The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2037 - New Charlie Kirk Murder Trial Filing Is Damning For Tyler Robinson

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00:00:13.820 more to dispel falsehoods than 10,000 podcasts put together. Big new filing, though there is

00:00:19.740 still a lot of information flying around even about what that filing means in the trial of

00:00:25.100 Tyler Robinson. We will examine what the defense did say and did not say. Then, speaking of murder

00:00:30.480 cases, the defense of Lindsey Clancy, who allegedly strangled her three young children to death,

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00:00:48.660 White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt will be stepping down from the podium.

00:00:52.500 Now the race is on to find her replacement. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:02.980 Before we get to the filing in the Tyler Robinson case,

00:03:06.820 before we get to the Lindsay Clancy case,

00:03:08.500 which I don't think I've talked about on this show yet at all until now,

00:03:11.160 differently sad news coming out of the White House. Caroline Levitt, the White House press

00:03:16.660 secretary, is stepping down after over a year and a half in the role. That's a brutal job.

00:03:21.720 That job is sometimes one year in, one year out. In the case of the related job,

00:03:26.920 the White House communications director, you will recall that Mr. Scaramucci spent a solid

00:03:31.380 11 days on that job. So that's a very, very tough job. And Caroline Levitt has survived a very long

00:03:37.080 time. She's leaving on her own terms, on very good terms with the president. President writes,

00:03:42.260 our wonderful White House press secretary, one of my most trusted aides, Caroline Levitt,

00:03:46.180 will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful

00:03:49.580 young children and family. A decision I totally understand and respect. Caroline will now be one

00:03:54.600 of my top outside advisors and an influential voice within the Republican Party as we work

00:04:00.260 to defy history and conclusively win the midterms. Caroline has been a real leader in the White House

00:04:05.120 and has done a phenomenal job fighting for justice, liberty, and freedom since 2018, 1.00

00:04:08.840 including our historic re-election campaign of 2024. Caroline has been one of the best White

00:04:12.900 House press secretaries in the history of the office. Thank you, Caroline, for a job well done,

00:04:16.480 President Donald J. Trump. So true. She's really done a great job. You know, Trump has had some

00:04:22.760 really good press secretaries, but I cannot think of a White House press secretary ever

00:04:29.600 since that office was established, who has done a better job than Caroline Leavitt.

00:04:34.440 Not just because I like her personally, but the mark to me is, can you think of one

00:04:40.540 major error she's made in the role? Every press secretary has some big gaffe, some big error. 0.99

00:04:47.060 You think about Corrine Jean-Pierre. Corrine Jean-Pierre was particularly bad at the job,

00:04:51.780 but her big error, her big weakness was she couldn't speak without the binder.

00:04:57.340 So she'd have the binder in front of her.

00:04:58.840 As long as she could find the answer, she could read the words on the page.

00:05:01.620 But then whenever she was asked a question off the cuff,

00:05:03.720 it was just a word salad of gobbledygook.

00:05:05.720 She was not able to speak extemporaneously.

00:05:08.600 She was really, really bad in that role. 0.85

00:05:11.100 Really, I think the only reason that they couldn't fire her

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00:05:17.180 She was a woman. 1.00

00:05:18.200 She was black. 1.00

00:05:19.140 She was a lesbian. 1.00

00:05:19.880 She checked off truly every box during Peak Woke, 1.00

00:05:22.720 so they couldn't boot her out.

00:05:24.900 They kept having to sub in that National Security Council spokesman. Now, his name actually escapes

00:05:29.700 me at the moment. He was much better at the job, but they couldn't sub out the white guy for her.

00:05:34.200 So she was really bad. Do you think of Jen Psaki, who came before KJP? Jen Psaki, she was okay in 0.98

00:05:39.760 the role, but she would run out of answers, and then she would say she had to circle back.

00:05:44.320 Remember that? Anytime she got an even semi-tough question, she goes, we're going to have to circle

00:05:47.400 back to that one. She was pretty weak. I mean, Trump's had very good ones, but even the good

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00:05:57.380 ridiculous. But Sean Spicer said, you know, President Trump had the biggest crowd at his 0.85

00:06:01.100 inauguration. And they said, oh, actually, fact check, he had three fewer people than Obama did

00:06:06.280 and blah. And he said, well, no, but when you take into account the internet audience, the TV

00:06:10.300 audience, the global audience, and they kept trying to tie that one around his neck. But with

00:06:14.680 Caroline Levitt, can you think of one major error? She just did a great job in the role. 0.94

00:06:20.620 She looked good. 1.00

00:06:21.700 She talked good.

00:06:22.860 She knew what she was talking about.

00:06:24.620 She brought a certain softness to the role that was a little bit deceptive, actually, 0.97

00:06:29.280 because she was a real killer.

00:06:30.280 She was disciplined on message, could really twist the knife, but she did it with a smile.

00:06:35.100 She really just very, very solid.

00:06:37.160 So I think the White House is going to seriously miss her. 0.81

00:06:39.740 Now, obviously, the race is on to figure out who will replace her.

00:06:43.280 I think she's probably making the right decision.

00:06:45.640 To last in that role over a year and a half is very impressive.

00:06:48.200 She has these two young kids.

00:06:49.120 the youngest person ever to hold that role. She did a great job. I mean, she is retiring after

00:06:55.420 a perfect game. She's batting 1,000. She's got 27 strikeouts. She did a great job. I think she's 0.93

00:07:02.420 smart to do it. But the Trump White House is going to suffer as a result because she did a really

00:07:08.000 great job in that role. I hope the replacement can come close. Now to the Tyler Robinson case.

00:07:14.940 You know, I was obviously addressing this on Monday with regard to the proposed debate that I was invited to moderate.

00:07:21.220 And what I said on Monday was what I've said consistently for 10 months and caught a lot of flack from all sides of everyone for saying it.

00:07:29.220 But I pointed out, I said, the constant speculation and recriminations and emotional language and harangues and all the rest on the podcasts about the Charlie Kirk murder case.

00:07:41.920 I said they weren't really doing any good for anyone.

00:07:44.300 A lot of people had good motivations and talking about it all the time.

00:07:47.660 But I said it's not really changing opinions.

00:07:50.460 I think it's doing a lot more harm than good.

00:07:52.700 And so I would strongly recommend against it and caught a ton of flack for saying it.

00:07:57.940 But what I said on Monday was that the guilt for Charlie's murder should be adjudicated with gravity and sobriety in a court of law rather than in this endless podcast speculation.

00:08:10.580 which gets more and more fanciful, and there's more invective involved, and all the rest.

00:08:16.320 My point on Monday, what I said, I think verbatim actually, is that Tyler Robinson's defense can

00:08:21.420 make its case, and the state can make its case, and then the rest of us can comment as hard facts

00:08:27.680 come to light from the authorities on the one hand and from the accused on the other hand.

00:08:32.580 Well, just a few days later, we get some new hard facts emerging in the defense filing a legal brief

00:08:40.440 with the court after that preliminary hearing that we saw last month. And the defense is really,

00:08:46.900 really interesting here. Do we have, no, they didn't print it out for me. I need the producers

00:08:53.900 right now to print out that defense, which they did not do. But in any case, we'll start going

00:08:58.820 through the defense's argument. The defense's argument is that the state has not proved

00:09:06.360 aggravated murder because no evidence, there's no evidence that Robinson endangered others beyond

00:09:13.280 Charlie. So we had the pretrial hearing last month. This is all to determine whether or not

00:09:20.380 the case should even go to trial. We're not in the trial right now. There's been no plea. There's

00:09:25.860 been no guilty plea. There's been no not guilty plea. We are not in it right now. We're just

00:09:30.860 determining whether or not the case will go to trial. Obviously, it will go to trial,

00:09:34.380 but that's what the defense is arguing about right now.

00:09:37.400 And so what the defense said is

00:09:38.680 the state has not proved aggravated murder.

00:09:42.900 What does aggravated murder mean?

00:09:45.040 Well, what it means is the state is trying

00:09:47.000 to get the death penalty for Tyler Robinson.

00:09:49.720 Not all murder cases could lead to the death penalty.

00:09:53.500 There have to be aggravating circumstances.

00:09:55.900 In this case, one of the aggravating circumstances

00:09:58.100 is that Tyler Robinson endangered a lot of other people.

00:10:04.380 allegedly. Allegedly, when he was taking the shot from the rooftop, he was endangering all those

00:10:10.120 other people who were in the crowd committing crimes in front of children. There were a lot

00:10:13.000 of children in the crowd. And so what the defense is arguing is very narrowly that this should not

00:10:19.040 be an aggravated murder case. It could be a plain murder case perhaps, but then the state can't seek

00:10:25.220 the death penalty. The defense goes on and says, the state has failed to establish probable cause

00:10:31.560 that the shooter knowingly created a great risk of death to another other than Charlie Kirk and

00:10:38.460 himself. The state is required as a matter of law to show more than a possibility that someone else

00:10:43.920 may be killed by the defendant's conduct. Because you could say, okay, well, look, he was firing a

00:10:47.820 gun into a crowd, and so therefore he was obviously endangering other people. But what the defense is

00:10:54.800 saying is, no, no, no, it can't just be that there's a possibility he could have killed other

00:10:57.940 people, you have to show that it was likely, that there was a high probability of that result,

00:11:04.540 and that the defendant knew of that high probability. So it's not even just that

00:11:07.660 there would be a high probability that someone else could be hurt, but that the defendant had

00:11:10.840 to know about that. So the whole point is to remove the death penalty here in this case.

00:11:16.140 Now, some people are going around on the internet and saying that the defense has pled guilty.

00:11:21.340 The defense has said, yeah, Tyler Robinson committed the crime. That's not exactly right.

00:11:26.840 because when the defense is writing about Tyler Robinson here, the defense is referring to the

00:11:34.420 individual identified as Mr. Robinson. The individual identified as Mr. Robinson is next

00:11:41.620 seen doing such and such and such, but not necessarily saying he's guilty. They have not

00:11:46.680 entered a plea of guilty or not guilty yet. However, where the rub comes in and where I

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00:13:30.800 Folks, we all know that the libs think they know everything,

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00:14:09.840 about the text messages between Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs, and we'll see if the producers

00:14:16.700 can bring to me this printed copy of the filing. The communications the state admitted

00:14:23.260 between Mr. Robinson and Mr. Twiggs indicate Mr. Robinson's intention to kill Charlie Kirk.

00:14:30.860 See state evidence 16.3. Quote, I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I

00:14:37.380 took it. Here he is. Thank you, sir. That was very fast. That was very fast producing going on

00:14:44.240 as I demanded that filing to get it to me within seconds. It says, quote, this is the defense

00:14:49.020 writing this, quoting the communications that the state admitted between Robinson and Twiggs.

00:14:54.200 Quote, I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Cook, and I took it. Then the defense goes on,

00:14:59.640 there is no mention of any threat or intended harm to any other individuals. So what the state

00:15:07.260 is doing here is not saying that these texts are fake between Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs.

00:15:15.240 What the defense is doing here is not saying, Tyler Robinson never said, I had the opportunity

00:15:20.240 to take out Charlie Kirk and I took it. What the defense is doing is something much more

00:15:24.720 interesting. The defense is saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, here are these texts between Robinson and

00:15:28.620 Lance Twiggs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I

00:15:32.880 took it. And therefore that proves that he was not trying to kill other people. What the state

00:15:39.560 is saying is Tyler Robinson, what the state is alleging is that Tyler Robinson had four bullets

00:15:45.780 in that gun, in that rifle with the messages from Antifa written on it, catch this fascist or

00:15:51.380 hey fascist catch along with an Antifa anthem and other writings. So he says, well, there were four

00:15:58.060 bullets in there, he clearly was imperiling other people. And what the defense is saying is, no,

00:16:03.820 no, no, look at that text between Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs. He says, I had the opportunity

00:16:08.340 to take out Charlie Kirk and I took it. Therefore, he only wanted to take out Charlie Kirk.

00:16:13.240 Therefore, this is not a guilty plea, but what it is, is a way to argue that the state should

00:16:19.040 not seek the death penalty, that this was not aggravated murder, that if they're going to go

00:16:23.340 to trial, it should be trial for regular plain old murder, and therefore, he should not get the

00:16:28.680 death penalty. The defense filing acknowledges these texts to the trainee boyfriend about Tyler

00:16:37.420 Robinson saying that you should not say anything to the police. But the reason it's doing that is

00:16:43.140 because the state says, look, Tyler Robinson was trying to tamper with the witness. Tyler Robinson

00:16:49.560 was seeking to obstruct this investigation by telling Lance Twiggs to clam up and go get a

00:16:55.420 lawyer. And the defense is not coming in and saying, no, no, he didn't do that. No, no,

00:17:00.280 he didn't text Lance Twiggs. What the defense is doing is coming in and saying, yeah, yeah,

00:17:04.520 well, by the content of that text, you can see he was clearly not tampering with a witness.

00:17:10.120 Here's what the defense writes. Count six charges Mr. Robinson with tampering with a witness in

00:17:14.120 violation of Utah Code, Section 768508. The information alleges that Mr. Robinson committed

00:17:19.800 this offense by, quote, directing his roommate to stay silent if police questioned his roommate.

00:17:24.780 Count six must be stricken because Mr. Robinson's advice to Mr. Twiggs is consistent with the

00:17:32.040 longstanding constitutional principle that every person in this country has the right to remain

00:17:36.700 silent in the face of government interrogation. And because the context in which the allegedly

00:17:40.760 improper statement was made, demonstrates that it was, quote, purely altruistic and for Mr.

00:17:46.460 Twiggs' benefit rather than for the purpose of obstructing an investigation. Notice what the

00:17:51.320 defense is not saying. The defense is not saying count six must be stricken because Mr. Robinson's

00:17:58.400 supposed advice to Mr. Twiggs, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's saying, no, no, no. Okay, yeah,

00:18:05.140 We accept that Mr. Robinson said this to Mr. Twiggs. And therefore, he was not obstructing

00:18:11.780 an investigation. Therefore, he was not witness tampering because of what Robinson said. Not that

00:18:16.720 he didn't say it, not that this is all made up, but on the basis of what Robinson said to Mr.

00:18:22.940 Twiggs when he said, clam up, don't talk to police, go get a lawyer. Because of that, you can see

00:18:29.120 that Mr. Robinson had a purely altruistic motive, that he was encouraging Mr. Twiggs to exercise

00:18:36.080 his constitutional rights. This is a much narrower way for the defense to provide a good defense for

00:18:42.820 Tyler Robinson. And this, well, here, before we get to the broad takeaway from this, I'll just read

00:18:48.640 a little bit of these text messages that the defense is accepting here. This is on page 28,

00:18:55.360 I think it is. You can get this. I think Fox News is hosting the full filing, so you can read this

00:19:01.480 for yourself. Here is what the defense is writing. Whether an individual who is under investigation

00:19:08.800 is obstructing that investigation or providing truly altruistic advice to another requires a

00:19:12.500 context-specific analysis. Here, the conversation between Mr. Twiggs and Mr. Robinson demonstrates

00:19:17.560 that Mr. Robinson's focus was on protecting Mr. Twiggs from any fallout from the events which

00:19:22.560 had transpired, not on inducing him to obstruct an investigation. He says to Mr. Twiggs, not he

00:19:28.220 allegedly says to Mr. Twiggs, not the state alleges that he said to Mr. Twiggs, not the

00:19:33.440 state is lying when they say that he said this to Mr. Twiggs. The defense, Tyler Robinson's own

00:19:38.020 defense says, he says to Mr. Twiggs, and then here are the texts, that the defense is acknowledging

00:19:44.420 as legitimate. Quote, I am going to turn myself in willingly. One of my neighbors here is a deputy

00:19:49.720 for the sheriff. We hope to keep things sort of quiet here. I only hope they let you visit.

00:19:53.920 I'm going to miss you too. Please be good for me. If you need anything at all, both of my parents

00:19:57.480 are willing to help you. Please go to them. Leave the room alone. The feds will search it top to

00:20:01.500 bottom for certain. Then work with my family to sort it out. What goes where and such.

00:20:07.460 Mr. Robinson responded in response to Lance Twigg saying, is there any way you don't go to prison?

00:20:13.460 This is what the defense is saying. Mr. Robinson said, quote, I highly doubt it. I will update you

00:20:18.600 as much as I can. If you need a place to stay, I'm sure my family would have you in my old room.

00:20:23.360 You are all I worry about, love. This is so nauseating for like a hundred different reasons,

00:20:27.920 but we'll still read it. Don't talk to any media, please. Don't take any interviews or

00:20:31.940 make comments. I will always love you too. I will write to you as soon as possible.

00:20:35.320 I will write to you as often as possible. If any police ask you questions, ask for a lawyer,

00:20:39.540 stay silent, make sure the police follow the right procedures, proper warrants and stuff.

00:20:42.580 be polite and respectful, of course, on and on and on. Okay, so why? Why is the defense doing this?

00:20:49.840 Why is the defense not just coming out and saying, we do not accept the validity of these texts?

00:20:55.920 We do not, he's framed, he's innocent in this kind of filing. Well, one, this is the legal brief

00:21:02.160 after the preliminary hearing. They're still ostensibly trying to get the whole case thrown

00:21:06.540 out. That's not going to happen. So what they're narrowly trying to do is just reduce the severity

00:21:12.440 of the punishment that will be considered when the case goes to trial. And why are they doing

00:21:17.120 that? The reason they're doing that is because Tyler Robinson has the right to a defense.

00:21:22.940 In our justice system, the accused has a right to a defense. And the lawyers have an obligation

00:21:30.020 to provide the best defense that they can. But the best defense is not always the broadest defense.

00:21:36.840 that the broadest defense you could make,

00:21:40.640 the most ambitious defense you could make

00:21:42.240 of Tyler Robinson in this case

00:21:43.720 is not, he only intended to kill Charlie Kirk,

00:21:47.580 is not, well, he was not obstructing a witness.

00:21:50.580 He just really cares about Lance Twiggs.

00:21:52.100 The broadest defense you could make is,

00:21:54.760 oh, Tyler Robinson, he was never in Utah.

00:21:57.520 He's never been in Utah,

00:21:58.620 so he couldn't have committed the crime.

00:22:00.880 Yeah, no, those texts can't be legit

00:22:02.280 because he's never met Lance Twiggs.

00:22:04.800 Tyler Robinson, he's never held a gun.

00:22:06.840 He's never even seen a gun. Therefore, this is all ridiculous. That's the broadest defense you 0.97

00:22:12.020 could make. That would not be the best defense that you could make. It's not the best defense

00:22:15.460 you could make because it's totally implausible. So the best defense that Tyler Robinson's lawyers

00:22:22.160 can make for him right now is probably this one. It's probably to say, okay, well, let's make sure

00:22:28.160 it's not aggravated murder so that the death penalty is not on the table. Let's try to reduce

00:22:33.020 some of these other charges. So he wasn't obstructing the investigation. He wasn't

00:22:37.120 tampering with the witness. Let's try to reduce the charges as much as they can be by dealing

00:22:42.120 with reality, the reality that we accept. For example, that these texts were actually sent.

00:22:49.480 If we can deal in reality, we might be able to actually provide the best possible defense for

00:22:54.820 our client, meaning he might not fry. He might not be killed by the state. That's what the defense

00:23:02.780 is doing here. It's not a guilty plea. You're not going to get that for a while. This case is

00:23:08.220 really dragging out. But they will decide very shortly as we come up on the one-year anniversary

00:23:13.700 of Charlie's murder. They will decide whether or not this goes to trial. It certainly will.

00:23:19.260 And then you'll hear the defense's arguments. But you've already begun to see some of the

00:23:24.940 defense's arguments, the angles that they're going to take. And apropos of what we were talking about

00:23:28.780 on Monday. This is going to do infinitely more to clear the air, show people the facts of the

00:23:38.620 case. This is going to do infinitely more than idle speculation and accusations and provocations

00:23:46.140 and recriminations and highly emotional language coming from podcasters. The only thing, if public

00:23:52.220 opinion will be swayed at all, and there will always be some degree of public opinion that

00:23:56.560 will not be swayed by anything. But if public opinion is to be swayed at all,

00:24:00.500 it's going to be swayed by the arguments that are made in a sober and grave way in a court of law.

00:24:09.100 Not only by the state, it's not that you just have to believe the government,

00:24:12.800 but also by the defense. That's what will move it. And I think that if we can avoid

00:24:19.980 spinning our wheels and dissipating a lot of energy and allowing ourselves to speculate in

00:24:27.980 such a way that it can lead to even greater injustice. If we can just kind of focus on the

00:24:33.480 facts and deal with the facts as they come in, in the proper channels from the defense,

00:24:39.840 which has the strongest motive of anyone to try to get Tyler Robinson off the hook,

00:24:44.820 that is going to do a lot more good. That is one of the purposes of our system of justice,

00:24:51.920 which any system of justice is going to be imperfect, but we have one nonetheless. We

00:24:56.260 have one for a reason. That is probably going to do the most good. And we're seeing that.

00:25:02.760 Every time, in this case, it drags on and on and on. Every time that something new actually happens,

00:25:09.020 it does infinitely more to clear the air and sharpen the perspective of what actually happened

00:25:14.700 on that very terrible day than idle chatter on podcasts. Okay. Now let's turn to the Lindsay

00:25:20.920 Clancy murder case, this woman who allegedly killed her three kids. First though, a dark 0.97

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00:26:37.560 Together, we can save lives one heartbeat at a time. Lindsay Clancy. I've not talked about the

00:26:42.600 Lindsay Clancy case, I don't think ever on this show. Lindsay Clancy is on trial for murdering

00:26:48.160 her three kids. She allegedly strangled her three young kids to death three years ago in Massachusetts.

00:26:54.760 Her kids were five years old, three years old, and eight months old. Really little kids.

00:27:00.900 Lindsay Clancy had sent her husband out of the house to run some errands. She then went up and

00:27:08.420 strangled her kids to death and then jumped out of a second story window to try to kill herself. 1.00

00:27:14.060 But she didn't kill herself. She paralyzed herself from the waist down, but she didn't 0.97

00:27:18.020 actually kill herself. So she's pled not guilty to the first degree murder charges in this trial.

00:27:23.900 And her defense, her defense is not that Lindsay Clancy didn't do anything. Her defense is not

00:27:29.420 some super broad thing. She was framed. She was set up. It's all fake. No, no, no. Her defense is

00:27:34.960 that she was suffering with postpartum psychosis

00:27:39.720 and crucially that she was under the influence

00:27:42.060 of psychiatric meds.

00:27:44.320 Clancy was a former labor and delivery nurse,

00:27:46.300 makes it even darker.

00:27:48.200 So what are some facts that we're getting now?

00:27:50.660 Here's one new fact.

00:27:51.820 Lindsay Clancy had messaged one of her caregivers

00:27:55.140 two months, less than two months

00:27:57.340 before she allegedly murdered her three young kids

00:27:59.800 to say that she was having, quote,

00:28:01.640 intrusive thoughts I never had before.

00:28:03.880 quote, feeling completely hopeless and that she was worried about becoming addicted to the drugs.

00:28:10.520 So what's the political import of this case? Obviously, there's a lot of political import

00:28:14.560 to the murder of Charlie. In this case, though, is there political import or is it just a really

00:28:19.720 sad case about a mom who murdered her kids? In other words, is it a really dark crime case that

00:28:25.260 people can follow out of curiosity, morbid curiosity about true crime? Or is there political

00:28:31.140 import. I think there is political import because the case is about the drugs. Her defense is I was

00:28:37.240 taking all these psych drugs. I had this underlying condition. I was taking a bunch of psych drugs

00:28:41.020 and the drugs made me do it. And the political import is one in four American women is on psych 0.51

00:28:48.800 drugs. One in four American women today, 24.9%, I think the number is, is on psych drugs, some kind

00:28:56.660 a psych drug today. There are a bunch of men on psych drugs too, but the number is way, way lower

00:29:02.020 than that. It's really the women, one in four American women on these psych drugs. And the

00:29:07.800 psych drugs have all sorts of negative effects. I'm not, I'm not disputing that the psych drugs

00:29:11.420 have negative effects. You see this whenever you see it in the commercials, you're watching a

00:29:14.100 baseball game, the commercial comes on. Are you feeling sad sometimes? Well, how about you take

00:29:19.340 a bunch of drugs? Side effects include suicide. Say, well, hold on. I'm feeling sad. I'm feeling 0.88

00:29:25.560 like a little bit sad, and you're telling me I need to take this drug, the side effect of which 0.97

00:29:29.460 might be that I kill myself. Side effect is worsening depression. Hold on, I'm taking the

00:29:34.840 drug to cure my depression. You're telling me a side effect is worsening depression. And you might

00:29:39.340 kill yourself and try to kill everyone you love. Take this drug. Okay, back to the baseball game. 1.00

00:29:46.140 You say, well, that doesn't make a lot of sense. But all these women are on the drugs. 1.00

00:29:50.340 And I know that these drugs have really negative side effects. A personal friend of mine killed 0.97

00:29:55.400 herself some years ago now, two weeks after starting some of these drugs. I guess she was

00:30:01.500 kind of sad or kind of anxious, but not severely so. Started taking these drugs, two weeks later,

00:30:07.000 she kills herself. And the pharma companies wouldn't even dispute that there could be a

00:30:11.840 connection with the drugs. They tell you that in the commercials. They tell you, yeah, one side

00:30:15.040 effect is you might kill yourself. Or in this case, what the defense is arguing for Lindsay Clancy is,

00:30:19.860 yeah, one side effect of these drugs is you might kill all of your little kids and then try to kill 0.99

00:30:24.340 yourself. So the political question we have to ask ourselves is, is it right that we allow one

00:30:33.820 in four American women to take these drugs? Because if, I don't think the legal defense 0.96

00:30:37.300 is going to work, but if the legal defense can be, yeah, you're not responsible for your own

00:30:40.940 actions when you take drugs that a quarter of Americans, that a quarter of American women are

00:30:44.120 on, then we have a major crisis of justice. We cannot live in a society where one in four people

00:30:52.000 can kill you at any time and say, oopsie-daisy, the big pharma made me do it. And then there's

00:30:58.060 an even deeper question, which is, why are the women on all of these drugs? 1.00

00:31:04.180 And the answer to that is, this will get me in a little bit of trouble, but women have always 1.00

00:31:09.580 been kind of crazy. Men have their own issues too, but women are crazy in a different way and 1.00

00:31:14.380 more severely so. They are. Back in the 50s, they were taking Valium, you know, when we were 1.00

00:31:20.560 drinking over. And we as a society encourage women to drug themselves. And we encourage 1.00

00:31:28.840 crazy medical interventions. We give them, what was the thing where we used to scramble up their

00:31:32.900 brains? Lobotomies. When women got a little hysterical, as they sometimes do, we would just 0.90

00:31:37.160 scramble up their brains. And we said, well, that's too bad. We're not going to stick a needle 1.00

00:31:41.220 up your nose and scramble up your brain anymore. We're just going to do it through a drug. We're

00:31:44.740 going to stick a pill in your mouth, and then that's going to scramble up your brain. 0.56

00:31:50.560 And so the deeper question here is, should we really be doing that? Why are the women 1.00

00:31:54.620 so upset? There's always, you know, it's a fallen world. People are always a little upset, 1.00

00:31:58.720 I guess. But why now? There's a study that I go back to frequently in debates on feminism,

00:32:05.920 which came out of Yale a while ago now, 2008, 2009, which said that over the last,

00:32:13.060 at that point, 50 or so years, 40 years, women and men had both gotten less happy.

00:32:18.940 but women had especially become unhappy. Women's happiness had declined both in absolute terms and

00:32:25.320 relative to men. And the reason that matters with feminism is that corresponds to the exact period 0.98

00:32:31.520 since second wave feminism kicked off, since the real feminism, Gloria Steinem, 0.96

00:32:36.260 woman needs a man like a fish, needs a bicycle, burn your bras kind of feminism. 1.00

00:32:39.200 So they said, this was a paradox of declining female happiness. How is it? Women's life, 1.00

00:32:43.420 they've gotten more rights. They've gotten, they've come up in society. They've broken 1.00

00:32:47.020 in the glass ceiling. How is it possible? It's so crazy that they would have gotten less happy.

00:32:51.580 And for a normal person, you would say, yeah, I know correlation is not causation, but 1.00

00:32:55.560 feminism is terrible. And the fact that as feminism progressed, women got miserable is 1.00

00:33:00.900 totally logical to me. I would totally expect that. But a deeper question for society is why 1.00

00:33:07.540 are all the women so crazy now? We are constantly told that things are better for women than they've 1.00

00:33:13.800 ever been. But women are drugging themselves at rates that we've never seen. And then when things 1.00

00:33:20.180 go haywire, and they kill their kids, and they try to kill themselves, we say, well, it's the

00:33:23.700 drug's fault. Well, let's just rewind a little bit. Why are they taking the drugs in the first

00:33:27.200 place? In other words, there is an intervention that we can engage in that's not just applying

00:33:33.540 women with pills. But people don't want to have that conversation. Maybe there are real stressors

00:33:42.160 to women in the modern society. 0.99

00:33:45.780 Maybe it really is tough for women to have it all. 0.97

00:33:48.360 Maybe there is a real stress that women are expected 1.00

00:33:50.480 not only to take care of little kids, 1.00

00:33:53.020 not only to keep a home,

00:33:54.680 not only to do the dishes and make the dinner,

00:33:57.060 clean the house, but also to go to work

00:33:59.420 and work for eight to 10 hours a day.

00:34:01.320 And also to try to be exactly like men, 1.00

00:34:03.900 but to also have the traditional female role. 0.99

00:34:06.840 And yeah, maybe in a way, 1.00

00:34:08.400 maybe the feminists are right about diagnosing that problem. 1.00

00:34:11.020 not about their prescription for it whether we're talking about the drugs or we're talking about the 1.00

00:34:15.120 behavior but yeah maybe something's really wrong with women and it's not just women's fault it's 0.90

00:34:20.380 because there's something really wrong with society maybe we need to reconsider some of

00:34:26.880 the old traditions the traditional gender norms the traditional understanding that men and women

00:34:31.840 are different and understanding that totally went out the window with transgenderism maybe 0.81

00:34:35.880 we need to go back and accept that and realize that progressive liberalism is terrible and 0.97

00:34:40.080 feminism is terrible. Liberalism itself has lots of problems in as much as it encourages people to 0.88

00:34:46.720 rebel against nature. And maybe we need to accept a much older, deeper understanding of human nature

00:34:53.120 and politics. And we're not just going to paper over the problems with pills, because even when

00:34:59.160 you do that, it can lead to disastrous effects. Side effects include homicide and suicide. Okay.

00:35:04.240 Speaking of that transgender ideology, Abdul al-Sayed. Abdul is doubling down. He wants to 0.95

00:35:09.780 trans the kids. We'll get to that in a second. First though, my favorite comment yesterday is

00:35:14.860 from Ethan Coonan, who says, I introduced my fiance to this show a couple of years ago when

00:35:20.360 she was more liberal. Now, when I come home about the first thing I hear is, did you listen to

00:35:26.120 Michael Knowles today yet? We get married in two weeks. You're a lucky man, my friend. We got to

00:35:30.820 find you some Mayflower cigars. We got to, you're a lucky man. You're like the opposite of that poor

00:35:36.180 schlubby groom who went viral the other day when his wife nearly had a sort of panic attack because

00:35:44.380 the officiant at their wedding called her by his name. You're the opposite. You're going to have

00:35:49.900 a great marriage. You know that? You picked a winner. We got to get you a Mayflower. Okay,

00:35:54.780 folks, we have another episode of Friendly Fire tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern. It's actually the

00:35:57.880 first I'm hearing about that. Tune in live on The Daily Wire or watch it the next day wherever you

00:36:01.560 get your podcasts. If you haven't watched Friendly Fire yet, it is a show where we argue with each

00:36:05.420 other for your entertainment. No moderator, no safe words. Don't miss it. Okay. Abdul El-Sayed

00:36:11.160 wants to trans the kids. This relates not only to the confusion of men and women. This relates

00:36:18.160 also to inappropriately prescribing drugs to people. Here is Abdul El-Sayed,

00:36:22.680 Democrat nominee for Senate on some podcast. Healthcare should be a choice made by a patient

00:36:29.860 and their doctor. If that patient is under the age of 18, the parents as well, right?

00:36:35.420 And I believe that Medicare for all should cover all health care, which is defined by what a patient needs in accordance with their doctor.

00:36:46.580 So that includes reproductive rights, right?

00:36:49.540 That includes gender-affirming care. 1.00

00:36:52.960 Yeah, we need to trans the kids. 1.00

00:36:55.380 Woke 2.0. 1.00

00:36:56.080 Woke 2.0 looks a lot like Woke 1.0, doesn't it?

00:36:59.180 They haven't learned a thing. 0.60

00:37:00.300 They haven't changed a single opinion on immigration, on the political order, on patriotism, on marriage, on the family, even on transing the kids.

00:37:11.220 They're exactly the same, which is why Republicans need to lean into this issue harder than ever.

00:37:20.280 A lot of Republicans, especially if you're really tied in, if you pay attention politically, you're going to say, oh, it's like beating a dead horse.

00:37:25.980 We won the trans fight.

00:37:27.340 It was a hard fought, but we won the trans fight. 0.98

00:37:29.020 Now we can move on. 0.99

00:37:30.300 we can't move on. We shouldn't move on anyway, but we can't move on because the left won't move

00:37:36.980 on. The left has not given up. And in a fight, your opponent gets a say. In a war, your opponent

00:37:41.440 gets a say. That's what we're dealing with in Iran right now. And they won't give it up. They 0.96

00:37:46.820 won't give it up even though they know it's politically toxic because it is the necessary

00:37:50.940 logical outgrowth of their ideology. And we can't give it up because they won't give it up. And we

00:37:56.140 shouldn't give it up because it's one of our best political winners. What are we going to run on in

00:37:59.800 the midterms. Are we going to run on foreign policy right now that we're in this protracted

00:38:04.760 war with Iran? Probably not. Are we going to run on affordability? That's the Democrats'

00:38:09.660 favorite slogan. That's what they're going to try to run on. And I think a lot of their

00:38:13.340 arguments are specious, but they're going to win that fight right now. Are we going to run on

00:38:19.100 the mass deportations? We've got some real wins on the mass deportations, 0.99

00:38:23.860 but it's never going to be enough for what people want because the Democrats let the

00:38:27.020 problem gets so bad? What are we supposed to run on? We can't run against the party in power. We

00:38:33.500 are the party in power. Are we going to run on tax cuts? To some degree that might work, but it's not

00:38:38.980 going to be enough. This is a very potent issue. And the fact that Abdul El-Sayed is continuing to

00:38:45.840 embrace it is really helpful. Just force the Democrats on this issue. The Dems clearly think

00:38:52.620 it is better to make Abdul El-Sayed look like a pro-trans groomer than it is to make him look

00:39:00.140 like a jihadi, which is the other way to attack him. Say he's Islamic. He wants Sharia law in 0.98

00:39:05.900 America. This is a takeover of a hostile civilization that's been trying to conquer 1.00

00:39:09.540 us for 1,400 years. They clearly think that's a bigger liability than the trans stuff. 1.00

00:39:13.860 Okay, so you message differently to different groups, but then give them that fight. Double 0.82

00:39:18.400 down on the trans stuff. Speaking of the Islamic issue, though, let's not forget we have the Daily 1.00

00:39:24.500 Wire's new Red Dawn coming out. This is the second movie after Run, Hide, Fight 1. We have Run,

00:39:30.160 Hide, Fight Infidels, which is the Red Dawn for 2026, where a bunch of Muslims take over 1.00

00:39:36.560 university. Do we have the trailer? Do we have the trailer? No. This is unbelievable. This is so 1.00

00:39:44.700 one. Mr. Davies, my producer, gets in my ear. He says, hey, tease the run, hide, fight trailer

00:39:49.040 since you're talking about Muslims. I say, okay, I'll tease the trailer. Do you have the trailer? 1.00

00:39:52.280 No. What do I, I don't know. Maybe the Muslims should take over, all right? Because they dot

00:39:58.280 their T's and cross their I's. No, I'm joking. I don't want them to take over. And I don't want

00:40:01.900 the pro-trans people to take over either. And we seem to have a unity of those things in the

00:40:06.580 Democrat party. Okay. Speaking of weird, creepy grooming from Muslim Democrat politicians,

00:40:12.000 really niche, really narrow. Bizarre new program from New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. Mamdani 0.59

00:40:20.540 is announcing this new pilot program called Parents' Night Out in New York City. And what

00:40:27.300 is Parents' Night Out in New York City? It's a, quote, one-night drop-off program that gives

00:40:31.720 parents and caregivers the opportunity to enjoy an evening to themselves while children participate

00:40:37.160 and supervised fun at select New York City parks, recreation centers across the five boroughs.

00:40:42.760 So what is the actual program? The program is you, you go and you drop your little kids off

00:40:49.800 with random city employees in a park and you just leave them and then you go away

00:40:56.420 and it's never been done before. And then you come back and your kids, your kids will be great.

00:41:02.600 Don't worry. They're without, just leave them with us. We, no, we have candy. We have puppies.

00:41:06.100 They're like literally saying that.

00:41:07.180 No, we have candy and puppies. 0.96

00:41:08.180 Leave your kids with us in the park.

00:41:09.860 And then you go somewhere else.

00:41:12.420 And now you might say, well, okay,

00:41:13.900 parents do this all the time when it comes to school,

00:41:16.040 when it comes to public school.

00:41:17.780 That's true.

00:41:19.060 Public school also does have very elevated rates

00:41:21.400 of abusive children,

00:41:22.680 much higher than not only the Catholic church,

00:41:25.060 which has been attacked for that for decades now,

00:41:27.880 like twice the rate of any priestly abuse,

00:41:31.660 which is on par with the abuse of other religions.

00:41:33.840 That's another topic.

00:41:35.100 But, yeah, the public schools double that rate of anything you're seeing in any religious community.

00:41:41.680 But that is actually a concern.

00:41:43.520 But furthermore, at the very least, the schools are a place that have been designed and regulated for many decades to protect kids with people whose job it is specifically to protect kids.

00:41:54.280 In the parents' night out, what Mamdani is saying is, hey, leave your kids with a random parks employee.

00:41:59.960 drop your kids off in the park to have candy and play with puppies and then you go away

00:42:06.680 doesn't seem great uh on top of that you have mom donnie and all the rest of them

00:42:14.180 who are openly campaigning on perverting your kids openly campaigning on convincing your kid

00:42:21.600 that he's the opposite sex on plying your kid with drugs you want to talk about inappropriate drugs 0.72

00:42:26.000 plying your kid with drugs, cross-sex hormones that will permanently disfigure him and shorten 0.82

00:42:30.980 his life and pervert him and speak directly to his sexuality down to kindergarten. That's like 0.81

00:42:39.400 pretty creepy. I don't think I would be doing that. And you get the broader point that the

00:42:44.180 left wants beyond the, I think, legitimate accusations of perversion on the left. You get

00:42:49.020 the broader point, which is the left really wants to separate you from your kids. Have you noticed

00:42:54.900 that, the left is fanatical about separating you from your kids. From the moment your kid is

00:43:02.360 conceived, the left relentlessly is propagandizing you to kill your kid, to permanently separate you 1.00

00:43:08.740 from your kid. As a matter of empowerment, as a matter of rights, you just saw the governor of 0.98

00:43:13.240 Massachusetts sign a law cheering with a bunch of witches around her. In Massachusetts, I guess

00:43:18.260 that's fitting, saying how wonderful it is that now women get to kill their kids right up until 1.00

00:43:23.000 the moment of birth. So you get that. And then the libs are always trying to push. Go to school 1.00

00:43:29.720 a little earlier. Go to daycare. We'll pay for the daycare. Don't worry. Drop your kid off. Get

00:43:33.900 away from your kid. Go to work. Go do something else. Go have a night to yourself. Bring your 0.99

00:43:39.560 kid to start. And it used to be in first grade at age six. Then came kindergarten at age five.

00:43:44.660 Then there was pre-K at age four. Now there's pre-K three at age three. In New York City,

00:43:49.440 you can drop your kid off at preschool at age two. And then they want to keep your kid for longer.

00:43:56.880 Everyone's got to go to college, even if it's a bad decision, even if your kid's not really fit

00:44:00.020 for college, even if the colleges don't offer anything to your kid. Everyone's got to go to

00:44:03.180 college. And then, you know, maybe go to graduate school. Maybe go get a master's degree. Maybe get

00:44:07.620 a few master's degrees. Maybe get a PhD. The libs, through the mechanism of their state apparatus,

00:44:13.220 are trying to take your kids for as long as possible

00:44:17.420 because they view you as a threat.

00:44:21.220 The chief threat to the left is the family, full stop.

00:44:25.680 That is true today.

00:44:27.100 That has always been true.

00:44:29.040 And so they try to attack the family.

00:44:32.760 I was just, I just sat down with Cardinal Burke,

00:44:34.980 who one of the truly great church men of our age

00:44:37.680 or of any age.

00:44:38.760 Cardinal Burke, that interview, it's an off the clock.

00:44:41.500 So we take a lot of your questions in it.

00:44:42.860 that interview will be coming out shortly. But Cardinal Barca said, we have to be willing to

00:44:47.420 be martyrs to defend the family. Not just martyrs generally for the faith, but he says,

00:44:54.520 something that we need to be prepared for as a proximate cause of martyrdom is the defense of

00:44:58.920 the family. The fact that the left has been fanatical about redefining the family,

00:45:04.740 allowing people to purchase children, promoting divorce, which separates parents from children.

00:45:10.120 obviously the surrogacy industry separating children from the from their natural mothers

00:45:15.440 and from the only mother they know the surrogate it's this it's this sense of entitlement that we

00:45:21.720 have a right to your kids give us your kids what did one of these candidates said you know look we

00:45:27.740 rely we rely on the state we rely on the family to raise kids i was covering on the show just the

00:45:33.560 other day we rely on the family to raise kids but like you know there are kids very very creepy okay

00:45:38.660 I want to get to, so much more I want to get to, because Marco Rubio just had a magnificent

00:45:43.040 interview on Katie Miller's podcast. Really, really good. It was great. He was so real for it.

00:45:49.760 I'm just going to get to it. I'll at least get to part of it. I can't help, because,

00:45:53.480 look, obviously, I've supported President Trump since 2016. Big fan. Big fan of the ad. Haven't

00:45:59.840 turned on the admin. He's the greatest president of my lifetime. I love the MAGA coalition. I love

00:46:05.880 that it brought back in the working class. I love that it's brought in some racial minorities. I

00:46:09.840 love that it's retaken over the common sense. I love all of it. There's one part of it though

00:46:13.720 that I can't get totally into, which is the Maha stuff. I mean, look, I like that we brought in

00:46:18.660 the Maha voters, but I'm not one of these guys. I say, what do we have to do now? I can't. I have 1.00

00:46:24.820 to get a special water filter installed on my shower in case the bad rusty water ever touches

00:46:32.460 my precious little forehead. And I got to, I can't eat the regular hot dog. I got to eat some

00:46:36.940 other kind of hot dog and I can't eat carbs. And I got to do this. I don't know. It's too much.

00:46:41.900 It's too much for me. Okay. And, but the whole administration is, oh no, we really,

00:46:46.160 we're doing all the stuff that Bobby Kennedy tells us to do, whatever. Marco Rubio was just

00:46:49.540 asked about this, about the Maha diet. And he was so real for his answer.

00:46:53.740 I'm in favor of Maha.

00:47:23.240 Like, I think people should be healthy.

00:47:24.580 No, he is not.

00:47:24.900 Preach.

00:47:25.160 But I think ultimately at the end-

00:47:26.700 He is completely not.

00:47:27.840 What's he eat?

00:47:28.660 Pop-tarts.

00:47:29.600 No, I don't eat pop-tarts every day.

00:47:31.440 Okay, you eat sweets.

00:47:32.860 The pop-tart is one of the great American innovations

00:47:34.940 in history of the world.

00:47:36.160 If you think about it,

00:47:36.820 it comes in this beautiful foil package.

00:47:38.200 He eats all the things you should not be eating.

00:47:39.800 Every single thing.

00:47:41.280 Preach.

00:47:41.740 He's so real for it.

00:47:43.440 And it doesn't even,

00:47:44.080 this doesn't even seem scripted.

00:47:46.280 Sometimes, more than sometimes,

00:47:47.920 politicians in their little repartee with their wife,

00:47:51.180 it seems kind of scripted.

00:47:52.480 it's perfectly focused group too. But here he is actually contradicting all of his friends and

00:47:57.080 colleagues. And everyone's been towing this line, oh no, Bobby Kennedy. No, this is right. Yeah,

00:48:02.600 we can only ever eat sauerkraut. I like sauerkraut. I'm a New Yorker. I think a hot dog is only

00:48:06.020 appropriate with mustard and sauerkraut on it. But come on, for every meal, what are we talking

00:48:09.520 about? And I can't have a bowl of pasta? What? Come on. And they all do it. And I get it if you

00:48:14.540 want to lose weight, if you want to, if you're, I don't know if you're a real health nut, but for

00:48:18.700 most people, come on, man, give me a break. And they all tow the line and the rubia comes out.

00:48:23.740 He goes, no, it's ridiculous. I'm the secretary of state. I'm not going to travel around with 0.93

00:48:27.800 coolers full of sauerkraut. This is too much. This is precious. Okay. It's actually, it's actually,

00:48:33.360 he doesn't say this, but this is a form of gluttony. We think of gluttony as just when

00:48:37.320 you stuff your face with lots of candies and sweets. Another form of gluttony is being a

00:48:41.280 picky eater. Like anorexia in a weird way is kind of a form of gluttony in the sense that

00:48:46.500 you were just you're making an idol out of food and you're you're misplacing a love there and

00:48:51.520 you're being too picky and you shouldn't it's not that you should just be like a big fatso stuff in

00:48:54.580 your face all the time which i do sometimes but it's you you you just don't want to be too precious

00:48:58.800 about it you don't want to make an idol out of food and so rubio comes out he's like nah man i'm

00:49:03.060 not doing that it's weird i'm not doing it it's not what do you eat and the wife says he eats pop

00:49:07.520 tarts and then he i don't eat pop tarts it'd be like the cutesy scripted version would be he eats

00:49:12.760 Pop-Tarts. Well, you know, I like a little Pop-Tart every now and again. But it's realer

00:49:17.200 than that. He comes out and goes, I don't eat Pop-Tarts all the time. But Pop-Tarts are one

00:49:21.000 of the great American inventions. It's so easy. It's so delicious. He's real for that. Thank you.

00:49:25.560 I appreciated that, Mr. Secretary. I appreciated that because I can't pretend.

00:49:34.100 I love, this is what I say about Trump. Trump's not the most Maha guy in the world, obviously, 0.78

00:49:38.820 but uh which he's very real for too but the trump administration it's right like 99.789

00:49:46.040 percent of the time 0.67 percent of the time and but occasionally there's a little you know i

00:49:51.140 thought that first step act was a little it was a little weak on crime i didn't love that you know

00:49:54.740 but but it's it's right basically all the time but one of the discordant features is is all the

00:50:00.940 crazy maha stuff i don't thank you i feel like i'm being gaslit sometimes and the rubio comes out

00:50:06.860 from the top of the rope, and I agree.

00:50:08.440 I totally agree, Mr. Secretary.

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00:50:36.860 Against the Americans and the Zionists from the scourge of secularism and the lands of unbelief

00:50:49.400 Anyone gonna listen to Captain Saunders tomorrow? The retired Delta Force soldier with a new book out

00:50:54.960 He's the polar opposite of those brain-dead protesters. Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?

00:51:01.120 Mr. Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman. This is a decision I cannot find.

00:51:05.700 There are three ways Islam will conquer the West. 1.00

00:51:10.560 Through immigration, through the wombs of our women, 1.00

00:51:16.980 and by using our nation's freedoms against us. 1.00

00:51:24.760 Are you paying attention?

00:51:32.600 Listen carefully.

00:51:35.700 the great satan america will fall 1.00

00:51:40.580 you are infidels the bodies of women are not pure and the men's souls are unclean 1.00

00:51:51.700 what makes them so dangerous their goals are not in this life but the next 1.00

00:51:59.660 anyone

00:52:03.340 we got friends here i can't just leave listen to me in the law we cannot run or hide from what 0.97

00:52:10.820 is coming we have to fight i will be rewarded 10 000 times in the next life when you die

00:52:17.980 you're nothing only one way to find out 0.74

00:52:20.600 that's the american way

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