The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 472 - Splattering Suleimani

00:00:00.000 President Trump responded to Iranian attacks on U.S. servicemen and diplomats last Thursday

00:00:06.000 by splattering Iran's top military official all over the Baghdad airport.

00:00:10.800 We will examine the brilliant geopolitical strategy behind the droning,

00:00:15.320 and we will attempt to explain why the left is so upset over the death of the world's most notorious terrorist.

00:00:22.180 Then, speaking of killing it, Ricky Gervais absolutely slays at the Golden Globes.

00:00:27.340 A new poll shows Republicans' dilemma looking ahead to 2024,

00:00:31.340 and the movie 1917, Big Golden Globes winner, highlights a major problem with our culture.

00:00:36.840 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:36.660 All right. So, you know, the big news is Soleimani, President Trump ordered a strike that killed Iranians, top military official.

00:02:45.720 We actually have here at the Michael Knowles show, exclusive footage of President Trump ordering the drone attack that killed Qasem Soleimani.

00:02:55.440 What?

00:02:56.980 They got the shipment.

00:02:58.580 What?

00:02:59.260 They got the whole shipment. 1.00

00:03:01.220 I want that son of a bitch dead. 1.00

00:03:03.040 I want him dead. 1.00

00:03:03.980 I want him dead. 1.00

00:03:04.820 I'm kidding. 1.00

00:03:05.720 What am I, alone in this world?

00:03:06.820 Did I ask you what you're trying to do?

00:03:08.420 Did I ask you what you're trying to do?

00:03:09.700 Please.

00:03:11.680 I want you to get this where he breathes.

00:03:13.660 I want you to find this Nancy boy, Elliot Ness. 1.00

00:03:15.740 I want him dead. 1.00

00:03:16.740 I want his family dead. 1.00

00:03:18.300 I want his house burnt to the ground. 1.00

00:03:19.940 I want to go to the middle of the night. 1.00

00:03:20.780 I want to piss out his ass. 1.00

00:03:21.720 Wow, harrowing footage. 1.00

00:03:24.420 I'm really glad that the Daily Wire's investigative journalists could get in there and so that we can bring that kind of investigation to you.

00:03:32.420 This was a great attack.

00:03:34.260 This was a really great retaliation.

00:03:37.180 There is some disagreement over this, especially on the left, but even in small slivers of the isolationist right, this was a fantastic decision by President Trump.

00:03:50.380 On the foreign policy front, it's probably the best move he's made yet, though he's had other really great moves that were unconventional, unexpected, unpredicted.

00:04:00.500 Every objection to this, every objection to this is wrong.

00:04:05.000 Rarely are decisions so clearly right in foreign policy, and this is one of them.

00:04:10.520 And I hate it that Trump is being criticized for it because he made a great call.

00:04:14.760 What was so great about the killing of Qasem Soleimani?

00:04:19.300 You need two things in foreign affairs.

00:04:23.480 Probably the two most important advantages that you can have in international relations are unpredictability and deterrence.

00:04:32.060 And in one fell swoop, President Trump reinstituted both of those in U.S. policy abroad.

00:04:41.880 This attack was absolutely perfect in its asymmetry.

00:04:46.780 Don't forget, Iran has been attacking us, certainly for the entire Trump administration, and back into the Obama administration, and back into the Bush administration. 0.93

00:04:55.380 This has been going on for decades.

00:04:57.520 And just in the Trump administration, Iran shoots down a U.S. drone.

00:05:02.820 You remember that?

00:05:03.380 Just a few months ago, Trump does not respond.

00:05:07.640 Trump called off an attack, reportedly, because he realized that a number of people were going to die,

00:05:13.600 and he felt that it was not worth it to kill those people or to risk escalating some kind of conflict over a drone, even though it was a very expensive drone.

00:05:23.080 Then, Iran launches an attack on Saudi oil fields.

00:05:27.040 That was back in September.

00:05:29.880 President Trump does not respond.

00:05:33.060 He is not conducting a foreign policy that is this exactly symmetrical tit-for-tat, not how it's going to happen.

00:05:39.440 Then, Iran kills an American contractor in Iraq and attacks the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to try to create a Benghazi situation for President Trump.

00:05:50.060 And when Iran does that, Trump kills their commander-in-chief. 0.91

00:05:54.800 Two seconds. 0.99

00:05:55.900 Just done.

00:05:57.380 That kind of asymmetry is exactly what you want in a coherent foreign policy.

00:06:05.200 Soleimani was huge.

00:06:08.600 Now, he's just sort of paint on the walls of the Baghdad airport, but he was huge.

00:06:12.860 Soleimani was so big that I knew who he was before we killed him. 0.69

00:06:17.300 I don't know a whole lot of Iranian officials, okay?

00:06:19.960 Most people don't.

00:06:21.360 And yet, we had heard of this guy because he was so important and probably the most notorious terrorist in the world.

00:06:27.260 Certainly the most notorious terrorist since al-Baghdadi was killed.

00:06:30.680 In some ways, Soleimani was worse, though, because Soleimani was a terrorist.

00:06:34.660 He was directing terrorist operations.

00:06:36.620 He was guiding actual full-on terrorism.

00:06:39.780 But he also had a role in a nation state, which is Iran.

00:06:45.480 This is what makes Iran so dangerous in the world, is they funnel terrorism, right? 1.00

00:06:50.460 They're the number one state sponsors of terror, but they're also a nation state. 0.57

00:06:54.380 They've had, for now 40, 50 years, one foot in the world order, one foot outside of the world order.

00:07:00.040 That's why they're so destabilizing.

00:07:01.500 This sends an important message, not just to Iran, not just to our adversaries in the Middle East.

00:07:09.860 It sends an important message to North Korea. 0.88

00:07:11.940 It sends an important message to China. 0.69

00:07:13.840 It says we're going to back up our tough talk with action, and you're never going to be able to guess when that will happen.

00:07:20.320 Because you could shoot down our very expensive drone.

00:07:22.760 Maybe we don't do anything.

00:07:23.960 You can burn down a Saudi oil field.

00:07:26.240 Maybe we won't do anything.

00:07:27.680 You can take a British ship hostage.

00:07:29.820 Maybe we won't do anything. 0.71

00:07:31.020 You can attack our embassy. 0.99

00:07:33.380 Maybe we'll kill your top military official, and you'll have no idea when that will happen. 0.98

00:07:39.020 You have to back up tough talk with action sometimes. 0.93

00:07:43.880 That's how you keep credibility.

00:07:46.240 So Trump tweeted at Iran after the embassy attack.

00:07:49.760 He tweeted at them and said, cut it out, guys.

00:07:52.780 We're pretty serious here.

00:07:54.480 And the Ayatollah responded.

00:07:56.040 Ayatollah Khamenei said, there's nothing you can do.

00:07:59.440 There is nothing you can do.

00:08:00.740 And that's been Iran's strategy since the revolution. 0.78

00:08:04.360 So that's been Iran's strategy since the 70s. 0.98

00:08:06.780 Play both sides of the world order.

00:08:08.400 Keep one foot in, one foot out.

00:08:10.240 Have the threat of global terrorism.

00:08:13.240 Have the threat of gaining nuclear weapons.

00:08:15.740 And the whole rest of the world will back off, including the United States, the most powerful country in the history of the world.

00:08:22.260 This is why it's so important not to let Iran get nuclear weapons. 0.69

00:08:25.400 It's because these guys do not play by the rules.

00:08:28.100 They don't play by any semblance of the rules.

00:08:30.540 And so the Ayatollah says, you can't do anything.

00:08:34.260 Trump says, yeah, we're going to do something.

00:08:36.440 There are a number of objections to President Trump's action.

00:08:40.340 They are all wrong.

00:08:41.500 So let's begin.

00:08:42.300 Let's just go very quickly through all the objections.

00:08:44.260 First one is Trump is moving us closer to war with Iran.

00:08:47.920 This is an objection that has some currency on both the left and the right.

00:08:52.440 Tucker Carlson on Fox News is voicing this objection.

00:08:56.400 Bernie Sanders on the left voicing the exact same objection.

00:09:00.060 Here's Bernie.

00:09:00.460 Yesterday, President Trump ordered the assassination of a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, in Iraq, along with the leader of an Iraqi militia.

00:09:15.940 This is a dangerous escalation that brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East, which could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars and lead to even more death, more conflict, more displacement in that already highly volatile region of the world.

00:09:44.540 Tucker Carlson said almost exactly the same thing on Fox.

00:09:48.520 And I really like Tucker, but both he and Bernie are wrong here.

00:09:53.080 They're not just wrong that this will bring us closer to war with Iran. 0.93

00:09:59.780 They're exactly wrong because this kind of response, if anything, is greatly reducing the prospect of war with Iran.

00:10:09.220 How is that possible?

00:10:10.220 Ronald Reagan knew how this was possible, which is that you get peace through strength.

00:10:17.900 You get peace through deterrence.

00:10:20.420 You get peace by the credible threat of violence.

00:10:24.700 That is the way you don't get peace by rolling over.

00:10:28.000 Okay.

00:10:28.200 In just the past few weeks, Iran has killed the American contractor, attacked our embassy in Baghdad.

00:10:34.320 The guy that we just killed, Soleimani, is responsible for the deaths of over 600 American servicemen.

00:10:38.820 They took our sailors hostage under Obama.

00:10:42.260 Iran started this. 1.00

00:10:43.680 In war, your enemies get a say.

00:10:46.620 You don't get to determine whether you're at war.

00:10:49.380 In part, you get to determine it.

00:10:50.980 I mean, you get to determine your response.

00:10:53.260 But your enemies who attack you get a say.

00:10:55.680 And Iran has been attacking us for years now. 0.74

00:10:58.260 So the question is, what is more likely to bring us closer to war? 0.71

00:11:02.300 Rolling over and letting them do whatever they want and kill as many American servicemen as they want?

00:11:06.600 Or responding, sometimes, asymmetrically, unpredictably, to those attacks? 0.72

00:11:14.380 Obviously, it is the latter.

00:11:16.500 Trump understands this.

00:11:17.840 Ronald Reagan understood this.

00:11:19.400 There is no choice between peace and war.

00:11:22.620 Only between fight and surrender.

00:11:24.880 And a national policy of strength is much more likely to deter future violence than a national policy of weakness and isolation.

00:11:33.100 Ronald Reagan, in his most famous speech, perhaps ever, the Time for Choosing speech, put it in precisely those terms.

00:11:40.420 Now, let's set the record straight.

00:11:42.380 There's no argument over the choice between peace and war.

00:11:45.520 But there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace.

00:11:48.860 And you can have it in the next second.

00:11:51.020 Surrender.

00:11:51.460 What Trump has done is exactly Reagan-esque.

00:12:16.840 You know, there are not perfect parallels between Trump and Reagan.

00:12:21.080 They're their own men.

00:12:22.040 They behave very differently.

00:12:23.380 They speak very differently.

00:12:25.020 And yet, it seems so clear, time and again, that Trump is learning from Reagan.

00:12:31.520 He's emulating Reagan.

00:12:32.800 He stole Reagan's campaign theme, Make America Great Again.

00:12:37.080 Reagan's theme was, Let's Make America Great Again.

00:12:40.300 And Trump, in his Trumpian way, dropped the let's.

00:12:42.540 It just becomes an imperative command.

00:12:44.100 Make America great again.

00:12:45.280 But in so many ways, Trump is learning from Reagan.

00:12:48.200 And nowhere is that clearer than right here.

00:12:50.240 There are a number of other objections, including, and this is the one that is probably the 0.99

00:12:54.440 stupidest, the objection that if you have never served in the military, if you are a 0.98

00:12:59.000 civilian, then you cannot support the policy of responding to Iranian attacks. 1.00

00:13:04.760 We will get to why that one is so dumb and why the left puts it forward all the time. 0.95

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00:14:42.220 So a few more objections to this policy.

00:14:45.360 The first objection, or the second objection rather, that the previous policy of appeasement

00:14:50.320 was working so well.

00:14:51.460 That the policy of laying off Iran, give them pallets of cash, thank them for returning our 1.00

00:14:57.720 sailors rather that they take hostage, give them the path to a nuclear weapon, never do

00:15:03.420 anything to upset the Iranians. 0.96

00:15:05.660 We sure wouldn't want this ridiculous country in the Middle East that was taken through violent 0.96

00:15:10.440 revolution in the 70s. 0.84

00:15:11.620 We wouldn't want them to be angry at us, please.

00:15:13.520 So that, was that policy working very well?

00:15:15.740 No, not at all.

00:15:17.340 They're attacking us everywhere.

00:15:18.940 They're the largest state sponsor of terror.

00:15:21.620 They are killing our servicemen, hundreds of them at a clip.

00:15:26.260 Obviously that policy, not very good.

00:15:28.700 Perhaps we should try a new policy.

00:15:30.120 So much of the Trump era was basically saying, hey, those policies under Obama, many of the

00:15:35.840 policies under Bush, they weren't working that well.

00:15:37.840 Let's try something different.

00:15:39.000 Well, now we're trying something different and I suspect it's going to work a lot better.

00:15:42.840 Then there is the objection.

00:15:44.040 You hear this from, mostly from the left, occasionally from isolationists on the right.

00:15:48.460 You hear, if you've never served in the military, if you are a civilian, then you cannot support

00:15:56.900 responding to Iran's acts of war.

00:16:00.620 Say, yeah, if you're going to support responding asymmetrically occasionally to Iran's acts of 0.94

00:16:06.340 war, you need to go on a list.

00:16:07.880 If you're a civilian, you can't have an opinion on foreign policy. 1.00

00:16:11.560 That is obviously extremely stupid. 1.00

00:16:14.580 Why? 1.00

00:16:16.300 Well, for one, our founding fathers thought that argument was very stupid. 0.99

00:16:20.940 That's why they gave civilians control of foreign policy. 0.99

00:16:25.560 Our constitution gives civilians control of foreign policy and it gives civilians control 1.00

00:16:31.160 of the military.

00:16:32.200 So you can reject the argument right off the bat.

00:16:35.600 But why does the left make this argument?

00:16:37.800 Does the left make this argument because they're so supportive of our troops?

00:16:40.500 I don't think so.

00:16:41.780 I remember the Iraq war.

00:16:43.200 Okay.

00:16:43.360 I remember the way the left spoke during the Iraq war.

00:16:45.560 I don't believe that it's because of their great support for the United States military

00:16:51.120 and funding of our military and growing our military.

00:16:53.720 I don't think it's that.

00:16:54.900 The real reason they do it is because civilians account for 99% of the population, right?

00:16:59.740 We live at a time right now in America where 1% serve in the military.

00:17:02.920 So when you say that if you are a civilian, you cannot have an opinion on foreign policy,

00:17:08.900 you immediately shut up 99% of the population, which is what the left has been trying to do

00:17:13.800 since the beginning.

00:17:14.700 And they don't even really mean it.

00:17:16.200 They don't even really mean that you can't have an opinion on this response by killing

00:17:20.380 Soleimani if you've never served in the military.

00:17:23.140 What they really mean is you can't support it.

00:17:25.820 You're not allowed to support Trump.

00:17:26.980 You're not allowed to disagree with us, the left, if you are a civilian, 99% of the population

00:17:32.960 not allowed to agree, disagree with us.

00:17:35.060 That is obviously absurd.

00:17:37.540 And then the final objection, people say that Trump is starting a war with Iran to help him

00:17:42.040 politically.

00:17:43.840 First of all, he didn't start anything with Iran.

00:17:46.440 Iran started this. 1.00

00:17:47.920 Okay.

00:17:48.140 They started this years ago and they've been ramping up their attacks.

00:17:51.520 But moreover, there is no reason to think that some prolonged conflict with Iran would

00:17:57.400 help Trump politically.

00:17:58.820 Americans are tired of war.

00:18:01.000 Specifically, we're tired of war in the Middle East.

00:18:04.600 So I don't know why you, you would think that this would help him politically, except that

00:18:10.120 it is, right?

00:18:11.020 His approval numbers are increasing.

00:18:13.200 Since this strike, his approval numbers have been going up.

00:18:16.140 Why is that?

00:18:17.080 Is that because Americans want a conflict with Iran?

00:18:20.840 No, not at all.

00:18:21.860 It's in spite of that.

00:18:23.100 I think the real reason that his numbers are improving is the entire domestic political 0.92

00:18:28.340 angle here, which is that the left is responding in a ridiculous and absurd way.

00:18:34.600 The left is defending Soleimani. 0.75

00:18:37.820 They're literally defending Soleimani.

00:18:40.080 The left is extraordinarily upset over the killing of the world's top terrorist.

00:18:46.140 I couldn't possibly wish as a right winger, as a conservative, I could not possibly wish

00:18:52.480 for a better response from the left to this killing.

00:18:56.540 When will the left get the memo that defending terrorists who kill over 600 American servicemen

00:19:04.060 is not a great electoral strategy?

00:19:06.780 I don't think they're getting that memo because they have Trump derangement syndrome.

00:19:09.320 The left is defending Soleimani.

00:19:11.780 I kid you not.

00:19:12.700 The mainstream media kicked it off.

00:19:14.280 The Washington Post referred to Soleimani in their coverage of his killing as, quote,

00:19:21.260 a revered military leader.

00:19:25.280 Revered military leader.

00:19:27.320 This is only slightly better than when Trump killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,

00:19:32.620 and the Washington Post referred to him as an austere religious scholar, world's most notorious terrorist.

00:19:38.180 New York Times reporter then decided to one-up the Washington Post by, in the wake of Soleimani's

00:19:45.440 killing, posting a video of him reciting poetry.

00:19:52.160 How is that news?

00:19:53.720 How is it news that the world's worst terrorist who just got iced once read a poem?

00:20:00.040 That's not news at all.

00:20:01.540 What it shows is that they have sympathy for this guy, and they have antipathy for the American

00:20:07.040 president.

00:20:08.900 It'd be like on, on VE day in 1945, at the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, the big 0.55

00:20:17.940 story being pushed by the New York Times on 1945 Twitter is Hitler's paintings.

00:20:24.260 Look at what a great artist he was.

00:20:26.300 Look at, he's revered.

00:20:27.520 Look at, revered German leader.

00:20:29.680 Peter, killed in a bunker.

00:20:32.360 For, look at his wonderful paintings.

00:20:34.220 I mean, that's basically the media response to the killing of Soleimani.

00:20:38.360 Not just the media, though.

00:20:39.520 You've got Colin Kaepernick, who I guess at this point is just a member of the media.

00:20:42.720 It's not like he's a professional athlete or anything.

00:20:44.400 He tweeted out, quote, America has always sanctioned and besieged black and brown bodies, both at

00:20:53.760 home and abroad.

00:20:55.620 America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism to enforce its policing

00:21:01.460 and plundering of the non-white world. 1.00

00:21:04.080 So what Colin Kaepernick is doing here is making common cause with Soleimani. 0.99

00:21:08.100 He doesn't see himself and Soleimani as different because he's some schmucky, dumb football player, 0.99

00:21:19.140 former football player, and Soleimani is a murdering terrorist. 0.99

00:21:24.260 No, he sees them as similar because they have a similar skin color. 0.85

00:21:30.840 That's what he's saying.

00:21:32.080 He's saying America is sanctioning and besieging black and brown bodies, both at home and abroad.

00:21:36.160 But it's the same thing.

00:21:38.380 The horrible oppression that I, Colin Kaepernick, have felt, I, multi-millionaire Colin Kaepernick,

00:21:43.520 who's made more money since I protested the American flag in the NFL than I ever made actually playing football,

00:21:52.180 that that kind of oppression that I feel is exactly the same kind of oppression that poor old Qasem Soleimani felt. 1.00

00:21:58.680 Obviously a very, very stupid idea. 1.00

00:22:01.540 This is what ideology does to your brain. 1.00

00:22:03.220 This is what racial identity politics does to your brain.

00:22:06.160 Is it causes you to make common cause with terrorists.

00:22:11.120 Wasn't just Kaepernick though.

00:22:13.220 AOC was so angry.

00:22:15.120 She was so upset.

00:22:15.740 She accused Trump of war crimes for killing a terrorist.

00:22:18.580 By the way, just again, I want to reiterate.

00:22:20.980 I make this point every so often, every time this objection comes up.

00:22:25.360 Killing terrorists, it's not a war crime.

00:22:28.800 It's not a violation of the Geneva Convention.

00:22:30.820 Torturing terrorists, it's not a violation of the Geneva Convention.

00:22:34.620 If anything, it is a support of the Geneva Convention.

00:22:39.520 The Geneva Convention protections, all of the kind of protections we have for lawful combatants in war,

00:22:46.560 explicitly exclude terrorists.

00:22:49.420 Why?

00:22:50.660 Because the whole purpose of the Geneva Convention is to protect civilians in time of war.

00:22:56.380 But terrorists don't protect civilians.

00:22:59.240 They target civilians.

00:23:01.320 Guys like Soleimani, who play both sides of it, the nation state side, the lawful combatant, uniformed soldier in a time of war side,

00:23:07.060 and the funding terrorism everywhere side, are targeting civilians.

00:23:12.540 And so if you extend those kind of protections to people who target civilians,

00:23:16.580 you undermine the entire purpose of those protections.

00:23:20.800 I would not expect AOC to know that, and she doesn't.

00:23:23.780 So I know she watches this show, listens to this show.

00:23:26.540 Now you understand.

00:23:28.380 Ilhan Omar, same thing.

00:23:29.640 She was outraged.

00:23:30.700 That's the word that Ilhan Omar used to describe the killing of the world's top terrorist.

00:23:34.540 And then by far the craziest one, Rose McGowan, who is an actress, I take it. 0.54

00:23:41.100 She became very popular during the Me Too movement as one of the Me Too victims.

00:23:46.900 She tweeted out with a bizarre gif of the Iranian flag that had a couple emojis on it.

00:23:53.440 She tweeted out, quote,

00:23:55.020 Dear Iran, the USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people.

00:24:00.400 52% of us humbly apologize.

00:24:02.860 We want peace with your nation.

00:24:04.540 We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime.

00:24:08.540 We do not know how to escape.

00:24:10.620 Please do not kill us.

00:24:12.280 Hashtag Soleimani.

00:24:15.120 This is what the left believes.

00:24:17.660 Okay, this is what the left believes.

00:24:19.060 They're upset when you disrespect the flag of Iran, of the mullahs in Iran,

00:24:23.280 and they celebrate when you disrespect the flag of the United States of America during NFL games.

00:24:28.560 She believes, this is what the left believes, that 52% of Americans apologize to Iran. 0.76

00:24:36.940 We should just killed American citizens, just killed American contractors, just killed American servicemen, tried to attack our embassy. 0.89

00:24:44.320 That 52%, the majority of Americans, support Iran and oppose Donald Trump. 1.00

00:24:51.140 That's what they believe.

00:24:52.940 Rose McGowan has since apologized.

00:24:54.620 But I think it was just, I hate to question her motives.

00:25:01.460 I suspect she still believes those things.

00:25:03.760 I think it was an apology of convenience.

00:25:06.100 The Trump derangement syndrome is so bad, the left is now defending Iranian terrorists who've killed hundreds of Americans. 0.99

00:25:12.600 This has almost become comical, all right?

00:25:14.880 Trump has done this for years now.

00:25:17.260 He trolled the Democrats into opposing the American flag and mourning for terrorists.

00:25:22.120 Ted Cruz right now in the Senate is introducing a resolution to praise the Soleimani mission.

00:25:26.560 Why is he doing this?

00:25:27.320 It should be obvious.

00:25:28.140 100% of senators should support this resolution, but they won't.

00:25:31.720 He's putting them in a very tight bind because by praising the mission, they have to support Donald Trump.

00:25:37.320 And they hate Trump so much that they're going to defend Soleimani.

00:25:39.580 That aside, all of that aside, this was a really great move, puts Iran in a terrible position. 0.71

00:25:45.520 Now Iran is going to retaliate, but how can they? 0.91

00:25:48.880 How are they, how are they going to really be able to retaliate?

00:25:51.640 They've already been attacking us steadily for years and increasingly.

00:25:55.960 And they obviously wanted to ramp this up during an election year.

00:25:58.740 There were going to be more attacks.

00:26:00.820 Soleimani was planning more attacks, reportedly.

00:26:03.800 So how are they going to respond now?

00:26:06.040 Previously, they knew that the U.S. wasn't going to do anything because we were so afraid of,

00:26:09.580 of any further conflict with Iran.

00:26:12.560 Then Trump kills their top military official.

00:26:14.960 So how are they going to respond?

00:26:16.080 Maybe they'll attack Israel. 0.97

00:26:17.420 Maybe they'll try to attack an American base. 0.87

00:26:19.960 If they plan anything really big though, they're, they're in a position now where

00:26:24.300 the U.S. could glass their country practically.

00:26:27.860 I mean, they could glass the political leadership of the country, the mullahs. 0.98

00:26:31.920 Trump tweeted this out.

00:26:32.880 He said, Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for 0.82

00:26:37.540 ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American and badly wounded

00:26:41.360 many others.

00:26:41.920 Not to mention all the people he'd killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of

00:26:45.880 Iranian protesters.

00:26:46.820 He was already attacking our embassy and preparing for additional hits in other locations.

00:26:50.840 Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. 1.00

00:26:54.360 Let this serve as a warning that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, we have targeted

00:27:00.020 52 Iranian sites representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago, some

00:27:07.100 at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture.

00:27:10.140 And those targets and Iran itself, all caps, classic Trump, will be hit very fast and very

00:27:15.460 hard.

00:27:15.700 The USA wants no more threats.

00:27:18.820 Why do I trust this guy to conduct foreign policy?

00:27:22.360 Well, as of today, he's the only president not to start a war since 1988.

00:27:29.940 Trump shares equality with Reagan, which is talking tough.

00:27:34.640 They talk tough differently, but they both talk tough.

00:27:36.800 Ronald Reagan was asked his theory on the Cold War.

00:27:39.080 After decades of detente, Ronald Reagan said, here's my theory on the Cold War.

00:27:42.880 We win, they lose.

00:27:44.180 Ronald Reagan one time was doing a mic test on the radio and he said, I've just signed

00:27:48.940 a law that will permanently abolish the Soviet Union.

00:27:53.040 The bombing begins in five minutes.

00:27:54.620 This was a joke, but it went on high alert.

00:27:57.560 All right, Ronald Reagan talked tough.

00:27:58.920 They called him a cowboy.

00:28:01.560 He knew, Trump knows, that the way to prevent war is to be unpredictable and credible in the

00:28:08.080 use of force.

00:28:09.480 Trump just did it.

00:28:10.880 My hat goes off to him.

00:28:12.020 But Soleimani was not the most brutal attack of the weekend.

00:28:17.060 Not by a long shot.

00:28:18.480 Actually, even more brutal than Trump's droning of Qasem Soleimani were Ricky Gervais' attacks

00:28:25.440 on Hollywood at the Golden Globes.

00:28:27.820 They were absolutely magnificent.

00:28:29.820 We will get to them in just a second.

00:28:31.260 Then we will get to what all of this means for 2024.

00:28:36.020 Not just 2020, but looking ahead to 2024.

00:28:38.180 And finally, we go all the way from World War III to World War I to discuss 1917, one

00:28:45.640 big at the Golden Globes.

00:28:46.680 And it expresses something very broken in our culture.

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00:29:10.380 Far more cold-blooded, far more brutal than the killing of Soleimani were Ricky Gervais'

00:29:29.720 attacks on Hollywood last night at the Golden Globes.

00:29:32.240 The Golden Globes opening up award season here in Hollywood.

00:29:36.320 Award season is so irrelevant these days that I didn't even know it was happening.

00:29:44.700 I forgot.

00:29:46.520 I have worked professionally in show business.

00:29:49.580 I live in Hollywood.

00:29:51.220 I am right here at the center of it.

00:29:53.320 And I forgot that it was going on.

00:29:54.900 I didn't know until yesterday when someone said, oh, you know the Golden Globes is on?

00:29:57.960 I said, oh, really?

00:29:58.640 Okay, who cares?

00:30:00.080 That is how out of touch these people are.

00:30:02.280 They decided to become relevant this year that the Golden Globes was going to go vegan.

00:30:06.880 So they served dinner at this particular awards show, and they was going to go completely

00:30:10.580 vegan to help the environment because that's the way that they're going to finally turn

00:30:14.620 their failing ratings around and relate to the American people.

00:30:18.320 No, probably not.

00:30:19.860 So Ricky Gervais gets up there.

00:30:22.020 He's hosted this a number of times in the past.

00:30:24.560 He said this would be his last time hosting, and Ricky Gervais didn't care.

00:30:28.360 He went for the necks of Hollywood, and he, wow, I just realized the pun there because

00:30:35.720 he opened up the night with an Epstein joke.

00:30:37.780 So that pun was not intended, but all of Ricky Gervais' attacks were intended.

00:30:44.080 He said, I don't care, I'm leaving nothing on the table.

00:30:46.700 And I think his monologue was pretty much the only shot that the awards season has to relate

00:30:55.100 in any way to the American people.

00:30:56.400 It was great, and it was great at the expense of the audience in the room, the Hollywood

00:31:00.900 stars, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

00:31:03.060 He opens the night with a joke about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:31:07.440 Spoiler alert, season two is on the way, so in the end, he obviously didn't kill himself,

00:31:12.780 just like Jeffrey Epstein. 0.99

00:31:15.480 Shut up. 1.00

00:31:16.500 I know he's your friend, but I don't care. 1.00

00:31:21.880 You had to make your own way here in your own plane, didn't you?

00:31:24.720 Oh my gosh, what a great one too.

00:31:28.220 He opens up with the Jeffrey Epstein joke, right?

00:31:30.700 That would have been enough.

00:31:33.040 But Hollywood can't laugh about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:31:35.440 They didn't laugh.

00:31:36.200 They kind of stayed a little quiet.

00:31:37.480 They kind of groaned, which set up Gervais for the actual punchline of his joke, which 0.98

00:31:42.780 is, oh, shut up. 0.85

00:31:44.100 I know you're all friends with the guy. 0.99

00:31:45.340 Because they are.

00:31:45.820 They are all friends with the guy.

00:31:47.020 And they're all friends with all the Me Too perpetrators. 0.98

00:31:50.060 And they're friends with all of these sex criminals. 0.86

00:31:52.580 And they pretend that they're not. 0.99

00:31:53.780 And they clutch their pearls.

00:31:54.940 And they pretend to be so nice and wonderful and high and mighty.

00:31:57.200 He says, yeah, you had to take your own plane here tonight, didn't you?

00:32:00.560 That one finally got the light.

00:32:01.820 It's so awkward.

00:32:03.300 It was so brutal.

00:32:04.640 And the attacks only got harsher from there. 0.94

00:32:07.900 He went after every single person in that room for hypocrisy.

00:32:11.900 And at many points, you could pretty much hear a pin drop.

00:32:15.920 A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing made by a company

00:32:21.840 that runs sweatshops in China.

00:32:23.520 So, well, you say you're woke, but the companies you work for, I mean, unbelievable.

00:32:28.000 Apple, Amazon, Disney.

00:32:30.080 If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?

00:32:33.880 So, if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech,

00:32:40.440 right?

00:32:40.620 You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.

00:32:43.640 You know nothing about the real world.

00:32:45.620 Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

00:32:48.540 So, if you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God,

00:32:54.860 and...

00:32:55.100 That little bit that we had to bleep out there at the end is where Ricky Gervais told people

00:33:03.420 where they could go after they had received their award.

00:33:07.240 It was a wonderful spectacle.

00:33:08.860 It was great.

00:33:09.660 Ricky Gervais is an international treasure.

00:33:12.120 Why?

00:33:12.520 Because he showed the gap between Hollywood and the American people.

00:33:17.580 He showed the gap between the Hollywood foreign press, the international press, the big makers

00:33:23.980 of culture, and the consumers of culture.

00:33:27.460 And you can't deny that gap because these awards shows have been tanking in the ratings for years

00:33:33.760 now, every single year.

00:33:36.080 Hollywood cannot even laugh at an Epstein joke. 0.90

00:33:40.640 A joke about an international sex trafficking criminal, pedophile, everything, everything 0.96

00:33:47.520 about the guy. 0.82

00:33:49.100 They can't laugh at it because they knew him, because they were friends with him.

00:33:52.280 They don't understand.

00:33:54.820 Now, the more interesting level of analysis here is whether or not Ricky Gervais was brave

00:34:02.820 to do this set.

00:34:04.640 And the conventional wisdom is it was so brave of Ricky Gervais to do this set in front of

00:34:10.200 Hollywood.

00:34:10.480 Now, in many ways, it was because this will hurt his employment prospects in Hollywood.

00:34:15.260 He was telling these people that they're degenerates to their face, right?

00:34:18.240 It was absolutely hilarious.

00:34:19.520 And in that way, it was courageous to do it.

00:34:22.260 But in another sense, it wasn't brave at all because Ricky Gervais knew, because he's a

00:34:28.080 funny comedian, he knew that the audience would love this, that they would lap this up,

00:34:32.740 that they would say, finally, Ricky Gervais, this guy is so good.

00:34:36.220 This guy gets us.

00:34:39.400 He deserves credit because it really will irritate his employers.

00:34:43.600 But this will make him so much more popular among the audience.

00:34:46.740 The only reason that any person is talking about the Golden Globes today is because Ricky

00:34:51.600 Gervais had this great killer set.

00:34:55.120 And looking ahead on the political scene to 2020, it shows you how absolutely worthless celebrity

00:35:01.640 endorsements are.

00:35:02.640 The left, they're always shocked.

00:35:03.840 They say, oh, Hillary Clinton got all the endorsements of Hollywood, all these big time

00:35:10.960 movie stars and TV stars.

00:35:12.180 How did she lose?

00:35:13.280 John Kerry got all the big endorsements.

00:35:15.380 Bruce Springsteen, Puff Daddy, all these guys.

00:35:19.020 How did they lose?

00:35:20.540 Because none of us like Hollywood.

00:35:22.720 We don't like these people.

00:35:24.600 For the ones that are good performers, and there are still good performers in Hollywood,

00:35:28.020 even if they're left wing lunatics, we like watching them perform.

00:35:31.440 And then we want them to shut up because we don't care what they think about politics. 0.94

00:35:37.340 A couple of them have interesting thoughts about politics.

00:35:39.420 A couple of them are very intelligent and actually know what they're talking about.

00:35:42.420 James Woods is a good example.

00:35:43.780 James Woods, great Hollywood star, terrific actor, also very, very intelligent man.

00:35:50.120 But most actors are not intelligent.

00:35:52.720 Some are.

00:35:53.220 Some are not.

00:35:53.640 Ronald Reagan, pretty, pretty intelligent guy.

00:35:55.300 Obviously, won the Cold War, knew something about politics.

00:35:58.260 Most do not.

00:35:59.720 And so for most of them, most of these absolutely empty-headed celebrities, we want them to go

00:36:04.680 out there and perform.

00:36:05.520 We like them when they do that.

00:36:06.840 We don't like them when they yammer on about politics and use the opportunity of accepting

00:36:11.800 golden statues to harangue all of us about how awful we are and how virtuous and wonderful

00:36:17.040 they are.

00:36:17.420 We don't like it.

00:36:19.740 Celebrities, nevertheless, ignored the advice.

00:36:22.580 Michelle Williams, in particular, goes out there.

00:36:26.620 Michelle Williams accepts the Golden Globe and she uses the opportunity in a follow-up

00:36:32.960 to Patricia Arquette a few years ago at the Oscars to make a statement about women voting. 0.94

00:36:40.780 But it was a very unclear statement.

00:36:42.060 She said women need to vote in their self-interest, whatever that means. 1.00

00:36:46.560 Women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest.

00:36:53.120 It's what men have been doing for years.

00:36:57.240 It's what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them. 1.00

00:37:02.900 But don't forget, we are the largest voting body in this country.

00:37:06.640 Let's make it look more like us.

00:37:08.780 The world looks like men, not from my vantage, because most people on earth are women.

00:37:15.300 So it looks like women, I guess. 0.99

00:37:16.620 What does that mean?

00:37:17.240 That doesn't mean anything.

00:37:19.160 And she knows it doesn't mean it.

00:37:20.180 She's kind of working through the incoherence as she's giving the speech.

00:37:24.160 So she says women are the largest voting bloc in this country. 0.99

00:37:26.700 So how come they're not, how come they're not voting for far leftist policies?

00:37:34.400 They need to vote in their own interest.

00:37:35.780 That's why.

00:37:36.160 They are voting in their own interest. 1.00

00:37:37.380 How condescending, how offensive to say that women are just too stupid, except for Hollywood 1.00

00:37:41.460 celebrities. 1.00

00:37:42.020 The average American woman, according to Michelle Williams, is a complete idiot. 1.00

00:37:47.260 But the average Hollywood celebrity is really smart. 1.00

00:37:49.640 That's the only way that you can explain why the average American woman doesn't vote the 1.00

00:37:53.460 way that the average Hollywood celebrity wants them to vote.

00:37:57.100 But she's not really talking about women.

00:37:58.540 She's talking about Hollywood liberals.

00:38:01.200 It's the same thing Colin Kaepernick's doing when he makes common cause with terrorists.

00:38:05.580 Colin Kaepernick is saying in his tweet that black and brown people need to have solidarity

00:38:10.960 with Iranian terrorists, that that's, that's the real solidarity. 0.55

00:38:15.660 But he's, he isn't talking about black or brown voting identity groups.

00:38:21.580 He's talking about radical leftist voting identity groups.

00:38:25.200 Same thing here.

00:38:26.240 Michelle Williams is not talking about the group solidarity of women.

00:38:30.100 She's talking about the group solidarity of Hollywood liberals.

00:38:33.960 And she's pretending that that means women.

00:38:36.900 This was a veering and bizarre speech.

00:38:39.040 You don't really know what she's talking about when it comes to this women's self-interest 1.00

00:38:44.840 issue until you realize that she's talking about abortion in particular. 0.99

00:38:49.500 And what's so perverse about this is that as Michelle Williams gives a speech that comes

00:38:55.440 to just be a big full-throated endorsement of abortion, she's pregnant while she gives it. 1.00

00:39:01.820 I'm grateful for the acknowledgement of the choices I've made.

00:39:04.580 And I'm also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists.

00:39:10.120 Because as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice.

00:39:18.300 I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that

00:39:23.260 happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting

00:39:28.200 all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I had carved

00:39:34.440 with my own hand.

00:39:35.680 And I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:39:43.800 Okay.

00:39:45.540 I suspect what this means is that she has had an abortion.

00:39:49.440 That's what she said.

00:39:50.100 She said, I couldn't have the career that I want. 0.71

00:39:51.860 And I couldn't be really famous and rich if I hadn't killed my child.

00:39:56.780 Maybe that's true. 0.98

00:39:57.920 Maybe she would be less rich and less famous if she had not killed her child. 1.00

00:40:02.140 What makes this so heartbreaking, what makes this so bizarre to the audience is that she's

00:40:08.820 currently pregnant.

00:40:11.200 And so on the one hand, she's saying, we need to support abortion. 1.00

00:40:16.440 We need to support killing babies. 1.00

00:40:17.880 I'm not going to kill my precious baby, but all you poor people should kill your babies 1.00

00:40:22.440 because you're not rich and famous yet. 1.00

00:40:23.860 And then you kill your babies and you get rich and famous. 0.97

00:40:25.920 You sacrifice your children on the altar of career and money and mammon, and then you become 1.00

00:40:31.280 rich and famous and then you don't have to kill your babies anymore. 0.64

00:40:33.740 Then you can keep them. 0.95

00:40:34.880 That's what she's saying.

00:40:36.940 Right?

00:40:37.380 She's saying rich people don't have to, poor people should do that.

00:40:43.260 That's very incoherent. 0.98

00:40:44.520 Why is it okay to kill your baby, some babies, but not other babies? 0.96

00:40:47.040 Why is it okay to kill your baby sometimes, but not other times? 0.96

00:40:50.260 It's not. 0.78

00:40:51.020 And it's why the speech doesn't make any sense and she just keeps going back to bumper stickers

00:40:54.840 like, a woman's right to choose, my choice, I make my own decisions. 1.00

00:41:00.900 Bumper stickers are always wrong, right?

00:41:02.740 These kind of slogans that are distillations of ideology are always wrong.

00:41:08.440 And this is a prime example of that.

00:41:12.340 But it's pretty horrifying when you see the reality of it.

00:41:14.960 And that's why Ricky Gervais was so successful last night.

00:41:19.180 When you present to the American people, pregnant Michelle Williams talking about how it's really 0.92

00:41:25.480 important to kill your baby if you want to get money and fame, and Ricky Gervais, who's 0.98

00:41:30.220 saying you people are degenerates, guess which one the American people are going to go for? 0.99

00:41:35.400 Obviously, Ricky Gervais.

00:41:37.000 Now back to politics in just our last few minutes here.

00:41:38.940 We've talked about the 2020 Democrats enough.

00:41:40.660 There's no real front runner here.

00:41:43.080 Bernie Sanders is bringing in the most money at the moment.

00:41:46.080 Liz Warren is totally losing momentum. 1.00

00:41:47.940 A new poll out from Hill Harris X polling shows that Liz Warren has now dropped down to

00:41:54.080 be tied with Mike Bloomberg at 11% nationally. 0.98

00:41:57.940 That is pathetic. 0.98

00:41:58.740 She was the front runner just recently. 1.00

00:42:01.240 Buttigieg is sort of surging, but he's only popular among white yuppies on the coasts.

00:42:05.800 So that's probably not going to take him very far.

00:42:07.440 And Joe Biden can't remember his own name.

00:42:10.260 So things are not looking great on the Democratic side.

00:42:14.320 There's just nobody, right?

00:42:15.980 There's no clear candidate.

00:42:17.280 There's no clear front runner.

00:42:18.800 However, it's also important to point out, other than Donald Trump, there's nobody really

00:42:23.220 on the Republican side either.

00:42:24.540 There's a new poll out from SurveyMonkey and Axios about the 2024 field.

00:42:29.200 That's way too early to predict what's going to happen in 2024.

00:42:32.200 But what the poll tells us is something important about right now.

00:42:35.640 Well, the poll shows that among the top contenders in 2024, among Republicans being polled, are

00:42:43.080 the Trump family, Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump.

00:42:47.160 You got Pence at 40%.

00:42:48.840 He's leading, especially with older voters.

00:42:51.720 Don Jr. is the clear choice among younger voters, and he's got 29% overall.

00:42:56.020 Then Nikki Haley at 26%.

00:42:57.900 Then Ivanka Trump at 16%.

00:42:59.860 Then Rubio and Pompeo.

00:43:01.340 What this tells us is that the GOP wants an heir to Trump and to Trumpism.

00:43:12.140 They don't want to go back to the way that he used to be.

00:43:14.260 They like Trump.

00:43:16.080 Trump has 95% approval in the GOP right now.

00:43:18.720 So they want an heir to Trump.

00:43:20.140 There is no clear heir to Trump.

00:43:21.940 And so they are literally choosing the heir to Trump, which is Donald Trump Jr.

00:43:26.360 Nothing against Don Jr. or Ivanka.

00:43:30.460 They seem like very nice people.

00:43:32.540 But they have not had a political life outside of being a Trump.

00:43:37.980 So you can't really judge them on the merits of their own political life.

00:43:40.920 We don't really know what they believe or what they would do.

00:43:43.600 The reason that they're so high in the polls right now is because the GOP needs an heir to

00:43:47.980 Trump.

00:43:48.360 And it does not appear that there is one just yet, a political heir.

00:43:52.020 And so that's going to have to be a major priority of conservatives over the next four

00:43:57.100 years.

00:43:57.420 Assuming President Trump gets reelected, they're going to have to figure out who comes next,

00:44:02.840 who fits the mold of Trump.

00:44:04.120 That's an open question right now.

00:44:06.000 Finally, before we go, there was a big surprise last night at the Golden Globes beyond the Ricky

00:44:10.840 Gervais stuff, which was that the movie 1917 won Best Drama.

00:44:15.400 1917 is this very long movie about World War I.

00:44:20.480 I saw it over the weekend.

00:44:23.520 It's not a very good movie, but it is worth seeing, which I think explains the weird Rotten

00:44:29.780 Tomatoes reviews.

00:44:30.860 The movie's got 90% critics review, 95% audience review.

00:44:35.060 So very, very high.

00:44:36.300 And yet, it's not a good movie.

00:44:38.200 And yet, I still liked seeing it.

00:44:40.340 What does that mean?

00:44:41.040 It was directed, co-written, and produced by Sam Mendes.

00:44:43.760 Stars George McKay, who gave a superb performance in it.

00:44:47.200 But the problem with the movie is it's not really about anything.

00:44:52.700 I can't tell you what it's about.

00:44:54.400 I sat through two hours at least of the movie.

00:44:57.580 I don't know what the story is.

00:45:00.440 The movie is more a video game than a movie.

00:45:04.020 It's got these beautiful shots.

00:45:05.840 It's got these amazing moments.

00:45:09.520 You follow this guy like you would follow the protagonist in a video game.

00:45:13.400 And you pretty much never leave him.

00:45:15.760 It's well acted.

00:45:17.120 It's mostly enjoyable.

00:45:18.960 Pretty much enjoyable the whole time.

00:45:20.220 But it's not a movie.

00:45:22.000 It doesn't really have a purpose beyond showing how skillfully produced it was.

00:45:29.280 It doesn't say anything.

00:45:30.920 It doesn't really convey any meaning.

00:45:35.940 It's just really beautifully shot.

00:45:39.720 And keeps your attention.

00:45:41.400 Because it's kind of like moving through a video game.

00:45:44.020 But there's no narrative.

00:45:45.000 This is a major problem in the culture.

00:45:46.600 Not just for the movies.

00:45:47.700 The movies which have pretty much lost their purpose and have become entirely self-referential.

00:45:52.120 Think about the rise of Quentin Tarantino who only makes movies about movies.

00:45:56.040 Think about all these awards shows which are just about the movie industry.

00:45:59.380 Which are just about how wonderful everyone in movies is.

00:46:04.340 It doesn't convey a narrative.

00:46:06.560 That we have lost the narrative as a culture.

00:46:08.860 We've lost the ability to understand narrative.

00:46:11.020 We've lost faith in narrative.

00:46:12.920 We've lost faith in the idea that life really does have meaning.

00:46:15.220 That there really is a purpose to things.

00:46:17.040 There really is a purpose to our own lives.

00:46:19.760 We've lost...

00:46:21.560 The idiom that you would use is we've lost the narrative.

00:46:25.260 It's no surprise that 1917 won an award.

00:46:29.340 I sort of thought that it might.

00:46:30.700 Even though it's not a great movie.

00:46:31.800 It's not a surprise that we're confused over whether this is good or not.

00:46:35.480 What it means.

00:46:36.200 We're very confused as a culture.

00:46:38.280 The key is going to be retaking the narrative.

00:46:41.060 Reclaiming a sense of objective reality.

00:46:43.120 Reclaiming a sense of purpose.

00:46:45.800 That is a cultural problem.

00:46:47.900 That is a political problem.

00:46:49.120 It looks like right now the political side is leading things.

00:46:52.280 These people, not just in the United States, but around the Western world.

00:46:56.840 Reclaiming their purpose.

00:46:57.980 Reclaiming their meaning as nations.

00:47:00.740 The culture is now going to have to follow suit.

00:47:03.620 It's a little bit of an inversion of that Andrew Breitbart idea that politics is downstream of culture.

00:47:08.920 But of course the line between the two is pretty blurry.

00:47:11.100 They go back and forth pretty often.

00:47:13.460 The culture is going to have to follow suit.

00:47:15.300 Hopefully they get the message from Ricky Gervais and all the rest of us.

00:47:18.680 And they do that because we need to reclaim the narrative.

00:47:23.580 Alright, that's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 06, 2020

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