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00:00:37.760 As Nancy Pelosi appears to whip sufficient votes for impeachment, 0.98

00:00:41.760 the so-called whistleblower complaint that launched the whole impeachment circus is released,

00:00:46.360 revealing definitively what we suspected all along.

00:00:49.220 The Democrats have nothing.

00:00:52.340 We will examine all that nothing.

00:00:54.200 Then, new polls shake up the 2020 race.

00:00:56.840 Elizabeth Warren gets hip on Instagram.

00:00:59.440 And a judge rules that a mother who now identifies as a man cannot be deemed her child's father.

00:01:06.940 BuzzFeed is outraged.

00:01:08.160 We will try to understand what that sentence even means.

00:01:10.540 Finally, the mailbag.

00:01:11.360 All that and more.

00:01:12.060 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.000 A mother who identifies as a man, I don't know.

00:01:25.560 We'll get to it.

00:01:26.100 We'll get to all of that.

00:01:27.120 That's, it's going to take me a whole show just to figure out what that means.

00:01:30.660 First, we got to get to this whistleblower complaint.

00:01:32.860 Here it is.

00:01:34.000 This is the impeachment.

00:01:35.620 We got the transcript of that dread phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian 0.65

00:01:41.820 President Zelensky yesterday, and we read it.

00:01:44.680 And I don't know if it was the most perfect phone call ever made, as President Trump said

00:01:48.320 it was, but it certainly gave no grounds for impeachment.

00:01:51.680 But now we have the real deal, because unfortunately that flopped and the media and the Democrats were

00:01:56.860 upset.

00:01:57.160 So now we have the whistleblower complaint that got us the transcript of the call, that

00:02:04.940 got us the impeachment inquiry, that's going to get President Trump thrown out of office,

00:02:08.440 and Hillary still can win the 2016, I don't know. 0.99

00:02:11.540 Here is the transcript.

00:02:13.500 I'll just read a few little passages from it, and you can let the bombshells just settle in.

00:02:20.920 Dear Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff, I am reporting an urgent concern.

00:02:25.440 That line is in quotes, and it's in quotes because the whistleblower is using this in

00:02:30.360 a specific legal way, but I really like reading it because I'm reading it just sarcastically,

00:02:35.300 like, Dear Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff, I'm reporting an urgent concern in accordance

00:02:40.620 with the procedures.

00:02:41.640 I think the sarcastic way is much more accurate given the context.

00:02:45.200 This letter is unclassified when separated from the attachment.

00:02:48.840 Over the past four months, more than half a dozen U.S. officials have informed me of various

00:02:53.860 facts related to the effort of the President using the power of his office to solicit interference

00:03:00.360 from a foreign country in the 2020 election.

00:03:03.220 This is important because the allegation is Trump is using his office to solicit interference

00:03:09.040 from a foreign country in 2020.

00:03:10.700 Now, we know from the phone call yesterday, what he's actually doing is using his office

00:03:14.540 to get the Ukrainians to investigate interference in the 2016 election, which was while he was running

00:03:22.120 for president, but it was actually while Barack Obama was president.

00:03:25.140 So even that language from the very first sentences is actually completely backwards.

00:03:30.220 But what you hear from this first bullet point is, more than half a dozen U.S. officials have

00:03:35.400 informed me.

00:03:37.280 So what that means is he doesn't have direct knowledge of any of these phone calls or any

00:03:42.400 of these incidents.

00:03:43.620 He's just heard it from someone else, and then he writes this very meticulously crafted

00:03:48.400 legal letter to try to spur an impeachment inquiry.

00:03:50.620 He then admits that in the second bullet point, I was not a direct witness to most of the events

00:03:56.040 described.

00:03:56.940 However, I found my colleagues' accounts of these events to be credible because in almost

00:04:01.280 all cases, multiple officials recounted fact patterns that were consistent to one another.

00:04:07.920 What a beautiful soup of words.

00:04:12.020 What a beautifully crafted mixture of euphemisms.

00:04:15.520 I was not a direct witness.

00:04:16.880 So it means I actually haven't seen any of this stuff happen, but I find the accounts

00:04:22.220 that I am relating credible.

00:04:23.620 Well, of course you find them credible.

00:04:24.740 You're relating them.

00:04:25.940 Listen, I find them credible because I'm relating them is more or less what he's saying.

00:04:29.800 And then he says, because multiple officials recounted, not facts, not the exact same facts

00:04:36.220 at the exact same time, different people.

00:04:37.900 We don't even know who the officials are, recounted fact patterns that were consistent

00:04:44.120 with one another.

00:04:44.680 What is a fact pattern?

00:04:46.160 Fact pattern is different than a fact.

00:04:49.560 We'll try to see what that means.

00:04:51.980 I am deeply concerned that the actions described below constitute, quote, a serious or flagrant

00:04:56.560 problem, abuse, or violation of law or executive order.

00:04:59.600 That, quote, does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters.

00:05:03.140 Again, it's in the quotes because he's trying to spur legal processes out of this, but it

00:05:10.040 makes a lot more sense if you just read it sarcastically.

00:05:12.860 I am deeply concerned that the actions described below constitute a serious or flagrant problem

00:05:17.980 or abuse or violation of law.

00:05:20.020 That's more or less what's going on.

00:05:21.980 Okay, then it goes on and he outlines a lot of things we already know about from that transcript.

00:05:26.780 This is the new information.

00:05:29.640 This is the only new information that we're getting from the whistleblower complaint.

00:05:34.000 In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White

00:05:38.160 House officials had intervened to lock down, in quotes, all records of the phone call, especially

00:05:44.120 the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced, as is customary by the

00:05:49.080 White House Situation Room.

00:05:50.380 This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of

00:05:55.940 what had transpired in the call.

00:05:58.720 It's interesting to read the whistleblower complaint after you've read the transcript of the

00:06:02.280 call, because we read the call.

00:06:03.880 There is no gravity in the call.

00:06:05.680 It's pretty clear.

00:06:06.440 Even Trump's hardest, other than the most hardened critics, virtually everyone has said

00:06:12.220 there's really nothing in that phone call.

00:06:14.160 There's certainly nothing you could impeach him over.

00:06:16.860 But he's trying to build this up as this big grave matter.

00:06:20.300 What does it mean for White House officials to lock down the records from the call?

00:06:25.620 The call is already classified.

00:06:27.160 Instead, it's a phone call between the president and the president of Ukraine.

00:06:31.280 He goes on, he says, White House officials told me that they were directed by White House

00:06:35.180 lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which transcripts

00:06:39.780 are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to cabinet-level officials.

00:06:45.000 Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise

00:06:49.820 used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature.

00:06:53.820 One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because

00:06:59.180 the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.

00:07:03.680 So what is the actual allegation?

00:07:05.040 That's a lot of words.

00:07:06.160 The actual allegation is they got the transcript of this call between the two presidents and

00:07:11.560 they didn't put it on the server that they usually use.

00:07:13.540 They put it on a different server.

00:07:15.040 Nowhere does he suggest this is illegal.

00:07:17.380 We know that the phone calls between heads of state are sensitive just by definition.

00:07:22.200 We don't know whether or not this happened, by the way.

00:07:25.960 Notice the language.

00:07:26.840 They were directed to put it on this different server, not another.

00:07:31.040 Directed by whom, for what purpose did it actually happen?

00:07:34.260 We have no answers to that.

00:07:35.660 All we have is the call itself.

00:07:37.060 Obviously, it wasn't that secure.

00:07:38.160 They released the thing to the public yesterday and we read it.

00:07:41.380 So even that, this is supposed to be the most important new information here, doesn't really

00:07:48.780 tell us anything.

00:07:49.840 Then he goes on and complains about Rudy Giuliani and why is Giuliani in on these calls.

00:07:53.880 We learned yesterday that it was Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who brought up Giuliani

00:07:57.560 in the first place.

00:07:58.240 It wasn't Trump bringing up Giuliani.

00:08:00.140 If it were Trump bringing up Giuliani, you might see him trying to push some interactions

00:08:04.280 to his campaign lawyer, but it wasn't Trump who brought it up.

00:08:07.240 It was Zelensky, which, I don't know, maybe suggests Zelensky was being improper on the

00:08:12.380 phone call, but not President Trump.

00:08:14.060 Then we'll get to the three bullet points at the end.

00:08:16.780 The big smoking gun.

00:08:18.100 Here it is.

00:08:18.480 Here's my complaint.

00:08:19.480 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:10:46.820 Final three bullet points on the whistleblower complaint.

00:10:50.980 On 13 June, the president told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he would accept damaging

00:10:56.100 information on his political rivals from a foreign government.

00:10:58.720 Hold on.

00:11:01.120 In the whistleblower complaint, you're talking about an interview that the president did

00:11:04.400 on national television?

00:11:06.400 That's not a, we know that.

00:11:08.360 That's not anything you need a secret, super-duper deep state spy to tell you about.

00:11:12.260 It was on TV.

00:11:13.180 It is true.

00:11:13.740 People don't watch network news as much anymore, but we already knew that.

00:11:16.980 By the way, everybody would accept damaging information on their political rival from

00:11:20.160 anybody, so get off your high horse. 0.76

00:11:21.540 The second one, on June, June 21st, Mr. Giuliani tweeted, new president of Ukraine is still silent

00:11:27.860 on the investigation of Ukrainian interference in 2016 and alleged Biden bribery of Poroshenko.

00:11:33.280 Time for leadership and investigate both if you want to purge how Ukraine was abused by

00:11:38.540 Hillary and Clinton people.

00:11:40.600 Now, this would be really super-duper incriminating if we hadn't just spent three years with Democrats

00:11:45.540 clamoring to get an investigation of Russia's interference in the election.

00:11:50.260 And moreover, this is so damning for this whistleblower complaint, we found out that

00:11:55.300 in May of 2018, Senate Democrats sent a letter to Ukraine demanding that they investigate

00:12:01.360 President Trump.

00:12:02.740 So you've got an official letter from sitting Democrats who sent that to Ukraine, and he's

00:12:07.240 upset about a tweet from Giuliani who says, hey, Ukraine should investigate the Bidens and

00:12:11.820 all the corruption that was going on there and their interference in 2016.

00:12:14.480 If that's a big deal, the tweet, then the letter the Senate Democrats sent is much more

00:12:19.780 damning, much more egregious.

00:12:21.160 Where's the whistleblower complaint on that? 0.98

00:12:22.660 Nowhere.

00:12:23.320 And then finally, in mid-July, I learned of a sudden change of policy with respect to U.S.

00:12:27.160 assistance for Ukraine, seeing closure for additional information.

00:12:30.800 What was the change?

00:12:32.340 Change was Obama didn't give Ukraine a whole lot of help, and then he gave them some help.

00:12:36.440 Trump gave them some help, and then he called on NATO allies and other people in the region

00:12:41.740 to pay more, which has been consistent since the 2016 election, since 2015 when he started

00:12:46.160 running, and then we give some aid to Ukraine.

00:12:51.200 That's it.

00:12:52.060 That's the whistleblower complaint, and it's nothing.

00:12:55.720 So it doesn't matter that it's nothing.

00:12:57.620 The Democrats are moving toward impeachment.

00:13:00.400 The problem here is this is not sufficient for impeachment, this whistleblower complaint.

00:13:06.020 The bigger problem is it looks like a setup.

00:13:08.200 It looks like Russia hoax 2.0.

00:13:10.100 They have so little actual information here, so little in the whistleblower complaint or

00:13:15.360 in the phone call that Adam Schiff, the ironically named chairman of the Intelligence Committee

00:13:21.620 in the House, this is the most ironic posting in history, I think, has to go out on television,

00:13:29.220 on C-SPAN, and actually invent a different conversation.

00:13:33.740 He actually just imagines what President Trump could have said in the fantasy world of Adam

00:13:38.520 Schiff, and he relates that as though it were fact.

00:13:41.340 Here he is.

00:13:42.340 And what is the president's response?

00:13:45.360 Well, it reads like a classic organized crime shakedown.

00:13:50.800 Shorn of its rambling character, and in not so many words, this is the essence of what the

00:13:57.500 president communicates.

00:13:58.840 We've been very good to your country, very good.

00:14:03.380 No other country has done as much as we have.

00:14:05.880 But you know what?

00:14:07.000 I don't see much reciprocity here.

00:14:09.740 I hear what you want.

00:14:11.460 I have a favor I want from you, though.

00:14:15.060 And I'm going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.

00:14:18.220 I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand lots of it.

00:14:23.960 On this and on that, I'm going to put you in touch with people, and not just any people.

00:14:28.600 I'm going to put you in touch with Attorney General of the United States, my Attorney General,

00:14:32.180 Bill Barr.

00:14:33.300 He's got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.

00:14:39.740 And I'm going to put you in touch with Rudy.

00:14:41.560 You're going to love him.

00:14:42.420 Trust me.

00:14:42.860 You know what I'm asking, and so I'm only going to say this a few more times, in a few

00:14:48.660 more ways.

00:14:51.780 And by the way, don't call me again.

00:14:53.580 I'll call you when you've done what I asked.

00:14:55.960 None of that happened.

00:14:58.000 Trump didn't say any of that.

00:14:59.820 You can read the transcript that came out yesterday that is completely fictional.

00:15:05.240 Adam Schiff just made that up in his head and then said it out loud as though that was

00:15:11.060 what Trump said.

00:15:11.740 And he's doing that because what Trump said doesn't implicate him in any crimes.

00:15:16.340 What Trump said is not impeachable.

00:15:18.240 The fact that Adam Schiff has to do this tells you everything you need to know.

00:15:23.900 They've got nothing.

00:15:25.220 If they had something, they would read what they have.

00:15:27.000 But they have nothing, so they have to read what Adam Schiff makes up.

00:15:29.820 Nevertheless, the majority in the House is now backing some form of impeachment.

00:15:33.760 The devil's in the details here, though.

00:15:35.300 And new polls show this could be absolutely dangerous.

00:15:39.860 It could be disastrous for Democrats and could be very good news for the president. 0.99

00:15:44.500 But you've got to see how it plays.

00:15:46.020 Very interesting new results and new information coming out of polls today.

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00:18:06.780 The majority in the House now backs some form of impeachment.

00:18:11.560 A majority of the House backs some form of impeachment.

00:18:17.900 There's the devil in the details.

00:18:19.300 So they've got the number.

00:18:20.420 They needed 218 votes in the House.

00:18:22.180 They got all the Democrats and they got one Republican, in quotes, Justin Amash, who is

00:18:30.520 a libertarian who's liberal on a lot of issues and hates Donald Trump.

00:18:33.900 They've all agreed to support impeachment in some form, but in some form doesn't mean they're

00:18:37.660 going to vote for impeachment.

00:18:38.720 Might mean they want an investigation that could lead to impeachment.

00:18:41.660 Might mean they want to open an impeachment inquiry, but not actually vote for impeachment.

00:18:45.320 So it's a lot weaker than the headlines are showing you.

00:18:49.080 We could have predicted all of this.

00:18:50.360 This was predicted, actually.

00:18:51.940 Alan Lichtman, who was the political scientist who has accurately predicted every presidential

00:18:56.420 election since 1984, he was one of the few guys to come out in 2016 and say, Trump is

00:19:01.440 going to win this thing.

00:19:02.440 And he predicted Trump was going to win and he predicted that Trump would be impeached.

00:19:06.660 And at the time, people didn't believe either of those.

00:19:09.540 They never thought impeachment would be an option because Trump wouldn't be in the White

00:19:11.920 House.

00:19:12.200 And he was right.

00:19:13.120 And then he also suggested Trump would be impeached.

00:19:16.220 And it looks like his predictions are coming true.

00:19:18.140 My prediction of a Donald Trump victory was based upon a scientific method studying all

00:19:24.860 American elections going back to 1860.

00:19:28.380 My prediction of a Donald Trump impeachment, of course, could not be based on a mathematical

00:19:33.760 model because there haven't been enough examples of impeachment in U.S. history.

00:19:39.280 But my prediction of a Donald Trump impeachment in my book, The Case for Impeachment, was based

00:19:45.040 on a deep study of the history of impeachments, the basis for impeachments, Donald Trump's record

00:19:53.300 as a businessman, and Donald Trump's record during the first two or three months of his

00:19:59.280 administration.

00:20:00.160 That was enough to point me towards what seemed to be an inevitable end to the presidency in

00:20:06.020 the first term.

00:20:06.660 Now, what he said certainly could be interpreted as being correct, especially if they do finally

00:20:13.740 go forward with impeachment.

00:20:15.160 It depends what you mean by end, though.

00:20:16.820 I mean, this is an inevitable end of the first term, or I'm sorry, an inevitable end in the

00:20:23.120 first term.

00:20:23.840 But is it the inevitable end of the presidency overall?

00:20:27.540 Looks like he was right on impeachment.

00:20:30.560 But when you look at other polls, you look at other surveys, you show it's not as clear

00:20:34.800 cut on what this means for Trump, because the problem is, according to recent surveys, the

00:20:39.500 majority of Americans oppose impeachment.

00:20:42.800 Pretty clearly, this new morning consult poll came out.

00:20:45.740 It's not exactly a hard conservative poll or anything.

00:20:48.320 They've got a good record.

00:20:49.100 If anything, they skew a little bit left.

00:20:51.140 Poll conducted after the news of the Ukraine phone call broke.

00:20:54.640 So this is not like new information has changed anything.

00:20:56.920 This is after the Ukraine news broke, support for impeachment is actually down over that

00:21:03.180 week from 30 percent, 37 percent.

00:21:06.260 Now it's down a bit.

00:21:07.220 Nearly half of respondents, 49 percent, said Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings,

00:21:13.680 which is also down very slightly.

00:21:16.380 It's only down one point.

00:21:17.340 But it's not as though it's 49-51.

00:21:21.820 The 49, I don't know the number who give the other answer, but it's significantly lower.

00:21:27.780 49 percent, less than half Americans, say Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings.

00:21:34.680 But it's right there.

00:21:35.600 It's right on the cusp.

00:21:37.880 Is that what you, even though it's less than 50 percent, sure.

00:21:41.220 Do you really want to go into impeachment with that number?

00:21:44.920 Especially looking even at Democrats, or Democrats?

00:21:47.040 Democrats support impeachment by a 66 to 17 margin, 66 percent for, 17 percent against.

00:21:56.120 That means that not even two-thirds of Democrats support impeachment.

00:22:02.840 But you need two-thirds in the Senate to actually convict on impeachment.

00:22:09.020 So even if the Senate were comprised, there were no Republicans whatsoever in the Senate,

00:22:14.640 no Republicans in the country, it's all Democrats.

00:22:17.700 Even then, if the House impeached and it went to the Senate, it was all Democrats, 0.81

00:22:22.300 they would not convict the president.

00:22:25.740 Not a good sign for Democrats going into impeachment.

00:22:28.620 Republicans have 5 percent for impeachment, 89 percent against impeachment.

00:22:33.940 Independents have 33 percent for impeachment, 45 percent against impeachment.

00:22:38.520 The only group that supports impeachment, the only age group is 18 to 29-year-olds who don't know very much.

00:22:48.380 The top three demographics have majorities opposed to impeachment.

00:22:53.180 Even Nancy Pelosi, not that long ago, during the Clinton impeachment proceedings,

00:22:59.720 gave an impassioned speech against this sort of political railroading and against impeachment.

00:23:06.100 Here she is.

00:23:06.500 Today, the Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness, but impeaching him with a vengeance.

00:23:14.760 In the investigation of the president, fundamental principles which Americans hold dear,

00:23:20.540 privacy, fairness, checks and balances, have been seriously violated.

00:23:26.020 And why?

00:23:26.580 Because we are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred of President Clinton.

00:23:35.460 And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.

00:23:40.620 I rise to oppose these unfair motions which call for the removal of the president of the United States from office.

00:23:47.340 The Independent Council knew that the president was exonerated with Travelgate, Whitewater and Filegate.

00:23:54.860 This was not fair.

00:23:55.960 Indeed, it is the responsibility of any prosecutor to immediately release information that is exculpatory.

00:24:04.320 OK, that was Pelosi then.

00:24:05.740 Wow, impassioned.

00:24:06.800 I bet I could give that same speech when we're talking about the Trump impeachment.

00:24:10.160 Ah, except here's Pelosi just a couple days ago.

00:24:12.260 Therefore, today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.

00:24:19.600 I'm directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella.

00:24:24.940 I thank our chairman, Chairman Nadler, Chairman Schiff, Chairman Cummings, Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

00:24:31.840 Thank you all.

00:24:32.760 Madam Speaker, you've never before has the president been convicted by the Senate.

00:24:36.220 What has this accomplished?

00:24:37.740 OK, so a little bit of a flip-flop, you might say.

00:24:40.760 And Pelosi in the 90s was probably a little closer to being correct, at least if you're judging it by being in touch with the American people.

00:24:47.540 The problem that the Democrats have is Pelosi is catering to AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley and the whole squad.

00:24:56.100 And the squad doesn't represent America, doesn't even really represent the Democratic Party very well, at least at this point, at least as they're looking at presidential politics.

00:25:04.480 So the leadership is out of touch with the American people, not just on impeachment, but even on their broader issue.

00:25:11.320 This was actually, to me, more interesting from the morning consult poll.

00:25:15.160 They have a new poll out on the issues, the top priorities for American voters going in to 2020.

00:25:22.440 The top issues, according to this poll, are the economy, that's 19%, healthcare, 16%, national security, 8%, gun policy, 8%, seniors issues, 8%.

00:25:37.480 Only after those top five issues do you get climate change at 7% tied with immigration at 7%.

00:25:46.480 This is very interesting and it tells you something about the Democrats and the Republicans.

00:25:51.440 The Democrats need to move off of climate change as their top issue.

00:25:54.680 When they launched the 2020 race, it was all about climate change.

00:25:57.380 It was all about the Green New Deal. 0.87

00:25:58.840 It was all about completely changing the global economy, $93 trillion in federal spending.

00:26:03.760 That's what they were talking about.

00:26:04.820 This is the definitive issue.

00:26:07.100 The American people don't like that.

00:26:08.520 It wasn't serving them very well and it's way down there in the list of priorities.

00:26:11.880 So now what the Democrats are doing is moving toward healthcare.

00:26:15.020 Even the president on immigration.

00:26:17.000 I mean, you've got climate change and immigration ranking at the same number.

00:26:20.220 Trump used to talk about the wall and immigration and border security all the time.

00:26:23.500 You'll notice he's stopped talking about it as much.

00:26:25.800 Even as we've gotten great news on the border, we're finally getting the wall built.

00:26:29.960 We're finally getting money freed up to build the wall.

00:26:32.740 And now at that moment, this moment of success on the issue, he's being a little quieter about it.

00:26:38.120 Why?

00:26:38.480 Because he's seeing these same numbers and he knows that's not what's going to win in 2020,

00:26:41.660 at least according to the polls.

00:26:43.120 He's going to focus more on the economy.

00:26:44.760 And we're seeing that happen in real time.

00:26:48.060 So the president really is talking more about the economy, less about immigration.

00:26:51.260 And Liz Warren really is talking less about the environment and the Green New Deal. 0.73

00:26:56.680 And she's moving much more toward healthcare because she thinks that's a winning issue for her. 1.00

00:27:00.740 She actually just released, Liz Warren released, get your cringe ready. 1.00

00:27:03.840 Just put your face into a cringe right now and lock it there so it won't have too much shock

00:27:08.280 when you listen to this.

00:27:09.820 She just released a new Instagram video trying to look hip and cool. 0.60

00:27:12.740 You know, the definition of Liz Warren.

00:27:15.020 And it's all about healthcare.

00:27:17.220 She did it with one of the personalities from the show Queer Eye.

00:27:20.840 It was a very, very entertaining personality.

00:27:23.780 They're talking about healthcare, but it reveals some real weaknesses for Liz Warren. 0.99

00:27:28.380 Here she is.

00:27:28.740 Hello.

00:27:29.740 Hello.

00:27:30.740 Hello.

00:27:31.740 Hello.

00:27:31.960 Jonathan?

00:27:33.740 It's Elizabeth Warren.

00:27:35.580 How are you?

00:27:36.840 I'm good.

00:27:37.820 How are you?

00:27:39.220 I'm good.

00:27:40.460 I'm having such a crazy day.

00:27:43.220 I know, but I wanted to give you a call just to say thank you.

00:27:48.680 I'm glad we're going to be in this fight together side by side.

00:27:52.040 I love the endorsement and for all the right reasons.

00:27:56.760 Thank you so much.

00:27:57.900 Well, you know, I have to tell you what I realized.

00:28:00.100 It was when it was at the last debates and I was like, this health insurance industry is a racket.

00:28:06.620 It felt right.

00:28:07.760 It did.

00:28:08.620 And that's when we got to do it because it is right.

00:28:12.560 Healthcare is a basic human right and we fight for basic human rights.

00:28:17.860 Not just for some of us, for all of us.

00:28:20.360 I'm so excited to be shoulder to shoulder with you too.

00:28:22.300 I can't believe you called.

00:28:23.800 We're going to do this.

00:28:24.640 We're going to do this.

00:28:25.640 Let me know how it can be of service.

00:28:26.880 I really want to help.

00:28:27.840 We're going to do it together.

00:28:29.260 All right.

00:28:29.820 So it goes on from there.

00:28:32.220 It's so awkward.

00:28:33.600 It's so cringy.

00:28:34.520 But I have to say, I really like this guy as just a media personality.

00:28:39.960 He's great on camera.

00:28:41.460 He's very, very funny.

00:28:42.500 It's quite a contrast with her because she is stiff as a board. 0.98

00:28:45.580 I mean, it is so funny.

00:28:46.940 You have this guy who is a professional entertainer and he's a huge personality.

00:28:50.620 He's really funny.

00:28:51.460 And then you have her and she's trying to be cool with him and it just doesn't work.

00:28:57.520 It doesn't work.

00:28:58.400 And this is the real issue here is it just keeps her so awkward looking.

00:29:04.220 I mean, I guess the video at first, what it highlights, it's actually a few problems.

00:29:09.720 It highlights that at this time, what Elizabeth Warren needs to do, if she's really going to

00:29:13.120 be the front runner, is show how she relates to racial minorities, blue collar workers, 0.81

00:29:17.680 middle America, and moderates.

00:29:19.320 This guy, Jonathan Van Ness, while a very entertaining figure on television, I doesn't quite speak to

00:29:27.100 those groups exactly.

00:29:28.300 Not, I don't want to make assumptions here.

00:29:30.980 Okay, I know these days you can be whatever race you want and whatever orientation you

00:29:36.140 want and gender and probably occupation too.

00:29:39.240 I'm just saying if you're trying to appeal to middle America, that's probably not the

00:29:43.780 guy to be cutting videos with.

00:29:46.460 That is going to be Liz Warren's challenge. 0.96

00:29:49.240 If she really wants to take Biden out, she's got to show that she appeals to more people

00:29:53.320 than just the audience for Queer Eye, who are mostly on the coasts and who are mostly

00:29:57.560 white and who are mostly already with her and not with Joe Biden anyway.

00:30:01.460 And then you got the problem that she's so stiff. 1.00

00:30:03.000 If she gets on stage with Donald Trump, there's going to be a Liz Warren shaped hole in the 1.00

00:30:07.320 wall because he's going to blow her off the stage. 1.00

00:30:09.540 It reminds us of that video, that horrific video she shot where she was sipping the first

00:30:15.380 beer she's ever had in her life, I'm pretty sure.

00:30:17.900 And, but she wanted to make it look cool and make her seem hip like AOC and Beto O'Rourke.

00:30:22.540 So she shot a video sipping a beer and interacting with her husband like she'd never met the

00:30:27.400 guy before.

00:30:27.920 Just to refresh your memory.

00:30:29.480 Here she is.

00:30:30.520 There we go.

00:30:33.120 I'm glad for everybody who's joining this video.

00:30:35.700 It's great to hear from you.

00:30:37.160 Hold on a sec.

00:30:37.980 I'm going to get me a beer.

00:30:47.800 Hey, my husband Bruce is now in here.

00:30:52.540 You want a beer?

00:30:53.700 No, I'll pass on a beer for now.

00:30:54.900 You sure?

00:30:55.320 Okay.

00:30:55.660 Yes.

00:30:56.940 So this is my sweetie.

00:30:58.680 Hello.

00:30:59.840 He's the best.

00:31:01.420 And I'm crazy.

00:31:02.500 I love you too.

00:31:04.080 Thank you for being here.

00:31:05.000 Pleasure.

00:31:05.480 I'm glad you're here.

00:31:06.220 Enjoy your beer.

00:31:06.920 It's so awkward.

00:31:08.740 It's, she's talking to her husband like she just met him.

00:31:12.980 He's my sweetie.

00:31:14.380 I love him.

00:31:16.100 Beep boop. 0.99

00:31:16.780 Beep beep boop. 0.99

00:31:18.620 He's my, hey, my husband's just here.

00:31:20.380 Do you want a beer?

00:31:21.040 Beer is what we human beings drink.

00:31:23.480 Would you like one of those?

00:31:24.360 No, no.

00:31:24.620 I don't want a beer, Liz Warren.

00:31:25.740 Oh, okay.

00:31:26.840 I'm glad you're here.

00:31:29.640 It's his home.

00:31:30.560 Where else would he be?

00:31:31.380 Don't, do you people live together?

00:31:32.760 Do you, is this all a charade?

00:31:34.680 Anyway, she's gotten a little bit better with the stiffness between now, between then rather

00:31:40.040 and the Queer Eye video, but she's got a long way to go.

00:31:43.440 We know this about Liz Warren.

00:31:44.720 She does get better.

00:31:45.400 She does learn things, but she, she does have a long way to go, especially when you're dealing

00:31:48.700 with Mr. Personality, President Trump.

00:31:50.860 We have to get to the most absurd BuzzFeed article I've ever seen.

00:31:54.880 They sent out a tweet last night that said a trans man in the UK who gave birth and then

00:31:58.800 sued to be recognized as the father has lost his case.

00:32:02.760 Good luck making sense of that.

00:32:04.260 We'll try to make sense of that because we're going to be giving a speech tonight to kick

00:32:07.320 off my YAF college speaking tour.

00:32:10.420 Tonight is the first stop on this year's tour.

00:32:13.200 It's a free event, so come on out 7 p.m. to the Friends of USC Library Lecture Hall.

00:32:19.360 The topic of the speech is Men Are Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths, and it's bound

00:32:25.680 to be a fun one.

00:32:26.420 I will be talking about similar things to BuzzFeed, and we're going to be talking about the overall

00:32:30.980 theme of this speaking tour, which is cancel culture.

00:32:35.920 It's become very prominent.

00:32:37.420 Some of us have noticed it even just this week.

00:32:39.320 And reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, but cancel culture is very real. 0.71

00:32:46.420 And cancel culture, a lot of people don't understand it, how it relates to political

00:32:50.280 correctness, how it relates to the truth.

00:32:52.420 But we are going to be moving on with that speaking tour.

00:32:55.420 Try to stop us.

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00:32:57.420 Also great news.

00:32:58.820 We just announced it yesterday.

00:33:00.540 I'm going to be launching a new show.

00:33:02.380 In addition to my show here at The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, we will be launching

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00:33:11.580 So very, very exciting stuff.

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00:33:36.600 We'll be right back with the craziest BuzzFeed article ever and the mailbag.

00:33:50.940 So BuzzFeed sent out this tweet last night.

00:33:52.920 I kid you not.

00:33:53.420 I opened it up and I couldn't quite.

00:33:56.100 It said, quote, a trans man in the UK who gave birth and then sued to be recognized as

00:34:02.540 the father has lost his case.

00:34:05.120 So if you were just reading that quickly, it was a man gave birth.

00:34:10.360 That's, I guess that is newsworthy.

00:34:11.660 I guess that should be a headline.

00:34:13.140 But the man is not recognized as the father, according to this judge.

00:34:18.360 And you try to figure out if someone could translate that sentence into English.

00:34:22.380 Because then the headline says, a high court judge has ruled that mother no longer means woman.

00:34:33.260 So hold on.

00:34:34.040 A trans man is not who gave birth.

00:34:39.800 So, oh, okay, now I get it.

00:34:41.560 A trans man, what they mean is a woman who now identifies as a man, but who is a woman.

00:34:46.080 So the woman gave birth to a child and the judge refuses to let her be deemed the father.

00:34:52.860 Okay, that makes sense because she's not the father.

00:34:54.400 She's the mother.

00:34:54.940 Okay, that makes sense.

00:34:55.800 I get that part.

00:34:56.560 But then the headline says, a high court judge has ruled that mother no longer means woman.

00:35:01.940 Well, that seems like the opposite of what the tweet said.

00:35:05.000 Those two sentences seem to contradict each other.

00:35:08.400 Until you realize that what BuzzFeed is implying in the headline is the outrage that the judge refuses to call this mother the father.

00:35:24.500 The judge is calling the mother the mother.

00:35:27.940 And BuzzFeed is outraged because they don't think that this woman is a woman any longer.

00:35:32.460 They think that this woman is now a man because she identifies as a man.

00:35:36.660 Very confusing.

00:35:38.400 Freddie McConnell thought that for him to become a father, the hardest fight would be personal, medical, first to transition into the man he knew himself to be, then to cease testosterone treatment so that he could conceive, and finally to give birth when right to his marrow he felt male.

00:35:57.600 To give birth even though he felt male. 0.72

00:36:00.000 He stopped the hormone treatment.

00:36:01.080 But he isn't male.

00:36:02.240 He isn't he.

00:36:03.960 He is she.

00:36:04.560 But you see how insidious this pronoun issue is.

00:36:07.020 If you read that, even if you have total clarity of thought, if you constantly see he, him, father, father, you just naturally take that for what it means, which is that he is a he.

00:36:18.400 But he is not a he. 0.82

00:36:19.600 It is a she. 1.00

00:36:21.200 She is a she. 1.00

00:36:22.160 She is the mother.

00:36:23.380 Because only mothers can give birth and only women can be mothers. 1.00

00:36:28.000 BuzzFeed goes on.

00:36:28.820 This ruling, the ruling which makes perfect sense, the ruling says a mother is not a father. 0.94

00:36:35.640 Simple enough.

00:36:36.340 We're now getting confused on the question a man is not a woman.

00:36:39.200 But at least we're saying a mother is not a father.

00:36:41.420 Of course that's true.

00:36:42.340 It's like saying two plus two equals four.

00:36:44.040 It's like saying the sky is blue.

00:36:47.000 BuzzFeed takes great issue with this.

00:36:48.380 They say the ruling has implications for almost anyone.

00:36:51.680 According to the judgment, mother is no longer a gendered term.

00:36:56.080 Mother, therefore, does not equal woman. 0.93

00:36:58.400 Actually, though, the ruling is the exact opposite of that.

00:37:01.160 Mother is a gendered term. 1.00

00:37:03.220 Mother exclusively equals woman, according to both this judge's ruling and reality. 0.95

00:37:09.040 But what BuzzFeed is doing is saying that gender is no longer a gendered term.

00:37:13.900 What BuzzFeed is saying is that gender and sex are completely different from one another,

00:37:17.760 and sex is reality, and gender is whatever we want reality to be. 0.84

00:37:23.200 Then they say a mother is a person who gives birth regardless of whether she has a genetic link to the child.

00:37:27.980 For instance, if the eggs are from another woman. 0.98

00:37:31.580 Right.

00:37:32.120 This is raising another issue of bioethics, whether a child has a right to his own mother.

00:37:36.320 Then a father is also not necessarily gender specific.

00:37:40.000 Actually, the ruling is exactly the opposite of that.

00:37:42.960 And transgender people may now only be recognized in their acquired gender until they have children.

00:37:47.740 What that's really saying is, transgender people, they're saying,

00:37:51.120 we as a society will pretend that men who are confused about their sex are women, and vice versa.

00:37:57.200 We will pretend that until reality reasserts itself and biology reasserts itself.

00:38:02.160 And we see that the man, allegedly, actually is a woman because only women can give birth.

00:38:07.840 And at that point, we have to stop lying.

00:38:10.140 And BuzzFeed is very upset about that.

00:38:13.660 The transgender man, so the mother, this woman says,

00:38:19.620 it is bigger than us.

00:38:20.780 I will carry on fighting because this is threatening to set things back for LGBT people, 1.00

00:38:25.240 as well as for society, gender, and how families are created.

00:38:28.060 This slams the brakes on progress in a way that should scare people.

00:38:32.200 I don't think this ruling scares people.

00:38:34.940 I think this ruling gives people a little consolation that we have not just completely lost our minds as a society,

00:38:42.140 and that we have not just completely disregarded reality.

00:38:46.060 Nobody benefits from living in lies.

00:38:48.040 Not men who think they're women, not women who think they're men,

00:38:50.640 not anybody else in the culture, not the 99.9% of people,

00:38:56.820 or 99.85% of people who are not confused about their biological sex.

00:39:03.660 Nobody benefits from lies.

00:39:05.440 There is nothing compassionate about lies.

00:39:07.780 We pretend these days that lies are comforting.

00:39:10.760 They're not.

00:39:11.540 Comfort means to give strength.

00:39:14.460 Fort, forte, strength.

00:39:16.900 Giving somebody with strength.

00:39:18.420 You don't give people strength by lying to them,

00:39:21.380 or by treating them like they're second-class citizens,

00:39:23.960 and indulging in their fantasies,

00:39:25.440 treating them like little children.

00:39:27.640 No, that's not comfort.

00:39:29.500 That is, if anything, bigotry.

00:39:32.360 That is demeaning.

00:39:33.960 That is condescending, and that is degrading.

00:39:35.720 We shouldn't do it as a society.

00:39:37.080 Not only because we don't want to live in madness and lies,

00:39:41.140 and we want to live in reality,

00:39:42.240 but because we have respect for our fellow human beings.

00:39:44.300 Things even our fellow human beings are who are suffering and who are confused.

00:39:48.900 We should not indulge that.

00:39:50.680 We should help them and treat them like we would want to be treated ourselves.

00:39:53.940 Let's get to the mailbag.

00:39:55.260 Sorry that went on a little late, but I couldn't get past that story.

00:39:58.300 I needed to work it through in my own head, even just to understand it.

00:40:01.920 First question from Robert.

00:40:03.680 Do you think the media will treat the Republican presidential candidate of 2024

00:40:07.500 better or worse than Trump?

00:40:09.360 Exactly the same.

00:40:10.920 People forget.

00:40:11.680 People have a short memory.

00:40:12.560 They did this all to Bush, and Bush was a moderate guy,

00:40:15.880 and he's not really even that conservative.

00:40:18.660 They called Bush Hitler.

00:40:20.160 They did all of these things.

00:40:21.660 If anything, our politics is getting more polarized now,

00:40:25.960 actually having nothing to do with Trump.

00:40:27.920 It was happening for a long time before that,

00:40:30.080 largely because of the media, and I don't want to just blame the media

00:40:32.760 because we are the media in a sense.

00:40:34.720 We demand the media that we're getting.

00:40:37.320 We demand the politicians that we're getting

00:40:38.780 and the political discourse we're getting.

00:40:40.220 So, just as a matter of time, they'll probably treat the candidate worse,

00:40:43.900 but anyone who thinks this is simply about Trump is deluding themselves.

00:40:48.800 This is the way the left treats anybody who contradicts their lies.

00:40:53.720 Riley, after a four-month hiring process,

00:40:55.760 I finally get to start my first full-time postgraduate job next week.

00:41:00.440 Congratulations.

00:41:01.840 What advice do you have for a guy who's beginning a career?

00:41:05.000 I've worked part-time jobs since age 13,

00:41:07.940 so I'm no stranger to work,

00:41:09.660 but this is my first big kid job.

00:41:13.100 That's kind of like me.

00:41:13.980 I was working since I was about 14

00:41:15.400 and kind of part-time jobs during school, things like that.

00:41:17.940 But the advice I would give to you is lose all your pride.

00:41:25.540 We have this trouble these days

00:41:27.280 because so many people go to college,

00:41:30.260 so many people get a very expensive education,

00:41:32.140 so many people are taught that grunt work is not for you.

00:41:36.040 You're about to start your big kid job.

00:41:37.620 You're about to start your career.

00:41:39.020 You're no longer the one who's got to vacuum the floor.

00:41:42.120 You're no longer the one who has to do grunt work.

00:41:44.880 Yes, you do.

00:41:46.060 You do.

00:41:46.800 I've seen this.

00:41:48.700 I've been in a lot of rooms

00:41:49.800 with a lot of very powerful people,

00:41:51.420 and the one thing I notice is that the people at the top

00:41:53.660 have no pride about this stuff.

00:41:55.900 They have no, they might have an ego,

00:41:58.440 but they've also got a certain humility,

00:42:00.700 which you find in the work.

00:42:02.820 I have seen people at the very top of their game

00:42:05.060 vacuum their own hair after a haircut.

00:42:07.500 I have seen, that's a real example,

00:42:09.500 or offer to vacuum their own hair for a haircut.

00:42:12.440 You've got to do that.

00:42:13.520 That is where respect comes from.

00:42:14.900 You won't be respected by only saying,

00:42:18.940 this is my job, this is what I do.

00:42:20.880 Here's your job.

00:42:21.520 I don't know what career you're in.

00:42:22.500 I don't know what line of work.

00:42:23.440 Your job is to make your boss happy,

00:42:25.480 and your job is to work hard and give your best.

00:42:28.840 Do that, you will go far.

00:42:30.900 Don't do that, you'll be stymied.

00:42:32.760 From Samuel,

00:42:33.800 Dear Michael,

00:42:34.280 Is it wrong to be excited for the impeachment proceedings?

00:42:37.200 I get the argument that it's divisive,

00:42:39.940 but I feel as if the division is already there,

00:42:43.340 so I can't help but to feel excited

00:42:45.300 that Democrats are basically just handing over the election to Trump now.

00:42:49.100 That's my read on it.

00:42:50.040 I think it's a great thing.

00:42:51.380 We just went through those numbers today.

00:42:53.100 The American people oppose impeachment.

00:42:54.640 They are sick of the hoaxes.

00:42:58.260 If the Democrats had not pulled the Russia hoax,

00:43:01.140 and now they pulled impeachment,

00:43:02.140 if they had kept their powder dry and gone for impeachment,

00:43:04.340 it might work better for them.

00:43:06.380 I don't think it's going to work very well at all.

00:43:08.360 I think the people are furious

00:43:09.980 that Democrats and bureaucrats

00:43:13.020 keep trying to overturn the 2016 election

00:43:15.620 and silence their voice

00:43:16.900 and stop them from controlling their own country.

00:43:19.000 And I think nobody cares at all

00:43:20.820 about any phone calls with Ukraine.

00:43:23.120 And we actually read the phone call

00:43:24.360 and there didn't seem to be anything bad on it anyway. 0.98

00:43:26.680 It's a major loser for Democrats.

00:43:28.680 It might be a win for Pelosi

00:43:29.820 because it will allow her to keep control of her own caucus. 0.99

00:43:33.560 So she'll get a personal win there. 0.79

00:43:35.020 But for Democrats broadly,

00:43:37.040 it's a big mistake.

00:43:38.180 Trump should welcome it.

00:43:38.980 I think Christmas came early for him.

00:43:40.180 From Catherine.

00:43:41.240 I'm in my 30s and I find myself struggling

00:43:43.880 with the idea of social media

00:43:45.840 and whether it overall has a positive

00:43:48.040 or negative effect on society.

00:43:50.740 What are your thoughts as a millennial

00:43:52.460 and how social media affects our society?

00:43:55.220 Well, I wouldn't be able to do

00:43:56.300 what I do without social media.

00:43:57.540 I wouldn't be able to have my job and my career

00:44:00.580 and I wouldn't be able to communicate with people

00:44:02.480 and stay in touch with people

00:44:04.220 across continents and across oceans.

00:44:09.580 And so I like it in that regard.

00:44:13.880 But it's just more of communication.

00:44:18.400 So communication is not a totally positive thing.

00:44:21.920 It's not totally a negative thing.

00:44:23.220 I mean, the negative side is you get social media swarms

00:44:25.620 and social media mobs that come up

00:44:28.440 and try to twist anything you said.

00:44:30.140 Maybe you said something 20 years ago that was wrong.

00:44:32.340 Maybe you said something true right now

00:44:34.160 that contradicts political correctness

00:44:36.360 and exposes a vindictive left.

00:44:38.680 And either way, by the way,

00:44:40.160 you're going to get a social media mob

00:44:41.900 that comes after you that is vicious,

00:44:43.560 that goes after your family,

00:44:44.560 that sends you death threats.

00:44:46.380 I mean, it's just horrific.

00:44:47.940 Tries to ruin you.

00:44:50.320 That's just more communication.

00:44:52.500 I've got a pretty thick skin about it,

00:44:53.940 so I like it.

00:44:55.220 I mean, but I think it's idle chatter to say,

00:44:58.240 is it good or bad?

00:44:58.800 Should we have it?

00:44:59.300 Should we not?

00:45:00.040 It is a fact of life now.

00:45:01.960 It ain't going anywhere.

00:45:03.280 And we need to get used to it

00:45:04.360 and figure out how to adapt

00:45:05.300 and figure out how to try to make it a little better.

00:45:07.120 Final question from Tommy.

00:45:08.380 What do you think of the White House announcing

00:45:09.640 that there will be no more daily press briefings?

00:45:12.000 It's fine by me.

00:45:12.880 Let me tell you one thing.

00:45:15.740 If I had gotten that job,

00:45:16.740 we'd be having multiple press briefings

00:45:18.500 every single day.

00:45:19.820 But since I don't, that's fine.

00:45:21.240 Enough of it.

00:45:21.800 All right, that's our show.

00:45:22.720 Maybe I'll see you tonight at USC

00:45:24.240 to kick off our college speaking tour.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 26, 2019

Ep. 422 - The Democrats Have Nothing

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