The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1907 - NEW VIDEO： Strange Figure Enters Jeffrey Epstein's Tier The Night He Died

00:00:00.000 Newly released footage shows an orange figure entering Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell the night

00:00:05.320 he died. And perhaps even more important, we're now learning that no one ever found the noose

00:00:12.740 that Epstein allegedly used to kill himself. That seems like a pretty big oversight, doesn't it?

00:00:19.200 We'll get to what any of that means. And then speaking of last things,

00:00:22.940 President Trump shows up to the national prayer breakfast and has everyone on Twitter debating

00:00:27.680 whether or not he's really a Christian. And finally, Kamala Harris makes a major announcement

00:00:34.060 about her political future. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:13.360 you know, 4chan or something. This is coming from CBS News. Pretty mainstream outlet.

00:03:19.860 February 5th, 2026. Who entered Epstein's cell? Sorry, who entered Epstein's jail tear

00:03:26.700 the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts.

00:03:34.000 All right, you guys caught up. That's great.

00:03:36.340 Yes, the official accounts have been contradicted myriad times, I think, at this point.

00:03:43.580 Up to and including the footage of the jail tear. Remember, we were told

00:03:47.640 that there are cameras on Epstein's jail cell, on his tear, on his floor.

00:03:51.960 But actually, the cameras didn't work, so we don't have any footage.

00:03:55.660 No, but actually, we do have the footage. No, but actually, a minute is missing.

00:04:00.020 No, but actually, the minute is back. And it's all original footage. But actually,

00:04:05.020 it's clearly from a video editing program. And actually, actually, actually. So what's the latest?

00:04:10.020 I'll just read a little bit from the CBS News article.

00:04:13.300 Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage

00:04:18.340 from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed, an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase

00:04:23.420 toward the isolated locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10.39 p.m.

00:04:30.300 So pretty late at night. I love the way they're describing it. An orange-colored shape.

00:04:35.360 Some people probably on the left are imagining that this is just Trump himself.

00:04:39.260 Yes, a vaguely mango-colored, you know, blonde-haired, had a very nice Brioni suit on with a

00:04:45.220 slightly too long red tie. No, that would be the lib version of what we on the right all imagine,

00:04:51.320 which is that it's Hillary Clinton in Groucho glasses in a FedEx suit saying, you know,

00:04:55.300 I got a package delivery for Mr. Epstein. He just chokes him out. Okay. What is probably meant

00:05:02.140 is that the person is wearing an orange jumpsuit or maybe carrying orange jumpsuits. It's a little

00:05:08.160 unclear. Now, we've already mentioned this, by the way. This isn't particularly new information.

00:05:12.900 I was covering Epstein months and months ago when some of this footage came out,

00:05:16.600 and we were pointing to strange figures that were moving around. Okay, now we can zoom in and say

00:05:22.120 there's this weird orange figure here. Okay. CBS goes on. Thomas told investigators he discovered

00:05:28.340 Epstein in his cell shortly after 6.30 a.m. and that he ripped Epstein down from the hanging position.

00:05:35.700 Investigators asked what happened to the noose. Quote, I don't recall taking the noose off.

00:05:41.360 I really don't. I don't recall taking the thing from around his neck.

00:05:48.060 Well, that's a little weird, right? I guess what you could say is it was so shocking.

00:05:53.400 It's always shocking to see a dead body, but it was especially shocking here. This is one of the

00:05:57.380 most wanted talked about criminals in all of America, in all of the world, and you find him

00:06:02.260 dead in a cell. And maybe, who knows, your hormones are spiking. You have a surge of adrenaline.

00:06:08.800 You're shocked, and you forget. Maybe he just forgot. Gets weirder.

00:06:14.980 Noel, who remains standing at the cell entrance, told investigators she saw Thomas lower Epstein to

00:06:21.420 the floor, but did not see a noose around his neck. Hold on. So now it's not just the guy who

00:06:26.420 discovers Epstein and takes him down. It's also the observer standing a little bit further back,

00:06:32.720 looks and says, you know, it's weird. He was hanging, but I didn't see him hanging from anything

00:06:37.720 in particular. The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been definitively identified.

00:06:46.320 According to the inspector general's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined

00:06:50.460 not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death.

00:06:53.700 They never saw a noose. The guy who took him down never saw the noose. The lady watching him take

00:07:01.420 him down never saw a noose. And investigators never even found the noose. Add on to that the

00:07:08.480 medical examiner's report. At least one medical examiner saying that the breaks in his neck were

00:07:15.080 more consistent with strangulation than with hanging. Come on. Come on, man. Come on, man.

00:07:25.460 Let's just. Everyone's focusing on the aspects of his life. Everyone's focusing on he had a

00:07:32.900 connection to Russia. He had a connection to Israel. He had a connection to the CIA.

00:07:39.360 He had a connection. And he had, and he did, and what he was really up to was this. And what he was

00:07:42.840 really up to was this. And some of the accounts actually contradict each other. And he was really

00:07:46.920 a super spy. No, he was really just a sex freak rich guy. No, he was really trafficking girls. No, 0.99

00:07:52.880 he was really trading secrets. No, he was really dealing with the Arabs or the Israelis or the Russians

00:07:58.180 or the Americans or the British or the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You got to put that aside for a

00:08:03.180 second. That's getting us nowhere. Where's that getting us? We now have every theory. We've

00:08:09.680 connected him to every country on earth, every intelligence agency, every vice. That's not

00:08:15.400 getting us anywhere. If you want to get to the heart of the Epstein story, the first thing you

00:08:21.980 have to ascertain is it is the end of the story, not how the story begins. Not a lot of people want

00:08:28.520 to focus on how did this guy who dropped out of college end up becoming a math teacher that was

00:08:32.760 hired by Bill Barr's father at the Dalton school. But then he became a, what, some kind of trader

00:08:38.240 at Bear Stearns. And then he became the money manager for Les Wexner. And he said he would only

00:08:43.780 manage money over a billion dollars or only have clients who are investing over a billion dollars.

00:08:47.760 And then he worked with this intelligence agency. And then he helped out this shake in Arabia.

00:08:53.440 And then he, don't look at the beginning of the story. That is going to lead you down a billion

00:08:59.280 different trails, especially with this guy who seemed to be connected to every powerful person

00:09:03.080 on earth. I think you have to start at the end of the story. And curious, isn't it, that the shadiest 0.57

00:09:11.040 part, the part that has been most covered up, that has been most contradicted, it's not the stuff at

00:09:15.880 the beginning of the story. It's not, did Epstein work at Bear Stearns? Did Epstein know Ghulain

00:09:20.420 Maxwell? Did Epstein pal around with Bill Clinton? It's none of that. The part that has been most

00:09:24.980 assiduously covered up is the end of the story. How did he die? Who killed him? Why don't we have

00:09:34.400 the noose? That's it. If we focus in on that, and by the way, I don't think we're going to get an

00:09:40.040 answer on it. This has been my consistent position from the beginning. Either Epstein is who they say

00:09:44.060 he is, in which case we know everything about him, or he's something more, in which case we know

00:09:48.080 everything we're ever going to know. Because they're not going to let it out. But if we could

00:09:53.220 ascertain who killed him, that would help us to answer why was he killed? That would help us to

00:10:02.460 answer what purpose in world politics did he primarily serve? That would help us to answer

00:10:09.620 who chiefly was he working for? That would help us to answer what was the Epstein operation really

00:10:15.400 about. But the only way you're going to get those big answers is by going backward. You're

00:10:20.540 not going to get it by going forward. Now we're getting some little tasty little hints.

00:10:26.860 Nothing definitive. And if you want my bet, you want me to put some money on the table,

00:10:31.660 I don't think we're going to get much more than that. Perhaps I will happily be proven wrong.

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00:14:18.980 and hell, President Trump shows up to the national prayer breakfast and he makes a joke

00:14:24.260 that he has made a number of times before. He's a good politician. He's a good showman. So he,

00:14:29.720 when a joke works, he repeats it. That's actually the mark of understanding the stage.

00:14:34.560 Trump comes out and he makes this joke about how he might not be going to heaven.

00:14:37.420 Last time I was having a lot of fun. We had a big crowd with 60,000 people. And I'm

00:14:43.680 talking about the fact that I will never make it to heaven. I will never, ever. And I was being

00:14:48.960 funny. I was trying to be, you know, you can't be sarcastic with them because they write your words

00:14:53.900 and the people are reading the words are much different. But I say, I'm never going to make it

00:14:58.520 to heaven. I just don't think I qualify. I don't think there's a thing I can do, but all of these good

00:15:05.120 things I'm doing, including for religion, you know, religion's back now hotter than ever before. 0.56

00:15:10.000 I mean, I have to tell you. But I said, even though I did that and so many other things,

00:15:16.260 I named things. I said, I won't qualify. I'm not going to make it to heaven. The New York Times

00:15:20.600 did a front page story that Donald Trump is questioning his life and the meaning of his life.

00:15:26.960 No, I was just having fun. I really think I probably should make it. I mean, I'm not a perfect

00:15:33.100 candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people. That's for sure.

00:15:38.400 I love this whole little joke that he's telling here. And some people, especially on social media,

00:15:46.060 they're saying, well, this is proof that President Trump is not a Christian.

00:15:49.860 Because in Christianity, you don't earn heaven. You don't earn eternal life as a gift given to you 0.59

00:15:55.940 by God. It's God's grace descending, coming down the mountain. And you have to cooperate with God's

00:16:02.640 grace. Actually, some denominations of Christian communities deemphasize that or deny it entirely.

00:16:09.640 But the traditional view is you do have to cooperate with God's grace, but it's God's grace

00:16:14.080 first. And so they say, well, this is proof Trump's not a real Christian because he's talking about

00:16:17.940 earning heaven. And to that, I would say, first of all, just listen to his words. He's saying,

00:16:22.140 he's kind of joking. And the joke is self-effacing, by the way, which means that it's a joke that

00:16:28.020 comes from humility, which is good because humility, all wonder, fear of the Lord. These

00:16:34.340 are the beginning of wisdom. This is important as a disposition if you're going to start to take

00:16:41.600 religion seriously. But he says, I'm not going to earn it. He actually says that here. I don't know.

00:16:48.340 I don't deserve it. I'm not going to earn it. I've done, I've tried, but I don't think I'm going to

00:16:54.460 make it. He says, no, but actually maybe I, maybe I will. I'm not a perfect candidate,

00:17:00.080 but you know, I've done some good for perfect people, for the people who are much better

00:17:04.820 than I am. So I'm doing my best. This yet again, I mean, I don't want to stretch exegesis too far.

00:17:11.720 And I'm not saying that Trump should be made a doctor of the church by any stretch of the

00:17:15.620 imagination. But the things that he's saying here have kernels of Christian truth to it.

00:17:20.740 I'm not going to earn heaven. I'm not a perfect candidate, but I might make it. So there you

00:17:28.880 have the humility. There you have the recognition that we don't earn heaven. He says, but I might

00:17:32.600 make it. There you have a little hint of the theological virtue of hope, which we're called

00:17:36.840 on to do. And why? He doesn't specifically say, you know, because I have faith in Christ,

00:17:43.120 which he should say, or because, you know, Christ has given me his church and these sacraments

00:17:49.380 that with which I can refresh myself and my soul. And he doesn't, he doesn't say that he's not

00:17:53.460 speaking like a theologian. He's not speaking like someone who was well catechized, but, but he does

00:17:57.740 say, I've done a lot of good for perfect people. Even here, even here, you, you get a hint of the

00:18:03.740 parable that our Lord tells of that, that manager, you know, that deceitful little manager who he

00:18:09.640 knows he's going to lose his job. So what does he do? He goes to all the people who owe money and he,

00:18:13.440 he cuts their, their, uh, debts in half. He says, you say you owe a hundred. Okay. I'm going to write

00:18:19.000 down that you owe 50. You owe 200. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to say you owe 100. And our Lord

00:18:23.760 commends him says, you know, the children of this world, they're smart, they're cunning says, and make

00:18:30.920 friends with unrighteous mammon so that one day those people that you've helped will welcome you 0.95

00:18:37.980 into eternal dwellings. When he says, you know, I've done a lot of good for perfect people. That is like,

00:18:42.880 in a weird way, pointing at that very parable. So again, I'm not, I'm not making any claims about

00:18:48.660 president Trump's eternal destiny. Uh, I certainly hope and, and, uh, I should pray that president

00:18:55.140 Trump is, uh, you know, received into the church and avails himself of the sacraments and does I,

00:18:59.920 yes, absolutely. Of course we should all pray for that. I'm just saying, I think he gets more of it

00:19:06.400 than, than some people want to admit. Uh, here's one good example. Trump admitting he needs help.

00:19:15.040 And, uh, last time I came, I was, I got in at four in the morning. They said, sir,

00:19:19.960 you're going to be speaking at seven. They said, really? Oh, that's wonderful.

00:19:25.440 I said, where? National prayer breakfast. I said, I'll be there. I'm afraid not to be.

00:19:29.640 I need all the help I can get. Okay. It's another joke that I'm sure president Trump's

00:19:37.280 told many, many times before, and it's a joke, but in jokes, there's a little bit of truth,

00:19:41.400 isn't there? This is yet another expression of that humility. I need all the help that I can get.

00:19:48.260 Yeah. Yeah. That, that is a very much a part of the Christian worldview. It's a good,

00:19:54.920 it's a good start. Now let's get to some brass politics here. Tough stuff. President Trump

00:20:00.360 speaking to the national prayer breakfast, which includes Democrats comes out. He says,

00:20:04.640 you cannot really be a person of faith and a Democrat.

00:20:08.800 I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't.

00:20:14.240 And I know we have some here today and I don't know why they're here because they certainly don't

00:20:18.380 give us their vote. I certainly know that we're not going to be convincing them to vote for

00:20:23.080 a little thing called voter ID. It polls at 97%. And even the Democrat, the people,

00:20:31.420 the voters are at 82% for voter ID, but the leaders don't want to approve of it.

00:20:38.040 Okay. What about the claim? The basic claim? I don't know how you could be a person of faith

00:20:43.800 and vote for a Democrat. A hundred percent correct. And there are going to be some people that kind of

00:20:49.220 squishy, you know, Kumbaya types who say, well, no, of course you can, you know, because the church

00:20:55.200 transcends politics and the church is much bigger than politics and partisan politics. But there are

00:21:00.580 certain non-negotiables. Back when the Democrat party had room for pro-lifers, you could say,

00:21:05.760 okay, I see how you could vote for a Democrat. Back when the Democrat party didn't radically

00:21:10.240 redefine marriage, the fundamental political unit and the symbol of Christ in his church,

00:21:14.740 you could say, okay, I see how you could vote for a Democrat. Today, you can't. You really can't.

00:21:22.860 In almost any circumstance, you just can't. This is a non-negotiable issue. If there's a political

00:21:29.120 party that says we support the wholesale slaughter of infants, we support abortion, something that the

00:21:36.500 church has opposed since the earliest catechism we have, clearly opposed since the earliest catechism

00:21:42.900 we have the didache from antiquity, from right around the apostolic age, you just can't vote for 0.75

00:21:49.460 them. Very good point. And it's kind of funny because then Trump pivots to voter ID, which is,

00:21:53.940 it's an important issue, but it's kind of a relatively minor issue when we're thinking about

00:21:58.060 religion and faith. But the point he makes totally stands. And then one last point from the prayer

00:22:03.720 breakfast before we get to the standing of MAGA nationally, CNN weighs in on this. What does Trump

00:22:10.080 have to say about religion generally? Have a great country. If you don't have

00:22:15.520 religion, you have to believe in something. You have to believe that what we're doing,

00:22:21.540 there's a reason for it. There has to be a reason for it. We're all working and we're

00:22:27.240 doing, we're behaving. I mean, I behave because I'm afraid not to, okay? Because I don't want to get in

00:22:34.140 trouble. No, there's, it's such a positive thing and people are starting to see it and

00:22:40.840 they go into church. I love this statement. I love this statement. And there are going to be a lot of

00:22:47.280 people, religious people from across religious traditions who say this is shallow. This is a

00:22:54.820 shallow take, Mr. President, because you're just saying religion is a positive thing, but you're not 0.96

00:23:00.100 weighing in on whether or not it's true. You're not evangelizing, you're not catechizing. You're

00:23:04.180 saying it's a positive thing. Like those disillusioned liberals who say they want to

00:23:09.020 believe, they're culturally Christian. It's a good social kind of convention, but it isn't really true.

00:23:16.720 Keep listening. What does he say? He says, yeah, religion's a positive thing and we need religion.

00:23:26.160 Now, even there still, it could sound like he's just saying, look, it's a social convention, maybe

00:23:30.340 even a noble lie that we have to believe to get along. But he says, no, no, because look at what

00:23:36.840 we're doing. We're behaving, not just behaving well, but just behaving. We're doing stuff. We get out of

00:23:44.360 bed in the morning and it has to mean something. That's the centerpiece of that comment. And that's

00:23:50.140 the brilliant insight. It has to mean something. There has to be a reason that we are doing what

00:23:57.780 we're doing. The world, in other words, has to be intelligible. We have to be able to make sense of

00:24:06.200 it. And we have to communicate in a way that has recourse to objective truth that has meaning.

00:24:14.640 We have to behave in a way that is not just totally irrational, like we're a bunch of grunting

00:24:18.880 baboons that can't consciously make sense of anything. The very fact that we behave in a way

00:24:28.280 that seems to be rational, that we act as though the world is intelligible, implies that there is

00:24:35.360 an objective truth behind it, that there is an intellect behind the world that makes it intelligible,

00:24:41.760 that God really does exist. Yes, religion is a positive thing. It's good as a sociological matter,

00:24:51.400 but it is positive precisely because it makes sense of the world. And it makes sense of the world

00:24:59.240 because it's true. That's the point that Trump is making. That's the insight that he has either

00:25:06.420 stewed on for 70 plus years or that he has just unwittingly stumbled upon. But either way,

00:25:13.020 that is a crucial insight. Pun very much intended. Okay. Where does Trump stand? You're hearing from

00:25:20.180 a lot of Democrats that Trump is very unpopular right now. You're hearing from people on the right

00:25:25.220 that the MAGA coalition is falling apart. And you're hearing from political opportunists in the

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00:26:57.300 The 2028 fight over what happens after Trump is already underway, well underway.

00:27:04.380 And I can't help but notice that a lot of the people who were never Trump in 2016,

00:27:11.880 who grudgingly supported Trump perhaps in 2020, who jumped off the Trump train the first chance

00:27:18.060 they could get to back someone like Ron DeSantis, who I actually like in his own rights, but to back

00:27:23.100 any non-Trump candidate in the primary in 2024, that these kinds of people are trying to turn

00:27:32.100 the tide against J.D. Vance, who is the heir apparent to MAGA, and trying to suggest that

00:27:36.440 there's not unity in the Republican Party, trying to suggest that President Trump's coalition,

00:27:40.900 even under his leadership, is beginning to fall apart, trying to suggest that the Republican Party

00:27:45.900 needs to turn in a brand new direction. Let me translate that for you. Go back to the stale

00:27:51.140 old consensus that Donald Trump destroyed in 2016. They just need to change something dramatically if

00:27:57.800 they want to maintain unity and have a chance in 2028. So is any of that true? We turn not even to

00:28:06.100 a Republican source. We turn to CNN runs its own poll, a lot of polls. Here's what the numbers actually say.

00:28:15.900 It's about the Make America Movement. Again, that's what we're talking about. Make America

00:28:20.600 Great Again Movement. And it is as powerful as it has ever been, because I want you to take a look

00:28:25.460 here. GOP who view MAGA favorably. Two years ago, when Donald Trump was running for term number two,

00:28:30.820 it was 74 percent. Today, look at this. It's 78 percent of Republicans who view the Make America

00:28:37.840 Great Again Movement favorably. So we're talking about something that, in my opinion, will very much

00:28:43.740 be able to outlast Donald Trump. J.D. Vance, the Vice President of the United States, at this point

00:28:48.640 looks like a favorite for the Republican nomination come 2028. And one of the reasons why he looks like

00:28:53.580 a favorite is because the Republican base loves J.D. Vance. What are we talking about here? Someone who

00:29:00.040 really represents the Make America Great Again Movement. This is somebody a year ago, his favorable

00:29:04.920 rating among Republicans, 81 percent. Latest Marquette University Law School poll, look at this.

00:29:09.940 84 percent. 84 percent. 84 percent. So if anything, his favorable rating is somewhat up from where it was

00:29:16.660 a year ago. Yeah, right. The claim that is being made by all of the, not all of the liberals, because

00:29:27.640 obviously CNN comes out here and is actually seriously conveying this Marquette University

00:29:31.760 poll, but by many of the liberals saying, oh, you know, MAGA's falling apart. Trump's really

00:29:36.860 underwater. J.D. doesn't have a shot. Forget about them. They're always going to say stuff

00:29:41.040 like that. I'm talking about the kind of people who never liked MAGA, who never liked Trump,

00:29:46.700 who wish we could return to the halcyon days of the Bush family. They're the ones who keep

00:29:52.940 suggesting, well, no, Trump's, he needs to change all of his policies and not do the stuff he campaigned

00:29:57.580 on. This is really, forget, you know, the migration stuff and the tariffs. It's all really,

00:30:00.500 really terrible. And especially that Vance. There's no way. Vance doesn't have a shot.

00:30:03.900 And he, you know, we need to replace Vance with someone who's more like an establishment

00:30:08.040 Republican. I don't know, maybe are some of the Bushes around or is there maybe Mitt Romney? Could

00:30:12.940 he run? That would be nice, wouldn't it? Otherwise, it's all going to fall. The whole coalition is

00:30:19.040 going to fall apart. The evidence says precisely the opposite. No surprises there, but you got to keep

00:30:27.540 your eyes peeled because as we now enter into the midterm year and then as we look ahead to the

00:30:33.500 presidential election in 2028, you're going to see a lot of political psyops like this to try to crack

00:30:40.600 the MAGA coalition. There are people who have hated MAGA, who have hated Trump for 10 years and they

00:30:49.160 consider this their opportunity finally to get power back, to reorder the coalition. No reason to do that.

00:30:57.520 No reason to do that from a policy, philosophical, ideological perspective. No reason to do it from

00:31:03.940 an electoral perspective. MAGA is more popular today than it's ever been. And J.D. Vance, the heir

00:31:11.400 apparent, the crown prince, the obvious successor to President Trump, is more popular today than he's

00:31:17.060 ever been. Among Republicans, among the people who determine the coalition. Okay, now let's turn to

00:31:25.020 the Democrats because Kamala Harris has a major announcement. She teased this yesterday on her

00:31:30.880 Twitter account, Kamala HQ. Here's what Kamala HQ had to say. It's a login, Kamala HQ. Password's way too

00:31:41.620 online. Password, the babysitter is weird, huh? Project 2025 was real. Oh my goodness. Headquarters,

00:31:50.580 tomorrow. Now, first time I saw this, this announcement, what is this announcement? Is

00:31:56.440 she going to be running for president? Is she going to be running for governor of California? 1.00

00:31:59.340 What's this big announcement? But I thought it was really weird. The second kind of silly little

00:32:03.480 password she entered is from the babysitter is weird. Given Kamala Harris's husband's 0.76

00:32:09.800 past public scandals, I thought that was, it just revealed the political incompetence of the Kamala 0.99

00:32:17.840 Harris operation. Such a blunder. If you're going to think about anything, you're going to think about

00:32:23.520 a Harris family scandal. Just so tone deaf, so incompetent, like Kamala Harris's entire political 0.92

00:32:31.340 operation. She was the first candidate who had to drop out in 2016, was it? Was it 2020? I forget.

00:32:38.820 It's also blurry now. This was 2020. Yeah, I guess it was 2020. Yeah, it was 2020. And she was the

00:32:46.060 first one who had to drop out. Then she only got the nomination in 2024 because they couldn't pass 0.97

00:32:50.480 over a black woman. She only got the vice presidential spot because Joe Biden boxed himself 1.00

00:32:55.500 into a corner saying he'd pick a woman of color. And the other two options, Susan Rice and Karen Bass 1.00

00:33:00.600 were unacceptable because Susan Rice was the fall man for Benghazi. And Karen Bass is an actual

00:33:04.460 communist. Totally incompetent. But you say, all right, well, I hope Miss Miss incompetence is 1.00

00:33:10.000 going to run for president again. Yesterday, we found out what the announcement was.

00:33:16.260 Madam Vice President, what's going on with Kamala HQ? Well, I'm so glad you asked. I have good news.

00:33:22.000 So Kamala HQ is turning into headquarters and it's where you can go online to get basically the latest of

00:33:28.620 what's going on and also to meet and revisit with some of our great courageous leaders, be they

00:33:34.620 elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, faith leaders, young leaders. I'm really excited

00:33:40.620 about it. So stay engaged and I'll see you out there. Thank you. Kamala's big announcement

00:33:46.900 is that she is starting a new Twitter account.

00:33:51.780 She did not even, I have to correct myself. She's not even starting a new Twitter account.

00:33:59.860 She's just keeping her Twitter account going. The Kamala HQ, I have to thank them. They featured a

00:34:06.520 number of my clips during the presidential campaign. So I'm very grateful to Kamala HQ for that,

00:34:10.940 for the publicity. But she's not even starting a new Twitter account. Her big announcement is she's

00:34:15.380 keeping one of her Twitter accounts. And then you want to see the incompetence. 0.99

00:34:19.800 The original name she gave it, the handle, was headquarters underscore six, seven.

00:34:27.260 Six, seven. You get it? That's what the kids said for a while. They said six, seven.

00:34:34.320 I'm going to Pokemon go to the polls. Six, seven. It's like, oh no, this woman. Six, seven's officially 1.00

00:34:44.460 over, I guess. Kamala said it. It's totally over. It was so cringe and embarrassing.

00:34:49.380 They actually changed their handle immediately. Now it's headquarters six, eight underscore

00:34:54.540 or whatever. Okay. So that's, that's the announcement. She's done. Stick a fork in her. 1.00

00:35:02.880 Kamala's done. Gavin Newsom has that much more runway for 2028. Okay. Before we go,

00:35:08.540 speaking of inarticulate Democrat women, I do have to get to this line. AOC just sat down with Don Lemon. 1.00

00:35:16.160 AOC. You know, the libs love hanging around with criminals. Whether we're talking about Senator

00:35:20.420 Chris Van Hollen flying down to see his boyfriend, Kilmar Brigo Garcia, the illegal alien alleged wife 0.56

00:35:26.480 beater down in El Salvador. Or whether we're talking about AOC sitting down with Don Lemon,

00:35:30.520 another criminal. AOC sits down with him and then posts the clip. And this is what she writes

00:35:36.260 from her official government account, Rep AOC. Intimidation is an age-old tactic to qualm 1.00

00:35:43.760 public dissent and outrage. This administration, capital A for some reason, is going after public

00:35:51.160 figures to encourage the American people to self-censor. But we will not be silenced and we

00:35:57.040 will not accept this violation of our First Amendment rights. Capital R, again, for no reason. I'm not sure

00:36:01.480 why she capitalized the R there. Intimidation is an age-old tactic to qualm. What does she think the 0.73

00:36:10.740 word qualm means? Not only does AOC not know the meaning of the word qualm, she doesn't even know

00:36:18.720 that qualm is a noun rather than a verb. She's trying to use it as a verb. It's not a verb. It's

00:36:25.300 a noun. A qualm is like a misgiving. It's an uneasiness that one has. I don't have any qualms

00:36:35.920 about making fun of AOC here or whoever is running AOC's Twitter account. I don't have any qualms at

00:36:39.980 all. Some people would. I do not. What is she trying to say? Is she trying to say quell?

00:36:46.120 Maybe quell public dissent? Maybe com? Maybe she's putting together qualm and quell? I don't know.

00:36:54.000 I don't know what she's doing. What I do know, though, is she didn't just accidentally misspeak

00:37:00.120 as she was talking, which we all do. We do. Even I, who have a great respect for lexical

00:37:06.740 precision, even I misspeak sometimes. She wrote it and published it from an official government account.

00:37:16.320 This is bad. And it gets to a point that I've mentioned before.

00:37:18.760 However, the problem with our current political class is not just that it is ideologically radical.

00:37:27.640 It's also incompetent. That's why we have such a breath of fresh air with the Trump administration

00:37:32.620 is they're pretty competent relative to the last few that we've had. So you need ideological clarity.

00:37:41.900 You need to be on the right team. You need to want the right things. You need to have the right

00:37:44.760 object in mind. Yeah, that's all important. You also need basic competence. A country cannot survive

00:37:51.160 with just people who have good intentions but no ability to carry them out.

00:37:56.420 We'll collapse. And we'll certainly collapse if people have bad intentions, bad ideas, bad goals,

00:38:01.680 and incompetence. And actually, maybe the worst of all is when they have really bad goals

00:38:06.200 and they're very competent. That's maybe the worst of all. But this is bad. And there's the H.L.

00:38:11.040 Menken observation that democracy is a theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to

00:38:14.500 get it good and hard. The fact that our public culture is degraded, that we've had a kind of

00:38:19.920 leveling culture, that we have encouraged the lowest common denominator in our politics,

00:38:26.980 means that we're going to get governors in the broad sense, people who are writing laws,

00:38:33.380 effecting laws, executing laws. We're going to get people like AOC who don't understand the English 1.00

00:38:41.180 language, who don't know the difference between a noun and a verb. Hard to remain a global superpower

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00:40:47.300 More to get to, but I want to get to the mailbag. So my favorite comment yesterday is from Brock David

00:40:52.700 who says they don't hate authoritarianism. They want to be the authoritarians. I assume referring

00:40:59.100 to the libs. I actually don't really agree with that. I get the point you're going for and I agree

00:41:04.340 with the thrust of it. But I hear this from people on the right a lot. They say, you know, the left,

00:41:09.120 they call us fascists, but they're the real fascists. They're not fascists. They're not actually.

00:41:14.740 They're communists. And communists are bad too. Some would say communists are worse. 0.98

00:41:20.720 But they're not, it's not, not every bad thing is fascism. In a way, it's actually,

00:41:25.580 fascism is bad enough in itself because it makes an idol of the state. But communism is worse in its

00:41:31.560 effects. And that's what they are. And on this point you say, they're authority. They want to

00:41:35.320 be authoritarians. It's actually worse than that. Authoritarianism. Authority is good. Authority is a

00:41:41.480 good thing. We actually want just authority. Authoritarianism is a kind of unjust authority,

00:41:46.820 an authority that goes too far. Okay, I guess there's some problems with that. But what the

00:41:51.100 left is, is worse because they're totalitarians. What would be the distinction? Authoritarianism is

00:41:58.760 Franco. Totalitarianism is Stalin. Authoritarianism says, look, we're going to have certain rules and

00:42:07.000 we're going to really insist upon them. And you might think we're a little heavy-handed, but in

00:42:10.780 some cases, like if you're talking about the Spanish Civil War and the Bolsheviks trying to

00:42:13.560 invade Iberia, maybe you got to be a little heavy-handed. Okay, that's authoritarianism.

00:42:18.280 Totalitarianism is, hey kids, snitch to the police on your parents for their thought crimes so that we 1.00

00:42:23.280 can kill them. Totalitarianism pervades every aspect of society, invades your mind, 0.99

00:42:30.000 leaves no crevice unfilled by its miasma. Authoritarianism just says, hey, there are going

00:42:38.540 to be a handful of rules here that you really got to follow or are going to be tough on you,

00:42:42.360 but for the rest of it, do whatever you want. It's a difference. The right sometimes falls into

00:42:47.980 authoritarianism, sometimes for good purpose, because it is a reaction to the left's anarchy

00:42:54.420 and alternately totalitarianism. Okay, finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the

00:43:00.000 week. The mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles. You'll get 50%

00:43:04.240 off your first month. Take it away. Hey, Smokey Mike. You have described abortion as murder,

00:43:09.900 and I agree, but the majority of the pro-life movement isn't willing to treat it as murder.

00:43:15.340 Bills of equal protection, which extend the laws protecting against murder to all human beings,

00:43:19.600 are consistently shut down by pro-life organizations. This is to protect post-abortive

00:43:25.180 women from criminal consequences, but in effect, it gives these women special murder rights. As a 0.99

00:43:31.820 Christian, I understand wanting to have compassion on post-abortive women and to preach Christ's 0.62

00:43:36.320 forgiveness to them, and we should. There is forgiveness for murder in Jesus Christ alone,

00:43:41.160 but it seems inconsistent and unjust to hold the doctors who perform abortions liable,

00:43:46.380 but not the women who electively seek them out. If we're going to call abortion murder,

00:43:51.360 then shouldn't we aim to be consistent, establish justice, and treat it as it is?

00:43:55.820 I love the show, and I love to hear your thoughts. Thanks. Great question, and largely,

00:44:02.560 by and large, good points, but I disagree in your conclusion. The question is, why don't we

00:44:09.260 charge women who have abortions with murder and incarcerate them or give them the death penalty 0.92

00:44:14.980 or something like that? If we don't do that, is it not the case that we don't really believe that

00:44:20.240 abortion is murder? Is it not the case that we don't really believe that pre-born babies are really 0.69

00:44:26.220 fully human and alive? No, I don't think that necessarily follows. The reason that we don't

00:44:31.660 charge women who have abortions with murder is because if we were to do that, every pro-life law

00:44:37.080 would immediately be repealed, almost without exception. That's why. And I suspect you know

00:44:43.580 that. There is a prudential reason. If the goal is to protect as many babies as possible,

00:44:50.520 because politics is the art of the possible, the art of the second best, then we need to recognize

00:44:55.280 that there's some prudential limits to what really can be done, even if in an abstract sense,

00:45:00.180 justice would call for us to treat the women who kill their children as we would treat abortionists. 0.95

00:45:06.380 Now, if we focus in on justice, there are a couple other reasons why we might not want to charge the

00:45:11.640 women who have abortions with murder. First one would be related to that point I just made on 0.94

00:45:17.680 prudence. That is St. Thomas Aquinas' argument for why we don't necessarily have to outlaw prostitution

00:45:24.160 everywhere. And his observation is that people in society are at different degrees of virtue. And so we

00:45:30.480 want the law to be a teacher and to elevate everyone in virtue and sanctity. But we recognize

00:45:36.740 that if we shoot too high at the beginning, people will snap and the condition of the society will be

00:45:43.400 even worse than it was before. So if we try too hard, if we push too hard and too fast on the criminal

00:45:52.980 consequences of abortions, we might inadvertently make the country less inclined to be pro-life and

00:46:00.920 we might inadvertently lead to the deaths of many more babies. Okay, that's a middle part of that

00:46:06.480 argument. And then here's a third part. In many, if not most cases, the women who go in and have

00:46:15.920 abortions are committing a morally different act from the abortionists who actually perform the

00:46:22.520 abortions. And an analogy that I'll make is the distinction between mortal sin and venial sin,

00:46:28.960 which comes from John's epistles. You know, all sin is unrighteousness, all sin is really bad,

00:46:35.220 but there's some sins which are not mortal. So what's the distinction between mortal and venial sin?

00:46:39.400 Mortal sins are sins that are done with full knowledge, sins which are grave matter,

00:46:47.420 and sins which are done willingly. Okay, in the case of abortions, some women know exactly what 1.00

00:46:54.940 they're doing. They're not being coerced. They don't care. They just want to kill their kids. 0.99

00:46:59.040 That does happen. I'm not denying that at all. The libs want to pretend that doesn't happen. 0.99

00:47:02.640 It does happen. However, there are many, many women who go in to have an abortion 1.00

00:47:08.920 because they don't really know what it is, or they've convinced themselves that it's not really

00:47:14.020 murder, or they've been told by their parents and by their communities and by their schools

00:47:18.520 that it's not really murder. It's just a clump of cells. By their politicians, they've been told this,

00:47:22.280 and they actually believe it. And some of them come to realize that that wasn't true when the vacuum

00:47:26.080 turns on and it leads to lifelong trauma. The trauma itself is evidence that something went wrong there.

00:47:32.640 So there are many cases, I think, in which the women don't really have full knowledge. 0.87

00:47:36.880 There are many cases, I think, in which the women are coerced. In fact, we know that for a fact. 0.91

00:47:42.440 Some boyfriend or even a husband, I suppose, could coerce a woman to have an abortion. 1.00

00:47:50.260 And in some cases, women are killed when they refuse to have an abortion. We covered one of those 1.00

00:47:53.420 stories just the other day of a guy texting someone and says, I'm going to delete this person from

00:47:58.540 the world. I'm going to cancel this person. I'm going to go kill my girlfriend.

00:48:02.640 She's pregnant and I don't want her to tell my other baby mama or whatever, the woman I'm living 1.00

00:48:06.580 with. It's a horrific story. That does happen. So if there's coercion, that also mitigates the

00:48:11.980 culpability of sin. It's obviously grave matter to kill your kid. But that would be another reason 0.99

00:48:16.700 why I would say there is even at a moral level, at the level of justice, a distinction to be made.

00:48:21.100 Whereas when it comes to the abortionists, if they really are competent medical doctors,

00:48:25.840 they know what they're doing. It is grave matter. They have full knowledge of what's going on.

00:48:33.260 They're the ones really carrying it out. They're the ones who've studied the anatomy. They're the

00:48:36.260 ones who are the scientific experts. And they're definitely doing it willingly. No one's coerced

00:48:40.880 into becoming an abortionist. So I think that would be one reason to treat them differently. The chief

00:48:45.380 argument I guess I would make is the prudential argument. But that would be one reason, even from

00:48:49.780 the level of morality and justice, to maybe draw a distinction here. Okay. So much more I want to

00:48:55.600 get to. So many more voicemail bag questions. Let me at least get to one. This is a question from

00:49:03.320 Michael F. Because sometimes I ignore the written mail bag. And I want to get to this question. This

00:49:07.420 is a very important question from Michael F. Hi, Michael. You did it again. I haven't heard you say

00:49:12.960 it in a while. But because I know you know that words matter, it's not called the

00:49:17.480 bi-sesquicentennial. That would be 300 years, which would be better stated as tricentennial.

00:49:23.620 Bi equals two of something. Sesquicentennial equals 150 years. Two 150 yearses would be 300, 0.87

00:49:34.400 not 250. You have two options for stating it correctly. Semi-quincentennial or sestercentennial.

00:49:41.380 Okay. Okay. This is referring to America's 250th anniversary. And I'm giving a speech today at

00:49:46.140 YAF, actually, in Nashville on the 250th. I just want to make the point. Yes, I know. I've heard

00:49:52.060 this. It depends on whether or not the parts of bi-sesquicentennial are additive or multiplicative

00:50:02.480 because you have bi meaning two, centennial meaning hundred, and then sesqua meaning

00:50:08.920 and a half, and a half. It depends on whether or not it's bi with centennial, 200 sesqua and a half.

00:50:24.660 Or if it means, and I agree that you're reading a bi-sesquicentennial is entirely plausible.

00:50:29.180 If it means sesquicentennial, 100 and a half, 150, bi meaning double. I agree that semi-quincentennial

00:50:39.600 is probably the clearer version, and it clears up the ambiguity. However, I have read plausible,

00:50:47.760 at least semi-convincing arguments that bi-sesquicentennial is an acceptable term,

00:50:52.520 and it has become one of the more popular terms, though I'm stretching the definition of popular

00:50:58.440 probably a little too far. Thank you for your fraternal correction. I accept, I partially accept

00:51:05.220 it, though I might continue to say bi-sesquicentennial. I will be bi-lexical when it comes to the term for

00:51:13.880 the 250th. Is anybody still with us here? I don't know if I'm still with me. It's Fake Headline Friday.

00:51:19.500 We'll get to that. The rest of the show continues now. Do not miss it. Become a member. Use code

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00:51:38.620 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

00:51:42.800 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:51:53.680 Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:52:01.280 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:52:04.480 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.

00:52:08.800 Princess Garrus, saviour of our people.

00:52:14.560 I know what the Bull God offered you.

00:52:17.120 I was offered the same.

00:52:18.160 And?

00:52:20.560 There is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it.

00:52:24.720 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:52:27.200 We are each given only one life, singer.

00:52:30.000 No.

00:52:31.200 We're given another.

00:52:35.200 I learnt of Yezu the Christ. 0.54

00:52:37.200 And I have become his follower.

00:52:39.040 He's waiting on Merlin, and I think you can give him one.

00:52:42.720 Trust in Yezu. He is the only hope for men like us. 0.99

00:52:47.040 Faith to Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

00:52:49.920 Great light, great darkness. Such things mattered to me then.

00:52:54.000 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?

00:52:58.880 You, nephew. 0.61

00:53:03.600 The sword of the High King.

00:53:07.920 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:53:15.360 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:53:18.480 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:53:21.600 You know what you must do.

00:53:24.960 Great light, forgive me.

00:53:34.080 The time has come.

00:53:36.080 To be reborn.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 06, 2026

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