The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 272 - Last Call For The Wall

00:00:00.000 Defense Secretary James Mattis resigns over President Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops

00:00:05.440 out of Syria. But what if President Trump's Syria move is nothing more than a border wall bluff?

00:00:10.660 We will analyze. Then, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left-wing Supreme Court justice, 0.98

00:00:15.480 undergoes surgery to remove cancerous growths from her lungs. What will the political fallout be?

00:00:21.680 Leftist agitators once again try to ruin Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips'

00:00:25.980 life and the top five moments of 2018 on this, the last episode of the year.

00:00:31.320 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:40.020 It's the last episode before Christmas. It's the last episode before the new year. So,

00:00:44.800 we're probably just winding down, getting ready to see our families, sit around the table,

00:00:49.700 maybe go to midnight mass, right? No. Right now, we're facing a possible government shutdown.

00:00:54.360 The U.S. is pulling out of Syria. James Mattis is resigning. Mitch McConnell may end the filibuster

00:01:00.320 once and for all in the Senate. And Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left-wing, 0.99

00:01:05.980 far-left justice, is undergoing surgery for cancerous growths on her lungs. This,

00:01:11.500 just a week after she said her health is fine. You knew this would have to happen, didn't you?

00:01:16.080 You thought it would be a nice end of the year? No. President Trump is the reality show business

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00:03:04.700 Pretty crazy end to the year, huh, folks? We've got the most popular guy in the administration

00:03:08.600 quitting. You've got major change in foreign policy. You've got all of these crazy things

00:03:13.200 happening. How are the mainstream media reporting it? I'll let them show you.

00:03:18.720 The walls are closing in on Donald Trump. As the walls close in on Donald Trump,

00:03:23.000 he is going to be more desperate.

00:03:28.520 The walls are closing in on the Trump presidency.

00:03:31.540 I want to begin with the walls really closing in.

00:03:34.660 The walls are closing in. The investigative walls are closing in. The walls are really

00:03:41.060 closing in. The walls are closing in. Walls are closing in. The walls seem to be closing

00:03:46.380 in. I'm overusing my cliches. I hate overusing this metaphor of the walls closing in. I mean,

00:03:51.160 we've been saying the walls are closing in for two years, but it feels like they're actually

00:03:54.940 closing right now. And as the walls start to close in on the president. As the walls close

00:03:59.340 in. He feels the walls closing in. The walls are closing in is the wrong image, but the bricks

00:04:05.460 are sort of making the roof, you know, buckle. That's the definition of the walls closing in.

00:04:10.500 And if this president feels as if the walls are closing in tonight, he's right. Because they are.

00:04:17.460 It's almost like they're all talking to each other. It's almost like they're all getting on board with

00:04:25.920 the same tired, untrue talking point. The walls are not closing in. He's getting some bad news.

00:04:32.080 He's getting some good news. He's actually standing for something. That's what's really

00:04:35.700 happening. You are getting a dramatic climax to 2018. And it's not all roses. The Jim Mattis

00:04:41.280 resignation is a big deal. And it's a big blow to his administration. But the walls are not closing

00:04:46.380 in. The walls are getting 10 feet higher. So why did James Mattis resign? This is the biggest

00:04:51.240 tough news for him. He resigned over Syria. Initially, President Trump came out and said,

00:04:56.060 James Mattis is retiring. Look, at this point in an administration, two years in,

00:05:00.640 it would make perfect sense for his first secretary of defense to retire to, you know,

00:05:05.500 it's a tough job and there is turnover. James Mattis then came out and said, no, no, no. He didn't,

00:05:10.480 he didn't explicitly say this, but he released his resignation letter. And his resignation letter

00:05:14.820 was both respectful and brutal to Donald Trump. He basically implied that Donald Trump does not

00:05:20.160 share his worldview of preserving our system of alliances and of checking power in the Middle 0.88

00:05:25.380 East and of intervening elsewhere so that we don't need to deal with bad people at home.

00:05:30.740 Why does Syria matter? Why is Syria the straw that broke the camel's back? You know, James Mattis,

00:05:36.400 it had been reported that he felt that he was in the administration to be the adult in the room

00:05:40.880 and it was his duty to serve his country. So why would this Syria move, just pulling 2,000 troops

00:05:46.460 out of Syria when you've got another 5,200 still in Iraq, why did this break the camel's back?

00:05:52.220 Syria matters because of the Kurds. If we pull out of Syria, the Kurdish forces that are fighting 0.99

00:05:57.120 there who are our allies in the region are probably going to be slaughtered by Turkey. I don't mean to

00:06:02.260 laugh, it's just really dark. Slaughtered by Turkey and Bashar Assad, who's running, ostensibly running

00:06:10.000 Syria. This is really bad. I mean, this is the strongest argument for keeping an American military 1.00

00:06:15.360 presence in Syria. Kurds, the Kurdish forces are our allies there and we don't want to look like 1.00

00:06:21.120 we're betraying them. A lot of people in the military community are saying it's going to feel

00:06:24.640 like a betrayal if we pull out. Fair enough. Now, I think some conservatives are taking criticism too

00:06:31.580 far beyond the question of the Kurds. They're taking, and whether the Kurds can withstand an assault

00:06:36.220 from Turkey or withstand an assault from Bashar Assad, some are taking it too far. One of them

00:06:41.020 seems to be the president's biggest television ally, Fox and Friends. There was a very testy

00:06:46.600 exchange this morning between Brian Kilmeade and the administration.

00:06:51.100 Sarah, he's giving Russia a big win. Vladimir Putin praised him. He also is doing exactly what he

00:06:56.760 criticized President Obama for doing. He said President Obama is the founder of ISIS.

00:07:00.940 He just refounded ISIS because he got 30,000 men there and they're already striking back 0.58

00:07:07.280 with our would-be evacuation. The president's got it. He's really on the griddle with this.

00:07:13.640 Brian, Brian, I have to respectfully and vehemently disagree with you. The idea that the president has

00:07:21.620 had anything to do with helping ISIS reemerge is absolutely outrageous. The president has put so

00:07:29.120 much emphasis on rebuilding and making sure we have the strongest military on the face of the

00:07:33.580 planet. If ISIS wants to pick a fight with somebody, they sure as heck don't want to pick 1.00

00:07:37.800 one with Donald Trump because he will destroy them and defeat them. And he's made that extremely clear.

00:07:43.280 We've wiped out 99 percent of ISIS in Syria. The president doesn't want to be in the middle of

00:07:48.420 a civil war in the Middle East and continue to put American lives on the line. If we need to fight

00:07:53.360 ISIS again, the president's not afraid to do that. All right, Sarah, thank you so much. We wish you a

00:07:58.320 very Merry Christmas. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas. This takes it pretty

00:08:02.820 far to say that President Trump is refounding ISIS. This is a, I mean, there is legitimate

00:08:08.460 disagreement here on the question of Syria, obviously with our relationship with certain

00:08:13.580 forces on the ground and whether or not it's in our interest to oust Bashar Assad and whether our

00:08:18.240 military objective out there is to oust Bashar Assad, what we're doing in Syria in the first

00:08:23.280 place. I had one person describe it to me who said our actual military goal is to prevent another 9-11.

00:08:30.640 So there was an op-ed out today in the Washington Post from Dan Crenshaw, which said we fight them

00:08:35.760 over there so that they don't come over here and fight us. Fair enough. That's actually the strategic

00:08:39.940 objective. There can be fair disagreement over what will accomplish that. But to say that President

00:08:44.520 Trump refounded ISIS is taking it too far, and to suggest this is coming out of the blue,

00:08:50.540 is also taking it too far, President Trump promised all along, we'll kill ISIS and we will

00:08:56.120 get out of Syria. We won't stay there unnecessarily. Here's President Trump on the campaign trail

00:09:02.620 talking about Syria. A very bad thing. Now, she talks tough. She talks really tough against Putin

00:09:09.300 and against Assad. She wants to fight for rebels. There's only one problem. You don't even know who

00:09:15.000 the rebels are. So what's the purpose? And one thing I have to say, I don't like Assad at all,

00:09:21.080 but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. Mr. Trump, let me repeat the question.

00:09:28.820 If you were president, what would you do about Syria and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo? And I

00:09:37.200 want to remind you what your running mate said. He said, provocations by Russia need to be met with

00:09:43.460 American strength and that if Russia continues to be involved in airstrikes along with the Syrian 0.95

00:09:48.360 government forces of Assad, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force

00:09:54.780 to strike the military targets of the Assad regime. Okay. He and I haven't spoken and I disagree.

00:10:01.700 I disagree. You disagree with your running mate. I think we have to knock out ISIS. 1.00

00:10:04.880 He speaks pretty clearly there. He's speaking in a way that contradicts certain people around him,

00:10:10.060 certain more established ideas. And he's saying, this is what we're going to do in Syria. But the

00:10:14.520 question is, we talked yesterday about Syria, so I won't go into Syria itself too much.

00:10:19.240 My thought on it is that this is, from a geostrategic standpoint, largely inconsequential.

00:10:24.780 I don't think that this will have, I don't think this will refound ISIS. I'm not sure that this

00:10:29.520 will be a wonderful win for America. It could be a blow to some of our allies. It could empower

00:10:34.160 certain bad actors slightly, but let's not pretend that we're pulling out of the Middle East entirely.

00:10:38.880 We didn't have that many forces in Syria to begin with. We're only talking about 2,000 forces.

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00:12:12.360 card. Why Syria right now? This is all about the border wall. What is our budget in Syria? The

00:12:19.060 budget in Syria is pretty substantial. It's over $15 billion. Now, if Syria, 2,000 troops there is

00:12:25.520 largely inconsequential, what if this is a bluff? Because it can go either way. President Trump

00:12:31.020 talked about, we're going to go kill ISIS. We're not going to be there longer than we have to.

00:12:34.140 But if it's 2,000 troops, which, you know, we're not talking about some overwhelming force of 30,000 or

00:12:39.160 40,000 troops, what if this is a bluff? President Trump on the border wall has no leverage with

00:12:44.420 Chuck Schumer. He has no leverage with Nancy Pelosi. He has no leverage in this shutdown. If they shut

00:12:48.840 down the government and they say, we're going to shut down the government, we're going to demand

00:12:51.800 that you give us $5 billion for the border wall. We're not going to reopen it. And they wait,

00:12:56.400 they could wait into the new Congress. But what is going to be the lever that actually triggers them

00:13:00.660 to give the funding, especially once Nancy Pelosi takes the reins as the Speaker of the House? 0.84

00:13:05.140 What if it's this Syria question? Because the Democrats are in a very tough spot right now.

00:13:10.600 Chuck Schumer, in particular, is in a very tough spot. He is held captive by his left-wing,

00:13:16.660 far-left activist base, which will not tolerate any money for border security. They want to abolish

00:13:21.740 ICE. They want open borders. But we know that border security is very popular among the American

00:13:27.360 people. The majority of Americans want the border wall. The majority of Americans don't want amnesty.

00:13:32.300 They don't want open borders. So the Democrats now have their main guys who go out and canvas for

00:13:38.100 them, who give them money, who are essentially their candidates, who are now their up-and-coming

00:13:43.060 candidates. And you've got, you're looking at national elections and you think they're not going

00:13:47.340 to be able to win these elections if they cater to that base. This Syria question might be a way to 0.75

00:13:52.000 do it. Because if they can go to their base and say, look, we didn't want to give them the money

00:13:57.080 for the wall, but they were going to take that money out of the Syria budget. We were, we're going

00:14:01.920 to be the adults. We're not going to let that awful, petulant Trump give up Syria and play into

00:14:07.540 Vladimir Putin's hand and abandon our allies. And we did the responsible thing. They were going to get

00:14:12.440 the border anyway. And we decided to save Syrians while we were at it. That actually might play. 0.91

00:14:18.200 That actually might give Chuck Schumer an out. And it will, look, this is not a major campaign

00:14:24.440 promise to pull 2,000 troops out of Syria. If it were a huge force, then you could see how that 0.65

00:14:29.780 would really play in 2020. But if President Trump can use that as leverage, as a bluff or not as a

00:14:34.800 bluff, whatever, to build that wall, it is a big win because he has to do it. He has to build this

00:14:40.140 wall. And Coulter has made this clear, Mark Meadows, we've all been saying, you've got to put up on this

00:14:46.420 issue or you're not going to have credibility in 2020. And right now, by the way, Mexico is actually

00:14:52.120 doing a better job of securing our border than we are. How, how are Dems going to be able to answer

00:14:56.880 that? Sarah Sanders made this excellent point just today. What we have worked out, what this

00:15:02.100 administration has been able to do in conjunction with the Mexican government and the massive and

00:15:07.740 monumental moment that took place yesterday where catch and release has ended. And it's a sad day in

00:15:13.280 America when the Mexican government is doing more to protect the American people than Senate Democrats.

00:15:18.120 I hope that they will not let that be the case by the end of the day. And they will work with us and

00:15:22.940 work with the president and Senate Republicans to get this done and let everybody go home and let us

00:15:28.340 start building the wall and let us start protecting our border. Absolutely right. It's really hard for

00:15:34.240 Democrats to refute nationally. So what, what is their answer? What do you, how do you think the

00:15:39.620 Democrats are responding to those very simple, obvious points? They're calling everybody a

00:15:44.760 racist. Of course, that's the only thing that they can possibly do. Here is a Senator Chris Murphy,

00:15:49.280 formerly my Senator, a Democrat from Connecticut. He said, uh, you, he was talking to Marco Rubio on

00:15:55.940 Twitter. He said, you and Trump are advocating putting up a wall on only one border, no wall for the

00:16:02.060 country filled with mostly white people with Canada. So now the Democrats are so confused on this issue.

00:16:08.460 They, they're so broken up about it that now it seems they're advocating for two walls.

00:16:13.100 I thought it was zero walls or two walls, all or nothing at all. I get, they must think that we

00:16:16.920 have an epidemic in this country of 3000 Canadians per day coming into our country and they're bringing 1.00

00:16:22.980 drugs. They're bringing all of those cheap socialist, uh, drugs with them from their government

00:16:27.980 healthcare system. Is that what's happening? No, of course it's incomparable. Now they have to make

00:16:32.100 it about race down there. It's not about race. It's about crime. It's about drugs. It's about

00:16:35.600 depressing wages. And it's about the actual problem. There are no Canadians pouring over 1.00

00:16:39.320 the border. There are 3000 Latin American immigrants illegally coming into the country

00:16:44.220 every single day. So you build the wall there. I don't know. Should we build a wall along our

00:16:48.820 Western shores so that, uh, uh, Filipinos don't illegally swim into this country or the Chinese 1.00

00:16:56.740 citizens? No, of course not. That's not a problem. That's a fake problem. And as we talk about 0.99

00:17:01.780 frequently, the Democrats live in a fantasy, they live in a fantasy world. And this is a fantasy

00:17:06.520 problem about fantasy racism. So looking at the new year, looking at the end of this year

00:17:11.200 on balance, what happened? James Mattis leaving. That's a big loss. He's a big loss really because

00:17:17.640 he has these great quotes, you know, for, I don't, I mean, he's been a very able, uh, secretary of

00:17:23.100 defense. He's the most popular member of the Trump administration. There was a morning consult

00:17:27.660 poll that showed that he has 35% approval rating, you know, not saying that that's a great number.

00:17:34.280 That's kind of sad that that's the highest approval rating, but his disapproval is only at 19%. And it's

00:17:38.920 because most people, most people couldn't even tell you who the vice president is. So most people are

00:17:43.160 not up to date on who the cabinet secretaries are, but he was the most popular member of the

00:17:47.360 administration. He said these great quotes. I mean, when I think of James Mattis, I just think of

00:17:51.620 this interview moment. What keeps you awake at night? Nothing. I keep other people awake at

00:17:57.520 night. You knew that he was just working on that for years. He just had that one in the back of

00:18:03.860 his head. There are other famous quotes of his. He would, he was speaking to people in Iraq and he

00:18:07.940 said, listen, I, please don't make me do this. I don't want to have to do this. I really want to help

00:18:12.940 you. But if I must, I will kill every last one of you is a pretty tough hombre. You know, the monk

00:18:18.980 warrior never got married, reads voraciously. So this is, this is a big loss. It is a big loss to lose

00:18:24.180 James Mattis. Not building the wall would be a bigger loss. It would be much harder for

00:18:29.060 president Trump. It would cripple the administration if he doesn't fight to get this wall built. And

00:18:33.700 if president Trump thinks that the way that he's going to get this wall built is by making a

00:18:37.360 concession in Syria over 2000 troops to have access to $15 billion at the very least to call the Senate

00:18:43.560 to the table and make them fund it, or if not to actually be able to fund it. And that means you're

00:18:47.840 going to lose your secretary of defense. That is a trade that president Trump has to make.

00:18:52.180 He has to come through on the wall. His look, he's come through on more campaign promises than

00:18:57.120 just about anybody. I was driving around and in Uber last night on my way to Mar-a-Lago of all

00:19:02.620 places. And the Uber driver was this woman. She said, you know, I, she had a very thick Hispanic accent. 0.99

00:19:09.080 She said, I didn't vote for Trump, but I really didn't like Hillary. And I thought they were both 0.98

00:19:13.180 bad, but say what you will about Trump. At least he's honest. Don't you think he's honest? She goes,

00:19:18.180 yeah, he keeps his promises. At least he keeps his promises. That Hillary is a liar. She doesn't, 1.00

00:19:23.140 she'll, she'll just say whatever people want to hear, but Trump keeps his promises.

00:19:27.240 Trump's biggest promise is this wall. He's got to come through. You got to make a hard decision on

00:19:31.660 that. You got to lose a really valuable player of the team. So be it. Um, what else? Uh, we know that

00:19:37.460 Democrats know that they're in a bind here. We know that they're in this really tough position,

00:19:41.180 as tough a position as the Republicans are in and president Trump is in right now.

00:19:44.960 Now let's not forget Democrats are in a really tough one. Just looking at the

00:19:48.360 early 2020 field that's shaping up, you can see this. It's a ton of infighting,

00:19:54.120 a lot of racial infighting. You heard Kirsten Gillibrand say she doesn't want 0.99

00:19:58.180 two white men at the top of the ticket. So there's this gender sexual infighting. 1.00

00:20:03.040 It's all about identity politics. Nothing really seems to unite the Democrat party. There's there,

00:20:08.440 you hear about the green new deal that you've got the environmentalist left. You hear about certain,

00:20:12.940 uh, uh, law enforcement, anti-law enforcement policies, a little bit on healthcare. They

00:20:17.840 can't really agree on anything other than that they hate Donald Trump, but they're really going

00:20:21.480 to have to answer for this immigration thing. It's bigger than the Democrat party. Um, and so

00:20:26.300 they're, they're really caught on this issue. And I, I hope we drive this issue home. I hope if need

00:20:31.360 be, we shut down the government and Chuck Schumer has to, has to deal with a party that is split

00:20:36.980 apart. What is the most darkly funny story of today? We have to get to this. The New York

00:20:44.060 Times has a bombshell report out that Planned Parenthood is accused of mistreating pregnant

00:20:49.900 employees. Now, uh, this should not come as a surprise to anybody who has any sense of humor

00:20:57.220 whatsoever, but this is what they write, quote, employers that champion women face accusations 1.00

00:21:02.000 of discriminating against their pregnant workers, showing how widespread the problem is in American 0.65

00:21:07.080 workplaces. This reminds me of this, uh, classic, uh, I think it was Fox Butterfield headline in the

00:21:14.580 New York Times that said, uh, crime rate continues to fall despite prisons filling or prisons continue

00:21:21.840 to fill despite crime rate falling. Now we would all assume if you lock up more criminals, the crime

00:21:26.840 rate rate will fall. There is a causal relationship here where the crazy left wingers see a paradoxical

00:21:34.440 relationship or a contradiction. That's the same thing here. You've got an organization that exists

00:21:40.100 singularly, simply to end pregnancies and kill babies. And the New York Times is shocked that that

00:21:48.140 agency, that that organization would not treat pregnant women with respect. They're shocked. This is

00:21:53.900 such a contradiction to them because they don't see the contradiction in the paradox of abortion.

00:21:58.680 It goes on, they say, Planned Parenthood, which has been accused of sidelining, ousting,

00:22:02.700 or otherwise handicapping pregnant employees, according to interviews with more than a dozen

00:22:08.020 current or former employees. Um, the, the organization exists to end pregnancies. They, they always say

00:22:15.160 that 3% of their services are abortion and everything else is not abortion. This is because they count 0.99

00:22:21.720 little nothings as services. So if you hand somebody a condom, that's a service. If you kill a baby,

00:22:26.960 that's a service. And they give out a lot more condoms or, or, uh, referrals to actual doctors or

00:22:33.400 whatever. 94% of Planned Parenthood's pregnancy related services are abortion. They are abortion

00:22:40.360 services in 94% of cases. It's, it's hard to arrive at a really precise number with confidence because

00:22:46.240 Planned Parenthood doesn't actually admit the number of women who go into their clinics every 1.00

00:22:51.900 year who are pregnant. They can't admit it because the reason you go to Planned Parenthood is to get

00:22:55.340 an abortion. So using various other statistics that they've arrived at, it seems that the number of,

00:23:01.480 uh, pregnancy services that are related to abortion are, uh, 94%. This is almost all of them.

00:23:08.600 This, uh, story exposes just one contradiction of abortion, which I want to talk about. It's

00:23:13.280 if pregnancy doesn't matter, if pregnancy is just, you know, it's like getting your appendix

00:23:18.020 inflamed, then why does special treatment of pregnant women matter so much? If the unborn baby 0.75

00:23:24.220 is insignificant, then why is pregnancy so significant? Why is this such a big issue?

00:23:30.040 We talk about pregnancy, leave maternity leave. This is a national issue. Ivanka Trump tried to make 1.00

00:23:35.600 this into a national issue. The New York times is making it into a national issue. Why? If the

00:23:40.620 pregnancy is nothing. If it's just a little inconvenience that can be wiped away with no

00:23:47.380 greater care than if you're cutting your fingernails, then why is the pregnancy so

00:23:51.240 significant? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Um, before we get to the biggest stories of the

00:23:57.060 year and a little Christmas story, I also got to talk about my old pal, Jack Phillips. Jack Phillips,

00:24:01.500 the head of Matt Masterpiece Cake Shop. He is the guy who was dragged into court. The Colorado Civil

00:24:06.820 Rights Commission tried to ruin his life because he wouldn't participate in a gay wedding ceremony.

00:24:11.600 He's now back in court, uh, for refusing to bake a cake for a transgender identity switch party.

00:24:18.820 And the argument here is not that he won't sell cakes to anybody. He's willing to sell cakes to

00:24:22.680 anybody, but he won't design with his artistic skill at his own, uh, he won't put in his own

00:24:29.320 art and craft into participating in something that he violates his religious views. So, uh,

00:24:35.620 this is a total setup here. It's by this transgender woman, who's a guy who thinks that 0.69

00:24:40.500 he's a woman named Autumn Scardina. And the, it was the very day that the Supreme Court agreed to

00:24:47.100 hear Jack Phillips's case because the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was going after him so unfairly.

00:24:52.100 The very day the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, this guy Autumn Scardina called up and said

00:24:57.440 he wanted a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside to, uh, be part of his, uh,

00:25:03.720 gender transition party. Jack Phillips said, no, they've dragged him to court again.

00:25:08.420 Other news right before we leave here, Ginsburg, uh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in the hospital. Ruth

00:25:13.580 Bader Ginsburg took that fall. She broke some ribs. She was asked about her health just last

00:25:18.240 week. Here's what she said. The question that probably, oh, I don't know, 70% of America wants

00:25:24.940 to know the answer to, that would be the 70% who've offered you their, um, body parts and organs

00:25:31.760 in case you needed them. How's your health? It's fine. Thank you. And those ribs you busted?

00:25:39.840 Uh, almost repaired. That's good.

00:25:47.960 So her health is apparently all fine, she says. And now we find out she's just undergone surgery

00:25:52.580 to remove cancerous growths from her lung. She's now at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,

00:25:57.100 one of the best cancer centers in the world. Now, look, what they're saying is that they found

00:26:02.900 the cancerous growths because she cracked her ribs. So they went in there to look at her ribs and they

00:26:07.180 found these cancerous growths and now she's recovering from that. Uh, we wish her well,

00:26:11.980 wish her a speedy recovery. Um, but the question is why didn't she make this clear? Did she not know 0.60

00:26:18.060 a week ago that she was going to undergo surgery, fairly extensive surgery to remove cancerous

00:26:23.020 growths on her lung of all places? Not a good place to find cancerous growths? No, I think she 0.99

00:26:28.380 probably knew that. And they're trying to play this very, uh, coyly because this will be the most

00:26:33.980 significant event of 2019. I'm willing to predict it now. That's hard to predict the future. Who knows?

00:26:38.600 You're going to have some crazy war or awful attack or something. This, uh, nine, nine out of 10

00:26:44.940 chance, this will be the most significant event of 2019 or 2020 or 2021 or 2058. Whenever Ruth Bader

00:26:51.280 Ginsburg goes to her eternal dessert and rest, that that will be the biggest issue that, you know, 0.95

00:26:57.320 this question, because we've given so much power over to the courts, this question of the Supreme

00:27:02.880 Court is going to be major. If you have president Trump still in office, it's why they're ramping up

00:27:07.660 talk of impeachment. It's why they're ramping up talk of indictment. If he is still in office and he

00:27:11.840 appoints an originalist judge to the court, this will significantly swing the court by replacing Scalia

00:27:17.060 with Gorsuch, nothing changed. By replacing Kennedy with Kavanaugh, maybe nothing changed. I mean,

00:27:23.360 it could be a swing. Uh, this, his recent decision on Planned Parenthood is not a good sign, but, uh,

00:27:29.340 it could be a swing to the right slightly. It could be a swing in favor of originalism. Maybe not. Uh, we

00:27:35.720 don't know. And you saw what fight they put up there. But if we replace the most left-wing judge on the 0.95

00:27:40.380 court with an originalist, you could have riots in the streets. You will have riots in the streets.

00:27:45.840 This is going to be the most significant event of 2019. We have the top five most significant events

00:27:51.960 of 2018. We've boiled them all down. The news cycles are so fast. They're moving 24-7 that, uh,

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00:29:47.080 political sign-off message before the new year.

00:29:49.660 The top five moments of 2018. I got to tell you, when I was looking at these moments,

00:30:04.660 I was trying to think back on all of the events this year. The news cycle is so fast right now.

00:30:09.120 I couldn't even remember them. The Kavanaugh confirmation seems like it was years ago.

00:30:13.600 The, the, uh, Michael Cohen stuff, the John McCain, all of these things, everything that's

00:30:20.520 happened this year seems so long ago because the news cycle is so frantic. Even this government

00:30:24.720 shutdown debate, which has been going on for a matter of days is, it feels like we've been here

00:30:30.720 for two months. So what are the top five moments? I, I, I will give them to you in this order from

00:30:35.500 least consequential to most consequential. Number five, the sentencing of Michael Cohen for campaign

00:30:41.780 finance violations. Doesn't seem like maybe a question of huge political import. It is,

00:30:48.060 it really matters because when the, they sentenced Michael Cohen, they went after the president's

00:30:53.060 personal lawyer, kick in his door, take his files, you know, run roughshod over his office.

00:31:00.260 Ostensibly that was for the Russia probe, the probe into Russian interference in the election.

00:31:05.140 Okay. That's ostensibly the purpose of the special counsel. Now this whole investigation was rotten

00:31:09.480 from the beginning. It was used as an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign. It involved a bought and

00:31:16.400 paid for Democrat research to spur it that was not verified at the time. Huge FISA abuse, totally

00:31:22.320 weak applications. It was, it was rotten from the beginning, but at least you could understand the

00:31:27.500 narrative. The narrative was Russia interfered in the election. We allege that president Trump

00:31:31.760 committed crimes with Russia in the course of that interference. And we're going to investigate it.

00:31:36.260 Okay. I get that. So Michael Cohen is going to go to jail, is going to go rotten prison for campaign

00:31:43.040 finance violations. Well, now I'm kind of, what does that have to do with Russia? That doesn't

00:31:47.180 have anything to do with Russia. That has to do with porn stars. That has to do with his work at

00:31:50.880 the Trump organization. What on earth does that have to do with Russia? It doesn't, but what it exposes

00:31:56.100 is that this Mueller investigation and the Southern district of New York now is simply trying to end the

00:32:02.640 Trump presidency. They are simply trying to overturn the 2016 presidential election. And if they can't

00:32:08.100 do it, if they can't oust him from office, they're going to make him so toxic that no one's going to

00:32:12.580 be able to elect him in 2020. That is their mission. That's what they're after. They don't care about

00:32:16.520 Russia. They don't care about Vladimir Putin. They don't care about Boris and Natasha. They care about

00:32:21.580 ousting president Trump from office. The sentencing of Michael Cohen showed that once and for all. The fact

00:32:27.260 that we're talking about campaign finance with regard to the special counsel probe is on its face

00:32:32.540 absurd. You're going to see this only heat up in the new year. I mean, at least now the blinders are

00:32:37.500 off. We don't have to think that this is some fair investigation, but it is going to get ugly. Bob

00:32:41.860 Mueller is saying that they could have a report by mid-February, or that's at least the, that's the

00:32:46.100 reporting that's coming out now. We'll see. We've heard this before. It was supposed to end in

00:32:49.580 September. Then it was supposed to end in November. Then it didn't happen. That's number five.

00:32:53.680 Number four, the deaths of John McCain and George H.W. Bush. Most consequential. Number four.

00:33:00.400 The reason for this is not because it was so shocking. We all knew John McCain was dying,

00:33:04.400 and we all knew that George Bush was dying. George Bush was very old. John McCain was no spring

00:33:08.740 chicken either. The reason that it was consequential is it showed the depths of degradation to which the

00:33:16.360 mainstream media will subject themselves just to attack incumbent, sitting Republican politicians.

00:33:25.400 During John McCain's life, whenever he posed a threat to a Democrat, the media were vicious against

00:33:30.700 him. They were brutal to him. George Bush, the same thing. He was out of touch. His wife was ugly.

00:33:36.720 He cheated on her. All of these things, no evidence of that, that they would throw at President Bush.

00:33:42.360 He didn't care about people. He didn't know how to use a grocery scanner. He did all of these

00:33:47.300 canards. Then when he dies, oh, those were the good old days. Oh, I have a strange new respect for

00:33:54.460 George Bush. That's what they all say because I hate Trump, and it's BS. Guess what? Even Donald

00:33:59.320 Trump, who is an extreme personality, even Donald Trump, when we get 20 years down the line and we've

00:34:05.800 got some other Republican in office, they're going to say, that guy's Hitler and Donald Trump, those were

00:34:09.140 the good old days. That's what you're going to hear. They're going to give him the Nixon treatment.

00:34:12.940 They're going to give him the Reagan treatment. It was so, they turned the John McCain funeral,

00:34:18.800 especially, into a spectacle, an anti-Trump spectacle. And it just showed how shallow it is because

00:34:24.280 these guys live good lives. Both were war heroes, John McCain and George H.W. Bush. George Bush,

00:34:30.880 such a model, father, grandfather, statesman. He held all of these offices, CIA director,

00:34:37.920 loyal vice president. And they tried to shrink his life and make it a referendum on Donald Trump and

00:34:43.740 juxtapose it with Donald Trump. And it was really sad. And it should, again, take the, peel back the

00:34:49.720 layers and the facades and realize that they just despise Republicans and conservatives. And you're

00:34:55.760 not going to get them to like you. You know, you're not. John McCain always tried to get the New York

00:34:59.600 Times to like him. And they like him when he doesn't pose a threat. And then when he did, they would

00:35:03.080 ditch him. They would stab him right in the back. Don't do it. Don't try to say, oh, I'm a Republican,

00:35:08.340 but I'm not that kind of Republican. Oh, I'm a Republican, but I hate Donald Trump. Really, like me,

00:35:12.420 like me, mainstream media. It is pointless. They will go after you. They will use you. They will abuse

00:35:17.240 you shamelessly. Number three most consequential event of 2018, the banning of Jesse Kelly from

00:35:23.340 Twitter. Again, you don't think that this is of geopolitical importance. It really is. Jesse Kelly,

00:35:28.120 he's an Iraq war veteran. He's a congressional candidate. He's a radio host, totally mainstream

00:35:32.540 guy. And big tech censored him. They banned him without any reason from Twitter. They didn't give

00:35:38.000 any explanation. They couldn't show what rules he violated. And they banned him from Twitter. The

00:35:42.120 uproar, the outrage was so great that eventually they had to reinstate him. It was just too absurd.

00:35:48.640 But they're coming after us. The reason this is one of the most consequential events is because

00:35:52.340 tech censorship has been creeping along the whole year. You saw this in Google's firing of James

00:35:58.100 Damore. You saw this in the banning of Alex Jones from social media platforms. You saw this in the

00:36:04.100 deplatforming of Gavin McGinnis, the conservative comedian, Owen Benjamin, another comedian.

00:36:08.080 On and on, you see it constantly going down this path. And people would always say, well,

00:36:13.940 it's Alex Jones. He's a shirtless vitamin salesman. Oh, who cares about that? Oh, well,

00:36:18.180 Gavin, he shouldn't have said that. Owen Benjamin, he took that joke too far. He just,

00:36:22.740 but then you get to Jesse Kelly and you realize, no, those were all just test shots. They're really

00:36:28.060 just going after conservatives. They think conservative ideas are hateful. They now think

00:36:32.300 that it's hateful to say that a man is not a woman. There was a feminist author in Canada who said,

00:36:37.520 a man is not a woman. She's an editor of a feminist journal. She's now blocked from Twitter. 1.00

00:36:41.480 She's banned. I can't, you can't go follow her. She's gone. This is a big deal because it's going

00:36:46.560 to raise big questions about how conservatives should fight big tech. It's going to raise some

00:36:52.000 questions as to whether we should use the government to do it, as to whether we should regulate them as

00:36:55.580 publishers, as to whether we can, if it would even be possible to build our own platforms.

00:36:59.900 Because the issue is, if they kick you off of, I don't know, Twitter, you can go somewhere else and

00:37:06.220 maybe you've got to raise money on Patreon. Okay. What if Patreon kicks you off? These crowdfunding

00:37:10.660 platforms, GoFundMe. Well, then you're, then you're in hot water. What if, what if they don't kick you off,

00:37:16.520 but then the leftist mob is so great that they get the payment processors to refuse to do business

00:37:22.060 to pay you your money? What about that? How far down the line does this go? Do we need to wield the

00:37:27.120 power of the state here? Do we need to find some other way to subvert the industry? This is going

00:37:31.020 to be a dominant theme in 2019. Uh, the number two, most consequential event of the year.

00:37:37.400 I'll let Kanye show it to you himself.

00:37:40.620 Let me ask you this question. You're in the Oval Office. Okay. How does it feel to be in the Oval Office?

00:37:45.200 Oh, it is good energy in this. Isn't it good energy? Yeah. It's good. It's a great place.

00:37:50.540 The problem is illegal guns. Illegal guns is the problem. Not, not, not legal guns. We have the

00:37:57.220 right to bear arms. Yes, you know, I love you. I know. Did I, did I? But I don't want to take,

00:38:02.260 I don't want to put you in that spot. No, I'm standing in that spot. I love this guy right here. Let

00:38:07.200 me get this guy. I love this guy right here. That's really nice. That is really nice. That's

00:38:17.420 good. Why is this the most common? Most people thought this was a circus. They said that why

00:38:21.100 would this be a consequential event? It is because it showed that President Trump is a unique candidate.

00:38:27.060 What was the last Republican who was able to connect with the biggest pop star in the world?

00:38:32.020 Who was the, it's really about pop culture. Most people just view the Kanye Oval Office meeting

00:38:36.500 through the lens of race. And that does matter because President Trump's approval rating among

00:38:40.400 black voters has increased dramatically. It's really very high for a Republican politician.

00:38:46.640 So that is great too. You saw Candace Owens. I just saw her last night. She's leading the 0.76

00:38:50.440 Blexit movement, the black exit from the Democrat party. And there, there is this idea that's floating

00:38:56.780 around, which is that if there is a race of people who are voting uniformly with one political

00:39:02.700 party, something has gone seriously wrong. Because you look at other races here, the Italians, 1.00

00:39:07.600 for instance, the Italians come to America and they don't all vote in bloc. You've got Nancy Pelosi

00:39:12.920 is Italian. Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo is Italian. I'm Italian too. Anthony Scaramucci is Italian.

00:39:19.280 You've got other, you've got conservatives, you've got left-wingers, you've got the whole spectrum.

00:39:23.100 Same thing with the Irish. You've got really conservative Irishmen and you've got the Irish Democrats.

00:39:26.920 And yet with black voters, they are voting or have voted historically uniformly Democrat. And a little 0.98

00:39:33.060 bit of that began to crack. But I think what's even more important about that Kanye meeting is the

00:39:37.500 pop culture of it all. Kanye West is the biggest pop culture star in the world on planet Earth

00:39:43.460 other than Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has used the culture in his campaign, obviously in his

00:39:49.000 entire career, but in his campaign and in his presidency. He's created an exuberance. He's used humor

00:39:54.280 constantly. Finally, conservatives are the ones who can laugh, who can tell jokes, who are the cool

00:39:58.340 guys. And the left-wingers are the mean old scolds. This is really important. It's really helpful.

00:40:03.500 It really helps people to connect to politicians. I hope, look, Donald Trump is a unique figure. He's

00:40:08.820 an American original, but I hope conservatives can try to take that spirit and bring it in with their

00:40:13.580 other politicians. And the number one most consequential event of 2018, I like beer.

00:40:19.520 I liked beer. I still like beer. Had beers. Have some beers. One beer. Drink beer. Drinks beer.

00:40:26.220 Drank beer and drinking beer. You've probably had beers, Senator.

00:40:29.780 Beach Week Ralph Club biggest contributor.

00:40:33.120 You know, I got a weak stomach, whether it's with beer. I like beer.

00:40:35.840 You haven't asked for that.

00:40:36.220 I like beer. I don't know if you do. Do you like beer, Senator, or not?

00:40:38.860 Um, what do you like to drink?

00:40:40.100 Next one.

00:40:40.800 Hanging out and having some beers with friends, which I gladly do.

00:40:45.340 I like beer. I like beer. What can I tell you? I do like beer. This is the most consequential

00:40:50.680 event of the year. It's not just the Kavanaugh confirmation. It's Brett Kavanaugh fighting

00:40:54.940 back and it's the Republican president standing by his choice. Virtually any other Republican

00:41:00.420 president would have caved, would have withdrawn his nomination. Maybe any other Supreme Court

00:41:04.860 nominee would not have gone out there and fought. And he went out there and fought and

00:41:08.360 he used the culture and he made fun of those senators. And they said, they tried to make

00:41:11.920 this. Imagine living so squeaky clean a life that the worst thing you ever did was drink

00:41:15.880 beer in high school. Imagine you would be, you would get a straight shot up to heaven.

00:41:22.480 Do not stay in purgatory. Do not stay there for a thousand years. Go straight to heaven.

00:41:27.640 This guy, he has to defend himself for drinking beer in high school. What does he do? Does

00:41:31.940 he say, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have had a beer in high school? No. He went right in their

00:41:35.580 face and he said, yeah, I liked beer. And you know, I still like beer. And hey, Senator,

00:41:39.240 have you ever had a beer? When you were 18, did you maybe have a beer or two? And obviously

00:41:43.580 they go, oh, well, they're the scolds now. Sheldon Whitehouse, oh, we're not, blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:41:47.840 blah. Okay. I love that he fought back. This was a big issue. They said, oh, he has to be more

00:41:52.340 judicial. Well, then the Senate should be senatorial. He has to be more civil. Yeah. Then his inquisitors

00:41:58.680 should be civil too. And if they're not going to be civil, who cares? Why on earth would he play

00:42:03.280 by rules that they won't play by? We're, we're in a brawl here, folks. We're in a political brawl

00:42:08.440 and he shouldn't be expected to be playing by all of these beautiful rules while they're going to

00:42:13.460 go out there and shiv him right in the gut. It's ridiculous. And he came out and fought and they got

00:42:17.740 him through. And this was so important. It was important to Republicans doing as well as they did in

00:42:22.260 the midterm elections. It was important to feeling that elections do have consequences. A really

00:42:27.820 beautiful moment, the most consequential. And if God forbid anything happens to Justice Ginsburg,

00:42:33.120 2019 is going to make that look like a Kate walk. Okay. Before we leave here for the break before

00:42:38.720 Christmas and New Year's, I do want a little Christmas rundown. There's a new NPR PBS news

00:42:43.060 hour Marist poll out, which found that adults under the age of 30 are the only age group that prefers to

00:42:49.520 pay for Christmas gifts on credit cards. They're the only age group that strongly prefers to say happy

00:42:55.520 holidays to Merry Christmas. And they're the only age group which loves Christmas trees, but wants

00:43:00.860 fake Christmas trees. They prefer fake Christmas trees. Talk about the war on Christmas. This is a

00:43:06.720 new flank. The millennials coming in and attacking Christmas. This poll should be unsurprising. This 0.99

00:43:12.240 poll describes exactly what we would expect of millennials. Millennials, as the left broadly does,

00:43:19.900 they want the appearance of the thing, but they don't want the essence of the thing. They want the

00:43:24.160 appearance of whatever they're talking about, but they don't want to do what actually makes that

00:43:28.760 thing, that thing. So even with the pain, they want to pay on credit card rather than cash. I do too.

00:43:34.320 I pay for almost everything on credit card, but what is cash? Cash is a symbol, right? Cash is a symbol

00:43:39.500 of labor, of productivity, of trust in a system. And so cash itself is a symbol and credit cards are a

00:43:46.860 symbol of a symbol. Credit cards are one step removed from that. You use that to count dollars and cents,

00:43:51.920 but really it's just a symbol on cards. They prefer happy holidays to merry Christmas. What does happy

00:43:57.080 holidays refer to? It refers to Christmas. It doesn't refer to Hanukkah. Hanukkah has been over

00:44:00.700 for weeks. It doesn't refer to the new year that's in the new year. It doesn't refer to Thanksgiving.

00:44:05.100 It doesn't refer to Arbor Day. It refers to Christmas, and they want that Christmas feeling,

00:44:09.140 but they don't want it to be Christmas. They want to call it something else, happy holidays. And same

00:44:12.880 thing with the tree. They want the tree. They want all the stuff. The stuff is really nice, but they don't

00:44:16.980 want the thing that makes the tree the tree, which is the tree. They want a fake tree. They want a bunch of

00:44:20.360 plastic, and maybe they'll spray some fake Christmas tree smell on it. They don't want

00:44:24.640 the real thing. They probably drink decaf coffee too. A classic millennial story. And also just a

00:44:30.340 little inspiration for Christmas. We all know the real story of Christmas, the incarnation,

00:44:33.580 the birth of Christ. How wonderful. I want to tell one side story about Christmas. Then we can

00:44:40.000 meditate on the incarnation and the greatest event in the history of the world. Tied, I suppose,

00:44:45.560 are only second to the resurrection. At the Council of Nicaea, picture it. AD 325. You've got there

00:44:56.960 Saint Nicholas of Myra, jolly old Saint Nicholas, and you've got a heretic, Arius. Arius, who's a 0.70

00:45:04.900 heretical Christian who denies the divinity of Christ. And they're there. They're debating. They're

00:45:09.460 being really civil. They're being really collegial. And then Arius spouts his heresy and denies the

00:45:14.200 divinity of Christ. And jolly old Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus himself, gets so irritated that he

00:45:19.320 gets up and he punches that heretic right in the face. Now, did this story really happen? It's 1.00

00:45:24.280 unclear. There is some dispute in the historical record. It's certainly in the tradition. In Eastern

00:45:28.640 Christian iconography, you see it all the time. The image of Saint Nicholas slapping Arius across

00:45:34.320 the face. The story has changed a little bit over time. It was initially that Saint Nicholas

00:45:37.860 slapped an Arian, a follower of Arius, but not Arius himself. And then in the earliest texts 0.60

00:45:44.120 we have from the Council of Nicaea, there's really no evidence that Saint Nicholas even was there.

00:45:47.960 But this story has endured for a millennia now. So I like it nonetheless. It clearly has some

00:45:52.900 explanatory power, which is we are told that we have to, we just have to be civil. We just have to be

00:45:59.300 nice. We have to be tolerant. We have to, don't yuck my yum. Don't be so judgy. The truth is arrogant.

00:46:06.940 The truth is arrogant. And the truth makes claims. It asserts things. We're in a culture that doesn't

00:46:15.020 want to assert anything. We don't want to say I think. We don't want to say I believe. We don't

00:46:18.260 want to state facts. We just want to say I feel like. We want to distance ourselves. Well, maybe

00:46:22.180 that's true. That's your truth. That's not my truth. Sometimes you've got to stand up for the truth.

00:46:27.320 And sometimes the truth is going to push you to such a sense of assertiveness that you've got to punch

00:46:31.800 areas in the face. I'm not advocating violence, but I am advocating assertiveness. I am advocating

00:46:37.260 rhetorical violence if there were such a thing. I am advocating standing by your guns. We're seeing

00:46:42.800 it play out right now in this government shutdown, this Christmas government shutdown. President Trump

00:46:47.080 is there. He's going to stick by his guns or he won't have stood for the main central promise of

00:46:51.460 his campaign. Is he going to stick by it? Are we going to get it? Classic cliffhanger from,

00:46:55.940 from President Trump. We'll see what happens in the new year. Have a Merry Christmas.

00:46:59.180 Have a Happy New Year. I'll see you in 2019. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:47:29.180 Fire Forward Publishing production. Copyright Forward Publishing 2018.

00:47:33.260 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, we're going to be talking about the continued persecution

00:47:37.360 of the Christian Baker, Jack Phillips. They're coming after him again. We've got to discuss that. Also,

00:47:42.540 the Trump administration is instituting new rules requiring food stamp recipients to work.

00:47:48.040 I think that's great. We'll discuss that. And finally, what is the worst Christmas song of all time?

00:47:53.160 We'll have that conversation today on the Matt Wall Show. Come check it out.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 21, 2018

Ep. 272 - Last Call For The Wall

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