The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 345 - The MSM Are The Dumbest People On Earth

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00:00:37.700 Breaking news.

00:00:40.040 The New York Times has obtained 10 years of President Trump's tax return information and discovered, wait for it,

00:00:47.020 from the late 80s to the early 90s, the president suffered major business losses,

00:00:52.740 which the New York Times could also have learned if they had read the entire book that Donald Trump wrote about that in 1997,

00:01:01.760 or read all of the tabloid newspapers from the early 90s that reported on those business losses,

00:01:07.620 or watched even one episode of Trump's hit network TV show in which he described at length all of those business losses. 0.98

00:01:15.880 We will examine why mainstream media journalists are the dumbest people on the face of the earth. 0.98

00:01:22.540 All that and more. 0.99

00:01:23.360 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:32.320 He did it again.

00:01:34.120 He did it again. 1.00

00:01:35.780 And these stupid, gullible people at the New York Times, 1.00

00:01:40.160 they took the bait because they just can't help themselves. 1.00

00:01:43.700 Rachel Maddow, remember they, Trump's tax information leaked from 2005, big breaking news,

00:01:51.000 and then it turned out he paid a lot in taxes.

00:01:52.900 Now, he did it again.

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00:03:21.160 This was the top trend on Twitter yesterday.

00:03:24.520 This is the moment, you know, the left for two years, three years now,

00:03:29.000 has been trying to get Donald Trump's tax returns.

00:03:31.260 He hasn't released them.

00:03:33.420 Now the New York Times breaking story, and it turns out what they uncovered is everything

00:03:39.500 that we have already known for 35 years now.

00:03:43.580 The headline on the New York Times was,

00:03:45.300 Now what they mean is they were in bleaker condition than was previously known to the New York Times.

00:04:09.900 Because anybody who's actually paid attention to Donald Trump since the 80s knew all about this.

00:04:16.860 But the New York Times, they finally cracked the cover on one of Trump's books,

00:04:20.340 and they go, oh my, breaking news, we've got to run this.

00:04:22.860 So the article begins,

00:04:23.820 By the time his Master of the Universe memoir, Trump, the Art of the Deal, hit bookstores in 1987,

00:04:30.600 Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress,

00:04:34.160 losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals,

00:04:37.540 according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns.

00:04:42.340 The data, printouts from Mr. Trump's official IRS transcripts,

00:04:45.820 with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994,

00:04:52.420 represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president's taxes,

00:04:57.480 information he has kept from the public view.

00:05:00.380 The numbers show that in 1985,

00:05:02.660 Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses,

00:05:07.480 casinos, hotels, retail space, and apartment buildings.

00:05:09.840 They continued to lose money every year,

00:05:12.940 totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.

00:05:19.000 Wow.

00:05:20.480 Where did they get that from?

00:05:22.160 They might have gotten it from a book called Trump, the Art of the Comeback,

00:05:27.460 which was published in 1997 by Donald Trump.

00:05:31.600 So they're saying from the mid to late 80s to the early to mid 90s,

00:05:36.360 Donald Trump had major business losses.

00:05:39.840 Donald Trump literally wrote an entire book about this in the New York Times because they are so

00:05:46.380 oblivious, because they live in their own little bubble, because they are so desperate not to talk

00:05:51.400 about the actual news of the day, which is evidence that the Obama administration spied on the Trump

00:05:56.880 campaign because they're, because of all of these factors, they are running this as though it is

00:06:01.640 breaking news.

00:06:03.100 But what it, this, he literally wrote the book on this.

00:06:06.060 The, the description of the Art of the Comeback is Trump's story begins when many real estate moguls

00:06:10.940 went belly up in what he calls the Great Depression of 1990.

00:06:14.280 Trump reveals how he negotiated millions of dollars in bank loans and survived the recession,

00:06:19.500 paving the way for a resurgence during which he built the most successful casino in Atlantic

00:06:24.600 City and this and that and the other thing and all of his successes.

00:06:28.420 It was published in 97.

00:06:31.920 It, the, the recession hit in 1990.

00:06:34.180 So for real estate developers who were a little weak going into 1990, it took a lot of them out.

00:06:39.040 So the premise of the book is by the late 80s, Donald Trump's business was not doing so hot.

00:06:43.940 It almost went out in 1990.

00:06:45.860 He was like a billion dollars in debt.

00:06:47.620 And then by the mid-90s, he recovered.

00:06:49.400 And then he published the book in 1997.

00:06:51.380 This time frame exactly matches the tax returns that the New York Times appears to have found.

00:06:58.520 But let's say they didn't read the Art of the Comeback.

00:07:00.740 Maybe, maybe the New York Times could have learned this scintillating bit of information

00:07:04.580 by watching even one episode of the hit network TV show that Trump starred in and executive produced

00:07:11.460 for 12 years.

00:07:12.240 My name's Donald Trump, and I'm the largest real estate developer in New York.

00:07:18.240 I own buildings all over the place, model agencies, the Miss Universe pageant, jet liners,

00:07:24.960 golf courses, casinos, and private resorts like Mar-a-Lago, one of the most spectacular

00:07:30.820 states anywhere in the world.

00:07:32.940 But it wasn't always so easy.

00:07:35.240 About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble.

00:07:38.480 I was billions of dollars in debt, but I fought back, and I won big league.

00:07:44.220 I used my brain.

00:07:45.600 I used my negotiating skills, and I worked it all out.

00:07:48.980 Now my company's bigger than it ever was.

00:07:51.200 It's stronger than it ever was.

00:07:52.760 And I'm having more fun than I ever had.

00:07:58.480 I've mastered the art of the deal, and I've turned the name Trump into the highest quality

00:08:03.320 brand.

00:08:03.840 And as the master, I want to pass along my knowledge to somebody else.

00:08:08.800 I'm looking for the apprentice.

00:08:13.220 That's the whole premise of the show, is that Donald Trump had terrible business performance

00:08:20.300 in the early 90s, and then he came back and fought his way back.

00:08:22.820 That's the whole premise of the show.

00:08:25.460 But just pay attention here, because while we're making fun of the mainstream media, which I love

00:08:29.960 doing, just remember the headline of the New York Times article, Decade in the Red, Trump

00:08:35.580 tax figures show over $1 billion in business losses, a far bleaker condition than was previously

00:08:43.420 known, is what the New York Times writes.

00:08:46.240 You just heard Donald Trump 15 years ago say that he was billions of dollars in debt.

00:08:52.440 If anything, Donald Trump was exaggerating how bleak his business life was in the early 90s.

00:08:59.820 The New York Times found $1 billion in business losses.

00:09:02.060 He says he was billions in debt.

00:09:03.940 And the New York Times hears that and says, we've uncovered it was far worse than previously

00:09:08.080 known.

00:09:08.900 Actually, if you'd watch The Apprentice, the conclusion would be, Donald Trump was actually

00:09:12.620 doing a little better than he was bragging about in the early 2000s.

00:09:15.900 But where else could the New York Times have heard about this?

00:09:18.180 Maybe the New York Times could have heard about this?

00:09:20.000 By reading all of the newspaper articles when this was actually happening.

00:09:24.940 In New York Post, in 1990, Donald ducks, with a dollar sign for the S, defaults on $30 million,

00:09:33.280 creditors ready to pounce.

00:09:35.020 Another New York Post headline, around the same time.

00:09:37.840 Trump slump, again with a dollar sign because it's the New York Post.

00:09:42.140 He's not a billionaire, says Forbes magazine, says net worth nosedives to $500 million.

00:09:47.960 Mathematical mistake, says the tycoon.

00:09:51.500 So you've got these headlines, say his wealth is nosediving, he's not a billionaire, he's

00:09:55.720 losing all of his money.

00:09:57.280 And then Trump is fighting back.

00:09:58.620 He's saying, I'm actually richer than you're saying I am.

00:10:01.340 So this has been going on now for, what, 30 years?

00:10:05.080 The media and Donald Trump bickering over what his net worth is.

00:10:09.280 Trump saying he's richer, perhaps, than he is.

00:10:11.500 The media saying he's poorer than he is now.

00:10:15.380 Now, I guess the script has flipped a little bit now that he's president.

00:10:19.140 The New York Times is trying to exaggerate the scope of his business losses.

00:10:26.020 Maybe, by the way, even if you didn't read those newspapers, maybe you didn't watch The

00:10:30.520 Apprentice.

00:10:31.220 Maybe if you didn't read that book, The Art of the Comeback.

00:10:33.760 Maybe you would have learned this of Trump's major business losses in 1990, in the late

00:10:40.320 80s and the early 90s, by listening to every one of his critics for the past 30 years.

00:10:45.720 It's not just the media that are writing about this, not just New York tabloids.

00:10:49.760 Do you remember that one of the biggest media battles of the last 20 years was Donald Trump

00:10:54.600 versus Rosie O'Donnell? 0.98

00:10:55.680 How did that fight begin when Rosie O'Donnell said this on network television, on The View,

00:11:01.140 on ABC?

00:11:02.220 This is the thing.

00:11:03.060 You know, you say what you want to say about him.

00:11:04.340 I know you said that his father gave him his money.

00:11:06.260 It's true.

00:11:07.060 Well, listen, the fact of the matter is you say what you want to say, but he's a businessman.

00:11:09.780 Yeah.

00:11:10.100 He's a master of branding.

00:11:11.820 There are a lot of kids who have inherited money from their parents, and you can't see

00:11:15.060 anything about it except a car or a house that's defunct.

00:11:17.500 He inherited a lot of money.

00:11:19.480 Wait a minute.

00:11:20.060 And he's been bankrupt so many times where he didn't have to pay.

00:11:23.440 A lot of people have been bankrupt, but he's gone back.

00:11:25.260 People beneath him who he owed money to got shorted out of the money, but he got to again,

00:11:30.560 try again, and again.

00:11:31.720 And you know what saved him the second time?

00:11:33.500 After his father died, with that money, he paid off all his bankruptcy.

00:11:37.040 This is not a self-esteem here.

00:11:39.560 This is the line of attack.

00:11:41.840 This is the line of attack against Trump for decades and decades.

00:11:45.680 By the way, did you hear Rosie O'Donnell just contradicted herself? 0.92

00:11:48.800 She just said he went bankrupt a bunch of times, but he got out of it.

00:11:52.980 He didn't actually have to pay his debts.

00:11:55.940 He just screwed over his creditors, and he made the little guy pick up the tab, but he

00:12:01.700 didn't pay for it.

00:12:02.880 And then not five seconds later, she says, and then his father died, and he used that

00:12:07.940 money to pay off all his debts.

00:12:10.280 So did he pay off his debts, or did he not pay off his debts?

00:12:12.820 Did he pay off his debts using his inherited money, or did he screw over his creditors?

00:12:20.680 It can't be both ways, but the media want to have it both ways.

00:12:24.100 They want Donald Trump to be this billionaire plutocrat who's a corrupt, and he's made all 0.56

00:12:29.260 of his money, and he's cheated the system. 1.00

00:12:32.420 And they want him to be a total loser. 0.78

00:12:34.500 They want him to not have that much money at all. 0.97

00:12:36.260 And they're trying to advance these arguments at the same time.

00:12:38.920 And, and by the way, the way they're doing it is, is bringing up information that has

00:12:44.340 been so public for the last 30 years that Trump himself has made it a key part of his

00:12:50.400 own narrative.

00:12:52.680 So who leaked it?

00:12:55.700 That's the other question.

00:12:56.820 Who leaked these documents?

00:12:58.980 You'll notice in the article, it says the breaking investigative New York Times, and it's

00:13:03.720 got these two authors that I haven't really heard of.

00:13:06.260 And then at the very bottom of the article, it says, Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

00:13:12.620 Very little note at the bottom.

00:13:14.220 A lot of people didn't pick up on this.

00:13:16.100 Maggie Haberman, you might remember, is one of the favored journalists for the Democrat

00:13:20.860 party.

00:13:21.380 It's, you can't even really call her a journalist at this point because she just carries water

00:13:24.960 for the Democrats.

00:13:25.880 There was a 2015 strategy document from the Hillary Clinton campaign that got leaked.

00:13:30.840 It described Haberman as a friendly reporter.

00:13:33.400 It said that the Hillary campaign always used her to tee up stories for them and that they

00:13:39.060 were never disappointed by her coverage.

00:13:42.120 So where did this come from?

00:13:43.120 I don't know.

00:13:43.440 That little note at the bottom, Maggie Haberman contributed reporting, does seem to give away

00:13:47.220 a lot of the story.

00:13:48.880 Now, when I saw this last night, this was the breaking news on Twitter, I could not stop

00:13:55.020 laughing.

00:13:55.380 If you were following the whole show on Twitter last night, I just could not stop laughing about 1.00

00:14:01.120 this because I just thought these journalists are the stupidest people on earth. 1.00

00:14:08.900 Only mainstream media journalists could be so oblivious, could get so whipped up in their 1.00

00:14:14.740 frenzy of hatred for the president that they could cover a story that they think is going

00:14:19.640 to attack the president and actually ends up totally destroying their own credibility.

00:14:26.440 I wondered, I'm not sure.

00:14:28.580 I mean, maybe this is a little too clever by half.

00:14:31.460 I wondered if Donald Trump leaked these tax documents himself.

00:14:36.540 Seriously, because you'll remember a year or two ago, Rachel Maddow had this big breaking

00:14:43.440 news exclusive, we have Donald Trump's 2005 tax return.

00:14:48.000 We're going to open it.

00:14:49.180 We're going to find out that he didn't pay any taxes and, oh, he paid $38 million in taxes

00:14:53.640 that year.

00:14:54.440 Okay, never mind.

00:14:56.400 And she almost cried on air.

00:14:58.100 She was so upset.

00:14:59.200 And this, at the time, I just thought, man, Trump and his campaign just destroy the media.

00:15:04.580 They play these guys like a fiddle.

00:15:06.020 Then fast forward now, almost any period of Donald Trump's tax returns could be used to

00:15:13.500 hurt him if they got his returns from the 70s or the early 80s, maybe the early 2000s,

00:15:20.500 kind of before The Apprentice really took off.

00:15:22.300 I don't know.

00:15:24.180 Just coincidentally, they were only able to get his tax returns from the exact period of

00:15:30.340 time that he always brags about losing money.

00:15:33.460 It's a boast at this point that he wrote a book about, did a TV show about.

00:15:40.060 They get just that exact amount of time.

00:15:41.880 It seems almost too perfect.

00:15:45.080 And so what are the conclusions of the documents?

00:15:47.900 The conclusions are, for a little under a decade, Donald Trump paid a low tax rate.

00:15:53.680 When you take into account losses, deductions, all these sort of things, he basically didn't

00:15:57.720 pay, he didn't have a tax liability.

00:16:00.200 So the charitable view of that is that Donald Trump took major business losses.

00:16:05.620 We know there was a huge downturn in New York real estate at that time.

00:16:08.700 We know that the tax code was favorable toward real estate developers, toward people who were

00:16:13.960 building things.

00:16:14.760 So that seems pretty fair.

00:16:16.780 The uncharitable read of that document is that Donald Trump cheated on his taxes, that

00:16:21.440 he paid a rate that was too low.

00:16:22.860 But this one is kind of hard to believe because Donald Trump is under audit currently, I believe,

00:16:27.960 and he certainly was under audit two years ago.

00:16:30.500 This is a very wealthy guy with a lot of business interests who has been audited.

00:16:34.460 So if he really underpaid on taxes, one would expect that that would already be discovered

00:16:38.760 by now.

00:16:40.360 Now, what's another takeaway?

00:16:43.180 Another takeaway is that Donald Trump had less money than he said he did for many years.

00:16:49.640 Duh.

00:16:50.120 Yeah, yeah, of course.

00:16:53.840 Where have you been?

00:16:55.060 Yeah, of course.

00:16:55.800 This has always been the knock on Trump is that he brags about having more money than he

00:16:59.400 does.

00:17:00.280 So is that news?

00:17:01.940 Is that that the New York Times thinks this is a big story?

00:17:04.180 They've been lobbying this attack on him for three years, much more than three years.

00:17:10.220 Then you got to wonder, what do the Democrats get out of this?

00:17:14.380 First of all, nobody cares about Donald Trump's taxes.

00:17:17.600 Nobody cares about any politician's taxes.

00:17:19.500 This is just an attack that has come up over the past few decades to, for opposition research

00:17:25.500 firms to launch more assaults on other candidates.

00:17:29.920 Nobody cares.

00:17:31.100 Public opinion shows this.

00:17:33.560 People care about immigration.

00:17:35.340 They care about jobs.

00:17:36.600 They care about the economy.

00:17:37.840 They do not care about the tax returns of some politician from 10 years ago.

00:17:42.800 We have too much to do.

00:17:44.200 We got too much on our minds.

00:17:45.620 This does not really matter.

00:17:46.700 Now, what else do Democrats get from this?

00:17:50.880 They now get to highlight how Donald Trump fought his way back from a billion dollars of

00:17:57.360 debt, a billion dollars of losses.

00:18:00.380 Is that bad?

00:18:02.800 Democrats get now to push the narrative that Trump has tried to push for 30 years.

00:18:08.280 People like that.

00:18:09.300 It exposes a lot of the elitism of the mainstream media.

00:18:12.800 When this came out, one of the trends that was going on on Twitter was they said, Donald

00:18:17.400 Trump shouldn't have hosted The Apprentice.

00:18:19.460 He should have hosted The Biggest Loser.

00:18:21.920 Ha, ha, ha.

00:18:23.280 They're making fun of Trump because he took some big risks in business and had some big

00:18:28.320 losses and then made a lot of his money back.

00:18:30.960 First of all, does anyone actually believe Donald Trump is not a wealthy man right now?

00:18:34.980 I know some people try to say that and say he's not as rich as he says he is.

00:18:38.520 Okay, fine.

00:18:40.520 Certainly, we all can agree Donald Trump is a very wealthy man right now and has been

00:18:45.540 for at least, I don't know, the last 15 years.

00:18:48.440 So with The New York Times, do they say, ha, ha, he wasn't a billionaire for 10 years.

00:18:52.560 Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:18:53.540 Oh, yes, Jeeves.

00:18:54.860 Jeeves, pour me a little more port, please.

00:18:56.740 We're making fun of how Donald from Queens, you know, he has that outer borough accent.

00:19:01.580 He wasn't even a billionaire for the early 90s.

00:19:04.900 Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:19:05.880 This is how we're going to win votes from those plebeians in New York City. 0.97

00:19:10.380 Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:19:11.680 No.

00:19:12.900 I mean, that's what they're portraying themselves as rich Uncle Pennybags over here.

00:19:18.080 They're portraying themselves as the guy on the Monopoly box.

00:19:21.480 Not a good way to connect to the American people.

00:19:24.760 Totally botched it.

00:19:25.920 Whoever leaked it really does seem to have backfired here.

00:19:30.700 And I don't know, I mean, I like to think that it was Republicans who leaked this document

00:19:37.300 because it's a great troll and, you know, at this moment in time, Republicans are really

00:19:42.500 good at trolling the media and Democrats.

00:19:44.820 If it wasn't the Republicans who leaked this, if it wasn't Trump himself or somebody, if it

00:19:51.400 wasn't like kind of a media dirty hit, if this actually was leaked from the government,

00:19:55.040 this is a major crime.

00:19:57.480 To leak someone's private tax return information is a very serious crime.

00:20:04.160 So certainly an investigation should take place and whoever is responsible for it should

00:20:10.900 be held to account.

00:20:12.960 Unless it was, you know, unless it was Trump himself, whoever actually committed a crime

00:20:17.780 of stealing this information should be held to account.

00:20:21.380 This is really bad.

00:20:22.420 I mean, we attack WikiLeaks for hacking into the government and, you know, releasing information

00:20:30.900 that should not be released and rightly so.

00:20:33.820 How is this that much different?

00:20:36.560 You have somebody going into our federal government, stealing information, leaking it to the media

00:20:43.040 and publishing it to damage not only a politician, not only a candidate, but the president of the

00:20:48.360 United States.

00:20:48.980 That's a big deal.

00:20:50.660 That's a very big deal.

00:20:52.540 Moving on over to Georgia.

00:20:54.200 We got some very good news in Georgia as well.

00:20:56.480 Governor Brian Kemp just signed a bill that will ban abortions if a heartbeat can be detected

00:21:03.440 in the baby.

00:21:04.400 So this means it could be as early as six weeks.

00:21:08.080 This is excellent news.

00:21:11.100 And there are, look, there have been many restrictions on abortion over the last 10 years and they're

00:21:15.500 all good.

00:21:15.920 This one is especially good.

00:21:18.960 And the left is super angry over this.

00:21:21.260 Hollywood threatened to boycott, pull all of its film industry out of Georgia because

00:21:26.240 of this potential bill.

00:21:28.300 You've had celebrities constantly ranting about it, giving speeches, going on social media about

00:21:34.200 it.

00:21:34.560 Why?

00:21:35.300 The left is so angry about this Georgia bill because it is extremely consequential.

00:21:41.140 Now, this law, it's being referred to as the heartbeat law, this law gives away the whole

00:21:48.460 abortion argument.

00:21:50.240 Why?

00:21:50.820 It says that you cannot abort your baby after a heartbeat has been detected.

00:21:58.460 Now, why a heartbeat?

00:22:02.420 Is a heartbeat what makes you a human?

00:22:05.420 I don't know.

00:22:06.240 I mean, heart's a very important organ, but it's just an organ.

00:22:08.780 Why not a brain stimulation?

00:22:10.800 Why not fingernails?

00:22:11.840 Why not a nose?

00:22:12.680 Why not the features of a face?

00:22:14.620 The reason it's a heartbeat is because we associate, just in our minds, in our culture,

00:22:19.780 we associate the heartbeat with life.

00:22:21.940 We associate the heartbeat with the essence of what it is to be a human.

00:22:25.760 Again, little clumps of cells don't have heartbeats.

00:22:29.340 Random piles of DNA don't have heartbeats.

00:22:34.140 What has a heartbeat?

00:22:35.020 A baby has a heartbeat.

00:22:36.860 If you can't have an abortion after a baby has a heartbeat, that means that the baby has

00:22:43.840 a heartbeat.

00:22:44.860 And if the baby has a heartbeat, then the baby is a baby.

00:22:50.040 That's why this is so consequential.

00:22:51.900 It's a very good law because it both pulls on the heartstrings, literally, I guess.

00:22:58.920 It pulls on, it gives us this image, the heart.

00:23:01.680 What is a heart?

00:23:02.300 The heart is human life.

00:23:05.440 And it takes abortion to its logical conclusion.

00:23:09.340 We all agree.

00:23:10.740 Everybody listening agrees that you shouldn't be able to kill a baby a day after he's been

00:23:16.200 born.

00:23:16.960 Right?

00:23:17.480 We all agree on that.

00:23:18.200 We all agree you shouldn't be able to kill a baby as he's being born, you know, 10 hours

00:23:23.940 prior.

00:23:25.740 Well, if those two things are true, you probably shouldn't be able to kill a baby a day before

00:23:29.180 he's about to be born.

00:23:30.620 Right?

00:23:30.760 Does the baby really change the day before he's going to be born to the day he's born?

00:23:34.160 No.

00:23:35.420 How about a week before he's born?

00:23:37.860 It's the same baby.

00:23:38.920 How about a month before he's born?

00:23:40.340 Same baby.

00:23:42.100 Four months before he's born.

00:23:44.620 It's the same baby.

00:23:45.660 Now, further and further back, the baby stops resembling a baby as much, doesn't have fully

00:23:53.060 formed features.

00:23:54.360 So, just in our minds, not in objective reality, but in our imperfect perception of things,

00:24:01.780 we see the early stage baby and we say, oh, it doesn't look totally like a baby, so I guess 0.99

00:24:07.120 we can kill it.

00:24:07.840 But now we go all the way back, we get to six weeks or eight weeks, this is pretty early 0.71

00:24:13.420 in a pregnancy, month and a half, two months, and we say, but even that little thing, which

00:24:20.300 doesn't totally look like a baby, has a heartbeat.

00:24:23.560 Gosh, I guess it's wrong to kill a baby at all.

00:24:29.560 Not just at 20 weeks, not just 26 weeks, I guess it's wrong at all.

00:24:33.860 The left is furious over this.

00:24:35.640 AOC, of course, objected.

00:24:38.000 She tweeted out, one of the coldest things I have ever seen tweeted, which is really saying

00:24:42.840 something.

00:24:43.180 She tweeted out, quote, six weeks pregnant equals two weeks late on your period.

00:24:52.400 I guess that's true, kind of missing the point.

00:24:57.060 A one-month-old newborn baby lying in its crib equals 40 weeks late on your period.

00:25:05.120 That is not to say that the sum total of what a one-month-old newborn baby is, is just, yeah,

00:25:13.620 I'm just 40 weeks late on my period, huh?

00:25:17.640 Likewise, a six-weeks-old baby, unborn baby, is not just a missed period.

00:25:24.720 A six-weeks-old unborn baby is not just a little morning sickness.

00:25:28.060 A six-weeks-old unborn baby is not just a little bump starting to form in your belly.

00:25:32.640 A six-weeks-old unborn baby is a baby.

00:25:35.320 AOC goes on.

00:25:36.320 Typical demagoguery.

00:25:37.880 Most of the men writing these bills don't know the first thing about a woman's body 0.97

00:25:41.260 outside of the things they want from it.

00:25:43.720 It's relatively common for a woman to have a late period and not be pregnant. 0.99

00:25:48.140 So this is a backdoor ban.

00:25:52.520 It's not a backdoor ban.

00:25:54.420 It's a baby.

00:25:56.860 It's not a clump of cells.

00:25:58.520 It's a baby.

00:25:59.500 Because I also love most of the men writing these bills don't know anything about a woman's

00:26:03.940 body.

00:26:05.120 Well, what about the men who support abortion rights? 0.99

00:26:09.540 What about Governor Ralph Northam in Virginia who said that we should be able to kill babies 0.55

00:26:13.740 after they've been born? 0.81

00:26:14.900 Does he know about a woman's body?

00:26:16.940 What about Andrew Cuomo, who now, in New York, it's now legal to kill a baby as it's being

00:26:21.400 born?

00:26:22.580 He signed that law.

00:26:23.860 Does he know about a woman's body?

00:26:25.540 They're so selective with their sexual discrimination here.

00:26:29.500 They say men can't say anything about abortion unless they support it. 0.98

00:26:33.180 In which case, great.

00:26:34.000 Sign all the laws you want. 0.81

00:26:35.740 But the whole point is ridiculous. 0.55

00:26:38.340 Just because I am a man doesn't mean I can't understand aspects of womanhood. 0.83

00:26:44.120 And do you know why?

00:26:45.720 Because I have a brain and I have faculties of reason so I can reason through things.

00:26:50.280 And I have evidence and I have the scientific method and I have all sorts of resources at

00:26:57.620 my disposal.

00:26:58.860 Just because a doctor hasn't had cancer doesn't mean a doctor can't operate on cancer.

00:27:02.940 Just because I've never been to Tahiti doesn't mean I can't form a picture of what Tahiti

00:27:09.380 looks like.

00:27:10.260 I can't read about Tahiti.

00:27:11.420 I can't look at a photograph of Tahiti.

00:27:14.100 Of course, the men signing these bills, voting for these bills, and the women voting for these

00:27:19.380 bills understand what is at stake.

00:27:21.380 And what is at stake is not six weeks of pregnancy.

00:27:24.520 What is at stake is a baby.

00:27:26.880 Of course, the left won't concede this.

00:27:29.940 And you had a man, not a woman, a man, Chris Cuomo on CNN, who was moderating one of the 0.99

00:27:38.460 stupidest panels on abortion I have ever seen. 0.99

00:27:41.780 But it shows you how desperate the left is. 1.00

00:27:43.980 They've lost this argument and they are steadily losing this argument.

00:27:47.180 And so they get shriller and shriller and shriller.

00:27:49.060 We'll get to it in a second. 0.80

00:27:50.060 Then our old buddy in Philadelphia, Brian Sims, that wacko, weirdo, local representative there 1.00

00:27:56.800 who stalks little teenage girls and elderly women at Planned Parenthood, he issues a fake 0.97

00:28:02.580 apology.

00:28:03.620 We'll get to all of that in a second.

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00:28:23.400 By the way, tomorrow, I am going to be in Missouri.

00:28:26.500 I was invited by State Senator Eric Burleson there to give a speech at the state capitol

00:28:32.020 of Missouri on the importance of free speech on campus.

00:28:35.700 This was after I was physically assaulted at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, after

00:28:41.940 an invited speech there.

00:28:43.640 And that was after the chancellor of that university, instead of condemning the assailants and the

00:28:49.240 hecklers, he condemned me as some sort of bigot and smeared me and did not stand for

00:28:54.580 free speech or liberal education.

00:28:55.880 So I'm going to go to the state capitol tomorrow and call for that man's resignation and his

00:29:00.740 firing and a vigorous defense of free speech on campus.

00:29:05.040 So if you're in Jefferson City, Missouri, come on out.

00:29:07.000 It should be a good time.

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00:29:17.200 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:29:29.380 So Chris Cuomo yesterday on CNN was moderating a panel between a debate between Rick Santorum,

00:29:37.440 former GOP presidential candidate and senator, and Christine Quinn.

00:29:41.980 Christine Quinn was New York City counsel.

00:29:44.800 She ran for mayor there. 1.00

00:29:46.000 This woman was almost the mayor of New York, and she gives the shrillest, stupidest defense 1.00

00:29:50.580 of abortion maybe that I've ever heard. 1.00

00:29:53.340 Here is the panel.

00:29:55.560 When a woman gets pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her. 1.00

00:30:00.660 It's part of her body.

00:30:01.860 And this is about a woman having full agency and control of her body and making decisions

00:30:08.680 about her body and what is part of her body with medical professionals.

00:30:13.900 Those are the facts, and that is the law of the land.

00:30:17.680 So at least Christine Quinn is not making the argument that the baby is not a human,

00:30:23.040 therefore it's a platypus.

00:30:24.220 The baby is not a human, therefore it's a giraffe.

00:30:28.900 No, the baby is a, it's, it's human.

00:30:31.840 But what she says is it's not an individual human.

00:30:34.740 It's not a separate human.

00:30:35.860 It's just part of the woman's body. 1.00

00:30:38.260 Now this is demonstrably false.

00:30:40.460 The baby has individual DNA.

00:30:44.500 The baby doesn't grow organically out of the woman's body. 0.99

00:30:47.420 The baby is conceived by the combination of the woman's egg and the man's sperm.

00:30:53.440 So another human being has to come together in an act of love or, I don't know, an act

00:30:58.440 of drunken revelry, come together with the woman and conceive this baby, which then grows

00:31:04.660 in the woman, but is separate from the woman.

00:31:07.480 Genetically distinct, physically distinct, and then of course will be born unless someone 0.98

00:31:14.140 like Christine Quinn kills it in the womb. 1.00

00:31:16.020 So if the baby growing in the mother's womb were just a part of her body, then it would 0.59

00:31:22.100 probably be pretty weird when that baby is born and starts running around on its own.

00:31:27.120 That'd be, that'd be pretty, it would make us like starfish or octopuses or something.

00:31:30.640 You know, with a, a starfish, you cut off one of its little legs and then it just grows

00:31:35.200 another starfish.

00:31:36.440 You say, gosh, that's pretty, that would basically humans would become starfishes if that were

00:31:39.960 true.

00:31:40.520 Go, don't try this at home.

00:31:41.740 But imagine if you just went out and you cut off your arm.

00:31:44.220 You said, uh, oh my gosh, what's happening?

00:31:46.940 I cut off my arm.

00:31:47.720 No, no, don't worry.

00:31:48.660 It's okay.

00:31:49.500 It'll just grow another person.

00:31:50.940 That's just, it's just, you know, it'll just grow another person and run around.

00:31:54.400 That's what happens with babies. 1.00

00:31:55.600 And babies are just part of the mother's body, except the baby's not part of the mother's

00:31:59.220 body.

00:31:59.700 It's a separate body.

00:32:01.140 Now, she then goes on. 1.00

00:32:05.280 She, so she stops making this stupid argument, which is going nowhere and then gets to the 1.00

00:32:09.440 real question. 1.00

00:32:10.260 Is it okay?

00:32:11.540 This is about a woman's body. 1.00

00:32:14.420 So they can name the baby.

00:32:15.460 Listen, you can argue.

00:32:16.200 They can do whatever they want. 0.53

00:32:17.100 They can torture the baby. 1.00

00:32:17.940 The debate is fine.

00:32:19.780 The debate is fine.

00:32:20.800 Guys, I gotta leave it here.

00:32:21.780 You're so desperate here.

00:32:23.020 No, no, no.

00:32:23.500 Listen.

00:32:23.660 You're bringing up fake stories.

00:32:24.800 I'm just, I'm just asking questions.

00:32:26.040 No, you're not.

00:32:26.680 You're not.

00:32:27.280 You're asking provocative things that are trying to make people angry about what's done.

00:32:30.880 And that's okay.

00:32:31.540 Because they're not real.

00:32:31.840 So Chris Cuomo is just, I don't know, Chris Cuomo is just not fit morally or intellectually

00:32:38.260 for this conversation. 0.71

00:32:39.440 So he's just rambling nonsense.

00:32:42.120 Rick Santorum raises a great question here.

00:32:44.920 This is a brilliant question that a lot of times you don't really hear in pro-life advocacy.

00:32:49.520 What Christine O'Donnell says is, the baby is part of the mother's body. 0.99

00:32:55.080 Therefore, you can kill it. 0.98

00:32:56.900 That's kind of a weird argument to make, by the way. 0.99

00:32:58.780 Like, my arm is part of my body. 0.98

00:33:02.080 Can I kill my arm? 0.81

00:33:03.980 First of all, I literally can't kill my arm. 1.00

00:33:06.140 You can't kill it. 0.99

00:33:06.940 You can sever it. 0.95

00:33:08.100 And then all of the cells will die. 0.56

00:33:10.280 But it's not like I can kill my arm.

00:33:12.100 I can't abort my arm.

00:33:13.680 But even if you could, even if that were conceptually possible, would you suggest that?

00:33:21.820 Would you say, oh, it's part of your body. 1.00

00:33:22.960 Therefore, cut it off and chop it up and kill it. 1.00

00:33:25.920 No. 1.00

00:33:26.280 If it's part of your body, you probably want to preserve it.

00:33:28.020 Because it's part of your body.

00:33:30.320 So Rick Santorum sees the flaw in this argument here.

00:33:33.780 And he says, okay, Christine. 1.00

00:33:36.040 You can't hear it over Chris Cuomo's stupid yapping. 1.00

00:33:38.740 Same with Christine O'Donnell or Christine Quinn. 1.00

00:33:40.820 But what Rick Santorum says is, okay, whatever that baby is, whatever you want to call the baby, 0.99

00:33:47.820 if you can kill it because it's morally insignificant, it's morally irrelevant, if you can kill that baby, then you can do anything to it, right? 0.99

00:33:58.140 And then Christine Quinn says something to the effect of, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. 0.99

00:34:02.220 And so you just have to try to tune that out because it's so grating on your ears.

00:34:05.960 But follow Rick Santorum's logic. 1.00

00:34:08.500 If you can kill the baby, then surely you can torture it, right? 1.00

00:34:15.100 Well, if you're able to murder it, surely you can go in and kind of poke it around and maybe mess up its brain cells a little bit. 1.00

00:34:24.120 It's morally irrelevant. 0.97

00:34:25.480 It doesn't matter.

00:34:26.960 No, don't worry.

00:34:27.700 It's not a human. 0.97

00:34:28.480 So you can torture it. 0.90

00:34:29.500 It's fine. 0.67

00:34:29.860 Why is it okay to kill an unborn baby, but it's not okay to torture an unborn baby?

00:34:38.140 Now, the real answer is because even pro-abortion supporters have some intuition on some gut level that that baby has moral significance.

00:34:50.120 And the reason that they are willing to kill it is not because of some real philosophical conviction that it doesn't matter, but because it's convenient.

00:35:01.000 And they don't want to be parents, and they don't want to deal with the consequences of their actions, and they don't want to even give up their baby for adoption.

00:35:07.580 In the United States, 36 couples waiting for every American baby that is born and put up for adoption.

00:35:14.200 36 couples waiting for every one baby born and put up for adoption.

00:35:18.140 There are plenty of people waiting to adopt your baby, but you don't want to put the baby up for adoption.

00:35:23.820 Why?

00:35:24.120 Because maybe it's uncomfortable for nine months, and more importantly, because you don't want to give up your kid.

00:35:29.620 Because there's a part of us, deep, deep down, our conscience, that says, I don't want to give up my kid.

00:35:36.320 And parents who decide to give up their kid rather than kill it, they're making a heroic and courageous decision. 0.94

00:35:42.360 But the cowardly decision, and the decision that Christine Quinn is trying to defend, is to just kill it. 0.99

00:35:49.280 Because la, la, la, la, la. 0.98

00:35:50.760 I mean, actually, the way that she's holding this debate is indicative of the argument about abortion.

00:35:56.300 Because if you just have a calm and collected argument about abortion, which is what Rick Santorum is doing,

00:36:00.740 what that probably means is that you've thought about this and you're confident in your opinion.

00:36:06.000 But if you're just saying a lot of contradictory and emotional and untrue things about abortion,

00:36:13.820 then probably instead of having a cool and collected discussion where you let your other, your debate partner get in his points,

00:36:21.160 what you have to do is just scream and shout and la, la, la, la, la, I can't hear you, I can't hear you.

00:36:26.260 Which is what Christine Quinn is doing. 0.77

00:36:30.060 No, you can't torture the baby.

00:36:32.460 Why can't you torture the baby? 1.00

00:36:33.740 Why is it wrong to torture the baby?

00:36:35.000 Because it's a baby. 0.99

00:36:36.240 Therefore, it's also wrong to kill the baby. 0.70

00:36:39.840 And here's where Chris Cuomo has to come in.

00:36:42.860 Because Chris Cuomo has a personal stake here.

00:36:45.240 Chris Cuomo's brother, Andrew Cuomo, is the governor of New York.

00:36:48.000 And he just ratified and celebrated one of the most radical abortion laws in the country.

00:36:55.460 This abortion law legalizes killing babies as they are being born. 0.74

00:37:01.020 And it actually changes the penal code such that if a guy goes up and kills a pregnant woman,

00:37:06.620 in the old days he would be charged with double murder.

00:37:09.100 But now, after Andrew Cuomo's abortion law, he'll only be charged with a single murder.

00:37:13.740 Because that legal protection for the baby was taken away.

00:37:17.200 So Chris Cuomo has a lot at stake here.

00:37:19.020 He swoops in to try to make the argument and it fails.

00:37:22.800 I'm angry about what's done and that's okay.

00:37:24.820 All I'm saying is, you guys go too far when you pervert the facts.

00:37:28.460 We have the President of the United States saying that a baby is born at the end of full term,

00:37:33.520 swaddled in a blanket, and then to decide whether or not to execute it.

00:37:37.320 You know that's BS.

00:37:38.660 It divides people.

00:37:40.300 Nobody said it.

00:37:41.340 It's not the law anywhere in this country.

00:37:43.100 It's homicide. 0.99

00:37:44.260 One person said something stupid and you want to make it something that you can use for advantage. 0.99

00:37:49.040 That doesn't help your cause. 0.99

00:37:50.240 So did you see Chris Cuomo just contradicted himself because he said nobody in this country

00:37:56.100 has ever called for a baby who has been born to be killed.

00:38:01.080 You know it's BS, Rick Santorum.

00:38:03.680 Nobody has called for that.

00:38:04.700 And Rick Santorum very calmly says,

00:38:06.520 Ralph Northam, the Democrat governor of Virginia,

00:38:09.980 not just an activist, not just a congressman, not just a state representative,

00:38:13.700 the governor of Virginia, explicitly called for that on the radio.

00:38:18.700 Here it is.

00:38:19.700 There are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions,

00:38:23.480 these are done with the consent of obviously the mother,

00:38:27.820 with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.

00:38:32.600 And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.

00:38:36.380 There may be a fetus that's non-viable.

00:38:39.060 So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.

00:38:45.720 The infant would be delivered.

00:38:47.740 The infant would be kept comfortable.

00:38:50.420 The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.

00:38:55.440 And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mothers. 0.74

00:38:59.820 Did you hear that?

00:39:01.820 If the baby is born, maybe he's got some deformities. 0.94

00:39:05.140 Maybe he's kind of ugly.

00:39:06.160 I don't know. 0.93

00:39:07.040 Maybe he comes out not looking the way you want him to look.

00:39:09.700 So then the baby would be kept comfortable, maybe resuscitated if, you know,

00:39:14.220 he had some problems and maybe the mother wanted him to be resuscitated.

00:39:17.460 And then, then once the baby has been resuscitated, sitting there on the table,

00:39:22.280 swaddled in clothing, then the doctor and the mother would talk about whether or not to kill it.

00:39:27.320 Governor of Virginia said this.

00:39:28.840 So Chris Cuomo says, nobody ever said that.

00:39:31.260 Then Rick St. Worm says, the governor of Virginia did.

00:39:35.080 And Chris Cuomo says, okay, one guy said it.

00:39:36.840 Okay, yeah, one, right.

00:39:38.040 One major American political figure of your political party said that.

00:39:42.620 And Rick Santorum held back here because what he really should have said is, actually, Chris,

00:39:46.880 your brother, Andrew Cuomo, in New York is leading the charge.

00:39:51.600 This is the, this is the law.

00:39:52.740 Lest you think that I'm being unfair here.

00:39:54.700 This is the law in New York.

00:39:56.980 It permits abortion when, according to a medical professional, it is, quote, reasonable,

00:40:02.700 a medical professional is, quote, reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient's case.

00:40:09.420 And when the patient is within 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, so legal abortion in the first 24 weeks, okay, that's true virtually everywhere.

00:40:20.020 But listen to this part.

00:40:21.600 Or there is an absence of fetal viability.

00:40:25.000 What is fetal viability?

00:40:26.140 I mean, does it mean the baby's actually dead?

00:40:29.680 It doesn't mean the baby's probably, he's got some condition.

00:40:32.780 It means he probably won't survive very long.

00:40:35.480 He won't live very long.

00:40:36.440 How, how long?

00:40:37.160 How old will he live to two?

00:40:38.440 He'll live to three.

00:40:39.260 I don't know.

00:40:40.000 And then, listen to this.

00:40:42.100 Or when the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life.

00:40:47.460 Okay, so this is also the law in a lot of places.

00:40:50.460 If the mother's life is at risk, you can have an abortion.

00:40:53.480 Now, there is virtually no case in which an abortion is the remedy to save a mother's life.

00:41:00.820 There are some cases in which treating the mother's condition will kill the baby as a consequence of that.

00:41:05.460 But there is virtually no condition in which the abortion is the solution.

00:41:10.840 That's the medical solution to saving the mother's life. 1.00

00:41:15.380 But then listen to this last word, the devil's in the details.

00:41:18.940 Or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life or health.

00:41:24.480 And health here, this is the big floodgate.

00:41:27.820 Because health is being described not just in terms of your physical health, but your mental health, your psychological health, your financial health, anything.

00:41:38.880 As long as you get a little doctor's note that says, yeah, it's going to be really detrimental to Susie's feelings if she has this baby. 0.99

00:41:47.660 You can kill that baby in the state of New York, thanks to Chris Cuomo's brother, Andrew, up until the moment he is born. 0.92

00:41:55.100 That is what Christine Quinn is defending. 0.99

00:41:58.560 That is what Chris Cuomo is defending.

00:42:01.660 And that is what our good buddy over in Pennsylvania, that state representative, Brian Sims, is defending when he goes and stalks teenage girls and tries to dox teenage girls and tries to harass and demean and mock elderly women who were just protesting outside of Planned Parenthood there.

00:42:23.100 That's what he is defending.

00:42:25.100 So Brian Sims, one of the schmuckiest politicians in America, he has just been eviscerated in the press and on social media, in the right-wing press, for those videos that he's been posting that we've played over the last couple days.

00:42:40.620 Now, by the way, the CNN has not written about him.

00:42:44.440 CNN wrote a story about a positive story about him a few years ago.

00:42:48.360 So it's not like they won't talk about this guy and the state representative.

00:42:51.320 They have not covered Brian Sims at all.

00:42:53.900 Brian Sims, one of the hottest news stories in the country right now.

00:42:56.960 But they have to cover it up because they have to carry water not only for Democrats, but specifically for defenders of abortion.

00:43:04.560 Brian Sims, of his own accord, released an apology video yesterday on his social media account.

00:43:12.280 Now, see if you can figure out which word is missing from his apology video.

00:43:16.620 Hi, everyone.

00:43:17.480 Representative Brian Sims here.

00:43:18.860 And I'm actually up in our capital for this week's legislative session.

00:43:22.040 But I stepped off the floor for a moment because I've received a lot of feedback about a video I posted last week.

00:43:27.380 And I want to provide some background.

00:43:28.500 You see, I've lived across the street or next door to this particular Planned Parenthood, one of the most heavily protested Planned Parenthoods in America, for the last 15 years.

00:43:38.020 I've seen men and women and teens try to go there for routine health care, for checkups, for pap smears, for breast exams, for STD screenings, and, yes, for abortions.

00:43:47.580 In fact, it's where I even treat for my own life-saving prep medication.

00:43:51.160 And I'm grateful for the services that they provide.

00:43:53.120 I've also spent the last seven years serving as a volunteer patient escort at this Planned Parenthood.

00:43:59.780 And I have seen firsthand the insults, the slurs, the attacks, and the racism that those protesters aim at mostly young girls going there for clinical care.

00:44:09.360 Care that those of us on the outside can never understand.

00:44:12.740 And last week was no different.

00:44:14.260 I fully understand, respect, and appreciate the non-engagement policy that they have.

00:44:18.960 And I would never want to do anything that interfered with the care that they're providing to their patients.

00:44:24.000 As an activist and an advocate, I know why pushing back against harassment and discrimination are a must, even when they're uncomfortable.

00:44:32.400 But last week, I wasn't a patient escort.

00:44:35.820 I was a neighbor and a concerned citizen, and I was aggressive.

00:44:39.940 I know that two wrongs don't make a right, and I can do better, and I will do better for the women of Pennsylvania.

00:44:45.640 Did you catch which word was missing from that apology?

00:44:48.960 Uh, sorry.

00:44:52.100 Sorry was missing.

00:44:54.000 Another word that was missing is apologize.

00:44:57.000 Because he's not apologizing, he's defending his actions.

00:44:59.560 So he begins by saying that the people who protest abortion, who protest the killing of children, are bigots.

00:45:07.860 He accuses them of racism somehow. 0.98

00:45:11.120 Planned Parenthood kills three times as many black babies as it does white babies. 0.98

00:45:14.860 More black babies in New York City are killed in the womb than are born. 0.99

00:45:20.680 And the most dangerous place for a black person in New York is in his mother's womb. 1.00

00:45:25.840 And he accuses those of us who don't want to kill all of those black babies of racism. 1.00

00:45:34.680 So that's how he starts. 0.99

00:45:35.720 Now, why does he do this?

00:45:36.540 This does underline a pretty eternal truth of leftism.

00:45:42.200 Pretty eternal truth of political debate.

00:45:44.120 When a leftist calls you a racist, you know you've won the argument.

00:45:46.820 That's all they can do. 1.00

00:45:47.660 That's all this coward, bully, schmuck can do is pretend to be a victim. 1.00

00:45:55.320 And then he defends Planned Parenthood, defends killing babies, defends his actions, his aggression, 1.00

00:46:00.740 defends stalking and doxing underage girls, defends harassing and mocking and ridiculing an elderly woman.

00:46:08.900 And then that's his apology.

00:46:11.140 Well, I'm going to Philadelphia this Friday because my friend and colleague Matt Walsh launched a major pro-life rally there

00:46:19.340 that's going to take place at the Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia.

00:46:23.600 The same one that this guy stalks, the same one that this guy volunteers at because he's just so, so covetous of abortions.

00:46:31.700 He's just so desirous. 0.99

00:46:33.660 He has such a hunger that more babies be killed that he volunteers his time to walk women in and encourage them to kill their children. 0.99

00:46:40.400 And then in his free time, when he's not volunteering there, he goes and harasses underage girls and elderly women 0.99

00:46:46.660 and intimidates them and threatens them and doxes them.

00:46:50.280 So I'm going to go there to this wonderful pro-life rally on Friday.

00:46:54.380 I hope if you're in the area, you come on out.

00:46:56.140 And Brian Sims, I hope you come on out. 0.96

00:46:57.940 I think you won't because you're a coward and because Brian Sims can't pick on someone his own size. 0.98

00:47:03.260 He's got to stick to stalking young underage teenage girls and elderly women. 0.99

00:47:07.620 He thinks that's a fight that he's more able to win.

00:47:11.500 But I hope he comes out.

00:47:12.720 Look forward to seeing him there and I look forward to seeing all of you.

00:47:15.320 In the meantime, I'll be in Missouri.

00:47:16.700 If you're in Jefferson City, come on out to that speech tomorrow at the state capitol.

00:47:20.360 And I'll also see you on the show in the meantime.

00:47:22.420 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:47:55.720 Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:47:58.640 The New York Times is writing about the fact that Donald Trump was in debt in the 80s,

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00:48:06.560 The New York Times is writing about anything it can to keep from writing about the one thing

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00:48:16.080 I'm Andrew Klavan. 0.99

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 08, 2019

Ep. 345 - The MSM Are The Dumbest People On Earth

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