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00:00:37.740 President Trump raises the prospect of civil war.

00:00:42.140 The questions of slavery and states' rights cause the first civil war.

00:00:46.660 Will Joe Biden's son's degenerate business dealings in Ukraine cause a second one?

00:00:51.340 We will examine the likelihood of Civil War II electric boogaloo.

00:00:55.700 Then, a puberty-blocking drug used in transgender treatment has killed 6,000 children.

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00:01:06.420 They don't outlaw illegal aliens. 0.83

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00:01:12.500 We'll get to all that and more.

00:01:13.560 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:15.660 Here comes the Civil War, proving Karl Marx's adage that history repeats itself first as

00:01:29.620 tragedy, then as farce.

00:01:32.080 We will get into all the farcical aspects of it, from Rudy Giuliani's excellent performance

00:01:37.000 on George Stephanopoulos' show, to the Ukraine, to the White House, to Joe Biden, to everything

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00:03:50.140 The Civil War.

00:03:51.180 The Civil War is coming, isn't it?

00:03:52.900 Why are we talking about the Civil War?

00:03:54.760 The proximate cause is President Trump on Twitter, it's always on Twitter, quoted a

00:03:59.680 Southern Baptist pastor named Robert Jeffress who said, quote, if the Democrats, this is

00:04:05.620 quoting both the pastor and President Trump's tweet.

00:04:08.660 If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, which they will

00:04:14.660 never be, it will cause a civil war like fracture in this nation from which our country

00:04:20.600 will never heal.

00:04:22.100 A civil war like fracture.

00:04:23.580 Trump didn't put the hyphen in there.

00:04:24.940 Okay, that's fine.

00:04:25.940 Pastor Robert Jeffress said it on Fox News.

00:04:28.700 The left lost their mind over this tweet.

00:04:31.980 They lose, I don't know, how do you lose your mind if you don't have your mind anymore?

00:04:34.540 They've lost their mind a thousand times.

00:04:35.980 It's not their mind anymore and they don't have it.

00:04:37.580 But they really got upset about this.

00:04:42.260 President Trump didn't say we're headed for civil war.

00:04:45.280 Robert Jeffress didn't say that we're headed towards civil war. 0.91

00:04:47.740 I'm beginning to wonder if leftists in this country are not just misguided but illiterate 0.79

00:04:53.380 too. 0.97

00:04:53.680 In fact, I know they're illiterate.

00:04:55.060 The way that they pervert language, the way that they call men women and women men and

00:04:58.940 say that some people don't have any gender and use they, which is the plural pronoun,

00:05:03.380 to refer to singular people.

00:05:04.820 And now in New York City, you can't even say the phrase illegal alien without incurring

00:05:08.660 a criminal fine. 0.56

00:05:10.780 So yeah, I guess they are illiterate.

00:05:12.580 Never mind.

00:05:13.140 Let's look at what they actually said, Jeffress and Trump.

00:05:16.980 In the tweet, they say, it will cause a civil war-like fracture in this nation, on and on.

00:05:21.980 But the premise is, if the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, they're

00:05:27.980 not going to be.

00:05:28.920 I'm not saying this is wishful thinking.

00:05:30.440 I'm saying this because even if they impeach Trump, which they currently don't really have

00:05:34.540 the votes for in the House, even if they did, they don't have the Senate.

00:05:39.040 So they're probably not even going to take it up for a vote on whether or not to convict

00:05:43.840 Trump if the House impeaches.

00:05:46.000 Even if they did take it up for a vote, even if there was not one Republican in the Senate,

00:05:50.580 even if the Senate was all Democrats, according to a morning consult poll from last week,

00:05:55.880 not even two-thirds of Democrats in this country support impeachment.

00:05:59.940 They're pretty close.

00:06:00.740 It's about 66%.

00:06:01.840 You would need 67% to convict the president and remove him from office.

00:06:06.820 So even if you got rid of every Republican in the country, and specifically every Republican

00:06:10.780 in the Senate, they still wouldn't remove Trump from office.

00:06:13.640 Not going to happen, which is why Jeffress and then Trump quoting him said, even if the

00:06:19.220 Democrats are successful, parentheses, which they will never be.

00:06:25.660 Nevertheless, Democrats very upset about this.

00:06:27.860 And both the pastor and Trump bring up a question worth talking about.

00:06:33.540 Karl Marx observed that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

00:06:39.540 Karl Marx was wrong about many things, but it seems he was right about that.

00:06:44.880 There are some parallels between the Civil War and what we're looking at now.

00:06:50.280 What are those parallels?

00:06:51.820 What caused the Civil War, the actual First Civil War in 1860?

00:06:55.980 Most importantly was the moral question of slavery.

00:07:00.380 Americans were divided over the question of slavery.

00:07:03.720 This was a profound moral question.

00:07:05.640 The founders of this country were debating it in the late 19th century.

00:07:09.200 When we wrote the Declaration of Independence, the first draft, one of the grievances that

00:07:14.480 we were complaining about to King George was about this awful institution of slavery that

00:07:19.220 the English foisted upon the incipient United States, the growing United States. 0.97

00:07:24.140 So the question of slavery was there from the very beginning of the country, and then that

00:07:28.220 was largely the cause of the war.

00:07:30.760 After that was the constitutional question about the relative roles of the federal government

00:07:34.860 and the states.

00:07:35.920 Can the states secede if they want to?

00:07:39.020 Are they allowed to leave?

00:07:40.600 You know, they stay in the Union when it's beneficial to them. 0.57

00:07:42.640 Once they think it's not beneficial anymore, are they permitted to secede?

00:07:46.080 I mean, practically speaking, the proximate cause of the Civil War was the election of

00:07:50.440 1860, the presidential election, and the refusal of the South to recognize Abraham Lincoln

00:07:56.240 as president.

00:07:58.040 Or I suppose they did recognize him as president.

00:08:00.120 They said, we don't want any part of this, and they got out of the Union.

00:08:02.460 What happened?

00:08:03.220 What happened in 1860 to cause the Civil War?

00:08:07.240 Abraham Lincoln won just 40% of the popular vote.

00:08:10.800 He won more than the other candidates, but he didn't win the majority of the popular

00:08:15.280 vote in the United States.

00:08:16.160 He didn't win more than 50%.

00:08:17.860 Lincoln hadn't even been on the ballot in most of the Southern states.

00:08:23.280 He wasn't there.

00:08:24.140 Of the 11 states that seceded upon his election, only Virginia had any votes cast for Lincoln

00:08:30.580 at all.

00:08:31.620 And do you know how many votes were cast for Lincoln in Virginia in 1860?

00:08:34.140 A little under 2,000 votes, 1,929 votes, which is 1.15% of the total number of votes cast.

00:08:42.220 Gets even worse than that.

00:08:43.620 Of those 1,929 votes, 1,832 of the votes came from territories that would become West Virginia,

00:08:50.360 so they were politically not even really associated or recognizable with Virginia as a whole.

00:08:57.020 Why were there so few votes cast?

00:08:58.660 Forget about the other states where Lincoln wasn't on the ballot or there weren't ballots

00:09:02.640 to vote for him because presidential election voting in 1860 looked significantly different

00:09:07.260 than it does today.

00:09:08.280 One of the reasons that there were so few votes cast for Lincoln is there was no secret ballot

00:09:12.600 in the United States.

00:09:13.660 We didn't really have a secret ballot before the 1880s, 20 years later, 25 years later.

00:09:19.060 So that was one reason why you saw a little more homogeneity with the votes is you had a

00:09:24.280 public ballot, so if you cast your vote for Lincoln, you would certainly be socially ostracized,

00:09:28.140 if not worse.

00:09:28.900 So you actually can understand the argument of the South to secede.

00:09:34.660 If you put slavery aside, don't even consider that for a second, just look at the practical

00:09:38.900 matter with regard to the federal government and the local governments.

00:09:42.160 The South felt that they had no say in their federal government, so what's the point of

00:09:47.440 being involved in it?

00:09:48.460 If you're part of an organization that you don't think is serving you in any way, why would

00:09:53.340 you be a member of that?

00:09:55.920 So the cause of civil war, this is the big point, and this is where the relationship

00:10:02.280 comes up today.

00:10:03.420 The cause of the civil war is, generally speaking, an erosion of faith in institutions and systems

00:10:11.620 of government.

00:10:12.240 This is true by definition, which is that once you pull out of those institutions, once

00:10:17.880 you clobber those institutions, once you storm them and take them down, obviously you don't

00:10:22.160 have faith in them anymore.

00:10:23.140 We are looking at a similar crisis today, and on the surface, it's the farcical version.

00:10:29.780 So in 1860, the great debate is over human dignity, it's over freedom, it's over slavery,

00:10:37.600 it's over man being made in the image of God.

00:10:40.440 Now in 2019, the great debate is how much Joe Biden helped get his crackhead son and no-show

00:10:45.200 job in Ukraine.

00:10:45.980 These are not exactly the same weightiness to those questions, but there is an institutional

00:10:52.700 question.

00:10:53.220 We'll get to that in a second.

00:10:54.320 We'll get to the prospect of civil war.

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00:13:16.280 Okay, so in 1860, you've got this debate over human dignity and the nature of man.

00:13:22.200 In 2019, you've got this question over whether Joe Biden's degenerate son who squandered his

00:13:28.320 family's money on prostitutes and drugs and got mugged while he was buying crack in downtown

00:13:32.480 L.A., whether he should be able to keep his grifter board member job on a Ukrainian energy

00:13:38.640 company.

00:13:39.040 Not exactly the same thing.

00:13:40.500 But the institutional question is, has the bureaucracy become so entrenched that they can

00:13:47.320 overturn a U.S. presidential election, has the federal government taken so much power that it

00:13:53.920 doesn't matter who you and I elect president?

00:13:56.900 Doesn't matter who the people want to be president? 0.89

00:14:00.300 Doesn't matter who the people through our constitutional systems want to elect? 0.96

00:14:04.740 The bureaucracy is going to tell you yes or no.

00:14:06.860 Because there is a real parallel there.

00:14:08.660 In 1860, the South felt that they had no say in their federal government anymore.

00:14:12.280 If the American people are going to be disfranchised by a growing bureaucracy, our benevolent betters

00:14:18.600 who know how to run our lives better than we know how to run them ourselves, just ask them,

00:14:23.460 then you are going to see some civil strife.

00:14:26.020 What did we learn?

00:14:27.120 We have just learned that between last May, May of 2018, and August of 2019, keep that last

00:14:33.680 date in mind, the intelligence community secretly got rid of a requirement that whistleblowers

00:14:39.800 provide direct first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings.

00:14:44.440 Why does this matter?

00:14:45.820 Because this whole impeachment inquiry was spurred by a whistleblower complaint.

00:14:51.040 But what's so strange about that whistleblower complaint, and we'll get into that in a second,

00:14:54.860 is the whistleblower doesn't know anything about what President Trump did or didn't do in Ukraine,

00:14:59.780 said or didn't say to the Ukrainian president on the telephone.

00:15:03.240 He just heard about it from a few people, and then he sent it over, and there was an investigation,

00:15:09.840 and Trump was cleared of violations from the DOJ.

00:15:12.260 But it was all based on hearsay.

00:15:13.760 It was all second or third-hand.

00:15:16.120 Now, under the old rules, you weren't allowed to file a complaint just based on hearsay.

00:15:21.500 So what changed?

00:15:22.880 Well, coincidentally, shortly before this whistleblower filed his complaint, the intelligence community

00:15:29.360 changed the rules.

00:15:30.140 And that's what a coincidence.

00:15:31.020 What are the odds that the intelligence community would do that at the very time?

00:15:36.020 You know the intelligence community, which tried to overturn the 2016 election,

00:15:39.140 which was against Trump from the very beginning?

00:15:41.260 I don't want to disparage the whole IC.

00:15:44.040 There are some great people in the intelligence community, but there are some really bad actors

00:15:47.280 out there who were really upset that Trump got elected, and they decided to grossly abuse

00:15:51.620 their power and try to overturn the decision of the people.

00:15:54.660 Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham.

00:15:57.120 Lindsey Grahambo, we call him.

00:15:58.680 Graham 2.0, ever since he became this real bold face of conservatism.

00:16:03.580 He brought this question up on Face the Nation, and he made the only conclusion you can draw,

00:16:10.440 which is something about this whistleblower complaint stinks.

00:16:14.600 Every American deserves to confront their accuser.

00:16:18.280 So this is a sham as far as I'm concerned.

00:16:21.120 I want to know who told the whistleblower about the phone call.

00:16:24.520 I want to know why they changed the rules about whistleblowers, not the hearsay rule was changed

00:16:29.540 just a short period of time before the complaint was filed.

00:16:32.500 The complaint sounds like a legal document.

00:16:35.920 Who helped him, who helped this guy write it or this girl write it?

00:16:39.100 We're not going to try the President of the United States based on hearsay.

00:16:42.820 Every American has the right to confront their accuser.

00:16:46.140 Of course, every American has the right to confront their accuser.

00:16:49.180 We're not going to throw President out of office because some random guy in the CIA or any other

00:16:53.820 intelligence agency decides that he doesn't like Trump and he's going to write up this complaint.

00:16:58.040 There's a lot that's weird about the complaint.

00:16:59.980 But Lindsey Graham has been very good about talking about this on TV, about distilling this down to its basics.

00:17:05.620 The other one who's been really great is Rudy Giuliani.

00:17:08.140 And I know that Rudy gets a lot of flack because sometimes he oversteps or he misstates things

00:17:13.420 or he says things on TV that he shouldn't have.

00:17:16.400 On this issue, on Ukraine, this is Rudy at his best.

00:17:21.340 He is doing an excellent job here.

00:17:23.260 He's doing an excellent job of shutting down all of the objections from the mainstream media.

00:17:27.480 Because don't forget, the media are not a neutral body when it comes to Ukraine.

00:17:31.740 The media have been complicit in shutting down this story about Joe Biden's corruption.

00:17:36.560 They've been complicit since 2014.

00:17:39.380 They haven't talked about this.

00:17:40.640 They've been complicit in pushing the Russia hoax.

00:17:42.920 They've been complicit in pushing this impeachment nonsense.

00:17:46.700 And so Rudy Giuliani goes on George Stephanopoulos' show.

00:17:50.000 George Stephanopoulos, he's the head of political news over there at ABC.

00:17:54.380 And people forget, because we have a short political attention span,

00:17:58.280 George Stephanopoulos was Bill Clinton's communications director.

00:18:01.740 In the White House, on the campaign, this guy was in the war room.

00:18:05.480 He was Bill Clinton's hack and hatchet man.

00:18:08.160 And now that same guy is the head of news for ABC, political news for ABC.

00:18:12.540 Rudy Giuliani goes on there and he makes the first point that we should all ask ourselves.

00:18:18.860 Whenever there's a political scandal, you should ask yourself,

00:18:22.180 if it were the other side doing this, would it bother me as much?

00:18:24.980 What would I say if the shoe were on the other foot?

00:18:27.300 Now, that doesn't mean that you have to treat both sides equally.

00:18:31.320 Both sides are not equal.

00:18:32.340 They're trying to get different things.

00:18:33.640 The two teams are playing for different goals.

00:18:36.040 But you should at least ask yourself so that you have some real political perspective

00:18:39.960 and some intellectual honesty.

00:18:41.600 That's what Rudy Giuliani asked George Stephanopoulos.

00:18:43.740 He says, if the shoe were on the other foot here,

00:18:45.740 and we weren't talking about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden,

00:18:48.220 but Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr.,

00:18:50.360 would you still say there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to see here?

00:18:53.960 Of course, the answer is absolutely not.

00:18:56.680 I also support everything I say with affidavits.

00:19:00.220 I have an affidavit here that's been online for six months that nobody bothered to read

00:19:04.760 from the gentleman who was fired, Victor Shokin, the so-called corrupt prosecutor.

00:19:09.600 The Biden people say that he wasn't investigating Hunter Biden at the time.

00:19:13.980 He says under oath that he was.

00:19:15.660 But as you know, I know he says that under oath.

00:19:17.600 We don't even know him.

00:19:19.040 He must not be telling the truth.

00:19:20.040 But we know that Vice President Biden was part of an international effort,

00:19:23.300 was part of a government-wide effort to help push the prosecutor out because of allegations of corruptions.

00:19:27.080 The name here was Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

00:19:30.600 And it said that the president of the Ukraine asked me to resign due to pressure

00:19:35.160 from the U.S. presidential administration.

00:19:38.100 The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe

00:19:43.680 into Burisma Holdings and Joe Biden's son.

00:19:48.680 There it is.

00:19:49.560 And by the way, importantly, Rudy Giuliani isn't just using hearsay third-hand from some CIA hack

00:19:56.320 who got his pals in the intelligence community to change the rules so he could put a rumor out there

00:20:01.460 to try to get Trump impeached.

00:20:03.740 Rudy is holding a sworn affidavit.

00:20:06.600 Rudy is starting to deal in real evidence, real facts,

00:20:10.260 the real words of the people who were involved here,

00:20:13.440 not just the mainstream media gossip mill and rumor mill.

00:20:17.040 And he's asking, what if the shoe were on the other foot?

00:20:20.080 It is not just conservatives who are raising this prospect,

00:20:23.180 no less a liberal than Bill Maher.

00:20:24.780 Bill Maher hates Donald Trump.

00:20:26.820 Bill Maher said he's hoping for a recession just so that Trump doesn't get re-elected.

00:20:31.040 He's got real liberal bona fides.

00:20:32.900 Bill Maher goes out, says exactly the same thing,

00:20:35.580 that if this were not Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, but Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr.,

00:20:39.720 that is all the leftist media, it's all Rachel Maddow and everybody else would be talking about.

00:20:45.280 The more I read about this, no, I don't think he was doing something terrible in Ukraine,

00:20:49.700 but it's just so, why can't politicians tell their kids, get a job?

00:20:54.040 It's too swampy.

00:20:54.760 I mean, this kid, this kid was paid $600,000 because his name is Biden

00:21:03.160 by a gas company in Ukraine, this super corrupt country 0.93

00:21:06.320 that just had a revolution to get rid of corruption. 0.72

00:21:08.600 It just looks bad.

00:21:10.340 It does sound like something Don Jr. would do.

00:21:12.660 And if Don Jr. did it, it would be all Rachel Maddow was talking about.

00:21:17.140 I do like when Bill Maher does this,

00:21:18.840 because Bill Maher still gets his snide left-wing insinuations in there.

00:21:24.060 It says, look, Don Jr. would totally do this.

00:21:26.400 I don't see any reason to conclude that Don Jr. would do something like this.

00:21:30.240 There is no comparison between Don Jr., who has made some missteps in life, sure, so have we all,

00:21:36.160 and Hunter Biden, who got discharged from the Navy after a month for testing positive for Coke,

00:21:41.320 squandered all his family's money on drugs and hookers,

00:21:44.160 then went to Skid Row in L.A. and bought crack and had a gun pulled on him,

00:21:47.960 then drunk drove to Arizona where he would have been arrested for possession of a crack pipe

00:21:52.180 and drunk driving, except the cops declined to pursue charges

00:21:54.800 and then grifted $600,000 a year by trading on his father's name in the Ukraine

00:21:58.720 and got a billion and a half dollars in loans from the Chinese government,

00:22:02.680 also trading on his father's name.

00:22:04.120 No comparison, okay?

00:22:06.140 But Bill Maher will get his snide insinuation in and then say,

00:22:11.480 if it were Don Jr., it's all Rachel Maddow would be talking about.

00:22:15.400 And of course, that's true.

00:22:16.980 This is why I want to talk about this shoe on the other foot, calling balls and strikes.

00:22:22.940 If Trump does it, you've got to call him out the same way that you would call out a Democrat.

00:22:28.500 I'm more than willing to criticize things that President Trump says

00:22:33.260 and criticize things that President Trump does.

00:22:36.340 I'm at the same time willing to support him politically,

00:22:40.240 even while I criticize him for those things.

00:22:41.900 Why?

00:22:42.240 Why will some conservatives defend President Trump

00:22:46.200 when he does things that are objectively objectionable?

00:22:51.780 They will defend him in those cases if what he's doing is contextually defensible.

00:22:58.660 Those are slightly complicated terms and it's a little bit of a nuanced point.

00:23:02.120 So what do I mean?

00:23:03.180 President Trump goes out and he talks about civil war.

00:23:05.320 I think it's bad to do that.

00:23:06.820 I don't like that he does that.

00:23:08.480 I don't want other people to go out there and talk about civil war.

00:23:11.580 I certainly don't want the President of the United States to do that.

00:23:14.940 What he is doing when he says that is objectively objectionable.

00:23:21.680 However, he didn't start this fight.

00:23:24.540 He's not the one pushing for civil war.

00:23:26.620 He's not the one clamoring for it.

00:23:28.280 He's not the first one suggesting it.

00:23:29.940 He's not the second one suggesting it.

00:23:31.560 And he's not the 5,000th person suggesting it.

00:23:34.500 What Trump is doing when he suggests that we could be on the verge of a civil war is he's showing the double standard. 0.83

00:23:43.060 He's showing the hypocrisy. 0.94

00:23:45.160 He's not just talking about this double standard and the hypocrisy.

00:23:48.120 He, by making these statements and showing us the reaction that they get,

00:23:51.760 is actually showing the hypocrisy of the left and the media.

00:23:55.280 And I think that's a great thing.

00:23:56.700 And I hate it when conservatives unilaterally disarm.

00:24:00.520 David French over at National Review, whom I like.

00:24:03.160 I feel like I have to call him David French, whom I like.

00:24:05.360 Because sometimes I criticize what he says, particularly his opinions on Donald Trump.

00:24:10.700 But he's a very nice guy, so I want it to be clear that I like him personally.

00:24:14.380 But David French, whom I like, called out President Trump for exactly this reason.

00:24:18.700 He says, it's awful when Trump does this.

00:24:21.240 And we would call him out if he were a Democrat.

00:24:23.220 And here's what French said directly.

00:24:25.120 Quote, I know, I know, but let's do this anyway.

00:24:27.300 If a Democratic president had accused a GOP committee chair of treason

00:24:32.520 and approvingly quoted a threat of a second civil war from an unhinged religious leader,

00:24:36.660 then I think we know exactly how Republicans would respond.

00:24:40.900 Okay, that's what he says. 1.00

00:24:42.520 See, you hypocrite Republicans. 1.00

00:24:45.860 You hypocrite Trump supporters. 1.00

00:24:48.620 The problem with David's point is we don't need to imagine this. 0.99

00:24:53.080 We don't need to imagine that the leaders of the Democratic Party

00:24:57.760 called for civil strife and accused Donald Trump of treason.

00:25:02.540 They've been doing it for three years.

00:25:05.700 That's the whole point.

00:25:07.900 That's why Trump did it.

00:25:10.080 That's the effect of Trump doing it, 0.62

00:25:12.300 is you calling the hypocrisy and us seeing the hypocrisy.

00:25:15.480 Obviously, President Trump is not going to unilaterally disarm.

00:25:20.580 He's not going to just go along and allow us to be bullied by the left in this way.

00:25:24.760 It happened.

00:25:25.480 You switch a couple roles, obviously, because Trump is the president now,

00:25:28.240 but it did happen.

00:25:29.040 For three years, the left and the mainstream media have called Trump a traitor explicitly.

00:25:33.640 They're still doing it today.

00:25:35.000 Just last week, Bill Weld, who's a liberal Republican running against Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, 0.90

00:25:40.760 called Trump a traitor and said he should be publicly executed.

00:25:43.800 When he did that, he was cheered on by portions of the mainstream media and the left. 0.96

00:25:49.560 When the ones who didn't want to cheer him on stayed silent, they were complicit.

00:25:53.120 The Democratic establishment was complicit in that.

00:25:55.880 So Trump comes right back, throws it right back, and calls Adam Schiff a traitor to his country.

00:26:00.400 What happens?

00:26:02.060 Was he cheered on by the left and the same people who cheered on the calls that he was a traitor?

00:26:06.480 No.

00:26:07.380 There was outrage from the mainstream media, outrage from the left, outrage from the anti-Trump right.

00:26:13.800 They're not playing by the same rules.

00:26:15.600 And President Trump has this unique ability to draw the hypocrisy out of his opponents

00:26:20.880 because he's a showman and he's putting on a show.

00:26:24.140 And that's what Twitter is all about.

00:26:25.400 Twitter is about performance.

00:26:27.120 TV is about performance. 0.56

00:26:28.800 What he is showing us is the hypocrisy.

00:26:30.820 So keeping the hypocrisy in mind.

00:26:32.560 Then we have to ask the central question here.

00:26:34.800 Because that's what impeachment is all about, what the question of the Civil War is all about.

00:26:41.240 Where's the corruption?

00:26:43.100 Where's the crime?

00:26:44.660 Rudy Giuliani, on those shows, gets to the heart of the matter.

00:26:47.780 Who was corrupt here?

00:26:49.760 Joe Biden says it was the old prosecutor in Ukraine who was corrupt.

00:26:53.640 And that Joe Biden demanded that that prosecutor be replaced by someone else

00:26:58.400 because he really cares about Ukrainian domestic criminal justice or something like that.

00:27:04.800 This is where the Joe Biden defense falls apart.

00:27:08.000 He says that old prosecutor, he was the corrupt one.

00:27:10.800 And the one that I threatened to withhold American aid to the tune of a billion dollars

00:27:15.020 if they didn't replace him, the one that I picked, he was the good one.

00:27:20.040 And that's why we got to withhold that aid and it was so important and he had to do it fast.

00:27:24.220 What does Joe Biden care?

00:27:25.880 This is unprecedented that a vice president would have the ability to approve or disapprove

00:27:31.060 of the prosecutor in some foreign country.

00:27:36.160 He just really cares about fighting corruption in Kiev?

00:27:41.340 I don't think so.

00:27:43.360 Something tells me there's something else going on.

00:27:45.460 The Trump story, the story the conservatives are a little more inclined to believe,

00:27:49.720 is that Joe Biden forced Ukraine to ditch that old prosecutor

00:27:53.440 because that old prosecutor was looking a little too closely into Joe Biden and his son.

00:27:58.680 Now, it's not just hearsay.

00:27:59.880 It's not like we just have to rely on our own fantasies and our own imaginings

00:28:03.240 and third-string gossip from the CIA.

00:28:06.880 We have a sworn affidavit from the old prosecutor saying exactly that.

00:28:11.840 Now, look, he could be lying.

00:28:13.000 All right, that's what investigations are for.

00:28:14.560 But Rudy Giuliani goes on and provides even more evidence.

00:28:20.400 That was done as a matter of record in October of 2016 after the guy got tanked.

00:28:26.400 He also dropped a case on George Soros' company called Antac.

00:28:30.140 Antac is the company where there's documentary evidence that they were producing false information

00:28:35.080 about Trump, about Biden.

00:28:38.340 Fusion GPS was there.

00:28:39.960 Go back and listen to Nellie Orr's testimony.

00:28:43.260 Nellie Orr says that there was a lot of contact between Democrats and the Ukraine.

00:28:49.720 Well, I have all the contacts.

00:28:51.380 And, John, when the rest of this comes out and we look at China

00:28:55.460 and the $1.5 billion that the Biden family took out of China

00:29:00.460 while that guy was negotiating for us,

00:29:02.840 this will be a lot bigger than Spiro Agnew.

00:29:05.300 They have fallen into a trap.

00:29:07.960 They've fallen into a trap.

00:29:10.660 There it is.

00:29:11.220 We will get to the, even if you're disinclined to believe that Rudy Giuliani is telling the truth here,

00:29:17.460 that Rudy Giuliani is the one, you don't need to just trust Rudy.

00:29:20.340 You don't need to just trust the sworn affidavits.

00:29:22.540 We've got Joe Biden contradicting himself.

00:29:25.640 We've got Jay Carney, Obama's former press secretary, alluding to some corruption here.

00:29:30.960 We've got even Elizabeth Warren showing that this looks crooked.

00:29:34.420 We'll get to that.

00:29:35.060 We'll get to what this means for 2020, Hillary Clinton's role in all of this,

00:29:39.620 and whether we're really headed for a civil war.

00:29:41.400 Then, of course, the negative effects of transgender ideology already, 1.00

00:29:47.220 already apparent.

00:29:48.320 6,000 kids have been killed because of puberty-blocking drugs.

00:29:52.200 We'll get to that.

00:29:52.980 And we'll get to Bill de Blasio.

00:29:54.840 Now that he's left the 2020 presidential race,

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00:30:00.000 now banning the word, imposing fines,

00:30:02.760 if you say the phrase, illegal alien,

00:30:06.100 which is a legal term that precisely describes a legal concept.

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00:31:31.980 So on the actual point,

00:31:33.860 who was corrupt is this impeachment inquiry

00:31:36.320 against Trump legitimate.

00:31:37.500 We know that there was corruption

00:31:39.280 on the part of the Bidens in the Ukraine.

00:31:41.820 We got the affidavits.

00:31:43.100 We got the testimony.

00:31:44.460 We've got Joe Biden contradicting himself

00:31:46.540 and lying about it in public.

00:31:47.780 Joe Biden was talking to Steve,

00:31:51.140 no, I'm sorry, to, I think it was Peter Doocy

00:31:53.320 the other day on Fox News.

00:31:55.860 I actually coincidentally was on Fox News

00:31:57.460 while this was happening,

00:31:58.620 so we saw it in real time,

00:32:00.120 gave our instant reaction.

00:32:01.920 I immediately knew what he was saying was a lie,

00:32:04.420 and it has since been proven that he was a lie.

00:32:07.420 Doocy asks Joe Biden,

00:32:09.140 have you ever talked to your son

00:32:10.340 about his overseas business dealings?

00:32:11.960 Joe Biden says,

00:32:12.620 no way, no how.

00:32:15.260 Mr. Vice President,

00:32:16.220 how many times have you ever spoken to your son

00:32:19.020 about his overseas business dealings?

00:32:21.120 I've never spoken to my son

00:32:22.360 about his overseas business dealings.

00:32:23.900 That's a lie.

00:32:24.880 We knew it was a lie at the time.

00:32:26.000 Now we can prove it.

00:32:26.820 Hunter Biden himself contradicted this.

00:32:28.720 He told New York Magazine,

00:32:29.820 no, I'm sorry,

00:32:30.240 The New Yorker back in July

00:32:31.740 that he did speak to his father about Burisma,

00:32:34.960 and his father said,

00:32:36.740 quote,

00:32:37.020 I hope you know what you're doing.

00:32:39.000 Because he's a Biden,

00:32:40.020 he didn't know what he was doing,

00:32:40.800 and he walked into that trap

00:32:41.820 and Joe Biden's lying about it.

00:32:43.080 What's he lying?

00:32:43.740 What's he trying to cover up?

00:32:44.900 We know it's crooked.

00:32:46.100 John Carl of ABC News,

00:32:48.160 at least one journalist out there,

00:32:50.640 asked the White House Press Secretary,

00:32:52.820 Jay Carney,

00:32:53.840 about this in 2014.

00:32:55.340 This is Obama's spokesman.

00:32:57.040 When he asked about the Biden issue in the Ukraine,

00:33:00.900 the White House spokesman

00:33:01.840 didn't leap to Joe Biden's defense,

00:33:03.840 didn't say there's nothing going on.

00:33:05.800 He distanced himself,

00:33:07.060 he stammered,

00:33:07.780 and he referred it to the Vice President's office.

00:33:09.940 Here he is.

00:33:11.320 Hunter Biden has now taken a position

00:33:13.600 with the largest oil and gas company,

00:33:16.900 holding company in Ukraine.

00:33:18.960 Is there any concern about at least the appearance

00:33:21.460 of a conflict there?

00:33:24.220 I would refer you to the Vice President's office.

00:33:27.520 I saw those reports.

00:33:29.800 Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family

00:33:33.340 are obviously private citizens,

00:33:34.540 and where they work does not reflect an endorsement

00:33:41.640 by the administration

00:33:42.500 or by the Vice President or President,

00:33:45.540 but I would refer you to the Vice President's office.

00:33:49.200 Oh, that's pretty bad.

00:33:50.640 Jay Carney is usually pretty slick,

00:33:52.640 and even he couldn't muster anything here.

00:33:55.200 He started to almost defend Hunter Biden.

00:33:58.700 What he was about to start saying,

00:33:59.960 you could hear it,

00:34:00.660 is Hunter Biden is a private citizen.

00:34:02.940 Now, what the expected conclusion of that is,

00:34:05.420 and therefore the jobs that are held by private citizens

00:34:09.380 are of no business of yours.

00:34:11.360 They have nothing to do with politics,

00:34:13.260 and stop asking about them.

00:34:14.420 He didn't say that.

00:34:15.100 What he ended up doing was trying to protect

00:34:17.020 the White House, actually.

00:34:17.940 So he said, Hunter Biden is a private citizen,

00:34:20.020 and so whatever job he has

00:34:21.240 does not reflect an endorsement by the President.

00:34:23.420 We had nothing to do with it.

00:34:24.460 Don't blame us.

00:34:25.380 Even Elizabeth Warren, 2020 presidential candidate, 0.99

00:34:29.140 just accidentally admitted that this is corrupt,

00:34:33.000 the Biden dealings in Ukraine,

00:34:34.540 before she realized that she had admitted it was corrupt,

00:34:37.040 and then she tried to walk it back. 0.97

00:34:38.600 She was asked the question in a hypothetical,

00:34:40.600 is it okay for the Vice President's son

00:34:42.420 to get these slick deals out of foreign governments?

00:34:45.560 And she initially says, no, of course not.

00:34:47.300 And then she realizes what it means,

00:34:48.420 and she had to try to walk it back too late.

00:34:50.440 For two ethics plans,

00:34:51.980 could you say whether or not,

00:34:53.200 under a Warren administration,

00:34:54.840 would your Vice President's child

00:34:57.140 be allowed to serve on a board of a foreign company?

00:35:00.140 No.

00:35:01.000 Why not?

00:35:01.960 I don't know.

00:35:03.920 I mean, I have to go back and look at the details.

00:35:06.660 Do you think there could be a problem?

00:35:08.560 I have to go back and look.

00:35:09.860 Oh, she's a real Indian giver on that answer, isn't she? 1.00

00:35:13.520 Because she gives the obvious answer.

00:35:15.020 She gives the correct answer,

00:35:16.100 which is under a Warren administration,

00:35:18.120 so Warren's in President Warren mode here,

00:35:20.780 she says,

00:35:21.740 would your Vice President be permitted

00:35:24.480 to take bribes from foreign governments?

00:35:26.860 She goes, no, of course not.

00:35:28.060 Absolutely not.

00:35:29.460 And then she realizes what the question means,

00:35:31.460 and the question is, 0.96

00:35:32.380 do you think that Joe Biden is a crook

00:35:34.940 for allowing his son to do this?

00:35:36.400 And she's not ready to pounce on Biden.

00:35:38.400 Obviously, she wants to beat Biden for the nomination, 0.99

00:35:40.740 but very bad idea for her to do that now.

00:35:42.720 Biden's falling apart.

00:35:43.840 She wants his support,

00:35:44.900 and she doesn't want to be seen

00:35:46.500 as having caused his demise,

00:35:48.000 or even worse,

00:35:49.080 siding with Trump

00:35:50.140 to help facilitate Biden's demise.

00:35:52.960 So she says, no, absolutely not.

00:35:55.500 And then the reporter, good question,

00:35:56.920 says, why not?

00:35:58.280 Why would you not allow your Vice President's child 1.00

00:36:00.560 to get bribes from a foreign government?

00:36:03.240 She goes, I don't know.

00:36:06.300 What do you mean you don't know?

00:36:07.080 You're pretty quick on that answer.

00:36:09.380 She said, no, obviously not.

00:36:11.240 And the obvious reason is 0.98

00:36:12.260 because that's corrupt and crooked. 0.97

00:36:14.620 But then she says, I don't know, 0.92

00:36:15.840 and you have to, I got to think about it.

00:36:17.080 And bye, see ya.

00:36:18.020 And then there's a Liz Warren-shaped hole in the wall.

00:36:20.640 A lot of people, including Rudy Giuliani,

00:36:22.700 have uncovered a lot here.

00:36:24.580 So can this stuff be trusted?

00:36:28.300 Can what Rudy Giuliani is saying on television be trusted?

00:36:30.800 Is it serious or not?

00:36:33.060 The best argument that it's serious

00:36:34.920 is that Joe Biden wants to shut up Rudy.

00:36:36.840 Joe Biden wrote letters,

00:36:37.940 his campaign wrote letters,

00:36:39.260 to the TV news network saying,

00:36:41.300 quote,

00:36:41.320 we're writing today with grave concern

00:36:43.060 that you continue to book Rudy Giuliani on your air

00:36:45.740 to spread false,

00:36:47.720 debunked conspiracy theories

00:36:49.180 on behalf of Donald Trump.

00:36:51.260 False?

00:36:51.800 He's got sworn affidavits.

00:36:53.340 Conspiracy theory?

00:36:54.080 What are you talking about?

00:36:55.400 He's got hard evidence on all these shows.

00:36:57.940 They go on.

00:36:58.420 Giving Rudy Giuliani valuable time on your air

00:37:00.480 to push these lies in the first place

00:37:02.240 is a disservice to your audience

00:37:03.740 and a disservice to journalism.

00:37:05.720 Hmm.

00:37:06.080 So you're telling me

00:37:06.840 that totally uncorroborated hearsay

00:37:10.240 is enough to get the President of the United States

00:37:12.220 kicked out of office,

00:37:13.720 but during an impeachment inquiry,

00:37:15.760 sending the President's lawyer on television

00:37:18.340 with hard facts,

00:37:20.060 with sworn affidavits,

00:37:21.720 with serious investigative work,

00:37:23.960 that is a disservice to journalism.

00:37:25.920 Up is down, black is white, north is south.

00:37:29.580 They go on.

00:37:30.140 While you often fact-check his statements

00:37:31.620 in real time during your discussions,

00:37:33.260 that is no longer enough.

00:37:34.920 Okay, the Biden campaign

00:37:36.160 is going to give their lackeys in the media

00:37:37.660 their marching orders.

00:37:39.540 That's no longer enough, journalists.

00:37:41.100 Do what we say.

00:37:42.100 By giving him your airtime,

00:37:43.300 you're allowing him to introduce

00:37:44.360 increasingly unhinged,

00:37:46.660 unfounded, and desperate lies

00:37:48.200 into the national conversation.

00:37:49.940 It is always the case

00:37:51.200 that when they can't

00:37:52.920 argue with your facts,

00:37:56.440 with your evidence,

00:37:57.420 with your logic,

00:37:58.420 with your arguments,

00:37:59.620 they try to shut you up.

00:38:00.600 They try to get you kicked off television.

00:38:02.280 They try to shut down your show.

00:38:04.200 They try to get you canceled

00:38:05.300 from your Netflix special.

00:38:06.680 They try to get you thrown out of office

00:38:08.180 before the voters have a chance to re-elect you.

00:38:10.700 Democrats are talking

00:38:11.640 like they want civil war.

00:38:13.460 They are.

00:38:13.920 That's why Robert Jeffress brought it up on TV.

00:38:16.120 That's why Trump tweeted about it.

00:38:17.640 The RNC put an ad together

00:38:19.480 with a lot of these cases.

00:38:20.740 We're not just talking about loony, fringe lefties.

00:38:22.940 We're talking about Maxine Waters, 0.76

00:38:24.420 Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton,

00:38:26.280 all fanning the flames in recent years

00:38:28.560 of violence and uprising.

00:38:30.820 They go low, we kick off.

00:38:34.100 And if you see anybody

00:38:37.220 in a restaurant,

00:38:38.760 in a department store,

00:38:41.280 at a gasoline station,

00:38:43.260 you get out and you create a crowd.

00:38:46.360 And you push back on them.

00:38:48.340 And you tell them they're not welcome. 0.92

00:38:51.260 Sex increases anti-state.

00:38:54.340 We believe survivors.

00:38:56.260 I just don't even know

00:38:57.680 why there aren't uprisings

00:38:58.920 all over the country.

00:38:59.900 Maybe there will be.

00:39:00.800 You cannot be civil

00:39:09.180 with a political party

00:39:10.800 that wants to destroy

00:39:12.760 what you stand for,

00:39:14.620 what you care about.

00:39:15.380 It goes on and on.

00:39:18.020 I mean, that is reckless,

00:39:19.220 reckless rhetoric.

00:39:20.160 That is far more reckless

00:39:21.180 than anything Trump says.

00:39:22.780 You know, you hear him go,

00:39:23.860 oh, the tweets.

00:39:24.740 The tweets are so terrible.

00:39:26.320 Not at all.

00:39:27.000 What Maxine Waters, 1.00

00:39:27.980 Hillary Clinton are saying

00:39:28.780 is far more reckless,

00:39:30.420 far more damaging

00:39:31.140 to public discourse in the country.

00:39:32.800 Hillary Clinton

00:39:33.320 just went on television.

00:39:35.440 And she lost the election in 2016.

00:39:37.560 And she is calling

00:39:38.540 the current president

00:39:39.500 of the United States

00:39:40.620 illegitimate.

00:39:41.800 I believe he knows

00:39:43.320 he's an illegitimate president.

00:39:45.180 He knows.

00:39:46.020 He knows that

00:39:47.440 there were a bunch

00:39:49.600 of different reasons

00:39:50.580 why the election

00:39:52.000 turned out the way it did.

00:39:53.620 And I take responsibility

00:39:54.660 for those parts of it

00:39:55.740 that I should.

00:39:56.840 But Jane, 1.00

00:39:57.180 it was like applying for a job

00:39:58.520 and getting 66 million

00:40:00.680 letters of recommendation

00:40:02.920 and losing to 0.98

00:40:04.380 a corrupt human tornado. 0.96

00:40:06.360 And so I know 0.99

00:40:08.040 that he knows

00:40:09.240 that this wasn't on the level.

00:40:11.260 I don't know

00:40:11.800 that we'll ever know

00:40:12.580 everything that happened,

00:40:13.800 but clearly we know a lot

00:40:15.420 and are learning more every day

00:40:16.660 and history will probably

00:40:18.000 sort it all out.

00:40:19.620 Well, we'll never know.

00:40:21.700 We'll never know.

00:40:22.900 It was the Macedonians. 0.65

00:40:24.500 It was James Comey.

00:40:25.960 It was,

00:40:26.440 I'm the president.

00:40:27.420 I'm really the president.

00:40:28.740 She was wandering around

00:40:29.580 Chappaqua in a straitjacket.

00:40:31.040 Hillary, Hillary, come back.

00:40:32.380 Come back.

00:40:33.260 You forgot your medicine, Hillary.

00:40:35.220 Say what you will

00:40:35.880 about Mitt Romney.

00:40:36.700 He didn't call Barack Obama

00:40:37.700 an illegitimate president.

00:40:39.440 John Kerry, even,

00:40:40.600 didn't call Bush

00:40:41.340 an illegitimate president.

00:40:42.780 Bob Dole didn't call

00:40:43.640 Clinton an illegitimate president.

00:40:44.820 Bush, one,

00:40:45.440 didn't call Clinton

00:40:46.040 an illegitimate president.

00:40:48.300 But recently,

00:40:49.420 you've seen this increasing.

00:40:51.400 Al Gore more or less suggested

00:40:53.020 that George W. Bush

00:40:54.940 was illegitimate.

00:40:56.060 Hillary is outright saying it.

00:40:57.400 That's the sort of talk

00:40:58.220 that leads to civil war.

00:40:59.580 You know, there's a video

00:41:00.180 going around of Antifa.

00:41:02.160 It's actually a video

00:41:02.820 from Canada,

00:41:03.440 but Canada's just

00:41:04.420 America's hat,

00:41:05.220 so, you know,

00:41:05.740 it's pretty much

00:41:06.240 the same thing.

00:41:06.940 And it echoes scenes

00:41:08.940 that we've seen

00:41:09.540 from Antifa in the United States,

00:41:10.960 especially in Portland,

00:41:11.980 but all over the country.

00:41:13.440 It's Antifa physically

00:41:15.220 threatening a little old couple 0.59

00:41:16.780 trying to cross the street.

00:41:18.120 Here they are.

00:41:18.480 This is the kind of stuff

00:41:38.000 that leads to civil war.

00:41:39.120 If you can do that

00:41:39.720 to a little old couple,

00:41:40.960 you've lost the narrative.

00:41:42.180 If you think

00:41:43.040 half the country

00:41:44.320 is deplorable

00:41:44.920 and irredeemable,

00:41:45.660 you've lost the narrative.

00:41:46.780 If you are willing

00:41:48.120 to question the legitimacy

00:41:49.240 of the President

00:41:49.820 of the United States

00:41:50.520 or a Supreme Court justice

00:41:51.760 like Brett Kavanaugh

00:41:52.560 or anybody else,

00:41:53.940 you have lost the narrative.

00:41:55.240 You are seriously

00:41:56.580 diminishing faith

00:41:57.360 in our institutions,

00:41:58.180 especially if you were

00:41:59.220 former Senator,

00:42:00.300 former Secretary of State,

00:42:01.800 former Democratic nominee

00:42:02.800 for President

00:42:03.300 like Hillary Clinton. 0.99

00:42:04.580 Unbelievably reckless.

00:42:05.980 I don't think

00:42:06.960 we're headed for civil war,

00:42:08.240 but if we are,

00:42:09.240 it's because the left

00:42:10.120 has whipped itself

00:42:11.280 up into a frenzy.

00:42:12.300 And if we are,

00:42:14.020 then I guess

00:42:15.520 the proximate cause of it 1.00

00:42:16.740 will be this stupid nonsense 1.00

00:42:18.120 about Hunter Biden 1.00

00:42:19.560 being a crook in Ukraine 0.99

00:42:21.220 and Joe Biden being a crook. 0.99

00:42:22.700 But there are great 0.98

00:42:23.580 moral questions here.

00:42:24.680 There are,

00:42:25.180 we can't just write this off

00:42:26.660 as some totally frivolous, 0.93

00:42:28.640 farcical nonsense.

00:42:29.760 There are serious

00:42:30.600 moral questions.

00:42:31.680 A central question

00:42:32.440 would be abortion. 1.00

00:42:33.460 You've got half the country,

00:42:34.500 they're digging in their heels.

00:42:35.760 Half the country says

00:42:36.520 we need to be able 1.00

00:42:37.040 to kill babies 1.00

00:42:37.700 as a federal right 1.00

00:42:38.780 and you need to pay for it.

00:42:40.360 Half the country

00:42:41.160 understands the reality

00:42:42.900 which is that it's bad 0.99

00:42:43.700 to kill babies. 0.99

00:42:45.560 Okay, that's a central question. 1.00

00:42:46.960 That is certainly

00:42:48.060 as big a question

00:42:49.100 as slavery was in 1860.

00:42:51.720 A lot of the questions

00:42:53.220 we're talking about

00:42:53.940 are about the relationship

00:42:54.860 of local communities

00:42:55.740 to the federal government.

00:42:56.960 So there was a little bit

00:42:57.660 of a truce at least

00:42:59.860 on the abortion question

00:43:01.120 because local communities

00:43:03.920 could have their own abortion laws.

00:43:05.160 Different states

00:43:05.620 could have their own abortion laws.

00:43:07.060 Roe versus Wade

00:43:07.760 ended that

00:43:08.340 and the left

00:43:09.320 has been digging their heels in

00:43:10.420 ever since.

00:43:11.420 The other reason

00:43:12.420 why I could see us

00:43:13.980 heading down a path

00:43:14.600 to civil war

00:43:15.220 is if we've just

00:43:17.640 become too shallow.

00:43:18.940 This isn't about both sides.

00:43:20.460 This is primarily

00:43:21.140 a leftist issue.

00:43:22.480 The left does not understand

00:43:23.780 what the right is saying.

00:43:25.200 You see this

00:43:25.700 time and time again.

00:43:27.700 Social science shows this.

00:43:29.500 The left

00:43:30.180 actually doesn't understand

00:43:31.800 the arguments

00:43:32.300 that the right is making

00:43:33.660 whereas the right

00:43:34.440 does understand

00:43:35.100 many of the arguments

00:43:35.820 the left is making.

00:43:36.640 the left

00:43:38.440 is much more likely

00:43:39.160 to unfriend people

00:43:40.260 for having

00:43:43.440 different political views.

00:43:45.260 You know

00:43:45.420 the first civil war

00:43:46.320 was not caused

00:43:47.020 by shallowness.

00:43:47.920 Whatever it was caused by

00:43:48.980 Lincoln said

00:43:50.320 in the second inaugural

00:43:51.100 we all knew somehow

00:43:52.080 the cause of it

00:43:52.700 was slavery

00:43:53.880 and it was about

00:43:55.320 union

00:43:55.800 and about disunion

00:43:56.940 and this peculiar

00:43:58.280 institution.

00:43:59.360 But the second civil war

00:44:00.540 could be caused

00:44:02.040 by a serious question.

00:44:03.140 Any question

00:44:03.580 that causes war 0.97

00:44:04.260 is by definition

00:44:05.280 it's serious.

00:44:06.320 It could be caused

00:44:06.820 by a serious question.

00:44:07.940 It won't be caused

00:44:08.560 by serious people.

00:44:09.960 It will be caused

00:44:10.500 by frivolous people

00:44:11.500 frivolously throwing away

00:44:12.820 the greatest country

00:44:13.600 in the history of the world.

00:44:14.960 Farcical indeed

00:44:15.800 electric boogaloo

00:44:17.240 is the civil war too.

00:44:18.680 On the surface

00:44:19.360 you know everything

00:44:19.880 is going great.

00:44:20.940 Below the surface

00:44:21.560 there are major

00:44:22.300 cultural questions.

00:44:23.560 To use just that

00:44:24.240 one popular issue

00:44:25.140 we're talking about

00:44:25.940 transgender children

00:44:27.000 and when you go out there 0.98

00:44:28.700 believe you me

00:44:29.620 when you go out there

00:44:30.820 and you attack

00:44:31.800 the leftist

00:44:33.160 exploitation of children

00:44:34.540 vulnerable children

00:44:36.080 what the left does

00:44:37.900 is twists that

00:44:38.720 and pretends that

00:44:39.700 that's an attack

00:44:40.240 on children themselves.

00:44:41.240 Well let's look

00:44:41.620 at one example of that.

00:44:42.900 We are now told

00:44:43.560 if you do not want 0.99

00:44:44.480 to shoot little kids 1.00

00:44:45.300 full of hormones 1.00

00:44:46.000 and block them

00:44:46.940 from going through puberty

00:44:47.860 that you are 0.97

00:44:49.140 hateful

00:44:50.660 you're bigoted 0.99

00:44:51.280 you're transphobic 0.98

00:44:52.200 you're hurting these children

00:44:53.320 you're responsible

00:44:54.260 for their suicide rates.

00:44:55.880 Well let's look

00:44:56.400 at just one of those drugs

00:44:57.540 puberty blocking drug

00:44:58.840 luprolide acetate

00:45:00.580 which goes by Lupron

00:45:01.900 is a drug

00:45:03.240 to block puberty

00:45:03.940 in children.

00:45:05.300 By definition

00:45:06.300 if you're blocking puberty

00:45:07.220 you're blocking puberty

00:45:08.260 in children.

00:45:09.320 We have just learned

00:45:10.360 that this is resulting

00:45:11.280 in tens of thousands

00:45:13.020 of serious adverse reactions

00:45:15.220 in recent years

00:45:16.380 including 6,000 deaths

00:45:19.000 6,000 dead children

00:45:20.620 because of a drug

00:45:21.320 that blocks puberty.

00:45:22.620 Between 2012

00:45:23.340 and June 30th

00:45:25.260 of this year

00:45:26.100 2019

00:45:26.820 the FDA has documented

00:45:28.600 over 40,764

00:45:30.700 adverse reactions

00:45:32.180 to Lupron

00:45:32.800 and more than

00:45:34.580 25,500 reactions

00:45:36.420 in just the last

00:45:37.220 five years

00:45:37.800 were considered

00:45:39.000 serious

00:45:39.780 including

00:45:41.120 6,370 deaths

00:45:42.560 that's according

00:45:43.020 to the Christian Post.

00:45:44.220 that is a shallow society

00:45:47.760 that won't even

00:45:49.260 take up that question

00:45:50.260 that won't even

00:45:51.580 look at the harm

00:45:52.940 they're doing

00:45:53.320 because they are

00:45:53.720 so misguided

00:45:54.560 by fantasy

00:45:55.420 and ideology.

00:45:56.420 Same thing

00:45:57.020 look on a completely

00:45:57.860 different issue

00:45:58.520 in New York.

00:45:59.600 New York City

00:46:00.220 is now banning

00:46:01.080 the phrase

00:46:01.440 illegal alien.

00:46:02.300 They're not banning

00:46:03.040 illegal aliens

00:46:03.920 which they should 0.96

00:46:04.580 because illegal aliens 0.98

00:46:05.980 are illegal

00:46:06.780 they're not here

00:46:07.520 and a self-governing

00:46:08.560 people has a right

00:46:09.300 to determine

00:46:09.920 its own

00:46:10.240 immigration policy.

00:46:11.680 They're now

00:46:12.220 banning the phrase

00:46:14.980 illegal alien

00:46:15.680 if you use

00:46:16.440 the phrase

00:46:16.820 illegal alien

00:46:17.520 you could be fined

00:46:18.600 up to a quarter

00:46:19.160 million dollars

00:46:19.760 per offense.

00:46:21.240 This is according

00:46:21.680 to the City Halls

00:46:23.180 Commission on Human Rights.

00:46:25.480 This is what they write

00:46:26.420 this is from the memo

00:46:27.160 alien

00:46:27.840 used in many laws

00:46:28.920 to refer to a

00:46:29.540 non-citizen person

00:46:30.520 is a term

00:46:31.720 that may carry

00:46:32.480 negative connotations

00:46:33.640 and dehumanize immigrants 0.55

00:46:35.360 marking them as other

00:46:36.380 they are other

00:46:37.280 they're not American citizens 0.95

00:46:38.520 that's the purpose

00:46:39.720 of language

00:46:40.240 is to distinguish

00:46:40.980 between different concepts

00:46:42.400 and different ideas

00:46:43.360 and different people.

00:46:45.500 Obviously

00:46:45.900 if they were American citizens

00:46:47.220 there wouldn't be the term

00:46:48.180 illegal alien

00:46:48.800 because they wouldn't be other

00:46:49.960 if you use a different term

00:46:51.220 to refer to people

00:46:51.840 it's other

00:46:52.200 if you use the term

00:46:53.040 they want

00:46:53.360 non-citizen person

00:46:54.280 you are othering them as well

00:46:55.620 why?

00:46:56.080 Because they are other.

00:46:58.980 The use of certain language

00:47:00.080 including illegal alien

00:47:01.080 and illegals

00:47:01.860 with the intent 0.98

00:47:02.520 to demean, humiliate

00:47:03.620 or offend a person

00:47:04.480 or persons

00:47:05.300 constitutes discrimination.

00:47:06.860 So now

00:47:07.220 the City Hall

00:47:07.740 is not only going to

00:47:08.400 bridge free speech

00:47:09.180 is not only going to

00:47:10.440 stop people from using

00:47:11.600 the correct term

00:47:12.760 it's not offensive

00:47:13.880 by the way

00:47:14.340 it is the most clinical term

00:47:16.360 you can use

00:47:17.000 it's not like you're calling them

00:47:19.460 some racial slur

00:47:20.380 you're calling them

00:47:22.520 illegal aliens

00:47:23.320 alien means a foreign national 0.99

00:47:24.900 and they're here illegally 0.52

00:47:25.940 they're not here legally

00:47:26.820 there's no nicer term to use

00:47:29.220 unless your goal

00:47:30.760 is to deceive people

00:47:31.980 which is the point

00:47:32.820 of politically correct language.

00:47:34.900 Now they're going to

00:47:35.680 read your mind too

00:47:36.440 and see if you really hate them

00:47:37.520 if you're really going to

00:47:38.160 humiliate them

00:47:38.720 or to demean them

00:47:39.500 that is

00:47:40.680 a shallow

00:47:41.780 and frivolous 0.83

00:47:42.460 and farcical society

00:47:43.680 that doesn't understand

00:47:44.760 each other

00:47:45.300 that won't be allowed

00:47:46.200 to communicate

00:47:46.740 if we're not even

00:47:47.380 allowed to use words

00:47:49.180 words are the way

00:47:50.500 that you can communicate

00:47:51.620 in civil society

00:47:52.380 I just gave a speech

00:47:53.120 about this

00:47:53.600 on Saturday

00:47:54.500 at TPUSA in Philly

00:47:55.660 speech

00:47:57.020 is

00:47:57.920 politics

00:47:58.920 animals grunt

00:48:00.300 only human beings

00:48:01.240 have the capacity

00:48:01.880 for speech

00:48:02.520 to communicate

00:48:03.300 with each other

00:48:03.840 about objective reality

00:48:05.060 which is outside of us

00:48:06.420 if we are no longer

00:48:07.660 permitted to do that

00:48:08.640 without being shut down

00:48:09.920 without being cancelled

00:48:10.860 without being told

00:48:11.940 that precise language

00:48:12.980 is against the law

00:48:14.960 there is no civil society

00:48:17.640 there is civil war

00:48:19.560 a farcical civil war

00:48:21.340 but a civil war indeed

00:48:22.420 that's our show

00:48:23.160 let's hope it never

00:48:24.080 comes to that

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00:49:26.140 Hey everyone

00:49:27.400 it's Andrew Klavan

00:49:28.140 host of the Andrew Klavan Show

00:49:29.600 you know

00:49:29.900 everyone keeps saying

00:49:30.860 that impeachment

00:49:31.500 is a serious business

00:49:32.900 but nothing is serious

00:49:34.460 if it's not done seriously

00:49:36.020 the Democrats know

00:49:37.240 that President Trump

00:49:38.040 isn't going anywhere

00:49:39.260 so who's the target

00:49:40.520 of their so-called

00:49:41.320 impeachment probe

00:49:42.160 the target is you

00:49:43.780 I'll tell you why

00:49:44.840 on the Andrew Klavan Show

00:49:46.020 I'll tell you why

00:49:49.120 you should

00:50:03.760 I'll tell you why

The Michael Knowles Show - September 30, 2019

Ep. 423 - Civil War 2： Electric Boogaloo

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