The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1927 - Muslims Try To BOMB Conservatives In New York

00:00:00.000 Muslims throw IEDs at conservative protesters in New York.

00:00:16.560 Iran selects a new Ayatollah, as even Lindsey Graham says the Israelis are going too far in

00:00:21.900 their attacks. And David French takes to the pages of the New York Times to make the conservative

00:00:27.820 case for the Antichrist. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:34.080 want to get to the headline. The story is that a couple of Muslims threw bombs, IEDs, improvised

00:02:41.800 explosive devices, you know, containers filled with nails and screws and metal and shards that 0.86

00:02:48.260 explode and maim people. It's like the main thing that injured and killed our soldiers in Afghanistan 0.98

00:02:54.360 and Iraq. We now have them on the streets of New York. Muslims threw them into a crowd of 1.00

00:03:00.340 conservatives who were protesting Mamdani. That's the story. Here's the headline. This is from, 0.61

00:03:06.180 I think, NBC News. Yeah, NBC New York. Two people in custody after suspicious devices ignited

00:03:13.100 outside New York City mayor's official residence.

00:03:18.640 These people, these people, you just can't.

00:03:23.500 Even I, and I have such a low opinion of the establishment media, even I

00:03:27.780 feel some degree of shock. Even I still have the capacity for indignation reading that headline.

00:03:36.860 What is the image that you have when you hear that headline? Two people, just two people.

00:03:43.300 I'm not going to say what kind of people, just two people in custody after suspicious devices

00:03:47.720 ignited. That's a New York City mayor's official residence. That sounds like this was right-wingers

00:03:55.400 throwing bombs at the mayor, the mayor who's a Muslim communist. 0.96

00:04:00.720 In fact, the story is the exact opposite. Then you get to the subheader.

00:04:06.060 After an anti-Islam protester fired pepper spray at counter-protesters, one of the counter-protesters

00:04:14.440 lit and threw an ignited device toward the protest area. So they can't even in the subheader get to the

00:04:19.880 actual story. The actual story being that these Muslims, they don't even say they're Muslims,

00:04:23.540 but they are. These Muslims threw bombs at conservatives. They have to start out by justifying 1.00

00:04:29.280 the Muslims throwing the bomb at the conservative. They have to start out by saying, well, you know, 1.00

00:04:34.480 after these conservatives were totally asking for it because the conservatives were gathered

00:04:38.680 outside the mayor's house and one of them fired pepper spray at the counter-protesters. Gee, I wonder

00:04:43.660 why. I wonder if the counter-protesters were doing anything that might have warranted self-defense

00:04:50.180 and the pepper spray. But even there, they just say, yeah, well, look, they start, the conservatives

00:04:54.400 started it. It's their fault. They fired pepper spray at the counter-protesters. And then one of

00:04:59.660 the counter-protesters lit and threw an ignited device. The way that this is written, it makes it seem

00:05:05.280 as though the poor Muslim was just minding his own business. And then these conservatives jumped out from

00:05:13.180 behind a bush, sprayed pepper spray at him. And then just spontaneously, the Muslim guy reaching for 1.00

00:05:21.600 anything he could, luckily found an improvised explosive device to use in self-defense against

00:05:27.240 the conservatives. Well, you know, look, after these conservatives started this thing, the Muslims 1.00

00:05:33.180 threw the bomb that they had in their pocket. Wait, why did the guy have a bomb? Why did the guy,

00:05:37.620 why did, it's two guys actually, why did they have an improvised explosive device?

00:05:45.160 Sort of seems like their throwing the bomb was not prompted by pepper spray. Why did these guys

00:05:51.380 use pepper spray? Well, first of all, who had the official protest? The protest was the conservatives.

00:05:59.780 The right-wingers were holding a protest, protesting the New York City mayor.

00:06:03.460 Then some mob shows up to harass the protesters. And then these two guys throw a bomb. Okay,

00:06:12.340 what are the key details? According to ABC7, so that was NBC New York. Here's ABC7 in New York.

00:06:21.460 Two teenagers from Pennsylvania are likely to face serious federal charges after bringing real

00:06:27.900 improvised explosive devices to Gracie Manchin. Two teenagers. How old are they? They're 19.

00:06:35.640 They're 19. They're adults. They're adults who will be tried as adults because they're adults.

00:06:41.840 Two teenagers. It makes it sound like they're 14 or something. Two teenagers from Pennsylvania.

00:06:48.020 My grandparents are from Pennsylvania. You know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of

00:06:51.780 knolls's up, up around Pennsylvania. When you close your eyes and you imagine teenagers from

00:06:57.520 Pennsylvania, what do you, what do you picture? I picture a couple of 14-year-olds riding their bike

00:07:02.580 in the outskirts of Scranton. Maybe, you know, dirty blonde hair. You know, nice, I don't know,

00:07:11.440 Philadelphia Eagles shirt. I don't know. I don't know where they are. Americana. Well, actually,

00:07:15.760 it was a couple of 19-year-olds named Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayoumi. Those sound like

00:07:20.720 Pennsylvanians to you? Not really. Not saying people with Middle Eastern names can't live in

00:07:25.320 Pennsylvania. But the phrase two teenagers from Pennsylvania is designed, it is designed to do

00:07:31.920 the opposite of journalism. I don't mean to belabor the point, but it's very, very important when

00:07:37.000 you're reading news coverage to realize what these people are doing. You know a thing by what it is for.

00:07:44.600 The purpose of something tells you about the nature of that thing. Journalism, news reporting,

00:07:52.580 is for telling you the truth about current events. It's for conveying the reality of what's going on

00:07:58.060 to you. These people, NBC local, ABC local, they are doing the exact opposite. Their entire reporting

00:08:07.720 is designed to hide the truth. Their entire reporting is designed to give you an image of what happened

00:08:13.760 that is contrary to what actually happened. It all started around noon on Saturday when a far-right

00:08:20.440 group of about 20 protesters were met by roughly 125 counter-protesters. A far-right group. It was

00:08:27.400 a far-right group. It was this group of conservatives who were objecting to the Islamification of New York.

00:08:33.600 New York, which was the site of the worst Islamic terror attack in modern history.

00:08:37.680 That doesn't seem far-right. That doesn't seem crazy. I'm a New Yorker. I was in New York

00:08:42.120 before, during, and after 9-11. Plenty of normal people had a healthy fear and aversion to Islam. 0.99

00:08:53.220 Fear of and aversion to Islam. That doesn't make you far-right, especially if you're a New Yorker.

00:08:57.860 So, there's 20 of these guys protesting the mayor. Then a mob of 125 counter-protesters show up.

00:09:07.140 Tensions quickly escalated and violence broke out. Oh, it just broke out? The violence just jumped out

00:09:12.700 from behind a building. Oh, no. We had two groups here who were getting along fine, and then that violence

00:09:17.920 showed up. Who brought the violence? Who do you think? Two teens, identified as Amir Balat and Ibrahim

00:09:25.120 Kayumi, noted Pennsylvanians, 19, are accused of throwing and igniting two objects, one of which

00:09:30.280 was confirmed to be a bomb. Okay, enough on the media. You get the point.

00:09:39.780 This is every news story. This is every news story. And the fact that in the past year,

00:09:45.820 we have had even the liberal outlets confirm that terrorism in America today is chiefly a

00:09:51.840 left-wing problem. Obviously, there's been an Islam association with terrorism for a very,

00:09:57.860 very long time. The fact that they are beginning to admit that explicitly means the problem is

00:10:03.040 much, much worse. Much, much worse than even you think it is.

00:10:08.520 The fact that the left, and the left has an alliance with the Islamists because they have a 0.98

00:10:14.580 common enemy, multiple common enemies, but America, the church, men, I don't know.

00:10:19.380 They have a common enemy, like regular Western men. They have a common enemy. And so they get 0.98

00:10:25.320 together. The left very nearly assassinated President Trump last year, or a year and a

00:10:32.100 half ago. The left successfully assassinated Charlie Kirk six months ago. Actual individual

00:10:39.760 leftists did these things, and then large swaths of the rest of the left, including the mainstream

00:10:45.140 left, cheered it on. Now we have Muslims with counter-protesters who presumably included ordinary 0.75

00:10:57.020 run-of-the-mill leftists. I don't think it was all Amir Balaz and Ibrahim Kayoumi's showing up and

00:11:02.020 throwing bombs at conservatives in New York. This is very bad. It's going to get worse.

00:11:07.880 What do we do about it? There is something we can do about it.

00:11:13.120 This happened almost exactly 100 years ago. In the 1920s, in New York, you had this spate of

00:11:20.100 bombings. Anarchists, left-wing anarchists, who were usually immigrants, who were not citizens,

00:11:27.400 a lot of them, came over here and started setting off bombs. Exactly what's going on here. It wasn't

00:11:32.980 Muslims then, but you still had anarchists from Europe setting off bombs. What did we do?

00:11:39.800 We rounded them all up and we deported them. These were the Palmer raids. We rounded up the 0.93

00:11:47.180 anarchists and the communists and the radical leftists, the people who were setting off bombs,

00:11:51.060 the people who were creating this exact kind of disorder. We just rounded them up and deported them.

00:11:55.420 There is a legal predicate for this in the United States. There is historical precedent for this in the

00:12:00.360 United States. It seems to me we've heard this song before. It's from an old familiar score.

00:12:05.460 We can just get rid of these people. We can just send them out of the country and make them some 1.00

00:12:09.580 other country's problem. But we have to do that. In the 1920s and 30s, there could have been an 0.65

00:12:16.580 anarchist communist revolution in America. Communists were trying to do that. There were successful

00:12:23.340 communist revolutions in the rest of the world, and we stopped it. We put a lid on it. We rounded these

00:12:29.420 people up. We arrested them. We got rid of them. We got them out of the country. 0.59

00:12:35.200 We need to do the same thing now because the political violence is growing much, much worse.

00:12:39.440 It's coming from lots of different angles. The radical leftists, the anarchists, the Islamists,

00:12:46.480 all kind of working together. They all seem to find their common identity in Mamdani.

00:12:52.300 Mamdani really checks a lot of boxes. But it's happening in Mamdani's New York. It's happening

00:12:57.900 throughout the United States coming to a county near you. This would seem to call for the federal

00:13:05.380 government to get involved. We did it before. We can do it again. If anyone's going to do it,

00:13:08.860 it's this administration. Now, speaking of violence, we got to get to Iran. A lot going

00:13:13.260 on in Iran. There's a new Ayatollah. New Ayatollah, basically the same as the old Ayatollah.

00:13:19.280 Bombings heating up, oil hitting $110, $111 a barrel over the weekend. Now it's come down a little bit,

00:13:24.880 but still creates a lot of problems for President Trump and for the global economy.

00:13:30.700 Israel reportedly getting so out of hand in its campaigns, no longer coordinating perfectly with

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00:15:04.280 Anyway, you know you've gone too far in your Middle East bombing campaign when Lindsey Graham

00:15:10.240 tells you to cool your jets. Lindsey Graham, who I like personally, he's never seen a Middle 1.00

00:15:17.680 Eastern country he didn't want to bomb. He's been beating the drum for war for a very, very long time.

00:15:23.600 And so it actually gives a lot of credibility to his criticism here. He tweets out,

00:15:28.420 our allies in Israel have shown amazing capability when it comes to collapsing the murderous regime

00:15:34.700 in Iran. America is most appreciative. You can just sense that there's a but coming.

00:15:39.360 Here it is. However, there will be a day soon that the Iranian people will be in charge of 1.00

00:15:43.920 their own fate, not the murderous Ayatollah's regime. In that regard, please be cautious about

00:15:49.640 what targets you select. Our goal is to liberate the Iranian people in a fashion that does not cripple

00:15:54.940 their chance to start a new and better life when this regime collapses. The oil economy of Iran

00:16:00.340 will be essential to that endeavor. Now, the color on this comes from Axios, which says Israel strikes

00:16:07.560 on 30 Iranian fuel depots Saturday went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in

00:16:13.420 advance, sparking the first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began eight days

00:16:17.380 ago, according to a U.S. official, Israeli official, and a source with knowledge.

00:16:21.180 Now, always when the U.S. and Israel or any two allies are publicly disagreeing, there is the chance

00:16:28.660 that it's just a show. It's a fake out, but they actually agree behind the scenes. This one would

00:16:32.900 suggest there is a legitimate difference of opinion, maybe a little tail wagging the dog here.

00:16:38.340 The fact that Lindsey Graham is publicly rebuking Israel, he's a major, major supporter of Israel.

00:16:43.140 He's a major, major longtime supporter of regime change in Iran. He's not exactly shy about using the

00:16:48.460 military. And he says, guys, what are we doing here? The U.S. is worried that this could backfire

00:16:57.840 strategically, according to the reporting. And these are the stakes. These are the stakes of the

00:17:03.240 war. This was my reaction the minute it happened. I've been totally consistent about this the whole

00:17:08.420 time that the talk of war in Iran has been floating around. There are two very firm camps who are making

00:17:16.680 moralistic arguments that I think are silly. On the one hand, you have the pacifists,

00:17:21.920 the people who say, you know, war is never the answer. There's no place for war. No war is just,

00:17:27.900 whatever. We should never go to war. That is not a serious position. It's not a serious moral position.

00:17:32.320 It's not a serious political position. Write that one out. Then there are the hardcore ideological

00:17:38.840 neocon types, the liberal interventionist types, the ones who say we've reached the end of history

00:17:43.680 and we need to spread our form of liberal democracy everywhere on earth. We have a moral imperative to

00:17:48.380 do it. By golly, women in some of these countries are not even allowed to get postgraduate degrees

00:17:54.220 in deconstruction and postmodernism. You know, by golly, it's outrageous. Send in the B2s. 1.00

00:18:02.560 We need to spread late 20th century liberalism all around the world. A very ideological moralist

00:18:11.300 if you get rid of that one. Then there's the people in the middle where reasonable minds can

00:18:16.540 disagree over the wisdom of the Iran campaign. That's certainly where President Trump is,

00:18:25.540 certainly where I am. And that's where I think most people are. I was talking in the lead up to

00:18:32.360 the Iran war when it became pretty clear that this was going to happen. I was asking people who were

00:18:37.200 in the know, grand strategy types, diplomats. So what do you think about this? Should we go to war

00:18:42.460 in Iran? Should we not go to war in Iran? And the most persuasive answer I heard was, well, if you could 0.93

00:18:47.060 do it quickly and successfully, then it would be good to change the regime out. But if you can't,

00:18:53.600 you shouldn't. And so I've said from the beginning, if I were on the NSC, not that anyone invited me,

00:18:59.080 but if I had been on the NSC, I would have made all the arguments I could have against the Iran

00:19:04.580 strike, not based on any particular moral argument. I think there's legal justification to go into

00:19:10.480 Iran. I would have made arguments against it because I would have said, just with publicly 1.00

00:19:16.680 available knowledge, again, government had more knowledge than I did on this, but I would have said,

00:19:21.380 well, look, I don't know that the threat from Iran is as grave as people are suggesting or as imminent.

00:19:28.480 And two, I'm not confident that we can efficiently and effectively swap out the regime in Iran to get 1.00

00:19:34.920 a more Western-friendly regime. So because of those practical, prudential, pragmatic matters,

00:19:41.700 I don't know that it's the right idea. But if you could convince me otherwise on those two points,

00:19:45.920 then I would say, yeah, it probably is a good idea. And these are the stakes here.

00:19:51.700 President Trump, taking a much more realistic view, and this comes right out of his national

00:19:56.100 security strategy, which was released last November. President Trump clearly believes

00:19:59.840 that he's the guy to do it, that he can do it. He has a great confidence in himself and in his

00:20:05.440 foreign policy and in the people that he's empowered to efficiently get rid of the Iranian regime,

00:20:10.620 regime to build up a regime there that will be more pro-Western, same sort of thing he did in

00:20:16.560 Venezuela, that won't have global fallout, that will rebuff our enemies like China and Russia, 0.97

00:20:22.500 and that will make America great again, that will help us on the world stage and give us a chance

00:20:27.000 after decades of decline in the American empire, will give us a chance to be great again.

00:20:31.980 He thinks he's the guy who can do that.

00:20:33.780 And maybe he is. He's got a pretty good record. Here, the distinction between him and, say,

00:20:41.000 George W. Bush when it comes to foreign policy is Bush wasn't that good at it, and I am good at it.

00:20:45.800 That would be the argument. But in order for that to work, things need to go perfectly. That's a really,

00:20:53.720 really tall order in the best circumstances. And in order for that to work, we need to not turn the

00:21:00.600 Iranian people against us. We need to keep public sentiment against the Islamic regime and at least 1.00

00:21:07.600 tolerating us, if not openly supportive of the United States, grateful for our mission.

00:21:13.780 And we need to make sure the country doesn't get completely destabilized,

00:21:17.140 which means that sometimes we need to rein in Israel, just like we'd have to rein in any other 1.00

00:21:24.680 ally that got a little out of control. That's the point Lindsey Graham is making. That's the point

00:21:29.780 it seems the White House is making with the leak to Axios. Those are the stakes.

00:21:37.620 If Iran, I've had to explain this to some of my friends who are deeply, deeply skeptical of the

00:21:41.980 war in Iran, who, I don't know, are quasi-isolationists. I said, no, if this works, this is the greatest 0.98

00:21:51.080 foreign policy achievement of any president since the end of the Cold War. And it's one of the greatest

00:21:55.460 foreign policy achievements, if you take the end of the Cold War out of it, of the last 100 years.

00:22:00.600 Last 80 years. But if this goes south, Trump's legacy will look like George Bush's. Those are the

00:22:09.040 stakes here. Stakes so high that you can get Lindsey Graham counter-signaling bombing Iran and

00:22:16.080 counter-signaling Israel. Shows you how high the stakes are. Okay. Now, speaking of

00:22:19.780 Republicans and conservatives who arouse the ire of lots of other conservatives and Republicans,

00:22:30.200 this guy, I don't even think you could call him either of those things anymore.

00:22:32.480 We've reached peak David Frenchism. Do you know David French? He is the never-Trumper who briefly, 0.70

00:22:40.820 I think, was running for president against Trump in 2016. It didn't work out very well.

00:22:44.220 He wrote for National Review. He was a pro-life conservative. And he said that he was going to

00:22:48.520 be the principled conservative and take a principled stance against Trump. And for the last 10 years,

00:22:53.660 he has been gradually abandoning all of those principles that he principally stood for.

00:23:00.840 Well, now we have reached peak apotheosis David French, taking to the pages of the New York Times

00:23:08.660 to make the conservative case for the Antichrist. We'll get there momentarily first. I want to tell

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00:24:29.740 This is it. It started with the principled conservative case for not voting for the

00:24:40.540 Republican in 2016. Okay. All right. There were some people who did that. They didn't want to vote

00:24:44.240 for Trump. They were worried about him. Okay. Whatever. The principled conservative case

00:24:49.120 to oppose conservative judicial nominees. The principled conservative case to vote for

00:24:56.720 Kamala. Wait, what? The principled conservative case for Joe Biden. Huh? The principled, and now we

00:25:02.640 have it. The principled conservative case for James Tallarico. We've been covering him on the show almost

00:25:08.180 every day. I know I'm breaking my own rule because I said, we got to save some James Tallarico clips

00:25:12.940 for closer to the election. He's the Democrat Senate nominee in Texas. He embraces radical

00:25:18.920 transgender ideology, mass abortion, but he does so with a slick serpentine smile and the language 1.00

00:25:26.820 of Christianity, albeit twisted to satanic purposes. And here we have David French essentially endorsing

00:25:34.060 James Tallarico. Headline, James Tallarico is a Christian x-ray. Christian x-rays. He really shows 0.93

00:25:43.360 Christianity. One, he shows real Christianity in his comportment, but two, he shows these pseudo 0.90

00:25:49.540 Christians, these MAGA Christians for the hateful hypocrites they really are. James Tallarico is a 0.99

00:25:55.360 Christian x-ray. Now, right off the bat, I want to be very fair and charitable to David in the spirit of

00:26:02.080 true Christianity, which is what we're apparently debating here. James Tallarico is an x-ray in the

00:26:08.660 sense that prolonged exposure to him could be fatal. In that way, that's the one, I got to give

00:26:13.980 him credit. Other than that, doesn't make a lot of sense. What does David write? So the part that he

00:26:20.700 breaks out in his tweet, this is from the column. If the primary American divide is between right and

00:26:26.640 left, then Tallarico isn't that interesting. There's a long history of progressive religious

00:26:31.460 activism in the United States, just as there's a long history of conservative religious activism.

00:26:35.420 Okay, that's true. Yet, if the primary American divide is between decent and indecent,

00:26:42.140 then the equation changes. Tallarico shines. Tallarico shines. Tallarico, I'll just remind you,

00:26:51.040 supports the wholesale slaughter of infants like King Herod. Tallarico further has the audacity to

00:26:56.880 claim in public on film that the Bible prescribes abortion. Not proscribes, not forbids it,

00:27:04.620 he doesn't make the observation that Christianity from the very, very beginning, from the earliest

00:27:09.140 documents we have from the apostolic age, prohibits abortion, and the church has been

00:27:13.720 unwavering, consistent in her prohibition of abortion. No, no. He says the Bible actually

00:27:19.360 tells you to do it. James Tallarico, who says that God is LGBTQ, LMNOP, God is non-binary. 0.61

00:27:28.460 James Tallarico, who cites the heretical Gnostic pseudo gospel of Thomas from the third century to 0.99

00:27:39.340 make the claim that women need penises to go to heaven. I kid you not that women need to be trans 1.00

00:27:45.020 to go to heaven. He made that claim on camera, citing an heretical Gnostic text that he further

00:27:53.300 claimed was taken out of the Bible and absurdity because it was never in the Bible because it's not

00:27:57.340 Christian. That's, that's the decent Christian to David French in the New York Times. It's a really 0.98

00:28:06.780 decent guy. You know, it's like, if you don't, what you don't understand is, what you don't

00:28:12.860 understand, you hateful MAGA hypocrite Christian, is you can call for mass infanticide, mutilating 1.00

00:28:20.400 little children, castrating them, and you can blaspheme God in the most egregious of ways, 1.00

00:28:25.480 as long as you do it with a smile and you oppose Donald Trump, that makes you a decent person.

00:28:31.260 So argues David French, but just all those things that we've seen from Tallarico,

00:28:36.860 and there are many, many more clips that go around. He says it with a smile. He says it with a smile.

00:28:42.920 He cites the Bible. We're in during this time of Lent where we meditate on the devil's temptation of

00:28:50.200 Christ in the wilderness for 40 days. We're reminded that, you know, the devil's pretty

00:28:54.840 good at citing scripture. We're very good at it, actually. Twisting scripture to perverse and

00:29:00.580 satanic ends. All those things that, that Tallarico has done that David French is so impressed by.

00:29:08.700 Let me ask you, does Tallarico sound more to you like Christ or like the Antichrist?

00:29:18.980 I'm not calling James Tallarico the Antichrist. He's not impressive enough to be the Antichrist.

00:29:24.440 But who does he sound more like? Does he sound more like Christ or does he sound more like the Antichrist?

00:29:30.040 The Antichrist. David French effectively making the conservative case for the Antichrist.

00:29:39.180 Where is, there's an amazing line in here. Yes, here it is. This is from the last paragraph.

00:29:46.080 The significance of the Tallarico moment. Not the old news that a Christian can be progressive. 0.99

00:29:54.500 Not really, but some people say that. Anyway, that's a conversation for another time.

00:29:57.680 Not the old news that a Christian can be progressive, but rather that Christian politicians

00:30:02.740 can actually act like Christians. Kindness still has a place in the public square,

00:30:09.480 even if it doesn't always seem that way. Kindness, the kindness to slaughter infants,

00:30:12.920 the kindness to castrate little kids. Kindness. You know, he's a real Christian. That's the whole

00:30:19.680 argument. It says it, I think, multiple times in here. He's a real Christian. He acts like a Christian.

00:30:25.860 Kindness. Kindness. You know, liberals, they love this kindness. They don't actually love kindness,

00:30:31.040 but they love that word kindness. You ever notice they have all these kinds of signs? Be kind. I love

00:30:35.080 kind people. Be, you know, in a world where you can be anything, be kind. It's like one of these

00:30:39.700 slogans that was going around for a while. The church, the church of kindness. Slaughter babies all

00:30:46.240 you want. Embrace radical sexual ideologies. Blaspheme God. But just, you know, 1.00

00:30:50.700 do it with a condescending smile. You know, do it with a, a simpering,

00:30:56.780 slick, oily, condescending smile. And then you're my kind of person. Oh, and to oppose Trump. You have to oppose Trump.

00:31:04.300 I don't know where French goes from here. I feel for French because I've, I've, I've held my fire on French for a while. 0.65

00:31:09.460 I've tried, you know, he and I have always got along personally, but this is,

00:31:14.020 where does it go from here? He's, he has reached the perfect form of the thing he was doing that he's been building for 10 years.

00:31:20.700 There is no place further to go. Just as the ending point of the sexual revolution of feminism and free love and gay rights,

00:31:30.400 the ending point was always going to be transing the kids because the logic of the sexual revolution 0.99

00:31:36.020 was that there's nothing that should constrain individual autonomy and men and women are basically the same.

00:31:45.340 That was the logic. And so it was going, the, the necessary logical conclusion of that is

00:31:50.660 you have autonomy even to change your own nature and a boy can be a girl. So it was always, 0.79

00:31:59.160 it was always going to get there uninterrupted. Same thing with French. We were always going to get 1.00

00:32:03.460 the conservative case for the Antichrist, but where, where does the narrative go from here?

00:32:06.600 Sure. That's it. And that way, I guess we, we owe James Tallarico a bit of gratitude. Maybe that's

00:32:11.840 the, that's the one thing that I like about him too. Okay. Speaking of blurring party lines,

00:32:18.420 great hit from Bill Maher. Great hit. Bill Maher had Adam Schiff on his show. Adam Schiff,

00:32:23.920 the insufferable Senator from California led the impeachment against Trump,

00:32:29.180 invading against Trump's supposedly illegal war in Iran. Bill Maher asked him to get a little bit

00:32:38.260 more specific about his objections. This statement from the administration,

00:32:43.440 the president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could

00:32:48.240 reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. That's too vague for you?

00:32:53.420 Totally vague. Okay. Cause that's from Obama about Libya. Well, Obama made the argument,

00:33:00.780 um, initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization. I and many others push back on

00:33:06.040 that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after, uh, Assad, even though Assad was 0.74

00:33:11.800 gassing his own people because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress. Um, but I respect the

00:33:16.980 fact that, that, uh, that was important to him and the fact that he did not have the support of

00:33:22.800 Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward. Schiff is fairly slick here. And because he,

00:33:27.820 he tries not to visibly stumble. Some people will think that he gave a good, uh, answer to the

00:33:32.460 question. However, if you listen carefully, he did not answer the question. He did not respond to

00:33:37.680 Bill Maher's point. Bill Maher says, Hey, here's a statement from the administration about the war,

00:33:44.920 right? Intentionally setting up Schiff. And Schiff says, Oh, it's totally vague,

00:33:49.060 totally vague. That's totally unacceptable. Yeah. Well, that was Obama talking about Libya,

00:33:53.580 not Trump talking about Iran. And what does Schiff do? He says, well, look, look,

00:33:58.560 Obama wanted to go into Syria. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slicky Schiff. What are you doing?

00:34:03.740 Hold on. The statement was about Libya. Bill Maher is asking you about Obama in Libya. That's the

00:34:09.900 comparison he's making. Why are you bringing Syria into this? Because Schiff is able to say,

00:34:16.340 and, you know, uh, Obama ultimately did not seriously intervene in Syria and he let ISIS

00:34:21.620 explode, but, uh, exploding growth, not explode like kaboom. Uh, he, he ultimately didn't really

00:34:27.680 go into Syria because he would have needed congressional authorization. Hold on. Go back 0.60

00:34:31.200 to the Libya thing is the Libya, the Libya thing totally blows up the Libs objections to Trump.

00:34:39.060 He says, I, I opposed Obama going into Syria. Yeah, maybe you did. Maybe you didn't. I don't,

00:34:43.040 but I sure don't remember you opposing Obama going into Libya. Remember that? And how long did

00:34:49.760 Libya go on? Trump right now is conducting military operations in Iran and everyone's debating,

00:34:56.480 is this a war? Is this not a war? Is it an overseas contingency operation? Is this legal? Is it

00:35:00.240 whatever you want to call it? It's a war in plain language, put, put it in whatever level legally as

00:35:06.280 you want. Trump has the authority to do it unilaterally because of the War Powers Act of 1973,

00:35:10.820 which gives Trump the ability to conduct this operation for 60 days. And then he can unilaterally

00:35:16.800 extend it by 50%. So he can go to 90 days, except that's not the whole story either. Because not

00:35:22.860 only did Barack Obama not seek congressional authorization for toppling the regime in Libya,

00:35:29.460 but the Libya operation went on for seven months. The president, according to the law,

00:35:37.080 has the right to do this for two months. And then he can extend it to three months.

00:35:44.660 Obama more than doubled that. Totally outside the confines of, totally illegal. Let's call it what

00:35:51.240 it is, totally illegal. And Schiff didn't say boo about it. And the Democrats didn't say boo about it.

00:35:56.500 Trump has been conducting this much more effective military operation for one week. And already,

00:36:03.400 they're calling to impeach him because of his supposedly illegal actions.

00:36:09.100 Preposterous. The thing you got to throw back in their face is Libya. And then when they try to 1.00

00:36:13.640 change a subject like Schiff did to Syria or whatever, you say, no, no, no, I want to talk

00:36:17.840 about Libya. How is it that you're objecting to President Trump conducting an operation for one week,

00:36:23.760 well within the confines of the law? You didn't say boo when Obama blew way past the law

00:36:28.960 for seven months in Libya. Okay. Now, enough about Libya and Adam Schiff and Obama. We got to get

00:36:36.920 some updates on Iran. A lot more color coming out of the White House. First though, folks, are you

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00:38:25.440 slash Knowles. My favorite comment yesterday is from The Chosen. And the commenter writes,

00:38:33.880 Brandon Gill is just Clark Kent. You know, it's funny you say that. Congressman Brandon Gill was on

00:38:40.360 the show for Friend Friday, last episode. And I've noticed this when I see, not even in person,

00:38:48.540 I've known Brandon for a decently long time, but on TV, he's got like a, I don't know what I say,

00:38:57.680 there's something, what does he look like? Why he's got a little curlicue or whatever. And I,

00:39:01.060 oh, he looks like Clark Kent. It looks like, the guy looks like Superman. That's true. That's a good

00:39:04.680 look for a politician. Okay. What's the update on Iran? Lindsey Graham thinks the Israelis have gone

00:39:11.560 too far. That's, that's always a rough sign. What does too far mean? Obviously there's a lot of

00:39:16.400 bombing of the oil facilities. There's fire bombing all over Tehran, but there was also a rumor that

00:39:22.620 the Kurds were going to go in as a ground force. And a lot of people, a lot of people said, uh-oh,

00:39:27.620 this is going to be Iraq. This is really Iraq 2.0. You've got a preemptive war justified in part on 0.97

00:39:36.240 the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East in a country that starts with the 0.97

00:39:40.100 letters IRA. And now you're arming the Kurds to fight the regime. Uh, this is deja vu all over again, 0.52

00:39:46.580 isn't it? Well, here's what the president says about the Kurds.

00:39:51.080 Some Iranians are concerned that the Kurds will carve out kind of an autonomous region as they did in 0.74

00:39:56.600 Syria and Iraq. We're not having, we're not looking to the Kurds going in. Uh, we're very 1.00

00:40:01.800 friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don't want to make the war any more complex than

00:40:06.320 it already is. No. Have you ruled that out? We don't want, yeah, I, I have ruled it out. I don't

00:40:10.420 want the Kurds going in. I don't want to see the Kurds get hurt, get killed. We've had a good 0.98

00:40:17.380 relation. They're willing to go in, but we really, I've told them, I don't want them to go in.

00:40:22.200 Do you think the map of Iran will look the same? The war is complicated enough

00:40:26.180 without having, getting the Kurds involved. I don't want the Kurds to go in. We don't want 1.00

00:40:32.280 this war getting more complicated than it already is. Combine that statement with what Steve Whitcoff

00:40:38.700 said in front of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Air Force One. They bragged about having, uh,

00:40:47.440 60% enriched fuel enough for 11 bombs. They told me and Jared, uh, we're not going to give you, uh,

00:40:55.680 diplomatically what you couldn't take militarily. So, you know, I think they're going to need a

00:41:00.340 change of attitude. So Whitcoff was the negotiator on Iran with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.

00:41:07.360 And he says, look, we were negotiating with them. And something that they did was they bragged

00:41:13.360 about how much they had enriched their uranium. And, uh, this was after the strikes on Fordo. They

00:41:19.500 said, look, we're not going to give you diplomatically what you were not able to take

00:41:23.680 militarily. The strikes over the summer set back the Iranian nuclear program, but it didn't,

00:41:28.400 it didn't totally end it. Certainly didn't end their nuclear ambitions. So they say, look,

00:41:35.740 you, you, you failed to totally destroy the program. You couldn't take it militarily. Why

00:41:41.440 would we just give it to you? You gave us your worst. Why would we give, why would we give this

00:41:45.380 up now diplomatically? This and the telling of Steve Whitcoff right in front of Trump too,

00:41:49.740 by the way. So Trump obviously has faith in Whitcoff and that was the game of chicken.

00:41:57.340 In this telling of it, the Iranians played a game of chicken with Donald Trump. 0.69

00:42:03.220 It's a very bad idea to play a game of chicken with Trump.

00:42:07.200 Look, maybe you'll win it every now and again, but then sometimes your entire regime will be

00:42:13.380 decapitated and missiles will rain down on your country for weeks and weeks and weeks.

00:42:19.580 You saw this in the first term. Sometimes Trump, he does nothing. Sometimes he drops the Moab.

00:42:27.660 Sometimes Trump, he just lets it go, lets it slide, lets it go. And then he kills your top general 0.99

00:42:32.060 and you don't know who you're getting that day, which is a key part of the Trump foreign policy.

00:42:38.140 The unpredictability. Well, here, I think you take these two statements together. What does it tell

00:42:45.620 you? It tells you Trump wants to contain the fallout from the war. He felt that he had to act.

00:42:52.900 He felt that he had to act for a bunch of reasons. And people are making all the justifications for

00:42:57.620 the war. One, they've killed American troops over the years. They have. They've killed a lot of

00:43:01.080 American troops. Two, they were pursuing a nuclear weapon. That's certainly true. They were definitely 0.82

00:43:05.060 pursuing a nuclear weapon. How close they were to it is a matter of debate, but they were definitely

00:43:09.380 pursuing a nuclear weapon. They fund terrorism around the region and around the world. That

00:43:13.800 is true. That's without question. They tried to kill Trump. We've arrested multiple people

00:43:20.440 with ties to Iran who tried to kill Trump. And the details of those are a little bit murky

00:43:27.140 because the actual Iranian instigator, the supposed Iranian instigator in the more serious

00:43:32.840 assassination attempt. That's Farhad Shaqari. He's still at large in Iran. It'd be a stronger 1.00

00:43:38.520 case if we actually had him in custody and could interrogate him. But so far, we just have a couple

00:43:42.460 of guys in New York who were supposedly approached by a guy from Iran to go kill Trump. Then we have

00:43:47.160 a Pakistani who has sort of has a tie to Iran who also tried to kill Trump. In any case, that would be 0.89

00:43:53.020 one justification for all the, but really, if we're being serious here, I think we have to put those

00:43:58.920 things aside. What the Iran war is about, even with its legal predicate, is grand strategy.

00:44:08.300 It's about China. It's about Russia. It's about defending American hegemony, American interests 0.61

00:44:14.820 around the world, and stopping America from heading into a terminal decline. That's really what it's

00:44:20.440 about. It's about making America great again, fixing a problem that has been festering for 47 years.

00:44:26.240 We gave it 47 years of diplomacy. It didn't really work. Trump is going to solve it.

00:44:31.200 But he wants to do that instrumentally into making America greater. This is not about getting women

00:44:40.880 into postgraduate studies in Iran. This is not about bringing in NGOs to spread the glories of

00:44:46.680 feminism and liberalism. This is not about the end of history. This is not about any of that. This is

00:44:50.860 about the continuation of history. This is about Trump's clear stated desire, the raison d'etre of

00:44:57.900 his entire political career, which is to make America great again. That's what this is about.

00:45:04.500 And so that's going to involve maybe reigning in the Israelis if they're being too harsh and 1.00

00:45:09.560 they're undermining the effort to wrap this war up relatively quickly so Trump can move on to other

00:45:13.340 things. But it is simultaneously the impetus behind Trump going into Iran and his desire to wrap this

00:45:23.940 up quickly and to rein it in, down to not sending in the Kurds, down to trying to preserve the oil 0.76

00:45:31.740 fields and so forth. Okay, speaking of Trump containing things, I've been teasing the story

00:45:36.580 now for two, three days. I want to get to it. Maybe I'll have to get to it tomorrow.

00:45:39.900 Because President Trump has just suggested putting Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court.

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