The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2079 - BREAKING： ICE Raids Ilhan Omar’s D.C. Home

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00:01:11.260 up to $500,000 at cardiff.co slash Knowles, can-a-w-l-e-s. President Trump renames Democrat

00:01:18.500 Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, while reports swirled that a different Democrat Senate candidate

00:01:23.340 just spent 10 days in a loony bin. The Pope comes out swinging against the death penalty

00:01:28.600 as condemned murderer Krista Pike is discharged from the hospital after her execution. And a

00:01:34.780 crazy British man gets mauled to death by a tiger after jumping into the animal's enclosure at the

00:01:40.920 zoo. By the way, the feds just raided Ilhan Omar's house. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:01:44.860 show. Welcome back to the show. Also, we got a new White House press secretary who is phenomenal.

00:02:07.740 I'll get to that. I need five hours to do today's show. There is so much happening.

00:02:12.720 cancel your plans. Don't go to work. Actually, you should not be going to work because today

00:02:17.920 is Columbus Day, a very, very important American holiday that President Trump commemorated on

00:02:25.000 Friday in an excellent ceremony at the White House. Christopher Columbus, you will recall,

00:02:29.740 was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house, he's a hero. The only reason I'm at work today

00:02:34.940 is for love of the game. I'm actually here to celebrate Columbus Day. There is so,

00:02:39.880 so much to get to. Right off the top, breaking news, hearing it now for the first time,

00:02:44.860 the feds have raided Ilhan Omar's house. This is the Department of Homeland Security.

00:02:50.180 They executed a warrant on Ilhan Omar's house. It says, today in the Washington, D.C. area,

00:02:58.720 Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant

00:03:02.760 secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing

00:03:07.040 federal investigation, according to the DOJ spokesman. It's unclear exactly what this is

00:03:14.120 all about. It's unclear what charges, if any, could be brought against Ilhan Omar.

00:03:20.640 But this is not the first time that Ilhan Omar has been investigated. There has been an ongoing

00:03:26.100 criminal investigation that Borders are Tom Homan talked about publicly beginning last month.

00:03:31.480 We do know that Ilhan Omar has been credibly accused of immigration fraud because she married her brother.

00:03:39.940 So this is a real ongoing issue.

00:03:42.360 On top of that, we know that Ilhan Omar hates America, giggles at al-Qaeda, and is just an all-around terrible person who should be deported from the country.

00:03:50.080 But this is a big October surprise.

00:03:52.020 this really if if the trump administration actually were able to nail a sitting member

00:03:59.720 of congress on immigration fraud that would be dramatic to say the least there is precedent

00:04:07.800 for americans who have citizenship to be denaturalized because of immigration fraud

00:04:12.000 in this case the immigration fraud would have pertained to ilhan omar's brother husband's

00:04:17.700 immigration, not to her own. But this could lead to the denaturalization and deportation

00:04:23.340 of members of Ilhan Omar's family. There's a slight chance, I guess, that it could involve

00:04:28.300 her denaturalization and deportation. That's one way to remove someone from Congress. 1.00

00:04:33.400 Unclear. It is, what, October 12th? That's a pretty good October surprise,

00:04:38.300 and everything is just going to heat up more and more as we head into the midterms. Okay,

00:04:45.200 We'll keep you updated on that.

00:04:46.740 If anything new comes in during the show, we'll bring you more on it.

00:04:49.700 I now have to turn, speaking of the midterms, to another very prominent wacky Democrat,

00:04:54.480 James Tallarico, who reportedly was in a loony bin.

00:05:00.400 So now this story, I totally ignored this story.

00:05:03.140 I didn't talk about it on the show.

00:05:05.020 I didn't plan to talk about it on the show.

00:05:07.020 But it really began to pick up steam over the weekend to the point that I tweeted out.

00:05:12.120 I said, wait a second.

00:05:12.720 is Tallarico actually in a loony bin? I thought it was just a meme. Here's what we know. We know

00:05:18.980 that James Tallarico had an in-person event in New York, September 28th. It was this big

00:05:27.180 Democrat fundraiser with Robert De Niro and all these big libs. That was reported by the New York

00:05:32.320 Post. He then just disappeared for 10 days. No Tallarico to be found. Next time he showed up

00:05:38.560 again. It was October 9th. So just this past Friday, he showed up to a music festival in

00:05:44.520 Austin. So what some of the social media influencers and tabloids and different blogs

00:05:51.860 were reporting was that Tallarico was in a loony bin. Tallarico's campaign said he just came down

00:05:58.720 with the flu. The loony bin that it was Nick Sorter, I think, was really behind the story a

00:06:06.260 lot uh the loony bin was called the lindner center of hope and part of the reason that people started

00:06:13.820 to pay attention to this story was that there was a phone call that was released and the phone call

00:06:19.680 uh seemed to depict a receptionist at the loony bin uh describing tallarico's stay there

00:06:30.580 okay so nothing for james tallarico

00:06:32.580 this it looks well this is what it's today looks like just this she was just discharged this

00:06:49.400 evening that's why i don't have it oh he was discharged then mm-hmm okay and this is the

00:06:56.880 hope they should be okay i'm sorry this is and i'll make sure i have the right this is hope

00:07:01.280 blender yes okay and you're in hamilton ohio no we're not in hamilton no we're in mason

00:07:10.060 okay so that's why he's on the system he's in recent okay all right okay thank you thank you

00:07:16.840 okay so again we don't know i mean nick sorter he gets good stuff he's a good you know good

00:07:21.840 independent journalist social media influencer so he posts this but we don't know the provenance

00:07:27.080 of the call. It sounds like a receptionist. She says, yeah, yeah, there was a James Tallarico

00:07:31.660 here. He was discharged. Some people were saying she couldn't have said that at the medical clinic

00:07:36.240 because that would violate HIPAA. I don't think it actually does violate HIPAA to say someone was

00:07:40.680 there. If she had disclosed his treatment, that would violate HIPAA. But I'm not sure that just

00:07:44.940 saying there is a patient there actually violates HIPAA. In any case, the Tallarico campaign denied

00:07:50.260 this. From the beginning, they said he had the flu. And since then, the loony bin has come out

00:07:55.400 and said, no, no, no, James Tallarico was not here contradicting that statement. They didn't

00:07:58.640 really even refer to the statement. So anyway, there are more questions now than answers because

00:08:04.200 of this. Tallarico disappears 10 days before a hotly, hotly contested election that right now

00:08:13.120 has a slight edge to giving Democrats something they've been after for decades, namely flipping

00:08:18.000 Texas blue. Candidates don't disappear for 10 days in October before a very, very hot election

00:08:26.180 that is at a razor's edge right now. That doesn't happen. And the flu excuse does not cut it.

00:08:34.240 I don't care if the guy's got pneumonia. He is going to be campaigning. A campaign cannot lose

00:08:39.200 one day at this time. A campaign cannot lose two hours at this time in a campaign.

00:08:44.460 i'm not saying he was in a loony bin he might not have been in a loony bin i didn't take the

00:08:49.440 story seriously when i first heard about it and i guess the the lidner center of hope denies it so

00:08:55.760 okay i'll take that for what it's worth but we are not getting the full story on where james

00:09:00.240 tallarico was that was not the flu and if it wasn't the flu and it wasn't that he was in a

00:09:04.580 loony bin or he wasn't in that loony bin or whatever it was the tallarico campaign needs

00:09:09.260 to provide more details. I want to be as fair-minded as I can. When stories are a little

00:09:14.900 too perfect, a little too convenient, I usually just dismiss them as I was doing with the Tallarico's

00:09:20.740 a nut story. I mean, he is a nut for sure, and he could use an in-person facility without question.

00:09:26.320 But I don't know if he's actually been to one of those. I don't know anything about it.

00:09:31.240 Gone for 10 days without anything resembling a plausible explanation, not going to cut it.

00:09:37.260 As of now, the rational conclusion is that the Tallarico campaign was lying to voters,

00:09:41.640 lying to Texans.

00:09:42.620 I want to know where he was. 1.00

00:09:45.000 Obviously, obviously a nut.

00:09:49.900 But what was he doing?

00:09:51.160 What was he up to?

00:09:52.020 Okay, speaking of the midterms, President Trump has been going very, very hard on the

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00:11:34.740 Okay, President Trump hitting the campaign trail.

00:11:36.820 He comes out.

00:11:37.640 He reminds voters of one of the biggest issues, one of the decisive issues from 2024.

00:11:46.980 In terms of mother and father to gestating and non-gestating parents.

00:11:54.780 you but you can no longer say mother hi mom it's hi gestating

00:12:03.100 hi gestating i love you so much gestating mom so he's doing all of these campaign steps their

00:12:11.600 stand-up routines and some people are going to be tempted to say oh you know the trans issue

00:12:16.340 that's passe that's over you're beating a dead horse i don't think that's true one every one

00:12:20.960 of these Democrats who's running for office right now is running on transing the kids.

00:12:24.980 So they've not changed their opinion on the issue. The issue remains a live issue. It lay

00:12:28.600 dormant right now because the Republicans won the whole government in 2024. But the Dems have

00:12:34.220 not seen the light. They've not changed their mind. They're going to bring that back the second

00:12:37.640 that they get back into power. This is a very powerful issue. This is the issue, the issue

00:12:44.160 that stopped Democrats from taking Texas in 2024, Colin Allred versus Ted Cruz.

00:12:48.680 this is perhaps the issue that let president trump win the election in 2024 not because people care

00:12:55.320 that much about weird sex stuff or or deviance or whatever but because the fact that the democrats

00:13:01.960 believe a man can become a woman and they want to go so far as to castrate little kids shows you

00:13:07.640 that their judgment is impaired on every single issue that that was always the potency of the

00:13:12.040 trans issue so trump gets out there goes what are we going to say now he used to say hi mom love you

00:13:16.080 mom. Now we're going to say, hi, gestating. Hi, gestating. What is that? It's not just like

00:13:21.900 kind of funny. It's not a joke that really landed two years ago, but not anymore. It's a vital

00:13:27.760 political issue. Okay. Then President Trump renamed the Democrats Senate nominee in Michigan.

00:13:35.600 There's a lot of people don't put them together, but that's how it all happened. Yet,

00:13:39.980 as you know, the radical left communists hate Columbus and they want to abolish

00:13:44.680 Columbus Day. They're still trying very hard. You know, this guy, I call him Muhammad Al-Fayyad.

00:13:51.240 Some people call him Abdul. I call him Muhammad. Somebody said, why? I said, I don't know. I feel

00:13:56.000 like it. But he wants to abolish Columbus Day. He wants to, no reference to, can you believe it?

00:14:06.460 You could write a dissertation about the political diction in just that joke.

00:14:10.940 there's so much here before trump the gop was considered really nerdy and self-serious and

00:14:19.740 lame trump comes in and he makes the gop seem cool because trump was a major global celebrity

00:14:25.640 very colorful figure brash billionaire tv star right so that was just aesthetically that was

00:14:32.540 a big shift that trump brought in and he brings that with his attitude the the old gop pre-trump

00:14:39.840 would have said, now listen here, I, listen, I do not want to engage in any kind of untoward

00:14:45.700 rhetoric or any kind of bigotry. I just want to point out that this guy, Mr. Abdul is, he is an

00:14:52.920 extremist. Islam may be a religion of peace, but this man is taking it to, it just would have been

00:14:58.480 this annoying, tedious, self-serious thing. And Trump comes in and he goes, he just, you know,

00:15:03.680 it's that smirk. It's that, look, I think we all, what's his name? I call him Muhammad.

00:15:09.840 I, it's that blase, let it all go. Yeah, whatever. Deal with it. Shrugs his shoulders. What are you 1.00

00:15:17.800 going to, yeah, I made a comment that's politically, what are you going to do about it? That attitude

00:15:21.680 is, is crucial. And it comes out in all manner of issues now for over, over 10 years. So that's

00:15:27.200 the setting. Then he says, I call him Muhammad. And at first you say, that's so, that's so blunt. 0.95

00:15:33.960 It's so stupid. How could you? That's so, you know, are we children now? Why are you, oh, what? 1.00

00:15:39.440 just because he's Muslim, you call him Muhammad? No, no, no, no, no, no. One of the brilliant

00:15:42.760 little turns about the renaming is, Abdul's name actually is Muhammad. Did you know that?

00:15:48.500 I didn't know that. I looked it up. It's his middle name. His name is Abdul Muhammad

00:15:53.860 al-Sayed. But the part that I haven't seen anyone pick up on is the key to the renaming

00:16:01.000 here actually has nothing to do with his first name. Did you hear what Trump did? It's the second

00:16:06.120 part. It's the last name. Trump opens up, he goes, some people call him Abdul El-Fayed. I call him

00:16:11.640 Muhammad. Why? I don't know. I feel like it. He called him El-Fayed. His name is El-Sayed. He 0.99

00:16:18.740 called him El-Fayed. The El-Fayed is actually more potent than Abdul to Muhammad because the El-Fayed 0.87

00:16:24.600 is so disrespectful. It's as if to say, I don't care. You know, this guy doesn't mean that much 0.99

00:16:29.020 to me. I heard about him though. Isn't he a weirdo? I'm Trump. All the politics is about me,

00:16:32.840 but you hear about this guy they're right you hear about this guy spotlight on light the cigarette

00:16:38.300 yeah you hear about this guy i'm fired whatever it's that kind of thing if you ever if you ever

00:16:43.660 chatting up a girl in college i don't know in your 20s you're chatting up a girl and she's got

00:16:47.460 a boyfriend and you really don't like that and you say yeah how's your boyfriend uh mark doing

00:16:52.440 oh it's actually his name is mike yeah whatever it's that it's that it's so disrespectful yeah

00:16:58.760 I don't even, whatever his name is.

00:16:59.940 He doesn't matter to me.

00:17:01.420 Yeah, Abdul Al-Fayed, Al-Sayed, Al-Bayed, whatever.

00:17:04.260 Who cares? 0.87

00:17:05.360 I call him Mohammed. 1.00

00:17:06.340 You know, I don't know because it's funny. 1.00

00:17:07.520 I don't know.

00:17:08.080 It's funny, isn't it?

00:17:10.760 It's perfectly disrespectful.

00:17:12.680 It's perfectly dismissive.

00:17:14.320 Really, really well done.

00:17:16.700 That is the kind of rhetoric from a guy

00:17:19.640 who has definitely taken a lot of girls

00:17:22.200 from a lot of boyfriends,

00:17:23.940 which we know that President Trump has done.

00:17:26.180 You saw a similar dynamic play out.

00:17:27.800 President Trump was at the White House. He got a question from a reporter who had a very thick

00:17:31.740 accent. If you're only listening right now, you couldn't see the magnificent reaction worthy of

00:17:51.260 Lee Strasberg's acting studio. When Trump is listening, totally locked in on this guy,

00:17:56.240 and the guy has this thick accent. And then Trump's just looking at him. He's trying. You

00:18:02.660 know, it's not, it's not that he's mocking this guy or he's just looking at him. You can't make

00:18:07.960 out a word he's saying. No, just looks at him. And then he just turns to another reporter. And

00:18:13.180 as he's turning, he just kind of shrugs. Whatever that was. Okay, whatever. Look, hey, I'm, this is

00:18:20.520 America, man. I can't, you can't expect, I'll listen to your question, but if you can't speak

00:18:24.880 English, you can't expect me to have to listen. I don't know. I can't understand what you're

00:18:29.960 saying. Okay. Sorry. It's that shrug. It's that sense of cool. It's that moving on. We got things

00:18:37.380 to do. Parents do this to their kids sometimes. The kid comes up, daddy, mommy. Huh? What is it?

00:18:45.980 What's the matter? And you look and you say, okay, I don't know. Come to me when you can

00:18:54.780 speak properly i don't i can't i don't know what whatever you're crying about whatever you're

00:18:58.300 whining with your brother your sister i don't know come to me when you when we're serious okay 0.55

00:19:03.180 that's what trump did to the reporter okay then tripling down on the islamophobia 0.94

00:19:08.940 trump gives his best impression of a muslim 1.00

00:19:12.680 they are they speak we will kill we will kill everyone everyone we will kill everyone and i 1.00

00:19:23.880 hear like 20 guys behind him. He's talking, we will kill everyone. They don't talk that way 1.00

00:19:29.060 anymore, by the way. We will kill everyone. And behind, I got 20 guys. Praise be to Allah. Praise 1.00

00:19:35.100 be to Allah. Praise be to Allah. He's really doubling down here. Now, what's interesting is

00:19:46.460 President Trump can win votes from Muslims. He can. And Muslims increasing matter because of

00:19:53.660 mass migration to the United States, especially in places like Michigan. Forget about places like 1.00

00:19:57.700 Minnesota. They're never going to go Republican. But Michigan, that is important. That is a swing

00:20:01.180 state. There's a very hot election right now for the Senate in Michigan. So what could Trump do?

00:20:07.120 He could do the egghead GOP thing and say, well, look, America's welcome to everybody. As long as

00:20:13.480 you work hard and you're willing to follow the meritocracy, you adopt certain aspects of the

00:20:19.640 civic religion, then we could, no, no, no. He goes, Islam is pretty crazy, right? You hear 1.00

00:20:24.900 these guys go, and they're all kind of nuts, aren't they? In a way, I think this plays a lot 0.98

00:20:33.520 better, even with Muslims. It'll definitely play better with people who are skeptical of Islam or

00:20:38.640 fearful of Islam, but I think in a way it plays better with Muslims because it's Trump speaking

00:20:44.380 like an ordinary person. It's like how guys talk to each other in the locker room or just generally.

00:20:49.640 It's how guys talk to each other, which is you kind of make fun of each other a little bit. 0.74

00:20:53.300 The kind of Muslim who can vote for Trump is the kind of Muslim who can take that joke. 0.51

00:20:58.580 The kind of Muslim who doesn't like that joke ain't voting for Trump. 1.00

00:21:01.460 The kind of Muslim who can't take that joke is probably trying to murder Trump. 1.00

00:21:04.100 I remember one time I was visiting Beirut. 1.00

00:21:05.700 This was 10 years ago or more.

00:21:07.620 And I'm driving around in a cab in Beirut.

00:21:10.060 The guy barely speaks any English.

00:21:12.040 And I asked him about his prayer beads.

00:21:17.080 No, no, I asked him about a mosque we were driving by. 0.92

00:21:19.300 And I think the guy was Muslim, but he didn't. 1.00

00:21:22.020 He was a low-voltage Muslim. 1.00

00:21:23.260 And I said, what's that? 1.00

00:21:24.680 What's that building?

00:21:25.440 He goes, oh, Allahu Akbar, blah, blah, blah.

00:21:29.660 And I said, okay, that low-voltage, you want to assimilate,

00:21:33.900 you don't take it all that seriously.

00:21:35.240 That's the kind of guy that's going to be attracted to Trump.

00:21:37.420 This is why the GOP establishment couldn't understand

00:21:40.640 that Trump did so well with the working class,

00:21:44.020 all the way from the moment he descended the golden escalator.

00:21:46.960 They say, this man, he was born rich.

00:21:48.780 He's been privileged his whole life.

00:21:50.720 He's a billionaire.

00:21:51.800 He flies around on a 747. 0.99

00:21:53.420 He, come on, why does the working class like this guy?

00:21:56.660 And it's because he's not trying to fool anybody.

00:22:00.080 He's not hiding who he is.

00:22:01.440 He's not really a chameleon.

00:22:02.980 He goes out there. 1.00

00:22:03.720 He'll speak to Muslim voters and say, you guys, some of you guys are pretty crazy. 0.98

00:22:06.700 He invites the new head of Syria over, the former al-Qaeda guy who's now running Syria. 0.98

00:22:12.300 He comes over to the White House.

00:22:13.680 He says, okay, I got a gift here for your wife.

00:22:15.420 How many wives do you have?

00:22:16.580 I got to ask you guys sometimes.

00:22:18.240 It's not always clear.

00:22:19.140 We have one wife in America,

00:22:21.120 but you guys sometimes,

00:22:22.260 and in a way that conveys respect,

00:22:25.040 actually, more than trying to dance around other issues.

00:22:27.340 Okay, I want to get to the one line from Trump

00:22:29.620 that the left is going nuts with.

00:22:32.040 They're using to try to make fun of all of us

00:22:33.640 in a second, where Trump said 1.00

00:22:34.540 he could say the stupidest things 1.00

00:22:36.200 and we would all keep applauding him. 1.00

00:22:37.760 Then I got to get to the Pope on the death penalty.

00:22:40.220 Then I got to get to the new White House press secretary.

00:22:42.800 Then I got to get to a guy

00:22:43.860 getting mauled to death by a tiger.

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00:24:47.960 slash regulatory. Last banger from Trump. This is the one that went really, really viral. 0.98

00:24:53.120 The left is taking this clip and using it to make fun of all of us Trump supporters.

00:24:56.440 no it's true no there's such love it's like like 0.99

00:25:08.780 i mean it's amazing when you stand up here it's just like the love i could say the stupidest 0.93

00:25:19.260 things and you clap you know i love you so that's true but we don't say the stupidest things we say 0.99

00:25:25.660 things of common sense okay so the left seizes on this company say trump is making fun of his 0.99

00:25:32.960 supporters to their faces he says that he can say the stupidest things and they'd still applaud him 0.99

00:25:39.360 because they love him and what the left misunderstands is they think that trump is 0.99

00:25:45.160 commenting on intelligence when in fact he's commenting on love and the left doesn't understand

00:25:51.580 love, so it's no surprise they can't understand that statement. Trump is coming out. He says,

00:25:56.380 it's so wonderful. Thank you. I really feel the love. You guys, this is wonderful. Thank you so

00:26:00.460 much for being here and giving me all this support. You really love me. That's really nice.

00:26:04.040 That makes me feel really, really good. I could come out here and say the stupidest things and 1.00

00:26:07.740 you'd still love me. And he's right about that. But notice, he's not saying you guys are too 1.00

00:26:14.040 stupid to realize that I'm saying stupid things. He's not commenting on intelligence at all, 1.00

00:26:19.080 actually. He's saying, oh, you love me. You guys really like me. And I love you. And we got a good

00:26:26.960 thing going here. That's what he's saying. And that has been at the heart of the Trump movement

00:26:30.900 from the beginning, a real sense of personal connection that his supporters really care

00:26:36.520 about him more than the supporters of Congressman Joe Schmoe care about Congressman Joe Schmoe.

00:26:42.360 There's this real personal connection to Trump. And Trump clearly really cares about us,

00:26:48.660 about the American people. This is a guy who opened himself up to four prosecutions

00:26:53.480 who took a bullet in the ear. Didn't have to. Didn't have to. Don't forget, at that point,

00:26:58.820 he had already been president. He already got everything he could possibly want professionally.

00:27:04.780 Virtually, I guess there's always something more. But he reached the top. He got to the

00:27:08.340 mountaintop. And then he kept doing it. And he subjected himself to all of this liability,

00:27:13.360 all of this risk, all of this danger, all of this. Why? Because he wants to do something good for

00:27:19.060 the country. That will give him a legacy, not that he'll be appreciated for that mostly in his time,

00:27:25.140 but he will have done something good. He clearly has a real common touch with people. And for the

00:27:32.000 many, many people who know the president personally, you hear the story again and again and again,

00:27:35.760 that he actually does care about people. And that comes through, that shines through on screen.

00:27:39.300 This is what the left doesn't understand. When he comes out there and he says,

00:27:42.400 I could say the stupidest things and you would still love me. He's not, he's not making fun of 0.99

00:27:49.380 the audience. He's really making fun of himself. He's saying, I would be the one saying the stupid

00:27:54.240 things. But even when I do say stupid things, you still love me. And that's true. Sometimes Trump 1.00

00:27:59.520 says something and you say, I don't know if I agree with that. Ah, that's a little, ah, that

00:28:02.300 came out a little wrong. Ah, I don't know. How many Trump supporters, diehard Trump supporters

00:28:05.580 say, I wish he wouldn't talk so much all the time. Sometimes he really puts his foot in his mouth,

00:28:09.880 doesn't he they say that but they say that in the spirit of love those same people who say that

00:28:14.360 would crawl over broken glass to elect this guy because there's a real feeling of connection there

00:28:17.920 that's what this is about and i i don't know it totally came through to me that is what political

00:28:24.400 movements are about they're not this is what the ideological left and the egghead right doesn't

00:28:29.920 understand is that politics is about spirit it's about relationships it's about coalitions it's

00:28:35.900 very personal, okay? It's really, really personal. And it's not just about the forms of ideas of

00:28:42.980 policies floating in the abstract. Trump gets it, and he's totally right about it. Okay.

00:28:47.860 Now, I want to turn to a little local issue, which is Krista Pike. You remember her? She was

00:28:53.200 the woman who was supposed to be executed a couple weeks ago in Tennessee, and then they 0.95

00:28:57.100 tried to execute her twice, and it didn't work. She ended up in the hospital, but she survived.

00:29:01.420 Now, then she woke up.

00:29:03.080 Then she was speaking.

00:29:04.340 Now she has been discharged.

00:29:07.340 She's been discharged after being executed.

00:29:09.740 Here is Krista Pike's lawyer discussing what the future holds.

00:29:14.660 Krista is a survivor.

00:29:16.620 She survived child sexual abuse.

00:29:18.580 She survived rapes of multiple men.

00:29:20.400 She survived a suicide attempt when she was 12.

00:29:23.220 And she survived the state's attempt to execute her.

00:29:26.560 She deserves answers about what was done to her

00:29:29.300 and the people of Tennessee deserve those answers too. On Monday night, it was our understanding

00:29:35.760 that Krista was brain dead and that life support would be removed the next day. But on Tuesday,

00:29:42.440 to the shock of everyone, including me, including her team, and including the medical team,

00:29:47.580 Krista woke up and began talking. I do not have an explanation for what happened between Monday

00:29:54.460 night and tuesday morning but what we do know is that krista has a long road to recovery

00:29:59.720 we continue to ask governor lee to commute krista's death sentence after all we have seen and all that

00:30:06.940 we still do not know it is unimaginable that the state would try to execute her again okay hold up

00:30:13.360 right there hold up yes it's very impressive it is impressive it actually changes my my opinion of

00:30:18.640 this particular case that she survived two two execution attempts and then when they thought

00:30:23.380 she was brain dead, she woke up and started talking. I'm open to commuting her sentence,

00:30:28.320 you know, not because of the justice of the situation, but because sometimes we need to

00:30:32.900 be open to signs from God. There's actually precedent all the way back to antiquity and

00:30:37.260 certainly through the Middle Ages that if you try to execute someone a few times and it doesn't work,

00:30:42.000 you just take it as a sign and you move on. But the statement I take issue with from that lawyer is

00:30:46.540 that it is unimaginable that we would now once again go on to execute her that's not true it's

00:30:54.580 eminently imaginable because he talks about all the tough life that she had she did also lure a

00:31:00.400 teenage girl into the woods torture her slash her across the throat 10 times bludgeon her torture

00:31:06.580 her then her boyfriend drew a pentagram carved it on her chest then krista crushed the woman's skull 0.99

00:31:13.340 with asphalt, took a piece of her skull and showed it off as a trophy back on campus.

00:31:18.780 So, you know, it's imaginable to me that the state would execute her in accordance with the laws

00:31:25.180 and justice. The normal thing to do in this case would have been to just put a pillow over her 1.00

00:31:31.300 head. You know, it's kind of, it's the James Franco meme from that Buster Scruggs movie on

00:31:36.240 Netflix. He's standing on the scaffold. He's got the noose around his neck. He just like,

00:31:40.580 He says, first time?

00:31:41.320 What's your first time being executed?

00:31:42.860 I'm old hat at this.

00:31:44.700 The normal thing to do would be when she's in the hospital, okay, the pentobarbital didn't work.

00:31:51.000 We're just going to take a pillow.

00:31:52.400 This is going to take me about 60 seconds.

00:31:54.120 And then problem solved.

00:31:56.600 The extraordinary thing to do would be to commute her sentence now.

00:32:00.120 Maybe there's an argument for that.

00:32:01.560 But I'll tell you what.

00:32:03.200 People who have any sense of justice whatsoever are going to be much less persuaded that we should commute her sentence.

00:32:09.640 if you insist that that's the normal,

00:32:13.540 perfectly right, just thing to do.

00:32:15.860 No, no, no.

00:32:16.180 In the course of justice, 0.58

00:32:17.160 that woman's head gets crushed with asphalt, okay? 0.97

00:32:20.280 At the very least, 1.00

00:32:21.660 she is executed by poison in the veins 1.00

00:32:23.520 or an electric chair or a firing squad. 0.99

00:32:25.460 That is what is normal.

00:32:26.580 That is what is to be expected.

00:32:27.740 That is what would be just.

00:32:29.460 Anything beyond that is extraordinary,

00:32:31.640 maybe in reaction to signs of the times,

00:32:33.980 but please spare me the sob story. 0.97

00:32:35.780 It's totally ridiculous.

00:32:37.180 Okay, now this brings us to 0.87

00:32:39.640 a big story that didn't begin over the weekend, but it really, really took steam over the weekend.

00:32:45.320 And this is Popelio XIV doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on his view that the death

00:32:52.260 penalty is inadmissible. So once again, he comes out, he sends this tweet on October 10th.

00:32:59.160 The death penalty is inadmissible. Strange choice of words. The death penalty is inadmissible

00:33:04.580 because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be

00:33:10.480 safeguarded, and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment.

00:33:16.420 Effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens, while at the same time do

00:33:21.780 not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. Hashtag no death penalty.

00:33:28.780 Okay, this is a very difficult statement from the Holy Father

00:33:31.720 because there are three statements here, two sentences, three statements.

00:33:38.260 And it seems like those statements, when all put together in the tweet, form an argument,

00:33:44.080 but they don't. What's strange about this statement, this larger statement, is that the

00:33:50.920 three component parts of it are totally disconnected. So right off the bat, you have

00:33:56.120 first statement. The death penalty is inadmissible. Notice, it's a strange word. It doesn't say is

00:34:00.880 evil, is immoral. It doesn't say that. It says inadmissible. The reason that the Pope is saying

00:34:07.520 that, he's borrowing this language from Pope Francis, his predecessor, because for 2,000 years

00:34:13.820 almost, the Catholic Church has consistently upheld the legitimacy of the death penalty

00:34:18.400 in principle and in practice. Going back to St. Paul and the letter to the Romans up through the

00:34:24.520 church fathers, the great doctors of the church, the common doctor of the church, Saint Thomas

00:34:28.360 Aquinas, up through Blessed Pius IX, who, when he controlled the papal states, oversaw some 500

00:34:34.460 executions himself. And when he was asked for a reprieve for the very final execution before he

00:34:40.060 lost the papal states, Blessed Pius IX, on his way to being canonized, said, I cannot do it and I do

00:34:45.660 not want to, and let the execution go through. There was a papal executioner who, by the way,

00:34:53.060 speaking of what we were just talking about, would execute criminals sometimes with something

00:34:57.200 called a mazzatello, which is a giant hammer to crush the condemned skull. So you couldn't say

00:35:04.160 the death penalty is intrinsically evil because that would contradict scripture and 2,000 years

00:35:09.700 of church tradition. So you say the death penalty is inadmissible, whatever precisely that means.

00:35:16.000 But the real key here is it says because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the

00:35:19.880 person. Well, hold on. Previous popes, well, the vast majority of previous popes just were fine

00:35:26.700 with the death penalty and carried it out sometimes. Beginning with John Paul II in the

00:35:31.740 latter part of the 20th century, St. John Paul II said that he was opposed to the death penalty,

00:35:36.400 but as a prudential matter. So it wasn't that he changed church teaching. It wasn't anything like

00:35:40.780 that. You can't change church teaching. So he said, okay, as a prudential matter, I think that

00:35:46.220 we can deal with criminals with life in prison now, so let's just do that. Pope Benedict, who

00:35:52.760 followed John Paul II, said much the same thing. I'm opposed to the death penalty, but reasonable 0.80

00:35:56.340 minds can disagree here. You can be a Catholic in good conscience and support the death penalty.

00:36:02.240 It's Francis, Pope Francis in 2018. He increases the invective here. He says, okay, it's inadmissible

00:36:11.480 because of this, that, and the other.

00:36:13.480 But then to say that the death penalty is an attack

00:36:17.160 on the dignity of the person raises a big question

00:36:20.240 because don't forget, the death penalty

00:36:21.340 is first found in scripture in the book of Genesis.

00:36:25.040 The book of Genesis, which says,

00:36:27.260 whosoever sheds the blood of man,

00:36:29.320 by man shall his blood be shed, comma,

00:36:32.560 for man is made in the image and likeness of God.

00:36:36.860 So whatever you think about current church teaching,

00:36:39.320 whatever your exegesis, it is simply a grammatical fact, a syntactical and grammatical fact

00:36:47.100 that the argument for the death penalty in the book of Genesis is based on human dignity.

00:36:55.180 Not that the death penalty is contrary to human dignity, not that we tolerate it even though

00:37:01.060 it undermines human dignity. No, no, no. We have the death penalty from the very beginning

00:37:05.120 in order to defend human dignity. So this statement from the Pope is confusing.

00:37:11.840 It also means if the death penalty is in itself contrary to the dignity of the human person,

00:37:18.560 then that means that St. Thomas Aquinas promoted something that was contrary to the dignity of the

00:37:25.780 human person. In other words, that was immoral. That means that St. Paul in the letter to the

00:37:31.220 Romans endorsed something that was immoral. That means that blessed Pius IX and many other popes

00:37:37.860 enacted policies that are immoral in the papal states. This is very, very strange. This is very,

00:37:44.560 very confusing. So the Vatican will have to explain that. Then there's the second statement,

00:37:51.220 which is disconnected from the first. The second statement returns to the prudential argument.

00:37:56.860 The pope says the common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without

00:38:00.140 recourse to capital punishment. Okay, okay, hold on. Now we're making a total, now we're back to

00:38:04.300 JP2 and Benedict. Okay, I can get with that argument. I can understand that argument. You're

00:38:09.160 saying, look, now in the old days, we needed capital punishment to protect people and the

00:38:13.880 common good, but now we don't really need that because we have maximum security prisons. So

00:38:17.300 you can argue that the maximum security prisons don't prudentially actually protect the common

00:38:22.680 good, but whatever. Okay, at least there I see a prudential argument. And that is an argument,

00:38:27.140 by the way, with which a Catholic in good faith can disagree, albeit in a spirit of reverence

00:38:32.620 and to the Pope. Okay. What that second statement does not say is what Pope Francis said, which is

00:38:38.720 that, and I think Pope Leo has said, which is that the death penalty is contrary to the gospel per

00:38:46.140 se. Whoa, whoa, that's a big statement. That's not what the second statement says. Then the third

00:38:52.900 one finally says, effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while

00:38:56.440 at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.

00:39:00.380 Now, this is a third argument again, which is that one of the arguments against the death penalty

00:39:07.720 is that it deprives people of the possibility of repentance. Because if you kill them, 0.99

00:39:11.940 they won't have 30 years to get their lives in order and to see the light and to have a truly 0.99

00:39:17.360 a come to Jesus moment, which can save their souls. But that is far from clear to me. In fact,

00:39:22.760 I would say it's probably the opposite. I'm with Dr. Johnson who says, depend upon it,

00:39:25.940 sir, when a man is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

00:39:30.160 I don't think it's at all clear that giving someone 30 years to languish on death row will

00:39:35.120 make them more likely to repent. In fact, I think there's a good chance it makes them less likely to

00:39:39.320 repent. I think that when a man is facing the scaffold immediately, that might very well make

00:39:45.740 him more likely to repent. So again, I read the statement of the Pope in a spirit of obedience

00:39:51.380 and respect, but I'm not sure about that. And once again, this would be a kind of prudential

00:39:56.820 judgment that does not demand that we all totally agree with it all of the time.

00:40:03.080 So what does that mean? It means that, especially for something that seems like a change here,

00:40:10.780 we're going to have to, the church is going to have to clarify this. Luckily, the church measures

00:40:14.640 her ages in centuries, not just years and days. But this is unclear. The situation before 2018

00:40:22.940 was a lot easier. You say, okay, well, the Pope is making a prudential judgment. I don't really

00:40:27.580 agree with that, but I'm still here respectfully. I think about it. I contemplate it. He deserves

00:40:33.600 my consideration. Okay. But when you raise the stakes here to this attacks the human dignity

00:40:39.800 and it's contrary to the gospel per se, now you're in a situation where either the Pope

00:40:45.800 is actually calling 2,000 years of church tradition and the 2,000 year reading of scripture

00:40:51.800 immoral, or I'm just not quite understanding what it is that the Pope is saying. Because

00:40:58.740 the church teaching cannot change in this way. I mean, this is not a minor issue.

00:41:08.400 And so I think all of that to say, the reason that the death penalty debate has become so focused among Catholics and Christians more broadly is not really about the death penalty.

00:41:22.040 That's it.

00:41:22.780 Because a lot of people say, oh, who cares?

00:41:24.000 The death penalty, really?

00:41:25.600 You're going to allow this how we punish criminals to really cause problems in your faith?

00:41:32.280 And I say, no, no, it's not going to cause problems.

00:41:33.660 but we also can't brush it aside because it's not really about the death penalty.

00:41:39.380 It's about whether or not perennial church teaching can change, how it can change,

00:41:46.860 the degrees to which it can change. That's the issue. Most people don't care that much

00:41:53.260 about the death penalty. At this point, I kind of want Krista Pike to live. 0.81

00:41:57.440 At this point, I see the signs. I say, okay, you know what? Maybe we should let this lady live.

00:42:03.660 But what about other issues? On what grounds is a church teaching a legitimate development of 0.96

00:42:12.420 doctrine? And at what point is it an illegitimate changing of perennial teaching? There's a lot more

00:42:18.460 at stake than just the lives of the condemned here. Okay. Speaking of justice, the DOJ is going

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00:42:34.460 after Trump kicked CNN out of the White House.

00:42:37.380 And you got some squished Republicans here

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00:44:26.600 I didn't pick a comment yesterday.

00:44:28.080 We'll see what the producer said.

00:44:29.520 Overture says, babe, guess what?

00:44:30.640 I've got tickets to the public execution

00:44:31.940 and they're in the pit too.

00:44:34.600 And they're in, oh yeah, yeah.

00:44:36.340 It is, the argument against the public execution

00:44:40.420 being live streamed of Nadal Hassan

00:44:42.580 is that it's a little macabre

00:44:44.300 and appeals to the prurient interest

00:44:45.640 and is, you know, will be treated as a spectacle.

00:44:48.340 But the argument for public execution is pretty strong.

00:44:52.800 If we're going to do it,

00:44:53.560 we should know what the execution is.

00:44:55.660 So anyway, we'll get to that. We don't have time to get to all that today. Right now, I want to

00:44:59.700 get to at least, oh gosh, there's so much more I want to get to. Okay, you know what? I'm going to

00:45:04.660 skip the DOJ story. We'll get to, there's a DOJ. The DHS is going after Ilhan Omar. The DOJ is

00:45:11.940 going after the news media. The squish Republicans are being squishy like usual. I want to get to

00:45:17.900 this poor guy in the tiger enclosure. Did you see this? There was a guy in the UK and he was at the

00:45:25.060 zoo, he hands his phone to someone. He says, hey, can you get a picture of me in front of the tigers?

00:45:28.280 They get a picture of him in front of the tigers. And then he jumps into the tiger enclosure,

00:45:31.800 and the tiger mauls him to death. We have some B-roll of it. It's not the goriest B-roll. So,

00:45:38.400 you know, viewer discretion advised, but you're not going to see the tiger bite his head off or

00:45:42.340 anything. But they're getting a little rough in there. And then, happily, the video cuts out

00:45:46.160 before things get really, really bad. Okay. This raised an immediate question to me, which is,

00:45:52.400 If you see a guy in the tiger enclosure and the tiger has not yet eaten this guy or mauled this

00:45:56.920 guy to death, this goes on for a little while, 20, 30 seconds when something could have been done.

00:46:04.060 Why didn't the zoo shoot the tiger? That's my question. If I were running the zoo,

00:46:10.420 no question, I shoot the tiger immediately. And a lot of people are saying, you can't shoot the 0.94

00:46:15.940 tiger. The tiger didn't do anything wrong. It's this guy's fault. I don't know if this guy had

00:46:19.980 disabilities, if he were a little impaired, if he were just a total nut, if he wanted to commit 0.99

00:46:23.920 suicide. I don't know. We don't really know the details about it. But you say, but it's this guy's 0.98

00:46:28.440 fault. The tiger didn't do anything wrong. The tiger was behaving like a tiger. Tigers are not

00:46:32.800 rational creatures. They're just going off instinct. So you can't blame a tiger when he

00:46:36.100 mauls a guy who falls into his cage or who jumps into his cage. Why would you kill the tiger for

00:46:41.020 that? You see a lot of this argument coming up. But there is no question the only moral thing to

00:46:47.520 do in this instance is to shoot the tiger. There was a chance you could have saved this guy's life, 0.97

00:46:55.020 and maybe you'd be angry with the guy, and maybe you'd make the guy pay to buy a new tiger.

00:46:58.900 But it's amazing. Coming off the death penalty conversation, think about how we talk about the

00:47:03.040 death penalty. Think about this. This woman, Krista Pike, drags a teenage girl into the woods,

00:47:09.180 commits unspeakable crimes against her, tortures her, murders her, takes part of her skull as a 0.99

00:47:14.100 trophy. And what do we say? We say, well, we cannot, even 30 years later, we cannot kill

00:47:19.080 Krista Pike. Think about the human dignity. We cannot commit the death penalty ever. Think about

00:47:25.760 how we talk about cops arresting criminals. What do we say about cops arresting criminals?

00:47:31.160 We say, no, but society failed the criminals. And they're all really good boys. You just don't

00:47:36.100 understand. They're misunderstood. You don't know. We need less policing. We need to let the

00:47:41.180 criminals run free, even if they're rapists and murderers and they keep killing people. 0.81

00:47:44.660 And no, no, no. The dignity of the human person demands that we do anything we can for these

00:47:49.320 people. Did the person who fell into the tiger pit, he didn't have dignity? That guy didn't

00:47:56.060 have dignity, right? I think he has dignity. I think that there is a much stronger case that

00:48:04.020 the state needs to protect his life than that the state needs to protect the life of condemned

00:48:09.080 criminals on death row or of criminals committing crimes in the streets, for that matter.

00:48:14.540 This guy's totally innocent. Maybe a little kooky, maybe a little crazy.

00:48:19.200 Maybe committed a minor crime by jumping in there. But why? Why would they not shoot the tiger? It's

00:48:24.340 the UK, so I don't know. They would just politely ask the tiger to stop. And the zoo was doing

00:48:29.080 stuff. They were playing sounds. They were trying to distract the animal. That's not going to cut

00:48:32.980 it. You got to shoot the animal. It's like Harambe. Why didn't they shoot the tiger? 1.00

00:48:39.960 Why are we having these conversations about the death penalty, at least in the secular society?

00:48:43.720 I'll put aside the debates going on within the church. This is the consequence of no longer

00:48:48.820 believing that man is made in the image and likeness of God. This is the consequence of

00:48:53.700 a society that's doing that. We believe that we're not really all that different from the tiger.

00:48:58.960 We believe that we're not really all that different from other animals.

00:49:01.760 The old view was that man is essentially different from other animals because we possess will and

00:49:08.680 intellect. Other animals possess appetite and instinct. Those are just different things.

00:49:15.340 We have language, language with recursion. We have self-reflection. We can deal in abstract

00:49:21.520 concepts. We are, in other words, made in the image and likeness of God. And the animals are

00:49:27.700 great and they're beautiful. Tigers are really beautiful, but they're not made in the image

00:49:30.520 and likeness of God in the way that we are. And so we treat them differently. Every tiger on earth

00:49:37.480 is not worth one human being, 0.98

00:49:39.440 even a kind of wacky, crazy human being 0.94

00:49:41.280 who fell into the cage.

00:49:43.500 So what do we do?

00:49:44.600 We just engage in these utilitarian calculations.

00:49:49.360 We are what, you want to pretend

00:49:51.220 like we're so much more humane now 0.65

00:49:52.780 because we hand wring over the death penalty.

00:49:55.220 We are the most bloodthirsty generation

00:49:57.400 that has ever walked the earth.

00:49:58.760 We murder 1.2 million innocent babies a year

00:50:01.520 and the number's going up.

00:50:03.000 Even after conservatives got a big win

00:50:04.940 over turning Roe v. Wade,

00:50:06.020 The problem was that big win happened right at the same time as the technological development

00:50:09.820 of the abortion pill. So the abortions are skyrocketing regardless of surgical abortion.

00:50:15.800 We murder 1.2 innocent babies per year. We murder 5% of all the grannies in Canada every single 1.00

00:50:22.860 year and throughout continental Europe and increasing the UK, and it's coming to America too. 1.00

00:50:27.300 we forget about just the grannies we now use euthanasia on retarded people on depressed people 0.98

00:50:36.080 on poor people on anyone who we who we find unproductive in society or inconvenient in 0.99

00:50:42.100 society we are the most bloodthirsty cruel generation that has ever walked the face of the

00:50:46.860 earth and you want to pretend that you're moral that you're pure because you have you have

00:50:51.540 reservations about the death penalty give me a break the people at that zoo decided that a pretty

00:50:56.400 orange animal was more important than a human being who fell in there. And they really believe

00:51:02.020 it because they don't really see much of a difference between the animal and the human

00:51:08.220 being. We live in an age when everybody's a vegetarian and everybody supports abortion.

00:51:14.280 That is completely morally perverse. And perhaps if we restore the older conception of society,

00:51:24.240 which we now consider to be retrogressive and cruel and violent. I strongly suspect,

00:51:29.620 first of all, the violence would decrease. But our humanity, our respect for the dignity of

00:51:36.860 the human person would increase tremendously. I know I'm running late. I don't care. I have to get

00:51:41.400 to someone who I think is probably doing her first press briefing right this very second, 0.98

00:51:46.480 the new press secretary katie zachariah well i've watched katie who is uh taking the place

00:51:54.660 of caroline who you know how fabulous caroline was caroline's gonna have some very big success

00:52:01.680 i believe i know because she's very outstanding i think katie is gonna do a great job i've known

00:52:08.340 katie a little bit but i've watched her a lot on television and she does a very good job and

00:52:14.280 She believes in us, and she believes in what we're doing, which is making America great again.

00:52:20.240 She really does. Thank you for that question.

00:52:24.600 Okay, now I, like President Trump, also know Katie Zachariah a little bit. Not very, very well,

00:52:31.440 but we have very close mutual friends. I've known her for some years now.

00:52:35.320 Excellent, excellent pick. Really, really smart. So Trump announces it's my great honor to have

00:52:40.300 just appointed as press secretary, Katie Zachariah. Katie currently serves as senior

00:52:44.220 communications advisor to Truth Social, Trump Media and Technology Group, where she's been

00:52:48.300 outstanding, native of California. She's worked at DHS, was it? Yes, she worked at DHS, and she's

00:52:54.840 a graduate of Pepperdine, great conservative school, and on and on and on. Looks the part,

00:53:00.200 very good-looking, blonde, totally looks the part of the great press secretary who's under

00:53:05.080 President Trump. And anyway, I think this is a terrific pick. Someone who's very loyal to the

00:53:10.920 president, very smart, very articulate. A lot of people were talking about some of the celebrity

00:53:17.780 people who could come in and do it. A big name that was floated was Scott Jennings. Scott is

00:53:23.060 terrific. Scott's great on CNN. He should be on CNN, and he's doing a great job of that.

00:53:27.940 I always thought the press sec was going to be an intelligent, good-looking, articulate woman. 0.93

00:53:35.160 It does seem to be President Trump's preference in that role.

00:53:38.120 I think that helps to soften the administration.

00:53:40.980 And anyway, I'm just very, very pleased.

00:53:43.360 I don't always know the people who are getting picked for these positions,

00:53:46.180 but I think that this is a phenomenal pick for press secretary.

00:53:50.820 There have been a lot of great picks in this administration.

00:53:52.740 I really want to get to the letter that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant

00:53:56.180 sent over to Elizabeth Warren because it's just a work of art.

00:53:59.980 I want to frame it.

00:54:00.640 We don't have time, though.

00:54:01.320 I'm way over anyway, so we'll have to get to it tomorrow.

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