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00:00:30.460 Mueller time is over.

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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

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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

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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.

00:01:50.940 But this is where

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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 0.97

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 0.75

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. 0.98

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 0.94

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 0.63

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. 0.58

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 0.63

00:15:41.580 and the tragedy

00:15:42.340 of the Holocaust 0.63

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, 0.55

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 0.98

00:16:29.680 profoundly stupid

00:16:30.640 woman or she's 0.97

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, 0.55

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. 0.77

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 0.99

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 0.55

00:17:38.440 Mandatory Palestine, 0.77

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. 0.97

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. 0.57

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. 0.57

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 1.00

00:18:26.020 the Nazis in 0.80

00:18:26.800 recruiting Muslims 1.00

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. 0.88

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 0.92

00:18:41.560 Jews from coming 1.00

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 0.52

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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. 0.89

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. 0.93

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 0.99

00:20:34.140 Mandatory Palestine 1.00

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 1.00

00:20:39.700 they could to prevent

00:20:41.320 Jews trying to escape 1.00

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 0.95

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 1.00

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' 0.58

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 0.99

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 0.93

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 0.99

00:23:16.600 reason why Israel was 0.97

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 1.00

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. 0.96

00:24:30.740 Now, ironically, what she's

00:24:32.120 relying on to spread her 0.59

00:24:33.940 lies are racist idiots, 0.79

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. 0.93

00:25:03.120 They have an antipathy for

00:25:04.120 Jews and they have a racial 0.94

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.78

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.54

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?

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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? 1.00

00:30:13.280 She's doing it because she's having a tough time keeping this fractious House caucus together. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:31:03.500 Nancy said, oh, that's really going to upset all of the anti-Semites in our party. 0.96

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. 0.54

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 0.98

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? 1.00

00:33:20.480 Why should we have an all-gender, 56-gender bathroom? 1.00

00:33:24.980 The reason that the right wants to keep different bathrooms for different sexes is because there 0.96

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.98

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. 0.99

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. 0.99

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%. 0.58

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. 0.90

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. 0.62

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. 0.98

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? 0.71

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. 0.98

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. 0.74

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. 0.90

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.

00:46:56.160 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:57.100 I'll see you then.

00:46:59.120 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by Mike Joyner, executive producer Jeremy Boring, senior producer Jonathan Hay.

00:47:11.280 Our supervising producer is Mathis Glover, and our technical producer is Austin Stevens.

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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.

The Michael Knowles Show - May 14, 2019

Ep. 348 - Time To Pay The Barr Tab

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