The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1733 - Pope Leo XIV Keeps Looking Better and Better

00:00:00.000 We're learning much more about the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, and the signs are better than just about

00:00:06.700 anyone had hoped. Democrat elected officials then led an insurrection at a DHS facility

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00:01:36.520 delivered. Before we begin, I want to thank Ave Maria University. Some of you were able to catch

00:01:43.200 my speech, but I was invited to the Ave Maria commencement. I'm now officially a doctor,

00:01:49.360 so I'm waiting for my prescription pad to arrive in the mail. But then at that point,

00:01:54.140 if anyone wants, you know, Percocet or codeine, just let me know, obviously, because I'm a doctor

00:01:58.760 now. It was a great honor to be there and great privilege to be with the students at Ave Maria.

00:02:05.200 Just one more impressive than the next. Really, really rigorous academic standards, and more

00:02:10.340 importantly, just very, very well-formed, serious students, especially at a time when all the

00:02:15.920 universities are collapsing. This was really, really beautiful to see. So in any case, we're going

00:02:20.600 to try to get my commencement speech up on the YouTube channel at some point. The thesis was

00:02:25.660 don't change the world. So it's a different kind of university, so I gave a different kind of advice

00:02:30.940 at the commencement, but just a wonderful, wonderful time to be there. So congratulations to the class

00:02:36.240 of 2025. And if you're looking for a place to send your kids to school, there is at least one sane

00:02:41.920 universe. There are a handful. There are probably three or four sane universities in the United

00:02:45.760 States. So that's definitely one to go check out. Speaking of Maria, speaking of Mary, the mother of

00:02:52.880 God, the Pope is giving us some early signs of what his pontificate is going to look like.

00:03:00.760 And you've got some people who are shrieking, oh, he's a liberal. Oh, he's woke. Oh, you know,

00:03:05.880 he sent out a tweet that was critical of the Trump administration. He is a leftist,

00:03:09.980 communist, communist, whatever nonsense. Pope Leo XIV, on his, what, what is it, the second or third

00:03:16.900 day of his pontificate, came out onto the balcony and sang the Regina Celi, Queen of Heaven, refers to

00:03:25.020 Mary, Mary, mother of God, in Latin.

00:03:27.740 Mary, mother of God, in Latin.

00:03:57.740 This is really good stuff. For the non-Catholics out there, why does it matter that he's singing 1.00

00:04:22.360 this very traditional chant in Latin? Because it's just the latest piece of evidence. In addition

00:04:29.940 to Pope Leo wearing the mozzetta, the traditional papal garments, his predecessor Pope Francis did

00:04:36.780 not do that when he first came out to give his first orbi at orbi, you know, to say hello to

00:04:40.800 everyone as pope for the first time. He is living in the papal palace, unlike Pope Francis, who shunned

00:04:49.120 the papal palace and who lived in apartments and an apparent sign of humility, even though I think

00:04:53.660 a lot of these signs of humility ended up being much more expensive than had he just done the

00:04:57.540 traditions. So these are all really good signs. I think I saw a picture of him praying before the tomb of

00:05:05.700 Pope Pius XII, a great, you know, traditional pope, beloved by many traditionalists.

00:05:12.020 There's also this video that's come up of Pope Leo when he was still Bishop Robert Prevost

00:05:19.940 describing the election of Pope Francis and what he thought that meant for his life in the church.

00:05:30.080 It marked 10 years since Pope Francis' election. I knew Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos

00:05:44.080 Aires, that's the pope's first name, as Augustinian general, met him several times. When he was

00:05:50.320 elected, I told some brothers, great, thank God, I'll never be Bishop. I won't say why, but not all

00:06:04.680 meetings with Cardinal Bergoglio were mutually agreeable. Okay, so what does this mean? I don't know,

00:06:15.820 sign after sign after sign seems to suggest that Pope Leo XIV is not just Francis 2.0. Now,

00:06:25.100 it doesn't seem like he's going to really attack Francis. He said wonderful things about Pope Francis.

00:06:30.400 There's going to be, you know, a lot of continuity, I'm sure, but I don't think this is going to be

00:06:36.580 Francis 2.0. Okay, first of all, not even Pope Francis was Pope Francis as the media portrayed him,

00:06:44.180 you know, the media who portrayed him as a, you know, pro-trans, pro-LGBT communist, you know,

00:06:51.820 who basically works for Klaus Schwab. Not even Pope Francis was Pope Francis, but it is true Pope

00:06:56.360 Francis' pontificate was a little bit confusing, pretty liberal by historical standards. And look,

00:07:02.420 I know it's really untrad of me. I know it's very counter to the right-wing conservative instinct

00:07:08.480 to not constantly think we're on the brink of utter catastrophe and collapse, but I got to tell you,

00:07:14.120 I'm feeling hopeful about the pontificate. Now, the Pope also came out and explained his choice of

00:07:21.720 name. You know, that I called the name. Not only did I predict the name, but I actually said that

00:07:27.660 the name that I was hoping for in the next Pope was Pope Leo XIV. And then he picked it, and we weren't

00:07:34.260 quite exactly sure why he picked it. You know, there had been 13 Leos before him. Some thought

00:07:37.700 it was St. Leo, St. Leo the Great, and all of these other Leos. I said, I hope he picks Leo XIV

00:07:43.140 because of Leo XIII, because Pope Leo XIII was one of the great popes and a really important pope

00:07:50.060 to think of for our times. And we now know why he picked the name, and it was precisely for that

00:07:56.100 reason. I decided to take the name Leo XIV. There were many different reasons. Pope Leo XIII,

00:08:10.980 who in his historic encyclical, Rerum Novarum, addressed the social question in the context of

00:08:20.080 the first industrial revolution. And this day, the church offers her social teaching

00:08:28.960 to respond to another industrial revolution, to respond to artificial intelligence and new

00:08:37.840 challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and of honor. So, man, I know it's very

00:08:46.540 untrad. I know it's very unconservative to have hope and think, oh, things might be actually going

00:08:51.940 in the right direction right now. That's really good. But it picked the name. Pope Leo picks the

00:08:57.860 right name for, based on the pope that I was hoping he'd pick the name for, specifically based on this

00:09:05.320 great encyclical, Rerum Novarum, which I've mentioned on this show many times, Rerum Novarum

00:09:10.520 responding to the industrial revolution, condemning not only communism and socialism, but also

00:09:16.440 some of the ways in which capitalism goes awry. And we know that capitalism can go awry.

00:09:21.020 The liberal elite and establishment have been running capitalism amok in recent decades. And

00:09:28.180 that's, in fact, one of the great motivators of the Trump election. So it's this great Catholic

00:09:33.300 social teaching. I love it. And of course, the church does need to respond to this massive upheaval

00:09:41.520 that we're seeing in artificial intelligence, this new kind of industrial revolution.

00:09:47.260 Just, I don't know. I think I'm, I know I'm a doctor now. I'm overdosing on white pills. Okay.

00:09:54.260 I'm just, I'm feeling, I'm not saying it's all going to be perfect, but I'm just,

00:09:59.640 this is pretty good. Enjoy the, enjoy the wins when we can get them guys. Because then when things go

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00:11:23.960 and then we'll move on to some of the more domestic political stories. As I said earlier,

00:11:30.440 the way the media portrayed Pope Francis was different from the actual Pope Francis.

00:11:36.340 And there were plenty of questions raised by the actual Pope Francis pontificate.

00:11:41.840 It's not that it was all business as usual and the media were just totally making everything up,

00:11:46.200 but the media just didn't understand Pope Francis. Well, apparently that's already true of the new

00:11:51.540 Pope. Here's a headline from the Guardian. Unearthed comments from new Pope alarm LGBTQ plus

00:12:02.000 Catholics. Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo the 14th about homosexual lifestyle at odds with papacy

00:12:09.660 of Pope Francis. Okay. Nothing about this headline is true and nothing about the sub headline is true.

00:12:16.000 Unearthed comments. These are not unearthed comments. They were never earthed.

00:12:19.920 Unearthed comments from the new Pope alarm LGBTQ plus Catholics. There is no such thing 1.00

00:12:25.600 as an LGBTQ plus Catholic. That does not exist. That's a contradiction in terms.

00:12:30.940 There are Catholics, just as there are people of every background who have various sexual pathologies.

00:12:39.460 And I don't even mean to just focus on those people. We all have different problems. We all have

00:12:44.220 different temptations. And for some of us, it's gluttony. And for some of us, it's pride. And for some of us,

00:12:49.000 it's wrath. And for some of us, it's this. And some people have sexual temptations that are a little

00:12:53.640 bit off. Okay. There are people who are Catholic, who have same-sex attraction, who have gender

00:12:59.600 confusion, who have all sorts of ideas in their head. But there is no such thing as an LGBTQ plus 0.96

00:13:06.800 Catholic. That identity cannot coincide with the Catholic identity, which says that biological 0.76

00:13:17.340 sex is a gift from God, that we can know something about how we ought to behave from our sex and from

00:13:23.400 nature. And in the beginning, God made man, male and female, created he them. And a man and a woman are

00:13:30.080 to leave their families and to join together, become one flesh. What God has joined, let no man separate.

00:13:35.340 That's what the church teaches. No faithful Catholic can embrace the LGBT, LMNOP identity. 1.00

00:13:44.800 That is not possible. And then you see the sub-headline, previous negative remarks by Pope

00:13:51.400 Leo XIV about homosexual lifestyle at odds with the papacy of Pope Francis. Oh, is that so? Because 0.84

00:13:56.100 I remember Pope Francis saying that gay marriage was a machination of the devil to confuse the children

00:14:00.340 of God. I remember Pope Francis saying, which means, you might have to bleep, I don't know,

00:14:07.580 do we bleep this word? This is a phrase reportedly said by Pope Francis. It means there's too much

00:14:13.180 faggotry already, okay? That's your supposedly pro-LGBT Pope, okay? When asked specifically about 1.00

00:14:20.720 blessings for same-sex marriages, quote-unquote, Pope Francis said, God cannot bless sin.

00:14:27.260 Okay, so there's really no daylight between whatever the comments that they dug up from Pope

00:14:36.620 Leo and Pope Francis or any other pope. This is just Catholic teaching for 2,000 years.

00:14:42.840 Coincidentally, it's substantially the same as Muslim teaching and Jewish teaching, and

00:14:47.840 that's just kind of what everyone thought forever. And now we've got an LGBT, LMNOP movement that's

00:14:54.780 really grown out of the 1960s in certain parts of the world. But what this kind of headline,

00:15:00.440 and get used to seeing it because you're going to see a lot of it, what this represents is just a

00:15:04.200 fundamental ignorance, a profound and humiliating ignorance of Christianity from the people who are 1.00

00:15:13.760 supposed to be the pundits and the geniuses and the investigative journalists of our civilization. 0.94

00:15:19.800 They don't know the first thing about our civilization. And I bring it up in a political

00:15:24.220 context because get ready to see a lot more confusion from the press. You always do.

00:15:29.220 Now, beyond the Vatican, just generally speaking, we're going to still stick on the press for a

00:15:36.720 second here. There is a big return to religion that is specifically among young people. The media

00:15:43.460 are reporting on it. They've noticed it, but they can't figure out why it's happening.

00:15:48.880 So Axios has this piece out. Young men are leading a religious resurgence. And I won't read

00:15:57.380 you the whole article. It says, stunning stat. Gen Zers, especially Gen Z men, are actually more likely

00:16:04.640 to attend weekly religious services than millennials and even some younger Gen Xers.

00:16:10.720 This is true, anecdotally. I've just seen this happen. I travel all over the country,

00:16:17.180 all over the world, actually. And often I'm traveling on holy days or on Sunday, and I go

00:16:22.220 to stop by a lot of churches. And it's true. The people who are coming in, the people who write to

00:16:27.500 me, the people I meet on the street, they say, oh, I'm going back to church. They're 22.

00:16:34.440 They're young. That's a lot of men. Women too. So Axios is right about that.

00:16:40.720 What they're getting wrong about, though, is why it's happening. They say, between the lines,

00:16:45.060 young men are leading America's religion resurgence. That's true. Young men tend to 0.99

00:16:50.560 lead most things, though, because men tend to lead most things. Women have a very important role 1.00

00:16:56.460 in society, and they do a lot of great stuff. But when you think of leaders in industries and

00:17:01.280 politics and in the household even, it's usually men. So that's a meaningless statement.

00:17:06.360 Zoom in, says Axios. Many young people have turned to religion to find community and connection

00:17:13.900 after the isolating years of the pandemic, which hit Gen Z harder than most. That's where they get 1.00

00:17:17.980 it totally wrong. Yes, people want community. Yes, people are lonely. People have been getting

00:17:22.440 lonely and isolated for many decades now. That doesn't explain why the religious resurgence is

00:17:27.100 happening. Zoomers are not going back to church just because they're feeling a little bit lonely. 0.98

00:17:33.020 Finally, Zoomers are going back to church because they want the truth. Full stop. 1.00

00:17:40.040 How long has it been since Robert Putnam's bowling alone? How long has it been that we've heard that

00:17:45.980 people are being isolated and they don't have friendships anymore and they're living alone?

00:17:51.100 It's been decades, and yet religion continued to decline. Now they say, well, it's the COVID pandemic.

00:17:58.060 COVID might have had something to do with it, but it's not because people were becoming lonelier and

00:18:03.180 lonelier. COVID might have had something to do with it in that during COVID, we realized that

00:18:08.500 the people who lead our society are liars. At worst, they're complete ignorant dummies at best. That's 1.00

00:18:17.260 the most charitable way to put it. And they're more likely just lying to us and deceiving us.

00:18:22.120 But what that implies is that people are returning to religion because they want the truth.

00:18:30.700 Okay, they realize that this tyranny of subjectivism where the elites just

00:18:35.740 cast spells at their whims and by their caprices, that that kind of society is deeply unpleasant,

00:18:44.620 it's unsatisfying, it's incoherent. They want the truth. Because by the way,

00:18:50.280 the young people who are going back to church, they're not going back to kumbaya, you do you,

00:18:55.500 feel good church. I mean, the church does feel good, but that's not the kind of church they're

00:19:01.140 going back to. They're going back to more traditional parishes. They're going back to

00:19:05.720 more orthodox preaching. They're going back to smells and bells and the sturdy foundations of our

00:19:13.000 civilization. That's what they want. Because they realize that they have been denied a patrimony.

00:19:19.440 And inheritance has been kept from them. At the cultural and political level,

00:19:25.000 the great inheritance of our civilization. The thing that inspired men to build the cathedrals

00:19:30.700 and to paint the Caravaggio paintings and to sculpt the David and to go and explore the world like

00:19:36.560 Columbus and to go do all the great things that we've done and not just sit around and pleasure

00:19:41.860 ourselves and a loaf like a bunch of decadent blobs. But back when we really did things,

00:19:48.820 we were really growing civilization. The thing that inspired them to do that

00:19:52.820 has been hidden from them, has been mocked, has been derided, has been pushed to the side.

00:19:58.700 And young people feel robbed by that fact. I was one of them. I was kind of early on this trend,

00:20:06.260 you know, about 10, 12 years ago, more than that now maybe, 13, 14 years ago. But that's what's

00:20:12.200 happening. They want the truth. And the newspapers, it's so funny. It's perfectly ironic. The one thing

00:20:20.960 that the newspapers can't understand that young people might want is the truth. Perfect. 1.00

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00:21:46.640 Meghan Markle has made her first podcast appearance on some random, what's it called, the Jane

00:21:51.460 Kern Lima show. And this is the important pearl of wisdom she has for all of her legions of fans.

00:21:59.640 I don't know what I'm doing. Yet. Yet. My business hasn't gotten traction. Yet. Yet. No one's picked

00:22:08.820 up my book proposal. Yet. Yes. I haven't found my soulmate. Yet. Everything is yet. The power of yet.

00:22:16.680 The power of yet. Yet. Yet. Yet. Yet again. I want to gouge out my ears while Meghan Markle is speaking.

00:22:28.880 The power of yet. Let's be as fair as we can. She's proposing an idea, the power of yet,

00:22:38.120 which is just a kind of blind optimism that things will turn around. Even if one's life is not

00:22:43.580 progressing as one would like, it'll just turn around as long as we just keep thinking positively.

00:22:48.780 The power of yet. That's at least a marketable phrase, right?

00:22:51.880 That phrase is not even Meghan Markle's own phrase. That phrase comes from a 2014

00:22:56.460 TED Talk by some lady named Carol Dweck.

00:23:01.880 Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet, they were gripped in the tyranny of now.

00:23:10.840 It's not an original idea. She just ripped off this phrase from this lady, Carol Dweck. It wasn't

00:23:23.520 particularly interesting when Carol Dweck said it 11 years ago. And one does not need to knock

00:23:30.460 Meghan Markle for not having an original idea. No one pretty much has an original idea. But the ideas

00:23:36.140 that she is then promoting are not even great ideas. It'd be one thing if she went on some 0.99

00:23:41.620 podcast and said, well, you know, here's what Aristotle had to say about something. Oh, you know,

00:23:47.260 here's a really interesting line from Euripides. I don't know. Something that's stood the test of

00:23:52.240 time. No, no, no. She's ripping off really shallow ideas from shallow self-help YouTube videos. 1.00

00:24:01.040 Why? Why does this woman have a podcast? Why does she have a show? Why? Why the power? You know, 1.00

00:24:09.860 these women, these people should not have shows. And yet they, and that's an injustice. And the only 1.00

00:24:17.220 way that I will be able to console myself is with the power of yet, that their shows haven't been

00:24:22.860 canceled yet. Meghan Markle has not been silenced in public life yet. But I don't know. That's not

00:24:31.720 a great consolation. It's not even original self-help gobbledygook. Why do all of Meghan

00:24:38.580 Markle's projects keep failing? She signs, didn't she sign a huge deal with Netflix and all of these,

00:24:43.740 but they all keep flopping. The reason they keep flopping is because she doesn't have anything to say,

00:24:49.840 which is fine. I guess I'm not, plenty of people don't have that much to say, but if you want to

00:24:58.540 communicate, if you want to be a public figure who is a thought leader, who you need to have like at

00:25:05.920 least something to say, but this has been Meghan Markle's MO from the beginning. She wants all of 0.99

00:25:13.060 the privileges that go along with an identity, but she doesn't want any of the responsibilities.

00:25:18.340 She doesn't want to do any of the work. She wants the tiara. She doesn't want the public service. 0.99

00:25:24.360 So she runs into becoming a princess, but then when she realizes that you actually have to do

00:25:28.900 things when you're a princess, it's not all just Disneyland, you know, people waiting on you hand

00:25:33.760 and foot and adulating you when you actually have to like do things. Then she says, I don't want to be

00:25:38.480 a princess anymore. I want to go back and be an actress. Then I can play a princess in a Disney movie

00:25:42.480 or something. This, and it's not just her. I'm not just beating up on Meghan Markle.

00:25:47.640 So many people, they want all the privileges. They want all of the honors. They want all the

00:25:52.200 plaudits, but they don't want to do anything. And, and actually her advice ties in perfectly with this

00:25:58.820 mistaken way of thinking. She says, oh, things aren't really working out for me yet. I'm sure they

00:26:05.960 will tomorrow. I don't have to change anything about myself. I don't need to work. I don't need to

00:26:10.440 be in any way introspective. I just, I'm just going to keep doing all the things that I'm doing

00:26:15.660 that have failed. And I'm not going to take any responsibility. I'm not going to suggest that

00:26:19.780 maybe that might be my fault. No, no, no. It'll just all change tomorrow. What do they say that

00:26:26.280 the definition of insanity is as you try the same thing over and over and you expect a different

00:26:29.980 result? That's Meghan Markle. She hasn't learned the chief lesson of her public life, which is you have 0.92

00:26:38.160 to do things. You can't, you can't just be a thing. You have to do things. If you want to be

00:26:44.860 the thing, you have to do things. All right. Speaking of left-wing ladies, the Democrats have 1.00

00:26:51.160 staged an insurrection at a government building, assaulted officers. We have a little B-roll of

00:26:59.900 it, I think. We got some body cam footage. The DHS has released some body cam footage.

00:27:07.460 So you see a lot of police, federal agents here. And you got these people in ties and suits,

00:27:16.900 Democrat Congress, pushing cops, slamming into cops, 0.92

00:27:20.340 trying to, trying to burst into a government facility that these people have no right to

00:27:27.100 enter. And then this one woman in a red jacket, we'll get to who she is in one second. She starts 1.00

00:27:37.040 screaming like a banshee, screaming at police officers. This is after she, she's on camera,

00:27:43.340 banging her body into cops. All right, that's, that's enough. I don't need to watch any more of her.

00:27:49.380 What happened? Well, Newark Mayor Ross Baraka was taken into custody for entering and staying on

00:28:00.360 Delaney Hall property unlawfully. He was charged with trespassing. DHS has accused Congress members

00:28:07.500 Bonnie Watson Coleman and Robert Menendez Jr. of storming the gate, breaking into the facility

00:28:13.640 illegally and going and trying to defend and say, no, no, no, I didn't really do that. No,

00:28:18.240 I didn't slam into, you could see that Democrat member of Congress slamming her body into some 0.82

00:28:23.520 cop. DHS spokesman, Trisha McLaughlin says, we actually have body camera footage of some of

00:28:29.340 these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming

00:28:33.480 a female ICE officer. So we'll be showing that to viewers shortly. The mayor of Newark pushed back,

00:28:39.500 said that he was invited to the ICE facility. He stayed there for over an hour. Someone allowed me

00:28:43.480 to go in. I didn't climb a fence. I didn't kick the door down. So he's saying, no, no, I was invited

00:28:46.800 in. You saw the body cam footage. Does that look like he was invited in? Now he says, well, no,

00:28:50.940 I was invited in, but then I don't know. I overstayed my welcome or something. I just,

00:28:54.480 everything about this scene is so perfect because this is the perfect analogy for

00:29:00.760 January 6th. I'm going to do my Adam Kinzinger impression. I can't keep my tears back. The

00:29:12.920 worst day in the history of politics since ancient Athens. And why was it such a bad day? Because we

00:29:22.360 were told some people trespassed in a government building. And now that some of the people said,

00:29:30.500 well, actually we were invited in. And there's in that case on January 6th, there's actual video

00:29:36.060 evidence of the January 6th. There's being invited in, escorted in by police. Even the horn hat guy

00:29:41.420 was escorted by police. In this case, this government building, I don't really see any video evidence of

00:29:46.780 them being invited in, but okay, that's the claim. They're making the same defense as the January 6th.

00:29:51.420 It's the same type of incident, trespassing and getting really rowdy at a government building.

00:29:59.160 The sobbing Democrats and de facto Democrats like Adam Kinzinger from January 6th, they say

00:30:07.840 that the January 6th there's assaulted police officers. Now they floated a few hoaxes about

00:30:14.180 this. Specifically this one officer, Brian Sicknick, they said that Brian Sicknick was murdered by the

00:30:18.280 January 6th. That wasn't true. The medical examiner came out and said that wasn't true. He died of

00:30:22.660 natural causes, not even on the same day. He died the next day. Yet here, when we hear all the hand

00:30:29.260 wringing from the January 6th there's about assaulting police officers, here you see Democrats

00:30:35.420 assaulting police officers. And then here's the big difference. On January 6th, the right-wingers who

00:30:43.040 went into the Capitol and made a ruckus of themselves, they were eccentric civilians.

00:30:50.300 They were just regular old citizens, Midwestern grannies, some eccentric Floridian men who were 0.98

00:30:57.660 taking selfies in the rotunda, but they were just kind of random people. Here, the people who were

00:31:03.440 doing an insurrection at a government building and trespassing and assaulting police officers on camera,

00:31:09.160 those people are Democrat elected officials. You didn't see Republican elected officials

00:31:16.040 in the Capitol on January 6th, other than the members of Congress who were supposed to be there.

00:31:20.820 Here, it's not the supposed rabble of the Democrat party, the hoi polloi. These are the people they

00:31:27.360 elect. So in any case, I know that DHS is talking about charging these people with crimes. More arrests

00:31:34.560 should be made. They should arrest these members of Congress who were there,

00:31:37.960 who assaulted cops, who were trespassing. Absolutely. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:31:43.980 And if we don't, if we don't show Democrats we are willing to do to them at least half of what

00:31:51.780 they're willing to do to us, then the next time they have power, they're going to do it to us 10 times

00:31:55.380 over. So just as a matter of political prudence and justice, you got to hold them to standards.

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00:33:25.160 I'm starting to think that Michael may not actually hate to say, I told you so. I don't know why you

00:33:29.620 would get that impression. Speaking of political division, Trump and Netanyahu, bosom buddies, right?

00:33:39.020 They just couldn't be tighter. Trump has towns named after him in Israel. Trump pals around with

00:33:48.120 Netanyahu. There's no distinction between U.S. policy and Israeli policy. And some people in both

00:33:58.220 the U.S. and Israel criticize this perception. Some people say, ah, Israel is just leading the United

00:34:03.060 States around. You know, Israel's buying off politicians. Israel does have a big lobbying

00:34:07.040 campaign, of course, as do many nations. But they say, and Israel's dictating the policies of

00:34:12.300 the Trump administration. They bought off the politicians who are dictating what Trump is going

00:34:16.380 to do. Some of the criticisms in the state of Israel is that Netanyahu's gotten too chummy with Trump.

00:34:23.040 And that the state of Israel needs to make sure that it has good relationships with both political

00:34:26.580 parties. And the fact that Trump and Bibi are so tight that nothing gets between them, that's actually,

00:34:31.880 that could prove a risk for Israel because the Democrats don't like Israel anymore. Well,

00:34:36.500 looks like there might be a little trouble in paradise between Trump and Netanyahu.

00:34:42.320 There's a New York Times report, which is that saying, and it's not just the New York,

00:34:46.400 if it were just the New York Times, I'd ignore it. But it's being reported by all outlets of all

00:34:50.300 sort of political backgrounds. Once in sync, Trump and Netanyahu now show signs of division.

00:34:56.580 Both men are politically divisive, fiercely combative, and have outsized egos. But as

00:35:00.120 Trump arrives in the Middle East next week, the fate of the region could hinge on their relationship.

00:35:05.140 Okay, trouble in paradise. What's it over? The Iran nuclear deal. Trump might cut a nuclear deal

00:35:10.940 with Iran that would allow them to have civilian nuclear capabilities, but not nuclear weapons.

00:35:17.320 This is more or less what Barack Obama was pushing for in his first term. Trump will say

00:35:21.140 that he's going to get a better version of this deal, and he probably will get a better version of

00:35:24.500 this deal. But the state of Israel doesn't want there to be any nuclear deal with Iran.

00:35:28.240 They want to blow Iran to smithereens and get rid of the mullahs and not have any nuclear program in 0.81

00:35:32.300 Iran. Another reason there's trouble in paradise, Trump made an agreement with the Houthis. The 0.99

00:35:37.360 Houthis are firing missiles into Israel. And Trump made a deal outside of Israeli negotiation channels,

00:35:44.660 reportedly. He made a deal with the Houthis, and he said, hey, if you stop firing on US vessels in

00:35:48.820 the Red Sea, we're going to stop bombing you. That reportedly irritated Israel. And then on Gaza,

00:35:55.540 according to reports, Netanyahu wants to intensify the war. Trump wants to wind the war down.

00:36:01.020 So Trump reportedly negotiated directly with Hamas, said on Sunday that the last living American hostage

00:36:07.420 in Gaza, Edan Alexander, will be released as part of efforts to set up a ceasefire. And

00:36:14.500 Hamas apparently went along with this, and the state of Israel doesn't like it because the state

00:36:21.140 of Israel was reportedly cut out of the negotiations. Now, everyone is shocked by this. Everybody is

00:36:27.680 shocked. The Israel critics are shocked. The Israel lovers are shocked. The Trump critics are shocked.

00:36:34.440 The Trump lovers are shocked. You know who's not shocked? You know how much I hate to say I told you

00:36:40.680 so? You boy, I'm not shocked. And I'm not shocked. In fact, I called this because I could see back at

00:36:48.900 the Trump-Netanyahu meeting in February in DC, I could see that Trump was doing things that he had

00:36:57.100 not discussed with Netanyahu. He was taking Netanyahu by surprise. Specifically, you remember,

00:37:01.620 Trump came out, he said, hey, the US is going to take over Gaza, and we're going to build a big Trump

00:37:06.720 hotel and casino in Gaza. He didn't literally say that, but the insinuation was,

00:37:10.560 we're going to do with it what we want. And at the time, all this criticism, oh, Trump's just

00:37:15.440 letting Netanyahu dog walk him. You know, there, he's just doing whatever. They cook this plan up

00:37:20.300 behind the scenes. And I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, guys. Look at Netanyahu's body

00:37:24.680 language when Trump announced this at the press conference. I don't think he was expecting this

00:37:29.680 announcement. And look, I'll take you back to the video. Take a listen. This is just with the camera

00:37:33.640 on Netanyahu.

00:37:34.240 The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be 1.00

00:37:42.880 responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.

00:37:48.480 You see, Netanyahu, now he looks out at the press. Wait, what?

00:37:51.900 Destroy buildings, level it out, create. He's doing a double take. He actually does a double

00:37:56.480 take. Wait, what did he just say? He's a talented politician, so he's keeping some composure, but

00:38:02.180 he's kind of smiling. Does he go back? What is Trump saying? Is he joking?

00:38:08.080 It has for 100 years. Rolls his eyes. I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a

00:38:13.600 larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed. Shifting his weight. Looking at Trump,

00:38:20.780 wait, what? What did you just say? So at the time, this is what, two, three months ago now? I said,

00:38:27.300 I don't think that Trump and Netanyahu were just cooking up secret plans in the back room. I think

00:38:32.040 Trump is doing his own thing. And he supports the state of Israel broadly, and he has a town named after

00:38:37.820 him in Israel, but he's not just going to do whatever Israel wants. I said, look at Netanyahu's

00:38:44.520 body language. And nobody believed me, but now they do. Because of this. Trump is his own man.

00:38:52.980 When Trump goes and cuts a deal with the Houthis and doesn't ask Israel's permission, 0.55

00:38:56.740 we don't have to ask Israel's permission to do anything. We're the United States.

00:39:00.100 When he cuts a deal with the Houthis, when he goes in, he says, all right, we're going to take over 0.99

00:39:04.580 the Iran negotiation. When he even goes in and starts talking about Gaza. Remember,

00:39:09.220 when Trump was elected, he said, I'm going to end this Gaza war on day one. And I told you at the 0.92

00:39:15.780 time, that seemed like he was saying to Bibi Netanyahu, hey, do whatever you got to do. Do

00:39:20.860 whatever you want on Biden's watch to wrap up this war in a way that is satisfactory to the state of

00:39:27.200 Israel, which is a country I support. But the minute I get into office, I'm cutting you off. 1.00

00:39:34.800 And that appears to be what's going on because Trump seems frustrated that the parties in both

00:39:40.960 the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the Israel-Gaza conflict are not wrapping up the wars.

00:39:47.340 Fairly or unfairly, Trump seems to be upset about this. And so he's going to do it on his own.

00:39:51.900 Does this mean that Trump doesn't support the state of Israel? No, I don't think it means that at all.

00:39:55.140 It just means that Trump is his own man and the United States has interests. And so while the

00:40:01.360 United States is happy to support the state of Israel broadly, the US wants the war to be wrapped

00:40:08.380 up. And if Netanyahu doesn't want that to happen, and maybe Netanyahu has perfectly good reasons not

00:40:14.500 to want that to happen. But if he doesn't want that to happen, or if he is taking too long,

00:40:18.480 or it doesn't serve US interests, Trump's going to go in and do it himself. The man, his chief

00:40:24.700 distinctive characteristic in foreign policy especially, is that he is unpredictable.

00:40:30.740 And if you just always do whatever your allies want, you're predictable. This is it. The thing

00:40:36.680 that we could have predicted, the paradoxically predictable part, is that Trump was going to be

00:40:41.520 his own man. Some people doubted. I did not really doubt. The guy wants an end to the war, 0.56

00:40:47.280 and he's going to do whatever he thinks he needs to do to end that war. The same is true in Ukraine

00:40:51.000 and Russia. Now, speaking of Trump's opponents, the new AOC, Jasmine Crockett, has come out and she

00:41:00.240 is accusing her own party of being afraid of women, being afraid of minorities. Her own party,

00:41:06.580 she says, is sexist and racist because they want the most boring white boy imaginable to take on the 0.99

00:41:14.700 Republican in 2028. It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, 0.95

00:41:23.940 will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost so far. 1.00

00:41:31.720 And I think that that's a natural fear because we just want to win. So there's a lot of people that

00:41:36.740 are like, you know what? Like, let's go find the safest white boy we can find. I mean, I'm just saying. 0.86

00:41:41.440 Those are the callers that we're hearing. We're hearing people. No, for real. A white man's got

00:41:45.020 to do this. No, no, no, no. For real. And to be clear, when we talk about them, I can tell you

00:41:50.520 that there is one specific candidate. I had a donor on the phones with me telling me that all the

00:41:56.660 donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it's not a black person 1.00

00:42:01.800 nor woman. Okay. It's Gavin Newsom. Spoiler alert. Jasmine Crockett hasn't told me,

00:42:09.200 but I assume it's Gavin Newsom. And this woman is really actually quite good at what she does. 1.00

00:42:17.160 I know all the Republicans are attacking her in the exact same way they attacked AOC. She's just

00:42:20.560 getting attention. That's really the main job of a member of Congress. And she's right. I bet that

00:42:25.520 the donors are lining up and saying, we need a boring white guy to take on Trump because we've 0.99

00:42:32.340 tried a white woman. We tried a black woman, black-ish, Indian woman, a woman of color, 1.00

00:42:40.300 we say. And it didn't work. Trump completely obliterated both of them. And they say the

00:42:46.320 white guy beat Trump. A little bit of an asterisk on that election, but whatever. They say Biden beat

00:42:51.980 Trump, so we need another Biden-like figure. And the closest to a Biden is Gavin Newsom.

00:42:56.980 Slick, simpering, good set of teeth. Maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed, but really good

00:43:05.120 at getting people to like him. So, okay, it's going to be Newsom, right? Now, other people want

00:43:09.500 it, including women of color like AOC. Big report in the Wall Street Journal, AOC is not ruling 0.59

00:43:15.440 anything out, including the White House. I pointed out AOC already released a presidential campaign ad

00:43:18.960 the other day when she was in Idaho. Talking about, I'm a girl from the Bronx. I'm here in Idaho. It's

00:43:23.860 very clearly a presidential campaign ad. So she is running right now. And the Democrats are going 0.93

00:43:30.020 to be at civil war over it. And if you want to see how nasty that civil war is going to get,

00:43:35.240 you have prominent Democrats already accusing their own party of being racist and sexist

00:43:44.160 because of the candidates that some of the donors want to back a year and a half out.

00:43:50.400 Whatever division you're seeing on the right right now, the absolute bloodbath that is going to be

00:43:57.480 the 2028 Democrat presidential primary is going to be absolutely delightful to behold.

00:44:04.940 There might well be an insurrection in the Democrat party. Okay, today's Music Monday. The rest of the

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