The Michael Knowles Show - November 10, 2026


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00:00:13.000 The first articles of impeachment since the Democrats' big election win have already been
00:00:18.380 filed, and they come to us by way of a Republican, sort of.
00:00:23.020 We will get into the libertarian Thomas Massey's transformation into a resistance lib and whether
00:00:29.620 or not Pete Hegseth is going down. Then Dana White actually becomes the White House press
00:00:35.140 secretary. I guess there's a lot of personnel news today, at least briefly the press secretary.
00:00:39.260 And Russell Brand gets 10 years in prison for a possibly non-consensual sex act amid a melange
00:00:47.900 of indisputably consensual sex acts with groupies 17 to 22 years ago. I'm Michael Knowles. This is
00:00:55.680 The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:59.620 welcome back to the show we have mr benjamin shapiro coming on later to talk about his new
00:01:19.340 movie which is hitting theaters tomorrow one night only the movie is marvelous it pains me it
00:01:25.700 hurts deeply to say nice things about Ben. The movie is terrific. So we'll get into that.
00:01:32.280 Also kind of funny that arguably the most famous Jew in the world, including Bibi Netanyahu, 0.62
00:01:37.260 is making one of the most Christian films that's ever been made. So anyway, we will get into that 0.63
00:01:42.560 in a moment. First, though, we turn to this impeachment. We knew, we knew that the minute
00:01:48.560 the Democrats won just the House, which a lot of people were predicting that they would win the
00:01:52.880 House, then some of us who were a little more doomer about the election started to say, I think
00:01:57.660 they're going to win the Senate too. Actually, it's looking pretty bad. But even just if they
00:02:01.120 had won the House, you knew that there was going to be this real push to impeach Trump and everyone
00:02:06.680 around him. And if the Democrats were smart, they would resist that impulse because I don't think
00:02:11.400 that's actually going to help them. Certainly impeaching Trump, but they can't resist. They
00:02:16.280 have to do it. It's just history is thrusting them toward that inevitability. What some people
00:02:21.960 did not foresee, though, is that the impeachments would start flying before the Democrats took
00:02:28.280 office. Election Day happened last week. The Democrats don't actually take office until
00:02:32.940 January. So how are we already getting an impeachment with a Republican House and a
00:02:38.460 Republican Congress? We get it from a quasi-Republican Congressman, Thomas Massey,
00:02:44.080 who has just filed articles of impeachment, not against Donald Trump, doesn't have the
00:02:48.460 will you ins for that he files articles of impeachment against pete hegseth since we saw
00:02:55.680 the secretary have scheduled his own press conference that they're going to let him deliver
00:03:00.100 a rebuttal and to that point i hope he addresses the eight articles and doesn't get up and misquote 0.97
00:03:06.740 the bible in quentin tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and you know call everybody fat and gay 0.90
00:03:13.080 like for being for this impeachment like i may have just given you half his speech i don't know 0.94
00:03:19.140 but i would like to see him go through the eight articles of impeachment and just make the argument
00:03:25.540 from a podium you can use notes get the lawyers to help you tell us why you are not guilty of each
00:03:32.620 of these eight articles of impeachment i hope that's what he does and so that's my answer to
00:03:37.560 your question when do i suspect it's going to be i suspect it's not going to be tonight or tomorrow
00:03:41.760 before that, before the secretary speaks. Let me keep going.
00:03:46.520 And with that, the transformation is complete. Thomas Massey is now more or less a pink hat
00:03:53.880 wearing resistance lib, though some of us saw that coming for a long time. Some of us have
00:03:58.840 always been pretty skeptical of libertarianism. Libertarianism, which has some good expressions,
00:04:04.360 albeit with a mistaken anthropology, but the libertarians often just try to curry favor with
00:04:10.140 the libs. Practically speaking, whether you're talking about that guy in your freshman dorm or
00:04:14.620 you're talking about a member of Congress, very often the libertarian is the kind of conservative,
00:04:20.260 the kind of Republican who wants the approval of the dominant liberal culture. You know,
00:04:26.520 I'm a Republican, but I'm not that kind of Republican. No, I'm a cool Republican. I smoke
00:04:31.080 pot. You know, no, it's cool, man. I like gay stuff. No, I'm a cool Republican, man. So that's
00:04:39.640 what you're getting here. And there's a real political takeaway from Thomas Massey's
00:04:43.720 transformation. But before we get to that, let's just get into the articles of impeachment.
00:04:47.080 Because in that meandering press conference for the liberal press corps, Massey says,
00:04:51.640 well, I want Pete Hegseth to respond to the actual articles. Okay, so what are the articles
00:04:58.180 of impeachment? You're going to look them up. They're already up there. The first article of
00:05:02.120 impeachment is over waging war in Iran. You might not like the war in Iran. I don't like
00:05:09.540 the war in Iran. But an article of impeachment does not simply posit that a government official
00:05:15.480 is doing something that is unpopular or even unwise. An article of impeachment suggests that
00:05:21.160 the government officer has committed some crime, some high crime or misdemeanor, as the Constitution
00:05:26.560 says. So what's the crime here? The first article of impeachment filed by the pseudo-Republican
00:05:32.400 Massey says that it's illegal to wage war in Iran. It's against the War Powers Resolution.
00:05:37.500 but it's not the commander in chief has the right as the leader of the armed forces to
00:05:46.980 do basically whatever he wants with the troops for at least a limited period of time and the
00:05:52.680 war powers resolution of 1973 clarifies this says that the commander in chief can deploy the
00:05:59.580 military for 90 days but then you know it actually can they can re-up it a little bit
00:06:04.580 And actually, if the war stops and then some new conflict begins again, as occurred in the case of Iran, then the War Powers Resolution probably resets.
00:06:14.020 And even beyond that, the War Powers Resolution doesn't really have any teeth because commanders-in-chief of both political parties have deployed the military for much longer periods of time.
00:06:23.860 Whether we're talking about Obama in Libya, whether we're talking about Joe Biden with the Houthis, there were all sorts of complaints about the War Powers Resolution with George W. Bush.
00:06:31.920 So this doesn't have teeth for two reasons.
00:06:35.320 One, the White House has every right to deploy the military for the conflict in Iran.
00:06:41.880 According to the War Powers Resolution, beyond the War Powers Resolution,
00:06:45.260 they have every right to do it. 0.71
00:06:46.760 There's a ton of historical precedent for it.
00:06:48.780 Just as an issue, that article of impeachment doesn't make much sense.
00:06:53.020 But then the object doesn't make much sense either.
00:06:55.820 Because it's Trump as the commander-in-chief who's deploying the military.
00:06:59.060 It's not Pete Hegseth.
00:07:00.280 Pete Hegseth is managing the Pentagon.
00:07:02.400 Pete Hegseth didn't start the war.
00:07:03.820 Pete Hegseth isn't even really managing the war all that much.
00:07:06.620 That would be the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
00:07:07.960 That would be the commanders in the field.
00:07:09.220 That would be up to President Trump.
00:07:11.220 Pete Hegseth's in the room, but it's totally incoherent.
00:07:14.320 Why would you file these articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth
00:07:16.580 if what you're upset about is that the president
00:07:19.060 is supposedly violating the World Powers Resolution?
00:07:21.400 Well, the real reason is that Thomas Massey knows
00:07:23.360 he just doesn't have the juice.
00:07:25.840 He doesn't have the mojo to actually impeach President Trump. 0.99
00:07:28.580 He knows that if he did impeach President Trump, he would look even more ridiculous than he already 0.99
00:07:32.880 does. And so he's going for the second best thing he can get, which is going after Pete Hegseth. 0.92
00:07:39.060 It weak sauce. So what's the second article of impeachment? Basically the same thing.
00:07:45.000 An allegation of a violation of the War Powers Resolution. Totally ridiculous. What's the third 0.83
00:07:52.040 article of impeachment? Basically the same thing. Just another way of reiterating this supposed
00:07:56.820 violation of the War Powers Resolution. Okay. What's the fourth article of impeachment? The
00:08:01.280 fourth article of impeachment is about collateral damage because one of the strikes in Iran killed
00:08:06.900 a bunch of civilians. It was very, very sad. It seems to kill a bunch of school children.
00:08:10.200 So that's awful, horrible. But why would that be illegal? If the United States were targeting
00:08:17.880 school children, if the United States were committing an act of terrorism in order to
00:08:22.420 kill civilians and to thereby instill fear and try to affect political change,
00:08:28.140 that would be a crime. There is zero evidence that the United States did that. There's no
00:08:32.920 reason that the United States would do that. We call it collateral damage, which is a euphemism
00:08:37.880 that in times of war, civilians are killed. But this is even possible in a just war, assuming
00:08:44.200 that the civilians are not targeted. There's no evidence the civilians were targeted. So that's
00:08:47.740 nonsense. The fifth article of impeachment. Now we move past Iran. Massey's going after Pete
00:08:54.040 Hegseth because the Trump administration has blown up drug boats, drug runners in the Caribbean.
00:09:01.180 And we're not allowed to do that, apparently. We're not allowed to enforce American law. We're
00:09:05.340 not allowed to protect Americans from being poisoned by the drug traffickers, by the
00:09:09.780 international cartels, groups that have been designated foreign terrorist organizations
00:09:15.000 in the Western hemisphere over which we have declared a kind of a sovereignty from the rest
00:09:22.840 of the world since the Monroe Doctrine in the early 19th century. That's it now. That's what
00:09:28.360 conservatism is, is we're not allowed to blow up drug boats from foreign terror organizations
00:09:32.260 in our own hemisphere. Give me a break. Sixth article of impeachment. He's really upset at
00:09:38.320 Pete Hegseth, for threatening to prosecute or at least hold to account, according to the military
00:09:45.440 standards, Senator Mark Kelly, who called on troops to be insubordinate. So now Thomas Massey
00:09:55.220 at one time ranked to be the most conservative member of Congress because of a skewed view of
00:10:01.200 conservatism, because people conflated conservatism and libertarianism, an error for which we had
00:10:06.440 been paying for 60 years. At one time, he was ranked the most conservative member of Congress.
00:10:11.500 A friend of mine, who's another member of Congress, complained to me once. He said,
00:10:14.860 I'm only the third or fourth most conservative member. Thomas Massey, that jerk, is the most 1.00
00:10:22.020 conservative member. So that guy now is upset that he's white knighting for a Democrat member 1.00
00:10:30.000 of Congress who called on U.S. troops to be insubordinate to the commander-in-chief,
00:10:34.560 and he's going to impeach Pete Hegseth for that? What? This is where libertarianism falls into
00:10:42.340 anarchism, but I don't even think it's that ideological for Massey. I think he just
00:10:45.900 hates the Trump admin because the Trump admin went after him.
00:10:50.160 Seventh article of impeachment. He's really upset at Pete Hegseth for arresting Nicolas Maduro.
00:10:55.600 Nicolas Maduro, who had arrest warrants out in the United States, who the US State Department
00:11:00.520 declared to be the illegitimate leader of Venezuela, backed, mobbed up with all of our
00:11:06.040 foreign adversaries, stealing American products. We go in and arrest him. We don't even assassinate
00:11:12.240 him, which we easily could have done, which we and every other polity on earth has done for a
00:11:18.780 long time. We didn't even do that. We arrested him. We put him on trial. We're not allowed to
00:11:22.420 do that. To be a conservative, according to Thomas Massey, is to support the communist dictator of
00:11:28.820 Venezuela, who's mobbed up with our adversaries like China and Russia and Iran. Okay. And then
00:11:34.740 the eighth article of impeachment, he's going after Hegseth because the Trump administration
00:11:38.800 is striking the Houthis. The Houthis are the Iranian militia.
00:11:42.740 So what I take away from this is anytime the United States does anything to upset our adversaries,
00:11:50.620 either the Islamists or the communists, that is beyond the pale and they need to be removed
00:11:56.500 from office. How does a guy get here? This is totally ridiculous from Massey. But what's more 0.73
00:12:02.160 interesting, I get it. He's a jilted lover. He had political ambitions, and then he kept going
00:12:07.840 against Trump, and he kept siding with the libs, and he kept cutting deals with Ro Khanna and the
00:12:11.580 Democrats. And eventually Trump said, enough, this guy's useless. He might vote with us 90% 0.99
00:12:16.440 of the time, but on all the crucial matters, he sides with the libs and the Democrats.
00:12:21.340 Liz Cheney votes with Trump even more. Liz Cheney would vote with Trump, what, 94% or 95% of the 0.79
00:12:25.600 time. But on all the really crucial matters where her vote actually counted, she would side with 0.58
00:12:29.860 the Democrats. So she's as good as a Democrat. So Massey is real upset about that, and he lost
00:12:35.100 his political stature, and he lost his seat, and he lost his whole career. So now he's reacting
00:12:40.960 against Pete Hegseth for some reason. But the political takeaway that I think is really
00:12:47.860 important here is that we think of politics primarily as being about ideology. And I'm
00:12:54.580 touching on ideology too, the difference between libertarianism and conservatism and liberalism
00:12:58.260 and this and that. But it's not primarily about ideology. Politics is primarily about relationships.
00:13:06.320 And you hear eggheads and wonks and losers, they will sometimes lament this fact. And they'll say,
00:13:13.000 no, politics should just be about ideas. It's so sad that politics is about relationships.
00:13:17.560 It's wrong. There's something perverse about that. No, no, no, no, no. At the basic level,
00:13:23.120 politics is about how we live together. That's what politics is. It refers to the polis,
00:13:30.340 refers to society. How do human beings live together in a way that is conducive to their
00:13:36.360 flourishing? So this therefore touches on aspects of justice. It touches on aspects of the common
00:13:42.140 good. It touches on economic flourishing. It touches on security. It touches on all of these
00:13:48.620 different areas. But what it is fundamentally about is how we all live together, which means
00:13:54.700 that politics is fundamentally about relationships. And so when people have really strained relationships,
00:14:01.720 when they struggle to maintain relationships, when they betray their benefactors, when they
00:14:08.180 can't be a team player, when they do all of these things, what that tells you is that they have a
00:14:13.880 fundamentally off, fundamentally perverse view of politics. This is totally incoherent.
00:14:22.560 And look, if Massey wants to flip and become a resistance lib, if he feels that his ideology,
00:14:28.340 in as much as that matters, his ideology ultimately leads to a kind of liberalism,
00:14:32.940 which I think is true of libertarianism. Libertarianism is just a variety of liberalism.
00:14:38.100 If that is true and he feels that there's some great principle here that he needs to defend,
00:14:42.060 that's fine, but then have the guts to go all the way. Your problem's not with Pete Hegseth.
00:14:47.460 Your problem is with Trump. You don't want to remove Pete. Removing Pete Hegseth isn't going
00:14:52.060 to change anything about the Iran war or arresting Nicolas Maduro. Pete Hegseth was involved in the
00:14:58.760 arrest of Nicolas Maduro in as much as he runs the Pentagon, but that involves the State Department.
00:15:02.440 Why aren't you impeaching Rubio? That ultimately goes to President Trump. It involves the DNI. It
00:15:06.720 involves all these different offices. If Massey wants to be the big tough guy, then actually do
00:15:11.820 it, I guess is my point. I think it's stupid to impeach Trump or members of the administration 0.99
00:15:15.800 over this. But if you're going to do it, if you're now just fully MSNBC pilled, then do it. Go ahead 0.98
00:15:22.800 and impeach Trump. And he's not going to do it because it would be laughed out of Washington.
00:15:26.260 It would go down in flames. He might be able to prize some votes to impeach Hegseth because they
00:15:31.180 want a sacrificial lamb for the midterm losses. But that's not really what this is about. It's
00:15:37.900 not going to change a damn thing. It just drives me nuts. It drives me nuts especially. 0.98
00:15:45.400 Disloyalty among politicos irritates me a lot. Siding with the libs on anything irritates me a
00:15:51.920 lot. Rank opportunism and cynicism irritates me a lot. But the thing that really makes it unbearable
00:16:00.600 is when these weasels do it in the name of some great principle, when they preen,
00:16:07.220 when you get this sanctimonious kind of screed in the impeachment articles or pressers or what
00:16:13.640 have you. And they say they're so much holier than thou. What's the principle here? You don't
00:16:20.120 even have the courage of your convictions to take the impeachment all the way. You want to impeach
00:16:24.280 Trump? Go for it. See what happens. You think this is your real opportunity to really strike
00:16:29.860 at the president of the United States because of a bruising midterm loss? Then go do it, Massey.
00:16:33.940 but he can't do it so this look he might get a scalp here i guess there's a chance hegseth goes
00:16:40.260 down there's some reporting out of capitol hill that the votes are there because republicans
00:16:43.720 want to place the blame on someone uh that is not trump who can still damage their careers but
00:16:48.880 someone who they can just kind of brush to the side and make the scapegoat and upon whom they
00:16:53.700 can cast all their sins and send out into the woods so it might work don't tell me it's principled
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00:18:58.580 Hegseth on Capitol Hill. Or we're looking at from, sorry, from Thomas Massey against Pete
00:19:03.280 Hegseth on Capitol Hill. Here is Democrat Jamie Raskin saying the Dems are not just going to go
00:19:08.840 after Trump and his cabinet and his staff and his supporters. And as Alyssa Slotkin said,
00:19:15.980 the teenage boy who might want to volunteer for the Republican campaign. It's not just them.
00:19:20.100 They're going after private corporations who did not attack Donald Trump for the last two and a half years.
00:19:27.900 We will not hesitate to go after the private corporations that are collaborating in all of the lawlessness with Donald Trump.
00:19:36.880 And we've done it before and we will absolutely do it again.
00:19:40.260 The law firms you mentioned, we know that there were many heroic law firms that have stood up against all of the law breaking and then the attempt to shake them down for the time of their partners and their young associates.
00:19:56.900 And yet there are major law firms in America, including Paul Weiss, that have capitulated to these coercive tactics by Donald Trump and have basically surrendered and made all kinds of outrageous concessions.
00:20:11.600 We've sent a number of letters to those law firms and they have been not forthcoming up until now.
00:20:18.060 But when we have the power of subpoena and we have the power to conduct oversight, we believe a lot of these law firms are going to be coming forward and telling the truth.
00:20:28.300 Otherwise, they are law firms that have no respect for the rule of law.
00:20:31.860 And we're going to make sure that they comply with a congressional subpoena.
00:20:35.340 It is the exact same legal force as a judicial subpoena does.
00:20:39.360 subpoena means under the power or under the penalty of law. I have very little sympathy for
00:20:44.860 some of these massive corporations, especially because I have been the target of some of their
00:20:50.200 censorship and some of their shenanigans for years. Let's not forget Facebook nearly destroyed
00:20:55.400 the Daily Wire, did its very best to do so, but we survived it. So many big tech companies went
00:21:00.180 after conservatives, dominated our public square, totally changed our politics against the
00:21:07.580 constitutional order and the will of the people and all the rest of it. So I have very little
00:21:11.240 sympathy for them. And yet, Jamie Raskin's almost making me sympathize with them.
00:21:16.140 Because you think about it, Paul Weiss. Think about how little sympathy you want to have for
00:21:21.460 these big corporate law firms. But Paul Weiss, a left-wing law firm, Paul Weiss supports all the
00:21:29.240 libs and all the Democrats, comes into the crosshairs of President Trump. President Trump
00:21:32.980 says, you better start playing fair. You better start, you better knock it off, or you're going
00:21:37.420 to have big problems. You're going to lose a lot of government contracts. And Paul Weiss says,
00:21:40.480 okay, okay, okay, we'll play ball. We won't unfairly target or exclude conservatives. Okay,
00:21:45.860 fine. That's all they say. Jamie Raskin now says, hold on, Paul Weiss, you wouldn't go after the
00:21:52.600 conservatives? You would be willing to even have a conversation with President Trump? Okay, now
00:21:56.160 we're going to destroy you. I remember I was talking to a buddy of mine who, he's a financial
00:22:02.120 guy. He's an investor. And this was right around the time of Elon Musk's IPO with SpaceX. And I
00:22:08.500 was talking to him. I called him. I said, hey, should I get in on the IPO? Should I try to buy
00:22:12.240 some SpaceX stock? Because Elon's a genius and his companies are really impressive. And maybe
00:22:17.120 this is a good investing opportunity. Should I put a few pennies behind SpaceX? And he said,
00:22:21.880 oh, probably not. So why not? Elon's a genius. His companies are great. He goes, yeah, no,
00:22:26.800 that's all true. That's all completely true. But the problem is we all know Republicans are going
00:22:31.720 to lose the midterms. This was many months ago. We all know Republicans are going to lose the
00:22:34.980 midterms, and the left hates Elon Musk because Elon Musk helped President Trump, and he supported
00:22:42.160 him. He was one of the few big businessmen in America who supported the Republican,
00:22:46.580 and he actually helped clean up the government a little bit. So the Democrats are going to try
00:22:49.840 to destroy him, and they're going to go after him, not based on the fundamentals of the company,
00:22:54.920 not based on his entrepreneurship, not based on, they're just going to politically persecute him.
00:22:59.820 And they're not even hiding it.
00:23:01.660 It would be one thing if they hid it.
00:23:03.400 If they, you know, hypocrisy is the tribute vice-paste of virtue, says La Roche-Foucault.
00:23:07.340 But here, they're just being overt about it.
00:23:10.520 They're saying if a private business or a public business, if any business, if anybody,
00:23:16.240 even outside the government, in any way plays ball with the duly elected president of the United
00:23:20.940 States, we're going to try to destroy them.
00:23:23.800 which means that if the economy was the driving factor in the midterm elections and if the shaky
00:23:31.460 economy was driven by the iran war for which now the libs and the libertarians are trying to impeach
00:23:36.620 pete hegseth if all of that was true and people have a lot of economic concern right now as as
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00:23:46.840 revenge on the economy and they're going to try to blame trump for it now speaking of prosecutions
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00:25:41.420 Russell Brand, the 2000s movie star who used to be a huge lib and he got off the hook for
00:25:50.480 all sorts of bad behavior when he was a huge lib. Then he became kind, not even a conservative by
00:25:55.280 any, but he became a little more normal. He opposed the extremes of the left.
00:26:00.640 He purportedly had a conversion to Christianity. Then all of a sudden, all this bad behavior from
00:26:06.340 the 2000s comes back up, and he is prosecuted in the UK. What exactly happened? A jury found
00:26:13.840 Russell Brand guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault after a four-week
00:26:19.600 trial. For this, Russell Brand has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. These alleged
00:26:27.260 incidents took place one in 2009, another in 2004. And what took place exactly? I've read
00:26:37.800 the reporting out of the court. This is a family show. So I'm going to try to clean it up a little
00:26:42.920 bit as best I can. In 2009, Russell Brand was doing a show. He invited his groupies to come
00:26:50.560 backstage and do weird stuff with him. Some lady comes backstage and within moments of meeting him
00:26:57.740 begins performing an unspeakably nauseating act on him. An act that I am not only not describing
00:27:07.620 for your benefit, but also for my benefit because I don't even want to think about it. 1.00
00:27:11.780 It's that disgusting and degrading for the woman. She voluntarily does this within moments of 1.00
00:27:16.400 meeting him, while her friend is committing another more speakable but also obscene act
00:27:23.080 on Russell Brand immediately upon meeting him. Russell Brand then invites the first woman to his
00:27:29.400 flat for some more romps around the hay. All of this is consensual. They're doing all sorts of 0.89
00:27:38.540 consensual naughty activities that they shouldn't do. And then at one point, there's a little bit
00:27:43.560 of a he said, she said here, Russell Brand performs a particularly gross kind of act
00:27:50.920 on this woman. And it's a little unclear. She may have agreed to it at first, but then she
00:27:56.760 sort of disagreed with it or disagreed with the way it was carried out or what have you. 0.94
00:28:01.920 And it's all gross and yucky. And that was that in 2009. Gross, nauseating. Glad we got through
00:28:09.040 that without too many details. 17 years later, Russell Brand is going to prison for 10 years
00:28:17.920 because of this action that at the time, the woman did not seem to think constituted a crime,
00:28:26.140 that in the intervening years, this woman did not seem to have brought up as a crime,
00:28:31.380 that eventually the media start talking to this woman. I guess she changes her view on it a little
00:28:35.220 bit. So 17 years later, he's sentenced to prison for 10 years. Some of the other sexual incidents
00:28:41.540 that go back even further, 22 years now to 2004, is Russell Brand kissing a girl at a bar,
00:28:46.800 grabbing a girl, groping a girl at a bar, and then doing weird stuff with the girl consensually.
00:28:55.320 But because he kissed her or grabbed her or whatever first without getting a signed affidavit
00:29:01.780 of her consent or whatever. That now adds to his prison sentence. What are we to think of this?
00:29:12.600 Everything Russell Brand did back in the day, totally gross. Much of it probably should be
00:29:18.580 illegal, even if it is consensual. I'm a conservative, right? I don't believe that
00:29:22.760 consent is the sole criterion of moral order. I think there are many other things that should
00:29:26.520 be punishable by the law. And so no one's defending all the gross stuff or hanging out
00:29:31.220 with groupies. I'm sure if you're a big celebrity, it's hard to resist the groupies, but he had a
00:29:35.600 lot of groupies and he did a lot of weird stuff. Okay. Russell Brand later kind of becomes more
00:29:42.260 conservative. Put that aside. He's not actually conservative. He's much more conservative than
00:29:46.380 he was in the 2000s. Put that aside. Russell Brand says that he converted to Christianity.
00:29:50.320 Some people doubt his conversion. Put it aside. I hope he did convert to Christianity for his own
00:29:55.260 soul, but just put that aside for a second. Put all of that aside. All of the things that Russell
00:30:00.440 Brand may or may not have done that have curried favor with conservatives and with Christians
00:30:04.920 that were debating whether or not they were sincere. Just put all of that aside. Let's say
00:30:09.400 it never happened. Do we really think that a guy should go to prison for 10 years for a possible
00:30:21.020 crime that he may have committed 17 years prior? Something that was allegedly a crime amid very,
00:30:30.100 very similar acts, some of which were more disgusting and egregious, that at the time,
00:30:37.200 everyone agreed were totally consensual. But then one of them was like, maybe not consensual,
00:30:41.300 or it started out consensual, and then the woman withdrew consent. We really think a guy should
00:30:48.020 be able to go to prison for 10 years, 10 and a half years for that, for something that happened
00:30:52.840 17 or 22 years ago, which no one at the time considered to be a crime? I don't think so.
00:31:01.260 Without weighing in, I don't know Russell Brand personally. I think he was supposed to appear on
00:31:05.060 the show one time and then it didn't work out. And one time we were speaking together at a TPSA
00:31:10.100 event. I don't even think we said hello. I don't know Russell. I have no personal connection to
00:31:14.880 Russell Brand. And I think that much weird sex stuff should probably be illegal and people should
00:31:20.260 probably be prosecuted for it, but they shouldn't be prosecuted ex post facto, especially when the
00:31:27.000 acts, broadly speaking, are not even illegal today. Can I just, my whole takeaway from Russell
00:31:35.420 Brand is statutes of limitations are good, actually. That's my takeaway. And I haven't
00:31:42.340 seen people really focus on that aspect of it. That is the egregious aspect.
00:31:45.860 even if russell brand had committed clear serious horrific crimes with no doubt with no he said she
00:31:55.380 said with video cameras and eyewitnesses should you really be prosecuted for those sorts of crimes
00:32:01.620 20 years later i guess the first question you have to ask is why do we have statutes of limitations
00:32:09.020 what is the purpose of statutes of limitations the purpose of a statute of limitation they arrive
00:32:15.240 in ancient Rome, and then you see them really crop up in medieval England. So we've had statutes
00:32:22.360 of limitations for a very long time. What is the purpose of them? The purpose of them initially
00:32:27.960 was to protect property. It's kind of like what the lives do today where they say Mount Rushmore
00:32:33.540 actually belongs to the Lakota Sioux because they lived there in 1753. And they actually didn't even
00:32:38.980 live there in 1653, but they took it from the Cheyenne, and then they lived there in 1753,
00:32:43.560 but then we took it from them in 1776.
00:32:46.480 So anyway, we need to give it back to them.
00:32:48.660 And statutes of limitations initially existed for property to say,
00:32:51.540 you know what, if you've had property for a really long time
00:32:53.840 and no one's really challenged it, it's yours.
00:32:58.440 If you committed some crime or are accused of committing some crime
00:33:01.620 really, really long ago, when memory has degraded,
00:33:05.180 when the facts are a little bit blurry,
00:33:07.220 then you actually can't be prosecuted for it.
00:33:09.540 That's the idea of a statute of limitations.
00:33:10.760 And the Me Too mania got rid of all of that.
00:33:14.440 And said, no, no, no, no, no.
00:33:15.340 People are going to be prosecuted for things
00:33:16.760 they may or may not have done 50 years ago.
00:33:19.020 Brett Kavanaugh might not become a Supreme Court justice 0.74
00:33:20.980 because some crazy lady says that he pushed her onto a bed
00:33:24.400 50 years ago. 0.99
00:33:25.240 Certainly didn't happen.
00:33:28.020 Without statutes of limitations,
00:33:29.880 you have no stability in society.
00:33:32.060 You have no certainty.
00:33:34.300 There is a perpetual uncertainty
00:33:35.860 that your entire life can be upended
00:33:37.980 at any time for any reason.
00:33:40.760 That is a grave threat to our sacred democracy, to our political order, to everyone.
00:33:48.120 And certainly to the rights of the innocent.
00:33:52.740 This is bad.
00:33:54.240 Some people want to go further and defend Russell Brand as a conservative or a Christian
00:33:57.700 or say he definitely didn't do anything wrong or say that consensual acts are all fine.
00:34:01.940 I don't know about any of that.
00:34:04.040 And I don't think that all consensual acts are fine.
00:34:05.760 but don't we all have to agree 10 and a half years for whatever this is 20 years ago
00:34:16.100 seems a little odd at least it seems a little odd and if it seems a little odd why does it seem odd
00:34:22.700 it seems odd because basic aspects of our law and our our political order have been totally
00:34:29.280 upended by radical leftists this is what they this is what they do to thomas jefferson you
00:34:33.660 Thomas Jefferson, one of the great Americans, they say, no, he actually had children by one
00:34:37.060 of his slaves. Maybe. That's actually still a little unclear, but let's say he did. They say,
00:34:40.920 therefore, we got to tear down his statue. We got to tear down Christopher Columbus. He didn't
00:34:44.940 discover the new world. He wasn't some great pioneer. He wasn't a great Christian. No, no,
00:34:48.340 no. He was an enslaver, a colonizer, a genocider. They do this. They retrospectively rewrite history 0.63
00:34:55.160 and they hold people to account according to the dictates of our time rather than their own time.
00:35:03.660 but now they're applying that same principle
00:35:05.980 to people within their lifetimes,
00:35:08.100 and none of us is safe from it.
00:35:09.960 Even if you weren't a rock star with groupies
00:35:11.600 doing weird sex stuff, it could be anything.
00:35:14.900 Just the principle is what is so wrong here.
00:35:16.940 Okay, speaking of speedy trials,
00:35:19.920 speaking of timely prosecutions,
00:35:21.700 I do want to get to this Charlie Kirk story
00:35:23.520 because they've now set the trial date
00:35:26.740 for the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk,
00:35:30.140 and it's in 2028.
00:35:33.660 In 2028, we will bring on my friend, Mr. Ben Shapiro, to discuss that.
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00:36:48.080 My favorite comment yesterday is from Genesis McElroy, who says,
00:36:54.440 how did the picture end up in prison?
00:36:56.660 It was framed.
00:37:00.180 How did the picture end up in prison? 0.97
00:37:02.040 it had sex with a groupie 20 years ago also it was framed do you get it i'm a sucker for a good
00:37:06.500 pun it's a good pun okay speaking of our system of law and order this charlie kirk story is enough
00:37:14.400 to make your blood boil and so i will bring on commander data to just focus on the facts and not
00:37:20.220 so much the feelings also because he went to harvard law school mr ben shapiro ben thank you
00:37:24.380 for being on the show hey good to see you okay so i want to get to your movie confession is coming
00:37:30.060 out the most famous Jew in the world, possibly including Netanyahu, has written one of the most
00:37:34.480 Christian films ever in the history of the cinema called Confession in theaters tomorrow night,
00:37:39.420 one night only. Go see it. I said at the top of the show, it pains me. It causes actual physical
00:37:44.900 distress to say something nice about you, to compliment a work you have done. The movie is
00:37:50.480 terrific. Everyone has to go see it. Great cast, great story. Everyone has to go see it. We'll get
00:37:55.560 to it. The Charlie Kirk story.
00:38:00.480 We've been waiting for the guy who is accused of murdering Charlie Kirk to, you know, I'm
00:38:06.500 waiting for him to face the guillotine or a firing squad, but at the very least to be
00:38:09.900 sentenced, which requires him to be convicted, which requires there to be a trial.
00:38:14.040 Now, the judge says that the trial of Tyler Robinson will begin on June 21st, 2028.
00:38:21.840 I didn't go to law school.
00:38:23.640 I'm but a humble cigar salesman.
00:38:25.820 I don't have a law school education.
00:38:28.340 Is that right or normal?
00:38:32.860 I'm not aware of timelines being that long, generally.
00:38:36.620 When you're talking about a criminal case where the grand jury has already come in,
00:38:40.080 where it's been very obvious the evidence presents it,
00:38:42.440 I'm not sure why we are delaying from, I checked the calendar,
00:38:45.620 November 2026 all the way to the middle of 2028 to get to trial.
00:38:51.300 It's not as though there's an enormous amount of new data that's going to be gathered
00:38:55.340 between now and 2028 an enormous amount of new evidence that's going to be yet like the
00:38:59.160 prosecution is ready to go today if they declared they're ready for trial next month then we would
00:39:03.640 just be in trial maybe the judge is citing some sort of backlog here but i don't know what special
00:39:08.100 circumstance would justify a year and a half delay before you even get to the trial it's it's pretty
00:39:12.440 insane honestly there's a backlog do we need to get through some more speeding tickets before we
00:39:16.580 can get to the most high profile political assassination of our lifetimes the the defense
00:39:21.080 attorneys wanted this to go on longer. They were proposing delaying this until the end of 2028.
00:39:28.340 If not, no, sorry. The defense team was proposing late 2029 for the trial to begin. Charlie was
00:39:34.760 murdered in September of 2025. And the judge says, okay, well, we'll find a middle ground here.
00:39:40.460 By the way, ton of evidence in, nobody's really disputing the evidence. I think the evidence is
00:39:46.160 pretty persuasive, those stuff that we've seen so far. And so all the defense team has done thus
00:39:50.840 far is delay, delay, delay, delay, delay. How is this justice? I mean, that is their job, right?
00:39:56.780 The defense team is always trying to delay because the longer they delay, the better a chance that
00:40:01.600 a witness drops out or that evidence changes, or frankly, that their client doesn't end up in a
00:40:06.360 maximum security prison on death row. I mean, like that is the purpose. So the defense is doing what
00:40:10.720 the defense is supposed to do. What this really does speak to overall is that the American justice
00:40:14.760 system is replete with cases that last way too long. And so you'll see a criminal trial of
00:40:19.840 somebody that's happening five, six years after the original event. And then, you know, people
00:40:25.020 rehashing it for years. And then you'll see people on death row for 30 or 40 years before they're
00:40:29.240 not executed. And the entire American criminal justice system is deeply flawed. And it is,
00:40:34.500 in fact, a denial of justice. I mean, there is an old sort of saw that justice delayed is justice
00:40:39.440 denied. And I think that that is particularly true here. Of course, you know, even the death
00:40:43.720 penalty debate that we've seen and much more recent Catholic popes beginning a little bit
00:40:49.600 with JP II and Benedict, but especially really gaining steam with Pope Francis and Pope Leo.
00:40:54.220 They've made this argument that the death penalty is basically always wrong. And that would seem to
00:40:59.720 be an innovation in the Catholic tradition. You know, the papal states had an executioner,
00:41:04.920 for instance, Blessed Pius IX personally oversaw the execution of some 500 people and refused
00:41:10.320 a grant of clemency for the very last one, said, I cannot do it and I do not want to.
00:41:13.560 Anyway, we don't need to rehash all of that. My only bit of, I guess, openness to such an
00:41:21.540 innovation is whatever we call the death penalty in America, that probably is cruel and unusual.
00:41:28.180 It actually is probably cruel and unusual that we wait for 30 years, and then we inject these
00:41:33.080 people with seven shots of poison to make us feel better about not seeing their heads lopped off.
00:41:38.600 And then they wake up halfway through their execution, and then they go to like this lady 0.61
00:41:42.660 in tennessee and then they have to go to the hospital to recuperate before what we kill her
00:41:46.420 again i don't that whatever that is i think clearly is cruel and unusual and then the best
00:41:52.280 argument against the death penalty in the united states as you say is the way that the death penalty
00:41:55.820 is applied which is unevenly sporadically and certainly just definitionally unusually right
00:42:00.700 because you receive a death penalty and the vast majority of people who have received the death
00:42:04.220 penalty in the united states will never actually be applied the death penalty the vast majority of
00:42:09.580 them will probably die in prison at some point or be granted clemency by some sort of left-wing
00:42:14.200 governor who decides like Gavin Newsom just decided to in California to simply decide that
00:42:18.360 these are now all life sentences. So yeah, I mean, the case for the death penalty, and this is true
00:42:22.140 biblically, whether you're talking, you know, within Judaism or within Christianity was once 0.77
00:42:26.080 you're convicted, you pay a penalty, right? The speed of the penalty is the justice that has to 0.87
00:42:30.900 be done. And if you delay this stuff by years and years and years and years, remember the original
00:42:34.840 purpose of having a a body that was given the power to adjudicate decisions like this was to
00:42:40.980 prevent tribal warfare i mean if you go all the way back to the beginnings of sort of impartial
00:42:44.800 justice the idea was that if i murder a member of knolls's family then knolls's family now gets
00:42:49.340 to murder a member of my family and so instead of having this kind of constant cycle of revenge
00:42:53.100 this sort of yeah exactly instead of having that we sort of delegate the power to that to the state
00:42:57.560 which now has the power of policing and the unit and the and the universal capacity to use force
00:43:02.260 Well, if they don't do that, if they never actually apply justice, well, then we're just
00:43:05.780 going to go back right to tribal warfare, because if you feel that you've never been
00:43:09.740 actually given justice, then you end up with a feeling, again, that our systems are broken.
00:43:13.600 It's just another arena of American life in which the institutions are failing.
00:43:17.280 I think that's what Jamie Raskin is currently promising, actually, is to end Alyssa Slotkin
00:43:21.560 and all the rest of it.
00:43:22.560 OK, now, speaking of crime and punishment, I do want to get to this movie.
00:43:25.640 We've talked about it a fair bit.
00:43:26.940 We've got a there's going to be a friendly fire show on this.
00:43:29.160 we talked about a little bit on election night, but the movie, the movie is terrific. It really,
00:43:34.740 like I'm actually very, that's it. No more sincere compliments. I'm done for the next 10 years,
00:43:39.220 but it's terrific. It's deeply Christian. It's evocative of and alluding to a lot of Russian
00:43:47.400 literature. It has overtones of the great 20th century novel, Darkness at Noon by Arthur Kessler.
00:43:54.680 It's this kind of classic story that you're riffing on here, which is a play on words.
00:44:00.980 There's the confession being extracted by the Soviet state and also the confession that Christians make every mass and every day of their lives where we confess our faith in Christ.
00:44:12.740 And the movie plays on both of those things.
00:44:14.700 So my question is, which parish have you been attending secretly for the traditional Latin mass that has given you this view of Christianity?
00:44:24.680 I mean, obviously, you know, contrary to public opinion on X, I am quite pro-Christian, as it turns out, which is why, you know, three quarters of our staff is apparently Catholic.
00:44:32.900 But, you know, the reality is that when it comes to, you know, the the writing of a film like Confession, which is supposed to embody deep themes about the power of the state versus the power of the individual or belief in God versus belief in an overarching authoritarian state that's capable of molding men.
00:44:50.140 Right. That that sort of battle historically has taken place in the context of Christianity.
00:44:54.400 And this is why, you know, when you look at the way that we are taught in our schools today, you can't even read properly American literature of 100 years ago or Russian literature.
00:45:03.600 Certainly, you can't read any of this properly without understanding the basis for all of it.
00:45:07.820 If you read Dostoevsky and you don't understand Christianity, you're not understanding Dostoevsky.
00:45:11.200 And the same thing is true for the vast majority of great literature, the vast majority of Shakespeare.
00:45:15.120 I mean, if you read Shakespeare and you don't understand the Bible, you're not going to see all the biblical allusions.
00:45:19.240 you're not going to understand even what you're talking about.
00:45:21.220 And so when I'm writing Confession,
00:45:23.320 when I'm writing those characters,
00:45:24.300 the characters are supposed to,
00:45:25.400 they're not stand-ins for me, right?
00:45:26.620 It's not me just channeling me
00:45:28.060 through a bunch of different characters, right?
00:45:30.020 Each character is supposed to have their own individual life
00:45:32.240 and they're supposed to believe
00:45:33.200 in the truth of what they're saying.
00:45:34.360 So in the same way, the villains,
00:45:35.680 I think one of the beautiful things about the film
00:45:37.680 is that the villains are given the strongest version
00:45:40.040 of what they're supposed to say, right? 1.00
00:45:41.740 It's not that they're idiots who are just messing up. 1.00
00:45:43.700 Like they actually are saying things 1.00
00:45:45.100 that are intelligible and intelligent and convincing
00:45:47.300 from a particular point of view.
00:45:48.620 they're wrong. But again, when I'm writing, for example, Rob's character, who's obviously a person
00:45:53.660 of Christian faith, I'm going to write it in a way that the character believes what he is saying.
00:45:58.360 He's not going to walk in there with skepticism about the New Testament. That's not what his
00:46:02.440 character would do. And we have to acknowledge that the vast majority of Christians over the
00:46:07.260 ages who have been willing to stand up to the authoritarian state are people who believed in
00:46:11.120 the divinity of Christ. I mean, that's just a reality of history. And so failing to acknowledge
00:46:15.700 that and failing to recognize the power of that would be to deny the power of Western civilization
00:46:19.660 itself. And so I think one of the things that's sort of beautiful about the film is that it takes
00:46:23.020 all of these arguments incredibly seriously. I think people are going to be astonished by the
00:46:26.460 quality of the film. I mean, just put aside sort of the narrative. And when we're in conservative
00:46:30.640 media, we tend to talk about, quote unquote, the message of the film. And yeah, the messages here
00:46:34.140 are very, very strong. It's a great reminder of what Soviet Russia was. It's a reminder of why 0.78
00:46:38.580 you should be grateful to live in a free country like the United States and why elections don't 0.82
00:46:41.700 go your way yeah it's terrible and it's bad but also you don't live in soviet russia and so like
00:46:46.720 we still get to like it's it's the week after the election you and i still get to talk freely
00:46:50.140 about our opponents as you say for now it is a reminder of the fact that it doesn't have to be
00:46:54.700 that way that there are people who would if they had the ability upend the entire system and put
00:46:59.100 in place something significantly more oppressive but i think that that you know the thing for
00:47:02.620 that's different about confession than really anything else in the history of conservative
00:47:05.960 media i think it's fair to say this is that it is definitely a quality first production i mean this
00:47:10.460 is a this is a movie that is directed by a venice golden lion nominee and vaslav marhul it is a
00:47:15.140 movie that has among the cast assembled seven oscar nominations right it's got a cast of i think 16
00:47:20.960 golden globe and emmy nominations it is chalk filled with great performances uh it is uh you
00:47:26.820 know again i i hesitate to praise a film that i wrote and i'm an executive producer on but i think
00:47:31.460 that if you put down your phone and you watch it uh it is an experience it's a it's a real experience
00:47:36.040 and it's it's a spiritual experience an intellectual experience it's something different
00:47:39.900 than has been attempted by anybody.
00:47:41.560 Yes, I hope so.
00:47:43.300 And I think that it's certainly more ambitious
00:47:45.280 than anything that's ever been tried
00:47:46.500 in conservative media before.
00:47:48.080 And to your point on steel manning the characters,
00:47:51.180 even I do find myself,
00:47:53.480 when I listen to James Franco's character,
00:47:55.360 who's the Soviet interrogator,
00:47:57.000 I do find myself getting where he's coming from.
00:48:00.760 And obviously I don't end up agreeing with him,
00:48:03.520 but it's the way I think conservatives
00:48:04.960 should engage with Marx,
00:48:06.380 which is like, I really engage with Marx.
00:48:08.700 I've read a fair bit of Marx.
00:48:10.180 I've thought fairly deeply, at least, about Karl Marx.
00:48:13.940 And I see where he's coming from.
00:48:17.240 Ultimately, I think he basically sold his soul to the devil.
00:48:19.580 And his father also agreed with me on that.
00:48:21.760 But it's kind of like the IQ bell curve meme.
00:48:27.000 It's like Marx is wrong.
00:48:31.320 But you want to understand why Marx is wrong.
00:48:36.300 Like, it's not, like, Marx isn't just wrong because he wants to take your house away from you and because there isn't food at the grocery store.
00:48:42.600 He's wrong because he's in rebellion against God.
00:48:45.020 And you have to, it actually, it deepens your convictions to engage seriously with what he's saying.
00:48:50.520 And anyway, the film does that very, very well.
00:48:53.880 It's in theaters tomorrow.
00:48:55.860 Where can people get tickets and then when can they see it?
00:48:58.060 If it's not near a theater, in a theater near them, where can they see it on Daily Wire?
00:49:01.300 so if you're a member if you're an all-access member then you get one free ticket and then
00:49:05.820 you can get additional tickets from members of your family i think we're almost sold out at this
00:49:09.220 point it's in 100 theaters one time only on november 11th and so you can go check that out
00:49:13.800 at dailywire.com otherwise you should just subscribe and then you can stream it at daily
00:49:17.440 wire uh you know obviously i think that it's um it's a project that i think everyone at daily
00:49:22.880 not just i but i think enormous number of people are proud to be associated with and michael you've
00:49:27.240 seen it you've seen a lot of our other entertainment projects so i think you can speak better to this
00:49:30.580 than I can, because you've given your honest opinion of a wide variety of entertainment
00:49:34.980 projects we've put out before. I think it is fair to say this is easily the best thing that we've
00:49:37.960 ever put out on the entertainment side. Yes, there's no question. Other than the scene starring
00:49:41.420 that news anchor in Lady Ballers, which I thought was the single best piece that we've ever put,
00:49:45.680 the guy with the mustache. Other than that, other than that one scene, it's just marvelous. And it's
00:49:50.820 different too, is the other thing. It's not, you know, there are all sorts of great products we
00:49:55.300 should put out. The documentaries, conservatives love documentaries, and that's great. We should
00:49:58.400 put out more documentaries and comedy and this and that and the other thing. But this is a very
00:50:05.340 specific type of very thoughtful film that is kind of like watching a play. It's a throwback
00:50:11.060 to older kind of films that will not only make you think about things, but it will make you see.
00:50:16.080 It will make you see things differently. I remember Joseph Conrad's take on art,
00:50:19.560 very similar to that. So anyway, do it. I said there would be no more praise. That's it. I've
00:50:25.340 Put an end to it.
00:50:26.120 No more, but you have to go see it in the meantime
00:50:27.920 in theaters tomorrow and then on Daily Wire Plus.
00:50:31.940 Ben, good to see you.
00:50:33.740 See you later.
00:50:34.780 You too.
00:50:35.400 I'd see it.
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00:50:55.340 Father, I used to feel Christ.
00:51:01.140 I cannot feel anything here.
00:51:14.100 They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
00:51:19.100 What have I done?
00:51:20.060 Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity.
00:51:23.540 That is all I know.
00:51:24.580 They have to deal with so many enemies of the state,
00:51:28.580 all of whom claim their innocence, who protest, who cry.
00:51:39.580 There are no answers here.
00:51:43.580 Other than the ones they put in your mouth.
00:51:45.580 You'll break.
00:51:48.580 Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
00:51:54.580 I'd like to know why I'm here.
00:51:57.580 Of course.
00:52:00.580 But you're already now, don't you?
00:52:02.580 You must believe in something greater than the party.
00:52:06.580 You will remember your duty.
00:52:08.580 I've told you I know nothing.
00:52:10.580 Lay ground like a feral animal. 1.00
00:52:13.580 You stink of failure! 1.00
00:52:15.580 You want me to lie. 1.00
00:52:17.580 Still a drunk! 1.00
00:52:18.580 Damn you! 1.00
00:52:21.580 They all break. 1.00
00:52:24.580 Baby.