The Michael Knowles Show - August 14, 2026


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00:01:19 issued the report to discuss how to hold the bad guys to account. Then, speaking of holding the
00:01:24 bad guys to account. The DOJ arrests the CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center in what I think
00:01:30 is one of the most important acts of either Trump administration, Trump one, Trump two.
00:01:35 This is what it's about. We will examine the importance of arresting our enemies. And finally,
00:01:41 brace yourselves, AOC, for the first time, officially leads the pack of 2028 Democrat
00:01:47 presidential candidates. You heard it here first, and I'm sorry to say that. I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:51 This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.97
00:01:54 welcome back to the show speaking of fraud there is a massive chinese marriage fraud ring also that 0.60
00:02:18 has been uncovered and that is bad enough immigration fraud is bad enough you know
00:02:22 people pretending to get married or money changing hands, in this case, hundreds of
00:02:26 thousands of dollars, $100,000 per to get these fake marriages to allow Chinese nationals to
00:02:32 come to the United States. But it is really compounded in our country because of the abuse
00:02:36 of birthright citizenship. So a major, a glaring loophole in our system of national sovereignty.
00:02:43 We'll get to all of it first, though. Our sponsor, Kalshi, currently has AOC at, now she's running
00:02:50 neck and neck with Gavin Newsom. As of about an hour ago, she was running ahead of him. This is
00:02:55 the first time that AOC is running officially at the top of the presidential race in the prediction
00:03:02 markets. AOC at 22%, Newsom at 17%, Ossoff at 15%, Kamala at seven, Buttigieg at five,
00:03:09 Josh Shapiro at five. Now, since this news broke, it's evened out a little bit. So AOC and Newsom
00:03:16 both tied at 17%, Ossoff behind them, Kamala Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro. When I say you heard
00:03:22 it here first, I mean, you heard on the show when I was interviewing the vice president,
00:03:27 his prediction or his observation that AOC was leading the pack. And I was kind of shocked. I
00:03:33 said, oh, I thought you'd say Newsom or Ossoff or one of these people. He said, no, no, she's
00:03:36 clearing away the front runner. And now the numbers are beginning to reflect that. This after AOC
00:03:42 very publicly films herself freezing her eggs, which might as well be a presidential announcement.
00:03:48 She seems to have broken up with her fiance. So anyway, she's making very significant moves,
00:03:53 which are signaling that she wants to run for president. And people are going to laugh it off.
00:03:58 I wouldn't laugh it off. Do you remember what everyone was laughing off in 2016?
00:04:04 They were laughing off the idea that Donald Trump would get the Republican nomination for president. 0.99
00:04:08 He's crazy. 1.00
00:04:10 He's too brash. 1.00
00:04:11 He's too radical.
00:04:12 He's, no, there's no way that he could. 0.97
00:04:14 And then he just kept leading the race.
00:04:17 And then he got the nomination.
00:04:19 And then do you remember what people laughed off?
00:04:20 They laughed off that Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton.
00:04:23 And then what happened?
00:04:25 He won at least two presidential elections, maybe a third, and defined a decade of American politics.
00:04:31 Do not laugh this off.
00:04:34 Do you know why AOC is leading the pack right now for the Democrats?
00:04:36 because she represents the Democrat party 0.82
00:04:40 better than any of the other candidates.
00:04:42 That's why. 0.69
00:04:43 Yeah, she's really good at the camera. 1.00
00:04:44 Yeah, she looks better than some of the other candidates. 1.00
00:04:47 She definitely looks better on a magazine cover 0.99
00:04:49 than Josh Shapiro.
00:04:50 But the real reason is that she better reflects
00:04:54 the Democrat voters.
00:04:56 The Democratic socialists are more popular
00:04:58 than the Democrat members of Congress
00:04:59 with rank and file mainstream Democrats.
00:05:01 That's why Trump did it in 2016.
00:05:03 Yes, he was a celebrity.
00:05:04 Yes, he's charismatic.
00:05:05 Yes, he's entertaining.
00:05:06 yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But the reason that he won is that he better represented Republican
00:05:12 voters than any of the other candidates on substantive issues, on issues like trade,
00:05:16 on issues like immigration, on issues like foreign policy. Trump was the lone serious
00:05:21 candidate in 2016 who said, I oppose endless foreign wars in the Middle East. And the voters
00:05:28 rewarded him for that. Well, look at AOC. Gavin Newsom doesn't know what he believes. One day,
00:05:32 he's a radical leftist. The next day, he's the moderate guy palling around with Steve Bannon
00:05:35 in Charlie Kirk. He doesn't know what he is. He's nothing. Josh Shapiro, he wants to run as the
00:05:40 moderate, sensible kind of figure. Rahm Emanuel, the same thing. But AOC is the socialist. She's
00:05:46 the radical leftist. And guess what? The Democrat Party is radically left. The one thing going
00:05:51 against her right now is that Democrats got burned the last two times they ran a woman. 1.00
00:05:56 And compounding that, the last presidential candidate the Democrats had was a woman of 1.00
00:06:01 color. So that could work against AOC. Maybe the Dems realize, all right, we got to run a guy. 0.98
00:06:04 let's just run a straight white guy ran hillary lost with hillary so they run joe biden and he 1.00
00:06:11 wins and then they had kamala harris and so that's the one thing working against her everything else
00:06:15 is working in her favor what about on the republican side gotta say here you know i've
00:06:21 been arguing with my pal ben shapiro for over 10 years now especially when it comes to republican
00:06:26 politics i think now your predictions are wrong now your read on trump is wrong now your read on
00:06:31 the race is wrong. Ben said something on his show or no, I actually said it on the PBD show a couple
00:06:36 days ago. I think dead right about the dynamics in the GOP primary. You buy any of those stories
00:06:45 that Rubio may not even run? Yes. You believe that? Yes. Why do you believe that? So if you're
00:06:50 if you're Marco and you're looking at sort of the gaming out what the next few years look like for
00:06:54 you, here are your choices. You run against JD, you lose, you're done. You run against JD, you win.
00:07:01 It's a rough election cycle anyway because the president's riding in the 30s
00:07:04 and the country's in the mood for, quote-unquote, something new.
00:07:07 And you lose. You're done.
00:07:09 You don't run.
00:07:12 J.D. may pick you as his VP candidate.
00:07:13 J.D. loses. You're next.
00:07:15 J.D. does not pick you and J.D. loses.
00:07:18 You're also next.
00:07:19 So if you're sort of doing a prisoner's dilemma here,
00:07:21 you know, a game theory prisoner's dilemma,
00:07:23 I think that the prisoner's dilemma suggests that Rubio will probably not run out of risk aversion.
00:07:28 Spot on, 100%.
00:07:29 This is where, you know, when I disagree with Ben on some political things, often it's because he says facts don't care about your feelings.
00:07:38 And I think politics exclusively cares about your feelings.
00:07:40 He's right about the facts.
00:07:41 I just think politics involves a lot more pathos.
00:07:44 But in this case, when you're talking about a cold political calculation, will the secretary of state run in a primary against J.D. Vance, who seems like he's the heir apparent?
00:07:52 This is where Ben being just like ruthlessly rational about politics really plays well.
00:08:00 This is where I think it's really helpful.
00:08:01 And so I actually hadn't heard anyone put it in that clinical way.
00:08:06 But yes, of course, that makes sense.
00:08:08 If I'm Rubio, one, I have the one additional factor that Ben didn't mention, but is obviously
00:08:14 at play, is that Trump is probably just going to pick the nominee.
00:08:16 So it's really you're not you're not running to convince all the Democrat primary voters,
00:08:20 all the Republican primary voters.
00:08:21 you're running to convince Trump because he still has a stranglehold over the GOP. He is still
00:08:25 the guy. He took over the party in 16. He runs the party today. The party is about him. So you're
00:08:31 running to persuade him. And Trump obviously seems to adore Marco Rubio, but it looks like
00:08:37 his heir apparent is J.D. Vance. I mean, I think that was implicit in picking Vance to be the
00:08:41 running mate. Nevertheless, you look at it and you just gamed out. You say, okay, well, if you run
00:08:45 against JD and you lose, yes, you're done. If you run against JD and you win, you're going to have
00:08:51 a very tough election cycle, especially depending on Trump's involvement in that race. And you might
00:08:56 lose and then you're done. Whereas if you're not the top of the ticket, I mean, Marco Rubio is a
00:09:01 young guy these days. You have to be like 83 to start running for president. If you look ahead
00:09:08 and you say, okay, well, he could have a real long career ahead of him. It's not even just a new
00:09:11 thing. Don't forget Ronald Reagan was running. He ran for president in 1976. He almost ran for
00:09:17 president even earlier than that. He sort of ran for president a little earlier than that.
00:09:22 He did it a long time. It took Bob Dole a long time before he got to be the GOP nominee.
00:09:28 It took George H.W. Bush a long time before he got to be president. It took Mitt Romney a number
00:09:31 of runs. So yeah, I think Ben is totally right about that. I think you're seeing a lot of unity
00:09:36 on the right, and you're beginning to see the Democrats coalescing. Because even though you
00:09:42 hear about the split between the DSA and the moderate Democrats, they basically agree on
00:09:46 everything. The difference is more tonal than anything else. And the DSA won. The leftists
00:09:52 won. The radicals won in the Democrat Party. We used to say the Democrats are all progressives
00:09:56 except for Joe Manchin. Well, Joe Manchin is out. Houston Sinema is out. The last guy left,
00:10:01 I guess, is sort of John Fetterman. But the rest, they all agree. So you're seeing the shape of this
00:10:08 race really taking form right now, which is about the time in the cycle you would. So that means, 0.66
00:10:15 the fact that we're looking ahead to 2028 means time is running out in the second Trump term.
00:10:18 And we have to ask, okay, what can we do now? Everything is so against us. Joe Biden was
00:10:24 flooding 3 million illegals in a year. The courts are against us. One of every 700,
00:10:31 you know, the 700 person group of district judges is trying to impede the entire executive branch
00:10:36 anytime the president of the United States wants to do anything. So everything gets gummed up in
00:10:40 the works. What can we do? Yes, increase the deportations. Do your best to increase the
00:10:45 deportations. Do your best to enshrine the executive orders into law. That's not going
00:10:49 to happen. Capitol Hill doesn't really work. Okay, what can you do? Well, the one thing that
00:10:53 we can do institutionally is not just reveal the fraud, not just reveal the ways in which the left
00:11:00 has unjustly acquired power and abused power. We need to hold people accountable. You need to
00:11:06 prosecute people. The left knows that. The left tried to prosecute Trump four times to stop him
00:11:11 from becoming president again, to stop people from having the opportunity to vote for him.
00:11:14 We need to hold people to account. There are great hearings on Capitol Hill where we get to
00:11:18 grill these guys who've abused power, like guys like Fauci, people in corporate America,
00:11:24 leaders of nonprofit groups, which are really activist groups. And we get to grill them.
00:11:29 We say, you're so terrible. But the congressmen aren't going to prosecute anybody. That has to
00:11:34 go to the DOJ. Well, we just got some great news on this. The DOJ has arrested the chief financial
00:11:40 officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of probably the most powerful left-wing
00:11:46 activist organization in the United States. We didn't just expose their fraud. We didn't just
00:11:51 reveal their absurd operations to essentially fund all of the racism, all of the bigotry,
00:11:58 all of the radical right-wing activity that they were supposedly fighting against.
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00:13:47 was charged with several crimes, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money 0.83
00:13:51 laundering. What did the SPLC do? The SPLC said it was fighting against hate. They have their
00:13:56 famous hate watch blog. Every right winger in public life worth the salt has ended up in some
00:14:03 scrutiny on the hate watch blog. I mean, they call, they called Charlie Kirk a radical right
00:14:08 winger. I mean, they, they go after everybody and they try to pressure you to be ostracized
00:14:13 from society. They try to dry up your funding. They try to get the government to look into you.
00:14:18 I mean, this is a really, they were working with Biden's DOJ and FBI to target right wingers,
00:14:22 to target Catholics in particular. I mean, this is a horrific group. And what it turned out was
00:14:27 that the SPLC was not only identifying the radical right-wing groups, they were funding the most
00:14:33 radical ones. There was a dearth of supply of racism and bigotry and radicalism. This demand
00:14:42 outstripped the supply. So what did they do? They funded the Klan. And they didn't just fund it a
00:14:48 little bit. They weren't just putting some moles in it. They were funding the leaders of these 0.79
00:14:51 organizations. So what that amounts to is fraud. They were defrauding their donors.
00:14:57 They were, so anyway, the prosecutors say that the CFO, who before she was CFO, led the SPLC's
00:15:04 hate groups tracking section, the part of the SPLC that's most under scrutiny. She was among
00:15:11 several individuals who oversaw payments to individuals who infiltrated white supremacist
00:15:15 groups and acted as informants for the SPLC. But back in April, the SPLC was charged as an
00:15:20 organization like the mob, like the Klan, with bank fraud and money laundering, offenses related
00:15:24 to its payments of informants to infiltrate the hate groups. The superseding indictment,
00:15:30 this is according to Fox News, alleges that one of the individuals that the CFO approved payments for
00:15:35 was an imperial wizard in the Ku Klux Klan. So these guys, the SPLC, which is partnering up
00:15:41 with the government, which is colluding with organizations funded by your taxpayer dollars,
00:15:47 was conspiring with them to target the American right
00:15:54 based on an illusion that they themselves had created and were funding.
00:15:57 They weren't just funding a mole to sneak into a Klan meeting.
00:16:00 They were funding the Imperial Wizard.
00:16:04 If not for groups like the SPLC and the government agencies that they work with,
00:16:08 I'm not sure that any of these groups would exist.
00:16:12 So not only did the CFO approve payments for the Imperial Wizard
00:16:17 of the Ku Klux Klan. The CFO also had a romantic relationship with a separate person that the SPLC
00:16:23 had paid over a million dollars to since 2007. She shared a bank account with this person for
00:16:29 six years between 2015 and 2021. Approximately 140 grand in SPLC donors' money flowed into it.
00:16:35 So I hate the SPLC. It's a horrible organization. It's on par with the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan. 0.97
00:16:40 It's just absolutely awful. It should be destroyed. SPLC to lend to est, and the government should 1.00
00:16:44 bring the full weight of the state down to destroy it. I think the people who donate to the SPLC
00:16:49 are really bad for American politics. However, in most charitable read, in their defense,
00:16:55 there are a lot of well-meaning people who are donating to the SPLC because they want to stop
00:17:00 hatred. They want to stop radicalism. They want to stop racism, anti-Semitism. They want to,
00:17:05 you know, they want to stop all this bad stuff. They were defrauded. Beyond the political dynamic
00:17:12 of the SPLC is like an enemy of the American people. Beyond the political read on it,
00:17:17 they have just simply committed a lot of crimes. They've defrauded their donors,
00:17:22 among other crimes. They need to be held to account for that. This is the way. I know that
00:17:28 some of the more libertarian and neo-conny types are going to hate this because they hate when
00:17:32 Republicans wield power in any way, but the law is a teacher, and we have to hold people to account.
00:17:38 I love a good Capitol Hill grilling
00:17:40 as much as the next guy.
00:17:41 I like it that the congressmen
00:17:42 get clips for their re-election campaigns
00:17:44 and we get to embarrass Dr. Fauci
00:17:45 and all the rest.
00:17:46 But where we can,
00:17:48 and there are limited circumstances,
00:17:49 we have to put people into prison.
00:17:51 That is the only way
00:17:53 that we will discourage
00:17:54 and hopefully stop
00:17:55 this radical left-wing behavior.
00:17:57 And the clock is running out.
00:17:59 The clock is running out.
00:18:00 We're a year and a half
00:18:01 into the second Trump administration,
00:18:03 but we're talking about 2028.
00:18:05 The race for 2028 is on,
00:18:06 which means there's a very limited time when we're talking about the mass deportations 1.00
00:18:11 it's it's great a million and a half deportations in a year is good those are really good numbers
00:18:17 but the problem is it's it's not enough it basically can't be enough because biden was
00:18:23 letting three million in per year plus another million legal immigrants and the democrats are
00:18:28 going to try to give amnesty to all of them so you just have to ramp it all up the clock is running
00:18:32 out. And those are just a few instances of fraud. Here's another one. The attorney general,
00:18:38 newly installed attorney general, Todd Blanche, just uncovered one of the largest marriage fraud
00:18:44 scandals in American history. There were over a thousand fake marriages that took place over the
00:18:50 course of a decade between Americans and Chinese nationals. There are 11 individuals now who were
00:18:56 charged with orchestrating these marriages to, quote, fraudulently obtain immigration status for
00:19:01 foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People's Republic of China. So you're talking
00:19:07 about our top geopolitical adversary, communist China. Some individuals paid 100 grand per sham
00:19:13 marriage, according to this indictment. So why is this bad? Well, it's bad when our chief
00:19:19 geopolitical adversary infiltrates our country. These are guys who are conducting a war against
00:19:23 us. China, which is smuggling bioweapons to destroy our crops in regularly through our 0.98
00:19:28 university system because we allow Chinese nationals to come to our schools. I mean, 1.00
00:19:32 we have a very porous country. We have a very porous border, especially when Democrats are
00:19:36 running it. But we have this other major weakness, which the Supreme Court just compounded, which is
00:19:41 we offer birthright citizenship in a way that is very easily abused beyond anything the framers
00:19:47 of the 14th Amendment ever envisioned, beyond anything that the framers of our U.S. Constitution
00:19:52 could have envisioned. We inherited it from the British common law system, but the British,
00:19:56 when they moved from a subject system
00:19:58 to a citizenship system
00:19:59 in the middle of the 20th century,
00:20:01 they realized this was totally unsustainable.
00:20:03 They got rid of birthright citizenship,
00:20:04 or rather, I should say,
00:20:05 they clarified what the birthright would mean
00:20:07 in a modern citizenship system
00:20:11 for a modern nation state.
00:20:12 And the US just never caught up,
00:20:13 and the Supreme Court just totally squished,
00:20:15 unfortunately,
00:20:16 and left this major, major loophole here.
00:20:19 So when an operative
00:20:21 of the Chinese Communist Party 0.72
00:20:23 spends 100 Gs to get a sham marriage in the United States, that's bad enough. That's a crime.
00:20:29 But the thing is, the minute that they have a kid, that kid has US citizenship. That kid could
00:20:34 become president of the United States. This is a major national security concern, and it's just
00:20:40 a glaring mockery of US sovereignty. And that's ultimately, I think, what a lot of the political
00:20:49 battles are about. Yes, immigration is a top battle. Even the economic populism, the debate
00:20:54 over tariffs or industrial policy or reshoring American industry. Really what all of these
00:21:00 debates are about, it's sovereignty. Frankly, even the more lurid social debates, the debates
00:21:06 over transing the kids, and we will have the assistant health secretary coming on momentarily
00:21:10 to discuss another aspect of major fraud in the United States, your taxpayer dollars
00:21:15 being used illegally to trans kids.
00:21:18 But even that sort of debate
00:21:20 is a debate over sovereignty.
00:21:22 Do we, the American people,
00:21:23 not even have the right anymore
00:21:25 to tell activists
00:21:27 that they can't castrate little kids?
00:21:29 Do we not have, you know, 0.99
00:21:30 castrating little kids
00:21:31 is a horrific crime in and of itself.
00:21:34 But I think part of the reason
00:21:36 that it speaks to American voters so much
00:21:38 is because we just feel like
00:21:39 we don't have control
00:21:40 over our country anymore.
00:21:41 We don't have control over who comes in.
00:21:42 We don't have control over the jobs.
00:21:44 We don't have control. 0.96
00:21:45 We're slaves to foreign interests. We're slaves to the economy, the market, the invisible hand,
00:21:52 peace be upon him. We're slaves to judges who are holding our system hostage and creating
00:21:58 glaring loopholes such that our system can now be manipulated by Chinese nationals. 1.00
00:22:03 On and on and on. It's about sovereignty. This is why when Trump is running in 2016, 1.00
00:22:08 he's not a particularly ideological candidate. He's not a Burkean conservative who was raised
00:22:13 going to YAF conferences and ISI conferences, wearing bow ties, reciting Hayek by memory.
00:22:18 It's not, that's not what he was. He's clearly loved America and wanted America to be good again
00:22:23 and great again and hugged the American flag and kissed it. And that speaks to people. And what's
00:22:27 that speaking to is not just some saccharine sentimental affection for our country or
00:22:33 nostalgia for yesteryear. What that speaks to is a sense that we want control over, some control
00:22:40 over our political destiny again.
00:22:42 We realize there are a lot of people who hate our country.
00:22:45 The Democrat Party is now following Hassan Piker. 0.99
00:22:47 Hassan Piker says he wipes his derriere 0.99
00:22:49 with the American flag. 0.98
00:22:50 Says America deserved 9-11.
00:22:53 And the Democrats are enthralled to this guy.
00:22:55 The Democrats campaign with this guy.
00:22:56 He really does represent them.
00:22:58 That's not just like a right-wing talking point.
00:22:59 He really does represent them.
00:23:00 That's why he campaigns with them.
00:23:02 And they campaign with him.
00:23:04 And they refuse to disavow him.
00:23:07 And actually, they publish his thoughts
00:23:09 on the pages of the New York Times. He's not particularly intelligent. He's not particularly
00:23:14 well-educated. They published his thoughts after Charlie Kirk was murdered. Hassan Piker is one of
00:23:20 the most prominent figures on the left calling for political violence against conservatives.
00:23:24 They publish his words in the New York Times because they all agree with it. AOC represents
00:23:30 the Democrat Party as far as the presidential candidates go. And so normal voters are recognizing
00:23:35 that and saying, we no longer even have the power to stop people who overtly hate our country from
00:23:42 running it into the ground. And that, I think, is a very powerful issue for conservatives. It
00:23:47 touches on a lot of individual policies, and it's probably the most compelling case they can make
00:23:51 to voters in the midterms in 2028. The marriage thing is really brutal because all big empires
00:23:59 are open to corruption, and big pluralistic empires like ours, multi-ethnic, multi-religious
00:24:04 empires like ours are really open to factionalism. Not just parties debating ideas, but actual
00:24:10 factionalism. I want this for me, for my group, for this race, not that race. For this religion,
00:24:15 not that religion. This type of person gets special treatment. We're going to have a two-tier
00:24:19 system of justice. That's a big issue. The corruption, it's a big issue. Corruption is
00:24:24 like a miasma. It's like radon through a house. It's this poison that you can barely even smell,
00:24:28 but you know it's there and it's slowly killing you. That's what the dynamics of the race are
00:24:34 underneath all of the individual issues. And the Democrats are getting so smart. You have
00:24:39 the Arizona Democrat gubernatorial candidate who's going to run in a pretty tough race. 1.00
00:24:44 She's playing ball. Radical, radical candidate. But guess what? She's now going to run with a 1.00
00:24:49 Republican as her running mate. We'll get to that momentarily. Then we will get to this very,
00:24:54 a very important report coming out from HHS. First though, just over 400 years tomorrow,
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00:27:11 you about. I want to tell you about the new euphemism that just dropped for Middle Easterners.
00:27:15 We get new euphemisms all the time because the left always perverts language. I want to tell
00:27:19 the rise in cyber attacks targeting smaller cities. But most of all, what I want to tell
00:27:23 you about is this report. This is Wolves in White Coats, How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed
00:27:31 and Profited from the Fraud of Gender Medicine. I'm very, very pleased to bring on Admiral Brian 1.00
00:27:38 Christine, the Assistant Health Secretary. Admiral Christine, thank you for coming on the show, sir.
00:27:43 Michael, good morning. It's great to be with you today. Thank you for having me on. You know,
00:27:46 The last time I saw you was that amazing day before the 4th when they unviewed the statuary
00:27:51 here in D.C. and you're a relative.
00:27:54 And I forget the number of iterations.
00:27:55 You're a great, great, great, however many greats.
00:27:57 Five, five greats.
00:27:59 An amazing patriot.
00:28:00 It was so good to see you that day.
00:28:02 And I'm really glad to be back here today as the President's Assistant Secretary for
00:28:06 Health.
00:28:06 Again, speaking about this incredibly important report that we issued yesterday.
00:28:10 Well, thank you very much.
00:28:11 I was very touched that you came to the unveiling of the Simon Knowles statue in Freedom Plaza.
00:28:16 It was great to see you there, and I knew you had a lot cooking at the time, but this
00:28:21 is pretty jaw-dropping.
00:28:24 This report, it's like the perfect encapsulation of everything that went wrong during wokeism, 1.00
00:28:31 the transgender ideology being so prominent there, your predecessor in your role actually 0.89
00:28:36 being a man who thought that he was a woman.
00:28:38 The idea that the Assistant Secretary of Health would not know what sex he is just perfectly
00:28:44 encapsulates that whole era.
00:28:45 You just made an announcement with Secretary Kennedy and the Vice President, J.D. Vance.
00:28:50 Here's a little clip you might have seen going around social media.
00:28:53 Hey, everybody. This is Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:28:56 I'm here with my friends and colleagues, of course, our great Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:29:02 and Admiral Brian Christine, the Assistant Secretary for Health.
00:29:05 Under the previous administration, my predecessor, Richard Levine, promoted what he called gender-affirming care for minors.
00:29:12 And there's nothing caring about that. 0.99
00:29:14 These are sex-rejecting, mutilating transgender procedures promoted by the Biden administration, 1.00
00:29:20 and thanks to President Trump's leadership, we're changing course.
00:29:23 The Wolves and White Coats report issued by my office at HHS examines a medical system
00:29:28 that subjected children to profound interventions while serious questions remained about evidence,
00:29:34 about informed consent, and about financial incentives.
00:29:37 Okay, so Edmar Christine, what is the top line here?
00:29:40 what did you discover about healthcare spending, transgenderism, transing the kids and the
00:29:46 government? Right. Well, the report has several different sections to it. One,
00:29:51 the report acknowledges, and we speak about the fact that there's been a dramatic rise in the
00:29:55 number of our youth, our minors, who identify as transgender and who are seeking sex-rejecting
00:30:02 procedures. Understand that gender dysphoria is a real condition, a psychological condition. It is
00:30:07 best treated with competent, compassionate mental health care. And as a Catholic, I would say from
00:30:14 a personal standpoint, if the parents wish, pastoral care as well. But that's how you treat
00:30:18 these kids, not with castrating chemicals and mutilating surgeries. So we talk about that in
00:30:22 the report. We also talk about the fact that there is a financial incentive to make these kids,
00:30:29 if you will, captive patients, lifelong patients. In other words, if you put them on cross-sex 0.69
00:30:34 hormones, or if you put them on puberty blockers, or you do radical surgeries, they then have
00:30:41 to come back again and again and again.
00:30:44 Continued visits, possibly dealing with complications.
00:30:47 You made a lifelong patient, and there's an economic incentive.
00:30:51 We talk about potentially fraudulent coding to use medical codes that do not describe
00:30:56 what's going on with the patient.
00:30:58 They use those codes to ensure reimbursement.
00:31:01 They used codes that were false for the patients to ensure reimbursement, so a potential fraud component.
00:31:07 We talk about the ideology driven under the Biden administration, and yes, under my predecessor, Rachel Levine.
00:31:13 He is a man dressed as a woman who pushed this ideology.
00:31:17 We talk about the medical societies, the endocrine society, WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, 0.84
00:31:24 with so many ideologues, pushing this forward, trying to use the weight of their professional
00:31:30 status, but pushing this ideology forward. And of course, we talk about these young men and women
00:31:37 who were led down a false pathway, undergoing these sex rejecting procedures. And then they
00:31:43 and their families, when they realized that this was wrong and they wanted to stop treatment and
00:31:48 they wanted to detransition, they were abandoned, Michael. The same people, the same doctors and
00:31:54 nurses and clinics that push them forward, abandon them. It's heartbreaking.
00:31:59 Yeah, there's so much there because you mentioned WPATH, this trans lobby. And the way that so many 1.00
00:32:07 people have this question, how did we get here? How did we get to the point where you've got
00:32:10 taxpayer dollars going to fund mutilating kids and doctors saying that a boy can become a girl?
00:32:16 It's so absurd. How did we get here? One of the ways we got here is you have groups like WPATH
00:32:20 who set up a show.
00:32:22 They set up a kind of a hoax
00:32:23 where WPATH,
00:32:25 you have these ideologues
00:32:25 who are pro-trans 0.97
00:32:26 and they'll make up 0.96
00:32:27 a bunch of nonsense.
00:32:28 And then you'll get
00:32:29 the medical lobbies
00:32:30 to start citing WPATH
00:32:32 as a legitimate authority.
00:32:34 And then WPATH
00:32:35 and related groups
00:32:36 go on and cite
00:32:37 the medical lobbies.
00:32:38 And so it becomes
00:32:39 this kind of circular game
00:32:41 where they're all relying
00:32:43 on each other's credibility,
00:32:45 but none of them
00:32:45 have any credibility, actually.
00:32:47 So you end up
00:32:48 with this absurdity
00:32:48 that a boy could become 0.86
00:32:49 a girl, and you need to stick the kid full of cross-sex hormones, in some cases, using taxpayer 0.88
00:32:55 dollars fraudulently. So then you mentioned the pastoral part. I think this is really important. 0.91
00:32:59 I was once doing a speech somewhere at some school, and a kid comes up to me, and she said, 0.89
00:33:03 hey, Michael, I just want to thank you and other people for speaking out against the trans
00:33:07 ideology, because I had gender dysphoria. I was really drawn to gender reassignment or gender 0.62
00:33:15 affirming care, which is, as you say, gender-rejecting care. But luckily, I had good 0.80
00:33:19 parents, and I had a good priest. And he convinced me that I shouldn't necessarily do that. And then
00:33:27 they got me into good psychological counseling. And the psychologist diagnosed a bunch of other
00:33:32 issues, namely autism, notably autism. And once they started treating the other issues, she goes,
00:33:38 Michael, thank God, my gender dysphoria greatly abated. But my life could have been ruined had
00:33:42 I've been put on these cross-sex hormones. My life could have been shortened. I could have had 1.00
00:33:46 bone problems. I could have had many sexual development problems. The rates of anxiety 0.97
00:33:52 actually increase after the gender reassignment. Suicidality obviously is very high. The list goes 0.99
00:33:57 on and on and on. But the point that you mentioned there that really I think is going to stick in the
00:34:02 of a lot of ordinary people is the fraud of it all. You're telling me these medical associations
00:34:08 were using fraudulent codes at hospitals to bilk the taxpayer for surgeries and procedures
00:34:17 that are obviously absurd, obviously immoral, and the government shouldn't be paying for it.
00:34:23 No, exactly. And that's why you see the referral from Vice President Vance to our amazing new
00:34:29 Attorney General, Todd Blanche, why you see the referral from Secretary Kennedy to the Office
00:34:34 the Inspector General at HHS because of this potential fraud and this potential fraudulent
00:34:38 coding. And Michael, what you said as well, talking about the psychological care for these
00:34:43 kids, on the section of the report and in our video documentary that went along with this,
00:34:49 talking to these children, talking to these parents, when they were counseled to undergo
00:34:56 and pushed towards sex-rejecting procedures, no one even talked to them and went into their past
00:35:01 about that maybe the psychological trauma or harm they might have undergone, leading them to have
00:35:07 gender dysphoria that could have been well handled with psychological competent counseling. That
00:35:12 wasn't even offered for many of these children. That's a common theme that we see that the parents
00:35:17 say, and I'm a parent. I understand that you would do anything for your children. And these parents
00:35:24 were literally scared to death because they were told either you have sex rejecting procedures,
00:35:30 either you castrate your son or you load your daughter with hormones or you do sex-rejecting 0.89
00:35:35 surgeries or they're going to kill themselves. What parent, and again, if they trusted these 0.99
00:35:40 individuals in white coats, many of whom were wolves, you understand why they could trust them 0.56
00:35:45 and they were at their mercy. So there's so much going on with this report. The way that we change
00:35:51 this, and I believe in the Trump administration, we have made such an important inroads in turning
00:35:57 the tide on this. We have to never stop. We have to never take our foot off the accelerator
00:36:01 because we know what the ideologues will do. They will come back with a vengeance,
00:36:05 but we have to evangelize. We have to let the American people know that's what this report
00:36:09 does. That's what Secretary Kennedy and the vice president and myself were doing.
00:36:13 And being on this show, being with you talking about is part of that evangelization,
00:36:17 is part of that education, is part of pulling the scales from people's eyes so they see
00:36:23 what the left has done to our kids.
00:36:25 Yeah, it's just crucial, crucial work.
00:36:27 I encourage everyone to go read the report.
00:36:29 I'm so glad to see the referrals.
00:36:30 I hope people are prosecuted.
00:36:32 I hope there are very serious consequences.
00:36:34 I trust there will be because of all the political scandals
00:36:37 I've ever seen in my life,
00:36:39 I suspect of all the scandals you've seen in your life, 0.51
00:36:41 this one is so utterly ghastly and revolting.
00:36:46 It so boggles the mind that if there are no consequences,
00:36:50 I can't imagine what that means for the future of our polity.
00:36:55 Admiral Christine, thank you so much, sir, for all of your excellent work, and thank you for coming on the show.
00:37:00 Thank you, Michael.
00:37:01 God bless you.
00:37:02 God bless your family.
00:37:03 God bless our president, and God bless our republic.
00:37:05 Yes, to you as well.
00:37:05 Thank you very much, sir.
00:37:06 Okay.
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00:37:49 I do want to get to the mailbag first, though.
00:37:55 My favorite comment yesterday is from Jacob, who says,
00:37:59 and the new White House press secretary is Marco Rubio.
00:38:05 What the?
00:38:05 I know, that's what we're all waiting for.
00:38:07 I should thank Ben.
00:38:08 Ben pitched me for the White House press.
00:38:10 Ben Shapiro, not Ben Davies, pitched me for that job.
00:38:13 It does seem like a great job.
00:38:15 Seems like a lot of fun, but a very tough job.
00:38:18 It's a very, very tough job.
00:38:19 And to the legacy of Caroline Levitt, she did great.
00:38:25 She just did so well in that role.
00:38:27 Because the way I'm judging that is she never really made it about her.
00:38:32 There was no big error.
00:38:33 There was no big gaffe.
00:38:35 She did a great job in it.
00:38:36 So in any case, I'm sure they'll pick a great one.
00:38:39 And if they don't find any good options, then it's going to have to be Marco Rubio.
00:38:42 I agree.
00:38:43 Finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week, the mailbag.
00:38:47 Mailbag sponsored by PureTalk at puretalk.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, to start saving today.
00:38:51 Take it away.
00:38:53 Hello, Michael.
00:38:53 I hope this goes okay.
00:38:55 I had a couple of drinks.
00:38:56 First time voice mailbag recorder.
00:39:00 I was just wondering your take on how likely do you think it is that AOC is only cynically
00:39:10 freezing her eggs so that she can say she is a person with a tie to the future because someone
00:39:20 might ask her hey you know you're not married you don't have kids you don't have any tie to
00:39:24 the future but she can say oh yes i do because i'm freezing my eggs any thoughts uh i don't think
00:39:31 it's that conscious but sure that's part of it i don't think aoc is all that conscious but i do
00:39:36 think she's a good politician. I think she just kind of finds her lane. She moves on gut instinct. 0.98
00:39:43 She understands instinctively what relates to people. And I said it on the show the other day.
00:39:48 She really is the voice of her generation. She really is a voice of the left-wing version of
00:39:55 being a millennial. And you know what millennials do? They freeze their eggs because millennials 1.00
00:39:58 were told not to get married, to put off getting married. Millennials had a lot of trouble dating.
00:40:03 Zoomers are having even more trouble, but millennials were told to put career first. 0.94
00:40:07 Millennials were told to be selfish, basically. And I think a lot of millennials, it's not their
00:40:12 fault. That's how they were raised. And then a lot of millennials began to question what they
00:40:16 were taught. Oh, maybe I should have prioritized my family life more than the career. Maybe the
00:40:21 career is not all it's cracked up to be. Maybe these student loans I took out, hundreds of
00:40:25 thousands of dollars to go to some college, maybe they actually weren't worth it. Maybe I've made
00:40:28 some mistakes. And so, you know, I don't think there is an ethical case to be made for freezing
00:40:33 your eggs and IVF and surrogacy. But I sympathize with the people who do it. I get why people do it. 0.97
00:40:39 If I were not blessed to have gotten married earlier, if I were like a lot of other people
00:40:44 in my generation, especially if I were a woman, if I were, you know, in my late 30s or early 40s,
00:40:52 I would say, oh, shoot, I was lied to. And I actually do want kids. And maybe I want to freeze
00:40:56 my eggs. You know, I, I, I totally understand that feeling. I don't think AOC is lying about
00:41:00 wanting kids and wanting a family. Uh, but there is no question. The fact that she's live streaming,
00:41:06 taking the shots is, is political. She's signaling that she is going to run. She's answering a 0.52
00:41:11 question, uh, about her future and her plans for her future. She wants to run for president and 0.71
00:41:16 she might well get the nomination. Next question. Hey, Michael's Haley, everyday listener here. 1.00
00:41:22 My son's 16th birthday is coming up on August the 17th, and I'm trying to decide what Bible
00:41:28 to get him.
00:41:30 I can't believe he's almost 16, hasn't gotten his own Bible yet, but I'm hoping you can
00:41:36 help, maybe recommend a translation.
00:41:39 I've done a little bit of research, and it looks like William Tyndale in the 1520s and
00:41:46 1530s, completed an English translation from the original Greek and Hebrew. And then the King James,
00:41:56 it appears, is based largely on that translation, a lot heavily on that. So I was thinking going
00:42:01 with just the King James Version Bible. And someone pointed out that maybe I should look
00:42:05 into something a little more easy to read, considering a 16-year-old boy might get
00:42:11 discouraged trying to read the old style of language. You might not really understand it.
00:42:16 Um, I don't know though. I'm, I'm really kind of torn. So just hoping that you can provide a
00:42:20 recommendation. Uh, what do you think? Yes. Good question. I mean, I would recommend first,
00:42:27 I would recommend getting a Catholic Bible because I don't know whatever your particular flavor of
00:42:32 religion, I would say, uh, even if you don't, even as some Protestants don't believe that the
00:42:38 deuterocanonical books are, you know, really properly part of the canon of scripture, but
00:42:41 you know, look, it's a better deal. You're getting more books anyway. Even, even I happen to believe
00:42:45 they are part of the canon of scripture, but listen, I like a good deal, okay? So get the one
00:42:49 with the extra books compared to the fewer books. But yeah, I would say the best translations are
00:42:56 probably the Douai Reims and the King James. You know, to read the King James, you're not only
00:43:02 reading Revelation and inspired scripture, but you're also engaging with the Western tradition.
00:43:08 You know, you're also, you will, just idioms, phrases that we use, so many of them come from
00:43:13 the King James Bible. So that language is so great. You can get it with the deuterocanonical
00:43:18 books. But if you're worried that it's a little antiquated or, you know, the language is a little
00:43:22 archaic, then I would recommend the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition. Again,
00:43:27 even if you don't, even if you're not totally sold on the deuterocanonical books,
00:43:30 who doesn't like getting some extra free books? You know, I like a good deal. But that's the
00:43:34 version that Father Mike Schmitz uses for Bible in a Year, which became the number one podcast
00:43:39 in the country. I call it Bible in Five Years. Actually, I was listening to it just yesterday.
00:43:43 but that's a very readable version. So, I like that. I tend to use the RSVCE
00:43:49 just for my kind of ordinary usage to get the meaning immediately, but the beauty of the
00:43:56 language of the Douai Reims and the KJV is really spectacular. Okay, I want to take a
00:44:03 written mailbag question because this relates to something that happened yesterday. This is from
00:44:08 Aaron H. Michael, longtime listener of your show, a question for you. What was the moment
00:44:16 in your life when you said, oh, S-H-I-T, I made it. I strive to have that moment one day, 0.99
00:44:22 but for now, I will live it through your story. That's very kind of you to say.
00:44:26 The reason I really liked this question is because it was yesterday. Yesterday is when I had that
00:44:31 moment. And the reason is I walk into my office in the other building, and I see there's a box
00:44:38 waiting for me. It's just not, and look, it's a ukulele. It looks like a ukulele. So anyway,
00:44:42 I go, I pull it out. You know, I'm a sucker for a good ukulele. A listener to the show
00:44:48 had sent me a ukulele that was custom made. This is a luthier in Virginia. Just an absolutely
00:44:56 magnificent instrument. This is from Nathan Reed Custom Guitars in Virginia. There's another Reed
00:45:02 Custom Guitars in Canada. It's not the evil top hat one. It's in Virginia. He can't even,
00:45:05 he doesn't even have a website. It's like he's just a pure artist. But if you Google
00:45:09 ReidCustomGuitars at gmail.com, R-E-I-D, CustomGuitars at gmail.com, I don't know. Highly
00:45:15 recommend commissioning a uke. It is a poplar top, walnut back and sides, beautiful maple neck,
00:45:24 nice curly walnut fretboard with, I don't know if you can see this, the Michael Knowles Show
00:45:29 logo inlaid in turquoise and hand-cut abalone. I do not deserve this. I do not. It's not totally
00:45:38 tuned. But that's it. It's never going to get any cooler than that. I made it. This is it.
00:45:46 In a serious answer to your question, it's a very flattering question, but the real answer is
00:45:51 there's always going to be some guy who is more powerful than you, who is richer than you,
00:45:59 who is more famous than you, who is living a more luxurious life than you,
00:46:05 who has accomplished more than you. There's always going to be some guy who is doing that.
00:46:10 And so I don't think it's helpful to think of this one moment when I made it, and then it's
00:46:16 good and we're done. I can check out, life is over. I think, I feel like I'm really blessed,
00:46:23 and I know I'm very, very blessed. And so I think those moments are, they happen all the time.
00:46:29 Those moments happen all the time.
00:46:31 And I have been aware of them happening for most of the time.
00:46:34 The moment, I was never picked for the football team,
00:46:37 but the moment I got the lead in the school play,
00:46:39 that was when I said, oh, great, I made it.
00:46:41 The moment I got, I don't know, got elected class president,
00:46:44 got into a school I wanted to go to,
00:46:46 got a job that I wanted,
00:46:48 got the girl I wanted to date me to date me.
00:46:52 The moment I got to master an instrument,
00:46:55 the moment that I, especially the ukulele,
00:46:57 The moment that I had my first kid,
00:47:00 that's one that really makes you think,
00:47:01 wow, I've arrived.
00:47:02 I've arrived.
00:47:03 I'm a real guy.
00:47:03 Oh my goodness.
00:47:04 I got married.
00:47:05 I had a kid.
00:47:05 I had, it's all those moments.
00:47:08 And you hope that you don't reach the final moment
00:47:11 where you say, okay, I made it
00:47:12 and everything's downhill from here.
00:47:14 You want it to keep growing.
00:47:15 And I think if you are aware of all the great things
00:47:18 that God is doing for you in your life,
00:47:20 you won't just have one of those moments.
00:47:22 You say, I hope I have that moment one day,
00:47:24 but it may never come.
00:47:25 No, you're gonna have those moments all the time.
00:47:27 You're going to have those moments even amid suffering. And you're going to recognize that
00:47:31 all of the natural good things that happen to you are actually pale in comparison to the
00:47:36 supernatural things. The temporal pales in comparison to the eternal. And so you can,
00:47:41 even at the very last moments of your life, you can, we hope, you know, we hope and faith can
00:47:45 look forward to saying, oh, just moments from now, I will truly have made it. Okay. The rest
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00:48:08 Your country is beneath contempt.
00:48:12 We who love and serve Allah fought back against the Americans and the Zionists 0.60
00:48:18 from the scourge of secularism and the lands of unbelief.
00:48:24 Anyone going to listen to Captain Saunders tomorrow?
00:48:31 The retired Delta Force soldier with a new book out. 0.87
00:48:34 He's the polar opposite of those brain-dead protesters.
00:48:37 Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
00:48:41 Mr. Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:48:43 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00
00:48:46 There are three ways Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:48:49 Through immigration, through the wombs of our women, and by using our nation's freedoms 1.00
00:48:59 against us. 1.00
00:49:04 Are you paying attention?
00:49:11 Listen carefully.
00:49:13 the great satan america will fall 1.00
00:49:20 you are infidels the bodies of women are not pure and the men's souls are unclean 1.00
00:49:31 what makes them so dangerous their goals are not in this life but the next 1.00
00:49:39 anyone
00:49:43 i got friends here i can't just leave
00:49:45 listen to me in the law
00:49:47 we cannot run
00:49:49 or hide from what is
00:49:50 coming we have to fight
00:49:53 i will be rewarded 10,000
00:49:55 times in the next life
00:49:56 when you die you're nothing
00:49:58 only one way to find out
00:50:00 that's the american way
00:50:09 We'll be right back.
00:50:39 even if they blow the lead later.
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