The Michael Knowles Show - November 02, 2026


Ep. 2094 - Everyone Is Missing THIS About The Viral Florida Plane Crash Caught On Camera

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00:01:00.940 One of the top Democrats in Michigan endorses Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul
00:01:05.640 al-Sayed just two days before Election Day. A new documentary on Matthew Perry forces a reckoning
00:01:11.380 on the sacred modern myth that drug addiction and alcoholism are a disease. And a Learjet
00:01:17.500 crashes at a 70-degree angle on high-def video into a residential neighborhood in Florida.
00:01:22.580 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:24.880 welcome back to the show another quasi-October surprise Barack Obama accidentally admitted
00:01:48.760 that Ilhan Omar probably committed immigration fraud and you got to read between the lines a
00:01:53.060 little bit, but the Democrats are really trying to bury this Ilhan Omar scandal, and I think Obama
00:01:58.360 made it worse. First, though, let's get to the most horrifying story of the day. That is this
00:02:04.440 Lear jet crash in a residential neighborhood in Florida. If you were on social media at all last
00:02:10.480 night, you probably saw this. A jet descended at dropping about, I don't know, 70,000 feet a minute
00:02:18.200 or something like that in a 70 degree angle.
00:02:22.580 Sorry, no, dropping 30,000 feet a minute
00:02:24.280 at a 70 degree angle into a residential neighborhood.
00:02:28.140 The jet just completely obliterated,
00:02:30.020 leaves a massive crater.
00:02:32.300 Very awful for the nine people who were on board that jet.
00:02:35.900 Amazingly, no one on the ground was even injured.
00:02:39.020 There were cars all around, there were houses all around,
00:02:41.140 but obviously everyone who was on the airplane died.
00:02:44.540 And immediately all these conspiracy theories
00:02:46.820 started popping up.
00:02:48.200 because this happened near Palm Beach. So some people were saying, oh, maybe it was a missile
00:02:52.580 attack on Mar-a-Lago, or maybe it was an airplane that could have been hijacked that was shot down
00:02:59.240 by a missile near Mar-a-Lago or was near the Trump International Airport. And very, very quickly,
00:03:04.240 all of those conspiracy theories collapsed because there were reports of audio from air
00:03:09.900 traffic control. You could hear the co-pilot who was, it's really horrifying. I don't encourage you
00:03:15.480 to listen to it. I'm not going to play the footage of the plane going down. I'm not going to play the
00:03:18.600 audio footage from inside the cockpit. But you can hear that the most likely scenario is this jet
00:03:24.380 just went into a major storm system, and a series of unfortunate events happened. They couldn't get
00:03:29.620 out of there. And you hear, the most haunting part of the audio is you hear this co-pilot
00:03:34.460 realizing she's going to die, and that everyone on board the plane is going to die. And then
00:03:39.600 seconds later, they're all dead, with not even the faintest hope that any of them survive this
00:03:43.660 crash. So as far as I'm concerned, there are only two things to take away from this horrific
00:03:50.840 event, something so unexpected and so horrific. The first one is obviously to pray for them,
00:03:57.500 all the souls on board, all of the family members, everyone around this incident.
00:04:02.280 First thing to do is to pray for them. The second takeaway, and this is the only other takeaway as
00:04:08.840 far as I'm concerned, and I think it's part of the reason that people are so fascinated with
00:04:13.620 this story beyond the sensational news and video of a giant object plummeting from the sky
00:04:19.920 is the recognition that this could happen to any of us at any time.
00:04:26.320 Most of us are not taking private jets, but something like this, just sudden death, whether
00:04:31.720 it's a piano falling on your head or a sudden heart attack or a bus hitting you when you're
00:04:36.220 crossing the street, whatever it is, this could happen to us at any time. And indeed, it will.
00:04:42.020 One day it will happen. One day you're going to get 10 seconds out from your death and realize,
00:04:48.000 oh my goodness, I'm about to die. And so it's horrifying and so vivid when you hear the audio
00:04:53.160 from the cockpit. But part of the reason it's horrifying is because this is a universal human
00:04:57.940 experience. We will all experience this. At some point, you are going to recognize that you are
00:05:02.820 about to die. And so the question that then lingers somewhere in the back of your mind,
00:05:08.300 whether you're conscious of it or not is, am I prepared to die? And for the history of our
00:05:14.540 civilization, this was a really, really important question. If you were living in the Middle Ages,
00:05:19.560 if you were living at times a far greater war than we live in today, war is actually pretty
00:05:23.840 rare today. We talk about the Iran war and the Ukraine war, and obviously we had the world wars
00:05:28.400 of the 20th century. But in the age that we're living in, war is exceedingly rare. Most of us
00:05:32.540 live in peace all of the time. That is not true for earlier epochs. So if you were living in the
00:05:37.100 Middle Ages or the early modern era or antiquity, death was all around you. And if you weren't
00:05:43.160 dying in war, you weren't dying in little feudal disputes, you were dying from disease. You were
00:05:47.360 going to catch a cold and die. You saw death all the time. And we didn't hide death the way that
00:05:52.260 we do today. We hide death by taking people who are about to die and we put them in hospice and
00:05:55.980 we try to forget about them. Then when they do die, we don't have funerals for them anymore.
00:05:59.740 We bury them as quickly as possible or we burn their bodies and scatter their ashes.
00:06:03.140 And then a few months later, maybe we have a celebration of life, a way to remember the person without having to confront the fact of death.
00:06:11.460 This is one of the distinctive features of the modern era, is we try to put death out of our mind as much as possible.
00:06:17.760 And it's not just because we're sad to have lost someone we loved.
00:06:20.220 It's because we don't want to confront death ourselves.
00:06:22.400 So then we delude ourselves with all sorts of modern nonsense, like the idea that we can cure death.
00:06:28.100 We're going to have radical life extension.
00:06:29.900 We're going to upload our brains to the cloud.
00:06:31.900 We're going to be the last generation, you know,
00:06:34.080 that is even going to have to deal with this issue of death
00:06:35.820 because we're all going to live forever.
00:06:36.760 And it's total nonsense.
00:06:39.740 Wacky elites have been trying to do this 0.92
00:06:41.440 since the time of the pharaohs or earlier.
00:06:43.920 And when our civilization was flourishing,
00:06:46.520 which was the time that we called it Christendom,
00:06:48.340 during that thousand years of the Christian era in the West,
00:06:52.320 we also wanted to live forever, 0.98
00:06:54.120 but we dealt with it in a way that was at least plausible
00:06:56.580 and that I think is totally convincing.
00:06:58.680 Namely, God sends his only begotten son to the world
00:07:01.380 such that if you believe in him,
00:07:02.980 you might not perish, but might have eternal life.
00:07:06.080 That's the question you have to have.
00:07:07.680 The medievals were much, much wiser than we are
00:07:11.320 in the sense that every day they were thinking
00:07:14.200 about whether or not they're prepared to die.
00:07:15.720 They knew they were gonna die, they didn't fool themselves.
00:07:17.520 And they were thinking about whether or not
00:07:18.860 they were prepared to die.
00:07:19.740 Is my soul in order?
00:07:21.040 Am I right with God?
00:07:22.420 Have I confessed my sins?
00:07:23.900 Am I in a state of grace?
00:07:25.560 Do I have a reasonable hope of ending up
00:07:28.000 in the good place someday with God forever
00:07:29.720 and not in the bad place?
00:07:31.840 Today, though, we try not to think about that.
00:07:34.620 We mock the notion of heaven and hell.
00:07:36.380 And we have this other, I think, far more delusional idea that when we die, we just turn into nothing.
00:07:43.920 We turn into oblivion.
00:07:45.520 The lights go off and that's it.
00:07:47.040 We have no reason to believe that.
00:07:48.600 That is not well-grounded metaphysically.
00:07:51.500 And then these events happen.
00:07:52.960 This family or businessmen, it's unclear who the people on the plane were.
00:07:59.120 They were flying to the Bahamas.
00:07:59.960 They thought they were going to go have a nice time at the beach.
00:08:02.140 And then, boom, within a matter of about 90 seconds, life is over.
00:08:05.960 Lights out.
00:08:07.660 It's a question for us.
00:08:08.880 Are you prepared to die?
00:08:11.320 Chipper way to start your day on Monday.
00:08:13.220 It actually is a chipper way, though, because if you contemplate those questions and you look death right in the face and you try to come to conclusions about how the world works and how the soul works and how life works, and if you arrive at what I believe to be the correct conclusions, you will have a lot more consolation than the modern neurotic era where all we're trying to do is every single day.
00:08:29.960 try to deny the fact of death, and then you look up one day and an airplane falls out of the sky.
00:08:33.780 Now let's turn back to politics. Big, big news in the Michigan Senate race. Haley Stevens,
00:08:38.940 one of the top Democrats in Michigan, she was very nearly the Michigan Senate nominee. 0.64
00:08:46.660 She has just come out, and rather than back the Democrat Party, rather than back the nominee
00:08:51.340 Abdul El-Sayed, she is endorsing Republican Mike Rogers.
00:08:55.120 hey michigan as you may have seen our democratic nominee for u.s senate abdul said that i was no 0.51
00:09:05.000 longer welcome in his campaign and that i should stay away and he's right and that's why i am
00:09:13.560 endorsing mike rogers for the united states senate today i don't belong in abdul's campaign
00:09:20.160 I do not stand with Hassan Piker, who gets trafficked on our college campuses.
00:09:26.600 A dear friend of mine earlier today was saying that education is on the ballot, and she's
00:09:34.160 absolutely right.
00:09:35.720 And what our students see, what our children see, and who we are as Michiganders is not
00:09:43.720 hate and is not what we are getting out from our Democratic nominee right now.
00:09:49.160 So I am just one person. I love this state. As some of you know, I've, you know, run a campaign saying that it was a love letter to Michigan, and I'm here to declare who we are as Michiganders. This is Phil Hart's seat for the U.S. Senate. This is the conscience of the Senate right now and our Michigan moment.
00:10:13.660 Let's go. Love this. Now, Abdul El-Sayed is trying to minimize the significance of his
00:10:21.060 former opponent, one of the leading Democrats in Michigan, very nearly the nominee, endorsing
00:10:26.880 the Republican. So he's got a press gaggle going on, very short-tempered with the reporters who
00:10:31.080 are obviously asking him about this. This is the biggest political news of the day.
00:10:34.860 He says it doesn't matter.
00:10:38.000 Dr. El-Sayed.
00:10:40.300 I'm just going to tell you guys, guys, guys, listen, listen, listen.
00:10:42.660 either one of you of her decision. None of this matters. So the question ultimately is this,
00:10:52.240 you understand? None of this matters. You know what matters? There's a family. You can go like
00:10:58.120 15 minutes that way or 15 minutes that way. None of this matters. It doesn't matter that one of the
00:11:03.200 top Democrats in my state who nearly beat me for the nomination just endorsed the Republican 0.91
00:11:07.620 because I invite people who say that America deserved 9-11.
00:11:12.000 I invite people who say they wiped their derriere with the American flag. 0.95
00:11:15.380 I invite those people to campaign with me. 0.94
00:11:16.680 None of that matters.
00:11:17.820 It doesn't matter.
00:11:18.500 The Democrat primary in Michigan was 48.45 to 47.55.
00:11:25.500 Abdul Al-Sayed beat Haley Stevens by less than one percentage point.
00:11:29.700 That is what, 700,000 plus votes represented by Haley Stevens.
00:11:34.720 Haley Stevens just told all those people to go vote for the Republican.
00:11:37.620 I'm not saying that those 700,000 people are going to go vote for the Republican.
00:11:41.200 I don't know if seven of those people are going to go vote for the Republican.
00:11:44.060 But something tells me that Haley Stevens is an influential voice.
00:11:48.260 And something tells me people don't like what Abdul El-Sayed is selling.
00:11:52.020 Something tells me Abdul El-Sayed is looking at his internal poll numbers,
00:11:54.980 and he realizes this election, which should have been in the bag,
00:11:57.720 he's replacing a Democrat in the Senate in a Democrat election cycle
00:12:02.120 with a lot of political wins at the backs of the Democrats.
00:12:06.980 Something tells me this guy is worried that he's going to lose this race to Mike Rogers.
00:12:10.920 And the fact that he showed up on 60 Minutes last night tells me he's feeling especially desperate.
00:12:17.040 His answers, I think, did not help him.
00:12:18.700 We'll get to that in a second.
00:12:19.740 Then we will get to the drunk Democrat Ohio Senate candidate, allegedly.
00:12:24.080 First, though, apropos of all of this, I want to tell you about GOP votes.
00:12:27.820 President Trump secured the border, passed historic tax cuts, and ended woke ideology.
00:12:32.960 But if the left wins the midterms, they'll undo all of his hard work.
00:12:37.480 They tried impeaching him.
00:12:38.580 The president is impeached.
00:12:40.280 They tried putting him in prison.
00:12:41.720 They tried everything, and they'll do it again.
00:12:44.900 Don't let the radical left win.
00:12:46.620 Make a plan.
00:12:47.440 Find your poll and vote on election night.
00:12:50.340 Abdul El-Sayed shows up on 60 Minutes last night to make a last-minute pitch two days before the
00:13:02.800 midterms. I'm going to say this right off the bat. If Abdul El-Sayed felt that he had a strong lead
00:13:07.880 in the Michigan Senate race, he would not have shown up on 60 Minutes. There's a tiny little
00:13:12.700 bit of upside. Maybe. Look, this is a national program. It's not just state-specific. This is a
00:13:18.900 national program. He knows he's going to get hard questions. There's a tiny little bit of upside if
00:13:24.180 he's some Periclean-Churchilian orator, but there's a lot of potential downside because he could be
00:13:29.200 asked about Hassan Piker. He could be asked about his views on political violence, his views on
00:13:34.380 trans kids, his views on foreign policy, all of which are pretty unpopular. He goes on there
00:13:39.980 because he feels that he needs to make a little bit of a difference, pull up some of the gap in
00:13:43.860 order to get over the finish line. His answers are not great. Ross Douthat, former New York
00:13:49.280 Times conservative who is now the 60 Minutes conservative, he asks him a very simple question
00:13:55.160 about the defining issue of the 2024 presidential cycle. Hey, Abdul, you're running in this kind of
00:14:02.140 purplish state. Do you think we're now years past the peak of woke? Do you really think we should 0.99
00:14:07.940 cast straight little kids. 1.00
00:14:11.480 What happens with transgender kids on sports teams and so on, right? 1.00
00:14:15.760 Like, these are places where rights are in conflict, right? 1.00
00:14:19.560 Do you, what do you think happens there?
00:14:21.080 I don't know that that's actually true.
00:14:22.580 I think we manufacture these social issues.
00:14:24.800 Because here's the thing about it.
00:14:25.820 Ross, you have an iPhone in your pocket, probably.
00:14:27.420 Or is it an iPhone or a Samsung?
00:14:29.040 You have a phone in your pocket, right?
00:14:30.400 You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world,
00:14:33.860 all the world's information in your pocket.
00:14:35.720 The notion somehow that you are going to prevent your child from being exposed to something
00:14:40.300 that you may find disagreeable and that that is going to be because of school is so profoundly
00:14:47.300 outdated.
00:14:48.420 Because, of course, you have all the information and they have all the information.
00:14:51.660 So here's the thing about it.
00:14:53.200 I think it's really important for us to recognize that the free flow of information is actually
00:14:57.340 a beautiful thing.
00:14:58.480 It's really important.
00:14:59.800 And the most important thing you can do is not try to protect a person from seeing a
00:15:04.200 thing.
00:15:04.380 It's about trying to make sure that as you coach your kid through the world, that you are engaging with them and saying, here's what I believe.
00:15:11.560 Here's what you may see in the world.
00:15:13.480 You get to make your choices about who you're going to be in the world.
00:15:16.860 But don't require us to make do with the fact that, like, the internet is a real thing.
00:15:22.020 Oh, the internet's a real thing. 0.61
00:15:22.940 Okay, the question was, should boys go into the girls' bathroom in elementary schools?
00:15:27.740 Well, you know, Ross, do you have a phone?
00:15:30.060 Do you have, like, an iPhone or a Samsung?
00:15:32.460 Or maybe you have a Nokia.
00:15:33.380 Do you have a Blackberry?
00:15:34.240 are you having a stroke? The question was, do you think little boys should play in the little 0.93
00:15:42.160 girls' sports teams and go into their bathrooms in schools? It's a pretty simple question.
00:15:47.920 Have you heard about the internet? Dude, what? If I'm Abdul El-Sayed and I'm a deeply dishonest
00:15:57.220 person, I think I would probably just lie about this one, right? I'm not encouraging anyone to
00:16:03.220 lie. It's a sin to lie. You should not do that. But if I'm Abdul El-Sayed, and I'm already lying
00:16:07.120 about a bunch of stuff, and you get this simple, simple question right before, and I know if this
00:16:12.720 were a question in the primary, he would have to play it differently because the Democrats are 0.99
00:16:16.400 frothing at the mouth to castrate little kids and to sexualize five-year-olds. But if I'm trying to 0.99
00:16:22.340 win a general election in a purple state in Michigan, and I'm asked this question, should 0.90
00:16:26.240 boys go into the girls' bathroom or play on their sports teams in schools? Wouldn't you just say, 0.59
00:16:31.500 like, no, of course not. We need to be fair for everyone, and we need to protect girl sports while 0.99
00:16:36.080 respecting the rights. He can't do that because he's a total freak, and he's completely bought
00:16:41.020 in on this radical ideology where his basic answer is, well, look, I mean, Ross, you have
00:16:48.340 an iPhone, right? You, a middle-aged man, have an iPhone. Therefore, it follows that five-year-olds
00:16:53.380 have iPhones. First of all, no, it doesn't follow. I'm not giving my five-year-old an iPhone. I
00:16:56.680 haven't given my five-year-old's iPhones. You shouldn't either. That's neglectful parenting
00:17:00.680 to begin with. After that, your answer is kids are going to have phones and they're going to
00:17:08.700 see a bunch of perverted sex stuff because of the internet. Therefore, what? He never even
00:17:15.700 answers the question. Do you think boys should go in the girl's bathroom or not? Do you think 0.99
00:17:18.900 boys should play in the girl's sports team or not? He can't even answer that question.
00:17:23.400 Disastrous answer from Abdul El-Sayed and a transparent filibuster. Then he's asked about 0.97
00:17:27.760 foreign policy, which is a little bit more contentious. The trans thing is like an 85, 1.00
00:17:31.780 15, 90, 10 kind of issue. Foreign policy, a little bit different. Israel is very unpopular right now
00:17:38.580 among essentially all voters other than boomer conservatives, but even young conservatives are
00:17:42.900 fairly anti-Israel now. So, okay, here, Abdul Al-Said is radically pro-Palestine. He is reputed
00:17:48.260 to be radically anti-Israel. Here's a way to allay the fears of pro-Israel voters in Michigan.
00:17:53.360 Hey, Abdul, what do you think about foreign policy?
00:17:57.760 I don't ever get the question of, does Palestine have the right to exist?
00:18:00.640 Does Palestine have the right to exist?
00:18:02.580 Yes. 0.99
00:18:03.180 Does Israel have the right to exist?
00:18:05.540 Yes, if there is a shared understanding.
00:18:09.080 Wait, you said?
00:18:09.700 Let me just understand.
00:18:11.600 I believe, and this is the problem with this debate, we start from where we sit rather than start from principles.
00:18:16.620 Oh, that's devastating.
00:18:17.760 That's devastating because Abdul El-Sayed doesn't realize that he's talking to someone who is significantly more intelligent than he is.
00:18:26.720 I really like Ross Douthat. I admire Ross. I'm not going to speculate on what his IQ is exactly,
00:18:34.000 and I'm not going to speculate exactly on what Abdul's IQ is.
00:18:38.080 Ross is probably about a standard deviation higher than Abdul El-Sayed. Abdul El-Sayed is not,
00:18:43.440 I'm not saying he's a total idiot. I'm not saying he's a total dummy, 1.00
00:18:46.260 but he's much less intelligent than he thinks he is. So he uses this rhetorical trick. He says, 0.99
00:18:52.500 You know, everyone keeps asking me about Israel because I campaign with all these terrorists
00:18:57.180 and I hate Israel, but you know, no one ever, you know, no one ever asks me, do I think 0.97
00:19:02.560 Palestine should exist? 0.69
00:19:04.680 And then Ross being an intelligent person, he says, okay, do you think Palestine should 0.70
00:19:09.440 exist? 1.00
00:19:10.180 Yes.
00:19:11.540 Okay. 0.99
00:19:11.860 Do you think Israel should exist? 0.98
00:19:13.320 Well, I mean, it's kind of depends on, okay. 0.94
00:19:18.100 So now we're right back.
00:19:19.280 the reason people keep asking abdul al-sayed about his views on israel and foreign policy
00:19:25.900 is because he seems to have in particular contempt for the state of israel and many
00:19:31.180 other people have contempt for the state of israel but it matters for a u.s senator not just because
00:19:36.260 of jewish voters not just because of zionist protestant christians or whatever it it matters
00:19:44.440 because Israel is part of the broader U.S. global alliances.
00:19:49.480 And countries like Iran and pseudo-nation states like Palestine
00:19:54.560 are part of alternative alliances that are adversarial to the United States.
00:19:59.380 And so this has deep meaning for the work of a United States senator. 0.92
00:20:05.260 And he says, this is ridiculous. 0.81
00:20:07.140 You people think that I have some particular hatred for Israel. 0.94
00:20:09.480 That's totally, you never asked me about Palestine.
00:20:10.960 What do you think about Palestine?
00:20:11.900 It's great.
00:20:12.560 What do you think about Israel? 1.00
00:20:13.260 I totally hate it. 0.99
00:20:13.960 Well, there you go. 1.00
00:20:14.620 That's why we asked you the question, Abdul. 1.00
00:20:16.360 He just totally proved him right.
00:20:18.820 This could move the needle.
00:20:21.620 The endorsement of Haley Stevens, the blundering 60 Minutes interview, this could move the
00:20:27.720 needle.
00:20:28.600 Obviously, I haven't seen the internals on these campaigns.
00:20:31.020 I'm only seeing the public polls.
00:20:32.300 The public polls have Abdul El-Sayed up a little bit.
00:20:34.640 But Abdul is not acting like a guy who thinks he's got this election in the bag.
00:20:39.760 He's acting like a guy who thinks he's got to come from behind for a few points.
00:20:43.320 gives me a little hope going into Tuesday night. Now, one of the races that I'm quite concerned
00:20:47.880 about is Vivek Ramaswamy versus Amy Acton. I'm concerned that the Democrat Amy Acton
00:20:54.780 is going to win this race in Ohio for the governorship, and Amy Acton is doing everything
00:21:01.280 she can to give that race away, showing up apparently drunk, drunk as a skunk, at a campaign 0.99
00:21:08.920 event. We'll get to that in a second. First, though, I want to tell you about Preborn. 0.98
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00:23:06.720 tax relief advocates real solutions for real people there have been these rumors for a long
00:23:12.720 time that amy acton's a drunk and i don't know i take it with a grain of salt it's october now
00:23:18.600 it's november in an election season you hear people one you hear rumors just fabricated out
00:23:24.240 of whole cloth and sometimes you you hear rumors exaggerated so is is amy acton really a drunk
00:23:31.840 the woman who could become the governor of ohio tomorrow night is this woman really a drunk
00:23:39.560 you judge oh it's so good good to be back here at uaw
00:23:46.520 it's about truth and justice i just wrote on the word words back here that is i'm honored to be
00:23:57.840 here we've been in toledo a lot there's a big energy going on here i can feel it and um
00:24:06.320 oh my goodness and first of all i just want to say to you you know it has been quite a week
00:24:13.800 this past week and i just eric and i just want to thank everyone your support and love
00:24:21.500 We want to, you know, we want to, we just want to, our campaign motto has always been
00:24:29.060 what seems to be the officer problem.
00:24:32.820 I don't want to, obviously, I don't want Amy Acton to win.
00:24:36.240 I do want Vivek to win.
00:24:37.580 I don't want Democrats to win.
00:24:38.780 I do want Republicans to win.
00:24:40.840 I was pretty open-minded on the Amy Acton's a drunk thing. 0.98
00:24:44.580 She sounds obliterated. 0.90
00:24:46.460 She sounds like she is plastered, and this is not the only clip that we have to go on. 1.00
00:24:53.900 She's literally slurring her words up there.
00:24:56.960 Even if you can parse together the words, they don't make a ton of sense.
00:25:00.620 Yeah, we got it written on the board or the sign or whatever.
00:25:03.700 I got a, we know that this seems to be a pattern.
00:25:08.980 Here's a report from NBC News, not the Daily Wire, not the Blaze, not Fox News, NBC News.
00:25:14.920 columbus ohio in august 2019 police in bexley ohio responded to a report of a domestic dispute at
00:25:22.680 the home of dr amy acton acton then the director of the state's department of health so this wasn't
00:25:28.020 when she was 20 this wasn't when she was in college or working some other job she was the
00:25:33.280 director of the ohio department of health pulled a mirror off the wall quote shattering the glass
00:25:39.860 when she, quote, became upset because she felt her husband, quote, was antagonizing her,
00:25:44.740 according to a police report. She told officers she had been drinking, had taken an unknown
00:25:49.440 amount of prescription drugs. Pause. Drinking while on prescription drugs is not, that's not
00:25:56.920 a good combo. Drinking to the point that the police get called and you're shattering mirrors
00:26:01.240 and your family members are afraid of you, not a good look either. But if you're going to get
00:26:07.440 drunk while taking prescription drugs, you should probably know how many prescription drugs you've
00:26:13.080 taken. Did this woman just pop the cap off and down the bottle Tennessee Williams style? 1.00
00:26:18.920 What? How do you not know how many prescription drugs you've taken? 1.00
00:26:24.040 Took an unknown amount of prescription drugs and was about to drive away in her car
00:26:28.660 before her husband, who also told police he had been drinking, talked her out of it,
00:26:32.840 report stated. That was while she was director of the Ohio Department of Health. This reminds me of
00:26:40.760 when Biden picked that transgender lunatic, Richard Levine, old Big Dick Levine, was the 0.98
00:26:48.380 assistant secretary of health under Joe Biden. Remember that? And you say, okay, well, the 0.98
00:26:53.340 director of health should probably be a relatively healthy person, right? An exemplar of health. No,
00:26:58.300 this was a guy who was as mentally and physically unhealthy as you could imagine.
00:27:03.520 Similar dynamic playing out here. You're saying the director of health for the state,
00:27:08.460 for the government, is getting hammered at home, engaging in domestic violence,
00:27:14.880 taking untold amounts of prescription pills, and then is about to go drunk drive?
00:27:20.880 Not 20 years ago, not 30 years ago, seven years ago. But that's not the only time. We have a
00:27:27.340 report from the Ohio News. Exclusive, police called to Amy Acton's Bexley home in 2013.
00:27:33.100 Daughter worried parents, quote, we're going to get into some type of altercation. 0.89
00:27:38.000 I get those two data points, and then I see Amy Acton slurring her words and on the brink of 1.00
00:27:43.320 hiccuping during a campaign event two days ago. I have to conclude, this woman is not well. 0.68
00:27:50.080 And so her campaign has made much of the fact that she had a bad childhood, and she's had 0.95
00:27:53.880 personal struggles in life. And I'm sure she has. And you can feel sorry for her. You can pray for
00:28:00.080 her. You can root for her and her personal life. But this is obviously not someone who is fit to
00:28:05.740 be governor of Ohio. This is obviously not someone who's fit to be dog catcher of Palookaville.
00:28:11.940 If what we know from these reports is that she's a drunk and a drug addict who's going to go break 1.00
00:28:16.320 the law and potentially kill someone by drunk driving, and she can't get it together to remain
00:28:22.460 sober two days before the election? Can you imagine the disaster if this woman becomes 1.00
00:28:28.700 governor of Ohio? Obviously, completely unfit, but it's political malpractice. 1.00
00:28:35.700 We talk about the political malpractice of different campaigns, including in the state
00:28:39.460 of Ohio. There's been all this talk of, well, I didn't like this ad. Well, I don't like this
00:28:43.100 campaign platform. Well, I don't like this. I don't like that. If this woman is so self-destructive
00:28:48.780 that she's going to show up hammered to a campaign event with these kinds of headlines in her recent 1.00
00:28:55.140 past, this woman is going to be a disaster if she is to be elected. So let's hope that that 1.00
00:29:02.920 turns the tide. Now, speaking of substance abuse, there's a new documentary out of Matthew Perry.
00:29:06.760 Matthew Perry Chandler from Friends, beloved pop culture figure who infamously was just a
00:29:13.000 drop-down drug addict for the entirety of the filming of Friends and really for the rest of
00:29:17.580 his life. Then he, what was it, three years ago, he came out, had this memoir about recovery from
00:29:22.940 addiction, and everyone was really rooting for him. It seemed like he had kind of gotten his
00:29:26.100 life together finally, and then he died of a drug overdose shortly thereafter. Matthew Perry
00:29:31.900 became this figurehead for addiction and recovery and substance abuse. And now this new documentary
00:29:40.480 is calling to light some of these old clips of him talking about addiction. And it's really sad.
00:29:46.680 again, with so many of these news stories today, we say we pray for these people, we pray for the
00:29:50.540 people around them, we're there but for the grace of God, go I. But Matthew Perry had a totally
00:29:59.100 wrong understanding of addiction. And I think many people who are struggling with addiction,
00:30:03.200 many people who have family members struggling with addiction, they also tell themselves the
00:30:07.980 very lie that Matthew Perry told himself. And unfortunately, I think that lie to which he
00:30:12.660 attributed saving his life, I think that lie probably helped to kill him. Here's the lie.
00:30:20.600 Just a brief lesson in alcoholism for you guys that don't know, and addiction, of course.
00:30:31.100 It's a disease. That's the first thing I didn't know. In 1956, I think the American
00:30:36.660 medical association said it was a disease and um it's a two-pronged disease two things happen to me
00:30:45.240 and 10 million other people in the united states if it's an obsession of your mind
00:30:51.420 so what that means is you think of a martini and then slowly but surely it's the only thing you
00:30:58.480 can think about you can't think about anything else i gotta get a martini i gotta i know i'm
00:31:02.380 supposed to be over here working but I got to get another martini martini martini martini
00:31:07.400 and then once you take that martini you break the membrane of sobriety and once you do that
00:31:19.520 the obsession the obsession is gone but the allergy of your body which is the second prong
00:31:27.360 of the disease takes over and says, oh, now we're drinking. I'm going to make you drink
00:31:34.940 as much as you did last time and more. It's progressive. So I'm going to make you drink
00:31:40.200 more than you did last time. And you can't stop. I could not stop unless I was locked away
00:31:46.580 somewhere. And at times I would call drug dealers and have drugs brought into the place I was locked
00:31:52.440 up in because I was desperate. Okay. So right off the bat, similar to Amy Acton, in retrospect,
00:31:59.940 at the time when he was doing this press tour, people were saying, well, isn't this so good?
00:32:02.720 Matthew Perry's gotten clean now. He had all these struggles, but isn't that good for him?
00:32:05.980 In retrospect, you listen to him here, kind of sounds like he's slurring his words, doesn't it?
00:32:11.560 Kind of sound, I don't know for certain if he was drunk or high or whatever here, but he doesn't
00:32:16.560 sound sober. And what he's trying to tell you, his thesis, is that alcoholism is a disease.
00:32:26.640 But it's not. It's just not. I have friends, I have family members who have dealt with
00:32:32.180 alcoholism, addiction, all that kind of stuff. Some of them say it's a disease. Some of them,
00:32:38.060 I think, are a little more grounded about it. It's not a disease. Peter Hitchens,
00:32:42.320 Christopher Hitchens' brother, he got into a big altercation with Matthew Perry years ago on this.
00:32:46.220 They really were fighting on TV about this. Peter Hitchens, having a more conservative
00:32:49.900 perspective, said basically the same thing. He said, it's not a disease. What are you talking
00:32:54.100 about a disease? It is, there's no way for me on a brain scan to identify the disease in your brain
00:33:02.820 for alcoholism in the way that I can identify a tumor in your lungs or something like that.
00:33:06.600 It's not a disease. But what's so striking to me, and Hitchens did not make this point in his
00:33:10.320 dispute with Perry. The way that Matthew Perry is talking about the disease of alcoholism
00:33:15.700 is almost exactly the way that St. Thomas Aquinas talks about sin. Matthew Perry says,
00:33:25.080 well, you know, I've got this obsession. I've got these thoughts that keep coming to me,
00:33:28.840 these temptations to go get a martini, to go get a drink. But I can basically resist them
00:33:35.400 until I break the membrane.
00:33:38.380 Then once I break the membrane,
00:33:40.320 it's over and I'm going to keep drinking.
00:33:42.200 I'm going to drink even more than I did last time.
00:33:44.020 That's exactly how Thomas Aquinas talks about sin.
00:33:46.940 Aquinas says that, yeah,
00:33:48.200 we have all temptations in this world
00:33:49.620 and it's impossible to avoid venial sin for anyone,
00:33:52.860 even in a state of grace.
00:33:54.100 But you can avoid mortal sin.
00:33:57.600 God will give you sufficient grace
00:33:59.540 to avoid the kind of sin that leads to death.
00:34:02.700 but once you do it once you uh you through an act of the will once you actually commit a mortal sin
00:34:09.700 once you've broken the membrane of sin he doesn't use the word membrane but that's what he's talking
00:34:13.820 about then it's inevitable that you will continue to commit mortal sins it's this amazing uh analogy
00:34:19.980 here that matthew perry is almost certainly completely unaware of where matthew perry says
00:34:23.900 no that's how the disease works and then i have this allergy in my body to alcohol yeah everyone
00:34:28.800 has an allergy to alcohol. Alcohol is toxic. I shouldn't laugh at it. But what are you talking
00:34:33.760 about? You have a special allergy to alcohol? That's why you get drunk? No, everybody has an
00:34:38.640 allergy to alcohol. That's why people drink alcohol in large part. Oh, you have this special
00:34:44.640 disease where when you start committing mortal sins, you have to keep committing them? Oh,
00:34:48.720 you mean human nature? The only way in which you could say alcoholism and addiction are diseases
00:34:52.380 is in the sense that original sin is a disease. It's a heritable disease. We all inherit it.
00:34:56.620 but there is no special disease about you're born with alcoholism before you ever have your
00:35:04.260 first drink. Some people have inclinations or predilections for certain vices over others,
00:35:08.880 but that's what it is. It's a vice. And so now you might say, well, Michael, you're just being
00:35:13.520 pedantic and you're focusing on semantics. You're a poet and you don't even know it.
00:35:18.660 What's the difference between how Matthew Perry is talking about disease and how you
00:35:22.600 and Thomas Aquinas are talking about sin? I'll tell you the difference. Matthew Perry tells you
00:35:26.560 the difference. It's all about responsibility in some kind of spiritual guy's office. And we talked
00:35:36.100 a little bit. And as we were done talking, he turned around. He turned me around and said,
00:35:43.100 just remember, it's not your fault. And I went, what? He said, it's not your fault.
00:35:49.000 And I'd say that again. It's not your fault. And I said, what do you mean? It's not my fault.
00:35:54.520 i'm the one who's doing it what do you mean and he explained addiction and alcohol to me and he
00:36:00.840 saved my life um because i then knew that it wasn't my fault that it was that i wasn't weaker
00:36:09.400 it wasn't my will that was screwed up it was that i have this disease and i need to get help
00:36:16.880 okay so matthew perry says this doctor he gave me this great advice he says that my drunkenness
00:36:24.480 and drug use. It's not my fault. He gave me that advice. It is great advice. I know it's great
00:36:32.900 advice because it saved my life. But it's not, and it didn't. You see, there are so many people,
00:36:41.240 there are going to be people listening to this show today who say, no, it is a disease. You
00:36:43.640 don't know what you're talking about, Michael. You've never dealt with addiction. I've never
00:36:46.620 dealt with Lou Gehrig's disease or Ebola either, but I know a few things about it, and I know that
00:36:50.080 there are things generally to be avoided. And I don't mean to be harsh about this, but I think
00:36:54.440 if some people had told Matthew Perry harsher truths, maybe he would be alive. The proof that
00:36:58.860 that advice, it's not your fault that you're a drunk, that that's good advice is that it saved
00:37:04.300 his life, but it didn't. He died of drug addiction. It didn't save his life because he says, it's not
00:37:11.060 that I have a screwed up will. No, it's entirely that you have a screwed up will. That's the whole 0.95
00:37:15.620 thing. You actually can not take the drink. It's harder for some people than others, especially if
00:37:22.380 you've developed habits and patterns of addiction, which is just what vice is. It's just addiction to
00:37:28.020 bad things. Virtue is just addiction to good things. And if you've developed those patterns,
00:37:32.420 it's much harder. It's way harder for Matthew Perry not to have a drink than for me.
00:37:36.180 But guess what? It was a lot easier for Matthew Perry not to have a drink 30 years ago than it
00:37:40.120 is for me not to have a drink. Maybe. Or no. I guess it's still easier for me 30 years ago.
00:37:45.820 But I don't know. When Matthew Perry was five years old, it was probably easier for him not
00:37:49.800 to have a drink than for me not to have a drink because I'm an adult and I have wine with dinner
00:37:52.480 sometimes. In other words, this is about how we habituate our wills. And you do bear some
00:38:00.680 responsibility for it. And bad habits compromise your will. And so you feel as though, the way we
00:38:07.940 talk about this in our modern like therapeutic jargon is we say, well, if I'm addicted to
00:38:12.320 something, whether it's food or booze or sex or drugs or porn or whatever it is, if I'm really
00:38:18.980 addicted to something, then I don't bear any responsibility. No, no, no, you do. In many ways,
00:38:23.200 you bear greater responsibility for it because you have performed the actions that led you into this
00:38:27.640 kind of dependency. So you're probably not going to get out of there on your own. This is one of
00:38:30.900 the insights of Alcoholics Anonymous is you need to give your life up to a higher power. And
00:38:35.000 Alcoholics Anonymous comes out of Christianity, but really we would just say like it's a God,
00:38:39.240 it's God's grace. You need to pray to Christ and ask for his grace and he will help you do that.
00:38:43.640 but you've got to do stuff. You have to do stuff as well. It's one of the most pernicious lies
00:38:52.360 of our time that doing bad stuff, and especially when we're talking about addiction,
00:38:58.700 that you have no responsibility over it. It's just a disease, just your luck.
00:39:03.900 It's so brutal. And it's so evil because it seems nice. And that's the sort of thing we
00:39:10.700 tell people to make them feel better. But Matthew Perry doesn't feel better today, I suspect.
00:39:15.500 Bad, bad advice. Very sad. Very sorry for him. Okay. We've all heard radio advertisements about
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00:40:09.120 speaking of death and actors famous actors who are dead uh the widow of a very famous actor who
00:40:15.600 died says that she still speaks to him every day also brock obama admits that ilhan omar probably
00:40:20.900 committed immigration fraud you gotta read between the lines but we'll get to that in a second
00:40:24.200 first though my favorite comment yesterday is from genesis mcelroy says my brother told me an
00:40:30.220 onion was the only vegetable that can make you cry. So I hit him in the head with a potato. 0.63
00:40:33.900 Boy, did I prove him wrong. Do you get it? She hit her brother in the head with a potato. Do you get 0.81
00:40:41.760 that? Pretty funny, huh? Okay, folks, if you want all of your election news, do you know where you
00:40:48.180 get it? You get it at the Daily Wire Election Hub. You don't get it on MSNBC. I sound like Amy
00:40:54.480 act. Because there's a thing, MSLSD, MSCCP, MSDNC. You don't go there. You don't go to CNN. You
00:41:00.960 don't go. You go to Daily Wire's election hub. It's a minor story, but it's an important one.
00:41:08.740 It actually directly relates to a lot of what we've been talking about, certainly to Matthew
00:41:11.600 Perry. Then we'll get to Barack Obama and Ilhan Omar. Remember John Ritter? Do you remember? The
00:41:17.140 Zoomers in the audience might not remember John Ritter. John Ritter was a legendary TV comedy 0.64
00:41:21.740 actor. He was in Three's Company. He was in, what was the show? Seven Rule, Eight Simple Rules for
00:41:27.480 Dating My Teenage Daughter. He's a real kind of Hollywood legend from the 70s through the early
00:41:33.260 2000s. And then he died relatively young. And it's very sad. He was a beloved figure. Now his wife
00:41:39.500 has just come out. She did an interview with the New York Post. And she said something striking.
00:41:44.900 she said, I still talk to John. I check in all the time. I talk to him every day. And she says,
00:41:52.780 you know, they all miss him. And whenever there's a young comic actor comes up, they think of him
00:41:56.760 because he was such a great talent. It's all this nice, normal stuff. And this is the line that I
00:42:01.680 have to focus on. Now, this is like a day of being a downer for people's comfortable delusions,
00:42:08.920 but I think it's important. And I think it's more loving to speak the truth
00:42:12.540 because i hear a lot of people say this oh i still talk to my late husband to your late father
00:42:19.320 to your this person i still talk to them every day there you don't you don't you don't talk to
00:42:25.780 them every day probably maybe look i'm catholic i believe in the communion of saints we just
00:42:32.060 celebrated all saints day yesterday i do talk to saints but here's here's at least you you might
00:42:38.780 not your mileage may vary you might think i'm a total crazy person but let me at least explain
00:42:42.480 this to you. I believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and he ascended into heaven and
00:42:49.260 is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. I believe that he calls his elect to
00:42:54.080 eternal life with him, that whoever believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
00:42:59.000 I believe in the communion of saints, the mystical body of Christ, that we participate in the life
00:43:04.900 of Christ in some mystical way. And so, the saints in heaven are, by definition, the people who are
00:43:11.480 still alive. I believe in the book of Revelation, where the saints are holding buckets, and those
00:43:15.780 buckets are the prayers of the saints. Those prayers would be for us. So that's why I believe
00:43:19.460 that. Because of my religion, because of the Christian theology, that's why I believe I can
00:43:23.980 speak to saints. But I don't think I can speak to just like any regular old dead person. There is no
00:43:28.480 real mechanism in my understanding of theology for that to work. Now, you might say, well,
00:43:35.920 I'm not Catholic, or I'm not Christian, or I'm not this, or I'm not, okay, fine.
00:43:38.900 but for all these people there's so many people like this who say oh i still talk to my dead
00:43:43.620 husband all the time how what's the mechanism the if you think my theology is kind of wacky
00:43:50.480 what's your theology i promise you it's way wackier than mine i think mine is quite logical
00:43:57.980 because that's what theology is is uh faith through reason you know applying reason to faith
00:44:05.960 It's how really smart guys, like the aforementioned Thomas Aquinas, can be some of the
00:44:10.300 greatest theologians ever. I don't mean to bring people down. In fact, what I'm trying to do is
00:44:16.600 the opposite. But I think when a lot of people say stuff like this, they're grieving very seriously
00:44:20.560 and a loved one dies, and they say, you know, but I talk to him every day. I just know he's still
00:44:25.520 here. No, you don't. And you don't even believe that. You're trying to comfort yourself because
00:44:31.280 you're wounded and you're grieving. But I don't think you even believe that. And I think that
00:44:35.940 that provides a very soft consolation, what C.S. Lewis would call soft soap and wishful thinking
00:44:41.600 to begin and in the end despair. And I guess the point I'm trying to make is people are so down,
00:44:48.300 man. People are, speaking of Amy Acton, people are taking prescription drugs and depression pills,
00:44:52.260 and people are kind of miserable relative to where they were 50 years ago, even to ages past.
00:44:58.360 And we're in a kind of downer, doomer society at the moment.
00:45:02.500 What I'm saying is you don't have to be.
00:45:04.720 You don't have to be.
00:45:06.360 But you need to grapple with the truth of how things actually work.
00:45:10.320 Not just according to how you wish that they would work.
00:45:13.340 What would be, you know, you wish your loved one didn't die.
00:45:15.860 And so you're just going to kind of will that they're alive or something.
00:45:20.300 Maybe you're going to go talk to some medium, some necromancer, some psychic.
00:45:23.420 You're going to go to that John Edwards show that used to air on network TV.
00:45:26.960 and pay some charlatan to either lie to you
00:45:29.720 or communicate with a demon or whatever.
00:45:31.060 But like, how do you,
00:45:33.980 what I'm saying is,
00:45:35.540 I think that the world actually has a happy ending.
00:45:38.780 I think that there's actually a happy ending to the story.
00:45:40.900 I think this is a comedy, this life of ours, you know?
00:45:43.720 But the only way that you're going to see that,
00:45:45.500 or the only way that that could be true,
00:45:46.700 is if you grapple with reality as it is.
00:45:50.720 And I think most people just assume
00:45:53.520 that reality is really sad or dark
00:45:56.160 and we're all just going to die and it's all meaningless and our loves are illusory and
00:45:59.520 whatever. And so either they become just like really hard-nosed atheists or they try to convince
00:46:07.640 themselves half-heartedly of these soapy kind of beliefs without any grounding to it. But I don't
00:46:14.260 think that helps anybody. I certainly don't mean to beat up on John Ritter's widow, but what I'm
00:46:19.360 saying is there is a lot of hope. You're not going to find it just like wish-casting
00:46:26.080 random desires. That's not going to happen. Okay, before we go, really good stuff. Got to
00:46:34.840 get to Ilhan Omar. Barack Obama sends out this post. As Ilhan Omar faces a months-long investigation
00:46:39.340 into her immigration status, whether or not she committed fraud, whether or not she could be
00:46:44.240 kicked out of Congress and deported. Obama writes this essay. It wasn't just like, ha ha,
00:46:49.760 Trump thinks he's going to deport Elhan Omar. Ain't going to happen. Obama out. It wasn't
00:46:54.000 one of those. He's clearly taking this seriously. This is like the war and peace of tweets,
00:46:59.360 four or five paragraphs, whatever it is. I'll just read some of it. It's a basic principle,
00:47:04.760 American democracy, that the government can't selectively target individuals
00:47:07.880 simply because of their political beliefs or what they say.
00:47:11.380 L-O-L from Barack Obama.
00:47:15.020 Barack Obama, who infamously wielded government agencies to persecute his enemies.
00:47:20.000 I know I was one of the targets of it.
00:47:22.600 Even at the time, long before I had a show, long before I did my blank book,
00:47:25.420 even at the time, I was a member of a conservative group in show business
00:47:28.760 called the Friends of Abe.
00:47:30.340 It was a nonprofit organization, and it was just for the conservatives
00:47:33.160 who were being blacklisted in Hollywood to kind of commiserate together.
00:47:37.880 Barack Obama wielded his IRS to go after groups, including that one, but many other groups,
00:47:44.700 the Tea Party movement. He was going and trying to get the member lists of all of those organizations.
00:47:50.400 At the time, FOA was being run by Jeremy. I guess this was before Daily Wire. It overlapped
00:47:55.980 right with the beginning of Daily Wire, and Jeremy refused. He wouldn't give it up to the
00:47:58.800 government. But the IRS ultimately had to make an apology. Barack Obama wielded the government
00:48:03.680 against his political enemies more than basically any president, possibly ever, certainly in my
00:48:08.380 lifetime. Okay, he keeps going. That's exactly what the Trump administration is doing to Congresswoman
00:48:13.460 Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. To understand why this is so appalling, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:48:20.380 blah, blah. It's important to know the facts. And he goes on about all these supposed facts in her
00:48:23.900 life. Then he says, Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years
00:48:28.900 old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at
00:48:33.240 the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17,
00:48:36.800 she became a naturalized citizen automatically. Okay, well, hold on. That's what you're saying.
00:48:41.160 But that's what the investigation is trying to find out. If she were 18, she would have the 0.94
00:48:45.960 legitimate citizenship. But there's a lot of evidence that she changed her birth date,
00:48:50.340 that she actually wasn't 18 at the time, that her name actually wasn't even Ilhan Omar.
00:48:55.060 That's the point of the investigation. So what? The investigation is just total nonsense.
00:48:59.840 Listen to this line. 0.77
00:49:01.380 Now the administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar,
00:49:05.880 quote, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory
00:49:11.560 that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized
00:49:15.580 and therefore is not a citizen.
00:49:18.220 Then he goes on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:49:19.760 That's a very interesting choice of diction.
00:49:24.220 They were trying to deport her seemingly based on Barack Obama.
00:49:28.900 is not one to couch his language. Seemingly based solely on, hold on, that's what they're
00:49:36.420 telling you. They're telling you, yeah, it's about immigration fraud. Seemingly based solely on the
00:49:41.660 unsubstantiated theory that she was actually older, that she lied about her birth date.
00:49:46.820 Unsubstantiated theory. So they're investigating her. Isn't that the point of investigations
00:49:52.020 is to substantiate or disprove theories? You're objecting to this investigation into Ilhan Omar
00:49:58.740 because there is a theory
00:50:00.960 that she's actually older
00:50:02.420 than she says she is.
00:50:03.820 And they're trying to figure out
00:50:04.680 if that's true or not.
00:50:05.400 Isn't that,
00:50:06.720 by Barack Obama's logic,
00:50:07.800 we would have to put an end
00:50:08.620 to all investigations about anything
00:50:10.400 if you're not allowed
00:50:11.840 to look into unsubstantiated theories.
00:50:13.700 The whole point of an investigation
00:50:14.800 is to substantiate them.
00:50:16.140 Okay.
00:50:17.300 This unsubstantiated theory
00:50:18.940 that she was actually 18
00:50:20.040 and therefore is not a citizen.
00:50:21.360 Okay.
00:50:21.840 So they talk about
00:50:22.320 how they raided her home
00:50:23.280 and this, that, and the other thing.
00:50:24.340 All right.
00:50:25.640 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:50:27.180 and says, you know, this probably will end in a stalled kind of investigation. It's not going
00:50:33.760 to go anywhere. But not before Congresswoman Omar's life has been turned upside down. Her
00:50:37.760 legal bills have piled up. She's been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges 0.59
00:50:41.760 instead of serving the people of Minnesota. Well, hold on. She won't fight unsubstantiated charges. 0.99
00:50:46.700 She will fight substantiated charges. They will bring charges if there is substance to them. 0.55
00:50:52.400 it's especially rich because not only did barack obama persecute republicans during his presidency
00:50:59.960 but joe biden famously uh raided imprisoned prosecuted donald trump and a bunch of other
00:51:08.080 republicans for their political views and even if they were exonerated he made them fight
00:51:11.640 all the things that that he's accusing trump of doing right now and then the real tell in all
00:51:17.960 of this. One, he's couching his language. It's unsubstantiated. Yeah, you don't say. Seemingly,
00:51:23.100 you know, why are you couching your language? But also, it's not just the administration,
00:51:27.000 because the raid on Ilhan Omar's house was signed off on by a federal judge.
00:51:31.140 And it's not just coming out of the White House. It's coming out of the DOJ.
00:51:34.780 Not just coming out of the DOJ, it's coming out of DHS. And this investigation didn't happen
00:51:39.140 overnight. It's an October surprise. It's been going on for a very, very long time.
00:51:42.880 This is the strongest evidence yet
00:51:45.840 that Ilhan Omar is totally guilty
00:51:48.240 and we can deport her. 0.59
00:51:50.060 Okay, another story I really want to get to.
00:51:51.880 We don't have time,
00:51:52.500 but you remember that girl who went viral
00:51:53.780 for mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination
00:51:56.560 at that campus at a pick up your mic
00:51:58.140 toward a TPUSA event? 0.95
00:51:59.920 She's just issued an apology video.
00:52:02.960 And some people are saying,
00:52:04.040 well, now we just need to forgive her.
00:52:05.040 We need to have grace for her.
00:52:05.780 We need to forgive her.
00:52:06.320 Some are saying they don't buy it at all.
00:52:08.620 Actually, both groups are incorrect.
00:52:10.160 We'll have to get to it tomorrow.
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