The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 An insufferable, power-hungry bureaucrat testifies before Congress.

00:00:04.560 We examine the most nauseating highlights and get to the heart of this impeachment battle,

00:00:09.860 which is not really about left versus right or Democrat versus Republican.

00:00:14.200 It's about slavery versus freedom, technocratic tyranny versus constitutional self-government.

00:00:20.080 If we want to keep our liberties, there's only one option.

00:00:23.480 The deep state must be defeated.

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00:00:32.800 The daughter of Britain's first gay dads explains why she's happy that her boyfriend is now dating her father.

00:00:39.360 And the governor of South Dakota tells the nation that she's on meth.

00:00:44.440 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:47.260 What a day. We have so much to get to.

00:00:58.320 Let's get this out of the way first, because I don't want to harp for too long on impeachment.

00:01:03.840 I do want to get the highlights out here, though.

00:01:07.120 So let's get this out of the way.

00:01:08.660 If you haven't been paying attention, and I know you haven't because nobody has been paying attention to this stupid impeachment battle,

00:01:13.560 there were another two major witnesses yesterday, and there were another two witnesses that testified that Trump did not engage in a quid pro quo.

00:01:24.220 So right now, Democrats are batting, what, 0 for 5?

00:01:28.300 Conservatives in the Trump administration batting 1,000.

00:01:30.460 The two people who testified yesterday were Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison.

00:01:35.340 Kurt Volker is a diplomat, U.S. special representative for Ukraine.

00:01:39.160 Before that, he was ambassador to NATO for Barack Obama, so this is a guy who's had a career in diplomacy.

00:01:45.660 That's Volker.

00:01:46.600 And Tim Morrison was the, or is the senior official on the NSC who was testifying.

00:01:53.960 He was the boss of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, who's going to play a big role in this testimony.

00:02:02.820 So you got Volker, you got Morrison.

00:02:05.040 Both of those guys admitted, clear as day, on television, for all the world to see if anybody were paying attention,

00:02:12.080 that Trump did not engage in any quid pro quo or any bribery or any treason.

00:02:18.080 Here they are.

00:02:19.040 Did Ukraine open an investigation into the abidance, Mr. Morrison?

00:02:23.320 Not to my knowledge, ma'am.

00:02:24.480 Ambassador Volker?

00:02:25.540 Not to my knowledge either.

00:02:27.340 Did either of you ever have any evidence of quid pro quo, Mr. Morrison?

00:02:31.720 No, ma'am.

00:02:32.480 Ambassador Volker?

00:02:33.260 I did not.

00:02:33.740 Any evidence of bribery?

00:02:36.300 No, ma'am.

00:02:37.020 No, ma'am.

00:02:37.740 Any evidence of treason?

00:02:40.020 No, ma'am.

00:02:40.700 No evidence of treason.

00:02:42.480 With that, I yield back.

00:02:43.580 There it is.

00:02:44.760 Whatever headline you see today, and I know that you're going to see a lot of headlines in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

00:02:50.220 The walls are closing in.

00:02:51.880 Trump's days are numbered.

00:02:54.400 Wrongdoing.

00:02:55.080 Whistleblowers.

00:02:55.680 Just remember that testimony, okay?

00:02:57.260 Another two key star witnesses, Volker and Morrison.

00:03:01.540 Did the president engage in any bribery?

00:03:05.040 No.

00:03:05.540 Did he engage in any quid pro quo?

00:03:07.780 No.

00:03:08.540 Did Ukraine even investigate the Bidens?

00:03:11.180 No.

00:03:11.640 Was there any treason?

00:03:13.500 No.

00:03:14.560 Nothing.

00:03:15.760 Nada.

00:03:16.540 Nula.

00:03:17.460 Throw it away.

00:03:18.420 Got nothing.

00:03:18.940 So, they admit in their testimony that Trump didn't commit any impeachable offense.

00:03:26.780 Also, by the way, same day, Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who is Vice President Pence's National Security Advisor,

00:03:32.880 he released a statement yesterday saying that he was on President Trump's phone call with Ukraine on July 25th.

00:03:39.000 That was the call with Ukraine President Zelensky, and he said he heard nothing wrong.

00:03:45.440 He heard nothing improper there.

00:03:46.920 But that doesn't matter to the Democrats' favorite witness yesterday, a gentleman by the name of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:03:55.780 We will get to him, not even what he has to say about impeachment, because he has nothing interesting to say about impeachment.

00:04:01.220 What he has to say tells us everything about the deep state, which is really the heart of this impeachment battle.

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00:05:45.120 So, everything you need to know on the heart, the meat of whether Trump committed an impeachable offense, we already got to.

00:05:53.900 We've already heard the testimony.

00:05:55.840 We've heard it yesterday.

00:05:57.160 We heard it the day before that.

00:05:58.260 We've got that, okay?

00:05:59.940 No quid pro quo, no wrongdoing.

00:06:02.980 But let's look at the impeachment itself.

00:06:05.220 Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, who has been talking to the lawyers and he's been talking to the whistleblower and he's been one of these operatives who's been trying to stir up impeachment the whole time.

00:06:16.920 He's testifying before Congress and Representative Nunes begins to grill him, but Vindman won't have any of it.

00:06:25.280 Vindman cuts him off and says, excuse me, Mr. Representative, you better use my proper military rank.

00:06:33.660 Mr. Vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistleblower.

00:06:39.440 A rank member, it's Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please.

00:06:42.760 Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, you testified in the deposition that you did not know who the whistleblower was.

00:06:51.460 I do not know who the whistleblower is.

00:06:56.120 Give me a break.

00:06:57.380 First of all, I don't believe him for a second that he doesn't know who the whistleblower is.

00:07:00.600 I think we all know who the whistleblower is.

00:07:02.500 I think it's Eric Charamella, as was reported by Real Clear Investigations.

00:07:06.440 And I especially think that guy knows who he is because that guy talked to him.

00:07:11.480 Allegedly, reportedly, I have to catch all of my assertions here.

00:07:15.220 It certainly would appear to be the case.

00:07:17.040 But let's get to this military rank.

00:07:20.320 It's Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:07:22.580 By the way, in Congress, all of the congressmen are referred to as Representative.

00:07:26.980 That's their official title.

00:07:28.060 And yet, when you hear them speak to one another, it's always Mr. and Ms. and Mrs.

00:07:31.640 This military rank thing, it's pathetic.

00:07:36.940 I mean, no disrespect to the military when I say that.

00:07:39.260 Actually, a number of very high-profile soldiers and sailors and SEALs and special operators

00:07:45.400 called out Lieutenant Colonel Vindman on this and said it was ridiculous what he did.

00:07:49.500 Tim Kennedy, active Green Beret Special Forces sniper, tweeted out, quote,

00:07:53.700 Correcting a civilian about how to be addressed is a for-sure way to make everyone in the military

00:07:59.820 think you are a, and then he uses a little profanity, which I'll refrain from here.

00:08:04.840 But it's a hygiene product is what he's referring to.

00:08:09.140 Mark Geist, who fought the Battle of Benghazi, said that Vindman is a disgrace.

00:08:13.240 Robert O'Neill, who's a Navy SEAL credited with firing the shot that killed Osama bin Laden,

00:08:17.760 said, quote, I wish the left wouldn't use his uniform to make him a saint.

00:08:21.460 He's an operative with an agenda.

00:08:23.800 Jim Hansen, former U.S. Army Special Forces, said, quote,

00:08:27.420 Vindman is the Frank Burns of the NSC.

00:08:29.820 He corrects Devin Nunes, who called him Mr., with the prissy reply,

00:08:33.920 it's Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:08:35.760 He's right, but only a fat-faced loser hated by everyone in his unit acts like that.

00:08:42.020 That's Jim Hansen.

00:08:43.860 It is true.

00:08:44.680 I mean, he is a Lieutenant Colonel, so, you know, thank you for your service,

00:08:48.060 Lieutenant Colonel, and you deserve to be referred to by your military title.

00:08:52.680 But I've got a lot of friends and family in the military.

00:08:55.180 They would never do anything like that.

00:08:56.700 I mean, I just, I think of my grandfather, my, you know, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is an 05.

00:09:01.240 That's his rank, right?

00:09:02.280 My grandfather was a captain in the Navy, 06, outranks Colonel Vindman, or Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:09:09.380 I've never heard him correct anybody who would refer to him as Mr. or anything else.

00:09:14.920 It's just so unseemly.

00:09:16.940 It's so unbecoming, especially of an officer in the military.

00:09:19.700 So anyway, that kind of sets you up with who this guy is.

00:09:23.200 And even before he testified, we know that he's, he's one of the people at the heart of stirring up this whole impeachment controversy.

00:09:31.020 We know he's a jerk.

00:09:32.280 Turns out he's also a slime ball.

00:09:34.520 What happened here?

00:09:37.480 Lieutenant Colonel Vindman disagreed with the president's policy on Ukraine.

00:09:42.600 So instead of bringing up his concerns to his immediate superior, his boss on the NSC, instead of bringing his concerns up to the president, what Lieutenant Colonel Vindman decided to do is go around the constitutional order, go around the president of the United States, go around his own boss.

00:10:03.440 Go straight to a lawyer and tee up this whole impeachment charade.

00:10:11.360 Don't take my word for it.

00:10:12.640 Here is Tim Morrison.

00:10:13.780 This is, this is Vindman's boss on the NSC.

00:10:17.420 And by the way, Morrison has made it clear he doesn't want to run down Vindman.

00:10:20.640 He's, he's been very reticent in his testimony.

00:10:23.160 But here is Morrison admitting while he's being grilled that Vindman went around him and stirred up this whole thing.

00:10:30.880 Here's, here's Tim Morrison.

00:10:31.840 You indicated in your deposition that when you took over the portfolio for Dr. Hill, July 15th, you were alerted to potential issues in Colonel Vindman's judgment.

00:10:47.000 Yes.

00:10:48.760 Did she relay anything specific to you, specifically to you?

00:10:53.200 Why she thought that?

00:10:54.520 Not, not as such.

00:10:55.840 It was more of a overarching statement from her and her deputy, who became my deputy, that they had concerns about judgment.

00:11:06.800 During the deposition, I asked you, Mr. Morrison, whether others raised the concern that Mr. Colonel Vindman may have leaked information.

00:11:13.240 You, you, you did ask that, yes.

00:11:18.460 Yeah, and your answer was?

00:11:20.440 Others have represented that, yes.

00:11:22.140 Okay.

00:11:22.940 And I asked you whether you were concerned Colonel Vindman did not keep you in the loop at all times with his official duties?

00:11:31.700 Yes.

00:11:32.000 And in fact, when he went to the National Security Council lawyers following the July 25th call, he did not first come to you.

00:11:40.880 Is that correct?

00:11:41.600 Correct.

00:11:42.560 There you have it.

00:11:43.440 So we know that Vindman, he had some problems with this policy and he went around everybody, went to a lawyer.

00:11:50.260 There were concerns that were represented to Morrison, that this guy had bad judgment, that this guy was a leaker, that this guy was really abusing his office on the NSC.

00:12:00.080 And what I actually love about this exchange is you can tell Morrison doesn't want to run the guy down because he's asked, were there, he actually is asked, did I ask you when we were, when you were testifying previously, if there were concerns that he was a leaker?

00:12:17.960 And Morrison leans and he says, yes, you did ask me that.

00:12:21.840 Like, well, okay, were there concerns that he was a leaker?

00:12:24.760 Yes, that was represented to me.

00:12:26.700 He's being very cautious in his testimony, but the message is clear.

00:12:30.500 This guy, Vindman, was rogue.

00:12:32.080 He was a political operator.

00:12:33.520 He was undermining the policy of the president.

00:12:37.220 Because as we're about to find out, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman didn't care about the policy of the president.

00:12:42.560 He doesn't think it's the president who makes policy.

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00:15:21.140 Why didn't Lieutenant Colonel Vindman express his concerns to his boss?

00:15:26.380 Okay.

00:15:26.720 Vindman was the director of European affairs on the NSC.

00:15:29.920 His boss is Tim Morrison on the MSC.

00:15:32.200 Why did he go to a lawyer?

00:15:33.560 Why did he go around the official process?

00:15:35.980 Jim Jordan, Republican congressman, as usual, nails him.

00:15:40.640 Why didn't you go after the call?

00:15:42.280 Why didn't you go to Mr. Morrison?

00:15:43.760 I went immediately, per the instructions from the July 10th incident, I went immediately to Mr. Eisenberg.

00:15:55.920 After that, once I made that, expressed my concerns, it was an extremely busy week.

00:16:02.860 We had a PCC just finished, we had the call, and then we had a deputies meeting, which consumed all of my time.

00:16:09.880 I was working extremely long days.

00:16:11.680 Oh yeah, is that right, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman?

00:16:13.580 So the reason that you didn't go to your superiors and follow the chain of command here when you wanted to change U.S. policy single-handedly,

00:16:20.440 the reason that you went to a lawyer instead but you didn't have time to go to your boss is because you were really busy that week?

00:16:28.780 Are you joking?

00:16:29.640 This is like a freshman in college who didn't finish his term paper on time making an excuse to his professor.

00:16:36.680 You had time to go to the lawyer.

00:16:37.880 You had time to gin up this whole conspiracy, this whole impeachment hoax, which we've heard is a hoax based on now, what, five major witnesses called forth by Adam Schiff to testify?

00:16:50.280 So you had time to do that, but you didn't have time to go to your boss.

00:16:53.000 Give me a break.

00:16:53.980 You had time to talk to somebody, and it wasn't even just the lawyer.

00:16:59.020 He also had time to talk to his boss, but he had time to talk to the lawyer, and he had time to talk to somebody else in the murky deep state intelligence community.

00:17:08.500 Jim Jordan pulls that out of him.

00:17:10.560 So the lawyer, you not only didn't go to your boss, you said you tried, but you didn't go to your boss.

00:17:15.380 You went straight to the lawyer, and the lawyer told you not to go to your boss?

00:17:19.220 No, he didn't tell me until...

00:17:21.260 Why didn't you go to your direct report, Mr. Morrison?

00:17:23.980 Your response was, this page 102, because Mr. Eisenberg had told me to take my concerns to him.

00:17:29.940 Then I asked you, did Mr. Eisenberg tell you not to report, to go around Mr. Morrison?

00:17:35.200 And you said, actually, he did say that.

00:17:36.960 I shouldn't talk to any other people.

00:17:39.140 Is that right?

00:17:39.980 Yes, but there's a whole...

00:17:41.460 There's a period of time in there between when I spoke to him and when he circled back around.

00:17:46.500 It wasn't that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to...

00:17:50.580 Enough time to go to talk to someone that you won't tell us who it is, right?

00:17:54.620 I've been instructed not to, Representative Jordan.

00:17:57.420 Well, here's what I'm getting.

00:17:58.440 The lawyer told you don't talk to any other people, and you interpret that as not talking to your boss,

00:18:03.640 but you talk to your brother, you talk to the lawyers, you talk to Secretary Kent,

00:18:08.220 and you talk to the one guy, Adam Schiff won't tell you, won't let us, won't let you tell us who he is.

00:18:13.760 Is that right?

00:18:14.780 Representative Jordan, I did my job.

00:18:17.020 Oh, what a little weasel this guy is.

00:18:20.220 I love they say, so Jim Jordan says, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, the lawyer told you not to talk to your boss?

00:18:26.420 Well, no, no, no.

00:18:26.940 He didn't tell me not to talk to my boss until he told me not to talk to my boss.

00:18:30.820 Oh, okay.

00:18:33.000 And you didn't have time to talk to anybody, right?

00:18:35.100 Yeah, that's right.

00:18:35.600 I didn't have time to talk to anybody other than your brother and other than the secretary

00:18:38.440 and other than the whistleblower and other than all that.

00:18:40.760 You had time to talk to them, right?

00:18:42.280 And obviously at this point, Vindman has nothing to say, so he just comes out and says,

00:18:47.120 Mr. Jordan, I did my job.

00:18:49.780 No, you didn't do your job.

00:18:50.760 You did the opposite of your job.

00:18:51.820 You know, what Vindman refers to so much throughout this mindless testimony is how he did go to the bureaucrats.

00:19:01.060 He did go to the interagency.

00:19:03.860 The interagency, that's the term that keeps coming up.

00:19:06.520 He did go to the federal bureaucracy, but he didn't go to his boss.

00:19:10.360 He didn't follow the chain of command.

00:19:11.520 He didn't follow the president's policy.

00:19:14.480 The interagency, that's the battle here.

00:19:16.980 However, the president, the elected guys, the American people versus the decisions of the interagency,

00:19:24.980 the federal bureaucracy, the deep state, this guy, Vindman, is an operative with an agenda.

00:19:32.300 He's just admitted it himself.

00:19:34.380 How do we, let's put, not to put too fine a point on it,

00:19:37.940 but let's see if this weasel can just finally come right out and say what he really wants to,

00:19:44.680 which is that he believes it is the job of himself, the job of the interagency,

00:19:50.900 the job of the entrenched bureaucracy to make policy,

00:19:53.940 and it's not the job of the elected president of the United States.

00:19:57.800 Is there a process to determine official U.S. policy?

00:20:02.840 Yes, that is, my job is to coordinate U.S. policy.

00:20:06.320 So throughout the preceding year that I had been on staff,

00:20:10.900 I had undertaken an effort to make sure we had a cohesive, coherent U.S. policy.

00:20:16.640 And as you listened to the call, did you observe whether President Trump

00:20:20.860 was following the talking points based on the official U.S. policy?

00:20:27.640 Counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or not, he's the president,

00:20:34.200 but they were not consistent with what I provided, yes.

00:20:37.860 The temerity of that response, that response, by the way, is to the Democratic Council,

00:20:43.960 the temerity of the Democratic Council asking if Lieutenant Colonel Vindman

00:20:50.760 made sure that the president of the United States was following his talking points

00:20:57.100 on official U.S. policy.

00:20:58.580 Just the question itself, the question itself basically boils down to who makes U.S. policy.

00:21:04.960 And Vindman doesn't wait one little second.

00:21:07.360 He says, I make U.S. policy.

00:21:09.100 No, you don't, dude.

00:21:10.860 You know who makes U.S. foreign policy?

00:21:12.540 The president of the United States.

00:21:15.440 You don't get to dictate to the president of the United States what the policy is,

00:21:19.860 and you don't get to dictate to the president of the United States

00:21:22.080 what he should say about what the policy is.

00:21:25.420 You are a functionary.

00:21:27.300 You work for him.

00:21:30.140 You should keep your mouth shut and do what the president of the United States tells you to do.

00:21:35.960 Because guess what?

00:21:36.820 None of us elected Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:21:38.620 And after that testimony, none of us really seemed to like Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:21:42.160 Not a very likable guy.

00:21:43.800 He's a power-hungry bureaucrat and a priss about it too.

00:21:48.500 We elected Trump.

00:21:49.600 Maybe you don't like Trump.

00:21:50.660 Too bad.

00:21:51.080 That's your job.

00:21:52.100 Do your job.

00:21:53.760 Vindman thinks that he makes policy.

00:21:55.940 Him and the interagency.

00:21:57.400 Here's what he said.

00:21:58.080 The interagency policy was to support security assistance for the Ukraine.

00:22:04.120 Hey, you know what I think of the interagency policy when it comes into conflict with the

00:22:08.040 policy of our duly elected representatives?

00:22:11.400 This.

00:22:11.780 I think I flick off underneath my chin.

00:22:13.620 That's what I think.

00:22:15.100 He says, in my position, I coordinate with a superb cohort of interagency partners.

00:22:19.680 How about you coordinate with the president of the United States and shut your mouth and

00:22:22.300 do your job?

00:22:23.360 He says, quote, I'm the point man for coordinating the interagency.

00:22:26.660 I don't care who you are and I don't care what your title is.

00:22:29.400 I don't care about you, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.

00:22:32.060 I care about the American people having control over their own government and you following

00:22:37.140 the orders of the elected representatives.

00:22:39.080 Nobody elected this guy.

00:22:40.940 He wants Representative Nunes to have more respect for his military title.

00:22:45.620 How about Lieutenant Colonel Vindman show some respect to his civilian superiors, namely

00:22:53.380 Devin Nunes, namely his boss on the National Security Council, namely the president of the

00:22:58.700 United States.

00:22:59.540 In this country, the civilians run the show, not the military.

00:23:04.180 I have great respect for the military.

00:23:05.860 I don't have a ton of respect for Vindman, but I have a lot of respect for the military.

00:23:10.320 And by the way, most of my pals in the military know that in this country, the civilians run

00:23:14.320 the show, how about the interagency?

00:23:17.100 I got friends who've worked at the interagency.

00:23:21.260 The good ones are the ones who know that the civilians run the show.

00:23:26.000 In particular, the elected representatives, not some technocrat tyrants in the deep state.

00:23:34.200 Okay, do you know who runs the show in this country?

00:23:36.100 Not any of the punks like Eric Charamella, allegedly, who are shredding our constitution

00:23:41.720 because they don't like that the American people elected the wrong candidate in 2016.

00:23:47.400 This is not even about the left versus the right.

00:23:49.720 This is not even about Democrat versus Republican.

00:23:52.800 I mean, it is in so much as the left likes the entrenched bureaucracy a lot more than the

00:23:57.640 right tends to.

00:23:58.500 But you know, Republicans like the bureaucracy sometimes too.

00:24:01.020 If a Democratic president right now were threatening the technocratic status quo, you can bet that the

00:24:07.740 deep state would be going after them too.

00:24:09.440 This is a major threat to the country.

00:24:12.620 This is a major threat because it actually transcends partisan differences and the partisan divide.

00:24:18.200 And it gets right down to the heart of who we are.

00:24:21.980 Are we going to be a country that's run by good experts with nice ties all well tied up and

00:24:29.540 good looking jackets on who nobody elected them and they don't have any real powers designated

00:24:35.440 in the constitution, but hey, they know better for us.

00:24:38.160 So they're going to make U.S. policy and the president, he just better go along with it.

00:24:41.220 And by the way, if he doesn't go along with it, we're going to throw him out of office and

00:24:43.720 who cares what the American people say?

00:24:45.340 There's that possibility or there's self-government in our constitutional order.

00:24:50.220 We get to decide.

00:24:51.660 Obviously, people like Lieutenant Colonel Vidman have made their decision.

00:24:55.400 I think we should probably make another decision.

00:24:57.780 The only way that this is going to resolve itself is if the deep state is defeated.

00:25:04.080 The deep state, it's a real thing.

00:25:06.660 It's called the bureaucracy.

00:25:07.940 You just saw a major representative of it right now.

00:25:10.720 The deep state does not want to voluntarily give up power because what the deep state thinks

00:25:15.520 is that the electeds come and go, political winds change, but they are always going to be there.

00:25:20.160 We need to seriously deplete their power.

00:25:26.100 I actually like a lot of the agencies in the bureaucracy.

00:25:28.920 I think they do some good work, but they have become far, far too powerful.

00:25:33.400 And if they are going to try to take sovereignty, if they're going to try to take the control

00:25:38.640 of making policy in the United States away from the American people, they must be defeated.

00:25:44.120 You know, there was the line in ancient Rome, Carthago, Delenda Est, Carthage must be destroyed.

00:25:49.040 The deep state, Delenda Est, it must be defeated if we are to preserve our self-government.

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00:27:13.160 Much more important than a corrupt bureaucracy trying to steal the government of the United

00:27:18.040 States is a story that came out of Great Britain.

00:27:20.680 See if you can wrap your head around this.

00:27:24.580 The daughter of Britain's first gay dads says that she is now happy that her ex-boyfriend

00:27:34.120 is dating her dad.

00:27:39.100 Try to, there are a lot of parts of this that you're going to have to try to work out in

00:27:43.060 your head.

00:27:43.380 First of all, what it means to have Britain's first gay dads.

00:27:49.300 These are two dads on the birth certificate of a daughter.

00:27:53.740 Now, look, I'm no expert on biology or something.

00:27:57.140 I know these things change every day now, but something would suggest to me that these two

00:28:01.200 men cannot come together and produce a daughter.

00:28:05.600 It seems like some strange gender ideology has entered here.

00:28:09.120 But then, let's even just say you could do that.

00:28:11.700 So this daughter somehow has two dads, that the daughter had a boyfriend and then she

00:28:18.660 broke up with the boyfriend and the dads broke up with each other, so much for the happy ending

00:28:23.960 to Britain's first gay dads.

00:28:25.620 And then one of the dads starts dating the boyfriend.

00:28:30.760 Couldn't it be a very awkward Thanksgiving this year?

00:28:32.860 I guess they don't have Thanksgiving in Britain, so they'll probably be okay.

00:28:35.560 Saffron Druitt Barlow, that is the 19-year-old daughter.

00:28:39.760 She is openly bisexual, and she dated Scott Hutchinson, 25-year-old.

00:28:46.980 And she says it was just a big ploy to keep his sexuality secret.

00:28:51.520 And she wrote on Instagram that her boyfriend is now dating her father, Barry Drew Barlow.

00:29:00.480 But Barry Drew Barlow is only one of her fathers, according to her birth certificate.

00:29:04.760 Her other father is Tony Drew Barlow.

00:29:08.840 So Barry Drew Barlow is 50 years old.

00:29:11.640 Tony Drew Barlow is 55 years old.

00:29:14.400 They were the first couple in England, same-sex couple, to be named on a birth certificate as parents,

00:29:19.480 even though that's obviously impossible.

00:29:22.080 That was 20 years ago.

00:29:23.020 The men, Tony and Barry, they were the first same-sex dads, still live happily under one roof with Scott,

00:29:36.800 the 25-year-old ex-boyfriend of the daughter, and the daughter, and actually all of their four other children,

00:29:43.860 in the family's Florida mansion.

00:29:45.540 Tony, one of the first gay dads, has had some deteriorating health since a cancer diagnosis in 2006.

00:29:57.140 And this apparently led the two gay dads to drift apart into a platonic relationship.

00:30:03.580 And then for this other guy, Barry, to bring Scott, the 25-year-old ex-boyfriend,

00:30:10.800 into the relationship, and they're all somehow living together.

00:30:14.760 We are seeing two narratives collide here on the left, two distinct narratives.

00:30:21.360 The first narrative, which is the one we've heard for a long time, is that we must redefine marriage.

00:30:27.640 Marriage, for all of human history, everywhere in the world, has had a meaning, which includes sexual difference.

00:30:33.180 We're now told that we have to redefine marriage to include monogamous, same-sex unions,

00:30:38.940 because marriage is the best.

00:30:42.120 And marriage, as we understand it, is so wonderful and so to be desired,

00:30:46.260 that we actually, in the name of inclusion, must construct, or rather reconstruct,

00:30:52.340 marriage to accommodate same-sex couples.

00:30:55.740 Marriage is so good, so exclusively to be desired,

00:31:00.120 that we actually have to kind of tweak marriage, which has always included sexual difference,

00:31:04.280 to not include sexual difference, but to still sort of look like marriage,

00:31:07.460 to accommodate people with same-sex attractions,

00:31:10.100 because that's the only way that they can really prosper and thrive in society.

00:31:15.120 That's the one narrative the left told us.

00:31:17.000 That's how they redefine marriage.

00:31:18.440 The second narrative, which is what we're starting to hear now,

00:31:21.360 is that there is nothing better about traditional marriage.

00:31:25.840 And a daddy can boink his daughter's very young boyfriend,

00:31:29.060 and that's a beautiful, wonderful thing, and it's brave and special,

00:31:32.040 and how dare you judge another man's family?

00:31:35.480 Yeah, hold on, you're telling me you think it's weird

00:31:38.020 that two guys who presented themselves as America's first gay dads

00:31:42.920 live under the same roof with the daughter's ex-boyfriend

00:31:47.740 who's now dating one of the dads and their other four kids?

00:31:50.460 Is that what you're saying?

00:31:51.380 You can't have both of those narratives.

00:31:54.060 You can't have both.

00:31:55.160 What this shows, and I really want to point this out,

00:31:59.320 you know how much I hate saying that we told you so.

00:32:01.620 We told you so.

00:32:02.860 Conservatives were right the whole time.

00:32:04.880 What was the conservative argument against redefining marriage?

00:32:08.620 Well, according to the left, the conservative argument is,

00:32:10.580 we hate people.

00:32:11.640 We hate people with different sexual preferences.

00:32:14.300 We're mean old conservatives.

00:32:15.440 That's what the left thought.

00:32:16.160 But of course, that wasn't the argument.

00:32:17.760 Here was the conservative argument against redefining marriage.

00:32:20.200 It was not in any way disdainful of homosexuals

00:32:22.740 or people with any sort of odd sexual preferences.

00:32:26.040 It just said that marriage has a meaning,

00:32:31.300 that sexual difference is essential to marriage.

00:32:35.360 Always has been, always will be, everywhere in the world.

00:32:38.240 If you radically redefine marriage,

00:32:41.580 this was the conservative argument,

00:32:43.420 if you radically redefine marriage,

00:32:45.200 you're not actually improving marriage,

00:32:48.400 and you're not actually making marriage more inclusive.

00:32:50.800 What you're doing is destroying marriage

00:32:53.560 because you're cracking the essential definition of it,

00:32:57.860 and then you're watering it down so much

00:32:59.420 that it doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:33:01.920 The conservative argument is that the redefinition of marriage

00:33:05.100 would not make society more orderly,

00:33:07.140 would not bring people into the institution of marriage,

00:33:10.080 but it would actually just weaken

00:33:11.880 what is the fundamental basis of social order,

00:33:14.820 which is marriage.

00:33:16.320 And we were right.

00:33:19.200 We were right.

00:33:20.940 Told you so.

00:33:22.000 But the left doesn't care about the consistency here.

00:33:25.040 What the left does is they just move right

00:33:26.760 down along that slippery slope,

00:33:28.580 and then they pretend that it's crazy

00:33:30.240 to think there'd be a slippery slope in the first place.

00:33:33.180 Okay, the first gay dads,

00:33:35.760 as they're known in England,

00:33:37.840 just split up in a profoundly troubling way.

00:33:41.240 This is not an indictment of all homosexual relationships

00:33:44.020 or couples, not by a long shot.

00:33:45.940 But it does raise questions

00:33:48.380 about the redefinition of marriage.

00:33:51.960 When these two gentlemen decided to shack up

00:33:55.300 and redefine marriage and childhood

00:33:58.400 and all these things,

00:34:00.000 we were told that we had to think

00:34:01.380 this was a fairy tale ending,

00:34:02.760 happily ever after.

00:34:03.780 These two men just want to be together

00:34:06.400 and brought into the institution of marriage

00:34:08.820 and have a family together,

00:34:11.060 just like you and me.

00:34:11.760 Isn't that so beautiful?

00:34:12.660 Brings a tear to my eye.

00:34:13.540 Like, didn't happen though, did it?

00:34:16.460 That's not what happened at all.

00:34:17.860 And they didn't even just divorce

00:34:19.020 like normal people in modernity,

00:34:21.040 which I think divorce is terrible too.

00:34:23.140 But it's not even like they just kind of split up

00:34:25.360 and went their own way.

00:34:26.360 They're like living together in this bizarre arrangement

00:34:29.320 environment that is profoundly disorderly.

00:34:33.260 And the left doesn't care.

00:34:35.700 The left doesn't care.

00:34:37.460 Okay, so the left has pretty much

00:34:39.260 wrecked marriage successfully at this point.

00:34:42.260 And I'm not blaming homosexuals for this.

00:34:44.200 I'm only blaming the left.

00:34:45.480 Because it didn't begin with redefining marriage

00:34:47.920 to include same-sex couples.

00:34:49.220 It began with free love.

00:34:50.340 And it began, in particular,

00:34:51.920 with no-fault divorce.

00:34:53.140 That was a pretty serious blow against marriage.

00:34:57.100 Then you got the redefinition of marriage.

00:34:58.940 That finished it off.

00:35:00.140 Now the left is on to destroying sex itself.

00:35:02.960 Not even the act of sex,

00:35:04.680 but the meaning of sex,

00:35:06.680 biological sex,

00:35:07.680 which brings us to International Men's Day.

00:35:12.300 How do you think the ACLU,

00:35:15.880 the American Civil Liberties Union,

00:35:18.300 ironically named,

00:35:19.100 how do you think they celebrated

00:35:21.440 International Men's Day?

00:35:24.460 The one day to celebrate men,

00:35:27.220 or at least international men.

00:35:28.500 I don't know if that means,

00:35:29.420 you know, we're talking about

00:35:30.220 sort of exotic types of men.

00:35:32.440 This is what the ACLU tweeted.

00:35:33.960 Quote,

00:35:34.800 There's no one way to be a man.

00:35:38.720 Men who get their periods are men.

00:35:42.620 Men who get pregnant and give birth

00:35:44.860 are men.

00:35:46.380 Trans and non-binary men

00:35:49.480 belong.

00:35:51.500 International Men's Day.

00:35:52.820 They celebrate International Men's Day

00:35:54.820 by talking about menstruation.

00:35:57.440 And I, you know,

00:35:57.840 I've actually,

00:35:58.280 they inspired me.

00:35:58.920 So I'd like to just point out right now,

00:36:00.920 once and for all,

00:36:02.020 standing up for civil rights,

00:36:03.500 standing up for inclusion and tolerance.

00:36:06.300 There's no one way

00:36:07.680 to be a human.

00:36:09.840 Okay?

00:36:11.660 Humans

00:36:12.140 with eight arms and three hearts

00:36:14.500 are human.

00:36:16.820 Humans who choose

00:36:18.160 to scurry along the seafloor

00:36:20.220 so that they don't swim

00:36:21.620 and stop one of their hearts

00:36:22.840 from beating

00:36:23.300 are human.

00:36:25.860 Okay?

00:36:26.440 Humans who are octopuses

00:36:27.780 belong.

00:36:29.920 Happy International Human Day.

00:36:31.760 And how dare you,

00:36:32.980 how dare you

00:36:34.020 suggest

00:36:35.340 that octopuses

00:36:36.860 aren't real humans?

00:36:37.720 Because they are.

00:36:38.620 Okay?

00:36:39.600 That's what this is about.

00:36:40.780 This is why I point out

00:36:42.260 that so much

00:36:43.380 of the left's plans

00:36:44.560 are not about

00:36:46.720 redefining

00:36:47.960 or not about

00:36:48.700 improving

00:36:49.220 or not about

00:36:49.800 making more inclusive

00:36:50.740 the institutions

00:36:51.860 that they go into.

00:36:53.520 The left

00:36:54.380 destroys

00:36:55.180 the institutions

00:36:56.100 it goes into.

00:36:58.200 When it comes to

00:36:59.540 destroying men,

00:37:01.500 I'm not blaming

00:37:02.160 people with gender dysphoria

00:37:03.780 and I'm not blaming women.

00:37:05.220 When it comes to

00:37:06.200 destroying marriage,

00:37:07.640 I'm not blaming

00:37:08.320 homosexuals.

00:37:09.140 I'm not blaming

00:37:09.640 anybody else.

00:37:10.620 When it comes to

00:37:11.860 destroying

00:37:12.560 other institutions

00:37:13.980 like the university

00:37:14.820 for instance,

00:37:15.920 I'm not blaming

00:37:16.700 liberal education.

00:37:17.880 I'm not blaming

00:37:18.400 the university itself.

00:37:20.240 I am blaming

00:37:21.400 the left

00:37:22.780 because that's what

00:37:23.860 the left does.

00:37:24.780 The left crawls

00:37:25.760 into institutions

00:37:26.640 like little octopuses

00:37:27.600 without any vertebrate.

00:37:29.040 You know,

00:37:29.240 just kind of

00:37:29.820 no bones.

00:37:30.500 It just sneaks

00:37:31.120 into these institutions

00:37:32.000 and all of its

00:37:33.020 little tentacles

00:37:33.640 go out

00:37:34.100 and it hollows them

00:37:35.200 out from within

00:37:35.780 so that what you have

00:37:36.740 is a facade

00:37:38.300 and you can kind of

00:37:39.040 tell it's a cracked

00:37:39.820 and broken facade

00:37:40.920 of the institution

00:37:42.180 but within

00:37:43.000 it's totally rotted

00:37:43.940 like the universities.

00:37:46.420 When we look now

00:37:47.320 to the elite universities

00:37:48.280 in this country,

00:37:49.940 they might look

00:37:50.840 sort of like

00:37:51.540 what the universities were.

00:37:53.000 They are no longer

00:37:53.800 the universities.

00:37:55.180 When we look at

00:37:56.180 the institution of marriage,

00:37:58.400 sort of looks like marriage

00:37:59.440 but not really.

00:38:01.120 When we look at men,

00:38:01.900 look,

00:38:02.180 if you celebrate

00:38:04.360 international men's trade

00:38:05.340 by celebrating periods,

00:38:06.780 you've lost the narrative.

00:38:09.100 We are not talking

00:38:09.920 about men anymore.

00:38:11.880 It is so destructive

00:38:13.160 and what we need

00:38:14.160 to do as conservatives

00:38:15.140 is get rid of this

00:38:16.880 absurd lie

00:38:19.040 that the left

00:38:20.340 pushes forward,

00:38:21.200 that they're trying

00:38:21.680 to improve

00:38:22.380 and make more inclusive

00:38:23.420 these institutions.

00:38:24.620 They don't give a damn

00:38:25.540 about that.

00:38:26.260 They don't give a damn

00:38:27.060 about homosexuals.

00:38:28.080 They don't give a damn

00:38:28.860 about transsexuals.

00:38:30.060 They don't give a damn

00:38:30.780 about education.

00:38:31.880 What they want

00:38:32.560 is power

00:38:33.220 and something

00:38:34.820 that stops them

00:38:35.880 from taking power

00:38:36.720 are these institutions

00:38:38.540 that keep us

00:38:40.320 away from being

00:38:41.240 just atomized individuals,

00:38:43.220 totally helpless

00:38:43.860 before an overpowerful,

00:38:45.780 overly powerful

00:38:46.740 government,

00:38:49.320 tyrannical government

00:38:50.240 you might say.

00:38:51.780 Institutions like marriage,

00:38:53.540 institutions like biology,

00:38:55.160 frankly,

00:38:56.120 that are parts

00:38:56.660 of our nature,

00:38:57.400 human nature.

00:38:58.060 They want to break

00:38:58.620 human nature itself.

00:38:59.700 That's been the goal

00:39:00.400 of the left

00:39:00.820 since Karl Marx.

00:39:01.840 It's all just

00:39:04.160 about power

00:39:05.000 and we have to

00:39:05.700 resist that.

00:39:07.420 I mean,

00:39:07.700 look,

00:39:07.920 you can see it

00:39:08.340 politically.

00:39:08.820 You can see it

00:39:09.300 in the name

00:39:09.860 of impeachment.

00:39:11.040 They're saying

00:39:11.420 we need to overrun

00:39:12.360 all of our norms

00:39:14.100 of government,

00:39:16.120 all our constitutional

00:39:17.080 order.

00:39:18.440 We need to run

00:39:19.520 roughshod over

00:39:20.720 centuries of

00:39:22.120 American history

00:39:22.980 to unprecedented

00:39:24.660 actions

00:39:26.160 such as the removal

00:39:27.200 of this president

00:39:27.940 for anything,

00:39:29.280 first of all,

00:39:30.180 much less a phone call

00:39:31.300 with Ukraine

00:39:31.880 where he said

00:39:33.000 nothing wrong

00:39:33.520 according to the

00:39:34.120 key witnesses.

00:39:35.040 The left tells you

00:39:35.860 we have to do that

00:39:36.620 in the name

00:39:37.120 of inclusivity,

00:39:39.420 in the name

00:39:39.860 of righteousness,

00:39:40.780 in the name

00:39:41.040 of virtue.

00:39:41.500 They don't care

00:39:41.800 about any of that.

00:39:42.880 They're willing

00:39:43.500 to wreck

00:39:44.400 the foundational

00:39:46.540 pillars of the country

00:39:47.860 if it'll just

00:39:49.060 give them a little

00:39:49.600 bit more power

00:39:50.180 and we've got

00:39:50.620 to stop them.

00:39:51.240 They must

00:39:51.780 be defeated.

00:39:53.740 Before we go,

00:39:54.300 I have to mention

00:39:55.360 the South Dakota

00:39:56.340 governor.

00:39:57.200 South Dakota

00:39:57.820 governor,

00:39:58.180 Kristi Noem

00:39:59.340 has identified

00:40:02.300 a key

00:40:03.600 problem in this

00:40:06.020 country.

00:40:07.300 Actually,

00:40:07.940 a key problem

00:40:08.660 that has taken

00:40:09.220 away a lot

00:40:09.720 of our liberty

00:40:10.160 and making us

00:40:11.040 more vulnerable.

00:40:11.700 I'm not talking

00:40:12.160 about political

00:40:12.720 activities.

00:40:13.300 I'm talking

00:40:13.640 about drugs.

00:40:14.340 I'm talking

00:40:14.700 specifically about

00:40:15.900 meth.

00:40:16.260 There is a meth

00:40:16.840 epidemic in the

00:40:17.600 country and

00:40:18.780 Kristi Noem,

00:40:20.820 Republican governor

00:40:21.580 of South Dakota,

00:40:22.320 wants to do

00:40:22.860 something about it.

00:40:23.820 So she's launching

00:40:24.640 a public awareness

00:40:25.660 campaign.

00:40:26.700 The public

00:40:27.380 awareness campaign

00:40:28.460 is called

00:40:30.040 I'm on meth.

00:40:32.720 Here she is.

00:40:34.400 This campaign

00:40:35.000 is going to be

00:40:35.780 about solutions

00:40:36.600 and hope

00:40:37.460 and how every

00:40:38.420 single one of us

00:40:39.220 in South Dakota

00:40:39.820 can partner

00:40:40.540 to be on meth.

00:40:42.740 Really,

00:40:43.520 the tagline is

00:40:44.380 I'm on meth.

00:40:45.520 And what it's

00:40:45.960 talking about

00:40:46.540 is that each

00:40:47.020 one of us,

00:40:47.760 no matter who

00:40:48.260 we are,

00:40:49.160 that we're on

00:40:49.640 the case of meth,

00:40:50.520 that we're

00:40:50.720 protecting our

00:40:51.340 family,

00:40:51.820 we're protecting

00:40:52.260 our friends,

00:40:53.020 we're protecting

00:40:53.460 our communities

00:40:54.220 from this

00:40:55.180 epidemic that

00:40:55.880 we see

00:40:56.400 and that we're

00:40:57.080 all going to

00:40:57.740 be taking

00:40:58.440 some responsibility

00:40:59.360 and battling

00:41:00.000 it and making

00:41:00.680 sure that it's

00:41:01.360 not going to

00:41:01.780 have a place

00:41:02.280 here in our

00:41:02.640 state.

00:41:03.460 The campaign

00:41:04.160 is called

00:41:04.520 I'm on meth.

00:41:05.120 This is

00:41:05.460 something so

00:41:07.360 hilarious,

00:41:08.080 it's out of

00:41:08.700 a Parks and

00:41:10.180 Rec episode.

00:41:11.560 It's like you

00:41:12.220 couldn't,

00:41:12.740 if you scripted

00:41:13.580 that in a Parks

00:41:14.100 and Rec episode,

00:41:14.840 they'd say that's

00:41:15.360 too on the nose.

00:41:16.040 Come on,

00:41:16.420 you've got to

00:41:16.720 back off a

00:41:17.240 little bit here.

00:41:18.860 On the one

00:41:19.520 hand,

00:41:19.800 this is a

00:41:20.820 hilariously

00:41:21.600 outrageous

00:41:22.240 tagline.

00:41:23.980 It is I'm

00:41:24.660 on meth.

00:41:25.140 You have the

00:41:25.460 governor of

00:41:25.960 South Dakota

00:41:26.320 saying,

00:41:26.660 hey guys,

00:41:27.100 I'm on

00:41:27.540 meth.

00:41:28.320 And you

00:41:28.560 know what?

00:41:28.920 We're all

00:41:29.400 on meth.

00:41:30.360 And that's

00:41:30.720 a good thing.

00:41:31.840 So it's

00:41:32.180 ridiculous and

00:41:33.060 hilarious.

00:41:33.640 On the other

00:41:34.100 hand,

00:41:34.860 it worked.

00:41:36.520 I actually

00:41:37.220 think it's a

00:41:37.620 pretty great

00:41:38.020 tagline.

00:41:39.000 It worked

00:41:39.900 because we

00:41:40.440 are talking

00:41:41.080 now about

00:41:41.880 meth.

00:41:42.540 Because the

00:41:43.440 governor of

00:41:44.000 South Dakota

00:41:44.500 did something

00:41:45.060 outrageous and

00:41:45.660 hilarious and

00:41:46.240 now we're

00:41:46.760 talking about it.

00:41:47.220 We should be

00:41:47.580 talking about it.

00:41:48.720 You know,

00:41:48.940 all of the

00:41:49.540 focus in this

00:41:50.640 drug epidemic

00:41:51.480 in the

00:41:51.940 country has

00:41:52.380 been on

00:41:52.680 opioids,

00:41:53.500 which are

00:41:53.900 a major

00:41:54.520 problem.

00:41:55.500 They are a

00:41:55.820 huge problem

00:41:56.360 in the

00:41:56.580 country.

00:41:57.420 But most

00:41:58.000 law enforcement

00:41:58.640 agents actually

00:41:59.440 think that

00:42:00.080 meth is the

00:42:00.800 bigger threat.

00:42:02.180 Across the

00:42:02.640 country,

00:42:03.040 overdose deaths

00:42:03.760 involving

00:42:04.620 meth have

00:42:06.040 more than

00:42:06.380 quadrupled

00:42:07.160 since 2011.

00:42:09.260 Actually,

00:42:09.520 just between

00:42:09.860 2011 and

00:42:10.960 2017.

00:42:11.740 It's probably

00:42:12.080 up even

00:42:12.660 more now.

00:42:13.600 Admission to

00:42:14.180 treatment facilities

00:42:14.960 for meth are

00:42:16.500 up 17% in

00:42:17.620 that time.

00:42:18.720 Hospitalizations

00:42:19.240 related to

00:42:19.880 meth jumped

00:42:20.840 by about

00:42:21.720 245%

00:42:23.860 from 2008

00:42:25.700 to 2015.

00:42:27.560 245%.

00:42:28.120 Throughout the

00:42:30.040 West,

00:42:30.480 throughout the

00:42:30.800 Midwest,

00:42:31.800 there was a

00:42:32.300 survey of

00:42:32.760 law enforcement

00:42:33.280 officials.

00:42:34.480 70% of

00:42:35.640 law enforcement

00:42:36.220 agencies say

00:42:37.080 that meth is

00:42:37.860 their biggest

00:42:38.320 drug threat,

00:42:38.960 a bigger

00:42:39.200 problem than

00:42:40.360 opioids.

00:42:40.940 So we should

00:42:41.380 pay attention

00:42:41.820 to that.

00:42:42.620 I actually

00:42:43.360 give this

00:42:43.880 governor a lot

00:42:44.720 of credit

00:42:45.120 for an

00:42:45.780 inventive way

00:42:46.460 to do it,

00:42:46.840 especially in

00:42:47.220 South Dakota,

00:42:47.720 which I've

00:42:48.660 visited South

00:42:49.180 Dakota before.

00:42:49.840 It doesn't

00:42:50.080 get the most

00:42:50.560 attention of

00:42:51.120 all U.S.

00:42:51.620 states,

00:42:52.080 small population

00:42:53.200 kind of tucked

00:42:54.120 away up there

00:42:54.840 in the north.

00:42:56.080 And so I

00:42:56.820 think she did

00:42:57.340 a great job.

00:42:57.980 I tip my

00:42:58.400 hat to her.

00:42:59.460 I'm glad

00:42:59.940 that she's

00:43:00.360 on meth.

00:43:00.840 I'm glad

00:43:01.120 that we're

00:43:01.400 all on

00:43:01.780 meth and

00:43:02.300 hopefully we

00:43:02.740 can fix

00:43:03.120 the meth

00:43:03.900 problem.

00:43:05.220 Before we

00:43:05.680 go,

00:43:06.100 also,

00:43:07.400 good news

00:43:08.580 for Pete

00:43:09.000 Buttigieg.

00:43:10.360 Big news

00:43:11.240 for Pete

00:43:11.640 Buttigieg.

00:43:12.100 So we

00:43:12.300 talked yesterday

00:43:12.820 about how

00:43:13.180 in Iowa,

00:43:14.920 first in

00:43:15.360 the nation,

00:43:15.900 first caucus

00:43:16.360 state,

00:43:17.100 Pete Buttigieg

00:43:17.540 is now

00:43:17.900 leading by

00:43:18.500 nines somehow.

00:43:19.600 Not only is it

00:43:20.080 not Biden

00:43:20.540 anymore,

00:43:20.980 not only is it

00:43:21.460 not Warren,

00:43:21.900 but it's

00:43:22.080 Pete,

00:43:22.800 Mayor Pete,

00:43:23.380 Pastor Pete

00:43:23.860 Buttigieg,

00:43:25.080 the fake

00:43:25.500 pastor who

00:43:27.000 tells all

00:43:27.460 Christians that

00:43:28.040 they're not

00:43:28.840 Christian if

00:43:29.360 they believe

00:43:29.660 in Christianity.

00:43:31.700 Pete Buttigieg

00:43:32.280 is up

00:43:32.980 according to

00:43:33.580 one poll,

00:43:34.300 which by the

00:43:34.620 way is an

00:43:34.940 outlier poll,

00:43:36.080 in another

00:43:37.440 very important

00:43:38.200 early primary

00:43:38.860 state,

00:43:39.200 that is the

00:43:39.980 state of

00:43:40.360 New Hampshire.

00:43:41.320 So again,

00:43:42.140 take this with

00:43:42.620 a little bit

00:43:42.980 of a grain

00:43:43.300 of salt.

00:43:43.720 This is the

00:43:44.000 St. Anselm

00:43:44.520 College Survey

00:43:45.160 Center poll

00:43:45.780 of only 255

00:43:47.620 likely Democratic

00:43:48.480 primary voters

00:43:49.220 in New Hampshire.

00:43:50.380 Only 255,

00:43:51.860 but you got to

00:43:52.360 remember it's

00:43:52.700 New Hampshire

00:43:53.080 and I think

00:43:53.440 there are only

00:43:53.760 about 256

00:43:54.480 people in

00:43:55.220 New Hampshire,

00:43:55.740 so it's,

00:43:56.020 you know,

00:43:56.620 it's probably

00:43:57.100 like almost

00:43:57.520 the whole state,

00:43:58.540 showed that

00:43:59.020 Pete Buttigieg

00:43:59.560 is supported

00:44:00.620 by 25%

00:44:01.740 of the Democratic

00:44:03.000 primary electorate

00:44:03.840 there,

00:44:04.260 now holds a

00:44:05.080 10 point lead

00:44:06.100 in New Hampshire

00:44:07.460 over Joe Biden

00:44:08.700 and Liz Warren

00:44:09.640 who were tied

00:44:10.220 for second

00:44:10.780 at 15%.

00:44:11.760 The sample

00:44:13.040 size is too

00:44:13.760 small to draw

00:44:14.540 serious conclusions

00:44:15.740 here,

00:44:16.220 but it does

00:44:18.300 show that all

00:44:19.000 of the momentum

00:44:19.600 is with Pete

00:44:20.660 Buttigieg.

00:44:21.940 That's where

00:44:22.600 all of the momentum

00:44:23.320 is going in even

00:44:24.240 the Democratic

00:44:24.800 primary field.

00:44:26.120 Why is that?

00:44:27.280 It comes back

00:44:28.000 to what we've

00:44:28.480 been talking

00:44:28.900 about all day.

00:44:30.400 It comes back

00:44:31.620 to this power

00:44:32.320 grab.

00:44:32.740 It comes back

00:44:33.340 to the radicalization

00:44:34.460 of the left.

00:44:35.020 It comes back

00:44:35.600 to impeachment

00:44:36.640 because there

00:44:37.420 are people

00:44:38.840 even on the

00:44:41.080 left,

00:44:41.480 even among

00:44:41.980 Democrats

00:44:42.520 who say

00:44:43.520 that the left

00:44:44.500 has gone

00:44:45.020 too far.

00:44:46.560 That they don't

00:44:47.680 want their

00:44:48.380 institutions

00:44:48.960 to be completely

00:44:49.800 destroyed.

00:44:51.000 Pete Buttigieg

00:44:51.600 is gay married,

00:44:52.700 but Pete Buttigieg

00:44:53.340 is portraying

00:44:54.060 himself now

00:44:54.700 at least

00:44:55.160 as the

00:44:56.580 traditionalist

00:44:57.320 candidate,

00:44:57.780 as the more

00:44:58.280 moderate candidate.

00:44:59.140 He's going

00:44:59.340 for that Joe

00:44:59.800 Biden lane

00:45:00.360 and the left

00:45:01.760 is saying,

00:45:02.860 okay,

00:45:03.420 all right,

00:45:03.780 we need to

00:45:04.360 slow this down

00:45:05.060 a little bit.

00:45:05.780 We don't want

00:45:06.420 to completely

00:45:07.520 run roughshod

00:45:08.360 over our

00:45:08.740 institutions,

00:45:09.640 including

00:45:10.120 our federal

00:45:11.660 government,

00:45:12.280 including the

00:45:13.060 presidency.

00:45:13.860 We don't want

00:45:14.720 to just

00:45:15.300 have these

00:45:16.580 coups d'etat,

00:45:17.600 these coups

00:45:18.300 in all of

00:45:18.960 our fundamental

00:45:20.980 institutions

00:45:22.180 in America.

00:45:22.920 We want to

00:45:23.680 slow down

00:45:24.200 a little bit.

00:45:25.020 This is why

00:45:25.520 very few

00:45:26.160 Americans

00:45:26.540 are watching

00:45:27.280 the impeachment

00:45:29.280 proceedings.

00:45:30.080 This is why

00:45:30.700 very few people

00:45:32.180 are tuning

00:45:32.920 into that

00:45:33.360 at all

00:45:33.660 because

00:45:34.020 it's just

00:45:36.060 gone too far.

00:45:37.000 The narrative

00:45:37.900 is so

00:45:38.500 divorced

00:45:38.860 from reality

00:45:39.520 at this

00:45:39.880 point

00:45:40.120 that

00:45:40.880 even

00:45:41.640 among

00:45:42.300 the

00:45:42.560 left

00:45:42.820 you're

00:45:43.080 seeing

00:45:43.360 the

00:45:43.500 more

00:45:43.640 moderate

00:45:43.980 candidates

00:45:44.520 come out.

00:45:45.440 Now,

00:45:45.620 can we

00:45:45.940 survive

00:45:46.360 this?

00:45:47.180 Can we

00:45:47.440 survive

00:45:47.720 the attempt

00:45:48.140 to destroy

00:45:49.200 the building

00:45:49.620 blocks

00:45:49.920 of our

00:45:50.200 society?

00:45:51.120 We're seeing

00:45:51.860 that play out

00:45:52.380 right now

00:45:52.660 24 hours a

00:45:53.500 day on

00:45:53.860 cable news

00:45:54.480 during these

00:45:54.920 impeachment

00:45:55.280 hearings.

00:45:56.900 If we

00:45:57.600 want to

00:45:58.240 preserve

00:45:58.580 anything like

00:45:59.500 our

00:45:59.660 constitutional

00:46:00.120 order,

00:46:00.800 anything like

00:46:01.360 our self-government,

00:46:02.220 anything like

00:46:02.720 our constitutional

00:46:03.380 liberties,

00:46:03.920 these

00:46:05.180 technocratic

00:46:06.340 tyrants

00:46:06.980 must be

00:46:08.520 defeated.

00:46:09.100 This

00:46:09.180 destructive

00:46:10.200 left,

00:46:12.640 this

00:46:12.840 destructive

00:46:13.900 bureaucracy

00:46:14.780 must be

00:46:16.340 taken

00:46:16.700 down.

00:46:17.940 Hope we

00:46:18.300 can do it.

00:46:18.740 That's our

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