The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 306 - The Art Of No Deal

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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,

00:01:23.240 was passing out cotton to black students at the governor's mansion.

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00:01:29.400 No way.

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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.

00:01:38.420 I think it was very good that he walked away,

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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 0.94

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, 0.93

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, 0.98

00:04:52.780 accusing him of being a liar and a cheat and a criminal, basically, and so on. 0.94

00:04:57.720 And what was a bombshell hearing up on Capitol Hill, 0.93

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. 1.00

00:05:15.140 What a jerk. 1.00

00:05:16.520 So President Trump walks away. 1.00

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. 0.83

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.91

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 0.99

00:09:37.600 is an idiot, I'm not among those people, they said, oh, Kim Jong-un is going to razzle 0.99

00:09:42.780 dazzle him. 1.00

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. 0.99

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. 0.99

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. 0.97

00:12:04.420 Yeah, I get it.

00:12:05.500 I get it. 1.00

00:12:06.000 You want him, what you want him to do is go out there and say, this jerk, he killed an 1.00

00:12:11.280 American student. 1.00

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 0.99

00:12:16.780 shoot Kim Jong-un on the side. 0.98

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. 0.98

00:15:46.400 Flying airplanes full of American cash to drop off with the Iranian mullahs. 1.00

00:15:51.680 Thanking Iran for taking our sailors hostage. 1.00

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? 0.99

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. 0.93

00:18:07.100 Oh, what a total catastrophe. 0.99

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. 0.79

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. 0.76

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. 0.67

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. 0.79

00:21:37.600 So if she were going to push for Medicare for All, socialist medicine, she would just include 0.74

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.99

00:22:13.920 Trump could get behind that.

00:22:15.100 She wants a cleanup government bill. 1.00

00:22:16.720 Yeah, Trump could probably get behind that.

00:22:18.600 She wants an LGBTQ equality act. 0.97

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. 0.97

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. 0.99

00:23:01.020 Maybe Ivanka Trump in the White House who has made quite a point of talking about women's 1.00

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. 1.00

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? 0.66

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. 1.00

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. 0.94

00:25:53.540 She's a shark. 1.00

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.

00:26:19.880 If you're on Facebook and YouTube, go to dailywire.com.

00:26:21.740 Now, it is $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.

00:26:25.360 You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show, you get the

00:26:27.420 Matt Walsh show, you get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up.

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. 0.84

00:30:50.920 You're the party of slavery. 0.90

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:31:10.060 And then what comes out today, the first lady passed out cotton to black students in the governor's mansion. 0.90

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. 0.99

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. 0.84

00:31:35.980 I don't know that she's some vicious racist. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.90

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. 0.97

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. 1.00

00:33:31.260 Donald Trump is a white supremacist. 0.99

00:33:33.140 And that's what they are. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:34:27.080 And the Republicans said, you just called a black woman a prop. 1.00

00:34:30.400 She's not a prop. 0.98

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. 0.99

00:39:24.940 I guess if he's a real jerk, you know, open season, do what you got to do. 0.99

00:39:28.380 But, yeah, that happens. 1.00

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. 0.97

00:40:19.900 Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree. 0.98

00:40:23.860 And it's a lovely, simple little poem. 0.98

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. 0.91

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.97

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. 1.00

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.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 28, 2019

Ep. 306 - The Art Of No Deal

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