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00:00:59.220 nationwide fraud scheme by which hospitals bilked taxpayers for tens of millions of dollars

00:01:05.660 specifically to trans the kids. This is as perfect and comprehensive a health care scam as we have 0.98

00:01:13.900 ever seen for the woke era. We will be joined by the assistant health secretary whose office

00:01:19.240 issued the report to discuss how to hold the bad guys to account. Then, speaking of holding the

00:01:24.320 bad guys to account. The DOJ arrests the CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center in what I think

00:01:30.480 is one of the most important acts of either Trump administration, Trump one, Trump two.

00:01:35.160 This is what it's about. We will examine the importance of arresting our enemies. And finally,

00:01:41.080 brace yourselves, AOC, for the first time, officially leads the pack of 2028 Democrat

00:01:47.420 presidential candidates. You heard it here first, and I'm sorry to say that. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:51.000 This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.97

00:01:54.320 welcome back to the show speaking of fraud there is a massive chinese marriage fraud ring also that 0.60

00:02:18.540 has been uncovered and that is bad enough immigration fraud is bad enough you know

00:02:22.780 people pretending to get married or money changing hands, in this case, hundreds of

00:02:26.560 thousands of dollars, $100,000 per to get these fake marriages to allow Chinese nationals to

00:02:32.520 come to the United States. But it is really compounded in our country because of the abuse

00:02:36.640 of birthright citizenship. So a major, a glaring loophole in our system of national sovereignty.

00:02:43.240 We'll get to all of it first, though. Our sponsor, Kalshi, currently has AOC at, now she's running

00:02:50.880 neck and neck with Gavin Newsom. As of about an hour ago, she was running ahead of him. This is

00:02:55.340 the first time that AOC is running officially at the top of the presidential race in the prediction

00:03:02.480 markets. AOC at 22%, Newsom at 17%, Ossoff at 15%, Kamala at seven, Buttigieg at five,

00:03:09.300 Josh Shapiro at five. Now, since this news broke, it's evened out a little bit. So AOC and Newsom

00:03:16.660 both tied at 17%, Ossoff behind them, Kamala Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro. When I say you heard

00:03:22.480 it here first, I mean, you heard on the show when I was interviewing the vice president,

00:03:27.600 his prediction or his observation that AOC was leading the pack. And I was kind of shocked. I

00:03:33.120 said, oh, I thought you'd say Newsom or Ossoff or one of these people. He said, no, no, she's

00:03:36.820 clearing away the front runner. And now the numbers are beginning to reflect that. This after AOC

00:03:42.820 very publicly films herself freezing her eggs, which might as well be a presidential announcement.

00:03:48.040 She seems to have broken up with her fiance. So anyway, she's making very significant moves,

00:03:53.360 which are signaling that she wants to run for president. And people are going to laugh it off.

00:03:58.260 I wouldn't laugh it off. Do you remember what everyone was laughing off in 2016?

00:04:04.700 They were laughing off the idea that Donald Trump would get the Republican nomination for president. 0.99

00:04:08.920 He's crazy. 1.00

00:04:10.000 He's too brash. 1.00

00:04:11.300 He's too radical.

00:04:12.560 He's, no, there's no way that he could. 0.97

00:04:14.680 And then he just kept leading the race.

00:04:17.120 And then he got the nomination.

00:04:19.300 And then do you remember what people laughed off?

00:04:20.900 They laughed off that Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton.

00:04:23.720 And then what happened?

00:04:25.400 He won at least two presidential elections, maybe a third, and defined a decade of American politics.

00:04:31.900 Do not laugh this off.

00:04:34.420 Do you know why AOC is leading the pack right now for the Democrats?

00:04:36.940 because she represents the Democrat party 0.82

00:04:40.200 better than any of the other candidates.

00:04:42.280 That's why. 0.69

00:04:43.020 Yeah, she's really good at the camera. 1.00

00:04:44.740 Yeah, she looks better than some of the other candidates. 1.00

00:04:47.460 She definitely looks better on a magazine cover 0.99

00:04:49.260 than Josh Shapiro.

00:04:50.320 But the real reason is that she better reflects

00:04:54.260 the Democrat voters.

00:04:56.380 The Democratic socialists are more popular

00:04:58.160 than the Democrat members of Congress

00:04:59.580 with rank and file mainstream Democrats.

00:05:01.560 That's why Trump did it in 2016.

00:05:03.680 Yes, he was a celebrity.

00:05:04.740 Yes, he's charismatic.

00:05:05.680 Yes, he's entertaining.

00:05:06.420 yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But the reason that he won is that he better represented Republican

00:05:12.140 voters than any of the other candidates on substantive issues, on issues like trade,

00:05:16.560 on issues like immigration, on issues like foreign policy. Trump was the lone serious

00:05:21.720 candidate in 2016 who said, I oppose endless foreign wars in the Middle East. And the voters

00:05:28.020 rewarded him for that. Well, look at AOC. Gavin Newsom doesn't know what he believes. One day,

00:05:32.160 he's a radical leftist. The next day, he's the moderate guy palling around with Steve Bannon

00:05:35.420 in Charlie Kirk. He doesn't know what he is. He's nothing. Josh Shapiro, he wants to run as the

00:05:40.440 moderate, sensible kind of figure. Rahm Emanuel, the same thing. But AOC is the socialist. She's

00:05:46.780 the radical leftist. And guess what? The Democrat Party is radically left. The one thing going

00:05:51.460 against her right now is that Democrats got burned the last two times they ran a woman. 1.00

00:05:56.660 And compounding that, the last presidential candidate the Democrats had was a woman of 1.00

00:06:01.060 color. So that could work against AOC. Maybe the Dems realize, all right, we got to run a guy. 0.98

00:06:04.920 let's just run a straight white guy ran hillary lost with hillary so they run joe biden and he 1.00

00:06:11.740 wins and then they had kamala harris and so that's the one thing working against her everything else

00:06:15.740 is working in her favor what about on the republican side gotta say here you know i've

00:06:21.160 been arguing with my pal ben shapiro for over 10 years now especially when it comes to republican

00:06:26.680 politics i think now your predictions are wrong now your read on trump is wrong now your read on

00:06:31.340 the race is wrong. Ben said something on his show or no, I actually said it on the PBD show a couple

00:06:36.040 days ago. I think dead right about the dynamics in the GOP primary. You buy any of those stories

00:06:45.800 that Rubio may not even run? Yes. You believe that? Yes. Why do you believe that? So if you're

00:06:50.300 if you're Marco and you're looking at sort of the gaming out what the next few years look like for

00:06:54.580 you, here are your choices. You run against JD, you lose, you're done. You run against JD, you win.

00:07:01.340 It's a rough election cycle anyway because the president's riding in the 30s

00:07:04.160 and the country's in the mood for, quote-unquote, something new.

00:07:07.260 And you lose. You're done.

00:07:09.460 You don't run.

00:07:12.120 J.D. may pick you as his VP candidate.

00:07:13.840 J.D. loses. You're next.

00:07:15.900 J.D. does not pick you and J.D. loses.

00:07:18.380 You're also next.

00:07:19.460 So if you're sort of doing a prisoner's dilemma here,

00:07:21.820 you know, a game theory prisoner's dilemma,

00:07:23.700 I think that the prisoner's dilemma suggests that Rubio will probably not run out of risk aversion.

00:07:28.200 Spot on, 100%.

00:07:29.600 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.

00:07:38.300 And I think politics exclusively cares about your feelings.

00:07:40.360 He's right about the facts.

00:07:41.460 I just think politics involves a lot more pathos.

00:07:44.240 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?

00:07:52.820 This is where Ben being just like ruthlessly rational about politics really plays well.

00:08:00.340 This is where I think it's really helpful.

00:08:01.680 And so I actually hadn't heard anyone put it in that clinical way.

00:08:06.440 But yes, of course, that makes sense.

00:08:08.320 If I'm Rubio, one, I have the one additional factor that Ben didn't mention, but is obviously

00:08:14.260 at play, is that Trump is probably just going to pick the nominee.

00:08:16.800 So it's really you're not you're not running to convince all the Democrat primary voters,

00:08:20.060 all the Republican primary voters.

00:08:21.120 you're running to convince Trump because he still has a stranglehold over the GOP. He is still

00:08:25.780 the guy. He took over the party in 16. He runs the party today. The party is about him. So you're

00:08:31.220 running to persuade him. And Trump obviously seems to adore Marco Rubio, but it looks like

00:08:37.320 his heir apparent is J.D. Vance. I mean, I think that was implicit in picking Vance to be the

00:08:41.340 running mate. Nevertheless, you look at it and you just gamed out. You say, okay, well, if you run

00:08:45.740 against JD and you lose, yes, you're done. If you run against JD and you win, you're going to have

00:08:51.240 a very tough election cycle, especially depending on Trump's involvement in that race. And you might

00:08:56.520 lose and then you're done. Whereas if you're not the top of the ticket, I mean, Marco Rubio is a

00:09:01.800 young guy these days. You have to be like 83 to start running for president. If you look ahead

00:09:08.100 and you say, okay, well, he could have a real long career ahead of him. It's not even just a new

00:09:11.880 thing. Don't forget Ronald Reagan was running. He ran for president in 1976. He almost ran for

00:09:17.720 president even earlier than that. He sort of ran for president a little earlier than that.

00:09:22.140 He did it a long time. It took Bob Dole a long time before he got to be the GOP nominee.

00:09:28.200 It took George H.W. Bush a long time before he got to be president. It took Mitt Romney a number

00:09:31.820 of runs. So yeah, I think Ben is totally right about that. I think you're seeing a lot of unity

00:09:36.360 on the right, and you're beginning to see the Democrats coalescing. Because even though you

00:09:42.960 hear about the split between the DSA and the moderate Democrats, they basically agree on

00:09:46.360 everything. The difference is more tonal than anything else. And the DSA won. The leftists

00:09:52.060 won. The radicals won in the Democrat Party. We used to say the Democrats are all progressives

00:09:56.280 except for Joe Manchin. Well, Joe Manchin is out. Houston Sinema is out. The last guy left,

00:10:01.360 I guess, is sort of John Fetterman. But the rest, they all agree. So you're seeing the shape of this

00:10:08.200 race really taking form right now, which is about the time in the cycle you would. So that means, 0.66

00:10:15.200 the fact that we're looking ahead to 2028 means time is running out in the second Trump term.

00:10:18.920 And we have to ask, okay, what can we do now? Everything is so against us. Joe Biden was

00:10:24.260 flooding 3 million illegals in a year. The courts are against us. One of every 700,

00:10:31.280 you know, the 700 person group of district judges is trying to impede the entire executive branch

00:10:36.820 anytime the president of the United States wants to do anything. So everything gets gummed up in

00:10:40.800 the works. What can we do? Yes, increase the deportations. Do your best to increase the

00:10:45.160 deportations. Do your best to enshrine the executive orders into law. That's not going

00:10:49.500 to happen. Capitol Hill doesn't really work. Okay, what can you do? Well, the one thing that

00:10:53.180 we can do institutionally is not just reveal the fraud, not just reveal the ways in which the left

00:11:00.220 has unjustly acquired power and abused power. We need to hold people accountable. You need to

00:11:06.400 prosecute people. The left knows that. The left tried to prosecute Trump four times to stop him

00:11:11.280 from becoming president again, to stop people from having the opportunity to vote for him.

00:11:14.180 We need to hold people to account. There are great hearings on Capitol Hill where we get to

00:11:18.920 grill these guys who've abused power, like guys like Fauci, people in corporate America,

00:11:24.360 leaders of nonprofit groups, which are really activist groups. And we get to grill them.

00:11:29.240 We say, you're so terrible. But the congressmen aren't going to prosecute anybody. That has to

00:11:34.320 go to the DOJ. Well, we just got some great news on this. The DOJ has arrested the chief financial

00:11:40.460 officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of probably the most powerful left-wing

00:11:46.320 activist organization in the United States. We didn't just expose their fraud. We didn't just

00:11:51.700 reveal their absurd operations to essentially fund all of the racism, all of the bigotry,

00:11:58.140 all of the radical right-wing activity that they were supposedly fighting against.

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00:13:51.500 laundering. What did the SPLC do? The SPLC said it was fighting against hate. They have their

00:13:56.540 famous hate watch blog. Every right winger in public life worth the salt has ended up in some

00:14:03.340 scrutiny on the hate watch blog. I mean, they call, they called Charlie Kirk a radical right

00:14:08.240 winger. I mean, they, they go after everybody and they try to pressure you to be ostracized

00:14:13.480 from society. They try to dry up your funding. They try to get the government to look into you.

00:14:18.420 I mean, this is a really, they were working with Biden's DOJ and FBI to target right wingers,

00:14:22.660 to target Catholics in particular. I mean, this is a horrific group. And what it turned out was

00:14:27.220 that the SPLC was not only identifying the radical right-wing groups, they were funding the most

00:14:33.920 radical ones. There was a dearth of supply of racism and bigotry and radicalism. This demand

00:14:42.780 outstripped the supply. So what did they do? They funded the Klan. And they didn't just fund it a

00:14:48.560 little bit. They weren't just putting some moles in it. They were funding the leaders of these 0.79

00:14:51.360 organizations. So what that amounts to is fraud. They were defrauding their donors.

00:14:57.220 They were, so anyway, the prosecutors say that the CFO, who before she was CFO, led the SPLC's

00:15:04.940 hate groups tracking section, the part of the SPLC that's most under scrutiny. She was among

00:15:11.020 several individuals who oversaw payments to individuals who infiltrated white supremacist

00:15:15.540 groups and acted as informants for the SPLC. But back in April, the SPLC was charged as an

00:15:20.660 organization like the mob, like the Klan, with bank fraud and money laundering, offenses related

00:15:24.940 to its payments of informants to infiltrate the hate groups. The superseding indictment,

00:15:30.220 this is according to Fox News, alleges that one of the individuals that the CFO approved payments for

00:15:35.020 was an imperial wizard in the Ku Klux Klan. So these guys, the SPLC, which is partnering up

00:15:41.860 with the government, which is colluding with organizations funded by your taxpayer dollars,

00:15:47.700 was conspiring with them to target the American right

00:15:54.000 based on an illusion that they themselves had created and were funding.

00:15:57.700 They weren't just funding a mole to sneak into a Klan meeting.

00:16:00.480 They were funding the Imperial Wizard.

00:16:04.060 If not for groups like the SPLC and the government agencies that they work with,

00:16:08.820 I'm not sure that any of these groups would exist.

00:16:12.220 So not only did the CFO approve payments for the Imperial Wizard

00:16:17.140 of the Ku Klux Klan. The CFO also had a romantic relationship with a separate person that the SPLC

00:16:23.060 had paid over a million dollars to since 2007. She shared a bank account with this person for

00:16:29.080 six years between 2015 and 2021. Approximately 140 grand in SPLC donors' money flowed into it.

00:16:35.220 So I hate the SPLC. It's a horrible organization. It's on par with the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan. 0.97

00:16:40.800 It's just absolutely awful. It should be destroyed. SPLC to lend to est, and the government should 1.00

00:16:44.980 bring the full weight of the state down to destroy it. I think the people who donate to the SPLC

00:16:49.400 are really bad for American politics. However, in most charitable read, in their defense,

00:16:55.060 there are a lot of well-meaning people who are donating to the SPLC because they want to stop

00:17:00.500 hatred. They want to stop radicalism. They want to stop racism, anti-Semitism. They want to,

00:17:05.060 you know, they want to stop all this bad stuff. They were defrauded. Beyond the political dynamic

00:17:12.040 of the SPLC is like an enemy of the American people. Beyond the political read on it,

00:17:17.400 they have just simply committed a lot of crimes. They've defrauded their donors,

00:17:22.600 among other crimes. They need to be held to account for that. This is the way. I know that

00:17:28.400 some of the more libertarian and neo-conny types are going to hate this because they hate when

00:17:32.280 Republicans wield power in any way, but the law is a teacher, and we have to hold people to account.

00:17:38.860 I love a good Capitol Hill grilling

00:17:40.460 as much as the next guy.

00:17:41.500 I like it that the congressmen

00:17:42.560 get clips for their re-election campaigns

00:17:44.080 and we get to embarrass Dr. Fauci

00:17:45.660 and all the rest.

00:17:46.520 But where we can,

00:17:48.220 and there are limited circumstances,

00:17:49.580 we have to put people into prison.

00:17:51.900 That is the only way

00:17:53.200 that we will discourage

00:17:54.400 and hopefully stop

00:17:55.800 this radical left-wing behavior.

00:17:57.720 And the clock is running out.

00:17:59.500 The clock is running out.

00:18:00.740 We're a year and a half

00:18:01.220 into the second Trump administration,

00:18:03.260 but we're talking about 2028.

00:18:05.060 The race for 2028 is on,

00:18:06.500 which means there's a very limited time when we're talking about the mass deportations 1.00

00:18:11.520 it's it's great a million and a half deportations in a year is good those are really good numbers

00:18:17.020 but the problem is it's it's not enough it basically can't be enough because biden was

00:18:23.460 letting three million in per year plus another million legal immigrants and the democrats are

00:18:28.620 going to try to give amnesty to all of them so you just have to ramp it all up the clock is running

00:18:32.580 out. And those are just a few instances of fraud. Here's another one. The attorney general,

00:18:38.920 newly installed attorney general, Todd Blanche, just uncovered one of the largest marriage fraud

00:18:44.780 scandals in American history. There were over a thousand fake marriages that took place over the

00:18:50.660 course of a decade between Americans and Chinese nationals. There are 11 individuals now who were

00:18:56.720 charged with orchestrating these marriages to, quote, fraudulently obtain immigration status for

00:19:01.780 foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People's Republic of China. So you're talking

00:19:07.480 about our top geopolitical adversary, communist China. Some individuals paid 100 grand per sham

00:19:13.920 marriage, according to this indictment. So why is this bad? Well, it's bad when our chief

00:19:19.920 geopolitical adversary infiltrates our country. These are guys who are conducting a war against

00:19:23.760 us. China, which is smuggling bioweapons to destroy our crops in regularly through our 0.98

00:19:28.920 university system because we allow Chinese nationals to come to our schools. I mean, 1.00

00:19:32.300 we have a very porous country. We have a very porous border, especially when Democrats are

00:19:36.720 running it. But we have this other major weakness, which the Supreme Court just compounded, which is

00:19:41.240 we offer birthright citizenship in a way that is very easily abused beyond anything the framers

00:19:47.680 of the 14th Amendment ever envisioned, beyond anything that the framers of our U.S. Constitution

00:19:52.040 could have envisioned. We inherited it from the British common law system, but the British,

00:19:56.820 when they moved from a subject system

00:19:58.600 to a citizenship system

00:19:59.920 in the middle of the 20th century,

00:20:01.320 they realized this was totally unsustainable.

00:20:03.140 They got rid of birthright citizenship,

00:20:04.560 or rather, I should say,

00:20:05.540 they clarified what the birthright would mean

00:20:07.800 in a modern citizenship system

00:20:11.480 for a modern nation state.

00:20:12.460 And the US just never caught up,

00:20:13.780 and the Supreme Court just totally squished,

00:20:15.780 unfortunately,

00:20:16.880 and left this major, major loophole here.

00:20:19.160 So when an operative

00:20:21.780 of the Chinese Communist Party 0.72

00:20:23.340 spends 100 Gs to get a sham marriage in the United States, that's bad enough. That's a crime.

00:20:29.480 But the thing is, the minute that they have a kid, that kid has US citizenship. That kid could

00:20:34.220 become president of the United States. This is a major national security concern, and it's just

00:20:40.800 a glaring mockery of US sovereignty. And that's ultimately, I think, what a lot of the political

00:20:49.200 battles are about. Yes, immigration is a top battle. Even the economic populism, the debate

00:20:54.280 over tariffs or industrial policy or reshoring American industry. Really what all of these

00:21:00.500 debates are about, it's sovereignty. Frankly, even the more lurid social debates, the debates

00:21:06.940 over transing the kids, and we will have the assistant health secretary coming on momentarily

00:21:10.780 to discuss another aspect of major fraud in the United States, your taxpayer dollars

00:21:15.840 being used illegally to trans kids.

00:21:18.520 But even that sort of debate

00:21:20.460 is a debate over sovereignty.

00:21:22.100 Do we, the American people,

00:21:23.540 not even have the right anymore

00:21:25.000 to tell activists

00:21:27.460 that they can't castrate little kids?

00:21:29.460 Do we not have, you know, 0.99

00:21:30.880 castrating little kids

00:21:31.980 is a horrific crime in and of itself.

00:21:34.620 But I think part of the reason

00:21:36.020 that it speaks to American voters so much

00:21:38.340 is because we just feel like

00:21:39.520 we don't have control

00:21:40.060 over our country anymore.

00:21:41.100 We don't have control over who comes in.

00:21:42.720 We don't have control over the jobs.

00:21:44.460 We don't have control. 0.96

00:21:45.240 We're slaves to foreign interests. We're slaves to the economy, the market, the invisible hand,

00:21:52.140 peace be upon him. We're slaves to judges who are holding our system hostage and creating

00:21:58.940 glaring loopholes such that our system can now be manipulated by Chinese nationals. 1.00

00:22:03.600 On and on and on. It's about sovereignty. This is why when Trump is running in 2016, 1.00

00:22:08.140 he's not a particularly ideological candidate. He's not a Burkean conservative who was raised

00:22:13.140 going to YAF conferences and ISI conferences, wearing bow ties, reciting Hayek by memory.

00:22:18.900 It's not, that's not what he was. He's clearly loved America and wanted America to be good again

00:22:23.500 and great again and hugged the American flag and kissed it. And that speaks to people. And what's

00:22:27.920 that speaking to is not just some saccharine sentimental affection for our country or

00:22:33.040 nostalgia for yesteryear. What that speaks to is a sense that we want control over, some control

00:22:40.240 over our political destiny again.

00:22:42.640 We realize there are a lot of people who hate our country.

00:22:45.100 The Democrat Party is now following Hassan Piker. 0.99

00:22:47.200 Hassan Piker says he wipes his derriere 0.99

00:22:49.080 with the American flag. 0.98

00:22:50.340 Says America deserved 9-11.

00:22:53.100 And the Democrats are enthralled to this guy.

00:22:55.300 The Democrats campaign with this guy.

00:22:56.820 He really does represent them.

00:22:58.280 That's not just like a right-wing talking point.

00:22:59.920 He really does represent them.

00:23:00.920 That's why he campaigns with them.

00:23:02.580 And they campaign with him.

00:23:04.120 And they refuse to disavow him.

00:23:07.380 And actually, they publish his thoughts

00:23:09.220 on the pages of the New York Times. He's not particularly intelligent. He's not particularly

00:23:14.280 well-educated. They published his thoughts after Charlie Kirk was murdered. Hassan Piker is one of

00:23:20.100 the most prominent figures on the left calling for political violence against conservatives.

00:23:24.640 They publish his words in the New York Times because they all agree with it. AOC represents

00:23:30.320 the Democrat Party as far as the presidential candidates go. And so normal voters are recognizing

00:23:35.720 that and saying, we no longer even have the power to stop people who overtly hate our country from

00:23:42.780 running it into the ground. And that, I think, is a very powerful issue for conservatives. It

00:23:47.040 touches on a lot of individual policies, and it's probably the most compelling case they can make

00:23:51.980 to voters in the midterms in 2028. The marriage thing is really brutal because all big empires

00:23:59.240 are open to corruption, and big pluralistic empires like ours, multi-ethnic, multi-religious

00:24:04.340 empires like ours are really open to factionalism. Not just parties debating ideas, but actual

00:24:10.000 factionalism. I want this for me, for my group, for this race, not that race. For this religion,

00:24:15.420 not that religion. This type of person gets special treatment. We're going to have a two-tier

00:24:19.420 system of justice. That's a big issue. The corruption, it's a big issue. Corruption is

00:24:24.380 like a miasma. It's like radon through a house. It's this poison that you can barely even smell,

00:24:28.940 but you know it's there and it's slowly killing you. That's what the dynamics of the race are

00:24:34.660 underneath all of the individual issues. And the Democrats are getting so smart. You have

00:24:39.280 the Arizona Democrat gubernatorial candidate who's going to run in a pretty tough race. 1.00

00:24:44.860 She's playing ball. Radical, radical candidate. But guess what? She's now going to run with a 1.00

00:24:49.660 Republican as her running mate. We'll get to that momentarily. Then we will get to this very,

00:24:54.900 a very important report coming out from HHS. First though, just over 400 years tomorrow,

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00:27:05.700 clearly. Start right now at hillsdale.edu slash Knowles. There's a few more things I want to tell

00:27:11.380 you about. I want to tell you about the new euphemism that just dropped for Middle Easterners.

00:27:15.560 We get new euphemisms all the time because the left always perverts language. I want to tell

00:27:19.760 the rise in cyber attacks targeting smaller cities. But most of all, what I want to tell

00:27:23.260 you about is this report. This is Wolves in White Coats, How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed

00:27:31.220 and Profited from the Fraud of Gender Medicine. I'm very, very pleased to bring on Admiral Brian 1.00

00:27:38.160 Christine, the Assistant Health Secretary. Admiral Christine, thank you for coming on the show, sir.

00:27:43.000 Michael, good morning. It's great to be with you today. Thank you for having me on. You know,

00:27:46.720 The last time I saw you was that amazing day before the 4th when they unviewed the statuary

00:27:51.400 here in D.C. and you're a relative.

00:27:54.040 And I forget the number of iterations.

00:27:55.620 You're a great, great, great, however many greats.

00:27:57.360 Five, five greats.

00:27:59.400 An amazing patriot.

00:28:00.600 It was so good to see you that day.

00:28:02.360 And I'm really glad to be back here today as the President's Assistant Secretary for

00:28:06.020 Health.

00:28:06.620 Again, speaking about this incredibly important report that we issued yesterday.

00:28:10.820 Well, thank you very much.

00:28:11.640 I was very touched that you came to the unveiling of the Simon Knowles statue in Freedom Plaza.

00:28:16.340 It was great to see you there, and I knew you had a lot cooking at the time, but this

00:28:21.440 is pretty jaw-dropping.

00:28:24.060 This report, it's like the perfect encapsulation of everything that went wrong during wokeism, 1.00

00:28:31.200 the transgender ideology being so prominent there, your predecessor in your role actually 0.89

00:28:36.540 being a man who thought that he was a woman.

00:28:38.960 The idea that the Assistant Secretary of Health would not know what sex he is just perfectly

00:28:44.180 encapsulates that whole era.

00:28:45.400 You just made an announcement with Secretary Kennedy and the Vice President, J.D. Vance.

00:28:50.340 Here's a little clip you might have seen going around social media.

00:28:53.760 Hey, everybody. This is Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:28:56.140 I'm here with my friends and colleagues, of course, our great Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:29:02.160 and Admiral Brian Christine, the Assistant Secretary for Health.

00:29:05.720 Under the previous administration, my predecessor, Richard Levine, promoted what he called gender-affirming care for minors.

00:29:12.860 And there's nothing caring about that. 0.99

00:29:14.460 These are sex-rejecting, mutilating transgender procedures promoted by the Biden administration, 1.00

00:29:20.320 and thanks to President Trump's leadership, we're changing course.

00:29:23.620 The Wolves and White Coats report issued by my office at HHS examines a medical system

00:29:28.940 that subjected children to profound interventions while serious questions remained about evidence,

00:29:34.640 about informed consent, and about financial incentives.

00:29:37.980 Okay, so Edmar Christine, what is the top line here?

00:29:40.500 what did you discover about healthcare spending, transgenderism, transing the kids and the

00:29:46.680 government? Right. Well, the report has several different sections to it. One,

00:29:51.740 the report acknowledges, and we speak about the fact that there's been a dramatic rise in the

00:29:55.680 number of our youth, our minors, who identify as transgender and who are seeking sex-rejecting

00:30:02.280 procedures. Understand that gender dysphoria is a real condition, a psychological condition. It is

00:30:07.760 best treated with competent, compassionate mental health care. And as a Catholic, I would say from

00:30:14.260 a personal standpoint, if the parents wish, pastoral care as well. But that's how you treat

00:30:18.600 these kids, not with castrating chemicals and mutilating surgeries. So we talk about that in

00:30:22.980 the report. We also talk about the fact that there is a financial incentive to make these kids,

00:30:29.160 if you will, captive patients, lifelong patients. In other words, if you put them on cross-sex 0.69

00:30:34.840 hormones, or if you put them on puberty blockers, or you do radical surgeries, they then have

00:30:41.840 to come back again and again and again.

00:30:44.420 Continued visits, possibly dealing with complications.

00:30:47.680 You made a lifelong patient, and there's an economic incentive.

00:30:51.100 We talk about potentially fraudulent coding to use medical codes that do not describe

00:30:56.580 what's going on with the patient.

00:30:58.420 They use those codes to ensure reimbursement.

00:31:01.060 They used codes that were false for the patients to ensure reimbursement, so a potential fraud component.

00:31:07.300 We talk about the ideology driven under the Biden administration, and yes, under my predecessor, Rachel Levine.

00:31:13.760 He is a man dressed as a woman who pushed this ideology.

00:31:17.560 We talk about the medical societies, the endocrine society, WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, 0.84

00:31:24.960 with so many ideologues, pushing this forward, trying to use the weight of their professional

00:31:30.360 status, but pushing this ideology forward. And of course, we talk about these young men and women

00:31:37.060 who were led down a false pathway, undergoing these sex rejecting procedures. And then they

00:31:43.880 and their families, when they realized that this was wrong and they wanted to stop treatment and

00:31:48.840 they wanted to detransition, they were abandoned, Michael. The same people, the same doctors and

00:31:54.600 nurses and clinics that push them forward, abandon them. It's heartbreaking.

00:31:59.460 Yeah, there's so much there because you mentioned WPATH, this trans lobby. And the way that so many 1.00

00:32:07.940 people have this question, how did we get here? How did we get to the point where you've got

00:32:10.980 taxpayer dollars going to fund mutilating kids and doctors saying that a boy can become a girl?

00:32:16.040 It's so absurd. How did we get here? One of the ways we got here is you have groups like WPATH

00:32:20.120 who set up a show.

00:32:22.700 They set up a kind of a hoax

00:32:23.800 where WPATH,

00:32:25.040 you have these ideologues

00:32:25.980 who are pro-trans 0.97

00:32:26.640 and they'll make up 0.96

00:32:27.680 a bunch of nonsense.

00:32:28.720 And then you'll get

00:32:29.520 the medical lobbies

00:32:30.860 to start citing WPATH

00:32:32.860 as a legitimate authority.

00:32:34.600 And then WPATH

00:32:35.940 and related groups

00:32:36.660 go on and cite

00:32:37.400 the medical lobbies.

00:32:38.840 And so it becomes

00:32:39.800 this kind of circular game

00:32:41.820 where they're all relying

00:32:43.680 on each other's credibility,

00:32:45.140 but none of them

00:32:45.800 have any credibility, actually.

00:32:47.320 So you end up

00:32:48.000 with this absurdity

00:32:48.760 that a boy could become 0.86

00:32:49.980 a girl, and you need to stick the kid full of cross-sex hormones, in some cases, using taxpayer 0.88

00:32:55.140 dollars fraudulently. So then you mentioned the pastoral part. I think this is really important. 0.91

00:32:59.960 I was once doing a speech somewhere at some school, and a kid comes up to me, and she said, 0.89

00:33:03.780 hey, Michael, I just want to thank you and other people for speaking out against the trans

00:33:07.760 ideology, because I had gender dysphoria. I was really drawn to gender reassignment or gender 0.62

00:33:15.200 affirming care, which is, as you say, gender-rejecting care. But luckily, I had good 0.80

00:33:19.980 parents, and I had a good priest. And he convinced me that I shouldn't necessarily do that. And then

00:33:27.260 they got me into good psychological counseling. And the psychologist diagnosed a bunch of other

00:33:32.780 issues, namely autism, notably autism. And once they started treating the other issues, she goes,

00:33:38.340 Michael, thank God, my gender dysphoria greatly abated. But my life could have been ruined had

00:33:42.720 I've been put on these cross-sex hormones. My life could have been shortened. I could have had 1.00

00:33:46.360 bone problems. I could have had many sexual development problems. The rates of anxiety 0.97

00:33:52.380 actually increase after the gender reassignment. Suicidality obviously is very high. The list goes 0.99

00:33:57.960 on and on and on. But the point that you mentioned there that really I think is going to stick in the

00:34:02.260 of a lot of ordinary people is the fraud of it all. You're telling me these medical associations

00:34:08.540 were using fraudulent codes at hospitals to bilk the taxpayer for surgeries and procedures

00:34:17.720 that are obviously absurd, obviously immoral, and the government shouldn't be paying for it.

00:34:23.140 No, exactly. And that's why you see the referral from Vice President Vance to our amazing new

00:34:29.240 Attorney General, Todd Blanche, why you see the referral from Secretary Kennedy to the Office

00:34:34.320 the Inspector General at HHS because of this potential fraud and this potential fraudulent

00:34:38.940 coding. And Michael, what you said as well, talking about the psychological care for these

00:34:43.740 kids, on the section of the report and in our video documentary that went along with this,

00:34:49.640 talking to these children, talking to these parents, when they were counseled to undergo

00:34:56.620 and pushed towards sex-rejecting procedures, no one even talked to them and went into their past

00:35:01.920 about that maybe the psychological trauma or harm they might have undergone, leading them to have

00:35:07.180 gender dysphoria that could have been well handled with psychological competent counseling. That

00:35:12.800 wasn't even offered for many of these children. That's a common theme that we see that the parents

00:35:17.800 say, and I'm a parent. I understand that you would do anything for your children. And these parents

00:35:24.940 were literally scared to death because they were told either you have sex rejecting procedures,

00:35:30.180 either you castrate your son or you load your daughter with hormones or you do sex-rejecting 0.89

00:35:35.360 surgeries or they're going to kill themselves. What parent, and again, if they trusted these 0.99

00:35:40.480 individuals in white coats, many of whom were wolves, you understand why they could trust them 0.56

00:35:45.820 and they were at their mercy. So there's so much going on with this report. The way that we change

00:35:51.540 this, and I believe in the Trump administration, we have made such an important inroads in turning

00:35:57.100 the tide on this. We have to never stop. We have to never take our foot off the accelerator

00:36:01.260 because we know what the ideologues will do. They will come back with a vengeance,

00:36:05.200 but we have to evangelize. We have to let the American people know that's what this report

00:36:09.460 does. That's what Secretary Kennedy and the vice president and myself were doing.

00:36:13.880 And being on this show, being with you talking about is part of that evangelization,

00:36:17.720 is part of that education, is part of pulling the scales from people's eyes so they see

00:36:23.420 what the left has done to our kids.

00:36:25.240 Yeah, it's just crucial, crucial work.

00:36:27.320 I encourage everyone to go read the report.

00:36:29.240 I'm so glad to see the referrals.

00:36:30.980 I hope people are prosecuted.

00:36:32.400 I hope there are very serious consequences.

00:36:34.500 I trust there will be because of all the political scandals

00:36:37.780 I've ever seen in my life,

00:36:39.100 I suspect of all the scandals you've seen in your life, 0.51

00:36:41.920 this one is so utterly ghastly and revolting.

00:36:46.380 It so boggles the mind that if there are no consequences,

00:36:50.420 I can't imagine what that means for the future of our polity.

00:36:55.020 Admiral Christine, thank you so much, sir, for all of your excellent work, and thank you for coming on the show.

00:37:00.400 Thank you, Michael.

00:37:01.360 God bless you.

00:37:02.140 God bless your family.

00:37:03.120 God bless our president, and God bless our republic.

00:37:05.280 Yes, to you as well.

00:37:05.960 Thank you very much, sir.

00:37:06.820 Okay.

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00:37:49.960 I do want to get to the mailbag first, though.

00:37:55.020 My favorite comment yesterday is from Jacob, who says,

00:37:59.440 and the new White House press secretary is Marco Rubio.

00:38:05.040 What the?

00:38:05.600 I know, that's what we're all waiting for.

00:38:07.320 I should thank Ben.

00:38:08.540 Ben pitched me for the White House press.

00:38:10.900 Ben Shapiro, not Ben Davies, pitched me for that job.

00:38:13.940 It does seem like a great job.

00:38:15.740 Seems like a lot of fun, but a very tough job.

00:38:18.040 It's a very, very tough job.

00:38:19.280 And to the legacy of Caroline Levitt, she did great.

00:38:25.120 She just did so well in that role.

00:38:27.560 Because the way I'm judging that is she never really made it about her.

00:38:32.820 There was no big error.

00:38:33.960 There was no big gaffe.

00:38:35.080 She did a great job in it.

00:38:36.460 So in any case, I'm sure they'll pick a great one.

00:38:39.460 And if they don't find any good options, then it's going to have to be Marco Rubio.

00:38:42.600 I agree.

00:38:43.480 Finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week, the mailbag.

00:38:47.340 Mailbag sponsored by PureTalk at puretalk.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, to start saving today.

00:38:51.900 Take it away.

00:38:53.220 Hello, Michael.

00:38:53.960 I hope this goes okay.

00:38:55.180 I had a couple of drinks.

00:38:56.500 First time voice mailbag recorder.

00:39:00.640 I was just wondering your take on how likely do you think it is that AOC is only cynically

00:39:10.800 freezing her eggs so that she can say she is a person with a tie to the future because someone

00:39:20.000 might ask her hey you know you're not married you don't have kids you don't have any tie to

00:39:24.980 the future but she can say oh yes i do because i'm freezing my eggs any thoughts uh i don't think

00:39:31.540 it's that conscious but sure that's part of it i don't think aoc is all that conscious but i do

00:39:36.760 think she's a good politician. I think she just kind of finds her lane. She moves on gut instinct. 0.98

00:39:43.760 She understands instinctively what relates to people. And I said it on the show the other day.

00:39:48.780 She really is the voice of her generation. She really is a voice of the left-wing version of

00:39:55.180 being a millennial. And you know what millennials do? They freeze their eggs because millennials 1.00

00:39:58.960 were told not to get married, to put off getting married. Millennials had a lot of trouble dating.

00:40:03.660 Zoomers are having even more trouble, but millennials were told to put career first. 0.94

00:40:07.540 Millennials were told to be selfish, basically. And I think a lot of millennials, it's not their

00:40:12.940 fault. That's how they were raised. And then a lot of millennials began to question what they

00:40:16.860 were taught. Oh, maybe I should have prioritized my family life more than the career. Maybe the

00:40:21.200 career is not all it's cracked up to be. Maybe these student loans I took out, hundreds of

00:40:25.500 thousands of dollars to go to some college, maybe they actually weren't worth it. Maybe I've made

00:40:28.980 some mistakes. And so, you know, I don't think there is an ethical case to be made for freezing

00:40:33.720 your eggs and IVF and surrogacy. But I sympathize with the people who do it. I get why people do it. 0.97

00:40:39.560 If I were not blessed to have gotten married earlier, if I were like a lot of other people

00:40:44.140 in my generation, especially if I were a woman, if I were, you know, in my late 30s or early 40s,

00:40:52.120 I would say, oh, shoot, I was lied to. And I actually do want kids. And maybe I want to freeze

00:40:56.960 my eggs. You know, I, I, I totally understand that feeling. I don't think AOC is lying about

00:41:00.780 wanting kids and wanting a family. Uh, but there is no question. The fact that she's live streaming,

00:41:06.100 taking the shots is, is political. She's signaling that she is going to run. She's answering a 0.52

00:41:11.320 question, uh, about her future and her plans for her future. She wants to run for president and 0.71

00:41:16.420 she might well get the nomination. Next question. Hey, Michael's Haley, everyday listener here. 1.00

00:41:22.740 My son's 16th birthday is coming up on August the 17th, and I'm trying to decide what Bible

00:41:28.500 to get him.

00:41:30.380 I can't believe he's almost 16, hasn't gotten his own Bible yet, but I'm hoping you can

00:41:36.000 help, maybe recommend a translation.

00:41:39.960 I've done a little bit of research, and it looks like William Tyndale in the 1520s and

00:41:46.540 1530s, completed an English translation from the original Greek and Hebrew. And then the King James,

00:41:56.320 it appears, is based largely on that translation, a lot heavily on that. So I was thinking going

00:42:01.860 with just the King James Version Bible. And someone pointed out that maybe I should look

00:42:05.660 into something a little more easy to read, considering a 16-year-old boy might get

00:42:11.060 discouraged trying to read the old style of language. You might not really understand it.

00:42:16.540 Um, I don't know though. I'm, I'm really kind of torn. So just hoping that you can provide a

00:42:20.600 recommendation. Uh, what do you think? Yes. Good question. I mean, I would recommend first,

00:42:27.040 I would recommend getting a Catholic Bible because I don't know whatever your particular flavor of

00:42:32.020 religion, I would say, uh, even if you don't, even as some Protestants don't believe that the

00:42:38.000 deuterocanonical books are, you know, really properly part of the canon of scripture, but

00:42:41.920 you know, look, it's a better deal. You're getting more books anyway. Even, even I happen to believe

00:42:45.500 they are part of the canon of scripture, but listen, I like a good deal, okay? So get the one

00:42:49.820 with the extra books compared to the fewer books. But yeah, I would say the best translations are

00:42:56.360 probably the Douai Reims and the King James. You know, to read the King James, you're not only

00:43:02.000 reading Revelation and inspired scripture, but you're also engaging with the Western tradition.

00:43:08.180 You know, you're also, you will, just idioms, phrases that we use, so many of them come from

00:43:13.720 the King James Bible. So that language is so great. You can get it with the deuterocanonical

00:43:18.120 books. But if you're worried that it's a little antiquated or, you know, the language is a little

00:43:22.720 archaic, then I would recommend the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition. Again,

00:43:27.380 even if you don't, even if you're not totally sold on the deuterocanonical books,

00:43:30.940 who doesn't like getting some extra free books? You know, I like a good deal. But that's the

00:43:34.960 version that Father Mike Schmitz uses for Bible in a Year, which became the number one podcast

00:43:39.060 in the country. I call it Bible in Five Years. Actually, I was listening to it just yesterday.

00:43:43.720 but that's a very readable version. So, I like that. I tend to use the RSVCE

00:43:49.880 just for my kind of ordinary usage to get the meaning immediately, but the beauty of the

00:43:56.940 language of the Douai Reims and the KJV is really spectacular. Okay, I want to take a

00:44:03.560 written mailbag question because this relates to something that happened yesterday. This is from

00:44:08.500 Aaron H. Michael, longtime listener of your show, a question for you. What was the moment

00:44:16.060 in your life when you said, oh, S-H-I-T, I made it. I strive to have that moment one day, 0.99

00:44:22.040 but for now, I will live it through your story. That's very kind of you to say.

00:44:26.000 The reason I really liked this question is because it was yesterday. Yesterday is when I had that

00:44:31.660 moment. And the reason is I walk into my office in the other building, and I see there's a box

00:44:38.460 waiting for me. It's just not, and look, it's a ukulele. It looks like a ukulele. So anyway,

00:44:42.400 I go, I pull it out. You know, I'm a sucker for a good ukulele. A listener to the show

00:44:48.340 had sent me a ukulele that was custom made. This is a luthier in Virginia. Just an absolutely

00:44:56.780 magnificent instrument. This is from Nathan Reed Custom Guitars in Virginia. There's another Reed

00:45:02.120 Custom Guitars in Canada. It's not the evil top hat one. It's in Virginia. He can't even,

00:45:05.820 he doesn't even have a website. It's like he's just a pure artist. But if you Google

00:45:09.620 ReidCustomGuitars at gmail.com, R-E-I-D, CustomGuitars at gmail.com, I don't know. Highly

00:45:15.340 recommend commissioning a uke. It is a poplar top, walnut back and sides, beautiful maple neck,

00:45:24.220 nice curly walnut fretboard with, I don't know if you can see this, the Michael Knowles Show

00:45:29.840 logo inlaid in turquoise and hand-cut abalone. I do not deserve this. I do not. It's not totally

00:45:38.420 tuned. But that's it. It's never going to get any cooler than that. I made it. This is it.

00:45:46.380 In a serious answer to your question, it's a very flattering question, but the real answer is

00:45:51.720 there's always going to be some guy who is more powerful than you, who is richer than you,

00:45:59.540 who is more famous than you, who is living a more luxurious life than you,

00:46:05.460 who has accomplished more than you. There's always going to be some guy who is doing that.

00:46:10.380 And so I don't think it's helpful to think of this one moment when I made it, and then it's

00:46:16.900 good and we're done. I can check out, life is over. I think, I feel like I'm really blessed,

00:46:23.580 and I know I'm very, very blessed. And so I think those moments are, they happen all the time.

00:46:29.260 Those moments happen all the time.

00:46:31.140 And I have been aware of them happening for most of the time.

00:46:34.620 The moment, I was never picked for the football team,

00:46:37.180 but the moment I got the lead in the school play,

00:46:39.680 that was when I said, oh, great, I made it.

00:46:41.160 The moment I got, I don't know, got elected class president,

00:46:44.400 got into a school I wanted to go to,

00:46:46.200 got a job that I wanted,

00:46:48.420 got the girl I wanted to date me to date me.

00:46:52.060 The moment I got to master an instrument,

00:46:55.860 the moment that I, especially the ukulele,

00:46:57.860 The moment that I had my first kid,

00:47:00.000 that's one that really makes you think,

00:47:01.560 wow, I've arrived.

00:47:02.760 I've arrived.

00:47:03.320 I'm a real guy.

00:47:03.960 Oh my goodness.

00:47:04.560 I got married.

00:47:05.200 I had a kid.

00:47:05.920 I had, it's all those moments.

00:47:08.220 And you hope that you don't reach the final moment

00:47:11.780 where you say, okay, I made it

00:47:12.880 and everything's downhill from here.

00:47:14.140 You want it to keep growing.

00:47:15.480 And I think if you are aware of all the great things

00:47:18.400 that God is doing for you in your life,

00:47:20.300 you won't just have one of those moments.

00:47:22.740 You say, I hope I have that moment one day,

00:47:24.160 but it may never come.

00:47:25.000 No, you're gonna have those moments all the time.

00:47:27.600 You're going to have those moments even amid suffering. And you're going to recognize that

00:47:31.540 all of the natural good things that happen to you are actually pale in comparison to the

00:47:36.860 supernatural things. The temporal pales in comparison to the eternal. And so you can,

00:47:41.120 even at the very last moments of your life, you can, we hope, you know, we hope and faith can

00:47:45.880 look forward to saying, oh, just moments from now, I will truly have made it. Okay. The rest

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00:48:08.700 Your country is beneath contempt.

00:48:12.500 We who love and serve Allah fought back against the Americans and the Zionists 0.60

00:48:18.900 from the scourge of secularism and the lands of unbelief.

00:48:24.180 Anyone going to listen to Captain Saunders tomorrow?

00:48:31.180 The retired Delta Force soldier with a new book out. 0.87

00:48:34.760 He's the polar opposite of those brain-dead protesters.

00:48:37.840 Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?

00:48:41.060 Mr. Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.

00:48:43.820 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00

00:48:46.140 There are three ways Islam will conquer the West. 1.00

00:48:49.180 Through immigration, through the wombs of our women, and by using our nation's freedoms 1.00

00:48:59.540 against us. 1.00

00:49:04.400 Are you paying attention?

00:49:11.920 Listen carefully.

00:49:13.360 the great satan america will fall 1.00

00:49:20.280 you are infidels the bodies of women are not pure and the men's souls are unclean 1.00

00:49:31.400 what makes them so dangerous their goals are not in this life but the next 1.00

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00:49:43.040 i got friends here i can't just leave

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00:49:47.100 we cannot run

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00:49:53.120 i will be rewarded 10,000

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00:49:56.580 when you die you're nothing

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