The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1926 - Kristi Noem Is Out At DHS

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00:00:45.420 Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security

00:00:47.860 after a bruising House Oversight Committee grilling

00:00:50.460 focused on sex, money, and occasionally deportations.

00:00:54.660 Noem's departure is the first cabinet firing

00:00:57.800 of the second Trump term,

00:00:58.900 which has been going extraordinarily well.

00:01:02.060 Though, there is another warning sign on the horizon.

00:01:05.080 All of the information out of Iran thus far

00:01:07.420 points to quick and easy victory.

00:01:10.160 But one sign appeared yesterday

00:01:11.940 that suggests we might be on the brink

00:01:14.220 of the apocalypse.

00:01:16.140 We'll get into it.

00:01:16.780 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:17.500 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:36.980 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:38.520 Are we about to take Cuba?

00:01:40.600 President Trump keeps talking about it.

00:01:42.660 You know, the first time you might say,

00:01:43.660 well, it's a joke.

00:01:44.680 Second time, maybe it's still a joke.

00:01:46.520 You know, the thing about jokes is

00:01:47.800 they often have an element of truth to them.

00:01:50.820 Are we going to take Cuba?

00:01:51.920 Are we going to get some new blends from Mayflower?

00:01:53.760 We'll get to all of that in a moment.

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00:03:09.380 Very, very excited today

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00:03:13.500 I've been trying out for a while

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00:03:22.440 and say,

00:03:22.740 I want to bring back Friend Friday.

00:03:26.180 Where we just bring someone on

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00:03:31.040 on some story.

00:03:31.580 Go through some of the bigger stories

00:03:32.740 because everything that we are getting

00:03:35.760 out of the military,

00:03:36.860 out of CENTCOM,

00:03:37.700 out of the White House,

00:03:38.640 out of reports from the Middle East,

00:03:40.100 suggests that the Iran war

00:03:41.620 is going quite well.

00:03:43.860 Day one,

00:03:45.120 obviously,

00:03:45.600 the U.S. and Israeli forces

00:03:47.740 took out the supreme leader of Iran.

00:03:50.100 Then we keep taking out

00:03:51.280 all of their subsequent leaders.

00:03:53.480 Very, very impressive.

00:03:55.580 Then you've got the Kurdish forces

00:03:57.740 coming in.

00:03:58.800 We're sinking the Iranian military, 1.00

00:04:00.880 the Navy.

00:04:01.680 We'll get to all of it.

00:04:03.440 We just got our first

00:04:04.300 really, really scary warning sign.

00:04:09.060 The warning sign came

00:04:10.760 by way of CNBC's Jim Cramer.

00:04:13.140 Before I pull him up,

00:04:13.920 I want to welcome our guest,

00:04:16.420 Texas Congressman Brandon Gill.

00:04:18.560 Congressman Gill,

00:04:19.360 thank you for being on the show.

00:04:21.440 Yeah, thanks for having me.

00:04:22.740 So I just,

00:04:24.000 I have to get your take on this

00:04:25.120 right off the top.

00:04:26.480 Here we have Jim Cramer

00:04:29.000 making a very, very scary prediction.

00:04:32.300 The oil market always seems

00:04:34.500 to know everything.

00:04:35.840 I've seen it time and time again.

00:04:38.160 We saw the same story play out today,

00:04:39.780 and it was very good

00:04:40.760 for the stock market.

00:04:41.520 Dow Jones gaining 238 points.

00:04:43.920 S&P climbing 0.78%.

00:04:47.360 And the Nasdaq falling 1.29%.

00:04:50.960 Because oil was,

00:04:52.900 at last,

00:04:53.580 thank heavens,

00:04:55.340 chill.

00:04:56.000 We all read the stories

00:04:56.880 about how the genius Iranians

00:04:58.040 were playing the long game

00:04:59.520 with the barrage just beginning,

00:05:00.920 accelerating each day

00:05:01.880 as we ran out of ammo.

00:05:03.300 Now it looks like

00:05:04.000 the first big day

00:05:04.700 of drone and missile activity

00:05:05.720 may be the last big day

00:05:06.840 of drone and missile activity.

00:05:08.220 Maybe it's the decapitation

00:05:09.520 of the Iranian military, 0.88

00:05:10.780 or we've taken out

00:05:11.820 enough of their hardware.

00:05:13.020 But there seems to be

00:05:13.720 a lessening of the endless

00:05:14.660 wave of projectiles.

00:05:16.080 More important,

00:05:16.680 like the start of the war in 1991,

00:05:18.520 the oil stocks were for sale.

00:05:20.120 And those declines told you

00:05:22.120 maybe everything was going to be,

00:05:24.800 yeah, fine.

00:05:26.260 Sure, the oil stocks could be wrong,

00:05:27.640 right?

00:05:28.160 But right now,

00:05:29.080 they're saying that the Gulf

00:05:30.060 will be reopened,

00:05:31.340 the U.S. will protect the ships,

00:05:32.680 and the price of crude

00:05:33.780 has seen its peak.

00:05:35.140 You don't get Exxon,

00:05:36.120 Conoco, and Halbert

00:05:36.920 and all down 1% or 2%

00:05:38.140 if the Straits and Vermeers

00:05:38.940 will be really closed

00:05:40.200 for a long period of time.

00:05:41.300 It doesn't work like that.

00:05:43.240 Brandon, Jim Cramer is saying

00:05:44.700 that the war in Iran

00:05:45.600 is almost over

00:05:46.460 and everything's going to be fine.

00:05:47.760 Are we on the brink

00:05:48.580 of nuclear war?

00:05:50.800 Well, you know,

00:05:51.320 the two best stock indexes

00:05:52.740 to look at,

00:05:53.420 if you want trading advice,

00:05:54.720 or the Nancy Pelosi stock index

00:05:56.460 and the inverse Cramer,

00:05:57.680 those tend to be the best.

00:06:00.240 If you want the biggest

00:06:01.480 and the quickest returns,

00:06:03.300 but I think he may be right here.

00:06:05.040 You know,

00:06:05.600 what the president's done,

00:06:07.340 and I think this is where

00:06:08.240 American foreign policy should be,

00:06:10.540 is identify a key strategic

00:06:12.400 geopolitical interest

00:06:13.640 and pursue it aggressively

00:06:15.040 with overwhelming force

00:06:16.680 to create a short conflict

00:06:18.560 that achieves their objective

00:06:19.900 and then get out.

00:06:21.220 And it seems like

00:06:21.840 that's sort of the direction

00:06:23.180 the president has moved

00:06:24.260 our foreign policy to.

00:06:25.600 To your point,

00:06:26.100 it looks like things

00:06:26.720 are cleaning themselves up

00:06:27.880 in Venezuela.

00:06:28.860 Things are looking

00:06:29.580 very, very good in Iran.

00:06:31.480 And we'll see what happens

00:06:32.400 in Cuba.

00:06:33.040 But, you know,

00:06:34.000 this is a president

00:06:34.820 that's returning

00:06:35.580 foreign policy

00:06:37.240 to, I think,

00:06:37.980 what is a classically realist,

00:06:40.460 to its classically realist roots,

00:06:42.140 which is what the American people

00:06:43.180 have wanted for so long.

00:06:44.600 There's some people

00:06:45.620 in the GOP

00:06:46.740 who say this is a betrayal

00:06:48.160 of what Trump campaigned on.

00:06:49.980 And, you know,

00:06:50.420 they didn't vote for this.

00:06:51.400 And this isn't America first.

00:06:52.860 And this is just Bush 2.0.

00:06:55.460 And I understand

00:06:57.300 why some people

00:06:58.560 have come to that conclusion.

00:07:00.340 I keep reminding them

00:07:01.780 that Trump campaigned

00:07:03.040 on exactly this.

00:07:04.740 I think the number

00:07:05.440 is 74 times

00:07:06.840 he talked about

00:07:07.800 potentially going to war

00:07:08.620 with Iran

00:07:09.020 over the last 10 years,

00:07:10.300 including quite recently.

00:07:11.600 And, you know,

00:07:12.460 I keep pointing out

00:07:13.180 this is very much

00:07:13.860 within the national security strategy

00:07:15.400 that President Trump

00:07:16.340 released in November.

00:07:18.080 And anyway,

00:07:18.960 I think that you would

00:07:20.640 have to be ignoring

00:07:21.480 a lot of what Trump

00:07:22.440 said and campaigned on

00:07:24.040 for 10 years

00:07:24.560 and even the way

00:07:25.600 he governed

00:07:26.180 in order to be

00:07:27.200 really surprised by this.

00:07:28.340 But for the people

00:07:29.560 who fear

00:07:30.660 that this is,

00:07:31.600 look,

00:07:32.220 another preemptive war

00:07:33.500 predicated in part

00:07:34.500 on the threat

00:07:35.060 of weapons of mass destruction

00:07:36.200 in the Middle East,

00:07:37.500 in a country

00:07:38.180 that starts with IRA,

00:07:40.480 you know,

00:07:40.740 you got three quarters

00:07:41.500 of the same letters there.

00:07:42.800 How do you

00:07:43.520 assuage people's fears

00:07:44.480 that this is

00:07:45.240 Iraq 2.0? 0.65

00:07:47.880 Well, I think,

00:07:48.680 first of all,

00:07:49.820 you know,

00:07:50.060 you're right.

00:07:50.760 The president

00:07:51.120 has been consistent on this.

00:07:52.780 He's been very clear

00:07:53.540 that Iran 0.91

00:07:54.700 having nuclear weapons,

00:07:56.380 for instance,

00:07:56.800 is not tolerable

00:07:57.800 for the U.S.

00:07:58.340 We took out

00:07:58.860 their nuclear program.

00:07:59.900 We know that they

00:08:00.440 didn't change

00:08:01.180 their policy

00:08:01.960 of wanting

00:08:02.400 to pursue

00:08:03.020 a nuclear program,

00:08:04.240 which is part

00:08:04.920 of the reason

00:08:05.420 for the current conflict.

00:08:06.620 But secondly,

00:08:07.600 the United States

00:08:08.220 has a real

00:08:09.300 geopolitical interest

00:08:10.380 in regional stability

00:08:11.540 in the Middle East.

00:08:12.900 You know,

00:08:13.120 whenever the United States

00:08:14.440 is the world's

00:08:15.620 preeminent superpower,

00:08:16.920 we do have an interest

00:08:17.780 in regional stability

00:08:18.660 across the globe.

00:08:20.380 And what we found

00:08:21.620 and what we know

00:08:22.160 is that Iran

00:08:23.180 has been arming

00:08:24.100 ballistic missiles

00:08:25.380 incredibly rapidly,

00:08:26.720 far outpacing

00:08:27.840 the ability

00:08:28.460 for some of our allies

00:08:29.480 in the region

00:08:30.200 to take those out.

00:08:32.340 And that difference

00:08:33.340 in force

00:08:34.120 got to a point

00:08:34.800 that we believed

00:08:35.560 was intolerable.

00:08:36.580 So the president

00:08:37.140 came in

00:08:37.780 with our allies,

00:08:39.760 struck Iran, 1.00

00:08:40.540 did it rapidly.

00:08:41.480 And I think that

00:08:41.920 we're going to get out

00:08:42.560 quickly.

00:08:43.340 You know,

00:08:43.460 Iran has a very 1.00

00:08:44.180 different history

00:08:44.920 than Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:08:47.680 You know,

00:08:47.840 Iraq and Afghanistan

00:08:48.620 are countries

00:08:49.220 that were

00:08:49.900 completely backwards.

00:08:52.000 They may have

00:08:52.600 similar names,

00:08:53.480 as you pointed out,

00:08:54.520 but they have

00:08:54.940 very different histories.

00:08:56.620 Iran has a much bigger, 0.96

00:08:58.580 much longer history

00:08:59.740 that is a bit more

00:09:01.120 westernized,

00:09:02.020 you might say,

00:09:02.840 than Afghanistan,

00:09:04.040 for instance,

00:09:04.580 which is incredibly tribal,

00:09:05.980 has no history whatsoever

00:09:07.480 of self-government.

00:09:08.160 I think the planet Mars

00:09:09.620 is probably more westernized

00:09:11.200 than Afghanistan.

00:09:12.300 You know,

00:09:12.860 this is,

00:09:13.780 I totally agree

00:09:15.100 with your point.

00:09:16.120 You can't just lump

00:09:17.360 all of the countries

00:09:18.160 in the Middle East

00:09:18.960 together.

00:09:20.180 And so,

00:09:21.100 it's different,

00:09:22.460 and even to the point

00:09:23.780 that the Iranian regime

00:09:25.000 appears to be

00:09:26.140 trying to negotiate.

00:09:27.520 President Trump

00:09:28.100 had this to say yesterday.

00:09:29.920 We're destroying

00:09:30.920 more of Iran's missiles

00:09:32.340 and drone capability

00:09:33.920 every single hour,

00:09:36.460 knocking them out

00:09:37.200 like nobody thought

00:09:38.760 was possible.

00:09:40.100 As soon as they set off

00:09:41.440 a missile within

00:09:42.320 four minutes,

00:09:43.960 the launcher gets hit.

00:09:46.600 They don't know

00:09:47.020 what's happening.

00:09:48.560 But we have

00:09:48.980 the greatest military

00:09:50.060 anywhere in the world.

00:09:51.780 their Navy is gone.

00:09:53.540 Twenty-four ships

00:09:54.440 in three days.

00:09:56.100 That's a lot of ships. 0.98

00:09:58.440 Their anti-aircraft

00:10:01.480 weapons are gone.

00:10:03.880 So they have no air force.

00:10:05.640 They have no air defense.

00:10:07.320 All of their airplanes

00:10:08.600 are gone.

00:10:10.160 Their communications

00:10:11.140 are gone.

00:10:13.480 Missiles are gone.

00:10:14.900 Launches are gone.

00:10:16.160 About 60 percent

00:10:17.580 and 64 percent,

00:10:19.040 respectively.

00:10:19.580 Other than that,

00:10:21.620 they're doing quite well.

00:10:23.740 I said, what's left?

00:10:25.760 But they're tough

00:10:26.720 and they want to fight.

00:10:29.100 And they're calling.

00:10:30.520 They're saying,

00:10:31.000 how do we make a deal?

00:10:32.080 I said, you're being

00:10:32.680 a little bit late.

00:10:34.520 And we want to fight

00:10:35.920 now more than they do.

00:10:37.140 So two possibilities here.

00:10:40.400 I love to,

00:10:41.400 you just can't stop

00:10:42.120 throwing shade

00:10:42.740 even as he's talking

00:10:43.460 about sinking

00:10:44.200 the Iranian military.

00:10:45.520 So there are two possibilities.

00:10:47.580 One is,

00:10:48.720 you come from without, 0.53

00:10:49.860 you install the Shah, 0.97

00:10:51.280 say,

00:10:51.580 the Crown Prince,

00:10:52.480 Reza Pahlavi,

00:10:53.300 or some other

00:10:54.440 kind of totally new regime

00:10:55.720 in Iran.

00:10:56.340 Or there's the Venezuela model,

00:10:58.320 which is, 0.99

00:10:59.180 you kill the Ayatollah, 1.00

00:11:00.380 maybe you kill 1.00

00:11:01.100 a couple of Ayatollahs 1.00

00:11:02.280 beneath him.

00:11:03.160 But then,

00:11:03.920 when the Iranians 0.96

00:11:04.880 keep calling to negotiate,

00:11:06.400 eventually you take the call

00:11:07.700 and say,

00:11:08.400 okay, look,

00:11:09.080 we're going to leave

00:11:09.700 some version of this regime

00:11:10.880 in place,

00:11:11.640 the IRGC,

00:11:12.820 maybe some Islamic guy,

00:11:15.100 but you're going to work with us.

00:11:16.380 And if you don't work with us, 1.00

00:11:17.260 we're going to kill you, 1.00

00:11:18.120 just like we threatened 0.99

00:11:19.020 to Delce Rodriguez

00:11:19.980 in Venezuela.

00:11:20.760 Do you have a sense

00:11:21.780 of which of those two

00:11:23.160 is the most likely outcome here?

00:11:25.680 You know,

00:11:26.220 it's tough to say right now

00:11:27.660 because it's so early

00:11:28.860 in the process.

00:11:29.820 There's a lot of things

00:11:30.860 that have to play out politically,

00:11:32.180 both in Iran

00:11:33.360 and militarily

00:11:34.860 with this conflict.

00:11:36.760 But what I will say is,

00:11:37.760 going back to your original point,

00:11:39.100 is that Iran does have

00:11:40.160 a recent history

00:11:41.520 of democratic movements.

00:11:43.460 You have a large population there

00:11:45.500 that has been pushing

00:11:46.560 for democratic self-governance

00:11:48.580 and are ready for it,

00:11:49.660 are ready to start voting

00:11:50.700 in real elections.

00:11:52.540 And most of them

00:11:53.540 are fairly pro-Western.

00:11:55.840 I mean,

00:11:56.040 they're pro-American.

00:11:57.240 And these are people

00:11:57.740 who I think would be,

00:11:58.960 have a much higher likelihood

00:12:01.060 of being allies

00:12:02.660 with the United States.

00:12:03.740 So we'll see where that goes.

00:12:04.780 It's still really early.

00:12:06.060 But I think

00:12:06.940 the point is that

00:12:08.220 you have a president

00:12:08.860 who's going to key,

00:12:09.940 who's going to pursue

00:12:10.740 key American strategic interests

00:12:12.640 in the recent region.

00:12:13.740 And it isn't going

00:12:14.580 to turn this into a,

00:12:15.860 you know,

00:12:16.580 UN white paper exercise

00:12:18.560 that we're playing

00:12:20.020 for real now.

00:12:21.500 Yeah,

00:12:21.840 yeah,

00:12:22.180 I agree.

00:12:23.360 And even on his timeline,

00:12:25.360 you're looking at

00:12:25.920 four or five weeks.

00:12:26.780 So at day seven

00:12:28.820 to say this is exactly

00:12:30.220 how everything's going

00:12:31.100 to play out,

00:12:32.020 not only would that be

00:12:33.740 irresponsible,

00:12:35.680 but I think it also just,

00:12:37.920 it would undercut

00:12:38.940 the entire messaging

00:12:39.760 of the administration.

00:12:40.900 You know,

00:12:41.360 Venezuela can occur

00:12:42.980 over the course

00:12:43.560 of 88 minutes.

00:12:45.080 Iran is a different country 1.00

00:12:46.160 from Venezuela.

00:12:47.320 And so when people

00:12:48.280 are freaking out over this,

00:12:50.180 this message

00:12:51.160 that Trump was signaling,

00:12:52.400 not just for months,

00:12:53.220 but really for years,

00:12:54.720 for the better part

00:12:55.200 of a decade,

00:12:56.220 I just think,

00:12:56.920 guys,

00:12:58.040 he told you

00:12:59.020 it was going to be

00:12:59.880 five weeks.

00:13:01.480 I'm going to start

00:13:02.020 panicking at week six

00:13:03.320 or seven.

00:13:04.080 It's not going to be

00:13:04.940 day six or seven.

00:13:06.740 So far,

00:13:07.580 Trump is achieving

00:13:08.300 his objectives,

00:13:09.520 including his grand

00:13:10.780 strategic objectives,

00:13:12.040 namely to consolidate

00:13:13.520 the allegiance

00:13:14.980 of the Gulf states

00:13:16.000 and Israel

00:13:16.700 against Iran,

00:13:17.680 which is something

00:13:18.040 he was trying to set up

00:13:18.740 in the first term.

00:13:19.720 Trump here,

00:13:21.080 to give a little hint,

00:13:22.100 I think,

00:13:22.740 of his idea

00:13:24.540 for the next phase

00:13:25.420 of the Iranian regime.

00:13:26.540 He does point out

00:13:27.360 that he's not going to

00:13:28.540 exactly disband

00:13:30.160 the Iranian Revolutionary

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00:13:32.980 And I'm once again

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00:13:38.940 to lay down

00:13:39.720 their arms.

00:13:40.800 They're only going 0.99

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00:13:42.880 And now is the time 1.00

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00:13:48.380 have a chance

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00:13:51.980 your country.

00:13:52.920 Accept immunity.

00:13:53.720 We'll give you immunity.

00:13:55.420 And we'll be

00:13:56.480 giving you really

00:13:58.580 the right side of history

00:13:59.680 because that's what it is.

00:14:01.220 So you'll be

00:14:02.340 perfectly safe

00:14:04.600 with total immunity

00:14:05.940 or you'll face

00:14:06.920 absolutely guaranteed death.

00:14:09.400 And I don't want

00:14:10.020 to see that.

00:14:11.140 They don't want

00:14:11.740 to see it either.

00:14:13.120 We also urge

00:14:13.960 Iranian diplomats

00:14:15.300 around the world

00:14:16.020 to request asylum

00:14:17.180 and to help us

00:14:18.000 shape a new

00:14:19.100 and better Iran.

00:14:21.560 So even the way

00:14:22.060 he's speaking here,

00:14:22.920 you know,

00:14:23.700 look,

00:14:24.040 we're going to be

00:14:24.800 we'll give you immunity.

00:14:26.400 We'll just lay down

00:14:27.440 your weapons right now.

00:14:28.660 You're in the IRGC.

00:14:30.120 You're a police.

00:14:30.900 You remember the police?

00:14:31.800 Just lay down your weapons.

00:14:33.380 Don't worry.

00:14:33.960 We'll work it out.

00:14:34.740 Clearly,

00:14:35.000 Trump learned the lesson

00:14:36.060 that came from

00:14:37.220 debathification in Iraq.

00:14:39.080 So anyway,

00:14:39.680 I still feel

00:14:40.100 kind of good about this.

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00:16:53.960 Brandon,

00:16:57.000 James Tallarico.

00:16:58.520 I can't look away.

00:17:00.680 It's like a car accident.

00:17:02.420 I know I shouldn't play

00:17:03.920 all these clips right now.

00:17:04.900 I know we should hold them

00:17:05.860 until closer to the election.

00:17:07.880 Here is James Tallarico.

00:17:09.220 We've already covered.

00:17:10.340 He says God is non-binary.

00:17:12.400 James Tallarico,

00:17:13.480 he says that women

00:17:14.220 need to become men 0.55

00:17:15.640 in order to go to heaven. 0.97

00:17:16.780 They need to go trans 1.00

00:17:17.560 to go to heaven.

00:17:18.500 He was quoting

00:17:19.020 the heretical Gnostic

00:17:20.120 Gospel of St. Thomas.

00:17:22.000 Well, here's one.

00:17:22.740 James Tallarico

00:17:24.160 explaining why we need

00:17:25.660 to get rid of all prisons.

00:17:28.300 Poverty is violence.

00:17:31.040 Pollution is violence.

00:17:32.780 And yes, prison is violence.

00:17:35.560 Dismantle this system of violence.

00:17:37.580 Build something new,

00:17:38.880 something better,

00:17:40.340 something rooted in love.

00:17:42.960 It's hard to imagine

00:17:43.920 a world without prisons,

00:17:45.020 but it's also hard to imagine

00:17:46.400 a world without telegrams

00:17:48.020 and cassette tapes.

00:17:49.640 Just because it's hard

00:17:51.140 to imagine

00:17:52.000 doesn't mean you shouldn't.

00:17:54.360 You know, I mean,

00:17:55.320 when you think about it, man,

00:17:57.100 hey, hold on.

00:17:59.780 Poverty is violence.

00:18:01.640 Lamps are violence.

00:18:04.060 Microphones are violence.

00:18:04.980 You know, man,

00:18:05.980 and it's hard.

00:18:06.800 I know, but look,

00:18:08.760 prisons, we say it's

00:18:10.280 to put the criminals away.

00:18:11.560 But imagine all the people

00:18:13.800 living for today.

00:18:15.520 You who?

00:18:15.800 This guy.

00:18:18.540 One, I'm being told

00:18:19.980 by all the political geniuses

00:18:21.360 that he's a really,

00:18:22.540 really good candidate.

00:18:23.520 And I think the only reason

00:18:24.420 they say that

00:18:25.000 is because he's a relatively

00:18:26.700 hygienic white guy.

00:18:28.000 I think I actually think

00:18:28.820 that's all they mean by it.

00:18:30.100 I don't really get the take

00:18:32.420 that he's a great candidate.

00:18:33.360 They said this about

00:18:34.060 Beto O'Rourke,

00:18:35.020 another white lib Texan.

00:18:36.640 They say about all these guys.

00:18:37.860 And I don't know.

00:18:39.080 To me, he seems

00:18:39.960 like a bad candidate.

00:18:41.460 Am I wrong?

00:18:44.840 No, of course not.

00:18:46.160 You know, my favorite part

00:18:47.100 about this is that

00:18:48.080 we were all,

00:18:48.840 all Republicans were worried

00:18:50.380 about Jasmine Crockett.

00:18:51.560 We were talking about 0.50

00:18:52.160 how crazy she was. 0.90

00:18:53.400 And we just kind of

00:18:54.020 ignored Tallarico.

00:18:55.660 And then the second

00:18:56.420 he gets the nomination

00:18:57.620 and beats Jasmine Crockett,

00:18:59.500 we just unleashed this deluge

00:19:01.440 of opposition on him.

00:19:03.320 You know, he's got

00:19:04.560 a more extensive track record

00:19:06.340 of saying, you know, 1.00

00:19:07.540 every idiotic left-wing 1.00

00:19:09.420 woke aphorism 1.00

00:19:10.440 that was popular

00:19:11.600 in the early 2020s

00:19:14.160 than probably anybody

00:19:15.460 on the Democrat side.

00:19:17.240 You know, talking about

00:19:18.100 how, you know, 0.98

00:19:19.280 transgenders need abortions. 1.00

00:19:21.460 As you said, 0.99

00:19:22.260 God is non-binary. 0.95

00:19:24.380 I mean, this stuff

00:19:25.160 is so far out there.

00:19:27.260 But, you know,

00:19:28.640 there was a time

00:19:29.420 whenever this stuff

00:19:30.160 was popular on the left.

00:19:31.900 Whenever every leftist

00:19:33.100 who was trying to

00:19:33.780 work their way up

00:19:34.700 in academia

00:19:35.460 or in the media

00:19:36.320 or in, you know,

00:19:36.980 the storied,

00:19:38.160 respectable left-wing institutions

00:19:39.900 would regurgitate 0.96

00:19:40.880 this kind of nonsense. 0.96

00:19:42.640 And the left embraced it. 0.63

00:19:44.600 And now, you know,

00:19:45.680 post-2024,

00:19:46.880 post the last election cycle,

00:19:48.380 and the American people

00:19:49.200 are just so sick 0.97

00:19:50.100 of this kind of nonsense, 0.70

00:19:51.800 they're trying to move away from it.

00:19:53.620 But we've got

00:19:54.140 so much material on this.

00:19:56.260 You know,

00:19:56.420 anybody who says this stuff,

00:19:58.140 even whether it's popular,

00:19:59.560 whether it's not,

00:20:00.680 you know,

00:20:00.960 obviously has no business

00:20:02.440 being in any elected office,

00:20:04.400 much less the U.S. Senate.

00:20:05.600 So, you know,

00:20:06.640 the Democrats talk about

00:20:08.080 they're going to flip Texas blue

00:20:09.940 every single cycle.

00:20:11.200 They've got some new,

00:20:12.320 you know,

00:20:13.040 pseudo up-and-coming

00:20:14.020 rising star

00:20:16.040 that they crown.

00:20:17.700 And then the American people

00:20:18.680 realize who this up-and-comer are

00:20:20.240 and reject them handily.

00:20:22.260 I've been saying now

00:20:23.600 for at least a couple of days

00:20:25.560 since this deluge

00:20:26.740 of oppo came out,

00:20:28.480 I said,

00:20:28.820 guys, hold on.

00:20:29.720 We got to hold

00:20:30.340 some clips for November.

00:20:31.740 However, seriously,

00:20:32.840 there is a reason

00:20:33.760 to drop a lot of these clips now.

00:20:35.900 Namely,

00:20:37.100 you want to signal

00:20:38.220 to the Democrats

00:20:38.940 that this guy

00:20:40.020 is not a good bet

00:20:41.040 because you don't want

00:20:42.380 this guy to be able

00:20:43.020 to raise a lot of money

00:20:44.080 because if he raises

00:20:45.580 a lot of money,

00:20:46.300 we can still probably beat him,

00:20:47.780 but then we're going to have

00:20:48.580 to raise a lot of money.

00:20:49.680 And so there actually is

00:20:51.360 a strategic tactical reason

00:20:53.040 to get some of these clips

00:20:54.660 out there now,

00:20:55.440 but it seems like

00:20:56.440 there's no end to them.

00:20:57.580 I mean,

00:20:57.780 in a way,

00:20:58.080 I think we could maybe

00:20:58.740 release a new one

00:20:59.520 every single day

00:21:00.260 until the election,

00:21:01.300 maybe until the 2028

00:21:02.840 presidential election.

00:21:03.760 And we'd still

00:21:04.600 probably be okay.

00:21:05.860 You're right.

00:21:06.520 You said it very,

00:21:07.260 very well.

00:21:07.880 This guy embraced

00:21:09.320 every single woke idiom,

00:21:13.200 turn of phrase,

00:21:14.560 ideological objective

00:21:15.920 for years.

00:21:17.480 And now he's going to try

00:21:18.880 to run away from that.

00:21:20.260 The other guy

00:21:21.180 who did that,

00:21:22.040 who's really making

00:21:23.140 an overt effort

00:21:24.280 to reshape his image

00:21:25.660 is Buttigieg.

00:21:27.800 Some people have called,

00:21:29.200 you don't need to react to this.

00:21:30.260 I know you're

00:21:30.540 in elected office.

00:21:31.160 You don't need to react to this.

00:21:32.280 Some have called

00:21:33.040 James Tallarico

00:21:33.840 the gay Pete Buttigieg.

00:21:35.040 Now,

00:21:35.240 I would never say

00:21:36.000 anything so offensive,

00:21:37.440 but some have said that

00:21:38.460 on the internet.

00:21:39.480 Pete Buttigieg

00:21:40.080 was this guy.

00:21:42.000 He was the clean cut

00:21:43.280 white guy who,

00:21:44.640 you know,

00:21:44.920 he just talks

00:21:45.640 in a kind of a moderate way.

00:21:46.920 And,

00:21:47.300 you know,

00:21:47.500 he wears a sensible

00:21:48.320 Oxford button down shirt

00:21:49.740 and he just,

00:21:50.540 you know,

00:21:50.680 wants us all to get together,

00:21:51.740 folks,

00:21:51.980 don't you think?

00:21:52.680 But,

00:21:52.840 but he would embrace

00:21:53.720 beneath that facade

00:21:55.420 the most radical aspects

00:21:57.520 of wokeness

00:21:58.320 and liberalism.

00:21:59.480 And now that that's

00:22:01.100 out of favor,

00:22:02.400 you get the Atlantic.

00:22:03.680 Pete Buttigieg

00:22:04.180 in the wilderness.

00:22:05.160 He has a beard,

00:22:05.900 a splitting mall

00:22:06.640 and a house in Michigan.

00:22:07.920 Is that enough

00:22:08.660 to convince America

00:22:09.580 that he's a man of the people?

00:22:11.120 And it's Pete

00:22:11.940 doing his best,

00:22:13.040 white knuckling his way

00:22:13.940 through sitting at a diner.

00:22:15.340 Probably the first time

00:22:16.020 the guy's ever walked

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00:22:19.220 One,

00:22:19.960 can he do it?

00:22:21.180 Can Buttigieg

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00:22:24.320 a third act?

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00:24:05.800 Pete Buttigieg,

00:24:06.740 is there any shot

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00:24:08.460 or are the Buttigiegs

00:24:09.700 and the Tallaricos

00:24:10.460 and the Betos

00:24:11.340 headed for the dustbin

00:24:12.820 of history?

00:24:14.560 They're done.

00:24:15.580 You know,

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00:24:18.980 for people who actually

00:24:20.660 are who they say they are,

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00:24:25.820 these guys who,

00:24:26.580 you know,

00:24:27.200 change drastically,

00:24:28.860 do 180 degrees

00:24:30.060 in the course of four years,

00:24:32.320 I mean,

00:24:32.640 everybody can see through that.

00:24:34.640 And I think that

00:24:35.440 it reveals

00:24:36.220 sort of a darker reality

00:24:37.640 about whether it's

00:24:38.380 Buttigieg or Tallarico.

00:24:40.600 I mean,

00:24:40.760 Tallarico is somebody

00:24:41.820 who,

00:24:42.740 you know,

00:24:43.460 you can think of

00:24:44.260 on a more serious note.

00:24:46.500 If Beelzebub 0.63

00:24:47.660 was a politician,

00:24:49.040 he would talk about

00:24:50.360 politics

00:24:51.180 and about Christ

00:24:52.200 and about abortion

00:24:53.020 the same way

00:24:53.720 Tallarico does.

00:24:55.200 I mean,

00:24:55.360 these people are people

00:24:56.360 who adhere to truly 0.90

00:24:57.760 evil satanic ideologies.

00:25:00.340 I mean,

00:25:00.460 this is somebody

00:25:00.900 who talked about

00:25:01.700 the enunciation

00:25:02.960 as evidence

00:25:03.940 that God is pro-abortion. 0.92

00:25:05.840 I mean,

00:25:05.980 this is unbelievably dark.

00:25:07.940 So no,

00:25:08.260 I think the American people

00:25:09.360 can see through this stuff

00:25:10.560 and they just want somebody

00:25:11.580 who,

00:25:12.180 again,

00:25:12.600 who is who they say

00:25:13.740 that they are,

00:25:14.840 who isn't going to

00:25:15.780 totally transform

00:25:16.920 and grow a beard

00:25:17.960 or,

00:25:18.320 you know,

00:25:19.200 become an entirely new person

00:25:21.020 over the course

00:25:21.800 of just two to four years.

00:25:23.980 You know,

00:25:24.440 Steve Toth,

00:25:25.260 another Texan

00:25:26.080 who just upended

00:25:28.040 the race

00:25:28.680 for Crenshaw's seat,

00:25:30.420 and he'll almost certainly

00:25:31.400 be a colleague of yours

00:25:32.820 in the house.

00:25:33.520 He came out the other day,

00:25:34.680 he said,

00:25:35.360 this guy Tallarico 0.91

00:25:37.400 is like demonic. 0.99

00:25:39.640 He's evil.

00:25:40.160 You know, 0.73

00:25:40.660 he's,

00:25:41.280 and I'm always pulling back

00:25:44.880 from these kind of

00:25:45.540 hyperbolic statements.

00:25:46.480 Here,

00:25:46.640 I don't think it's hyperbole

00:25:47.580 because what he's doing

00:25:48.900 is he's twisting

00:25:49.780 the very gospel.

00:25:51.180 I mean,

00:25:51.280 he's running basically

00:25:52.640 as a Christian minister,

00:25:54.180 but he's perverting

00:25:55.720 all of these teachings

00:25:57.420 in the exact opposite way

00:26:00.000 from traditional Christian teaching

00:26:02.740 and from what Christ said.

00:26:04.280 I mean,

00:26:04.380 to use the gospel 0.99

00:26:05.100 to justify killing babies 0.99

00:26:06.700 and mutilating children, 0.98

00:26:07.920 I mean, 0.77

00:26:08.520 this is,

00:26:09.700 it's satanic stuff.

00:26:10.840 There's no other way

00:26:11.340 to put it.

00:26:11.820 Reminds me,

00:26:12.220 there's that quote

00:26:12.900 from St. Andrew's Wooters,

00:26:15.320 St. Andrew Wooters,

00:26:16.440 who said, 0.99

00:26:17.580 a fornicator I always was, 0.99

00:26:19.540 but a heretic never. 0.99

00:26:20.820 You know,

00:26:21.160 in a way,

00:26:22.200 what this guy is doing

00:26:23.280 is much,

00:26:23.880 much worse

00:26:24.400 than all the sins

00:26:25.560 of the flesh

00:26:26.040 that usually go with politics.

00:26:27.700 Okay,

00:26:28.200 last question

00:26:29.200 because I know

00:26:29.540 you actually have a job,

00:26:30.620 a day job.

00:26:32.500 Christy Noem,

00:26:33.220 out at DHS.

00:26:35.640 Surprised,

00:26:36.280 not surprised,

00:26:37.340 good,

00:26:37.920 bad

00:26:38.580 to be expected.

00:26:41.720 Well,

00:26:42.260 you know,

00:26:42.600 everybody knew

00:26:43.720 it was going to come

00:26:44.240 at some point.

00:26:45.280 We just didn't know when.

00:26:46.840 What I will say

00:26:47.560 is that Mark Wayne Mullen

00:26:48.400 is going to do

00:26:48.860 a phenomenal job there

00:26:50.620 as head of DHS.

00:26:51.880 He's hard on

00:26:52.580 illegal immigration.

00:26:54.120 He's going to run it

00:26:54.980 professionally.

00:26:56.180 You know,

00:26:56.320 we need somebody

00:26:57.020 who's running the agency

00:26:58.200 in a profession.

00:26:59.480 I mean,

00:26:59.640 this is a law enforcement

00:27:00.780 operations.

00:27:01.400 You can see

00:27:01.860 what's been going on

00:27:02.900 in Minneapolis,

00:27:03.820 how well things

00:27:04.980 have been going

00:27:05.560 since Tom Homan

00:27:06.540 cleaned it up.

00:27:07.940 So I think

00:27:08.480 we need somebody

00:27:09.020 in there

00:27:09.320 who's going to

00:27:09.760 treat it

00:27:10.160 like a law enforcement

00:27:11.380 operation

00:27:12.760 and organization.

00:27:13.680 And I think

00:27:13.980 Mark Wayne Mullen

00:27:14.600 will do a phenomenal

00:27:15.700 job of that.

00:27:17.160 I certainly agree.

00:27:18.280 Well,

00:27:18.420 one,

00:27:18.660 yeah,

00:27:18.900 I agree.

00:27:19.380 Mark Wayne Mullen,

00:27:20.360 you know,

00:27:20.600 probably a good pick.

00:27:22.100 It was a very quick pick,

00:27:23.220 so I didn't even have time

00:27:24.440 to play the guessing game.

00:27:27.120 You know,

00:27:27.380 I mean,

00:27:27.560 it came out

00:27:27.980 very,

00:27:28.360 very quickly.

00:27:29.480 However,

00:27:30.780 I agree,

00:27:31.460 a lot of people,

00:27:33.040 it was a matter of days,

00:27:34.900 I think.

00:27:35.280 A lot of people

00:27:35.800 were waiting.

00:27:36.880 It did seem like

00:27:37.740 the first cabinet firing

00:27:39.740 was probably going to be DHS.

00:27:42.040 Okay,

00:27:42.520 before I get into

00:27:43.320 all the saucy,

00:27:44.360 scintillating details

00:27:45.420 that preceded

00:27:47.020 Christine Ohm's firing

00:27:48.500 during the House

00:27:49.700 Oversight Committee hearing,

00:27:50.700 I'm going to let

00:27:51.680 the elected official

00:27:52.780 off the line

00:27:53.440 so that you are not

00:27:54.440 subjected to all

00:27:55.580 of those

00:27:56.100 tawdry details.

00:27:57.840 Brandon,

00:27:58.120 thank you very much

00:27:59.000 for coming on.

00:27:59.880 Everybody,

00:28:00.800 by the way,

00:28:01.260 go follow the excellent work

00:28:02.700 that Congressman

00:28:03.760 Brandon Gill is doing.

00:28:05.260 Very few people

00:28:06.020 do excellent work

00:28:06.740 on Capitol Hill,

00:28:07.500 so go follow Brandon.

00:28:08.960 Good to see you, sir.

00:28:10.040 Thanks, Michael.

00:28:10.600 I appreciate that.

00:28:11.900 Okay,

00:28:12.700 now we'll get into

00:28:13.900 the saucy details.

00:28:15.460 Not that I'm,

00:28:16.160 not for gossip

00:28:17.060 or whatever,

00:28:17.520 but this is actually

00:28:18.320 important context

00:28:19.240 from hours

00:28:20.560 before Christine Ohm

00:28:21.400 was fired at DHS.

00:28:23.460 You had this grilling

00:28:25.560 on Capitol Hill

00:28:26.980 which,

00:28:29.540 there were two big moments

00:28:31.340 I would say

00:28:31.820 in the hearing.

00:28:32.840 Lots of little clips

00:28:33.560 going around,

00:28:33.980 but two really big moments.

00:28:35.140 One is when

00:28:36.040 a Democrat Congress lady

00:28:37.480 accuses Christine Ohm

00:28:38.920 of a sex scandal.

00:28:40.540 So,

00:28:41.160 Secretary Noem,

00:28:41.940 at any time

00:28:42.900 during your tenure

00:28:44.300 as Director

00:28:45.540 of Department

00:28:46.220 of Homeland Security,

00:28:47.780 have you had

00:28:48.860 sexual relations

00:28:50.060 with Corey Lewandowski?

00:28:52.760 Mr. Chairman,

00:28:53.800 I am shocked

00:28:54.460 that we're going

00:28:55.380 down and peddling 0.99

00:28:56.460 tabloid garbage 1.00

00:28:57.660 in this committee 1.00

00:28:58.620 today.

00:28:59.160 Reclaiming my time.

00:28:59.620 And ma'am,

00:29:00.100 one thing that I would

00:29:00.860 tell you is that

00:29:01.900 he is a special

00:29:02.680 government employee

00:29:03.480 who works for

00:29:04.160 the White House.

00:29:05.240 There are thousands

00:29:05.980 of them in the

00:29:06.820 federal government.

00:29:07.320 So,

00:29:07.760 reclaiming my time,

00:29:08.540 Secretary,

00:29:09.300 it is okay for you

00:29:10.500 to be offended

00:29:11.300 by the question.

00:29:12.220 It is okay for you

00:29:13.700 to be offended

00:29:14.260 by the question,

00:29:15.340 but it is also

00:29:16.840 a real question.

00:29:18.240 So,

00:29:18.440 what I would say to you

00:29:19.380 is that what we do

00:29:21.060 at the Department

00:29:21.700 of Homeland Security

00:29:22.380 every single day,

00:29:23.540 and without any hesitation,

00:29:24.660 every single day

00:29:25.500 is to protect this country

00:29:26.500 someone is asking

00:29:27.520 if you or any

00:29:29.040 federal official

00:29:29.780 is sleeping with

00:29:30.700 their subordinate.

00:29:31.580 That should be

00:29:32.040 the easiest,

00:29:32.680 you should be wanting

00:29:33.580 to answer that question.

00:29:35.140 Because it is not

00:29:36.320 about your sex life,

00:29:37.320 it is about your judgment.

00:29:39.300 It is about reclaiming

00:29:41.520 my time

00:29:42.380 so that I can hear

00:29:43.420 myself.

00:29:45.380 Okay,

00:29:46.000 not a good start.

00:29:46.760 Now,

00:29:47.440 what the Republicans

00:29:48.280 will say is

00:29:49.540 that Kristi Noem

00:29:50.740 did not want to

00:29:51.680 dignify that question,

00:29:53.440 which is certainly

00:29:54.580 a tabloid,

00:29:55.940 scintillating question.

00:29:57.020 She didn't want to

00:29:57.660 dignify it with a response,

00:29:59.100 and there's

00:29:59.520 a good bit of reasoning there.

00:30:01.600 What the Democrats

00:30:02.260 will say is

00:30:02.760 she didn't want to answer it

00:30:03.540 because she was under oath

00:30:04.480 and she would have

00:30:05.160 to tell the truth.

00:30:06.260 And I don't really care

00:30:08.680 to know the truth

00:30:09.460 of that situation.

00:30:11.060 It could very well

00:30:12.120 be the case

00:30:12.660 that all those rumors

00:30:14.220 are nonsense

00:30:14.920 and she doesn't want 0.98

00:30:15.880 to dignify this

00:30:16.520 with a response.

00:30:17.680 Regardless,

00:30:18.680 regardless,

00:30:20.060 not a good look.

00:30:21.560 However,

00:30:22.220 this is not why

00:30:22.960 Kristi Noem,

00:30:23.700 I think,

00:30:24.280 lost the job at DHS.

00:30:25.960 The bigger issue

00:30:27.480 that came up

00:30:28.400 was that

00:30:29.260 Kristi Noem

00:30:30.080 ran a $220 million

00:30:32.840 campaign ad

00:30:34.600 to promote

00:30:36.200 the deportations,

00:30:37.300 to promote

00:30:37.860 border security,

00:30:38.680 and it's not

00:30:40.740 even the ad

00:30:41.580 itself,

00:30:42.920 it's the context

00:30:44.980 around the making

00:30:45.680 of the ad.

00:30:46.020 So in case you missed it,

00:30:46.900 this is the $220 million ad.

00:30:48.320 Why do I love

00:30:52.400 these wide-open spaces?

00:30:53.980 They remind me

00:30:55.080 of why our forefathers

00:30:56.100 came here,

00:30:56.940 not just for its beauty,

00:30:58.500 but for the freedom

00:30:59.340 only America provides.

00:31:01.320 I'm Kristi Noem.

00:31:02.860 From the cowboys

00:31:03.700 who tamed the West

00:31:04.640 to the titans

00:31:05.940 who built our cities

00:31:06.820 to the dreamers

00:31:08.560 who chased the impossible,

00:31:10.900 America has always 0.89

00:31:11.880 rewarded vision

00:31:12.840 and grit.

00:31:13.680 our greatness

00:31:15.260 calls people to us

00:31:16.780 for a chance

00:31:17.580 to prosper,

00:31:18.680 to live how they choose,

00:31:20.300 to become part

00:31:21.400 of something special.

00:31:23.200 Anyone who searches

00:31:24.020 for freedom

00:31:24.540 can always find

00:31:25.440 a home here,

00:31:26.180 but that freedom's

00:31:27.220 a precious thing,

00:31:28.020 and we defend it vigorously.

00:31:30.520 You cross the border 0.93

00:31:31.740 illegally,

00:31:32.580 we'll find you.

00:31:33.940 Break our laws, 0.60

00:31:35.020 we'll punish you. 0.65

00:31:36.500 Harm American citizens, 0.58

00:31:38.280 there will be consequences.

00:31:39.780 But if you come here

00:31:41.260 the right way,

00:31:42.380 your American dream

00:31:43.340 can be as big

00:31:44.340 as these endless skies.

00:31:46.220 From President Trump

00:31:47.080 and me,

00:31:47.980 welcome home.

00:31:49.300 Okay,

00:31:49.920 so some people objected

00:31:51.520 because it's a little

00:31:52.280 glitzy and glamorous

00:31:53.340 and it's Kristi Noem

00:31:54.520 in a big cowboy hat

00:31:55.700 riding a horse,

00:31:56.600 and they said,

00:31:56.900 why did you spend

00:31:57.340 $220 million on this?

00:31:59.020 Now, obviously,

00:31:59.620 they didn't spend

00:32:00.360 $220 million on the ad.

00:32:02.980 You could make the Titanic.

00:32:04.840 You could make Avatar

00:32:06.780 for something like that

00:32:08.020 amount of money.

00:32:08.580 But it's because

00:32:11.000 of how the money

00:32:11.560 was spent.

00:32:12.240 One,

00:32:12.720 there were questions

00:32:13.420 raised about which

00:32:14.340 companies the money

00:32:15.400 went to to promote

00:32:17.180 the marketing

00:32:17.680 and advertising campaign.

00:32:19.320 And those questions

00:32:20.940 always attend

00:32:21.600 to political spending.

00:32:23.220 But then,

00:32:24.040 I think what really

00:32:25.180 got her was

00:32:26.000 she said that she

00:32:27.480 had the approval

00:32:28.040 of Trump

00:32:28.520 to spend that money

00:32:29.560 on the ad.

00:32:30.260 And Trump said

00:32:31.240 he did not give

00:32:32.400 approval for it.

00:32:33.400 And I think that's

00:32:34.180 what really brought it home.

00:32:36.560 I'm just reading

00:32:37.320 the tea leaves.

00:32:37.780 I'm not getting this

00:32:38.580 directly from the White House.

00:32:39.560 But I think the fact

00:32:40.680 that she was

00:32:41.740 implicating him in it,

00:32:42.900 she was trying to drag him 0.99

00:32:43.880 into some of these scandals,

00:32:44.920 I think he said enough.

00:32:45.960 We've had enough.

00:32:46.940 Everyone's going to be

00:32:47.600 piling on Kristi Noem today.

00:32:50.580 The one thing

00:32:51.840 I think people

00:32:52.480 should keep in mind

00:32:53.120 in Kristi Noem's defense,

00:32:54.740 this was always going to be

00:32:55.940 the hottest,

00:32:57.240 hardest job

00:32:58.220 in the cabinet.

00:32:59.600 Trump runs

00:33:00.140 on mass deportations.

00:33:01.960 Democrats rely 0.70

00:33:02.860 on mass migration

00:33:03.940 for their entire

00:33:05.460 political strategy.

00:33:07.200 This was always

00:33:08.080 going to be

00:33:08.860 the flashpoint

00:33:10.700 of the second term.

00:33:13.260 And whoever was

00:33:14.000 in the DHS position,

00:33:15.100 I think,

00:33:15.440 was always going to be

00:33:16.220 under the gun

00:33:16.720 and very likely

00:33:17.340 was going to be

00:33:17.780 the first one out.

00:33:19.500 The fact that Kristi Noem

00:33:21.020 may have made

00:33:21.380 some missteps along the way

00:33:22.600 adds to it.

00:33:25.060 Structurally, though,

00:33:25.760 I think DHS,

00:33:26.860 that was always going

00:33:27.680 to be the hot seat.

00:33:28.560 So now,

00:33:29.060 as Brandon mentioned

00:33:29.720 when he was on the show,

00:33:30.880 Mark Wayne Mullen

00:33:31.560 from Oklahoma,

00:33:33.340 Democrat senator,

00:33:34.340 sorry,

00:33:34.740 not Democrat senator,

00:33:35.880 Republican senator,

00:33:36.820 is going to take over DHS.

00:33:38.320 He's only been in the Senate

00:33:39.420 for a couple of years.

00:33:41.300 He took office in 2023.

00:33:43.840 So, okay,

00:33:44.160 three years now.

00:33:45.200 He was in the House

00:33:46.100 for 10 years.

00:33:47.900 Nevertheless,

00:33:48.660 that's a short little

00:33:49.540 stopover in the Senate

00:33:50.480 before you go back up

00:33:51.480 to the White House.

00:33:53.520 We'll see how it works out.

00:33:54.640 Everyone seems to be

00:33:55.240 pretty gung-ho about this.

00:33:57.040 And obviously,

00:33:58.300 for most Trump voters,

00:33:59.440 and I'll include myself in that,

00:34:01.040 the deportations

00:34:01.800 are right there

00:34:02.240 at the top of the list.

00:34:03.060 It just has to happen.

00:34:04.520 We got something like

00:34:05.520 525,000 formal deportations

00:34:07.460 the first year

00:34:08.100 with an estimated

00:34:09.300 million to a million

00:34:10.180 and a half self-deportations,

00:34:11.880 people who were being processed,

00:34:13.480 who just decided to leave

00:34:14.760 before the process

00:34:15.960 could play out,

00:34:16.860 which is all good, too.

00:34:17.920 As long as the people 0.55

00:34:18.500 leave the country,

00:34:19.480 I'm happy.

00:34:20.460 However,

00:34:22.040 we have, what,

00:34:22.640 20 million illegal aliens

00:34:23.660 in this country,

00:34:24.240 maybe more.

00:34:24.980 The numbers have to be higher,

00:34:26.360 and so we need someone

00:34:27.340 to take over

00:34:27.860 who can get it done.

00:34:28.900 So much more

00:34:30.820 to talk about.

00:34:32.300 President Trump

00:34:33.020 floating,

00:34:33.440 putting crews

00:34:34.000 on the Supreme Court.

00:34:36.620 America

00:34:37.020 maybe taking over Cuba.

00:34:39.900 Can we at least get to,

00:34:41.380 before,

00:34:43.100 I know we got to get

00:34:43.900 to the mailbag,

00:34:44.620 but before that,

00:34:45.260 can we at least get to

00:34:46.500 this comment

00:34:47.680 President Trump

00:34:48.320 just made about Cuba?

00:34:49.060 The Cuban government

00:34:51.840 is talking with us.

00:34:53.880 They're in a big deal

00:34:55.020 of trouble,

00:34:55.620 as you know.

00:34:56.080 They have no money,

00:34:57.600 they have no anything

00:34:58.600 right now,

00:34:59.660 but they're talking with us,

00:35:01.720 and maybe we'll have

00:35:02.900 a friendly takeover

00:35:03.880 of Cuba.

00:35:06.840 We could very well end up

00:35:08.300 having a friendly

00:35:09.240 takeover of Cuba.

00:35:10.940 So this was the line.

00:35:11.920 He made this joke

00:35:12.580 a few days ago,

00:35:13.380 look, maybe we'll have

00:35:14.060 a friendly takeover

00:35:14.740 of Cuba.

00:35:15.180 Then yesterday,

00:35:15.840 he brings up Cuba again.

00:35:17.200 All of a sudden,

00:35:19.420 you see,

00:35:20.060 where's Marco?

00:35:20.940 He's not around anymore.

00:35:22.100 I don't see him.

00:35:23.620 He's doing some job,

00:35:25.040 and your next one

00:35:26.100 is going to be,

00:35:26.620 we want to do that special.

00:35:28.480 Cuba, he's waiting,

00:35:29.360 but he says,

00:35:29.800 let's get this one

00:35:30.560 finished first.

00:35:32.000 We could do them all

00:35:32.800 at the same time,

00:35:33.580 but bad things happen.

00:35:34.800 If you watch countries

00:35:35.820 over the years,

00:35:36.420 you do them all too fast,

00:35:38.180 bad things happen.

00:35:39.100 We're not going to let

00:35:39.680 anything bad happen

00:35:40.540 to this country.

00:35:41.800 Look, look, look,

00:35:42.900 we're not going to do it

00:35:43.880 right away,

00:35:44.700 but maybe Marco

00:35:46.340 is going to head on

00:35:47.180 down.

00:35:47.520 Marco,

00:35:47.960 who's wanted to topple

00:35:48.820 the communist regime

00:35:49.700 in Cuba for his entire life,

00:35:52.440 are we going to do it?

00:35:53.560 I think Trump is serious

00:35:54.860 about taking Cuba.

00:35:55.860 I think it makes sense

00:35:56.740 to take Cuba.

00:35:57.840 I will remind you

00:35:58.960 that this is something

00:35:59.720 that basically everybody

00:36:00.860 agreed on until recently.

00:36:03.000 Trump's most vocal critic

00:36:05.180 who was on the right,

00:36:06.660 now he's on the left,

00:36:08.240 Bill Kristol.

00:36:09.400 Bill Kristol,

00:36:10.300 who worked in

00:36:11.520 a Republican White House

00:36:13.060 and was a major thought leader

00:36:14.240 on the right,

00:36:14.780 and then he became

00:36:15.700 a Biden guy

00:36:17.020 and a Kamala guy.

00:36:18.420 But even Bill Kristol,

00:36:19.520 who hates Donald Trump

00:36:21.140 with the fire

00:36:21.680 of a thousand suns,

00:36:22.740 even he said

00:36:23.440 some years ago

00:36:24.720 we should take Cuba. 0.99

00:36:27.140 We have already

00:36:28.180 taken Cuba

00:36:28.940 on multiple occasions.

00:36:30.040 We've controlled Cuba 1.00

00:36:30.720 three or four times

00:36:31.580 over the last hundred years.

00:36:33.480 This is not that weird.

00:36:34.640 It's 90 miles

00:36:35.220 off the coast of Florida.

00:36:37.060 The regime

00:36:37.740 is starving right now.

00:36:39.220 They don't have oil.

00:36:40.080 They don't have leadership.

00:36:41.360 Basically,

00:36:41.920 nobody can even

00:36:42.760 name the president of Cuba.

00:36:44.860 I can because I am

00:36:46.340 particularly interested

00:36:47.320 in the tobacco industry.

00:36:49.340 And also,

00:36:49.640 it's a nice place, Cuba.

00:36:50.680 But can you name

00:36:51.660 the leader of Cuba?

00:36:53.400 No.

00:36:53.740 We remember the Castros.

00:36:54.960 Then Fidel Castro was out.

00:36:56.560 His brother Raul took over.

00:36:58.040 The Castros are dead.

00:36:58.940 No one remembers.

00:36:59.680 They placed us

00:37:00.380 on the brink of collapse

00:37:01.140 after Trump took Venezuela.

00:37:03.080 Cuba was really

00:37:03.780 on the brink of collapse.

00:37:05.540 So, no.

00:37:07.080 But there does seem

00:37:08.100 to be a method for this.

00:37:09.480 And after Iran, 0.90

00:37:10.580 maybe check in

00:37:11.260 five or six weeks.

00:37:13.300 Maybe Cuba's next. 1.00

00:37:14.880 Not so bad.

00:37:15.520 Okay.

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00:39:33.540 Hi, Michael.

00:39:34.740 I have a question for you

00:39:36.080 about divine hiddenness.

00:39:38.040 And I'm curious

00:39:39.140 whether you think

00:39:39.900 it's possible

00:39:40.580 for someone

00:39:42.240 to permanently remain

00:39:44.080 in a state

00:39:44.760 of non-resistant,

00:39:46.900 non-belief.

00:39:47.740 because I hear a lot

00:39:49.680 that people will say

00:39:51.200 they'll believe in God

00:39:52.100 if God makes himself known

00:39:53.800 in a way they can understand,

00:39:55.340 but he hasn't done that

00:39:56.900 and so they have no reason

00:39:57.740 to believe.

00:39:59.480 And I wonder

00:40:00.360 if you think

00:40:00.940 that that's strictly

00:40:02.240 a result of pride

00:40:05.020 or if God could ever

00:40:06.800 have a good reason

00:40:07.820 for at least temporarily

00:40:09.600 remaining hidden

00:40:11.240 from some people.

00:40:13.660 I'm curious to hear

00:40:14.520 your thoughts.

00:40:15.000 You were very instrumental

00:40:16.160 in my conversion

00:40:17.400 to the Catholic faith

00:40:19.140 and my baptism

00:40:20.360 is this Easter.

00:40:21.740 Oh, right.

00:40:22.260 And so I thank you for that

00:40:23.360 and I hope one day

00:40:24.540 we can share a piece

00:40:26.220 of toast in heaven

00:40:27.080 as Andrew Clavin says.

00:40:28.640 Thanks.

00:40:29.560 Oh, that's a great question.

00:40:30.840 Glad to hear that

00:40:31.840 about your life.

00:40:33.100 So,

00:40:34.380 it's about divine hiddenness.

00:40:37.420 Why would God

00:40:38.780 hide himself?

00:40:40.220 Is there a good reason

00:40:41.520 for God to hide himself?

00:40:42.900 Where does this phrase

00:40:43.740 come from?

00:40:44.160 It's kind of a modern

00:40:45.120 theological term,

00:40:46.660 but it comes from the Bible.

00:40:47.820 You know,

00:40:48.060 oh God,

00:40:48.880 you truly are

00:40:49.940 a hidden God.

00:40:52.220 I think Isaiah,

00:40:53.220 maybe?

00:40:53.560 I don't know.

00:40:54.220 I don't know.

00:40:54.540 Anyway,

00:40:54.960 it's from scripture.

00:40:56.220 And God does hide himself

00:40:58.140 in some ways.

00:40:59.500 However,

00:40:59.980 this should not be taken

00:41:01.000 to an extreme.

00:41:02.980 This should not be taken

00:41:03.840 to mean,

00:41:04.260 for instance,

00:41:04.700 that we cannot know

00:41:05.620 whether or not

00:41:06.340 God exists.

00:41:08.640 This is a crucial fact.

00:41:10.740 We can know

00:41:12.460 with certainty

00:41:13.580 that God exists.

00:41:15.760 A lot of modern religion

00:41:17.480 insists that faith

00:41:18.720 and reason

00:41:19.180 are opposed

00:41:19.940 to each other.

00:41:22.360 Your mileage may vary

00:41:23.820 depending on your

00:41:24.760 preferred flavor

00:41:25.780 of Christianity,

00:41:26.620 but that is not

00:41:27.060 the tradition

00:41:27.600 of the church.

00:41:28.560 The tradition

00:41:29.200 of the church

00:41:29.700 tells us

00:41:30.340 that we can know

00:41:32.140 with certainty

00:41:33.080 that God exists

00:41:34.560 using human reason.

00:41:36.700 Now,

00:41:36.940 there is so much

00:41:37.440 more about God

00:41:38.560 that we cannot know

00:41:39.560 without revelation.

00:41:41.700 So,

00:41:42.160 you know,

00:41:43.040 it's a consequential thing,

00:41:44.600 it's a crucial thing,

00:41:45.380 but it's not

00:41:45.800 anything close

00:41:47.380 to the whole story

00:41:47.940 that we can know

00:41:48.760 that God exists.

00:41:50.660 Then we have to go further.

00:41:52.780 Who is Christ?

00:41:54.660 Who is the Father?

00:41:57.480 Well,

00:41:57.980 whoever has seen the Son

00:41:59.140 has seen the Father.

00:42:01.580 How do we come

00:42:02.620 to know Christ?

00:42:04.160 How do we come

00:42:04.560 to know God?

00:42:05.420 You know,

00:42:05.600 how do we,

00:42:06.440 what does he want

00:42:07.420 for us?

00:42:07.900 What does he do?

00:42:08.820 What is his meaning

00:42:09.420 in history?

00:42:10.260 All of these questions

00:42:11.460 come through revelation

00:42:12.900 and ultimately come to us

00:42:14.220 from divine grace.

00:42:15.780 But we can know

00:42:16.820 that God exists

00:42:17.680 through human reason.

00:42:21.120 And,

00:42:21.700 of course,

00:42:22.000 our Lord sends out

00:42:22.620 the Great Commission

00:42:23.180 and says,

00:42:23.580 go make disciples

00:42:24.120 of all nations.

00:42:25.700 So,

00:42:26.580 you know,

00:42:26.940 there really aren't

00:42:28.040 very many people

00:42:28.880 on planet Earth

00:42:29.940 who have never

00:42:31.300 in any way

00:42:32.080 heard about the gospel.

00:42:33.760 That might have been

00:42:34.480 true 2,000 years ago,

00:42:35.280 it isn't true today.

00:42:36.980 For the people today

00:42:38.140 who say,

00:42:38.880 look,

00:42:39.000 I really want to believe.

00:42:40.000 Some people say,

00:42:40.580 I'm a cultural Christian,

00:42:41.420 I really want to believe,

00:42:42.200 but I just can't.

00:42:43.960 Say,

00:42:44.360 well,

00:42:45.280 you could

00:42:45.720 if you wanted to.

00:42:47.280 I mean,

00:42:47.540 let's just begin

00:42:48.280 from reason.

00:42:49.240 We can know

00:42:49.960 that God exists.

00:42:51.760 If we can know

00:42:52.600 that God,

00:42:52.820 and there's much more

00:42:53.400 to say about this,

00:42:54.060 but suffice it to say,

00:42:55.260 there are many ways

00:42:55.780 to know through reason

00:42:56.460 that God exists.

00:42:57.500 If that is the case,

00:42:58.960 then you need to grapple

00:43:00.280 with what that means

00:43:01.220 for you.

00:43:02.400 How God has revealed himself

00:43:03.800 if he has,

00:43:05.180 whether Christ is

00:43:06.500 who he says he is,

00:43:07.900 whether the church is

00:43:09.120 what she says she is,

00:43:10.840 you have to grapple with that.

00:43:12.540 But you can't just

00:43:13.480 blame God

00:43:14.620 and say,

00:43:15.040 well,

00:43:15.200 but he just hasn't

00:43:15.860 made himself manifest to me.

00:43:17.220 Yes,

00:43:17.420 he did.

00:43:17.760 He took on flesh

00:43:18.440 and dwelt among us.

00:43:20.180 What do you mean

00:43:20.600 he hasn't made himself

00:43:21.300 manifest to you?

00:43:22.580 He created a visible church

00:43:24.140 that has endured

00:43:25.020 since antiquity.

00:43:26.000 You can't,

00:43:28.880 you can't say,

00:43:29.540 you might want to blame,

00:43:30.800 and because I think

00:43:31.280 a lot of people say that

00:43:32.220 because they either

00:43:32.900 want to excuse

00:43:34.380 their own sin and vice

00:43:35.600 and,

00:43:36.020 or because their intellects

00:43:37.740 have been darkened

00:43:38.400 by sin and vice,

00:43:39.180 and obviously we're born

00:43:39.920 into the twin ignorance

00:43:40.800 of ignorance and sin,

00:43:42.700 or because they just,

00:43:44.640 they don't want to think

00:43:45.240 too deeply about it

00:43:46.000 because it's kind of scary.

00:43:48.080 Don't blame God for that.

00:43:50.020 That's,

00:43:50.520 that's kind of on you.

00:43:51.800 Okay,

00:43:53.000 next question.

00:43:53.560 Hey Michael,

00:43:55.240 long time listener,

00:43:56.320 first time caller.

00:43:57.460 I'm curious about

00:43:58.260 what kind of cigars

00:43:59.460 that you might recommend

00:44:00.480 that are similar

00:44:01.720 to the Mayflower Dawn.

00:44:03.300 I'm a big fan

00:44:04.120 and love to hear

00:44:05.020 some suggestions

00:44:05.720 for something I can try next.

00:44:07.740 Thanks.

00:44:08.340 Have a good one.

00:44:09.540 Great question.

00:44:10.320 I would recommend

00:44:10.820 the Mayflower Dusk

00:44:11.860 or the Mayflower Dream

00:44:13.580 for that matter,

00:44:14.520 or the Mayflower Compact,

00:44:15.620 which is the small format,

00:44:17.660 petite Corona format

00:44:18.420 of the Mayflower Dawn.

00:44:19.480 Why?

00:44:19.820 Now I know what you're saying.

00:44:20.880 You're saying,

00:44:21.620 look,

00:44:22.100 those three cigars

00:44:23.140 have different flavor profiles

00:44:24.240 because they have

00:44:24.620 different wrappers

00:44:25.260 and binders

00:44:26.020 and some different blend

00:44:27.980 of filler.

00:44:29.720 However,

00:44:31.500 it kind of depends

00:44:33.800 on what you mean

00:44:34.360 by similarity.

00:44:35.940 There's a deep discussion

00:44:37.340 of signs and symbols

00:44:38.480 and semiotics

00:44:39.180 to be had here

00:44:40.300 because things are similar

00:44:42.100 in different respects.

00:44:43.940 The Mayflower Dawn,

00:44:45.060 Dusk,

00:44:45.360 and Dream

00:44:45.700 are similar in the respect

00:44:46.700 that they're all Mayflower

00:44:47.580 and they're all cigars.

00:44:49.020 However,

00:44:49.380 you could say

00:44:50.200 that the Mayflower Dawn

00:44:54.720 and the,

00:44:56.320 I don't know,

00:44:58.340 Perdomo Connecticut

00:44:59.380 and the Oliva Connecticut

00:45:00.980 are similar

00:45:01.780 in that they use

00:45:02.660 Connecticut Shade Wrapper.

00:45:05.360 We're all,

00:45:06.160 there are different ways

00:45:07.860 of similarity,

00:45:08.840 different types.

00:45:09.600 Like for instance,

00:45:10.780 Ben Shapiro,

00:45:12.960 Matt Walsh,

00:45:13.880 Andrew Klavan,

00:45:14.400 and I

00:45:14.660 are all similar

00:45:15.440 in that we're all

00:45:17.440 commentators

00:45:19.300 for the Daily Wire.

00:45:20.940 Rachel Maddow

00:45:21.640 and I

00:45:21.980 are also similar.

00:45:22.860 Rachel Maddow

00:45:23.320 is similar to those guys

00:45:24.800 in that she's

00:45:25.220 a political commentator,

00:45:26.240 but she's similar to me

00:45:27.420 in that we look

00:45:28.160 the same.

00:45:29.760 And now,

00:45:30.400 you could say

00:45:31.260 that Mike Johnson

00:45:33.440 and your uncle Billy

00:45:35.880 and I

00:45:36.980 are all similar,

00:45:38.460 even though we don't

00:45:39.040 necessarily look similar

00:45:40.060 or have similar jobs

00:45:41.060 because we're all conservatives.

00:45:42.060 Anyway,

00:45:42.560 it's all,

00:45:43.180 it's a lengthy way

00:45:44.200 of saying.

00:45:47.020 There are different

00:45:47.720 types of similarity

00:45:48.560 and what you're searching

00:45:49.600 for here,

00:45:50.100 I think,

00:45:50.360 is buying more

00:45:51.020 Mayflower cigars.

00:45:52.100 Before we get into

00:45:52.880 the Membrum Segmentum,

00:45:53.700 I want to get to

00:45:54.440 at least one

00:45:55.000 written mailbag.

00:45:56.040 This is from Keeley.

00:45:56.940 Hi, Mr. Knowles.

00:45:57.600 I recently watched

00:45:58.220 your episode of Michael

00:45:58.980 and the Seer by Keeley.

00:46:00.780 I found it almost compelling.

00:46:02.920 Almost compelling,

00:46:03.820 okay.

00:46:04.620 I expressed to my boyfriend

00:46:05.500 that he might want

00:46:06.240 to check out the video

00:46:07.040 as he is doing

00:46:07.820 his own spiritual study.

00:46:09.820 When he found out

00:46:10.820 the potential seer

00:46:11.820 was Protestant,

00:46:12.680 he became dismissive

00:46:13.540 saying that

00:46:14.060 you must be in a state

00:46:14.800 of grace to experience

00:46:15.680 the divine.

00:46:17.580 I largely agree

00:46:18.360 with his reasoning

00:46:19.000 but also know

00:46:19.740 that God does not

00:46:20.580 does what he wants,

00:46:22.180 not what we understand.

00:46:23.160 Am I being unfair

00:46:24.060 or too womanly?

00:46:25.920 How do I respect

00:46:26.560 his authority

00:46:27.020 while also feeling free

00:46:28.060 to explore my faith

00:46:29.060 intellectually with him?

00:46:30.000 I will not be leaving

00:46:30.840 the Catholic Church.

00:46:31.380 I'm convinced

00:46:31.840 of its truth

00:46:32.320 and sovereignty.

00:46:33.040 I would like

00:46:33.740 to do this with him

00:46:35.000 as he is the smartest,

00:46:36.020 most impressive person

00:46:36.660 I know

00:46:36.940 and also write about

00:46:37.820 almost everything.

00:46:38.420 Thank you for your

00:46:38.920 dedication and time.

00:46:39.640 Okay, so

00:46:40.500 your boyfriend

00:46:42.080 is Catholic, right?

00:46:43.800 I assume.

00:46:44.920 Anyway, let's just

00:46:45.480 get to Blake Healy

00:46:46.060 because I did this

00:46:46.960 very interesting interview

00:46:48.000 with him

00:46:48.340 and some people believed

00:46:49.980 that he really could

00:46:50.780 see spiritual things

00:46:51.620 and other people did not.

00:46:53.060 I don't weigh in

00:46:54.340 on this definitively

00:46:55.140 one way or the other.

00:46:56.460 He felt credible to me

00:46:57.820 but I'm not making

00:47:01.260 some nihil obstat

00:47:02.380 formal declaration

00:47:03.820 of that one way

00:47:04.820 or the other.

00:47:05.300 The one thing

00:47:06.800 I can say definitively

00:47:07.940 though is your boyfriend

00:47:09.020 is wrong in that

00:47:11.160 the charisms

00:47:14.020 or gratuitous graces

00:47:15.540 that God gives

00:47:16.460 such as reading souls

00:47:18.260 or seeing otherwise

00:47:20.400 hidden spiritual things

00:47:21.600 that does not depend

00:47:23.820 upon the sanctity

00:47:25.060 of the person

00:47:25.740 to whom he gives

00:47:26.440 the charism.

00:47:27.360 That is not a Catholic 1.00

00:47:28.460 teaching.

00:47:29.180 That's not it.

00:47:32.400 It is important

00:47:33.300 to be in a state of grace.

00:47:34.260 It's important to avail

00:47:34.820 yourself of the sacraments

00:47:35.660 especially confession.

00:47:36.580 All of that is true

00:47:37.520 but that would be

00:47:39.940 for kind of ordinary graces.

00:47:42.440 These gratuitous graces

00:47:43.820 these special charisms

00:47:45.160 that God gives

00:47:45.800 he gives to all sorts

00:47:46.960 of people

00:47:47.340 and he kind of gives them

00:47:48.500 as he chooses

00:47:49.560 and usually we can't

00:47:51.240 totally understand that.

00:47:52.700 So that's not true.

00:47:54.420 I mean to take it

00:47:55.220 even one step further

00:47:56.140 Protestants can engage

00:48:00.880 in rites of deliverance

00:48:02.380 to cast out demons

00:48:03.680 and things like that.

00:48:04.820 Sometimes it works

00:48:05.420 sometimes it doesn't.

00:48:06.740 We were talking to

00:48:07.380 Father Rehill

00:48:08.500 the Nashville exorcist

00:48:10.380 on the show

00:48:10.780 some time ago

00:48:11.440 and he pointed out

00:48:12.260 he sometimes gets

00:48:12.840 referrals from

00:48:13.680 Protestant pastors

00:48:14.940 who have tried

00:48:16.580 deliverance rituals

00:48:18.220 and hasn't totally worked

00:48:19.460 but sometimes it works

00:48:20.620 and so yeah

00:48:21.180 you can't really

00:48:22.640 limit God

00:48:23.520 in that way

00:48:24.140 and you also

00:48:25.120 have to recognize

00:48:26.000 that

00:48:26.980 God's gifts

00:48:30.220 and God's graces

00:48:31.220 do not hinge

00:48:33.780 upon the sanctity

00:48:34.740 of the people

00:48:35.180 to whom he gives them.

00:48:36.540 We do have to cooperate

00:48:37.660 with God's grace

00:48:38.300 and the world

00:48:38.620 makes a lot more sense

00:48:39.420 when we do that

00:48:40.040 and when we're

00:48:40.480 in a state of grace

00:48:41.140 but

00:48:41.820 God

00:48:43.540 is not to be limited

00:48:44.960 by those sorts

00:48:45.700 of categories.

00:48:46.760 This is also why

00:48:47.360 this is another big part

00:48:48.160 of Catholic teaching

00:48:48.760 the efficacy

00:48:49.820 of the sacraments

00:48:50.660 does not depend

00:48:51.500 upon the sanctity

00:48:53.460 of the priest

00:48:54.080 who administers them.

00:48:55.920 So

00:48:56.220 this was an ancient heresy

00:48:57.880 that had to be decided

00:48:58.740 in antiquity

00:48:59.540 but

00:49:00.640 no

00:49:02.000 you can have 0.99

00:49:02.720 the worst sinner priest ever 1.00

00:49:03.960 and you are 1.00

00:49:05.080 the priest baptizes you

00:49:06.300 the baptism

00:49:06.840 is legit

00:49:08.180 it works

00:49:08.760 because

00:49:09.000 God

00:49:09.840 God works

00:49:10.760 even through flawed people

00:49:11.920 even people who are

00:49:12.500 in a state of mortal sin

00:49:13.340 so anyway

00:49:14.440 that's good

00:49:15.120 I'm glad

00:49:15.760 your boyfriend's

00:49:16.480 super Catholic

00:49:16.980 but that would be

00:49:17.760 one area where

00:49:18.660 I

00:49:19.360 I think

00:49:21.340 he's misunderstanding

00:49:22.000 Catholic teaching

00:49:22.620 okay

00:49:22.880 so much more

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 06, 2026

Ep. 1926 - Kristi Noem Is Out At DHS

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