The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 252 - The Never-Ending Power Struggle

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00:00:30.780 It's an all-out brawl from Florida to Washington,

00:00:33.980 and that is exactly what the framers of our country intended.

00:00:37.660 We will analyze the high-stakes power struggles for the Senate,

00:00:41.220 for the House, for the statehouses, for the White House.

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00:00:50.380 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:57.040 Power struggles galore.

00:01:02.000 There are power struggles going on right now all around the country.

00:01:05.960 We've got power struggles, obviously, in Florida,

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00:01:13.840 the bureaucracy, the DOJ, the FBI.

00:01:17.880 Looks like President Trump is going to answer questions from Robert Mueller.

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00:03:23.700 that are going on all around the country.

00:03:25.360 The big one is Mueller.

00:03:27.000 We'll get to Florida. We'll get to all of that.

00:03:28.740 But the big question is Mueller.

00:03:30.440 Will President Trump have to answer questions in front of Robert Mueller?

00:03:36.100 Will he blow him off completely?

00:03:37.340 Will he answer written questions, submit written questions?

00:03:40.180 This has been a battle and a question that's been going on for months.

00:03:43.320 It seems now we have the answer.

00:03:44.960 I caution you that this is coming in from NBC News.

00:03:48.060 So, you know, who knows?

00:03:49.380 But Fox is reporting it too.

00:03:50.620 A lot of people are widely reporting that the Trump legal team right now

00:03:54.440 is finalizing answers to written questions from the Mueller team.

00:03:58.800 Rudy Giuliani has said in recent weeks,

00:04:00.940 Donald Trump's lawyer in this case has said

00:04:03.820 that Donald Trump will not answer questions face-to-face with Robert Mueller.

00:04:07.940 We have all been hoping that this is true.

00:04:10.560 Why?

00:04:11.140 Because President Trump has many wonderful qualities.

00:04:14.240 One of those qualities, however, is not precision of language.

00:04:18.880 He speaks actually in a very persuasive and powerful way.

00:04:23.260 He's obviously a great persuader.

00:04:24.880 He got himself elected president.

00:04:26.140 He uses language in a creative way, in an interesting way,

00:04:29.300 in a way that works for politics.

00:04:30.840 But legally, it could have gotten him into a lot of trouble.

00:04:34.940 So, what the Giuliani and the Trump team said was,

00:04:38.140 we are not going to put him face-to-face with Robert Mueller

00:04:40.220 because then you're just going to end up with some obstruction trap.

00:04:43.660 I mean, don't forget, of all of the investigations that we've heard

00:04:46.600 with regard to Michael Flynn or George Papadopoulos or Carter Page or this,

00:04:52.520 all of the charges brought against people connected with the Russia investigation

00:04:57.320 have had nothing to do with any Russian collusion in the campaign itself.

00:05:03.320 Paul Manafort is going to go to jail for the rest of his life

00:05:05.940 because he liked expensive suits

00:05:07.320 and because Paul Manafort had shady business dealings long before the Trump campaign.

00:05:13.420 You've got people who are getting caught on obstruction

00:05:16.640 or giving false statements to the FBI.

00:05:19.600 So, it's all of these crimes that only come up

00:05:22.420 when you're actually talking to the investigators,

00:05:25.220 when you're actually talking to the FBI.

00:05:26.860 So, very wise of the Trump team to fight this.

00:05:29.800 And right now, it looks like they're going to win this.

00:05:32.080 This will be a huge win for the White House for two reasons.

00:05:34.660 One, if President Trump actually came in and fired Robert Mueller,

00:05:39.320 you know, he just fired Jeff Sessions.

00:05:41.340 There was some worry that by putting in this new guy who's a loyalist to Trump,

00:05:45.640 who's been critical of the investigation,

00:05:47.420 they might fire Mueller right away.

00:05:48.660 They might not let him complete his work.

00:05:50.440 That wouldn't look great.

00:05:52.040 I'm not sure that I'm opposed to it

00:05:53.380 because the investigation has clearly been politicized.

00:05:56.380 There have been a number of investigators on the Mueller investigation

00:06:00.620 who have been outspokenly anti-Trump.

00:06:04.240 Obviously, the corruption with Peter Strzok,

00:06:06.620 who texted his girlfriend, Lisa Page,

00:06:10.240 another FBI agent, and said,

00:06:11.800 we're going to stop Trump from becoming president.

00:06:13.820 He was on the Mueller investigation.

00:06:15.420 A lot of questions.

00:06:17.120 We wonder why this is dragged on so long.

00:06:20.040 However, Mitch McConnell, cocaine Mitch today,

00:06:22.580 is coming out and saying Mueller will finish the investigation.

00:06:26.000 He won't be stopped from finishing it.

00:06:27.720 So if Mueller finishes the investigation

00:06:29.380 and they don't catch Trump making some loose statement

00:06:32.960 or in a perjury trap or in some obstruction trap,

00:06:35.960 that's a huge win for the White House

00:06:37.360 because it totally deflates this narrative. 1.00

00:06:39.240 How many left-wingers have you seen walking around in that stupid t-shirt 1.00

00:06:43.060 that says, it's Mueller time? 1.00

00:06:45.420 You get it?

00:06:46.300 Looks like it says it's Miller time, but it's Mueller time.

00:06:48.900 Yeah, that's how we're going to overturn the 2016 presidential election.

00:06:53.060 Womp womp. 0.99

00:06:53.800 It would be pretty sad for them

00:06:55.400 if it turns out that President Trump lets Mueller complete his task

00:07:00.060 and they don't catch him on any collusion.

00:07:03.060 What that collusion could be, couldn't even tell you.

00:07:05.600 What they even mean by collusion, couldn't tell you.

00:07:08.080 It's not a legal term.

00:07:09.540 It's not a crime to collude with the Russians.

00:07:12.100 There's no law against colluding with the Russians, 0.94

00:07:14.480 but we'll see what they turn up.

00:07:16.040 That could be as early as this week.

00:07:17.620 And then once they get the questions answered by Trump,

00:07:20.460 I'm not quite sure what else there is for this investigation to do.

00:07:24.860 They've already nabbed Manafort on years-old dealings.

00:07:28.280 There was some talk that they were going to go after Roger Stone,

00:07:30.940 although Stone hasn't been indicted yet,

00:07:32.940 the longtime political advisor to Donald Trump, 0.68

00:07:35.600 longtime GOP dirty trickster.

00:07:37.300 Where else are they going to go?

00:07:38.760 Are they just going to keep going after shady lobbyists and political operatives

00:07:44.260 because they could spend decades and decades doing that

00:07:47.640 and they still won't do it on both sides of the aisle?

00:07:49.820 There are shady people who operate in politics on both sides of the aisle,

00:07:53.120 but I think they've kind of got to stop it after President Trump gives his answers.

00:07:57.300 There's no bigger fish to talk to than him.

00:07:59.980 So that's the struggle right now, I suppose, for the presidency

00:08:03.220 or for the credibility of the presidency.

00:08:05.400 And the White House at least got a big win on this, if the NBC report is true.

00:08:09.580 The most jarring electoral struggle is down in Florida.

00:08:14.080 This heated up yesterday.

00:08:15.600 So we talked about her.

00:08:16.740 Brenda Snipes, she's the election supervisor down there in Broward County, 1.00

00:08:21.920 one of the most corrupt places in the country.

00:08:23.860 And she's been under fire.

00:08:25.160 They've been finding boxes of provisional ballots that just turned up in the trunk of Democrat Party activists.

00:08:32.720 They've been finding votes coming a day after the election, two days after the election.

00:08:37.700 And she has been totally under fire.

00:08:39.320 She's had mistakes and corruption going back years and years now. 0.99

00:08:43.940 Even Chris Cuomo thought that her corruption was too much. 0.97

00:08:47.200 Here is Brenda Snipes attempting to defend herself. 1.00

00:08:50.080 To give the Scott campaign the information they wanted, it had to go to court.

00:08:53.840 The judge said you had to turn it over.

00:08:56.180 You didn't turn it over by the deadline that was given.

00:08:58.540 That is cast as a partisan spat, that you're doing that because you're a Democrat.

00:09:03.300 How do you respond to that?

00:09:06.040 Well, I was talking with a woman today as she came into our office. 1.00

00:09:10.200 And she made some statement about a partisan statement.

00:09:14.760 And she said, I know that you're a Republican.

00:09:17.100 I said I have been a Democrat all my life.

00:09:19.640 In this position, I have been very focused on party because I want to treat all of the voters in Broward County the same.

00:09:29.340 And I think if you'd ask the voters, you'd find that I have that reputation.

00:09:32.780 I don't have a reason to hold anything back except that I don't want to give out information that's incomplete or incorrect at that particular time.

00:09:43.320 So concerns, allegations that we are not transparent.

00:09:49.720 There's one comment that my staff, and we work very closely together, always bring to my attention is that,

00:09:55.860 Dr. Snipes, you'll just take time to walk anybody through our election warehouse.

00:10:01.060 I think that's very important.

00:10:03.300 What? 0.93

00:10:04.140 What on earth did Chris Cuomo say that would prompt that rambling nonsense? 0.97

00:10:10.560 He said, oh, yes. 0.94

00:10:11.580 Are the criticisms against you for being a partisan hack, are they fair?

00:10:14.700 So she ends on saying, well, we and we let people take tours.

00:10:19.240 And we host tours.

00:10:20.420 And they say, we like your tours, Dr. Brenda Snipes.

00:10:23.560 What she is a doctor of, I have no idea.

00:10:25.840 And Chris Cuomo, to his credit, says, well, you're not letting the Republicans take a tour.

00:10:31.360 They're asking you for the results of this election.

00:10:33.980 You're not giving it to them.

00:10:34.920 You're not even, she won't even turn over how many people voted.

00:10:37.800 And of course she won't turn it over because then you can't change the number when the Democrat loses.

00:10:42.260 You're not, it's much harder to change the number after the fact when the Republicans already know how many people voted.

00:10:47.660 This is absurd.

00:10:48.640 I love her defense too.

00:10:50.540 She says that she has a great reputation.

00:10:53.980 Oh, the voters know she has a great reputation of being nonpartisan, perfectly objective, very competent.

00:11:03.020 No, she doesn't.

00:11:04.040 No, you don't.

00:11:04.580 The reason that you're on CNN right now is that you don't have that reputation. 1.00

00:11:08.960 Your reputation is a terrible one because you're either incompetent or corrupt or more likely incompetent and corrupt. 0.97

00:11:15.740 Because if she were only corrupt, if she were corrupt and competent, then we wouldn't be having this argument. 0.99

00:11:20.860 She would have been able to hide her voter fraud much more easily and much more deftly. 0.99

00:11:27.440 But she hasn't been able to do it.

00:11:29.220 So even Chris Cuomo calls this out.

00:11:31.340 It's just a total farce.

00:11:33.820 Forget those two.

00:11:34.820 Now Chuck Schumer.

00:11:35.840 Whose side is he going to take?

00:11:36.780 Is he going to take the side of people even like left-winger Chris Cuomo on CNN?

00:11:42.100 His brother is Andy Cuomo, the Democrat governor of New York.

00:11:45.380 This is a left-wing guy.

00:11:46.700 Or is he going to double down and defend Brenda Snipes and defend all of the corruption going on in Palm Beach counties and Broward County and say that we need to extend the recount?

00:11:58.100 Well, I'll give you one guess.

00:12:00.060 Chuck Schumer, take it away.

00:12:00.860 Bill Nelson is as strong as could be.

00:12:05.520 He believes, I believe, he's won a majority of the votes.

00:12:09.280 And as long as they're counted, he will continue being senator from Florida.

00:12:14.220 The President Trump and Governor Scott have just lied.

00:12:19.800 They've said there's fraud when their own Republican officials in Florida have said there's no fraud.

00:12:24.880 They're trying to shut down the election because they're afraid of the consequences if they don't.

00:12:30.380 In other words, a Nelson victory.

00:12:32.540 That's what Bill believes.

00:12:33.640 That's what I believe.

00:12:34.540 Do you feel as if those deadlines should be moved out?

00:12:36.700 Absolutely.

00:12:37.300 Every vote should be counted.

00:12:38.660 Those deadlines, you have to remember, were passed after the presidential election of 2000 because of the need to report to the Electoral College.

00:12:48.440 Every vote should be counted.

00:12:50.120 The votes that were cast on November 7th.

00:12:52.680 The votes that were cast on November 8th.

00:12:54.900 The votes that were cast on November 14th.

00:12:57.100 Every vote's got to be counted.

00:12:58.380 We're going to count ballots all the way up until 2020.

00:13:02.240 Obviously, look, you know this.

00:13:03.900 I know this.

00:13:04.420 The most dangerous place in America is the area between Chuck Schumer and a television camera.

00:13:09.380 He's eating this up.

00:13:10.480 He's out there.

00:13:12.160 He's taken his stand for the Democrats of Florida.

00:13:14.960 He's trying to push Democrat Bill Nelson over the edge even though he lost the election.

00:13:19.360 He's trying to push a gubernatorial candidate, Democrat Andrew Gillum, over the edge even though he lost the election.

00:13:25.120 But listen to what the reporter asks.

00:13:27.700 The reporter says, well, do you think that the deadline should be extended?

00:13:32.240 Do you think that we should meet the deadline or not?

00:13:34.280 He says, absolutely not.

00:13:36.440 Elections shouldn't have deadlines.

00:13:38.440 We've got to count all of these new votes.

00:13:40.720 Elections shouldn't have deadlines.

00:13:42.480 Elections, by definition, have deadlines.

00:13:45.500 That is what an election is.

00:13:46.920 That's why we have an election day. 0.98

00:13:49.460 If elections didn't have deadlines, they just go around all the time.

00:13:52.320 The way an election works is that you announce your candidacy, you campaign, you try to convince your fellow citizens, and then your citizens go out and vote one day.

00:14:00.640 And then the votes are counted, and then you either win or lose.

00:14:04.200 If you don't need to win or lose, if you can stay in this Democrat limbo where you refuse to concede elections or you unconcede elections, then we don't have elections anymore.

00:14:11.740 Then we just have an all-out, bare-knuckle brawl for power.

00:14:15.160 And that's what's happening.

00:14:16.140 It's ironic because it turns out that I was right in the Twitter post that got me kicked off of Twitter indefinitely.

00:14:23.360 I was right.

00:14:24.200 I made the joke.

00:14:25.420 I said, don't forget, Republicans, vote on Tuesday.

00:14:29.000 And if you're a Democrat, vote on Wednesday.

00:14:31.300 And they did.

00:14:32.380 A number of people have been making this point on Twitter.

00:14:35.380 Jen Ellis among them said, yeah, Michael, you were absolutely right.

00:14:38.660 They voted on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

00:14:40.800 They're still voting.

00:14:41.780 What day is it?

00:14:43.380 It's November 14th.

00:14:44.920 It's a week and a day after the midterm elections.

00:14:50.120 And Chuck Schumer is saying, no, no, no.

00:14:52.820 He's trying to stop the election.

00:14:55.020 Yeah, the election was supposed to be stopped a week and a day ago.

00:14:59.220 You have to stop the elections at some point.

00:15:02.160 I think next time Chuck Schumer is up for election, next time he's running a race, I think we got to keep those elections open.

00:15:08.020 Just keep them open.

00:15:08.780 How dare you?

00:15:09.680 Another ballot, Mike.

00:15:10.480 What if somebody mailed a ballot, a mail-in ballot, and it didn't arrive in time?

00:15:14.220 We got to count all the votes, Chuck.

00:15:15.760 Then you can sit in limbo while shenanigans ensue.

00:15:19.400 Absolutely outrageous.

00:15:20.780 Andrew Gillum now, the Democrat candidate for Florida governor.

00:15:24.980 He is now saying that claims of voter fraud in Florida undermine democracy.

00:15:30.560 He's close.

00:15:32.800 He's close to right.

00:15:34.700 If he had said that voter fraud undermines democracy, he would have been correct.

00:15:38.800 That is what undermines democracy.

00:15:40.680 Pointing it out does not undermine democracy.

00:15:43.040 This reminds me a little bit of when Pope Francis said that the exposure of corruption and abuse among the bishops was the work of the devil.

00:15:52.100 No, the corruption was the work of the devil.

00:15:55.660 That is the work of the devil.

00:15:57.640 The exposure, the bringing things to truth, that's the opposite.

00:16:00.940 And so the voter fraud, that is the undermining of democracy.

00:16:05.000 Pointing out voter fraud is defending democracy.

00:16:08.660 And you've got a broad swath of people doing this right now.

00:16:11.440 Obviously, President Trump, he's always going out there swinging.

00:16:14.100 He's always fighting.

00:16:15.240 So he's going out and saying that.

00:16:16.560 But you've got Marco Rubio doing it as well.

00:16:18.480 You've got that whole range, the hardline, more populist conservative, and you've got the wonkier, beltway-friendly conservative in Marco Rubio.

00:16:29.640 And they're pointing it out because it's simply a fact.

00:16:32.200 We know that there is voter fraud going on there.

00:16:34.820 They are discovering boxes of ballots in rental cars by private citizens, in trucks that were supposed to take them off to be counted.

00:16:43.800 Ballot machines are mysteriously breaking down.

00:16:46.140 They're trying now to count votes that have already been recounted.

00:16:49.740 There is rampant fraud.

00:16:50.940 And there's been fraud in these counties for over a decade.

00:16:54.640 This is nothing new.

00:16:55.740 This is not some big surprise conspiracy allegation.

00:16:59.220 There have been instances of voter fraud here for a long time in this county where this woman, Brenda Snipes, was conducting the elections.

00:17:07.760 So the only conspiracy is the conspiracy now to undermine the election, which elected Republican Ron DeSantis and Republican Rick Scott.

00:17:16.820 And I hope that Scott and DeSantis fight this tooth and nail because they're up against some pretty bad hombres.

00:17:22.980 Bill Nelson, whatever. 0.82

00:17:24.440 But Andrew Gillum is a crooked guy who will resort to mudslinging, awful politics. 0.96

00:17:29.900 He would be a terrible governor. 0.94

00:17:31.120 He would bring financial ruin to the state. 1.00

00:17:33.200 And he's a crook. 0.99

00:17:34.380 And he's despicable for using racial slander, racialist slander against his opponent, Ron DeSantis. 1.00

00:17:41.080 We cannot let this guy steal the election.

00:17:43.980 And I'm glad that everybody from the senator from Florida to the president are keeping the light on it.

00:17:48.060 Because what happens in these cases is everyone's paying attention on election day.

00:17:52.140 Everybody's focused in.

00:17:53.280 And then election day is over.

00:17:54.660 Maybe a couple days later they'll watch the news.

00:17:57.840 And then they tune out.

00:17:59.100 And when they tune out, Democrats come in and they take it.

00:18:01.840 Now, fortunately, when these recounts have happened historically, usually they don't overturn the election.

00:18:08.800 I think we've only had three elections overturned because of a recount out of high 20s, 27 or 28s in recent years.

00:18:16.860 So that's good.

00:18:18.320 But there's a lot of corruption down in this particular place.

00:18:20.780 So we really have to watch out about that.

00:18:22.240 Because elections can genuinely be very close.

00:18:24.440 That is true.

00:18:26.160 But what happened here?

00:18:27.020 I don't know.

00:18:27.380 Florida has raised their thing margins.

00:18:29.400 They also have a ton of corruption.

00:18:31.300 So that's the power struggle happening down in Florida.

00:18:33.220 There's power struggle in the White House now, too.

00:18:35.200 We talked about this yesterday.

00:18:36.580 There was some talk that John Kelly might be out, that an aide might be out.

00:18:39.980 An aide that is now almost certainly going to be leaving the White House is Mira Ricardel.

00:18:45.140 She is a national security aide.

00:18:48.360 And the reason that I'm pretty confident that she's going to be kicked out of her job is because it's not that I heard it from CNN.

00:18:54.120 It's not that I heard it from NBC.

00:18:55.300 I heard it from the spokeswoman for the First Lady.

00:18:58.580 She has apparently picked a fight with Melania Trump. 1.00

00:19:01.360 And the spokesman for the First Lady said, quote,

00:19:03.980 It is the position of the office of the First Lady that Mira Ricardel no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House. 1.00

00:19:14.100 Yikes.

00:19:15.040 Talk about not understanding politics.

00:19:17.660 If you are able to irritate the president's wife that much, if you don't take special care not to irritate the president's wife, it is a wonder that you've made it to the upper echelons of American politics.

00:19:29.640 That is really shocking.

00:19:30.900 Who is this woman? 1.00

00:19:31.680 Mira Ricardel is the deputy national security advisor.

00:19:35.080 This is not the first time she's held a job in the government.

00:19:37.680 She's held a lot of posts in the government.

00:19:39.560 She was previously the special assistant to President Donald Trump.

00:19:43.480 She was before that.

00:19:44.640 And in 96, she was a foreign policy advisor to Bob Dole.

00:19:48.340 So she's been in this game a long time during George W. Bush.

00:19:51.900 She was deputy assistant secretary of defense, held a few roles in the defense department at also fairly high levels.

00:19:58.880 And now she's working directly under John Bolton.

00:20:02.860 Okay.

00:20:03.680 I suspect a lot of this has to do with power struggles between John Bolton and John Kelly, for instance, between different factions of the White House who keep butting heads.

00:20:15.480 However, there was a former colleague of this woman, Mira Ricardel, who told the Washington Post, quote, 0.98

00:20:21.100 She's a very tough woman, very smart, does not suffer fools well, and if you happen to be the fool, she will let you know. 0.99

00:20:29.640 This can be tough. 0.99

00:20:31.120 This can be intimidating.

00:20:32.460 I know people who are like this.

00:20:34.320 But you've got to be able to glad hand a little bit if you're at the upper echelons of D.C. politics.

00:20:40.160 I mean, D.C., part of what makes it such an unctuous place is that it's a whole town full of glad handers who would, the second that, you know, you turn away, they stop smiling and stab you in the back.

00:20:49.300 But if that's the way that the town works, you've at least got to acclimate yourself to it a little bit.

00:20:53.740 Apparently, this confrontation broke out because this woman, Mira Ricardel, got angry about First Lady staffers having certain seats on an airplane. 1.00

00:21:05.800 There are a lot of conflicting stories coming in, but I suspect that it plays on both levels.

00:21:10.620 I suspect, as is often the case in politics, it plays on the personal level.

00:21:15.120 She personally rubbed some people the wrong way, and it plays on the bigger picture disagreements going on within the White House between, for instance, the chief of staff, John Kelly, and her boss, John Bolton, and ultimately her boss, John Kelly.

00:21:31.840 So those seem to be the angles.

00:21:35.020 It's worth pointing out, though, that these factions aren't totally hard line.

00:21:38.700 Now, for instance, when Steve Bannon left the White House, the former chief strategist, there were people who were considered loyal to him or who were considered friendly toward him, Stephen Miller among them, who stayed in the White House.

00:21:50.300 It's not as though when one guy leaves, that whole faction leaves.

00:21:53.580 Some people are better at navigating the waters than others.

00:21:56.000 Apparently, she was not very good at navigating it, so almost certainly she will be out.

00:22:01.140 But there is a question over, you know, now we've got John Kelly's friend and former assistant, former deputy, Kirsten Nielsen, who's the head of Department of Homeland Security.

00:22:18.000 She was being pushed out the other day.

00:22:19.560 Now you see this butting heads of John Bolton's deputy.

00:22:23.160 The timing is a little coincidental.

00:22:25.800 I think that's probably the bigger play here.

00:22:27.660 And I hope that neither of these guys leave because they both seem to be very good in their jobs.

00:22:32.580 I've followed Ambassador Bolton much more closely than I've followed John Kelly, and I'm a huge John Bolton fan.

00:22:38.840 But they both seem to be doing good work there, so I hope that this doesn't bubble over into a bigger problem in the White House.

00:22:44.300 At the House of Representatives, we now have a new minority leader for the Republican caucus there.

00:22:50.420 Sorry to say the minority leader, but that's okay.

00:22:53.380 Kevin McCarthy has just won a vote.

00:22:56.380 It was a closed-door vote to become the GOP House minority leader.

00:23:00.400 He was not unopposed for this vote.

00:23:03.120 He went up against Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise, although it seems that Steve Scalise is now running to be the whip.

00:23:09.340 We haven't seen that vote yet, or that decision on who the whip will be.

00:23:14.360 This pitted Kevin McCarthy, who was an old-time Paul Ryan-type loyalist, a little bit more establishment part of the party, against Jim Jordan, who's running the House Freedom Caucus.

00:23:25.080 And this is a battle that has gone on for years and years now.

00:23:28.320 I'm really sick of this battle.

00:23:29.500 I hope that they work out their differences, the establishment gets a little more rock-ribbed, maybe the Freedom Caucus gets a little bit more nuanced to politics, and they work it out.

00:23:38.180 Because we need to be unified.

00:23:40.780 And one of the benefits of being in the minority is that you do get unified.

00:23:45.020 But don't forget, Paul Ryan, the reason that he became the Speaker of the House is because he was basically the only person who could unite the establishmentarians and the House Freedom Caucus.

00:23:54.900 He was the only guy they could agree on.

00:23:56.260 When John Boehner left, Paul Ryan seemed very reluctant to take it.

00:24:01.360 Now, listen, people pretend to be reluctant to take offices all the time.

00:24:06.720 However, he was uniquely qualified in that he had conservative credential, especially on fiscal matters.

00:24:12.760 He had that, you know, entitlement reform, rock-ribbed fiscal conservative aspect to him.

00:24:19.640 But he'd been in Washington since he was in the womb, I believe.

00:24:23.360 And so he'd been there since, he'd been elected since he was, what, 28 or something?

00:24:28.280 He'd been there for about 20 years, and he'd been working in D.C. much earlier than that.

00:24:33.120 So he also had that establishmentarian cred.

00:24:36.260 What happens after he's gone?

00:24:38.080 Can McCarthy fill his shoes?

00:24:39.620 In some ways, perhaps McCarthy is a better choice in that he's less ideologically driven.

00:24:46.900 Paul Ryan was always a policy wonk.

00:24:48.920 He was always a big budget guy.

00:24:50.380 He was always trying to work on ways to fix the debt and deficits.

00:24:54.300 Kevin McCarthy is a little bit more of a political player.

00:24:57.360 So Jim Jordan lost.

00:24:58.300 I'm sure he's upset about that.

00:24:59.580 Steve Scalise, by the way, he was the congressman who was nearly killed by that Bernie bro during the congressional baseball game.

00:25:07.120 He made a recovery.

00:25:08.600 Thought he might have a shot at the House leadership, if for no reason other than sympathy.

00:25:12.740 But the people who are in the House of Representatives are not terribly empathetic people.

00:25:16.920 So he did not win that vote.

00:25:19.580 Now it looks like he'll be trying to be the whip.

00:25:22.580 What's going to happen to Jim Jordan?

00:25:24.020 What's going to happen to the House Freedom Caucus?

00:25:25.820 Corey Lewandowski, the former campaign manager for Trump, who's still apparently pretty tight with the president, says that Jim Jordan will be the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.

00:25:35.420 This is very important because, you remember, all of those investigations into Hillary Clinton, the Judiciary Committee is where those investigations are going to come from into Donald Trump.

00:25:46.240 So it might be good to have a real bullfighter out there to go up face-to-face against Democrats when they're launching the inevitable 10,000 investigations into every meal that Donald Trump ever ate.

00:26:00.060 That we're also getting reports in that President Trump allegedly asked now GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to make sure that Jim Jordan makes it to the top of the Judiciary Committee to become the ranking member.

00:26:16.160 Now it gets even more complicated here because Kevin McCarthy can't put Jim Jordan in that role.

00:26:23.180 That role will be decided by the Steering Committee, and the Steering Committee doesn't like the House Freedom Caucus very much.

00:26:30.000 So a lot of power struggling at stake right now.

00:26:34.500 Hopefully being in the minority will unite the Republicans.

00:26:37.700 This has happened to us in the past.

00:26:40.960 When you're in the minority, you can come together because you're fighting a common enemy, and the stakes of your differences are not terribly high. 0.92

00:26:47.280 So you can unify, you can go up and punch them.

00:26:49.380 When you're in leadership, it's a little bit harder because you've got to answer to your constituents for things that you're actually passing.

00:26:55.220 So it's a little bit harder to bring people who don't necessarily want to side with one extreme or the other together.

00:27:02.320 But hopefully it unites us.

00:27:03.700 We need to be united, especially as we look ahead at 2020.

00:27:06.240 This is one of the reasons why losing the House in 2018, while frustrating for the Trump agenda, may actually help the re-election bid in 2020.

00:27:14.540 One, because it gives Trump an adversary, and two, it can get those GOP House Republicans into fighting form.

00:27:22.120 There are also power struggles for the White House.

00:27:25.080 It seems as though, put money on it now, go to the betting markets this second, pull over your car, call up Vegas.

00:27:31.300 Ohio Governor John Kasich, the son of a mailman, if you hadn't heard, appears to be readying himself to run for president against Donald Trump in 2020.

00:27:43.260 For comment, we turn now to John Kasich.

00:27:45.720 And then you see him eating in the morning.

00:27:48.020 Do you ever see?

00:27:48.520 I have never seen.

00:27:50.000 He's stuffing pancakes in his mouth like this.

00:27:52.600 And I'm always telling my boy, take small bites, Barrett, little tiny bites.

00:28:00.240 And yesterday he said, Daddy, who is that guy on television? 0.80

00:28:03.640 That's disgusting.

00:28:05.760 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:28:06.540 That was just a video of John Kasich eating pancakes, which is, you know, when Donald Trump made that observation that Kasich eats in a grotesque way, I had never noticed it before.

00:28:16.100 And then you look at all of these clips, and it is true.

00:28:18.060 And this is something I've noticed about people who are longtime politicians, especially Washington politicians. 0.94

00:28:25.840 They eat in a disgusting way.

00:28:27.700 I won't name various politicians that I have dined with, but this does seem to be the rule rather than the exception.

00:28:37.200 I don't know what it is.

00:28:37.960 It's something about not, it's just the government, I guess.

00:28:41.360 Just working in a bureaucracy where there's no stakes, there's very little accountability, just kind of makes people a little more of a slob.

00:28:50.000 I find people in the private sector know how to dine a little more, in more of a couth manner.

00:28:55.140 That's neither here nor there.

00:28:56.300 What John Kasich actually said was not eating a stack of pancakes.

00:28:59.920 He tweeted out his agreement with Emmanuel Macron's criticism, the French president's criticism of Donald Trump.

00:29:06.820 And he basically laid down the gauntlet for Trump when he tweeted his quote,

00:29:11.920 At Emmanuel Macron is right, patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism.

00:29:17.140 By saying our interests first, who cares about the others?

00:29:20.120 We erase what a nation holds dearest, its moral values.

00:29:24.500 America was founded as the shining city on a hill.

00:29:27.200 United, we can keep it that way.

00:29:29.900 United, behind President John Kasich, the son of a mailman, the eater of pancakes.

00:29:35.880 He is going to unite us.

00:29:37.720 He is the man for this moment.

00:29:39.380 What is he thinking?

00:29:41.840 What on earth is he thinking?

00:29:43.940 Is it possible to misread a moment worse than John Kasich?

00:29:49.140 Is that possible?

00:29:50.340 What are his advisors telling him?

00:29:52.660 He is doing exactly the opposite of what he should be doing.

00:29:56.420 And he thinks that this is going to launch him into the White House.

00:29:58.920 I don't think he'll get a single vote.

00:30:00.840 I don't know that anybody in Ohio is even going to vote for the guy.

00:30:03.920 First of all, it isn't true.

00:30:07.220 What Macron said just isn't true.

00:30:08.800 Patriotism is not the opposite of nationalism.

00:30:11.540 It might be the case that the French have this bizarre, rationalist, abstracted view of ideas floating without any connection to corporeal things, to tangible things, to institutions.

00:30:23.420 But that isn't how it works in America.

00:30:25.520 Not for one second.

00:30:26.820 And, you know, it's really cute of them to be critiquing American nationalism when the United States pays for the security and the defense of the entire world.

00:30:37.060 And when we turn a blind eye when our trading partners blithely violate World Trade Organization treaties.

00:30:43.440 It's really cute.

00:30:44.880 That's really nice.

00:30:45.620 It must be nice to be Europe.

00:30:47.440 By the way, Macron would have made his statement in German if it wasn't for it.

00:30:50.440 Did I mention that yesterday?

00:30:51.400 I'll say it again.

00:30:51.920 And I'll say it again tomorrow because it's outrageous. 0.76

00:30:54.060 I don't need to sit here and be scolded by Emmanuel Macron, this weirdo little French prime minister who married his school teacher who was as old as his mother. 0.80

00:31:05.180 I don't need to be lectured by that man.

00:31:07.060 It's fine if he wants to be nice to us, but we don't need to be lectured by him.

00:31:10.060 And we don't need to be lectured by John Kasich.

00:31:12.400 Give me a break.

00:31:13.900 Kasich was basically a fine governor of Ohio.

00:31:17.300 But President Trump has done an excellent job as president.

00:31:19.460 We've gotten a wonderful conservative agenda through and John Kasich can take his pancakes and stuff it.

00:31:25.500 We've got a lot more to talk about.

00:31:26.980 We've got to talk about the power struggles among Democrats, why the framers would be pleased by all of this, and why millennials aren't having any sex. 0.79

00:31:34.440 Sad for them.

00:31:35.120 To quote a great man, sad. 0.89

00:31:36.400 To quote a great man who, as we now know, has had a lot of sex, sad.

00:31:40.440 Before we do that, we've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:31:42.920 By the way, you'll notice that I'm not in my studio.

00:31:45.400 You'll notice I'm in my very fancy hotel room.

00:31:48.860 I've got my, you know, couch over there.

00:31:51.340 I've got my little coffee pot.

00:31:52.640 I'm in a hotel room because I'm on the road and I'm going to Michigan State University tonight.

00:31:57.200 This is my latest stop on the YAF tour, on the Covfefe on Campus tour with Young America's Foundation.

00:32:03.520 By the way, tomorrow night you can catch me at the University of Michigan.

00:32:06.460 But tonight I will be at Michigan State.

00:32:08.740 So if you're at Michigan State, if you're near Michigan State, come on out.

00:32:12.200 Let's hang out, man.

00:32:13.020 Stop by.

00:32:13.840 We'll go. 0.99

00:32:14.520 We're going to be talking tonight about why millennials are so miserable. 1.00

00:32:17.800 This should tie in pretty well with our next story on why millennials aren't having any sex. 0.99

00:32:22.600 There might seem to be a connection somewhere there.

00:32:25.140 We will analyze.

00:32:26.420 Go to dailywire.com.

00:32:27.860 You'll get me.

00:32:28.480 You'll get the Andrew Flavin Show.

00:32:29.200 You'll get the Venture Bureau Show.

00:32:30.200 You'll get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:32:31.440 That's coming up tomorrow.

00:32:32.640 So get your questions in.

00:32:34.360 But what you really get is a vessel better than this random water bottle that I have

00:32:40.100 to drink out of because I forgot my tumbler on the road.

00:32:42.420 This is, I can't handle the levels of salt that we find in the Leftist Tears tumbler.

00:32:49.520 If so, this would melt.

00:32:50.860 This would dissolve into my hand.

00:32:52.660 It would probably burn a hole through my leg.

00:32:54.940 So I can't do it.

00:32:55.920 I'm not able to drink all of those delicious Leftist Tears while I'm on the road.

00:33:00.300 You should get yours.

00:33:01.300 Don't make my mistake.

00:33:02.500 Go to dailywire.com.

00:33:03.380 We'll be right back.

00:33:15.080 There are even power struggles going on among the Democrats.

00:33:18.620 I know it's hard to believe.

00:33:20.020 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, our favorite little socialist, is storming an office in D.C. 0.58

00:33:25.660 She's going, she's now, she's been elected to Congress.

00:33:28.240 She's going to go storm an office. 1.00

00:33:29.720 Whose office is she storming? 1.00

00:33:30.860 It must be storming Minority Leader McCarthy's office, right?

00:33:33.760 It must be storming Mitch McConnell's office, right?

00:33:35.440 Nope.

00:33:35.880 She's storming Nancy Pelosi's office. 0.98

00:33:38.620 I want to let you all know how proud I am of each and every single one of you for putting

00:33:45.700 yourselves and your bodies and everything on the line to make sure that we save our planet,

00:33:52.900 our generation, and our future.

00:33:54.660 And it's so incredibly important.

00:33:58.040 Wow.

00:33:58.680 So incredibly important to go into your boss's office, storm it, walk in.

00:34:03.300 Pretty wild that she's doing this because it's not just that she was protesting outside of the office.

00:34:08.420 They busted their way in there.

00:34:10.280 There were 51 people arrested that were with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:34:14.380 I guess they couldn't arrest her.

00:34:15.520 However, it wouldn't have been a good look for Democrats to arrest their big fundraising star 0.99

00:34:21.140 because she's a lunatic. 1.00

00:34:23.840 Hello. 1.00

00:34:24.520 She was just elected last week and she's already pulling bizarre stunts like this. 1.00

00:34:29.120 Now, why is she pulling the stunt? 1.00

00:34:30.900 She's pulling the stunt because she wants to stay in the limelight and she wants to worm her way into leadership. 1.00

00:34:36.760 How did Nancy Pelosi respond?

00:34:38.480 You've got to remember, Nancy Pelosi might not know much, but she knows how to stay in power. 0.98

00:34:42.320 She's a very shrewd politician. 0.95

00:34:44.220 So Pelosi's response, was it to arrest Ocasio-Cortez?

00:34:47.380 No, it was to welcome the protesters.

00:34:50.580 She tweeted out, she said, or no, I think she just gave this as a statement.

00:34:54.000 She welcomed the protest and she calls on the police, quote,

00:34:57.540 to allow them to continue to organize and participate in our democracy.

00:35:02.680 By the way, storming people's offices is not participating in our democracy.

00:35:07.380 Voting is participating in our democracy.

00:35:09.520 Setting up an appointment to meet with your congressman is participating in our democracy.

00:35:14.760 We have a right to lobby.

00:35:15.860 It's in the Constitution.

00:35:17.040 It's in the First Amendment, but you've got to be civilized about it.

00:35:20.440 Writing an op-ed is participating in our democracy.

00:35:23.820 Knocking down somebody's door, whether it's Nancy Pelosi's or Tucker Carlson,

00:35:26.980 that's not participating in democracy.

00:35:28.740 That's undermining our democracy.

00:35:31.240 What they're doing, though, is that they're trying to out-lefty one another.

00:35:34.500 They're trying to see which one is more left-wing.

00:35:39.580 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was just caught in a major lie because she said that since she's not yet receiving a paycheck, 1.00

00:35:45.620 because she's not starting her job yet, she can't afford an apartment in Washington, D.C.

00:35:51.160 28 years old, she can't afford an apartment in Washington, D.C.

00:35:53.820 for a couple months before she gets paid. 0.51

00:35:55.840 I don't know what choices she's made in her life that she can't afford paying.

00:35:59.580 What do you imagine?

00:36:00.280 When friends of mine were living in D.C., they were paying $900 a month rent.

00:36:04.420 Let's say she gets a fancier apartment, $1,500, $2,000 a month rent.

00:36:09.020 If she can't afford to have a little bit of money socked away to get her through a month or two by the age of 28

00:36:15.760 when she's managed to get herself elected to Congress, maybe she shouldn't be elected to Congress.

00:36:20.200 But it turns out that was all a lie.

00:36:22.040 And she should have realized, except she doesn't because she doesn't know anything about the government,

00:36:25.920 she should have realized that she would have to disclose her finances,

00:36:28.980 which means we would know that she has, according to these disclosures,

00:36:33.400 anywhere from $15,000 to $50,000 worth of cash and other assets that are also worth thousands and thousands of dollars.

00:36:40.880 So presumably, she would be able to fork over money and pay for her apartment for a couple of months 0.97

00:36:45.840 before she received her $174,000 salary.

00:36:49.580 They're just trying to out-lefty one another.

00:36:51.800 This is just a power struggle. 0.94

00:36:53.320 And while the framers might not be pleased about crazy lunatics kicking in doors and occupying house offices,

00:37:01.080 they would be pleased by the power struggle.

00:37:03.120 The whole government was set up to have this kind of power struggle

00:37:07.060 between all of these various branches, these various elected officials,

00:37:12.780 between the various parties, within the various parties.

00:37:15.620 James Madison put it very beautifully in Federalist 51,

00:37:18.960 one of the most important passages about our government.

00:37:21.840 The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department

00:37:27.160 consists in giving to those who administer each department

00:37:30.220 the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.

00:37:36.820 The provision for defense must, in this, as in all other cases,

00:37:40.540 be commensurate to the danger of attack.

00:37:42.940 Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

00:37:46.280 The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.

00:37:50.280 It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary

00:37:54.500 to control the abuses of government.

00:37:57.020 But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

00:38:02.300 If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

00:38:05.540 If angels were to govern men,

00:38:07.360 neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

00:38:11.100 In framing a government, which is to be administrated by men over men, 0.87

00:38:14.820 the great difficulty lies in this.

00:38:17.260 You must first enable the government to control the governed,

00:38:20.780 and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

00:38:22.920 That's where these power struggles are coming from.

00:38:24.880 I think it's fine. Bring it on.

00:38:27.140 We must make sure that justice prevails.

00:38:29.980 We must make sure that people aren't cheating,

00:38:31.820 that they aren't committing acts of fraud.

00:38:33.920 But for ambition to counteract ambition works well for me.

00:38:37.320 That said, all of that said,

00:38:40.440 the left is still absolutely out of its mind here.

00:38:43.980 Maybe we can close on that. 0.95

00:38:44.860 We won't be able to close on why millennials don't have any sex. 0.99

00:38:47.720 We'll get to that tomorrow. 0.59

00:38:48.660 But you do have to hear this from these left-wingers.

00:38:51.920 Look, we've picked on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right?

00:38:55.000 We've picked on her because she doesn't know very much,

00:38:58.100 and we're holding her up, and it's really just a straw man.

00:39:00.480 Never mind that she's the darling of the Democrat Party. 1.00

00:39:02.660 Never mind that she's now an elected congresswoman. 1.00

00:39:05.540 Never mind any of that.

00:39:06.540 We're just picking on her. 1.00

00:39:07.680 Forget, leave her alone. 1.00

00:39:08.440 Because why?

00:39:09.080 Because she won't give an answer on how to pay 1.00

00:39:11.500 for the absurd health care plan that all of the Democrats are touting.

00:39:14.780 Here's how she described it to Jorge Ramos.

00:39:16.920 People often say, like, how are you going to pay for it?

00:39:20.200 And I find the question so puzzling

00:39:22.620 because how do you pay for something that's more affordable?

00:39:26.080 How do you pay for cheaper rent?

00:39:27.580 How do you pay for it?

00:39:28.300 You just pay for it.

00:39:29.440 We're paying more now.

00:39:31.540 You just pay for it.

00:39:32.740 You just, you know, you just pay.

00:39:33.900 The way you double tax receipts to the government is just, you just do it.

00:39:37.300 Just because.

00:39:38.220 Just you do it.

00:39:38.640 Okay.

00:39:39.220 So I sort of see how it might be fair criticism

00:39:43.740 to only focus on Ocasio-Cortez

00:39:46.980 because she doesn't know anything.

00:39:48.660 She's probably not very intelligent,

00:39:50.560 and she's certainly not knowledgeable about anything.

00:39:53.480 So that's fine.

00:39:54.540 How about we ask the CEO of the Democratic National Committee,

00:39:59.720 which, by the way, I didn't know they had a CEO.

00:40:01.820 This is news to me.

00:40:02.860 That's a role I've never heard of before.

00:40:04.580 But the CEO of the Democratic National Committee,

00:40:07.400 Seema Nanda, was asked this exact same question.

00:40:10.600 Is her answer any better?

00:40:11.860 It's going to be a winning issue for Democrats in 2020.

00:40:15.000 How do you answer the question of how are you going to pay for this?

00:40:18.080 Because there have been studies,

00:40:19.660 credible studies that say it would cost $3 trillion a year.

00:40:24.840 You would have to double everybody's taxes

00:40:26.800 or maybe triple everybody's taxes.

00:40:28.240 Just how do you answer the cost question?

00:40:30.640 So I don't think we're there yet.

00:40:32.300 I mean, I think what we saw with this Republican Party

00:40:35.100 is we saw an irresponsible tax cut,

00:40:38.420 and then we saw an immediate pivot that they did towards,

00:40:42.220 it was in statements by Mitch McConnell

00:40:43.860 just shortly before the election,

00:40:45.460 but statements that they've been making all along,

00:40:47.380 that they plan to go after Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid next.

00:40:52.780 It is this president that is causing skyrocketing deficits,

00:40:57.480 and now they plan on going after these core programs.

00:41:01.160 So your answer is I don't know how we're going to get there,

00:41:05.400 but these are all big conversations that we need to be engaged in.

00:41:11.160 Why are they so bad at filibustering? 0.95

00:41:14.860 Why is she's no better than Brenda Snipes? 0.99

00:41:17.580 She's no better than the county supervisor in Broward County,

00:41:21.880 the election supervisors.

00:41:23.340 Well, well, Chris, good question.

00:41:24.840 Let me talk about something completely different.

00:41:26.800 And then at least, you know,

00:41:28.100 Seema Nanda has the integrity to,

00:41:30.160 at the end of her non-answer,

00:41:31.820 admit that she didn't give an answer.

00:41:33.440 And so she says, well, and so, you know,

00:41:34.780 the question, I guess, is I don't, you know,

00:41:36.740 I don't know how we'll get there,

00:41:37.720 but these are big conversations.

00:41:39.280 Just in case, just in case you thought

00:41:41.160 they were small conversations,

00:41:42.720 I know that's what you were asking me about,

00:41:44.400 you know, are these big or small?

00:41:45.660 They're big, they're really big.

00:41:47.180 And so, and that's why I think

00:41:49.420 that the airspeed velocity of an unladen,

00:41:51.520 what, excuse me, I don't think so.

00:41:53.860 So that's her answer.

00:41:56.400 Her answer is we don't know and we're not there yet.

00:41:59.820 This is a beautiful irony.

00:42:01.520 This is a beautiful irony.

00:42:02.800 I never again want to hear from Democrats

00:42:04.980 that Republicans don't have a healthcare plan.

00:42:08.560 This was the big criticism.

00:42:09.620 The big criticism was during 2010, 2012, 2016,

00:42:14.640 they say, you Republicans want to repeal Obamacare.

00:42:17.460 That's all you ever talk about.

00:42:18.740 But what are you going to replace it with?

00:42:20.380 You don't have a healthcare plan.

00:42:22.760 You, where's your plan?

00:42:23.620 You've been campaigning on this.

00:42:24.560 Where's your plan?

00:42:25.500 And there were various Republican healthcare plans.

00:42:28.320 There was good work put out, out of AEI.

00:42:30.840 They suggested some, there were some,

00:42:32.160 there were some good plans on the table,

00:42:33.520 but fair enough.

00:42:34.220 I understand Republicans had the opportunity

00:42:36.720 to repeal and replace Obamacare.

00:42:38.080 They failed to do it.

00:42:40.080 What's your plan?

00:42:42.080 What's your plan?

00:42:42.760 You've been campaigning.

00:42:44.120 How many Democrats campaigned in 2018

00:42:46.900 on Medicare for all?

00:42:48.400 That actually is a clear cut plan.

00:42:51.400 It has a price tag.

00:42:53.420 It's pretty clear.

00:42:54.700 So the answer should be obvious.

00:42:56.460 How are you going to pay for it?

00:42:58.300 They don't have a plan.

00:42:59.840 They, well, I don't know.

00:43:00.840 Because the answer is,

00:43:02.380 you would have to tax Americans to death.

00:43:04.820 You'd have to tax Americans to death 0.96

00:43:06.500 in the name of keeping them alive.

00:43:08.260 And you would also destroy

00:43:11.840 the major healthcare system in the world

00:43:14.400 and stop healthcare innovation

00:43:15.700 for the entire globe in the process.

00:43:18.100 But you don't have an answer.

00:43:19.620 You don't have an answer

00:43:20.440 because if you give that answer,

00:43:21.940 you'll never win office for the next 20 years.

00:43:25.020 And I just love it.

00:43:26.400 It's a wonderful irony.

00:43:27.220 It also highlights the central problem of healthcare,

00:43:29.620 which is a central problem of all material things.

00:43:32.860 You can't get something for nothing.

00:43:35.600 You can't do it.

00:43:36.560 You can sometimes buy something

00:43:38.980 and then get nothing.

00:43:40.560 Like if you read, for instance,

00:43:41.820 Reasons to Vote for Democrats,

00:43:42.820 a comprehensive guide,

00:43:43.660 you'll get a lot of education.

00:43:45.440 You'll get a lot of knowledge,

00:43:46.680 but the pages won't have anything in it.

00:43:48.400 But you can't get something for nothing.

00:43:51.080 And that's what Democrats are promising on healthcare.

00:43:53.500 This is why we all knew

00:43:55.060 that if you like your doctor,

00:43:56.100 you can't keep your doctor.

00:43:57.340 It's why we all knew Obamacare would not save money.

00:43:59.900 It would cost a ton of money.

00:44:01.920 Eventually, Barack Obama admitted that himself.

00:44:04.580 He said, well, you didn't think

00:44:06.340 that you were going to get

00:44:06.980 all that good stuff for free, did you?

00:44:08.840 Yeah, we did because you told us that.

00:44:11.320 Also, that's why you lost the House

00:44:12.740 and all the state houses

00:44:13.540 and eventually the Senate.

00:44:14.860 It's because you lied straight to our faces

00:44:16.300 and you said we would get

00:44:17.120 all that good stuff for free

00:44:18.140 and then it wasn't for free.

00:44:20.120 That's their problem here.

00:44:21.820 If Democrats want to be honest

00:44:22.860 about their healthcare plan,

00:44:23.800 they have to say that

00:44:24.540 people are going to have to double,

00:44:26.360 at least double,

00:44:27.580 their tax receipts to the government

00:44:29.140 just to begin to pay for it

00:44:32.200 and probably it's going to cost even more

00:44:33.620 to say nothing of surrendering

00:44:34.980 some of their freedom of choice

00:44:36.600 that we now enjoy

00:44:37.620 in our current healthcare system.

00:44:39.460 That's a hard pitch.

00:44:40.440 I don't think they're going to do it

00:44:41.540 so you're not going to have an honest answer.

00:44:43.880 And Republicans need to do a better job,

00:44:46.980 at least,

00:44:47.660 of articulating what freedom means.

00:44:50.200 Freedom means that not everybody

00:44:51.880 gets the Cadillac plan all the time for free.

00:44:54.120 That we actually won't even have a Cadillac plan

00:44:55.980 if everybody gets it for free.

00:44:57.900 The way that you spur innovation,

00:44:59.800 which benefits every single person,

00:45:01.560 is by having variously priced

00:45:05.720 medical services and goods and tools

00:45:09.180 that are going to cost more money

00:45:11.020 and they might cost more

00:45:11.720 to the insurance company,

00:45:12.480 they might cost more to individuals,

00:45:13.900 they might cost more to the government,

00:45:15.120 but there is a cost to that.

00:45:16.440 You can't get something for nothing.

00:45:17.960 Okay, tomorrow we'll have to talk about

00:45:19.520 why young people aren't having sex. 0.70

00:45:20.820 It's so much of a downer topic to end on

00:45:24.520 that I figure it's much better

00:45:26.440 to end on Democrats

00:45:28.020 having absolutely nothing on health care.

00:45:30.260 Okay, come out if you're at Michigan State tonight,

00:45:32.160 if you're at University of Michigan tomorrow,

00:45:33.540 I'll see you there.

00:45:34.320 Otherwise, I'll see you right back here tomorrow.

00:45:37.520 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:38.740 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:39.700 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:09.700 The Michael Knowles Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - November 14, 2018

Ep. 252 - The Never-Ending Power Struggle

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