The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1924 - Upsets That ROCKED The First Round of Midterm Primaries Explained

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00:00:43.140 The first round of primaries for 2026 took place last night

00:00:46.660 and there were some major upsets.

00:00:49.380 Seven-year incumbent Dan Crenshaw

00:00:51.340 lost his primary to a candidate endorsed

00:00:54.120 by both Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson.

00:00:56.840 Not a pair that you see working together every day.

00:01:00.520 Former future of the Democrat Party,

00:01:02.640 Jasmine Crockett lost her primary to James Tallarico,

00:01:06.000 a soft-spoken pseudo-Christian

00:01:07.840 who is somehow, in fact, much more radical than she is.

00:01:11.920 Didn't see that coming.

00:01:13.040 And Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran,

00:01:17.560 light of the Aryans, they call him,

00:01:20.260 appears to be losing his primary in the White House

00:01:23.740 to take over Persia after the Ayatollah.

00:01:26.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:27.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:46.500 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:26.020 Huge GOP political news out of Texas.

00:03:29.820 Dan Crenshaw has lost his Republican primary

00:03:33.680 to a state legislator named Steve Toth.

00:03:37.660 So Dan has been in Congress for seven years.

00:03:40.820 It kind of makes me feel old.

00:03:42.600 I remember the first time I met Dan.

00:03:44.800 By the way, I'm hoping we can get Dan on bar fight tonight.

00:03:49.100 It's a little unclear.

00:03:51.120 You know, obviously his travel schedule

00:03:52.980 is a little busy and a little hectic right now,

00:03:55.160 but we're going to try to get Dan

00:03:56.080 to come on bar fight tonight.

00:03:57.340 We're going to be debating the Iran war with Lib

00:03:59.740 and get all the positions on the right covered.

00:04:02.960 In any case, I remember the first time I met Dan,

00:04:05.860 Charlie Kirk had invited us to a student action summit

00:04:10.660 years and years ago.

00:04:12.240 I think this was before he was in Congress.

00:04:15.240 It might have been after he won the election,

00:04:18.860 but before he actually entered Congress.

00:04:22.520 And, you know, at the time,

00:04:23.780 I know now he's somewhat unpopular in the GOP,

00:04:27.580 but at the time, everybody on the right,

00:04:30.420 the whole conservative movement

00:04:31.280 was really, really behind Dan Crenshaw.

00:04:34.340 And SNL made fun of him.

00:04:36.000 And then the right smacked SNL.

00:04:37.840 And he was actually very gracious to SNL about it.

00:04:40.060 In any case, seven years later, it's totally flipped.

00:04:44.280 What pushed Dan out of his seat?

00:04:47.580 Not so easy to nail it down.

00:04:50.080 The biggest political backer of Dan Crenshaw's opponent,

00:04:54.380 and he was a late entry endorsement,

00:04:56.020 but nevertheless, a major one, Ted Cruz.

00:04:58.600 So Senator Cruz comes in and endorses Steve Toth,

00:05:03.120 the state legislator going against Crenshaw.

00:05:05.080 So this is a big win for Cruz.

00:05:08.020 Senator Cruz has a pretty good endorsement record

00:05:10.940 over his political career.

00:05:12.440 And he comes in, goes against the incumbent, and wins.

00:05:15.520 What's really weird about this one, though,

00:05:17.220 is that the other guy who was boosting Steve Toth

00:05:20.020 is Tucker Carlson.

00:05:22.040 Now, I don't want to get involved in the clicky,

00:05:27.160 nasty GOP infighting,

00:05:29.360 but Ted Cruz and Tucker don't exactly get along.

00:05:32.480 Not bosom buddies.

00:05:34.440 This might be the only issue

00:05:36.440 on which Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson

00:05:38.600 have united recently.

00:05:40.780 And that was to back this opponent of Crenshaw.

00:05:43.360 And then you have Trump world.

00:05:46.420 You have President Trump's role in all of this

00:05:48.280 because I don't think Trump endorsed Crenshaw.

00:05:52.340 I think Crenshaw was one of the only guys

00:05:55.060 that Trump did not endorse.

00:05:56.280 Even though Dan has been a supporter of Trump substantially,

00:05:59.380 but there have been sometimes

00:06:00.160 when he's broken with Trump.

00:06:01.620 In any case, what is the lesson to draw here?

00:06:05.700 Let's divorce the personalities for a second.

00:06:08.040 Let's forget that it's Dan versus Toth.

00:06:10.200 Let's forget it's Texas.

00:06:11.440 Let's just look at what it means

00:06:13.280 for the Republican Party,

00:06:14.640 because that's really what we're concerned about

00:06:16.160 heading into the midterms.

00:06:17.120 It's a reminder that the GOP is fractured.

00:06:21.340 There are major primary contests.

00:06:23.460 There's a primary contest also in Texas

00:06:25.240 in the Senate, Ken Paxton,

00:06:26.720 running against John Cornyn,

00:06:29.520 who's been in the Senate for a very, very long time.

00:06:31.880 We'll get to that momentarily.

00:06:33.680 But what this means is the GOP really is fractured.

00:06:37.020 On a whole host of issues,

00:06:38.480 the GOP can't quite agree.

00:06:40.640 Is the GOP for free trade,

00:06:42.380 as it had been from the 80s through 10 years ago?

00:06:45.660 Or is the GOP for tariffs?

00:06:48.820 Is the GOP for more legal immigration

00:06:51.440 or for less immigration totally?

00:06:53.820 Is the GOP for war in the Middle East?

00:06:56.720 Is the GOP anti-war?

00:06:58.960 Is the what, does the GOP like Israel?

00:07:01.660 Does the GOP not like Israel?

00:07:03.040 Does where, all these little fissure issues.

00:07:05.940 Is the GOP for, I don't know,

00:07:11.400 against only transgenderism,

00:07:13.720 but for the rest of the LGBT movement,

00:07:15.460 is the GOP anti-LGBT?

00:07:17.040 You could really go down a whole host of issues

00:07:18.720 and realize there are these fractures going on,

00:07:22.080 especially pronounced over foreign policy,

00:07:24.040 especially pronounced over the Trump coalition.

00:07:27.060 And yet, weirdly enough,

00:07:30.380 this GOP primary shows the clearest example

00:07:33.500 of GOP unity we've seen in years.

00:07:37.880 You just got Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, and Trump,

00:07:41.160 at least implicitly, all on the same team.

00:07:43.440 All of those guys in recent years

00:07:45.620 have publicly hated each other.

00:07:48.420 And you have, obviously,

00:07:49.880 Ted and Tucker going at it.

00:07:52.020 Ted and the president

00:07:54.180 obviously fought a very, very bitter

00:07:56.240 primary campaign 10 years ago,

00:07:58.260 although they've worked very,

00:07:59.360 very closely together since then.

00:08:00.580 And then Tucker's text messages came out

00:08:02.640 when he left Fox News,

00:08:04.080 a text message is saying that he hated Trump,

00:08:06.640 though Tucker and Trump

00:08:07.640 have also gotten along recently.

00:08:09.020 So you've got these three guys

00:08:10.500 who have been seriously opposed,

00:08:11.960 but when they've all come together,

00:08:13.820 the race wasn't even close.

00:08:16.860 The race was, what drove this?

00:08:19.440 Was it the Iran war?

00:08:21.160 Was that?

00:08:21.740 Not really.

00:08:22.920 Crenshaw and Toth both have,

00:08:25.320 essentially, the same view of Israel.

00:08:26.880 They're both pretty vocal supporters of Israel.

00:08:28.560 The difference here

00:08:31.000 is that Toth ran to the right of Crenshaw.

00:08:33.280 Crenshaw has more of a moderate

00:08:36.140 centrist record in Congress,

00:08:38.020 though still a pretty robust

00:08:40.380 conservative record, too.

00:08:41.500 But Toth ran to his right,

00:08:43.200 which tells me a few things.

00:08:45.780 One, the GOP's fractured.

00:08:47.420 The GOP doesn't have to be fractured.

00:08:48.860 It can be united.

00:08:50.060 And the GOP base wants to double down.

00:08:54.320 The pendulum has not swung back

00:08:56.340 among GOP primary voters.

00:08:57.860 There's no second-guessing

00:09:00.120 the Trump agenda.

00:09:01.380 If anything,

00:09:02.660 the GOP primary voters want more.

00:09:05.200 We want more deportations.

00:09:07.640 We want more political action

00:09:09.780 from the White House.

00:09:10.920 We want to double down on the things

00:09:12.540 that won Trump the popular vote in 2024.

00:09:15.760 What do we make of the Democrat side?

00:09:18.240 Got to pour one out.

00:09:19.380 I don't know if you have your morning coffee.

00:09:21.180 I don't know if you're, you know,

00:09:22.040 having an eye-opener,

00:09:22.920 a screwdriver or something.

00:09:23.880 But in any case,

00:09:25.600 you got to pour it out.

00:09:28.200 Jasmine Crockett,

00:09:29.400 we hardly knew it.

00:09:31.620 Jasmine Crockett,

00:09:32.880 the former future of the Democrat Party.

00:09:35.740 Kamala Harris just recently said

00:09:37.000 she's a bright young star in the Dems.

00:09:39.400 She is the outspoken,

00:09:42.280 chameleon,

00:09:43.240 clownish member of Congress

00:09:45.320 who got memed into running for Senate.

00:09:48.920 She ran for Senate

00:09:50.100 against this other

00:09:51.600 just absolutely awful Democrat candidate,

00:09:54.120 James Tallarico.

00:09:55.580 He's kind of,

00:09:58.240 in a way,

00:09:59.160 he's the opposite of Crockett.

00:10:00.440 They look different.

00:10:01.140 She's a black woman.

00:10:02.000 He's a white man.

00:10:03.320 She flirts with all sorts

00:10:04.640 of political radicalism.

00:10:05.800 He presents himself

00:10:06.840 as a Christian candidate.

00:10:09.260 I actually think he's much worse

00:10:11.280 than she is.

00:10:12.180 But in any case,

00:10:13.300 here is how she conceded her race

00:10:15.400 when it was not even

00:10:17.620 particularly close last night.

00:10:20.100 So that's my news,

00:10:23.300 is that we're not going to have

00:10:25.200 election results tonight,

00:10:26.720 in my opinion,

00:10:28.060 based upon what specifically

00:10:30.880 is taking place in Dallas County.

00:10:35.380 Unfortunately,

00:10:36.920 this is what Republicans like to do.

00:10:39.580 And so they specifically targeted

00:10:44.420 Dallas County,

00:10:46.200 and I think we all know why.

00:10:49.000 So,

00:10:50.120 I want you to enjoy yourselves,

00:10:53.360 but I won't be back tonight

00:10:55.420 because I have no idea

00:10:57.340 of when we're going to get results,

00:10:58.840 and I fully anticipate

00:10:59.940 it won't be until tomorrow.

00:11:02.960 Okay,

00:11:03.660 so this is what happens.

00:11:05.580 Sometimes races are too close to call,

00:11:07.440 but often when candidates lose

00:11:09.120 and they're holding out hope

00:11:10.380 that some last-minute surge,

00:11:11.700 some last-minute lawfare

00:11:12.640 is going to save the race for them,

00:11:13.940 they say,

00:11:14.420 look,

00:11:14.720 it's too close to call.

00:11:16.200 It's 52 to 47,

00:11:17.840 but it's too close to call.

00:11:19.520 I'm not going to concede tonight.

00:11:22.860 But then who does she blame?

00:11:25.220 She blames the Republicans.

00:11:26.940 She says,

00:11:27.340 it's too close to call

00:11:28.440 in Dallas County.

00:11:30.580 These Republicans,

00:11:31.980 you know,

00:11:32.240 this is always what they do.

00:11:36.220 What a fitting end

00:11:37.800 to her Senate campaign.

00:11:39.680 A Senate campaign that began

00:11:41.180 because Republicans

00:11:42.420 trolled her into running.

00:11:44.160 It was actually an op

00:11:45.780 to troll this woman into running.

00:11:47.900 She had no popular support

00:11:49.240 within her party

00:11:50.020 to run for Senate,

00:11:50.920 and they just kind of trolled her

00:11:52.240 through pushpulls

00:11:52.960 and actually got her to run.

00:11:55.260 She didn't know

00:11:56.340 what was going on

00:11:57.240 the whole time.

00:11:59.180 Probably not

00:12:00.420 the very sharpest tool

00:12:01.600 in the shed.

00:12:03.040 And the end of her race

00:12:05.060 is her not even realizing

00:12:07.160 she was running

00:12:07.740 against a Democrat.

00:12:09.360 Isn't that just great?

00:12:10.600 This race was awful,

00:12:13.240 and these Republicans

00:12:14.440 cheated in the race.

00:12:15.560 Honey, sweetheart,

00:12:16.940 there aren't any Republicans

00:12:18.860 running in the race.

00:12:20.380 This is,

00:12:22.100 you were running

00:12:23.540 against a Democrat.

00:12:25.000 So this is a,

00:12:26.320 okay, where do I,

00:12:27.780 this is what's called

00:12:28.980 a political primary.

00:12:30.900 So I know what you're thinking.

00:12:32.220 You think that in the election,

00:12:34.340 the Republican runs

00:12:35.420 against the Democrat.

00:12:36.260 That's true.

00:12:36.920 You'll get,

00:12:37.320 that's called the,

00:12:38.460 if you could take notes,

00:12:39.440 please, Jasmine.

00:12:40.680 Yes, that's called

00:12:41.560 the general election.

00:12:43.720 And that,

00:12:44.440 that's what happens next

00:12:45.780 if you don't lose

00:12:46.840 like you just did.

00:12:47.600 But the thing that happens

00:12:48.460 first is there's something

00:12:49.500 called a primary,

00:12:50.760 primary,

00:12:51.540 P-R-I-M-A-R-Watt,

00:12:53.960 primary, yes.

00:12:55.600 It's like first,

00:12:56.760 it's like what happens

00:12:57.360 first, primary.

00:12:58.660 And then you,

00:13:00.520 if you know anything at all,

00:13:02.760 and if you have skill

00:13:04.300 and resonance with voters,

00:13:06.340 you,

00:13:06.600 you,

00:13:06.860 you win that.

00:13:08.080 And you,

00:13:08.260 but it's hard to win

00:13:09.040 the primary

00:13:09.540 when you don't know

00:13:10.520 what a primary is.

00:13:12.900 So,

00:13:13.860 anyway,

00:13:15.780 better luck next time.

00:13:17.540 Now,

00:13:17.880 the craziest part of this,

00:13:19.240 we've all made fun

00:13:20.020 of Jasmine Crockett,

00:13:21.020 maybe excessively.

00:13:22.280 I don't know.

00:13:22.700 Maybe we need to do

00:13:23.460 some soul searching.

00:13:24.260 It's been,

00:13:24.760 it's been fun.

00:13:25.460 We've had a good time.

00:13:26.820 But you know,

00:13:27.220 the craziest part

00:13:28.340 of Jasmine Crockett,

00:13:29.240 who,

00:13:29.680 she changes her voice

00:13:30.900 and her diction

00:13:31.520 and her cadence

00:13:32.300 depending on which audience

00:13:33.400 she's speaking to.

00:13:34.540 She either pretends

00:13:35.460 to be Jenny from the block

00:13:36.540 or she speaks reasonably.

00:13:38.440 She does,

00:13:39.320 she's just over the top.

00:13:40.540 You know the craziest part?

00:13:42.340 The guy who beat her,

00:13:43.740 James Tallarico,

00:13:44.840 is much,

00:13:46.100 much worse.

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00:16:15.360 You thought

00:16:16.200 Jasmine Crockett

00:16:17.260 was bad.

00:16:18.580 Oh, no, no, no.

00:16:19.520 If the Democrats

00:16:20.980 end up winning

00:16:21.640 the general election,

00:16:22.720 if they end up winning

00:16:23.320 the Senate seat,

00:16:24.040 you're going to be wishing

00:16:24.920 that you had

00:16:25.540 Jasmine Crockett

00:16:26.320 in the U.S. Senate

00:16:27.240 because the guy

00:16:28.380 who just beat her

00:16:28.960 in the primary,

00:16:29.740 James Tallarico,

00:16:30.520 is much, much worse.

00:16:31.500 He's going viral

00:16:32.140 right now,

00:16:32.980 right this minute

00:16:33.500 as we speak

00:16:34.280 for a clip of him

00:16:36.020 claiming that

00:16:36.680 God is non-binary.

00:16:39.460 God is both

00:16:40.560 masculine

00:16:41.160 and feminine

00:16:42.820 and everything

00:16:44.320 in between.

00:16:46.060 God

00:16:46.500 is non-binary.

00:16:48.020 Okay,

00:16:49.100 so for people

00:16:49.800 who obsess

00:16:51.540 over using

00:16:52.940 the preferred

00:16:53.760 pronouns

00:16:54.400 of confused

00:16:55.620 individuals,

00:16:56.620 human beings,

00:16:57.520 it is amazing

00:16:58.320 that they refuse

00:16:59.360 to use God's

00:17:00.220 preferred pronouns.

00:17:01.060 Let's not forget

00:17:01.680 that God,

00:17:02.780 according to my religion

00:17:03.880 and according to

00:17:04.960 James Tallarico's

00:17:05.960 professed religion,

00:17:07.420 is incarnate,

00:17:09.420 takes on flesh

00:17:10.260 and dwells among us,

00:17:12.080 is a man.

00:17:13.620 He's a man.

00:17:14.180 God is a man.

00:17:14.980 God is triune,

00:17:18.400 three persons

00:17:19.080 in one divine unity.

00:17:20.700 The Trinity

00:17:21.400 is incomprehensible

00:17:22.740 by its very nature.

00:17:24.460 If we could comprehend

00:17:25.420 the Trinity,

00:17:26.460 it would not be,

00:17:27.440 he would not be God,

00:17:29.060 you know,

00:17:29.500 to use the medieval

00:17:30.840 formulation.

00:17:32.080 So,

00:17:32.620 even the point

00:17:33.400 he makes about

00:17:34.080 God

00:17:35.480 encompassing

00:17:36.780 feminine characteristics

00:17:37.980 too,

00:17:38.280 that point's fine.

00:17:39.040 To say that God

00:17:39.560 is non-binary

00:17:40.300 is deeply sacrilegious

00:17:43.760 and politically

00:17:44.960 very,

00:17:45.540 very radical.

00:17:46.260 It's not the only

00:17:46.780 radical thing

00:17:47.520 that Tallarico said.

00:17:48.340 Here's another clip

00:17:48.940 going around

00:17:49.480 of Tallarico

00:17:50.140 explaining why

00:17:51.580 it is so important

00:17:53.500 for voters

00:17:55.640 to keep in mind

00:17:57.040 the abortion rights

00:17:58.060 of transgenders.

00:17:59.720 Before we go further,

00:18:01.000 I want to acknowledge

00:18:01.860 that our trans community

00:18:03.700 needs abortion care too.

00:18:06.360 Defending trans Texans

00:18:07.840 is something we have to do

00:18:08.760 every day at the state capitol.

00:18:11.260 And you better believe

00:18:12.120 I'll be giving sermons

00:18:12.820 on that too.

00:18:14.480 So when I use the word woman,

00:18:16.300 it should not be understood

00:18:17.240 as an exhaustive term,

00:18:18.580 but rather as a lens

00:18:20.760 through which to understand,

00:18:23.380 examine,

00:18:23.840 and interrogate patriarchy.

00:18:26.380 Similar to how we specify

00:18:27.680 anti-black racism.

00:18:29.140 I think a lot of people

00:18:30.240 who voted for Tallarico

00:18:31.320 in this primary

00:18:32.020 did not see these clips.

00:18:33.660 A lot of the Democrats

00:18:34.660 who were really excited

00:18:35.700 about Tallarico

00:18:36.500 as the nominee

00:18:37.100 have not seen these clips.

00:18:38.520 I think Tallarico

00:18:39.260 probably is going to want

00:18:40.000 to downplay these clips

00:18:40.880 when he runs

00:18:41.340 in the general election.

00:18:42.540 We cannot allow him

00:18:43.580 to do that.

00:18:45.620 The rise of James Tallarico,

00:18:47.980 and he was pushed heavily

00:18:49.700 by guys like Stephen Colbert.

00:18:51.380 Stephen Colbert made

00:18:51.920 a whole big national incident

00:18:53.280 out of trying

00:18:53.860 to interview Tallarico.

00:18:55.660 The whole reason

00:18:56.660 they picked him

00:18:57.240 is because the Democrats

00:18:58.260 have realized

00:18:58.920 that this radical game,

00:19:01.740 the revolutionary game,

00:19:03.260 you know,

00:19:03.460 the power to the people,

00:19:04.800 burn it all down

00:19:05.740 kind of optics

00:19:06.860 hasn't worked.

00:19:08.060 It's been pretty bad.

00:19:09.060 It peaked

00:19:09.980 in the early 2020s,

00:19:11.620 and it left

00:19:13.320 President Trump

00:19:14.060 with a popular vote victory

00:19:15.020 in 2024.

00:19:15.720 People don't like that stuff.

00:19:17.260 And so,

00:19:17.840 what the Dems

00:19:18.300 are trying to flip back to

00:19:19.620 is the polished,

00:19:22.560 reasonable,

00:19:23.860 middle-of-the-road ethos

00:19:26.220 of a Barack Obama

00:19:27.520 or a Pete Buttigieg.

00:19:29.800 You know that

00:19:30.600 the sophisticated

00:19:31.940 Ivy Leaguer

00:19:33.040 who understands

00:19:34.320 middle America.

00:19:35.260 Now,

00:19:35.840 I don't know if Tallarico

00:19:36.940 is actually an Ivy Leaguer,

00:19:37.960 but he's doing an impression

00:19:38.820 of one at least.

00:19:39.680 He's doing his best

00:19:40.880 Buttigieg-Obama impression.

00:19:43.560 So,

00:19:44.400 the radical Democrats

00:19:45.560 will just come out

00:19:46.160 and say,

00:19:46.500 we hate Christianity,

00:19:48.220 your stupid sky daddy

00:19:49.620 isn't real,

00:19:50.860 and,

00:19:51.300 you know,

00:19:52.260 communism now.

00:19:54.320 This kind of Democrat

00:19:55.420 doesn't do that.

00:19:56.260 This kind of Democrat

00:19:56.960 says, no,

00:19:57.340 Christianity is really,

00:19:58.220 really great,

00:19:59.220 but actually,

00:20:01.500 Christianity is just

00:20:02.460 gay communism.

00:20:03.260 But we love Christianity,

00:20:04.640 right?

00:20:04.780 They believe in the same stuff.

00:20:07.400 The radical Dems

00:20:08.680 and the fake moderate Dems,

00:20:09.980 they all believe

00:20:10.520 in the same stuff,

00:20:11.280 but it's all about

00:20:12.040 that approach.

00:20:13.940 One says,

00:20:14.840 one is honest and says,

00:20:16.020 you know,

00:20:16.220 we hate traditional religion.

00:20:18.160 We hate Christianity.

00:20:19.440 We hate,

00:20:20.240 whatever,

00:20:22.560 traditional social mores.

00:20:24.820 We hate marriage.

00:20:26.260 We hate newborn babies

00:20:28.440 or pre-born babies.

00:20:29.720 We hate the American flag.

00:20:31.260 We hate,

00:20:31.740 you know,

00:20:32.120 all the stuff

00:20:33.340 that we consider

00:20:34.400 normal American values.

00:20:38.140 The Tallarico kind of Democrat

00:20:39.820 says,

00:20:40.360 no,

00:20:40.540 we love Christianity,

00:20:41.800 but actually,

00:20:42.480 God is non-binary,

00:20:43.740 and we love

00:20:44.520 traditional American values.

00:20:45.920 That's why we need

00:20:46.660 trans,

00:20:47.340 transgenders

00:20:48.260 to have more abortions,

00:20:49.420 and we,

00:20:50.320 you know,

00:20:50.580 they,

00:20:51.020 they just fake it.

00:20:53.080 I don't think that,

00:20:54.180 I get why they did it.

00:20:56.140 They did it because

00:20:57.240 the Jasmine Crockett

00:20:58.600 antics don't play.

00:20:59.580 They don't even play

00:21:00.020 with the Democrat base anymore.

00:21:01.820 But that ideology

00:21:03.340 does still play.

00:21:04.360 So Tallarico

00:21:05.240 is just the follow-up

00:21:06.380 to Abigail Spanberger.

00:21:07.900 Run as a moderate,

00:21:09.260 use a moderate voice,

00:21:10.520 dress in a moderate way,

00:21:11.800 use a moderate tone,

00:21:13.020 but then push

00:21:14.160 the most radical leftist agenda

00:21:16.160 you can

00:21:16.820 once you enter office.

00:21:18.260 It is our job

00:21:19.860 in this primary

00:21:21.220 to make sure Tallarico

00:21:22.980 never runs away

00:21:25.160 from abortion rights

00:21:26.320 for transgenders.

00:21:27.420 That should define Tallarico.

00:21:29.500 It should define him

00:21:30.540 because that's who he is.

00:21:32.260 This is not some

00:21:33.100 devious,

00:21:33.680 dirty trick

00:21:34.080 I'm advocating here.

00:21:35.000 I'm just telling Republicans

00:21:36.360 you need to remind voters

00:21:38.020 of who this guy really is.

00:21:40.860 Tallarico

00:21:41.260 is going to run away

00:21:42.580 from all this stuff.

00:21:43.240 He's going to say,

00:21:43.660 I just want to talk

00:21:44.260 about affordability.

00:21:45.420 You know,

00:21:45.880 why won't the people

00:21:46.740 on the news media

00:21:48.380 just ask me

00:21:49.160 about affordability?

00:21:50.040 Because you're running

00:21:50.660 on abortion rights

00:21:51.400 for transgenders,

00:21:52.280 you freak.

00:21:52.620 That's why.

00:21:54.300 Because you're giving sermons

00:21:57.060 on your heretical theology

00:21:59.380 that God is non-binary

00:22:01.360 or LGBT or whatever

00:22:02.960 because you're a total wacko.

00:22:04.720 That's why.

00:22:06.840 Whenever that guy

00:22:07.780 opens his mouth,

00:22:09.440 whenever that guy

00:22:09.980 tries to debate

00:22:10.600 the Republicans

00:22:11.180 and you're talking

00:22:11.680 about affordability,

00:22:13.100 I don't want,

00:22:13.580 don't even answer it.

00:22:15.020 Just say,

00:22:15.460 hey, do you still support

00:22:16.300 abortion rights

00:22:16.980 for transgenders?

00:22:18.680 Hey, here's this clip of you.

00:22:19.880 Do you stand

00:22:20.760 by that statement?

00:22:21.720 Do you stand

00:22:22.160 by the statement

00:22:22.560 that God is non-binary?

00:22:25.020 Focus on that.

00:22:26.600 This guy wants to talk

00:22:27.600 out of both sides

00:22:28.180 of his mouth.

00:22:28.840 All right.

00:22:29.800 Hold him to account for it.

00:22:30.980 Now,

00:22:31.800 one last little bit

00:22:33.220 on the primaries.

00:22:34.440 There is another

00:22:36.300 long-term Republican

00:22:38.460 member of Congress,

00:22:39.720 a member of the Senate,

00:22:41.020 who's served there

00:22:41.740 longer than Dan Crenshaw.

00:22:42.960 This is John Cornyn.

00:22:44.620 And John Cornyn

00:22:45.360 might lose his seat

00:22:46.180 to a Republican

00:22:47.220 primary challenge

00:22:48.020 headed to a runoff.

00:22:48.780 We'll get to that

00:22:49.160 momentarily

00:22:49.700 because that race

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00:24:14.540 Three-way race last night

00:24:16.660 between John Cornyn,

00:24:18.820 the incumbent,

00:24:20.380 Ken Paxton,

00:24:21.260 the Attorney General of Texas

00:24:22.780 who is running

00:24:23.400 for the Senate seat,

00:24:24.620 and Representative Wesley Hunt.

00:24:27.120 No one was able

00:24:27.860 to get over 50% of the vote,

00:24:29.340 so in Texas

00:24:29.820 that heads to a runoff.

00:24:33.500 Wesley Hunt is out.

00:24:34.280 He didn't get enough

00:24:34.760 of the vote.

00:24:35.500 But the race

00:24:37.540 between Paxton and Cornyn

00:24:38.880 was 41.9 to 40.7.

00:24:42.000 1.2 point race.

00:24:46.520 John Cornyn has never

00:24:47.400 lost a race

00:24:48.020 in his 35-year

00:24:49.140 political career.

00:24:50.840 However,

00:24:51.600 John Cornyn

00:24:52.600 outspent

00:24:53.580 Paxton

00:24:54.420 by like

00:24:55.340 a bazillion dollars.

00:24:56.960 Here is CNN

00:24:57.640 giving the recap.

00:24:59.700 I'm going to spread this out.

00:25:01.040 If you want to,

00:25:02.540 this is what makes

00:25:03.520 a lot of people at home

00:25:04.500 just go,

00:25:05.060 urgh,

00:25:05.600 about politics.

00:25:06.940 This is the most expensive

00:25:08.060 Senate race in history.

00:25:10.000 $71 million spent

00:25:11.180 just in favor

00:25:11.960 of Senator Cornyn,

00:25:12.900 the Republican incumbent.

00:25:13.840 $71 million spent

00:25:14.960 for one candidate

00:25:16.200 who's probably going

00:25:17.040 to be in a runoff,

00:25:17.780 so they're going to

00:25:18.100 probably have to do it again.

00:25:19.720 But then you look

00:25:20.360 at the other races here,

00:25:21.160 pro-Talarico,

00:25:22.100 24.3 million,

00:25:23.380 pro-Crockett,

00:25:24.280 5 million.

00:25:24.960 You see all this

00:25:25.500 other money in here.

00:25:26.860 So look at this money.

00:25:28.060 Obviously,

00:25:28.240 there's a lot of money

00:25:28.940 behind Talarico

00:25:29.820 who won that Democrat primary.

00:25:31.840 But Cornyn,

00:25:32.980 71 million bucks

00:25:35.100 for a Senate seat

00:25:37.200 in Texas.

00:25:39.480 71 million bucks

00:25:40.580 in a primary.

00:25:42.560 What?

00:25:43.920 Paxton,

00:25:45.040 the pro-Paxton

00:25:46.120 and the pro-Paxton groups,

00:25:47.940 the super-Paxton,

00:25:48.800 only spent

00:25:50.020 4.4 million bucks.

00:25:53.600 That is crazy.

00:25:56.520 Is that 15 times

00:25:57.720 what Paxton spent?

00:26:01.360 And how is Paxton running?

00:26:04.920 Paxton is running

00:26:05.860 in the same way

00:26:06.980 Toth ran

00:26:07.600 on Crenshaw

00:26:09.320 to the right,

00:26:10.460 which tells you

00:26:11.820 that the primary voters

00:26:14.520 want to double down

00:26:16.140 on the Trump agenda.

00:26:17.100 They want to go even further

00:26:18.180 than the Trump agenda.

00:26:19.200 This is not what

00:26:19.840 the establishment media

00:26:20.540 are telling you.

00:26:21.400 The Trump has gone too far

00:26:22.760 and this is turning off.

00:26:23.860 No.

00:26:24.820 At least the GOP

00:26:26.160 wants to double down.

00:26:28.640 And they're willing

00:26:29.520 to turn out and vote

00:26:30.580 even when they're being

00:26:31.380 outspent a bazillion to one.

00:26:33.200 Now, what does this mean

00:26:34.040 for the median voter?

00:26:35.060 What does this mean

00:26:35.560 for the people in the center?

00:26:36.920 What does this mean

00:26:37.560 for disaffected libs?

00:26:38.920 Doesn't matter.

00:26:39.620 If the Republicans

00:26:40.160 want to double or triple down,

00:26:41.940 if most voters

00:26:43.200 are fleeing

00:26:43.860 to the Democrat side,

00:26:44.980 that doesn't tell us a lot.

00:26:46.300 However,

00:26:46.700 that's not what's going on.

00:26:47.720 We have some numbers

00:26:49.320 coming out of Gallup.

00:26:50.400 What is the nation's

00:26:51.280 top issue?

00:26:52.060 What are voters

00:26:52.960 considering to be

00:26:53.700 their top

00:26:54.380 political priority?

00:26:57.820 Government.

00:26:59.120 It's kind of funny

00:26:59.700 that the top political priority

00:27:00.720 is government.

00:27:01.500 But government,

00:27:04.260 corruption,

00:27:05.600 defense of democracy,

00:27:06.760 it's this amoeba-like issue.

00:27:09.320 It's this very ambiguous issue.

00:27:11.680 And it's often

00:27:12.560 in the top five issues.

00:27:14.160 But for a lot of people,

00:27:15.880 the economy is the top issue.

00:27:17.600 A lot of races,

00:27:18.500 the economy is the top issue.

00:27:19.960 Immigration is a top issue.

00:27:21.380 Crime is a top issue.

00:27:23.560 Health care can be

00:27:24.620 a top issue.

00:27:25.260 It comes and goes.

00:27:25.840 And then government,

00:27:26.940 corruption,

00:27:27.760 dysfunction,

00:27:28.940 efficiency,

00:27:29.900 that's a top issue too.

00:27:31.100 Right now,

00:27:32.820 that government issue

00:27:33.760 has gone to the top.

00:27:34.740 This should not be surprising.

00:27:36.060 When a party wins

00:27:36.920 the presidency

00:27:37.540 in the following

00:27:38.700 midterm elections,

00:27:40.440 they usually lose.

00:27:41.640 And they usually lose

00:27:42.600 as a corrective

00:27:44.720 on the administration.

00:27:46.120 That's especially true here

00:27:47.400 when one party

00:27:48.900 has a unified government.

00:27:50.580 The White House,

00:27:51.220 the House,

00:27:51.640 the Senate,

00:27:52.120 and even the Supreme Court,

00:27:53.320 I guess you would say.

00:27:54.840 So no surprise here

00:27:56.400 that government dysfunction

00:27:58.440 or a referendum

00:27:59.740 on the party

00:28:01.060 that is in power

00:28:01.940 has risen to the top.

00:28:04.260 However,

00:28:05.120 Gallup is quick to tell us

00:28:07.040 Americans' concern

00:28:09.180 about government

00:28:09.700 remained historically

00:28:10.400 elevated in February,

00:28:11.340 driven largely

00:28:11.800 by Democrats' dissatisfaction

00:28:13.140 with the current administration.

00:28:14.460 At the same time,

00:28:16.240 immigration regained

00:28:17.260 prominence

00:28:17.780 across party lines,

00:28:19.200 though for sharply

00:28:19.760 different reasons.

00:28:20.980 Economic issues

00:28:21.720 while still present

00:28:22.440 receded from the forefront

00:28:23.520 compared with late last year.

00:28:25.440 This can be good news

00:28:27.080 for Republicans.

00:28:29.440 Yes,

00:28:30.080 they face an uphill battle

00:28:31.900 because they're the party

00:28:32.980 in power

00:28:33.380 and they're supposed

00:28:33.880 to lose the midterms.

00:28:34.660 That's how it's supposed

00:28:35.080 to work.

00:28:36.540 They're not going to win

00:28:37.520 on government dysfunction

00:28:38.880 as the top issue.

00:28:40.120 However,

00:28:41.460 immigration had declined

00:28:42.840 as a

00:28:45.220 or the top issue

00:28:46.720 for voters

00:28:47.200 and now it's going back up.

00:28:49.820 Republicans will win

00:28:51.020 on the immigration issue.

00:28:51.920 There were some numbers

00:28:52.480 that came out

00:28:52.980 just a couple of weeks ago

00:28:54.040 that had been building

00:28:56.080 for the past two months

00:28:57.200 and I spoke to

00:28:58.180 members of Congress

00:28:59.340 on Capitol Hill

00:28:59.940 about this

00:29:00.540 on the afternoon

00:29:01.420 of the State of the Union

00:29:02.160 address.

00:29:03.800 Republicans win

00:29:04.700 on immigration.

00:29:06.380 We have a notable

00:29:07.880 advantage over Democrats

00:29:08.920 on immigration.

00:29:09.820 We have an even bigger

00:29:10.580 advantage when it comes

00:29:11.460 to border control

00:29:12.380 and we have

00:29:14.860 an even bigger advantage

00:29:16.100 when it comes to crime

00:29:17.040 which is tied in

00:29:17.880 with the immigration issue.

00:29:18.840 For the last couple

00:29:21.540 of months

00:29:21.920 voters have been

00:29:23.040 giving Democrats

00:29:23.960 the edge

00:29:24.700 over Republicans

00:29:25.420 on the economy.

00:29:26.480 I don't think

00:29:26.880 that's fair.

00:29:27.520 I don't think

00:29:27.860 that's backed up

00:29:28.520 by economic data.

00:29:30.520 The economy

00:29:30.900 has done very,

00:29:31.460 very well under Trump.

00:29:32.360 Record high stock market,

00:29:33.960 low inflation,

00:29:34.860 much lower than under Biden,

00:29:36.340 low unemployment.

00:29:38.260 The tariffs

00:29:38.680 have been much,

00:29:39.500 much more successful

00:29:40.100 than anybody expected.

00:29:42.540 So I think

00:29:43.740 that, you know,

00:29:45.040 all things being equal,

00:29:45.880 voters should give

00:29:46.740 Republicans the edge

00:29:47.680 on the economy

00:29:48.240 but they haven't been.

00:29:50.720 The fact that the economy

00:29:52.240 is diminishing

00:29:54.240 as a top priority

00:29:55.380 for voters

00:29:55.860 is good news

00:29:56.880 for Republicans.

00:29:58.200 At a time when

00:29:59.060 voters give the edge

00:30:00.000 to Democrats

00:30:00.540 on the economy,

00:30:01.300 if the economy

00:30:01.920 is diminishing

00:30:02.540 in importance overall,

00:30:03.620 what that says is

00:30:04.420 Democrats are losing

00:30:05.580 their edge,

00:30:06.260 one,

00:30:06.640 and two,

00:30:07.660 the economy is probably

00:30:08.560 doing relatively well

00:30:09.600 and voters are beginning

00:30:10.540 to internalize that.

00:30:11.840 That's why it's not

00:30:12.420 the top priority.

00:30:14.460 So, okay,

00:30:15.320 yeah,

00:30:15.900 the government issue

00:30:16.700 is not great

00:30:17.220 for Republicans

00:30:17.780 but if immigration

00:30:18.820 is rising again,

00:30:19.640 that's what you lean into.

00:30:20.720 You lean into

00:30:21.320 the immigration issue,

00:30:22.180 you lean into crime.

00:30:23.900 Healthcare doesn't seem

00:30:24.640 to be a huge issue.

00:30:25.400 Democrats always have

00:30:26.120 the edge on healthcare

00:30:26.720 because they're always

00:30:27.220 promising to give away

00:30:28.180 all healthcare for free

00:30:29.620 to everybody

00:30:30.080 and they don't actually do it.

00:30:32.140 Their healthcare policies

00:30:32.840 are absolutely terrible.

00:30:34.120 They lie about what

00:30:34.880 you're going to get.

00:30:35.820 Barack Obama

00:30:36.520 lying about healthcare

00:30:37.300 was the politifact lie

00:30:38.240 of the year

00:30:38.560 when he passed Obamacare.

00:30:39.780 Doesn't matter.

00:30:40.900 We lose on that issue.

00:30:42.020 Just don't talk about it

00:30:42.800 that much.

00:30:44.040 We're going to lose

00:30:44.800 on the government issue

00:30:45.780 because we run

00:30:46.200 the government right now.

00:30:47.320 Let's try to downplay that.

00:30:48.500 Let's focus on immigration.

00:30:50.120 Let's focus on crime.

00:30:52.780 Let's lean into

00:30:53.720 our economic victories

00:30:54.800 and recognize

00:30:55.460 that the economy

00:30:56.000 is not as important

00:30:56.680 for people right now

00:30:57.560 according to the polls.

00:30:59.580 Pretty good news.

00:31:00.960 Now,

00:31:01.680 moving to another

00:31:03.580 major primary.

00:31:04.580 I guess we got to talk

00:31:05.160 about Iran, right?

00:31:05.860 We are in the midst

00:31:06.400 of this war

00:31:07.060 that kicked off

00:31:07.680 on Saturday night

00:31:08.600 or Friday night.

00:31:11.600 There's this question

00:31:12.340 of who's going to

00:31:12.780 take over Iran

00:31:13.640 and most Americans

00:31:15.500 have no idea

00:31:16.200 and everyone's pretending

00:31:17.060 to be some Persia expert now

00:31:18.960 and some national security expert,

00:31:21.440 some Middle Eastern affairs expert,

00:31:22.860 but no one really knows.

00:31:24.320 And the one name

00:31:25.020 that comes to mind

00:31:25.760 is this guy Reza Pahlavi.

00:31:27.560 Reza Pahlavi is

00:31:28.240 the crown prince of Iran.

00:31:29.680 He is the son of the Shah

00:31:31.180 who was an ally

00:31:32.100 of the United States

00:31:32.900 who was deposed

00:31:34.040 by the Islamic revolution

00:31:35.780 in 1979

00:31:36.760 and who has got

00:31:38.720 a good relationship

00:31:39.400 with the West,

00:31:40.680 with the United States,

00:31:42.040 with Europe,

00:31:42.480 with Israel

00:31:43.280 as an outpost

00:31:44.000 of the American empire.

00:31:45.700 So there's been

00:31:46.820 this big push

00:31:47.520 to reinstall Reza Pahlavi,

00:31:50.260 the crown prince,

00:31:51.780 the light of the Aryans

00:31:53.160 is one of his titles.

00:31:54.820 President Trump

00:31:55.600 just came out

00:31:56.660 and threw cold water

00:31:58.500 on who the next leader

00:32:00.380 would be.

00:32:01.800 Do you have someone

00:32:02.700 in mind right now

00:32:03.620 because you've said

00:32:04.100 all the people

00:32:04.660 you didn't have in mind

00:32:05.500 have been taken out?

00:32:06.960 Well, most of the people

00:32:08.020 we had in mind are dead.

00:32:09.740 So, you know,

00:32:10.500 we had some in mind

00:32:11.380 from that group

00:32:11.980 that is dead.

00:32:15.200 And now we have

00:32:16.560 another group

00:32:17.100 that may be dead also

00:32:18.220 based on reports.

00:32:20.940 So I guess you have

00:32:21.780 a third wave coming in.

00:32:23.080 Pretty sure we're not

00:32:23.760 going to know anybody.

00:32:24.560 No one has ever

00:32:26.460 trash talked better

00:32:27.300 than Trump.

00:32:29.080 Okay, there's some people

00:32:30.160 who are on the level

00:32:30.960 with him.

00:32:32.040 I think Al Capone

00:32:33.040 at least is

00:32:33.960 as performed

00:32:35.020 by Robert De Niro

00:32:35.980 in that movie,

00:32:36.680 you know.

00:32:37.300 But he, man,

00:32:38.580 he trash talks

00:32:39.520 as well as anybody.

00:32:42.140 As any

00:32:42.840 Italian American,

00:32:45.000 New Yorker,

00:32:46.060 you know,

00:32:46.260 really honed his craft,

00:32:47.980 varsity level

00:32:48.780 trash talker,

00:32:50.160 Trump is at that level

00:32:51.320 at least,

00:32:51.840 maybe better.

00:32:53.180 Who's the next leader

00:32:53.820 of Iran?

00:32:54.520 I don't know.

00:32:54.960 It's really tough

00:32:55.580 because we keep killing them.

00:32:56.600 We're so good

00:32:57.100 at killing them.

00:32:58.220 It's really,

00:32:59.160 it's,

00:32:59.400 I gotta,

00:33:00.360 I gotta talk to my guys

00:33:01.540 because the guy,

00:33:02.480 the people that I want

00:33:03.660 to take over,

00:33:04.380 we're so good

00:33:05.220 at killing them,

00:33:06.000 we keep killing

00:33:06.780 even the guys

00:33:07.480 I'm thinking about

00:33:08.220 giving it to.

00:33:08.860 Isn't that,

00:33:09.520 look,

00:33:09.780 it's a good problem

00:33:10.480 to have how good

00:33:11.380 we are at killing

00:33:12.100 our enemies.

00:33:12.980 But,

00:33:14.120 I'm gonna tell them,

00:33:15.100 guys,

00:33:15.380 stop being so good

00:33:16.180 at killing people

00:33:16.940 because you're even

00:33:18.340 killing some of the people

00:33:19.320 that maybe I could put

00:33:20.280 in power

00:33:20.740 if we didn't kill them.

00:33:23.820 Great trash talk,

00:33:25.540 good language,

00:33:26.460 you know,

00:33:26.820 when you're in the midst

00:33:27.540 of a war

00:33:28.040 with an enemy

00:33:28.680 that doesn't want

00:33:29.380 to totally concede.

00:33:30.220 Don't forget,

00:33:30.660 the Islamic regime

00:33:31.300 is still in place.

00:33:32.860 And maybe

00:33:33.720 that's not such a bad idea.

00:33:36.480 One of the big divides

00:33:38.180 over,

00:33:39.720 among the people

00:33:41.000 who are generally

00:33:42.060 supportive of the administration

00:33:43.480 on this Iran war

00:33:44.380 is,

00:33:46.160 do you want to

00:33:47.480 keep the regime

00:33:48.540 in place

00:33:48.980 and just get a guy

00:33:49.740 who's more cooperative?

00:33:51.780 Or do you need

00:33:52.640 total regime change?

00:33:54.580 You know,

00:33:54.780 I think this is the divide

00:33:56.260 between the foreign policy

00:33:58.540 realists,

00:33:59.360 pragmatists,

00:34:00.520 and the hardcore

00:34:01.880 neocon idealists,

00:34:04.820 war hawk people

00:34:05.800 who want to,

00:34:06.700 you know,

00:34:07.440 rewrite the whole world.

00:34:09.620 You've got the peaceniks

00:34:10.720 on the left and the right,

00:34:11.720 the ones who don't want

00:34:12.780 any intervention whatsoever,

00:34:13.960 the peaceniks,

00:34:15.080 the people who are maligned

00:34:16.380 as isolationists.

00:34:17.280 But I'm not even

00:34:18.020 taking them into account.

00:34:19.220 We are at war right now.

00:34:20.760 We've undertaken

00:34:21.280 a major war to,

00:34:23.380 we're not supposed

00:34:24.300 to call it a war,

00:34:25.020 I guess,

00:34:25.400 but, you know,

00:34:26.140 when the bombs drop,

00:34:27.680 I'll use the colloquial term,

00:34:29.280 even if it's not

00:34:29.880 legally precise.

00:34:31.080 We're at a war.

00:34:32.680 And now the divide

00:34:35.280 is between

00:34:35.880 the more reserved outcome,

00:34:39.520 maybe we'll get

00:34:40.540 some new Ayatollah,

00:34:41.540 but he's going to play ball,

00:34:42.580 or the revolution

00:34:45.820 to liberate the people,

00:34:47.680 to bring democracy

00:34:48.880 and liberalism

00:34:50.880 and Madisonian ideals

00:34:52.820 to Iran.

00:34:53.740 Now, for me,

00:34:55.400 I have been very,

00:34:56.720 very clear

00:34:57.140 from before this war

00:34:58.600 took off

00:34:59.080 and ever since.

00:35:02.520 Had I been on

00:35:03.340 the National Security Council,

00:35:04.400 which no one invited me to,

00:35:05.580 I would have made

00:35:06.160 strong arguments

00:35:07.260 against going to war.

00:35:09.380 That would have been

00:35:10.240 the side I was arguing.

00:35:11.860 Now, I'm only using

00:35:13.060 publicly available information.

00:35:15.440 There's obviously

00:35:16.160 a lot more information

00:35:17.080 that the government had

00:35:17.980 that I don't have.

00:35:19.240 Namely,

00:35:19.740 on the risks posed by Iran,

00:35:21.860 on the imminence

00:35:22.960 of those risks,

00:35:24.020 and of the likelihood

00:35:24.980 that we could efficiently

00:35:25.840 and effectively

00:35:26.520 affect our ends.

00:35:28.520 You know,

00:35:28.700 bring about the government

00:35:29.800 that we want to see in Iran.

00:35:31.880 That's information

00:35:32.660 that I don't have.

00:35:33.380 So just going from

00:35:34.080 the public information,

00:35:35.080 I would have argued

00:35:35.780 that the risks were too high,

00:35:37.800 that the likelihood

00:35:38.360 of success was too low.

00:35:40.260 At the same time,

00:35:41.300 we have to observe,

00:35:42.000 Trump has the best

00:35:43.180 foreign policy record

00:35:44.280 of any president

00:35:44.960 probably in our lifetimes.

00:35:47.580 So I think he's got

00:35:49.140 a lot of credibility

00:35:49.720 on this issue.

00:35:51.860 And given that starting point,

00:35:55.300 I think a lot of people

00:35:56.200 in my camp,

00:35:57.060 and I think Trump's camp,

00:35:58.680 every piece of evidence

00:35:59.800 we see,

00:36:00.680 not just from the last 10 years,

00:36:01.820 but even day by day now,

00:36:03.260 is that Trump is in this camp.

00:36:05.620 He wants the more modest,

00:36:08.360 outcome.

00:36:09.520 Which is,

00:36:11.000 look,

00:36:11.260 the neocons,

00:36:12.160 the hawks,

00:36:12.940 the liberal idealists,

00:36:14.020 they want democracy

00:36:15.680 and liberalism

00:36:17.200 and a total revolution

00:36:18.680 in Iran.

00:36:19.960 And pretty soon,

00:36:21.120 you know,

00:36:21.460 we're going to have

00:36:21.860 gay pride parades

00:36:22.880 through Tehran.

00:36:23.700 I don't care about that.

00:36:25.040 Actually,

00:36:25.480 I don't want that.

00:36:26.420 And I certainly

00:36:27.020 don't care about that.

00:36:28.640 What I want out of Iran

00:36:30.420 is to neutralize our enemy,

00:36:35.360 get rid of the people

00:36:36.120 who keep threatening us,

00:36:37.120 get rid of the people

00:36:38.280 who openly

00:36:39.420 try to kill Trump,

00:36:41.060 get rid of the people

00:36:42.280 who have been

00:36:42.840 a real problem

00:36:43.780 since 1979,

00:36:45.100 since they threw out

00:36:45.680 the leader

00:36:45.980 that we could work with.

00:36:47.940 And I want to unify

00:36:50.220 the Gulf states

00:36:51.200 along with Israel

00:36:53.540 and just keep them

00:36:54.600 all in line

00:36:55.040 with American interests,

00:36:55.920 more importantly.

00:36:57.740 And I want a guy in Iran

00:36:59.160 that we can work with.

00:37:01.220 Whether that guy

00:37:02.160 is popularly elected,

00:37:03.680 whether that guy

00:37:04.560 is from an opposition party,

00:37:06.660 whether that guy

00:37:07.340 is from within

00:37:08.360 the Ayatollah's regime,

00:37:09.420 I don't really care.

00:37:10.580 I want a guy

00:37:11.000 that we can work with.

00:37:11.980 That's the restrained,

00:37:13.200 realist,

00:37:14.120 in my view,

00:37:14.820 America first,

00:37:15.900 outcome in Iran.

00:37:16.720 I think that's what

00:37:17.380 Trump is on board with,

00:37:18.340 which raises his question.

00:37:19.760 Is he going to support

00:37:20.920 the guy who is supposedly

00:37:22.640 the great restorer

00:37:24.560 of freedom and democracy

00:37:25.940 and justice in Iran?

00:37:27.100 Is he going to support

00:37:27.980 Reza Pallavi?

00:37:28.600 He's asked that question directly.

00:37:30.080 We'll get to his answer

00:37:30.740 in a moment first.

00:37:31.960 Folks,

00:37:32.440 if you have not joined

00:37:33.400 Daily Wire Plus yet,

00:37:34.400 you have to do it right now.

00:37:35.760 We have a bar fight tonight

00:37:38.000 live from John Rich's

00:37:40.220 Redneck Riviera

00:37:41.000 on Lower Broadway

00:37:41.900 in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:37:43.260 It's live, though.

00:37:44.540 There is no delay.

00:37:45.960 There's no editing.

00:37:46.960 There's no sensor button

00:37:47.820 if people say something

00:37:48.660 that's a little,

00:37:49.260 you know,

00:37:49.720 vulgar or whatever.

00:37:50.460 So hopefully they're going

00:37:51.040 to be nice about it.

00:37:52.580 Very, very exciting.

00:37:53.920 This is a war in Iran

00:37:55.900 special episode.

00:37:57.400 We will be debating

00:37:58.660 the multiple positions,

00:38:00.460 the liberal position,

00:38:01.560 my position,

00:38:02.660 the more interventionist position.

00:38:04.560 We've got Luke Beasley

00:38:05.780 coming on,

00:38:06.800 returning to bar fight

00:38:07.940 as our liberal contestant

00:38:10.040 and combatant.

00:38:11.020 And we've got Dan Crenshaw.

00:38:12.380 Dan Crenshaw,

00:38:12.960 who just lost his primary

00:38:15.000 in Texas.

00:38:16.440 He's been a major,

00:38:17.420 major figure

00:38:17.920 in the Republican Party

00:38:18.860 for seven years now.

00:38:20.200 Obviously has a very serious

00:38:22.180 firsthand experience

00:38:23.080 with war in the Middle East

00:38:24.300 as a Navy SEAL.

00:38:25.000 So it's going to be

00:38:26.300 explosive bar fight

00:38:27.880 broadcasting live

00:38:29.240 from Broadway in Nashville

00:38:31.560 tonight,

00:38:32.020 9 p.m. Eastern,

00:38:32.700 only on Daily Wire Plus.

00:38:34.080 My favorite comment yesterday

00:38:35.060 is from Brady4915

00:38:36.320 who says,

00:38:38.200 breaking news,

00:38:39.200 former Supreme Leader

00:38:40.400 of Iran,

00:38:41.420 Ayatollah Khamenei,

00:38:42.460 has registered to vote

00:38:43.400 as a Democrat

00:38:43.960 in the upcoming election.

00:38:44.980 I think that's probably true.

00:38:46.580 It may be in multiple states.

00:38:48.300 He is,

00:38:50.360 you know,

00:38:50.680 a lot of people think,

00:38:52.100 from within Islam,

00:38:53.480 they think that when you die,

00:38:55.580 you go up to paradise

00:38:57.280 with Allah

00:38:58.140 and you get 72 virgins.

00:39:00.720 But, of course,

00:39:01.920 we know

00:39:02.600 from the American

00:39:03.660 political order

00:39:04.620 that when you die,

00:39:06.280 you are immediately

00:39:07.140 registered to vote

00:39:07.860 as a Democrat.

00:39:08.780 So that's what he's going to get.

00:39:09.520 It's maybe not as exciting

00:39:10.700 as the 72 virgins.

00:39:12.840 Are there any virgins left

00:39:13.840 in the Democrat Party?

00:39:14.720 I'm not so sure

00:39:15.360 about that either.

00:39:16.620 Trump is asked specifically.

00:39:17.780 What about Pallavi?

00:39:18.900 What about the crown prince?

00:39:20.060 What about the future Shah?

00:39:21.480 Here's his answer.

00:39:23.260 Crown prince,

00:39:24.160 Rizzo Pallavi.

00:39:25.140 Is he an option

00:39:25.840 at all in your mind?

00:39:26.720 I guess he is.

00:39:27.420 Some people like him

00:39:28.280 and we haven't been

00:39:29.600 thinking about

00:39:30.220 too much about that.

00:39:31.780 It would seem to me

00:39:32.880 that somebody from within

00:39:34.060 maybe would be

00:39:35.140 more appropriate.

00:39:36.440 I've said that.

00:39:37.380 He looks like

00:39:37.900 a very nice person.

00:39:40.120 But it would seem to me

00:39:42.180 that somebody that's there,

00:39:45.620 that's currently popular,

00:39:47.780 if there's such a person.

00:39:49.680 But we have people like that.

00:39:51.040 We have people

00:39:51.520 that were more moderate.

00:39:53.780 These were radical lunatics

00:39:55.260 and you know what they get?

00:39:56.260 They get nothing.

00:39:56.980 All they do is kill people.

00:39:59.100 Okay, so Trump

00:40:00.600 getting specific

00:40:02.340 on his broader philosophy here,

00:40:05.980 which I thought

00:40:07.140 was clear enough too.

00:40:08.320 He goes, look,

00:40:09.260 Pallavi's a nice guy.

00:40:10.040 Yes, the opponents

00:40:13.900 of the Iranian regime

00:40:14.800 have been holding him up

00:40:15.800 for a long time

00:40:16.500 as a possible unifying figure.

00:40:17.720 And he gives himself

00:40:18.360 wiggle room.

00:40:18.800 He says, look, maybe.

00:40:20.240 Maybe, but I don't see it.

00:40:23.500 I think that the person

00:40:25.240 who's most likely

00:40:26.140 to unify Iran

00:40:27.220 is going to come

00:40:28.580 from within Iran.

00:40:29.640 Don't forget,

00:40:30.140 Pallavi has not stepped foot

00:40:31.100 in Iran in decades.

00:40:32.580 He can.

00:40:33.140 He would have been killed

00:40:33.740 had he stepped foot in Iran.

00:40:34.680 But nevertheless,

00:40:36.200 Trump is just coming out

00:40:37.160 and he's saying,

00:40:37.680 look, he's a nice guy.

00:40:38.740 Maybe, look,

00:40:39.540 wouldn't that be nice?

00:40:40.280 But I don't think

00:40:41.500 he's got the juice.

00:40:42.820 That's what he's saying.

00:40:43.520 I don't think he's got the juice.

00:40:45.540 So who's it going to be?

00:40:47.440 I think this is,

00:40:49.380 if you were someone

00:40:50.580 who, like me,

00:40:51.320 was a little skeptical

00:40:52.000 of too much interference

00:40:54.820 in Iran,

00:40:55.860 who's a little skeptical

00:40:56.620 of some of our

00:40:57.340 foreign entanglements,

00:40:58.780 especially in the wake

00:40:59.920 of the debacles

00:41:00.780 in Iraq and Afghanistan,

00:41:02.340 this should make you feel

00:41:04.180 a lot more confident.

00:41:06.020 Because what Trump is saying

00:41:07.280 is I kind of want to go

00:41:08.120 with the playbook

00:41:08.740 that I had in Venezuela.

00:41:10.020 Don't forget what happened

00:41:10.680 in Venezuela.

00:41:12.200 In Venezuela,

00:41:14.000 the same thing,

00:41:15.020 the United States

00:41:15.540 for decades

00:41:16.020 had wanted to oust

00:41:16.860 this regime

00:41:17.520 that began under Chavez

00:41:18.740 and continued under Maduro.

00:41:20.680 And you had the real

00:41:22.020 neocon,

00:41:23.000 idealist,

00:41:24.060 liberal interventionist types

00:41:25.560 coming out and saying,

00:41:27.260 we need to install

00:41:28.540 a pro-liberal,

00:41:30.480 pro-democracy

00:41:31.460 champion

00:41:32.540 of human rights.

00:41:34.340 And they were talking

00:41:34.760 about this lady,

00:41:35.620 Maria Carina Machado,

00:41:38.060 who won the Nobel Prize,

00:41:40.420 but then was,

00:41:41.140 I think gave it to Trump,

00:41:42.700 right,

00:41:42.820 was trying to cozy up

00:41:43.560 to Trump.

00:41:44.200 She was this vaunted

00:41:46.020 opposition leader,

00:41:47.800 and Trump was asked

00:41:48.500 about putting her in charge

00:41:49.520 after ousting Maduro.

00:41:50.820 That's what I think

00:41:51.300 most of the hawks

00:41:52.260 and the libs expected.

00:41:53.700 And he said,

00:41:54.420 nah,

00:41:54.680 not gonna work.

00:41:56.240 Where of the location

00:41:57.260 of opposition leader Machado,

00:41:58.900 and have you been

00:41:59.540 in contact with her?

00:42:00.640 No,

00:42:01.140 we haven't,

00:42:01.800 really,

00:42:02.100 no,

00:42:02.320 we haven't.

00:42:02.920 Mr. President,

00:42:03.660 Mr. President,

00:42:04.600 on Monday.

00:42:08.480 Oh,

00:42:08.600 I think it would be

00:42:09.020 very tough for her

00:42:09.760 to be the leader

00:42:10.420 if she doesn't have

00:42:11.100 the support within

00:42:12.100 or the respect

00:42:13.160 within the country.

00:42:14.020 She's a very nice woman,

00:42:14.800 but she doesn't have

00:42:15.860 the respect.

00:42:16.400 Mr. President,

00:42:16.920 there it is,

00:42:18.580 there it is.

00:42:19.280 And no knock on her,

00:42:20.240 she seems like a nice lady.

00:42:21.240 Kind of same thought

00:42:21.780 on Reza Pallavi.

00:42:22.760 However,

00:42:23.760 this is the difference

00:42:25.260 between the more realist,

00:42:27.360 restrained,

00:42:27.980 what I consider

00:42:29.340 to be America First camp,

00:42:30.500 what Trump considers

00:42:31.160 to be America First camp,

00:42:32.540 and America First

00:42:33.100 is his movement.

00:42:33.960 You know,

00:42:34.180 in this iteration,

00:42:35.400 in this century,

00:42:36.360 America First

00:42:36.820 is his movement.

00:42:38.100 It's not some podcaster's

00:42:39.260 movement.

00:42:39.960 It's not some tweeter's

00:42:40.900 movement.

00:42:41.400 It's Trump's movement.

00:42:42.820 Clearly,

00:42:43.780 he's the guy

00:42:44.480 who brought the coalition

00:42:45.220 together.

00:42:45.700 He's the guy

00:42:46.020 who pushed the term,

00:42:46.960 and he's the guy

00:42:47.520 who got elected president

00:42:48.420 at least twice,

00:42:49.320 maybe three times.

00:42:50.700 So his view of it,

00:42:52.200 which is my view of it,

00:42:53.920 my longtime view of it,

00:42:55.700 is we gotta,

00:42:57.460 we want to promote

00:42:59.420 American interests

00:43:00.000 around the world.

00:43:00.700 We have to recognize

00:43:01.480 that there is

00:43:02.140 American grant strategy.

00:43:03.400 We have to recognize

00:43:04.020 that America is an empire.

00:43:05.320 We can't pretend

00:43:06.080 that we're some yeoman republic

00:43:07.360 totally isolated

00:43:08.780 from the world.

00:43:10.240 But we want to do it

00:43:11.580 in realistic,

00:43:12.760 practical,

00:43:13.600 pragmatic ways.

00:43:15.460 That's the distinction

00:43:16.300 between that camp

00:43:17.160 and the neocons,

00:43:18.780 and the radical hawks,

00:43:20.920 and the liberal interventionists,

00:43:22.200 and the globalists,

00:43:23.140 and whatever word

00:43:23.720 you want to use.

00:43:24.140 Those guys

00:43:26.380 would want Machado

00:43:27.520 in Venezuela

00:43:28.260 because she's the paragon

00:43:29.660 of democracy

00:43:30.680 and liberalism

00:43:31.380 and human rights

00:43:32.120 and the opposition,

00:43:33.200 and Trump says,

00:43:34.660 no, I don't need that.

00:43:35.640 You know what?

00:43:36.160 Let's just keep Maduro's

00:43:37.260 number two in charge.

00:43:38.500 We're not gonna get rid

00:43:39.260 of the regime.

00:43:41.300 We don't like Maduro,

00:43:42.340 and Maduro has worn out

00:43:43.840 for his arrest

00:43:44.460 here in America,

00:43:45.240 and Maduro has threatened us

00:43:47.700 and done a lot of bad things

00:43:48.660 to us,

00:43:49.060 so you know what?

00:43:49.420 We're gonna go,

00:43:49.820 and we're gonna take him out,

00:43:50.680 but we're gonna leave

00:43:51.280 his number two in place,

00:43:52.240 and you know what we're gonna tell you,

00:43:53.240 Delcey Rodriguez?

00:43:54.920 We're gonna tell you,

00:43:56.820 keep on running

00:43:57.520 the government efficiently.

00:43:58.660 We're actually impressed

00:43:59.500 that you were able

00:44:00.140 to export as much oil

00:44:01.500 as you did

00:44:01.920 under American sanctions.

00:44:03.560 That's great.

00:44:04.400 That's very impressive.

00:44:05.580 You know,

00:44:05.840 game recognized game.

00:44:07.380 That's great.

00:44:08.100 If you don't cooperate

00:44:09.140 with us,

00:44:09.640 we'll kill you.

00:44:11.740 Cool?

00:44:12.080 Do we have an understanding?

00:44:13.160 I don't care what you think

00:44:13.900 about democracy

00:44:14.580 and human rights

00:44:15.600 and liberalism

00:44:16.480 and John Locke.

00:44:17.120 I don't care about any of that.

00:44:18.500 I don't care what you say

00:44:19.320 in your stupid speeches.

00:44:20.420 I don't care.

00:44:21.500 You keep the government running,

00:44:23.240 in a way that does not

00:44:24.880 lead to civil war

00:44:25.880 and in a way

00:44:26.600 that plays ball

00:44:27.340 with American priorities.

00:44:28.580 You do that,

00:44:29.420 we're gonna get along great.

00:44:30.520 You don't do that,

00:44:31.900 Trump said,

00:44:32.380 it will be worse for her

00:44:33.480 than it was for Maduro.

00:44:35.620 Translation,

00:44:36.240 we'll kill you.

00:44:37.880 Kabish?

00:44:38.680 Good.

00:44:39.700 Looks like he's bringing about

00:44:41.000 the exact same strategy

00:44:43.660 in Iran.

00:44:44.740 I, for one,

00:44:45.380 think that's a good thing.

00:44:46.080 No knock on Risa Pallavi,

00:44:48.080 no knock on Maria Machado.

00:44:50.220 But we do not want this

00:44:52.560 to descend into chaos

00:44:53.580 and civil war.

00:44:54.320 We really cannot get bogged down

00:44:56.040 in an endless war

00:44:57.100 and in the process

00:44:58.200 of trying to reconstitute

00:44:59.780 a whole nation

00:45:00.680 along the lines

00:45:02.520 of ideologies

00:45:03.520 that have never taken root

00:45:04.680 in these areas.

00:45:05.860 We're, uh-uh.

00:45:07.780 We want the government,

00:45:08.940 the purpose of this,

00:45:09.740 as far as I'm concerned,

00:45:10.640 if the grand strategy here

00:45:12.140 is to reorder the world

00:45:14.280 in such a way

00:45:14.940 that benefits America,

00:45:16.640 then what we want

00:45:18.800 is, uh,

00:45:21.100 someone we can work with.

00:45:23.260 Doesn't really matter

00:45:24.040 the party.

00:45:24.720 Doesn't really matter

00:45:25.480 the details.

00:45:26.300 We want someone

00:45:26.780 we can work with.

00:45:28.060 You want to call

00:45:28.780 a Mayatola?

00:45:29.580 Whatever.

00:45:30.420 Okay.

00:45:31.600 But, you know,

00:45:32.860 if you keep,

00:45:33.600 if you keep giving us guys

00:45:34.780 that we can't work with,

00:45:35.680 we're going to keep killing them.

00:45:37.040 So, you know,

00:45:38.280 let's, let's be,

00:45:39.540 let's be smart here, folks, right?

00:45:41.280 Blood is bad for business,

00:45:42.540 wouldn't you say?

00:45:44.140 A lesson from New York,

00:45:46.920 certainly from a certain

00:45:47.920 Italian-American subculture,

00:45:49.380 and, uh,

00:45:50.380 from business, uh,

00:45:53.520 actions,

00:45:54.020 and from, uh,

00:45:55.780 I don't know,

00:45:56.520 public,

00:45:57.280 public ways of doing things

00:45:58.980 that Trump is very,

00:46:00.000 very familiar with.

00:46:01.040 Okay.

00:46:01.620 A lot more to get to.

00:46:02.340 One thing I do have to get to

00:46:03.240 before we go.

00:46:05.660 Scientists are trying

00:46:07.720 to use DMT

00:46:09.560 to allow people

00:46:11.460 to communicate

00:46:12.320 with the

00:46:13.360 seemingly alien creatures

00:46:16.280 that they see

00:46:17.580 when they do the drugs.

00:46:20.540 I, I'm not making this up.

00:46:21.720 I wish I were making this up.

00:46:23.440 This is from Wired.

00:46:25.820 Some people see aliens

00:46:27.160 while on DMT.

00:46:28.100 If you've ever had

00:46:28.980 a friend,

00:46:29.900 not just who,

00:46:30.500 who's done DMT,

00:46:31.560 but I've even heard this

00:46:32.480 about shrooms,

00:46:33.480 or you might have heard it

00:46:34.500 about acid.

00:46:35.180 The hallucinogenic drugs,

00:46:37.580 psychedelic drugs,

00:46:38.660 people see these creatures

00:46:39.800 that eerily

00:46:41.200 all sound pretty similar.

00:46:43.280 They're like little gray

00:46:44.140 weirdo aliens.

00:46:45.480 That's how they describe them.

00:46:47.100 They say some people

00:46:47.600 see aliens while on DMT.

00:46:49.020 Researchers want to find out

00:46:50.120 what they can teach us.

00:46:55.000 Okay.

00:46:56.220 Not,

00:46:56.860 I agree with the first sentence.

00:46:58.740 I think the second sentence

00:47:00.280 would not follow

00:47:01.360 from the first sentence.

00:47:02.160 It's probably not a good idea.

00:47:03.760 A new psychedelic retreat

00:47:04.860 calling itself

00:47:05.720 a SETI for the mind

00:47:07.580 aims to establish

00:47:08.960 two-way communication

00:47:09.760 with the non-human entities

00:47:11.860 people encounter

00:47:12.880 while tripping on DMT.

00:47:14.660 What could go wrong?

00:47:16.200 Just read you a little bit

00:47:17.020 from the article.

00:47:17.700 Very lengthy article.

00:47:18.780 The idea had been suggested

00:47:19.620 six years earlier

00:47:20.300 in a paper by neurobiologist

00:47:21.560 Andrew Gallimore.

00:47:22.360 So it's not just some

00:47:23.160 weirdo entrepreneurs.

00:47:24.780 It's not just some journalists.

00:47:26.080 It's a neurobiologist.

00:47:28.000 And then the ethnobotanist,

00:47:29.680 boy,

00:47:30.140 boy howdy,

00:47:30.740 there are just so many

00:47:31.360 specializations in science today,

00:47:32.840 aren't there?

00:47:33.080 The ethnobotanist,

00:47:34.260 Terence McKenna.

00:47:36.420 What do you want to be

00:47:37.200 when you grow up, Sally?

00:47:37.980 I want to be an ethnobotanist,

00:47:39.400 whatever that is.

00:47:39.980 Okay.

00:47:40.520 One of the more gifted articulators

00:47:42.120 of the psychedelic experience

00:47:43.240 famously described

00:47:44.480 these entities as,

00:47:45.940 quote,

00:47:46.720 self-transforming elf machines.

00:47:49.620 This is what people are seeing

00:47:50.520 when they do the drug.

00:47:51.760 Self-transforming elf machines

00:47:53.380 and jeweled,

00:47:55.020 self-dribbling basketballs

00:47:56.840 from hyperspace.

00:47:57.800 McKenna likened them

00:48:00.400 to playful leprechauns.

00:48:02.140 But others,

00:48:03.140 like Bilton,

00:48:04.060 have also meant

00:48:04.640 more sinister beings,

00:48:06.060 dark,

00:48:06.780 evil mother effers,

00:48:08.220 horrible things.

00:48:10.360 Okay.

00:48:11.240 Tell me more.

00:48:11.880 I've never done psychedelics.

00:48:13.800 The thread connecting

00:48:14.820 most perceived

00:48:15.680 DMT entity encounters

00:48:17.060 is an overwhelming sense

00:48:18.280 of technological sophistication

00:48:19.860 and godlike power.

00:48:21.580 Quote,

00:48:22.060 I was confronted

00:48:22.940 with what seemed to me

00:48:24.120 to be the undeniable hand

00:48:25.260 of some kind of intelligence,

00:48:27.240 Gallimore said

00:48:27.880 of his first DMT trip

00:48:29.000 during his recent appearance

00:48:29.860 on Joe Rogan's podcast.

00:48:31.640 A supremely advanced,

00:48:34.040 ancient,

00:48:35.160 and yet highly

00:48:35.840 technological intelligence.

00:48:37.700 Is this sounding familiar

00:48:39.180 to anyone?

00:48:40.800 If you've done psychedelics,

00:48:42.220 it might be sounding familiar

00:48:43.140 to you because you've experienced it.

00:48:44.560 If you are familiar

00:48:45.540 with religion,

00:48:48.920 Christianity in particular,

00:48:50.320 this might be sounding familiar

00:48:51.700 and it might not be sounding good.

00:48:54.940 Gallimore argues

00:48:55.720 that whatever is happening

00:48:56.560 to the brain

00:48:56.980 during the DMT trip,

00:48:58.000 it is not mere hallucination.

00:48:59.980 A term he uses

00:49:01.220 somewhat derisively.

00:49:02.780 He makes the case

00:49:03.480 that DMT unlocks a realm

00:49:04.740 ordinarily cut off

00:49:05.700 to our senses

00:49:06.300 and populated by

00:49:07.180 unfathomably advanced

00:49:08.460 non-human entities.

00:49:09.360 So right off the bat,

00:49:10.300 there are two options

00:49:11.080 and probably you're thinking

00:49:12.860 this too.

00:49:13.600 These things can be

00:49:14.680 one of two things.

00:49:16.140 They can either be,

00:49:17.140 to use the language

00:49:17.780 of the scholastics,

00:49:20.320 ens reale

00:49:21.220 or ens rationis.

00:49:23.840 They can be

00:49:24.580 mind-independent beings,

00:49:27.420 that is,

00:49:27.820 things that have

00:49:28.660 a reality

00:49:29.400 in themselves

00:49:30.920 outside of

00:49:32.220 your own conceptions.

00:49:34.240 Or,

00:49:35.340 they can be

00:49:36.780 figments

00:49:37.980 of your imagination.

00:49:39.420 Things that we just

00:49:40.300 come up with

00:49:40.860 in our head

00:49:41.440 that we can talk about

00:49:42.600 as if they were real things,

00:49:44.000 but they don't have

00:49:44.780 an existence

00:49:45.240 outside of your own mind.

00:49:46.240 Now,

00:49:48.820 the whole premise here

00:49:50.300 is we need to

00:49:50.880 communicate with these things.

00:49:53.960 That very phrase

00:49:55.920 tells us

00:49:57.700 that

00:49:58.240 if these

00:49:59.520 things matter at all,

00:50:01.020 if we're going to do

00:50:01.600 any of this stuff,

00:50:02.460 you know,

00:50:02.640 have the weird

00:50:03.220 science summer camp

00:50:05.760 DMT trip,

00:50:07.040 then they can't

00:50:08.200 just be figments

00:50:08.900 of our own imagination.

00:50:10.160 Because you can't

00:50:11.100 communicate

00:50:11.580 with

00:50:12.920 something that is not

00:50:14.240 in itself

00:50:14.720 a cognitive power.

00:50:17.020 You would just be

00:50:17.940 talking to yourself,

00:50:18.820 but then you don't

00:50:19.520 need the DMT trip

00:50:20.540 to talk to yourself.

00:50:21.440 You can have a conversation

00:50:22.500 in your own head.

00:50:23.500 The only way to communicate

00:50:24.820 is for,

00:50:26.940 is to involve

00:50:28.200 two cognitive powers.

00:50:29.880 I can't communicate

00:50:30.960 with the Tumblr.

00:50:31.780 I can't communicate

00:50:32.560 with my paper here.

00:50:34.160 I can communicate to you

00:50:35.320 because you

00:50:36.120 have a cognitive power.

00:50:39.020 So,

00:50:39.700 right off the bat,

00:50:41.040 we are assuming

00:50:41.620 that these things

00:50:42.460 are real.

00:50:43.500 but they're not

00:50:45.120 physical.

00:50:46.260 They're not visible

00:50:47.420 ordinarily.

00:50:48.120 They're purely

00:50:49.320 intelligence.

00:50:52.080 They are

00:50:52.920 pure intelligence

00:50:54.300 with which

00:50:55.100 we might communicate,

00:50:56.920 but only

00:50:58.040 if we do things

00:50:59.380 that are bad

00:51:00.460 and sinful,

00:51:01.640 like lose

00:51:02.680 our minds

00:51:03.340 on drugs.

00:51:04.080 that is a demon.

00:51:09.580 That's a long way

00:51:10.920 of saying

00:51:11.520 that's a demon.

00:51:15.180 Invisible

00:51:15.660 cognitive powers,

00:51:17.200 non-physical

00:51:18.020 cognitive powers

00:51:19.320 are spirits.

00:51:22.680 That's what

00:51:23.260 a spirit means.

00:51:24.480 Spirits can be

00:51:25.200 angels.

00:51:26.260 They can be

00:51:26.740 demons.

00:51:28.520 There are

00:51:28.880 other kinds

00:51:30.460 of spiritual realities.

00:51:32.300 Now,

00:51:33.540 the ones

00:51:35.600 that we

00:51:36.060 invite in

00:51:37.000 to communicate

00:51:37.980 when we are

00:51:39.500 doing bad

00:51:40.580 things,

00:51:41.080 when we are

00:51:41.660 sinning,

00:51:42.760 they're not

00:51:43.840 the good ones.

00:51:45.200 They're the bad

00:51:46.120 ones.

00:51:46.540 They're demons.

00:51:47.480 I am not a guy,

00:51:48.520 I've said this many

00:51:49.280 times,

00:51:49.600 I'm not a guy

00:51:50.080 who sees demons

00:51:50.600 under every rock.

00:51:51.640 I know that's

00:51:52.140 very popular now.

00:51:52.900 I've had conversations

00:51:53.640 with exorcists

00:51:54.480 and I acknowledge

00:51:55.020 spiritual reality,

00:51:55.940 but I take

00:51:56.360 C.S. Lewis's

00:51:56.980 approach,

00:51:57.600 which is

00:51:57.980 you don't want

00:51:58.780 to think about

00:52:00.000 demons

00:52:00.380 none of the

00:52:01.140 time,

00:52:01.740 because then

00:52:02.000 you could

00:52:02.180 be leaving

00:52:02.460 yourself open

00:52:02.920 to danger,

00:52:03.560 but you don't

00:52:03.960 want to think

00:52:04.240 about demons

00:52:04.620 all of the

00:52:05.020 time,

00:52:05.300 because then

00:52:05.520 you're obsessing

00:52:06.160 on spiritual

00:52:06.820 darkness and

00:52:07.360 the privation

00:52:07.800 of good,

00:52:08.160 and you really

00:52:08.460 should just

00:52:08.700 be focused

00:52:09.040 on God.

00:52:09.580 So you

00:52:10.120 should think

00:52:10.480 about demons

00:52:11.000 like a little

00:52:11.680 bit of the

00:52:12.040 time.

00:52:12.420 This is one

00:52:12.860 of those

00:52:13.060 times.

00:52:14.200 Do not go

00:52:16.320 do a bunch

00:52:17.040 of drugs

00:52:17.580 with a bunch

00:52:18.240 of hippie

00:52:18.680 scientists and

00:52:19.440 talk to demons.

00:52:20.100 It's a bad

00:52:20.540 idea.

00:52:21.860 What is it

00:52:22.460 that you desire

00:52:23.260 that would

00:52:24.900 impel you

00:52:25.620 to go do

00:52:26.080 this?

00:52:26.380 There are

00:52:26.540 plenty of

00:52:26.840 people who

00:52:27.180 take

00:52:27.360 psychedelics

00:52:27.960 and want

00:52:28.560 to talk

00:52:28.840 to the

00:52:29.160 aliens,

00:52:29.640 which are

00:52:29.860 demons.

00:52:32.080 Either they're

00:52:32.660 hallucinations,

00:52:33.340 in which case

00:52:33.720 the whole thing

00:52:33.980 is pointless,

00:52:34.500 or they're

00:52:34.940 demons.

00:52:36.400 What would

00:52:36.880 impel you,

00:52:37.300 because you

00:52:37.680 want to

00:52:38.360 learn something

00:52:40.340 about yourself

00:52:41.960 or about the

00:52:42.420 world,

00:52:42.780 okay,

00:52:43.120 if you want

00:52:43.440 to learn

00:52:43.720 something,

00:52:44.340 if you want

00:52:44.740 to learn

00:52:45.240 the truth,

00:52:46.600 you want to

00:52:46.980 learn the

00:52:47.200 truth of

00:52:47.500 something,

00:52:47.760 not the

00:52:48.080 falsehood of

00:52:48.420 something,

00:52:49.240 probably if you

00:52:50.120 want to learn

00:52:50.360 the truth,

00:52:50.820 you should speak

00:52:51.300 to God,

00:52:52.160 who is the

00:52:52.760 truth,

00:52:53.100 the way,

00:52:53.380 the truth,

00:52:53.720 and the life,

00:52:54.240 Christ says.

00:52:55.680 You would

00:52:55.920 want to

00:52:56.260 speak to

00:52:56.740 the true

00:52:57.200 source and

00:52:57.680 summit of

00:52:58.000 all being,

00:52:59.700 rather than

00:53:00.520 demons whose

00:53:01.320 defining characteristic

00:53:02.340 is that they're

00:53:03.080 evil and they

00:53:03.580 lie.

00:53:05.500 Why else would

00:53:06.400 you want to

00:53:06.780 do it?

00:53:07.060 Well,

00:53:07.500 because,

00:53:08.260 I'll tell you

00:53:08.680 why,

00:53:08.900 to be fair

00:53:09.400 to the

00:53:09.660 druggies.

00:53:10.780 The reason

00:53:11.280 they want

00:53:11.620 this is

00:53:12.080 they recognize

00:53:12.920 that we are

00:53:13.720 in part

00:53:14.380 spiritual

00:53:14.740 creatures,

00:53:16.340 they recognize

00:53:17.260 that we don't

00:53:17.980 comprehend all

00:53:18.560 of the truth,

00:53:19.320 they want

00:53:19.960 some knowledge,

00:53:21.340 but the

00:53:21.820 reason why,

00:53:22.960 if you want

00:53:23.320 all of that,

00:53:23.800 the reason

00:53:25.420 why you

00:53:25.780 would go

00:53:26.240 do the

00:53:26.560 drugs with

00:53:27.000 the scientist

00:53:27.460 instead of

00:53:27.940 just go to

00:53:28.700 church or

00:53:29.180 read your

00:53:29.480 Bible or

00:53:29.980 pray or

00:53:30.540 avail yourself

00:53:31.040 of the

00:53:31.260 sacraments,

00:53:32.060 the distinctive

00:53:32.900 feature between

00:53:33.460 those two

00:53:33.860 things,

00:53:34.100 either of

00:53:34.660 those things

00:53:35.120 promise you

00:53:35.880 the truth

00:53:36.900 and recognition

00:53:37.780 of spiritual

00:53:38.220 reality.

00:53:38.720 The reason

00:53:39.240 you would

00:53:39.580 choose the

00:53:40.840 drugs over

00:53:41.520 the church

00:53:42.060 is because

00:53:43.200 you want

00:53:44.400 the truth

00:53:44.840 on your

00:53:45.500 terms rather

00:53:46.960 than on

00:53:47.360 God's

00:53:47.680 terms,

00:53:48.640 because you

00:53:49.680 want to

00:53:50.280 increase your

00:53:51.000 personal agency,

00:53:52.340 because you

00:53:53.100 want to

00:53:53.540 become like

00:53:54.040 a God

00:53:54.340 yourself rather

00:53:56.200 than submit

00:53:57.660 your will

00:53:58.240 and your

00:53:58.660 reason to

00:53:59.380 God who

00:54:00.360 is both

00:54:01.040 omnipotent and

00:54:02.040 omniscient.

00:54:03.460 That's why.

00:54:04.160 It's just a

00:54:05.060 reiteration of

00:54:06.080 the original

00:54:06.560 sin in the

00:54:07.040 Garden of Eden.

00:54:09.040 Adam and

00:54:09.400 Eve had

00:54:10.140 everything and

00:54:10.720 they were

00:54:10.920 walking with

00:54:11.460 God and it

00:54:12.080 was awesome,

00:54:13.380 but they

00:54:13.640 wanted paradise

00:54:16.380 on their own

00:54:17.040 terms.

00:54:18.020 And when you

00:54:18.340 try to make

00:54:18.700 paradise on your

00:54:19.220 own terms,

00:54:19.720 it turns into

00:54:20.100 hell.

00:54:20.280 Have I made

00:54:22.760 my point clear?

00:54:23.560 Don't do

00:54:23.900 drugs and

00:54:24.340 talk to

00:54:24.620 demons.

00:54:25.460 This should

00:54:25.820 go without

00:54:26.220 saying, but

00:54:26.760 we're in a

00:54:27.060 very confused

00:54:27.520 age.

00:54:28.600 Today is

00:54:30.100 work from

00:54:30.460 home Wednesday.

00:54:31.120 I signed

00:54:31.660 it over

00:54:32.180 recent days.

00:54:33.020 I know I

00:54:33.280 sometimes forget

00:54:33.900 to do the

00:54:34.260 essay, but

00:54:34.560 it's very

00:54:35.220 exciting.

00:54:35.560 We're talking

00:54:35.920 about George

00:54:36.480 Orwell's

00:54:36.940 essay,

00:54:37.280 Politics in

00:54:37.820 the English

00:54:38.100 Language.

00:54:38.640 Really

00:54:38.960 important

00:54:39.380 essay for

00:54:39.880 us to

00:54:40.080 read for

00:54:40.760 our writing,

00:54:41.320 for our

00:54:41.540 thinking,

00:54:41.920 especially

00:54:42.180 for our

00:54:42.460 politics.

00:54:42.920 The rest

00:54:43.100 of the

00:54:43.300 show

00:54:43.400 continues

00:54:43.760 now.

00:54:44.000 You

00:54:44.040 don't

00:54:44.140 want to

00:54:44.320 miss it.

00:54:44.540 Become a

00:54:44.800 member,

00:54:45.000 use

00:54:45.060 code

00:54:45.180 NOLSKANAWLAS

00:54:45.920 to check

00:54:46.200 out for

00:54:46.700 two months

00:54:46.960 free on

00:54:47.220 all annual

00:54:47.640 plans.

00:54:48.040 Tomorrow,

00:55:05.240 we make

00:55:06.800 war.

00:55:10.100 I think

00:55:10.940 it's a

00:55:11.280 desperate plan

00:55:12.020 and foolish.

00:55:15.760 I would

00:55:16.600 save my

00:55:17.180 people from

00:55:17.660 destruction.

00:55:19.040 So should

00:55:19.600 you.

00:55:20.580 This new

00:55:21.060 faith is

00:55:21.720 glad of

00:55:22.060 his judgment.

00:55:23.000 He's

00:55:23.220 waiting on

00:55:23.760 a miracle.

00:55:24.540 And why

00:55:24.960 do you

00:55:25.220 tell me

00:55:25.540 this?

00:55:26.480 Because I

00:55:26.940 think you

00:55:27.420 can give

00:55:27.860 him one.

00:55:29.140 If I

00:55:29.320 lead you

00:55:29.660 into

00:55:29.840 victory,

00:55:30.400 Uther,

00:55:31.060 the men

00:55:31.380 of Britain

00:55:31.760 will

00:55:31.980 proclaim

00:55:32.320 me

00:55:32.760 king.

00:55:34.080 He

00:55:34.300 seeks

00:55:34.580 our

00:55:34.800 deliverance

00:55:35.340 from

00:55:35.540 God

00:55:36.040 when he

00:55:36.740 could

00:55:36.860 so

00:55:37.120 easily

00:55:37.420 just

00:55:37.680 give

00:55:37.960 it

00:55:38.100 to

00:55:38.280 us

00:55:38.560 with

00:55:39.220 his

00:55:39.360 own

00:55:39.580 hands.

00:55:40.720 Not

00:55:40.880 long ago

00:55:41.360 you

00:55:41.540 offered

00:55:41.800 me

00:55:41.980 the

00:55:42.160 Fisher

00:55:42.360 King

00:55:42.580 sword.

00:55:43.460 I

00:55:43.580 have

00:55:43.700 always

00:55:43.900 believed

00:55:44.260 you

00:55:44.420 were

00:55:44.560 meant

00:55:44.740 to

00:55:44.860 be

00:55:45.000 hiking.

00:55:46.660 How

00:55:46.860 many lives

00:55:47.440 must

00:55:47.680 be

00:55:47.840 lost

00:55:48.100 before

00:55:48.400 you

00:55:48.660 accept

00:55:49.100 the

00:55:49.320 power

00:55:49.720 you

00:55:50.260 were

00:55:50.420 born

00:55:50.780 to

00:55:51.060 wield?

00:55:51.920 For

00:55:52.160 Britain!

00:56:01.260 How

00:56:01.580 are we

00:56:01.940 to

00:56:02.120 drive

00:56:02.680 out

00:56:03.060 15,000

00:56:04.920 Saxon

00:56:05.640 with

00:56:06.340 only

00:56:06.560 two

00:56:06.800 and

00:56:06.920 a

00:56:07.020 half

00:56:07.220 thousand

00:56:07.560 men?

00:56:13.300 Today

00:56:13.820 Britain

00:56:16.340 dies!

00:56:19.820 Yaser!

00:56:22.360 The Pendragon

00:56:23.080 Cycle.

00:56:24.000 Rise of the Merlin.

00:56:25.220 Now streaming.

00:56:26.380 Only on

00:56:26.880 Daily Wire Plus.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 04, 2026

Ep. 1924 - Upsets That ROCKED The First Round of Midterm Primaries Explained

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