The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 320 - Democrats’ Worst Week Ever Gets Even Worse

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00:00:37.620 Democrats, already in the throes of their worst week since 1865, now suffer a further indignity.

00:00:43.520 A federal court has just invalidated Obamacare in its entirety.

00:00:47.280 Russia collusion is a hoax, Michael Avenatti is headed to prison,

00:00:50.640 and now the last vestige of Barack Obama's legacy is headed for the dustbin of history.

00:00:55.180 Coincidentally, the New York Times insists this week that an all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful God is logically impossible.

00:01:03.560 They make a bad argument, but after a week like this, who could blame the New York Times writers for losing their faith?

00:01:09.580 All of that and more.

00:01:10.560 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:12.580 This was basically the New York Times' reaction to finding out that there was no Russian collusion.

00:01:26.620 Donald Trump is fully exonerated.

00:01:28.400 The headline basically might as well have said, God does not exist.

00:01:32.540 Fair enough, I understand.

00:01:34.020 We will examine a very bad opinion piece in the Times by Peter Atterton.

00:01:39.040 We'll get to that later.

00:01:40.960 First, we just need to do a little bit of a roundup because I think we're losing some of the good stuff in the craziness of the news cycle.

00:01:48.020 We found out, we found out yesterday, the day before, Robert Mueller files his report, and it totally exonerates Donald Trump.

00:01:56.820 Mueller himself totally exonerates Donald Trump on Russian collusion,

00:02:00.180 and then the Attorney General Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein exonerate Trump totally on the question of obstruction.

00:02:09.340 Then, that very same moment, Michael Avenatti, the Democrat celebrity lawyer, Trump antagonist, is arrested for extortion, not 24 hours later.

00:02:21.040 That all happened.

00:02:22.140 Then, I was on the air doing Ben's radio show yesterday.

00:02:25.920 As I'm on the air, there is breaking news, apparently unrelated, although there are no coincidences these days,

00:02:33.140 that the world's fastest melting glacier, which is in Greenland, rather, is now growing in size.

00:02:41.900 It is now gaining ice.

00:02:43.640 So, as all of this is happening, as every aspect of the Democrat narrative over the last two years is cracking and falling apart,

00:02:51.180 at the very same time, global warming falls apart, too.

00:02:55.900 The example, the main ice glacier example that they're pointing to as evidence of global warming starts growing ice all over again,

00:03:06.200 because all nature is but art unknown to thee.

00:03:08.760 And then, then on top of all of that, a little story comes out.

00:03:12.980 The DOJ is officially agreeing with a federal court decision in December that invalidates all of Obamacare.

00:03:22.240 This story is particularly interesting.

00:03:24.940 You'll probably remember the Supreme Court famously upheld Obamacare on some dubious reasoning.

00:03:30.960 Now, the federal government, the federal court, and the Department of Justice are agreeing that Obamacare is invalid.

00:03:39.500 This is going to go to an appeals court, and we'll see where it goes from there.

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00:03:49.160 Mitch McConnell, cocaine Mitch himself, is ordering a vote in the Senate on the Green New Deal.

00:03:57.640 Oh, oh, how good this is.

00:03:59.720 How could anyone doubt the existence of God?

00:04:02.980 Let's get to Obamacare first.

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00:05:47.360 How has Obamacare been invalidated?

00:05:50.720 The news today is the filing of the Department of Justice to side with a federal court judge,

00:05:56.880 Reed O'Connor, who in December invalidated Obamacare.

00:06:01.880 So now this was a district court.

00:06:03.780 That means that this issue is going to go up to the appellate court.

00:06:07.600 You say, I thought we've already adjudicated Obamacare.

00:06:10.340 I thought Obamacare was already upheld.

00:06:12.900 Yes, except now circumstances have changed.

00:06:16.900 Now this decision is going to go up to an appellate court,

00:06:19.820 and it's going up to a very conservative appellate court.

00:06:21.960 So it's going up to the Fifth Circuit.

00:06:24.800 Which means, very likely, this is heading for the Supreme Court again.

00:06:30.280 What is the argument here?

00:06:32.100 The argument when Obamacare was upheld, thanks to that traitor John Roberts,

00:06:38.260 is that the individual mandate, you know, that you have to pay the penalty

00:06:43.440 when you don't have health insurance under Obamacare.

00:06:46.200 The individual mandate was appropriate to Congress's powers of taxation.

00:06:53.640 That was the argument to uphold Obamacare.

00:06:56.080 Now, it was even a little more clever than that.

00:06:58.700 It said, well, the Obamacare mandate is a penalty for the purposes of hearing this case,

00:07:03.960 but it's a tax for the purposes of adjudicating this case.

00:07:07.520 And because it's a tax, it's valid, it's constitutional, and it will be upheld.

00:07:12.100 Okay.

00:07:12.520 The argument was always too clever by half.

00:07:14.640 It was a weak argument.

00:07:17.200 However, what has changed?

00:07:18.680 What's changed is that the individual mandate has been repealed.

00:07:21.500 So we've been a little upset with President Trump because he didn't repeal Obamacare, right?

00:07:27.460 He said, you said you were going to repeal Obamacare.

00:07:29.140 You had two years to do it.

00:07:29.980 You didn't do it.

00:07:31.020 Well, whose fault was that?

00:07:32.500 Senators like John McCain, who said they would vote to repeal Obamacare,

00:07:36.140 then ultimately voted not to repeal Obamacare.

00:07:38.240 Very frustrating.

00:07:40.420 However, you'll also remember in 2017, we got that tax cut.

00:07:44.420 We got the tax reform law from the Trump administration.

00:07:46.700 And what was hidden in that tax law was the repeal of the individual mandate.

00:07:52.340 Now, this seems appropriate because the reason that Obamacare was upheld in the first place

00:07:56.340 is they said that the mandate was a tax.

00:07:58.220 It wasn't really a tax.

00:07:59.240 It was a penalty.

00:08:00.160 But by saying it was a tax, then in the tax reform law, they get rid of the individual mandate.

00:08:04.880 Okay.

00:08:05.060 What does that do?

00:08:06.840 It removes the taxing mechanism of Obamacare.

00:08:11.080 So it removes the justification for upholding Obamacare as constitutional under Congress's powers

00:08:17.360 to tax.

00:08:17.920 If Obamacare no longer includes a tax, then the chief justification for upholding Obamacare

00:08:24.820 goes away.

00:08:27.620 Now, the individual mandate is essential to the law.

00:08:32.040 It's inseparable.

00:08:33.920 The mandate is the mechanism of the law.

00:08:36.060 You have to make sure that everybody buys insurance or the law falls apart.

00:08:40.500 So now what is going to happen?

00:08:42.360 Now the argument for Obamacare is under the interstate commerce clause or something like

00:08:48.080 that.

00:08:49.060 The argument to uphold Obamacare is no longer taxation.

00:08:52.560 They'll say, well, it's regulating interstate commerce.

00:08:56.220 But first of all, it would have to be regulating interstate commerce that the government mandates,

00:09:00.440 which is highly dubious.

00:09:01.740 But does that argument hold up once you get rid of the taxation?

00:09:06.520 No.

00:09:07.280 So the DOJ has now pounced, to use the language of the mainstream media, they see an opening

00:09:12.360 here.

00:09:12.660 They see that this is headed for a conservative-leaning appellate court.

00:09:15.820 And they're going in with a brand new argument.

00:09:18.700 And you could see down the line, we're not going to see it anytime soon, the overturning

00:09:23.820 of Obamacare, the adjudication that Obamacare is unconstitutional.

00:09:31.040 And it's only Tuesday.

00:09:32.420 We got the Mueller report on Friday.

00:09:34.620 We got news that there were no new indictments, which means the Russian investigation was just

00:09:39.520 done on Friday.

00:09:41.400 Then on Sunday, we got the letter from A.G.

00:09:43.240 Barr saying that Trump was exonerated on everything.

00:09:47.160 Then on Monday, we got news that Michael Avenatti got arrested.

00:09:49.780 And then on Tuesday, we get news that Obamacare might finally be declared unconstitutional.

00:09:55.420 Years after it was wrongly declared constitutional.

00:10:00.300 How can this week get any better?

00:10:05.040 How can it possibly get any better?

00:10:06.960 Now, we're still having fun.

00:10:08.380 I told you yesterday, I said we should have fun, we should celebrate, then we should be

00:10:11.800 furious.

00:10:13.000 We're still having fun.

00:10:14.500 Look, the prospect of losing Obamacare in its entirety is really, really great.

00:10:18.560 But we do have a reckoning coming.

00:10:23.380 There is a reckoning.

00:10:25.020 We should start moving toward the reckoning.

00:10:28.040 The reckoning is in two parts, just like the Russian interference was in two parts, just

00:10:34.160 like the scandal of the Russian collusion hoax investigation had two parts.

00:10:39.340 The reckoning has two parts too, the media and the politics.

00:10:43.320 Some people in the conservative wing say that we need to just move on, just move on, no more

00:10:53.560 investigations, we've had enough, come on, it's no, don't, be a bigger man, be a better

00:10:59.600 person, just take the high road.

00:11:01.680 There is nothing moral about just moving on.

00:11:07.340 There is nothing on the high road about just moving on.

00:11:13.580 This is not water under the bridge.

00:11:15.620 It would be very wrong to just move on because they haven't apologized.

00:11:19.700 And they are just going to do it again.

00:11:23.580 All these people who lied through their teeth, people who were entrusted with the federal

00:11:30.200 government, people who had the public trust, people who had the public trust as members

00:11:33.800 of the media lied.

00:11:35.140 They didn't just get it wrong.

00:11:36.140 They lied through their teeth.

00:11:38.260 And they are totally unapologetic about it.

00:11:40.640 And they will do it again.

00:11:42.440 Here is what we've seen for the last two years.

00:11:45.360 Breaking news.

00:11:46.440 A bombshell.

00:11:47.300 Today is a turning point.

00:11:48.960 Today was historically bad for President Trump.

00:11:51.060 Today was a turning point.

00:11:52.800 A turning point.

00:11:53.680 We're at a turning point here.

00:11:54.800 The beginning of the end for the Trump president.

00:11:57.840 We have another bombshell.

00:11:59.180 Mike Pence might have to assume the office of the presidency.

00:12:02.200 Rumblings of the word impeachment.

00:12:03.980 Breaking news.

00:12:04.940 Another bombshell out of the White House.

00:12:06.540 I believe this is the beginning of the end.

00:12:08.060 I do too.

00:12:08.700 It's really the beginning of the end.

00:12:10.420 He may be feeling the walls closing in on him.

00:12:12.400 All the walls closing in on him.

00:12:14.140 The walls closing in on him.

00:12:16.120 Breaking news.

00:12:16.840 A new bombshell.

00:12:17.620 One astrologer says this means the beginning of the end for President Donald Trump.

00:12:21.380 Trump will resign.

00:12:22.480 Trump is going to resign.

00:12:23.500 Is this the tipping point?

00:12:24.960 I know we've said it over and over.

00:12:28.160 So we've heard that for two years.

00:12:32.740 Do we think that we're going to get apologies for this now?

00:12:35.120 Do we think that we're going to get them admitting that they were totally wrong?

00:12:38.740 Do we think that we're going to get some self-reflection from them?

00:12:42.440 No, absolutely not.

00:12:43.440 What we're getting is a doubling down.

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00:14:13.320 Collusion, collusion, collusion.

00:14:15.260 I sound like Maxine Waters.

00:14:17.240 Walls are closing in.

00:14:18.300 The noose is tightening.

00:14:19.340 Donald Trump's going to jail.

00:14:20.420 Don Jr.'s going to jail.

00:14:22.800 Jared Kushner's going to jail.

00:14:24.440 It's all happening.

00:14:25.140 It's all Russian collusion, collusion, collusion, collusion.

00:14:29.420 It's not just that we are mocking them for their bad reporting.

00:14:33.660 It's that we are fighting a battle of the truth against pure propaganda, and the propaganda

00:14:40.020 has a lot of institutional support.

00:14:41.800 Because for all of this bunk, garbage, totally fictitious reporting, it's not just that these 0.90

00:14:48.920 guys were on your airwaves and printing your newspapers. 0.96

00:14:51.240 They won awards for it.

00:14:52.720 The New York Times and the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing lies.

00:14:59.980 Here is the, for their Russian collusion reporting, the New York Times and the Washington Post won

00:15:07.260 Pulitzer Prizes, the highest prize in journalism, for, quote, deeply sourced, relentlessly reported

00:15:13.540 coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation's understanding of Russian

00:15:18.460 interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign,

00:15:24.400 the president-elect's transition team, and his eventual administration.

00:15:29.220 Well, I, I can give you all the understanding you need of Russian interference as it relates

00:15:33.080 to the Trump campaign.

00:15:35.600 There, I did it.

00:15:36.780 That was it.

00:15:37.080 Did you catch it?

00:15:37.600 I'll do it again.

00:15:38.260 Ready?

00:15:40.300 That's it.

00:15:40.960 I'm going to, that's going to be my next book.

00:15:42.160 All, all of the evidence of the Russian interference and collusion with the Trump campaign.

00:15:48.840 That won them a Pulitzer Prize.

00:15:51.600 And this is why it's so important to go after these guys with everything we've got to bring

00:15:56.940 more investigations, to bring them before judges, and to put them into orange jumpsuits. 1.00

00:16:00.780 Because it's not just a bunch of idiots on CNN. 1.00

00:16:03.540 It's not just Jim Acosta. 1.00

00:16:07.180 It's not just Ron Burgundy on CNN.

00:16:09.900 It is, it's a conspiracy.

00:16:12.880 I don't know how else to put it.

00:16:15.000 Is it a conspiracy when it's true?

00:16:17.540 We know that the federal government and the Democrats and the media conspired together to

00:16:26.340 push a lie.

00:16:27.940 We know that for a fact.

00:16:29.360 Who exactly committed what improprieties is the next question.

00:16:34.620 That's what we'll find out with investigations.

00:16:36.920 We know that for a fact.

00:16:38.360 With such institutional support, all of the print media, all of the mainstream media, the

00:16:43.020 Pulitzer Prizes, all of the accolades of this popular culture, all the way down to our

00:16:48.600 pillars of government, the DOJ, the FBI, all the way down to the longest continually extant

00:16:54.240 political party, the Democrat Party.

00:16:56.460 All the way down to the Barack Obama administration spying on his political opponents, trying to

00:17:02.920 prevent the Republicans from winning the next election.

00:17:06.100 All of these institutions working together to subvert the rule of law and to lie and to

00:17:12.460 push lies through their teeth.

00:17:14.420 It would be so wrong to just let this go as water under the bridge.

00:17:22.020 The Washington Post bragged when they won that Pulitzer Prize that its reporting, quote,

00:17:26.720 helped set the stage for the special counsel's ongoing investigation of the administration.

00:17:31.140 They're bragging that they set up a hoax sham investigation.

00:17:33.880 Now they're unapologetic.

00:17:36.960 And do you know the CNN president, Jeff Zucker, came out.

00:17:39.640 Did he say, whoops, we got it wrong.

00:17:41.400 We got it dead wrong.

00:17:42.620 We got it wrong for two years.

00:17:45.220 Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

00:17:47.220 No, this is what he said.

00:17:48.080 He said, quote, we are not investigators.

00:17:51.760 We are journalists.

00:17:53.060 And our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.

00:17:58.020 That sounds like a line from Dr. Strangelove.

00:18:02.360 That sounds like the punchline of an SNL sketch.

00:18:06.280 We're not investigators.

00:18:07.840 We're journalists.

00:18:10.180 There's no fighting here.

00:18:11.560 This is the war room.

00:18:12.820 That's what he's saying.

00:18:13.880 There's no investigating here.

00:18:15.240 This is a newsroom.

00:18:17.180 What an amazing statement. 1.00

00:18:19.500 I don't think Jeff Zucker is an idiot. 1.00

00:18:21.300 So I think he's just trolling us at this point. 0.99

00:18:24.100 We are not investigators.

00:18:25.720 We are journalists.

00:18:26.520 And our role is to report the facts as we know them.

00:18:30.660 How do you know the facts?

00:18:34.180 The way you know the facts is that the Democrat Party sends you talking points and you spout them shamelessly.

00:18:38.780 The way you're supposed to know facts is to investigate.

00:18:43.280 Journalism requires investigation.

00:18:47.620 Reporting requires investigation.

00:18:49.860 I suppose, broadly speaking, an opinion writer is a journalist.

00:18:53.980 A commentator is a journalist.

00:18:55.160 They have to do some investigating.

00:18:56.920 They have to do a little research.

00:18:58.440 They have to follow.

00:18:59.400 They have to have coherent arguments based on sound premises and evidence.

00:19:03.660 You have none of that.

00:19:04.580 And you're proud of it.

00:19:05.520 You're joking about that.

00:19:07.100 You say, no, no, no.

00:19:07.720 We're investigators.

00:19:10.000 We just, we have the facts.

00:19:11.340 But you don't need to investigate the facts.

00:19:13.160 It's like AOC.

00:19:14.640 Listen, it doesn't matter if you're factually correct as long as you're morally right.

00:19:17.940 That's what we're saying.

00:19:18.760 That's what, that's what CNN is saying.

00:19:23.040 Wholly unapologetic.

00:19:25.320 Now they are denying their jobs as journalists.

00:19:28.120 This is what we were talking about yesterday.

00:19:30.040 All the various responses to this.

00:19:32.020 This is the example of gaslighting.

00:19:33.840 So we did a good job.

00:19:34.720 We did our job.

00:19:35.400 Oh, you thought, okay, I see.

00:19:39.540 You thought that because we're news reporters that we're supposed to investigate the news.

00:19:44.440 No, no, I get it.

00:19:46.620 I'm sorry.

00:19:46.940 It was a misunderstanding.

00:19:48.440 No, we, we just say whatever we want to say.

00:19:51.560 We say our truth.

00:19:52.660 I mean, that's basically what he's saying.

00:19:53.900 He's saying our role is to report the facts as we know them.

00:20:00.020 But you have to know them first.

00:20:02.480 And you can't know them if you don't investigate.

00:20:04.240 What he's really saying is our role is to report our truth.

00:20:09.180 You can't, you don't know our truth.

00:20:12.320 Who are you to say what our truth is?

00:20:15.120 We're CNN.

00:20:16.120 Bananas.

00:20:16.780 Apples. 1.00

00:20:17.160 Remember that stupid commercial they use? 1.00

00:20:18.980 This is an apple. 1.00

00:20:19.980 This is a banana.

00:20:21.940 We're real news.

00:20:22.940 We're bananas here at CNN.

00:20:25.300 And in this statement, he's saying, no, no, it doesn't matter.

00:20:27.960 It's just our truth.

00:20:29.280 Our truth is what bananas.

00:20:30.660 We love bananas.

00:20:32.500 Bunch of bananas over at CNN.

00:20:35.240 Wholly unapologetic.

00:20:36.660 Now they're denying it.

00:20:37.380 So I found this.

00:20:38.420 This came from the New York Post yesterday.

00:20:40.480 I hope that you've got your brackets.

00:20:42.760 This is Mueller madness.

00:20:45.780 There's Mueller madness right there in the center.

00:20:48.100 There's Bob Mueller's head.

00:20:49.940 You see, and then you've got all the brackets.

00:20:52.040 Okay.

00:20:52.200 So we've got the cable news bracket.

00:20:55.380 We've got the network news bracket.

00:20:57.840 We've got the, the print news over here.

00:21:01.400 We've got the Twitterati over here.

00:21:03.740 And so then they go head to head.

00:21:05.400 You've got Rachel Maddow and Anna Navarro.

00:21:08.740 Okay.

00:21:09.020 You've got John Oliver and Donnie Deutsch.

00:21:11.300 Morning Joe versus John Brennan.

00:21:13.180 We'll get to John Brennan in a second.

00:21:14.580 Former CIA director.

00:21:15.960 Now he's basically just a flack on CNN.

00:21:19.000 Don Lemon and Chris Hayes.

00:21:20.080 So they're going to go head to head.

00:21:21.320 Who's going to win between Don Lemon and Chris Hayes?

00:21:24.340 Don Lemon said the walls are closing in on Trump.

00:21:27.120 But Chris Hayes said a cornered president storms out as the Mueller probe closes in.

00:21:31.700 Which who's going to go?

00:21:32.400 Then they're going to go head to head.

00:21:34.700 They're going to go.

00:21:35.060 And these are four segments, distinct segments of people.

00:21:38.560 And it's very telling, by the way, that John Brennan is in the cable news segment.

00:21:43.080 Because these guys are all working together.

00:21:47.080 That's, I mean, that's what's so damaging about this.

00:21:49.720 That's what's so corrupt about how this whole hoax investigation started.

00:21:54.960 It wasn't just the Democrats funding some oppo research.

00:21:58.520 If it were the Democrats funding some oppo research, whatever.

00:22:01.900 Republicans fund oppo research.

00:22:04.020 That's what it is.

00:22:05.800 It's that the Democrats funded oppo research.

00:22:10.340 And then the oppo research firm used a foreign intelligence contact

00:22:15.380 who had ties to the U.S. intelligence agencies.

00:22:20.140 And the U.S. DOJ had ties to the oppo research firm.

00:22:25.320 Not just loose ties, ties of marriage that were never disclosed as a conflict of interest.

00:22:30.860 And then once the Democrats paid for that oppo research using the foreign intelligence,

00:22:36.040 then they tipped off the federal government.

00:22:38.640 And the federal government used that bought and paid for oppo research to launch an investigation

00:22:44.880 to surveil the Trump campaign.

00:22:48.340 And then once they did that, other people within the federal government handed it off to the media

00:22:54.080 because they're all in bed together.

00:22:55.880 And then the media created a ton of public pressure and hysteria based on nothing

00:23:01.700 that then pressured the federal government and the politicians

00:23:06.600 to launch an even greater investigation that gave us two years of lies

00:23:11.600 that were then parroted again and again and again by the mainstream media.

00:23:17.820 791 consecutive days for an average of three minutes a night spreading a lie.

00:23:22.820 A whole investigation and they're still spreading lies and they're still unapologetic.

00:23:28.580 That's what's so corrupt about it.

00:23:30.640 If it were just one segment, you could isolate it. 1.00

00:23:32.960 If it were just CNN, you'd say, okay, you're a bunch of clowns. 0.99

00:23:36.240 Tune them out. 1.00

00:23:37.260 If it were just the federal government, you could fire the crooks.

00:23:41.240 If it were just the electeds, you know, they're electeds.

00:23:43.500 You vote them out of office.

00:23:44.700 But it's not. 0.98

00:23:45.660 It's this sick cabal working together. 0.99

00:23:48.400 That's the problem. 0.96

00:23:49.760 That's why we need the investigation.

00:23:53.060 John Brennan, is he a cable news talking head or is he former CIA director?

00:23:59.140 I don't know.

00:24:01.480 He certainly never should have been the CIA director.

00:24:04.700 Now he just goes on as a flack for Democrats.

00:24:07.100 He said that Donald Trump, quote, is wholly in the pocket of Putin.

00:24:12.060 Not mincing words.

00:24:13.900 Not just making an insinuation or implying something.

00:24:16.380 He says Trump, quote, is wholly in the pocket of Putin.

00:24:19.760 Now, here's how he explains himself.

00:24:23.140 I'm just curious, Mr. Director, how surprised were you by the findings yesterday, by the

00:24:31.840 conclusions that were drawn?

00:24:33.200 And I'm just curious, did you receive bad information throughout this process, like so

00:24:39.640 many of us did, that there was more there than ended up in the report regarding collusion?

00:24:46.580 Well, I don't know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected that there was more

00:24:53.080 than there actually was.

00:24:54.160 And I am relieved that it's been determined that there was not a criminal conspiracy with

00:25:00.640 the Russian government over our election.

00:25:04.000 I think that is good news for the country.

00:25:06.100 And so I still point to things that were done publicly or efforts to try to have conversations

00:25:12.240 with the Russians that were inappropriate.

00:25:13.680 But I'm not all that surprised that the high bar of criminal conspiracy was not met.

00:25:21.320 I am surprised at that second part of the obstruction of justice in terms of how it came out.

00:25:25.820 I don't know whether or not Bob Mueller wanted the attorney general to pronounce on that issue

00:25:30.440 whether or not Bob Mueller felt that it would be best for Congress and American people to

00:25:34.080 determine whether the weight of the information indicates that Donald Trump did try to obstruct

00:25:39.880 justice.

00:25:40.920 So there are some surprises there.

00:25:42.800 And that's why I think getting to the full Mueller report is the best way to get some of

00:25:48.260 these, if not all of these questions.

00:25:50.100 First of all, that last part he said is just BS.

00:25:52.620 That's just total BS to say that I don't know if Robert Mueller wanted the attorney general

00:25:58.720 to pronounce on the question of obstruction of justice.

00:26:02.140 He certainly did want Barr to pronounce on the question of obstruction of justice.

00:26:09.180 That's the only possible outcome that could have happened when Bob Mueller did not come to

00:26:13.900 a conclusion.

00:26:14.660 So Bob Mueller is analyzing obstruction of justice and he presents arguments for both sides.

00:26:19.780 He doesn't complete his homework assignment.

00:26:21.800 He turns it in.

00:26:22.620 The AG has to come to a conclusion because there's, there's a potential crime here.

00:26:29.700 If the AG just said, well, I don't know, I don't know, he wouldn't be doing his job because

00:26:34.640 let's say Donald Trump did obstruct justice.

00:26:37.040 Then they would have to go after him.

00:26:38.780 Let's say members of the Trump administration did obstruct justice.

00:26:41.500 They would have to indict them.

00:26:43.400 The AG has a job.

00:26:44.600 The AG is not a cable commentator.

00:26:47.320 The AG is not a pundit.

00:26:48.860 The AG has a job to do to enforce the law.

00:26:51.420 So Bob Mueller, by leaving that open for his boss, whose job it is to come to the conclusions,

00:26:58.920 he is saying, you have to come to the conclusion because I am not going to do it.

00:27:02.740 So that's just BS.

00:27:03.440 And then he said, well, yeah, you know, I'm glad, glad that Russia didn't take over our country.

00:27:10.640 Um, but, uh, but I still, still stand by a lot of what I said.

00:27:17.200 You said Trump is wholly in the pocket of Putin.

00:27:20.840 That was a lie.

00:27:21.920 That was obviously not true. 0.98

00:27:24.660 Apologize or shut up. 0.95

00:27:27.100 That's fine. 0.99

00:27:27.740 If you don't want to apologize and you get everything completely wrong, then shut up because your opinion 0.97

00:27:33.360 is worth nothing and your judgment is worth nothing and you have no humility at all, even 0.95

00:27:38.020 to admit that.

00:27:40.440 But he can't shut up.

00:27:42.040 So we might want to, we might want to play into that a little bit.

00:27:45.080 That's fine.

00:27:45.640 If he doesn't want to shut up, maybe we should bring him in for some investigations.

00:27:49.080 Maybe we should find out what his role was in all of this.

00:27:51.680 Maybe we should find out what John Brennan knew.

00:27:53.260 Maybe we should find out what the intelligence agencies knew during the Obama administration

00:27:58.920 when they launched these illegal, this illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign.

00:28:05.920 Maybe we should find out who was talking to whom.

00:28:08.720 That sounds like a good idea.

00:28:10.220 John Brennan doesn't want to shut up.

00:28:11.700 Fine. 0.96

00:28:11.940 Run your mouth, buddy. 0.73

00:28:12.960 Run your mouth all the way into an orange jumpsuit.

00:28:14.860 Or at least tell us what we need to know to figure out who was behind this major political

00:28:23.280 scandal so that we can get to the bottom of this and have some justice.

00:28:27.560 Not water under the bridge.

00:28:29.060 Not, oh, too bad.

00:28:30.460 They're going to do it again.

00:28:31.360 They're still trying to do it.

00:28:33.020 And there needs to be consequences to show them that they can't get away with these sort

00:28:37.060 of things.

00:28:37.320 We've got a lot more to get to.

00:28:39.420 We've got Lindsey Grahambo coming out for a new investigation. 1.00

00:28:42.220 We've got a pretty dumb article in the New York Times and we've got the Green New Deal. 0.80

00:28:46.960 But first, go to dailywire.com. 0.65

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00:29:24.460 By the way, tonight at 7 p.m. Pacific time, 10 p.m. Eastern time at the University of Redlands,

00:29:31.120 I will be harvesting delicious leftist tears if there are any left to be cried out during

00:29:36.440 my latest speech on my Young America's Foundation tour.

00:29:38.960 Come on out, bring a friend, bring some questions, and as always, bring your empty tumblers.

00:29:44.360 It is going to be a very fun night.

00:29:47.540 So, the media aspect takes care of itself. 1.00

00:29:51.780 These guys are a bunch of schmucks. 1.00

00:29:53.360 They got it completely wrong. 1.00

00:29:54.540 They have no credibility.

00:29:55.560 We shouldn't listen to a word they say.

00:29:57.720 All we need to do is tune them out.

00:29:59.360 The people we need to investigate are the current and ex-government officials who perpetrated

00:30:03.820 this hoax, who perpetrated this crime.

00:30:06.340 We need to investigate them immediately.

00:30:08.240 Lindsey Graham Bowe agrees with me.

00:30:10.160 What makes no sense to me is all the abuse by the Department of Justice and the FBI, the

00:30:17.640 unprofessional conduct, the shady behavior.

00:30:20.680 Nobody seems to think that's much important.

00:30:24.060 Well, that's going to change, I hope.

00:30:27.600 I've been calling since the end of 2017 for a special counsel to be appointed to look at

00:30:34.700 whether or not the FISA warrant process was abused for political purposes, whether or not

00:30:40.660 a counterintelligence investigation was opened up regarding the Trump campaign as a backdoor

00:30:48.080 to spy on the campaign.

00:30:49.240 That's what we need to know.

00:30:51.180 We need to know it.

00:30:53.260 I'm glad that Graham Bowe is coming out there and calling for it.

00:30:56.020 That's what we need.

00:30:56.900 I know we say we're done with the investigations.

00:30:59.140 It's so tedious.

00:30:59.960 It's, I know it is.

00:31:00.820 I know that's the hard work of government.

00:31:02.460 That's the hard work of politics.

00:31:03.740 And we've just got to do it.

00:31:05.960 Now, speaking of the hard work of government, some of the lighter and more fun side of this,

00:31:11.280 Mitch McConnell, cocaine Mitch, is currently, it may have already happened, calling for

00:31:18.580 a vote for the Green New Deal.

00:31:21.020 This is what he said.

00:31:22.860 I'll try to do it in my best cocaine Mitch voice.

00:31:25.640 I could not be more glad that the, no, that's, no, that's sort of like cocaine.

00:31:31.740 That's what I imagine when I see cocaine Mitch is just say hello to my little, but this is

00:31:36.360 what he said.

00:31:36.720 He said, quote, I could not be more glad that the American people will have the opportunity

00:31:41.940 to learn precisely where each one of their senators stands on the Green New Deal, a radical,

00:31:48.640 top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy.

00:31:54.680 And then, you know, he had that little cocaine Mitch smirk right there at the end, because

00:31:58.020 I just love him so much.

00:31:59.780 So, the Green New Deal proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, socialist from New York.

00:32:06.760 It would ban planes, trains, and automobiles over 88% of the American energy industry.

00:32:11.940 Obviously, because of that, on day one, it would kill 5.8 million jobs, but because it's

00:32:16.040 taking out the energy industry, it would take away all of the other jobs shortly thereafter.

00:32:20.300 It calls to knock down every building in the country and then rebuild every building in

00:32:23.680 the country within 10 years.

00:32:25.900 That's just the beginning.

00:32:27.220 I could go on about this.

00:32:28.280 I'll probably be speaking about this at the University of Redlands this evening.

00:32:32.300 Okay.

00:32:32.620 Cocaine Mitch says, all right, Alexandria, we'll bring this up for a vote.

00:32:38.800 When she proposed it, there was a Green New Deal resolution in the Senate, and it was

00:32:43.840 co-sponsored by every Democrat who is currently running for president from the Senate.

00:32:50.320 Liz Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, all coming out to say,

00:32:58.640 yes, this is what we want, because they're all running to see who's the craziest radical leftist

00:33:02.480 for 2020.

00:33:03.980 It's okay.

00:33:04.220 They're all behind it.

00:33:05.100 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this is what she's asking for.

00:33:07.620 All these senators, this is what they're asking for.

00:33:09.960 So Cocaine Mitch says, okay, we'll bring it up for a vote.

00:33:14.420 And do you know what they said?

00:33:15.540 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is furious.

00:33:17.780 She just, this just broke.

00:33:18.900 I'll just read it straight from the breaking news articles.

00:33:23.360 She said, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says, Mitch McConnell doesn't want to save our planet.

00:33:32.660 He's bringing up her legislation.

00:33:36.560 He says, Cocaine Mitch thinks, I don't think she called him Cocaine Mitch, but Mitch McConnell

00:33:42.120 thinks, quote, we can all drink oil in 30 years.

00:33:46.500 What?

00:33:47.520 No, he's, no, no, no, no, Alexandria.

00:33:49.360 He's bringing up your legislation for a vote.

00:33:52.300 No, no, no, it's okay.

00:33:53.240 No, unless your legislation is going to have us all drinking oil in 30 years. 0.63

00:34:00.340 What Mitch McConnell's doing is that he's trying to rush this bill to the floor without a hearing,

00:34:05.320 without working through committee, because he doesn't want to save our planet.

00:34:09.740 She is so upset.

00:34:11.020 Why is she so upset?

00:34:14.180 Because the Green New Deal is a joke, and everyone knows it's a joke. 0.89

00:34:17.380 Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows it's a joke.

00:34:20.200 Even her handlers know it's a joke, and every single person in the Senate co-sponsoring it

00:34:24.200 knows it's a joke.

00:34:26.660 You can't do it.

00:34:27.560 The price tag is $93 trillion.

00:34:30.520 You would have to cut off all government spending, all, I mean, abolish the military,

00:34:35.300 cut off every department of the government, except, I guess, for the IRS, and then

00:34:39.280 after collecting taxes for 30 years, maybe you could start to pay for it, except obviously

00:34:45.940 the economy would crash before then.

00:34:47.740 It is not serious.

00:34:50.000 But AOC wrote draft legislation for this thing.

00:34:53.080 It's their bill that Cocaine Mitch is bringing to the floor, and what he's doing is calling 0.96

00:34:56.480 out their hypocrisy and their childishness, and they are whining and screaming and crying 0.99

00:35:01.400 like children. 0.99

00:35:02.160 This is a great bit.

00:35:03.640 I mean, I guess Cocaine Mitch had just been waiting for the GOP's greatest week ever because

00:35:09.880 you've got, boom, Russia collusion's down.

00:35:13.440 Boom, Trump is totally exonerated.

00:35:15.760 Boom, Michael Avenatti's going to jail.

00:35:17.580 Boom, Obamacare's invalidated.

00:35:19.680 Boom, the glaciers are growing.

00:35:21.380 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:35:22.640 Get every single Democrat senator on the record for the Green New Deal.

00:35:26.700 It's beautiful stuff.

00:35:27.600 It's going to come back to haunt them in the general election in 2020.

00:35:30.220 Cocaine Mitch does have a view of the long game.

00:35:32.420 That's clearly what he's playing here.

00:35:34.680 This is a really impossible situation.

00:35:38.380 In politics, you always want to put your opponent in an impossible situation, and that's exactly

00:35:43.280 what he's doing here.

00:35:44.200 All of these people who have co-sponsored the Green New Deal draft resolution have to vote

00:35:50.340 for it. 0.95

00:35:50.740 They would be rank hypocrites if they don't vote for the Green New Deal. 0.80

00:35:53.680 If they vote for the Green New Deal, that actually might help them in the primary, though 0.80

00:35:57.240 honestly, it might not.

00:35:59.260 Who knows how this primary is going to shape out?

00:36:01.020 But it is going to kill them in the general election. 1.00

00:36:04.140 Every GOP ad in 2020 is going to be about this stupid thing. 0.99

00:36:08.700 And they're going to be furious at AOC, and this might cut AOC's career short, too, which 0.97

00:36:13.560 is why she's fighting so strongly against it.

00:36:16.380 Really, really great stuff.

00:36:19.160 Before we get out of here, I want to, one, I'd like to thank the good Lord for this wonderful

00:36:23.540 news week that has been so greatly enjoyable and very good for our nation.

00:36:27.680 But I'd also like to call your attention to the New York Times.

00:36:32.260 There was an op-ed in the New York Times by Peter Atterton, and the op-ed was called

00:36:37.900 A God Problem. 0.96

00:36:39.960 Perfect, all-powerful, all-knowing.

00:36:43.080 The idea of the deity most Westerners accept is actually not coherent.

00:36:48.620 Okay, if I were the New York Times and I had a week like they just had, I would probably

00:36:54.880 be questioning God's existence, too.

00:36:56.860 But this is really important because virtually every question I get in the mailbag when I

00:37:02.840 go to these speeches is religious in nature.

00:37:05.780 Either it's religious in a tangential way or it is directly religious.

00:37:09.360 And it's because you have an entire generation, I guess now two generations, millennials and

00:37:13.780 Zoomers, who were raised without religion, who were raised religiously unaffiliated or 1.00

00:37:19.860 in some milquetoast quasi-religion, cafeteria Catholic, whatever.

00:37:24.840 They were raised, even at the most religious, they were raised with the idea that there is

00:37:30.240 a God without wrath leading a people without sin to a kingdom without judgment through the

00:37:34.440 ministrations of a Christ without a cross, as a theologian who escapes my mind famously

00:37:40.120 said.

00:37:42.260 Most people, I think, are attracted to some sense of meaning.

00:37:46.740 They need meaning.

00:37:47.480 We have this misery crisis in the country.

00:37:50.200 Young people are more miserable than they've ever been. 1.00

00:37:52.760 Anxiety, stress, suicidality are all skyrocketing.

00:37:55.820 Teenage suicide is up 70%.

00:37:57.780 Millennials, more than any other generation, are looking for purpose.

00:38:04.180 Purpose in their jobs.

00:38:05.360 And we kind of joke about this. 0.98

00:38:06.560 We say, shut up and do your job. 0.98

00:38:08.060 Stop trying to make everything about social justice. 0.61

00:38:10.820 But the reason they want that is they don't feel purpose anywhere else in their lives.

00:38:14.760 They need to feel purpose somewhere.

00:38:16.200 They need to feel meaning somewhere.

00:38:18.220 And this crisis is, I think, well, it's obviously caused by the devil ultimately.

00:38:24.220 But what it's caused by in a more proximate way is the lack of education, the lack of culture,

00:38:32.320 and the degradation of not just our universities, but even our journalists, even our news sites.

00:38:39.820 And this is a prime example of that.

00:38:42.100 This is a very bad op-ed.

00:38:44.300 It's not compelling.

00:38:45.340 It deals in a very shallow way with big ideas.

00:38:49.100 And it makes a terrible argument against God.

00:38:51.760 It reminds me of when Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins and all those guys had that little publishing movement in the mid-2000s,

00:39:00.860 the New Atheists.

00:39:01.940 It was never really a serious philosophical movement, but it was a publishing phenomenon.

00:39:06.100 And they didn't really make arguments against God, but they wrote books.

00:39:13.300 Christopher Hitchens wrote a book, God is Not Great.

00:39:15.700 And the book never took on the question of whether or not God is great.

00:39:19.520 He just pointed out that religious groups have done bad things at some points throughout history.

00:39:24.420 And this was heralded as some great, great mind, some great work, some real powerful thoughts.

00:39:30.820 This is what we're seeing here. 0.99

00:39:32.180 And stupid things like this encourage people in their delusions that life has no meaning. 1.00

00:39:38.760 And it really exacerbates the problem. 1.00

00:39:40.880 So I just want to go through very quickly some of the stupid ideas in this short column and point out how dumb they are. 0.99

00:39:47.780 Because it's very fun to do that as well with the New York Times. 0.99

00:39:50.860 So the column begins, if you look up God in a dictionary, first of all, you know, people, when you are writing

00:39:59.880 or when you are giving a speech or a eulogy or a toast, the worst way that you can possibly begin is

00:40:07.460 when I looked up such and such in the dictionary, it said blah, blah, blah.

00:40:13.040 But to me, it means so much more.

00:40:15.080 Or to this, Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines, I mean, this is the cliche worst way to begin a piece of writing or an oration.

00:40:22.040 So no wonder it ends up in the New York Times.

00:40:24.020 That's just a little bit of advice for you if you're ever giving a best man toast or a eulogy or something.

00:40:27.880 Don't do that.

00:40:29.300 Okay.

00:40:29.840 If you look up God in a dictionary, the first entry you will find will be something along the lines of,

00:40:33.840 quote, a being believed to be infinitely perfect, wise, and powerful creator and ruler of the universe.

00:40:42.980 Okay.

00:40:44.320 Certainly, if applied to non-Western contexts, that would be puzzling.

00:40:47.280 But in a Western context, this is how philosophers have understood God.

00:40:51.320 The question, does the idea of a morally perfect, all-powerful, all-knowing God make sense?

00:40:56.300 Does it hold together when we examine it logically?

00:41:02.020 Yes, yes.

00:41:03.840 So you could just stop the article there, but let's go on to see what he thinks.

00:41:07.320 Let's consider the attribute of omnipotence.

00:41:09.560 You've probably heard the paradox of the stone before.

00:41:13.940 Can God create a stone that cannot be lifted?

00:41:16.200 If he can create such a stone, then he's not all-powerful since he cannot lift it.

00:41:20.060 On the other hand, if he cannot create a stone that cannot be lifted, then he is not all-powerful since he cannot create the unliftable stone.

00:41:27.920 Either way, God is not all-powerful.

00:41:29.360 So this is something that when freshmen, students in college smoke pot during their first semester and sit around at night, they think this is really profound.

00:41:38.600 They think this is a really powerful motive.

00:41:40.280 What is actually written there is more semantically similar to, da, da, da, da, da.

00:41:46.340 It doesn't really mean anything.

00:41:47.480 Now, he acknowledges that in a sense.

00:41:49.900 He acknowledges that God cannot do self-contradictory things, as Thomas Aquinas acknowledged.

00:41:55.020 But, he says, other people believe that God can do self-contradictory things.

00:41:59.980 Rene Descartes thinks this.

00:42:02.060 Now, what this author doesn't write is that actually Muslims think this as well.

00:42:07.040 Pope Benedict, channeling Ibn Hazim, the Muslim scholar, talks about this.

00:42:11.100 How a difference between the God of Christianity and the God of Islam is that the God of Christianity is a God of intellect and will. 0.91

00:42:18.420 Perfect intellect and perfect will.

00:42:20.180 Whereas the God of Islam is all will. 1.00

00:42:23.420 Allah is so utterly willful that if Allah willed for you to worship idols, you would have to worship idols. 1.00

00:42:34.540 Even though this is self-contradictory.

00:42:37.120 He doesn't go there because that's politically incorrect.

00:42:39.560 So, he says, but Rene Descartes thought that Thomas Aquinas was wrong.

00:42:42.980 You're like, okay, yeah, I don't know. 0.97

00:42:44.060 Joe Blow down the street thinks that Thomas Aquinas is wrong too, but Joe Blow's a dummy. 0.85

00:42:48.540 So, okay. 0.67

00:42:49.920 He kind of skips that though.

00:42:51.100 He kind of, he says, okay, it evidently would be a world very different from the world that we currently inhabit if God could create a world in which evil does not exist.

00:43:02.380 But it's a possible world all the same.

00:43:04.700 Indeed, if God is morally perfect, it's difficult to see why he would have created such, why he wouldn't have created such a world.

00:43:10.700 So, why didn't he?

00:43:12.060 Okay.

00:43:12.420 So, he's saying, why is there evil in the world?

00:43:16.280 Now, this is the only argument against God that really has any strength whatsoever.

00:43:23.320 And actually, it ends up being an argument for God.

00:43:25.920 He points out that according to Alvin Plantinga, a favorite of mine,

00:43:30.840 to create creatures capable of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.

00:43:35.320 And he can't give these creatures the freedom to perform evil at the same time, preventing them from doing so.

00:43:41.440 Right.

00:43:41.980 The reason that evil exists is because we have freedom.

00:43:47.140 Now, why would God create a world with freedom if freedom necessitates that evil would exist?

00:43:52.960 Possibly because that's the greatest possible world.

00:43:55.040 This is what we sing on Easter.

00:43:56.060 We say, oh, happy fault that won for us so great, so glorious a savior.

00:44:00.800 The fall of man, the pride, the original sin, results in the fall of man.

00:44:05.620 It results in all these awful things, but then it wins for us redemption, which is the greatest possible world.

00:44:09.780 Okay.

00:44:10.380 And then this guy says, but it doesn't explain, as Darwin noticed, why there's so much pain and suffering in the animal kingdom.

00:44:16.540 Why there's so much physical suffering caused by non-human causes, like earthquakes or something.

00:44:22.160 The way John Milton explains this is the way that Paul explains this, which is that the original sin that ruins perfection doesn't just result in one person's free will affecting only himself.

00:44:35.360 That's not how freedom works.

00:44:36.340 That's not how our actions in the world work.

00:44:38.200 What happens is that when sin enters the world, sin pervades the world, and death comes from sin.

00:44:44.020 Evil, all of this is pervading the world.

00:44:46.480 Your actions are not limited to yourself.

00:44:48.300 We know this.

00:44:48.740 If I swing my hand, I could knock over my leftist tears tumbler, I'd spill the leftist tears all over the ground.

00:44:54.220 That would seep in.

00:44:54.940 That would create mold. 0.97

00:44:56.080 Someone might walk into the room and breathe in the mold.

00:44:58.260 These endless number of effects of my evil, of when I commit a sin.

00:45:05.820 This is actually what the doctrine of indulgences is about.

00:45:09.460 We don't have time to go into that here, but this is a question that many deeper thinkers than this guy in the New York Times have thought about for a long time.

00:45:15.540 He goes on.

00:45:18.480 He says,

00:45:18.780 What about God's infinite knowledge?

00:45:20.260 If God knows all there is to know, then he knows at least as much as we know.

00:45:23.280 But if he knows what we know, then this would detract from his perfection.

00:45:27.380 Because there are some things that we know that if they are also known to God, would make him a sinner.

00:45:32.240 Which, of course, is in contradiction to the concept of God.

00:45:35.500 One cannot know lust and envy unless one has experienced them.

00:45:39.700 Now, this is not true.

00:45:41.240 I can know cancer without having experienced cancer.

00:45:47.240 A doctor knows quite a lot about cancer.

00:45:49.660 When he's operating on a cancer patient, it doesn't mean he has to have had cancer himself.

00:45:54.600 One does not need to have experience of these things, to have knowledge of these things.

00:45:59.680 He goes on.

00:46:00.400 He talks about, well, he tries to, he brings this one for a little while.

00:46:04.380 It doesn't do very well.

00:46:05.720 And he refers to logical inconsistencies.

00:46:10.560 He says,

00:46:10.980 It's logical inconsistencies like these that led the 17th century French theologian Blaise Pascal.

00:46:15.780 Not really a theologian, by the way.

00:46:17.000 He was a mathematician.

00:46:18.080 To reject reason as a basis for faith and return to the Bible and revelation.

00:46:21.960 It is said that when Pascal died, his servant found sewn into his jacket the words,

00:46:26.960 God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob. 0.65

00:46:28.740 Not of the philosophers and scholars.

00:46:31.140 Okay.

00:46:31.360 And he's saying because Blaise Pascal rejected reason as the basis for faith, that's wrong.

00:46:36.200 Blaise Pascal, of course, was a member of a largely heretical Christian movement called Jansenism.

00:46:42.180 It was, which was roundly condemned many times for getting things wrong.

00:46:46.560 Blaise Pascal, one of the great geniuses, but can get certain things wrong. 0.97

00:46:52.600 I go through this, one, because it's fun to knock down stupid arguments, 0.87

00:46:56.240 even if we have very limited time and we can't go into it in as much depth as we would like to. 0.95

00:46:59.980 But I bring this up because this is the point on the media that we've been making all week.

00:47:06.540 Now in its most fundamental way.

00:47:09.920 It's the point that I repeat again and again.

00:47:12.160 It's the point that Dr. Johnson made.

00:47:14.000 All shallows are clear.

00:47:16.880 Shallow thinking is clear.

00:47:19.940 Shallow news reporting is clear.

00:47:21.920 Shallow conspiracies are clear.

00:47:25.180 Conspiracies are so clear. 0.59

00:47:26.380 It was so clear that Donald Trump was a puppet of Vladimir Putin, to quote John Brennan.

00:47:33.020 It was so clear that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians.

00:47:35.360 It's so clear that God couldn't exist.

00:47:37.840 It's so clear.

00:47:39.060 It's in the New York Times.

00:47:40.900 Shallows are clear.

00:47:43.060 And we need to crack ourselves out of shallow thinking. 0.85

00:47:45.600 We need to stop being so damn gullible and falling for it.

00:47:49.220 I hope people get that lesson.

00:47:51.920 But they don't.

00:47:52.780 And it's not just on little political scandals.

00:47:55.400 Big political scandals, which in the grand scheme of things are little.

00:47:58.220 It's on big questions.

00:47:59.440 Fundamental questions too.

00:48:01.620 We'll see.

00:48:02.360 Let's hope our eyes are opened.

00:48:03.580 We've got a lot more.

00:48:05.240 Come back tomorrow.

00:48:06.460 Maybe I'll see you at the University of Redlands tonight.

00:48:08.840 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:09.960 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:10.840 See you then.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 27, 2019

Ep. 320 - Democrats’ Worst Week Ever Gets Even Worse

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