The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 446 - The Impeachment Coup

00:00:00.640 Democrats impeachment attempt is not merely a hoax. It's not merely a witch hunt. It is a coup.

00:00:06.780 And if you don't want to take my word for it, you can listen to the words of the lawyer for

00:00:10.720 the whistleblower who kicked off the latest impeachment push in the first place. We will

00:00:15.360 blow the whistle on the whistleblower's coup. Then Elizabeth Warren picks up an endorsement 1.00

00:00:20.100 from a member of the radical socialist squad. The ladies of The View go after Tulsi Gabbard

00:00:26.240 and Jeffrey Epstein's brother thinks the billionaire pedophile who didn't kill himself

00:00:30.480 didn't kill himself. Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.300 So I'm just having a little trouble reading whatever is in the prompt. It looks like

00:00:46.560 Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. We'll get to that a little bit later as well.

00:00:53.560 But first we have to get to this whistleblower's coup. This is a major story that nobody in the

00:01:00.000 mainstream media is covering. The lawyer for the whistleblower, the so-called whistleblower,

00:01:05.320 I want to put it in quotes when I say it, who started this entire latest impeachment attempt

00:01:11.040 over Ukraine, that lawyer has been saying publicly for two years now, three years almost,

00:01:19.240 that the left is going to be launching a coup to oust President Trump from office that would end

00:01:26.520 in impeachment. I kid you not. This guy must be the least competent saboteur in the history

00:01:33.960 of politics. The guy's name is Mark Zaid. I would read the tweets for you that he sent out about this

00:01:42.480 coup and about impeachment. But I'll let President Trump do that himself at a rally last night.

00:01:47.980 A lot of things have happened because, you know, I don't know if you saw, I just got off,

00:01:52.900 I'm coming off the plane and they hand me, look at this character. Okay, they just hand me this story.

00:01:59.020 Coup has started, whistleblowers, attorney said, in 2017. You know when that was? That was a long time

00:02:04.560 ago. It's all a hoax. They say January 2017, a coup has started and the impeachment will follow

00:02:15.920 ultimately. It's all a hoax. It's a scam. And you know who helps them? These people right back here,

00:02:22.680 the media. And then it said, oops, the light's going to go off. The CNN light is going to go off.

00:02:28.880 It said, from the lawyer, a sleazeball. It said, I predict at CNN will play a key role

00:02:41.340 in at real Donald Trump. Not finishing out his first time. Can you believe this?

00:02:47.980 This is all. And this was done a long time ago. Then he goes, as one falls, two more will take

00:02:55.720 their place. Referring to outgoing Trump administration employees who, by the way,

00:03:01.440 have been put through hell by the sleaze back there and by crooked politicians.

00:03:08.900 This lawyer, Mark Zaid, thank you, sir. Thank you for saying the thing that you're not supposed to

00:03:15.640 say, that you're just supposed to keep in your head, which is that the entire push for impeachment

00:03:20.200 is illegitimate. It is a coup d'etat. It is actually an overturning of the regime,

00:03:27.560 overturning of a presidential election because you don't like the results in 2016. That's what it is.

00:03:32.340 I don't want to hear anything else about how Trump is eroding trust in our institutions or how Trump is

00:03:41.780 undermining norms of behavior. I don't want to hear another word about that

00:03:45.220 because you have the lawyer for the whistleblower saying emphatically on Twitter two years ago,

00:03:55.800 2017, that there will be a coup, that people will overturn the regime. There will be,

00:04:02.360 this will be done through impeachment and it will be done through CNN. He's even admitting we're going

00:04:06.980 to use the mainstream media to do this. I don't want to hear another word about Trump's tweets.

00:04:11.820 Trump has never tweeted anything as dangerous to our Republic and to our institutions as those

00:04:18.620 tweets from the lawyer for the so-called whistleblower. Who's the whistleblower? Sure

00:04:23.180 looks like it's a fella named Eric Charamella. The reason I think that is because Donald Trump Jr.

00:04:27.900 tweeted this out yesterday. He tweeted out, this was with an article from Breitbart. So the article

00:04:33.640 reads, alleged whistleblower Eric Charamella worked closely with anti-Trump dossier writer and Trump Jr.

00:04:39.780 tweets out because of course he did. Alleged whistleblower Eric Charamella worked closely

00:04:44.980 with the hoaxer. This is the alleged whistleblower, but it's the name that's going around Washington

00:04:51.140 that nobody has denied at including himself. Sure looks like this guy is the whistleblower.

00:04:56.860 Donald Trump Jr. goes out there and just says, this is who the guy is. Yesterday, we played a clip

00:05:01.900 of Rand Paul saying that it's, it would be perfectly fine for him to name the whistleblower,

00:05:06.600 though he's not going to do it yet. Everybody has been talking about how it's fine to name the

00:05:09.980 whistleblower, but no one wants to actually do it. Trump Jr. just goes out there, says the name,

00:05:14.080 no big deal. I love him for it. Donald Trump Jr. has really been going up in my estimation recently

00:05:19.900 because he's just willing to say things and be brash and go out there and say the thing you're not

00:05:25.220 supposed to say. He was on CBS News, CBS this morning, and he was asked to name his favorite

00:05:33.960 Democrat. Say something nice about Democrats. And it took him a second, but Trump Jr. had the

00:05:38.740 perfect response. We got to go. I'm sure you'll take the conversation to Twitter. Say something

00:05:43.500 nice on there today. All right. I'll do that. I'll do that. I can do both. I think there's some nice

00:05:47.960 stuff in there. Who's your favorite Democrat? Go ahead. All right, Mayor Trump, we're going to let

00:05:53.920 you go. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. It is now 814. The name of the book is

00:05:58.400 triggered wherever you like to buy your books. Mitt Romney, Gail. Mitt Romney is my favorite

00:06:01.740 Democrat. How about that? It's time to check. No, time to check your local weather. You know,

00:06:06.580 it took him a minute. It would have been better if he had that line ready to go, but that was a good

00:06:10.520 response. Who's your favorite Democrat? Mitt Romney. So this is, this is Trump Jr., Donald Trump Jr.,

00:06:16.700 who's just going in there with his attitude. And he says, I'm not going to wait for somebody to

00:06:20.800 reveal the whistleblower. And there's going to be this whole debate over the ethics of it.

00:06:24.500 I'm just going to say it. It's this jerk named Eric Charamella. He's the alleged whistleblower. 1.00

00:06:29.880 He's a deep stater in the true sense of the word. He's worked for the CIA. He's worked for Joe Biden.

00:06:34.820 He worked for Joe Biden while Joe Biden was being a crook with Ukraine. He worked for John Brennan.

00:06:39.260 Then he goes back and works for the CIA. And he's been undermining the Trump administration

00:06:42.880 since the very beginning. And he's a self-appointed master of the universe who graduated Yale in 2008

00:06:49.360 and is just absolutely convinced that he knows better than the American people how to run their

00:06:54.600 country for them. Is it legal to reveal the whistleblower? The mainstream media says one

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00:08:32.660 K-N-A-W-L-E-S. Is it legal? Is it legal to reveal the identity of the whistleblower?

00:08:41.920 Yes. That was a short segment. It is. The mainstream media tell you otherwise, but it is.

00:08:48.140 I mean, the mainstream media were haranguing Rand Paul yesterday. It's illegal to name the

00:08:52.380 whistleblower. It's out of the bounds of constitutionality and they just use buzzwords

00:08:57.760 that they've heard. It's perfectly legal. NPR of all places spoke with four legal experts yesterday

00:09:03.820 on whether it would be a crime for President Trump to out the whistleblower. The answer is no.

00:09:08.660 According to Robert Litt, former general counsel for the director of national intelligence under

00:09:14.180 Barack Obama, quote, if Trump thinks he knows the name, he can come out and say it and he's probably

00:09:19.200 as protected as anyone is. From Dan Meyer, a lawyer and former executive director of the

00:09:25.940 intelligence community whistle program says there is no overarching protection for the identity of

00:09:32.160 the whistleblower under federal law. Congress has never provided that protection. All right. This

00:09:38.080 is, this is the former executive director of the IC's whistleblower program. He's saying there's no

00:09:42.760 protection to, to keep that identity a secret. Uh, this is from a Leon Panetta who obviously worked

00:09:50.000 in the Obama administration. He said that the whole purpose of the law, the whistleblower law is to

00:09:55.120 allow people to, to be able to speak to fraud or crimes they see within their jobs without having to

00:10:00.480 pay a price for vengeance and retribution. And if the president revealed his name, it would be

00:10:05.100 unprecedented in history. But notice what's missing in Leon Panetta's statement. He never says it's

00:10:09.600 illegal. There's no legal protection for it. And Panetta is one of the people who's certainly hoping to

00:10:15.440 keep that whistleblower name a secret. And then Stephen Cohn. Stephen Cohn is a lawyer for whistleblowers.

00:10:21.140 He's the only one who suggested otherwise. He said, disclosing the name of a whistleblower is

00:10:26.360 one of the worst forms of retaliation. Trump's obligations are not just to protect the whistleblower's

00:10:31.140 identity. It only begins there. The law says he has to ensure that nobody in the executive branch

00:10:36.860 leaks out his name. That is the best argument that a lawyer for whistleblowers can make all of the

00:10:43.640 relevant people, even those who worked in the Obama administration say there is no legal protection

00:10:49.920 there. So it's perfectly legal to, to leak the whistleblower's name, to reveal who the whistleblower

00:10:56.880 is. He's not even a whistleblower, by the way. We read, this was now weeks ago on the show,

00:11:00.880 we read the so-called whistleblower complaint. The whistleblower was blowing the whistle on second

00:11:08.160 and third hand information. He didn't have firsthand knowledge of the phone call between Trump and

00:11:13.480 Ukraine. Then we read the transcript between Trump and the Ukraine. There was nothing wrong with it.

00:11:17.560 Then if you read the whistleblower complaint, much of what he was complaining about was public

00:11:22.480 knowledge, tweets, interviews with George Stephanopoulos on network television. That's

00:11:28.540 not blowing the whistle. That's using the mechanisms of the bureaucratic state to try to 0.78

00:11:34.600 overturn a presidential election. This guy deserves no legal protection and he has none. He deserves

00:11:40.440 absolutely no respect. He is, if it sounds like I'm speaking to this with some sort of personal

00:11:48.000 feeling here, it's because I am, because I know these guys. I don't know this whistleblower in

00:11:54.500 particular, but I know these guys. I know these guys who graduated from Yale, who went straight into

00:12:00.940 the bureaucracy, into what is called the deep state, who believe that they are so much better than the

00:12:07.280 American people. They know so much better than you do, how to run your life and how to run your

00:12:11.640 government. And they feel that they have no, there will be no legal ramifications for what they do.

00:12:18.120 They can flit in and out of the elected government, but they'll go right back to the permanent government.

00:12:23.520 They are going to be around long after any of the elected people are gone and they are going to run

00:12:28.460 your country and you can't do a damn thing about it. The vision of the anointed, as Thomas Sowell would say. 0.97

00:12:34.980 I know a lot of guys like this. I happened to miss this guy in college. I didn't, he, he left right

00:12:40.880 when I got there, but I know so many guys like this and it's so disrespectful to our Republic,

00:12:48.140 to the American people and to constitutional norms. He deserves absolutely no respect or special

00:12:55.780 protection. There's a book coming out as the whistleblower saga has begun. As the whistleblower who

00:13:02.940 first, I can't even call him a whistleblower as the saboteur, as the rebel, as the coup enactor

00:13:12.080 began this process of impeachment before he filed his complaint. He spoke to Adam Schiff,

00:13:19.360 probably the biggest hack Democrat in Congress, who's in many ways leading impeachment and who's

00:13:26.840 mostly a tool of the intelligence community. He spoke to him, they, they colluded, they conspired on how

00:13:32.380 they were going to launch impeachment. As this was happening, there's a book coming out anonymously

00:13:37.120 from another saboteur in the Trump administration. A guy who presents himself as a saboteur of the

00:13:43.840 Trump administration, he published an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times. Talk about journalistic

00:13:48.420 standards. In the New York Times, they publish an anonymous op-ed from a guy in the Trump administration

00:13:52.940 saying, hey, I'm working in the Trump administration and sabotaging Trump's plans and

00:13:58.340 sabotaging the desires of the American people who elected him. That book is coming out. It's called

00:14:02.900 A Warning, reportedly written by an unnamed senior White House official. And now they make another

00:14:09.540 claim there. The claim they make is that Vice President Mike Pence was willing to invoke the

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00:16:50.940 who have been lying since day one, these guys, the same people, the same cabal who pushed the Russia 0.97

00:16:59.140 collusion hoax, who then when that didn't work, they tried to impeach Trump for sleeping with a porn star 0.97

00:17:04.940 or something. Then when that didn't work, they tried to get Trump for his taxes. Then when that

00:17:10.040 didn't work, they tried to get Trump for colluding with Ukraine. And that doesn't make sense because

00:17:14.680 Ukraine is at war with Russia. So I don't know how he's colluding with both. They get more specific.

00:17:19.000 They say he tried to engage in a quid pro quo with Ukraine. A quid pro quo meaning you get something

00:17:26.760 and they get something, which is by the way, the definition of foreign policy. When we're dealing with

00:17:30.780 our allies around the world, we offer them something, they offer us something. The claim

00:17:35.260 is that Trump was personally benefiting from this. What was the personal benefit? The personal benefit

00:17:40.360 was that he was asking them to, allegedly asking them to investigate Joe Biden for engaging in a

00:17:48.060 quid pro quo with Ukraine. The leading democratic contender engaged in some pretty dodgy activity in

00:17:55.040 Ukraine. And then the minute that the Republican president says, look into it, that's apparently

00:17:59.380 criminal. They've been lying to us from day one. And now we're supposed to believe that Mike Pence

00:18:05.600 was willing to overturn the presidential election, invoke the 25th amendment and kick Trump out of

00:18:10.160 office. There is no reason to entertain this for even two seconds. Pence's team is pushing back

00:18:17.440 pretty hard. His press secretary, his former press secretary saying it's absolutely ridiculous. 0.88

00:18:24.120 The reason I dismissed this out of hand is not because I don't think there's any court intrigue 0.74

00:18:28.420 in the White House. Although I will point out Mike Pence has been incredibly loyal to Trump,

00:18:34.640 but it's not, look, of course, there's always intrigue in any political campaign,

00:18:38.940 left, right, or center. The reason I dismissed this out of hand is because these people who are trying

00:18:43.820 to overturn the presidential election of 2016 have never told us the truth ever. And they've

00:18:49.140 consistently lied to us. So I see no reason to believe them this time. There's some good news for

00:18:55.060 president Trump that came out of this whole Ukraine thing though. Testimony about a month ago from Kurt

00:19:00.640 Volker, the U S envoy to Ukraine was highly anticipated. The left said Volker, he's the one

00:19:06.680 he's going to nail Trump. If anyone's going to nail Trump, it's going to be him. He's going to testify

00:19:10.920 that there's a quid pro quo and it was illegal and they're going to impeach him. Now we have the

00:19:17.020 transcript. We have the transcript from that testimony. He was asked, Kurt Volker, special

00:19:24.320 U S envoy to Ukraine was asked what conversations he had with the president or anybody else about the

00:19:31.440 quid pro quo in Ukraine. Here is Kurt Volker's response verbatim. You asked what conversations

00:19:38.940 did I have about that quid pro quo, et cetera, none, because I didn't know there was a quid pro quo.

00:19:46.580 So you have the guy whose job it is to conduct U S policy with Ukraine

00:19:52.000 saying on the record, testifying that he had no clue, didn't know anything about there being a quid

00:20:02.720 pro quo. It is at this point lunacy to believe that there is any legal basis for impeachment.

00:20:12.160 Doesn't matter if you like Trump or if you think Trump is the worst guy in the world or you think 0.58

00:20:15.700 he's a fascist or a monster or demagogue, there is no legal basis for impeachment. And there's no

00:20:21.660 reason to believe that there is. They've been trying to impeach Trump since literally before he

00:20:25.980 was sworn in. The justification has changed at least three times now. All of the others have been

00:20:31.900 disproven. The main whistleblower's lawyer is admitting that this is a coup. There is no

00:20:36.960 evidence that what the Democrats are even alleging is illegal, much less high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:20:44.700 And the U S envoy to Ukraine says there's no quid pro quo. There is no reason to buy this. The other

00:20:51.300 aspect here is that about two weeks ago in USA today, you had a big left-wing op-ed, which said,

00:20:59.740 it doesn't matter if the president hasn't committed a crime, he can still be impeached. They're

00:21:04.760 already setting up this narrative that you don't need to commit a crime to be impeached, which you

00:21:09.200 do. We had many debates at the founding of this country over what impeachment should look like. Can you

00:21:14.400 be impeached just for being poor, a poor manager, bad at running the government, or must you commit a

00:21:20.940 crime? And some people like George Mason argued that you should be able to be thrown out of office if

00:21:25.500 you're just not good at your job. And people like James Madison said, no, that's not enough. There

00:21:33.960 needs to be a stronger legal basis for impeachment because we don't simply want the executive branch

00:21:39.360 to serve the legislative branch. We don't want congressional supremacy where we have the

00:21:44.520 Congress dominating our government and the executive and the judiciary are just subsidiary

00:21:49.820 branches of government. We have three co-equal branches of government, a separation of powers that

00:21:54.920 has served our country very well for a long time. The left is trying to undermine that. Now there's

00:21:59.100 no reason to give them any, uh, any leeway there. Getting to 2020, big endorsement for Elizabeth 0.93

00:22:08.440 Warren. You saw a few weeks ago, AOC and the, uh, Ilhan Omar and who's the other one? Uh, whatever.

00:22:19.060 The other member of the squad, Rashida Tlaib. They were coming out for Joe Biden, not Joe Biden,

00:22:23.460 Bernie Sanders rather. Obviously not Joe Biden. They were coming out for Bernie Sanders,

00:22:27.060 but one member of the squad was not coming out for Bernie. That was Ayanna Pressley, 0.88

00:22:32.900 the Ringo of the squad. And she is coming out now for Elizabeth Warren. Here she is.

00:22:37.740 The American people deserve to be represented by elected officials who see them, who listen to them

00:22:44.280 and who fight for them. I have seen Elizabeth in small church basements and in packed gymnasiums,

00:22:50.400 and she is consistent. She never loses sight of the people. You've all heard about the senator's

00:22:56.400 plans, but here's the thing. The plans are about power. Who has it, who refuses to let it go,

00:23:03.020 and who deserves more of it. For Elizabeth and for me, power belongs in the hands of the people.

00:23:08.840 That's why she's fighting for fundamental change that restores power to those who've been left behind 0.99

00:23:13.840 and centers those who've never had access to it in the first place. This election is a fight for the

00:23:20.240 very soul of our nation. Elizabeth knows how to fight and she knows how to win. I'm proud to call

00:23:27.040 her my senator. I can't wait to call her our president. I'm Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley,

00:23:32.240 and I represent the Massachusetts 7th Congressional District, and I'm proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren

00:23:37.460 for president. Okay, so this is a good pickup for Elizabeth Warren. However, it's not the same as AOC 0.83

00:23:47.220 and Ilhan Omar endorsing Bernie Sanders. Why not? Because Ayanna Pressley sort of had to endorse 0.99

00:23:54.540 Elizabeth Warren, because Ayanna Pressley is a congressman from Massachusetts, and Elizabeth Warren

00:23:59.800 is the senator from Massachusetts. And so it just, these are people who've worked together. They share

00:24:05.100 a constituency. It just looks much better for her to back the person from her own state. Also because 1.00

00:24:10.780 Elizabeth Warren has momentum now, so she's finally willing to get on board. I suspect if Ayanna

00:24:16.540 Pressley were not from Massachusetts, she might withhold an endorsement. Maybe she would have gone 0.98

00:24:21.760 to Bernie Sanders. It's a much bigger deal when you get the endorsement on the basis of ideology and

00:24:28.340 not really just on geography or opportunism. And that's what happened when AOC backed Bernie and when

00:24:33.460 Ilhan Omar backed Bernie Sanders. Still a good win for Elizabeth Warren, and she's trotting this out 0.62

00:24:39.060 now because the race is starting to heat up, and you're starting to see people snipe at one another.

00:24:43.320 And because, as we said a couple days ago on the show, Elizabeth Warren has made her decision.

00:24:47.440 She was debating, is she going to try to fight off Joe Biden, or is she going to try to fight off

00:24:51.480 Bernie Sanders? Is she going to steal Biden's moderate voters? Is she going to steal Bernie's 1.00

00:24:55.260 socialist voters? She's made her choice. She's running as a leftist, and she's going to let Pete

00:25:00.020 Buttigieg try to fight it out to win the moderate lane. She's going to the left. She's now advocating 1.00

00:25:05.400 a $52 trillion healthcare program. She is trotting out endorsements from socialists. She's going all 0.73

00:25:14.040 the way left. We'll see, you know, it's a bold strategy, Cotton. We'll see how it turns out for her.

00:25:22.660 Many people still believe that beyond the headlines, beyond the mainstream media,

00:25:27.280 the moderate wing is going to eke this out. There's still a chance Joe Biden gets the nomination,

00:25:33.060 which is why Pete Buttigieg has made his choice. He's now running away from the left and running

00:25:37.380 toward the middle. It's a win for Elizabeth Warren, but it's not going to count for very much. She's got to

00:25:44.400 shore up more of her left-wing credentials. She's got to really beat Bernie out of the race, and Bernie's 0.99

00:25:52.740 still doing an excellent job with fundraising. He's still doing a very good job in many of the polls.

00:25:57.280 So this is not, this is not going to end anytime soon. I could see this left-wing battle going on

00:26:03.560 very, very close to even the nominating convention. We have got a lot more to get to, but first,

00:26:11.500 before we get to those ladies of the view, you know, I used to call the ladies of the view

00:26:16.640 cackling hens after Norm MacDonald's phrase, but I really like Abby Huntsman, so I can no longer do

00:26:23.480 that. Abby Huntsman is on the view. I'm not going to call them cackling hens anymore.

00:26:26.840 I guess I could call the rest of them, but I'm not, I'm not even going to do that out of respect

00:26:30.180 for Abby Huntsman. Tulsi Gabbard was on the view, and she gets into it with the leftist Joy Behar.

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00:28:41.340 View. It is one of the few times I've watched The View in recent years, but Tulsi Gabbard

00:28:49.200 absolutely clobbered Joy Behar. Here she is. Some of you have accused me of being a traitor to my

00:28:58.520 country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse, or a useful, a useful idiot, I think was the term that 0.99

00:29:05.480 you used, which basically means that I'm naive or lack intelligence to know what's going on. 0.99

00:29:11.180 They use that. I want to let, I want to let your viewers know exactly who I am.

00:29:15.060 All right. Set the record straight. I am a patriot. I love our country. I am a strong and intelligent

00:29:22.240 woman of color. And I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety,

00:29:30.060 security, and the freedom of all Americans in this country. It was the attacks on 9-11.

00:29:35.260 I guess we were getting, we're getting a little bit far ahead of ourselves, but

00:29:39.260 Franklin Graham finds you refreshing. He doesn't find me refreshing.

00:29:43.980 Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader, says he could vote for you.

00:29:47.640 Joy, this is why I'm here. I mean, you're on Tampa Colson at least 10 times. Why don't you go

00:29:52.260 on Chris Wallace's show? This is why I'm here, because you and other people continue to spread

00:29:58.420 these innuendos that have nothing to do with who I am. Okay. She goes on. It's worth watching the

00:30:06.220 whole rest of the segment. I bring this up, not even to defend Tulsi Gabbard. I don't especially care

00:30:12.440 for Tulsi Gabbard as a candidate. Obviously, every time she's on TV, my heart goes pitter-patter, 0.88

00:30:16.880 but she's still a leftist. I mean, she's still a Democrat. And I think some of the

00:30:21.160 conservative swooning over her is really just because she's in any way contradicting 1.00

00:30:27.000 left-wing orthodoxy. I mean, she's still a leftist. She votes for impeachment. You know,

00:30:31.300 she's, but she's diverged in a couple ways on a few issues from leftist orthodoxy. She doesn't think

00:30:38.720 we should be able to kill babies until the moment of birth, only a little bit before birth. She doesn't 1.00

00:30:43.560 think that we should have our troops overseas in every single country in the Middle East.

00:30:48.920 She's pulling away a little bit from leftism, pulling away just a little bit from liberal

00:30:53.920 internationalism. And I bring up this clip to show you, even if you only contradict leftism

00:31:01.260 by a little tiny bit, they will destroy you. They will smear you. They will lie about you on network

00:31:08.940 television. They will call you a racist and a bigot and a white nationalist. That's the new term. 0.99

00:31:14.820 That's the new made up term for a racist. And racist is the old term that has now been so robbed

00:31:20.580 of meaning that they have to move on to white nationalist. They call everybody a white nationalist

00:31:24.060 now. It's a term that I suppose once sort of had meaning and now no longer does. They'll do that

00:31:30.380 to Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard is, I guess, a white nationalist. She's a leftist of color, 0.69

00:31:36.140 but she's a white nationalist now because Joy Behar says so because she, she contradicted leftist

00:31:41.140 orthodoxy in any way whatsoever. It's to show you they do this even to the left, the mostly left.

00:31:51.540 One, when they do it to you and they will, don't let it bother you. If you're not a bigot,

00:31:55.920 who cares if they call you a bigot? It doesn't matter. Also to show you don't believe what you read

00:32:01.600 in the newspapers all the time because they'll do it to everybody. They'll lie through their teeth.

00:32:07.980 It's cynical. It's opportunistic and they deserve no credibility when they say it. It is lies through

00:32:14.420 and through. It is all designed at a coup through and through. It is all designed at taking power.

00:32:21.020 They're not blowing the whistle on any crime Trump actually did. That's an impeachment in search of a

00:32:25.100 crime. They're not blowing the whistle. They're not showing America and exposing the awful rank

00:32:31.660 bigotry at the heart of candidates like Tulsi Gabbard. They're not doing that. They're just

00:32:36.780 saying things without any regard for the truth in a cynical ploy to steal power. Let's not give it to

00:32:43.260 them. We got to get to the mailbag first. I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. Head on over

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00:33:36.060 By the way, I just noticed something here before we get to the mailbag. It looks like,

00:33:40.960 trying to read my own notes, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. That's what it looks like,

00:33:46.460 not just to me, but to Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, who is now speculating that the two

00:33:52.160 contusions Epstein had on both of his wrists, a left forearm abrasion and muscle hemorrhaging of his

00:33:57.900 left deltoid are evidence that there was a struggle. There was a fight. Mark Epstein said,

00:34:03.740 those are unexplained. Was he handcuffed and struggled? Was someone holding his wrists? The

00:34:07.640 marks on his wrist are unexplained. He's been trying to get the autopsy, the death report.

00:34:13.280 He said, they're playing games. I've done the appropriate requests with the justice department

00:34:16.920 twice and have heard nothing. I was told someone's looking into it, but so far he's heard

00:34:21.220 nothing. He then says, I have no standing to sue. People should know the truth about what can happen

00:34:26.620 in a federal facility. My brother might've been murdered. This is not about me. He then asked

00:34:30.800 Dr. Michael Baden to do the autopsy. He was, uh, you know, very, uh, well-known longstanding

00:34:37.860 forensic expert. He, uh, and the doctor said, quote, did the injuries happen a week before

00:34:42.720 or at the time of the incident? We have to look at the microscopic slides to see when

00:34:46.360 the injuries occurred. The brother requested this information three months ago, and it still

00:34:50.160 has not gotten it. Then attorney David Schoen says that he met with Jeffrey Epstein on August

00:34:54.460 1st. And he told Fox news, quote, after meeting with him, I came to the firm conclusion that

00:34:59.000 it was not a suicide attempt. He was afraid he would face consequences if he implicated anyone

00:35:03.360 while he was there. So he kept his mouth shut and told investigators he couldn't remember what

00:35:07.100 happened. He was told they closed the case. Look, call me crazy, but what it sure sounds

00:35:16.080 like to me is, uh, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. And by the way, if anything happens

00:35:22.200 to me between now and our show on Monday, you better go to Chappaqua and investigate. All right,

00:35:27.620 folks. All right. Uh, let's get to the mailbag from Amanda. Given that only 3% of Americans

00:35:34.800 wait until marriage to have sex and even in highly religious groups like the Southern Baptist

00:35:39.100 groups are only up to 20% likely to wait until marriage. Should religious institutions continue 0.66

00:35:46.320 to focus on abstinence or should they focus on safe sex practices? Thanks.

00:35:51.600 What do you mean should they focus on? I don't think the changing of the church has, or that

00:35:59.980 the teaching of the church has changed just because people are violating the rules, violating

00:36:07.800 commandments, violating the moral law doesn't mean that the moral law changes. It's not good

00:36:15.500 to break the moral law, but people do it all the time. I mean, that's the reason that we have a

00:36:20.920 incarnation and atonement in the first place, but you shouldn't change your moral teaching

00:36:25.920 just because people are breaking the rules. That destroys the whole purpose of the moral

00:36:30.040 teaching. Now, if you're asking, should churches say don't have sex before marriage, but if you do 0.91

00:36:36.580 have sex before marriage, use a condom and do this and do that. No, I think that's pretty confusing.

00:36:43.680 If you're asking, should the churches teach don't have sex before marriage, but there are 0.94

00:36:50.660 condoms and there are sexually transmitted diseases and this is what will happen if you do

00:36:57.400 have sex. Well, of course, of course people should teach biological realities. They should, you

00:37:04.680 shouldn't hide information from people. You shouldn't, you shouldn't pass along bad information

00:37:10.760 or misinformation. In fact, as part of any sort of sexual education, you should tell people exactly

00:37:17.920 what will happen if you have sex and you should tell people exactly the statistical likelihood

00:37:22.540 of what happens if you have sex at 15 or 16 and you should, you should present all of that

00:37:28.820 information. I think that's a pretty good bit of information for the case to not just have sex with

00:37:36.040 everybody you meet when you're a teenager and in your twenties and before you get married.

00:37:39.960 Actually, the more information you give, the stronger the argument is for the traditional

00:37:44.520 moral teaching here. That's not an argument for changing moral teaching. It's actually

00:37:49.140 a buttress for the, the traditional teaching, but you're, you're going to have to approach this

00:37:55.520 from a lot of different angles because just the advent of high-speed internet pornography alone

00:38:01.880 means that sexual education has completely changed in just the last 12, 13 years.

00:38:07.820 A vast majority of boys between, I think it's the ages of 10 and 13 will have seen high-speed

00:38:19.900 internet pornography. That is not the kind of sexual education you want your kids to get. 1.00

00:38:25.920 So you should certainly present the information and you should explain to them why it is better.

00:38:29.940 I mean, I talked to a lot of millennials, virtually none of whom waited until marriage to have sex.

00:38:34.480 And a lot of them will now say, gosh, maybe I should have waited. Huh? Maybe that traditional

00:38:39.260 teaching has a point. Hmm. Maybe the fact that between 1960 and today that sexually transmitted 0.98

00:38:45.280 diseases have exploded in this country. Maybe the fact that there's a syphilis epidemic in Los

00:38:50.440 Angeles, syphilis, that shouldn't even exist anymore. Maybe that tells us that something's gone

00:38:55.200 wrong in the sexual revolution. And maybe those old fuddy duddies who didn't sleep with everyone 1.00

00:39:00.080 they met at a bar. Maybe they had something right. From Jeremy. Second amendment question.

00:39:06.080 My liberal friends say your guns won't protect you against government drones. I say the military

00:39:10.360 as a whole force would not turn against its population. And the combatants in Afghanistan

00:39:14.600 held out pretty well with less firepower. How can my rebuttal be better formulated and more

00:39:19.360 comprehensive? That's a very good rebuttal. Afghanistan is the size of Texas, I think. 1.00

00:39:25.100 America. And they've held out for 17, 18 years now using black powder rifles from the British

00:39:30.980 colonial era. Americans, the most popular gun in the country is the AR-15. I think we'd be fine. 0.90

00:39:35.740 And yes, you're right. The military wouldn't turn on its own people. If they got the order to attack

00:39:40.340 their own people, I think you'd see huge numbers of military personnel just walking away and taking

00:39:46.080 the side of the people who are being targeted. Same goes for law enforcement agencies. But America's a

00:39:53.440 really, really big place. Really, really big. The fact that when you look at the electoral map,

00:40:00.080 it's a sea of red with a few little pockets of blue on the coast. And yet the elections are usually

00:40:07.460 about 50-50 tells you something. There's a lot of wide open space here. It's a lot of space for that

00:40:12.800 federal government to occupy. And if the Second Amendment were not such a strong power center for 0.97

00:40:24.560 the people, then why would the left be so keen on taking it away? Especially the AR-15, right?

00:40:32.900 The AR-15 is involved in very, very few murders each year. Hands, feet, bats, and clubs are involved

00:40:39.880 in many more murders than rifles of any kind, including the AR-15. So why is the government

00:40:46.700 so keen on taking away your rifles? Because they don't want you to be able to protect yourself.

00:40:52.620 Liberal democracies, republics, many of them in the last century and a half have disarmed the people

00:40:59.080 as a way to steal more power and give the government a carte blanche to do whatever they

00:41:05.400 want to the people. Our founders had the foresight not to let that happen. And we should have the

00:41:12.260 foresight not to give away that right. From Abby, for your religious and politically conservative

00:41:17.640 beliefs, what is the best state to move to in your opinion? I'm assuming California is not where you

00:41:22.760 would ideally live. Thanks. I have always lived in liberal places. I think it makes me better at

00:41:27.960 defending my ideas and makes me think more carefully about my ideas and exposes me to the best

00:41:32.520 arguments of the left. So I actually do kind of like living in left-wing places. I also like the

00:41:38.900 beach and, you know, being near the water. However, if I were to live in my ideal place where people

00:41:45.800 generally agree with me, where the people are really nice, where it's beautiful, where the

00:41:50.780 architecture is beautiful, where people understand religion very well, I would go to the greatest town

00:41:56.720 in America. Mobile, Alabama. I shouldn't even say this on my show. I'm going to ruin Mobile just by

00:42:02.820 talking about it. And all these people are going to go there. Mobile is such a great place.

00:42:07.300 Not easily accessible from any major airport, so it hasn't been invaded yet by leftists.

00:42:12.120 Beautiful, temperate, on the water, some of the nicest people in the world.

00:42:16.780 A gorgeous Catholic cathedral there. I think it's a pretty old Catholic town back from the French.

00:42:23.500 It was initially part of the Diocese of Havana. Obviously, I like that very much. They invented

00:42:28.480 Mardi Gras, one of my favorite holidays. Stone's throw from New Orleans. It's just a great town.

00:42:35.680 So if I were to retire and leave these leftist, Gamora-by-the-Sea kind of places like LA,

00:42:41.240 I'd have to go to Mobile, Alabama. From Ryan, on campus, should there be,

00:42:45.820 on campus there is a should-Trump-be-impeached debate. I would appreciate some good counter-arguments

00:42:51.040 against the typical leftist talking points for impeachment. Thanks. Oh, well, I think I gave you

00:42:55.060 those today, actually. What I would, what I would first do is ask them, what impeachable offense

00:43:01.480 did Trump commit? Probably that will end the conversation because they don't have any answers

00:43:07.800 to that. Then I would point out that the left has been trying to impeach Trump since before he got

00:43:12.760 elected. That happened in the Senate and in the House. Then, right after he got elected and, or right

00:43:18.540 after he was, they've been trying to impeach Trump since after he was elected, but before he was

00:43:22.460 inaugurated. Right after Trump was inaugurated, Al Green, the congressman, not the singer,

00:43:28.660 put out a resolution to impeach Trump. Fortunately, that failed. He was asked why he did it. He said,

00:43:33.420 because I think if we don't impeach Trump, he'll get re-elected. That's what this is about. It's

00:43:36.980 about a coup. The lawyer for the whistleblower admits it. Al Green admits it. The rank-and-file

00:43:42.700 Democrats should admit it, too. From Giovanna, beautiful name. Dearest King Covfefe,

00:43:46.700 what's your stance on listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving? My personal favorite

00:43:51.060 holiday song is It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Epstein Didn't Kill Himself. I'd love to hear

00:43:56.380 your thoughts. Very interesting, Giovanna. I'm actually of the opinion that we listen to Christmas

00:44:04.000 music far too early, and we've totally forgotten about the season of Advent. So I don't just think

00:44:10.700 that we shouldn't listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving or after Thanksgiving. I don't

00:44:16.300 think we should listen to Christmas music before Christmas. I think we should listen to Advent

00:44:21.940 music. This Advent is the season that we're about to get into it. It's the season before Christmas,

00:44:29.000 and it's the season after the time that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. That's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 07, 2019

Ep. 446 - The Impeachment Coup

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