The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 238 - The Cold Civil War

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00:00:37.560 Can we all just get along, or are Americans in the midst of a cold civil war?

00:00:42.680 As Democrats amp up their assault against noted cocaine kingpin Mitch McConnell and all of the other Republicans he represents,

00:00:49.660 conciliatory conservatives are missing the only possible strategy for domestic peace.

00:00:54.840 We will analyze.

00:00:55.580 Then, a look around the most important midterm races, the similarities between Nazis and the weather.

00:01:01.580 Thank you to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:01:03.920 And most shocking of all, CNN does something worthwhile.

00:01:07.560 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.460 Oh, we're talking about war today.

00:01:18.040 We are talking about war fresh on the heels of Politicon, where I don't feel like reconciling anything at all.

00:01:25.820 We will talk about the cold civil war.

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00:03:02.740 I have avoided this rhetoric, this civil cold war.

00:03:05.620 I know a lot of other people on the right and on the left have talked about it.

00:03:09.420 I'm beginning to wonder.

00:03:11.020 If they want a war, maybe they can have a war. 0.58

00:03:13.980 You know, you've got Democrat elected officials calling for violence against the GOP.

00:03:18.520 And then at Politicon, where we all were yesterday, I was there.

00:03:21.640 I was on a panel which was called How the Bleep Do We All Get Along?

00:03:25.060 And talking to the lefties on that panel, I'm more and more convinced that they are really

00:03:30.800 calling for a cultural and a cold civil war.

00:03:34.360 And no less than Carl Bernstein, a lefty journalist on CNN, is saying the same thing.

00:03:38.300 Here he is.

00:03:38.660 We are in a cold civil war in this country.

00:03:42.880 Then these two events, both the Mueller investigation and the Kavanaugh nomination,

00:03:50.020 are almost the Gettysburg and Antietam, the absolutely essential battles of this cold civil war.

00:04:00.280 Gettysburg and Antietam, that rhetoric is about as hot as you can possibly get.

00:04:04.500 And so if they want a cold civil war, they're going to get it.

00:04:09.620 If an aggressor is saying, we're going to be fighting you, we're declaring war on you,

00:04:13.880 then you can't ignore it.

00:04:15.060 You can't say that there is no war.

00:04:16.440 And you've obviously got Maxine Waters calling for elected, or for Democratic supporters

00:04:20.600 to attack Republicans at their homes.

00:04:22.720 Eric Holder, the same thing.

00:04:23.840 Hillary Clinton, the same thing. 0.61

00:04:25.080 So maybe we've got to start taking this seriously.

00:04:27.560 Why are they doing this, first of all?

00:04:28.900 Why all of this talk of the cold civil war?

00:04:30.880 It's because they have no issues.

00:04:32.140 They actually are running on this election on no issues.

00:04:36.400 What are they fighting for?

00:04:38.060 I guess there's a little vague talk about health care, but even that is very vague.

00:04:43.200 They're not pushing any particular policy.

00:04:45.180 Are they running on immigration?

00:04:46.720 No, because that's a huge loser issue for Democrats. 0.98

00:04:49.580 Even among Democrat primary voters, that's a big loser issue.

00:04:53.080 The economy is doing very well.

00:04:54.740 We have relative peace abroad.

00:04:56.620 We've got virtually no unemployment.

00:04:59.620 What is the issue?

00:05:00.460 This might be the first issue-free election in a long time.

00:05:03.280 So it's just all about Trump.

00:05:04.560 They're just talking about how much they hate Donald Trump.

00:05:07.120 I was on this panel, you know, and it was me, Charlie Kirk, you know, also on the right,

00:05:11.700 Roaming Millennial, who's on the show. 0.52

00:05:13.700 And then a couple of lefties.

00:05:15.300 Kyle Kulinski is Secular Talk on YouTube.

00:05:18.520 And this guy, Bakari Sellers, who, he was the one who went on CNN and said that Kanye West

00:05:24.220 is what happens when Negroes don't read books. 1.00

00:05:26.260 He's that guy.

00:05:27.020 I think we talked about him on the show.

00:05:28.140 And, you know, one thing I noticed is that some conservatives at Politicon wanted to conciliate.

00:05:35.980 They wanted to give some concessions to the left.

00:05:38.420 They were talking about areas where, oh, conservatives can abandon our ideas and let's just embrace

00:05:44.200 left-wing ideas.

00:05:45.340 Oh, we don't need the death penalty.

00:05:47.860 We don't.

00:05:48.220 Look, there's always been disagreement on the right over the death penalty.

00:05:51.140 But there were some people saying, no, we don't.

00:05:52.380 Let's get rid of that.

00:05:53.020 Let's drop that issue.

00:05:54.180 We can go further to the left on it.

00:05:55.760 Oh, how about criminal justice?

00:05:57.160 Let's let criminals out of prison.

00:05:58.480 Yeah, we can let some criminals out of prison.

00:06:00.120 That's fine.

00:06:00.860 We have too many people in prison.

00:06:02.100 Okay.

00:06:02.560 Oh, the drug war has been a big loss.

00:06:04.420 See, we're getting together.

00:06:05.820 And I don't know what the thought is here.

00:06:09.140 For one, maybe genuinely these people are more libertarian.

00:06:12.780 On another level, maybe they think that the left is going to give them credit for this.

00:06:17.100 The left won't give you credit.

00:06:18.640 They will not give you credit.

00:06:19.760 You cannot make the New York Times like you.

00:06:21.960 They will never like you.

00:06:23.140 They will use you.

00:06:24.200 But they will never like you.

00:06:25.840 And obviously, John McCain has fallen into this trap.

00:06:29.500 Mitt Romney fell into this trap.

00:06:30.860 We should not fall into this trap.

00:06:33.340 You know, the lesson of the Trump era is to fight.

00:06:37.120 Don't give in.

00:06:38.080 Don't be squishy.

00:06:39.040 Don't say, oh, well, I didn't strap my dog to the roof of my car.

00:06:42.320 No, don't.

00:06:43.440 Fight because we're winning.

00:06:44.940 And the voters actually reward you when you fight.

00:06:47.280 When you stand up to these guys and you make fun of Jim Acosta, they reward you.

00:06:51.700 It's not a liability.

00:06:52.780 It's a real advantage.

00:06:54.500 I have the strategy on, you know, they were asking, how do we all get along?

00:06:58.740 How do we move along and get along?

00:07:00.340 And I'll give this and you give that.

00:07:02.020 If we have a civil Cold War, here's my strategy. 0.58

00:07:05.520 We win and they lose.

00:07:07.380 Those aren't my words.

00:07:08.440 That was Ronald Reagan's words on the first Cold War, the actual Cold War with the Soviet Union.

00:07:12.980 He said, here's my strategy.

00:07:14.280 We win and they lose.

00:07:15.800 And he was pilloried for this.

00:07:17.500 He said, oh, he's not being sophisticated in his, oh, he's not, he's a cowboy.

00:07:21.920 He's a madman.

00:07:22.580 No, that's the answer.

00:07:23.940 You cannot conciliate here.

00:07:26.560 You know, there was a, there is a little Catholic corner.

00:07:30.960 There was this Pope, Blessed Pius IX, who when they gave up all the papal states,

00:07:35.800 the Pope had killed a lot of people and executed a lot of criminals.

00:07:39.200 And the last criminal said, please, please don't execute me.

00:07:41.880 And he said, I cannot move your execution and I do not want to.

00:07:48.060 That is how I feel about this.

00:07:49.600 I cannot conciliate on the Cold Cultural War and I do not want to.

00:07:54.820 I do.

00:07:55.020 Why would we?

00:07:56.720 How are we going to meet in the middle?

00:07:58.400 On really hot button, radical social issues.

00:08:01.960 Where do we meet in the middle?

00:08:02.980 On abortion.

00:08:03.540 Abortion was the center of the fight for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.

00:08:07.580 It was all about Roe v. Wade.

00:08:08.700 They made up these things about women and when he was 15 in 1982, it was all about Roe v. Wade.

00:08:15.100 Where is the conciliation?

00:08:17.460 One side says we shouldn't kill unborn babies.

00:08:20.000 The other side says we should kill unborn babies up until right before birth.

00:08:23.600 Abortion on demand paid for by taxpayers.

00:08:26.260 Where is the conciliation?

00:08:27.640 That is actually the perfect example of trying to split the baby. 0.97

00:08:31.500 You can't split the baby.

00:08:32.760 Why would you?

00:08:34.200 The right is in the right on this.

00:08:36.340 They're in the right morally, but they're in the right politically too.

00:08:40.020 Pro-life cause has gained a lot of traction since Roe v. Wade.

00:08:43.200 It's at historical high levels of support.

00:08:45.900 Why would you give up on that?

00:08:47.100 On a question like the redefinition of marriage,

00:08:49.980 where the Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy, yanks that issue out of the public sphere

00:08:53.520 and says you can't debate this anymore because I, Anthony Kennedy, will wax poetic

00:08:57.980 about the constitutional right to intimacy or whatever they made up there,

00:09:03.880 which Antonin Scalia made fun of in his dissent.

00:09:08.040 Where's the conciliation?

00:09:10.060 Do we say, okay, well, the Supreme Court can redefine certain essential human institutions,

00:09:15.320 but not others.

00:09:15.880 Oh, well, maybe, okay, here, so radical leftists want to redefine marriage to include,

00:09:21.800 you know, polygamists, who knows what unions, 0.98

00:09:25.160 and normal people say that marriage has a meaning and sexual difference in here is in the definition

00:09:30.920 of marriage.

00:09:31.340 So, okay, maybe it'll be three people of various, no, there's no conciliation.

00:09:35.580 We're talking about the meaning of words.

00:09:38.420 Where is the conciliation on any other policy, on foreign policy, on domestic affairs,

00:09:43.040 on deregulation?

00:09:44.680 One side says we want the government to have less control over your life.

00:09:48.160 We want them to have more accountability.

00:09:50.060 The other side says we want to give more and more power, more and more of your money,

00:09:53.560 more and more control over your life to the federal government.

00:09:55.820 There's no conciliation there.

00:09:58.700 And also, why would, have you noticed that the left only calls for conciliation when they're losing,

00:10:04.580 when we're advancing?

00:10:05.720 We're advancing right now.

00:10:07.020 We are winning.

00:10:08.000 I mean, this has been building for a long time.

00:10:10.460 This has been building since 2010.

00:10:11.920 You know, after the Obama election in 2008, 2010, we win the House.

00:10:15.720 After that, we win the Senate.

00:10:17.040 We win the state houses.

00:10:18.040 We win the governorships.

00:10:19.080 This is capped off by the election of Trump in 2016.

00:10:21.700 We take the White House.

00:10:22.660 We've got everything.

00:10:23.900 Anthony Kennedy leaves the Supreme Court.

00:10:25.720 We get a more originalist judge, which changes the balance of the court.

00:10:28.860 We are winning.

00:10:29.720 And all of a sudden, the left says, oh, no, no, now we need to get along.

00:10:32.620 Well, where were you six years ago, pals?

00:10:35.100 Where were you when Barack Obama was painting the White House in rainbow colors?

00:10:38.700 Were you saying we need to be nice to one another and meet in the middle then?

00:10:42.300 I don't think so.

00:10:43.240 It's so cynical.

00:10:45.360 It's such a cynical and such a transparent strategy.

00:10:48.720 Look at what they're doing.

00:10:49.480 On the Cold Civil War, look at what some hysterical millennial is doing to Pablo Escobar himself,

00:10:54.800 cocaine Mitch, just trying to have a dinner with his wife at a restaurant.

00:10:57.700 Are you going to compromise with that?

00:11:19.880 Are you going to compromise with some hysterical millennials going up to his table? 1.00

00:11:23.840 Wait, why don't you leave?

00:11:24.980 Why don't you just go on and leave the whole country?

00:11:27.940 No, how about I don't?

00:11:28.740 How about you sit down, you hysterical child, and I will finish my meal.

00:11:32.800 I also love cocaine Mitch.

00:11:34.240 This is how you know he's been the head of the Medellin cartel for a very long time.

00:11:37.820 He doesn't even flinch when this guy comes up.

00:11:40.100 He's just there.

00:11:41.060 He's just got his mound of, you know, booger sugar in front of him.

00:11:44.320 I don't know what he ordered for dinner, but he's just there.

00:11:46.240 He does not even flinch.

00:11:48.660 This is a parable for the country because this hysterical millennial gets up. 0.99

00:11:52.580 He says, why don't you leave?

00:11:53.460 Why don't you leave?

00:11:53.820 And then everyone in the restaurant who was just minding their own business, just sitting

00:11:57.240 there trying to get on with their lives, they turn and they say, shut up.

00:12:00.400 Sit down.

00:12:01.140 Why are you?

00:12:02.360 This is what we see with voters.

00:12:04.580 You know, you've got this hysterical group of people with the pink hats, screaming, ripping

00:12:10.600 up signs, kicking people.

00:12:11.960 Okay.

00:12:13.100 There aren't that many of them.

00:12:14.460 And I think for a long time, because the left had a monopoly over the media, had a monopoly

00:12:19.820 over the means of communication.

00:12:21.780 We thought that not only were they half the country, that they were the majority of the

00:12:25.700 country.

00:12:26.440 That Walter Cronkite, world federalist left winger Walter Cronkite, he was the voice of

00:12:31.960 the American people.

00:12:32.980 Not the case.

00:12:34.100 And once you got a little freedom in there and a little bit of new media, we learned

00:12:37.780 that that wasn't the case.

00:12:38.880 I think most of America are those diners sitting there just trying to eat who are getting increasingly

00:12:44.560 annoyed by these insane, largely millennial people. 0.93

00:12:48.180 And I think that this is a millennial problem.

00:12:51.340 You don't see older generations doing this so much, going up to the tables, shrieking

00:12:56.700 at Ted Cruz and restaurants, going to people's houses.

00:13:00.180 You know, millennials are a coddled generation. 1.00

00:13:02.800 There have been many books written about this.

00:13:04.140 John Haidt has written about this.

00:13:05.520 A lot of politicians have talked about it.

00:13:07.300 It's a coddled generation. 0.99

00:13:08.600 It's the participation trophy generation.

00:13:10.720 They got everything they wanted.

00:13:12.100 They were helicopter parented.

00:13:13.640 Sure.

00:13:13.920 I mean, it's not even really their fault.

00:13:15.960 That's just how they were parented.

00:13:17.180 It's how they were brought up.

00:13:18.200 When they got to high school and college, they were indoctrinated in leftist ideology.

00:13:23.480 They just confirmed the biases that they were raised in and presented any other point of

00:13:28.480 view as evil or wicked and outside of the realm of public debate.

00:13:33.280 And even politically, they always got what they wanted.

00:13:35.380 By the time the millennials came of age, what did they do?

00:13:37.640 They elected Barack Obama.

00:13:39.360 And Barack Obama reigned as king for eight years.

00:13:42.140 For the first time, they didn't get what they wanted.

00:13:44.820 And they're behaving like children.

00:13:46.700 Children and we've got to treat them like children.

00:13:49.200 I don't mean that you've got to be cruel.

00:13:52.100 You don't want to be cruel to a child.

00:13:53.680 You don't want to torture a child.

00:13:55.100 But you've got to be firm.

00:13:56.500 You've got to take a stand.

00:13:57.820 You don't compromise with a child.

00:13:59.240 The teacher doesn't compromise with the child.

00:14:01.120 The director of the insane institution doesn't compromise with the inmates.

00:14:05.640 You have to stand firm.

00:14:07.620 And it's the only way that you're going to help people get a little bit better.

00:14:10.360 Unfortunately for our friends on the left, they're not learning this lesson.

00:14:12.900 If you look at these races around the country, the polls are getting really interesting.

00:14:17.280 In Indiana now, Indiana was really one of these swing Senate seats.

00:14:22.380 Obviously, the Kavanaugh effect has been pretty profound in North Dakota.

00:14:27.000 We've talked about Heidi Heitkamp up there.

00:14:29.140 But in Indiana, it was really, really close.

00:14:31.260 And now Mike Braun, the Republican, is leading Senator Joe Donnelly by four points.

00:14:36.440 So you're now getting a little past the margin of error, depending on which poll you're looking at.

00:14:40.860 But all of the analysts are attributing this to the Kavanaugh effect.

00:14:45.300 And what is the Kavanaugh effect?

00:14:46.780 What did the Kavanaugh effect show?

00:14:49.040 It's when a mob of Democrats decided to institute lynch mob justice on a guy who did not have due process,

00:14:56.840 based on accusations that were pretty flimsy.

00:14:59.820 They reacted against that.

00:15:01.260 They revolted against that.

00:15:02.500 That you've got the he-to movement out of it, you know, 1.00

00:15:04.800 because women have husbands and wives and fathers. 1.00

00:15:07.360 Why would we give up now that we're winning?

00:15:12.660 Why would we pull back now?

00:15:14.160 Now is the time to charge even harder.

00:15:15.900 Especially now that you've got midterm elections coming up.

00:15:18.620 So if you turn down to Florida, there was this debate.

00:15:21.760 I know you didn't watch it.

00:15:22.860 One, because it was on CNN.

00:15:24.320 And two, because it was so hard to watch.

00:15:26.720 Andrew Gillum, the Democrat, this Democrat, actual socialist, out-and-out socialist guy,

00:15:32.420 against Ron DeSantis, the Republican.

00:15:34.320 If you didn't catch it, there were a few really good clips of it.

00:15:38.660 And DeSantis mopped the floor with the guy.

00:15:40.960 So what does Andrew Gillum do?

00:15:43.360 He immediately resorts to the oldest Democrat tactic in the book.

00:15:46.520 He plays the race card.

00:15:47.680 Here they are.

00:15:48.780 Did you pay for the Hamilton ticket or did the undercover FBI pay for the Hamilton ticket?

00:15:53.700 Did you pay to stay in the villa in Costa Rica?

00:15:57.140 Where are the receipts?

00:15:58.160 You have not proven that you paid for anything.

00:16:00.800 And that's the problem.

00:16:02.060 So here's the direct answer.

00:16:03.240 I don't take free trips from anybody.

00:16:06.120 I'm a hardworking person.

00:16:07.400 I know that may not fit your description of what you think people like me do.

00:16:11.160 But I worked hard for everything that I've gotten in my life.

00:16:14.500 And I don't need anybody handing me anything for free.

00:16:17.100 That might not fit your description of what people like me do.

00:16:21.280 If he's referring to socialists, he's absolutely right.

00:16:23.700 I don't know many hardworking socialists.

00:16:25.700 But that's not what he means.

00:16:26.680 He's saying, I'm a black guy.

00:16:28.700 And you're saying that black people are lazy.

00:16:31.900 No, you're saying that black people are lazy.

00:16:34.640 He didn't say that at all.

00:16:35.860 What he said is that you took gifts from lobbyists, which you didn't even deny.

00:16:41.580 You notice Andrew Gillum can't deny it.

00:16:43.460 So the allegation that DeSantis makes is that Gillum took free Broadway tickets to Hamilton,

00:16:48.860 which, by the way, as a New Yorker, I can tell you the price on those is like $7 zillion per ticket.

00:16:54.580 You know, that was the hottest ticket in town.

00:16:57.480 And that he went on some trip and had things bought for him by some lobbyist.

00:17:01.600 And so what does Andrew Gillum do?

00:17:03.600 He immediately just twists it.

00:17:04.700 He says, I never have people pay for my trips.

00:17:08.200 Well, do you have people pay for part of your trips?

00:17:09.980 Do you have people pay for certain things on your trips?

00:17:11.760 Do you have people send?

00:17:12.500 Who knows?

00:17:13.160 And he also just won't acknowledge the Broadway thing.

00:17:16.640 He won't acknowledge the Hamilton tickets.

00:17:18.600 And then all he does is he turns it on race.

00:17:21.320 He says, you're saying black people are lazy.

00:17:23.360 No, I'm saying you are a crook.

00:17:25.360 You are corrupt.

00:17:26.600 He had no answer to that.

00:17:28.260 And DeSantis also didn't get put off by the race comment.

00:17:32.020 You know, this is what they do.

00:17:33.580 As Ann Coulter told me when I was a wee young lad of 18 in college,

00:17:38.040 she said, when a liberal calls you a racist, you know that you've won the argument.

00:17:41.840 I saw this at Politicon yesterday.

00:17:43.840 I was on this panel with, I was roaming millennial.

00:17:47.500 That was the only way it was bearable.

00:17:49.080 John Fugel sang, who I sort of like, though he was making very stupid points.

00:17:53.120 And the person to my right was this alleged comedian, Randy Sklar.

00:17:58.520 I think he has a YouTube channel, the Sklar Brothers.

00:18:01.780 And this guy, he tried to land a couple punches.

00:18:04.500 He was really angry.

00:18:06.000 He was coming out strong.

00:18:07.240 I hate Trump.

00:18:08.200 And, you know, he made some allegation about Donald Trump having business interests in Saudi Arabia.

00:18:14.700 I pointed out that Saudi Arabia gave a bunch of money to the Clintons.

00:18:19.140 He had no answer because all he had are these talking points.

00:18:21.520 So he says all of these talking points.

00:18:23.500 And then once he ran out of talking points, what did he do?

00:18:26.280 He called me a racist, which is how you know that you win the argument. 1.00

00:18:29.920 When you can't refute the claim, when you can't attack the claim, attack the person.

00:18:34.600 And it's really disgusting.

00:18:36.560 I mean, we're so used to it by now that I think we forget how awful that is.

00:18:40.160 In modern America, there is nothing worse that you can be called than a racist.

00:18:45.520 There's nothing worse.

00:18:47.080 It is a synonym for evil.

00:18:49.560 It is to say you're an evil person.

00:18:52.660 You're an evil person.

00:18:54.000 I mean, we shouldn't brush it off.

00:18:56.260 We get so calloused because we're so used to them saying that all the time.

00:19:00.920 But it's really awful.

00:19:02.040 We should fight him back tooth and nail because that's not very conciliatory language.

00:19:06.820 That's not really let's all get along kind of language, is it?

00:19:09.240 Yeah, so DeSantis was great on that point.

00:19:13.780 He also goes on and gets to the essential issue, the essential actual policy issue of these midterm elections.

00:19:22.200 And I think it's a big winner for Republicans.

00:19:24.380 And I think the Democrats are running scared.

00:19:25.920 Here it is.

00:19:27.080 Will you honor a request from Donald Trump's ICE agency?

00:19:30.140 If they provide a detainer request, will you honor it as governor?

00:19:33.840 Will you work with Donald Trump?

00:19:35.080 Yes or no?

00:19:35.440 You can proceed with your time.

00:19:36.400 He won't answer them.

00:19:37.520 Jake, that's important because that's what happens when somebody's a criminal.

00:19:40.500 I've been a prosecutor.

00:19:41.820 I've worked with law enforcement.

00:19:43.300 When they're in the system, they're convicted.

00:19:44.860 Maybe they served 10 years.

00:19:46.300 But it comes time to come out.

00:19:47.580 There's a detainer request from ICE.

00:19:49.300 You either turn them over to ICE or release them into the community.

00:19:51.960 That's the only two options.

00:19:53.380 Andrew will not answer the question.

00:19:54.960 That tells me he would be willing to release them back into our community.

00:19:58.900 Well, of course.

00:19:59.700 I just think that the showboating is unnecessary.

00:20:03.100 Oh, do you?

00:20:03.900 The guy who's playing the race card not five seconds before who's saying that DeSantis thinks

00:20:09.180 black people are lazy. 1.00

00:20:10.360 Now he's, oh, I don't know why we should be showboating.

00:20:12.640 I love to.

00:20:13.440 They fall silent when you try to pin them down on any issue of policy, especially in the

00:20:18.080 question of immigration.

00:20:19.320 He says, DeSantis says, would you turn the criminals over to law enforcement or would you

00:20:24.820 release them into the community?

00:20:25.940 And there's that moment of silence and Gillum says, no, go on.

00:20:30.540 No, no, go.

00:20:31.300 I don't want to interrupt.

00:20:32.060 Well, you wanted to interrupt on all the other questions.

00:20:34.500 Why?

00:20:34.680 That's interesting.

00:20:35.360 You've fallen silent on that question of immigration.

00:20:37.920 And we know that immigration is a big winner.

00:20:39.940 I can't tell if our friends on the left are obtuse on this or if they're genuinely ignorant.

00:20:45.060 The reason that illegal immigration is a big winner issue is not because illegal immigration

00:20:51.320 depresses wages.

00:20:52.320 It's not because illegal immigrants take welfare at higher rates.

00:20:57.400 It's not even that illegal immigrants commit crimes, certain crimes at higher rates. 0.78

00:21:02.060 It's actually not that.

00:21:03.620 It's because it is an offense to the country itself.

00:21:07.440 It is an offense to the integrity of the country.

00:21:09.920 The very fact of the nation.

00:21:12.740 When you have people disrespecting your borders, crossing back and forth willy nilly, coming

00:21:17.620 over here and demanding that you give them something.

00:21:20.000 It is so offensive and it puts Democrats in this awful position where Democrats are now

00:21:26.340 being held hostage by their base.

00:21:28.180 If Andrew Gillum were just strictly looking at the numbers, he would come out and say,

00:21:33.500 oh, I'd turn them over to law enforcement.

00:21:34.900 I'd deport half the illegal aliens in this country. 1.00

00:21:37.860 I'd deport all of the criminal, the violent criminal illegal aliens. 1.00

00:21:41.000 And I'd get really tough on it.

00:21:42.920 Why?

00:21:43.240 Because we know from the public opinion polling and from elections that that's a big winner

00:21:48.140 issue, not just among Republicans.

00:21:49.580 There was a poll taken at the beginning of the year that showed the majority of Democrat

00:21:55.080 voters did not believe that amnesty, even for dreamers, so-called, even for young illegal

00:22:01.580 aliens brought here before they were old enough to think that that should be a top priority 1.00

00:22:06.460 for a Congress, even among Democrat voters.

00:22:09.040 So if he saw that, he would just answer and it would be a gimme.

00:22:12.080 But he can't because they're held hostage by that base, that screaming little millennial who 0.85

00:22:16.840 goes up to Cocaine Mitch and yells in his face.

00:22:19.080 That guy, that small number of Democrats is the Democrat base.

00:22:23.080 And they go out and they write checks and they sign petitions and they carry petitions and they

00:22:28.020 go canvas.

00:22:28.720 And they're the activists.

00:22:30.340 And they're increasingly at odds with other swaths of the Democrat voter base.

00:22:35.680 So right now, President Trump has made great strides.

00:22:39.020 He in particular, though it's true for Republicans broadly, among black voters and among Hispanic

00:22:43.680 voters.

00:22:44.200 The black voter support has more than doubled.

00:22:46.900 Hispanic voter support has surged.

00:22:49.120 And that does have tails for other Republicans as well.

00:22:54.400 Democrats can't afford to lose those demographics.

00:22:56.960 They've relied on huge portions of those demographics for years.

00:23:00.180 But the minute that they start speaking on issues that those bases care about, they lose their

00:23:05.820 activists.

00:23:06.460 They lose the people who go out.

00:23:07.460 It's a really tough position that they're in.

00:23:09.160 And it's why Andrew Gillum finally mercifully fell silent.

00:23:13.500 So what issues can they run on?

00:23:15.340 They can't run on immigration. 0.99

00:23:16.780 They'll lose.

00:23:17.340 They can't run on taxes.

00:23:18.460 They'll lose, which is why the Republicans are doubling down now.

00:23:20.940 They're saying, oh, yeah, you like that tax cut?

00:23:22.960 We'll give you another one.

00:23:24.120 So this is really something I find charming about President Trump's political, I won't

00:23:31.720 call it naivete, but, you know, he's not the subtlest guy in the world, is, you know,

00:23:36.420 a really crafty, sophisticated politician.

00:23:39.020 He'd say, OK, how am I going to package this to look like this and that?

00:23:42.240 But President Trump, it seems like someone gave him a sheet that said tax cuts popular.

00:23:45.900 He's like, doing more.

00:23:47.100 Tax cuts too.

00:23:47.900 More tax cuts.

00:23:48.840 I'll give you more tax cuts because they're popular.

00:23:50.460 It's like, is there really that honest, you know, you know what the strategy is.

00:23:54.740 You know what you're getting.

00:23:55.680 And we'll get to the advantages of that in a second.

00:23:58.760 So they can't run on that.

00:23:59.640 They can't run on the taxes.

00:24:00.400 They can't run on joblessness, which basically doesn't exist.

00:24:02.860 So what are they going to run on?

00:24:04.480 The sun monster.

00:24:06.080 They're going to run on the boogeyman hiding underneath the earth that then rises up and

00:24:11.640 threatens to kill us all.

00:24:12.860 They're trying to run on global warming.

00:24:15.020 So fortunately, we can turn out of the thought leader of the Democrat Party to use Steve Hayward's

00:24:20.440 nickname for her Alexandria Occasional Cortex, who has the American strategy on fighting 0.87

00:24:26.160 the sun monster.

00:24:27.160 The last time we had a really major existential threat in this country was around World War

00:24:34.160 II.

00:24:35.160 And so we've been here before.

00:24:37.760 And we have a blueprint of doing this before.

00:24:41.060 We had a direct existential threat with another nation. 0.89

00:24:44.240 At this time it was Nazi Germany and Axis.

00:24:46.640 That if we put hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people to work in defending our

00:24:53.080 show as a feminist country, we have to do the same thing. 1.00

00:24:56.580 We could cut her there. 1.00

00:24:57.600 I've had enough Alexandria Occasional Cortex.

00:25:00.000 So just that last bit, she says, we put hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions,

00:25:06.500 to work defending our country.

00:25:07.980 16 million Americans served in World War II.

00:25:10.020 Just, you think if she's going to use this talking point, she would have like Googled

00:25:13.880 basic facts of World War II.

00:25:15.600 But that's fine.

00:25:16.480 She says that the strategy to fight the sun monster, the strategy to fight global warming

00:25:20.820 is the same strategy that we use to fight the Nazis.

00:25:24.740 By which I assume she means evacuate Dunkirk and storm the beaches of Normandy.

00:25:29.200 Which is, we've never tried that.

00:25:30.620 We've tried capping fuel emissions.

00:25:32.620 We've tried banning certain plastics.

00:25:34.880 But we've never tried evacuating Dunkirk and storming Normandy.

00:25:38.660 So maybe that will work.

00:25:39.980 Maybe that's what they'll do if the Democrats win the House.

00:25:42.360 Ironically, the other strategy that we would use if the way to fight global warming is the

00:25:47.880 same as how we fought the Nazis is to collude with the Russians.

00:25:51.060 We could not have defeated the Nazis if we didn't collude with the Russians. 0.99

00:25:55.080 And it would be a beautiful about face.

00:25:56.580 It would be Nixon going to China if the Democrats came into the House after the midterm elections 0.99

00:26:02.440 and they said, you know what we're going to do, guys?

00:26:03.960 We've been wrong about this.

00:26:05.480 Let's start colluding with Russia. 0.96

00:26:07.440 Something tells me they're not going to do that, though.

00:26:09.820 So, obviously, this is absurd.

00:26:12.320 Her answer here is absurd.

00:26:13.660 That's why everybody's making fun of it.

00:26:15.540 But the issue is absurd.

00:26:17.100 The issue of global warming is absurd.

00:26:19.680 I'm sorry, global cooling.

00:26:20.700 Oh, I'm sorry, climate change.

00:26:22.140 Oh, I'm sorry, this, that, or the other thing.

00:26:25.400 This is where the left whips itself up into a religious frenzy.

00:26:30.560 You hear all the time about the religious right.

00:26:32.220 This is the religious left because it's unfalsifiable, the cult of global warming. 0.76

00:26:38.160 It's unscientific.

00:26:39.840 Anytime the reality doesn't match the computer models and the scientific models for warming,

00:26:45.980 they just adjust the models.

00:26:48.320 And they adjust their view of reality to match the scientific models.

00:26:51.320 You've had the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, come out and say that greenhouse

00:26:56.620 gases do not have a significant correlation to warming and that there hasn't been significant

00:27:02.100 warming in a while.

00:27:02.900 They've had to adjust so many of their graphs.

00:27:04.600 So, this is all they've got.

00:27:06.180 Like, bad Al Gore PowerPoints from 2006.

00:27:10.180 That is the best that they can run on.

00:27:12.300 Good situation for Republicans in this election.

00:27:16.460 Who knows?

00:27:16.880 If the economy cracks up or something, then the Democrats finally have an issue again.

00:27:20.960 But for right now, they're running on nothing, which is why all they're doing is talking in

00:27:24.720 slogans and talking about themselves.

00:27:27.160 To turn to another Democrat tribe, this time in Massachusetts, Laya Watha has been stepping 0.99

00:27:33.120 in it on this DNA question.

00:27:35.060 So, she can't shut up about it, sadly.

00:27:38.120 And sadly for her, good for us.

00:27:40.020 Here is Laya Watha trying to defend it again after defending it before. 0.98

00:27:43.900 Senator, when we spoke in March for an interview and I asked you about whether or not you would

00:27:50.420 take a DNA test, you told me that you believe that the issue of your Native American heritage

00:27:56.200 had been settled.

00:27:57.680 Why did you change your mind and recently release the result of a DNA test?

00:28:01.460 You know, one of the things I see now is that confidence in government is at an all-time

00:28:08.080 low, and I believe one way that we try to rebuild confidence is through transparency.

00:28:14.780 Ultimately, I took a DNA test because I am an open book, and it's all out there, it's

00:28:21.040 on the internet, anybody can take a look.

00:28:23.940 Because at the end of the day, this isn't about me.

00:28:27.780 This is about what's happening to working families all across this commonwealth.

00:28:32.440 This isn't about me at the end of the day, and that's why I have spent three weeks now

00:28:39.740 exclusively talking about myself, and not just about myself and how I look and how I

00:28:46.300 speak, but actually the DNA at the core of my cells.

00:28:51.260 I've been talking about my genetic code, because this isn't about me.

00:28:56.820 This is about something else that I don't want to talk about right now, so it's not about

00:29:01.320 me, really sad.

00:29:02.760 Also, that voice, that voice, you know, Trump talked about that face.

00:29:06.760 I don't know about that face.

00:29:07.620 I just, that voice makes our president sound like a songbird.

00:29:13.000 It makes our senators, it makes Ted Cruz sound like a songbird.

00:29:17.060 She, and I'm not saying it's because of the particular tenor of her voice.

00:29:20.720 It's because she has that politician voice, or that old politician voice. 1.00

00:29:25.220 You know, where it's a little breathy, and it's a practiced and emotional speech.

00:29:34.740 And it's just awful.

00:29:36.440 It's so grating.

00:29:37.280 Cory Booker has turned that up to 11 in his Spartacus moments and his tears of rage.

00:29:42.500 I don't know where they think that this is going to help them in 2020, but I think that

00:29:47.720 voice is kind of over now, because, you know, when Trump came out in 2016 and just talked

00:29:53.660 like a brash guy from Queens who didn't use the right words and often said things that

00:29:57.700 were offensive to both his opponents and his supporters, I think it cracked that up a

00:30:02.580 little bit.

00:30:02.940 I think people like straight talk, if you will, blunt speech, at least.

00:30:08.100 How else do you explain Michael Avenatti getting on the TV networks?

00:30:12.100 Michael Avenatti, for all of his flaws, he does speak plainly.

00:30:14.760 He probably speaks a little too plainly.

00:30:16.160 Um, that voice, mercifully, I think that voice is over because the trouble with that voice

00:30:20.400 too is you're constantly having to figure out what they're actually saying.

00:30:25.440 Like the old joke, I would think about this.

00:30:27.800 Whenever I heard a politician say like, you know, we need to lower your taxes, not raise

00:30:33.380 your taxes.

00:30:34.760 It was whatever they said after not was the thing they were actually going to do.

00:30:38.660 It was such a lie.

00:30:40.140 It was a voice and addiction of such lies that they would do that.

00:30:43.900 And fortunately, now we've got Republicans who actually do what they say for better or

00:30:47.740 worse.

00:30:48.140 And I just think it really falls flat.

00:30:50.880 Um, then she goes on with pure grade A, Liz Warren and Liawatha Democrat sanctimony.

00:30:57.500 Give it to me.

00:30:57.940 I, I'm a kid who wanted to be a public school teacher.

00:31:02.320 And by the time I graduated from high school, we didn't have the money for a college application,

00:31:06.940 much less a chance for me to actually go to college.

00:31:10.040 A lot of twists and turns in my story.

00:31:11.820 But my big chance was a commuter college that cost $50 a semester and it opened a million

00:31:18.680 doors for me.

00:31:19.740 I am the daughter of someone who ended up as a janitor and I got to be a professor and

00:31:24.680 a United States Senator.

00:31:27.040 Okay.

00:31:27.540 Blah, blah, blah.

00:31:28.160 My mother washed more floors for less money than your mother. 1.00

00:31:30.820 Blah, blah, blah.

00:31:31.420 That's what she's doing.

00:31:32.200 This is a classic, uh, both parties do it, but this is especially a, uh, a classic Democrat

00:31:38.020 strategy.

00:31:38.560 John Kasich famously did it in 2016.

00:31:41.180 Do you, do you, I don't know if you remember his father's a mailman.

00:31:43.680 Did you know that John Kasich's father was a mailman?

00:31:45.820 Liz Warren, I think almost mentioned it, but I, I want to direct your attention to one little

00:31:50.300 phrase in, in her soliloquy here.

00:31:53.740 She says, oh, you know, I couldn't, I wanted to be a school teacher.

00:31:57.260 I want, I just wanted to do this.

00:31:58.900 And you know, college was, there were a lot of twists and turns in my life and then I succeeded.

00:32:03.380 So those twists and turns, when she's talking about twists and turns, she's saying that

00:32:07.500 she got married and then her husband paid for her law school and then she cheated on 1.00

00:32:12.720 her husband while she was in law school and then she left her husband and six months later

00:32:17.460 married her law professor and now, and then she had her career. 0.51

00:32:20.460 Those are the twists and turns.

00:32:21.500 And I don't point that out to Cass Stones and Elizabeth Warren.

00:32:25.000 Politicians are often rotten, dirty people and they do rotten, dirty things and everybody's

00:32:29.540 got a past and everybody makes mistakes.

00:32:31.240 That's not what I'm saying.

00:32:32.100 I'm doing it to point out the hypocrisy and the sanctimony of Democrats, critics of the

00:32:37.180 president, critics of other Republicans and the news media who focus on every one of President

00:32:42.760 Trump's sexual misdeeds of which there are many.

00:32:45.700 They focus on all of the president's failed marriages, but they don't point this out.

00:32:50.200 They let her get away with twists and turns, twists and turns. 0.99

00:32:54.100 She leaves her husband, cheats on her husband, leaves her husband, marries her law professor,

00:32:57.980 leaves the guy who paid for her law school.

00:32:59.600 And so it's just twists and turns.

00:33:01.460 How brave, how powerful.

00:33:03.400 There was an article that came out, you know, obviously praising Elizabeth Warren in the

00:33:09.180 mainstream media and they said Elizabeth Warren's biggest mistake. 0.54

00:33:12.600 So I figured this would be an article about how she left her husband and, you know, but

00:33:16.340 look, people make big mistakes in life.

00:33:18.120 Okay.

00:33:19.380 No, no, no.

00:33:20.400 No, the big mistake was marrying her husband in the first place, her first husband.

00:33:24.660 That was the mistake because if not for that, she would be Saint Elizabeth.

00:33:27.420 Elizabeth, the great, the great spirit, Laya Watha.

00:33:30.160 But she has that and they bury it.

00:33:32.140 They don't focus on it at all.

00:33:34.480 And just that, oh gosh, I really can't stand that my mother washed more floors for less 0.60

00:33:39.640 money.

00:33:39.960 I don't know that that plays now either.

00:33:41.700 You know, if Mitt Romney in 2012 had just come out and said, I'm a rich guy.

00:33:47.260 I have a lot of money.

00:33:48.920 My dad was a rich guy and I'm a richer guy.

00:33:51.160 And yeah, I go on vacation and I have elevators in my house because I'm a rich guy.

00:33:54.420 And don't you want to be like me?

00:33:55.700 I'm a rich, cool guy.

00:33:57.980 It would have played.

00:33:58.820 It would have played so much better than saying, oh, I'm not that rich and I, well, we had to

00:34:03.380 do this for that and this and that.

00:34:04.460 It doesn't work.

00:34:05.460 Stop conceding.

00:34:06.660 Stop conceding points that you don't have to when your opponent is running away, when

00:34:11.220 you're advancing.

00:34:12.080 It doesn't make any sense.

00:34:13.200 We have got a lot more to talk about, especially down in Texas with my buddy Beta O'Rourke.

00:34:17.560 He's got a new song and dance number that is really going to take Texas by a storm.

00:34:22.760 Probably just Austin, if you know what I'm talking about.

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00:35:05.320 None of that matters.

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00:35:08.180 You know, there have been a lot of twists and turns in my life.

00:35:11.140 Been a lot of twists and turns in the political life of our country.

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00:35:29.540 We'll be right back.

00:35:30.280 Back to Texas.

00:35:41.400 You know, we've talked about Indiana.

00:35:42.920 We've talked about the Massachusetts.

00:35:44.740 We've talked about some races.

00:35:46.060 But you knew that I wasn't going to leave you without an update on Beto O'Rourke, my pal.

00:35:50.340 Before we talk about him in particular, just look at how ABC News, mainstream media, news

00:35:58.300 network, treats Democrat candidates like O'Rourke.

00:36:02.320 O'Rourke is kind of the special case, but he exemplifies how they treat all Democrats.

00:36:07.080 This is on the trail, according to ABC, on the trail with Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke.

00:36:13.500 One of the most simple, obvious strategies that I've seen employed in a modern campaign,

00:36:18.400 we just literally show up everywhere, all the time, for everyone.

00:36:22.600 You can't go 10 feet without an interruption from a Beto backer.

00:36:26.400 I love you, too.

00:36:27.500 Thank you all.

00:36:28.000 You're a rock star.

00:36:28.920 No, no, there's just so many great people who are.

00:36:30.760 Well, you really are.

00:36:31.180 You can't go anywhere without getting...

00:36:32.600 Hey! 0.99

00:36:33.580 Hey, guys.

00:36:35.040 O'Rourke, a three-term congressman from El Paso, has certainly captured the entire nation's attention as well.

00:36:41.660 Oh, he's captured the entire nation's attention.

00:36:44.060 And, oh, he's making certain female news anchors just go a little hot under the collar.

00:36:48.900 Oh, does anybody have a little fainting couch for me?

00:36:51.620 Yeah, okay.

00:36:52.580 And she goes, and she says, oh, you're a rock star.

00:36:54.540 He says, oh, stop it.

00:36:55.680 Stop it.

00:36:56.180 I'm not...

00:36:56.880 How much of a rock star?

00:36:57.980 Oh, they love you wherever you go.

00:37:00.580 By the way, he's walking through a bar.

00:37:02.600 He's just like...

00:37:03.240 He's at some campaign event.

00:37:04.800 There were, I don't know, 100 people there or something.

00:37:06.880 So you're like a rock star because you have any supporters at all in a Senate campaign that you've raised $40 million for.

00:37:13.260 Therefore, you're a rock...

00:37:14.420 Mostly national, by the way.

00:37:16.580 You've got to take a look at the money that comes from out of state as well as in from Texas.

00:37:20.420 The Democrats are betting big on this race that right now the polling doesn't seem so great.

00:37:24.980 That he's a rock star.

00:37:26.360 Okay.

00:37:27.000 How did the mainstream media cover President Trump's rally?

00:37:29.700 Because President Trump has a rally now in Texas, and he's got more than just 100 people waving at him in a bar.

00:37:35.160 He has people, I think about, what was it, 1,000 people, camping out overnight 24 hours before his rally so that they can get in here.

00:37:45.800 Just take a little...

00:37:46.940 This is from the campaign Facebook page.

00:37:48.700 Just a little glimpse of part of the encampment trying to get tickets for this show.

00:37:53.640 That doesn't even begin to show everybody.

00:38:13.120 I mean, this goes on and on and on.

00:38:14.600 This is actually what happens for rock stars.

00:38:16.960 And look, this is the great advantage of Trump.

00:38:18.560 The disadvantage is that he turns everything into a reality TV show, and people say it's tawdry, or it's not elevated, or it's not what our founders envisioned for the executive.

00:38:27.980 Okay, fair enough.

00:38:28.840 I totally get it.

00:38:29.880 The plus side is you've got a rock star as president.

00:38:32.260 You've got a showman.

00:38:33.280 You've got the greatest showman of his age.

00:38:34.840 And you've got these people, 1,000 people, camping out overnight in MAGA hats, waving that flag with the picture of Trump on a tank, like shooting fireworks.

00:38:43.960 I mean, this is like, you know, living inside an American pie on the 4th of July, level of excitement and patriotism.

00:38:51.200 They don't call him a rock star, though, do they?

00:38:53.120 No, they don't.

00:38:53.720 They don't call him a rock star.

00:38:54.780 They call Beta O'Rourke our rock star.

00:38:57.980 You know, the GOP is not going to get fair treatment.

00:39:00.980 And so back on this, oh, how do we all get along?

00:39:03.420 How do we get back to some standard of objectivity in our discourse, in our news media?

00:39:09.080 They don't want that.

00:39:10.040 They never wanted that.

00:39:11.160 They want to bring you back to a time that never existed, a mythical time when the news people were objective, and they were just getting the facts, and they treated both sides fairly.

00:39:21.420 They never treated both sides fairly.

00:39:23.120 They would huff and puff and go red in the face and get so excited when they were around Democrat candidates, and they would distort the views of conservatives, not just politicians, but rank and file activists and thought leaders as well.

00:39:35.920 You know, they tell you, I saw this yesterday on one of the panels with Bakari Sellers from CNN and Kyle Kolinsky, this YouTube lefty, and they do it so well.

00:39:46.980 Especially Bakari is very good at this.

00:39:49.180 They sit there and they say, you know, look, I just think we all need to come together.

00:39:53.300 We just need to come together.

00:39:54.320 I think we can finally, you know, admit that we need to, you know, socialize health care and open our borders up to everybody and impeach the president and raise taxes.

00:40:03.000 You know, just issues that we can all agree on.

00:40:05.320 You know, we just, and they do it.

00:40:06.820 They put on their serious face.

00:40:08.600 They put on their objective face, and then they try to push radical leftism.

00:40:13.320 We shouldn't buy it anymore.

00:40:14.540 We should laugh at that.

00:40:16.000 We should laugh at the force that the left-wing media have made of themselves.

00:40:19.920 Speaking of Beto, Beto has a new campaign theme, a new motif that's gone around.

00:40:29.460 These are a bunch of Beto supporters rallying in a park.

00:40:34.180 I'll let the clip speak for itself.

00:40:36.820 Texas!

00:40:38.160 There's a choice on the slate.

00:40:40.160 Hey, hey, Texas!

00:40:42.120 We can all celebrate.

00:40:43.980 Because Texas! 0.98

00:40:44.960 There is one candidate who's got hands down.

00:40:49.640 Clear the winner!

00:40:52.220 Texas!

00:40:53.420 Time to make a new choice!

00:40:55.540 The village people.

00:40:56.960 That's Beto.

00:40:58.240 You know, nothing says Texas like a bunch of leather daddy gay pop stars singing about, hanging around the schvitz at the YMCA. 1.00

00:41:07.820 Nothing says Texas, right?

00:41:09.480 That's, that, I don't know who is writing these campaign strategies.

00:41:13.660 But this really illustrates it.

00:41:14.940 Because I bet that this is about as close to grassroots as you get for a Democrat campaign in Texas.

00:41:22.040 You know, there weren't maybe a hundred people there or something like that.

00:41:24.780 And these guys really think that they're speaking for everybody.

00:41:28.920 They really think that this is the cultural wave.

00:41:31.900 That they won the culture war 30 years ago.

00:41:34.280 And we all just have to go along with it.

00:41:36.580 And increasingly, because they're in their own little echo chambers, they've lost that control over the culture.

00:41:42.820 They've lost all of that.

00:41:43.820 And so they think that going out in ponchos in the middle of Texas and singing the YMCA is somehow cool.

00:41:51.120 Or somehow rallying.

00:41:52.640 Or somehow encouraging.

00:41:53.900 They're all also kind of old.

00:41:55.180 You know, they're all, I don't mean to be mean to these people.

00:41:57.580 But that isn't cool.

00:41:59.300 It isn't cool to see a bunch of 50-year-olds dancing around a park to 1970s pop music.

00:42:04.720 So that's what they think.

00:42:06.260 I don't, there might be an esoteric message here for Elizabeth Warren.

00:42:10.160 Because I'm pretty sure the Native American from the village people is like orders of magnitude more Indian than Senator Liyawatha.

00:42:19.180 But who knows?

00:42:19.960 I don't know.

00:42:20.420 I haven't seen his DNA test.

00:42:22.120 Maybe he'll come out with a DNA test sometime soon.

00:42:24.360 I have a sign of the apocalypse for you, which is speaking of CNN, I'm going to say something nice about CNN.

00:42:31.380 I know, I know.

00:42:32.540 Pull over your car.

00:42:34.040 Pull over, I know, get, strap yourself in.

00:42:37.160 Because I actually saw something on CNN today that I sort of liked.

00:42:41.340 And it proved to me why we're never going to get any more of it.

00:42:43.440 Jared Kushner sat down to talk Middle East policy and specifically the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia.

00:42:49.260 He sat down with very far left commentator, Van Jones.

00:42:55.380 Here was, here's just a little tiny clip of their discussion.

00:42:58.520 Let's just stay with it.

00:42:59.440 So, I mean, you said that you're going to try to get to the facts.

00:43:02.940 Do you trust the Saudis to investigate themselves? 1.00

00:43:05.640 I mean, it seems like MBS is like the prime suspect.

00:43:09.160 He's also the prime investigator.

00:43:10.720 I mean, do you trust the Saudis to sort this out? 0.99

00:43:13.680 Yeah, like I said, I mean, we're getting facts in from multiple places.

00:43:16.800 And then once those facts come in, the Secretary of State will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe and what we think is credible and what we think is not credible.

00:43:29.920 Even Trump says there's like deception and lies.

00:43:32.760 I mean, do you see anything that seems deceptive?

00:43:36.820 I see things that are deceptive every day.

00:43:39.160 I see them in the Middle East.

00:43:40.380 I see them in Washington.

00:43:41.800 And so, again, I think that we have our eyes wide open.

00:43:46.800 Oh, is that, is that.

00:43:50.560 I'm actually, I'm joking there because I actually really liked this interview.

00:43:55.120 I thought it was a very good interview.

00:43:57.100 I thought Jared Kushner explained the position of the administration very well.

00:44:02.040 He was very articulate.

00:44:03.300 He had a pretty clear-eyed view, as he just said.

00:44:05.240 He said the administration, he has a clear-eyed view and the administration is taking a clear-eyed view towards Saudi Arabia.

00:44:11.600 And I thought Van Jones did very well.

00:44:13.220 Van Jones is a far-left guy, but he's at least smart and he can be serious when he wants to be.

00:44:19.700 And this was a serious discussion.

00:44:21.020 He wasn't trying to slam him or have a gotcha moment or twist his words or be unfair.

00:44:27.380 He actually, he was pushing him.

00:44:28.780 He was asking pretty tough questions.

00:44:30.340 But he was giving Kushner a chance to explain the policy of the administration.

00:44:34.360 And we actually got something out of it.

00:44:36.220 I now can see the Saudi policy, you know, the policy towards Saudi Arabia a little more clearly.

00:44:41.400 I can see a little bit where the White House is going and what they're thinking and who's doing it.

00:44:46.120 And so good on Van Jones.

00:44:47.340 Good on CNN for airing it.

00:44:48.440 They're never going to do it again.

00:44:49.580 They're never going to do it again.

00:44:50.900 The only reason I saw this clip is because it was trending on Twitter.

00:44:54.680 And it was trending because the left-wing base, the CNN audience, well, actually by CNN audience, the only people who actually watch CNN regularly are commuters in airports.

00:45:04.780 Because without airport TVs having CNN on, the network would go bankrupt.

00:45:08.740 But the five people who watch CNN were furious.

00:45:11.560 And then the left-wing that saw CNN, saw this clip going around, were furious that Van Jones didn't get up and punch Jared in the face.

00:45:18.460 Because you can't be civil to Republicans, says Hillary Clinton.

00:45:21.520 Kick them in the face, says Eric Holder.

00:45:24.420 Go attack them at their homes and their kids. 0.98

00:45:27.260 And apparently their son-in-laws, says Maxine Waters.

00:45:29.800 So they were so furious that we actually got a serious discussion out of it.

00:45:33.500 You know, people blame politicians for the kind of politicians they are.

00:45:38.740 They blame the media for the kind of media that they get.

00:45:42.460 You get what you want.

00:45:44.540 In this life, you get what you want.

00:45:47.280 And if you, the reason that we elect certain people to represent us is because those people are behaving in a way that can convince us to vote for them.

00:45:57.840 The founders and the framers were very wise when they created the House of Representatives.

00:46:03.120 And the House of Representatives represents the passions of the people.

00:46:06.260 So when you look at your politicians and you're disgusted by them, take a look in the mirror because you're looking at it.

00:46:12.420 You're looking at people who are behaving in a way such that you're incentivized to vote for them and to keep them in office.

00:46:19.440 And it's the same thing with the media.

00:46:20.760 You know, one thing I noticed at Politicon is that the lefties there were not sophisticated thinkers.

00:46:28.140 I'm trying to say this in a nice way that doesn't sound very arrogant.

00:46:30.880 They had bad arguments.

00:46:32.320 If they had arguments at all, they weren't addressing questions.

00:46:34.960 They were making absurd logical fallacies.

00:46:37.660 And that's the audience.

00:46:40.100 That's the audience for the left.

00:46:41.800 That's the audience for CNN.

00:46:43.240 And so there's no incentive to do that.

00:46:45.320 Fortunately, we have a new media that hasn't totally been censored.

00:46:47.980 So you can get, you know, if there's an audience for a conservative podcast or this or that, you can go out there and get it.

00:46:54.440 But you're going to get what you want.

00:46:56.440 And, you know, when I hear how do we all get along, how do we have a better country, how do we have a more sophisticated politics, take a look in the mirror.

00:47:03.760 It's you.

00:47:04.180 You're the people.

00:47:04.760 We the people.

00:47:05.320 We vote for people.

00:47:06.340 We govern ourselves, at least for now, at least mostly, although we give that power away time and time again.

00:47:12.800 And in the midterm elections, we're going to see what people want.

00:47:15.840 That's all.

00:47:16.400 That's all I got today.

00:47:17.160 I know we ran out of time.

00:47:18.080 Sad.

00:47:18.320 I had more to talk about.

00:47:19.300 We'll talk about it tomorrow.

00:47:20.320 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:47:21.720 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:47:22.940 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 22, 2018

Ep. 238 - The Cold Civil War

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