The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 243 - What's Wrong With Birthright Citizenship

00:00:00.000 President Trump has vowed to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship,

00:00:05.180 a loophole by which foreign nationals game the U.S. immigration system.

00:00:09.720 Critics on both the left and the right are calling foul,

00:00:12.520 but the strategy is both just and brilliant.

00:00:15.260 I'm telling you, I will explain why.

00:00:17.200 Then the leftist pots are calling conservative kettles black on anti-Semitism in America.

00:00:22.920 GQ's Julia Eoff accuses the president of radicalizing more people than ISIS,

00:00:28.380 and two lesbians carry the same baby to term. 1.00

00:00:31.820 That's it. I'm leaving today. I'm out of here.

00:00:33.500 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.100 That last story really snuck up on me.

00:00:44.500 I forgot that was in the show today.

00:00:46.620 Oh, we'll save that for dessert.

00:00:48.280 That'll be the nice dessert on our political dinner that we're all having together.

00:00:53.160 It's nice to be back.

00:00:54.480 It's very nice to be back here in the broom closet.

00:00:56.300 I was on the road for a little over a week.

00:00:58.840 We went to Grand Canyon University.

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00:01:17.280 That was really enjoyable.

00:01:18.660 We talked about a few things.

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00:01:35.560 Now I come back and President Trump is giving the United States

00:01:39.340 one of the greatest civics lessons in a very long time

00:01:42.140 by threatening to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship.

00:01:47.360 We will get to that in one second.

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00:03:52.680 So, I come back.

00:03:55.080 I actually didn't even get to come back for this.

00:03:56.720 I was just on the airplane this morning on my airplane Wi-Fi,

00:04:00.080 one of the miracles of modern free market capitalism and our economic system.

00:04:05.120 And I saw that President Trump is now threatening to end birthright citizenship.

00:04:10.220 Of course, the left is up in arms.

00:04:13.640 Some critics on the right are up in arms.

00:04:15.560 They're saying, oh my gosh, this is the end of the American experiment.

00:04:19.420 Our founders and our framers, they started this country.

00:04:23.920 They rebelled against British rule so that the children of foreign nationals 1.00

00:04:28.720 can access the modern American welfare state.

00:04:31.180 That's why we fought the war in 1776, baby,

00:04:34.260 is so that people could come here on birth tourism,

00:04:36.920 enter our country illegally, have children, and access American welfare programs.

00:04:41.280 That's what Patrick Henry said.

00:04:42.980 He said, give me birthright citizenship for the children of foreign nationals

00:04:45.940 to access welfare programs or give me death.

00:04:48.600 Is that what he said? I forget.

00:04:50.220 I don't remember. It's been a while since I've read the history books.

00:04:52.280 Here is President Trump explaining his proposed policy to Axios on HBO.

00:04:59.060 On immigration, some legal scholars believe you can get rid of birthright citizenship

00:05:03.160 without changing the Constitution.

00:05:05.020 With an executive order.

00:05:06.100 Exactly.

00:05:06.700 Right.

00:05:07.280 Have you thought about that?

00:05:08.220 Yes.

00:05:08.900 Tell me more.

00:05:09.640 It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment.

00:05:13.560 Fourth amendment.

00:05:14.600 You don't.

00:05:14.980 You don't.

00:05:15.700 Number one.

00:05:16.380 Number one, you don't need that.

00:05:17.480 I mean, that's in dispute.

00:05:18.620 That's very much in dispute.

00:05:19.860 Well, you can definitely do it with an act of Congress.

00:05:23.040 But now they're saying, I can do it just with an executive order.

00:05:26.940 Now, how ridiculous.

00:05:27.860 We're the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, 1.00

00:05:31.940 and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years

00:05:35.460 with all of those benefits.

00:05:36.880 It's ridiculous.

00:05:38.020 It's ridiculous.

00:05:38.920 And it has to end.

00:05:40.320 Have you talked about that with counsel?

00:05:42.300 Yeah, I have.

00:05:43.240 So we're in the process.

00:05:44.360 It's in the process.

00:05:45.160 It'll happen.

00:05:46.860 With an executive order.

00:05:47.880 That's what you're talking about, right?

00:05:48.960 Yes, exactly.

00:05:49.600 That's a very interesting point.

00:05:50.260 I didn't think anybody knew that but me.

00:05:52.060 I thought I was the only one.

00:05:53.420 Jonathan, I'm impressed.

00:05:54.260 I've got a good guess.

00:05:54.800 Good guess.

00:05:56.800 Terrific.

00:05:57.620 Excellent timing.

00:05:58.760 Excellent strategy for a few reasons.

00:06:01.260 One, some conservatives are calling foul.

00:06:04.600 They're saying, you can't do this through an executive order.

00:06:06.540 He has to do it through legislation or a constitutional amendment or this or that.

00:06:09.560 Or the courts have to decide, yes, I agree.

00:06:14.220 The answer is the last one.

00:06:16.940 But what is this all about?

00:06:18.620 This entire executive order is not about actually changing the law of the land.

00:06:23.800 This executive order is about asking the courts to finally define birthright citizenship.

00:06:30.500 So the concept of birthright citizenship, the concept of anchor babies, it comes from the 14th

00:06:36.880 amendment, specifically this line, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject

00:06:43.540 to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

00:06:50.880 Okay, what was the purpose of this amendment?

00:06:52.880 To make slaves, former slaves, citizens. 0.80

00:06:56.200 That's the purpose of it.

00:06:57.940 The purpose of it was to revise, to undo the Dred Scott decision,

00:07:04.000 which said that blacks can't be citizens and this says all persons born or naturalized in the United

00:07:08.660 States, former slaves and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the U.S.

00:07:14.100 Now that the key phrase here is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning that this

00:07:21.940 excluded Native Americans, very specifically it excluded Native Americans who were subject to

00:07:27.000 their own jurisdiction, their own tribal jurisdiction.

00:07:29.860 This excluded the children of diplomats who happened to be here.

00:07:33.720 If a diplomat was visiting the United States, his children were born here.

00:07:36.720 They did not have birthright citizenship.

00:07:38.860 This excluded foreign nationals.

00:07:40.960 Certainly the foreign nationals who come to the U.S. from Mexico or Guatemala or Honduras or wherever,

00:07:46.680 certainly they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

00:07:50.580 They're subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign entity.

00:07:53.720 So at no point during the ratification of the 14th Amendment did its authors or the public believe

00:08:01.280 that this was to give birthright citizenship to foreign nationals who just happened to be

00:08:06.520 in the United States at the time.

00:08:08.500 The trouble is this has never really been challenged.

00:08:11.580 There was a court case, I think, in 1898, which defined birthright citizenship for a Chinese national.

00:08:18.400 I think the parents had legal status in the U.S., but they weren't citizens.

00:08:23.420 And the kid who was born got birthright citizenship.

00:08:26.540 And this has accelerated in recent years, but it's never really been defined.

00:08:30.780 So President Trump said he's going to take away birthright citizenship through an executive order.

00:08:37.480 This is probably the best way to do this.

00:08:40.040 I think it's better than legislation.

00:08:42.080 This is the best way to do it.

00:08:43.060 Because ultimately, because this is a matter of constitutional interpretation,

00:08:47.500 this is going to come down to a court case.

00:08:49.880 This is going to be defined by the Supreme Court.

00:08:52.140 This is why it was very important to elect Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, 0.97

00:08:55.520 because President Trump and Cocaine Mitch have gotten a zillion federal judges on the bench

00:09:00.020 and two excellent Supreme Court justices.

00:09:02.260 So we've now got conservative, originalist justices on the bench and at the federal courts

00:09:07.600 who could define this.

00:09:09.560 If President Trump tried to go through the legislative process to take away birthright citizenship,

00:09:16.920 which should be taken away, we'll go into that in a second,

00:09:19.520 but to take away this fictional right to birthright citizenship,

00:09:23.500 first of all, it would bog down the Congress forever.

00:09:26.220 They'd get nothing else done.

00:09:27.260 We wouldn't get more tax cuts.

00:09:28.300 We wouldn't get what is being hinted at as the possibility of entitlement reform.

00:09:32.240 We wouldn't get any of those things.

00:09:33.520 It would bog them down.

00:09:34.360 We would probably lose certain legislators in swing districts. 0.73

00:09:40.920 It would be demagogued constantly.

00:09:43.060 It would be demagogued as taking away citizenship from Americans,

00:09:46.320 as taking away citizenship from poor little kids or something.

00:09:49.340 It would be a real mess, and it would ultimately be challenged in the courts anyway.

00:09:53.980 So it wouldn't actually get us any further than this executive order will.

00:09:57.200 At least by doing this executive order, first of all,

00:10:00.120 it's immediately going to be challenged and probably be stopped or suspended by a left-wing court,

00:10:07.780 and then it's going to work its way up and eventually make it to the Supreme Court.

00:10:11.200 That's probably what has to happen.

00:10:13.200 You know, 150 years later, you know, a century and a half later,

00:10:17.060 it's probably time that we define what the 14th Amendment has to say about birthright citizenship.

00:10:23.660 There's an argument to be made for either side, fine,

00:10:25.840 but certainly at the time of the ratification of the 14th Amendment,

00:10:30.980 it was not considered that the 14th Amendment gave birthright citizenship to Guatemalan nationals

00:10:36.620 who happened to be in the United States, or Chinese nationals for that matter.

00:10:40.660 So I can't wait for it to go through the courts.

00:10:43.100 It's also great timing because the midterms are coming up.

00:10:45.540 Illegal immigration is a big winner in the United States. 1.00

00:10:48.200 Sovereignty is a big winner issue in the United States for conservatives,

00:10:52.400 and so even the timing is great, but obviously if Donald Trump knows anything about politics,

00:10:58.780 it's about the media of politics.

00:11:00.840 It's about the cameras of politics.

00:11:02.480 I will point out even in that clip on HBO, he's wearing a gold and green tie.

00:11:09.180 I've been advocating this for years.

00:11:12.080 I've been advocating the green tie for years for Republicans.

00:11:15.760 I hate that we have to wear red ties.

00:11:18.260 They stuck us with it.

00:11:19.280 It was really Tim Russert who did that.

00:11:21.040 They used to alternate between blue and red for Republicans and Democrats.

00:11:25.500 Then sometime around the year 2000, they decided, I think it was,

00:11:28.800 I actually sort of blamed Tim Russert for this, that Republicans were red and Democrats are blue.

00:11:33.440 But red is awful.

00:11:34.420 We have bad associations with red.

00:11:36.340 Red is the color of communists.

00:11:37.740 Red is the color of stop signs and stoplights.

00:11:40.280 Red is the color of danger, of fire.

00:11:42.080 And it's associated with Republicans, which is absurd because the reds, 1.00

00:11:46.340 the commie pinko reds are, are now the Democrat party, which has embraced socialists,

00:11:52.380 40, 40 plus socialist candidates across the country.

00:11:55.100 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now running as Jenny from the block, even though she's from Westchester.

00:12:00.840 So I actually even love that he's wearing that because green is the color of money.

00:12:04.380 Gold is the color of Donald Trump, I guess.

00:12:07.120 So it's a fine combination.

00:12:08.320 I hope, this is a sidebar, but I really hope that conservatives embrace that in the future.

00:12:12.920 I also want to point out, by making this announcement on HBO, not on Fox News, not on Fox and Friends,

00:12:19.120 but on HBO, you're triggering a huge lefty audience and you're, you're teaching a civics lesson.

00:12:26.880 I've long said that President Trump, whether he knows anything about our constitution,

00:12:30.840 anything about our system of government or checks and balances or what the various branches do.

00:12:36.260 I don't even care if he knows about those.

00:12:38.480 He is the greatest civics teacher that we have had certainly in my lifetime,

00:12:42.700 probably in modern American history,

00:12:44.280 because he is forcing people to debate fairly basic aspects of our government that have been neglected.

00:12:52.160 Before this, what percentage of the population would you say knew that there is a longstanding debate

00:12:58.640 over what the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship?

00:13:03.320 Two people, three people, the people in this room and the people watching this show, maybe?

00:13:07.900 Very few people knew that.

00:13:09.440 And now when Trump says it, you know, President Trump, I love this strategy.

00:13:13.740 I love it when other conservatives do this too, to stake out the extreme position.

00:13:20.140 And then you trigger the other side into losing their minds

00:13:23.320 and taking a much more extreme position on the other side

00:13:26.480 and then figuring out where the reality lies.

00:13:30.440 And in that situation, it lies more on the conservative side.

00:13:34.480 The argument for birthright citizenship is pretty weak.

00:13:37.480 And if there was an argument in the bygone days of yonder,

00:13:42.900 now there's much less of an argument because there's a much more robust welfare state.

00:13:46.940 So birthright citizenship implies a certain monetary value,

00:13:53.980 a certain property value that comes at the expense of native-born citizens or of naturalized citizens.

00:14:00.680 So I'm really glad we're having this debate.

00:14:04.040 This gets back to the classic Trump move that really started to win me over

00:14:09.980 even during the primary campaign when I was very skeptical of him.

00:14:13.020 He was talking to a reporter about the question of anchor babies.

00:14:17.580 Here he is.

00:14:18.980 The term anchor baby, that's an offensive term.

00:14:22.180 People find that...

00:14:22.820 You mean it's not politically correct and yet everybody uses it?

00:14:25.960 So you know what?

00:14:26.920 Give me a different term.

00:14:27.760 Give me a different term.

00:14:28.460 What else would you like to say?

00:14:29.920 The American-born child of an undocumented... 0.99

00:14:32.020 Oh, you want me to say that?

00:14:32.980 Okay.

00:14:33.280 I'll use the word anchor baby.

00:14:34.860 Excuse me.

00:14:35.780 I'll use the word anchor baby.

00:14:37.840 Oh, you want me to say the future undocumented bird? 1.00

00:14:40.640 Yeah, you want...

00:14:41.280 Okay, no, I'm going to say the word anchor baby.

00:14:43.780 And it threw it into stark relief.

00:14:48.020 We've all used the term anchor baby.

00:14:49.520 Donald Trump didn't invent this term.

00:14:51.220 We've used it for decades to describe the process of people who come to the United States

00:14:55.460 while they're pregnant, when they're just about to give birth,

00:14:57.980 to have the baby, to get one of the most valuable things on earth,

00:15:04.000 which is American citizenship for their child.

00:15:07.800 In part for what it'll do for the child,

00:15:09.940 and in part then because it can stir chain migration

00:15:12.320 and bring the rest of the family over when the kid has a U.S. citizenship.

00:15:16.820 And because you can't then deport the kid who has U.S. citizenship,

00:15:20.220 and you're probably not going to deport his parents.

00:15:22.600 So the left has been euphemizing this forever.

00:15:26.980 It's like, oh, no, we've got to use this, we've got to use this.

00:15:28.820 And he says, no, it's anchor babies.

00:15:30.660 This is really happening.

00:15:31.780 You know, this is not, President Trump sometimes exaggerates things.

00:15:37.080 Conservatives can exaggerate things.

00:15:38.820 This is not being exaggerated.

00:15:41.040 There is such an industry as birth tourism,

00:15:44.180 specifically among Chinese women, especially here in California, we see it. 0.97

00:15:48.840 There were articles going back way before the Trump era,

00:15:51.660 way before Trump was running for president,

00:15:53.280 which described these compounds for birth tourism.

00:15:57.460 And one article about it described them, quote,

00:15:59.840 like a brothel in reverse, which is a very charming description, I think,

00:16:05.260 really does explain what it is.

00:16:06.980 It's these women. 1.00

00:16:08.020 You get a dozen, two dozen women in a dirty room, a filthy room. 1.00

00:16:12.060 Can you even imagine this?

00:16:13.220 You get a dozen or two dozen six-month pregnant women. 1.00

00:16:16.760 Oh, dear God.

00:16:17.680 What hell on earth that must be.

00:16:19.060 And they're all just in this room together in these shabby conditions, dirt, you know, filth everywhere.

00:16:25.560 And they're paying a ton of money to do it.

00:16:27.980 In 2015, a year before the 2016 election, there was a big article about this, quote,

00:16:33.700 the tourist baby boom bringing Chinese women to the U.S. to have their babies as a growth business

00:16:39.340 and homeland security is cracking down.

00:16:41.820 That wasn't homeland security under the Obama administration.

00:16:45.420 That was homeland security under, or rather, that wasn't homeland security under the Trump administration.

00:16:49.960 It was under the Obama administration.

00:16:51.860 It was under a Democrat government because it's highly immoral.

00:16:57.040 It's highly immoral to have these women living in the shadows, living in filthy conditions, 1.00

00:17:02.120 just to exploit a loophole in the present non-enforcement of our immigration regime.

00:17:09.400 It's also criminal.

00:17:10.440 It's not criminal to come to the United States if you're pregnant.

00:17:14.340 That one you still can do.

00:17:16.360 But it is visa fraud to lie about your intentions.

00:17:20.180 It is visa fraud to lie and say you're going on vacation when really what you're doing is

00:17:24.260 staying in the U.S. for two or three months or four months to have a baby and get U.S. citizenship

00:17:29.680 for that baby.

00:17:30.340 It is lying when you say that you're just going for the tacos or something when really you've

00:17:36.180 paid an agency to set up a living condition for you to have your child and exploit this hole in the immigration system.

00:17:44.020 You know, as of 2012, the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that 36,000 pregnancy tourists would come from around the world every year,

00:17:54.240 just in 2012.

00:17:55.680 36,000.

00:17:56.560 That's not nobody.

00:17:57.640 I know that in a country of 300 million, that doesn't seem like very much.

00:18:00.960 But for a relatively new industry, that is a pretty shocking number.

00:18:05.360 It shows that there are pretty entrenched business interests here.

00:18:08.100 And obviously, this doesn't only apply to Chinese women and Taiwanese women. 1.00

00:18:14.000 And this applies to Latin American people who have been exploiting the porous border with Mexico for decades. 0.98

00:18:21.120 And not just them exploiting it.

00:18:22.520 It's actually the left in America and Democrats in America who are exploiting those people who desperately want to make it to the U.S.

00:18:29.140 and encouraging them to commit crimes, to skip the line, to undermine our immigration laws,

00:18:34.120 and to make it over here knowing that we're not going to kick them out.

00:18:36.820 This creates very, very perverse incentives.

00:18:40.120 And this empowers really bad hombres, to borrow a phrase from our current immigration debate.

00:18:46.280 Really bad people get empowered by this.

00:18:48.680 Because all, we were talking about this yesterday, all we see, all the left wants us to see is the cute little baby shot at American Future.

00:18:57.260 Cute little woman wants her son to be pregnant. 1.00

00:19:02.100 We'll get to that story later about the two pregnant lesbians who carried the same child. 1.00

00:19:06.460 The woman wants her son to have an American future, American citizenship. 0.86

00:19:11.060 Right. I understand. I love being an American.

00:19:13.700 It's one of the greatest blessings one can imagine on earth.

00:19:18.440 But the country can't support everybody and we need to have laws.

00:19:22.960 We need to be a country of laws that governs ourselves, that also allows people who are citizens to run this country.

00:19:30.600 So when you've got these awful incentives, when you, especially with a welfare system such as ours,

00:19:36.120 which is so, so generous everywhere, and an immigration regime that isn't enforced,

00:19:41.420 you encourage these predators, these human traffickers, these coyotes, to bring pregnant women across, to bring young girls across.

00:19:50.140 And we know from that study from Fusion and from Amnesty International that 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who are brought across that border illegally are raped or sexually assaulted.

00:20:00.320 That is a horrible thing that you're encouraging, but you are encouraging it.

00:20:03.860 And even birthright citizenship, even just that, is encouraging the breaking of this law.

00:20:10.740 So you've got to think, who is birthright citizenship helping?

00:20:13.360 It's helping illegal aliens who are cutting the line, who are damaging, who are undermining our immigration system, 1.00

00:20:22.660 who are disadvantaging people who are doing their part and following the rules and waiting in line.

00:20:28.740 It's, it's benefiting illegal aliens of another sort who are these birth tourists who fly in from China, have the kid and fly back. 0.66

00:20:37.420 It's benefiting coyotes and human smugglers and drug traffickers who use these humans that they're ferreting across the border to carry drugs and to bring crime in and to empower the cartels down there.

00:20:51.340 And, and, and it's, and it's encouraging Democrats who want to flood the country with illegal aliens because they think statistically eventually with an amnesty they'll get more of those voters.

00:21:01.580 So, and, and, you know, I'm not saying that's in any particular order, by the way, in, in order of how heinous that is, but it's really advantage, uh, benefiting pretty terrible people.

00:21:12.360 Why would we continue that?

00:21:13.800 Why would we continue to leave that incentive there when we could correct it when it's not in the constitution itself?

00:21:19.100 Um, I mean, this is, this is a topic of serious concern.

00:21:23.500 You know, who's not concerned though?

00:21:25.760 Shepard Smith.

00:21:26.360 I, sometimes, my friends who are on the left, they say, oh, Michael, I hate Fox News.

00:21:31.720 I never watch Fox.

00:21:32.920 They always, when, when they refer to Fox News, they're really referring to every right wing outlet.

00:21:36.960 Fox is just the one that's on cable.

00:21:38.660 They say, oh, I, you know, but I kind of like Shepard Smith.

00:21:41.220 Say, right, you like the one, the Democrat.

00:21:43.160 Yeah, you like the left winger at the network.

00:21:44.940 That's why.

00:21:45.260 No, no.

00:21:46.280 He's at Fox News.

00:21:46.880 No, he is a left winger.

00:21:47.920 And he's really, really going out pretty far, uh, these days.

00:21:51.380 Here is Shepard Smith talking about that, uh, that caravan that's making its way up through

00:21:57.460 Latin America, uh, now whittled down to 5,000 from 14 down to seven, now down to five.

00:22:02.900 Here is Shepard Smith's hot take on it.

00:22:06.580 Tomorrow.

00:22:07.480 The migrants, according to Fox News reporting, are more than two months away, if any of them

00:22:13.520 actually come here.

00:22:14.340 But tomorrow is one week before the midterm election, which is what all of this is about.

00:22:23.060 There is no invasion.

00:22:25.160 No one's coming to get you.

00:22:27.400 There's nothing at all to worry about.

00:22:29.880 When they did this to us, got us all riled up in April, remember?

00:22:33.400 The result was 14 arrests.

00:22:36.180 We're America.

00:22:37.080 We can handle it.

00:22:39.920 Yes, that's right, Shepard.

00:22:41.140 There were only 14 arrests, which is a terrible thing because we have a thousand people at

00:22:45.520 least crossing the border every single day.

00:22:47.460 That is something to worry about.

00:22:49.740 That is, one, because of everything we just spoke about, all of the perverse incentives

00:22:54.560 of illegal immigration.

00:22:56.320 Two, because of the cultural question of assimilation.

00:22:58.880 We like to bring in a lot of people into America. 0.99

00:23:01.040 We want people to, to send their best, to quote the president.

00:23:04.860 But assimilation is very difficult under the best of circumstances.

00:23:08.040 Right now, we have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population.

00:23:11.580 Since 1890, I think.

00:23:13.300 1880 or 1890.

00:23:14.840 And that's very difficult when you have half of the country discouraging assimilation.

00:23:19.420 Discouraging becoming Americans and entering into that melting pot.

00:23:23.700 Also, we'll see when they get here.

00:23:25.860 Right now, these, some of these migrants, apparently, the leaders of them, are demanding 1.00

00:23:30.480 that Mexico pay for fast transportation up to the United States.

00:23:35.220 They're demanding, quote, safe and dignified transportation from this foreign government 1.00

00:23:39.880 to bring them to another foreign government so that they can violate their immigration 1.00

00:23:44.240 laws up there.

00:23:46.280 So certainly, this group of illegal aliens is not their best. 1.00

00:23:50.120 They're trying to pretend that it's a bunch of cute little children who just want a better

00:23:53.360 life.

00:23:53.740 Like, all of the people that I've seen interviewed, and I've watched a lot of footage over the

00:23:58.080 last week or two, these are guys.

00:24:00.220 I mean, these are grown men who are angry.

00:24:03.060 There was, there was a dispute at the Mexican border, the southern Mexican border the other

00:24:07.700 day.

00:24:08.160 People were injured.

00:24:09.140 It turned violent.

00:24:10.000 And so, uh, Shepard Smith is preening here.

00:24:13.380 He's saying, it's no big deal.

00:24:14.300 We should just have open borders. 0.98

00:24:15.820 It, we're America.

00:24:16.900 It doesn't matter.

00:24:17.660 We're America.

00:24:18.340 So therefore, we don't need an immigration system.

00:24:20.360 We're America.

00:24:21.200 So therefore, we don't have the right to control who enters our country. 0.57

00:24:23.580 So he's preening about this.

00:24:24.920 I wonder, every time that Shepard makes one of these comments, how many votes does he win

00:24:30.540 for the Republican Party in the midterms?

00:24:32.560 How many, every time he says, come on, stop complaining about open borders.

00:24:36.080 Like, well, all right, another 10,000 for the GOP.

00:24:38.560 Oh, come on, stop it. 0.88

00:24:39.660 It doesn't, it doesn't matter if foreign nationals invade your country and lower wages, particularly 0.99

00:24:45.920 for unskilled labor.

00:24:47.980 That doesn't matter.

00:24:49.160 Okay.

00:24:49.500 Another 10,000, another 20,000 votes for the GOP.

00:24:51.740 Chalk it up.

00:24:52.400 Keep it up.

00:24:52.940 I really, I, I really enjoy it when the left is honest about what they really think.

00:24:58.180 At least Shepard Smith, one, he's a pretty entertaining broadcaster and two, he's honest

00:25:02.980 about what he thinks.

00:25:04.000 He says, yeah, it doesn't matter.

00:25:05.780 Open borders, cross the border. 0.98

00:25:07.240 It doesn't matter one little bit.

00:25:08.260 I don't care about the law.

00:25:09.860 I don't care that you care about the law.

00:25:12.300 I don't care how you want to govern the country.

00:25:14.520 I want lawlessness.

00:25:16.700 All right.

00:25:17.100 At least you're honest.

00:25:17.740 That's an argument.

00:25:18.680 I would that the entire Democrat Party were as honest as a Shepard Smith.

00:25:23.400 It's a really unpopular point of view, but, but, but that's the one that they're holding

00:25:28.100 now.

00:25:28.380 And if only we could go up to every Democrat running for office and say, what will you do

00:25:32.200 about the caravan?

00:25:33.800 Hamana, Hamana, Hamana.

00:25:34.880 I mean, all of the, I think Claire McCaskill would be the only one at this point who would

00:25:38.280 actually say, no, keep them back, keep them back.

00:25:40.860 But so many are now held hostage by the base of their party, the far left base.

00:25:47.120 And speaking about how everything is Trump's fault, I just, that's just the theme of today's

00:25:51.980 show, several weeks of shows, probably until the midterms, we're going to talk about how

00:25:56.040 everything is Trump's fault, according to the left.

00:25:57.820 President Trump is being criticized and blamed for anti-Semitism in America in the wake of

00:26:04.800 that shooting in Pittsburgh.

00:26:08.040 Now, where is the anti-Semitism in America?

00:26:11.660 We know that President Trump is the most pro-Israel president, probably in American history.

00:26:17.620 They have a train station dedicated to him in Jerusalem.

00:26:20.800 You know, his, his, his daughter is a convert to Judaism.

00:26:23.540 His son-in-law is, is being put in charge of Middle East peace.

00:26:28.620 We know that this guy is very, very pro-Israel.

00:26:31.220 Where is anti-Semitism in America though?

00:26:32.980 It's all on the left.

00:26:34.200 It's in the boycott, divest and sanction movement, which holds that the Jewish state is an apartheid

00:26:39.440 government, which encourages students on campuses across the country to, to have their universities

00:26:46.300 divest, pull money out of Israel, not participate in academic conferences in Israel.

00:26:51.700 I think Stephen Hawking, before he died, pulled out of an academic conference because he hates

00:26:56.520 Israel that much.

00:26:58.680 The left, the academic and political left, despise the Israeli state.

00:27:03.160 Recently, at the University of Michigan, there were two professors who refused to write letters

00:27:07.860 of recommendation for students to study in Israel.

00:27:11.080 Why?

00:27:11.800 Because they hate the state of Israel.

00:27:13.860 They don't consider it legitimate.

00:27:15.600 They want it to disappear.

00:27:17.160 At UC Irvine, which is not very far from us in Los Angeles, at UC Irvine, they have an

00:27:23.700 anti-Zionism week.

00:27:26.440 Week.

00:27:27.220 Imagine if you went down to Irvine wearing a Make America Great Again hat.

00:27:32.000 Probably they would shut down the campus. 0.77

00:27:34.300 There would be a hate crime alert.

00:27:36.380 You'd be expelled if you were a student at the university.

00:27:39.460 But for a week, they have anti-Zionism week, which portrays Jews in the Jewish state as

00:27:46.380 monsters, as tyrants, as oppressors.

00:27:49.880 That's where the anti-Semitism is.

00:27:51.700 How about Louis Farrakhan?

00:27:53.480 Remember, I don't, I don't, I mean, there's, there is the occasional lunatic fringe on the

00:27:58.520 right who, or who would call himself on the right, who hates Jews and hates Israel.

00:28:03.100 This guy who shot up the synagogue in Pittsburgh probably would call himself on the right.

00:28:06.980 Though it's worth pointing out, he hates Donald Trump and spoke at length about how he hates

00:28:12.680 Donald Trump and opposes Donald Trump and didn't vote for Donald Trump.

00:28:16.640 But, you know, probably in some broad sense, he would consider himself on the right.

00:28:20.540 What about on the left?

00:28:21.540 They associate with one of the worst hate mongers in recent American history, Louis Farrakhan,

00:28:26.740 in his own words.

00:28:27.460 The satanic Jews, they control everything and mostly everybody. 1.00

00:28:39.380 You are not the chosen of God, you are the chosen of Satan.

00:28:46.360 I'm talking about the wicked ones in the Jewish community that run America, run the government, 1.00

00:28:54.420 run the world, own the banks, own the means of communication.

00:29:00.580 They are my enemies.

00:29:04.740 I just can't tell.

00:29:06.920 I just can't.

00:29:07.380 What does Louis Farrakhan think about the Jews?

00:29:09.220 I just can't tell.

00:29:10.160 The other day he went out and he said, I'm not an anti-Semite, I'm anti-termite.

00:29:14.880 You get it?

00:29:15.460 Do you get it?

00:29:17.020 That guy posed for pictures with Barack Obama smiling.

00:29:22.280 Oh, hee hee, there's Obama smiling right next to him.

00:29:25.060 The media covered that picture up, by the way, for a long time.

00:29:27.420 He was just in an event.

00:29:28.480 He was at Aretha Franklin's funeral on the stage with Bill Clinton.

00:29:33.100 That is the mainstream of the left.

00:29:35.680 That's the mainstream of the Democrat Party.

00:29:38.820 And the party itself has turned against Israel in recent years.

00:29:41.420 The GOP has full-throatedly embraced Israel, wholeheartedly embraced Israel, and more so even in recent years.

00:29:49.940 Why is that?

00:29:50.620 One, they're reliable allies in that region, probably the only reliable ally in that region.

00:29:57.000 Two, it's in our interest because we get good intelligence from them.

00:30:01.180 They help fight terrorism over in the Middle East.

00:30:03.320 And also because of justice, because the Jewish state has a right to exist.

00:30:08.720 And where is it going to exist?

00:30:09.860 It's going to exist in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.

00:30:13.440 That's it.

00:30:14.560 That's it.

00:30:15.080 That is justice.

00:30:17.000 Some people think it would be justice if the Jewish state were wiped off the face of the earth.

00:30:21.220 I don't think that would be justice.

00:30:22.780 And I don't think the people who claim to have a right to that land have a right to that land.

00:30:27.660 But it's certainly just for the Jewish state to exist. 0.94

00:30:31.240 And it seems that it should exist in the historical homeland of the Jewish people.

00:30:35.260 That's the position of conservatives.

00:30:37.220 That's the position of Republicans.

00:30:39.160 Not the position of the left, which seeks to destroy the Jewish state.

00:30:42.980 And yet they spout this idiocy all the time.

00:30:46.380 And then they turned it up to 11.

00:30:48.120 Right before the midterms, you know, they're so angry.

00:30:51.380 They really thought that after Kavanaugh, the GOP polling was going to decrease.

00:30:56.120 It didn't.

00:30:56.520 It went in the opposite direction.

00:30:58.000 They were really hoping that there would be something that would stop the Republicans from still having momentum.

00:31:05.300 And so Julia Eoff, is it Eoff or Eoff?

00:31:08.100 I only ever read her name.

00:31:11.160 Joff, is that how you pronounce it?

00:31:12.420 I don't know.

00:31:12.840 Loff, cough, I don't know.

00:31:14.680 Julia, though.

00:31:15.480 Julie was on CNN.

00:31:18.760 She's a writer for GQ.

00:31:19.840 And she decided that she was going to turn her hot takes up to 11 right before the midterm elections. 0.95

00:31:26.700 I'll let her say it.

00:31:27.720 I think, you know, this president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization.

00:31:36.800 And this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did.

00:31:41.800 I mean, the way he talks, the way he, the way he.

00:31:44.880 That is, that's just, it's, it's.

00:31:47.200 The way he talks, the way, the way that he allows these people, the way he winks and nods to these groups.

00:31:54.560 What?

00:31:55.000 So how many people do we think ISIS radicalized?

00:31:59.380 How many, like, more than one?

00:32:02.780 Then they radicalized more than Donald Trump.

00:32:06.160 And probably Donald Trump didn't even radicalize one.

00:32:09.300 What she, she obviously doesn't mean this literally.

00:32:11.820 How many countless Islamic terrorists are roaming the earth, killing the innocent, slaughtering the innocent in evil acts? 0.99

00:32:19.800 How many?

00:32:20.360 How many thousands?

00:32:21.940 How many, over the course of history, how many millions?

00:32:25.820 Very many.

00:32:26.700 How many has Donald Trump radicalized?

00:32:28.440 What does she mean by that?

00:32:29.500 What she's trying to do is link Donald Trump to acts of violence.

00:32:34.440 So we just had this, this Pittsburgh shooting at the synagogue.

00:32:37.460 The guy hated Donald Trump.

00:32:39.240 That guy hated Donald Trump.

00:32:40.620 What about the, the guy in Florida, the most incompetent pipe bomber in, in all of human history? 0.51

00:32:45.660 Didn't even get one of them to go off.

00:32:47.220 We still don't really know anything about the guy, other than he's an ex-stripper homeless person.

00:32:53.020 Did he, was he radicalized by Trump?

00:32:55.460 I don't know.

00:32:56.140 He seemed to be pretty loony, loony tunes before Donald Trump ever came along.

00:32:59.700 But I guess he liked him.

00:33:00.720 So how many were radicalized by Bernie Sanders?

00:33:02.740 And shot up the congressional baseball game and almost killed Steve Scalise?

00:33:06.360 How many, how many was that?

00:33:07.720 How many people were radicalized by them?

00:33:09.800 I don't know.

00:33:10.260 How many people have been radicalized by the left?

00:33:11.980 How many of those mobs, those screaming mobs in the streets?

00:33:14.560 The ones who go to Republicans' houses and restaurants.

00:33:17.840 How many were radicalized by the left?

00:33:19.780 Far more.

00:33:20.660 Far, far more.

00:33:21.680 And what's amazing is that on CNN, which says, facts first, I'm a banana.

00:33:25.840 Apples are bananas.

00:33:26.840 Whatever their slogan is.

00:33:28.300 They have on this woman, Julia Ioffoff.

00:33:32.280 And she, they're presenting her as the serious person.

00:33:36.900 I bet she went to a good school.

00:33:38.700 You know, she's credentialed.

00:33:39.740 She has a good credentialed.

00:33:40.620 She writes for magazines.

00:33:42.140 She's a really serious person.

00:33:43.680 And she says something that if a ninth grade student said it, you'd smack them and say,

00:33:47.980 don't be so stupid.

00:33:49.380 Don't, what a stupid thing to say.

00:33:51.340 And she says that on CNN.

00:33:52.620 They say, oh, wow.

00:33:53.420 Mm, mm, wow.

00:33:55.000 Yeah.

00:33:55.320 You said words.

00:33:56.220 Yeah.

00:33:56.460 Wow.

00:33:56.700 Really, really impactful.

00:33:59.520 Talking about stupid words, impactful.

00:34:01.780 So, so that's the left.

00:34:03.480 They've got nothing.

00:34:04.200 And obviously they're the boy who cried wolf here.

00:34:06.380 They told us, they told us the sky would fall if Trump were elected.

00:34:09.700 Everything's gotten better.

00:34:10.600 So now they're saying he's worse than ISIS.

00:34:13.220 Okay.

00:34:13.540 What else you got?

00:34:14.540 What else you got?

00:34:16.220 I can't wait until they tell us more.

00:34:18.260 And, and they try to say that he's a, a white nationalist.

00:34:23.160 Well, we've got to get to that once I get back from, I've got to send people over to dailywire.com.

00:34:27.240 I'm sorry.

00:34:27.580 I have to do it.

00:34:28.380 We've got that.

00:34:28.960 Plus we've got, uh, the lesbian couple that both carried the baby and we've got goop. 1.00

00:34:34.280 We're going to talk all about goop and conscious, conscious uncoupling from Gwyneth Paltrow.

00:34:39.520 But you can only get that if you go to dailywire.com.

00:34:42.140 If you're on Facebook and YouTube, I'm amazed that they haven't kicked you off yet.

00:34:46.020 Go to dailywire.com.

00:34:46.940 It's 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.

00:34:49.460 You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:34:51.600 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:34:52.980 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:34:55.200 That's coming up on Thursday.

00:34:56.420 You get to ask questions in the conversation.

00:34:58.360 You get all that stuff.

00:34:59.560 It doesn't matter.

00:35:00.060 This is what you get.

00:35:02.800 This is, this is a special, uh, collaboration between the Daily Wire and goop.

00:35:08.060 Uh, the Leftist Tears, all super porous, organic, zen crystal tumbler.

00:35:14.320 It's made out of healing crystals that, uh, well, they heal you, but the way that they heal

00:35:20.040 you is from the little salt crystals from Leftist Tears that are inside the tumbler.

00:35:24.760 So go to dailywire.com to get the special goop edition tumbler.

00:35:28.420 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:35:30.060 I just like saying goop.

00:35:41.940 I, that's mostly why we're going to move on to the goop story just so I can keep talking

00:35:45.480 about goop.

00:35:46.100 So goop, goop is the company that, uh, Gwyneth Paltrow founded and it's all natural and it's

00:35:52.980 so, it's really good for the spirit and soul and it's all linked, man.

00:35:56.960 So anyway, they are getting sued into oblivion right now because it's, they're damaging people's

00:36:03.280 lives and lying blatantly on their website.

00:36:06.120 So the Good Thinking Society, which is a watchdog, has identified 113 misleading claims on the goop

00:36:14.240 website.

00:36:15.420 Uh, goop, you know, it's this hippie dippy modern, uh, thing.

00:36:19.160 Um, and, uh, Gwyneth Paltrow, by the way, has already settled a lawsuit over the porous 0.63

00:36:24.060 jade and quartz egg, which was used by women, by very, very gullible and or stupid women 0.94

00:36:32.400 to treat endometriosis.

00:36:35.000 If you don't know what that is, don't Google it.

00:36:37.120 And so anyway, it turns out that putting porous jade eggs into your body is not terribly hygienic.

00:36:46.920 I'm trying, you know, this is a family show.

00:36:49.200 I don't want to scar children who might be watching it.

00:36:52.420 Uh, anyway, she, she was able to settle that lawsuit and now they're getting dinged with a

00:36:57.100 lot more misleading claims.

00:36:58.900 I really like this story because it just goes to show you how hypocritical the apparently

00:37:06.780 pro science left is.

00:37:09.060 You always hear, we're the party of science.

00:37:11.380 We believe in science, whatever that means.

00:37:13.740 They're the same people who put crystals on their chakras and read their horoscopes and

00:37:18.480 put jade eggs where jade eggs do not belong.

00:37:21.620 And the reason for this is that everybody's got to serve somebody and that there is a metaphysical

00:37:26.960 basis for our physical sciences.

00:37:29.960 So, you know, all of the pioneers of science were devout Christians, virtually all of them.

00:37:35.800 Newton spent decades interpreting scripture, Francis Bacon, on and on and on.

00:37:41.600 If you don't ground your physical science in, with a metaphysical foundation, with a strong

00:37:48.900 traditional metaphysical foundation, you're going to wander into these bizarro world metaphysics

00:37:55.380 of crystals and chakras and witchcraft and whatever, mysticism.

00:38:00.720 You know, there was another story that came out that witchcraft is on the rise among millennials.

00:38:05.900 And anecdotally, we know this because there were the Brooklyn witches who put a hex on Kavanaugh 0.51

00:38:10.680 and all of these, Vox.com was encouraging people to practice witchcraft.

00:38:17.120 Apparently, though, the statistics bear this out that millennials are leaning toward witchcraft.

00:38:21.080 Why is that?

00:38:22.880 It's because you've got to serve somebody.

00:38:24.880 People have a natural religious longing, a longing for the divine, a longing for the

00:38:29.660 transcendent.

00:38:30.680 And when they've rejected the religion of their civilization, the religion of their culture,

00:38:37.440 the religion that created their culture, Christianity, they're going to fall for something else because 1.00

00:38:43.380 that longing will not go unsatisfied for very long.

00:38:46.360 So here is from the Goop website, here is from our values, quote, we believe that the

00:38:52.740 little things count, that good food is the foundation of love and wellness, that the mind

00:38:57.500 slash body slash spirit is inextricably linked, and we have more control over how we express

00:39:04.860 our health than we currently understand.

00:39:07.740 Now, I will point out that is technically a true statement.

00:39:11.680 We do have more control over our health than the people at Goop understand.

00:39:16.360 That is absolutely true.

00:39:18.460 And they're also identifying something true, which is that our bodies and our minds and

00:39:22.820 our spirits are inextricably linked.

00:39:25.700 Some people, some modern people want to pretend that we don't have a spirit or we don't have

00:39:29.340 a mind, that we're just a physical thing.

00:39:31.580 And other modern people want to pretend that we're modern day Gnostics, that the body is

00:39:36.260 nothing, it's meaningless, all that matters are ideas.

00:39:39.120 But we know that actually we're both soul and body, that we're both flesh and metaphysical.

00:39:46.020 And the Goop people understand this, they just take it in a completely kooky direction.

00:39:50.180 They go on, quote, our values, we know who we are, our words and actions are aligned, and

00:39:56.280 we take a curious, unbiased, open-minded, and service-centric approach to what we do.

00:40:02.240 We test the waters so that you don't have to.

00:40:05.600 God help whichever member of the Goop staff tested the jade egg. 0.58

00:40:11.020 I hope they got good workers' comp for it.

00:40:14.040 I want to focus on one word here.

00:40:15.920 They say that they are open-minded.

00:40:18.620 They're curious, they're unbiased, they're open-minded.

00:40:22.700 They are biased, and they are closed-minded in some way.

00:40:26.380 To be open-minded, you have to be closed-minded.

00:40:28.400 To be unbiased, you have to arrive at certain judgments and conclusions.

00:40:33.640 To be open-minded, you have to be willing to conclude that certain ideas are wrong.

00:40:38.420 It doesn't just mean, if you're completely open-minded, if you're open-minded and you

00:40:42.460 won't make any judgments, then you'll be so open-minded that your brain falls out of your

00:40:46.140 head.

00:40:46.700 You have to make certain judgments.

00:40:48.640 To be open-minded is to entertain many ideas, but ultimately you have to reach conclusions.

00:40:54.760 That's the only way you can move on to other ideas.

00:40:56.840 But they're pretending that they don't have to do that.

00:41:00.360 They're saying, we're not biased.

00:41:01.760 Well, what does that mean?

00:41:02.400 Does that mean you don't reach judgments?

00:41:03.980 Certainly they reached some judgments.

00:41:05.760 They decided that the jade egg was better than the, I don't know, crystal egg.

00:41:12.000 I don't know if it really is, but probably the crystal egg would have been better.

00:41:14.720 Who knows?

00:41:15.560 They've reached that conclusion.

00:41:16.960 They've reached that judgment.

00:41:18.220 They're pretending that they haven't.

00:41:20.660 People are a little too closed-minded, open-minded in modern society.

00:41:25.320 They're so closed-minded about their definition of open-mindedness.

00:41:29.280 They're not very open-minded.

00:41:30.500 They're so tolerant that they don't tolerate anything that disagrees with them.

00:41:34.620 You've got to be able to reach conclusions.

00:41:36.860 That's not wrong.

00:41:37.660 That's not harmful.

00:41:38.460 That's not hurtful.

00:41:39.320 To say this is true and this is false and moving on, I'm not going to put a jade egg where

00:41:45.180 a jade egg should not be.

00:41:46.860 This brings us, of course, to the Texas lesbians who are both carrying the same baby. 1.00

00:41:52.260 How did they do it?

00:41:53.000 But I'll let them tell you themselves.

00:41:55.840 I wanted to be pregnant for so long and so bad. 0.50

00:41:58.900 I always wanted to have a child.

00:42:00.420 I just didn't want to carry the child. 0.97

00:42:03.300 Ashley and Bliss knew welcoming their own biological child would require a sperm donor and some 0.76

00:42:09.600 creativity.

00:42:10.640 Obviously, us being two women, we were like, how can we make this happen?

00:42:14.140 We felt like, you know, there has to be a way.

00:42:16.280 Turns out there is a way for both women to carry the same baby. 1.00

00:42:21.380 All right.

00:42:22.980 I'll spare you the rest of that and I'll give you the Cliff's Notes version, which is that

00:42:27.180 when people get in vitro fertilization, the way it happens is that they'll go to a sperm

00:42:33.540 bank.

00:42:33.900 They'll get some sperm. 1.00

00:42:34.700 They will incubate the sperm and the egg in a little incubator for a little bit and then

00:42:41.340 they'll implant it into the mother. 0.94

00:42:42.620 What this new process has done is taken the sperm and the egg.

00:42:47.600 They've incubated the sperm and the egg in a little contraption inside one of the women. 0.94

00:42:52.720 And then at the point when they would typically implant this into the mother, they've taken

00:42:58.580 it out of the first woman and put it into the second woman. 1.00

00:43:01.880 So the first woman really gets off pretty easy here because she's only got to carry the baby 1.00

00:43:05.700 for like five minutes and then, you know, for a week or however long it is.

00:43:09.120 And then after that period, the other woman carries the baby for nine months and they've 1.00

00:43:13.320 both carried the baby.

00:43:15.420 I'll tell you what I like about this story.

00:43:16.920 What I like about this story is the story acknowledges that the baby is a baby because

00:43:23.680 they're saying we've both carried the baby.

00:43:25.560 We both carried the baby in our wombs.

00:43:27.760 Well, wait a sec.

00:43:28.260 You only carried the baby for a week.

00:43:30.500 You carry the baby for a very small amount of time.

00:43:33.240 The first woman only carried the baby for a much shorter period of time than the pro-abortion 0.85

00:43:39.560 left wants to pretend that the baby isn't a baby. 1.00

00:43:42.200 And with this process, these women are admitting that one week baby, that two week old baby is 1.00

00:43:48.520 a baby.

00:43:49.460 Then it goes into the other woman. 0.90

00:43:51.560 That's the only good thing I can say about this.

00:43:53.580 But I will observe that this is totally indicative of our culture, which is utterly self-adoring.

00:44:01.800 It is looking inward at oneself.

00:44:04.760 It is only looking at one's personal desires and personal needs.

00:44:08.940 To begin, in vitro fertilization results in multiple eggs being fertilized, multiple

00:44:17.200 infinitesimally small human beings being begotten, being created, being begotten.

00:44:26.560 I'm really more precise to say begotten.

00:44:28.920 And then those are discarded.

00:44:32.120 The ones that they don't want are discarded.

00:44:33.620 They're either frozen or they're killed.

00:44:34.940 So you've got brand new human life coming together, independent human life, and then

00:44:39.980 being snuffed out.

00:44:40.920 That's the essential problem with in vitro fertilization.

00:44:44.320 The other problem here is that this baby is being begotten for the desires of these two

00:44:52.100 women. 0.81

00:44:52.680 And that baby is being denied the right to his father.

00:44:56.700 It's one thing to say we're going to adopt a baby who's been abandoned by his parents or

00:45:01.560 the parents don't think that they can care for him or that the father ran out because

00:45:05.200 he's a degenerate or for whatever reason, we're going to adopt this baby.

00:45:08.540 That's taking a situation and making it better.

00:45:10.840 In this situation, you are intentionally be getting a child who will not know his father,

00:45:16.320 who will be deprived of his father, will be deprived of his natural right to his parents.

00:45:20.360 That's awful.

00:45:21.140 That's a terrible thing.

00:45:22.360 And we shouldn't encourage it as a culture.

00:45:24.300 I understand why some people are confused about this.

00:45:26.280 Because we should stop being confused and we should speak clearly about it.

00:45:31.100 Then the entire aspect of this is a woman says, oh, I really wanted to be pregnant, 0.97

00:45:35.340 but I didn't want to have to be pregnant for that long.

00:45:37.400 Oh, well, I was willing to be pregnant for a little bit as long as we could be pregnant

00:45:40.280 in this way and that.

00:45:41.100 And I want this and I want this.

00:45:42.640 And all through the night, I mean, my, I mean, my, I mean, my.

00:45:45.120 But begetting a child, having a child is not about you.

00:45:49.020 It's about the child.

00:45:50.240 It's about passing on human life, this great gift of human life that we have been given from

00:45:54.840 God through our parents.

00:45:56.180 We're giving it to somebody else for them, for them to have life, not for you, not for

00:46:00.460 your enjoyment, not so that you can design a baby whole cloth.

00:46:04.120 Say, oh, it should look like this because that's where we're getting to with, well, we've

00:46:08.420 had selective abortions for a long time, sex, selective abortions, abortions that are designed

00:46:13.500 to snuff out disabled populations. 1.00

00:46:16.320 And very soon, particularly with the advance of gene therapy, we'll be able to choose eye

00:46:20.380 colors.

00:46:20.800 We'll be able to choose hair colors.

00:46:22.740 We'll be able to choose this or choose that.

00:46:24.400 And the way we'll choose it is by killing the babies that we don't want and keeping 1.00

00:46:28.200 the babies that we do want.

00:46:29.800 And it's a, that's a morally repugnant situation.

00:46:32.600 That's a situation where the baby is a pet for the parents.

00:46:36.240 And we see when, when parents do this, because we all know parents who treat their children

00:46:40.420 as little pets, as little play things just for them, especially, you know, you see it

00:46:44.640 in Hollywood with the stage parents who are living vicariously through their kids who

00:46:49.100 are almost always miserable and screwed up because of it.

00:46:51.520 And we criticize it when we see it in parents day to day.

00:46:55.120 And yet we're encouraging it in this new technological and cultural advance.

00:46:59.080 It's a really scary thing.

00:47:00.660 It creates pretty funny, little bizarre clips on, on news shows, on the evening news.

00:47:06.800 But, uh, you know, this, which is now being seen as bizarre now will be mainstream within

00:47:13.420 six months or a year.

00:47:14.440 I mean, it's going to happen really quickly and we've got to speak with clarity against

00:47:18.220 it because it is, all we look at here is, oh, that's so nice.

00:47:22.540 Those two women love each other. 1.00

00:47:23.620 And now they can, now they can have this experience together that they both wanted in the, in the

00:47:29.140 beginning of a child.

00:47:30.040 But we're not talking about the child and the rights that the child should have and how the

00:47:34.960 child should be brought up and what the purpose of having a child is and what the process

00:47:39.580 for having a child is.

00:47:40.580 Okay.

00:47:41.220 I'm getting off my soapbox.

00:47:42.520 I went straight from LAX when I got in, uh, from all those speeches to my soapbox here.

00:47:48.680 And now I'm getting off my soapbox and going to my purple mattress and going to bed because

00:47:52.880 I've been awake for about eight days straight now and feeling a little delirious and I'll

00:47:57.400 probably be just as delirious tomorrow.

00:47:59.000 So tune back in.

00:47:59.840 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:01.500 This is the Michael Knowles show.

00:48:02.660 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 30, 2018

Ep. 243 - What's Wrong With Birthright Citizenship

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