The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 306 - The Art Of No Deal


Summary

Trump walks away from the North Korea summit and the anti-Trump crowd assails him, but walking away was among the best possible outcomes. Then, Nancy Pelosi hints at impeachment, Julian Castro calls for reparations, and the Democrat First Lady of Virginia passes out cotton to Black students at the governor s mansion.


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00:00:37.640 President Trump walks away from the North Korea summit in Vietnam.
00:00:41.700 The anti-Trump crowd assails him, but walking away actually was among the best possible outcomes.
00:00:46.940 We will discuss why.
00:00:48.300 Then, Nancy Pelosi hints at impeachment, Julian Castro calls for reparations,
00:00:53.400 and the Democrat First Lady of Virginia passes out cotton to black students at the governor's mansion.
00:00:59.840 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:09.340 That was not a monologue.
00:01:11.960 I was not telling jokes.
00:01:13.120 I just read a headline at the end, which is that the first lady of Virginia,
00:01:17.620 whose husband just wore blackface and tried to moonwalk during his apology press conference,
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00:01:29.400 No way.
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00:01:31.560 There's no way to make that funnier.
00:01:33.140 A lot to get to today.
00:01:33.920 We have to cover Trump walking out of this Vietnam summit with Kim Jong-un.
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00:03:09.540 President Trump walked out of this Vietnam summit with Kim Jong-un.
00:03:14.720 Other than the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula
00:03:18.880 for not very much in the way of American concessions,
00:03:24.100 this is probably the best way this could have turned out.
00:03:28.560 And yet, for some reason, President Trump's critics won't take yes for an answer.
00:03:32.160 Here's President Trump finally describing why this summit didn't work out.
00:03:37.040 They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn't do that.
00:03:43.120 It was a very productive two days, but sometimes you have to walk.
00:03:47.440 Sometimes you have to walk.
00:03:48.900 That could have been the title of today's show.
00:03:50.380 Sometimes you have to walk.
00:03:51.700 Thank goodness that President Trump knows this because people are mocking him now.
00:03:57.080 On the left and the right, they're saying,
00:03:58.280 I thought it was the art of the deal.
00:03:59.560 I thought you could make deals, President Trump.
00:04:01.680 Now you're walking away.
00:04:03.880 The willingness to walk away is crucial to making a deal.
00:04:08.520 And in fact, if you are not willing to walk away,
00:04:10.460 as many presidents have not been willing to do,
00:04:12.920 then you give away all of your leverage.
00:04:16.460 Then there's nothing left for you.
00:04:17.920 A lot of people are very happy that these talks broke down.
00:04:22.800 On both the left and the right, but here, of course, is CNN,
00:04:26.180 Jim Acosta, a walking hairdo, gloating about it.
00:04:29.480 So it's strike one in Singapore.
00:04:31.040 He didn't get a deal with Kim Jong-un.
00:04:32.660 Now it's strike two in Hanoi.
00:04:34.800 Once again, no deal to denuclearize North Korea,
00:04:37.620 something that he's staked a lot of his legacy, a lot of his presidency on.
00:04:40.640 And Jim and Christiane, in the backdrop of all of this is what happened back in Washington,
00:04:46.100 up on Capitol Hill at the House Oversight Committee,
00:04:48.280 when the president's former fixer really just blasted away at his former boss,
00:04:52.780 accusing him of being a liar and a cheat and a criminal, basically, and so on.
00:04:57.720 And what was a bombshell hearing up on Capitol Hill,
00:05:00.940 the president presumably will be asked about that as well.
00:05:04.280 Yeah, and did I tell you, and Michael Cohen, he said he's racist, too.
00:05:07.400 And he, Jim, you're supposed to be covering the North Korea.
00:05:10.140 Yeah, no, I know, I know.
00:05:11.560 But just, you hear about Stormy Daniels?
00:05:13.500 Yeah, okay.
00:05:15.140 What a jerk.
00:05:16.520 So President Trump walks away.
00:05:19.100 What I want to know from the critics on the right who oppose Trump walking away,
00:05:24.500 and from Jim Acosta at CNN and all of the people on the left mocking him,
00:05:29.120 what was the alternative?
00:05:31.320 What was the alternative?
00:05:32.900 I guess one alternative is you never speak to North Korea.
00:05:35.580 You allow tensions to continue to ramp up as they have been since they killed Otto Warmbier.
00:05:39.500 And possibly deal with a land war on the Korean Peninsula,
00:05:43.480 where you're risking killing, what, 30,000, 100,000 civilians in Seoul?
00:05:49.900 I don't know.
00:05:50.320 What does that mean?
00:05:50.940 Okay, maybe you're willing to do that.
00:05:52.260 Maybe that's the best, you think that's the best option.
00:05:54.600 Or, the other alternative is the Iran nuclear deal all over again.
00:05:59.580 You're so insistent on getting a deal that you'll give away everything.
00:06:04.900 Say, well, we're already here.
00:06:06.340 We're at the summit.
00:06:07.380 I can't possibly walk away.
00:06:08.940 Jim Acosta will make fun of me.
00:06:10.680 So, okay, here, we'll take away all the sanctions, North Korea.
00:06:14.520 We'll completely open you up to the international community,
00:06:17.320 completely open you up to international trade,
00:06:19.420 and you only have to get rid of, like, one nuclear site.
00:06:23.220 Okay, and that's a deal.
00:06:24.460 That's what Barack Obama would have done.
00:06:26.140 That's the Iran nuclear deal.
00:06:27.420 Walking away shows a position of strength
00:06:32.340 because the United States doesn't need to engage in these summits.
00:06:36.240 We don't need to give away anything.
00:06:39.140 We don't need to lift sanctions on North Korea.
00:06:41.460 It's not as though the sanctions are weakening internationally.
00:06:44.140 It's not as though there's some massive international pressure to lift the sanctions.
00:06:48.760 Fine.
00:06:49.820 If they don't want to play ball, we don't need to play ball.
00:06:52.160 That's the position of strength.
00:06:53.460 A weaker president would have felt pressured into coming to a deal at any price.
00:06:58.860 So who's defending Trump?
00:07:00.020 Obviously, I am.
00:07:01.720 The usual suspects that you would expect from Trump world have been defending him.
00:07:06.420 Some people on the right, it's sort of a mixed reaction broadly on the right.
00:07:09.600 He's also getting praise from some pretty strange sources.
00:07:11.900 He's getting praise from Joe Scarborough, who the president loves to mock
00:07:16.420 and who Joe Scarborough doesn't seem to feel any love lost with President Trump.
00:07:20.840 And even Joe Scarborough admits, man, this is probably the right thing.
00:07:24.800 I would just say, at least for me personally, that seems like the best of all circumstances
00:07:32.580 where the president continues to communicate with a country that we were close to war with
00:07:37.840 a year ago, that most foreign policy experts gave us a 50-50 chance of having a land war
00:07:43.100 in the Korean Peninsula a year ago, and talked but didn't give away anything, which was the
00:07:51.860 great fear, especially after the Cohen testimony yesterday, which we're going to get to in one
00:07:56.960 moment.
00:07:57.700 That's right.
00:07:58.620 The issue here is sometimes you've got to walk away.
00:08:03.240 And Joe Scarborough, like a broken clock twice a day, sort of gets it right.
00:08:06.500 His guest right afterwards says, yep, sometimes you've got to walk away.
00:08:10.760 Even beyond the mainstream media, you've got Susan Rice, who is a left-wing foreign policy
00:08:17.820 expert, you know, served for Barack Obama.
00:08:20.780 She was his flack.
00:08:21.940 She was the sacrificial lamb who was sent out after Benghazi to lie for the administration.
00:08:26.920 It really tarred her career.
00:08:28.300 But even Susan Rice, who loves every opportunity to criticize Trump, looks at the situation
00:08:35.660 and says, yeah, this was the right thing to do.
00:08:37.320 I want to note for people that you wrote the other day in the New York Times of the
00:08:41.140 widespread fear that President Trump would give away too much, be too desperate for a
00:08:46.380 deal.
00:08:46.740 Did he make the right move in walking away?
00:08:48.980 Yes, he did.
00:08:50.700 For the United States to have agreed to lift all sanctions in the absence of real and complete
00:08:59.340 denuclearization would have been a tremendous mistake.
00:09:02.120 Of course, of course.
00:09:04.520 And that's not just the opinion of left-wingers like Susan Rice.
00:09:08.700 That's the opinion of right-wingers like the advisors to the president, like John Bolton,
00:09:12.460 like the president himself, like me.
00:09:14.020 This is just common sense.
00:09:16.860 Actually, the criticism of President Trump with regard to North Korea is that he's been
00:09:20.820 too credulous.
00:09:22.520 He's been too gullible.
00:09:23.860 Oh, he'll let this strong man, chubby little dictator push him around.
00:09:28.920 He'll believe him.
00:09:30.080 We have no reason to believe Kim Jong-un.
00:09:33.280 And so the fear going into this summit was that, well, among people who think the president
00:09:37.600 is an idiot, I'm not among those people, they said, oh, Kim Jong-un is going to razzle
00:09:42.780 dazzle him.
00:09:43.340 He's going to promise him the world in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.
00:09:46.600 Trump's going to lift the sanctions.
00:09:47.880 And guess what's going to happen?
00:09:49.120 Kim Jong-un isn't going to denuclearize.
00:09:51.820 And then it's the end of the world.
00:09:53.140 Then you've got no leverage whatsoever on North Korea.
00:09:56.440 And then this shows that the president is not overly credulous, is not gullible with
00:10:02.880 regard to Kim Jong-un or North Korea.
00:10:05.100 He was looking to achieve something, but not at any cost.
00:10:09.120 That's a very reasonable position to be in.
00:10:12.320 What is the cost?
00:10:13.720 This is what I want to know from the critics on the right and the left who are mocking him
00:10:19.480 or upset that he walked away from this summit.
00:10:23.900 What did we lose?
00:10:27.220 Well, we walked around with a strong man.
00:10:30.360 We elevated a strong man to meet with the president.
00:10:35.020 Okay.
00:10:35.960 Like, whatever.
00:10:37.660 Fine.
00:10:38.200 Okay.
00:10:38.580 We wanted something, which is the denuclearization of Korea.
00:10:41.900 We wanted to end a conflict that has gone on now for 70 years.
00:10:45.980 And one thing that we were willing to wager for that, one offering, was that he could take
00:10:50.880 some pictures with President Trump.
00:10:54.360 Oh, okay.
00:10:55.400 Fine.
00:10:56.120 Nothing really ventured.
00:10:58.280 Nothing really gained.
00:10:59.240 But nothing really ventured.
00:11:00.280 Nothing really lost.
00:11:02.560 It was a good shot.
00:11:03.520 I'm glad that President Trump had the political courage to take a risk here, albeit a small
00:11:08.800 risk, and then that he had the political prudence and judgment to walk away when it looked like
00:11:14.300 Kim Jong-un was trying to pull a fast one.
00:11:16.340 Now, the one quote, this is the quote that people are assailing Trump for.
00:11:21.200 This is the one, and this doesn't sound good.
00:11:23.320 I totally agree.
00:11:24.560 When you listen to it, you think, oh, did he have to?
00:11:27.620 I wish he didn't have to say that.
00:11:29.160 This is the line that all of the mainstream media are going to be playing for the next 48 hours.
00:11:34.820 Those prisons are rough.
00:11:36.920 They're rough places.
00:11:38.180 He tells me that he didn't know about it, and I will take him at his word.
00:11:42.400 Talking about the killing of Otto Warmbier, that American student who was killed by North Korea,
00:11:47.760 came back and he was brain dead.
00:11:49.560 He died shortly thereafter.
00:11:51.160 Says, well, he's asked, did Kim Jong-un know about this?
00:11:54.700 Did Kim Jong-un do this?
00:11:56.920 And he says, look, those prisons are terrible.
00:11:59.680 Kim Jong-un says he didn't know about it, so I guess I'll take him at his word.
00:12:04.420 Yeah, I get it.
00:12:05.500 I get it.
00:12:06.000 You want him, what you want him to do is go out there and say, this jerk, he killed an
00:12:11.280 American student.
00:12:12.440 He's going to, and then like John Wayne, Trump is going to pull a gun out of his jacket and
00:12:16.780 shoot Kim Jong-un on the side.
00:12:18.440 That would feel really good, but that is not reality.
00:12:21.520 That is not what's going to happen.
00:12:23.300 By the way, for what Trump said here, factually, it's probably true.
00:12:28.480 I don't, I don't think that Kim Jong-un ordered the killing of Otto Warmbier because he had
00:12:34.300 nothing to gain and a lot to lose from it.
00:12:36.300 I think probably what happened is they took in Otto Warmbier, they tortured him endlessly
00:12:40.500 and they tortured him a little too much and something went wrong.
00:12:44.660 And then the kid went brain dead.
00:12:46.360 We still don't know exactly why or how he went brain dead, why or how his, his torture
00:12:51.940 and his incarceration killed him.
00:12:54.420 And then I think the North Korean regime was terrified.
00:12:57.900 I mean, I think they, they really wanted to rough him up and use him as leverage.
00:13:01.480 A guy who's dead or dying is not much leverage.
00:13:04.480 They didn't really extract any concessions from him.
00:13:06.540 So just as a technical matter, maybe he's right.
00:13:09.180 But what, what, what people are really criticizing him for is that he didn't just assail Kim
00:13:15.240 Jong-un for, for the, the North Korean killing of Otto Warmbier.
00:13:19.700 Now, Kim Jong-un says, I didn't know.
00:13:22.000 Yeah, maybe he didn't.
00:13:22.700 I don't think he ordered the killing.
00:13:23.900 Sure.
00:13:24.060 Maybe he didn't know.
00:13:24.760 Maybe some guard took it too far.
00:13:26.540 Yeah.
00:13:26.780 Okay.
00:13:27.560 Is that, now is that awful?
00:13:28.860 Yes.
00:13:30.160 Is that, does that make an American's blood boil?
00:13:32.880 Yes.
00:13:33.120 Does it make us want to go to war?
00:13:34.400 Yes.
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00:15:08.260 This controversy over President Trump's answer to the question about Otto Warmbier.
00:15:14.120 He says, well, Kim Jong-un says he didn't know.
00:15:17.480 I guess I'll take him at his word.
00:15:19.440 Even though those prisons are really tough.
00:15:21.240 Those prisons are really tough, so maybe that explains it.
00:15:24.500 He's being assailed on both sides for that.
00:15:27.000 What this shows is that Trump is the opposite of Obama.
00:15:30.560 Barack Obama talked real tough.
00:15:32.800 Oh, he said the prettiest words, didn't he?
00:15:34.960 And then he gave away the form.
00:15:37.020 That was the series, oh, red lines, we're talking tough on the mullahs, and then take anything you want.
00:15:46.400 Flying airplanes full of American cash to drop off with the Iranian mullahs.
00:15:51.680 Thanking Iran for taking our sailors hostage.
00:15:55.520 Anything to get those sailors back.
00:15:57.900 I don't know, there's no, we'll give away everything.
00:16:01.040 All concessions.
00:16:02.140 Concessions to Syria.
00:16:03.420 Concessions to everybody.
00:16:05.540 But he would talk tough.
00:16:06.480 He'd give good speeches, wouldn't he?
00:16:07.880 And President Trump doesn't talk tough on Kim Jong-un.
00:16:10.840 He talks like he's negotiating.
00:16:12.420 He says, well, Kim Jong-un, he's a smart guy.
00:16:15.160 Yeah, he's a smart guy.
00:16:17.060 Yeah, well, he says he didn't know about his state's killing of Otto Warmbier.
00:16:22.020 I guess I'll take him at his word.
00:16:23.720 Okay, so he talks really nice.
00:16:27.060 He talks in a flattering way.
00:16:29.320 But then he doesn't give away anything.
00:16:30.940 Which of those two guys do you want to lead your country?
00:16:33.200 The one who tells you every pretty little thing you want to hear and then sells out your country from underneath you?
00:16:39.660 Or the guy who's willing to make rhetorical concessions, but never make any hard concessions, any tangible concessions.
00:16:47.920 Obviously, you want the latter.
00:16:52.000 This walking away reminds me of Reykjavik.
00:16:54.440 It reminds me of Ronald Reagan, 1986.
00:16:57.460 Reagan is there with Gorbachev.
00:16:58.900 They're talking about denuclearization.
00:17:00.600 At one point, they're talking about complete denuclearization.
00:17:02.820 And these talks are going exceedingly well between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
00:17:10.100 And then, at the very end, Gorbachev says, okay, you've got to get rid of the strategic defense initiative.
00:17:16.680 This was the initiative that was criticized by Reagan's detractors as Star Wars.
00:17:22.040 You're going to be able to shoot missiles out of the sky, you know, this brand new radical technology.
00:17:27.360 Technology that at the time, we didn't even have.
00:17:29.960 And Reagan said, how dare you?
00:17:31.840 How could you do this?
00:17:33.380 And he walked right out, furious.
00:17:35.660 Walked right out of the summit.
00:17:38.460 Listen to how Trump's detractors are talking about this summit and wonder, how would they have talked about Reykjavik?
00:17:44.100 Say, oh, they should have known ahead of time what the terms were.
00:17:47.220 What a complete failure of Trump's negotiating.
00:17:50.600 What a complete failure of planning.
00:17:52.140 What a complete failure of our credulity with regard to North Korea.
00:17:57.140 Oh, how embarrassing.
00:17:58.200 We legitimized this slave master tyrant by appearing with him as an American president.
00:18:07.100 Oh, what a total catastrophe.
00:18:09.120 What dunces in the White House.
00:18:11.460 That's what they're saying about President Trump's summit with Kim Jong-un.
00:18:15.920 Which of those lines could you not apply to Reagan at Reykjavik?
00:18:19.580 You could apply all of the same lines.
00:18:23.760 And what happened as a result of Reykjavik?
00:18:26.120 One year later, we got a nuclear treaty with the Soviet Union.
00:18:30.300 Reykjavik was 86.
00:18:31.400 We got a treaty in 87.
00:18:32.880 Am I saying that's what's going to happen in North Korea?
00:18:35.960 No.
00:18:37.000 No.
00:18:37.220 I'm hopeful, but I'm not optimistic.
00:18:41.040 There's a distinction there.
00:18:42.280 I hope that it works out.
00:18:44.180 I think it's possible that it will work out.
00:18:45.860 But Kim Jong-un is no Mikhail Gorbachev.
00:18:51.420 Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan.
00:18:53.000 These are different times, different circumstances, different relationship.
00:18:56.820 But the summit itself, the principle itself of walking out of a summit without a deal,
00:19:03.220 that's exactly the same.
00:19:04.460 1986, 2019.
00:19:06.720 And the arguments for walking away are way stronger than the arguments for giving away the farm.
00:19:14.600 This is short of the complete denuclearization of North Korea for no American concession.
00:19:19.880 This is the best outcome we possibly could have gotten from President Trump here.
00:19:23.660 So, I guess nothing ventured, nothing gained.
00:19:27.680 Good job, President Trump, in not selling out the country.
00:19:30.340 Your predecessors might have done that.
00:19:32.520 Wish we could have gotten a deal.
00:19:34.640 Eh.
00:19:35.680 This is my feeling.
00:19:36.600 This is my feeling on all of the news this week.
00:19:38.360 Michael Cohen, bombshell, bombshell.
00:19:40.220 Eh.
00:19:41.680 The North Korean summit walks away.
00:19:43.300 Eh.
00:19:43.580 Pretty good.
00:19:44.060 Okay, fine.
00:19:44.700 Whatever.
00:19:45.300 Now, on the other side of the aisle, Nancy Pelosi is outlining her priorities.
00:19:49.580 This actually has not really been covered by any major news outlets, or it's been very
00:19:55.200 under-covered.
00:19:56.280 Nancy Pelosi, speaking at Howard University, outlines the Democrats' plan for the new Congress
00:20:02.940 now that they have control of the House of Representatives.
00:20:05.680 And it really reveals that Nancy Pelosi is a very masterful political manipulator.
00:20:11.520 And she lists her top nine, and then she says, number 10, ooh, that's going to be a little
00:20:15.620 surprise.
00:20:16.560 Ooh, you're going to have to be ready for that.
00:20:18.200 Here she is.
00:20:18.640 So, I have this one card that says, we have one through 10 for the people.
00:20:26.200 One is clean up government.
00:20:28.380 Two is the infrastructure bill.
00:20:30.320 Three is prescription drugs, lower the cost of prescription.
00:20:33.100 Four is the Voting Rights Act.
00:20:34.980 Five is the Equality Act, which is to end discrimination against the LGBTQ community.
00:20:41.780 Six is the DREAM Act to protect our DREAMers.
00:20:44.560 Seven is paycheck fairs, equal pay for equal work, building on President Obama.
00:20:53.260 Eight is today, H.R. 8, House Resolution 8, bipartisan background checks.
00:20:59.720 Nine will be a climate bill.
00:21:01.280 And then we have 10 reserved for something special that will...
00:21:07.420 You have to be ready.
00:21:08.920 You know, you have to be...
00:21:10.560 Ten reserved for something special.
00:21:13.060 You have to be ready.
00:21:14.440 Okay.
00:21:14.680 People are wondering, what could she be talking about?
00:21:18.020 Because if you listen to the first nine, she basically covers all the bases, all the leftist
00:21:22.520 bases.
00:21:23.320 The one policy that she's missing within there is Medicare for All, this socialist, totally
00:21:29.460 socialist medicine.
00:21:31.420 But I don't think that's missing.
00:21:33.320 I don't think that's what she's referring to.
00:21:34.660 Because she does talk about lowering prescription drug prices.
00:21:37.600 So if she were going to push for Medicare for All, socialist medicine, she would just include
00:21:42.620 it in there.
00:21:43.300 It would be redundant for her to have both of those.
00:21:46.480 The other thing that you notice about those first nine is they're actually all plausible.
00:21:52.000 What Nancy Pelosi is signaling is she doesn't just want to obstruct.
00:21:56.280 She doesn't just want to slow down Trump's agenda.
00:21:59.300 She doesn't just want to pass or hold a lot of meaningless votes that will certainly get
00:22:04.780 stopped in the Senate, certainly get vetoed.
00:22:06.640 It seems that she's trying to work with the president.
00:22:09.440 Maybe she's learned something from the last couple of years.
00:22:12.040 She wants an infrastructure bill.
00:22:13.920 Trump could get behind that.
00:22:15.100 She wants a cleanup government bill.
00:22:16.720 Yeah, Trump could probably get behind that.
00:22:18.600 She wants an LGBTQ equality act.
00:22:23.080 You think that's a little further left.
00:22:24.360 Don't forget, President Trump touted himself as the most pro-LGBT Republican presidential
00:22:30.060 nominee in history.
00:22:32.200 You've got equal pay for equal work.
00:22:36.160 This kind of sounds like it makes sense.
00:22:38.620 It sounds like a feel-good bill.
00:22:40.520 This pandering to women bill.
00:22:43.320 It's based on the premise that women only get 75 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
00:22:48.200 It's not true at all.
00:22:49.360 But you could see some Senate Republicans maybe liking this.
00:22:54.620 Maybe Susan Collins, these kind of lefty Republicans.
00:22:57.960 Susan Collins likes it.
00:22:59.080 Maybe Lisa Murkowski likes it.
00:23:01.020 Maybe Ivanka Trump in the White House who has made quite a point of talking about women's
00:23:07.620 issues and really buying the left-wing premises on a lot of those issues.
00:23:11.420 Maybe she, okay, maybe that kind of works out.
00:23:14.160 Lowering prescription drug prices.
00:23:15.740 You could see President Trump getting behind that would play to his base.
00:23:18.660 Okay, so it's all basically plausible.
00:23:22.540 Medicare for all is not plausible.
00:23:24.280 Socialist medicine, that is not a winner.
00:23:26.600 President Trump ran in no small part on overturning Obamacare.
00:23:30.120 That's not going to be it.
00:23:31.780 What she's obviously implying is impeachment.
00:23:36.720 That's the only thing she could be.
00:23:38.180 She says, we're reserving number 10 for something special.
00:23:41.020 Well, is all of that legislation that she just named not special?
00:23:47.240 The climate bill, LGBT, women's bill, this bill, that bill.
00:23:52.020 Yeah, what she's saying is we're reserving it for something that's more special.
00:23:54.800 Ordinary legislation being passed by Congress, that's not special.
00:23:58.480 That's just what Congress does.
00:24:00.400 Impeachment is special.
00:24:01.500 Only Congress can do that.
00:24:04.660 It's a rare occurrence that that happens.
00:24:07.000 That's something special.
00:24:07.960 And then she says, we've just got to be ready.
00:24:10.780 Well, you don't have to be ready for all those other bills?
00:24:14.480 No, because all of that legislation, they can go in.
00:24:17.040 That's their agenda for the new Congress.
00:24:19.520 Impeachment will hinge on the Mueller report.
00:24:22.560 Impeachment will hinge on all of the testimony that they're going to call Michael Cohen.
00:24:25.820 They're going to call Eric Trump.
00:24:27.040 They're going to call Don Jr.
00:24:28.040 They're going to call all these people to testify.
00:24:31.280 It's going to hinge on the endless investigations that Adam Schiff is launching.
00:24:35.940 That's why you've got to be ready.
00:24:37.900 And why doesn't she name it?
00:24:39.320 She doesn't name it because right now impeachment is a loser issue.
00:24:43.560 The majority of Americans, by a significant margin, do not want President Trump impeached.
00:24:49.220 Nancy Pelosi has previously suggested that she wouldn't impeach Trump.
00:24:52.640 She learned the lesson of Bill Clinton.
00:24:54.440 She saw what happened when you overreach, when you try to impeach a president who's basically popular, whose policies are basically popular, doesn't look good, doesn't benefit the, in the 90s, didn't benefit the Republicans in the House.
00:25:09.640 And she's worried it won't benefit the Democrats in the House now in 2019.
00:25:13.200 So why does she bring it up at all?
00:25:16.360 Well, because her agenda is plausible.
00:25:19.980 And she's signaling to Donald Trump, I am going to not play as an obstructionist.
00:25:25.940 I'm going to play as someone trying to work with you.
00:25:27.920 And if you do not work with me, if you do not come to the table, then I've got impeachment in my pocket.
00:25:35.600 What she's signaling is she's politically smart.
00:25:37.900 We all know this.
00:25:38.720 She's been in power a very long time.
00:25:41.200 There was a little threat to her power when the Democrats retook the Congress.
00:25:45.460 Some threats.
00:25:46.140 Some people said they were going to run for House leadership against her.
00:25:49.000 What did Nancy say?
00:25:49.840 She said, come on in.
00:25:51.160 The water is warm.
00:25:52.580 Chomp, chomp, chomp.
00:25:53.540 She's a shark.
00:25:54.180 She's saying, you know, I'm not going to impeach you yet.
00:25:57.860 I'm not going to talk about it yet because it's unpopular right now.
00:26:01.860 But the minute I get the opportunity, oh boy, that's going to be real special.
00:26:07.080 I guess we'll just have to wait.
00:26:09.540 Democratic presidential candidates have other policy priorities, including reparations for slavery.
00:26:14.880 We'll get to that in one second.
00:26:15.820 Then, of course, we have the mailbag coming up.
00:26:17.180 But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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00:26:25.360 You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show, you get the
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00:26:29.500 You get to ask questions backstage.
00:26:31.600 We're doing a lot of those these days.
00:26:33.000 You get another kingdom.
00:26:35.500 You get this.
00:26:36.500 You get...
00:26:37.420 Mmm.
00:26:41.340 You get the profound sadness of Nancy Pelosi that she cannot yet impeach the president.
00:26:46.940 And it tastes very good.
00:26:48.240 But it's a little...
00:26:50.800 It's more of a vintage.
00:26:53.280 We'll put it that way.
00:26:54.540 It's been around Congress a very long time.
00:26:57.180 But you've got those leftist tears right now.
00:26:59.080 Make sure you get the Tumblr immediately.
00:27:01.800 Because as the Cohen testimony falls apart, as President Trump doesn't give away the farm to North Korea,
00:27:07.700 you are going to need it lest you drown.
00:27:09.640 Come back, and we'll be right back in just one minute.
00:27:11.800 Julian Castro is running his campaign not on plausible policy priorities,
00:27:28.440 but on reparations for slavery that ended over 150 years ago.
00:27:33.540 Here is Castro on MSNBC, of course, giving out his new, brand new policy proposal.
00:27:40.040 I have long believed that this country should resolve its original sin of slavery,
00:27:49.980 and that one of the ways we should consider doing that is through reparations for people who are the descendants of slaves.
00:27:56.960 It is interesting to me that under our Constitution and otherwise that we compensate people if we take their property.
00:28:09.120 Shouldn't we compensate people if they were property, sanctioned by the state?
00:28:15.020 Yes, perhaps you should give something to those people who were property.
00:28:22.740 Those people who were property have been dead for 100 years.
00:28:27.460 At least, right?
00:28:28.720 They've all been dead for 100 years.
00:28:32.020 Of course.
00:28:34.280 So what is the, what is he doing?
00:28:36.880 Julian Castro is talking about reparations because he's nobody in a crowded field of people who are mediocre or slightly better than mediocre.
00:28:44.680 And he's far less than mediocre.
00:28:46.560 So he has to stand out.
00:28:48.460 It shows you that the Democrats are going to be running to the left.
00:28:52.880 Now, if he felt that the space, if he felt the way that he could make his mark in the primary was to moderate a little bit against the Green New Deal,
00:28:59.500 against outlawing planes, trains, and automobiles, against knocking down every building in the country,
00:29:03.900 if he felt it was to moderate, he would moderate.
00:29:06.700 He's another, I mean, he's a politician.
00:29:08.520 That's all he is.
00:29:10.060 He's not some grand visionary who's a real conviction politician.
00:29:15.640 He's a guy who wants to be president.
00:29:16.960 He was the HUD secretary.
00:29:18.040 That's his great qualification.
00:29:20.780 He sees reparations for slavery as the best path forward.
00:29:24.740 He's probably right.
00:29:26.460 Gets him on MSNBC.
00:29:27.580 Gets him on this show.
00:29:28.260 Gets him on a little bit more attention in a field that doesn't care about giving him attention.
00:29:33.560 And it's worth pointing out, it's not that he's more radical than his fellow Democrats.
00:29:38.920 It's not that he's more radical than Nancy Pelosi.
00:29:42.320 He's just reckless.
00:29:44.200 He's just playing this game where he has got to get attention.
00:29:49.060 He has got to go where the base is.
00:29:50.860 And this is where the base is.
00:29:52.700 Look, if Nancy Pelosi felt that she could survive politically as Speaker of the House by talking about this sort of stuff,
00:29:59.000 she'd be talking about it too.
00:30:01.040 The whole party has moved very left wing.
00:30:02.880 But some people are a little more honest than others.
00:30:06.740 And you're going to see that honesty tick up during the entire campaign.
00:30:10.780 Speaking of, before we get to the mailbag today, I just have to bring up this story.
00:30:15.740 Speaking of honesty, no Democrats have ever been more honest than the governor and the first lady of Virginia.
00:30:23.960 Governor Northam, you'll remember, came out and said that he was perfectly fine killing babies after they had been born sitting on the doctor's table.
00:30:30.680 This is the logical conclusion of the Democrats' abortion stance.
00:30:34.160 Andy Cuomo is fairly honest about this.
00:30:36.840 Other Democrats who used to say that they supported safe, legal, and rare abortion were being dishonest.
00:30:41.920 Now they're honest.
00:30:42.880 When they talk about their sanctimonious, holier-than-thou stance on race,
00:30:48.240 you have to remind Democrats, you're the party of the KKK.
00:30:50.920 You're the party of slavery.
00:30:52.460 You are the party of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:30:55.280 And what does Ralph Northam do?
00:30:56.720 He wears blackface in what is now a very famous photograph.
00:30:59.760 He tries to moonwalk during an apology press conference about that.
00:31:03.600 His wife said, don't moonwalk.
00:31:05.120 That's not a good look.
00:31:05.920 Don't do a Michael Jackson impression at a blackface apology conference.
00:31:10.060 And then what comes out today, the first lady passed out cotton to black students in the governor's mansion.
00:31:17.420 Okay.
00:31:19.120 I mean, great.
00:31:20.300 Thank you.
00:31:20.800 Thank you for being honest.
00:31:22.340 Now, the reason I bring this up, I don't, look, maybe, maybe she was bringing them around and saying,
00:31:26.920 look, here, they used to pick cotton right here at our estate.
00:31:29.040 Here you go.
00:31:29.900 Fine.
00:31:30.660 That's a reasonable read.
00:31:34.320 That's a charitable read of what she was doing.
00:31:35.980 I don't know that she's some vicious racist.
00:31:38.200 Maybe she is, but I'm not willing to conclude that.
00:31:41.740 What I want to ask is what would happen if all of this had occurred to a Republican governor?
00:31:47.680 Well, we know CNN initially reported that Ralph Northam's a Republican.
00:31:51.040 They switched his political party.
00:31:52.640 They were so embarrassed.
00:31:53.620 Now they don't mention his political party at all.
00:31:57.640 And what really strikes me about this is just the media reaction to it.
00:32:02.800 But how would they have given the GOP a charitable read of this?
00:32:08.080 They've said, look, maybe it wasn't.
00:32:09.440 No, they would have run them out of town on a rail.
00:32:11.560 But this is how they treat the Virginia first lady.
00:32:14.080 You know, guys, when I saw this story, it made me kind of sad because I just think she's just giving a tour.
00:32:18.880 She's just trying to put history in context.
00:32:20.920 And it all depends on how she delivered it.
00:32:22.900 I wasn't there.
00:32:23.740 But if she said, can you imagine being this person or can you imagine a little black child what this was like?
00:32:29.120 I don't believe that that was her intention.
00:32:31.240 I was there at the mansion and met them both.
00:32:33.440 She was very lovely.
00:32:34.300 She was even talking about the history of the of the house.
00:32:37.040 Yeah, I always called you last night when I saw this story.
00:32:39.040 I know when I saw it as Nora.
00:32:40.100 I do think I do think it's important.
00:32:41.980 And I applaud the first lady for actually saying, look, this is where slaves worked here in the governor's mansion in the past and put things in context.
00:32:49.200 Yes.
00:32:49.380 And actually picking cotton was extremely backbreaking work.
00:32:52.380 And I think that's the point.
00:32:53.700 Again, we weren't there.
00:32:55.200 But I can't imagine that she would have been that insensitive to this young person who was there.
00:32:59.820 It made me sad.
00:33:00.800 I think we are so quick to jump on things now.
00:33:03.160 Everybody's super and hypersensitive when it comes to racial issues in particular.
00:33:07.320 It does appear to have been well intentioned.
00:33:08.960 I think so, too.
00:33:12.560 Yeah.
00:33:13.560 Come on.
00:33:14.160 Obviously, it was.
00:33:15.020 No, I think it was even better intentioned than you do.
00:33:17.380 No, I think it was better intentioned.
00:33:18.900 No, of course.
00:33:19.760 We have to.
00:33:20.260 We're so quick to jump on people.
00:33:22.340 We're so Mark Meadows is a racist.
00:33:24.200 We're so.
00:33:24.640 No, no.
00:33:25.140 We're just so quick to jump on.
00:33:26.380 Donald Trump is Hitler.
00:33:27.620 And we just need to stop being so quick to jump on people.
00:33:31.260 Donald Trump is a white supremacist.
00:33:33.140 And that's what they are.
00:33:34.680 I actually, the point, there is a broader point to take away from this that all of us
00:33:40.940 could learn, which is that it is a fact of human nature that we judge others by their
00:33:45.260 actions and we judge ourselves by our intentions.
00:33:48.660 We judge others when we don't like them.
00:33:51.600 We judge them by their worst possible read of what they did.
00:33:55.220 And we always judge ourselves by the best possible read of what we wanted to do.
00:33:59.340 Yeah, that's a great point to take away, but that how oblivious not to apply it to themselves.
00:34:07.900 They just yesterday were calling the whole house GOP racist because they read the testimony
00:34:14.100 of a black Trump employee who said he's not racist.
00:34:20.220 Rashida Tlaib, the Democrat Congresswoman said that Republicans were racist for using a
00:34:25.920 black woman as a prop.
00:34:27.080 And the Republicans said, you just called a black woman a prop.
00:34:30.400 She's not a prop.
00:34:31.160 She had testimony, relevant testimony.
00:34:35.380 That double standard is amazing.
00:34:37.380 If they could listen to their own point and actually take it, it would be a good point.
00:34:40.700 But of course they can't.
00:34:41.580 All right, let's get to the mailbag.
00:34:43.140 Running late as usual, but I want to get through as many as we can.
00:34:45.840 First question from Andrew.
00:34:47.760 Hello, I was wondering how you feel about the belief that God views all sin equally.
00:34:53.620 Thank you, Andrew.
00:34:54.520 I don't agree with it because it isn't true.
00:34:58.580 You can look at James 2.10.
00:35:01.900 James 2.10 says, quote,
00:35:04.800 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
00:35:11.200 This is the line.
00:35:12.000 Usually by people who say God views all sin equally.
00:35:15.020 All sin is exactly.
00:35:16.120 To say God views all sin equally is to say that all sin is equal.
00:35:19.140 God doesn't view something incorrectly.
00:35:22.760 God is the truth.
00:35:24.380 And so if God views it some way, that is the way that it is.
00:35:26.960 So the question is, is all sin equal?
00:35:28.780 Is stealing a pack of gum from the store the same thing as killing a pregnant woman and beheading her and doing all sorts of horrific things?
00:35:38.380 Are those exactly equal sins?
00:35:40.060 The answer, of course, is no.
00:35:42.020 We know this intuitively.
00:35:43.700 We know this philosophically.
00:35:45.280 And we know this from scripture.
00:35:47.740 In 1 John 5.17, it says, quote,
00:35:51.720 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal.
00:35:56.240 So it's just right there in scripture that says, yes, all wrongdoing is sin, but not all sins are created equal.
00:36:03.380 Not all sins are equal.
00:36:04.480 Some sin is mortal and some sin is venial.
00:36:07.600 This is a distinction that has been held most notably by the Catholic Church, but I suppose other denominations as well.
00:36:16.160 St. Paul tells Christians in Rome to keep the faith, quote,
00:36:19.940 Otherwise, you too will be cut off.
00:36:23.260 And then we know that we all stumble in many ways, also from scripture.
00:36:29.800 How do we make sense of all of it?
00:36:31.420 We all stumble in many ways.
00:36:33.180 You should keep the faith, otherwise you too will be cut off.
00:36:36.140 So there were some ways in which we stumble that will cut us off and some ways that won't.
00:36:41.300 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is a sin which is not mortal.
00:36:44.540 So how is it then also the case that whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it?
00:36:50.560 Because you have violated the law.
00:36:52.400 Think of the law as a leftist-tears tumbler.
00:36:56.280 Now, this is not a perfect analogy because the leftist-tears tumbler is indestructible.
00:37:00.680 So you can't possibly break it.
00:37:01.960 But let's say, let's say in some crazy world, I were drinking out of my tumbler and I broke off just the little cap of the tumbler.
00:37:08.980 Just came off, you know, just this little slider right here.
00:37:11.700 Okay.
00:37:11.820 I broke the tumbler.
00:37:14.820 Even though I only broke that little bit, I broke the tumbler.
00:37:19.760 The tumbler is the law.
00:37:20.820 If you break a little piece of the law, you have broken the law.
00:37:24.060 Certainly that's true.
00:37:25.100 This does not mean that all sin is equal.
00:37:26.760 This is why the New Testament goes to great lengths in many places to explain why not all sin is equal in explicit terms.
00:37:34.660 This is why our Lord, this is why Christ in the Gospels describes different gradations of punishment in Luke and Matthew.
00:37:42.000 There are different gradations of punishment because sins are not all equal.
00:37:49.040 This is another example.
00:37:51.020 This happens quite a lot.
00:37:52.280 I get this in the mailbag sometimes.
00:37:54.000 They say, Michael, what about this one line of scripture taken completely out of context?
00:37:59.280 Doesn't this invalidate your entire theology?
00:38:03.160 Say, no, because of context.
00:38:05.520 Because you have to read it in context.
00:38:06.640 When you look at the scripture without an interpretive scheme, without context, without knowing what the words mean,
00:38:14.700 without understanding how some words can refer to one thing and that can modify another statement that has elaborated on that point.
00:38:26.540 When you just look at that one line, it is like looking into a deep, dark well and seeing only your reflection on the surface of the water.
00:38:34.600 All shallows are clear.
00:38:35.840 Next question from Jonathan.
00:38:38.420 Hello, back in the day, did you ever get yourself in a situation in which you go and try to ask a girl out on a date or try to give her a rose,
00:38:48.180 but then she tells you she has a boyfriend?
00:38:51.660 Oh, yeah, I usually would wait until the boyfriend was out of town before I would go do that.
00:38:55.740 But, yeah, sometimes I get my timing a little wrong.
00:39:00.140 Yes, yeah, that's happened.
00:39:01.940 That's too bad.
00:39:02.520 Sometimes that isn't true.
00:39:04.060 Sometimes the girl is just trying to let you down gently, in which case maybe, you know, you should be grateful that she was so cordial.
00:39:11.240 Or, you know, you can try to, you know, try to be a little more charming possibly.
00:39:16.180 But there is a real code here, man.
00:39:20.440 You shouldn't steal a guy's girl, at least if it's a friend of yours.
00:39:24.940 I guess if he's a real jerk, you know, open season, do what you got to do.
00:39:28.380 But, yeah, that happens.
00:39:30.140 You know, it's just, that's the way it is.
00:39:32.040 Listen, if you're, if a girl is so beautiful and lovely that she's got your attention, she's probably got the attention of a lot of other guys, too.
00:39:40.960 You got to, you got to go in there and win her over.
00:39:43.140 From Elias, Knowles, if you were on your deathbed and you had to hear one last song before you fade out, what would it be?
00:39:53.300 Thanks, love the show, Elias.
00:39:55.420 This is a very tough question.
00:39:56.900 Assuming I didn't have a whole lot of time left, I would probably pick a song from the 1920s called Trees, which was based on a poem written by Joyce Kilmer.
00:40:09.420 And the poem is, I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.
00:40:17.720 Something, something, something, something, it goes on and on and on.
00:40:19.900 Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.
00:40:23.860 And it's a lovely, simple little poem.
00:40:25.300 And the music is just this lovely music, very 1920s and nice and sort of the last gasp of elevated music.
00:40:37.420 I'd probably do that one.
00:40:39.180 Or there's another song that I love by the Mills Brothers called Smoke Rings.
00:40:42.740 Where do they go? These smoke rings I blow each night.
00:40:45.900 Where do they go? These circles are blue and white.
00:40:49.240 And it's a song about watching these gasps, watching your breath, watching the smoke rings fade away into the sky of blue and wondering what that means.
00:40:59.880 Talking about the ephemeral nature of this world and wondering about the next.
00:41:04.520 Probably those two.
00:41:05.720 I think that song is from the 20s too, 20s or 30s.
00:41:09.060 Next question, from Joshua.
00:41:10.360 Hey, Michael, I asked Ben the same question.
00:41:13.080 Do you think socialism's rise in popularity is the free markets way of telling us that capitalism isn't working for a lot of Americans?
00:41:19.860 Thanks, Michael. Keep up the great work, Josh.
00:41:21.640 No, I think it's the way of telling us that our education system isn't working for a lot of Americans.
00:41:26.140 Because, of course, there are legitimate criticisms of free markets that are divorced from any sense of morality or virtue or religiosity.
00:41:37.840 Plenty of good criticisms, but those aren't the criticisms that we're really seeing.
00:41:41.700 What we're seeing is just simply ignorance, blithe ignorance.
00:41:47.620 Ocasio-Cortez, the spokesman for socialism, said that the reason that the unemployment rate is low is because people have two jobs.
00:41:55.300 That's just not how the unemployment rate works.
00:41:58.600 Ocasio-Cortez is assailing tax incentives to bring jobs to a city because she thinks that they're just spending the money.
00:42:08.080 Three billion dollars is just sitting around in a pile somewhere.
00:42:11.440 She doesn't understand what a tax incentive is.
00:42:13.660 This is not a failure of markets.
00:42:17.080 This is a failure of education.
00:42:18.480 Now, I don't think that's the same reason why some people are questioning certain trade deals.
00:42:26.840 That's very different.
00:42:28.120 The move of especially millennials towards socialism, that is born out of ignorance, historical and economic ignorance.
00:42:35.060 The move of some people toward questioning open borders on questions of migration or trade,
00:42:41.480 toward questioning maybe why we should protect certain industries if our trading partners are also protecting industries.
00:42:48.480 If we're looking at certain trade protections because our trading partners are stealing our intellectual property
00:42:53.640 and violating WTO treaties, World Trade Organization treaties, and illegally subsidizing their aluminum.
00:43:00.060 And if you haven't caught on, I'm talking about China.
00:43:02.500 That, I think, is much more legitimate.
00:43:06.580 That's not coming out of an ignorance.
00:43:08.300 That's coming out of the failures of an economic regime that is not perfectly free markets.
00:43:15.500 Obviously, it's not perfectly free markets because the main criticism is that our trading partners are not playing by the rules.
00:43:21.760 That's totally legitimate, but those are completely different questions.
00:43:24.320 And, coincidentally, or not coincidentally, you're seeing this ignorant run towards socialism on the left
00:43:31.000 and you're seeing a very wise and serious questioning of our trade policies on the right.
00:43:35.900 You know, this is going to be a rare example of me being conciliatory, reaching across the aisle, finding middle ground.
00:43:51.820 I think we should get rid of all abortion for people with uteruses.
00:43:58.780 But for people who don't have uteruses, I would be willing to say they can have all the abortions they want.
00:44:04.940 They can have no restrictions whatsoever, no parental consent.
00:44:11.400 I'm actually willing to have the federal government subsidize all abortions for people who don't have uteruses.
00:44:18.740 Don't say I'm not willing to make a deal.
00:44:20.560 Don't say I'm not willing to compromise.
00:44:22.100 From Devin.
00:44:23.200 Hi, Michael.
00:44:23.660 Do you think the U.S. should make English the official language of the country?
00:44:26.360 Should it be left to the states?
00:44:27.680 Always enjoy listening.
00:44:28.540 Thanks, Devin.
00:44:29.260 Yes, we should make it the official language of the country.
00:44:31.600 Why?
00:44:32.000 Because there's very little that unifies us anymore as a country.
00:44:36.260 Because a radical, individualist, atomistic philosophy has taken hold.
00:44:42.300 We don't have much of a common culture.
00:44:43.960 We don't have a common religion.
00:44:45.420 We don't have common cultural experiences.
00:44:48.600 Basically, the last thing we have is the language.
00:44:50.980 And the left wants to get rid of that too.
00:44:54.600 And also because language shapes our consciousness.
00:44:57.460 Language shapes how we think.
00:44:58.960 Language is the stuff of our consciousness.
00:45:02.400 Languages are different.
00:45:03.920 And that's why cultures are different.
00:45:05.720 It's why they think differently.
00:45:06.660 It's why they view the world differently.
00:45:08.100 It's why Eskimos have 500 words for snow.
00:45:10.540 I don't think that's actually true.
00:45:11.860 But the principle actually is what they're alluding to here.
00:45:16.060 Which is that certain languages emphasize certain things.
00:45:19.080 Certain ways of viewing the world.
00:45:20.920 And we should have a unified language.
00:45:22.920 Last question.
00:45:23.500 From Matthew.
00:45:24.260 Hello, all-knowing Knowles.
00:45:25.900 I'm from Long Island.
00:45:27.180 I'm one of the only conservatives in my group of friends.
00:45:29.300 My friends and I have had relatively the same upbringing, schooling, environmental stimuli.
00:45:33.440 But they're leftists and I'm not.
00:45:35.440 I know this is multifactorial.
00:45:37.120 But what is your take on why people lean left or right politically?
00:45:41.580 Kind regards, Matt.
00:45:43.420 I think there is a little bit of a disposition here.
00:45:46.760 There is such a thing as a conservative disposition.
00:45:49.640 But people who have a conservative disposition can be politically left-wing.
00:45:52.760 This is sort of the elites.
00:45:56.440 The limousine liberal is sort of conservative in their disposition.
00:46:01.480 They get married.
00:46:02.440 They invest their money.
00:46:04.080 They're very wise in their own personal conduct.
00:46:06.980 But they preach these radical politics.
00:46:11.140 So there is a little dispositional thing.
00:46:13.080 I don't really think it affects people's political views very much.
00:46:17.480 Being a contrarian helps because you're always willing to consider other ideas.
00:46:21.760 And I do think the only other dispositional aspect is openness or humility.
00:46:28.560 Are you humble enough to think, maybe I don't know everything about the world.
00:46:31.940 Maybe someone else has something that I can learn.
00:46:33.760 And when you grow up in a left-wing place like you and I did in New York, if you have any intellectual humility and if you have any openness, then you're naturally going to be left-wing.
00:46:45.420 Because that's just everyone around you is left-wing.
00:46:47.680 But if you're a little humble, if you're a little curious, if you're open to new ideas, then you will be convinced by conservative arguments because they're better than leftist arguments.
00:46:57.300 And if your friends are not intellectually curious or have any humility or anything, then they're not going to be.
00:47:04.980 I think that's the big difference.
00:47:06.140 Okay, that's our show.
00:47:07.600 We have a lot more to get to, but sad.
00:47:10.140 Come back next week.
00:47:11.460 We'll see you all on Monday.
00:47:12.260 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:47:13.580 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:47:27.300 Hey, guys, over on The Matt Wall Show today, we're going to talk about the Cohen hearing yesterday.
00:47:47.080 The left went fishing for anything they could find to damage Trump, and they basically came up empty.
00:47:52.940 But they're going to keep trying.
00:47:55.480 They won't give up until they find a way to rid themselves of President Trump.
00:47:59.900 They are setting a very dangerous, potentially catastrophic precedent here with their approach to Trump.
00:48:07.160 And I want to talk about that.
00:48:08.160 Also, a Democratic presidential candidate is being accused by some of her former staff members of being an abusive, tyrannical boss.
00:48:17.160 But her feminist offenders are saying, well, she's only being criticized for that because she's a woman.
00:48:21.280 And it's just sexism, they say.
00:48:23.740 Well, that, I think, is absurd.
00:48:25.200 And I'll explain why today on The Matt Wall Show.