The Michael Knowles Show - September 25, 2018


Ep. 223 - Trump’s Moral Clarity At The UN


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Trump's speech to the United Nation's General Assembly is one of the best I've ever seen, and it's not even close to being one of my favorite speeches of all time. I'm not even joking when I say that.

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00:00:37.780 That bumbling nincompoop, Donald Trump, who's a total rube and doesn't know anything and only accidentally became president anyway,
00:00:45.000 just gave one of the top 10 speeches in presidential history at the United Nations.
00:00:49.160 We will analyze the Donald's moral clarity.
00:00:51.640 Then, Brett Kavanaugh is guilty until proven innocent.
00:00:54.240 Michael Moore's movie Bombs, Cruz gets run out of a restaurant, and the GOP is more popular than it's been in years.
00:01:00.260 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:09.480 Oh, do we have a lot to get to today.
00:01:11.680 Oh, is this just superb.
00:01:14.460 I was up, you know, this speech wasn't that long ago.
00:01:18.400 I watched the whole thing.
00:01:19.380 I'm going to go through it.
00:01:20.320 If you haven't seen it, we will go through it point by point.
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00:03:01.760 President Trump at the United Nations General Assembly.
00:03:06.000 I really, I know that people say that he is stupid.
00:03:10.380 Even people on the right say this, that he's stupid, that he's a bumbling idiot.
00:03:13.340 He just gets lucky or whatever.
00:03:16.020 Maybe he's stupid.
00:03:17.280 But the only argument against that is that he just keeps getting everything right.
00:03:22.220 This speech was flawless.
00:03:25.480 And you know how you know that is they laughed at him and they mocked him and they jeered him.
00:03:29.500 And he even joked about it.
00:03:30.780 Here is President Trump getting laughed at at the U.N.
00:03:33.160 My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.
00:03:43.120 America is so true.
00:03:50.440 Didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay.
00:03:52.900 So he says, my administration has accomplished more than almost any other administration.
00:04:01.720 Which is true.
00:04:02.920 I mean, he had very low expectations to begin with.
00:04:05.500 But everything has gotten better under his watch and in some cases better at record highs.
00:04:10.540 Joblessness, the stock market, foreign affairs have been handled very ably.
00:04:15.820 Protection of rights, expansion of freedom, deregulation.
00:04:18.180 It's all going really, really well.
00:04:19.240 But they laugh at him.
00:04:20.000 Now, I was very impressed with President Covfefe here.
00:04:23.380 Because typical President Covfefe would just like, he would just turn around and moon the entire audience.
00:04:29.760 He'd say like, screw you guys.
00:04:31.220 Who cares what you think?
00:04:32.100 But he actually handled it with a little bit of charm.
00:04:34.240 He said, oh, okay.
00:04:35.320 Didn't think I'd get that reaction here.
00:04:36.980 That's okay.
00:04:37.780 And then he launches into this speech.
00:04:40.180 I don't know who wrote this speech.
00:04:41.280 I suppose it could have been Stephen Miller.
00:04:42.720 Apparently he writes a lot of these great speeches.
00:04:44.780 Whoever it was deserves an award.
00:04:46.680 It got everything exactly right.
00:04:50.160 The diction was beautiful.
00:04:51.840 The priority of the prioritization of policy was beautiful.
00:04:55.820 It just struck all the right notes at all the right times.
00:04:59.140 So let's get into it.
00:05:00.320 Here is President Trump on global governance to the UN itself.
00:05:04.520 Each of us here today is the emissary of a distinct culture, a rich history, and a people bound together by ties of memory, tradition, and the values that make our homelands like nowhere else on earth.
00:05:24.080 That is why America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control, and domination.
00:05:35.600 I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions.
00:05:43.100 The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship.
00:05:49.080 We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.
00:05:55.200 From Warsaw to Brussels to Tokyo to Singapore, it has been my highest honor to represent the United States abroad.
00:06:06.780 You hear that.
00:06:07.940 You hear they're not laughing now.
00:06:09.700 They were just laughing, oh, ha, ha, ha, oh, Donald, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:06:13.320 But they're not laughing now.
00:06:14.560 The first thing I want to point out, because a lot of people on Twitter, all the headlines, all the news headlines are,
00:06:20.660 President Trump gets laughed at at the United Nations.
00:06:23.820 And they say, this is so embarrassing.
00:06:25.740 Consider who's laughing.
00:06:27.640 Consider the people who are laughing.
00:06:29.740 First of all, some of the most horrific countries on earth, Venezuela, Iran, those guys are laughing. 1.00
00:06:34.220 Okay, they're laughing, ha, ha, ha.
00:06:35.700 Who else is laughing?
00:06:36.860 People in the European Union.
00:06:38.580 People whose defense we pay for.
00:06:40.960 People that we're defending.
00:06:41.980 Who else is laughing?
00:06:42.680 People that we give money to in foreign aid.
00:06:45.900 Who else is laughing?
00:06:46.820 People who would take away the rights of their citizens and of citizens around the world to govern themselves.
00:06:52.960 That's who's laughing.
00:06:54.220 Great.
00:06:54.700 I hope those guys would laugh at me.
00:06:57.400 I really hope they'll laugh at me.
00:06:58.840 And they're not laughing now.
00:07:00.380 When he gets into this, they're not laughing.
00:07:02.220 This isn't going to be some fluffy, eccentric speech.
00:07:04.580 He is laying this out very clearly.
00:07:06.320 The United States will resist global governance by bodies specifically like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.
00:07:15.840 And, you know, there is a movement right now around the world, especially in Europe, to pull away from these supranational institutions and organizations that take away people's rights to govern themselves.
00:07:28.320 Trump isn't using Trumpy language here.
00:07:30.140 He's not using colorful language.
00:07:31.400 He is getting right to the heart of it.
00:07:33.180 And they are listening.
00:07:34.980 So he talks about the global governance.
00:07:37.400 He stands up and, for all intents and purposes, says the U.N. is a dystopian fantasy.
00:07:42.480 And not that it's a wonderful, great, nice dream idea.
00:07:45.720 That it's a bad fantasy because it takes away the rights of people to govern themselves.
00:07:49.680 And he has the courage to go to the U.N. and say, for all intents and purposes, we oppose you.
00:07:55.640 And then he gets into specifics because the way that this point of view is caricatured is that, oh, he's an isolationist.
00:08:03.400 The U.S. is going to retreat.
00:08:05.180 It's going to ignore the international community. 0.97
00:08:07.780 The rest of the world is going to go forward.
00:08:09.360 We're going to say, no, no, no.
00:08:10.320 We're going to allow atrocities to happen.
00:08:11.820 But this view, the view of this administration, whether it's Trump's view or not, it is now because he's articulating it, is that we, it's much more nuanced than that.
00:08:22.840 Here, I'll let him explain it.
00:08:24.860 In this vein, we urge the United Nations-led peace process be reinvigorated.
00:08:31.880 But rest assured, the United States will respond if chemical weapons are deployed by the Assad regime. 0.51
00:08:41.820 You hear that.
00:08:44.400 It's not they can do whatever they want.
00:08:46.180 Oh, let Russia do whatever they want. 0.95
00:08:47.500 Oh, let Assad do whatever they want.
00:08:49.040 No.
00:08:49.780 It isn't that.
00:08:50.900 He's saying the peace process in the U.N. wants to keep going on.
00:08:53.720 That's what we won't interfere with that.
00:08:55.380 We're not going to make it our national priority to rebuild a country in Syria or to institute regime change or to do any of these pie-in-the-sky Wilsonian endeavors in Syria.
00:09:09.680 But there is a moral minimum.
00:09:11.820 He said, look, you don't have to choose between total isolation and nation-building.
00:09:16.880 You can have a moral minimum here which says, we're going to let this keep going on.
00:09:21.700 We're going to not impose, entirely impose from right above Western liberal democracy on Syria.
00:09:28.300 But, but, if the regime in Syria uses chemical weapons in violation of international treaties, like a butcher in a bloodbath, we will intervene.
00:09:41.500 We will intervene.
00:09:42.980 We're not trying to intervene, but if you make us intervene, we will.
00:09:45.440 We will insist upon a moral minimum in the international order.
00:09:49.280 If you don't meet that moral minimum, we will take your country away.
00:09:52.340 It will at least hit you pretty hard.
00:09:54.480 If you do meet that moral minimum, you can govern yourself in peace, unmolested by us.
00:09:59.200 This is a nuanced view, and this is the steel man.
00:10:01.720 This is the serious view that Trump's critics on the left and the right, the Wilsonians and the isolationists, won't acknowledge, 0.90
00:10:08.260 which is that there is a middle ground that respects the sovereignty of nations.
00:10:13.780 Then, he goes on into the refugees, and this is where, this is where demagogues also on the left and the right want to hit him,
00:10:21.540 and this is where the nuance of this position is so clear.
00:10:25.840 I commend the people of Jordan and other neighboring countries for hosting refugees from this very brutal civil war.
00:10:36.480 As we see in Jordan, the most compassionate policy is to place refugees as close to their homes as possible 1.00
00:10:46.880 to ease their eventual return to be part of the rebuilding process.
00:10:54.660 This approach also stretches finite resources to help far more people, increasing the impact of every dollar spent.
00:11:03.460 Notice the language.
00:11:06.840 We appreciate people who are taking in refugees in neighboring countries, countries like Jordan or wherever,
00:11:13.720 because this issue gets demagogued.
00:11:15.920 They say, oh, if Europe will not allow itself to be flooded by young Muslim men from failed states 1.00
00:11:22.100 who haven't been vetted from Syria, from Afghanistan, from wherever,
00:11:27.520 then if you don't allow that, then you're not compassionate, then you're wicked, then you're evil,
00:11:32.160 you're un-Christian, you're un-Western, you're un-liberal, you're on this, you're that, you're this or that.
00:11:38.100 Same thing in the United States.
00:11:39.540 Barack Obama wanted to flood the country with refugees from Syria.
00:11:43.920 We said, why do they have to come here?
00:11:45.460 Why on earth would they go from Syria, pass through all the neighboring countries, 0.99
00:11:49.840 get into Eastern Europe, Western Europe, cross the Atlantic Ocean, go to the United States?
00:11:54.020 How is that the solution?
00:11:55.580 How are you un-Christian if you think that maybe that's not the most efficient way to care for these people?
00:12:00.660 Why? But there are vested political interests in making that happen.
00:12:05.460 There are vested political interests by the left, by the advocates of World Federation,
00:12:10.300 by the advocates of global governing bodies like the United Nations,
00:12:13.900 who want that to happen because they want to erase, for all intents and purposes, national boundaries.
00:12:19.760 President Trump is saying, no, I'm not going to let you call me anti-refugee or anti-compassionate or whatever.
00:12:26.040 However, I think that these people should be taken care of.
00:12:29.060 We should support efforts to take care of them.
00:12:31.460 But it doesn't mean they have to flood countries that are thousands and thousands and thousands of miles away.
00:12:37.780 It doesn't make any sense.
00:12:39.020 And he makes a good point there at the end.
00:12:40.300 He said there's nothing efficient about that.
00:12:41.980 If we want our dollars, our charity dollars, to go as far as they can, help as many people as they can,
00:12:47.020 why would we be flying all of these people over to the United States or going, you know, thousands of miles through Europe
00:12:55.180 when we could help them in neighboring countries?
00:12:57.380 And then he strikes that point home.
00:12:59.220 He says they need to be in those neighboring countries so that they can rebuild their country when the civil war is over.
00:13:04.260 And he's calling their bluff because all the pro-immigration, pro-refugee people say,
00:13:09.940 look, where else are they going to?
00:13:11.580 Their countries are under attack.
00:13:13.320 They just need it.
00:13:13.860 They're refugees.
00:13:14.400 They just need a temporary place to go.
00:13:16.900 Well, okay, but if they're going to go to a temporary place, why bring them to America? 0.97
00:13:20.900 It's much harder to get back.
00:13:22.740 Of course, what their real purpose is is to bring them all to the West, bring them all to the United States, 1.00
00:13:27.520 have them become American citizens in large numbers, and disregard the will of the American people,
00:13:34.780 whether or not they want that many refugees, that many unfetted people, 1.00
00:13:38.100 that culture that comes from a war-torn area to come to the United States.
00:13:41.480 Oh, you can't do that.
00:13:42.400 And they demagogue on the issue, and they say, if you don't permit that,
00:13:46.140 then you're not living up to your own values, which nobody else lives up to, but also you're un-Christian, 0.85
00:13:53.540 those values that undergird our civilization.
00:13:56.800 You know, cardinals, bishops have said this.
00:14:00.280 You have to welcome all of the refugees.
00:14:02.500 Welcome all of the refugees.
00:14:03.680 And President Trump is being very nuanced here.
00:14:06.420 He's saying, we would like to help them.
00:14:07.780 We want to help them in the way that is best suited for their interests and for their nations and for their countries.
00:14:14.140 And what does the left say to that?
00:14:15.760 They have nothing that they can say to that.
00:14:17.400 It totally exposes the lie, which is that it's not about helping refugees from a particular civil war.
00:14:24.060 It's about transforming the makeup of Western countries in the United States.
00:14:28.120 Then he gets into Iran.
00:14:32.500 Now, you know, Barack Obama made Iran the pinnacle of his foreign policy.
00:14:37.240 He was willing to give away everything he had and a lot of things that he didn't have to secure the Iran deal,
00:14:43.720 which for all intents and purposes put Iran on the path to get a nuclear weapon.
00:14:48.320 President Trump singles out Iran.
00:14:50.500 But the reason he singles out Iran is not just because they're bad guys, although they are bad guys. 0.99
00:14:54.420 It has everything to do with the nation state, with nationalism, with the international order.
00:14:59.500 Here's him calling out Iran.
00:15:01.780 Every solution to the humanitarian crisis in Syria must also include a strategy to address the brutal regime that has fueled and financed it.
00:15:14.760 The corrupt dictatorship in Iran.
00:15:17.540 Iran, Iran's leaders, sow chaos, death, and destruction. 1.00
00:15:26.480 They do not respect their neighbors or borders or the sovereign rights of nations.
00:15:34.620 So listen to that.
00:15:35.880 They don't respect borders.
00:15:36.940 They don't respect the sovereign rights of nations.
00:15:38.540 He points out that they're bad guys and they're brutal and they're all of this.
00:15:41.660 But there are a lot of brutal regimes around the world.
00:15:43.860 There are plenty of brutal regimes.
00:15:45.080 And over the course of history, brutal regimes are the norm.
00:15:48.260 They're not the exception.
00:15:49.580 So what makes Iran so awful is that Iran undermines the international order and the system of nation states that we've had for 350 years. 0.99
00:15:57.700 Iran has always done this. 1.00
00:15:59.280 Since the Iranian revolution decades ago, they try to keep one foot in the international order and one foot out. 1.00
00:16:05.580 So they'll speak at the United Nations.
00:16:08.340 They'll send their heads of state to speak at Columbia University.
00:16:13.280 They have different agreements with other countries.
00:16:15.980 They'll sign on to fake treaties with the United States under Barack Obama.
00:16:19.380 They'll demand money.
00:16:20.260 They'll demand to be treated as though they're serious players in the international community.
00:16:24.240 And then they'll fund Hezbollah. 0.75
00:16:25.920 And then they'll fund Hamas. 0.83
00:16:26.820 And then they'll fund this.
00:16:27.360 And then they'll fund this.
00:16:27.940 And then they'll fund that.
00:16:28.460 And they'll fund terrorists all around the world.
00:16:29.880 The largest state sponsor of terror around the world.
00:16:34.000 Undermining the boundaries of other countries.
00:16:36.260 Really fighting with us during the Iraq war.
00:16:39.740 Why would we tolerate this?
00:16:41.180 Why could we tolerate this country having one foot in and one foot out?
00:16:44.880 Either you're in to the system of nations or you're out of it.
00:16:48.600 We've had the system of nations now for 350 years.
00:16:51.040 We'll explain that and explain why it's so important in a second.
00:16:54.180 Because President Trump concludes his speech with a rousing call to defend it.
00:16:57.800 But even institutions like the United Nations in many ways undermine this.
00:17:01.920 By tolerating countries like Iran. 1.00
00:17:04.760 By tolerating supranational institutions that remove the sovereignty of independent nations.
00:17:09.620 So he's calling them out for that.
00:17:11.140 People shouldn't get confused.
00:17:12.540 He's talking about Syria.
00:17:14.100 And he says, you know, you better watch out Assad.
00:17:16.320 Because we'll get you if you'd cross a line.
00:17:18.480 But he really singles out Iran as being wrong per se.
00:17:22.120 As being unfit for the world order per se.
00:17:24.580 And it's because of how they behave with regard to nationalism.
00:17:29.060 Then, lest you think that he's only beating up on foreign affairs in the Middle East.
00:17:33.120 Only tackling the most complex issues of the last decades.
00:17:36.000 Then he defends his stance on trade.
00:17:38.220 And I hope that conservatives listen to this.
00:17:39.900 For decades, the United States opened its economy.
00:17:45.380 The largest by far on earth with few conditions.
00:17:50.520 We allowed foreign goods from all over the world to flow freely across our borders.
00:17:57.260 Yet, other countries did not grant us fair and reciprocal access to their markets in return.
00:18:05.740 Even worse, some countries abused their openness to dump their products.
00:18:13.480 Subsidize their goods.
00:18:15.120 Target our industries.
00:18:17.600 And manipulate their currencies to gain unfair advantage over our country.
00:18:24.200 Beautiful.
00:18:26.340 Because a lot of conservatives now are saying Donald Trump is anti-free trade.
00:18:31.540 There's nothing in that statement that makes him sound anti-free trade.
00:18:35.040 He's not saying that the problem was that we opened up our markets to foreign goods.
00:18:40.780 He's saying the problem is we didn't get their markets in return.
00:18:43.840 Which is what people who have been defending this policy of threatening tariffs have been saying for a while.
00:18:51.180 Which is that this is, we never had free trade.
00:18:53.860 We never had really free trade before.
00:18:56.580 Free trade is a wonderful thing.
00:18:58.280 But people are not playing by the rules.
00:18:59.900 Just to take China alone, they steal our intellectual property. 0.98
00:19:03.040 They manipulate their currency.
00:19:05.440 And this is not something that Donald Trump just started talking about.
00:19:08.300 I was on John Huntsman's campaign in the early days of that campaign in 2012.
00:19:12.640 And he was a hardliner.
00:19:14.380 He was running in many ways like a Tea Party candidate.
00:19:16.300 And he was saying we need to force China, about which he knew a lot because he was the ambassador to China.
00:19:22.860 He said we need to force them to stop manipulating our currency and stealing our IP.
00:19:27.540 Now President Trump is actually following through on this, putting a lot of pressure on China.
00:19:32.540 And conservatives are attacking him.
00:19:34.160 But previously, before the Trump era, there was widespread agreement on this from virtually all flanks of the Republican Party.
00:19:41.240 From the conciliatory, nice tone, you know, more elite end of the party, all the way to the populist end.
00:19:48.000 There was a consensus that you need to force people to play fairly on trade.
00:19:52.360 Now they're attacking him as though he doesn't know anything about economics.
00:19:55.500 Though the strength of our economy right now would seem to suggest maybe those experts are the ones who are mistaken.
00:20:00.900 This is such an important point.
00:20:02.380 And it also points out that, first, the logic of the trade war and the trade threats should be simple to everyone.
00:20:11.440 But I will spell it out.
00:20:12.680 We say tariffs are always wrong.
00:20:13.860 Don't ever institute any tariffs.
00:20:15.160 Don't ever retaliate against tariffs.
00:20:16.980 One of the main arguments against tariffs is that they will start a trade war.
00:20:21.720 But why will they start a trade war?
00:20:23.220 Because it is expected that rational nations, when they have tariffs imposed on them,
00:20:27.700 when they have unfair trade conditions imposed on them, will respond in kind.
00:20:31.240 But if tariffs are always, in every case, there's no use for even threatening tariffs,
00:20:36.460 then why would that be the case?
00:20:37.880 The argument for tariffs, or the argument rather against tariffs,
00:20:41.900 undermines the argument against threatening tariffs or against trying to play fairly.
00:20:46.260 And the way he articulated that is beautiful.
00:20:48.360 He didn't get up and say, we're never doing trade with any other countries.
00:20:51.820 We're making everything here.
00:20:53.220 Screw you, rest of the world.
00:20:54.260 He didn't say that at all.
00:20:55.500 He said, you've got to play fair.
00:20:56.560 And he said it right to their face, right in the General Assembly.
00:21:01.260 Then we move on to the John Bolton of it all.
00:21:03.960 I was waiting for President Trump to rip his mask off,
00:21:06.480 show that giant walrus mustache,
00:21:09.500 and, you know, put the glasses on and the big glass ring,
00:21:12.600 and just have John Bolton screaming at them,
00:21:14.940 did you miss me, boys?
00:21:16.120 Did you miss me?
00:21:16.920 It's been a while, huh?
00:21:18.020 He takes on the International Criminal Court.
00:21:20.620 Here it is.
00:21:21.020 For similar reasons, the United States will provide no support and recognition to the International Criminal Court.
00:21:30.820 As far as America is concerned, the ICC has no jurisdiction,
00:21:35.640 no legitimacy, and no authority.
00:21:38.780 The ICC claims near universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country,
00:21:47.200 violating all principles of justice, fairness, and due process.
00:21:51.420 We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy.
00:22:01.160 America is governed by Americans.
00:22:04.600 We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.
00:22:13.520 Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty,
00:22:19.400 not just from global governments,
00:22:24.060 but also from other new forms of coercion and domination.
00:22:29.500 Beautiful.
00:22:30.860 What this does,
00:22:33.120 the United States didn't have to articulate this policy.
00:22:36.300 John Bolton articulated it,
00:22:38.160 and spelled out what the State Department was going to do about it.
00:22:41.280 A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society,
00:22:42.920 he said the ICC is dead,
00:22:44.260 the International Criminal Court,
00:22:45.740 which is going to go in and try to prosecute American soldiers.
00:22:48.340 They're dead to us.
00:22:49.560 We will take every action against them that we have to take.
00:22:52.560 But President Trump chose to underline this today at the UN.
00:22:57.060 That's beautiful,
00:22:57.780 because it means that it has the support,
00:22:59.520 not just of the wonks and the State Department, whatever.
00:23:02.100 It has the full support of the President of the United States.
00:23:04.820 It's the official policy of the President.
00:23:06.900 George Bush, when he was President,
00:23:09.520 talked about this as well,
00:23:11.080 pulled us out of talks for the ICC,
00:23:13.860 and Donald Trump is underlining that beautiful thing.
00:23:16.200 And he says,
00:23:17.580 we will pursue a policy of patriotism.
00:23:19.860 We will not submit to this.
00:23:21.720 Submit is the key word,
00:23:23.240 because I think a lot of people on the left,
00:23:25.500 they think,
00:23:25.880 oh, the ICC sounds great.
00:23:27.740 Oh, there's an international, 0.83
00:23:29.900 supranational body hovering above us all,
00:23:32.540 and they're going to hold everyone to justice,
00:23:34.340 all the bad guys around the world.
00:23:35.800 Why wouldn't we support that?
00:23:37.180 The United Nations.
00:23:38.600 It's united.
00:23:39.940 It's united.
00:23:40.720 Why would you want?
00:23:41.160 You want to be divisive?
00:23:43.160 You want to be the divisive nations?
00:23:45.180 Oh, it's so nice.
00:23:46.400 Oh, the European Union,
00:23:48.000 their union.
00:23:48.880 Oh, yeah.
00:23:51.080 To whom are these international organizations accountable?
00:23:55.600 To whom?
00:23:56.680 To you, the voters?
00:23:57.740 To you, Americans?
00:23:59.460 To you, the people who hold our values
00:24:01.580 and have our culture
00:24:02.600 and believe what we believe?
00:24:04.720 Or are they responsible to Venezuela?
00:24:06.620 Are they responsible to North Korea?
00:24:08.120 Are they responsible to Iran?
00:24:09.500 Or are they responsible?
00:24:10.780 To whom are they responsible?
00:24:12.620 To what ideas?
00:24:13.460 You know, different countries have different ideas.
00:24:15.160 Different cultures have different ideas.
00:24:16.900 Which ideas are going to govern them?
00:24:19.220 And what recourse will you have against them
00:24:21.840 if they start treating you unfairly,
00:24:24.140 if they start targeting you,
00:24:25.160 if they start oppressing you?
00:24:26.400 No recourse whatsoever.
00:24:28.100 Who votes for the United Nations?
00:24:30.540 Do you get to vote?
00:24:31.240 You don't get to vote.
00:24:32.140 No.
00:24:32.920 Absolutely not.
00:24:34.280 But we demand as citizens of this country
00:24:36.940 that we have the right to govern ourselves.
00:24:39.060 That's how we run our country.
00:24:40.840 That's the way it is.
00:24:42.600 Donald Trump is underlining that
00:24:44.260 and he's exposing the shallow saccharine sentimentality
00:24:47.480 of these international bodies for what it is.
00:24:50.340 Then he gets to the heart of it.
00:24:51.860 One of the main central issues of his campaign
00:24:54.880 and one of the central issues
00:24:56.940 pushed by the pro-international,
00:24:59.560 pro-imperial bodies like the United Nations.
00:25:02.900 Immigration.
00:25:03.340 We recognize the right of every nation in this room
00:25:07.860 to set its own immigration policy
00:25:10.380 in accordance with its national interests.
00:25:13.740 Just as we ask other countries
00:25:15.780 to respect our own right to do the same,
00:25:18.820 which we are doing.
00:25:21.160 That is one reason the United States
00:25:23.080 will not participate
00:25:24.200 in the new global compact on migration.
00:25:28.100 Migration.
00:25:29.320 Migration should not be governed 1.00
00:25:31.180 by an international body
00:25:33.060 unaccountable to our own citizens.
00:25:38.400 Absolutely right.
00:25:39.460 Because if immigration is governed by that, 0.88
00:25:41.260 then you don't have a country.
00:25:42.420 Because the point of immigration 1.00
00:25:44.380 in self-governing countries
00:25:45.580 and democratic republics such as we have
00:25:47.560 is that they make the laws.
00:25:49.760 So the country who controls immigration 0.93
00:25:51.300 for a democratic republic controls the country.
00:25:53.660 That's how it works.
00:25:54.340 You flood it with enough people
00:25:55.920 who think a certain way,
00:25:57.060 they're going to elect a government
00:25:58.560 and you don't have any power.
00:26:00.140 That's the way it is.
00:26:01.940 Maybe you'll get lucky,
00:26:02.900 maybe they'll all start voting for republicans,
00:26:04.920 but maybe they won't.
00:26:06.280 And very likely any immigration policy
00:26:08.480 that would affect that
00:26:09.840 probably won't happen.
00:26:11.940 As a Catholic,
00:26:13.220 this does present an interesting point,
00:26:16.140 which is that the system of nations,
00:26:18.160 the Westphalian system,
00:26:19.320 is largely a product of Protestants.
00:26:21.420 It happened at the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648
00:26:23.860 because the Catholics could not reclaim empire,
00:26:27.440 the Spanish Empire,
00:26:28.720 the Holy Roman Empire.
00:26:29.680 They couldn't reclaim it.
00:26:30.800 Ironically, it was affected
00:26:31.980 by Catholic Cardinal Richelieu of France.
00:26:34.820 In many ways,
00:26:35.820 he was the guy who ensured
00:26:37.820 that six or seven years after his death,
00:26:40.920 the Westphalian system would go into place.
00:26:42.900 But now we find ourselves defending that system.
00:26:46.000 Why is that?
00:26:46.860 Because who are these empires accountable to?
00:26:49.600 If they were accountable to God,
00:26:51.200 if they were Catholic empires,
00:26:52.660 that were accountable to God himself,
00:26:54.700 maybe I could get behind it.
00:26:56.080 But to whom is the UN
00:26:57.100 looking for spiritual
00:26:59.300 and political and moral guidance?
00:27:01.520 God only knows.
00:27:02.660 God help us if we get that answer.
00:27:04.360 Or the International Criminal Court,
00:27:06.040 or wherever.
00:27:06.560 You can't trust any of these
00:27:07.940 international bodies.
00:27:09.340 Trump says that exactly right.
00:27:11.240 And if you control immigration,
00:27:13.380 if an outside force controls immigration
00:27:15.420 into a country,
00:27:16.320 it controls the country.
00:27:17.960 As long as that country holds Western values,
00:27:19.960 which coincidentally all of our countries do.
00:27:23.060 Then he hits Venezuela specifically,
00:27:24.780 just to remind you that a lot of people in this room
00:27:26.820 are dirty, rotten scoundrels.
00:27:29.820 Currently, we are witnessing
00:27:31.920 a human tragedy,
00:27:35.240 as an example,
00:27:37.260 in Venezuela.
00:27:40.300 More than two million people
00:27:42.260 have fled the anguish inflicted
00:27:44.320 by the socialist Maduro regime
00:27:47.420 and its Cuban sponsors.
00:27:50.760 Not long ago,
00:27:51.820 Venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth.
00:27:56.460 Today, socialism
00:27:57.760 has bankrupted the oil-rich nation
00:28:01.020 and driven its people
00:28:03.500 into abject poverty.
00:28:07.520 Virtually everywhere
00:28:10.060 socialism or communism
00:28:11.940 has been tried.
00:28:14.000 It has produced suffering,
00:28:15.780 corruption, and decay.
00:28:18.920 Socialism's thirst for power
00:28:20.580 leads to expansion,
00:28:23.660 incursion, and oppression.
00:28:26.500 All nations of the world
00:28:28.180 should resist socialism
00:28:29.880 and the misery
00:28:31.880 that it brings to everyone.
00:28:34.940 I don't think Trump's
00:28:36.700 a real conservative, do you?
00:28:38.220 I don't think.
00:28:38.780 He's not a real conservative.
00:28:40.000 He's like a big lefty.
00:28:41.180 He's not a real conservative.
00:28:42.380 I mean, he just gave a speech
00:28:43.360 that would make Ronald Reagan blush, 0.88
00:28:45.020 but he's probably not a real conservative.
00:28:47.260 I wish that they could cut for reaction
00:28:49.440 to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
00:28:52.020 when he just goes after socialism.
00:28:54.300 And make no mistake,
00:28:55.360 he's hitting socialism abroad,
00:28:57.320 he's hitting Venezuela,
00:28:58.180 he's hitting these awful socialist countries,
00:29:00.160 but he is hitting the Democrats
00:29:01.340 who have embraced socialism,
00:29:03.160 who are running over 40 candidates
00:29:05.520 formally identified
00:29:07.060 with the Democratic Socialists
00:29:08.560 of America this year.
00:29:10.220 And he's saying socialism is misery.
00:29:12.260 It's awful.
00:29:13.040 Cut to Ocasio-Cortez.
00:29:14.420 Like, I'm not the expert.
00:29:15.600 I'm not really the expert on any,
00:29:17.040 I know you're not the expert.
00:29:18.140 So he hits socialism really hard
00:29:19.940 because it's awful.
00:29:21.060 It's terrible.
00:29:22.020 National socialism is awful.
00:29:23.660 You know, the Nazis. 0.84
00:29:24.880 International socialism is awful.
00:29:26.520 The USSR. 0.74
00:29:28.680 And democratic socialism is awful.
00:29:31.520 It's insidious.
00:29:32.260 Yes, it's evil.
00:29:33.160 There's no argument for it.
00:29:34.640 It's very bad.
00:29:35.640 It's a little slower.
00:29:36.760 It's more gradual.
00:29:37.620 It's more pernicious.
00:29:38.620 It doesn't seem as awful up front.
00:29:40.540 But it is the exact same poison.
00:29:43.460 The gospel of envy,
00:29:45.320 the philosophy of failure,
00:29:46.760 as Winston Churchill said,
00:29:48.300 just terrible.
00:29:49.740 Why is that?
00:29:50.900 Because eventually
00:29:51.720 it's a contradiction in terms.
00:29:53.700 The reason that it's a,
00:29:54.620 it's not,
00:29:55.140 it's certainly the case
00:29:56.020 that you can elect socialists.
00:29:57.440 You can elect as a free people
00:29:59.360 to have socialist programs,
00:30:02.380 to have an ever-increasing government
00:30:04.380 controlling more and more
00:30:05.180 of your lives.
00:30:05.920 But you can't remain democratic
00:30:07.260 for very long
00:30:08.040 because of a problem
00:30:10.120 of human nature,
00:30:10.960 which is
00:30:11.320 the more power you give
00:30:13.980 to these corrupt institutions,
00:30:16.000 the less recourse
00:30:17.120 you're going to have.
00:30:17.640 A government that's big enough
00:30:18.560 to give you everything you want
00:30:19.640 is big enough
00:30:20.380 to take away
00:30:20.960 everything that you have.
00:30:22.420 This has always been the case.
00:30:24.140 Socialism has failed
00:30:25.260 and bred misery and slavery
00:30:26.800 everywhere that it's been tried.
00:30:28.740 In some cases,
00:30:29.420 that has progressed more slowly.
00:30:30.820 In some cases,
00:30:31.520 it's been very, very fast.
00:30:32.980 But we've seen it everywhere.
00:30:34.580 The American left
00:30:35.220 has never apologized for it.
00:30:36.860 They continue to embrace it
00:30:38.120 and Trump is smacking it down.
00:30:39.700 It's beautiful and delightful.
00:30:41.880 Finally, he brings it home
00:30:43.320 with a note on patriotism
00:30:45.760 that is very beautiful.
00:30:46.980 Donald, take us home.
00:30:49.020 We must defend the foundations
00:30:51.220 that make it all possible.
00:30:53.800 Sovereign and independent nations 0.79
00:30:56.300 are the only vehicle
00:30:57.760 where freedom has ever survived.
00:31:01.180 Democracy has ever endured.
00:31:04.560 Where peace has ever prospered.
00:31:09.100 And so we must protect
00:31:10.700 our sovereignty
00:31:11.460 and our cherished independence
00:31:14.420 above all.
00:31:17.420 Absolutely beautiful.
00:31:19.620 I have one little criticism
00:31:21.400 of that bit,
00:31:22.020 which is he talks about
00:31:23.120 peace prospering
00:31:24.560 only in the nation states.
00:31:27.260 He's half right,
00:31:28.280 but he's half wrong.
00:31:29.380 Because there has been peace before.
00:31:31.500 You can have,
00:31:31.920 as Ronald Reagan said,
00:31:32.740 you can have peace in two seconds,
00:31:34.440 which is to say the word,
00:31:36.100 I surrender.
00:31:37.060 If you say,
00:31:37.440 I surrender,
00:31:37.900 you'll get peace in two seconds.
00:31:39.580 Slavery is peace.
00:31:40.580 It's peaceful for a little bit.
00:31:42.620 There was peace
00:31:43.260 in the Roman Empire.
00:31:44.240 There have been peace
00:31:44.760 in other empires.
00:31:45.920 Peace in parts
00:31:46.580 of the British Empire.
00:31:47.440 There have been a lot
00:31:48.200 of empires in the world.
00:31:50.080 Since antiquity,
00:31:51.220 the natural inclination
00:31:52.760 of man is empire.
00:31:54.800 As Yoram Hazani,
00:31:55.940 who we had on the show
00:31:56.640 a couple weeks ago,
00:31:57.260 talks about,
00:31:58.480 the Bible calls out
00:31:59.980 the nation of Israel
00:32:01.140 to be a nation
00:32:01.920 and to be a light
00:32:02.640 to other nations.
00:32:03.880 God speaks to Israel,
00:32:04.900 says be a nation.
00:32:05.580 Don't be an empire.
00:32:06.260 Be a nation.
00:32:07.500 We are a nation.
00:32:08.700 The modern system
00:32:09.580 of the world
00:32:10.100 represents nation states.
00:32:13.480 And nations might not
00:32:16.700 always be totally peaceful,
00:32:18.540 but they will be free.
00:32:20.120 Now, President Trump,
00:32:20.880 look, it sounds nice
00:32:21.580 to say peace prospers.
00:32:22.720 And it is true, by the way.
00:32:23.840 If your government
00:32:24.360 is oppressing you,
00:32:25.620 there's a certain peace
00:32:26.560 to that,
00:32:26.880 but there's a certain
00:32:27.460 violence to that, too.
00:32:28.640 There's actually a certain
00:32:29.520 constant violence
00:32:30.360 to that, too.
00:32:31.020 But the speech
00:32:31.940 was superb.
00:32:33.460 The nation state
00:32:34.240 is the only vessel
00:32:35.300 for freedom and prosperity.
00:32:36.860 He's absolutely right.
00:32:38.180 It's true materially.
00:32:39.140 It's true spiritually.
00:32:39.960 It's true politically.
00:32:41.980 In this day and age,
00:32:44.260 perhaps at some other time,
00:32:46.060 the world wasn't
00:32:46.820 in that position.
00:32:47.860 But right now,
00:32:48.540 that is the case.
00:32:49.300 There is no good empire
00:32:50.820 to which I would give
00:32:51.660 my sovereignty.
00:32:52.720 A wonderful speech.
00:32:53.560 It's his best speech
00:32:54.540 since Warsaw.
00:32:55.680 That was another
00:32:56.200 wonderful speech of his
00:32:57.320 and probably written
00:32:58.680 by the same guy,
00:32:59.520 touched on a lot
00:33:00.100 of the same themes.
00:33:01.920 Really, really good.
00:33:02.880 He should give more of these.
00:33:04.240 Just excellent.
00:33:05.660 They say that he's
00:33:06.300 a nincompoop.
00:33:06.880 He doesn't read.
00:33:07.480 He doesn't know anything.
00:33:08.580 He talks about
00:33:09.280 Stormy Daniels.
00:33:10.200 He goes and sees
00:33:10.720 porn stories.
00:33:11.160 I don't care, Donald.
00:33:12.380 Take all the porn stories
00:33:13.240 you want.
00:33:13.620 If you give speeches
00:33:14.260 like that and you give it
00:33:15.460 to the rest of the world
00:33:16.160 like that and you defend
00:33:17.320 American freedom like that,
00:33:18.660 have them all.
00:33:19.320 Take every penthouse pet,
00:33:21.360 every playboy of the month.
00:33:22.440 I don't care.
00:33:23.440 Wonderful.
00:33:24.020 And the media are going
00:33:25.180 to report this
00:33:26.020 like a bunch of fools, 0.65
00:33:28.000 which is what they are.
00:33:29.040 They're going to say
00:33:29.520 he got laughed at.
00:33:30.240 That's going to be
00:33:30.620 the headline that you see.
00:33:31.720 But you saw that speech.
00:33:33.060 You heard those statements.
00:33:34.020 It's a beautiful thing.
00:33:34.840 It's what we stand for
00:33:35.520 as Americans.
00:33:36.440 And we should defend it
00:33:37.740 tooth and nail.
00:33:38.220 By the way,
00:33:39.320 at the end of that speech,
00:33:40.680 at the end of that speech,
00:33:41.820 I wish I had the clip,
00:33:42.740 he ends it by saying,
00:33:44.560 by thanking the glory
00:33:46.360 and goodness of God
00:33:48.300 and says to all,
00:33:49.640 in those words,
00:33:50.880 and then says to them,
00:33:51.840 God bless you all.
00:33:53.160 Because what he is saying
00:33:54.220 is that our system of nations,
00:33:56.880 our respect and desire
00:33:59.140 for human freedom
00:34:00.040 is based on the God
00:34:01.620 that created us.
00:34:02.440 And not just any vision of God,
00:34:04.500 not some little devil God
00:34:05.720 that some guy out there
00:34:06.540 believes in,
00:34:07.260 but the true,
00:34:08.200 the one and true God
00:34:09.260 on which this international order
00:34:10.840 is based.
00:34:11.840 Beautiful,
00:34:12.480 wonderful statement.
00:34:13.380 They say he's a lapsed Presbyterian
00:34:14.880 who doesn't go to church.
00:34:16.300 Doesn't really bother me.
00:34:17.580 Doesn't bother,
00:34:18.200 maybe it bothers him.
00:34:19.440 Maybe he should talk
00:34:20.040 to his God about that.
00:34:21.040 But if he is speaking
00:34:22.620 so bluntly,
00:34:23.560 so clearly,
00:34:24.340 and so precisely
00:34:26.400 about our nation states,
00:34:29.580 about our country,
00:34:30.740 about the values
00:34:31.620 that our country is based on
00:34:32.580 and the God
00:34:33.180 who gives us those values,
00:34:34.700 more power to him.
00:34:35.900 Wonderful speech.
00:34:36.740 We've got a lot more to get to.
00:34:37.680 Unfortunately,
00:34:38.040 I've got to say goodbye
00:34:38.660 to Facebook and YouTube.
00:34:39.920 Ironically,
00:34:40.360 it's National Voter Registration Day.
00:34:42.360 Give you some thoughts on that.
00:34:44.020 And I don't think it's ironic.
00:34:45.720 I guess it's coincidental
00:34:46.720 that President Trump
00:34:47.600 is defending the right of nations
00:34:48.960 to govern themselves.
00:34:50.760 Then we've got to talk
00:34:51.620 about Brett Kavanaugh
00:34:52.220 who's guilty until proven innocent.
00:34:53.760 We've got that wacko 0.67
00:34:54.880 from Hawaii,
00:34:55.740 Maisie Hirono.
00:34:56.980 Cruz gets run out of a restaurant
00:34:58.040 and some good news.
00:34:58.880 I'll leave you on some good news.
00:35:00.180 By the way,
00:35:00.720 I'm not going to be here tomorrow
00:35:01.580 folks.
00:35:01.940 I'm flying over to Ohio
00:35:03.300 to talk to all of the
00:35:04.820 brilliant students
00:35:05.900 at Franciscan
00:35:06.800 about the simple joys
00:35:08.080 of being right.
00:35:09.140 If you're in the area,
00:35:10.480 maybe I'll see you there.
00:35:11.320 If not,
00:35:11.840 hopefully we'll be able
00:35:12.580 to get it online
00:35:13.180 or something like that.
00:35:14.380 That's going to be
00:35:15.020 the first speech
00:35:16.380 in my Young America's
00:35:17.660 Foundation tour
00:35:18.460 Covfefe on Campus,
00:35:20.280 which is coming to a school
00:35:21.240 near you,
00:35:21.820 hopefully.
00:35:22.420 If you'd like to bring
00:35:24.000 a little covfefe
00:35:24.560 to your campus,
00:35:25.500 go to yaf.org
00:35:27.040 and you can request
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00:35:32.140 go do it.
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00:35:41.480 which I will be answering
00:35:42.540 coming up this week.
00:35:44.060 Get your questions in.
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00:36:13.800 It's National Voter
00:36:23.080 Registration Day.
00:36:24.140 This is a fake holiday
00:36:25.020 that was invented in 2012,
00:36:26.220 but it's a wonderful coincidence
00:36:27.960 because Trump just gave
00:36:28.900 an entire speech
00:36:29.740 about how you vote.
00:36:31.880 You get to determine
00:36:32.660 the course of your country
00:36:33.560 and some jokers
00:36:35.280 at The Hague
00:36:36.020 or in Brussels
00:36:36.880 or at the United Nations
00:36:38.460 don't get to do that for us.
00:36:40.060 I would like a little
00:36:40.940 public service announcement
00:36:42.080 for National Voter
00:36:43.280 Registration Day.
00:36:44.220 Please listen closely.
00:36:46.040 Well, if you're listening
00:36:46.740 to this show,
00:36:47.240 this won't be a problem,
00:36:48.080 but tell your friends.
00:36:49.660 If you do not know
00:36:51.840 anything about
00:36:52.500 or have any stake
00:36:53.640 in the history
00:36:54.300 or the government
00:36:55.080 or the public debates
00:36:56.680 of this country,
00:36:58.120 don't vote.
00:36:59.480 Don't vote.
00:37:00.220 Don't vote.
00:37:01.060 There's nothing good
00:37:01.840 about voting
00:37:02.320 if you don't know anything.
00:37:03.180 It's actually bad to vote
00:37:04.120 if you don't know anything.
00:37:05.360 Do not do it.
00:37:07.000 If you have no stake
00:37:07.880 in the country,
00:37:08.600 if you don't like the country,
00:37:09.740 if you don't like
00:37:10.300 your countrymen,
00:37:11.420 don't vote.
00:37:12.780 Don't vote.
00:37:13.420 That's a bad idea
00:37:13.960 to vote then.
00:37:14.880 Why would you remember
00:37:15.640 a few years ago
00:37:16.480 when Puff Daddy
00:37:17.440 did that campaign
00:37:18.400 of like,
00:37:19.500 vote or die
00:37:20.280 because I'm going to kill you
00:37:21.140 if you don't vote.
00:37:22.100 Don't worry.
00:37:23.120 He's old now.
00:37:24.140 He's not going to hurt you anymore.
00:37:25.940 Don't vote.
00:37:27.000 If you do know something,
00:37:28.300 go vote.
00:37:29.360 And don't forget, guys.
00:37:30.480 Don't forget.
00:37:34.160 Election Day is coming up.
00:37:35.840 Election Day is coming up
00:37:36.940 this November.
00:37:37.580 If you're a Republican,
00:37:39.000 Election Day is this November.
00:37:39.940 If you're a Democrat,
00:37:41.180 Election Day is in December.
00:37:42.760 So mark that on your calendar.
00:37:44.620 Circle December.
00:37:45.680 You say,
00:37:45.920 I've got to go vote in December.
00:37:47.220 I don't want to miss it.
00:37:48.460 And then close your ears for a second.
00:37:49.780 If you're a Republican,
00:37:50.840 it's in November.
00:37:52.340 It's,
00:37:53.500 don't listen to what I just said.
00:37:54.960 It's November.
00:37:56.800 Just a little PSA
00:37:57.880 for National Voter Registration Day.
00:37:59.500 Okay, Brett Kavanaugh,
00:38:00.340 that dirty, rotten,
00:38:01.680 murderous,
00:38:02.120 genocidal rapist maniac,
00:38:04.760 NBC told me,
00:38:06.020 is guilty until proven innocent.
00:38:08.160 So this is what
00:38:09.100 they've all been saying.
00:38:09.880 They've been saying
00:38:10.280 a bunch of,
00:38:11.420 not a bunch, really,
00:38:12.260 just a few,
00:38:13.500 of these Democratic activists
00:38:14.940 who say that
00:38:15.740 a guy who looked like
00:38:17.180 Brett Kavanaugh
00:38:17.960 walked by them in 1942.
00:38:21.420 They're saying that
00:38:22.240 he's unfit for the court
00:38:23.020 because of that.
00:38:24.020 The ones who are making
00:38:24.680 these absurd sexual allegations
00:38:26.240 that have no corroboration
00:38:27.500 whatsoever
00:38:28.080 that people who are
00:38:29.480 called witnesses in them
00:38:30.420 have denied
00:38:31.020 and said they don't exist.
00:38:32.780 The stories have been changing
00:38:33.920 year over year.
00:38:35.160 Women have been changing 1.00
00:38:36.220 their stories
00:38:36.600 coming out of the woodwork.
00:38:38.460 Brett Kavanaugh
00:38:39.000 has solid defenses
00:38:40.800 for all of these things.
00:38:42.780 The left is saying
00:38:43.460 he's guilty
00:38:43.860 until proven innocent.
00:38:44.760 Here is MSLSD.
00:38:46.840 Isn't that what Rush calls it?
00:38:48.380 No, he calls it PMSNBC.
00:38:50.200 That's even...
00:38:51.060 In any case, MSNBC
00:38:52.420 speaking to
00:38:53.280 the senator from Hawaii,
00:38:56.160 Maisie Hirono.
00:38:57.560 Here they are.
00:38:58.700 Do you believe that
00:38:59.480 Brett Kavanaugh
00:39:00.220 should deserve
00:39:01.000 or does deserve
00:39:02.180 the same presumption
00:39:03.120 of innocence?
00:39:03.660 And your response
00:39:04.380 was that you put his denial
00:39:05.740 in the context
00:39:06.260 of everything you know
00:39:07.100 about him in terms
00:39:07.760 of how he approaches
00:39:08.440 his cases.
00:39:09.080 I'm sure you're aware
00:39:09.820 that in conservative circles
00:39:11.540 there is some outrage,
00:39:13.220 some anger at your comment.
00:39:14.660 Listen to that.
00:39:15.400 Did you hear that?
00:39:16.160 She said,
00:39:16.960 yeah, you know,
00:39:18.780 so you said that he's guilty
00:39:19.940 until proven innocent
00:39:20.780 and I can't even believe
00:39:22.400 we have to talk about this,
00:39:23.500 but in certain conservative circles,
00:39:25.620 they think it's bad
00:39:26.640 to be guilty
00:39:27.220 until proven innocent.
00:39:29.080 Dummies.
00:39:30.600 No, our country
00:39:31.340 is founded on the basis.
00:39:32.740 Our country depends
00:39:33.940 upon the basis
00:39:34.580 that you are innocent
00:39:35.700 until proven guilty,
00:39:36.860 not the other way around.
00:39:38.600 And listen,
00:39:39.080 but MSNBC's lady, 1.00
00:39:40.420 I don't know her name,
00:39:41.560 is talking to Senator Hirono
00:39:43.840 as though this were weird.
00:39:46.360 She's actually admitting
00:39:47.220 that only conservatives
00:39:48.300 have standards of justice
00:39:49.880 and then the left,
00:39:51.300 like, yeah,
00:39:51.620 we would bulldoze all of them
00:39:53.160 if we got into power
00:39:54.000 and then listen to
00:39:55.520 Maisie's response.
00:39:57.940 Do you believe Judge Kavanaugh
00:39:59.280 does deserve a presumption
00:40:00.320 of innocence or not?
00:40:01.760 Look, we're not
00:40:02.280 in a court of law.
00:40:03.860 We're actually in a court
00:40:04.700 of credibility at this point
00:40:06.040 and without having
00:40:07.380 the FBI report
00:40:10.040 or some semblance
00:40:11.800 of trying to get corroboration,
00:40:13.180 we are left
00:40:14.000 with the credibility
00:40:15.260 of the two witnesses.
00:40:17.280 Corroboration of what?
00:40:19.620 Did you just hear
00:40:20.420 what you said?
00:40:21.860 You said,
00:40:23.660 so she made this fake dichotomy.
00:40:25.600 We're not in a court of law,
00:40:26.380 we're in a court of credibility,
00:40:27.540 which a court of law
00:40:28.840 is a court of credibility, right?
00:40:30.000 So it's just one of those things.
00:40:31.560 Politicians of both sides
00:40:32.440 do this where they say,
00:40:33.840 like, country over party.
00:40:35.620 You're like, right,
00:40:36.060 I'm in the party
00:40:36.580 to help my country, dum-dum. 1.00
00:40:37.800 It's the same thing.
00:40:38.540 They're not dichotomies.
00:40:39.880 But so she says that,
00:40:41.960 whatever, fine.
00:40:42.580 She's a politician. 1.00
00:40:43.500 But then she says,
00:40:44.200 you know, look,
00:40:44.700 without any corroboration
00:40:46.520 of these bogus,
00:40:48.260 ridiculous claims
00:40:49.160 that are being refuted
00:40:50.080 left and right
00:40:50.700 by everybody named in them,
00:40:52.220 we've just got to believe
00:40:53.460 the accusers.
00:40:55.500 No.
00:40:55.960 So the way it works,
00:40:57.480 Maisie,
00:40:58.240 is if you don't have corroboration,
00:41:01.860 then you don't believe
00:41:03.200 the accusations.
00:41:04.380 Then you don't believe
00:41:05.060 the accusers
00:41:05.660 because there's no corroboration
00:41:07.060 for them.
00:41:07.640 Does she know
00:41:08.140 what corroboration means?
00:41:09.260 Does she know
00:41:09.620 what credibility means?
00:41:11.100 She uses these words
00:41:12.560 and she has no idea
00:41:13.340 what they mean.
00:41:14.140 By the way,
00:41:15.160 is it not a miracle,
00:41:16.500 it's probably because
00:41:17.020 he's at the UN
00:41:17.580 and he's distracted,
00:41:18.620 but that the president
00:41:19.700 has not started calling her
00:41:20.780 Crazy Maisie? 0.95
00:41:21.680 Her name was built
00:41:22.980 for a Trump nickname
00:41:24.720 and she's like the only person
00:41:26.160 that doesn't have one yet.
00:41:27.400 I am sure by the time
00:41:28.480 this show airs today,
00:41:29.660 he'll already be calling her that.
00:41:31.440 Really outrageous.
00:41:32.400 But they're being honest.
00:41:33.300 Good on them for being honest,
00:41:34.460 which is saying
00:41:34.820 we want to bulldoze
00:41:35.500 standards of justice.
00:41:36.680 We don't support
00:41:37.480 the rights of the accused,
00:41:38.400 especially if they're
00:41:39.100 old white guys 0.57
00:41:40.000 or middle-aged white guys
00:41:41.320 in the case of Brett Kavanaugh.
00:41:42.900 We don't want any of that.
00:41:44.960 Good.
00:41:45.540 That's okay.
00:41:46.220 That's what they're offering up
00:41:47.360 in November.
00:41:49.100 And this isn't going to play
00:41:50.040 very well for them.
00:41:52.700 Did you see what happened
00:41:53.580 to Ted Cruz
00:41:54.000 at that restaurant last night?
00:41:55.140 Here, just very quickly,
00:41:56.460 Ted Cruz and his wife
00:41:57.220 were sitting at a restaurant.
00:41:58.600 They were having,
00:41:59.340 you know,
00:41:59.660 a nice dinner
00:42:00.200 and then a bunch of
00:42:01.660 mainstream Democrats
00:42:03.700 came in
00:42:04.640 and behaved
00:42:05.540 as mainstream Democrats
00:42:06.780 are behaving in 2018.
00:42:08.940 We believe it's a fire.
00:42:10.500 We believe survivors.
00:42:12.900 We believe survivors.
00:42:14.660 We believe survivors.
00:42:16.440 We believe survivors.
00:42:18.040 Excuse me.
00:42:18.520 Beto is way hotter
00:42:19.560 than you do.
00:42:20.480 We believe survivors.
00:42:22.180 We believe survivors.
00:42:23.460 We believe survivors, except for Karen Monaghan and Juanita Broderick and all the others,
00:42:38.400 if they were abused by Democrats. But we believe random people who come out of the woodwork when
00:42:44.180 Brett Kavanaugh, a virgin until after high school, is up for the Supreme Court. That was too long,
00:42:50.340 so they had to change it to we believe survivors, but they don't believe. Oh my gosh. I wish I could
00:42:57.080 say that these were wacko lefty lunatics. It's not. They're not. They're not. All of these,
00:43:01.500 this was the top trend on Twitter yesterday. We believe survivors. None of these women, by the
00:43:05.720 way, have accused anyone of rape. Not even like the wackiest accusations have involved rape,
00:43:13.240 but that's what they say. We believes or we believes. Okay. So they chase him out of this
00:43:17.640 restaurant. And, and, uh, there's this guy on Twitter. He's a transgender activist named
00:43:23.100 Charlotte Clymer who said, he tweeted out, he said, well, you know, Beto O'Rourke has never
00:43:28.700 gotten chased out of a restaurant. Yeah. Because his opponents aren't hysterical children like the
00:43:33.860 Democrats are. Right. That, yeah, we don't do that. I'm very proud to say we don't do that.
00:43:39.080 But this is, so they scream at Ted Cruz and all, this is not going to play well. We have so much more
00:43:43.660 to get to, but unfortunately we're running late. So I will skip to this point because, uh, you know,
00:43:48.480 a lot of us are wondering how all of this is going to affect the midterm elections, which are coming
00:43:52.940 up again, Democrat, they're coming up in December and close your ears for a second and Republicans,
00:43:57.900 they're coming up in November. Uh, so how is this going to affect the election? Uh, according to Gallup
00:44:05.340 polling, which leans left, it's not a right-wing polling firm. The GOP is more popular than it's been
00:44:10.220 in seven years. You wouldn't know that if you just listened to those shrieking little children,
00:44:15.220 uh, at the restaurant, you wouldn't know that if you were listening to MSNBC or reading the New York
00:44:19.260 Times or the Washington Post or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But they, the GOP,
00:44:22.760 the Republican party, not even just Trump, who's also doing well, but the GOP is the most popular.
00:44:28.060 It's been in seven years. They've made, so the favorability is 45%. Democrat favorability,
00:44:34.040 according to Gallup is 44%. The Republicans are more favorable, more favorable to be viewed right now.
00:44:39.880 than Democrats. This, this is up for Republicans from 36% last year. This is a major gain. By the
00:44:46.860 way, since 2008, since, since the election of Barack Obama, Democrats have almost always rated
00:44:52.380 higher and often significantly higher in favorability than Republicans. Now you would say now, a lot of
00:44:58.320 people watching the news would say now Republicans have, they've never been less popular. Oh, it's all
00:45:02.240 awful. It's going to hell in a handbasket. No way. Republicans are historically popular. You won't read
00:45:07.660 about it in the New York Times. You won't see it on NBC, but it's true. There have been major gains in
00:45:11.600 the last few months. Oh, but what about Stormy, Kavanaugh, whatever, Mueller, whatever. Oh, it
00:45:18.140 really should have declined, right? No, it hasn't. Part of the reason for that jump is that the GOP right
00:45:23.800 now is more likely to view their own party favorably, but the Democrats view of the GOP has not declined.
00:45:30.640 It hasn't diminished. A lot of people say, yeah, well, okay. The GOP, Republicans might be viewing their
00:45:36.580 own party more favorably, but they're totally losing Democrats and people on the fence. Not
00:45:40.680 true. That's not reflected in Gallup polling. Democrats view the GOP and the Democrat and their
00:45:45.280 own party, the Democrats, in exactly the same way as they did. The GOP has seen a jump among people of
00:45:51.120 all economic groups and especially middle-class income earners. Why is that? Because they've managed
00:45:56.460 the economy very, very well. This is very good news. It tells me not to believe the polls very much
00:46:01.880 because the generic election polls, for instance, one, because there's no such thing as a generic
00:46:08.460 candidate. People are voting for their own candidates. And because a lot is not reflected,
00:46:13.880 when you inject Trump into questions, a lot of numbers get skewed. And also, you know, when you
00:46:20.760 call up different people, polling has had a number of crises in the last years because of methods of
00:46:26.320 collecting information. But these numbers, in so much as we can look at the polls, these numbers
00:46:31.540 are really pretty good. And if President Trump keeps going up there and offering a choice, not an
00:46:37.540 echo, not being Democrat-lite, not being UN-lite, but going out there and going after them and defending
00:46:44.740 American interests, which are in the interests of the world for America to follow American interests,
00:46:49.860 I could see great popularity. I could see being surprised in November because it's true historically
00:46:58.620 we should lose the House. Maybe we will lose the House. But I could see a real surprise. Now,
00:47:04.200 if they back down, if the Democrats go squishy, if Chuck Grassley doesn't hold this damn vote,
00:47:08.660 if Republicans cave, I could see a blue tidal wave coming and taking us all. The choice is up to our
00:47:15.780 elected officials. But at least one of our elected officials today handled himself very, very well.
00:47:21.560 Okay, that's our show. I got to get out of here. I won't see you tomorrow unless you're in Ohio.
00:47:25.180 Then I will see you. I look forward to going out there. In the meantime, I am Michael Knowles.
00:47:29.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show. I will see you again on Thursday.
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