The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 President Trump's impeachment trial is about to begin, but the most important story of the day

00:00:05.600 is not the Senate charade that will acquit the president. Our political rot runs way deeper,

00:00:11.900 all the way back to the motherland, where Queen Elizabeth is about to deroyl Prince Harry and

00:00:17.300 Meghan Markle. We will examine why that matters. We will examine why with great power comes great

00:00:22.280 responsibility. Then the Women's March flops. Elizabeth Warren continues her months-long

00:00:28.020 campaign collapse, and the New York Times comes out with its presidential endorsements, plural,

00:00:34.600 somehow, because the New York Times doesn't know what a presidential endorsement is. We will examine

00:00:38.560 the dumbest article on the internet today. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is

00:00:42.520 The Michael Knowles Show. There is so much to get to, so we are going to fly through it. We will get

00:00:56.020 to impeachment. We have to get to impeachment. There are details you need to know going into

00:01:00.380 impeachment week. However, the most important story of the day is not impeachment. The more

00:01:06.480 important story is how we got impeachment, how we got this culture of complaint, how we got this

00:01:11.800 culture of entitlement. If you want to understand how we got this shallow news cycle, this shallow

00:01:19.020 politics all the way to impeachment, the most important story is all the way across the Atlantic

00:01:24.440 in the United Kingdom. The most important story is about the artist formerly known as Prince Harry

00:01:30.420 and Meghan Markle. The most important story is how with great privilege comes great responsibility.

00:01:36.940 So the Sussexes, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, they announced that they're going to leave the royal

00:01:43.740 family in some way. According to the press release they put out, they want to keep all the perks of

00:01:49.440 being royals. They want the nice houses and they want the fancy titles and they want the global

00:01:53.600 celebrity, but they don't want the downside to being royals. They don't want to have to appear at public

00:01:58.000 functions. They don't want to have to give access to the British press when they don't want to. They don't

00:02:03.520 want to be, as one royal insider or commentator said, civil servants with a tiara on. They don't want all of

00:02:11.320 that. Now, they issue this statement. They say they're going to leave the royal family. Queen Elizabeth is

00:02:16.600 totally blindsided by it. They have a big family meeting to hash out how this is going to work

00:02:20.840 and the queen made the right decision, which is to say these royals, Harry and Meghan, cannot keep the

00:02:29.380 perks of the job if they're not going to do the job itself. It's like any millennial who's going to get

00:02:34.880 his first job after college who says, yeah, great, I want that nice paycheck and I want a really cushy

00:02:41.080 corner office with a couch over here, but I'm probably going to, I'm going to roll in maybe 11

00:02:45.680 o'clock and I don't want to do all that like paperwork and stuff. I think I'll come in here,

00:02:50.520 play some video games, maybe take a two hour lunch and then get out of here. Make sure you get that

00:02:56.200 direct deposit so that I don't need to go to the bank because I just want the money to go straight

00:02:59.760 into my wallet. That is what the royals are behaving like. And so Queen Elizabeth said, no,

00:03:05.060 no, no, no, no, no, no, my Diaz, no. They are being stripped of their royal titles. So

00:03:10.100 his royal highness or her royal highness, that's going away. They are going to have to pay back

00:03:15.320 the British public for their taxpayer renovated castle. They're going to lose virtually all of

00:03:22.640 the perks of the job. The liberal media in the US and in the UK are saying that this is about racism.

00:03:30.320 They're saying that actually it's not about the fact that they don't want to do their jobs. They

00:03:34.920 don't want to have any royal duties and they want all the perks. It's really about how much the

00:03:39.840 British people and probably the Americans to hate Meghan Markle because she's black.

00:03:45.740 Of course, many people don't even know that Meghan Markle is is part black because she she looks very

00:03:51.760 fair skinned. But that's of course, the left always wants to claim that racism is the cause of every

00:03:57.720 problem. Meghan Markle's father, from whom she is estranged and who I think she's currently suing or vice

00:04:02.880 versa, said that this is not about racism. What this is really about is this spoiled child

00:04:10.240 tarnishing the royal family. So Meghan Markle's father said, quote,

00:04:14.300 it's disappointing because she actually got every girl's dream. Every young girl wants to become a

00:04:20.760 princess and she got that and now she's tossing that away. It looks like she's tossing that away

00:04:25.180 for money. This is like one of the greatest long living institutions ever referring to the British

00:04:30.500 monarchy. They are destroying it. They are cheapening it. They are making it shabby. And it's

00:04:37.700 it's difficult to disagree with that. She got every girl's dream, right? You imagine that you can are

00:04:43.220 going to be whisked away and marry Prince Charming. Importantly, he's a prince whenever you talk about

00:04:48.740 that. And then she realized she doesn't want the reality of being a princess. She doesn't want the job.

00:04:53.540 She'd rather play a princess on TV. She'd rather work as an actress. She'd rather have her own money and

00:04:59.760 have control over her life, unlike the royals who really don't have a ton of control over their

00:05:03.500 lives. According to a close friend of Meghan Markle who was speaking to the Daily Mail, she said,

00:05:10.240 this is this is the friend, Meghan felt she had to escape because living within the royal confines

00:05:15.440 was soul crushing. Meghan's friend said that that Meghan can now finally breathe since leaving and has free

00:05:22.020 reign over her life again. And that Meghan felt that living within the royal family was a toxic

00:05:27.740 environment and she wanted to leave in part for the benefit of her son. It was it was constraining and

00:05:33.800 now she gets to be in control of her life. She this is the money quote. She felt like she couldn't be the

00:05:40.140 best mother to Archie if she wasn't being her true authentic self. And she felt she couldn't do that

00:05:46.900 within the royal confines. Authenticity, following your true desire. Forget about this duty. Forget about

00:05:53.860 what the palace is foisting on the royals. Forget about what society is foisting on us.

00:06:00.720 We we shouldn't be born with these obligations and these duties. We should just be able to pursue

00:06:05.040 our true authentic selves who we know we are deep, deep down. This is a rot that runs in the UK. It runs

00:06:12.340 in America. It runs all across the West, which is the cult of the self. The idea that my true self

00:06:18.220 is actually just my own individual desires. I am the sum total of my individual desires.

00:06:26.640 Any constraints are bad and therefore we need to push them away. Whether those constraints are moral,

00:06:32.940 there's whether they're sexual, whether they're social, whether they're official, whether they're

00:06:37.260 political, whatever. You got to get rid of the constraints because we need to pursue our own

00:06:41.800 desires. That is a very modern idea of our true selves. That's a very liberal idea of our true

00:06:50.860 selves. The conservative idea, of course, is not that we're just popping into existence as some

00:06:56.240 free-floating atoms out there in the universe and we have all our desires and no one can tell us what to

00:07:01.720 do. The conservative idea is that we're born into a family, in a place, in a time, in a community,

00:07:08.540 in a city, in a state, in a country, and we have obligations. We have bonds of affection and loyalty.

00:07:15.900 We actually do owe people something. Our life is not our own. I didn't create my life. I'm not

00:07:20.540 responsible for popping into this world and I owe something to my parents. I owe something to my

00:07:26.400 community. I owe something to my God and I'm going to try to fulfill those obligations. With privilege

00:07:31.640 comes duty, comes responsibility. And that's true if you're in Buckingham Palace and it's true if you're

00:07:38.280 on the street somewhere in New York. It is a privilege to be alive. It is a privilege to live

00:07:43.680 in this time and in this place and we have an obligation for that. I'll give you another example

00:07:49.400 of wanting the perks without the responsibility. There's a guy who I've tried not to criticize him

00:07:56.640 because clearly he's got a few things, a couple screws loose. I don't know what's going on. He's a

00:08:01.940 blue checkmark named David Leavitt, kind of an anti-Trump tweeter, tweets a lot about politics.

00:08:08.120 He went on a Twitter rampage over the weekend because he was in a Target store and he wanted

00:08:15.880 to buy an electric toothbrush. Electric toothbrushes are expensive, cost what, 50, 100 bucks usually.

00:08:21.760 And he saw that they had a display model that was priced at one cent because you're not going to buy

00:08:27.340 the display model, right? So he saw one cent for the electric toothbrush. He goes, he said, okay,

00:08:31.440 I want to pay one cent for this. And the cashier said, oh, that's obviously a typo. It costs more

00:08:36.400 than one cent for a toothbrush. And he has a meltdown. He posts a picture of this poor girl,

00:08:42.280 her name is Tori. It's just like this young girl working at Target, posts a picture of her on the

00:08:46.920 internet, spreads her face all over to his followers, calls the cops on Target, has an investigation

00:08:53.380 to get to the bottom of this one cent electric toothbrush. You see this a lot with blue check

00:09:00.200 marks. Whenever any blue check mark on Twitter is inconvenienced, they just start complaining

00:09:05.000 about it all the time. I'm sure I've done it too. Everybody does it. That's an abuse of power.

00:09:11.780 You should not do that. Even the social power of having a little blue check mark or having a lot

00:09:16.580 of followers on Twitter or Instagram, there is a responsibility that comes along with that.

00:09:21.320 It's not just about getting discounts and getting retail workers to succumb to your will.

00:09:28.860 There is a social responsibility for how you share information. There's a social responsibility

00:09:33.860 for how you interact with people. The rules are not merely suspended because you have desires.

00:09:41.480 This goes all the way through our presidential race and especially where the rot really lies in

00:09:48.260 America. Obviously, we don't have royals here. It doesn't lie in some palace or castle. It doesn't

00:09:52.420 even primarily lie in D.C. It lies in our media who abuse their power more than anybody. We will get to

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00:11:43.020 to do a quick little roundup on just some of the events that have gone on in D.C., the events that

00:11:48.540 the news are going to be talking about. And then we will see the true rotten corruption of the

00:11:53.800 mainstream media, their absolute abuse of power. So the Women's March happened this weekend. Didn't

00:11:59.860 notice it? Me neither. Nobody went. The thing absolutely collapsed in its attendance. So it was

00:12:05.780 estimated that in 2017, the first year of the Women's March, there were 3.3 to 5.3 million people

00:12:15.680 who turned out in cities around the country. So not just Washington. Washington was probably under a

00:12:20.280 million. But all around the country, there were a bunch of Women's Marches. It may have been the

00:12:25.220 largest single-day protest in U.S. history. The next year, by 2018, those numbers dropped to 1.9 million

00:12:33.100 to 2.6 million. So they dropped by half. In 2019, that dropped to 676,000 to 747,000 estimated.

00:12:44.580 This year, I think it was like a dozen people. I mean, just nobody showed up to this thing. It barely

00:12:50.320 made a blip. There's no coverage of that. Next weekend, we're going to have the March for Life. And

00:12:55.100 there are going to be a lot of people at the March for Life in D.C. I promise you that. There will be

00:12:58.440 a lot of people at the March for Life across the country. The mainstream media don't want to cover

00:13:04.640 it. They would rather focus on events like the Women's March, which really has nothing to do with

00:13:10.140 women per se. It's just all about anti-Trump, anti-conservatism. Here is the kind of caliber

00:13:15.720 of protest you get at the Women's March.

00:13:25.380 Screeching, screaming, ah, F this, F that, getting little kids out there to scream vulgarities and

00:13:31.060 obscenity. F this, F that. Obviously, a dereliction of duty for parents. Obviously, a dereliction of

00:13:37.360 duty and abuse of power from the media who are giving this so much attention. And it's a coarsening of

00:13:41.840 society. It's a society that has never been, there's never been a freer society in the history

00:13:46.280 of the world. There has never been a more equitable, more just society in the history

00:13:50.540 of the world. And we're abusing that power. That, we're abusing that power in our personal

00:13:56.820 behavior. We're abusing it the way that we demonstrate. And we're abusing it in the political

00:14:00.920 process. So we're going to start impeachment this week. The president is going to trial. This is only

00:14:05.540 the third impeachment trial in the history of the United States. We had one in the 19th century,

00:14:10.460 President Johnson. Then we, then Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Then we

00:14:14.620 had Bill Clinton in the nineties. Now we have President Trump. It is increasing. And what's

00:14:19.280 so bizarre about this impeachment trial is in many ways, it's a kind of reversal or a replay

00:14:24.300 of the Clinton impeachment because on President Trump's legal team, you find Ken Starr. Ken Starr

00:14:29.980 was the special prosecutor against Bill Clinton. Now he's defending President Trump. You've got

00:14:36.180 Ken Starr and you've got Alan Dershowitz. So Alan Dershowitz is the Harvard law professor. He doesn't

00:14:43.040 even like Trump politically. He didn't vote for Trump in 2016. He says he's not planning on voting

00:14:48.120 for Trump in 2020, but he is showing up on behalf of the constitution to explain why Democrats are

00:14:55.340 abusing their power and why no impeachable offense has been committed and why this is a threat to our

00:15:01.560 constitutional system. Here's Professor Dershowitz. My role is limited. I'm only going to appear on

00:15:07.220 behalf of the constitution, making the arguments against impeachment based on the constitution.

00:15:13.200 I'm not part of the strategic legal team. I won't be involved in the debate over whether there are

00:15:18.100 witnesses or no witnesses or whether or not the facts come out one way or the other. This is a role

00:15:25.220 I've played before in other cases. I'm a specialist in constitutional law. I've written three books and

00:15:32.580 probably 25 articles on the impeachment clauses of the constitution. So I will appear on Friday,

00:15:38.660 make my argument to the Senate about the constitutional reasons why these two articles of impeachment don't

00:15:45.400 satisfy the criteria. And then I'll answer questions from the senators. But that will be the extent of

00:15:51.020 my role. So Dershowitz is this rare individual in American politics. Didn't used to be so rare,

00:15:59.460 but these days he is. He's a guy who says, I'm going to divorce my legal opinion from my political

00:16:06.100 preferences. Starting in the 1960s, the American left said the personal is the political. So there was

00:16:12.540 no difference between the public and the private. What I personally want and what I can objectively say

00:16:17.220 is true. Alan Dershowitz is the lone dissenter from that. He says, I don't like Trump. I didn't

00:16:23.140 vote for Trump, but I'm standing up for the constitution because we have this wonderful

00:16:27.120 constitutional system here that we are throwing away because we're getting so greedy. We're getting

00:16:32.860 so selfish. We're so self-interested. There's a great irony to this that Nancy Pelosi has foisted this

00:16:39.720 on the country because Nancy Pelosi during the Clinton impeachment talked about how the impeachment

00:16:46.120 of Bill Clinton was all just about the personal grievances of Republicans who hated Clinton and

00:16:50.880 were out to get him. And now she's doing exactly the same thing. Here's Nancy Pelosi then.

00:16:55.920 Right now we have a situation where any and all grievances that anybody ever had with the president

00:17:01.240 are being heaped on and talking about impeachment without even defining what the laws may have been

00:17:07.880 that were broken with applying the facts to them without even defining if even if those laws were

00:17:14.060 broken if that amounts to an impeachable offense. Now let's be clear. What Nancy Pelosi is saying is

00:17:20.780 not true. The case of the Clinton impeachment and the Trump impeachment are not comparable.

00:17:25.940 Whatever you think about the Clinton impeachment and with all the political aspect that all impeachments

00:17:31.800 have, obviously Republicans wanted to get the guy. They didn't like him. However, Bill Clinton clearly

00:17:36.660 committed an impeachable offense. He perjured himself. He lied under oath. He admitted that he lied to the

00:17:43.220 American people. He said, I did not have sexual relations with that woman. And then he had the

00:17:50.880 gall, the temerity when asked about this to say that it depends on what the definition of is is.

00:17:56.620 Okay, the guy lied. What is the impeachable offense that Trump has committed? He made a phone call to

00:18:01.880 Ukraine. Six out of seven of the House impeachment managers supported impeachment before anybody even

00:18:09.080 knew about the Ukraine phone call. He didn't commit an impeachable offense. But even so, let's even say

00:18:14.800 he did. Surely Nancy Pelosi could apply her own logic from the 90s to the present, except she can't,

00:18:20.320 because politics for the left has become all about personal preference, not about the objective criteria

00:18:27.320 of the Constitution, not about divorcing the personal from the political, not about accepting the duty that

00:18:32.720 comes with being a representative in a republic such as ours, just forcing your will on the people.

00:18:39.740 Now, of course, this has helped President Trump. We're going to give you a lot of coverage of

00:18:43.460 impeachment all week. We'll give you what you need to know. Impeachment has helped Trump from the very

00:18:47.900 beginning. From day one, this guy has been raising a ton of money on it, and his approval ratings have

00:18:52.160 increased. Mainstream media, though, are trying to twist this. So Trump has absolutely blown past any of

00:18:59.380 his Democratic rivals in their presidential campaigns in terms of fundraising. But the way

00:19:04.260 the mainstream media is trying to spin it is they're saying, well, sure, that's true. But the

00:19:08.000 Democratic field as a whole has outraised Donald Trump. When you combine all the 355 candidates who

00:19:15.440 are running as Democrats, they have outraised Donald Trump. Therefore, Trump is probably going to lose.

00:19:20.560 That's what the mainstream media are thrilled to report. CNBC. The 2020 Democratic field is

00:19:25.640 outraising Trump by a huge margin. That didn't happen to Obama or Bush. Okay. I mean, that doesn't

00:19:32.900 tell you the whole story. It doesn't imply the Democrats are going to beat Trump, right? Because

00:19:39.780 Obama raised more relative to his GOP challengers in 2012 than Trump is raising now relative to his

00:19:48.780 Democratic challengers. But in 2012, the Republican field as a whole outraised Obama. It's the same

00:19:54.660 situation. So if what the mainstream media were suggesting is true, we would probably be toward

00:19:59.820 the end of the second Romney term right now, and we'd be getting ready for the Paul Ryan presidential

00:20:04.500 run. But we're not, are we? Because that's not how it works. Now, it wasn't true of Bush. Bush not only

00:20:10.980 outraised in 2004 his Democratic challengers, he outraised all of them combined. The incumbent George

00:20:18.700 Bush, the Republican, outraised all of those Democratic contenders combined. So what is this

00:20:24.660 show right now? It doesn't show that because the field is outraising Trump, they're going to, whoever

00:20:30.420 the Democratic nominee is, is going to beat Trump, just as Romney didn't beat Obama. What it shows is

00:20:36.520 greater polarization. It shows people are paying closer attention to politics. It shows people are much

00:20:42.640 more tuned into politics. Politics has become more of a team sport. They're more willing to

00:20:46.360 part with their money to give to Julian Castro or Tim Ryan or any, some of these candidates who just

00:20:53.980 have no chance of winning. That's greater engagement. And I fear what that means is people are making it

00:21:01.200 much, much more personal. It's not cool. It's not objective. We're seeing this

00:21:07.380 at the mainstream media level when we talk about those candidates. So Elizabeth Warren just dropped

00:21:15.820 another doozy of a lie. Elizabeth Warren, who formerly was the rising star, she had all the momentum,

00:21:21.080 she was going to be the top of the field, she was going to get the nomination. Her campaign has

00:21:24.500 collapsed. And so she's desperately trying to pitch herself as the best candidate for the voters.

00:21:31.160 At an Iowa campaign stop, she had one of the great lies of her campaign, which is defined by them.

00:21:37.780 She said, quote, let me remind you, I think I'm the only one running for president who's actually been

00:21:43.640 on the executive side. What does she mean by executive? She's running against Mike Bloomberg.

00:21:51.300 Mike Bloomberg is one of the most successful executives in American business.

00:21:59.700 Also, she's running against Bloomberg, who was the mayor of New York, and Buttigieg, who's the mayor of

00:22:04.200 his small town in Indiana, and Bernie Sanders, who was the mayor of Vermont. They've all been executives.

00:22:09.620 And Elizabeth Warren hasn't been an executive. She's been a professor and a senator. In her imagination,

00:22:16.200 she was obviously a chieftain on the Great Plains, but she didn't actually do that. That was just a

00:22:20.880 fantasy of hers that she tried to convince the American people of. Now, she might mean that she's

00:22:26.400 the only one who's worked in the executive branch because she had the Consumer Financial Protection

00:22:32.520 Bureau. So she ran this little executive agency. She set it up. But she's running against Joe Biden,

00:22:39.360 right? Joe Biden worked in the executive branch. I guess technically the vice president is the

00:22:43.460 president of the Senate, which is legislative. But come on, give me a break. He's the vice president.

00:22:47.160 And the president is the executive. I think he worked in the executive branch. He ran initiatives,

00:22:52.040 Joe Biden, from the executive branch. Much bigger initiatives than Elizabeth Warren ever raised.

00:22:57.120 She's just congenitally dishonest. She actually, she was asked about these lies,

00:23:05.100 her own, implied her own lies. And she was asked if it's okay to lie to the American public. She

00:23:10.480 couldn't even say no. Is it disqualifying for a presidential candidate to lie to the American

00:23:15.220 public? I would think that it, you know, how could the American people want someone who wants to?

00:23:27.140 I think that we just do our best about them every day. And I hope that's what happens with everyone.

00:23:35.440 How can she bungle that question? That's the simplest question. Hey, candidate, do you think

00:23:42.100 it's okay to lie? Well, I mean, you know, but obviously the reason she has to hem and haw over

00:23:48.440 it is because she has famously lied about her DNA, her Indian ancestry that doesn't exist. She lied

00:23:56.260 about being fired for being pregnant. She lied about her child's education. She lies about everything.

00:24:02.620 And so she can't even answer the question, is it disqualifying to lie? Because it would disqualify her.

00:24:08.780 That's why she keeps dropping in the polls, right? Her campaign, the American people have seen through

00:24:12.960 it. I think certainly the American people have. Even the Democratic primary voters appear to be

00:24:17.960 seeing through it. A survey USA nationwide Democratic poll shows Elizabeth Warren just

00:24:23.340 keeps dropping down. So right now in first place is Biden still 32%. In second place is Bernie at 21%.

00:24:30.980 Liz Warren is now down at 14%. That's a big drop from when she was poised to become the front

00:24:36.460 runner. The people are seeing through her charade. And yet the mainstream media are still carrying

00:24:43.420 water for her. And this, this brings us right back to the power and responsibility.

00:24:50.180 It shows a major flaw from the American left. Check out this crock that came out from MSNBC

00:24:56.460 on the Bernie Warren battle of who's telling the truth about Bernie's alleged comments that a woman

00:25:04.680 couldn't win in 2020. It would seem that Bernie's telling the truth here. He's got the better track

00:25:09.720 record. There's no reason to believe that he's lying. There is reason to believe that Warren is lying.

00:25:14.860 They can't prove that Warren's telling the truth. So MSNBC brings on a body language expert,

00:25:20.360 whatever that is, to talk about how really, really when you look and when you think about it really

00:25:26.380 hard, Bernie's probably lying. The thing about the, this dust up between the two of them is that

00:25:31.620 scandals hurt you more when they seem plausible, right? I mean, Bernie Sanders does have a sort of

00:25:36.800 physicality, you know, when he, when he talks, that is a shaking your finger at Hillary Clinton,

00:25:42.320 shaking your finger, shovey, weirdy, you know, his, his physicality makes me think, yeah,

00:25:48.360 he could have said, you know, listen, I think in this environment, a woman can't win. That doesn't

00:25:51.100 seem like a crazy thing to say. Well, first of all, I think, I think Bernie's lying.

00:25:55.280 Shovey, weirdy, a shaky, shovey, weirdy. That is what passes for political analysis on the left.

00:26:03.280 Man, I got to get a new job because when I, when I try to prepare some political analysis on the right,

00:26:09.160 I need to look at facts and figures and data and history. And I have to incorporate all of that.

00:26:14.660 If I'm on the left, I could just talk about my feels. And that would, that would pass for

00:26:18.600 political commentary. This is your brain on ideology. This is your brain on ideology where

00:26:24.780 they just say, yeah, there's no evidence that Bernie's lying, but he's kind of shaky, weirdy.

00:26:31.680 He's kind of, and I don't, you know, and then the other woman says, yeah, I think he's lying

00:26:35.780 because of his body language. That's your brain on ideology. And really what you get from the left is,

00:26:41.800 is intersectionality, right? It doesn't matter what Bernie says. It doesn't matter what Warren

00:26:47.160 says. They're, they're just judging people on these superficial characteristics or on these

00:26:52.100 physical characteristics. So they're judging people on their skin color. They're judging people

00:26:57.460 by their sex. And without examining the particulars of any circumstance, they're saying we have to

00:27:03.060 believe all women. Why women can't lie, men do lie. So if it's a man versus a woman,

00:27:08.580 the woman has to be telling the truth. The premise of intersectionality is that people can be divided

00:27:15.060 up in a hierarchy of oppression. And the more oppressed people, more allegedly oppressed people

00:27:20.900 must always be believed over less oppressed people. So Bernie is an old white guy, three strikes against

00:27:27.340 him, old white guy. And so he's less credible than any kind of woman, even if she's only one 1024th

00:27:36.660 Native American or not even that much more likely. And it's not just MSNBC. MSNBC is certainly the

00:27:43.260 most far left cable network. It's not just them. It's also the New York Times. This is the most obvious

00:27:49.580 abuse of power in the mainstream media going on right now. And it's actually the direct parallel

00:27:54.260 with what Harry and Meghan are doing. The New York Times has offered its endorsement in the 2020

00:28:01.660 Democratic presidential primary. But it doesn't want to offer an endorsement. It's offering two

00:28:08.480 endorsements. It's endorsing Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. That's not how endorsements work.

00:28:19.380 You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't be all things to all people. You can't be a royal and

00:28:25.360 not have to do any of the royal things. Even the New York Times editorial board, no one thinks they're

00:28:28.940 going to endorse Trump or anything like that, but at least make an endorsement. At least make a choice.

00:28:33.300 Stop derelicting your duty. Do your job. They just picked the two women. I mean, I don't even know

00:28:41.260 that they've listened to these people. Elizabeth Warren is the most grating candidate in the race.

00:28:47.340 And they went for her and they went for Klobuchar. I suspect they just looked at that little hierarchy

00:28:51.600 of oppression pyramid. And they said, okay, well, two women. Yep. There we go. Check the box.

00:28:56.040 I do love to. They're so, they're so in their own heads that they don't see the ironies of what

00:29:05.060 they're doing. Here is, it's a very, very long editorial. You can read it if you want or don't.

00:29:10.040 Highly recommend you don't. When they get to Elizabeth Warren and why they're endorsing her in addition to

00:29:15.740 Amy Klobuchar, this is the first sentence. I kid you not. The Onion couldn't have written it better.

00:29:20.700 Babylon Bee couldn't have written it better. Why are they endorsing Warren?

00:29:25.180 Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller. Yeah, you don't say. She tells a lot of stories. She

00:29:32.640 tells stories about her DNA. She tells stories about her kids' education. She tells stories about

00:29:37.580 getting fired. She tells all sorts of stories. None of them have anything to do with the truth,

00:29:42.140 but she tells stories. She speaks elegantly. That's the first sentence. First two

00:29:50.560 sentence. Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller. She speaks elegantly of how the economic system

00:29:56.440 is rigged against all the wealthiest Americans. On and on and on. It doesn't open up by saying

00:30:03.400 anything she's done. It says that she spins a good yarn. She tells a good tale. Much like the New York

00:30:11.680 Times. That's what the New York Times does too. The New York Times doesn't necessarily rely on facts.

00:30:16.940 They've spread wholesale lies about President Trump, about the Russia hoax. They've spread all

00:30:22.720 sorts of lies. But they spin a good yarn. They write elegantly. You know, they have very good

00:30:27.380 diction and grammar. This is an absolute abuse of power. The mainstream media in this country

00:30:34.620 have a lot of power. And the reason we go after them, the reason we go after the New York Times,

00:30:40.400 or less so MSNBC, but occasionally we knock them too. The reason we go after mainstream media

00:30:46.800 organizations like the New York Times is not because they're left-wing. I don't care that

00:30:50.240 they're left-wing. I often encourage people to read, I don't know, Vox.com or even the Huffington

00:30:56.220 Post because they're clear about their point of view. They're going to present the left-wing side of

00:31:00.140 the argument. I think you should be exposed to the left-wing side of the argument so that you can

00:31:03.780 answer it and you can figure out why it's wrong. That's not why we oppose groups like the New York

00:31:07.760 Times. The reason that the New York Times is so bad for the country is because they're so corrupt

00:31:14.820 and they're corrupt because they abuse their power. And you see it in the frivolity, the dereliction of

00:31:23.180 duty in not choosing a presidential endorsement. Like saying, yeah, I endorse the Yankees and the

00:31:30.380 Red Sox for the World Series. You endorse the Yankees and the Red, you got to pick one. You can't pick

00:31:35.040 both of them. So they derelict their duty there and then they derelict their duty to investigate,

00:31:40.420 to look into facts, to weigh the arguments on both sides. There's another great abuse that's going on

00:31:47.900 right now beyond the mainstream media. It's happening in New York, which is where I happen to be for the

00:31:51.880 next five or six hours. New York's sanctuary city policy under Mayor Bolshevik Bill de Blasio is a

00:32:01.900 disaster. Here's one example that just came out within the past week. The sexual assault and murder

00:32:10.040 of a 92-year-old woman, Maria Fuertas in Queens, who was raped and killed by an illegal alien from Guyana

00:32:17.780 who had been detained. He's an illegal alien. He had been detained and was released in New York

00:32:25.060 in defiance of a federal detainer. So they get him. They get the illegal alien. New York City says,

00:32:33.980 we're going to be a sanctuary city. You can't tell us what to do, Trump. You can't tell us what to do,

00:32:38.660 immigration laws. You can't tell us what to do, American people. We're going to release this poor,

00:32:42.940 wonderful illegal alien. Guess what happens? He raped and killed a 92-year-old woman in Queens.

00:32:48.560 Would not have happened. Would not have happened if they just followed the law. But it's because

00:32:55.980 New York City, Bill de Blasio, they don't want to do their jobs. They don't want to do the hard

00:33:00.020 things. They want to do the easy things that win them applause and then derelict their duty. We'll get

00:33:04.340 to the rest of this story. We will also get to the most insane CNN headline and a little bit,

00:33:13.100 we'll leave you on a little bit of hope as well. But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and

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00:35:08.720 Formal politics is hard. It can be a little dry. It's detached. It's, at its best, dispassionate.

00:35:29.480 It requires you to do hard things. Increasingly, our elected officials are not willing to do that.

00:35:36.640 Nowhere is this clearer than Bill de Blasio in New York. Does anybody really defend,

00:35:44.200 in principle, open borders? Does anybody really? I'm not talking about these crazy people on Twitter

00:35:51.040 or something. I'm talking about the vast majority of sensible people, on the left, I suppose, and the

00:35:57.300 center and the right. Does anybody really defend the idea that a people are not allowed to define

00:36:03.880 their own immigration laws? Do they really defend the idea that anyone can go willy-nilly into any

00:36:08.640 country they want at any time and you can't stop them? I don't think so. I think, really,

00:36:13.760 the way the argument works for the left is just emotional manipulation. They say, look at this

00:36:18.640 person. Look at your good friend, Jose, who's an illegal alien who came here 30 years ago and he's got

00:36:25.040 a beautiful, wonderful family. He goes to church on Sunday. He does his job very well. He's hardworking.

00:36:29.180 He's wonderful and he's more American than apple pie. You want to deport that guy? And say, no,

00:36:34.100 of course not. Everyone likes him. He's doing all the right stuff. But in principle, we want to deport

00:36:41.780 illegal aliens. And by the way, for every story of a nice guy who's raising a family and he's

00:36:47.660 living the American dream, you get a story of this illegal alien from Guyana who commits heinous crimes

00:36:55.420 and who was released by New York City in defiance of the federal law and defiance of a federal

00:37:01.700 detainer because it's so much easier to let these guys go and feel really good and win all the feels

00:37:10.960 of your radical leftist base. Now, fortunately, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE,

00:37:19.000 ICE is now no longer requesting that New York follow the law. They are demanding it.

00:37:24.880 Henry Lucero, who's a senior ICE official, told the AP, this is not a request. It's a demand. This

00:37:30.580 is a last resort for us. Dangerous criminals are being released every single day in New York.

00:37:35.460 New York City will not change the policies that have made. This is according to Bill de Blasio,

00:37:39.780 then he responds to them and say, New York City will not change the policies that have made us the

00:37:44.840 safest big city in America. Not safe for Maria Fuertes, who's no longer with us and who was

00:37:50.640 tortured at the end of her life because of your fecklessness. They just won't do it. I mean,

00:37:57.380 Mayor de Blasio is governing his city like a child would govern. You can't do that. You can't just get

00:38:04.140 all the plaudits and all the perks and let everybody go without enforcing the law, without exacting

00:38:10.120 justice, without following the laws. You can't do that. So I'm not terribly hopeful for New York. I'm

00:38:19.340 not terribly hopeful for the left. I'm not terribly hopeful for the mainstream media. But I am generally

00:38:25.660 hopeful for the country because whenever you see the crazy stories out of the New York Times or

00:38:31.620 Buckingham Palace, out of the Royals across the UK or in the crazy mansion, the mayor's house in

00:38:37.940 New York. For every one of those stories, you see the American people looking through the BS. All right,

00:38:43.700 that's why Elizabeth Warren's campaign needs to be floated by the New York Times. It's why CNN is so

00:38:49.540 desperate to keep her campaign afloat. The voters don't like it. They're seeing through that. I mean,

00:38:54.620 that's how we got Trump in 2016. And Trump just keeps doing this. I mean, it's obviously at the big

00:39:03.420 level. The economy is doing very well. Jobs are doing very well. These macro policies are great. We killed

00:39:07.760 that guy Soleimani in Iran. But it's even down to the micro level. President Trump, this is one of

00:39:13.500 the great stories. Put a smile on my face. President Trump announced on Friday that they plan to roll

00:39:19.260 back school breakfast and lunch nutrition guidelines that Michelle Obama pushed. So Michelle Obama took

00:39:26.180 away kids' good lunches and made them eat like one stick of carrots or something. You know, just gross.

00:39:31.860 Nobody wants that. No self-respecting 12-year-old wants to eat celery sticks instead of pizza at lunch.

00:39:37.760 Let the kids have their pizza. But President Trump chose to announce this on Michelle Obama's

00:39:43.920 birthday. I don't think this was a coincidence. I think it was pretty clear. He's really sticking

00:39:49.400 it in the eye. And so much of his administration is a stick in the eye. He was elected with no prior

00:39:55.540 political experience as a stick in the eye to an establishment that people feel is no longer

00:40:02.340 representing them and to an establishment that people feel is derelicting their duty that goes

00:40:07.440 to fancy lunches and talks about how wonderful they all are and has their blue check marks and

00:40:12.980 complains all the time and really sneers and looks with disdain on their fellow Americans, but who are

00:40:18.460 not actually doing their job. They're not doing the journalism. They're not doing the governing.

00:40:22.040 They're not doing what they are supposed to be doing. And so we elected President Trump

00:40:27.140 and from trade policy in China to geopolitics and foreign affairs in the Middle East to school

00:40:35.500 lunches on Michelle Obama's birthday. He is acting as that stick in the eye. And it's why many people

00:40:41.920 will say, I don't like Trump. I don't like his tweets. I don't like the way he behaves. But darn it,

00:40:47.220 I like what he's doing. And looking forward to 2020, that argument hasn't changed. And the left

00:40:54.280 hasn't offered an alternative. They haven't learned that lesson. Another stick in the eye Trump just

00:41:00.800 tweeted out is New York wants $200 billion for a seawall because global warming is going to sink

00:41:06.860 New York. Remember, Al Gore predicted this 15 years ago and then it didn't happen. And he predicted

00:41:11.820 about Florida and it didn't happen. But anyway, they want to build that wall. They want to build a seawall

00:41:15.300 to protect New York from the sun monster. They don't want to build a wall on our southern border

00:41:19.820 to prevent the illegal aliens who are flooding into this country from coming over. No,

00:41:24.320 they're going to protect us from from climate Armageddon. So Trump tweets out about this. He

00:41:29.620 says, quote, a massive $200 billion seawall built around New York to protect it from rare storms

00:41:35.680 is a costly, foolish and environmentally unfriendly idea that when needed probably won't work anyway.

00:41:42.080 It will also look terrible. Sorry, you'll just have to get your mops and buckets ready.

00:41:49.400 I think that could be the slogan of his campaign. Get your mops and buckets ready, referring not just

00:41:56.020 to the rare storms, but also to the constant torrent of leftist tears. Get your mops and buckets ready.

00:42:02.340 Trump 2020. I think that's a pretty serious pitch. Regardless of what you think of a guy like Trump,

00:42:10.020 the message of the Trump campaign is, hey, shut up with the complaining, shut up with the

00:42:17.800 microaggressions, shut up with the political correctness, shut up with looking down on your

00:42:21.900 fellow Americans and just do your job. Be happy. Things are going well. The economy is great. When

00:42:27.380 he jokes about how he's the greatest president ever, he's your favorite president ever. What lies at the

00:42:31.640 bottom of that joke and the kind of egotism and the bragging is a certain gratitude. Hey, things are

00:42:38.700 going pretty well. If you can't enjoy this right now, when are you going to enjoy it? If really,

00:42:43.060 if you put your hope in politics, which is a bad idea, but if you do that and you can't have a good

00:42:48.820 time in politics while your rights are being protected, while consumer confidence is up,

00:42:53.420 manufacturing confidence is up, we're killing the top terrorists in the world, we're getting

00:42:56.720 stronger trade deals. Unemployment is at record lows across every demographic. If you can't enjoy that

00:43:03.160 politics, you're never going to enjoy politics. You're just going to complain and whine and

00:43:08.460 nothing will ever be good enough. That's not the right way to think about it. Don't, don't look at

00:43:14.100 politics from a perspective of entitlement and rights primarily. Look at it from a perspective

00:43:21.040 of gratitude and duty and obligation. This was uncontroversial when JFK said it at his inauguration

00:43:28.300 half a century ago, asking out what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your

00:43:33.960 country. Now that is very controversial and the American left and even part of the right

00:43:38.640 doesn't want to believe it. And it's why over in the UK, you get people like the artist formerly known

00:43:44.240 as Prince Harry. And in America, you get the shrieking left and the feckless and irresponsible

00:43:51.820 news media that are going to be covering a feckless and irresponsible impeachment from feckless and

00:43:57.540 irresponsible cities like New York, all the way to Washington DC, all around the country. Well,

00:44:02.380 we will be covering them and I bet we're going to have a great time doing it as the leftist tears

00:44:06.580 flow. So get your mops and buckets ready. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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