The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 President Trump, our great Mikado virtuous man, kicked off his 12-day trip to Asia

00:00:05.540 with some golf club koi fish diplomacy alongside Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

00:00:12.080 We'll break down the first few days.

00:00:14.080 Then, Emily Butler and Jacob Aery join the panel of deplorables to discuss this awful shooting in Texas,

00:00:20.180 former DNC chairman Donna Brazile's seeming to substantiate Seth Rich conspiracy theories,

00:00:25.580 and Hillary's fighting back as Democrats almost uniformly throw her under the bus.

00:00:31.040 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:40.540 There is so much to get to today.

00:00:42.560 I just got back from, I was on the East Coast this weekend.

00:00:45.540 I went to the William F. Buckley Jr. dinner at Yale, which was great.

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00:01:00.960 So I went to that.

00:01:01.860 My flight was delayed by about 100 million hours, so I got in at about 4 a.m. this morning.

00:01:07.720 I have been mainlining Covfefe all day.

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00:01:12.520 So hopefully we'll have enough high energy.

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00:01:17.640 We'll have enough high energy to get through all these important topics today.

00:01:20.680 And I did get some good news.

00:01:21.920 I was so beaten down.

00:01:23.060 I came in, you know, it was really awful.

00:01:25.000 Yale has fallen apart, and obviously I haven't slept in forever

00:01:28.860 because Yale has fallen apart, but they still drink like fish,

00:01:32.320 so it was a very exhausting weekend.

00:01:34.320 And we got some good news today that we have to talk about first.

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00:04:41.040 Now we have to get to all of this news.

00:04:43.600 This was really crazy.

00:04:44.800 You know, I was up all night.

00:04:47.700 And in the middle of the night, I received exclusive video footage of President Trump

00:04:53.560 and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caught on a hot mic describing their diplomatic relationship.

00:04:59.480 There is beauty in the bellow of the blast.

00:05:04.080 There is grandeur in the growling of the gale.

00:05:06.860 There is eloquent outpouring when the lion is a-roaring.

00:05:09.760 And the tiger is a-lashing of his tail.

00:05:12.240 Yes, I like to see a tiger from the Congo or the Niger.

00:05:15.120 And especially when he's lashing of his tail.

00:05:18.060 Volcanoes have a splendor that is grim.

00:05:20.380 And earthquakes only terrify the doles.

00:05:23.240 But to him who's scientific, there is nothing that's terrific

00:05:26.000 in the falling of a flight of thunderbolts.

00:05:28.900 Yet in spite of all my meekness, if I have a little weakness,

00:05:33.820 it's a passion for a flight of thunderbolts.

00:05:39.820 If that is so, it's very, very, very, it's heaven and very,

00:05:43.600 a taste of one, oh, and a way to go and barely marry,

00:05:47.060 a new character day is done.

00:05:49.980 Incredible footage.

00:05:51.100 It is just amazing to really get a peek in at what diplomacy looks like.

00:05:55.160 There it is.

00:05:55.760 There is eloquent outpouring when the lion is a-roaring.

00:05:59.340 And our president, with his big golden mane, was a-roaring.

00:06:03.380 Earthquakes only terrify the doles.

00:06:05.400 It's evident very.

00:06:06.820 Our tastes are one.

00:06:08.400 By the way, is that reference the most obscure musical reference

00:06:12.740 we've ever put on any of these shows?

00:06:14.340 I think it might be, as Groucho marks in the Mikado.

00:06:18.340 But it does sum it up very well.

00:06:20.020 Our tastes are one.

00:06:21.660 President Trump and Shinzo Abe seem to get along quite well.

00:06:24.700 Trump's journey will be the longest presidential trip to Asia in 25 years,

00:06:29.600 quarter of a century.

00:06:30.740 The last trip that extended this long was undertaken by President Bush I,

00:06:35.700 and it famously did not end very well.

00:06:38.040 ABC News has obtained a videotape that shows clearly what happened when the president fell ill.

00:06:44.260 Here's White House correspondent Ann Compton.

00:06:46.400 The lone camera in the dining room was locked in on the head table

00:06:51.120 when President Bush was overcome by nausea and fell forward.

00:06:55.200 It appears he lost consciousness as he toppled over onto his host, Prime Minister Miyazawa.

00:07:00.740 The new scenes show First Lady Barbara Bush acting quickly,

00:07:04.400 recognizing her husband needed help, bringing her napkin to his mouth,

00:07:08.340 then stepping back to let the Secret Service agents take over.

00:07:11.140 I know what you're thinking.

00:07:12.800 You're thinking that President Bush Sr.'s keeling over and vomiting was a bit low energy.

00:07:19.140 So Trump decided to make his diplomatic overtures higher energy,

00:07:23.440 not by spewing his lunch, but by spewing his words.

00:07:26.380 The Japanese people are thriving.

00:07:28.300 Your cities are vibrant.

00:07:29.960 And you've built one of the world's most powerful economies.

00:07:33.540 I don't know if it's as good as ours.

00:07:37.460 I think not.

00:07:39.040 Okay?

00:07:41.240 And we're going to try and keep it that way.

00:07:43.340 But you'll be second.

00:07:45.540 And yet, for all of its modern splendor,

00:07:49.160 the people of Japan maintain a profound respect

00:07:52.340 for their rich culture, heritage, and traditions.

00:07:55.540 Now, could you spot the point at which he went off script?

00:07:59.280 I don't know if you could tell.

00:08:00.280 Could you tell the point where he stopped reading the script and started ad-libbing?

00:08:03.860 In his heritage and tradition.

00:08:04.680 Yeah, right around there.

00:08:06.500 Somewhere around there.

00:08:08.360 You know, Abe, by the way, seemed okay with this.

00:08:10.940 The American mainstream media are ripping this to shreds

00:08:14.360 and saying this was awful and terrible diplomacy.

00:08:16.800 But Abe seemed okay with it.

00:08:18.080 He smiled as his interpreter and his earpiece told him what Trump had said.

00:08:22.080 The conclusion of this meeting has been great.

00:08:24.440 Japan has announced that it will go along with U.S. sanctions on North Korea.

00:08:28.800 They're going to freeze the assets of 35 North Korean groups and individuals.

00:08:33.480 He also underscored, Abe underscored the Trump policy,

00:08:36.960 the American policy on North Korea, which is no dialogue.

00:08:40.500 We've had enough dialogue time to maximize pressure.

00:08:43.220 To exemplify the U.S.-Japanese cooperation,

00:08:46.420 Abe gave Donald Trump a hat embroidered with the phrase,

00:08:50.060 Donald and Shinzo make alliance even greater

00:08:54.160 before they headed to play golf.

00:08:56.480 I love it so much.

00:08:59.380 This diplomacy has an exuberance to it.

00:09:02.200 I mean, even though it doesn't even say Trump and Abe,

00:09:04.940 it says Donald and Shinzo.

00:09:06.680 It's so campy.

00:09:08.140 It's so real politics.

00:09:10.520 You know, it's being very honest with what it is.

00:09:13.180 There's no pretense here.

00:09:14.540 There's no guile.

00:09:16.160 You know, President Trump said on North Korea,

00:09:17.880 the era of strategic patience is over.

00:09:21.140 That was the title, strategic patience, of Obama's policy toward North Korea,

00:09:25.800 which transcends parity to say we have strategic patience.

00:09:31.480 We're going to lead from behind.

00:09:32.920 It just isn't possible.

00:09:34.100 You know, it's a euphemism that is so ridiculous as to undermine itself.

00:09:40.680 Abe said dialogue has failed for 25 years,

00:09:43.920 so he's throwing some shade on President Obama's foreign policy.

00:09:49.060 And so anyway, they seem to have gone along quite well.

00:09:51.560 CNN could not take it.

00:09:53.640 CNN was so furious they had to breathlessly report fake news.

00:09:57.700 This was a headline from one of the moments of this trip.

00:09:59.780 Quote, Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond.

00:10:08.060 So there was this moment where Trump and Abe were there at the little koi pond with the fish,

00:10:13.420 and they were spooning out spoonfuls of fish food.

00:10:17.260 And then the camera zoomed in on Trump.

00:10:20.460 This is the line from the report.

00:10:23.560 President Trump took a moment out of his whirlwind Japanese trip

00:10:27.540 to connect with nature and feed some fish.

00:10:30.040 But after a few delicate scoops, he resorted to a grand gesture met with some laughter.

00:10:36.060 With a look of enjoyment, Trump quickly poured his entire box of food into the pond.

00:10:41.640 The move got some laughs and a smile from Abe,

00:10:45.820 who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump.

00:10:48.860 So they had to bury that line, right?

00:10:50.680 The whole thing is what an idiot Trump is.

00:10:52.380 There's a video that CNN posted where they're spooning it out.

00:10:56.620 It zooms in on Trump, and Trump pours out the rest of the box.

00:11:00.580 The reason they had to add that artificial zoom is because they didn't want to show that Abe had done that first.

00:11:06.600 Fake news at its finest.

00:11:08.920 You know, obviously par for the course for CNN.

00:11:10.980 But there is no reason to give those people even an ounce of credibility.

00:11:16.060 They don't deserve it.

00:11:17.280 They don't possess it.

00:11:18.480 They are so furious that Donald Trump, contrary to all of their expectations,

00:11:23.440 all of their insistence, is handling diplomacy relatively quite well.

00:11:27.560 And so they have to make up, just make up stories out of whole cloth,

00:11:32.420 such as Trump endangering the lives of koi fish or embarrassing himself.

00:11:37.580 Now compare this, compare this trip to the highly successful foreign trip,

00:11:43.240 you know, to his previous administration.

00:11:45.200 Here is the failed Russian reset.

00:11:46.520 President Biden and I have been saying, and that is, we want to reset our relationship.

00:11:54.500 And so we will do it together.

00:12:02.080 Thank you very much.

00:12:03.240 You are very welcome.

00:12:05.220 We worked hard to get the right Russian word.

00:12:07.980 Do you think we got it?

00:12:08.700 You get it wrong.

00:12:09.540 I got it wrong.

00:12:11.300 It should be peresagruzka.

00:12:13.200 And this says, peresagruzka, which means overshark.

00:12:18.060 If any clip could exemplify Barack Obama's administration and Hillary Clinton's candidacy,

00:12:25.100 it would be that one.

00:12:25.880 They failed.

00:12:26.440 But you didn't see rampant reporting in the mainstream media on this huge international embarrassment.

00:12:32.000 No, no, no, because that was Hillary.

00:12:33.780 It's all nice.

00:12:34.460 There's a patina of elitism and legitimacy there.

00:12:38.260 Donald Trump has been carrying this off very well.

00:12:40.520 Consider Barack Obama bowing down before every foreign leader he could find.

00:12:45.620 He would bow down before the stewardess on his Japan air flight.

00:12:49.380 You know, we see Barack Obama, or rather Donald Trump did not do that.

00:12:53.920 He shook Emperor Hirohito's, or Emperor Hirohito, he shook the Japanese emperor's hand.

00:12:58.520 We're seeing two foreign policies here.

00:13:00.380 The Obama policy in which America is a supplicant begging forgiveness for its endless imagined crimes.

00:13:06.780 And we're seeing the Trump foreign policy of speaking loudly and carrying the gold-plated golf clubs that Prime Minister Abe actually gave him.

00:13:16.200 Which version makes America and the world safer and more prosperous?

00:13:20.580 To discuss this, we bring on our extra-special covete panel today, Emily Butler from Daily Wire,

00:13:26.680 and also from wandering around madly around the sidewalks, Jacob Airey.

00:13:32.000 Thank you both for being here.

00:13:33.680 Emily, does the world hate us and does it matter?

00:13:37.640 Yes and no, as an answer to both of those.

00:13:40.460 Really strong.

00:13:41.180 Oh, good.

00:13:43.240 Yes, they hate us.

00:13:44.080 No, it doesn't matter.

00:13:45.160 Perfect.

00:13:45.440 Yeah, no, actually, I don't think the rest of the world hates us.

00:13:48.440 I think what you're seeing now is more and more news organizations start to resemble actually marketing agencies,

00:13:54.400 where there is news, and then there is news according to this media outlet sponsor.

00:14:01.040 So whatever that media outlet sponsor wants us to believe, interpret, digest, is the news that we're going to get.

00:14:07.780 But, you know, perfect case in point, the whole Shinzo Abe fish thing, I mean, that's like classic cutting up of what actually happened

00:14:16.600 and turning it into what you need to know, basically, everything that's coming from CNN or Vox or everything from the left.

00:14:22.740 But it was a perfectly, they must have hired a team of Hollywood writers to take what actually happened

00:14:28.160 and so mash it up and rewrite everything about it as to make this narrative that they ran.

00:14:35.000 Only Hollywood can bring us the truth.

00:14:37.780 Yeah, you know, they always do this all the time.

00:14:40.800 They have some narrative about an event in the news, and then it turns out not to be true at all.

00:14:45.460 Like Michael Brown, right?

00:14:46.560 They said that was an example of police brutality against black citizens, and he was innocent, and he was surrendering and all of that.

00:14:55.120 Then we find out none of that's true.

00:14:56.340 The grand jury showed it was true.

00:14:57.380 Three autopsies showed it was true.

00:14:58.700 They said, well, that wasn't true, but it expresses a greater truth.

00:15:02.940 That lie expresses the greater truth.

00:15:05.000 Which is their narrative.

00:15:05.760 Jacob, why are Democrats so mortified and embarrassed by President Trump's eccentricity?

00:15:12.440 By all accounts, his foreign policy is much more successful than his predecessors.

00:15:16.520 Is it just that the left cares more about appearance than reality?

00:15:19.300 Yes, they do care more about appearance than reality.

00:15:23.020 And also, they're not embarrassed by Trump as the president.

00:15:27.120 They're embarrassed that Trump is beating Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy.

00:15:32.620 That's what they're embarrassed about.

00:15:34.020 So anything that they can make look like a snafu or a gaffe or anything, they're going to turn it and use it against President Trump.

00:15:41.700 I think that it's absolutely despicable how CNN edited that video to make Trump look like a goofball and whatnot.

00:15:50.760 And one thing that they left out, which I thought was kind of funny, I thought they would have talked about this, is right before Trump went to Japan, he visited Pearl Harbor.

00:16:00.880 You know, I guess just to remind himself, okay, these people attacked us before World War II.

00:16:07.740 That's what got us into the war.

00:16:09.440 So now I'm going to go and shake hands with their emperor.

00:16:12.820 And quite frankly, I'm proud of the president for not bowing.

00:16:15.800 I'm glad that he respected him and shook his hand.

00:16:19.080 But the United States, we're not a nobility.

00:16:22.240 We bow to no one.

00:16:23.100 You know, I have always had, in the dark recesses of my conspiratorial mind, I have always had this theory that when President Bush keeled over and vomited on the prime minister of Japan, it was really a performance to get back for Pearl Harbor.

00:16:38.320 You know, George Bush, a hero of World War II.

00:16:40.800 It was a subtle little jab 50 years later.

00:16:43.300 Okay, we have so much more to talk about.

00:16:45.020 We have to talk about this awful shooting at the Texas church on Sunday.

00:16:49.100 And then we have to just have much better news, which is the reveling of the DNC and the Democratic Party falling apart, a circular firing squad of My Third Cousin Once Removed's former campaign and Donna Brazile.

00:17:02.140 But I'm sorry, guys.

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00:17:59.880 A militant atheist killed 26 people on Sunday at a Texas church, including his grandmother-in-law.

00:18:17.460 This was all after sending threatening text messages to his own mother-in-law.

00:18:21.680 Authorities now suggest the incident was primarily caused by this domestic dispute.

00:18:25.720 The shooter was eventually taken down after a local resident and hero shot back at him through an opening in his armor.

00:18:33.020 He shot at his side because he saw that there would be an opening in his armor.

00:18:36.600 He flagged down a car, and then he chased him as the shooter tried to get away.

00:18:42.040 You know, the left has been trying to draw an equivalence between shootings such as this,

00:18:46.920 the so-called real senseless violence, and terrorist attacks like we saw in New York.

00:18:51.320 It is amazing because you'll always hear Democrats refer to actual terrorist attacks as senseless violence,

00:18:58.160 even when there's a perfectly sensible and logical reasoning behind those attacks.

00:19:02.480 And then they'll refer to senseless violence as a terrorist attack because, obviously,

00:19:06.740 their view of the world is entirely upside down.

00:19:09.480 We should be very careful with language here because terrorism can be defined down to nothing.

00:19:15.180 It's a term that's bandied about a lot, but it does have a real definition.

00:19:17.840 It is the use of violence against civilians to achieve a political goal.

00:19:24.660 So when Muslim terrorists, jihadi terrorists target civilians to affect the foreign policy of the United States

00:19:34.420 or the foreign policy of their own so-called caliphate, that falls under the definition of terrorism.

00:19:39.280 If a crazy person just shoots up a bunch of people because he's angry at his in-laws or something to that effect, it's awful.

00:19:46.920 The human carnage will look virtually the same, but there is a categorical difference

00:19:52.760 between your run-of-the-mill mass shooting, a mass shooting, and a terrorist attack.

00:19:59.360 The motive is different, and those are different categories.

00:20:02.080 So, you know, they'll blame it on racism or Islamophobia or whatever, but there is that categorical difference.

00:20:09.300 Now, this guy, I won't even say his name, he was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and child.

00:20:16.240 Many now are calling for gun control.

00:20:18.200 They're being vicious in mocking people for offering thoughts and prayers,

00:20:23.220 even though the victims were, at the moment that they were tragically killed, all praying.

00:20:29.180 They're saying this is awful and terrible, and they're blaming Republicans for it.

00:20:34.340 But it was illegal.

00:20:35.400 It was already illegal for this shooter to have a gun.

00:20:37.760 He seemed to get it anyway.

00:20:39.060 The state even denied him a license.

00:20:41.840 Emily, is there any way to stop shootings like this?

00:20:46.700 That's, I mean, if I had the answer to that, obviously we could just implement it and everything would be done.

00:20:50.920 I don't think that there's a real answer here other than affecting the culture.

00:20:54.360 I mean, we've had legalized arms since 1776, and we've only recently started to see this uptick in mass shootings.

00:21:03.360 I don't know what is the proper cause of that.

00:21:05.780 And we talk about, you know, splitting it up between terrorism, you know, domestic assault, workplace violence.

00:21:11.920 You know, none of that affects me when I go to church or when I go to a parade, when I go anywhere.

00:21:16.700 You know, what the attacker or what the assailant's point is or what their end goal is, all that matters to me is that I can't go out anywhere anymore.

00:21:26.960 And you see that from something that's falling apart in the culture.

00:21:30.600 Well, there is a statistical issue here that a mass shooting is a shooting with three or more people killed.

00:21:37.180 So those, you know, more people every year are killed by hands and feet than are killed by rifles of any sort, including the so-called assault weapons and shotguns and so on.

00:21:48.360 So there is a media component of this as well.

00:21:52.740 Well, but your point is quite right.

00:21:56.500 You know, if you had the answer to how to stop these shootings, then you'd say it and it would be over.

00:22:00.640 And if Democrats had the answer to how to stop these shootings, they would affect that legislation, it would be over.

00:22:05.360 But while they mock people who offer thoughts and prayers for this awful outcome of the fallen nature of man,

00:22:12.480 you'll notice that none of the gun control bills that they have proposed would have stopped any of these shootings.

00:22:18.460 It wouldn't have stopped any of these shootings.

00:22:19.980 There is one potential legal maneuver to reduce these number of shootings, but that would be the repeal of the Second Amendment.

00:22:29.820 Short of that, short of mass gun confiscation, short of repealing or confiscating, rather, the 300 million guns in this country, no law will change that.

00:22:40.000 Just as we've seen in this particular case, it was illegal for this guy to own a gun.

00:22:45.840 He was denied a license.

00:22:46.800 Nevertheless, he obviously was able to get his hands on plenty of guns.

00:22:52.180 One aspect that Democrats often don't want to talk about with this is the mental health aspect.

00:22:57.300 We shut down most of the mental institutions in the 1980s because of the discovery of drugs that people would take,

00:23:04.060 and it would basically cure their conditions.

00:23:06.820 Trouble is, once they got out of the institutions, they stopped taking the drugs,

00:23:10.060 and then there were just a lot of crazy people on the street.

00:23:13.920 It's very difficult to involuntarily commit people these days.

00:23:17.200 Jacob, should we be able to?

00:23:19.000 Is that an answer to preventing people from undertaking these awful acts?

00:23:25.440 I think it could be.

00:23:26.660 I'm always hesitant to say we should arrest someone and put them in an asylum against their will.

00:23:35.220 I'm always hesitant to say that.

00:23:36.860 That's because we found you in one.

00:23:38.300 I understand.

00:23:39.080 There's a personal component, too.

00:23:40.620 But it's trying to speak objectively.

00:23:43.060 It's a hard answer.

00:23:44.080 But is that the answer to this mental health crisis?

00:23:48.040 I think it could be.

00:23:49.220 And, you know, it's really hard as a conservative because you would have to—the government would have to fund these institutions.

00:23:55.880 I mean, a bunch—it's going to be hard for a private citizen to convince them to fund all these loony bins, right?

00:24:02.500 But it's hard as a conservative to say, oh, the federal government needs to be involved.

00:24:06.500 But I think they should to some extent because it's a public safety issue,

00:24:10.080 and we're seeing that with more of these mentally ill people who are breaking the law and getting their hands on guns.

00:24:15.660 And I would just like to say that, you know, just as a Texan, you know, my heart goes out.

00:24:20.920 Fortunately, my family, they were two-hour—two, three-hour-something east of the shooting.

00:24:27.120 Which in Texas is, like, right next door.

00:24:29.340 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:24:29.480 A two-hour journey, that's going to be the town over.

00:24:31.440 Exactly.

00:24:31.980 And I just want to say that my heart goes out to my fellow Texans in this time of crisis.

00:24:36.340 And I know Democrats are going to hate it, but my thoughts and prayers are out there as well.

00:24:41.000 How dare you, you awful bigot.

00:24:42.880 And also worth pointing out that this tragedy, this guy was taken down by a good guy with a gun.

00:24:48.380 A bad guy with a gun was taken down by a good guy with a gun.

00:24:50.660 Unfortunately, too late to have saved two dozen people—more than two dozen people.

00:24:55.500 Okay, really, really awful situation.

00:24:58.340 Definitely another example of tragedy during the Clavenless weekend.

00:25:02.320 And, yeah, thoughts and prayers go out to us.

00:25:04.240 And if you have a problem with thoughts and prayers, then tough, pal.

00:25:07.680 Too bad.

00:25:08.620 Let's move on to good news, which is Donna Brazile.

00:25:11.260 Donna Brazile has dedicated her book to Seth Rich.

00:25:15.500 He was that DNC staffer who was gunned down in an apparent robbery gone wrong.

00:25:21.360 She said that his death made her fear for her life, that it led her to close her blinds in fear of snipers

00:25:27.980 and to install a security system in her home.

00:25:30.660 Now, the right was eviscerated for suggesting that this kid, Seth Rich, was involuntarily suicided, to borrow a phrase.

00:25:41.500 You know, the right has considered the Clintons, in their conspiratorial recesses, to be murderers for three decades.

00:25:49.000 And this was, you know, like number 500 on the list or something.

00:25:52.600 The right was eviscerated for indulging this conspiracy theory.

00:25:56.600 Emily, are we now seeing the Clintons killed Seth Rich theory being revived by the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee?

00:26:04.820 Well, if you ask rthedonalds subreddit, it never needed reviving because it was never off the table.

00:26:11.380 They were always hot on the case.

00:26:12.900 But there's this new evidence that has come to light, and, you know, I don't know if that's another bit of marketing,

00:26:20.980 that they're just, you know, pushing out there to get more people to buy her book to find out everything that she meant by that.

00:26:26.960 It certainly makes me want to find out more.

00:26:29.100 But, you know, it makes me wonder why, if she's making such a public statement about that, why she isn't being questioned about it.

00:26:35.820 And why she isn't being suicided, for that matter.

00:26:37.640 Either way, from both sides of this, there are more questions than answers.

00:26:42.900 Jacob, the left has vigorously shot down the conspiracy theory.

00:26:46.580 Is it so fringy?

00:26:47.680 I know you're a tinfoil hat guy.

00:26:49.960 I don't, I think that in this particular case, there's just not enough information.

00:26:54.700 But I think Donna Brazile, when she heard that, the fact that she was investigating what was going on in the DNC,

00:27:00.700 hey, if I had been in that situation and I heard that someone on my team or, you know, on the team had been killed,

00:27:07.080 yeah, that would make me paranoid, too.

00:27:08.560 I'm not saying that that was the case with Seth Rich, but I do, I honestly think that maybe there was a little bit of fear

00:27:15.120 that went through her spine, and she lacks one.

00:27:19.180 Clearly, you know, she's going after the Clintons now when it's okay to do that, when Hillary, after Hillary's been defeated,

00:27:25.340 and now Bernie and Focahontas are, you know, the rising stars of the Democratic Party.

00:27:31.040 So, to me, this, to me, I can kind of see her perspective on if she was scared.

00:27:36.640 I think, though, it's just more posturing.

00:27:38.240 She just wants to make a clean break from the Clintons, and this is the best way to do it.

00:27:41.440 I once heard the greatest evidence against the charge that the Clintons are murderers,

00:27:45.920 which is that Anthony Weiner is still alive, that that man is breathing today.

00:27:50.700 It basically debunks all of the Clinton murder conspiracies.

00:27:54.240 Well, I don't know.

00:27:55.280 Being a registered sex offender kind of destroys all his credibility.

00:28:00.100 So, even if he was to say something, they can just go, hey, he's a pedophile.

00:28:03.820 That is true.

00:28:04.480 And even if the Clintons don't personally murder people, we do know they're pretty cold-blooded.

00:28:08.740 So, if I were done in Brazil, I probably would have slept with one eye open, too.

00:28:12.200 But speaking of done in Brazil, she has also now apparently admitted

00:28:16.520 that she considered replacing Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine on the ticket

00:28:21.860 with Joe Biden and Cory Booker after Clinton passed out mid-stride on her way to a car in New York.

00:28:28.420 Listen to how they talk, though.

00:28:29.880 She's the head of the DNC.

00:28:31.780 She considered replacing the democratically elected ticket.

00:28:35.420 Jacob, has the Democratic Party always been so hostile to democracy?

00:28:40.040 Yes.

00:28:40.560 They have this superdelegate system, which, you know, whenever they're party members,

00:28:46.480 they vote for a candidate, they have a superdelegate system where it's like people like

00:28:51.540 former Vice President Al Gore, you know, all these, George Soros, I'm sure, is one of them.

00:28:56.080 I don't know if that's for sure.

00:28:57.080 But it's all these former governors and retired Democrats and donors.

00:29:02.160 And they can actually supersede the will of their own party.

00:29:07.340 And I just think that, of course, yes, they're totally anti-democracy.

00:29:12.040 I know they're already anti-republic, so to speak.

00:29:14.800 But I think that Donna Brazile wanting to do that in the middle of a campaign,

00:29:18.700 I think that would have been a bad move on her part because that would have made the party look weak.

00:29:23.340 Had she had done that earlier when the primary was still going on, it probably would have made more sense.

00:29:29.960 But the fact that she did it later, I think that only would have helped Trump even more.

00:29:35.440 And it is so elitist.

00:29:37.540 By a bizarre happenstance, I was actually a sommelier at George Soros' wedding.

00:29:42.720 So I was in a room with all of these people.

00:29:45.240 And to hear them talk, they have utopia.

00:29:48.660 It's that Davos view of the world.

00:29:50.260 They have it.

00:29:51.240 They're going to tell those people to get in line.

00:29:54.260 And, yeah, so what if their constituents elected this ticket for the general election?

00:30:00.540 I don't know if it's going to be the best.

00:30:02.480 She has a little bad health.

00:30:03.460 Let's just replace the whole thing, not even with the guy who lost,

00:30:06.140 but completely separate candidates because we know what's best for the proletariat.

00:30:10.060 It's an aristocracy.

00:30:11.480 It is a very perverse.

00:30:13.720 It's an aristocracy without any of the class.

00:30:15.960 Exactly.

00:30:16.760 Emily, did Biden and Booker have the better chance?

00:30:19.480 Taking her claim on its merit, should she have replaced Hillary Clinton with Biden and Booker?

00:30:26.740 And how will this all affect strategy in 2020?

00:30:29.920 I mean, I think Biden and Booker may have had a chance in the primaries,

00:30:34.160 even towards the end of the primaries.

00:30:35.620 I don't think with less than two months left to go,

00:30:39.340 there's going to be any chance of swapping somebody out in the middle of a national election.

00:30:44.220 I don't think that was a necessarily strong decision to even consider.

00:30:49.040 And I don't think, I think what her answer was is that she couldn't do it to the supporters of Hillary,

00:30:54.000 which is ultimately what made her change her mind at the last minute.

00:30:56.820 I mean, no, it would have been a show of desperation.

00:30:58.580 Like Jacob said, there would have been, it would have shown absolute collapse within the party,

00:31:02.260 which was already starting to fray at the DNC when you had people trying to chant,

00:31:07.820 to cover up the sounds of Hillary being booed on the platform.

00:31:11.860 That's true. Biden and Booker were certainly better candidates.

00:31:14.660 But at a certain point, you got to live with your decisions and you have to move on

00:31:19.700 and not show utter collapse right before a tight presidential election.

00:31:24.340 All right. Excellent panel. Thank you for being here.

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