The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1845 - Democrats Flee From My Senate Testimony

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00:02:12.760 I am back from Capitol Hill. I had a great time on Capitol Hill yesterday.

00:02:17.280 I was invited down by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution,

00:02:23.120 Eric Schmidt. I think we're going to have Senator Schmidt joining us a little bit later.

00:02:27.040 It was on a very, very important topic and a timely topic, which is political violence.

00:02:31.500 We have seen a massive upsurge in political violence. Pew Research just put out a poll

00:02:36.020 a week or so ago, said that 85% of Americans think that political violence is getting worse in the

00:02:40.920 United States. And even left-wing sources and outlets are admitting that political violence is

00:02:47.600 now chiefly a left-wing problem. Political violence on the left has always been underreported.

00:02:53.680 Let's establish that off the bat. So my thesis going in is political violence in the United

00:02:58.700 States and I guess everywhere is chiefly and pretty much has always chiefly been a left-wing

00:03:06.000 problem. The statistics previously made it seem like a right-wing problem. And as I pointed out

00:03:12.760 in my testimony, which you can go watch on C-SPAN, I think it's on my YouTube channel as well.

00:03:16.680 Well, the way that the statistics arrived at saying that political violence was a right-wing

00:03:22.260 problem was by ignoring left-wing violence, ignoring the BLM riots, ignoring the Antifa attacks,

00:03:29.000 ignoring attacks on pro-lifers and Christians and all the rest. So anyway, now the numbers

00:03:37.700 cannot even be fudged anymore. It's so clear. It's a left-wing problem. Left-wingers who are surveyed,

00:03:43.440 much, much more than the right, say that they will justify political violence in the wake of

00:03:48.560 Charlie's assassination. This became extremely clear because you had mainstream left-wingers

00:03:52.640 who were excusing, minimizing, and even celebrating Charlie's murder.

00:03:57.380 I get to Capitol Hill. We walk in. I'm sworn in to testify. A few other people there,

00:04:02.220 my friend Chad Wolf, former acting director of or acting secretary of Homeland Security. Some

00:04:07.420 other people there too, really good witnesses. And I notice that the Democrats aren't there.

00:04:13.440 One or two, the ranking member, Peter Welch. Dick Durbin showed up. But where were the Democrat

00:04:19.800 members? Mazie Hirono was supposed to be there. She didn't bother to show up. Adam Schiff? Where's

00:04:24.640 Adam Schiff? Adam Schiff has been crying for four years straight over January 6th, supposedly the worst

00:04:31.880 attack in our nation's history. Adam Schiff couldn't be bothered to show up to a committee hearing on

00:04:37.060 political violence. Tells you a lot about him. I look around, I didn't even see Cory Booker at first.

00:04:42.120 Cory Booker, the Thracian senator, Spartacus, he wasn't there. Where was he? Now, eventually he did

00:04:49.000 show up. But I thought it was very telling that Senator Booker used up all of his time

00:04:55.220 to just kind of babble himself. He didn't want to interview any of the witnesses,

00:05:00.380 not even the witnesses that the Democrats had called, much less the Republican witnesses.

00:05:04.640 So Cory Booker used up his five minutes, had this to say.

00:05:09.380 The only thing that's going to get us out of this condition is for courageous leaders

00:05:14.020 in both parties to start standing up and extending grace and self-introspection.

00:05:23.100 It's a lot easier when I call out Chuck Schumer's comments

00:05:27.360 to make a difference. And God, I wish I'd see more of my colleagues being willing to call out

00:05:35.420 the President of the United States for his outrageous comments as well.

00:05:39.840 You know, I think Senator Booker made a good point just a moment ago when he said we have to

00:05:43.160 self-examine, we have to be introspective. And, you know, I can't help but think of a line today.

00:05:48.680 Jay Jones has the vision, commitment, and integrity to keep families safe and make sure

00:05:54.380 every Virginian gets a fair shake in the justice system. I'll be working every day to ensure Jay

00:05:59.860 wins this race. That's the endorsement of Senator Booker for a man who would seek to be the Attorney

00:06:05.520 General of Virginia. This is a man who, if people have not been reading the news, has called for a

00:06:11.200 Republican to be murdered, for his children to be murdered, for the children to die in their 0.88

00:06:15.100 mother's arms in order to persuade the Republican to change his policy views, and a man who says that 1.00

00:06:20.440 he would urinate on the graves of multiple Republicans. Senator Booker, in this spirit

00:06:24.660 of introspection, is standing by this endorsement. So I suppose I would invite, perhaps I should have

00:06:30.660 looked because Senator Booker has left the room, and I think I can guess why. Senator Booker, I think,

00:06:36.380 should practice what he preaches.

00:06:38.760 It was a jarring moment. It was the most jarring moment of the entire hearing, I think.

00:06:42.820 You have Booker, who shows up, he gives this speech. His remarks went on for five minutes.

00:06:48.800 He said, we need to sometimes walk back comments that we've made. We need to acknowledge when we

00:06:53.820 were wrong. We need to be introspective. And I said, okay, well, great, this is a great opportunity.

00:06:59.040 You endorsed a guy who's calling for the murder of Republicans and our kids, and says he's going to 0.98

00:07:04.060 urinate on the graves of Republicans. Surely you want to withdraw your endorsement, right? Surely you

00:07:08.560 don't want this man to be the top law enforcement official in Virginia. There's a Cory Booker-shaped

00:07:14.100 hole in the wall. Where'd he go? Hold on, wait, hold on. He's on the other side of Washington,

00:07:17.520 D.C. at that point. Completely, completely preposterous. I mean, it was just a farce.

00:07:23.740 And I think all the crocodile tears you hear from Democrats or see from Democrats are precisely that,

00:07:30.140 completely disingenuous. They try to dredge up January 6th. And when the truth about January 6th

00:07:36.320 came out, they had to go mum. So I think, in a way, I think it was politically very wise that

00:07:40.760 the Democrats, by and large, didn't show up to the hearing yesterday. Very bad for the country,

00:07:44.200 though. You would think this is one political issue we should all agree on. Political violence is bad.

00:07:49.020 We should not be hashing out our political differences with blood in the streets.

00:07:53.940 Unfortunately, only one party seems to take that seriously. One senator in particular takes it

00:07:58.440 seriously. That would be Senator Eric Schmidt, Jr. Senator from Missouri. Speaking of attorneys general,

00:08:04.180 former attorney general of Missouri and the author of a book, The Last Line of Defense,

00:08:09.220 How to Beat the Left in Court. Senator Schmidt, thank you for coming on the show.

00:08:14.180 It's great to be with you.

00:08:15.320 You know, I'm really, really grateful that you called that hearing yesterday. It's so important.

00:08:20.760 Going in, I did not have high expectations for your colleagues on the other side of the aisle that

00:08:25.960 they were going to take this issue seriously. But I am glad that we were able to get the facts on the

00:08:30.840 table out there for the American people because there's been so much misinformation on the topic

00:08:37.000 of political violence. What do you think people need to know? What are the big takeaways?

00:08:42.840 I think that if we're going to get on the other side of this, Michael, we have to tell the truth

00:08:47.380 about what's really happening. And that was the point of the hearing. Obviously, the impetus

00:08:51.040 was the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk shot him in the throat while he was speaking his mind

00:08:56.140 at an event. And that was meant to send a message that was inscribed on the bullets.

00:09:03.200 There's a deeply rooted ideology that's being celebrated right now, sort of assassination

00:09:09.240 culture on the left. And I think perhaps, you know, the killing and the murder and the

00:09:14.660 assassination was chilling. But the reaction from people who are not just sort of like paid

00:09:19.580 activists that you see marching around the country with George Soros, you know, cash in their

00:09:25.140 pocket. But like teachers and professors, and some of that was exposed yesterday, some of

00:09:31.680 their comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. But you can trace this back.

00:09:35.200 And we talked about a little bit. You go back to the weather underground in the 60s and the

00:09:38.840 fire bombings that took place. Those people were never really held accountable. Many of them

00:09:42.300 were promoted to professorships. Bill Ayers, for example, was celebrated, hosted a fundraiser for

00:09:47.120 Barack Obama when he ran for office the first time. And now you're seeing the full culmination

00:09:52.780 of this ideology that knows that they can't really win at the ballot box. So they've resorted to

00:09:58.180 terrorism. And I think that, like I said, if we're going to be honest, we have to talk about what's

00:10:02.300 really going on. This isn't a both sides thing. Just take this into account. Just in the polling,

00:10:07.900 we could go through the litany of terror attacks and violence that's come from the left in the last

00:10:13.320 year and a half, beginning with President Trump's two attempted assassinations and Charlie Kirk and

00:10:17.500 everything in between. But the truth is, 25 percent of those who describe themselves as very liberal

00:10:22.400 were willing to tell a pollster, Michael, that political violence is justified. Over half of

00:10:28.400 those on the left side of the ledger, 55 percent, believe that it's at least somewhat justifiable 0.95

00:10:33.240 to kill President Trump. OK, you put that 25 percent number I cited, there's 3 percent of those

00:10:40.000 who describe themselves as very conservative would say the same thing. That's within the margin of error of

00:10:44.100 zero. But it's also if that's true, it's three percent too many. Right. But don't tell me that

00:10:49.120 that's the same thing. That's a huge disparity. And you see it play out, I think, in the conduct of

00:10:54.160 so many now who resorted to political violence. Of course. Of course. You know, you mentioned the

00:10:59.700 weather underground here. And I thought it was really rich because the Democrats, the only thing

00:11:05.080 that they could bring up was January 6th, you know, supposedly the worst attack in our nation's

00:11:09.500 history. And I was reminded of a few facts. One, one person was killed in political violence on

00:11:15.360 January 6th. There was a military veteran and a Trump supporter who was killed by a trigger happy

00:11:20.020 cop. Secondly, there have been many attacks on the US Capitol over the course of history. So even if you

00:11:26.980 want to lump in the demonstrations of January 6th, fine. OK, you've got that one. You've got you mentioned

00:11:32.320 the weather underground. They blew up a building in the Senate in 1971. You've got 1983,

00:11:38.420 the Maoism Armed Resistance Unit, blew up another building in the Senate. You have 1954,

00:11:44.320 Puerto Rican radicals shot up the House Gallery, injured five members of Congress.

00:11:49.220 You have 1915, a left-wing Harvard professor, not a lot changes, blew up a room in the Senate,

00:11:53.920 reception room, because he was protesting capitalism. So, OK, I've got five attacks that I'm

00:12:00.220 counting there. One of them involves a silly hat. Four of them involve explosives. All of the explosive 0.96

00:12:05.820 ones were perpetrated by the left. So even on the one example that they want to cite,

00:12:10.820 even there, I think it's clear that the problem comes from the left chiefly. And I don't mean that

00:12:16.360 I don't I don't say this just to score political points, but the ranking member, Peter Welch,

00:12:21.480 he opened up the hearing and he said, look, we all say political violence is bad, but it's both sides.

00:12:27.720 And if you ever suggest it's one side or the other, that's that's unacceptable. This is ironic,

00:12:32.920 one, because they've been blaming the right forever based on nothing. But but two,

00:12:37.040 how are you supposed to solve the problem if you won't acknowledge where the problem lies?

00:12:42.420 Well, there's a few things going on here at the same time. One is they keep citing this study of

00:12:46.440 right-wing political violence. And I tried to point out and entered into the record

00:12:49.580 how that's been totally debunked. Essentially, they didn't include any violence that stemmed from

00:12:55.280 any protests. So take 2020 of all the billions of dollars worth of damage that took place there,

00:13:00.760 cops being assaulted, all the things that happened in St. Louis, where I'm from. There was a

00:13:05.780 police officer murdered for helping guard the store of his friend in one of those evenings. So they

00:13:13.280 don't count any of that stuff. The only one they did count was Charlottesville, any kind of, you know,

00:13:18.800 so it's it's absolutely skewed, right? They know that studies are are junk. And so we've now asked for 0.99

00:13:26.120 the Department of Justice, let's give us a real study because we know what the answer is. This is this is

00:13:30.740 the byproduct of an ideology that is by any means necessary. They don't believe in real free speech

00:13:36.760 like you and I do. They only believe in that if it works to their benefit. But if it doesn't work

00:13:41.960 and they can't convince, the left is willing to resort to violence. We've seen it time and time

00:13:46.080 again. I would also point out, in addition to the political violence, they used that as January 6th as

00:13:53.000 justification for the worst weaponization of our Department of Justice we've ever seen. The January 6th

00:13:58.460 Committee was a predicate to Jack Smith. Three days after President Trump announced he's running for

00:14:02.320 president, all these investigations start literally to put their political opponent in prison for the

00:14:06.900 rest of his life. That's right. Arctic Frost spied on members of the Senate. I was the chair of the

00:14:12.120 Republican Attorneys General Association at the time. They did the same thing there. You think of who

00:14:15.700 they tried to sweep up. So you've got the weaponization of government, the whole of government

00:14:20.960 against political enemies on the left. And then you also have this political violence now that's taken

00:14:25.120 hold, too. So we are, I think, at an inflection point as a country and we're never going to solve

00:14:29.700 it if we just say that this is a both sides thing in this moment, because it is not. The facts do not

00:14:35.040 bear that out. So we have to have the courage to say this is a real problem on the left. And I don't

00:14:39.580 unfortunately, I don't see the kind of, you know, the the reflection that so many talked about

00:14:44.740 when it's so obvious. I mean, you pointed out the attorney general candidate in Virginia,

00:14:49.400 the Democrat who wanted once wanted to murder the guy's kids, his opponent's kids to teach

00:14:54.980 everybody a lesson. I've been an attorney general like you want people in that office who have some

00:15:00.620 sort of restraint because there's a lot of things you can do with that kind of power. You're the only

00:15:05.200 one who can make a charging decision in many instances. And if that's abused by somebody who,

00:15:10.120 you know, doesn't have their bearings, to put it lightly, that's a real problem. But you don't hear

00:15:14.040 any Democrat calling for that guy to step down. So this is a deeply rooted problem, Michael,

00:15:19.060 on the left. And I don't see their willingness to kind of take that on. And, you know, finally,

00:15:25.060 I think Antifa came up a lot in that hearing and rightfully so it's not some ideology, as some

00:15:31.180 people have tried to dismiss it as it is a well organized machine that's hell bent on violence,

00:15:37.860 murder, and they have safe houses everywhere. So we aim to get at that as well.

00:15:42.640 I think it was really important that Republicans brought the receipts on this,

00:15:46.840 even just on the point of Antifa. It's not just an idea floating in outer space.

00:15:51.280 I can tell you the names of the networks. I can give you the email addresses where people can

00:15:56.580 donate through tax-exempt nonprofit organizations to fund organized left-wing terror cells.

00:16:03.360 This is a real concrete phenomenon. So anyway, I think it's just really wonderful.

00:16:07.800 One, you know, the Trump administration, the White House is designating Antifa as a domestic

00:16:12.740 terror organization, is trying to go about and dismantle it. I think it's very, very important

00:16:17.880 that you've taken the leadership on Capitol Hill. And at the very least, you know, some Republicans

00:16:22.920 have joined in and are going to take this issue seriously because you can't get at the problem

00:16:27.880 unless, one, you start actually counting the instances of left-wing terror. You get good data on it.

00:16:33.940 You track down where the money is going, where it's flowing, where these terror cells are meeting.

00:16:39.600 And then you have the judgment and the courage to actually go and enforce the law and to

00:16:44.520 reestablish a political order that does allow us to get along with self-government.

00:16:49.420 Senator Schmidt, first of all, everyone needs to go out and get the book,

00:16:51.880 The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court. Senator, thank you very much,

00:16:57.160 one, for holding that hearing yesterday, and two, for coming on the show.

00:17:00.180 Well, thanks for all you do. Thanks for being there yesterday. You were great. Appreciate you.

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00:18:23.360 Now, speaking of very inflammatory political rhetoric coming from the left, and speaking of

00:18:29.440 the left running away from their responsibility, J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, he thinks he's

00:18:34.820 going to run for president. He's rich, so he thinks that that's going to allow him to run for

00:18:38.080 president. He does not have a snowball's chance in hell, but he's pushing it anyway. He goes on

00:18:43.020 Nicole Wallace's show. Nicole Wallace is one of the anchors in MSNBC, one of the most 0.85

00:18:48.120 unpleasantly left-wing people, I think, in the entire country. J.B. Pritzker had the temerity,

00:18:57.300 as did Nicole Wallace for that matter, to say that no one has ever compared President Trump

00:19:04.120 to Hitler. I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler. I wouldn't say that.

00:19:11.520 I don't think any Democrat has. The dangers that we saw in, you know, Nazi Germany are

00:19:18.700 the dangers that we need to react to now. Well, I think everybody understands that at this

00:19:24.920 point, we've got an authoritarian in office. It doesn't take very long to tear apart a

00:19:30.720 constitutional republic. Indeed, the Nazis did it in 53 days. That's not the country we live

00:19:36.800 and, you know, you shouldn't have to walk around with papers the way that they did in the early

00:19:40.980 days of Nazi Germany. I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. I'm watching with a foreboding

00:19:48.820 dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the

00:19:54.360 Potomac and suggests without facts or findings that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash.

00:20:00.280 The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here. How can you possibly compare what happened in Germany

00:20:07.140 in World War II to what's going on here in the United States? We're talking about the death of a 0.62

00:20:12.260 constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that

00:20:20.140 you've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders. Does Jamie Pritzker believe

00:20:26.440 that we don't have film, that we don't have memory? We might not have memories, but we do have film.

00:20:32.460 When you are so loose with the Hitler comparisons that even Jake Tapper tries to rein you in,

00:20:38.280 you've gone pretty loose. He thinks he's going to get away with this. Nicole Wallace too. But the thing

00:20:41.960 is, you could make one of these compilation clips. That one came from Libs of TikTok. You could make one

00:20:47.580 of these compilation clips for basically every single Democrat in the country. These people have spent

00:20:54.420 a decade comparing Trump to Hitler. They didn't do that before he said he was going to seriously run

00:21:00.980 for office, even though Trump was famous for almost a half century. They didn't do it then.

00:21:06.080 Since he became a Republican, decided he was going to run for office, they've all been comparing him

00:21:10.420 to Hitler. That's not interesting. We all know that. What's interesting is they're trying to run away 0.93

00:21:15.100 from it now. Why? They're trying to run away from it now, I think, for the same reason that the

00:21:21.640 Democrats barely showed up to that hearing yesterday, for the same reason there was a

00:21:25.980 Cory Booker-shaped hole in the wall before the Jay Jones endorsement came up, for the same reason

00:21:31.220 that they can't speak about this issue of political violence, because they know that they are responsible

00:21:38.720 for it. That's what this is about. At this point, even the cooked BS numbers that don't count left-wing

00:21:46.580 protests, that don't count BLM, that don't count Antifa violence, even putting their thumb on the

00:21:53.380 scale as much as they can on that, even then, the numbers show that political violence is a left-wing

00:21:58.160 problem. And how do you get the very near assassination of Trump, two attempted assassinations

00:22:04.880 of Trump, how do you get to this place, is by saying that your opponents are Nazis and Hitler. 0.95

00:22:11.140 Jay Jones in Virginia said that his Republican opponent was breeding little fascists. 0.85

00:22:17.340 One justification for why he wanted his opponent's kids to die in their mother's arms. 0.83

00:22:23.080 To call someone Hitler is to justify that person's assassination. And they know, they see all the 0.54

00:22:28.980 numbers, they see that they have a big political violence problem, they're going to try to run away

00:22:32.120 from it. But they won't acknowledge the problem. If they just came out and they said, you know what,

00:22:37.260 we really screwed up. We have justified the assassination of Republicans in this country

00:22:42.440 for years by saying that they pose an existential threat to the Republic and by comparing them to

00:22:46.740 Hitler. That's on us. Blood is on our hands. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I'm sorry, 0.94

00:22:52.900 we're going to turn another leaf. If they did what Cory Booker said in the abstract they should do,

00:22:59.100 even though he won't do it himself. If they actually did that, I think they would have a shot

00:23:05.960 at moving forward in a sincere, genuine way and maybe persuading some people.

00:23:11.420 Say, we'll tone down the rhetoric. But they can't acknowledge that they've done anything wrong.

00:23:15.780 And so I think they're in a real bind here. Because people are sick of this. We do not want innocent

00:23:21.260 people to be gunned down in the street for debating ideas. Charlie's assassination was a national

00:23:29.320 trauma. And people have not gotten over it, nor should they get over it. And I'm not just talking

00:23:34.540 about Republicans. I'm talking about people in the middle and on the center left. Because they can see

00:23:38.700 a direct line between the Democrats' rhetoric, the Democrats' encouragement of political violence,

00:23:46.020 and the actual political violence that occurs. Now they want to have their cake and eat it too.

00:23:51.340 They want to encourage the political violence. They want to say that they haven't done anything

00:23:54.380 wrong. But they also want to persuade voters. All right, good. We're going to make a Hitler 0.97

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00:25:55.440 Three tough truths about climate. I'm not going to read this. This is a very long missive put out by

00:26:00.520 Bill Gates with all sorts of charts and whatever, blah, blah, blah. I'll just read you the first

00:26:06.120 couple of paragraphs. There is a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this.

00:26:10.460 In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around

00:26:14.660 us. Just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing

00:26:18.700 matters more than limiting the rise in temperature. Put a pause right there. He says there's the doomsday

00:26:24.340 view. That is the view that has been pushed by the entire left for 20 years. That is the sole view

00:26:33.000 that has been pushed by the Bill Gates's and the AOC's and the King Charles's for that matter,

00:26:38.540 and the Al Gore's and the Congress and the media and the academic establishment and the everyone and

00:26:45.000 that everyone has. But don't Bill Gates is trying to say, oh, there's a doomsday view. This is just

00:26:49.260 one view. No, no, that's the one view. That is the one view that you have all been pushing

00:26:53.660 for decades. By some measures, you would say for 50 years, since the 1970s.

00:27:01.400 There's a doomsday view that says this, okay? Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong.

00:27:11.240 Ooh, ooh, this is a nice little breakfast today. Fortunately for all of us, the view that the left

00:27:17.300 has uniformly been promoting on the environment is wrong. So says one of the great spokesmen of this

00:27:22.840 view. Although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the

00:27:28.340 poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live and thrive in

00:27:32.920 most places on earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down with the right

00:27:37.140 policies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What? What the H is this about? What is this? Why is Bill Gates

00:27:50.420 one of the great promoters of climate hysteria on earth for decades? Why is he saying that they were

00:27:59.360 wrong? Is it because he's come to see the light? Is it because he's been persuaded? Maybe he was

00:28:05.960 listening to the Michael Knoll show. He said, you know, that devilishly handsome Sicilian, 1.00

00:28:11.680 he's persuaded me. No, I don't think that's what happened at all. I think what happened is

00:28:16.020 the left is making a tactical pivot because time's up. And this is crazy. You know, I hate to say I

00:28:24.240 told you so. I think I actually predicted this on the show yesterday, and this had not come out yet.

00:28:28.800 Talk, this is like an eerie, uncanny, numinous, Nolstradamus kind of moment.

00:28:36.300 Because I said, look, time's up. You have AOC saying the world's going to end in 12 years.

00:28:43.800 That was what, like nine years ago or something? Eight years ago. So, okay, we're getting close.

00:28:49.920 Then Prince Charles, now King Charles, predicted that the world was going to end like seven years ago.

00:28:54.760 Like that was the end. That was going to be the end of the world. That hasn't happened.

00:28:58.420 Greta, Greta's moved on. She doesn't care about the climate anymore. Now she cares about the 0.99

00:29:02.100 Palestinians. Now she wants to eradicate the nation state of Israel. But she still wants to sail the 0.99

00:29:09.220 boat. The boat is the through line through all of her activism. All these guys, the time is up.

00:29:15.180 And so, the libs have to make a little tactical move here. They have to say, okay, everything that

00:29:23.640 we've been telling you is going to happen, it's not going to happen. And don't forget,

00:29:27.560 the libs told you it was too late. When Al Gore made his stupid movie, the PowerPoint movie that 1.00

00:29:31.620 won an Oscar that had manifest lies in it, the thesis was, it is almost too late. And then we 1.00

00:29:38.980 moved past the almost stage. So, it was too late. It's all over. Nothing we can do to change it.

00:29:43.380 We're screwed. But then we weren't screwed. Then everything was actually just fine. 0.97

00:29:47.440 So, they need to make a tactical shift. And they need to say, okay, well, the thing we told you

00:29:53.200 was going to happen is not going to happen because of all our great policies. Hold on,

00:29:59.840 hold on, hold on. You told me it was already too late. You told me no policies could change anything.

00:30:05.660 Now you're claiming that your genius policies of what? Putting that stupid stop feature on cars that 0.99

00:30:10.740 we all hate? Of what? Just sending all of our trash to China so that we can pretend that we don't 1.00

00:30:15.460 have trash anymore? Of what? What do we do? Because of all our genius policies, 0.86

00:30:21.600 we've pushed it off a little bit into the future. So, the world's not going to end immediately.

00:30:26.740 It'll end a little bit down the line. What Bill Gates is doing here, and you're going to see the

00:30:30.860 whole left shift on this, is they have to recalibrate the issue of climate change.

00:30:36.640 Because climate change, whatever that even means, is now and has always been a tool of political

00:30:43.540 manipulation. It is a political slogan designed to play on people's anxieties. It is almost entirely

00:30:50.680 divorced from natural science. Not entirely, entirely divorced from natural science. There's

00:30:55.440 a little touch of it in there, but very, very little. So, the problem for climate change as an

00:31:02.480 issue for the Democrats is they've got to calibrate it perfectly. And they screwed this up a little bit

00:31:07.120 in the 2000s. If you say it's all too late, we're totally screwed. Well, now you've given up all your 0.95

00:31:12.880 political leverage. If it's too late, then let's party. Burn some coal, baby. Let's go. 1.00

00:31:18.520 If they say, well, it's way, way, way in the distant future. The environmental problems will

00:31:22.420 be in the year 2800. Then they've also given up all their political leverage. Because now there's

00:31:27.600 no impetus to do anything. We'll figure it out down the line. Climate change only works if it is

00:31:32.860 dialed in perfectly such that disaster, Armageddon is just, just perfectly on the horizon.

00:31:41.900 Not too close, not too far. That's what allows these systems of control.

00:31:47.680 And they had that. They had tried to do that starting in the 1970s.

00:31:51.660 And they, it was on, but now we've just caught up with the horizon. We've been moving forward.

00:31:56.200 So, the only thing that they can do is either admit they were totally wrong or

00:31:59.200 push it off, recalibrate, push it just perfectly into the future a little bit further. That's all

00:32:04.300 that's going on here. I don't think anyone's learned anything. To me, this is just like the

00:32:08.180 Democrats on Capitol Hill. No one's learned anything. No lessons have penetrated into the

00:32:14.980 thick brow ridges covering up the purported minds of these people. They're just, they're just changing

00:32:23.080 up the rhetoric a little bit. But on none of these issues, whether we're talking about the climate

00:32:28.600 hysteria or political violence or anything in between, none of the substance is actually going

00:32:33.680 to change on the left. Okay. Now, speaking of evolving leftist rhetoric, this is great.

00:32:39.180 Antigate is upon us. Zoran Mamdani, the Muslim communist who is almost certainly going to be the 1.00

00:32:44.740 next mayor of New York. Unless the betting markets are now shifting a little bit because of Antigate.

00:32:53.060 Zoran Mamdani made this claim just a few days ago about 9-11.

00:33:01.460 I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.

00:33:04.480 Oh, he's so choked up. He's so choked up. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt.

00:33:18.500 Oh, he can't even, he just loved his aunt so much.

00:33:20.780 Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.

00:33:25.180 So, okay. Thesis. The real victims of 9-11 were Muslims who felt a little awkward in New York.

00:33:37.220 And as he points to the example, he says, my aunt, she wore a hijab and she stopped taking the subway

00:33:45.440 because she felt uncomfortable in her hijab. Okay. So the sleuths on the internet did a little fact

00:33:51.160 check. And here we see that his aunt doesn't wear a hijab. His aunt, you know, what is an aunt?

00:34:03.120 That's going to be the next Great Matt Walsh movie. What is an aunt? The sister of one's mother or father

00:34:09.160 or a great aunt would be the sister of one's grandparents. They look through all the aunts,

00:34:16.380 all the aunts they can find. And they find out that the aunt doesn't wear a hijab and doesn't

00:34:23.740 live in New York and didn't live in New York anytime around 9-11. The whole thing was totally

00:34:30.340 made up. So what does Zoran do? Does Zoran admit that he lied or does he persist?

00:34:40.180 Tonight, Friendly Fire returns for episode two. Join me, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew

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00:35:14.660 on Daily Wire+. If you're not a member yet, join for as little as seven bucks a month with our

00:35:19.280 deal of the decade at dailywire.com slash subscribe. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mila Nelson

00:35:24.960 who says, the legitimate jump scare I had when Michael said, Kourtney Kardashian wants you to do

00:35:29.840 with her lollipop line of probiotics. Oh yeah. Yeah. We don't need, we don't need to rehash that.

00:35:36.160 That, yeah, I had a jump scare too. Okay.

00:35:43.000 Zoran says the real victims of 9-11 were Muslims who felt a little awkward sometimes,

00:35:47.400 even though actually Americans' perceptions of Islam actually improved after 9-11. How insane is that?

00:35:54.960 How insane is that? Our country is so stupidly nice that after 9-11, after Muslims in the name of 1.00

00:36:02.300 Islam took down two of our buildings, killed 3,000 Americans, and hit the Pentagon. After that, 0.99

00:36:09.380 we liked Islam more. We took in many more Muslims. Anyway, he says, we became so Islamophobic that my

00:36:17.860 aunt felt awkward wearing a hijab on the subway. Then we find out the aunt doesn't wear a hijab, 0.99

00:36:22.080 didn't live in New York. Here's his correction. I was speaking about my aunt. I was speaking

00:36:29.120 about Zerafui, my father's cousin, sadly passed away a few years ago. And for the takeaway from

00:36:40.260 my more than 10-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and in this city, to be the question

00:36:45.940 of my aunt tells you everything about Andrew Cuomo and his inability to reckon with a crisis of his

00:36:51.920 own.

00:36:53.820 My father's cousin, my aunt. Now, I don't know how they do things in Uganda or Tanzania,

00:37:01.680 but in my understanding, it seems like Zoran has a reasonable hold on the English language.

00:37:10.780 Your dad's cousin is not your aunt. She's your cousin. You know, you can have first cousins,

00:37:18.320 second cousins. You can have a first cousin once removed. That's your father's first cousin.

00:37:22.660 You can have, but you don't. I promise you the cousin of your father is not your aunt.

00:37:29.600 Even if you call her Zerafui, Zerafui ain't your aunt. But he says it as if there was no

00:37:37.560 question. Well, of course, I was talking about my father's cousin, my Zerafui. Why would Andrew

00:37:42.660 Cuomo make an issue about this in the race? I said, oh, because you lied. Well, one, because you said

00:37:46.960 Muslims were the real victims of 9-11. You did a Norm Macdonald joke seriously, which is insane. 0.99

00:37:52.780 And it is a disgrace that you could even potentially be the mayor of New York

00:37:57.600 quarter century after 9-11. But also because you lied. You made a stupid point that you lied about.

00:38:07.020 And now you're talking about Zerafui, who conveniently will not speak for herself here. 1.00

00:38:11.560 So then he goes on some other show, El Vassilion de la Mañana.

00:38:17.660 And he tries to explain to a somewhat skeptical host the real nature of Zerafui.

00:38:27.540 I was at the press conference yesterday. They said, can you tell us who your aunt is,

00:38:30.940 who you were referring to? I said, yes, this is my aunt. This is my Zerafui. This is my father's

00:38:34.860 cousin. And this was her story. So how can you convince New Yorkers if that is the type of person

00:38:39.700 that you are? In other words, that you don't tell the truth. Well, it's not a lie. My father's

00:38:44.100 cousin is my aunt. That's how I referred to her growing up my whole life, Zerafui. 0.96

00:38:48.240 And I think to have the takeaway from the New York Post and so many others after I gave a speech

00:38:54.940 outside of a mosque for 10 minutes about the Islamophobia we've seen in this race and in our

00:38:58.840 politics to be the question of whether or not Zerafui was my aunt. I mean, Zerafui is my aunt. 0.81

00:39:05.460 I called her my aunt. You know, if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle, I guess. He's doing 0.99

00:39:09.960 a version of that joke too now. He did the norm joke. Now he's doing that joke. A lady is not 1.00

00:39:16.620 your aunt simply because you call her that. Look, I'm Italian. We call people uncle and aunt pretty

00:39:21.880 loosely, but we don't actually believe it. We don't say, oh, he's my uncle.

00:39:26.000 Ah, you know, what if I did this bit? You know, Italians do this all the time. It's like your 1.00

00:39:29.680 parents' friends. You call Uncle Johnny and so-and-so, Aunt Jackie. But you say, you know,

00:39:36.060 after The Sopranos came out, it was a very traumatizing time for Italians. My Uncle Johnny,

00:39:41.240 my Uncle Johnny wouldn't even take the subway wearing his velour tracksuit. He wouldn't. He

00:39:46.520 felt too ashamed. My uncle, my sweet, beautiful uncle. Oh no, he's my like father's second cousin's

00:39:53.200 barber, but he's no, he's my, no, he's no one would say that seriously. You lied. You lied.

00:39:58.580 And now you're just repeating this phrase, Zerafui, like you're putting us into a trance.

00:40:03.300 Zerafui, gesundheit! Zerafui, excuse me, I'm talking about my aunt. Okay. All right. Zerafui.

00:40:07.140 Zerafui. She is my father's cousin and therefore my aunt. And how dare you suggest otherwise? He

00:40:11.960 lied. He lied. That's it. But he has learned one thing about being a New Yorker. I can tell

00:40:18.540 you this. And for those who do not live in New York, you won't appreciate this. He learned the

00:40:24.960 maxim, deny till you die, which is not good. It's not a Christian principle. It's not, I don't 0.62

00:40:31.600 encourage it. But it is very New Yorker. It's the most New Yorker thing I've seen

00:40:37.000 about Zoran Mamdani, is you get caught in a lie and you just straight face it. No, no, no.

00:40:43.520 What are you talking about? No, I didn't lie. No, my neighbor is my aunt. No, it doesn't. What

00:40:48.720 are you talking about? No, that my uncle is my aunt. No, what are you talking about? Are you crazy?

00:40:54.120 It's pure gaslighting. Now, speaking of uncles becoming aunts and things like that, 0.98

00:40:59.960 there is a key demographic that has just come out for Zoran. It's one that's often overlooked

00:41:06.700 by politicians. That is, of course, trans rabbis. 0.90

00:41:10.540 Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi. We're among the

00:41:21.580 thousands of Jewish New Yorkers who've been out door knocking and phone banking to elect

00:41:25.620 Zoran Mamdani. We're also rabbis. We know Zoran will fight to make our city affordable and safe

00:41:32.900 for our families. And for our neighbors of all faiths and backgrounds. As New Yorkers,

00:41:37.880 we're also just people who live here, who don't want to get priced out of this incredible city

00:41:43.120 that we call home. We know fellow Jews want to be able to afford housing, transportation and

00:41:49.380 child care for their families, too. As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people

00:41:57.540 deserve to thrive. Zoran agrees. But let's get real. This isn't only about belief. It's about action.

00:42:05.040 So let's build a flourishing city. Together, let's elect Zoran. 0.95

00:42:10.880 Oh, Zoran! 0.81

00:42:15.520 He's in. He's in, isn't he? I think, you know, I sincerely would never want to make fun of a

00:42:23.780 woman's appearance. I think, maybe the producers can correct me if I'm wrong, that one of them is

00:42:30.080 not a woman, right? And the kind of irony everyone's pointing to the trans rabbis for

00:42:35.720 Zoran. How silly is that? The only one of those four people who might plausibly be an actual rabbi 0.98

00:42:42.360 is the transsexual. Ladies can't be rabbis. It's like when I have to talk to my Episcopalian 1.00

00:42:49.320 friends or my Anglican friends. I say, hey, you know, ladies can't be priests. You know that, 0.99

00:42:53.680 right? And I don't, look, I'm not a Jew, but I'm, I think I know enough about Judaism. I have

00:42:58.540 many, many Jewish friends. I am extremely philo-Semitic. Ladies can't be rabbis. So 1.00

00:43:04.820 oddly enough, the trans, the trans rabbi is, he might be the, he might be the most authoritative 0.89

00:43:11.260 person up there. Will that push Zoran over? I, hmm. I think he's going to be the next mayor of New

00:43:22.080 York, but I think I'm just going to have to go visit my beloved home city of New York less.

00:43:29.600 That's, that's too bad. I love New York. New York is great. Turning from Jews to Muslims before we go, 1.00

00:43:34.460 Nigel Farage had a beautiful, it was kind of nice, nice little, uh, horseshoe. We, we, we begin

00:43:42.280 where we, or we end where we began because we'll move from the U.S. Capitol to the British

00:43:47.860 Parliament. Nigel Farage absolutely smacks down the liberal Keir Starmer on the topic of Muslim

00:43:53.920 immigration. Nigel Farage. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We at Reform, a party that is alive and kicking,

00:44:02.440 very much enjoyed your speech on Monday. You seem to be learning a very great deal from

00:44:08.140 us. Can I encourage you please to go further as a matter of national security? As a matter

00:44:17.260 of national security, over the weekend, an illegal immigrant from Iran who we believe came by

00:44:21.960 boat was arrested in the north of England on serious charges of terrorism. Since the speech

00:44:28.900 on Monday, 1,000 young, undocumented young males have crossed the English Channel. Does the prime 1.00

00:44:34.560 minister agree? Now is the time to declare the situation in the English Channel as a national

00:44:40.020 security emergency. Yeah. It wasn't my speech. It wasn't. I don't want to do that actually. Thank

00:44:46.540 you so much, Nigel. Nigel doubling down. He says, Hey, you've got to stop the mass migration 0.95

00:44:52.400 into the UK. Now this does represent a little bit of a shift in the way the UK has talked

00:44:59.780 about this. You've seen it building since the Brexit, but let's be very clear what, I don't

00:45:07.300 want to speak for Nigel. You can hear his own words, but let's be very clear what British

00:45:11.560 conservatives are now saying. British conservatives are saying that the UK needs to severely limit

00:45:18.860 immigration to England because those people are not English. It's not because of effects

00:45:27.400 on the economy. It's not because they've committed some crimes. It's not because of this. It's not

00:45:31.560 the argument being made at least by the ordinary English conservative chap is that you need to severely

00:45:40.160 restrict immigration into England of non-English people because they are not English. And there's

00:45:51.220 nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's okay to have a political identity.

00:45:56.980 You don't want there to be cruelty about it. You don't want there to be nastiness or haughtiness about

00:46:02.120 it, but it's okay for people to have their own country and their own culture. That's okay. Previously,

00:46:08.060 it was very difficult to say that in mainstream Americans, certainly, and even British politics.

00:46:13.740 And the reason why is something very strange had happened. America started out as a British colony.

00:46:18.680 You had the United Kingdom and you had the American colonies. And then we fought the War of

00:46:23.600 Independence. I have a new video out that's being produced by the White House, actually, on the

00:46:28.540 American War of Independence. My ancestor, good to go check out on the White House YouTube channel.

00:46:32.160 Anyway, we had a War of Independence and over time it flipped. And what's weird is that now America

00:46:37.760 is the empire, the global empire. And the UK is kind of a colony of America,

00:46:42.960 which means that they take on some of our weird traits. Like, for instance, America,

00:46:49.380 especially in the 20th century, came to say that we're multicultural. And we're not any particular

00:46:54.080 people. We're just a land of immigrants or something. And it was a plausible argument to 0.95

00:46:59.780 make in America because America was settled only 400 years ago. It wasn't settled by Tanzanians,

00:47:06.020 for instance. But there have been different kinds of people who've come here over the years.

00:47:11.960 That isn't really true in the UK. I mean, I guess there was the Norman Conquest in 1066.

00:47:17.220 But the Brits are a people. The English come from the Angles. 0.90

00:47:21.940 So it's very weird to read and hear, as you have in recent years, that the UK is a multicultural,

00:47:32.260 multi-ethnic melting pot that has no original stock or something. I remember when I was writing 1.00

00:47:37.500 Speechless, I remember I would be reading this in all sorts of, hello, hello, where is my bell? No,

00:47:42.000 they're asleep on the wheel today. Thank you. I'm glad I woke up Mr. Davies from his nap.

00:47:48.140 You know, when I was reading, I was reading these books from the 90s and 2000s on speech

00:47:52.200 in the UK. And they say, oh, well, look, other countries of the world are ethnic states,

00:47:55.400 unlike America and England. So no, I'm pretty sure England is an ethnic state. At least it used to be. 0.99

00:48:01.840 That's what's shifted. Now, will that shift in America? Will we, I don't know. But at least in

00:48:08.720 the UK, there is a shift. No, no. It's not that these people are bad intrinsically or morally evil.

00:48:13.840 It's just, they're not English. And we want England to be English. Is that so much to ask for? 0.95

00:48:19.360 That's a radical shift, a radical return to how English politics always was. Okay.

00:48:25.220 Today is Teehee Tuesday on Wednesday. How weird is that? It's, it's, it's

00:48:31.760 Wa-ha-ha-ha Wednesday. I don't know. I don't know what we'll call it to make it alliterative.

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