The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 257 - Two Different Worlds

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00:00:38.760 We will examine which stories matter and why CNN gets it wrong.

00:00:42.360 Then, what open borders Democrats can learn from the psychology of lines.

00:00:46.960 How the Mueller report could be politically devastating for President Trump, the universal basic income, political schlock, and the end of Twitter.

00:00:54.840 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:10.280 So, speaking of feeling better, I feel a lot better because I'm not watching CNN anymore.

00:03:14.280 But I was watching CNN earlier today.

00:03:17.000 And Brian Stelter is very, very upset.

00:03:21.440 There is a major problem in this country.

00:03:24.120 Which problem is it?

00:03:25.240 I don't know. You might think immigration, right?

00:03:26.760 Oh, no, maybe not.

00:03:27.600 You might think the economy.

00:03:30.680 That's a major issue, right?

00:03:32.040 Fortunately, we're getting out of that slow growth, no jobs recovery under Barack Obama.

00:03:36.960 Still, though, we've got to prioritize jobs.

00:03:38.480 No, not that at all.

00:03:39.240 What is it?

00:03:39.920 It's the sun monster in global warming. 0.59

00:03:41.800 Brian Stelter, take it away.

00:03:43.000 I want you to guess how many times Fox News mentioned that blockbuster report on Friday.

00:03:48.240 Fox News alert.

00:03:51.240 The White House releasing a major climate report concluding that climate change will do significant damage to the U.S. economy.

00:03:59.000 That was nine of the whole 30 seconds that Fox News spent covering the report on Friday.

00:04:05.760 Let that sink in.

00:04:06.940 Fox only mentioned the report once on television on Friday.

00:04:11.380 What is he talking about?

00:04:13.960 He's talking about the climate report that came out from the White House, came out from the executive agencies,

00:04:19.020 and there's a worry that climate change, global warming, global cooling, whatever, is advancing.

00:04:25.520 Brian Stelter, we'll get to what's in the report in just one second, but Brian Stelter's contention,

00:04:30.360 his issue is not about the report itself.

00:04:32.240 It's that Fox News isn't covering the global warming executive agency report with wall-to-wall coverage.

00:04:40.320 Why not?

00:04:42.060 Well, let's think of some other stories.

00:04:44.160 There's a story that came out about Amanda Ferguson Wayand, a young teacher who was killed by an illegal alien.

00:04:51.000 Joel Velasquez, he was 24 years old.

00:04:53.300 He's an illegal alien. 0.87

00:04:54.320 It was a hit and run.

00:04:55.460 This guy was out on bond already for an assault charge.

00:04:58.860 He went, he killed this poor girl.

00:05:00.120 He didn't even stop.

00:05:00.880 Eventually, they caught up with him.

00:05:02.300 Thank goodness.

00:05:03.540 So let's play that game.

00:05:04.700 Let's play the Brian Stelter game.

00:05:05.860 Can we cut to CNN's coverage of the Amanda Ferguson Wayand killing by the illegal alien?

00:05:12.540 Can we cut to that coverage?

00:05:14.280 No, we can't because there's no coverage of it.

00:05:16.080 None whatsoever.

00:05:17.300 So we can play this game all day.

00:05:18.720 Can't we, Brian Stelter?

00:05:20.280 And by the way, which story do you think is more important?

00:05:22.940 The sun monster, which is going to kill us all in 2002 or 2007 or 2013 or whenever now they're predicting that the world is going to end and it never ends.

00:05:32.420 Or a real American woman, a real American citizen, a young teacher who was killed by a criminal who was not supposed to be in this country to begin with.

00:05:41.400 A guy who was in this country illegally, out on bond for an assault charge, killed her and tried to drive away, tried to flee the scene.

00:05:47.480 Which is a more relevant story?

00:05:49.260 Which story speaks more to people's lives?

00:05:51.100 Obviously, the story about illegal immigration, these are having real effects on people's lives, on the economy, on their jobs, on their families, on obviously people who are injured or killed by illegal aliens.

00:06:05.480 That number should be zero because none of them are supposed to be in the country.

00:06:09.760 Sometimes the left will come out and say that rates of criminality among illegal aliens are lower than for the general population.

00:06:17.100 First of all, that statistic is not true and it's been refuted by a lot of different studies.

00:06:21.420 But you have your statistics, I have my statistics.

00:06:24.140 I'm sure you can find some surveys that show that that is true.

00:06:27.260 The point is it's illegal immigration.

00:06:29.840 Illegal immigration is illegal. 0.99

00:06:31.420 It's as simple as that.

00:06:32.700 The true number of people who should be injured or killed by illegal aliens is zero because not a single one of them is supposed to be in this country. 1.00

00:06:39.980 So those are two issues.

00:06:41.220 Now, what does Brian Stelter make of this as his broader point?

00:06:45.660 What is the actual CNN thesis for today?

00:06:47.800 Take it away.

00:06:48.740 The network's pro-Trump talk shows are portraying this as an urgent crisis and calling it, look at the banner here, the battle for the southern border.

00:06:58.840 It's a vivid example of how two Americas are living side by side.

00:07:02.860 We're living in two different realities, supported by two different news worlds.

00:07:06.800 In most of the country's news media, this climate report is the big story.

00:07:11.980 But over on Fox and on right-wing websites, it's the caravan.

00:07:16.200 That's a great point.

00:07:17.380 Brian Stelter is actually making a perfectly correct observation.

00:07:21.340 It is right now, if you look at the news media, the mainstream media, and then, you know, I don't know, the Daily Wire or maybe Fox News or a couple newspapers, CRTVs, just a handful of new media right-wingers.

00:07:36.720 It is true.

00:07:37.360 They present different stories.

00:07:39.360 That is media bias.

00:07:41.120 What Brian Stelter would prefer is if we only had one perspective that was being put out there.

00:07:46.760 What he wants is to return to the good old days when it was only the left that controlled the news media.

00:07:52.980 It's like two different worlds.

00:07:54.280 It's as though different Americans have different perspectives.

00:07:57.300 Yes, of course.

00:07:58.620 What creates those two different worlds in the news media is the selection of stories.

00:08:04.180 And this is, by the way, where most of the bias is in the media.

00:08:07.140 The trouble with the New York Times, even with CNN, frankly, is not so much the caliber of the reporting.

00:08:15.560 The Times still has pretty good reporters.

00:08:18.280 Even the Washington Post sort of has good reporters.

00:08:21.520 That isn't the issue.

00:08:22.960 The issue is which stories are being run and which stories are not being run.

00:08:27.740 When Cheryl Atkinson, one of the last journalists in America, when she left CBS, it wasn't because they were yelling at her over something she wrote. 0.91

00:08:37.180 It wasn't because of anything like that.

00:08:39.520 It was that the stories were being killed.

00:08:42.340 They were being squashed.

00:08:43.460 They wanted to talk about only stories that were favorable to the left, no stories that rightly criticized the left or that were favorable to the right.

00:08:52.380 This is what a worldview is.

00:08:55.020 And Brian Stelter is right.

00:08:56.580 To people like him, to people on CNN, to people at the New York Times, this scary, scary sun monster, as Drew calls it, global warming, global cooling, whatever.

00:09:07.340 However, the hypothetical negative effects of climate change, none of which we are experiencing right now, none of which have been credibly and reliably proven to be happening in any short period of time, none of which have been proven, have been demonstrated to be caused by human beings and human efforts.

00:09:28.120 They are so much more concerned and worried about that, that religion of environmentalism, that religion of global warming, than they are about illegal alien criminals killing Americans.

00:09:39.000 At least he's honest, at least Brian Stelter is honest.

00:09:42.840 My worldview is a worldview that prefers the real to the theoretical, the near to the far, the tangible to the abstract.

00:09:52.660 And so when I see Americans having their livelihoods disrupted or ended by a major problem, 2,000 illegal aliens crossing the border every single day, at least, you've got a whole horde, a whole caravan marching through, threatening to storm across the border.

00:10:09.800 That, to me, is a greater concern than the sun is heating up and the atmosphere is trapping too much heat in and whatever worry they have today.

00:10:24.400 Now, why am I not concerned?

00:10:25.640 It sounds like I'm being a little glib when it comes to global warming.

00:10:29.020 The reason I'm not that concerned is because that so-called scientific consensus, which is nothing more than a political consensus.

00:10:35.660 It's a left-wing, politicized, activist consensus, has consistently changed its storyline.

00:10:42.000 Obviously, you see this in the words.

00:10:44.040 Initially, we had global cooling in the 1970s.

00:10:47.460 That was a great concern.

00:10:48.740 Then it turned out the world wasn't cooling.

00:10:50.280 It was warming.

00:10:51.160 So we had global warming through the 1990s and early 2000s.

00:10:56.300 And then the world stopped warming for a long period of time.

00:10:58.820 So we got the unfalsifiable climate change because you can't disprove climate change.

00:11:04.660 We have basically heard the UN admit that that Paris Climate Accord deal would not have done anything to mitigate the apparent effects of climate change.

00:11:16.320 It would have maybe contained global warming by two degrees Celsius over the course of a century.

00:11:24.040 Two degrees Celsius over what the temperature was before the Industrial Revolution.

00:11:28.100 We have these insinuations from the left that forests are being destroyed.

00:11:33.840 The California wildfires were caused by global warming.

00:11:36.580 No evidence of this whatsoever.

00:11:38.300 There's no evidence that it's causing more wildfires or deforestation.

00:11:41.880 We have more forests today in America than we did 100 years ago or 200 years ago or 300 years ago.

00:11:48.000 Contrary to the leftist slogan belief, to the global warming alarmists, the native peoples who were here in America were not very friendly to the forests.

00:11:58.680 We've done a very good job at conserving and developing our natural environment, especially since the 1940s.

00:12:04.220 The size of forests is way, way up.

00:12:07.200 How about rising sea levels or mass migration?

00:12:10.040 These are the worries that are referred to in that White House climate report.

00:12:16.100 Even that is a little misleading.

00:12:17.420 It's from the executive agencies released because theoretically they work under the White House.

00:12:22.640 But those executive agencies aren't staffed exclusively by Trump appointees.

00:12:27.860 The vast, vast majority of the people at those agencies are lifetime people.

00:12:32.080 They're career bureaucrats who have no particular loyalty to the Trump administration, no similar worldview or ideological view.

00:12:39.240 And so if some of them are very concerned about global warming, they'll talk about that.

00:12:43.740 But with regard to the rising sea levels, the mass migration, all of that, it has simply been refuted and disputed so many times.

00:12:53.500 Just remember that movie from Al Gore.

00:12:56.080 We were told the Pacific Atolls, those low-lying islands, were being inundated because of global warming.

00:13:01.740 A UK court ruled that they couldn't play that in school.

00:13:05.780 And if they did play the movie in school, they would have to correct that fact because there's no evidence of that.

00:13:11.060 There's no evidence, as Al Gore and the global warming alarmists claimed, that man-made global warming was shutting down the ocean conveyor in the Atlantic Ocean.

00:13:20.460 There's no evidence of that at all.

00:13:21.900 There's a no-causal effect that's been established between carbon dioxide and warming over the past 650,000 years.

00:13:29.080 Another claim of an inconvenient truth.

00:13:31.080 We were told that the polar bears are dying.

00:13:32.840 Do you remember that? They were drowning. They're not going to be able to make it from one ice float to another one.

00:13:37.880 That's also not true.

00:13:39.380 We have more polar bears today, many more polar bears today, than we did decades ago.

00:13:43.760 And the final, the big worry, we were promised from Al Gore, he said,

00:13:49.120 New York City will be underwater within 10 years, or less than 10 years, because of global warming.

00:13:55.860 What happened? Nothing of the sort.

00:13:57.260 I'm in New York right now. I'm hopping through here just for a hot second on my way down to give some speeches in Florida.

00:14:03.800 Florida, we were told, was going to be underwater. Florida's not underwater either. It's great.

00:14:07.580 The only water that I'm seeing in New York and Florida is in my leftist-tears tumbler.

00:14:10.840 None of that happened. They're trying to spin it. They're trying to get out of this.

00:14:14.160 All of these predictions, so many of them, have been disproven by time.

00:14:19.580 That's the trouble when you predict the end of the world, is eventually the date that you're told it's going to happen arrives.

00:14:24.600 And when the world doesn't end, you look like a schmuck. 0.59

00:14:27.180 So that's what they're telling us to worry about.

00:14:30.740 Brian Stelter says, you've got to worry about the global warming that's going to sink New York and Florida and the polar bears.

00:14:36.260 And you say, Brian, none of that is happening. None of that matters.

00:14:39.360 But what about immigration? Well, who cares if one young American woman actually died?

00:14:47.300 This is really what the left thinks. I don't mean to be shallow about this.

00:14:51.660 The left really believes who cares if one American woman actually died when millions of people are hypothetically dying from global warming.

00:15:02.640 Who cares that criminals are pouring across our border?

00:15:05.960 Who cares that children have been saved from human traffickers and coyotes in that caravan by Guatemalan and Mexican authorities before they made it to the United States?

00:15:15.640 Who cares about that? Those are just a handful of real people.

00:15:19.560 But all the millions who are hypothetically going to be, those are the ones that they have to worry about.

00:15:23.640 Because the left really cares about humanity, but they don't seem to care much about humans.

00:15:28.060 And they prioritize theory over reality.

00:15:31.060 This issue, I'm so glad Ryan Stelter brought this up.

00:15:34.200 Because those are two worlds. Those are two different worldviews.

00:15:38.100 The difference is the left's worldview is a fantasy.

00:15:41.200 And the right's worldview is looking around and seeing things as they are.

00:15:46.100 What is actually affecting people.

00:15:48.340 Not in the hypothetical century away future.

00:15:51.600 Not in the imaginary fantasy world where New York City is underwater.

00:15:55.700 Where Florida is underwater.

00:15:57.320 But in reality.

00:15:58.220 That is the difference between those worldviews.

00:16:00.500 And you don't just have to take my world for it.

00:16:02.600 You can take the word of John Kerry.

00:16:05.120 No less a guy than the former Democrat nominee for president.

00:16:08.660 Secretary of State under Barack Obama.

00:16:10.720 He is wising up and he realizes that this immigration issue is posing a huge problem.

00:16:16.360 Not just for Democrats in America, but for the left globally.

00:16:19.300 Here he is.

00:16:20.260 We're going to have climate refugees. 1.00

00:16:21.860 Look at Europe.

00:16:22.380 Europe is already crushed under this transformation that has taken place because of immigration. 1.00

00:16:31.200 You see that.

00:16:32.140 It's going to be crushed.

00:16:33.160 So he says he's using the left wing line.

00:16:35.180 Oh, the climate refugees. 1.00

00:16:36.880 Once all of those islands that aren't really flooding flood.

00:16:39.760 Then they're all going to come who knows where to New York.

00:16:42.160 And that will be flooded too.

00:16:43.440 He's still going down that path.

00:16:45.340 But then he looks to Europe and he says, but Europe has been crushed by mass migration.

00:16:51.320 He's actually then using the immigration issue to underscore his point on global warming.

00:16:56.720 This is the first time that we're seeing this.

00:16:58.880 Typically, the left says, I'm pro-environment.

00:17:02.120 I'm pro-open borders.

00:17:04.020 I'm pro-endless immigration. 1.00

00:17:05.900 What John Kerry is saying here is I'm pro-environment and I'm going to try to convince you to be pro-environment by pointing out how much more immigration we're going to have to get if we don't get pro-environment.

00:17:18.040 He's taking an anti-illegal immigration, anti-open borders view here.

00:17:21.760 This is not just him.

00:17:23.280 Hillary Clinton has said the same thing in an interview, I believe, with The Guardian.

00:17:27.260 She just said, quote, I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame. 0.53

00:17:34.540 I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken, particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel in Germany.

00:17:42.480 But I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, must send a very clear message.

00:17:46.300 We are not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support because if we don't deal with the immigration issue, it will continue to roil the body politic.

00:17:56.400 Yes, it will.

00:17:57.700 Took you long enough to realize it, Hillary and the left. 1.00

00:18:01.060 They don't like this.

00:18:02.480 This immigration thing really, really matters to people, not just conservatives, not just Republicans, everybody.

00:18:10.720 There was a poll that came out, I think at this point now, about a year ago, a little less than a year ago,

00:18:14.400 that showed that even Democrats, even when you're talking about dreamers, the kids who were brought to America before they were 18 years old and they've known no other country,

00:18:26.060 even the most sympathetic case of illegal aliens, the majority of Democrats did not want to prioritize giving them amnesty.

00:18:33.360 People really, really hate illegal immigration.

00:18:36.440 It's a violation.

00:18:37.660 It's an offense to people.

00:18:38.800 It's taking away their liberty, taking away their national sovereignty.

00:18:42.420 This has become such a major issue globally, not just in the U.S., in Italy, in Germany, in Scandinavia,

00:18:50.600 that even John Kerry and Hillary Clinton have to acknowledge this.

00:18:54.800 Democrats were trying during the midterms, do you remember?

00:18:57.140 They started running an Abolish ICE campaign, Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

00:19:02.780 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talked about it.

00:19:06.020 Cynthia Nixon talked about it in New York.

00:19:08.560 Beto, Beda, Beda O'Rourke talked about it.

00:19:11.540 Robert Francis, he was on the Abolish ICE kick for a while.

00:19:15.380 And then they cut that off because that is a losing campaign issue among everybody.

00:19:20.700 What Democrats could learn about this issue?

00:19:23.140 It's very simple.

00:19:24.300 It comes from the psychology of lines.

00:19:27.300 I mean, lines when you're standing on line.

00:19:28.940 You're at a store, you're waiting on line to pay for your food or get your sandwich or whatever.

00:19:33.620 It's called queuing theory.

00:19:35.460 And it's pretty simple.

00:19:37.100 There have been a number of experiments done by retail stores in the United States,

00:19:42.460 which have found that typical lines, the lines behind a cashier, behind the counter,

00:19:50.620 are relatively ineffective.

00:19:52.820 It's much faster to have a single line.

00:19:55.320 It's actually faster.

00:19:56.600 It reduces wait times for everybody.

00:19:58.220 If you don't just prioritize the people who have been waiting in line,

00:20:01.860 but every so often you just pick a random person out of the pack

00:20:05.120 and bring them up and have them cash out.

00:20:08.860 Why is that faster?

00:20:10.400 Because it discourages people from lining up days and days in advance.

00:20:13.800 It's because if people think that there's not going to be a one-to-one correlation

00:20:20.540 between waiting in line and making it up to the cashier,

00:20:25.060 that you're not going to wait in line forever and ever.

00:20:27.300 The reason that they don't institute all of those possible policies, though,

00:20:31.880 is because people lose their minds when you cut them in line.

00:20:36.840 People get very, very angry about this.

00:20:40.440 They feel that it is unfair.

00:20:42.420 They think that it is unjust.

00:20:43.900 And it is unfair.

00:20:44.900 And it is unjust.

00:20:46.280 This is all about people's sense of justice.

00:20:49.200 We all have it, even if we try to deny it sometimes.

00:20:52.040 That is the immigration question.

00:20:53.760 Some Democrats and left-wingers were confused.

00:20:56.540 They said, how is Donald Trump getting so much support among Hispanic Americans,

00:21:01.800 among immigrants to America?

00:21:04.580 You say, the reason he's getting support is because those people are legal immigrants.

00:21:08.860 They waited in line, online.

00:21:11.200 This is a big debate.

00:21:12.140 Do you say it like a New Yorker and say online?

00:21:13.920 Do you say it like everyone else who's wrong and say in line?

00:21:16.140 The real answer is online.

00:21:17.140 But for the broad audience, maybe I'll consider going between the two.

00:21:21.680 Do you wait online or do you try to cut the line, go over the mountains, evade law enforcement,

00:21:28.280 and cut everybody off?

00:21:29.440 You know, legal immigrants did what they had to do.

00:21:32.120 They paid their money.

00:21:33.200 They filled out their paperwork.

00:21:34.740 They waited.

00:21:36.300 They behaved like good future Americans.

00:21:39.380 Illegal aliens do exactly the opposite. 0.99

00:21:41.460 So it's no wonder of anybody who would be irritated at illegal aliens. 1.00

00:21:46.920 It should be the legal immigrants who actually did what they were supposed to do 1.00

00:21:50.980 and whose immigration regime is being thrown into question

00:21:54.860 and being threatened by the thousands and thousands of people every week.

00:21:59.100 I mean, 2,000 people a day who cross into our country illegally.

00:22:02.360 So what's to be done with this?

00:22:04.280 We have this caravan.

00:22:06.180 The left tries to deny that the caravan exists.

00:22:09.380 They've tried a few different lines on this.

00:22:10.640 Initially, they supported the caravan, people without borders.

00:22:14.580 They have a right to come in here, open borders.

00:22:16.520 Then they said the caravan doesn't exist.

00:22:18.400 It's not an issue at all.

00:22:19.720 Then they said that the people in the caravan are women and children

00:22:22.380 and that they're having tear gas fired on them and it's so awful.

00:22:25.660 You've got to pick a lane.

00:22:26.780 This is always my advice for the left.

00:22:30.940 You have to pick a story and stick with it.

00:22:33.180 Do you remember last week when Michael Avenatti was arrested for beating that actress woman

00:22:39.840 and he said, I didn't do it at all, but I had a good excuse.

00:22:43.780 I didn't do it at all, but she hit me first. 1.00

00:22:45.780 He said, no, no, no, Mr. Avenatti, you can't simultaneously excuse and deny this action.

00:22:53.760 You have to pick a lane.

00:22:55.040 So, what is to be done about this?

00:22:58.580 There's been talk about an asylum deal with Mexico.

00:23:02.120 So, while these asylum cases are brought up, all of these people come to the border.

00:23:06.280 They say, I'm here for political asylum.

00:23:07.840 I'm escaping persecution in Honduras or El Salvador or somewhere.

00:23:12.420 And typically in the United States, we let them come into the country and then we just 1.00

00:23:15.980 let them go and we say, okay, show up though for your meeting.

00:23:19.720 Show up for your appointment in a couple of weeks.

00:23:21.800 Then they go and they stay in the country. 0.98

00:23:23.740 What President Trump is trying to work out with Mexico is a deal that would have these 0.99

00:23:27.720 people who have crossed up from Honduras, Guatemala, wherever they're in Mexico, have them stay 1.00

00:23:32.860 in Mexico while their asylum cases are being heard.

00:23:36.700 A couple of days ago, it was being reported that this deal has been struck.

00:23:40.260 Then yesterday, it was reported that the incoming Mexican government has not reached a deal with

00:23:45.040 the United States.

00:23:45.740 So, we actually don't really know where that deal stands right now.

00:23:49.020 That would be terrific.

00:23:49.840 That would be a good solution.

00:23:51.860 It would, again, seem just to all of us that as 2,000 people a day pour into our country,

00:23:57.820 we can do anything at all to stop them and hold them back.

00:24:02.720 Because the left in the country is insisting now that we not even try to enforce this.

00:24:09.120 We try not even at all to enforce the law.

00:24:11.860 The big claim is that border enforcement fired some tear gas at people crossing the border illegally.

00:24:19.060 What they forgot to mention is that under Barack Obama's administration, border patrol agents

00:24:25.620 did exactly the same thing in 2013.

00:24:27.840 No outrage.

00:24:29.020 No Alyssa Milano tweets.

00:24:30.820 No shocking coverage, you know, CNN or whatever.

00:24:34.440 They're only upset, obviously, because it's happening under a Republican administration.

00:24:38.540 But I got to tell you, it's bad for the country for all of these people to pour in. 1.00

00:24:43.100 But the media focus on this issue is wonderful for the country.

00:24:47.840 It's great for the country because it shows us in no uncertain terms that we have to address this issue.

00:24:52.640 And it's a big win for the GOP.

00:24:54.340 And it's a big loser issue for Democrats.

00:24:56.760 Democrats are trying, like Brian Stelter, to get away from it, to point to anything else.

00:25:01.000 They want to focus on the Mueller investigation.

00:25:04.020 They want to focus on Russia collusion.

00:25:06.140 They want to focus on something that, at least for now, is unfalsifiable and that they can try to spin on the American people.

00:25:14.420 But, unfortunately, that migrant caravan is still down at the border.

00:25:19.440 Unfortunately for them, you've got Mexican nationals who are telling these migrants to go home,

00:25:24.600 who are saying Trump was right that it's an invasion.

00:25:26.540 That's really hard.

00:25:27.360 But that said, we will get some conclusion at some point from the Mueller investigation.

00:25:33.360 And one of the big headlines right now is Alan Dershowitz, a legendary professor at Harvard,

00:25:39.380 the guy who got O.J. off, very sharp legal scholar.

00:25:42.820 He has defended Trump against impeachment.

00:25:45.480 And he is now saying that the Mueller report could be politically devastating to Trump.

00:25:51.160 That's his words.

00:25:52.760 So we're getting information from Paul Manafort.

00:25:55.100 We're getting information perhaps from Corsi.

00:25:57.120 We're already getting information from Gates, from Cohen, from Phil.

00:26:00.660 That's an awful lot of people tied to the president providing evidence.

00:26:04.000 It is.

00:26:04.500 And I think the report is going to be devastating to the president.

00:26:07.920 And I know that the president's team is already working on a response to the report.

00:26:15.120 So could be politically devastating.

00:26:17.020 What does that mean?

00:26:17.900 I don't know.

00:26:18.380 This is really shocking when he said it because he seemed to be something of a Trump apologist in these legal discussions.

00:26:24.920 Politico is predicting this will be a disappointment.

00:26:28.000 This is, according to Politico, their sources are defense lawyers for the president and 15 former government investigators dating back to the Watergate saga.

00:26:40.780 So John Q. Barrett, who worked on Iran-Contra, says that the report might not even see the light of day.

00:26:48.840 And the way Politico reports it, they say, don't get your hopes up.

00:26:52.180 Don't, you know, we might not be able to take Trump down with this.

00:26:55.440 This investigation, the Mueller investigation into Trump collusion, is different than Iran-Contra.

00:27:02.440 This is different than Monica Lewinsky. 1.00

00:27:06.880 Both of those occurred under a law that expired in 1999.

00:27:13.920 That law that they were working under, the post-Watergate law, required investigators to tell Congress if they found any impeachable offenses.

00:27:24.000 This investigation is not operating under those same rubrics.

00:27:26.800 So under this rubric, special counsel Robert Mueller just has to tell his boss at DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, and he'll tell him what he finds.

00:27:36.360 The DOJ then has the discretion on whether or not to make the report public.

00:27:41.280 So they could make it public.

00:27:43.100 They could not make it public.

00:27:44.420 They could make some of it public.

00:27:45.720 They could heavily redact a lot of aspects of it.

00:27:49.480 Another sign in President Trump's favor is that Mueller has been pretty quiet.

00:27:54.900 Pretty quiet.

00:27:55.620 There have not been a lot of leaks out of this investigation.

00:27:58.600 There was a lot of political questionable behavior.

00:28:02.140 They hired Peter Strzok, anti-Trump hack at the FBI, to work on the investigation.

00:28:07.380 They hired a lot of anti-Trump, never-Trump people to work on the investigation.

00:28:11.600 But Mueller himself doesn't seem to have been leaking.

00:28:14.360 He doesn't seem to have been underhanded in the handling of this particular investigation yet.

00:28:20.840 So we'll see where that goes.

00:28:23.840 The other aspect to remember is that it takes forever.

00:28:27.720 Do you remember the Whitewater investigation into President Clinton?

00:28:31.880 Happens in the early 90s, mid-90s.

00:28:34.840 An investigation into what seemed to be a sweetheart real estate scheme that the Clintons were involved in back in Arkansas.

00:28:42.260 That investigation took forever.

00:28:44.560 The final report of that investigation was not released until 2002.

00:28:48.580 That's two years after Bill Clinton left office.

00:28:51.260 So all in all, I know people are terrified at what Alan Dershowitz is saying right now.

00:28:54.840 It could be politically devastating.

00:28:56.700 I'm not that concerned.

00:28:57.900 I'm really not famous last words.

00:29:00.360 I might be speaking, knock on wood, I might be speaking too soon.

00:29:03.220 But it just seems between the people who have worked on these kind of investigations before,

00:29:11.020 the change in law after 1999, the length of these, Mueller's behavior with the press so far,

00:29:16.580 and the fact that it's all up to the DOJ, I'm really skeptical that this is going to be politically devastating.

00:29:23.600 Maybe Alan Dershowitz is trying to light a fire under the Trump defense right now,

00:29:27.460 try to spur them to come up with a response to this report.

00:29:31.260 But all in all, it could be worse.

00:29:33.400 We've got a lot more to talk about.

00:29:34.300 We've got to talk about the universal basic income, one of the worst ideas ever.

00:29:37.360 We have to talk about the end of Twitter and political schlock.

00:29:40.560 Don't forget that.

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00:30:51.280 As people are frivolously spending all of their money today, I do think we should have a word or two on the universal basic income.

00:30:59.360 Have you heard of this idea?

00:31:01.020 The universal basic income has been kicked around for a few years as a policy solution to increasing automation or increasing disparities in the economy or basically just us getting too rich and people not having enough jobs, not enough to do it themselves.

00:31:18.080 And the idea is that the government will cut you a check, just because, just for breathing, just for existing, to help supplement your lifestyle.

00:31:29.240 There have been a few different versions of this.

00:31:31.240 Right now, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are both proposing versions of it.

00:31:35.940 So it had been on the fringes as an idea.

00:31:38.480 Now it's coming to the mainstream.

00:31:40.160 Both of those guys are running for president in 2020.

00:31:42.760 So Harris actually is proposing a bill.

00:31:46.080 Her idea is called the LIFT Act, Livable Income for Families Today Act.

00:31:52.140 Get it?

00:31:52.600 It's an acronym.

00:31:53.560 Like it's a really, really lame acronym, like all of them.

00:31:56.620 And her idea is to give families making less than $100,000 a year up to $500 per month or $6,000 a year in tax credits.

00:32:05.900 Individuals making less than $50,000 would get up to $250 per month in tax credits from the government.

00:32:12.540 This is more or less a way of significantly giving a direct transfer to people who are making decent money.

00:32:23.280 $50,000, $100,000.

00:32:25.180 Charles Murray, though, who's a right-winger, he's usually lumped in on the right, he also proposed this idea.

00:32:32.080 So it's not just that the left-wingers are saying we need to give people money directly.

00:32:35.960 Even some on the right have embraced it.

00:32:37.980 Charles Murray, his version is a little bit better because his idea is to replace the welfare state with the universal basic income.

00:32:45.940 He says, look, we spend so much, an insane amount of money on our welfare state.

00:32:50.160 It's totally inefficient.

00:32:51.420 And so if we wiped out the whole of the welfare state apparatus and just gave people direct transfer payments, that would be preferable financially and in a moral sense.

00:33:02.100 It's so much simpler and it's so much more honest than our current highly abused welfare system.

00:33:08.320 They're both wrong.

00:33:09.900 I like Charles Murray.

00:33:11.220 I don't like Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:33:12.700 They're both wrong.

00:33:13.660 The Heritage Foundation said this very clearly.

00:33:15.700 Vijay Menon at the Heritage Foundation pointed out that this has been tried before.

00:33:22.500 It drives me crazy when some conservatives get into this idea because they think, well, in the future, in the future where the information economy is going to dominate the U.S. economy,

00:33:33.360 when the jobs that exist basically just for people who sit and think all day or who code on computers or who are only using their minds,

00:33:41.200 people who do not have physical jobs, labor-intensive jobs, more traditional jobs, those guys are all going to be out of work.

00:33:48.820 Never mind, by the way, that unemployment virtually does not exist in the United States right now.

00:33:52.960 We have many more jobs to fill than people to fill them.

00:33:55.500 They say in the future, though, that's not going to happen.

00:33:57.700 And we're going to have so much money, we should just pay the little people not to bother us. 1.00

00:34:02.220 So we'll give them transfer payments, and then they won't argue about, you know, 10 people controlling all of the world's wealth.

00:34:08.940 This idea has been tried, and it's a very bad idea.

00:34:11.980 Between 1968, as Heritage points out, 1968 and 1980, there were random controlled trials for the universal basic income,

00:34:20.360 or versions thereof, across six states.

00:34:25.540 These particular trials were testing the negative income tax.

00:34:29.300 You know what a positive income tax is?

00:34:30.740 Well, the opposite is a negative income tax.

00:34:32.820 A negative income tax guarantees a minimum income, and it phases out as earnings increase.

00:34:38.860 So what happened?

00:34:40.280 They tried virtually the same plan.

00:34:42.840 Did people, were they happier?

00:34:44.320 Were they living more fulfilling, productive lives?

00:34:46.840 No, they got lazy, because that's human nature.

00:34:49.780 We saw in married men a 9% drop in hours worked.

00:34:54.440 So you increase their monthly payments.

00:34:58.260 It's not that they use that money and reinvest it in something productive or use that to offset some way to make them work even more or this or that.

00:35:05.080 No, they just work 10% less.

00:35:07.340 But actually, those married men were the strongest workers among them.

00:35:11.580 We saw a drop in hours worked among married women by 20%.

00:35:16.720 We saw a drop in hours worked among single female heads of the family by 25%. 0.99

00:35:22.460 And then we turn to the single men.

00:35:25.940 Imagine, just take one little guess, what happened to single men.

00:35:29.720 You know guys who are not exactly known for their accountability or responsibility, you know, the unmarried guys just kind of hanging around. 1.00

00:35:37.360 We saw a decrease in hours worked by single men by 43%, nearly half.

00:35:44.320 Which makes sense, because, again, we were talking earlier about the difference between a fantasy world and the real world.

00:35:50.960 The left's ideological hypothetical guesses and the conservative acceptance of the world as it is.

00:35:57.380 Everyone thinks, you and I both think this, that if we got a check coming in every month for, I don't know, $10,000.

00:36:04.000 You get a $10,000 check every month.

00:36:05.900 $6,000, who knows.

00:36:07.600 And you say, oh, I would take that money.

00:36:10.260 Oh, what I would do, I would take that money and I would start 17 different companies and then I would hire a million people and then I would fly from New York to here to there and run all of my companies and be on the Forbes 500 list.

00:36:26.040 But you would, that's not what you would, you would sit on your couch.

00:36:29.320 You would, this is what, it doesn't make people more productive.

00:36:31.420 It just takes that money and men, especially single men, would rather work less and maintain the same quality of life than take that money and use it to increase their quality of life.

00:36:45.900 Because people are lazy and they don't want to work and they get used to certain lifestyles.

00:36:49.280 So, I really, this idea is going to continuously pop up among silly left-wingers and among right-wingers who are too clever by half, who think they've figured out the solution.

00:37:01.940 It's a very bad idea.

00:37:03.720 I assume it'll go nowhere if Cory Booker is pushing it because Cory Booker will never be the president.

00:37:10.320 Just not going to happen.

00:37:12.160 But Kamala Harris is more of a threat, I suppose, as a Democrat. 1.00

00:37:15.680 So, we do need to speak out and we've got to make sure that the right all gets on the same page on this.

00:37:20.320 Because it's a very bad idea that will totally undercut work and that undercuts the dignity of work.

00:37:26.260 Working matters.

00:37:28.280 And if you've got people who are being discouraged from working by a government program, by engineering, social engineering,

00:37:34.740 and then you've set up a system wherein statistically 100% of your citizenship is reliant on transfer payments from the state,

00:37:44.420 that is not a culture in which conservative thought and institutions are going to thrive.

00:37:49.740 Not going to happen.

00:37:50.460 It'll be dead.

00:37:51.480 We'll all be progressives within a month.

00:37:53.280 A very, very bad idea.

00:37:54.640 Speaking of bad things for conservatives, Twitter is over.

00:37:58.620 Twitter is totally over.

00:38:00.260 Twitter is now banning people for anything and everything.

00:38:02.740 I've been joking about this.

00:38:03.780 I was suspended from Twitter for making a joke.

00:38:06.360 Now, Twitter is officially banning people for misgendering.

00:38:13.040 Now, what would you think?

00:38:13.740 Would you think misgendering is like, when I read that, I thought misgendering was when you referred to a man as a woman or a woman as a man.

00:38:20.760 No.

00:38:21.780 Misgendering is when you refer to a man who thinks he's a woman as a man or a woman who thinks that she's a man as a woman.

00:38:27.720 That's misgendering.

00:38:29.140 Misgendering, according to leftists now, is gendering.

00:38:32.660 It's accurately gendering.

00:38:35.080 Really, really bad.

00:38:36.400 They, I mean, we're getting constant reports about this.

00:38:42.120 This is officially now the rule.

00:38:44.320 They are going to permanently suspend people who do this.

00:38:47.420 They're also kicking off conservative journalists.

00:38:50.120 There's a woman named Laura Loomer who pointed out that the Islamic culture is not particularly nice to women or to homosexuals.

00:39:00.720 And she was banned from Twitter for saying that, for making a perfectly true statement.

00:39:07.260 Jesse Kelly, a conservative radio host, a conservative pundit, was permanently suspended without any warning just because.

00:39:14.420 We have no idea what he said.

00:39:15.780 There have been some rumors about what he said, but we just don't know, and they won't tell him.

00:39:19.160 He's been permanently suspended.

00:39:20.800 It seems to me that Twitter is over.

00:39:23.340 And that's fine.

00:39:24.680 Twitter wants to act as a publisher.

00:39:26.360 That's fine.

00:39:26.780 We can regulate them as a publisher.

00:39:28.200 Who cares?

00:39:29.020 What's going to happen is that we're going to end up even more in two different worlds.

00:39:34.620 Same Brian Stelter fear.

00:39:36.100 The left always complains about problems that they've created, and this is one of them.

00:39:41.580 Brian Stelter is complaining about two different worlds.

00:39:43.600 Well, Jack Dorsey at Twitter is doing his best to bring us to those two different worlds by kicking off all of the conservatives.

00:39:51.040 I really, I was joking earlier about who knows the next time I'll be kicked off Twitter.

00:39:54.600 It's only a matter of time.

00:39:55.700 We are on borrowed time now.

00:39:57.340 I don't know what the solution is.

00:39:58.620 There's that website Gab, which is all for free speech.

00:40:02.260 The reason that some people haven't gone on there just yet is it is infested with bigots and all around bad people.

00:40:11.520 So obviously, so it's infested with people who had been kicked off of other social media platforms or who didn't want to be on other social media platforms.

00:40:20.520 So they don't have a lot of more mainstream voices on there just yet.

00:40:24.240 That said, if Twitter is going to start kicking off radio hosts, if Twitter is going to start kicking off journalists, where else can we go?

00:40:30.700 We're going to make our voice heard.

00:40:32.520 So maybe this means we all have to set up Gab accounts now.

00:40:34.780 I don't know.

00:40:35.300 I've set one.

00:40:35.720 I haven't started using it yet, but I've set one up, and that's going to be in there for when Twitter inevitably bans us.

00:40:40.600 On Cyber Monday, don't forget, do not forget that you've got to buy a lot of schlock.

00:40:47.660 You've got to buy a lot of political products.

00:40:49.500 There was this great piece in the New York Post by Kyle Smith over the weekend called How the Left is Profiting from Trump Hate.

00:40:56.880 They are pushing all of these stupid products.

00:41:00.000 They're pushing the Pecan Resist Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

00:41:04.700 They're pushing a cashmere sweater that says, I miss Barack.

00:41:08.280 It costs $380.

00:41:10.260 They're pushing a shower curtain for $70 that says, support the 25th Amendment.

00:41:15.260 The list goes on and on.

00:41:17.460 And it occurred to me, I'm a little bit of an expert when it comes to political schlock because I did write a best-selling blank book called Reasons to Vote for Democrats.

00:41:24.720 So I was wondering, you know, it's not just the left that does this.

00:41:28.000 The right has political merchandise.

00:41:29.560 Well, everyone has always had political merchandise.

00:41:31.400 We don't just have my book.

00:41:33.100 We've got Trumpy Bear.

00:41:34.480 We've got the Make America Great Again hats.

00:41:36.960 So we have our merchandise, too.

00:41:38.600 But there's a big difference between the political schlock on the left and the right.

00:41:43.300 Because on the right, all of the merchandise, the prominent merchandise that I can name, in recent memory comes from a place of humor and joy and exuberance.

00:41:53.420 It comes from people trying to make a point with a little sense of humor about it.

00:41:57.380 The blank book or the Trumpy Bear or the hat or whatever.

00:41:59.880 On the left, all of the merchandise that I can name comes from a place of anger, emotion, frustration.

00:42:07.960 I don't know what point they're making.

00:42:09.740 Kathy Griffin, alleged comedian Kathy Griffin, has an entire store, a whole line of products that just say F Trump.

00:42:18.280 But obviously she spells it out.

00:42:19.720 Two words, F Trump.

00:42:21.680 That's the height of creativity.

00:42:22.680 I don't even know what point she's making.

00:42:24.220 Why are they doing this?

00:42:25.480 I think in part it's because they can't really agree on policy solutions or their own candidates.

00:42:33.040 All they can really agree on is that they hate Donald Trump.

00:42:35.620 But they're not witty.

00:42:36.700 It's not coming from a place of wit or humor.

00:42:40.620 It's just so angry.

00:42:41.940 And there's a real irony here.

00:42:43.760 I mean, the left is constantly assailing wealth and capitalism.

00:42:48.580 We on the right, we love capitalism.

00:42:50.300 We love consumer choice.

00:42:51.660 That's why we like the hats.

00:42:52.980 That's why we like the blank books.

00:42:54.840 That's why we like Trumpy Bear.

00:42:56.360 Trumpy Bear is extremely overpriced.

00:42:58.060 I'm going to buy three of them.

00:42:59.160 Because why not?

00:42:59.780 It's a funny little product.

00:43:00.900 I like it.

00:43:01.560 And the Trump economy is doing very well.

00:43:03.280 And we're all making more money than we were two years ago.

00:43:05.940 And so who cares?

00:43:08.120 But the right assails wealth creation.

00:43:11.040 And then they start selling $380 cashmere sweaters that say I miss Barack.

00:43:15.320 They talk about global warming is going to kill all of us.

00:43:17.820 All of the pollution is going to destroy the environment.

00:43:20.060 Then they produce all this schlock that's going to end up in the Pacific Ocean by the metric ton.

00:43:25.160 They constantly are talking about how President Trump should be courteous and civil.

00:43:30.560 And then they put F Trump on everything that they've got.

00:43:33.340 It's a real irony.

00:43:34.620 But this is what the left does is it projects.

00:43:37.440 And on this Cyber Monday, I hope that they go out and buy all this schlock.

00:43:40.900 Because the greatest bit of all is that they're being defrauded.

00:43:43.860 But Ben and Jerry's says that they're going to donate proceeds from their pecan-resist ice cream to liberal causes.

00:43:49.820 They're going to donate $100,000.

00:43:52.420 They make half a billion dollars worth of ice cream per year.

00:43:55.120 They're going to donate a pittance.

00:43:56.700 Nothing.

00:43:57.240 A penny off the street.

00:43:58.580 And the left is doing it.

00:43:59.620 And that's great because it means that all the left is going to do is make rich millionaire capitalists even richer.

00:44:05.460 Go for it, guys.

00:44:06.400 Happy Cyber Monday.

00:44:07.480 That's our show.

00:44:08.100 I'm going to be down in Florida.

00:44:09.500 If you're in Tallahassee, come see me tomorrow.

00:44:11.580 We'll be giving a speech.

00:44:12.180 And in the meantime, I will see you on the show.

00:44:14.500 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:44:15.320 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 26, 2018

Ep. 257 - Two Different Worlds

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