The Michael Knowles Show - May 14, 2019


Ep. 348 - Time To Pay The Barr Tab


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

162.61783

Word Count

7,803

Sentence Count

631

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

71


Summary

Mueller time is over. Now it s time to pay the bar tab. Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and any potential wrongdoing on the part of Democrats in the investigation.


Transcript

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00:00:30.460 Mueller time is over.
00:00:32.120 Now it's time to pay the bar tab.
00:00:35.080 Attorney General William Barr
00:00:36.440 has appointed a U.S. attorney
00:00:37.920 to investigate the origins
00:00:39.260 of the Trump-Russia investigation
00:00:41.000 and any potential wrongdoing
00:00:43.040 on the part of Democrats
00:00:44.140 or federal government officials.
00:00:46.240 We investigate the investigation
00:00:48.080 of the investigation.
00:00:49.860 Then, Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
00:00:52.700 rewrites history
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00:01:00.480 Finally, Joe Biden dominates the 2020 field
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00:01:06.780 I'm Michael Knowles
00:01:07.440 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:16.100 Time to pay the bar tab.
00:01:17.740 I am going to find any excuse I can
00:01:20.840 to recite that pun
00:01:22.660 and that meme.
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00:01:36.600 It's all over.
00:01:37.620 Now, we are in the era
00:01:39.380 of William Barr
00:01:40.360 and this investigation
00:01:41.400 just got more interesting.
00:01:43.280 People aren't paying
00:01:43.880 a lot of attention to it right now
00:01:45.340 because everyone's so happy
00:01:47.720 that the Mueller report is over.
00:01:48.960 It exonerated the president
00:01:50.000 on collusion.
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00:03:28.440 Have you asked yourself this?
00:03:32.360 Why are Democrats right now
00:03:34.720 going so hard
00:03:36.360 after Attorney General William Barr?
00:03:38.640 Remember, they went after Jeff Sessions.
00:03:41.000 He's a hack.
00:03:41.700 He's a Trump hack.
00:03:42.500 Then they went after Matthew Whitaker,
00:03:43.820 who was in the Attorney General position
00:03:46.360 after Sessions,
00:03:47.500 briefly, interim.
00:03:48.660 And then now they're going after William Barr.
00:03:51.480 William Barr has a sterling track record.
00:03:54.220 William Barr was the Attorney General
00:03:55.500 30 years ago
00:03:56.460 under George H.W. Bush.
00:03:58.920 You know, the first Bush.
00:04:00.060 The Bush that all the Democrats
00:04:01.480 are pretending that they really like now
00:04:03.020 because he just died.
00:04:04.860 Remember that?
00:04:05.340 He was the Attorney General for that guy.
00:04:07.280 Very well respected.
00:04:09.080 But now they're pushing very hard against him.
00:04:11.560 And the reason for it
00:04:12.740 is that William Barr
00:04:14.920 is threatening to expose
00:04:16.740 Democrat wrongdoing
00:04:18.900 during the Obama administration,
00:04:21.160 specifically with the opening
00:04:22.840 of the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:04:25.680 William Barr has been signaling this
00:04:27.100 for a little while now,
00:04:28.180 and the more he signaled it,
00:04:29.560 the harder Democrats are going after him.
00:04:31.340 We saw the preview here
00:04:32.760 during those hearings
00:04:35.800 that Barr had on
00:04:37.840 with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:04:39.660 Here's where he promised
00:04:40.700 that he was going to get to the bottom
00:04:42.840 of this Trump-Russia investigation.
00:04:44.900 Do you share my concerns
00:04:46.640 about the FISA warrant process?
00:04:49.100 Yes.
00:04:49.480 Do you share my concerns
00:04:50.780 about the counterintelligence investigation,
00:04:52.920 how it was opened
00:04:53.580 and why it was opened?
00:04:54.760 Yes.
00:04:55.560 Do you share my concerns
00:04:56.720 that the professional,
00:04:58.220 lack of professionalism
00:04:59.860 in the Clinton email investigation
00:05:02.120 is something we should all look at?
00:05:04.940 Yes.
00:05:05.380 You can't see it on camera here,
00:05:08.080 but you can't even hear it.
00:05:09.900 I guess the microphones
00:05:10.580 weren't turned on,
00:05:11.320 but there were Democrat heads exploding
00:05:13.080 when Attorney General Barr
00:05:14.500 was saying this
00:05:15.300 because all of a sudden,
00:05:18.040 we're no longer talking
00:05:19.280 about the Mueller investigation.
00:05:20.640 We're no longer talking
00:05:21.340 about Trump collusion
00:05:22.320 or Trump obstruction
00:05:23.540 or the thing that Donald Trump did
00:05:25.780 35 years ago or whatever.
00:05:28.240 Now we're talking about
00:05:29.420 how did this investigation start?
00:05:32.080 How did the Obama administration
00:05:34.060 start spying on the Trump campaign?
00:05:36.220 Why did they do it?
00:05:37.760 What was going on?
00:05:39.020 Who acted wrongly
00:05:40.680 and who acted in a criminal manner?
00:05:44.500 Finally, we're going to get
00:05:45.460 to the bottom of that.
00:05:46.560 Attorney General Barr
00:05:47.440 has appointed a U.S. attorney
00:05:48.740 to examine the origins
00:05:50.240 of that investigation.
00:05:51.600 The attorney is charged
00:05:53.220 to see if the investigation
00:05:54.360 was lawful and appropriate,
00:05:56.440 to see if the spying
00:05:57.640 was lawful and appropriate.
00:05:59.940 This is not a special counsel,
00:06:01.460 but it might as well be.
00:06:02.860 There's practically
00:06:03.480 no real difference
00:06:04.440 between whether Barr
00:06:06.020 had appointed a special counsel
00:06:07.220 or if he just tasked
00:06:08.180 this U.S. attorney with it.
00:06:10.480 And so it will,
00:06:12.560 the investigation will focus
00:06:13.760 on how the government
00:06:14.700 collected intelligence
00:06:15.900 on Trump-Russia collusion.
00:06:17.600 It'll focus on the spying.
00:06:19.840 It's being led by a guy
00:06:20.800 named John Durham.
00:06:22.440 John Durham is a U.S. attorney
00:06:23.640 from Connecticut.
00:06:24.780 He has got truly
00:06:26.740 a stellar reputation.
00:06:28.160 I mean, I think this is a big part
00:06:29.580 of why he was appointed.
00:06:30.460 He has served
00:06:31.560 as a special prosecutor
00:06:32.680 investigating wrongdoing
00:06:34.440 by the national security officials,
00:06:36.500 by the agencies, FBI, CIA.
00:06:39.380 He's been a DOJ lawyer
00:06:40.620 since the early 80s.
00:06:42.480 And this is the important part.
00:06:44.580 He has conducted investigations
00:06:46.500 under both parties.
00:06:48.740 So in 1999,
00:06:50.320 Attorney General Janet Reno
00:06:51.340 had him investigate
00:06:52.260 the FBI's handling
00:06:53.900 of Whitey Bulger,
00:06:55.780 Whitey Bulger,
00:06:56.360 the famous Massachusetts mob boss,
00:06:58.300 who was an informant
00:06:59.480 for the FBI.
00:07:00.560 He investigated that.
00:07:01.460 So that was during
00:07:01.860 the Clinton administration.
00:07:03.120 Then during the Bush 2 administration
00:07:04.900 in 2008,
00:07:06.160 Attorney General Michael Mukasey
00:07:07.640 had him investigate
00:07:08.700 the CIA's destruction
00:07:10.400 of torture videos
00:07:11.840 in 2005.
00:07:14.060 So that was under
00:07:14.580 the Bush 2 administration.
00:07:16.240 Then, following year,
00:07:17.540 under the Obama administration,
00:07:19.600 Attorney General Eric Holder
00:07:20.740 had him investigate
00:07:21.700 whether the CIA
00:07:22.540 broke laws
00:07:23.680 regarding the abuse
00:07:25.060 of detainees.
00:07:26.340 So this guy has
00:07:27.080 total bipartisan credibility.
00:07:31.120 Now, the question here is,
00:07:32.520 why did Barr appoint
00:07:33.920 this U.S. attorney
00:07:34.760 to investigate it
00:07:35.760 when we already have
00:07:37.480 another investigation
00:07:38.600 going on?
00:07:40.200 There are now
00:07:40.700 two investigations
00:07:41.660 of the investigation
00:07:42.400 going on.
00:07:43.340 I know that sounds confusing,
00:07:44.840 but we have
00:07:45.480 this U.S. attorney investigation
00:07:46.960 that just began.
00:07:48.060 We also have
00:07:48.880 the Inspector General investigation
00:07:50.860 into how the Trump-Russia
00:07:52.560 investigation started.
00:07:53.680 So we have
00:07:54.380 the watchdog
00:07:55.440 for the DOJ
00:07:56.420 is also investigating this.
00:07:58.540 This is Michael Horowitz.
00:08:00.320 And Barr says
00:08:01.060 that this report
00:08:01.880 from the Inspector General
00:08:04.260 is going to be done
00:08:05.160 in May.
00:08:07.080 So why have
00:08:08.000 the second one?
00:08:09.200 We know, by the way,
00:08:10.360 that the Inspector General report
00:08:11.740 is going pretty well.
00:08:13.440 We know it's already
00:08:14.140 turned up some dirt
00:08:15.100 on the FBI.
00:08:16.300 This IG report
00:08:17.640 by Michael Horowitz
00:08:19.120 helped to get
00:08:20.080 that crooked
00:08:20.740 official Andy McCabe
00:08:23.200 fired and possibly
00:08:24.320 prosecuted
00:08:25.020 for wrongdoing,
00:08:26.940 specifically for delaying
00:08:28.520 the investigation
00:08:29.300 during 2016
00:08:31.300 of the Hillary Clinton
00:08:33.840 email scandal
00:08:34.640 and the Hillary emails
00:08:37.480 that turned up
00:08:38.260 on Anthony Weiner's laptop
00:08:40.000 when he was brought in
00:08:41.000 for sending weird messages
00:08:42.040 to young girls.
00:08:43.540 See how far deep
00:08:44.840 this goes?
00:08:45.460 See how many layers
00:08:46.460 they are
00:08:46.900 to these investigations.
00:08:48.880 This is how
00:08:49.800 the Democrats win.
00:08:50.780 This is how
00:08:51.360 the so-called
00:08:52.500 deep state wins
00:08:53.460 is there are
00:08:54.260 so many layers
00:08:55.280 to these investigations
00:08:56.220 that most people
00:08:57.060 just can't keep it
00:08:57.740 straight in their heads
00:08:58.480 so they say,
00:08:59.140 oh, I don't know,
00:08:59.600 they're all crooks,
00:09:00.280 never mind,
00:09:00.740 we'll move on.
00:09:02.140 But this is important.
00:09:04.440 You've got the watchdog
00:09:05.860 at the DOJ
00:09:06.780 looking into all of this,
00:09:08.520 already finding dirt,
00:09:10.000 already finding improper actions,
00:09:12.160 possibly criminal actions,
00:09:13.420 taken by these Obama
00:09:15.420 administration officials
00:09:16.660 with regard
00:09:17.820 to the 2016 election,
00:09:19.500 possibly influencing
00:09:20.640 the 2016 election.
00:09:22.400 You've got him,
00:09:23.460 sources say,
00:09:24.900 describing James Comey
00:09:26.660 as insubordinate.
00:09:27.740 You've got him
00:09:28.340 criticizing Obama's
00:09:29.660 Attorney General,
00:09:30.740 Loretta Lynch,
00:09:32.320 for meeting on a tarmac
00:09:33.500 with Bill Clinton
00:09:34.280 and coming up
00:09:35.120 with some possibly
00:09:35.860 crooked deal.
00:09:37.520 So you've got that
00:09:38.320 going on with the IG.
00:09:39.600 Now you have
00:09:40.260 this separate investigation.
00:09:41.540 Why?
00:09:42.260 Two possibilities.
00:09:43.080 One,
00:09:44.080 Attorney General Barr
00:09:45.020 already knows
00:09:46.300 what's coming
00:09:47.000 in the Inspector General report.
00:09:49.320 The other one
00:09:50.360 is that Barr
00:09:51.180 knows that
00:09:52.560 John Durham,
00:09:53.400 this U.S. attorney,
00:09:54.460 is extremely credible
00:09:55.920 on both sides of the aisle.
00:09:57.360 And what I think it is
00:09:58.220 is both.
00:09:59.860 I think probably,
00:10:01.520 I mean, look,
00:10:02.020 if you and I
00:10:03.320 already know
00:10:04.040 that the IG report
00:10:05.440 has turned up dirt
00:10:06.380 on these people,
00:10:07.340 obviously the Attorney General
00:10:08.500 of the United States
00:10:09.200 already knows that,
00:10:10.160 so he might be getting
00:10:10.940 a lead
00:10:11.540 on the findings
00:10:12.640 of that report
00:10:14.100 and looking a little
00:10:15.040 further into these guys.
00:10:16.840 And the other one is
00:10:17.820 the Democrats
00:10:19.360 have already gone
00:10:20.140 on the offensive
00:10:21.000 to tar
00:10:22.480 William Barr
00:10:23.920 as some sort of
00:10:24.540 partisan
00:10:24.940 Trump hack.
00:10:27.200 So
00:10:27.460 probably they'll go
00:10:29.840 after Michael Horowitz
00:10:30.860 when that report
00:10:32.140 comes out.
00:10:32.580 So he's saying,
00:10:33.140 I'm going to get a guy
00:10:33.940 who is so,
00:10:35.160 he has such a pristine record
00:10:36.700 that Democrats
00:10:37.660 cannot possibly
00:10:39.160 try to smear him
00:10:40.820 as a Trump
00:10:41.380 hack.
00:10:43.080 And the thing
00:10:43.700 with John Durham,
00:10:44.620 this U.S. attorney,
00:10:45.760 is that Democrat
00:10:46.540 Senators Dick Blumenthal,
00:10:47.940 Chris Murphy,
00:10:48.660 have come out
00:10:49.480 in great support of him.
00:10:50.920 They've called him
00:10:51.320 a fierce,
00:10:52.400 fair prosecutor.
00:10:53.780 So the minute
00:10:54.600 they try to go
00:10:55.180 after this guy
00:10:56.000 for uncovering dirt
00:10:57.240 on the Obama
00:10:57.760 administration,
00:10:58.900 they're just going
00:10:59.600 to play all those
00:11:00.340 clips of these
00:11:00.960 Democrat Senators
00:11:01.740 talking about
00:11:02.280 what a great guy
00:11:02.900 John Durham is.
00:11:04.440 I think that's why
00:11:05.240 we have two investigations.
00:11:06.420 The other one is
00:11:06.860 we want to be
00:11:07.260 very thorough here.
00:11:10.220 Broadly speaking,
00:11:11.740 we don't want to make
00:11:12.700 the same mistakes
00:11:13.660 that Democrats did.
00:11:15.160 We don't want
00:11:15.740 the Trump administration
00:11:16.480 to make the same mistakes
00:11:17.560 the Obama administration did.
00:11:18.960 We don't want conservatives
00:11:20.060 to make the same mistakes
00:11:21.220 leftists did.
00:11:22.600 This is the main
00:11:23.680 takeaway here.
00:11:25.960 How did Democrats
00:11:26.960 handle the Mueller
00:11:27.540 investigation?
00:11:28.460 They put all of their
00:11:29.440 eggs in that basket.
00:11:30.580 They prattled on
00:11:31.620 for two years,
00:11:32.520 three years,
00:11:33.000 about how Trump
00:11:33.620 was a Manchurian,
00:11:34.960 candidate.
00:11:35.960 He was a secret
00:11:37.060 stooge for Vladimir Putin.
00:11:39.220 He's a criminal.
00:11:40.020 He's a traitor.
00:11:40.940 Then the report
00:11:41.640 turns up nothing
00:11:42.400 and then they look
00:11:43.060 like a bunch of idiots.
00:11:44.820 We don't want
00:11:45.580 to make that mistake.
00:11:47.200 Look,
00:11:47.820 already
00:11:48.460 the investigation
00:11:49.860 into the investigation,
00:11:51.620 the investigation
00:11:52.820 into wrongdoing
00:11:54.900 under the Obama
00:11:55.540 administration,
00:11:56.440 already that has
00:11:57.240 turned up much
00:11:58.180 more evidence
00:11:58.740 of wrongdoing
00:11:59.420 than the Mueller
00:12:00.600 report into
00:12:01.460 Trump and collusion
00:12:02.420 did.
00:12:03.540 We already,
00:12:04.160 there is way
00:12:04.920 more dirt
00:12:06.540 on the hands
00:12:07.400 of Obama
00:12:08.260 administration
00:12:08.680 officials and
00:12:09.460 Democrats
00:12:09.920 than there ever
00:12:10.920 was on the
00:12:11.580 Trump campaign
00:12:12.160 for colluding
00:12:12.640 with Russia.
00:12:13.160 We already know
00:12:13.680 that,
00:12:14.380 but we don't
00:12:15.320 want to overpromise
00:12:16.320 and underdeliver
00:12:17.260 here.
00:12:18.980 We've got
00:12:19.660 these two guys
00:12:20.380 on the case,
00:12:20.920 the IG
00:12:21.280 and this U.S.
00:12:22.500 attorney.
00:12:23.280 It's a long way
00:12:24.220 until 2020.
00:12:25.280 There's a lot
00:12:25.780 of time
00:12:26.320 for new dirt
00:12:27.140 to come out.
00:12:27.640 We don't want
00:12:28.020 to overplay
00:12:28.540 our hand.
00:12:29.000 I think,
00:12:29.600 in part,
00:12:30.180 William Barr
00:12:30.660 might have been
00:12:31.100 motivated by that.
00:12:32.160 He doesn't want
00:12:33.380 this to become
00:12:33.920 this awful
00:12:34.540 political mess
00:12:35.380 like you saw
00:12:36.140 during the 2016
00:12:37.920 election.
00:12:39.240 He doesn't want
00:12:40.300 to become
00:12:40.720 the next James
00:12:41.440 Comey or the
00:12:42.180 next Loretta Lynch
00:12:43.160 or the next,
00:12:44.020 he doesn't need
00:12:45.040 that on his hands.
00:12:46.180 So,
00:12:46.760 before the IG
00:12:47.720 report comes out,
00:12:48.860 let's say the IG
00:12:49.980 report comes out
00:12:50.780 and it says the
00:12:51.660 Democrats acted
00:12:52.520 totally improperly,
00:12:54.460 the Obama
00:12:54.860 administration
00:12:55.460 was illegally,
00:12:56.980 criminally spying
00:12:57.760 on the Trump
00:12:58.180 campaign.
00:12:58.880 It's all awful.
00:12:59.460 At that point,
00:13:00.480 you're going
00:13:00.720 to have
00:13:01.120 Republican
00:13:01.820 senators,
00:13:02.420 the president,
00:13:03.080 all the GOP
00:13:03.960 activists calling
00:13:05.320 for a new
00:13:06.000 special counsel,
00:13:06.900 calling for a new
00:13:07.520 investigation,
00:13:08.240 calling for more
00:13:08.760 probes.
00:13:09.340 So,
00:13:09.660 maybe what
00:13:10.120 William Barr
00:13:10.620 wants to do
00:13:11.100 is get ahead
00:13:11.600 of that,
00:13:12.400 not for partisan
00:13:13.340 reasons,
00:13:14.200 but just actually
00:13:15.720 to maintain
00:13:16.240 the integrity
00:13:16.860 of the DOJ
00:13:17.720 to say we're
00:13:18.520 not launching
00:13:19.120 this new
00:13:19.500 investigation,
00:13:20.740 we're not
00:13:21.500 launching this
00:13:22.220 U.S.
00:13:22.660 attorney investigation
00:13:23.620 because of
00:13:25.180 pressure from
00:13:25.840 Senate Republicans.
00:13:26.940 We're doing
00:13:27.680 it because that's
00:13:29.080 where the evidence
00:13:29.660 is leading us.
00:13:30.400 I think it's
00:13:30.740 really sharp.
00:13:31.700 I got to tell you,
00:13:32.380 I feel very
00:13:33.000 comfortable with
00:13:33.960 William Barr
00:13:34.600 at the helm.
00:13:35.620 Not that I feel
00:13:36.260 ideologically comfortable
00:13:37.460 like he's going to
00:13:38.100 agree with
00:13:38.500 conservatives on
00:13:39.200 everything.
00:13:39.820 I just feel this is
00:13:40.740 a guy who is
00:13:41.300 extraordinarily
00:13:42.140 intelligent.
00:13:43.400 He is
00:13:43.680 extraordinarily
00:13:44.600 experienced
00:13:45.780 and practiced,
00:13:47.320 not just in the
00:13:48.280 ways of Washington,
00:13:49.120 not just in the
00:13:49.660 ways of the DOJ,
00:13:50.680 but with the office
00:13:51.480 of the attorney
00:13:51.920 general.
00:13:52.660 He's already done
00:13:53.320 the job before.
00:13:55.020 I feel,
00:13:56.240 finally,
00:13:56.820 for maybe the
00:13:57.280 first time
00:13:57.960 in the Trump
00:13:59.140 administration,
00:13:59.540 I feel that the
00:14:01.020 DOJ is settling
00:14:02.320 into good hands
00:14:03.460 and so I think
00:14:05.020 we should let
00:14:05.400 this play out.
00:14:06.060 I don't think
00:14:06.420 we should get
00:14:07.540 too far out ahead
00:14:08.280 of it.
00:14:08.860 It's going to be
00:14:09.340 very enjoyable
00:14:10.260 as evidence
00:14:12.540 starts to dribble
00:14:13.280 in of all of
00:14:14.100 the wrongdoing
00:14:15.120 that the Obama
00:14:15.820 administration
00:14:16.360 engaged in.
00:14:17.740 Let it happen.
00:14:18.680 Don't let your
00:14:19.180 anxiety get the
00:14:20.240 better of you.
00:14:21.080 Patience is a
00:14:21.840 virtue.
00:14:22.600 It's going to be
00:14:23.140 a very enjoyable
00:14:23.960 way to 2020,
00:14:26.080 specifically
00:14:26.620 because the
00:14:29.340 Democrat Party
00:14:30.260 is exploding.
00:14:31.780 The whole
00:14:32.800 left wing
00:14:33.420 is totally
00:14:34.080 falling apart.
00:14:35.640 Over in
00:14:36.440 D.C.,
00:14:36.960 over in
00:14:37.360 Congress,
00:14:37.920 Rashida Tlaib,
00:14:39.560 a rising star
00:14:40.740 of the Democrat
00:14:41.360 Party,
00:14:42.640 has now referred
00:14:43.660 to the Holocaust
00:14:44.540 as a calming
00:14:46.560 event.
00:14:48.440 She is not,
00:14:50.080 she not only
00:14:50.640 said that phrase,
00:14:51.440 which is so
00:14:51.840 outrageous,
00:14:52.260 she is rewriting
00:14:53.960 the history
00:14:55.040 of the Holocaust
00:14:56.040 and the creation
00:14:56.860 of the state
00:14:57.440 of Israel.
00:14:59.540 Now,
00:14:59.760 this has nothing
00:15:00.280 to do with
00:15:00.920 investigations of
00:15:02.360 Russia or collusion
00:15:03.640 or whatever.
00:15:04.320 This is just
00:15:05.220 purely the
00:15:06.500 Democrat Party
00:15:07.260 and the ideological
00:15:08.040 left collapsing
00:15:09.280 in on itself.
00:15:11.080 And specifically
00:15:12.120 on this issue
00:15:12.920 of Israel,
00:15:14.100 here you see
00:15:14.980 two major
00:15:16.220 leftist strategies
00:15:17.180 at play.
00:15:19.300 Rashida Tlaib
00:15:19.940 does them both
00:15:20.460 at the same time.
00:15:21.280 She does the
00:15:22.160 performance
00:15:22.680 of victimhood
00:15:23.560 and she does
00:15:24.880 the rewriting
00:15:25.460 of history.
00:15:27.440 Both at the
00:15:28.140 same time,
00:15:28.780 both central
00:15:29.520 to the left-wing
00:15:30.540 agenda.
00:15:31.760 Here she is
00:15:32.540 speaking both
00:15:33.480 sides of her
00:15:33.940 mouth about
00:15:34.720 the Holocaust.
00:15:35.860 And there's,
00:15:36.620 you know,
00:15:36.860 there's a kind
00:15:37.280 of a calming
00:15:37.740 feeling I always
00:15:38.520 tell folks.
00:15:39.380 When I think
00:15:40.180 of the Holocaust
00:15:41.580 and the tragedy
00:15:42.340 of the Holocaust
00:15:42.800 and the fact
00:15:44.440 that it was
00:15:45.180 my ancestors,
00:15:46.720 Palestinians,
00:15:47.780 who lost
00:15:48.360 their land
00:15:48.740 and some
00:15:49.020 lost their lives,
00:15:50.280 their livelihood,
00:15:51.020 the human
00:15:51.260 dignity,
00:15:52.500 their existence
00:15:53.340 in many ways
00:15:54.880 have been wiped
00:15:55.380 out and some
00:15:56.020 people's passport.
00:15:56.940 I mean,
00:15:57.060 just all of it
00:15:57.980 was in the name
00:15:59.480 of trying to
00:16:00.160 create a safe
00:16:00.760 haven for Jews
00:16:01.880 post the
00:16:04.220 Holocaust,
00:16:04.860 post the
00:16:05.340 tragedy and
00:16:05.960 horrific
00:16:06.400 persecution of
00:16:08.940 Jews across
00:16:10.240 the world
00:16:10.800 at that time.
00:16:12.020 And I love
00:16:13.860 the fact that
00:16:14.280 it was my
00:16:14.600 ancestors that
00:16:15.420 provided that,
00:16:16.240 right,
00:16:16.580 in many ways.
00:16:18.040 But they
00:16:18.640 did it in a
00:16:19.400 way that took
00:16:20.280 their human
00:16:20.920 dignity away,
00:16:21.840 right?
00:16:22.480 And it was
00:16:23.000 forced on
00:16:24.200 them.
00:16:24.760 So none of
00:16:25.600 that is true.
00:16:26.340 Nothing she
00:16:26.880 just said is
00:16:27.680 true.
00:16:28.980 Either she's a
00:16:29.680 profoundly stupid
00:16:30.640 woman or she's
00:16:31.500 lying.
00:16:32.120 And I don't
00:16:32.560 think she's
00:16:33.000 stupid, so I
00:16:33.740 think she's
00:16:34.160 lying.
00:16:34.880 None of what
00:16:35.600 she just said
00:16:36.160 is true.
00:16:36.720 First of all,
00:16:38.360 this is just a
00:16:39.300 note of
00:16:40.080 rhetorical advice.
00:16:42.060 When you are
00:16:42.780 describing the
00:16:43.460 Holocaust,
00:16:43.720 it is best to
00:16:45.400 avoid the word
00:16:46.140 calming.
00:16:48.160 Of all the
00:16:48.860 many words in
00:16:49.660 the English
00:16:49.920 language,
00:16:50.400 calming is not
00:16:51.120 the best one
00:16:51.640 to describe the
00:16:52.200 Holocaust.
00:16:53.180 Eric Swalwell,
00:16:54.540 the sort of
00:16:55.320 presidential
00:16:55.780 candidate,
00:16:56.780 just did this
00:16:57.380 the other day
00:16:58.000 when he
00:16:58.420 compared Russian
00:16:59.560 election interference
00:17:00.900 to September
00:17:01.760 11th.
00:17:03.540 Again,
00:17:04.460 another piece
00:17:05.080 of advice,
00:17:06.180 it's best not
00:17:07.300 to compare
00:17:07.920 things to
00:17:08.500 September 11th.
00:17:09.420 You now have
00:17:09.980 two rules for
00:17:10.900 rhetoric.
00:17:11.500 Don't compare
00:17:11.940 things to
00:17:12.320 9-11.
00:17:12.720 Don't refer
00:17:13.800 to the
00:17:14.080 Holocaust as
00:17:14.880 calming.
00:17:17.100 But then she
00:17:17.920 rewrites history.
00:17:19.460 Everything she
00:17:20.180 said that the
00:17:21.440 Arabs in
00:17:22.480 British Mandatory
00:17:23.440 Palestine,
00:17:24.560 they welcomed
00:17:25.460 the Jews in.
00:17:26.300 They said,
00:17:26.580 Jews,
00:17:27.080 please come in.
00:17:28.240 Please establish
00:17:29.060 the state of
00:17:29.620 Israel.
00:17:29.960 We like you so
00:17:30.640 much.
00:17:30.920 We want you to
00:17:31.760 be here.
00:17:32.900 How happy
00:17:33.980 Rashida Tlaib is
00:17:35.440 that her
00:17:35.780 ancestors,
00:17:37.460 the Arabs in
00:17:38.440 Mandatory Palestine,
00:17:39.640 they welcomed,
00:17:40.280 except none of
00:17:40.840 that happened.
00:17:41.380 That did not
00:17:43.020 happen.
00:17:44.800 Arabs in
00:17:46.060 British Palestine
00:17:47.140 did not want the
00:17:48.920 Jews to come in.
00:17:50.040 What is my
00:17:50.500 evidence of this?
00:17:51.500 Well, for one,
00:17:52.760 they allied with
00:17:54.180 Hitler.
00:17:55.180 So the leader of
00:17:56.440 the Palestinian Arab
00:17:57.520 nationalist movement,
00:17:58.580 Haj Amin al-Husseini,
00:18:00.760 allied with
00:18:01.600 Hitler.
00:18:01.980 He was living in
00:18:02.740 Germany, in
00:18:03.400 Berlin, from
00:18:03.980 1941 to
00:18:05.280 1945.
00:18:06.480 He not only
00:18:07.180 allied with
00:18:07.660 Hitler, he called
00:18:08.920 for the massacre
00:18:09.820 of Jews in
00:18:11.220 the Arab
00:18:11.680 world.
00:18:12.340 He not only
00:18:12.980 called for the
00:18:13.440 massacre of Jews
00:18:14.120 in the Arab
00:18:14.460 world, he did
00:18:15.260 it on Nazi
00:18:16.060 radio stations
00:18:17.140 all throughout
00:18:17.780 Berlin.
00:18:18.660 He called
00:18:19.280 specifically for
00:18:20.140 an anti-Jewish
00:18:20.900 jihad.
00:18:22.060 He then aided
00:18:23.240 the Nazis,
00:18:23.980 because he was
00:18:24.520 friends with
00:18:25.000 Hitler, he aided
00:18:26.020 the Nazis in
00:18:26.800 recruiting Muslims
00:18:27.740 from the Balkans
00:18:28.720 for the SS
00:18:29.660 and for the
00:18:30.120 Wehrmacht.
00:18:31.580 He launched a
00:18:32.580 revolt.
00:18:33.740 These are the
00:18:34.180 Palestinian Arabs.
00:18:35.080 They launched a
00:18:36.280 revolt between
00:18:36.980 1936 and 1939
00:18:40.060 to deter European
00:18:41.560 Jews from coming
00:18:42.720 into the region
00:18:43.840 of Palestine.
00:18:45.260 When we use the
00:18:46.180 word Palestine,
00:18:46.880 by the way, we
00:18:47.500 have to be clear.
00:18:48.520 We're not referring
00:18:49.200 to a country called
00:18:50.200 Palestine.
00:18:50.960 There has never
00:18:51.760 been a nation
00:18:52.380 state called
00:18:53.400 Palestine.
00:18:54.460 That nation
00:18:55.360 state might as
00:18:56.320 well exist between
00:18:57.200 Narnia and
00:18:57.980 Wakanda.
00:18:58.600 It is completely
00:18:59.360 imaginary, completely
00:19:01.240 fictitious.
00:19:02.220 There is a region
00:19:03.240 that was named
00:19:04.460 by the Romans
00:19:05.260 Palestine.
00:19:06.200 So when we refer
00:19:06.840 historically to
00:19:07.820 Palestine, we're
00:19:08.920 referring to a
00:19:09.520 region named
00:19:10.600 by the Romans
00:19:11.620 well after the
00:19:13.940 nation of Israel
00:19:15.300 inhabited that
00:19:16.280 land.
00:19:17.760 So there's
00:19:18.320 Palestine.
00:19:18.780 And then when the
00:19:19.260 British took over
00:19:20.180 the area, there
00:19:21.240 was the mandate
00:19:22.020 of Palestine.
00:19:23.440 It's referred to
00:19:24.460 British Palestine
00:19:25.220 or Mandatory
00:19:25.980 Palestine.
00:19:26.780 So that's a
00:19:27.260 region, not a
00:19:28.320 nation state.
00:19:29.840 So the Arabs
00:19:31.260 who were living
00:19:31.840 in British Mandatory
00:19:32.960 Palestine launched
00:19:34.300 a revolt to stop
00:19:35.500 Jews from coming
00:19:36.180 into the area and
00:19:37.640 eventually they
00:19:38.300 petitioned the
00:19:38.860 British to stop
00:19:40.020 the refugee Jews
00:19:41.220 almost altogether
00:19:42.240 from entering the
00:19:42.980 region.
00:19:44.800 Rashida Tlaib
00:19:45.460 completely reinvents
00:19:46.700 that history and
00:19:47.640 here is how that
00:19:48.640 history is being
00:19:49.320 described by
00:19:50.200 scholars on both
00:19:51.960 sides of the
00:19:52.400 question.
00:19:53.620 Supporters of a
00:19:55.080 Palestinian state,
00:19:56.360 supporters of the
00:19:57.700 state of Israel.
00:19:59.160 This is according to
00:20:00.280 the left-wing Israeli
00:20:01.100 paper, Haaretz.
00:20:02.100 Professor Benny
00:20:03.980 Morris, a scholar of
00:20:05.780 British Mandatory
00:20:06.460 Palestine and the
00:20:07.760 creation of the
00:20:08.480 state of Israel,
00:20:09.120 said, quote, Rashida
00:20:10.760 Tlaib is either
00:20:11.960 completely ignorant of
00:20:13.220 the history or is a
00:20:14.480 deliberate liar.
00:20:15.620 That's my reaction
00:20:16.880 entirely and I think
00:20:18.720 Professor Morris is
00:20:19.820 probably a little too
00:20:20.680 kind to her because I
00:20:21.760 don't think she's just
00:20:22.620 a total idiot.
00:20:24.740 He goes on though,
00:20:25.620 he said, Tlaib's
00:20:26.400 ancestors, quote, did
00:20:27.540 nothing to alleviate the
00:20:29.260 suffering of the Jews
00:20:30.140 at Nazi hands, rather
00:20:31.660 the opposite.
00:20:32.660 The Arabs of British
00:20:34.140 Mandatory Palestine
00:20:35.080 during the whole
00:20:36.200 period and supported
00:20:37.880 by the neighboring
00:20:38.520 Arab states did all
00:20:39.700 they could to prevent
00:20:41.320 Jews trying to escape
00:20:43.120 Nazi hands from
00:20:44.360 reaching the relatively
00:20:45.380 safe shores of
00:20:46.840 Palestine.
00:20:48.080 That is a Jewish
00:20:50.260 historian.
00:20:50.800 An Arab historian,
00:20:51.700 Dr. Adel Mana,
00:20:52.640 said, quote, I don't
00:20:54.160 know what she meant.
00:20:55.840 It was natural that
00:20:56.960 when the Palestinians
00:20:57.700 thought that the
00:20:58.620 danger to their
00:20:59.380 existence was real,
00:21:00.700 they started to
00:21:01.520 resist the Zionist
00:21:02.820 project.
00:21:03.860 Fair enough.
00:21:04.780 Israeli historian
00:21:05.620 Tom Segev, quote,
00:21:07.380 I have never heard
00:21:08.620 anybody say that
00:21:09.840 before.
00:21:10.480 I really can't
00:21:11.620 imagine that any
00:21:12.760 Palestinian shares
00:21:14.340 that noble sentiment
00:21:15.800 of welcoming all of
00:21:17.560 the Jews into the
00:21:18.180 area.
00:21:19.100 He goes on, I really
00:21:20.580 want to give her the
00:21:21.300 benefit of the doubt
00:21:22.100 that she really meant
00:21:22.920 it, but to me, and
00:21:24.280 maybe I'm cynical, it
00:21:25.740 sounded like an
00:21:26.460 attempt to be ironic
00:21:27.580 or sarcastic.
00:21:29.300 Now, I don't think
00:21:30.020 she was being ironic
00:21:31.040 or sarcastic.
00:21:32.400 I think she was
00:21:33.180 lying.
00:21:34.400 I don't think she
00:21:34.900 was making a joke.
00:21:35.860 I don't think she
00:21:37.040 was using verbal
00:21:38.700 irony.
00:21:39.960 I think she was
00:21:40.740 lying, and she
00:21:41.960 was reliant on
00:21:44.400 Americans'
00:21:45.700 historical ignorance,
00:21:46.900 and specifically the
00:21:48.180 historical ignorance
00:21:49.320 of her left-wing
00:21:50.680 base, which is
00:21:52.200 manifest.
00:21:52.860 It's obvious that
00:21:53.880 her base is
00:21:54.940 historically ignorant.
00:21:55.840 Most Americans don't
00:21:56.840 know very much about
00:21:57.580 history.
00:21:59.100 Most Americans can't
00:22:00.100 name the three branches
00:22:01.160 of government.
00:22:01.860 I mean, the ignorance
00:22:03.640 epidemic in this
00:22:04.580 country is terrifying.
00:22:07.220 One-third of young
00:22:08.620 Americans think George
00:22:09.660 W. Bush killed more
00:22:11.060 people than Soviet
00:22:12.420 dictator Joseph Stalin.
00:22:14.760 You probably don't
00:22:16.180 believe this, because if
00:22:17.380 you're listening to this
00:22:18.060 show, you have an
00:22:18.860 interest in current
00:22:19.620 events and history and
00:22:20.620 culture and religion, and
00:22:21.620 so you read about these
00:22:23.280 things a lot.
00:22:25.200 The vast majority of
00:22:26.400 this country does not.
00:22:28.060 It's not exactly their
00:22:29.080 fault.
00:22:29.420 They've been failed in
00:22:30.400 education by their
00:22:31.180 parents.
00:22:31.600 They've been failed in
00:22:32.560 education by their
00:22:33.820 teachers K-12 and then
00:22:35.320 through college as well.
00:22:36.920 You can now graduate from
00:22:38.020 Yale with a degree in
00:22:39.300 English and graduate
00:22:41.240 summa cum laude and
00:22:42.880 never have read
00:22:43.620 Shakespeare.
00:22:44.660 This is a profound
00:22:45.680 problem, and this is
00:22:46.780 what the left relies on.
00:22:48.180 They rely on historical
00:22:49.740 ignorance.
00:22:50.560 So when she gets called
00:22:52.080 out on this, does she
00:22:53.560 admit?
00:22:54.120 Does she say, okay,
00:22:54.680 you're right, I
00:22:55.400 misrepresented the
00:22:56.540 history, I'm sorry,
00:22:58.060 you're right, I lied
00:22:58.980 about it, I'm sorry,
00:23:00.160 you caught me, you all
00:23:01.140 know the history, and I
00:23:02.640 tried to get one over on
00:23:03.760 you.
00:23:04.320 No.
00:23:05.840 Because people don't
00:23:06.560 know the history.
00:23:07.180 So instead what she
00:23:07.840 does is she reverts to
00:23:08.780 the classic leftist
00:23:09.840 strategy of calling her
00:23:11.600 critics stupid racists.
00:23:13.820 The tragedy of the
00:23:15.000 Holocaust, I mean, the
00:23:16.600 reason why Israel was
00:23:18.020 created is to create a
00:23:18.980 safe haven for Jews
00:23:19.760 around the world.
00:23:20.560 And there is something
00:23:22.340 like in many ways
00:23:23.820 beautiful about that my
00:23:24.840 ancestors, many had
00:23:26.120 died or had to give up
00:23:27.820 their livelihood, their
00:23:28.740 human dignity to provide
00:23:30.180 a safe haven for Jews in
00:23:31.620 our world.
00:23:32.320 And that is something I
00:23:33.940 wanted to recognize and
00:23:34.960 kind of honor in some
00:23:36.320 sort of way.
00:23:36.900 But I also think it's
00:23:38.240 important because I want
00:23:39.500 Palestinian people also to
00:23:40.920 find some sort of, you
00:23:42.120 know, light in this kind of
00:23:43.340 what's happening.
00:23:44.040 But also, you know, in
00:23:46.100 the end I said, I want all
00:23:48.120 of us to feel safe.
00:23:49.200 All of us deserve human
00:23:51.080 dignity, no matter our
00:23:52.400 backgrounds, no matter
00:23:53.180 ethnicity, no matter even
00:23:54.320 our political opinions, we
00:23:55.660 all deserve that kind of
00:23:57.040 equality and justice.
00:23:58.600 And, you know, for me, I
00:23:59.780 wanted to uplift that and
00:24:00.940 bring that to light.
00:24:02.140 And it was unfortunate.
00:24:03.400 You know, I got a text
00:24:04.780 message from a friend who's
00:24:06.140 like, hey, next time, you
00:24:07.060 know, really clarify, maybe
00:24:08.480 talk like a fourth
00:24:09.400 fourth grader because maybe
00:24:10.720 the racist idiots would
00:24:11.700 understand you better.
00:24:12.480 Um, so it's just, you
00:24:15.220 know, I will continue to
00:24:16.800 speak the truth to power.
00:24:18.460 The racist idiots.
00:24:19.780 That's maybe the racist
00:24:21.460 idiots.
00:24:22.040 See, if you disagree with
00:24:24.300 Rashida Tlaib's complete
00:24:25.640 rewriting of history, the
00:24:27.540 only explanation is that
00:24:28.760 you're a racist idiot.
00:24:30.740 Now, ironically, what she's
00:24:32.120 relying on to spread her
00:24:33.940 lies are racist idiots,
00:24:36.220 right?
00:24:36.380 She's relying on people who
00:24:37.360 don't know the history and
00:24:38.740 she's relying on people who
00:24:40.620 have a sympathy for Arabs,
00:24:43.100 a racial sympathy for Arabs
00:24:44.300 and a racial antipathy for
00:24:45.720 Jews.
00:24:47.220 Because if you knew the
00:24:48.320 history, you couldn't
00:24:50.340 possibly agree with what
00:24:51.560 she said because what she
00:24:52.380 said is demonstrably false.
00:24:54.920 So what she's just relying
00:24:56.320 on is a growing problem in
00:24:59.320 the Democrat Party, which is
00:25:00.580 a lot of Democrats these
00:25:01.620 days don't like Jews.
00:25:03.120 They have an antipathy for
00:25:04.120 Jews and they have a racial
00:25:05.760 preference for Arabs in the
00:25:08.540 region.
00:25:08.840 This is what these movements
00:25:10.720 Students for Justice in
00:25:11.860 Palestine are, which is one
00:25:14.080 of the most ironically named
00:25:15.360 groups because it's not led
00:25:16.960 by students, it isn't about
00:25:18.340 justice, and there's no such
00:25:19.460 country as Palestine.
00:25:20.720 You could put every part of
00:25:21.740 it in quotes.
00:25:23.060 Or the boycott, divest, and
00:25:24.980 sanction movement of Israel,
00:25:26.120 which is basically to starve
00:25:27.740 Israel and stop it from being
00:25:29.580 a nation state.
00:25:32.360 That's what she's relying on,
00:25:34.260 antipathy for Jews, antipathy for
00:25:35.980 Israel, and historical
00:25:37.260 ignorance.
00:25:37.720 So how is this playing out?
00:25:40.300 Lest you think that I'm only
00:25:41.480 presenting one side here.
00:25:43.540 I don't think I am.
00:25:44.420 I'm presenting Arab historians,
00:25:46.100 Jewish historians, her own
00:25:47.580 words, but lest you think I'm
00:25:49.420 only playing one side.
00:25:51.280 Let's turn to the leftists
00:25:53.240 par excellence, the typical
00:25:56.560 leftists on CNN, even that
00:26:00.740 network, even John King on CNN
00:26:02.920 can't defend what she said.
00:26:04.660 Yes, as she said, Palestinians
00:26:06.640 lost land in the creation of
00:26:07.940 Israel.
00:26:08.200 But she ignored the fact that
00:26:09.860 Palestinian leaders at the time
00:26:11.220 allied themselves with Hitler.
00:26:13.620 And the total war was how the
00:26:15.180 Arab world reacted to the
00:26:16.640 declaration of Israeli
00:26:17.860 independence.
00:26:19.320 Simple as that.
00:26:20.360 I mean, you've got to give the left
00:26:22.900 some credit here.
00:26:24.380 There is a photo of Arab leaders
00:26:27.240 from the region of Palestine
00:26:29.140 sitting face to face with Hitler,
00:26:32.420 having a grand old time with Adolf
00:26:34.080 Hitler himself.
00:26:36.120 And then they have the audacity to go
00:26:38.520 on television and say,
00:26:40.240 yes, my ancestors, they welcomed the
00:26:42.180 Jews with open arms.
00:26:43.320 They laid down their lives.
00:26:45.480 They laid down their lives to give
00:26:48.180 the Jews a safe haven.
00:26:50.380 Either that or they allied with
00:26:51.940 Hitler and started years of
00:26:53.780 uprisings and tried to kill all
00:26:54.980 the Jews.
00:26:55.760 It was one, it's one or the other.
00:26:56.940 I forget.
00:26:57.320 It's one of those two.
00:26:59.320 So CNN, kudos on them for at least
00:27:01.620 for, for I think 14 seconds
00:27:04.120 exactly reporting the actual
00:27:06.940 history here.
00:27:08.300 How is this playing out at the
00:27:10.640 elected Democrat level?
00:27:12.860 So you've got the media.
00:27:14.680 Okay.
00:27:15.080 They're being not fair, but at least
00:27:17.600 briefly presenting the other side
00:27:19.580 at the elected level, the level of
00:27:22.540 Nancy Pelosi, the politicians are
00:27:25.920 defending Rashida Tlaib at that
00:27:28.420 elected level, the speaker of the
00:27:30.520 House of Representatives, leader of
00:27:32.820 the Democrat party, Nancy Pelosi.
00:27:35.840 She's defending the total historical
00:27:38.900 revisionism of Rashida Tlaib.
00:27:40.680 She tweeted out, quote, Republican
00:27:42.840 desperate attempts to smear
00:27:45.060 representative Rashida and
00:27:47.480 misrepresent her comments are
00:27:49.920 outrageous.
00:27:51.120 President Trump and House GOP
00:27:52.760 should apologize to Rep Tlaib and
00:27:55.640 the American people for their gross
00:27:57.020 misrepresentations.
00:27:58.140 In the face of that inversion of reality, in
00:28:06.860 the face of a lie so egregious as that, I
00:28:13.860 lose my capacity for indignation.
00:28:16.700 How am I supposed to respond to that?
00:28:19.720 Rashida Tlaib, according to every
00:28:22.180 historian, completely inverted the
00:28:26.960 history of that region and of that
00:28:28.740 moment.
00:28:29.680 She lied through her teeth.
00:28:32.920 And then Nancy Pelosi, the head of her
00:28:34.880 party, calls on all of us to apologize to
00:28:36.900 her for misrepresenting history.
00:28:39.540 You can't even get upset about that.
00:28:44.880 You just sort of sit back and say, huh, all right, I guess the
00:28:49.660 Democrats are living in a perfect fantasy world that has no bearing on
00:28:54.980 history, no bearing on historical textbooks or documents or words.
00:29:01.360 Words lose their meaning in the face of that sort of defense.
00:29:05.120 Now, why is Pelosi doing it?
00:29:08.680 And what effect will this have on 2020?
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00:30:02.320 Why is Pelosi defending Rashida Tlaib?
00:30:08.660 Why is she defending obvious historical lies?
00:30:11.960 Why is she doing that?
00:30:13.280 She's doing it because she's having a tough time keeping this fractious House caucus together.
00:30:18.780 She's also having a tough time dealing with the growing anti-Semitism on the left.
00:30:24.200 So you remember Ilhan Omar, the other Jew-hating freshman Democrat.
00:30:31.360 She made all of these comments about how awful Jews are and they're hypnotizing the world and
00:30:35.700 they're just buying off American politicians and you can't trust them because they have
00:30:39.340 no allegiance to America.
00:30:40.440 She made all these comments.
00:30:42.100 And Pelosi tried her best to keep quiet.
00:30:45.580 At the time, they were saying, Nancy, come on, speak out against her.
00:30:48.780 And she said, I can't because our party hates the Jews now.
00:30:52.120 So I got to kind of go with them.
00:30:54.180 You had Democrat congressmen like Eliot Engel and Nita Loewy saying, we need a resolution
00:30:59.580 to condemn anti-Semitism.
00:31:01.480 Come on, Nancy, at least do that.
00:31:03.500 Nancy said, oh, that's really going to upset all of the anti-Semites in our party.
00:31:07.260 So they watered down that resolution, made it about all sorts of hatred, a total cave.
00:31:13.380 Now with Tlaib, she's defending her.
00:31:15.340 There are two major takeaways here, specifically for Democrats.
00:31:21.220 One, this is why Democrats hate history.
00:31:26.340 It's why they hate historical education.
00:31:29.000 It's why they rip down statues.
00:31:31.260 It's why they rip down murals.
00:31:32.680 It's why they rip down monuments.
00:31:34.440 It's why they rewrite high school history curricula.
00:31:38.340 It's why they support taking courses out of historical curricula in college.
00:31:46.000 They hate history because history is an obstacle to their political program.
00:31:51.180 Historical knowledge is an obstacle to their political program.
00:31:54.880 One of the issues now on the left is boycotting Israel, divesting from Israel, and establishing
00:32:04.180 another Arab state in Israel.
00:32:08.120 That is now a platform that is endorsed by huge swaths of the left around the world and
00:32:13.580 in the United States.
00:32:15.260 Now, there are many good arguments against this course of action.
00:32:20.240 One, the Arabs in that area elected Hamas, a terrorist group, to be their government.
00:32:26.340 Two, they allied with Hitler during the Second World War.
00:32:29.520 Three, they have no historical claim to the land.
00:32:32.220 The Jews do have some historical claim to the land.
00:32:36.320 Many, what are the arguments for the establishment of a new Palestinian nation state in parts of Israel?
00:32:43.980 Well, wow, wow, racism, idiot, racism, idiot, I don't know, whatever smears.
00:32:51.620 No, the argument that Rashida Tlaib is trying to make is that the Palestinian Arabs welcomed
00:32:58.200 the Jews in and they were so good and there was a misunderstanding and they totally made up.
00:33:03.980 But the argument for that agenda is a fictional narrative.
00:33:08.020 The argument that right-wingers tend to make for their agenda is a historical narrative.
00:33:12.800 The argument that the left tends to make is a fictional narrative.
00:33:17.580 Why should we get rid of male and female bathrooms?
00:33:20.480 Why should we have an all-gender, 56-gender bathroom?
00:33:24.980 The reason that the right wants to keep different bathrooms for different sexes is because there
00:33:32.100 are two sexes, men and women.
00:33:34.500 That's a fact.
00:33:35.580 That's a biological fact and a fact of nature.
00:33:38.380 The reason the left wants to get rid of male and female bathrooms is because of a fantasy
00:33:43.360 that there is no such thing as gender or there are 56 genders or there are 58 genders or whatever
00:33:48.240 they're saying now.
00:33:49.860 The reason that the right wants to have borders, security, and wants to build a physical barrier
00:33:55.420 on our southern border is that foreign nationals are not American citizens, is that nations have
00:34:04.140 to have borders, nations have sovereignty, nations get to decide who comes in and out.
00:34:07.960 Our immigration law decides who comes in and out.
00:34:10.080 The reason that the left wants open borders is because they deny even the historical legitimacy
00:34:16.120 of the nation state.
00:34:17.380 They deny the reality of our immigration laws.
00:34:20.600 They deny the atrocities that happen along that journey.
00:34:24.800 They deny the drugs that are coming in.
00:34:26.140 They deny the gangs that are coming in.
00:34:27.460 They have a fantasy that they're pushing.
00:34:29.620 That's the difference.
00:34:31.160 It's why we have to learn history.
00:34:33.900 It's why it is so important for right-wingers to learn history.
00:34:37.460 People ask me what they should major in in college.
00:34:39.540 Major in history.
00:34:40.580 If you're debating between poli-sci and this and that, history.
00:34:45.320 History is important.
00:34:46.120 It is the best scholarly tool that we can use against the left-wing agenda.
00:34:51.980 That's the ideological takeaway from this.
00:34:54.320 The major political takeaway, Democrats are now the anti-Israel party.
00:34:58.540 You got the Republicans are the pro-Israel party.
00:35:00.680 The Democrats are the anti-Israel party.
00:35:02.840 This is a serious tension between the old Democrats and the new Democrats, in part because
00:35:07.460 most American Jews are Democrats.
00:35:10.260 So you have a lot of a little older school Democrats now who are saying, gosh, I can't be part of a
00:35:15.000 party that hates Israel, that hates the Jews.
00:35:19.040 Now, if you've got these more old school, slightly more moderate Democrats, you have
00:35:23.700 these new Democrats like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which
00:35:28.800 side is winning out?
00:35:30.260 If 2020 is any indication, voters across the country prefer the old Democrats.
00:35:36.940 Why do I know that?
00:35:38.040 Because Joe Biden is absolutely killing it in the polls.
00:35:40.920 He is dominating this entire race.
00:35:45.380 If the election were held today, there is no question that he would be the nominee.
00:35:49.480 He might be the winner with the majority of votes in a field of 20 candidates.
00:35:54.500 I mean, he is killing it that much.
00:35:56.500 In the South Carolina field right now, Joe Biden is leading by 31% of the vote.
00:36:03.120 He's not leading with 31% of the vote.
00:36:05.360 He's actually got 46% of the vote.
00:36:07.320 The next highest candidate is Bernie Sanders, who has 15%.
00:36:10.720 So Joe has triple Bernie's support in South Carolina.
00:36:14.600 After Bernie in South Carolina is Kamala Harris with 10%.
00:36:18.720 After that, you've got Buttigieg and Warren with 8%.
00:36:23.780 After that, you've got poor Cory Booker, 4%.
00:36:26.980 After that, there's a name I haven't said yet.
00:36:29.880 It's a name you've probably forgotten.
00:36:32.000 Poor old Beto O'Rourke.
00:36:33.460 He's some Irish guy from Texas.
00:36:34.840 He's only got 2%.
00:36:36.520 These old Democrats, Joe Biden, it's not even close between Biden and Sanders, triple.
00:36:44.820 And poor Beto trailing at the bottom of the pack.
00:36:47.200 So what is Beto going to do?
00:36:50.000 Beto is trying to reboot his campaign.
00:36:52.560 He has leaked this to reporters.
00:36:54.300 He's going to reboot.
00:36:55.220 You're going to get Beto 2.0.
00:36:56.780 He's showing up to events in New Hampshire and getting crowds of 30 people.
00:37:01.340 I mean, this is not going well for him.
00:37:05.100 The reboot is not going to work.
00:37:07.420 There's no reboot.
00:37:08.680 He got the best boot in the whole world.
00:37:11.260 He got glossy covers, Vanity Fair.
00:37:14.340 You remember that?
00:37:15.100 I'm in it.
00:37:15.600 I'm in it to win it.
00:37:17.680 And this should have told us that he wasn't going to really go anywhere.
00:37:22.380 Because whichever candidate Vanity Fair likes is not going to be the candidate.
00:37:25.620 I remember, I was on the Huntsman campaign in 2012.
00:37:29.300 I love John Huntsman, our ambassador to Russia.
00:37:31.340 I think he's a tremendous guy.
00:37:33.040 Vanity Fair gave him a great glossy treatment.
00:37:35.000 I said, no, don't let, no, Vanity Fair should not do that.
00:37:37.840 Because in some ways, it's the kiss of death.
00:37:39.740 If the media likes you too much, you're going to have a harder time on the campaign trail.
00:37:43.540 That happened to Beto.
00:37:44.780 And then the main thing that happened to Beto is Buttigieg.
00:37:47.160 Because Pete Buttigieg is, in every single way, the better Beto O'Rourke.
00:37:54.760 In every way.
00:37:55.880 He's smarter.
00:37:57.340 He's better educated.
00:37:58.920 He's got executive experience.
00:38:01.700 Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke was just a congressman.
00:38:03.860 At least Mayor Pete has been the mayor of a small town.
00:38:10.120 Buttigieg checks off more boxes on the intersectional victimhood hierarchy.
00:38:15.320 He can say he's gay.
00:38:16.180 They're both privileged, wealthy, white men.
00:38:19.600 But he's at least gay.
00:38:20.560 So he can play that card in the Democrat primary.
00:38:23.400 And most importantly of all, Buttigieg is a winner.
00:38:28.100 And Beto is a loser.
00:38:31.200 Buttigieg won his races.
00:38:33.240 Buttigieg is the mayor of this small town in Indiana.
00:38:38.060 Beto's a loser.
00:38:39.360 We forget he's a loser because the media treated him as a winner.
00:38:42.640 The media, after he lost a Senate race in Texas,
00:38:45.200 they basically treated him like he won.
00:38:48.760 But he's a loser.
00:38:50.140 And you don't get to lose and then immediately become president.
00:38:54.520 He almost took Texas from Ted Cruz.
00:38:58.020 Great.
00:38:58.360 Oh, cool.
00:38:58.800 Almost and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee.
00:39:01.620 Almost means nothing in politics.
00:39:03.520 John Boehner used to make this point.
00:39:05.940 The winners go to Washington and the losers go home.
00:39:09.300 Doesn't matter if you lose by fifty percent or you lose by two percent or three percent like Beto did in Texas.
00:39:18.020 He lost.
00:39:18.760 Do you remember John Ossoff?
00:39:21.960 No, of course you don't.
00:39:23.480 John Ossoff was the old Beto O'Rourke.
00:39:26.200 John Ossoff was this guy that they were running, I think, in the Georgia's sixth congressional district.
00:39:31.440 Newt Gingrich's old seat.
00:39:32.500 He was running then also in Tom Price's old seat when Tom Price was appointed by the Trump administration to run Health and Human Services.
00:39:39.880 And this was going to be the big, the first referendum on Trump and the Democrats are going to win.
00:39:45.140 They poured millions and millions, tens of millions of dollars into this race.
00:39:49.840 And he lost.
00:39:51.340 Same thing.
00:39:52.060 The media sort of treated him like a winner.
00:39:53.980 They said, oh, it was a moral victory.
00:39:55.680 Oh, he came close.
00:39:56.920 And then he's done.
00:39:57.880 He's over.
00:39:58.920 He's not going anywhere.
00:39:59.780 And I think Beto is going to have to deal with that now, unfortunately for him.
00:40:04.580 Beto has one play left.
00:40:06.000 Beto's only play is that he needs to convince Iowa voters that he can win Texas in a general election.
00:40:16.580 How many electoral votes does Texas have?
00:40:18.860 32 or more electoral?
00:40:20.500 38 or something?
00:40:21.740 That's a lot of electoral votes.
00:40:23.000 You win Texas as a Democrat.
00:40:24.500 The election doesn't matter what else happens.
00:40:26.420 You win the election.
00:40:28.040 So what Beto O'Rourke is going to try to do is say, listen, Iowa voters.
00:40:34.640 You might not like me.
00:40:36.680 I might be a loser.
00:40:37.600 I might be creepy and weird.
00:40:38.860 I might dress up like a furry.
00:40:40.260 I might wear dresses in my band.
00:40:41.720 And I might skateboard around Whataburger parking lots.
00:40:44.040 But I can bring you Texas.
00:40:48.420 That's a long shot because that's a really unsatisfying political message.
00:40:53.920 If you're only campaigning on some crass political message, I'll do really well in this state,
00:40:58.960 you're not inspiring people.
00:41:00.320 You're not getting people out to the polls.
00:41:02.880 Also, it's just not true.
00:41:04.660 Beto isn't going to win Texas against Donald Trump.
00:41:08.720 It's not going to happen.
00:41:10.540 He was going up against Ted Cruz in an election where I love Ted Cruz.
00:41:16.580 I think he's a great guy.
00:41:17.800 He's not the best retail politician in the country.
00:41:20.300 And he was going in damaged from the primary campaign against Donald Trump.
00:41:24.340 So you had some Republicans, some Trump voters who didn't like Ted Cruz going into that election.
00:41:29.380 That ain't going to happen in a presidential year.
00:41:32.100 So even the case, if Beto could make it, is pretty weak.
00:41:35.780 I think he's probably done.
00:41:37.160 I think Buttigieg is eating his lunch.
00:41:39.900 And Buttigieg also, very unlikely to be the Democrat nominee, but he might have a better play for vice president.
00:41:46.420 Before we go, I have to talk about this issue in the United Kingdom because we're talking here broadly, I guess,
00:41:57.440 about these two strategies that the left and the right entertain.
00:42:02.320 You've got the left pushing fantasy and relying on ignorance, and you've got the right pushing history and relying on education.
00:42:11.820 Relying on knowledge.
00:42:14.980 Probably Democrats, speaking in electoral politics, Democrats have the easier chance.
00:42:19.680 It's always easier to bet on ignorance and to push fantasy than it is to rely on reality and people's knowledge of reality when you're talking about democratic politics.
00:42:29.880 But there's this case right now in the United Kingdom.
00:42:33.820 It shows this difference between reality and fantasy so clearly.
00:42:38.620 There are these parents in the UK who transitioned their seven-year-old biological son into pretending that he's a girl.
00:42:48.120 Seven-year-old kid, he either decides he's a girl or his parents tell him that he's a girl.
00:42:54.780 Then he starts dressing him up, they start dressing him up like a girl.
00:42:58.480 Okay, that's bad.
00:43:00.800 But who knows?
00:43:01.940 Families are weird.
00:43:03.860 Who knows?
00:43:04.520 Maybe there's something here we don't know about.
00:43:06.700 Then these parents transitioned a three-year-old foster child in their care into pretending that he's a girl.
00:43:19.000 Not a biological child, a foster child.
00:43:22.920 Now it's come out that a third child that they fostered also suffered gender issues.
00:43:31.840 If it were just one child, I'd say, look, they're bad parents for indulging in this delusion, but maybe the kid really does have this condition.
00:43:41.320 Maybe the kid really does have gender dysphoria and he really is just uncomfortable with his biological sex.
00:43:47.000 We know that about 0.2 or 0.3% of the population suffers from gender confusion.
00:43:54.000 So maybe it's their kid who has it.
00:43:58.800 Now what are the odds?
00:44:00.060 Let's say these parents had two biological kids.
00:44:02.260 What are the odds that both of their kids would have gender dysphoria?
00:44:07.140 Infinitesimally low.
00:44:12.000 But you might say, well, it's biological, so maybe it's just something in the genes that gives the kids in this family gender confusion.
00:44:20.140 What are the odds that if they had three biological kids, they would all have it?
00:44:24.140 Again, so infinitesimally low.
00:44:26.740 But again, you could say, well, it's in the genes.
00:44:28.540 Maybe it's in the genes.
00:44:29.420 Okay.
00:44:29.520 But only one of the kids was biological.
00:44:35.040 The other two were foster kids, completely different genes.
00:44:39.520 The only thing in common was how they were raised.
00:44:41.900 The only thing in common were these sick parents who should never be allowed to be anywhere near children.
00:44:48.440 Because obviously it is the parents pushing this sick ideology on them that causes poor little helpless boys, a three-year-old boy.
00:44:59.520 To think that he's in some way a girl, sending him to school in dresses.
00:45:04.080 And the school asked the parents, they said, please stop sending your son in dresses.
00:45:07.200 The parents said, no, we're going to do it.
00:45:09.260 These sickos, these perverts, these child abusers.
00:45:17.920 Obviously there's nothing biological here.
00:45:20.300 The second kid and the third kid are not biologically related to these parents.
00:45:25.040 And yet they all have gender confusion.
00:45:26.980 Guess how a UK judge ruled in the question of whether these were fit parents.
00:45:35.260 The judge said, no, it's totally okay.
00:45:37.100 Nothing wrong here.
00:45:37.900 Nothing to see here.
00:45:39.040 And actually, if you question whether this little boy is actually a little girl, you, you're the bigot.
00:45:46.000 You're the racist.
00:45:46.800 You're the trans, homophobic, whatever made up word they have.
00:45:50.700 Because fantasy is winning.
00:45:55.720 In our governing class, in our political class, in our politically correct class, in our media class, fantasy is winning.
00:46:04.880 Historical fantasy.
00:46:07.060 Biological fantasy.
00:46:08.980 Legal fantasy.
00:46:09.980 It's all winning right now.
00:46:13.400 Now, I think the people realize this isn't true.
00:46:16.060 I think that's how you get elections like the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit election.
00:46:20.780 You get this popular revulsion at the gender ideology being pushed on us by the left.
00:46:28.040 But that is a battle.
00:46:29.120 And it's an example clear as day between people who have some relation to reality and those self-appointed elites who want to tell us reality is not as it is.
00:46:42.900 That's going to be a defining, overwhelming feature, not just of the 2020 election, but our politics for the foreseeable future.
00:46:51.000 We'll see how it plays out.
00:46:51.960 We've got a lot more to get to, but, you know, hey, we always run late.
00:46:54.360 Come back tomorrow in the meantime.
00:46:55.520 I'm Michael Knowles.
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00:46:57.100 I'll see you then.
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00:47:27.940 Hey, everyone.
00:47:29.460 I'm Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:47:32.000 You know, Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously said, everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
00:47:38.260 The Democrats have been living off their own facts for a while now, and they've built themselves a protective wall made of the press and the entertainment industry and the academy to keep those facts safe.
00:47:47.940 Well, now the real facts are building up outside the wall like the zombies in World War Z outside the walls of Jerusalem.
00:47:55.460 It's not going to be pretty.
00:47:56.860 That's on The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:47:58.220 I'm Andrew Klavan.