The Michael Knowles Show - April 23, 2019


Ep. 336 - Winning 2020 One Terrorist At A Time


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Sen. Bernie Sanders kicks off a major 2020 town hall by endorsing voting rights for terrorists and rapists. Then AOC's star fades, and we examine why leftists weep for puppies, but not for babies. Michael Knowles

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00:00:30.000 Democrats kick off a major 2020 town hall by endorsing voting rights for terrorists and 0.76
00:00:35.320 rapists.
00:00:36.280 We examine the novel electoral strategy. 0.82
00:00:39.140 Then AOC's star fades.
00:00:41.480 ISIS claims responsibility for that terrorist attack in Sri Lanka.
00:00:45.820 And we examine why leftists weep for puppies, but not for babies.
00:00:50.580 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:52.680 A gift from the gods last night, or the opposite of the gods, the 2020 Democrat candidates for
00:01:06.520 president.
00:01:07.120 You know that all of the cable networks have been doing these town halls for the various
00:01:11.840 candidates.
00:01:12.500 Fox did it.
00:01:13.060 Fox had one for Bernie Sanders.
00:01:14.300 Obviously, CNN and MSNBC.
00:01:17.140 So CNN had a big one that happened with most of these major candidates out there.
00:01:23.620 How do you think these candidates are going to differentiate themselves?
00:01:27.340 We've got 20 candidates in the race.
00:01:28.940 Obviously, some more serious than others, some sitting senators, some sitting governors, some
00:01:34.840 local mayors, some people you've never heard of.
00:01:37.460 How are they going to stand out and make sure that their voices are heard above the din of
00:01:44.340 everybody else?
00:01:45.940 Why they're going to endorse voting rights for terrorists and rapists, of course.
00:01:50.220 Bernie Sanders kicks it off and sets the tone for the night.
00:01:52.920 Senator Sanders, you have said that you believe that people with felony records should be allowed
00:01:58.700 to vote while in prison.
00:02:00.600 Does this mean that you would support enfranchising people like the Boston Marathon bomber, a convicted
00:02:06.340 terrorist and murderer?
00:02:08.040 Do you think that those convicted of sexual assault should have the opportunity to vote for
00:02:13.240 politicians who could have a direct impact on women's rights? 1.00
00:02:16.560 If somebody commits a serious crime, sexual assault, murder, they're going to be punished.
00:02:23.620 They may be in jail for 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives.
00:02:27.440 That's what happens when you commit a serious crime.
00:02:31.260 But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy.
00:02:36.220 Yes, even for terrible people.
00:02:39.140 So I believe that people who commit crimes, they pay the price.
00:02:43.200 When they got out of jail, I believe they certainly should have the right to vote.
00:02:45.860 But I do believe that even if they are in jail, they're paying their price to society.
00:02:50.240 But that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.
00:02:56.960 At least he's an honest radical.
00:02:59.580 You did this to yourselves, Democrats.
00:03:01.320 You did this to yourselves by reacting so strongly and by moving so far to the left that this man
00:03:10.880 is currently one of the frontrunners for your party.
00:03:13.540 Voting rights, not just for felons who have gotten out of jail, but for terrorists, for rapists,
00:03:23.220 and not just once they've gotten out of jail, but while they are still in jail.
00:03:27.140 To put this in perspective, because I think we're just so used to radicalism now and extremism,
00:03:32.700 we say, oh yeah, of course Bernie Sanders is endorsing voting rights for terrorists.
00:03:36.480 Even Chris Cuomo, whose brother is the Democrat governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, whose father
00:03:42.720 is one of the most famous Democrats in history, Mario Cuomo, even Chris Cuomo, basically begs
00:03:48.720 Bernie Sanders, please, Bernie, don't take the Democrat party down this road.
00:03:53.260 My follow-up question goes to this being like you're writing an opposition ad against you
00:03:58.280 by saying you think the Boston Marathon bomber should vote, not after he pays his debt to
00:04:03.700 society, but while he's in jail.
00:04:06.160 You sure about that?
00:04:07.360 Well, Chris, I think I have written many 30-second opposition ads throughout my life.
00:04:13.900 This will be just another one.
00:04:15.740 But I do believe, look, you know, this is what I believe.
00:04:19.240 Do you believe in democracy?
00:04:20.620 Do you believe that every single American 18 years of age or older who is an American
00:04:25.560 citizen has the right to vote?
00:04:27.860 Oh, Chris, maybe you didn't hear me.
00:04:29.660 I think that not just felons, but the Boston Marathon bomber and rapists should vote.
00:04:35.060 Now, Bernie Sanders here says I've written many opposition ads against me.
00:04:40.420 That line didn't get the reaction that I think he thought it was going to get.
00:04:43.620 I think Bernie Sanders thought that line was going to sound like I'm really tough.
00:04:48.460 I say things that are unpopular and therefore I'm really courageous. 0.99
00:04:52.800 What that sounds like is I say a lot of stupid things because that's what that means. 1.00
00:04:58.540 The reason you get opposition ads against you is because you say stupid things or you say 1.00
00:05:03.860 something that out of context sounds bad, even though in context, it's really not bad. 0.98
00:05:09.660 But obviously, it's not the latter case here because Bernie Sanders has asked, excuse me,
00:05:14.800 Bernie, let's put this in context.
00:05:16.420 Are you sure you want the Boston Marathon bomber to vote?
00:05:19.200 He says, yes, of course.
00:05:20.640 What do you got, cotton in your ears there, Chris?
00:05:22.260 Of course I want them to vote.
00:05:24.700 So you can't say he's being taken out of context.
00:05:27.440 The reason that he's got opposition ads being made against him here is because he's saying 1.00
00:05:32.900 something very stupid. 0.99
00:05:33.740 By the way, that was from an opposition ad. 1.00
00:05:36.140 The group RNC Research, Republicans Research Opposition Firm, is coming out and just posting
00:05:42.620 clips, nothing else, no music, no text, just allowing these candidates to say exactly what
00:05:49.700 they're saying and then we can all use them.
00:05:52.200 We can all see them in their entirety.
00:05:54.700 The other mistake that Bernie Sanders is making here is that he is making a mistake that not
00:06:01.000 just Democrats make, Republicans do as well, which is creating an idol out of the franchise,
00:06:06.740 creating an idol out of the right to vote.
00:06:10.520 In the United States, in our representative democracy, in our democratic republic, in our
00:06:15.240 self-government, we have the right to vote to give us good government.
00:06:21.380 We have the right to vote to protect our liberties.
00:06:25.400 We have the right to vote to construct a country in which we can all flourish and in which
00:06:29.980 our country can flourish.
00:06:32.020 The right to vote is simply an instrument to give us all of those things.
00:06:38.000 What the left here thinks is the opposite.
00:06:40.860 They think that our whole government just exists to give us the right to vote.
00:06:45.740 Does anyone really believe we would have a great country if every terrorist could vote, 0.99
00:06:51.880 if every rapist could vote, if every disgusting, degenerate, criminal monster who hates our country 0.99
00:06:57.960 and doesn't believe in a thing that it stands for had the right to vote? 1.00
00:07:01.740 How on earth would that give us a good country?
00:07:04.000 How on earth would that protect our liberties?
00:07:06.620 How on earth would that create a nation in which we can all flourish?
00:07:10.720 It wouldn't.
00:07:11.820 And so we have certain restrictions on the right to vote.
00:07:15.560 Until very recently, if you were a felon, you couldn't vote in most places.
00:07:20.120 Now that's starting to change because of Democrat politicians, because as always, they're getting
00:07:25.500 the country exactly backwards.
00:07:29.380 I like the right to vote.
00:07:30.580 I'm perfectly happy with the right to vote.
00:07:32.260 However, let's say that everybody, I'm 29 years old.
00:07:36.060 Let's say that everybody who was 29 years old, for some reason, some generational psychosis
00:07:41.520 decided to vote for communist candidates.
00:07:44.420 For some reason, all the 29 year olds were voting for communists and it threatened our
00:07:49.220 whole country and we could elect communists all around the country.
00:07:52.820 I would gladly surrender my right to vote.
00:07:55.480 I would gladly say, okay, 29 year olds can't vote anymore because it'll destroy our country. 0.97
00:08:01.100 Because that will certainly not protect our liberties.
00:08:03.780 That certainly won't protect human flourishing.
00:08:05.260 That certainly won't protect the American traditions and the American ideals.
00:08:08.740 I don't really care.
00:08:09.720 It's not like I get some great thrill from voting.
00:08:12.100 I do it because it's my civic responsibility and because I think that I certainly know what's
00:08:17.940 better for the country than all these wacko left wingers like Bernie Sanders. 0.98
00:08:21.960 So I go and exercise my vote as a responsibility, but it's not just some great pleasure.
00:08:26.660 The country doesn't exist to give me that right to vote.
00:08:29.680 Bernie exactly flips it.
00:08:32.260 Buttigieg was then asked about this and Chris Cuomo, he's, he's obviously looking for an out.
00:08:37.880 He's from what would be considered, I guess, more of the mainstream of the Democrat party.
00:08:42.180 His brother is an elected prominent national Democrat, governor of New York.
00:08:46.400 And so he just wants to pull the Democrats back from the edge.
00:08:50.860 Please, Mayor Pete, you're a normal guy.
00:08:54.460 You're a level headed guy.
00:08:56.240 Please tell me you don't think terrorists should vote.
00:08:59.000 Take it away, Mayor Pete.
00:09:00.380 Senator Sanders earlier this evening said he's in favor of felons being able to vote
00:09:04.600 even while serving their prison terms.
00:09:06.820 He was asked specifically about people like the Boston Marathon bomber, 0.86
00:09:10.040 people convicted of sexual assault, rape and other things, pedophiles.
00:09:15.040 He said the right to vote is inherent to our democracy, yes, even for terrible people.
00:09:19.100 Senator Kamala Harris just said we should have that conversation. 0.83
00:09:22.000 She didn't really answer one way or another.
00:09:23.600 What do you think?
00:09:24.180 Should people convicted of sexual assault of the Boston Marathon bomber,
00:09:28.980 should they be able to vote?
00:09:30.280 While incarcerated?
00:09:31.200 Yeah.
00:09:31.560 No, I don't think so.
00:09:32.580 I do believe that when you are out, when you have served your sentence,
00:09:43.940 then part of being restored to society is that you are part of the political life of this nation again.
00:09:50.580 And one of the things that needs to be restored is your right to vote.
00:09:54.120 As you know, some states and communities do it.
00:09:56.400 Some don't.
00:09:56.980 I think we'd be a better country if everybody did it.
00:09:59.320 And frankly, I think the motivations for preventing that kind of reenfranchisement,
00:10:04.460 in some cases, have to do with one side of the aisle noticing that they politically benefit from that.
00:10:10.460 Oh, did you catch that at the end?
00:10:14.580 He had a pretty good answer here.
00:10:16.600 He says, look, look, Anderson, I'm a, I'm a moderate guy.
00:10:20.440 I don't think people who are currently incarcerated should be able to vote. 1.00
00:10:24.460 But once they get out, they've paid their debt to society, all these good people.
00:10:29.080 And so they should get their right to vote back.
00:10:32.020 Notice he doesn't use the phrase Boston Marathon bomber or rapist.
00:10:35.080 That's probably not going to play very well.
00:10:36.680 But he says, you know, look, they've paid their dues.
00:10:39.720 Okay, great.
00:10:41.480 Then he says that the debate over this issue comes down to a political party that thinks they can benefit from it.
00:10:50.020 Now, what he thinks he's doing here, what he was intending to do, is launch an attack on Republicans.
00:10:55.200 He's trying to say Republicans want to block felons from voting because felons vote for Democrats.
00:11:02.380 But you see, the change here isn't taking the vote away from felons.
00:11:08.580 The law that we're starting with is that felons don't have the right to vote.
00:11:11.840 They don't have the right to vote for a number of reasons and a long political history and a long tradition.
00:11:16.920 The people who are trying to change the law are Democrats.
00:11:19.900 So the party who is trying to change the law because they think they can benefit from it is Democrats.
00:11:24.680 And the reason that they think they can benefit from it is because they know that felons are a part of the Democrat base.
00:11:30.600 That's what he's admitting there in that answer.
00:11:33.860 He had a pretty good answer. 0.96
00:11:35.460 I mean, it was kind of mealy-mouthed, classic Democrat, weak nonsense.
00:11:41.480 But it sounded pretty good until that little bit at the end where he admitted that the motivation to change this law and to reenfranchise felons is nakedly political.
00:11:52.640 It's just because Democrats think they can harvest votes.
00:11:55.260 Why can they harvest votes? 0.96
00:11:56.280 Because criminals are basically their base.
00:11:58.420 The other note you have to see about Buttigieg here is that Buttigieg isn't wearing a jacket.
00:12:05.200 Buttigieg is just wearing his shirt sleeves and a tie.
00:12:08.780 Have some self-respect.
00:12:10.560 Have some respect for the office.
00:12:12.320 You are running for president.
00:12:14.020 Put on a jacket.
00:12:15.720 You wear a jacket when you go to dinner at a nice restaurant.
00:12:18.920 You wear a jacket when you go to church on Sunday.
00:12:20.960 Wear a jacket when you're running for president.
00:12:22.700 But they can't because they've all got to be the cool guys.
00:12:26.160 I'm not a regular politician.
00:12:27.540 I'm a cool politician.
00:12:28.820 I'm not a regular mom.
00:12:30.060 I'm a cool mom. 0.88
00:12:31.180 Oh, I know all those regular moms think that felons and terrorists and rapists shouldn't vote. 1.00
00:12:35.200 But I'm a cool mom.
00:12:36.500 That's okay, kids. 1.00
00:12:37.880 Felons and terrorists and rapists can vote. 0.99
00:12:39.980 I don't care if you have a beer or two. 0.99
00:12:41.700 That's fine.
00:12:42.280 I'm a cool.
00:12:42.800 I don't even wear a jacket.
00:12:44.280 That's basically what the Democrats are positioning themselves as.
00:12:47.260 So, what they're trying to do is say, look, all these laws, all of these traditions,
00:12:54.780 yeah, we can weaken those.
00:12:56.780 Let's weaken all of those.
00:12:58.760 Then we will be freer.
00:13:00.540 We talked about this theme last week, the theme of liberation, the theme of emancipation.
00:13:05.960 This is one of the dominant themes of the West throughout all of modernity.
00:13:10.380 And the Democrat Party and the left here is really taking up that mantle and turning it up to 11.
00:13:15.800 Literally, in their clothing, they're liberating themselves from their jackets.
00:13:19.880 I don't need all this formal clothing.
00:13:21.780 I'll be freer.
00:13:22.740 And they're liberating the country from laws and political traditions.
00:13:26.500 We don't need boundaries around the franchise.
00:13:29.060 We can open that up for everybody, including the Boston Marathon terrorist.
00:13:34.300 All in all, however, Pete Buttigieg basically performed better than most people here. 0.53
00:13:41.120 These weren't the only people who were asked about the right to vote for terrorists and rapists.
00:13:45.800 Kamala Harris, who I previously thought was one of the tougher candidates in the race, 0.98
00:13:50.680 gets the same question from Don Lemon, totally bungles the answer.
00:13:56.440 Senator Bernie Sanders said that he is in favor of felons being able to vote while serving in prison.
00:14:02.900 He was asked specifically about people like the Boston Marathon bomber,
00:14:06.860 also people who are convicted of sexual assault.
00:14:08.940 And he said, this is a quote,
00:14:09.960 The right to vote is inherent to our democracy, yes, even for terrible people.
00:14:14.840 Do you agree with that, Senator?
00:14:16.400 I agree that the right to vote is one of the very important components of citizenship.
00:14:21.740 And it is something that people should not be stripped of needlessly,
00:14:29.300 which is why I have been long an advocate of making sure that the formerly incarcerated are not denied a right to vote,
00:14:36.620 which is the case in so many states in our country.
00:14:39.420 In some states, permanently deprived of the right to vote.
00:14:42.780 And these are policies that go back to Jim Crow.
00:14:46.060 These are policies that go back to the heart of policies that have been about disenfranchisement,
00:14:51.500 policies that continue until today.
00:14:53.680 And we need to take it seriously.
00:14:55.380 But people who are convicted in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row,
00:15:01.060 people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be able to vote?
00:15:04.300 I think we should have that conversation.
00:15:05.720 Oh my gosh, everything was wrong about this answer.
00:15:10.580 From beginning to end, it went from bad to worse.
00:15:14.400 You've got to give a little bit of credit here.
00:15:16.560 I hate to give credit to Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo and Anderson Cooper.
00:15:20.260 They actually did push the question and they did push the candidates to answer
00:15:24.100 what should not be a tough question, what should be a very easy question,
00:15:28.760 but I guess for these radical candidates is a tough question.
00:15:32.880 Kamala Harris, from the very beginning, Don Lemon says,
00:15:35.540 do you think that the Boston Marathon bomber should vote?
00:15:37.780 And you can hear in her voice the wheels turning.
00:15:41.360 You can see on her face the wheels turning.
00:15:44.300 She averts her eyes.
00:15:45.240 She's looking down.
00:15:46.440 She says, well, I believe, almost in a robotic sort of cadence,
00:15:50.040 that the right to vote is very important.
00:15:52.560 She's trying to figure out her answer.
00:15:54.420 She should have figured out her answer before.
00:15:56.200 It should be an obvious answer.
00:15:57.900 And then in this country, sometimes felons are not allowed to vote.
00:16:02.600 And that's bad.
00:16:03.260 They should be allowed to vote.
00:16:04.360 And then she goes off on that tangent for a little while.
00:16:06.540 And then she tries to avoid the question.
00:16:09.280 Don Lemon pushes her.
00:16:10.120 He says, are you saying, Kamala, Kamala, please, what are you,
00:16:13.380 are you saying that the Boston Marathon bomber should be allowed to vote?
00:16:18.480 Well, and I believe that that is a conversation that we should have.
00:16:22.920 So even at the end, it's this totally noncommittal acceptance of the suggestion that terrorists and
00:16:33.640 rapists should vote, even in prison, even while they're incarcerated.
00:16:39.020 Except it's even if she had just come out like Bernie and said, yeah, I think Osama bin Laden should vote. 0.53
00:16:43.340 I think he should run for president.
00:16:44.660 If she had at least said that, she would get points for courage, a bizarre courage, a reckless craziness.
00:16:51.020 But at least she'd get points for confidence, for standing on an opinion, for believing in something, for having principles.
00:16:57.900 She doesn't get credit for that because she doesn't have any principles.
00:17:01.560 I got to tell you, I really thought that Kamala Harris could be one of the top candidates for the nomination. 0.52
00:17:08.100 I'm really beginning to doubt that.
00:17:09.940 What made me think she could is that she's got the political calculation of a Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:17:15.080 The problem is she's also got Hillary Clinton staff, and I think it's probably messing her up. 1.00
00:17:19.100 She staffed up basically with all the people of the old Hillary Clinton campaign. 1.00
00:17:23.680 And she's just a little too calculating by half.
00:17:26.620 She's just a little too clever by half. 1.00
00:17:28.660 She even has Hillary's awful laugh, that ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, you know, that bizarre look on her face and that strained and forced laugh. 0.96
00:17:36.960 She even has that. 0.82
00:17:38.420 Nothing about this woman seems genuine.
00:17:41.020 Everything seems calculated.
00:17:43.000 You know, early in this race, right when she announced,
00:17:45.540 Willie Brown made this, a former California politician said that basically Kamala slept her way to the top. 1.00
00:17:53.960 That was the accusation.
00:17:55.000 And I don't know who pushed for the story or who planted the story, but obviously that story was designed to say that this woman doesn't believe in anything.
00:18:05.760 She'll say anything to get elected.
00:18:07.480 She has no principles.
00:18:08.520 She has no belief.
00:18:09.360 And she keeps proving them true.
00:18:12.120 She just doesn't seem ready for prime time.
00:18:14.860 She didn't get elected to the Senate that long ago. 0.73
00:18:17.240 She's pretty young.
00:18:18.060 But she just doesn't seem like she's ready there to get the nomination, not just on this answer, but on other answers, too.
00:18:24.340 She was asked about a bill that she voted for, for her health insurance program, and she tried to lie about it.
00:18:32.320 When she couldn't lie about it, she just tried to twist the truth and blabber her way out of it.
00:18:37.660 Listen to this.
00:18:38.200 This bill that you co-sponsored essentially phases up private insurance for four years, in four years.
00:18:45.560 I don't think that's right.
00:18:47.760 That's what the studies show, that it would phase up private insurance.
00:18:50.080 Which bill are you for?
00:18:50.260 I'm actually supporting that.
00:18:51.380 The bill that you co-sponsored.
00:18:52.860 Medicare for All?
00:18:53.220 Yes.
00:18:53.680 We're co-sponsored with Bernie Sanders.
00:18:55.160 Medicare for All would effectively eliminate private insurance.
00:18:57.840 It would essentially phase out private insurance companies.
00:19:00.800 As the main source.
00:19:02.240 But there would still be supplemental.
00:19:03.440 There'd still be access to supplemental insurance for whatever is not covered.
00:19:06.940 But let's be clear about it.
00:19:08.440 Medicare for All, under the plan that I am supporting, will extend coverage.
00:19:12.480 So whereas right now it does not cover dental, vision, hearing aids, under the plan Medicare for All,
00:19:19.120 it will cover those needs will be covered.
00:19:22.000 There will be an extension of it, including mental health services, including what we need to do better
00:19:26.260 around women having greater access to reproductive health care.
00:19:29.740 What?
00:19:30.380 Okay.
00:19:30.660 And also, hey, look over there.
00:19:34.240 What's that?
00:19:34.700 And then she scrams and there's a Kamala-shaped hole in the wall. 0.97
00:19:37.880 Again, some points go to Don Lemon here.
00:19:40.740 He did point out that studies on Medicare for All show that it would eliminate private health insurance.
00:19:48.160 Kamala Harris said she would eliminate private health insurance.
00:19:51.520 She walked that back. 0.95
00:19:52.640 That's why she's walking back this answer here. 0.90
00:19:56.120 But what she just said is a lie.
00:19:57.940 Medicare for All, which actually isn't Medicare at all, would eliminate private health insurance.
00:20:04.180 Medicare, the program Medicare, is a federal program for senior citizens whereby the federal
00:20:12.260 government pays for health insurance.
00:20:14.820 But the federal government is using private health insurance companies and markets.
00:20:19.820 Medicare for All, which is the socialist health care being pushed by Democrats, is not simply
00:20:25.320 a government-funded program.
00:20:27.120 It is government-run health care.
00:20:29.420 The difference between government-funded health care and government-run health care is the private
00:20:34.400 market, these private companies.
00:20:36.300 You hear this all the time from people like Bernie Sanders and everybody else pushing Medicare
00:20:40.600 for All, is they say they want to get rid of the insurance companies.
00:20:43.820 They want to get rid of the middlemen.
00:20:45.400 They want it to be a single-payer system between the people and the federal government.
00:20:50.380 That eliminates private health insurance by definition.
00:20:53.740 She admitted that at first, Kamala Harris, then she was called out on it.
00:20:59.140 Now she's lying and pretending that it's something else.
00:21:01.920 Again, even this is just an example of her weakness.
00:21:04.680 If you're going to become a socialist, if you're going to run as a socialist, run as a socialist.
00:21:10.200 Bernie Sanders has had tremendous success running as a socialist.
00:21:13.340 The man saying, this land is your land, this land is my land, shirtless, drinking vodka in
00:21:18.400 the Soviet Union, that guy ran as almost an out-and-out communist and he's done pretty
00:21:25.080 well.
00:21:25.600 He nearly became the Democrat nominee in 2016 and he's leading the pack for all intents
00:21:31.540 and purposes right now.
00:21:33.680 But Kamala just doesn't know. 0.99
00:21:35.700 She's a weathervane. 0.55
00:21:36.580 She wants to know, do people want me to be a socialist?
00:21:39.060 Okay, today I'll be a socialist and I'll eliminate private health insurance.
00:21:42.020 Do people want me to be a capitalist?
00:21:43.300 Okay, today I will completely lie about the thing that I voted for and say that actually
00:21:48.600 it won't do the things that it'll do.
00:21:50.680 Weak sauce.
00:21:53.340 Also true on guns.
00:21:56.500 Kamala Harris is trying to have her cake and eat it too on guns. 1.00
00:21:59.640 And again, she's resorting to lies.
00:22:02.080 On the third piece, because none of us have been sleeping over the last two years, part of
00:22:06.220 what has happened under the current administration is they took fugitives off the list of prohibited
00:22:13.000 people.
00:22:14.060 I'd put them back on the list, meaning that fugitives from justice should not be able
00:22:18.400 to purchase a handgun or any kind of weapon.
00:22:21.660 So that's what I'd do.
00:22:22.920 Would this be your first executive action as president?
00:22:27.160 Well, it depends on what else happens.
00:22:29.080 That would be after 100 days.
00:22:32.540 Okay, so what she just said, that fugitives are allowed to buy guns, that is not true.
00:22:38.640 That is a lie.
00:22:39.380 What she is implying here, what she's suggesting, is that the Trump administration is allowing
00:22:45.140 half a million fugitives now to buy guns.
00:22:47.420 What she's referring to does have a grain of truth in it.
00:22:50.660 It is true that in recent years, half a million fugitives were removed from the National Instant
00:22:56.160 Criminal Background Check System.
00:22:58.420 But that happened under Barack Obama.
00:23:00.960 That didn't happen under Donald Trump.
00:23:02.720 That was an Obama-era policy to remove half a million fugitives from the National Background
00:23:08.820 Check System, the Instant Background Check System.
00:23:11.740 It also remains the case that fugitives are not allowed to buy guns.
00:23:16.120 So that is just a blatant lie.
00:23:19.180 And this is one thing that worries me about Kamala Harris.
00:23:21.940 At least with Bernie Sanders, he's relatively honest.
00:23:26.040 His worldview is absolutely perverse and the things he wants are evil, but at least he's
00:23:31.880 relatively honest. 1.00
00:23:33.540 This woman is an out-and-out liar. 1.00
00:23:35.180 She's the Hillary Clinton of the race. 1.00
00:23:37.300 Now, 2016 was Hillary Clinton's race to lose. 1.00
00:23:39.720 She lost it.
00:23:41.020 I guess 2020 might be Kamala Harris's race to lose. 0.97
00:23:43.640 She's losing it already. 0.98
00:23:45.180 She was doing very well early on because she was keeping her mouth shut.
00:23:48.400 So you had people sniping at Liz Warren and Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden, and they're all
00:23:55.120 going back and forth against one another.
00:23:56.880 Bernie Sanders, she was trying to stay out of the fray. 1.00
00:23:59.960 You can only do that for so long.
00:24:01.800 At a certain point, you have to come out and say who you are and what you want to do.
00:24:07.600 It's not going well for her when that happens.
00:24:10.380 And to double down on the radicalism, because she's so schizophrenic in this campaign. 0.99
00:24:15.440 I'm a moderate.
00:24:16.380 I'm a socialist.
00:24:17.200 I'm a moderate.
00:24:18.380 I'm a radical.
00:24:19.420 She comes out and endorses one of the least popular policies in the country,
00:24:23.860 impeachment of the president.
00:24:25.320 I believe that we need to get rid of this president.
00:24:27.220 That's why I'm running to become president of the United States.
00:24:30.360 So that is part of the premise, obviously, of my point.
00:24:33.220 But I think we have very good reason to believe that there is an investigation that has been
00:24:37.880 conducted, which has produced evidence that tells us that this president and his
00:24:43.120 administration engaged in obstruction of justice.
00:24:45.600 I believe Congress should take the steps towards impeachment.
00:24:49.140 This is a pure lie.
00:24:51.060 She is lying through her teeth.
00:24:53.200 There was a two-year investigation.
00:24:55.040 It did not produce evidence sufficient to prosecute Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.
00:25:04.040 Bob Mueller didn't come to a conclusion on obstruction of justice.
00:25:07.820 However, ultimately, the question goes to the attorney general and to the deputy attorney general,
00:25:14.380 in this case, Rod Rosenstein, who had been overseeing the investigation.
00:25:17.240 Both William Barr, the AG, and Rod Rosenstein came to the prosecutorial judgment that there
00:25:23.700 is not evidence to prosecute.
00:25:26.040 There is not evidence of the crime of obstruction.
00:25:29.520 Trump is exonerated.
00:25:31.000 I spoke yesterday when I was filling in on Ben's radio show to Alan Dershowitz.
00:25:35.000 Alan Dershowitz said certainly he agrees with Barr and Rosenstein and actually says that Bob
00:25:40.500 Mueller got the question of obstruction dead wrong.
00:25:42.720 The framework that he was using was way too broad, would not hold up, is not in the mainstream
00:25:49.180 of legal thought.
00:25:50.620 There simply is not evidence to impeach Donald Trump for obstruction or collusion. 0.96
00:25:55.860 And to push this ridiculous line is a lie.
00:25:59.520 Now, Kamala Harris wants to push impeachment because she thinks it'll rally up her base and 1.00
00:26:03.880 maybe get her the Democrat nomination for president. 0.98
00:26:06.920 Fair enough.
00:26:07.620 That's a fine political strategy.
00:26:09.160 All the other candidates are thinking that as well, including Elizabeth Warren.
00:26:13.040 But at least Elizabeth Warren is a little bit more honest about her motivation for impeachment 1.00
00:26:18.340 and what she thinks the true grounds of impeachment would be.
00:26:22.020 Other Democrats have been saying it's not worth the political cost, it's not worth the civic
00:26:27.440 cost, or it's arguably just too soon.
00:26:31.680 What made you decide to take this step today?
00:26:34.180 Well, I read the report.
00:26:37.240 I was on an airplane yesterday and started reading it, read it way into the night last
00:26:41.760 night, and I got to the end and realized this is about a point of principle.
00:26:47.880 The report is absolutely clear that a foreign government attacked our electoral system to 1.00
00:26:54.920 help Donald Trump.
00:26:55.940 He welcomed that help, and then when it was investigated by our own federal authorities,
00:27:03.020 Donald Trump took multiple steps to try to obstruct justice.
00:27:07.740 You know, this is one of those moments when I get it, that there are people who think politically,
00:27:13.260 no, it's going to be too hard to do this.
00:27:15.740 This isn't about politics.
00:27:17.580 This isn't even specifically about Donald Trump himself.
00:27:21.920 There it is.
00:27:23.860 This isn't about politics.
00:27:25.540 This isn't about Donald Trump himself.
00:27:27.960 It's about me.
00:27:30.840 It's about me, Elizabeth Warren, who's running for president, and I'm not even registering
00:27:36.160 in the polls, and I need to catapult myself to the top, so I'm going to back impeachment.
00:27:41.580 It's about a principle, but not a legal principle and not a political principle.
00:27:45.420 I guess it's just about me.
00:27:46.560 It's about a selfish principle.
00:27:48.600 I give her some points for some honesty there.
00:27:51.060 I think that is much more credible than Kamala Harris trying to pretend, trying to lie through
00:27:57.160 her teeth and say that there's some legal basis for impeachment here. 1.00
00:28:01.440 This is another way in which she's like Hillary, is she's totally able to lie. 1.00
00:28:06.260 She appears to do it effortlessly.
00:28:08.660 The trouble is she's not very good at it, so she can do it effortlessly.
00:28:11.460 She just doesn't do it credibly.
00:28:13.720 So you look at her and you say, I know you're lying to me.
00:28:16.420 You're not even good at it.
00:28:18.480 Very weak performance, I think, among people who are paying attention to politics.
00:28:24.440 Kamala Harris really fell very, very far in everyone's estimation of whether or not she
00:28:29.360 can become president.
00:28:30.720 Liz Warren herself will make her pitch to be president. 0.99
00:28:33.180 Bernie will double down on radicalism, and Pete Buttigieg and A.B.
00:28:37.740 Klobuchar will come in as weaklings.
00:28:39.840 Then, by the way, will Joe Biden even run for president?
00:28:42.460 We're getting conflicting reports.
00:28:43.620 We'll get into that in a second, but first, this afternoon at 3 p.m., the YAF Campus Tour
00:28:48.140 brings me to Cal State Los Angeles, the home of La Raza, where I will be giving a speech
00:28:54.900 on illegal immigration and the wall.
00:28:57.220 The speech is called, This Land is My Land.
00:29:01.400 It's my favorite line from a pretty mediocre song.
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00:29:08.620 Union Theater at 5154 State University Drive and enjoy the show.
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00:29:18.140 I've already lost one jacket to a super soaker.
00:29:21.200 I do not need to lose a second one.
00:29:23.100 If you can't make it in person, you can watch the live stream on the Daily Wire Facebook
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00:29:30.940 Go to dailywire.com.
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00:29:41.820 You get to ask questions backstage.
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00:29:53.400 Go to dailywire.com.
00:29:54.400 We'll be right back.
00:30:05.000 So Liz Warren shows up to the town hall. 1.00
00:30:07.140 Well, even though she's barely registering in polls, this is kind of do or die for her
00:30:11.000 at this point.
00:30:11.760 And she decides she's going to play it a little bit safer.
00:30:14.720 She's not going to be making the pitch that you should vote for her because she'll enfranchise 1.00
00:30:19.680 felons and terrorists and rapists. 0.98
00:30:22.700 Instead, she goes back to the tried and true Democrat strategy of promising to give people 0.97
00:30:27.660 a bunch of free stuff.
00:30:28.520 I have two parts to the proposal.
00:30:31.740 Part one is that we say that we are going to roll back student loan debt for about 95%
00:30:42.460 of students who have debt.
00:30:45.380 That's part one.
00:30:47.140 And then part two is we'll roll it back for the other 5%.
00:30:50.320 Free stuff for everybody.
00:30:51.520 Ha ha ha.
00:30:52.500 That's more or less her proposal.
00:30:54.940 I love the language that the Democrats use too.
00:30:58.180 We're going to roll back debt to translate for you from Democrat speak.
00:31:04.180 What that means is we are going to take your money, you the taxpayer, and then give it to
00:31:10.760 some students who made poor financial decisions and took out a lot of loans to get a worthless
00:31:15.820 degree.
00:31:16.400 A degree that almost certainly didn't educate them and a degree that is also not applicable
00:31:22.300 to getting a job, which is why they can't pay back the loans.
00:31:25.680 So that's why you, who didn't make any of those bad decisions, now have to pay off the
00:31:29.700 loans for them.
00:31:31.480 Also known as rolling back the debt.
00:31:35.620 Just going to, just roll it back.
00:31:37.500 I'm going to roll back your bank account. 0.68
00:31:38.860 We're going to roll back all of history so that you can rethink making good financial
00:31:45.240 decisions.
00:31:46.060 Then we're going to roll it all forward and your good financial decisions are going to
00:31:49.880 be held against you when you pay for other people's bad financial decisions.
00:31:54.780 Think about what this means.
00:31:56.060 This means that you, let's say you didn't go to college.
00:32:00.460 You didn't take out $200,000 in debt.
00:32:04.740 You got a job.
00:32:05.720 You worked for an extra four years, maybe six years, maybe eight years if they got a
00:32:10.220 PhD.
00:32:10.960 You worked for all of that time.
00:32:12.500 You did what you had to do.
00:32:13.400 You made smart decisions and you were responsible.
00:32:17.380 You, guy who didn't go to college, are now going to pay for a guy who did go to college,
00:32:24.520 who statistically speaking is supposed to make more money in the long run than you will.
00:32:31.580 I think this is what they really mean by income inequality.
00:32:35.720 That this is the biggest income inequality I've ever heard of.
00:32:39.000 People who have lower long-term income predictions are going to pay money directly to people who
00:32:46.700 have better chances at higher income in the long run.
00:32:51.180 Democrats pushing income inequality as ever, but this is what they do.
00:32:55.640 They say, we'll pay you for everything.
00:32:57.500 Forget about how, how much it's actually going to cost.
00:32:59.980 Forget about how it's actually going to look.
00:33:01.680 We'll just, everybody gets everything for free.
00:33:03.220 Bernie Sanders goes a step further.
00:33:05.640 He proves that he's still an OG socialist defending comments he made in the 1970s about
00:33:11.400 the Soviet Union defending communism.
00:33:14.300 You were asked earlier on, as a quick follow on this, what do you feel differently about
00:33:19.380 now?
00:33:19.740 I was reviewing what CNN's K-File had come up, taking a look at your evolution in politics.
00:33:24.160 You used to argue that you should have government control of the means of capitalism, energy
00:33:30.780 companies, factories, banks.
00:33:31.500 When did I say that?
00:33:32.600 In the 70s.
00:33:33.420 Okay.
00:33:33.920 Right.
00:33:34.340 No, but hold on.
00:33:34.880 What did you say in the 70s?
00:33:36.020 Hold on.
00:33:36.460 Gaga, Google.
00:33:37.400 That's right.
00:33:37.980 All right.
00:33:38.420 What I'm saying is that you've changed.
00:33:41.000 Well, wait a minute.
00:33:41.700 You know, first thought, you know, he hears me criticizing media all the time and he gets
00:33:46.400 nervous about it, right?
00:33:47.720 One of many things that makes me nervous.
00:33:49.160 All right.
00:33:51.220 Is I was the mayor of a city for eight years.
00:33:54.480 Did I nationalize any of the industry in the city of Burlington, Vermont?
00:33:58.120 I don't think so.
00:33:59.320 Congressman for 16 years.
00:34:00.380 Look, I said what I said.
00:34:04.220 That's your excuse?
00:34:05.820 Your excuse for saying you want to nationalize industries just like Fidel Castro did and Joseph
00:34:12.640 Stalin did and all of the communist thug tyrants of history did? 0.70
00:34:16.320 And your excuse for that, first of all, you don't apologize and you don't say you don't
00:34:20.420 believe it anymore.
00:34:21.640 Your excuse is when I was mayor of Burlington, I didn't nationalize any industries.
00:34:26.540 Apparently unaware that you can't nationalize something when you're the mayor of a small town.
00:34:32.100 He says, look, I was a congressman for 50 years, 60 years.
00:34:37.260 Right.
00:34:38.340 You were.
00:34:39.360 You've been a congressman for a very long time.
00:34:41.740 You've just been very ineffective.
00:34:43.400 Is he saying that I didn't really want to nationalize all those things?
00:34:49.020 I didn't really mean what I've been saying for the last 50 years?
00:34:52.420 I don't think that's what he's saying.
00:34:53.800 I think what he's saying is I've been so inept in the actual functions of government,
00:34:58.540 in my actual career in politics, I've been so completely ineffective that I haven't been
00:35:03.280 able to do any of the things that I've been promising to do for half a century.
00:35:07.420 That's his excuse.
00:35:08.380 Don't worry that I'm a communist. 0.92
00:35:11.600 I'm also extremely ineffective.
00:35:16.080 Don't worry that I'm a communist. 0.98
00:35:18.640 I'm incompetent. 0.99
00:35:20.600 An incompetent communist. 1.00
00:35:22.260 That's his pitch. 1.00
00:35:22.940 Bernie Sanders.
00:35:23.800 Still, he gets points because he says things so confidently.
00:35:27.720 This is why I think in parties at the top of the polls, these other candidates are not.
00:35:31.620 There were some weaklings here.
00:35:32.700 Pete Buttigieg, not wearing a jacket, slump-shouldered, looking like he's 12 years old, not with a
00:35:38.140 whole lot of gravitas, is asked.
00:35:40.500 He initially said that Mike Pence doesn't like him, hates him, wants to erase him from 0.99
00:35:48.040 the world, is anti-gay. 1.00
00:35:49.420 He's a bigot. 0.99
00:35:50.700 This is not true, of course.
00:35:52.320 Mike Pence has only ever been complimentary and kind to Pete Buttigieg.
00:35:56.460 Pete Buttigieg completely made this up to try to make himself look like a victim.
00:35:59.900 Pete Buttigieg was then called out for this, and then Pete Buttigieg apparently can dish
00:36:05.880 it, but he can't take it.
00:36:07.280 You've gotten into kind of a back and forth, a public back and forth between Vice President
00:36:10.960 Pence and yourself over the issue of discrimination against LGBTQ people and faith.
00:36:15.980 The current ambassador to Germany, Richard Grinnell, who's also gay, he weighed in on this
00:36:21.520 saying that you have been, quote, pushing this hate hoax along the lines of Jussie Smollett
00:36:26.080 for a very long time now, several weeks.
00:36:28.500 How do you respond to that?
00:36:31.120 I'm not a master fisherman, but I know bait when I see it, and I'm not going to take
00:36:34.500 it.
00:36:35.460 All right.
00:36:37.540 Make haste while the sun shines.
00:36:40.620 Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, and when short February is done,
00:36:46.000 all the rest have 31, Anderson.
00:36:49.220 That's my answer.
00:36:51.400 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
00:36:53.720 That's enough.
00:36:54.220 That's enough, Pete Buttigieg.
00:36:55.240 We don't need to hear any more.
00:36:56.260 He punts on the question. 0.99
00:36:57.360 It's pathetic. 1.00
00:36:57.800 He can sling a totally unfair attack, and then the gay ambassador to Germany, Grinnell, 0.99
00:37:04.720 Ambassador Grinnell, comes out and says, this is a fake, unfair attack, and Pete Buttigieg 0.82
00:37:10.360 should answer for it.
00:37:11.180 And Buttigieg says, yeah, pass.
00:37:13.400 I think I'm going to pass weak.
00:37:15.140 He would have done better giving a Kamala Harris answer.
00:37:19.640 Just weak stuff.
00:37:20.840 Not as weak, though, as Amy Klobuchar.
00:37:22.940 Remember Amy Klobuchar?
00:37:23.820 She's the one who gave a speech about global warming while she was covered up to her shoulders 1.00
00:37:27.640 in snow.
00:37:28.500 Amy Klobuchar, who basically throws desk furniture at her staffers, who's throwing the office 1.00
00:37:35.360 lamp at her aides.
00:37:37.380 Amy Klobuchar, who eats salads with combs on airplanes and then hands them to her staffer 1.00
00:37:42.340 and says, clean it.
00:37:44.120 So anyway, I was kind of hoping, because Amy Klobuchar is a tough lady, that she could 1.00
00:37:47.760 come out and be the tough one in this race.
00:37:49.980 Turns out Amy Klobuchar is the Jeb Bush of 2020. 1.00
00:37:53.020 I am someone that runs in a purple state.
00:37:56.820 It is a state that when I first started running for office, the other senator was Republican,
00:38:01.840 the governor was Republican, and three of our four constitutional officers were Republican.
00:38:06.940 And then I started running.
00:38:08.800 And every single time I have run, I have won every single congressional district in my state,
00:38:15.180 including Michelle Bachman's.
00:38:17.020 OK?
00:38:18.060 That's when you guys are supposed to cheer.
00:38:19.940 OK?
00:38:20.180 All right, so I, uh...
00:38:23.940 Please clap.
00:38:26.420 Please clap.
00:38:26.960 My name's Jeb Klobuchar.
00:38:28.260 Please clap.
00:38:29.840 Weak stuff.
00:38:30.980 Don't ask for applause.
00:38:32.960 If you're going to ask for applause, you've got to really be playing with the audience.
00:38:37.800 You've got to really have a good rapport with the audience.
00:38:40.140 Amy Klobuchar doesn't have a good rapport with anybody.
00:38:43.020 She comes off as mean, aloof.
00:38:46.480 She does come off as a bit tough, but here she's trying to play retail podcast. 1.00
00:38:50.180 And it's just not working.
00:38:52.680 So I think probably she's the weakest one in this race right now.
00:38:57.280 After this town hall, Bernie, radical as ever.
00:39:01.120 What Bernie promises us is he's going to remain at the top of the field for at least a little while longer.
00:39:06.580 Because he did have a pretty good performance.
00:39:08.340 Because he's at the top of the field, because he's one of the better candidates in the race,
00:39:12.860 and because he is the most radical candidate in the race,
00:39:15.440 what that tells us is the 2020 primary race is going to remain far left and radical for the foreseeable future.
00:39:22.080 Biggest loser of the night was Kamala Harris.
00:39:23.940 She went from a top-tier candidate and really hurt herself. 0.98
00:39:26.740 If she can't figure out how to speak, if she can't figure out how to stop lying, or at least lie better,
00:39:33.200 she is going to fall way down in the pack. 0.97
00:39:36.020 But a judge is okay.
00:39:37.540 The bloom is off his rose a little bit.
00:39:39.300 He played all right.
00:39:40.180 But wearing the shirt sleeves and refusing to answer questions like he got caught not doing his homework in the 8th grade
00:39:48.080 is not going to play well for a guy who looks like he's 12 years old.
00:39:52.020 He has to show people that he's an adult.
00:39:54.080 He has to show people that he can go from running a very small town in Indiana to running the whole country.
00:39:59.140 And he's not going to be able to do that if he continues to pretend to be Howdy Doody or somebody,
00:40:03.640 or leave it to Beaver.
00:40:04.800 Ain't going to work.
00:40:05.900 And Amy Klobuchar really had to make a move here. 1.00
00:40:08.840 She didn't.
00:40:09.400 She didn't move the needle.
00:40:10.760 Elizabeth Warren maybe helped herself just a little tiny bit because she gave direct answers 1.00
00:40:15.320 and went to a tried and true Democrat strategy.
00:40:18.140 Speaking of weakness, though, somebody was missing in that town hall, you'll notice.
00:40:22.040 Who was missing?
00:40:24.000 Creepy Uncle Joe himself.
00:40:25.460 Joe Biden was supposed to announce his presidential run on Wednesday.
00:40:29.940 Frankly, he was supposed to announce a while ago.
00:40:32.040 And he's been kind of playing, doing this Hamlet game.
00:40:34.660 It was supposed to be on Wednesday.
00:40:36.180 He was supposed to go drop the video on Wednesday,
00:40:38.600 then do stops in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.
00:40:41.140 This has been known for weeks at this point.
00:40:43.820 And then all of a sudden, it's not happening, apparently.
00:40:46.380 Now we're getting some reports that he might announce on Thursday.
00:40:49.360 Now we're getting some reports he might not announce at all.
00:40:51.640 The basis of the behavior that I talked about was something much more serious than just a hug.
00:41:05.520 I mean, that's where the conversation devolved into, but that's not where it started.
00:41:09.260 We talked about the fact that I had no previous relationship with the vice president, that it was moments before a high-profile event where I was supposed to speak to hundreds of people.
00:41:20.080 It was unexpected.
00:41:21.640 He was behind me.
00:41:23.220 He held onto my shoulders.
00:41:25.260 He got close to my body from behind, smelled my hair, kissed my head all moments before I was supposed to do this event.
00:41:35.340 And that is not a hug.
00:41:37.420 That is just unprofessional, inappropriate behavior, no matter who does it.
00:41:42.780 But certainly from, at the time, the second most powerful man in the country.
00:41:48.860 I guess the real question for 2020 Democrats is once Joe Biden is convicted and sent to prison for weird shoulder massages, will he still be able to vote?
00:41:57.880 That's what they're going to debate at the next CNN town hall.
00:42:00.580 You know I have long defended Joe Biden on this line of attack.
00:42:04.300 I think it is totally disingenuous.
00:42:06.020 It is probably being launched by the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:42:09.080 It is making a mountain out of a molehill.
00:42:12.980 He's a weird guy who gives weird shoulder massages and smells women's hair. 0.89
00:42:16.340 I'm not saying that that is normal behavior.
00:42:19.140 However, why is he doing it?
00:42:20.560 He's clearly doing it to ingratiate himself.
00:42:23.140 He is a glad-handing, walking simper of a politician.
00:42:26.300 That is his whole shtick.
00:42:27.560 He's doing all of it on camera.
00:42:29.540 There has never been an allegation that he's jumping around hotel rooms cheating on his wife or anything like that.
00:42:36.460 So I think it's a weak attack.
00:42:38.740 But I've long said Joe Biden is a weak candidate.
00:42:41.380 I think he's a total paper tiger.
00:42:43.380 He ran in 88.
00:42:44.440 He flopped.
00:42:45.060 He ran in 2008.
00:42:46.020 He flopped.
00:42:46.800 The only reason he got to be vice president is because Barack Obama hated Hillary Clinton so much. 0.93
00:42:51.420 I don't think he's going anywhere.
00:42:52.780 If Joe Biden can't withstand this flimsy attack by a former campaign volunteer for Bernie Sanders, which is who that woman is, Lucy Flores, was a big booster of Bernie Sanders, and I believe she remains so, if you can't weather that kind of an attack, you ain't going nowhere.
00:43:10.500 That is nothing.
00:43:11.680 He should have been able to brush that off in two seconds.
00:43:15.060 So maybe he'll announce on Thursday.
00:43:16.860 Maybe he won't.
00:43:17.620 He's playing Hamlet for now.
00:43:19.080 We have another candidate entering the race now, a guy named Seth Moulton.
00:43:22.720 He is from the 6th Congressional District of Massachusetts.
00:43:27.460 He just announced his campaign yesterday.
00:43:29.480 I was first called to service in my college church by a minister who's the greatest mentor I ever had.
00:43:37.100 They talked a lot about the importance of service, about how it's not enough just to believe in service.
00:43:41.480 You've got to find a way to give back yourself.
00:43:44.000 You couldn't help but sit in this church and be hit by the names on these walls.
00:43:49.000 And I had so much respect for them that I wanted to do my part, too.
00:43:52.300 So I joined the Marines.
00:43:54.920 My parents weren't exactly thrilled.
00:43:56.420 I was really scared for him.
00:44:00.100 Even in a war I disagreed with, there's nothing I'm more proud of than being a grunt, being on the ground, serving with those Marines.
00:44:07.620 Before I knew it, I was commanding a platoon in the first company of Marines into Baghdad.
00:44:12.260 His campaign manager, his pollster, told him to quit.
00:44:15.940 And you don't tell us how to quit. 0.92
00:44:18.700 How many more Democrat presidential announcement ads are we going to have to hear this ridiculous platitude?
00:44:23.880 Dude, you know, when he announced he was going to run, all everybody told so-and-so to quit.
00:44:31.860 But you don't tell so-and-so to quit.
00:44:34.440 So-and-so doesn't quit.
00:44:36.040 He can't quit.
00:44:37.280 He doesn't even know the word quit.
00:44:39.080 He's not a quitter.
00:44:40.600 So-and-so's not a quitter.
00:44:41.940 It's Eric Swalwell's campaign ad all over again.
00:44:44.840 Also, this guy, Seth Moulton, white, male, Marine, probably not exactly the demographic that identity-obsessed Democrats are looking for in 2020.
00:44:57.540 2020, 20 candidates running.
00:45:01.520 Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Klobuchar, Wayne Messon, Beto O'Rourke, Tim Ryan, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson.
00:45:16.320 She's a spiritual author and counselor to Oprah.
00:45:19.100 Andrew Yang, now Seth Moulton, possibly Joe Biden in a couple days.
00:45:26.280 I thought this might be a long, drawn-out thing.
00:45:30.780 Looking at their performances on CNN, I'm wondering if this isn't going to thin out real quick.
00:45:36.440 These are weak candidates.
00:45:38.140 They are not like the Republican candidates in 2016.
00:45:40.980 Those Republican candidates, most of them, were extremely strong candidates.
00:45:45.260 Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, obviously.
00:45:49.400 Jeb Bush, actually, was at least a serious candidate.
00:45:53.400 Donald Trump turned out to be one.
00:45:55.260 Rand Paul.
00:45:55.740 These were tough people who did know what they think and were able to put up a fight.
00:46:00.360 Lots of others as well.
00:46:02.160 These are not.
00:46:03.060 These are, for the most part, pretty weak candidates.
00:46:05.080 The fear here is if they all stay in too long, Bernie Sanders is going to be able to come in, win a plurality in a number of states, walk his way to the nomination without actually winning too many votes.
00:46:15.540 That's the fear.
00:46:17.360 He's running the strongest right now, including Joe Biden.
00:46:20.740 And the only hope is the total weakness of these candidates.
00:46:26.020 They're all trying to be Bernie, but you can't out Bernie Bernie.
00:46:28.880 Bernie, and if you don't really believe it, if you're not a true believer who takes his shirt off and swills vodka and sings, this land is my land, this land is your land, with Soviets in the 80s. 0.58
00:46:38.680 You really can't pull off the commie shtick.
00:46:42.000 We'll see how long this lasts.
00:46:44.740 I want to start taking bets on who is going to be out of this race before the first debate.
00:46:49.020 We'll find out after a couple more CNN town halls.
00:46:51.540 Speaking of town halls, come see me tonight at Cal State LA.
00:46:54.080 We will be talking about the wall.
00:46:55.960 We will be talking about immigration.
00:46:57.960 We will be talking about how this land is my land.
00:47:01.100 Go check it out.
00:47:01.700 Otherwise, I'll see you tomorrow.
00:47:03.040 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:47:04.140 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:47:34.000 Copyright Daily Wire 2019.
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