The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 464 - You Come At The King, You Best Not Miss

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00:00:15.440 President Trump is riding high

00:00:17.360 on an impeachment approval rating bump,

00:00:19.960 but the administration isn't resting on its laurels.

00:00:23.140 From the campaign to the DOJ to foreign policy,

00:00:26.080 Trump is getting more aggressive, not less.

00:00:28.860 He's getting more aggressive

00:00:30.240 in taking on his adversaries,

00:00:32.360 demonstrating an eternal political truth.

00:00:35.440 If you come at the king, you best not miss.

00:00:38.220 We will examine what comes next

00:00:39.960 for the instigators of the failed impeachment coup.

00:00:42.920 Then, a Methodist church places Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

00:00:46.180 in cages in the creche.

00:00:48.480 Merriam-Webster goes full leftist in its word of the year,

00:00:51.500 and the New York Times brings us

00:00:53.060 the dumbest article on the internet today, as always.

00:00:56.800 All that and more, I'm Michael Knowles,

00:00:58.380 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:06.840 President Trump is riding high.

00:01:09.100 This impeachment thing has not worked out

00:01:11.280 very well for Democrats.

00:01:12.480 How do I know it?

00:01:13.400 Because of the latest Quinnipiac poll.

00:01:15.560 This is important for a couple reasons.

00:01:17.200 One, it's important because of the numbers it's showing.

00:01:20.940 It's showing that President Trump

00:01:22.460 has got a pretty high approval rating,

00:01:24.800 and it shows that opposition

00:01:26.240 to his impeachment and removal from office

00:01:30.800 is now at 51%.

00:01:32.640 The majority of the country

00:01:33.840 does not want him impeached and removed from office.

00:01:36.720 That's the highest number since September.

00:01:38.840 What happened, what started to happen in September?

00:01:41.040 You had the impeachment hearings

00:01:42.120 and the impeachment inquiry.

00:01:43.460 So before the impeachment inquiry

00:01:44.880 and impeachment hearings,

00:01:45.940 a lot of Americans wanted President Trump

00:01:48.120 impeached and removed from office.

00:01:50.020 Afterward, it didn't help the Democrats.

00:01:52.500 It ended up helping the president.

00:01:54.900 It's important for that reason.

00:01:56.140 It's also important because of who did the poll.

00:01:58.780 All right?

00:01:59.180 There are some polling firms

00:02:00.260 that tend to lean a little bit more Republican.

00:02:02.340 They paint rosier numbers for conservatives.

00:02:04.420 One of those would be Rasmussen, for instance.

00:02:06.780 Which, by the way,

00:02:07.280 doesn't mean that Rasmussen is wrong

00:02:08.720 or a bad polling firm.

00:02:09.900 It just means that generally,

00:02:11.340 it favors Republicans more than other polls,

00:02:14.040 all of which skew Democrat.

00:02:16.980 Quinnipiac is a left-leaning poll.

00:02:19.940 And even the left-leaning poll shows

00:02:21.880 that now the majority of Americans,

00:02:24.400 after this whole charade,

00:02:26.000 after Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler

00:02:28.340 and all these guys totally flopped

00:02:30.660 in the impeachment hearing,

00:02:31.540 the majority of Americans oppose impeaching

00:02:34.940 and removing the president. 0.61

00:02:37.180 And it's not just a three-month impeachment attempt, okay?

00:02:40.180 When we talk about impeachment,

00:02:41.400 we're not just talking about

00:02:42.360 this latest Ukraine thing

00:02:43.860 that started to explode in August.

00:02:46.060 We're talking about a three-year impeachment attempt.

00:02:50.940 This isn't the first time they tried to get him.

00:02:53.380 They actually tried to get him

00:02:54.540 right after he got elected

00:02:55.960 and even before he was sworn into office,

00:02:58.020 Democratic senators made moves

00:02:59.660 to try to impeach him

00:03:01.600 or to set the stage for impeachment.

00:03:03.620 Then after that, Al Green,

00:03:05.340 the congressman, not the musician,

00:03:07.360 came out and filed an impeachment resolution

00:03:09.300 in Trump's first year in office

00:03:10.860 because he was very honest

00:03:13.100 and he said,

00:03:13.840 I fear that if we don't impeach this president,

00:03:16.220 he will get re-elected.

00:03:18.380 They went after him for Russia.

00:03:19.940 There was this Russia collusion narrative.

00:03:21.820 This began during the campaign.

00:03:23.520 You had the government spying on the Trump campaign

00:03:26.080 and the DOJ and William Barr have a lot to say about that.

00:03:29.300 We'll get to it in a second.

00:03:30.920 Then you had the accusation of conspiracy with Russia.

00:03:34.300 You had the Mueller investigation.

00:03:36.020 After that, you had the investigation of impropriety

00:03:38.460 with his taxes.

00:03:39.760 Then you had the impropriety accusations

00:03:41.800 with Stormy Daniels.

00:03:43.260 Maybe there was a little impropriety there,

00:03:45.220 but certainly nothing impeachable.

00:03:46.700 Then you had the accusations about Ukraine,

00:03:50.200 which is where we got this whole impeachment inquiry from,

00:03:52.320 and they all failed.

00:03:53.760 They all failed.

00:03:54.580 They were trying to set the stage.

00:03:57.040 Look, if they could have impeached Trump for Russia

00:03:59.340 three years ago, they would have done it,

00:04:00.960 but the Mueller investigation didn't work.

00:04:03.480 It didn't give Democrats the answers they wanted.

00:04:05.480 So now they finally, they waited.

00:04:07.140 They kept trying.

00:04:07.860 They take their shot on Ukraine, and it flops.

00:04:10.260 So what is Trump gonna do in response to this?

00:04:12.400 Is he gonna say, whew, good, I'm glad, glad that's over.

00:04:15.020 That would have been really terrible

00:04:16.000 if I had to keep dealing with that,

00:04:18.920 but now it's okay.

00:04:19.900 We'll get back to a more moderate live and let live.

00:04:23.760 Let's all be friends, kumbaya moment.

00:04:25.920 No way.

00:04:26.520 He's going after the people

00:04:27.560 who tried to remove him from office,

00:04:28.800 and it is a beautiful thing.

00:04:30.460 We will get to that in a second,

00:04:31.600 from his rally to a wonderful, explosive interview

00:04:35.220 with Attorney General William Barr.

00:04:36.860 But first, speaking of danger,

00:04:40.280 speaking of wild risk and safety,

00:04:45.940 everyone knows about the risks of driving drunk.

00:04:48.760 You know about that, right?

00:04:49.640 You could get in a crash.

00:04:51.660 People could get hurt or killed.

00:04:54.300 So let's take a little minute.

00:04:56.020 You all know about it generally.

00:04:57.360 Let's take a minute to look at the statistics.

00:04:59.940 Almost 29 people in the United States

00:05:01.940 die every single day

00:05:03.860 in alcohol-impaired vehicle crashes.

00:05:07.380 That is one person every 50 minutes.

00:05:10.580 Even though drunk driving fatalities

00:05:12.120 have fallen by a third in the last three decades,

00:05:14.560 which is great news,

00:05:15.420 drunk driving crashes still claim

00:05:17.600 more than 10,000 lives each year.

00:05:21.240 Many people are completely unaware

00:05:23.340 that driving while high

00:05:24.840 can be just as dangerous.

00:05:26.880 In 2015, 42% of drivers killed in crashes

00:05:30.100 tested positive for drugs.

00:05:32.760 42%.

00:05:33.360 Not so harmless after all, is it?

00:05:35.740 From 2007 to 2015,

00:05:38.660 marijuana use among drivers killed in crashes doubled.

00:05:42.560 The truth is that driving while high is deadly.

00:05:45.580 So stop kidding yourself.

00:05:46.860 If you are impaired from alcohol or drugs,

00:05:49.420 don't get behind the wheel.

00:05:51.300 If you feel different, you drive different.

00:05:53.980 You drive high, you get a DUI.

00:05:56.220 Drive sober, or you get pulled over.

00:05:58.360 I have a lot of friends.

00:06:00.280 Especially when I was in college,

00:06:01.780 I'd have friends who,

00:06:02.640 they would never get in a car when they were drunk,

00:06:04.280 all right?

00:06:04.420 They at least knew well enough not to do that.

00:06:07.000 But then they'd smoke a joint,

00:06:10.120 they'd be high,

00:06:11.160 and they'd say, oh no, it's fine for me to drive.

00:06:12.940 What are you talking about?

00:06:14.100 You're just as impaired. 0.94

00:06:15.440 The numbers bear that out.

00:06:17.140 Drive high, get a DUI.

00:06:19.020 Drive sober, or get pulled over.

00:06:22.900 All right, back to Trump.

00:06:24.520 Speaking of how high I feel,

00:06:25.880 not from drugs,

00:06:26.680 not from things that impair you,

00:06:27.860 but from this excellent news

00:06:29.400 that we've been receiving today.

00:06:31.480 The impeachment thing flopped, right?

00:06:32.940 So President Trump now is going on the offense.

00:06:35.860 The Democrats took their shot, they missed.

00:06:38.000 And so now President Trump is going after them.

00:06:40.020 Not just the Democrats who are trying to beat him

00:06:41.960 for president,

00:06:42.560 not just the Democrats trying to impeach him,

00:06:44.360 but the Democrats also who attempted

00:06:46.680 to subvert the 2016 election,

00:06:49.340 overturn the election,

00:06:50.660 use the state, the FBI, the DOJ,

00:06:53.880 and the bureaucracy

00:06:54.720 to oust President Trump from office.

00:06:58.560 He begins this.

00:07:00.900 He begins this rally that he had last night

00:07:03.400 in Hershey, Pennsylvania,

00:07:04.420 by summing up the endless investigations

00:07:08.320 and impeachment inquiries

00:07:09.560 and attempts to overturn the election.

00:07:11.120 He does it by reenacting his imagined scenes

00:07:14.780 between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.

00:07:17.800 They were those two lovers at the FBI

00:07:19.440 who kept texting with one another

00:07:21.200 about how they were going to stop him

00:07:22.700 from becoming president

00:07:23.560 and how they were going to overturn the election.

00:07:25.560 President Trump,

00:07:26.460 in his typically unsubtle way,

00:07:29.400 reenacted this for his audience

00:07:32.140 and for the American people

00:07:33.460 and they have to hear it.

00:07:35.680 Peter Strzok and his lover, Lisa Page.

00:07:41.160 Remember?

00:07:42.780 Lisa, I love you so much.

00:07:44.460 Lisa, please, Lisa, please.

00:07:47.480 Lisa, I've never loved anyone like you.

00:07:49.660 We won't allow this to happen to our country.

00:07:52.760 Lisa, please, tell me you love me, Lisa.

00:07:54.900 I love you.

00:07:55.820 Peter, I love you.

00:07:58.340 I love you like I've never loved anyone.

00:08:02.140 And if for any reason,

00:08:05.380 if for any reason she loses,

00:08:07.320 even though she's a stone-cold, corrupt person,

00:08:10.920 if for any reason she loses,

00:08:14.060 Peter, we've got to have an insurance policy.

00:08:16.840 We have to do it

00:08:17.620 because we're going to go out.

00:08:19.040 And that's what's been happening

00:08:20.340 for the last two and a half years, okay?

00:08:23.920 Some of the pearl clutchers 1.00

00:08:25.900 object to this kind of behavior.

00:08:28.040 They say it's below the dignity of the president.

00:08:30.140 Sure, I agree.

00:08:31.900 I agree it's below the dignity of the president.

00:08:34.860 Trump is dealing with people

00:08:36.480 who are not only undermining the dignity of the FBI,

00:08:40.740 supposedly neutral, supposedly nonpartisan,

00:08:44.060 supposedly above it all law enforcement institution,

00:08:46.880 but they're subverting our self-government.

00:08:50.460 So you see, the way Trump does this,

00:08:52.320 if Trump had just gone out there and said at a rally,

00:08:54.940 these FBI agents were acting in a corrupt fashion

00:08:58.700 and they were trying to remove me from office

00:09:01.840 and they were behaving in a partisan way

00:09:03.420 even though they're not supposed to be partisan.

00:09:05.460 And they were saying that they wanted

00:09:07.360 to have an insurance policy in case I got elected.

00:09:09.620 No one would care.

00:09:10.420 No, I wouldn't be playing this clip.

00:09:12.120 You wouldn't have heard it.

00:09:13.020 No one would see it on Twitter.

00:09:14.500 So what Trump does,

00:09:15.480 because he's our greatest showbiz president,

00:09:17.800 certainly since Ronald Reagan,

00:09:19.600 if not ever,

00:09:20.400 is he gives you a little spice, right?

00:09:23.720 Sex sells.

00:09:24.540 So he goes and he frames it

00:09:26.040 as part of this adulterous affair

00:09:27.440 that we know happened

00:09:28.240 because it's in the text messages.

00:09:29.900 And then he,

00:09:31.300 in the midst of all that candy,

00:09:33.720 in the midst of all that chocolate and sugar,

00:09:35.740 he gets the medicine down.

00:09:36.880 And the medicine is,

00:09:37.860 they were texting about an insurance policy.

00:09:40.580 If Trump won,

00:09:41.660 an insurance policy?

00:09:43.880 So he's saying the American people vote one way,

00:09:45.780 but then the FBI is going to undermine that.

00:09:47.760 That's the implication

00:09:48.480 of what they said.

00:09:52.060 And so he's getting that in there.

00:09:53.120 He's reminding you,

00:09:54.020 I myself had forgotten.

00:09:55.620 I remembered some of the texts.

00:09:56.920 We can't let him win.

00:09:57.860 No, no, no.

00:09:58.520 We won't happen.

00:09:59.460 We'll stop him.

00:10:00.300 I forgot about the insurance policy.

00:10:02.400 That's,

00:10:02.900 that's not good.

00:10:04.700 That doesn't sound great.

00:10:07.320 That sounds corrupt.

00:10:08.900 That sounds like a threat

00:10:10.060 to our self-government.

00:10:11.360 So he reminds you of that.

00:10:12.680 And then lest you miss the point,

00:10:15.300 he says it straight on.

00:10:17.460 He says,

00:10:17.620 the FBI spied on his campaign

00:10:20.760 and they ruined a lot of good lives.

00:10:24.340 Folks,

00:10:25.220 they spied on our campaign.

00:10:27.140 Okay.

00:10:27.840 They spied.

00:10:30.240 Never happened before

00:10:32.140 in the history of our country.

00:10:35.260 And we're really wise to it.

00:10:37.680 We're wise to it.

00:10:38.880 The inspector general found that the FBI spying application contains 17 errors and omissions commonly known as lies and deceit.

00:10:50.420 When the FBI and you have great people in the FBI, but not in leadership, you have not good people in leadership you haven't had, but they hid it so that nobody could see it.

00:11:02.400 So they could keep it going on, thinking they were going to hurt us politically, but now we're stronger politically than we were ever before.

00:11:10.280 And the FBI also sent multiple undercover human spies to surveil and record people associated with our campaign.

00:11:23.500 Look how they've hurt people.

00:11:24.500 They've destroyed the lives of people that were great people, that are still great people.

00:11:31.380 Their lives have been destroyed by scum.

00:11:35.120 Okay.

00:11:35.540 By scum.

00:11:36.360 Trump does a lot in this statement.

00:11:40.020 He reminds people that the FBI spied.

00:11:43.020 The way that the press is spinning the inspector general report is trying to convince you that the FBI did nothing wrong.

00:11:48.840 Okay.

00:11:49.140 There were 17 glaring errors and omissions on the FISA applications that then allowed this unwarranted spying, but really it was just a big mistake.

00:11:56.260 It was a big misunderstanding.

00:11:57.780 No political motivation here, even though the attorney general, William Barr, disagrees with that.

00:12:02.260 We'll get to it in a second, but it's no big deal.

00:12:04.380 Nothing to see here.

00:12:05.300 Look away.

00:12:05.740 And what Trump is saying is, nope, that's not true.

00:12:08.080 He then goes on to make an important distinction.

00:12:10.120 He says, there are a lot of good people in the FBI, but the leadership was crooked here.

00:12:14.660 Absolutely true.

00:12:16.160 An important political point to make, because there are a lot of great people in the FBI, a lot of great people in law enforcement.

00:12:21.320 But those political appointees who were running the show, a lot of them were very corrupt.

00:12:27.960 And then he shows, he shows maybe the defining characteristic of Trump's political career and his career in the media.

00:12:39.160 He says, they tried to get us.

00:12:42.120 They tried to hurt us politically.

00:12:43.700 And now we are stronger than we ever were before.

00:12:47.680 What Trump is showing here is that he has a quality that you might call anti-fragility.

00:12:55.640 This is a, this comes from a book by Nicholas Taleb, anti-fragile.

00:13:00.420 Trump is sort of politically anti-fragile.

00:13:03.180 What do I mean by that?

00:13:04.780 I mean, some people are fragile, right?

00:13:07.200 So when, if you, if you hit some people politically, if you knock them, if you expose some scandal, if you go after them, if you try to make them unpopular or make them seem corrupt or something, it hurts them.

00:13:21.220 And the more you do it, it hurts them.

00:13:22.660 And if you do it enough, their career is over.

00:13:25.540 Some political candidates are durable.

00:13:28.600 They're really hard.

00:13:29.700 So it's just a lot harder to hit them with the scandal, right?

00:13:33.920 It might weaken them a little bit, but they're, they're pretty durable.

00:13:36.700 So you, you throw a scandal at them and they still survive.

00:13:40.240 The Clintons are kind of like this, right?

00:13:41.800 You throw, it makes them look corrupt.

00:13:43.640 It makes them look kind of sleazy.

00:13:44.980 It does diminish their support over time, but you know, they're, they can endure.

00:13:50.240 And then there's the quality of being anti-fragile.

00:13:53.860 Being anti-fragile is when the more you hit somebody, the stronger they get.

00:13:58.460 That's the quality that Trump has.

00:14:01.180 And it's by virtue of, I don't know, being in the public eye for 40 years.

00:14:05.320 As an entertainer, as a larger than life cartoon figure, as a casino mogul, as a real

00:14:12.020 estate mogul, as a politician who wins the biggest office in the world the first time

00:14:16.960 he runs, the more you attack Trump and the more he survives, the stronger he gets.

00:14:23.040 It's an amazing quality to have.

00:14:24.860 It's such a strong quality that, for instance, now in the whole impeachment inquiry, they

00:14:33.220 did reveal something that maybe some people would be uncomfortable with.

00:14:37.560 I think a lot of people would admit that, which is that Trump is wheeling and dealing like

00:14:41.300 he's a New York real estate guy from the Oval Office rather than being this perfectly

00:14:46.820 detached statesman like figure, right?

00:14:49.960 He calls up Ukraine and he says, hey, Ukraine, perfectly legitimately, I think, by the way,

00:14:55.740 he says there was a lot of corruption it looked like in the Obama administration.

00:14:58.500 You want to look into that?

00:14:59.500 Looks like you guys had some pretty crooked deals in the Obama administration.

00:15:02.220 I want you to look into that, right?

00:15:04.360 Perfectly legitimate, but still it's a little, but you can't get him for it anymore because

00:15:09.100 the left has gone after Trump so many times that every time they shoot and miss, he gets

00:15:16.920 stronger.

00:15:17.560 He gets bigger.

00:15:18.440 His numbers go up.

00:15:20.100 His base widens.

00:15:21.400 Now, if you look at the polling in the swing states after impeachment, he's beating every

00:15:26.640 single Democrat running against him.

00:15:28.280 Before impeachment, a number of Democrats were beating Trump in head-to-head polls.

00:15:32.480 Now, completely the opposite.

00:15:34.360 That is a very valuable characteristic when it comes to politics and it's not just Trump

00:15:41.240 saying it.

00:15:41.680 You don't just need to take Trump's word for it.

00:15:43.780 The Attorney General, William Barr, is backing up pretty much everything Trump is saying

00:15:48.600 about the FBI, about the Russia investigation, and he's doubling down on Trump's promise

00:15:53.960 to go after the people who tried to subvert the election.

00:15:57.000 We will get to William Barr's excellent interview in a second.

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00:16:46.700 All right, let's get to William Barr.

00:16:51.020 While Trump was putting on this huge show, this whole huge circus in Pennsylvania, William

00:16:57.160 Barr was giving a very sober, very direct interview on NBC News, and he was responding to the IG

00:17:03.580 investigation and the IG report, and he was also talking about the next criminal investigation

00:17:09.060 to pick up where the IG report left off.

00:17:11.940 He begins by absolutely hammering the Obama administration for their handling of the Trump

00:17:19.060 campaign and for their spying.

00:17:21.400 Well, I think probably from a civil liberties standpoint, the greatest danger to our free

00:17:28.980 system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principally the

00:17:35.160 law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents,

00:17:41.280 but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election.

00:17:45.620 As far as I'm aware, this is the first time in history that this has been done to a presidential

00:17:51.720 campaign, the use of these counterintelligence techniques against a presidential campaign.

00:17:58.080 And we have to remember that in today's world, presidential campaigns are frequently in contact

00:18:03.360 with foreign persons.

00:18:04.940 And indeed, in most campaigns, there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in, and we

00:18:11.800 don't automatically assume that the campaigns are nefarious and traitors and acting in league

00:18:18.280 with foreign powers.

00:18:19.460 There has to be some basis before we use these very potent powers in our core First Amendment 0.96

00:18:25.660 activity.

00:18:26.780 And here, I felt this was very flimsy.

00:18:31.220 I love this guy.

00:18:33.340 He reminds me in his affect of Antonin Scalia.

00:18:36.680 He's very intelligent.

00:18:37.860 He looks a little bit like Scalia.

00:18:39.140 He speaks like Scalia.

00:18:40.680 Very measured, but very precise, even down to his use of the word flimsy.

00:18:45.760 And what does he say there?

00:18:46.540 In his very moderate way, he says, the Obama administration spied.

00:18:50.660 They acted inappropriately.

00:18:52.720 This is a major threat to our system of government.

00:18:55.320 They violated civil liberties.

00:18:58.160 They acted in an unprecedented way in our history.

00:19:02.380 And we are going to get to the bottom of it.

00:19:04.280 And he doesn't even just leave it there.

00:19:06.100 He also went after the press.

00:19:09.640 Before I go into a couple of other questions, let me just sort of button this up.

00:19:13.380 I think a lot of people will hear what you're saying here and think, well, that's just Bill

00:19:17.440 Barr defending Trump.

00:19:18.580 Your concern about the FBI's investigation is what?

00:19:23.080 Civil libertarian?

00:19:27.800 I think our nation was turned on its head for three years.

00:19:31.380 I think based on a completely bogus narrative that was largely fanned and hyped by an irresponsible press.

00:19:42.580 And I think that there were gross abuses of FISA and inexplicable behavior that is intolerable in the FBI.

00:19:54.720 And the attorney general's primary responsibility is to protect against the abuse of the law enforcement and intelligence apparatus

00:20:05.380 and make sure that it doesn't play an improper role in our political life.

00:20:10.540 That's my responsibility.

00:20:12.520 And I'm going to carry it out.

00:20:13.660 That's right.

00:20:15.000 He's telling the press to their face on NBC News that an irresponsible press spread this ridiculous hoax.

00:20:23.640 This guy has culioni of steel.

00:20:26.140 Then he comes out and he says there were gross, inexplicable, intolerable abuses of the FISA process.

00:20:35.300 Not errors.

00:20:36.460 Not whoopsie-daisy, a little mistake.

00:20:38.720 Okay, no big deal.

00:20:39.700 No harm, no foul.

00:20:40.840 He's saying abuses.

00:20:42.040 Now, you might ask, doesn't that contradict the IG report?

00:20:45.440 I thought NBC News told me, the very dishonest mainstream media told me,

00:20:49.880 that the IG report found that there was no improper motivation.

00:20:53.860 There were no nefarious plots.

00:20:56.080 It was just all a big misunderstanding.

00:20:57.820 Doesn't Barr contradict the IG report?

00:20:59.780 Sort of, but not really.

00:21:01.660 And he explains how for both the press and through the press for the American people.

00:21:05.660 So the inspector general says he found no evidence to indicate that the FBI's decision to start this investigation was based on political bias.

00:21:15.840 Do you agree?

00:21:16.200 Well, I think you have to understand what the IG's methodology is.

00:21:22.360 And I think it's the appropriate methodology for an inspector general.

00:21:26.320 He starts with limited information.

00:21:28.320 He can only talk to people who are essentially there as employees.

00:21:31.500 And he's limited to the information generally in the FBI.

00:21:35.160 But his approach is to say, if I get an explanation from the people I'm investigating that is not unreasonable on its face,

00:21:44.100 then I will accept it as long as there's not contradictory testimonial or documentary evidence.

00:21:51.160 In other words, it's a very deferential standard.

00:21:53.280 And all he said is, people gave me an explanation and I didn't find anything to contradict it.

00:22:00.060 So I don't have a basis for saying that there was improper motive.

00:22:04.500 But he hasn't decided the issue of improper motive.

00:22:08.640 This is the key point here.

00:22:10.820 Because I think it's confusing even for conservatives.

00:22:13.620 They say, hold on a second.

00:22:14.740 We have these two investigations now going on into the origin of the original Russia investigation.

00:22:20.460 You have the IG investigation and then you have this guy John Durham,

00:22:23.780 the prosecutor that William Barr appointed to look into it.

00:22:27.360 How come if the IG says basically it's all okay, how come there's still this John Durham investigation?

00:22:32.700 And what Barr explains is the IG investigation has a very deferential standard.

00:22:38.380 The task of the IG is not to get to the bottom of the motivations and grill people.

00:22:43.360 The task of the IG is to get a story.

00:22:46.000 If the story is not really contradicted, then there's no reason to disbelieve it.

00:22:49.680 It's a very deferential standard.

00:22:52.400 And you hear the implicit threat in his voice.

00:22:56.420 He says, yeah, the IG had a very deferential standard.

00:23:00.680 Not much reason to get to the truth.

00:23:02.580 But luckily, we have a criminal investigation going on as well.

00:23:06.740 Luckily, we've got somebody on the case whose job it is to get to the bottom of it.

00:23:12.140 Whose job it is to figure out the motivations.

00:23:15.980 The IG may have said, we have no evidence to believe that there were political motivations.

00:23:21.140 But John Durham and Bill Barr go in there and they say, yeah, I don't think we're going to leave it at that.

00:23:25.880 I'm pretty sure you come for the king, you best not miss.

00:23:29.540 I'm pretty sure we're going to get to the bottom of it.

00:23:31.500 So how are they going to do it?

00:23:32.980 They're going to engage in a full-on criminal investigation.

00:23:36.280 And Bill Barr gives us a little preview of it.

00:23:38.040 I think we have to wait until the investigation, the full investigation is done.

00:23:43.500 And that's the fundamental distinction between what Durham is doing and what the IG is doing.

00:23:48.820 Durham is not limited to the FBI.

00:23:50.640 He can talk to other agencies.

00:23:52.840 He can compel people to testify.

00:23:55.020 One of the problems in the IG's investigation, I think he would agree, is that Comey refused to sign back up for his security clearance and therefore couldn't be questioned about classified matters.

00:24:07.520 So someone like Durham can compel testimony.

00:24:12.680 He can talk to a whole range of people, private parties, foreign governments, and so forth.

00:24:17.080 And I think that is the point at which a decision has to be made about motivations.

00:24:25.440 Listen to that.

00:24:27.000 The inspector general can compel witnesses, right?

00:24:29.900 The inspector general just goes, makes his report.

00:24:32.160 Okay, here you go.

00:24:33.440 It all checks out.

00:24:35.080 This criminal investigation here can compel witnesses.

00:24:37.920 So who are they going to make testify?

00:24:40.760 Who are they going to make give some testimony?

00:24:42.460 I don't know, maybe some of those shady characters that Trump was making fun of from the FBI.

00:24:49.180 Maybe they're going to get James Comey to talk on the record.

00:24:52.180 I don't know.

00:24:53.000 Maybe they're going to try to get to the bottom of all of that.

00:24:55.960 It's this implicit threat.

00:25:00.460 And it's a perfectly legitimate threat.

00:25:02.360 It's a threat that I strongly support from William Barr, who says, this ain't over.

00:25:07.040 You think that you can use the mechanisms of the press.

00:25:09.500 You think you can use the mechanisms of the state, even.

00:25:12.460 To try to subvert justice here.

00:25:14.580 Yeah, not me.

00:25:15.380 You remember when Bill Barr was appointed, he said, look, I've already served as attorney general.

00:25:21.120 I've been around this town a very long time.

00:25:23.400 And this is going to be a very messy situation here.

00:25:26.760 A lot of people would shy away from this job because it would ruin their careers if they're young, ambitious attorneys and prosecutors.

00:25:33.540 Me, I've already had my career.

00:25:35.660 I got nothing to lose here.

00:25:37.440 I am only interested in getting the truth.

00:25:40.520 And I think that we're about to see that.

00:25:41.960 He even shows, he even hints that not just for the people who acted inappropriately, but for the left generally who relied on those bad actors, there's some bad news on the horizon.

00:25:52.620 What questions will John Durham address that the IG didn't?

00:25:56.500 Well, Durham is looking at the whole waterfront.

00:26:01.200 He is looking at the issue of how it got started.

00:26:04.280 He's looking at whether or not the narrative of Trump being involved in the Russian interference actually preceded July and was, in fact, the precipitating trigger for the investigation.

00:26:21.420 He's also looking at the conduct of the investigation.

00:26:25.300 There are some things that were done in the investigation that are not included in Horowitz's report, and he's looking at those things.

00:26:33.080 But also, a few weeks ago, I told him that he should spend just as much attention on the post-election period.

00:26:39.840 And I did that because of some of the stuff that Horowitz has uncovered, which to me is inexplicable.

00:26:46.920 Such as?

00:26:47.880 Well, what I said is their case collapsed after the election, and they never told the court, and they kept on getting renewals on these applications.

00:26:57.320 There was documents falsified in order to get these renewals.

00:27:00.620 There was all kinds of withholding of information from the court.

00:27:06.500 And the question really is, what was the agenda after the election that kept them pressing ahead after their case collapsed?

00:27:15.140 This is the president of the United States.

00:27:17.520 Fair enough.

00:27:18.480 Totally measured.

00:27:19.460 Look, you made a mistake on the initial investigation.

00:27:22.400 That's fine.

00:27:23.360 But, hey, hold on a second, guys.

00:27:25.140 How come after your case collapsed, you kept trying to get him?

00:27:30.620 How come after the election, you kept trying to subvert the election?

00:27:37.700 How come for two and a half, three years, you kept up this charade?

00:27:42.580 That part's not explained in the IGU report, but maybe we're going to get to the bottom of that.

00:27:46.400 By the way, by the way, this excellent, aggressive approach from all fronts, the cultural front, the political front, and the bureaucratic front,

00:27:56.500 this is not just a matter of domestic politics.

00:27:59.000 The Trump administration is doing this even overseas.

00:28:01.780 There is great news that came out just last night about U.S. trade, U.S. sovereignty, and specifically the World Trade Organization.

00:28:09.700 Very few people are reporting on it because it's a move that Trump has made in accordance with, actually, a fairly longstanding American tradition.

00:28:18.120 And it's cracking up the leftist, utopian, internationalist plans, and it is a big, major win for the United States, for the economy, and for self-government.

00:28:28.140 We'll get to that in a second.

00:28:29.200 We will get to why a Methodist church is putting Jesus and Mary and Joseph in cages.

00:28:33.180 We will get to the word of the year, and we will get to the dumbest article on the Internet today, as always, from our friends at the New York Times.

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00:29:50.380 Great news coming out of the World Trade Organization.

00:29:54.100 I think that's the first time that statement has ever been uttered in the history of the world.

00:29:57.980 At midnight last night, the Trump administration got its sneaky wish.

00:30:03.560 It's been doing this sort of surreptitiously for a while now.

00:30:06.900 It has nullified the power of the WTO, the World Trade Organization.

00:30:12.600 What is the WTO?

00:30:13.860 It's an organization that was founded in 1995 to facilitate free trade.

00:30:19.080 Fine idea in theory, right?

00:30:20.460 No, no huge objections necessarily in theory, except that once the United States agreed to

00:30:27.980 allow countries like China, for instance, to enter the World Trade Organization about 20

00:30:32.280 years ago, all of a sudden things got very unbalanced because you had these major, major

00:30:40.000 world powers like China getting the protections in the World Trade Organization of developing

00:30:44.700 nations, and yet they were, they're extremely wealthy nations and they used it to their massive

00:30:51.320 advantage.

00:30:51.840 They were also violating a lot of WTO treaties and arrangements.

00:30:56.460 They were illegally subsidizing their steel and aluminum.

00:30:59.060 They were stealing our intellectual property.

00:31:01.500 They were forcing us to do business with crooked banks in China.

00:31:06.380 These were all extra little taxes and fees that were added on top of doing business.

00:31:10.920 Because they were not behaving as serious partners, and yet we were bound by the WTO regulations

00:31:17.460 because if we ever tried to fight back, we would be found in violation of the WTO.

00:31:21.900 The WTO, a sort of, I guess, a hopeful idea from the 90s that just hasn't worked out to

00:31:28.980 our benefit in recent years.

00:31:30.220 The way that the Trump administration nullified the WTO is it has blocked new appointments to

00:31:36.800 the appellate bodies, to the appeals court of the World Trade Organization, which means that

00:31:40.880 the terms of two of the last three judges on the WTO expired at midnight.

00:31:46.880 Now, it's, it's worth pointing out here, this isn't just Trump who's done this.

00:31:50.220 President George W. Bush started this process of not appointing new judges, and this continued

00:31:56.320 under Barack Obama to his credit, and it finally reached the climax under President Trump.

00:32:01.980 Trump, this is excellent news.

00:32:05.060 It's a big win for sovereignty.

00:32:06.980 It's a big win for self-government.

00:32:09.220 Now, if, I guess in theory, the WTO is supposed to facilitate trade, reduce tariffs, reduce barriers

00:32:16.040 to trade, and we'll all be kumbaya in this wonderful, easy, efficient marketplace all around

00:32:22.120 the world.

00:32:22.560 Okay, it doesn't really work out that way, by the way, but even if it did, we're seeing this

00:32:29.480 as part of a larger debate right now, which is between total, efficient, technocratic

00:32:35.340 international bureaucracy and sovereignty, self-government.

00:32:39.720 What do you want?

00:32:40.400 You get to pick one.

00:32:42.100 What do you want?

00:32:42.860 What matters more to you?

00:32:44.860 To me, it's pretty clear.

00:32:46.020 I want self-government.

00:32:46.980 I want to have a say over our own national destiny.

00:32:51.460 I want to defend our constitution.

00:32:53.280 I want to engage in trade as a country that benefits us and not surrender that power to

00:33:00.680 some international organization that deals with us at times unfairly.

00:33:05.680 Maybe that means that trade will be a little tougher in the short term.

00:33:08.920 Maybe.

00:33:09.280 That's a price I'm willing to pay.

00:33:10.780 The destiny of man is not measured by material computations.

00:33:14.320 We're spirits, not animals.

00:33:15.440 We have a constitution and we have self-government.

00:33:18.400 That's another big win for Trump.

00:33:19.620 It just shows this aggressiveness, even not just on the domestic front, but on the international

00:33:24.320 front.

00:33:24.720 We've wanted that for a long time.

00:33:26.120 So that raises the question of impeachment.

00:33:28.400 How are we going to deal with the trial in the Senate?

00:33:30.680 Right now, CNN is reporting.

00:33:32.260 So, you know, take it with a grain of salt.

00:33:33.920 But CNN is reporting that there's a disagreement here.

00:33:36.580 Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, wants impeachment to be over with quickly.

00:33:43.320 He wants this trial that goes to trial and then they acquit him and that's it.

00:33:47.580 And you can move right along.

00:33:49.620 Now, according to CNN, that's not what President Trump wants.

00:33:52.720 President Trump wants to drag this out.

00:33:54.360 He wants it to be a show.

00:33:55.680 He wants this to be a spectacle.

00:33:57.400 He wants people to come testify like Adam Schiff and Hunter Biden.

00:34:01.080 Trump wants exactly what I advocated for yesterday on the show.

00:34:05.080 And Trump is right and Mitch McConnell's wrong.

00:34:06.800 I love Cocaine Mitch.

00:34:07.760 I think he's a great guy.

00:34:08.820 I understand why Mitch McConnell might want to move this trial along.

00:34:13.640 One, so the Senate can get back to its business of pushing through a bunch of conservative 0.94

00:34:18.140 judges.

00:34:18.520 Love that idea.

00:34:19.340 That's great.

00:34:20.180 Two, because in politics anything can happen.

00:34:23.860 So you don't want to call, say, Joe Biden as a witness and then all of a sudden he becomes

00:34:27.940 very sympathetic and it turns it on its head.

00:34:30.640 Okay.

00:34:31.220 I understand that.

00:34:32.260 Still, impeachment helps the president.

00:34:34.360 Being aggressive helps the president.

00:34:36.140 It helps the Republican Party.

00:34:37.600 It helps conservatives.

00:34:39.160 You don't need to call Joe Biden.

00:34:40.260 I actually don't think you should.

00:34:41.140 Maybe Trump is even overreaching in calling Hunter Biden.

00:34:45.900 His Hunter Biden is a Biden, so maybe he could be sympathetic.

00:34:49.600 You've got to call Adam Schiff.

00:34:51.160 You've got to call those awful, unlikable Democratic lawyers who were preening on Capitol 0.68

00:34:56.880 Hill last week.

00:34:57.560 You've got to drag all of them in front and show just how weak a case the Democrats have.

00:35:02.540 Opposition to impeachment and removal is at 51%.

00:35:04.820 Right now, it'll be at 61% by the time this thing is over if they really drag it out and

00:35:08.920 do it the right way.

00:35:10.420 That's the show.

00:35:11.640 Look, when your opponents in politics come after you and they miss you, that's a wonderful

00:35:18.560 feeling.

00:35:19.340 Winston Churchill wrote about this.

00:35:20.540 I think it was in his book, My Early Life.

00:35:22.940 He said that he was in a war zone and he felt a bullet go by his head and it was the first

00:35:27.340 time he ever had the joy of being shot at and missed.

00:35:30.340 That's good.

00:35:30.820 That's a relief.

00:35:31.760 But then you've got to capitalize on that.

00:35:33.400 So it's kind of like blackjack.

00:35:35.240 Blackjack has almost even odds.

00:35:36.840 It's a pretty good game to play, but not if you just play hand after hand without ever

00:35:41.200 changing your strategy.

00:35:42.700 You've got to know in blackjack when to split.

00:35:45.000 You've got to know when to double down.

00:35:46.480 You've got to know when to press your luck.

00:35:49.680 Okay?

00:35:50.000 You've got to know when to get really aggressive.

00:35:52.460 The same thing is true in politics.

00:35:53.940 I think Trump has that instinct.

00:35:55.220 He should follow that instinct.

00:35:57.320 Beyond politics, or beyond at least national politics and presidential politics, we have

00:36:03.320 got a very, very stupid story coming out of a Methodist church. 0.78

00:36:06.640 The Claremont United Methodist Church, 30 miles east of my own city of LA.

00:36:11.400 They posted a photo on their website of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in cages.

00:36:17.520 This is a real war on Christmas.

00:36:19.200 The war on Christmas is becoming very literal now.

00:36:21.540 They are actually imprisoning the Holy Family. 0.54

00:36:24.520 Not a great idea.

00:36:25.440 Why did they do it?

00:36:26.160 Why did they put Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in cages topped with barbed wire?

00:36:30.520 Because they want to make the point that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are refugees just like MS-13 0.97

00:36:39.820 gang members coming up from El Salvador or other people too.

00:36:44.340 They're just like refugees. 1.00

00:36:46.420 And if you oppose totally open borders, can you really call yourself a Christian?

00:36:50.320 Certainly not, according to the lead priestess at this Methodist church, Karen Clark Ristine.

00:36:58.240 She's the lead pastoress.

00:37:00.840 And she told the CNN affiliate there,

00:37:04.400 quote,

00:37:04.860 We thought about the most refugee family in the world, the family of Jesus.

00:37:10.880 I don't want to spend too long on this story.

00:37:12.720 I just want to point out this is a leftist canard that comes up again and again increasingly

00:37:18.480 in every Christmas, every time the left wants to make some stupid political point.

00:37:23.060 And it's simply not true.

00:37:25.460 It's both a stupid point to make and it is literally not true.

00:37:29.580 So they say Jesus was a refugee, right?

00:37:31.540 He wasn't, he's not from Bethlehem.

00:37:34.480 He's not, his family's not from Bethlehem.

00:37:36.440 And yet he was born in Bethlehem.

00:37:38.080 He was born in a manger or in a cave.

00:37:40.520 You see, he's a refugee.

00:37:42.740 No.

00:37:43.800 When we're talking about refugees, illegal aliens, 0.96

00:37:46.920 fleeing their country and crossing the border, 0.56

00:37:49.100 we're talking about people who are evading laws and entering a country illegally.

00:37:55.560 Jesus was born in Bethlehem because his mother and his stepfather

00:37:59.100 were going toward the civil authority

00:38:02.300 and obeying the civil authority to register with the government.

00:38:06.780 Opposite situations.

00:38:08.660 Well, Michael, you might say,

00:38:10.600 what about when Jesus, Mary, and Joseph fled to Egypt?

00:38:13.660 Certainly then he was a refugee.

00:38:16.940 Still no.

00:38:18.740 It is true.

00:38:20.140 The Holy Family fled.

00:38:21.820 Herod fled this massacre that was about to happen

00:38:24.680 and fled to Egypt in fulfillment of scripture.

00:38:28.340 But when they fled to Egypt,

00:38:30.220 they were not crossing borders illegally.

00:38:32.480 They were not violating civil statutes.

00:38:34.020 They were not acting as refugees.

00:38:35.160 The way we talk about refugees from Latin America or elsewhere today,

00:38:39.300 because Egypt was part of the Roman Empire.

00:38:41.840 It'd be like fleeing from California to Texas,

00:38:45.600 something that many people are doing even today,

00:38:47.680 rather than fleeing from El Salvador to the United States.

00:38:51.580 Egypt had been part of the Roman Empire since 30 BC,

00:38:55.520 when Octavian defeated Mark Antony and ousted Cleopatra from Egypt.

00:39:01.320 So it is a weak slogan.

00:39:04.780 It's a dumb point that is also based on historical ignorance and illiteracy.

00:39:08.880 But it's also a product of shallow religion, right?

00:39:12.840 We are in Advent.

00:39:15.020 We are awaiting the long-expected Jesus born to set his people free.

00:39:19.080 And what the left wants to do is make some cheap, stupid political point

00:39:23.060 about immigration.

00:39:25.620 The birth of a savior in Bethlehem,

00:39:33.540 the incarnation, the nativity of the divine logic of the universe

00:39:37.900 to set us free from our sin and redeem mankind,

00:39:40.800 is much more interesting than whatever stupid point you have to make

00:39:44.420 about the southern border.

00:39:46.140 It's much more inspiring.

00:39:48.100 It tells us much more about our humanity.

00:39:50.120 It's a far greater cause for joy.

00:39:51.300 The left just doesn't understand that.

00:39:54.260 They're so hysterically, narrowly, obsessively focused

00:39:57.580 on these cheap little political points,

00:39:59.520 they can't raise their head up and look toward the heavens

00:40:02.940 or even look down into a cave in Bethlehem at the incarnation.

00:40:06.980 Another sad note on our culture today,

00:40:10.400 Merriam-Webster Dictionary has announced the word of the year.

00:40:13.600 The word of the year is they.

00:40:17.640 They, huh?

00:40:18.460 That's a pretty strange word of the year.

00:40:19.760 They has been around for a long time.

00:40:22.560 Why is it all of a sudden becoming the word of the year in 2019?

00:40:25.260 It's because Merriam-Webster has now redefined the word they,

00:40:29.400 not to refer to multiple people,

00:40:31.300 not to be a plural word,

00:40:33.580 but to be singular.

00:40:36.260 As in,

00:40:37.700 not he or she,

00:40:39.560 but they.

00:40:41.320 They is a good person.

00:40:45.220 Very, very sad.

00:40:46.100 It shows you an important point about politics,

00:40:49.780 which is that all these little minor issues,

00:40:53.640 the pronouns,

00:40:55.100 the bathrooms,

00:40:56.080 things that we say are trivial,

00:40:57.360 are actually supremely important in politics.

00:41:01.260 How is the singular they come about?

00:41:03.040 It's come about because of gender ideology, 1.00

00:41:04.680 which has told us that there is no such thing as men or women,

00:41:08.380 that sex is different from gender,

00:41:10.300 that gender now is a term that applies not to grammar,

00:41:12.360 but to human beings,

00:41:13.860 that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man

00:41:16.040 simply by believing it so,

00:41:17.400 or simply by really wishing it to be.

00:41:20.080 An ideology that says we should pump little children full of hormones.

00:41:23.140 If,

00:41:23.740 if a boy plays with a Barbie doll,

00:41:25.340 or if a girl plays with a toy truck, 1.00

00:41:27.280 or if their mother is just a nut, 0.96

00:41:30.400 we should just pump them full of hormones, 1.00

00:41:32.220 sterilize them,

00:41:32.960 stop them from going through puberty.

00:41:34.120 That's what we should do,

00:41:35.120 because really there's no such thing as,

00:41:37.020 as biological sex,

00:41:38.320 that your body has nothing to do with who you really are,

00:41:42.180 with your identity.

00:41:43.480 This is not true.

00:41:45.880 This is crazy.

00:41:47.400 This is an idea that's only been around for about five minutes,

00:41:49.820 and it's already affected our popular language

00:41:52.540 by removing even he and she.

00:41:55.000 At this rate,

00:41:56.580 it will soon become bigoted,

00:41:59.360 or it will be seen to be bigoted,

00:42:01.620 to use gendered pronouns,

00:42:04.520 to say he or she.

00:42:05.320 It will become politically correct to only say they.

00:42:09.040 That is the move that's underway right now.

00:42:12.200 Language is the key here.

00:42:13.400 The left always uses language to change our culture

00:42:15.980 and to achieve their political ends.

00:42:17.720 Why?

00:42:18.240 Because language is the stuff of our consciousness.

00:42:22.060 Language is how we think.

00:42:24.840 It's how we communicate.

00:42:26.280 It's the only way that we can relate to one another.

00:42:28.920 Language is central to politics,

00:42:32.120 and they are fundamentally changing it.

00:42:34.400 So, for instance,

00:42:35.360 if they becomes not only a singular pronoun,

00:42:39.220 but the preferred singular pronoun,

00:42:41.720 then any objection that a reasonable person might have

00:42:44.960 to gender ideology goes out the window,

00:42:47.660 because gender ideology becomes baked into the very premises

00:42:50.820 of our culture and our consciousness and our language.

00:42:54.620 Very stupid move from Merriam-Webster.

00:42:56.780 I don't read Merriam-Webster.

00:42:58.220 I read the Oxford English Dictionary,

00:42:59.580 but still not a good look for the culture.

00:43:02.840 It shows why we've got to fight back every step of the way.

00:43:05.000 How can you do it?

00:43:06.320 Here's a very simple way,

00:43:07.360 and it's very awkward and you don't like it

00:43:09.340 because it feels weird when you say it.

00:43:11.080 When you refer to individuals,

00:43:16.680 say he or she,

00:43:18.760 according to the OED,

00:43:20.240 he is the gender-neutral singular pronoun.

00:43:25.180 He doesn't necessarily mean a man,

00:43:27.640 but when you're saying he in the general sense,

00:43:30.460 it can mean just an individual.

00:43:32.520 And when you're talking about an individual

00:43:35.220 who's confused about his gender,

00:43:36.620 say Bruce Jenner or somebody,

00:43:38.880 Caitlyn Jenner now,

00:43:39.580 say Caitlyn Jenner,

00:43:41.100 that's perfectly fine,

00:43:42.100 but refer to him as he.

00:43:44.400 Not out of cruelty,

00:43:45.820 Caitlyn Jenner seems like a nice guy.

00:43:47.680 Seems like actually a fairly reasonable guy

00:43:49.180 as far as not only people confused

00:43:52.920 about their gender are concerned,

00:43:54.120 but as far as anybody in Hollywood is concerned.

00:43:56.020 He's actually got some pretty decent politics.

00:43:58.940 But he is not a woman. 0.75

00:44:00.360 He's admitted as much

00:44:01.640 in his own writing and in his own speaking.

00:44:05.040 You need to insist upon that too

00:44:07.040 because the minute you lose that,

00:44:08.400 the minute you see to the left

00:44:09.640 the ability to define ontological reality,

00:44:14.100 you've seeded all of politics.

00:44:15.760 There's no reason in even arguing about it anymore.

00:44:18.240 Before we go,

00:44:18.740 I got to get to the dumbest article

00:44:19.760 on the internet today.

00:44:21.260 This comes from the New York Times

00:44:22.920 as it so often does,

00:44:23.940 and it comes from Thomas Friedman.

00:44:25.820 The title,

00:44:27.000 Impeach Trump, Save America.

00:44:30.800 It's the only thing to do

00:44:31.920 if our country's democracy is to survive.

00:44:34.260 This is a really, really dumb,

00:44:35.620 a really, really dumb op-ed.

00:44:37.140 I won't get to the whole thing

00:44:38.160 because you can get the gist of it

00:44:40.120 in the first couple paragraphs.

00:44:41.240 He writes,

00:44:42.020 Impeaching a president

00:44:42.920 is the most consequential thing

00:44:44.380 our Congress can do

00:44:45.440 other than declaring war.

00:44:47.620 So after great consideration,

00:44:49.160 I say,

00:44:50.160 President Trump not only should be impeached,

00:44:52.200 he must be impeached

00:44:53.240 if America's democracy

00:44:55.000 is to remain intact.

00:44:56.560 So if we're still going to let the people

00:45:00.440 elect their own presidents,

00:45:02.740 we need to subvert the will of the people 0.77

00:45:05.040 and oust their duly elected president.

00:45:06.860 That's the premise here, okay?

00:45:08.840 He says,

00:45:09.240 Why?

00:45:10.000 Because the facts here are not in doubt.

00:45:12.020 Trump's allies in the media and Congress

00:45:13.480 have largely given up disputing them.

00:45:15.380 Trump held up

00:45:16.100 congressionally directed taxpayer funding

00:45:18.140 to strengthen Ukraine's military

00:45:19.520 against Russia

00:45:20.540 until the new Ukrainian president

00:45:22.020 agreed to do what Trump called a favor,

00:45:24.800 announced that Ukraine was investigating,

00:45:26.560 Trump's most likely 2020 opponent,

00:45:28.280 Joe Biden,

00:45:29.260 and his son,

00:45:30.380 who were involved

00:45:30.900 with the Ukrainian gas company.

00:45:33.240 First of all,

00:45:34.480 the president conducts foreign policy,

00:45:36.020 Thomas Friedman,

00:45:36.640 not the Congress.

00:45:37.500 We have three co-equal branches of government.

00:45:39.500 The executive is a co-equal branch.

00:45:41.460 It's not subservient to the Congress.

00:45:44.220 Second of all,

00:45:47.180 Trump's,

00:45:47.800 forget about Trump's allies

00:45:49.280 in the media and Congress,

00:45:51.500 if he has any.

00:45:52.880 Talk about Trump's opponents.

00:45:54.120 Trump's opponents are actually the ones

00:45:55.380 who have given up

00:45:55.940 this stupid narrative

00:45:56.700 that you're trying to push

00:45:57.520 because they didn't charge him

00:45:58.720 with bribery in the impeachment.

00:46:00.900 If they actually thought

00:46:02.940 that he had committed

00:46:03.580 an impeachable offense,

00:46:05.300 if they actually thought

00:46:06.000 that he was bribing Ukraine

00:46:07.760 or extorting something out of Ukraine,

00:46:10.160 they would have charged him

00:46:11.000 with that in impeachment

00:46:11.840 after this three-year-long charade

00:46:13.300 and after the impeachment inquiry

00:46:14.720 and hearings.

00:46:15.280 But they didn't do it

00:46:16.140 because the point that you're saying

00:46:17.300 is incontrovertible.

00:46:18.440 Not even the Democrats in Congress

00:46:19.880 believe anymore

00:46:20.540 or they're not willing to try to say

00:46:21.820 with a straight face.

00:46:22.600 Third of all,

00:46:25.580 what you're accusing Trump of doing,

00:46:27.560 Biden actually did.

00:46:29.220 Biden actually did

00:46:30.540 by his own admission

00:46:31.480 on video

00:46:32.120 at the Council on Foreign Relations.

00:46:33.360 He held up military aid

00:46:36.200 to Ukraine

00:46:36.860 when there was a much hotter war

00:46:38.280 going on with Russia 0.99

00:46:39.160 in exchange for a political favor,

00:46:41.840 which is that they stop

00:46:42.720 investigating his crooked son

00:46:44.580 who got $600,000 a year

00:46:47.000 from a corrupt energy company,

00:46:50.320 even though he's a total derelict

00:46:52.440 who just smokes crack

00:46:53.720 a lot of the time

00:46:54.460 and has no qualifications whatsoever

00:46:56.100 other than having the name Biden

00:46:57.780 while Joe was the sitting vice president.

00:47:00.460 So the argument he's making here

00:47:02.060 is actually to kick Joe Biden out

00:47:03.680 from being the likely nominee

00:47:04.940 of the Democratic Party.

00:47:06.100 He's not making an argument

00:47:07.200 against Trump.

00:47:08.100 Then Friedman says,

00:47:09.000 generally speaking,

00:47:10.680 generally,

00:47:11.160 I love this.

00:47:12.140 I love this.

00:47:12.700 Look,

00:47:13.100 I have given this great consideration.

00:47:15.160 We,

00:47:15.460 it's very serious about impeachment,

00:47:17.680 but let's do it anyway.

00:47:18.760 Generally speaking,

00:47:19.660 I believe presidents should be elected

00:47:21.160 and removed by the voters at the polls.

00:47:23.540 But when I hear Trump's defenders scream,

00:47:26.040 impeachment subverts the will of the people,

00:47:27.820 I say,

00:47:28.840 really?

00:47:29.600 What the hell do you think

00:47:30.840 Trump was doing in Ukraine?

00:47:32.380 He was subverting the will of the people

00:47:33.800 by scheming to use our tax dollars

00:47:35.360 to knock out his most feared opponent

00:47:37.140 in the coming election.

00:47:39.660 How is that?

00:47:40.180 What?

00:47:40.760 What are you talking about

00:47:41.420 subverting the will of the people?

00:47:42.480 Trump's a duly elected president.

00:47:43.860 He conducts foreign policy.

00:47:45.400 He was investigating crooked deals

00:47:47.200 that were going on

00:47:47.980 in the past administration.

00:47:49.820 Perfectly legitimate.

00:47:51.940 Friedman is trying to use,

00:47:55.420 I would call it Orwellian language,

00:47:57.600 to make reality seem

00:47:58.840 not only other than it is,

00:48:00.060 but the opposite of what it is.

00:48:01.140 And then we get to the money line.

00:48:02.640 If we say,

00:48:04.160 as Republicans do,

00:48:05.160 that what Trump did

00:48:06.100 is not an impeachable offense,

00:48:07.460 we're telling ourselves

00:48:08.280 and every future president

00:48:09.360 that in contradiction

00:48:10.720 of what the founders wrote

00:48:11.780 in the Constitution,

00:48:12.960 it is okay to enlist a foreign power 1.00

00:48:14.760 to tilt the election your way.

00:48:16.900 Biden did that.

00:48:21.000 Biden did that.

00:48:22.180 He,

00:48:23.500 first of all,

00:48:24.480 when Thomas Friedman

00:48:26.860 is talking about the Constitution

00:48:28.120 and how we have to abide

00:48:29.220 by what the founders

00:48:29.840 and the Constitution said,

00:48:30.820 I can't help but laugh,

00:48:31.960 but when anybody

00:48:33.260 in the New York Times does that,

00:48:35.380 but what Joe Biden did

00:48:36.400 was hold up American military aid

00:48:38.060 to Ukraine

00:48:39.180 and told Ukraine

00:48:40.900 to fire a prosecutor

00:48:41.800 who was looking

00:48:42.400 into his crooked son's company.

00:48:43.660 Okay,

00:48:45.040 that's what he did.

00:48:48.440 But beyond that,

00:48:50.780 lots of presidents

00:48:51.680 have had contact,

00:48:52.660 presidential candidates

00:48:53.680 have had contact

00:48:55.000 with foreign powers.

00:48:56.780 Like,

00:48:57.340 for instance,

00:48:58.620 the Hillary Clinton campaign

00:49:00.120 in 2016

00:49:01.480 when they enlisted

00:49:02.520 the services

00:49:03.040 of Fusion GPS

00:49:03.840 who hired

00:49:04.740 an ex-foreign

00:49:06.360 intelligence operative

00:49:07.560 named Christopher Steele

00:49:08.780 to get dirt

00:49:09.680 from other intelligence operatives

00:49:11.440 in Russia

00:49:12.440 to undermine

00:49:13.580 our election

00:49:14.300 and to

00:49:14.980 kick Trump

00:49:17.320 out of the general

00:49:18.040 so that Hillary 0.91

00:49:18.580 could win.

00:49:20.300 That's what they actually did.

00:49:22.000 She actually did that. 0.95

00:49:23.320 Now,

00:49:23.500 I'm not even begrudging her

00:49:24.600 her ability

00:49:25.700 to go dig up

00:49:26.340 oppo research.

00:49:27.100 That's politics.

00:49:27.780 That's happened

00:49:28.100 for a long time.

00:49:29.560 But don't say

00:49:30.120 this is unprecedented.

00:49:31.180 We're not going to have

00:49:31.660 a legitimate president.

00:49:33.020 Listen,

00:49:33.260 can you imagine

00:49:33.820 how much money

00:49:34.360 candidates could raise

00:49:35.380 from Saudi Arabia

00:49:36.100 or China

00:49:36.580 to tilt a future election

00:49:37.700 their way?

00:49:40.660 Different countries

00:49:41.380 get involved

00:49:41.780 in these elections.

00:49:43.140 Russia's been trying 0.93

00:49:43.940 to overturn

00:49:44.320 our elections

00:49:44.800 for a hundred years.

00:49:45.880 By the way,

00:49:46.540 Barack Obama

00:49:47.340 just endorsed

00:49:47.960 Justin Trudeau

00:49:49.080 in Canada.

00:49:49.840 Was he interfering

00:49:50.420 in their election?

00:49:51.020 Was he subverting

00:49:51.620 their elections?

00:49:52.780 Barack Obama

00:49:53.360 sent his campaign

00:49:54.460 operatives

00:49:55.100 over to Israel 0.63

00:49:56.100 to try to oust

00:49:56.740 Bibi at Netanyahu.

00:49:58.100 Was that shocking,

00:49:59.360 awful,

00:49:59.800 terrible,

00:50:00.180 unconstitutional?

00:50:00.940 I don't think so.

00:50:02.280 Friedman says

00:50:02.760 the integrity

00:50:03.180 of our elections

00:50:03.800 would be shattered.

00:50:04.620 We would never again

00:50:05.340 have a legitimate

00:50:06.000 president.

00:50:09.140 Be shattered.

00:50:10.100 We wouldn't have

00:50:10.860 a legitimate president

00:50:11.720 and that's why

00:50:12.500 we need to

00:50:13.700 use the power

00:50:15.580 of impeachment

00:50:16.120 for the first time

00:50:18.140 ever

00:50:18.620 to remove

00:50:19.960 a president

00:50:20.700 even though

00:50:21.600 they couldn't

00:50:22.840 prove even the most,

00:50:24.260 they couldn't even charge

00:50:25.280 the most basic crime,

00:50:27.960 bribery,

00:50:29.080 as an impeachable offense.

00:50:30.200 They couldn't do that.

00:50:30.740 They got rid of that.

00:50:31.800 So now they're charging

00:50:32.820 with vague abuse

00:50:34.080 of power

00:50:34.840 and obstruction

00:50:35.920 of Congress.

00:50:37.320 It's the president's job

00:50:38.280 to obstruct Congress.

00:50:39.380 They got nothing

00:50:40.260 and you're saying

00:50:41.680 that unless we oust

00:50:42.700 the president for that,

00:50:43.900 we will never have

00:50:44.620 a legitimate president again.

00:50:45.740 I say the opposite.

00:50:46.640 If we do oust

00:50:47.320 a president for that,

00:50:48.180 we'll never have

00:50:48.620 a legitimate president again.

00:50:49.760 We will have

00:50:50.240 congressional supremacy

00:50:51.320 and our founders

00:50:52.380 would be rolling over

00:50:53.320 in their graves.

00:50:55.520 Luckily though,

00:50:56.520 luckily,

00:50:57.140 and I really count

00:50:58.160 this as a great blessing

00:50:59.020 for our country,

00:51:01.120 the conservatives

00:51:01.760 are fighting back

00:51:02.700 at the DOJ,

00:51:05.580 in the culture,

00:51:06.860 at the White House,

00:51:08.160 at home and abroad.

00:51:09.560 We're not taking it

00:51:10.780 lying down anymore.

00:51:12.980 A very important

00:51:14.200 political maxim.

00:51:15.560 If you come at the king,

00:51:17.380 you best not miss.

00:51:18.360 The left missed.

00:51:19.680 Now they're going to face

00:51:20.620 the consequences.

00:51:21.480 That's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 11, 2019

Ep. 464 - You Come At The King, You Best Not Miss

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