Ep. 1664 - Tulsi, Patel, & RFK Jr. Confirmation RECAP In 5 Mins
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Summary
Kash Patel, Tulsi, Kash Patel, and Bobby Kennedy all face hostile senators in their confirmation hearings. Things got very feisty. President Trump weighs in on the deadly plane crash over the Potomac. A transvestite is caught trying to murder prominent Republicans.
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Tulsi, Kash Patel, and Bobby Kennedy all face down hostile senators in their confirmation hearings.
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Kash actually dropped a hard R. Things got very feisty.
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President Trump weighs in on the deadly plane crash over the Potomac.
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And because it is a day that ends in Y, a transvestite is caught trying to murder prominent Republicans.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. We got a new Michael and dropping long form interview.
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This one's going to be saucy, okay? This is going to cause people to react.
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For better or worse, there's going to be rending of garments, gnashing of teeth.
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This was hardcore. Kash Patel is up for the FBI director.
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Kash Patel is Indian of birth. I think he's, I forget the name.
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The region of India that begins with a G. India is a very big place.
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But as a result, he has faced sometimes a little bit of discrimination, at the very least, untoward comments.
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And he did not hesitate to mention some of those comments during his Senate confirmation hearing.
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Fortunately, Senator, yes. I want to get into those details of my family here.
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Let's get into a few of them. Tell me about it.
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Well, if you look at the record from January 6th, where I testified before that committee, because of my personal information being released by Congress, I was subjected to a direct and significant threat on my life.
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And I put that information in the record. I had to move in that threat.
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I was called a detestable and I apologize if I don't get it all right, but it's in the record.
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A detestable who had no right being in this country.
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But that's nothing compared to what the men and women in law enforcement face every day.
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All right. We dipped the word, but I don't know why we did.
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He said that he's been called a sand, N-I-double-G-E-R.
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He's bringing this up because this is going to be a tight vote.
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There are a lot of Democrats, even some Republicans, who don't want Cash Patel to have this job for reasons that we'll get to momentarily.
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In this case, he's going to play the race card.
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This reminds me of Clarence Thomas, who had been dragged through the mud by Joe Biden, in fact, during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
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And then he finally put to rest all of the attacks on him when he sat before the Senate committee.
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And he said, this is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
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And it's a message that if you don't kowtow to an old order, you'll be lynched.
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You'll be digitally lynched rather than hung from a tree.
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And the minute that Clarence Thomas said that, you can see Biden's head went straight down.
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And the vote went just fine for Justice Thomas.
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So I think that's what Cash Patel is doing here.
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He is drawing attention to a legitimate wrong from Congress, which is that Congress doxed him.
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He was getting so much hatred after the Senate and congressional Democrats were ginning up all this hate against Cash Patel.
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And just to drive the point home, he was called a sand, N-I-double-G-E-R.
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Does that make a Democrat senator 5% more likely to vote for him?
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Does that make a squish Republican senator 5% more likely to vote for him?
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These hearings can be won or lost on the margins.
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So I think he's throwing everything, including the kitchen sink.
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Now, the great assist yesterday during Patel's hearing came from Senator John Kennedy.
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My publisher, my editor, some years ago, sent me a quiz to see if you could identify who said a given quote,
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And he set up Cash Patel so beautifully on the chief argument against Patel's nomination,
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namely that Patel is a, quote, unquote, conspiracy theorist.
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It sounds to me like we need to get some new conspiracy theories because all the old ones turned out to be true.
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I mean, conspiracy theorists are up something like 37 and nothing.
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And you can tell Patel just wants to let Kennedy do it.
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He doesn't want to say anything that could in any way seem like he's agreeing that conspiracy theories are true.
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We were told, in fact, this conspiracy theory the New York Times and the CIA just admitted was true.
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We were told that the COVID didn't leak from a laboratory in Wuhan.
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We were told that it came from a bad batch of bat soup, maybe a nasty little pangolin over at a wet market.
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The CIA agrees with that now, the New York Times.
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And I remember I was interviewing some years ago a very, very senior member of the Trump administration, the first Trump administration.
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And we were chatting about the interview beforehand.
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And I said, you know, I would like to hit this person, that person, and this person.
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Are you comfortable if I raise these questions?
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And the person I was interviewing, very, very senior member of the administration, said, oh, I certainly think you should raise those questions.
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I might not be able to answer, but you should definitely raise it.
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So that was the impression I got here from Kennedy.
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Now, Bobby Kennedy also showed up yesterday for his second day of confirmation hearings.
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He was a little bit scrappier yesterday, more inclined to fight, as we saw when he went after Bernie Sanders.
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I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in the world right now.
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Will you guarantee do what every other major country does?
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And by the way, Bernie, you know, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies.
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Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.
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They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry.
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In 2020, you were the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money.
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Because I had four contributions from workers all over this country.
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Bernie, you were the single largest except for pharmaceutical dollars.
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All right, so Bernie actually had the best response that he could have had to this attack from Bobby Kennedy.
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It was the workers in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Now, that doesn't make it all that much better.
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Obviously, Bernie Sanders is doing something that appeals to the workers in the pharmaceutical industry.
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The pharmaceutical industry that needs reform, that most people agree needs reform.
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So I guess it's a little better as a matter of optics that it's not just rich uncle penny bags from the C-suite at Big Pharma.
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But still, I thought, even with Bernie's good response, I thought this was one of the best attacks from Bobby Kennedy.
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He has struggled a little bit in these confirmation hearings.
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But all in, I think he'll probably get through.
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She made her debut yesterday at the confirmation hearings.
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Eloquent, good-looking, intelligent, great record of service.
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Former Democrat, ran for president as a Democrat, was a Democrat congressman.
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And some Republicans are skeptical of her, too.
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Because she does not tow the old uniparty line for decades now in Washington.
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There has more or less been a consensus on foreign policy.
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Not always on domestic policy, but on foreign policy.
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they told me that if I voted for John McCain, we'd get another war in the Middle East.
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I voted for John McCain, we got another war in the Middle East.
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And in part, this makes sense because nations and empires need to have grand strategy that doesn't change every four years.
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But sometimes the American people put in a change agent.
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And Trump has followed that mandate from the American people.
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He's nominated Tulsi Gabbard to be the top spy.
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The American people elected Donald Trump as their president not once but twice.
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And yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency
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Title I of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page
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using a Clinton campaign-funded false dossier as their so-called evidence.
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Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the 51 former senior intelligence officials
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lettered dismissing Hunter Biden's laptop as disinformation specifically to help Biden win the election.
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Former DNI James Clapper lied to this committee in 2013 denying the existence of programs
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that facilitated the mass collection of millions of Americans' phone and Internet records,
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Under John Brennan's leadership, the CIA abused its power to spy on Congress,
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to dodge oversight, lied about doing it until he was caught,
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Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics
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who attend traditional Latin mass, labeling them as quote-unquote radical traditionalist Catholics.
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Greatest confirmation hearing for a DNI in my lifetime.
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Of all the corruption in the government, the corruption in the intelligence community over
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the last 10 years has been perhaps the most egregious.
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You have the intel agencies and the DOJ conspiring with the Democrats to cook up a bunch of nonsense
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on Trump to prevent him from being elected the first time.
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Then you got the deep state and the intel agencies conspiring to try to undermine Trump's entire administration.
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Then you got the deep state and all the intel agencies conspiring to suggest that Trump is some threat to national security in 2020.
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Does Tulsi Gabbard sound like a KGB stooge to you?
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She sounds like she's identifying real problems, real problems that have been festering for decades.
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In the case, that last example she mentioned, spying on my churches, okay?
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The traditional Latin mass, the mass of the ages that existed from roughly 600 A.D. as the major form of the Roman right all the way to after the Second Vatican Council and still exists in a lot of places.
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And so, no, I don't want some regular uniparty apparatchik.
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And the squish Democrats, or rather the hardcore Democrats are going to hate her.
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The squish Republicans better tread very, very carefully.
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The American people voted for change, specifically on the IC.
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And if some Republican senators don't get the message, they're going to be left behind.
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Now, in part, Tulsi was called a Russian stooge because she raised a point about the Middle East that is a point that I've made on this show for many, many years.
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Namely, that while all the neocons and the establishment foreign policy folks have been clamoring for regime change in Syria, actually, that old Bashar Assad wasn't so bad.
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And sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
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I shed no tears for the fall of the Assad regime.
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But today we have an Islamist extremist who is now in charge of Syria, as I said, who danced on the streets to celebrate the 9-11 attack, who ruled over Idlib with an Islamist extremist governance, and who has already begun to persecute and kill and arrest religious minorities like Christians in Syria.
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Why that should be acceptable to anyone is beyond me.
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Why does the Uniparty, why does the foreign policy establishment hate Iran so much, and why have they been so obsessed with getting rid of Bashar Assad?
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And because it's good for Turkey, our longstanding NATO ally, if Assad goes down.
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Okay, I get why Turkey wanted Assad to go down.
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It's good for the state of Israel for Assad to go down, because Assad was a puppet of Iran.
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Iran is the chief enemy of the state of Israel.
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These are all three longstanding allies of the United States.
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I get why Saudi Arabia wants Assad to go down, because Saudi Arabia's chief opponent is also Iran.
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Is it really, for all of Bashar Assad's sins, the guy actually did protect religious minorities, much more so than these radical Islamists are going to.
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He protected Christians a lot more than these radical Islamists are going to.
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That's going to appeal to a lot of American people.
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It's going to make the foreign policy establishment in the Beltway, it's going to make their head explode.
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Sometimes people get so lost in grand strategy, so lost.
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They can explain in all sorts of abstract theories why it's great to have some psycho Islamist take over a major country in the Middle East.
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But I think we need to inject a little more common sense again.
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I think that's exactly what Tulsi's DNI appointment is about.
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Now, Trump himself came out and spoke yesterday, took over the press conference, and he wasted no time blaming the policies of the past administration for that plane crash over the Potomac.
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I want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one.
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The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
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And then it says, FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers.
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This was on January 14th, so that was a week before I entered office.
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They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program.
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And then another article, the Federal Aviation Administration, this was before I got to office, recently, second term.
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The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website.
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I follow news very closely, obviously, got my nose in politics.
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The FAA made a point intentionally to hire people who were mentally retarded or insane, according to that news report that the president just read.
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We're not talking about diversity like you hire a couple more black guys or you get a lady in the air traffic control room.
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I think most Americans, even many Democrats are going to hear that.
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They're going to say, you've got to be kidding me.
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And then, not to put too fine a point on it, Trump said that Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden's transportation secretary, is largely responsible.
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The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a real winner.
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Do you know how badly everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation?
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He ran his city into the ground and he's a disaster now.
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The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating civil aviation.
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Well, he runs it, 45,000 people, and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity.
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You might like Trump coming out day after a major tragedy and blaming Buttigieg and the policies of the past administration.
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You might, and I suspect there are a lot of people in this category, pretend not to like that but secretly like that.
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The one thing you cannot do is deny that that is a big part of why he got elected.
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That guy, the guy who tells the emperor that he has no clothes, that guy got elected by most Americans.
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Most people would say, oh, we can't talk about it.
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I mean, the FAA did try to hire severely intellectually incapacitated people.
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But, you know, we can't necessarily, and Trump comes out there, he says, hey, the past administration made it a point to hire retarded people and lunatics to run this agency.
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No wonder there are problems, and Buttigieg is a complete disaster.
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Please don't tell me that isn't a big part of why people elected President Trump.
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And part of the reason they were inclined to elect him for things like that is because the government has been run so incompetently, with such corruption, so dishonestly, for so long.
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My next Michael And is going to irritate a lot of people.
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I think a lot of people are going to like it, but it's going to irritate a lot of people.
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Probably the biggest, not the biggest one of these interviews I ever did, but the one that caused the most controversy, was when I sat down with Nala Ray, who was the most prominent porn performer in the entire world.
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And then she decided to quit porn and become a Christian and totally change her life.
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And I sat down with her right after she made that decision, and a lot of people did not believe her.
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They had a lot of follow-up questions with her.
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This time, she is joined by her husband to address the rumors, to address certain lies, to answer certain criticisms.
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Really shook the internet the first time you came on.
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People were tagging me on social media, and they said, see, Michael, here's proof that she lied to you.
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Everything I've said on podcasts is complete clickbait.
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Because then that means I can change my ways and still get saved.
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People have criticized you because they say, you made all this money.
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Where's the penance they say you should give all your money away?
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It's coming out tomorrow on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the Denver's Workshop, Norm's Music, who says,
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Elizabeth Warren's voice makes RFK sound like Pavarotti.
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Her voice just does something to my inner ear and to my soul that is deeply painful.
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Speaking of the deadly crash over the Potomac, we're getting a little bit more information.
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Now, Forbes is reporting that the air tower had been understaffed.
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So, Forbes is reporting former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called Trump's claim
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that the FAA was made unsafe by DEI hiring practices despicable.
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And criticized him for what he called his move to, quote, fire and suspend some of the
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But Forbes goes on and says, the air traffic controller who's handling the helicopters near
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the airport Wednesday night was also directing commercial planes in takeoff and landing, jobs
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that are usually assigned to two separate people, according to an internal preliminary Federal
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Aviation Administration safety report seen by the Times.
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The tower at the airport has been understaffed for years, the Times reported.
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So, if we're playing the blame game, Buttigieg says it's Trump's fault.
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Well, here's some good evidence that it was Buttigieg and Biden's fault if the tower at
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There's some theories now that possibly the helicopter flew into the plane intentionally.
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Again, I haven't seen a lot of evidence for this.
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The helicopter was flying about 100 feet above where he was supposed to be flying.
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I'm trying to be a little circumspect here and trying to be cautious.
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But in this case, you're going to hear a lot of people screeching about how Trump blamed
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You're not going to see a lot of people screeching about how Buttigieg did the exact same thing
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But then when we play the race card, we start to hem and haw and clutch our pearls.
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They would do it to us if it's going to get our guy through and there's nothing intrinsically
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Donald Trump is pointing out that the policies at the FAA in recent years have been absolutely
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You know the left would be saying that about Trump if the roles were reversed here.
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A lot of the reason Trump got elected is because he is willing to get in the muck and the dirt
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and fight in a way that Democrats fight, that Republicans traditionally have not been willing
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President Trump posts to Truth Social last night.
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He says, the idea that BRICS countries, BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South
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The idea that the BRICS countries are trying to move away from the US dollar, which we stand
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We are going to require commitment from these seemingly hostile countries that they will
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neither create a new BRICS currency nor back any other currency to replace the mighty
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There will be no trade with the United States and should expect to say goodbye to selling
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There is no chance that BRICS will replace the U.S. dollar in international trade or anywhere
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And any country that tries should say hello to tariffs and goodbye to America.
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Okay, this is not just Trump shooting from the hip or being reflexive or reactionary.
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This is a really important part of U.S. grand strategy.
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Okay, there have been threats for years that the BRICS countries are going to create a currency
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That would be very, very bad for us for a whole host of reasons.
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How we borrow money, how the whole U.S. economy functions.
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So Trump is saying, you're not going to get that.
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And if you try, we're going to place 100% tariffs, which helps you to understand why Trump
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came so hard on Colombia when Colombia refused the flight of illegal aliens, the criminals
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that we shipped out of our country back to Colombia.
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Colombia said, we're not going to accept the airplanes.
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And Trump said, okay, well, you're going to get a 25% tariff on all your goods.
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It's going to jump to 50% next week if you don't shape up.
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And we're going to place some economic sanctions on you.
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We're going to freeze your visas and your passports.
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We're going to come down with the hammer, okay?
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An hour later, Colombia caved, and the president of Colombia sent the presidential jet to pick
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A lot of people at the time said, man, Trump is really coming down hard without much reason.
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Well, I think probably coming down hard with the tariffs on Colombia is really more about
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It's about Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, the more important economies.
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This, he had to punish Colombia to prove he would do it.
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It's kind of like dropping the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Also, to let the Soviet Union know that we have the bomb.
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I think that's what the tariffs in Colombia was largely about.
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You got to be thinking, look, maybe he's bluffing.
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Maybe there's only a 10% chance he really follows through.
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A lot of people doubted that Trump would really wield tariffs for his foreign policy.
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Now, a lot of people on the left are not taking this lying down.
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And because it's a day that ends in Y, a transvestite has been arrested for trying to murder
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I found this because there was a story in local news that said Franklin County residents
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South Deerfield, Mass., a woman who lived in South Deerfield, was arrested on Monday in
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Washington, D.C. after police say he was threatening to kill some of Trump's cabinet members.
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Then he, okay, well, you see at the end why you got the disagreement between the noun and
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It says, this story previously identified the defendant as Ryan Michael English, the name
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But in a memo Wednesday, English's attorney clarified that her client uses the name Riley
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So a transvestite fella, a transgender, you know, someone who thinks he's really is the
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A lunatic who is confused about the most basic aspects of human nature is behaving in a lunatic
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The only people who are shocked by this are the media.
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The only people who are shocked by this are the Democrat operatives.
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No one, no one else with any common sense is shocked by this.
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And this guy apparently wanted to kill Pete Hegseth over at the Pentagon, wanted to kill
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Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, wanted to kill Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary.
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And when the Democrats were in charge, they wouldn't follow common sense.
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In fact, they would try to hire the people who were crazy or who had intellectual deficiencies
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that would compromise their ability to do their job.
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Under the Trump administration, we got to find a place for everyone in society, people
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who have mental problems, people who are a little bit slower, people who are a little
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But you don't want them in charge of really important jobs, and you don't want them to
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be free to come down and try to murder the sitting cabinet.
00:29:44.680
Now, speaking of Pete Hegseth, Pete Hegseth just posted for the first time yesterday a
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video from the Pentagon, from his office, explaining what is going on specifically with the crash
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over the Potomac that involved a military helicopter.
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Just got off the phone with the SELCOM commander and the chairman, the Joint Chiefs, talking
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We're leaning forward on supporting the president's directive to make sure that we have a location
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for violent criminal illegals as they are deported out of the country.
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No one's going to wait on the Defense Department, and we're working that in real time.
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But I also wanted to give an update on the tragedy that happened last night here in Washington,
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D.C., and provide a little bit more information as we are actively working to investigate and
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At about 8.48 last night, a UH-60 assigned to the U.S. Army Aviation Brigade in the Military
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District of Washington, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, collided tragically with a civilian airliner.
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Um, the unit involved, the Army unit involved with Bravo Company 12th Aviation Battalion at
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Uh, it was an annual proficiency training flight, uh, and when we look at the crew, and we're
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not, all, not all can have been notified, so we're going to withhold ranks and names at
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this point, we do know, um, on our side who was involved.
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Trump vindicated once again on one of the biggest charges against him with his appointees,
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They say, oh, Trump's just filling up his whole administration with the lineup of Fox
00:31:28.980
Why is he, why is he putting all these media figures in the administration?
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You know, it turns out there is an advantage to having good communicators in government,
00:31:38.440
especially at a time when people don't trust the government in both parties, especially at
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a time when a guy gets elected president in part because the institutions of government
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Maybe it's smart to have a charismatic, good communicator who's got a lot of TV experience
00:31:54.180
who can, who can speak directly to the American people.
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Maybe that's, maybe that's a good hiring decision.
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And Trump always talks about he has the best people.
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This administration, the second administration, seems to be even better than the first.
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There were some clunkers in the first administration.
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It is very important when all sorts of theories are flying, what happened with this military
00:32:18.060
helicopter, all sorts of other crazy stories that we didn't even really get a chance to
00:32:21.100
talk about of Haitian asylum seekers who are being shipped out of the country and they're
00:32:26.200
taking a stop over at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba first and then we're sending them back.
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When there's all of this misinformation out there, it's very helpful to have people who
00:32:34.820
know their way around a camera and a microphone who can cut through the extremely dishonest
00:32:41.740
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Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you
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So many times I've gone to send you a message and found out moments later that you actually
00:33:31.080
addressed the exact point I was going to ask about.
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But for once, I think I finally have something that I don't think you've fully discussed.
00:33:40.060
President Biden clearly has the constitutional authority to grant pardons, and I appreciate
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But it seems he has taken it a bit further than any other president previously have with blanket
00:33:54.820
pardons and pardons for things that haven't even happened yet, not to mention pardoning
00:34:07.960
What do you think should be done to curb or somehow decrease the power of the ability
00:34:16.440
of the president to just issue blanket pardons to everybody who agrees with him upon leaving
00:34:26.220
And if so, I guess what should Trump's strategy be in relation to this?
00:34:30.720
Should he just turn around and tit for tat, do the same thing four years from now when he's
00:34:34.720
on his way out the door and just set the precedent that that's what every president will do from
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No, I do think we have to circumscribe the pardon power.
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But as you point out, when Jerry Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, it was for a specific action.
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It didn't require Nixon to admit guilt, but it was for a specific thing.
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When Jimmy Carter pardoned the draft dodgers from Vietnam, he was pardoning people in a
00:35:07.440
blanket way, all sorts of people that he wasn't specifying.
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In this case, Joe Biden just said, well, I'm going to pardon my kid for anything that he
00:35:19.120
might have done at the federal level over the last 10 years.
00:35:22.160
And then we started at 10 years before because that's when Hunter Biden started working for
00:35:26.240
Burisma, the crooked Ukraine oil and natural gas company that was paying bribes to the Biden
00:35:33.880
So we do know what the pardons were for, but Biden wouldn't specify.
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It was any crime he may or may not have committed over the last 10 years.
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And then on the way out, he extended that to much of the rest of his family.
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I think a very simple way to circumscribe the pardon power is just for a court or for the
00:35:49.600
legislature to say the president can pardon whoever he wants at the federal level, but
00:35:58.800
He might have committed a federal felony of jaywalking.
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You know, it's got to be for a specific crime because otherwise you establish this awful precedent
00:36:09.060
of the president just having to preemptively pardon everyone around him as if political
00:36:14.240
retribution is going to be the norm, make us more like a banana republic, which the Democrats
00:36:19.360
I mean, they made that deal, but hopefully the country doesn't accept it.
00:36:23.480
Hey, Michael, I have a question about standing up for your values.
00:36:28.940
I'm a city cop in the South, and I recently refused to complete an online work training
00:36:35.000
The course said that using fake transgender pronouns was correct and appropriate and directed
00:36:39.300
officers to celebrate, encourage, and value the beliefs of others, stressing that tolerance
00:36:45.480
I expressed concern that the course was biased and that parts of it weren't factually true.
00:36:49.600
For this, I was taken off street duty and grilled by Internal Affairs, who told me to
00:36:53.360
sign off on the class or they'd take my badge and gun.
00:36:55.980
I was able to come to an agreement that I'd keep my job and help rewrite the course to
00:36:59.600
be more neutral, but only after being punished and having my livelihood threatened.
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What is your advice for people like me, who are in serious professions like police or military,
00:37:08.140
who are ordered to compromise their values or lie as a matter of policy?
00:37:16.380
You know, I think a lot of people want a really clear ideological answer here, which is, well,
00:37:21.280
when it's these five things that they're requiring of you, then, you know, if they make you put
00:37:24.840
your pronouns in your email, then you got to quit.
00:37:27.480
But if they only make you put your pronouns on a name tag at a conference, then you don't
00:37:34.920
You don't want to do anything that is intrinsically evil or immoral.
00:37:37.900
But if it's just having to put up with some nonsense, everyone has to put up with some
00:37:42.800
I work at a very conservative company, and I was employee number five, and I've helped
00:37:49.000
And there are still things about the way the company, that any company is run, that you
00:37:53.740
You don't always say, maybe you want to take lunch at this time, or maybe you don't want
00:37:56.920
to have to work in this way, or maybe, you know, that's just life.
00:38:00.340
So I just think you have to make a practical and a prudential calculation.
00:38:11.840
Bryson was taken here, and I need some advice on how to handle a situation at work.
00:38:20.100
I recently found out that a trans-identifying student will be joining my class roster who
00:38:24.740
goes by pronouns and a name that are different than who this child truly is.
00:38:29.220
My question is how to best handle this within my professional capacity as a teacher.
00:38:33.620
I know I'm not legally required to call the student by her preferred pronouns or nickname,
00:38:38.980
but I need help knowing if I should hold firm and call her by her birth name and correct
00:38:42.820
pronouns at the risk of creating drama or call the student by her preferred name.
00:38:48.120
In the past, I've called students by their preferred name and justified it as a nickname
00:38:54.660
But I feel like that is still going against my beliefs.
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I think that would be a line in the sand where I wouldn't pretend.
00:39:06.620
It's really evil to the kid, even if the kid thinks that he or she wants to be trans.
00:39:11.300
It's just abusive to the kid, and I think you will regret that someday.
00:39:22.840
You had mentioned that Bill Maher is ethnically Jewish, and so his taking Jesus' name in vain
00:39:35.940
I believe his mother was Jewish before she converted to Catholicism in order to marry his
00:39:45.700
But he was raised Catholic and was baptized Catholic.
00:39:49.040
So he is, in fact, a lapsed Catholic, and we should pray for him.
00:39:57.560
Someone wrote in after I mentioned Bill Maher that he's a Catholic.
00:40:08.260
There was one more voice mailbag I wanted to do, but I don't think it was pulled, so
00:40:21.040
Well, and I've been courting an early 20s woman for the past six months who happens
00:40:27.540
Both our families are fond of one another, and everything's been going great.
00:40:31.080
Recently, we talked about making our relationship official and what we both want to come out
00:40:35.300
We both agree that we're dating to get married, want to have several kids, and agree on key
00:40:40.340
When it comes to our fates, I obviously do not have any interest in converting, but she
00:40:46.280
In talking about faiths, she confessed that she isn't just LDS.
00:40:55.320
It really brought into context when I had dinner with her family, and she refers to women other
00:41:02.640
She has expressed to me that even if she converts and we have a Catholic wedding, she still wants
00:41:07.380
me to have at least one more wife so she can have a sister wife and so we can have a big
00:41:11.700
That was after talking her down from four, the four wives that her father has.
00:41:17.620
I care for her deeply and believe she and I can have a great future together.
00:41:21.940
However, polygamy is obviously not acceptable in the Catholic Church.
00:41:27.800
There are probably a lot of guys who would like to hear this from their fiancé or girlfriend.
00:41:34.720
If you're going to be Catholic and raise the kids Catholic, then you can't have sister wives.
00:41:41.340
You could do that if you're Muslim, but probably not Catholic.
00:41:45.660
So I guess I would ask her, say, hey, that's really nice that you're offering me a harem.
00:41:54.320
If she was raised that way, then it's quite normal for her and she probably does want
00:41:58.200
But you say, look, if you're going to convert to Catholicism, that means more than just like
00:42:05.320
That means you are going to live your whole life in accordance with this religion.
00:42:09.780
You know, even on Tuesday afternoon, even on Friday morning, not just on Sunday morning.
00:42:14.840
And so part of the religion is you can't have more than one wife.
00:42:27.680
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