:39:15.440 Says if Biden had gotten out sooner, maybe we could have gotten a good candidate in, unlike Kamala Harris, and then maybe we would have beaten Trump.
00:39:21.040 I think Biden would have done better against Trump than Kamala Harris did.
00:39:25.260 I don't even think that should be particularly controversial.
00:39:28.100 I still think Trump would have beaten Biden.
00:39:30.260 But I think Biden's right to think he would have done better than Kamala.
00:39:33.400 In any case, the Democrats are all fighting each other.
00:39:36.240 It's not about ideas.
00:39:37.420 It's not about the common good.
00:39:38.440 It's not about what they think is best for America.
00:39:40.260 They're just fighting petty personal grudges.
00:39:42.520 And I am totally here for it.
00:39:44.060 Okay.
00:39:44.980 Speaking of bitterness, there's a story I meant to get to yesterday.
00:39:48.600 A priest in Spain has been accused of a hate crime after a practicing homosexual socialist mayor was not permitted to receive Holy Communion.
00:40:01.600 Now, for those of you who are not Catholic, I'll give you a little primer here.
00:40:06.480 To receive Holy Communion, one must be in a state of grace.
00:40:09.860 That means one must have confessed one's sins and have avoided mortal sin, at least, since that time.
00:40:19.380 It's just getting to socialism.
00:40:21.400 Putting homosexuality aside for a second.
00:40:23.160 Just socialism.
00:40:24.400 The popes have been very clear.
00:40:26.360 A Catholic cannot be a socialist.
00:40:28.880 Pope John XXIII said it well.
00:40:30.660 He said, a Catholic cannot subscribe even to a moderate form of socialism.
00:40:37.700 Pope Leo XIII writes about this in Rerum Novorum.
00:40:40.980 This is reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II in Centesimus Annu.
00:40:46.440 You have a number of the Piuses.
00:40:49.260 Pius, I think Pius X, the XI, the XI, the XII, the XII, talking about, maybe Pius IX, talking about how Catholics can't be socialists.
00:40:56.500 So, that alone would be a big problem for this mayor.
00:41:00.260 Add on to that, that he's a practicing homosexual.
00:41:03.140 This is one of the sins that historically, one of the four sins that historically has been understood to cry out to God for vengeance.
00:41:09.160 This is a grave mortal sin that is disordered and requires confession and absolution.
00:41:15.640 And the guy, who knows about the other problems?
00:41:17.400 But anyway, if he's very public, and he's a public figure about these sins, it makes perfect sense for the priest to say,
00:41:23.000 hey, you need to go confess.
00:41:26.880 You need to do what the Catholics do in order to receive Holy Communion.
00:41:30.840 And the mayor says no.
00:41:32.180 He wants to accuse him of a hate crime here.
00:41:35.860 The reason that a priest would withhold Holy Communion from this mayor is for the mayor's own good.
00:41:42.180 Because St. Paul says that if you receive our Lord in the Holy Communion, and you are not in a state of grace, you are eating your own damnation.
00:41:50.940 So it is actually an act of charity to withhold the Holy Communion from such a person until they get their life back in order.
00:41:58.880 The mayor says no.
00:42:00.860 You have to give it to me.
00:42:02.520 Why?
00:42:03.140 Why does the mayor want Holy Communion so badly?
00:42:05.620 He doesn't want to follow the faith.
00:42:07.200 He doesn't want to follow the teachings of the Catholic Church.
00:42:09.580 He clearly doesn't believe the Holy Communion is what Catholics believe the Holy Communion is.
00:42:14.420 So why does he care so much?
00:42:16.100 Because this is radicalism.
00:42:22.560 This is what radicalism always does.
00:42:25.140 It seeks to make reality bend to its own fantasies.
00:42:32.320 This is what it does.
00:42:33.860 This is just like same-sex marriage.
00:42:35.660 I have no particular issue with people who have certain afflictions and inclinations like that.
00:42:44.140 But you can't tell me that marriage is other than it is.
00:42:49.480 When a LGBT activist says, we demand same-sex marriage, we demand marriage equality, I say, well, I can't give that to you.
00:42:56.880 Because marriage just is what it is.
00:42:58.480 It's like you're asking for wet fire.
00:43:02.100 There's just no such thing as wet fire.
00:43:03.860 It's not within the nature of fire to be wet.
00:43:08.900 I demand a dark sun.
00:43:10.980 Well, I can't give you a dark sun.
00:43:13.120 It is not within the nature of the sun to be dark.
00:43:17.700 Well, I demand Catholic Holy Communion, but I'm not going to practice the Catholic faith.
00:43:24.360 Well, I can't.
00:43:25.060 I'm sorry.
00:43:25.820 The priest says I can't give you that.
00:43:26.940 When they are demanding these so-called rights, what they are really demanding is a redefinition of reality.
00:43:34.860 And I can't give them that, and a politician can't give them that, and even a priest can't give them that.
00:43:39.860 Their issue is not with any of us.
00:43:41.460 Their issue is with reality.
00:43:42.780 Now, speaking of priests, we have a marvelous priest and a famous priest, a celebrated priest coming on the show.
00:43:49.540 That would be one of the top podcasters in America, Father Mike Schmitz.
00:43:55.080 The rest of the show continues.
00:43:55.900 Now, you do not want to miss it.
00:43:57.360 Become a member.
00:43:58.040 Use code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.
00:44:01.980 You do not want to miss it.
00:44:04.180 The rest of the show continues.
00:44:09.480 See you next time.
00:44:11.880 Now, come to us.
00:44:13.160 The rest of the show.
00:44:14.160 Here we go.
00:44:20.040 Thank you.