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00:00:00.000 Nearly 100,000 pro-lifers descend on Washington, D.C. for this 47th annual March for Life,

00:00:07.420 just one week after fewer than 10,000 shrieking leftists took to the nation's capital

00:00:12.400 for the fourth annual Women's March. We will examine what the two back-to-back marches tell

00:00:17.520 us about the stark difference between the modern left and the modern right. Then,

00:00:22.620 Bernie surges to the top of the polls just days before the Iowa caucuses, seven days out.

00:00:27.500 We will analyze how a decrepit communist became the future of the Democratic Party.

00:00:32.760 Finally, some sad news. Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and his young daughter die in a

00:00:37.800 helicopter crash in California. We will try to make sense of the tragic news. All that and more.

00:00:44.100 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:45.920 There is a ton to get to right now, today, covering the past weekend. You know, I'm in

00:00:59.540 Washington, D.C. right now. I was here for the March for Life. We put a video up, talked to a

00:01:04.480 lot of people. We saw the president speak, the first time a president ever spoke at the March

00:01:08.760 for Life. And I got to tell you, just those marches, the March for Life and the Women's

00:01:13.980 March, showed me that the difference between the left and the right is getting clearer every day.

00:01:21.300 You know, we talk about polarization as an unqualified evil. It's always bad that the

00:01:28.020 parties are becoming polarized. In some ways, it's a good thing, because you can really tell

00:01:32.240 the difference between the left and the right. Both parties are getting more honest. They're getting

00:01:36.880 more clear about what they want, about who they are, about what they stand for. You can see it in

00:01:42.920 the presidential race. That's becoming very clear in Iowa and New Hampshire. We'll get to that in a

00:01:47.020 second, because it's pretty shocking news for the Democratic establishment. But it's really clear.

00:01:52.200 I think it's most clear in these two marches, the March for Life and the Women's March. So I go down.

00:01:57.620 This was truly an historic March for Life. There were upwards of 100,000 people there. The thing that's

00:02:03.280 most shocking when you get there is how young it is. You have no idea how young it is, especially

00:02:09.140 because the media don't cover the event, even though it's a massive annual event that's been

00:02:13.680 going on almost 50 years. You go there. I think the median age is probably like 19. And these people

00:02:20.060 are so young. And I was trying to understand, why is the March for Life so young? Obviously,

00:02:25.320 there are parents there, and there are priests and nuns, and there are some politicians. And so there

00:02:31.240 are older people too. But mostly it's teenagers and people in their 20s. I think it's because for

00:02:35.980 young Americans, abortion most visibly affects their generation. A full quarter of millennials and

00:02:45.200 Gen Z are not here because of abortion. One fourth of them have been killed through abortion. So I think

00:02:53.300 it really rings home for them. I spoke to a number of people out there. Let's just take a little listen

00:02:58.480 to the difference between the March for Life and the Women's March. Here's a young man I met

00:03:02.140 named Jorge. Jorge came up to me at a sign that said, tell us your story. He said, hey, you still

00:03:06.920 taking stories? I said, absolutely. He goes, all right, I've got one for you. Jorge grew up in foster

00:03:11.640 care. Here's his reaction to the pro-abortion movement. I grew up a foster child, and I see many

00:03:18.520 people who use people's bad experiences in foster care as a supportive reason for why abortion should

00:03:26.440 be legalized and even promote abortion for those reasons. Because my mother chose life, I'm able to

00:03:33.160 be used as a vessel to help other people in this world. And you don't think that the suffering that

00:03:37.380 you had to endure, it was just not worth it at all and be better if you never even had a life?

00:03:44.360 No, I'm thankful for the life that I have. And, you know, if just having that chance means so much

00:03:52.620 to me, and today's a great day for me to remember that. And you're out here marching and sending a

00:03:58.060 message to the people who say that people like you shouldn't even be around. No, I actually think

00:04:03.300 that's a very ignorant argument. Whether they mean to be offensive or not, to say it's probably better

00:04:08.220 that you are dead than you have a hard life, that's not even their decision to be made. And it's just a

00:04:15.640 very ignorant argument. You know, that's just one of the stories from March for Life. We have a video up

00:04:19.980 at the Daily Wire YouTube page. You can check out a number of them. But it's profound, because what

00:04:24.860 Jorge honed in on, as he said, suffering is not a reason to end a life. In other words, we all suffer.

00:04:34.300 Life has suffering, and yet life is a beautiful thing. And we'll see that at the extreme at the

00:04:39.920 end of the show when we talk about Kobe Bryant. That's the one side of it, right? You talk to people

00:04:45.820 like Jorge, you talk to other people at the March for Life, and they are normal. For lack of a better

00:04:52.760 word, they are normal. They seem grounded. They have a balanced view of the world. They understand

00:04:59.920 that life has suffering, but they're happy for life. They're vibrant. They're vital. You know,

00:05:06.520 the thing that was so interesting about speaking to them is they weren't terribly emotional. They had joy,

00:05:11.880 but joy is not just an emotion. Joy is this spirit of hope, this kind of energy, this kind of life.

00:05:20.340 And they weren't terribly emotional. They weren't yelling. They weren't screaming. They were just

00:05:23.980 joyful. And so President Trump shows up for the first time ever. American president shows up to

00:05:29.300 the March for Life. He gave a magnificent speech. I don't know who wrote this speech, but whoever did

00:05:36.120 should write more of his speeches. And President Trump delivered it, and it was a really beautiful

00:05:41.240 moment. Here's just a little sample from President Trump's speech.

00:05:44.600 All of us here today understand an eternal truth. Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God.

00:05:53.380 And from the first day in office, I've taken a historic action to support America's families

00:06:00.080 and to protect the unborn. I notified Congress that I would veto any legislation that weakens pro-life

00:06:08.220 policies or that encourages the destruction of human life. Unborn children have never had a stronger

00:06:18.920 defender in the White House. Absolutely right. They haven't. And I know it's crazy because what so

00:06:25.460 many people say is Donald Trump, he used to call himself very pro-choice. He's a New Yorker. He's full

00:06:30.720 of it. Whatever, guys. It is simply a matter of fact that while in office, President Trump has been

00:06:38.200 the most pro-life president. We talked about it last show. More so than Reagan. More so than Bush.

00:06:43.780 It was a beautiful moment. I mean, in some ways, when I was standing there watching President Trump

00:06:49.240 give this speech, I thought, this is the evidence that I'm living in this simulation. Then I remembered

00:06:53.340 that the podcast I'm co-hosting with Ted Cruz has now become the number one podcast in the country.

00:06:58.240 It actually overtook the Joe Rogan experience. And I thought, now I know I'm living in the simulation.

00:07:03.340 We'll get to that a little bit later. That was the pro-life side of things. Okay. That was the March

00:07:08.600 for Life. Now compare that to the Women's March that took place just one week earlier. Here's a little

00:07:15.980 taste of the Women's March.

00:07:16.920 The patriarchy. Donald Trump. Mike Pence. White supremacy. Racism. Misogyny. Homophobia. Transphobia.

00:07:31.480 Capitalism. Classism. Transphobia. Ableism. Islamophobia. Antisemitism.

00:07:39.880 So we obviously had to bleep out exactly half of what she was saying, but I think you can

00:07:45.900 maybe infer what the word was. It was four letters along the lines of the story. It's with F and she

00:07:49.840 had her two middle fingers up as she is saying it. Just very intense. F this. F that. F you. F these

00:07:56.440 people. And lest you think that I'm just pulling one little clip out of context, that actually the

00:08:01.680 Women's March was some normal, totally balanced thing and there was just one kook out there,

00:08:05.620 that, that isn't the case. Here's a shot from the Women's March of whole scores of people. I don't

00:08:11.160 know, maybe a hundred or 150 people out there, uh, dancing and yelling and rapping and saying poetry

00:08:21.040 about how we're all a bunch of rapists. Here, there are.

00:08:23.860 Okay. Well, first of all, I'd just like to say, no, we're not. That's not who we are. But

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00:10:10.040 Okay. So you got the March for Life, vibrant, happy, normal, joyful. Then you got the Women's

00:10:16.160 March, screaming, vulgar, creepy, weird, full of a bunch of people who don't seem to have

00:10:21.480 everything together exactly. It shows us which way the two parties are going. Obviously on the

00:10:28.360 question of life. One of them is life affirming. One of them is not life affirming. But more broadly,

00:10:36.640 one side, the right, is approaching politics from a position of gratitude. We've talked about this

00:10:43.640 before. The March for Life is when you talk to them, they say, I'm just so happy for this life

00:10:48.460 I have. Jorge, who says, I grew up and I had a really tough upbringing in foster care, and I'm

00:10:53.620 still so happy that I'm alive today. Thank you so much to my mother for choosing life. Thank you so

00:10:58.940 much for supporting me. It's true on the national level. People who say, gosh, I love my country. I love

00:11:04.260 everything my country's done for me. What a wonderful place. What a wonderful time to be

00:11:07.740 alive. Thank you, family. I love my family. I love my tradition. I love the cultural inheritance

00:11:12.200 that I have. That's increasingly what the right does. How about the left? The left does not approach

00:11:18.220 politics primarily from a place of gratitude. It approaches politics primarily from a place

00:11:23.680 of entitlement. So you have these screaming people out there saying, give me, give me, give me. I want

00:11:30.320 this. I want that. Give me free health care. Give me abortions whenever I want them. Let me

00:11:35.540 kill my child. Let me do this. Let me do that. It's my right. Me, me, me, me. And we know for a

00:11:41.860 fact that when you approach life selflessly, when you give of yourself to others, you will be more

00:11:48.040 gratified. You will be more satisfied with your life. You will be more joyful. And when you live life

00:11:53.220 primarily about satisfying your own desires and satisfying your own appetites, you are going to be

00:11:57.940 miserable. And if you don't believe me, just look at the two faces, the face of Jorge at the March for

00:12:04.520 Life and the face of that crazy British lady screaming F you and F you and F this and F that.

00:12:09.560 It's not just at the marches, though. You can see it on the presidential campaign trail.

00:12:13.440 The entitlement mentality has made it all the way to the top of the polls in Iowa and in New Hampshire.

00:12:21.300 We are seven days away from the Iowa caucuses. The Iowa caucuses are the first big moment in the

00:12:27.100 presidential primary campaign. This is the first time voters are going to go to the polls and it's

00:12:32.380 not just going to be these different surveys and answering the phone and saying, I like this

00:12:36.160 candidate more than that candidate. They're actually going to put their vote on the line.

00:12:40.200 We are seven days away. Bernie Sanders is killing it. He's absolutely killing it, according to every

00:12:47.380 poll. There's a new New York Times-Siena College poll right now. Bernie Sanders in first place at 25 percent,

00:12:53.680 Pete Buttigieg at 18 percent, Joe Biden at 17, Liz Warren at 15. That means that Bernie Sanders is

00:13:00.620 outside the margin of error right now. It couldn't just be explained away as some weird statistical

00:13:06.440 fluke. According to the New York Times, he's seven points up on his rivals and the rest of the pack is

00:13:13.740 basically all within a point or two of each other. Another poll has Bernie up. It's a little bit

00:13:18.040 closer, but it's still up. This is CBS News and YouGov has Bernie Sanders at 26, then Joe Biden at 25,

00:13:24.720 then Buttigieg at 22, then Warren at 15. There are other polls that are showing Bernie doing very,

00:13:32.580 very well. So as a result of this, the establishment is freaking out because the establishment wants

00:13:39.060 either Joe Biden or, assuming Joe Biden's not going to work and there's a lot of reason to think he won't

00:13:43.620 work, Elizabeth Warren. The Des Moines Register is still trying to make Liz Warren happen, but they're

00:13:51.080 not going to make Liz Warren happen because nobody likes Liz Warren, which is why she's at the bottom

00:13:55.340 of all these polls. The Des Moines Register endorses Warren. So the endorsement begins.

00:14:03.460 At this moment when the very fabric of American life is at stake, Elizabeth Warren is the president

00:14:07.320 this nation needs. Okay, that's kind of normal boilerplate endorsement stuff. But then they go further.

00:14:13.620 And they describe Elizabeth Warren and the other candidates as someone who would, quote,

00:14:20.700 treat truth as something that matters. A woman whose nickname is Laya Watha,

00:14:29.100 Focahontas, a woman who is lily white as the newly driven snow pretended for decades to be a Native

00:14:36.320 American for professional gain. A woman who submitted a recipe of basically crab and mayonnaise salad

00:14:43.500 to a Native American cookbook called Pow Wow Chow, I kid you not. A woman who lied about sending her

00:14:50.520 kids to public school. A woman who lied about being fired as a teacher because she was pregnant. A woman

00:14:56.700 who probably lied about what she had for breakfast this morning. She is a candidate who would, quote,

00:15:02.100 treat truth as something that matters. The voters know that that is total BS. And a lot of what you're

00:15:11.440 seeing in terms of Bernie's rise, a lot of what you're seeing in terms of the polarization of the

00:15:15.820 two political parties is because people know that the mainstream media and the establishment

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00:15:29.440 In part, that's because of how technology has evolved. We'll get into that in a second. But this is not an

00:15:33.700 isolated case because guess what? The polls are showing Bernie's up in New Hampshire too. We'll get to all of

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00:16:56.560 Now, one thing that is not safe right now is the future of the Democratic Party because Bernie

00:17:00.940 Sanders is surging to the lead, not just in Iowa, also in New Hampshire. We have an NBC News

00:17:05.960 Marist poll right now. Puts Bernie at 22 percent in New Hampshire. Second place is Buttigieg at 17 percent,

00:17:13.000 then Biden at 15 percent. Warren again at the bottom of the pack at 13. CNN University of New

00:17:19.960 Hampshire poll, Bernie all the way up at 25 percent. Biden way down at 16 percent, a nine-point gap

00:17:28.620 between Bernie and the second place candidate. Then Buttigieg at 15, then Warren again at the bottom

00:17:33.580 at 12. And then there's another poll. This one is pretty wild. This is the craziest of all. WBUR of

00:17:40.960 New Hampshire. Bernie up at 28 percent in New Hampshire, followed by Buttigieg at 16,

00:17:49.840 followed by Biden at 13, and Warren at 12. So there's a 12-point gap there for Bernie,

00:17:55.640 according to that New Hampshire poll. What all of this means is that Bernie is a real threat.

00:18:03.200 What all of this means is that Bernie might be the Democrats' Trump. We'll get to what that means in a

00:18:09.600 second. What all of this means is that the Democratic Party is becoming more honest.

00:18:15.620 You know, for years and years, for a century, the American left defended radical regimes.

00:18:22.520 The Soviet Union, I think of the reporters Lincoln Steffens and Walter Durante, talked about how they

00:18:28.160 saw the future in the Soviet Union, and it worked, but carried water for Joseph Stalin. You had the

00:18:34.180 American left, the honest voices of the American left defending Fidel Castro, defending Mao Zedong,

00:18:40.640 defending all sorts of awful, radical, socialist, communist regimes. But there was this kind of

00:18:48.880 veneer of moderation or respectability. That is now falling away. It's falling away because the

00:18:54.360 establishment is losing its credibility. Bernie is the Democrats' Trump. He is the answer to Trump.

00:19:03.300 How is that? They're very different people, obviously. Donald Trump, billionaire, businessman,

00:19:08.980 instinctively patriotic, anti-politically correct, and he's a big, tough guy. Bernie Sanders,

00:19:14.640 none of those things. Bernie is a career politician. It's the only job he's ever had. It's the nearest

00:19:22.100 thing to a job he's ever had. He's a radical socialist, a true believer. He's never accomplished

00:19:27.160 anything other than complaining for 50 years. Even as a legislator, he's never really accomplished

00:19:32.620 a thing. And yet, there are some similarities between the two guys. First of all, they're both

00:19:41.400 absolute middle fingers to the establishment. They're also both cartoons of their political

00:19:47.480 parties. When you think of what's the difference between the left and the right? Well, the right is

00:19:54.060 more patriotic, right? The right is more grateful. The right is more interested in private property.

00:20:01.260 The right is more willing to speak bluntly. Trump is the caricature of that. He's the cartoon of that.

00:20:08.100 I mean, there was an early campaign event in 2016 where Donald Trump literally hugged the American flag,

00:20:13.840 smiling, beaming ear to ear with that, right? It's the total extreme of everything we think of when we

00:20:19.820 think of conservatives or of the right. And what is Bernie? Bernie is, he is a living complaint,

00:20:28.340 right? All he, I mean, that's why, that's why Larry David plays him on Saturday Night Live is because

00:20:32.900 you have this, this kind of old guy who all he does is always complains about everything. That's Bernie

00:20:37.400 Sanders. And that is the American left. When you think about the American left, you think about people

00:20:41.200 complaining and whining and moaning because they don't get enough free stuff and they want everything

00:20:47.380 to be for free and they don't, nothing's good enough for them in this country. And they just feel

00:20:51.120 entitled to everybody else's money and property and me, me, me, me, me, right? Bernie, Bernie Sanders

00:20:59.180 said that he would, he would raise taxes on everybody making more than $29,000 a year, which is virtually

00:21:04.760 everybody. He's saying, yeah, I'm going to take money from pretty much everybody when I get into

00:21:08.900 office. Okay. Those are the cartoons of the left and the right. And you see them in Trump and Bernie.

00:21:15.220 You don't really see that in Trump and Biden. Biden isn't a cartoon of the democratic party,

00:21:20.280 certainly not the democratic party today. And the other, the other thing that Trump and Bernie have

00:21:24.720 in common, they're both authentic. There are a ton of reasons to criticize Bernie, maybe even some

00:21:31.460 reasons to criticize Trump. But what you can't say about them is that they're inauthentic. I mean,

00:21:37.180 with both of those guys, what you see is what you get. Even, I remember Trump mentioned this when

00:21:44.260 they asked him if he was going to get a dog in the White House because every president needs to have

00:21:48.220 a dog and it looks really good for the photos and the magazines want you to have a dog. And they said,

00:21:52.680 are you going to get a dog? And he said, nah, nah, I don't really like dogs. I feel like it wouldn't work

00:21:57.220 for me. I feel like people would see through that. And they would, they would. If all of a sudden Trump

00:22:02.340 pretended to be this nice, warm, fuzzy guy, they would, of course, see through that. And he said,

00:22:05.640 I'm going to be authentic. I'm not going to pretend to voters that I'm something that I'm not.

00:22:08.720 Same thing with Bernie Sanders. He's a pretty authentic guy, pretty sincere as far as politicians

00:22:13.300 go. And both of them have a very personal connection to their supporters. I mean, Trump

00:22:20.240 won the presidential campaign in 2016 on grassroots supporters and a bunch of cheap hats. It's not like

00:22:28.000 this guy was the favorite of the big dollar donors. This guy had genuine grassroots support. Same

00:22:34.640 thing with Bernie. Bernie is all small dollar donations. He's not, he's not a favorite of the

00:22:38.620 donor class far from it. They're, they're doing their best to deprive him of the nomination, just

00:22:42.640 like they did in 2016. The reason that that authenticity and that personal touch matters

00:22:49.220 right now is because the media have become much more personal. They become much more authentic

00:22:53.820 rather than you think of the 1960 presidential election and John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are

00:23:00.160 going to debate the issues and they're both really kind of stiff and on television,

00:23:04.380 it's in grainy black and white. That was as personal as it got 50, 60 years ago. Now we're

00:23:10.660 on TikTok, right? Now we're on Instagram. Now we're on Periscope and everything is so personal. You can

00:23:15.980 see the pores on somebody's face. Requires you to be much more sincere, much more authentic. I think

00:23:21.660 that's why Elizabeth Warren is at the bottom of the pack right now is she is the, by far the least

00:23:27.380 sincere candidate in the race. I mean, she's lied about every major point of her biography and she's,

00:23:32.780 in order to overcome that, she would have to get real and she's not capable of doing it.

00:23:36.840 Now, Bernie has some big weaknesses. Joe Biden has some big advantages and there's actually some

00:23:42.780 secret gossip going around among the Democratic senators, which Senator Ted Cruz told me the

00:23:48.360 other night on our podcast, a verdict with Ted Cruz, that might shape the way we look at the rest of

00:23:54.400 this race. We will get to that. We'll get to what that means for impeachment. We will get to

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00:25:25.560 Bernie is a real threat here. But Bernie has a big weakness. Bernie's weakness is low support among

00:25:32.160 black voters. Democrats cannot win the race if they don't have 90% support among black voters,

00:25:41.000 high 80s at least. They need to have a lock on the black vote in order to win the general election.

00:25:46.220 But Bernie does very poorly among black voters. That's the only reason Joe Biden is still in the

00:25:51.920 race. Joe Biden does very well among black voters. And so the only, I mean, Joe Biden is such a bad

00:25:58.780 candidate. He has everything going against him. Joe Biden is simply too old and he looks it on the

00:26:05.740 campaign trail. Unlike Bernie, who's very old, but at least he has energy. Joe Biden is getting confused

00:26:10.340 all the time. Joe Biden has accomplished very, very little despite being in public office for about 50

00:26:15.620 years. I guess the same as Bernie. Joe Biden is, doesn't really seem to have any core beliefs

00:26:22.100 that one can mention. He's just a weak candidate. And especially in an era where Democrats care so

00:26:27.500 much about identity politics, he's an old white guy. So that counts against him too. The reason Joe

00:26:32.640 Biden is still in the race is because he has support among black voters. But Democratic elites,

00:26:37.680 they're called the superdelegates. And the Democratic Party, these elites,

00:26:40.940 these superdelegates have an outsized influence on who the nominee is, regardless of who the voters

00:26:46.440 pick. They get to cast their own votes and in some cases outweigh the will of the primary voters.

00:26:53.140 The superdelegates may be giving up on Biden. I was speaking to Senator Ted Cruz the other night

00:26:58.080 on our show, Verdict with Ted Cruz. And he said the rumor going around the Senate is that the superdelegates

00:27:04.300 have soured on Biden. And that is why during impeachment, which we'll get to in a second,

00:27:08.260 the Democratic House impeachment managers threw Joe Biden under the bus is because the party elites

00:27:14.560 don't think Biden has what it takes. Trouble is Joe Biden is the only relatively normal candidate who

00:27:21.100 can beat Bernie Sanders. And they don't want Bernie Sanders to win the nomination either. So Bernie right

00:27:29.200 now in this, at this moment with the current level of black support that he has, he would be very easy

00:27:35.580 to beat in the general election. Okay. And that's, I think the party, the party elites and among the

00:27:40.680 Democrats are nervous about Bernie's radicalism, but they're also nervous that he's going to lose

00:27:44.420 a bunch of states. However, if Bernie can connect with black voters and he has been able to reach

00:27:50.900 out beyond just white voters. So he's got decent support among Hispanic voters, but if he can reach

00:27:55.840 out to black voters, he could be a very dangerous candidate in a general election because he does connect

00:28:01.680 with people in a way that Biden, Buttigieg and Warren simply do not. And he does have an authenticity

00:28:07.360 to him and he is a middle finger to the establishment, which everybody wants to send because the parties

00:28:12.240 are getting clearer. The left and the right are getting clearer and more honest. And they don't like

00:28:16.980 that mealy mouth double talk from the establishment. Speaking of impeachment, there is a pivotal moment

00:28:24.840 going on right now as we speak in the impeachment trial. The Democrats have finished their impeachment

00:28:30.060 arguments. The Trump team is now about to make their impeachment arguments. And then we're going to

00:28:36.120 see if I'm going to be stuck in DC covering impeachment for the next six weeks, or if I'm

00:28:40.000 going to get to go home. All of that will rest on just a few people. We'll get to that in a second.

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00:30:11.700 All right. We have got to get to impeachment because today is a pivotal day. You can hear more about

00:30:17.780 this in depth if you head on over to Verdict with Ted Cruz, which is the podcast we're doing every

00:30:23.320 night. The senator comes over from the Capitol and we immediately go into what happened on the day and

00:30:28.660 he gives us a behind the scenes look into impeachment. And thank you to everybody who's

00:30:32.360 listened and subscribed and left a five-star review because now that show is the number one podcast on

00:30:37.140 the charts. Joe Rogan endorses Bernie Sanders and then a day or two later, Verdict with Ted Cruz

00:30:42.780 becomes the number one podcast. I'm just saying, I'm not, look, maybe it's a coincidence. Who knows?

00:30:47.920 Maybe it's not. Let's just very quickly in impeachment cover what's happening today.

00:30:53.700 The House Democrats have finished their opening arguments. The Trump team now gets to make

00:30:57.220 their argument. They gave us a preview of what that argument is going to be just on Saturday,

00:31:03.260 two days ago. Here is a quick clip that sums it up.

00:31:05.820 Uh, everything that guy just said is bulls**t. Thank you.

00:31:12.180 All right. That's pretty much the argument that the Trump's Trump lawyers made. Joe Pesci is not

00:31:17.360 on the Trump legal team, but the Trump legal team did make what I call the my cousin Vinny argument

00:31:22.980 that House Democrats ran their mouths. Adam Schiff ran their mouths for three days, four days, and then

00:31:29.780 going into the middle of the night. And then the Trump legal team gets up there and pretty much said,

00:31:33.880 hey, everything that guy just said is BS. The defense really starts in earnest today. And the

00:31:42.220 defense actually matters. I think some people are looking at impeachment and everyone's eyes are

00:31:46.180 glazing over and they say, oh, who cares? Trump is obviously going to be acquitted. He's not going

00:31:50.100 to be removed from office. Let's just move on. We'll think about something else. The Trump legal team's

00:31:56.820 defense matters, not because Trump could be removed from office. I think that is virtually

00:32:03.380 impossible. It would require 20 Republican senators to suddenly flip on the president, flip on their

00:32:10.540 voters. Trump currently has a 95% approval rating among Republicans. It's just not going to happen.

00:32:16.040 However, Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents

00:32:22.960 have 47 seats. 53 to 47. The real vote is not about the vote to remove Trump from office.

00:32:31.960 You're not going to lose 20 Republican senators. The real worry is about the vote to call witnesses.

00:32:38.600 That's what's really being debated right now. Because if they don't call any more witnesses in

00:32:44.240 this impeachment trial, then this whole thing could be over on Saturday and I can go home to LA.

00:32:49.360 If they do vote to call more witnesses, like the House didn't get enough witnesses when they voted

00:32:56.380 to impeachment, so now all of a sudden we need more witnesses. If they vote to do that, this thing

00:33:00.460 could drag on for weeks. All you need for that to happen is four squishy Republicans, 53 to 47.

00:33:10.120 So you lose four Republicans, all of a sudden they're going to call all these witnesses. It's going to go on

00:33:14.260 forever. My ability to return home to Los Angeles relies on Mitt Romney not being a huge jerk,

00:33:21.160 which means I need to start shopping for apartments in Washington pretty soon, I think.

00:33:25.760 There are other Republicans too who are kind of squishy on this, obviously. There's Susan Collins in

00:33:31.160 Maine. There's Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. There's several others. So the Trump team really does need

00:33:37.820 to make a good case. The good thing is that the facts are on their side. The facts favor the Trump

00:33:44.420 team. The question is, are they going to play it safe or are they going to go for the jugular?

00:33:50.440 Gets to what we were talking about earlier. The party is becoming more honest. The party is becoming

00:33:54.560 more clear. The Trump legal team should be very clear here. The Democrats have been clear. The

00:33:59.760 Democrats have been clear since 2017. They have said since Trump got elected that they are going to

00:34:05.820 impeach this guy. They don't know what for, but they'll figure it out. Right? They tried to impeach

00:34:10.040 him for Russia. Then they tried to impeach him for his taxes. Then they tried to impeach him for

00:34:13.680 Stormy Daniels. Then they tried to impeach him for Ukraine. It's always been an impeachment in search

00:34:19.500 of a crime. Representative Al Green, the Democrat, said it in 2017. He said, I'm afraid if we don't impeach

00:34:25.060 this president, he might get reelected. Adam Schiff reiterated this just the other day during the

00:34:29.640 impeachment trial. He said, we cannot allow this impeachment to be decided at the ballot

00:34:35.720 box. We got to handle it beforehand. The obvious reason is because Adam Schiff thinks that the

00:34:41.000 voters are going to reelect Donald Trump. So are you going to play it safe? Are you going to go for

00:34:46.360 the jugular? Are you going to be clear here or not? The Trump team on the one hand could play it safe

00:34:50.200 and say, hey, the things you're claiming we did, we didn't really do. And we'll go through it point

00:34:56.640 by point and show why we didn't do that thing. Okay, that would be the safe version. The aggressive

00:35:01.400 version, the clear version would be to say, like Joe Pesci, everything that guy just said is BS,

00:35:08.220 but more to it. The president has the right to investigate corruption. There's no, it's not a

00:35:16.540 quid pro quo. It's not an impeachable offense. The president was investigating corruption. Who's

00:35:22.100 corruption? Joe Biden's corruption. They need to, they need to stop playing defense and start playing

00:35:28.180 offense on the Trump legal team. They need to say, look, this whole thing you're accusing us of

00:35:32.260 doing, it's a bunch of BS. But what about what you did? What about what Joe Biden and his son

00:35:37.000 Hunter did? What about Burisma? What about this crooked deal that the Obama administration set up

00:35:42.160 that they basically admitted to in official email threads about Joe and Hunter Biden, naming them

00:35:47.660 specifically? What about that? Put it all on Ukraine. And what you will see happen is, first of all,

00:35:54.160 it will be a much more convincing argument. But second of all, it's going to affect the election

00:35:59.680 in a way that's very helpful to the president. Impeachment generally has helped President Trump

00:36:04.400 and it has hurt the Democrats. However, if all you're talking about is allegations of Trump's

00:36:09.900 corruption, that doesn't look great. Put it back on the Democrats. Use this opportunity of impeachment

00:36:15.020 as a way to really hammer home the utter corruption, not just of this impeachment trial,

00:36:19.800 but of the Obama administration actions through Joe Biden in Ukraine that led to the impeachment

00:36:27.180 in the first place. Bring it up. Go for the jugular. I hope they do it. We'll see it because

00:36:30.980 it's going to start in just a couple hours. Now, another big story on impeachment today

00:36:35.080 that the mainstream media is making a big deal out of, but actually does not matter at all,

00:36:40.380 is a leak from John Bolton's new book. And you're going to see this is going to be the top

00:36:45.980 trend on Twitter all day. John Bolton is the former national security advisor to Donald Trump.

00:36:50.800 There's a leak out now from his new memoir that's coming out that was sent to the New York Times.

00:36:56.540 And it says that in his book, John Bolton accuses President Trump of personally telling him

00:37:04.680 that $391 million in aid to Ukraine should be frozen until Ukrainian officials announce the

00:37:12.740 investigation into the possible corruption from the Obama administration, from Joe Biden, from Hunter

00:37:17.520 Biden. That's the allegation. Bombshell. Now, John Bolton has come out and said this was an

00:37:24.940 unprofessional, irresponsible leak. I didn't leak this. Clearly, someone in the review process leaked this.

00:37:30.680 And the Trump team has come out pretty strongly against John Bolton here. And President Trump has

00:37:35.340 denied speaking to John Bolton about it. None of that matters. Because the story is BS from the very

00:37:43.420 beginning. Let's say that Trump did exactly what John Bolton allegedly accuses him of doing.

00:37:52.520 The president has every right to do it. The president has every right to investigate corruption.

00:38:00.040 The president has every right to use his negotiating leverage to force a partner overseas to live up to their

00:38:10.380 obligations. Every president has done this. Every president should be able to do this. This is basic and

00:38:17.700 fundamental to foreign policy. The way to really take the wind out of the Democrats' sails is to say,

00:38:24.020 hold on. Even if what you're saying is true, Trump was perfectly right to do it. What's the problem?

00:38:31.020 What's the crime? You're saying the president can't investigate corruption? What the left has relied

00:38:37.560 on through all of the impeachment farces, what they have relied on is the insinuation of doing something

00:38:44.600 wrong. Sources tell me that Trump did something really bad with Russia. We don't know exactly what he

00:38:53.220 did that was bad, but it was really bad. Yeah, it might not have been a crime, but anyway, it was

00:38:57.240 really bad, and so we got to get rid of the guy. Then it turns out he didn't do anything with Russia,

00:39:03.840 and we don't need to get rid of him, and the things they were alleging that he did aren't even illegal.

00:39:07.960 Well, we think that Trump might have done something bad on his taxes, so we got to get rid of him.

00:39:12.780 Well, we think what he did in Ukraine might have been really terrible and illegal.

00:39:16.380 You got to zero in on the details here. What did he do? If he did it, would that be illegal? And the

00:39:26.100 answer is no. It's just all smoke. It's all insinuation. It's all sizzle, no steak. How many

00:39:32.580 more metaphors can I use? It's just nothing. The only people who are going to focus on this John

00:39:38.740 Bolton thing are the mainstream media and the House Democrats, desperate to find something to impeach the

00:39:45.380 guy for. I think that story goes absolutely nowhere. Now, before we go, I want to get to

00:39:54.240 Kobe Bryant. Very sad story. Kobe Bryant, you know, one of the greatest athletes of his age,

00:40:02.240 one of the greatest basketball players ever, personally a very interesting guy. He spoke fluent

00:40:09.820 Italian. He grew up in part in Italy because he came from a basketball family, and his father was

00:40:15.320 playing over there. He was Catholic. He went to a Catholic parish right near where I go to church,

00:40:21.760 actually. Very interesting guy. He was an Academy Award winner. How many basketball players become

00:40:28.640 Academy Award winners? You know, I don't follow basketball, so I really can't comment on Kobe

00:40:32.320 Bryant's basketball playing at all. But I did see Kobe Bryant perform one time, and I saw him perform.

00:40:37.760 It was a surprise performance at the Hollywood Bowl when John Williams, the composer of Star Wars and

00:40:42.940 Indiana Jones. He was playing a concert. And in the middle of the show, out walks Kobe Bryant to debut

00:40:49.200 this poem that he wrote called Dear Basketball. And there was a short film with it, and John Williams

00:40:55.080 had composed the music. And so there's Kobe Bryant, you know, one of the greatest athletes of his age,

00:41:00.100 standing there reciting this poem at the Hollywood Bowl with John Williams, one of the greatest composers

00:41:04.900 of his age playing behind him. And it was a really cool experience. And I can't say that I saw Kobe

00:41:11.400 perform at what he's known for performing, but I did get to see him perform. And then the guy struck

00:41:16.380 down in his youth, 41 years old, and his daughter, who I think was 13 years old. So sad. Really tragic.

00:41:24.200 What do we take away from this? What can we do about this? Obviously, we can pray for Kobe, and for his

00:41:33.860 daughter, and for his family, and everybody affected by this, for all the unnamed people who were on that

00:41:39.780 helicopter, who are not making the headlines, but who also have families, who also have lives. We can pray for

00:41:45.700 them. What do we take away in terms of our own lives? First part of it, and I think this is some of what's so

00:41:53.000 shocking to us about Kobe's death, is that tragedy happens to everyone. Kobe Bryant is a guy who has

00:42:02.960 it all. He's a guy who would commute to work in a helicopter, right? Kobe's a rich, famous, incredible

00:42:10.540 athlete, handsome, Academy Award winner, great family, apparently a thriving spiritual life. Just

00:42:18.980 to everything, right? Cut down. It reminds us that tragedy happens to everybody. Everybody. Doesn't

00:42:27.400 matter how rich you are. Doesn't matter how wonderful and thriving and flourishing your life is.

00:42:33.560 Happens to everybody. That scares us. The other reason that we're reacting in this, I think, in this

00:42:40.620 shocking way, even beyond Kobe's importance to the culture, is because it reminds us that you do not

00:42:47.080 know when your time will come. But what a fluke. This guy is about to start the next chapter of his

00:42:52.540 life, and the helicopter just goes down. Off. Lights go off like that. And that scares us.

00:42:59.760 It reminds us that we will all die. And we will all die sooner than we think. We go about our lives

00:43:08.920 day to day feeling as though we're never going to die. But we will. It will happen sooner than we

00:43:15.720 think. It's a reminder that life is a preparation for death. It makes us think about what happens

00:43:23.600 after death. What it all means. What the significance of our life is today. Are you ready to die? If it

00:43:31.380 happened to you today, would you be ready? That is a startling question. And it brings us back to the

00:43:39.040 March for Life. The difference between the March for Life and the Women's March that happened the week

00:43:42.740 before. Would you be ready? You know, on the one hand, you have these people at the March for Life

00:43:49.220 joyful, exuberant, vibrant, vital. If the last thing that you saw of their lives were those frames from

00:43:58.420 the March for Life, you would say, man, they lived a good life. They really did it. They really figured

00:44:03.020 it out. If the last frames of your life were you wearing some stupid pink hat screaming curse words and

00:44:09.960 saying, F this and F that and F you. And you would say, gosh, that person, they messed up somewhere.

00:44:16.500 They just didn't, they just didn't figure it out, did they? That was a troubled person. They didn't

00:44:21.840 quite get to it. And it's a reminder too, that life is so precious. I mean, we are, none of us have met

00:44:27.560 Kobe Bryant. Statistically, zero people listening to this podcast right now, including me, have ever met

00:44:33.200 Kobe Bryant. And yet we're all really, really sad about his death. And we're especially sad about the

00:44:38.380 death of his daughter, because it's a reminder that life is precious. It's a reminder that the

00:44:44.200 March for Lifers are correct. And the people who are marching against life and shrieking to end lives

00:44:50.680 before they've barely begun are wrong. We know, we just know in our gut that life is precious,

00:44:58.580 that it matters, that even if there's suffering in there, there is meaning to life and that it is a good

00:45:02.980 thing. And we can all pray on that. We can pray for Kobe and his daughter, and we can pray for

00:45:10.320 ourselves. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll be back

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