The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 546 - The Mask Slips

00:00:00.200 The unmasking of Mike Flynn in the last days of the Obama administration is the most egregious political scandal of our lifetimes.

00:00:08.560 And we've just learned it goes all the way up to Joe Biden, maybe even higher.

00:00:12.740 Meanwhile, the new masking order in L.A. caps off the most arbitrary political power grab of our lifetimes.

00:00:20.060 Luckily, President Trump is starting to break with his expert doctor dictators.

00:00:24.840 Then another rough interview for Joe Biden, a big Republican win in California.

00:00:30.620 And finally, the mailbag. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:41.840 Face masks are now required in this city of Los Angeles every time you leave your home.

00:00:49.020 Not when you go into a store, not when you go to the supermarket.

00:00:52.380 Look at any time you leave your home. You could be going on a hike in the middle of nowhere.

00:00:57.120 You're two miles from anybody or more. You still have to wear your mask.

00:01:01.480 I am obviously going to ignore that order, and I recommend that all of you do as well.

00:01:06.060 If you happen to be in Los Angeles or anywhere else, one of these draconian rules is in place.

00:01:10.620 But that's not the end to the crazy arbitrary power grabs.

00:01:14.140 We'll get to masking. We'll get to the unmasking because this Obamagate thing is real.

00:01:20.360 I usually play it pretty safe when it comes to these scandals.

00:01:24.700 You know, I usually tamp down expectations.

00:01:27.220 This one's pretty big. It goes up pretty high.

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00:02:41.080 So I'm not going to comply with this mask order in Los Angeles.

00:02:45.080 This is arbitrary.

00:02:46.500 It has no bearing on reality.

00:02:49.340 I'm just not going to do it, okay?

00:02:51.040 There's a very famous short story.

00:02:52.680 A lot of kids read it in school.

00:02:53.900 It's called Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville,

00:02:55.760 the guy who wrote Moby Dick.

00:02:57.060 And in it, you know, there's this guy Bartleby,

00:02:59.080 and Bartleby is working at this office,

00:03:01.500 and whenever he's told to do something,

00:03:03.300 he just says, I would prefer not to.

00:03:06.640 You can say that to your boss.

00:03:08.360 Hey, go write up this thing.

00:03:09.860 Go do this thing.

00:03:10.580 I would prefer not to.

00:03:11.720 That's how I feel about this order.

00:03:13.380 We got another piece of news from Los Angeles yesterday.

00:03:18.580 Remember, we covered these arbitrary public health rulings.

00:03:21.900 So they've told us now, they've heard us,

00:03:24.660 they say the beaches are open, but for active use only.

00:03:30.080 No passive use on the beach.

00:03:33.200 Face coverings are required when you're sitting on the beach.

00:03:37.060 So you're going to get a very awkward tan line

00:03:40.200 because the bottom part of your face is going to be very pale,

00:03:43.260 and the upper part is going to be tan.

00:03:45.300 You must maintain six feet of distance from others.

00:03:48.480 If it's five feet, 11 inches, you will get coronavirus,

00:03:51.900 but six feet and one inch, you'll be good.

00:03:54.720 You are permitted on the beach to swim, surf, bodyboard, run, and walk.

00:04:02.500 Maybe not jogging.

00:04:03.700 Jogging might be up in the air.

00:04:05.180 But you are not permitted.

00:04:07.220 It is prohibited for you to sit or sunbathe

00:04:11.420 or play volleyball or picnic.

00:04:15.200 You can't picnic or bike.

00:04:17.560 You can run, but you can't bike.

00:04:18.800 You can surf, but you can't bike.

00:04:20.040 You can walk, but you can't sit.

00:04:24.140 And you can't sunbathe,

00:04:25.480 even though some preliminary evidence shows that

00:04:27.840 vitamin D is a very good way to fight off coronavirus.

00:04:31.620 But I don't know.

00:04:32.280 They don't want you to get too much sun, too much vitamin D.

00:04:35.000 It's just, it's absurd, obviously.

00:04:37.280 I feel like Nancy Pelosi at the State of the Union.

00:04:42.080 It's arbitrary is the problem.

00:04:45.100 And arbitrary power grabs are not what we're about in this country.

00:04:48.340 We like the rules to be clear.

00:04:50.140 We have a country that is based on a constitution that builds up institutions that then pass laws for us and govern us.

00:04:58.600 Not the whims of some two-bit tin pot dictators.

00:05:02.880 How long is this going to go on for?

00:05:04.480 We were told initially three months by L.A. officials.

00:05:07.560 Then they decided to walk that back because there was an uproar.

00:05:10.600 But they didn't totally walk it back.

00:05:12.700 Now, even if they're going to start reopening certain things,

00:05:16.880 the mayor of L.A. is saying that the city is not going to reopen until there's a cure, which may never come.

00:05:23.580 I think we have to all recognize that we're not moving beyond COVID-19.

00:05:27.940 We're learning to live with it.

00:05:29.800 It's important not to overreact, but it's important to take this serious because it is as dangerous today

00:05:35.260 as it was the first day that it arrived in our cities and our country.

00:05:39.480 So, quite frankly, there's no so-called open state or open country that doesn't continue to have health orders

00:05:45.580 telling us to cover our faces, physically distance,

00:05:49.280 and to tell people that you're safest working from and staying at home.

00:05:52.720 At the same time, we take steps forward.

00:05:55.260 For instance, this past weekend, we opened up our trails.

00:05:58.060 We have retail for curbside pickup.

00:06:00.220 We'll see that expanded and even some active recreation on our beaches this coming weekend.

00:06:05.960 Those are important.

00:06:07.160 And we've never been fully closed.

00:06:08.940 We'll never be completely open until we have a cure.

00:06:12.060 But I do believe that we can take steps.

00:06:14.100 But monitor those numbers.

00:06:15.680 Listen to the scientists and the medical professionals.

00:06:18.180 And make the tough calls, even when there's criticism.

00:06:21.720 Until we have a cure, we'll never go back to normal.

00:06:26.060 We're going to have to be safer at home.

00:06:27.600 And until we have a cure, we're going to have to wear masks.

00:06:30.220 Cover our faces, cover the expressive part of our bodies, shut ourselves up until there's a cure.

00:06:37.520 Can't sit on the beach in Southern California until there's a cure.

00:06:43.680 What makes this guy think there's going to be a cure?

00:06:46.860 Do we have a cure for AIDS?

00:06:48.940 Do we have a cure for Zika?

00:06:50.700 Do we have a cure for Ebola?

00:06:52.900 Do we have a cure for the common cold?

00:06:55.640 Do we have a cure for any, any of these viruses, diseases?

00:07:01.180 No.

00:07:02.920 People who put their faith in science.

00:07:04.800 We did a whole show yesterday about the false god science.

00:07:07.380 People who put their faith in modern medical natural science are going to be disappointed.

00:07:12.700 We just pretend that, okay, well, yes, it takes 14 months and four days to develop a vaccine to fight off a novel virus and epidemic.

00:07:24.220 We don't know.

00:07:25.660 Maybe we'll get a vaccine.

00:07:26.920 Maybe we won't.

00:07:28.820 And by the way, if we do get a vaccine, how many people do you think want to be in the first test group on that vaccine?

00:07:33.180 Something tells me about zero.

00:07:34.740 So how are you actually going to get people to take it?

00:07:37.780 You're going to, you're going to force them to take it.

00:07:39.320 You're going to do coerced injections. 1.00

00:07:41.560 I don't know.

00:07:42.260 The way the government, government power grabs me going, possibly just saying this is going to take a long time and we have to return to normal.

00:07:50.800 And I'm sick of these two bit tin pot banana republic dictators like Eric Garcetti flexing their muscles saying you can, yeah, you can ride a bike, but you can't, you can't jog. 0.90

00:08:01.820 You can, and you can't sunbathe, but you can, you can, you know, roll around in the sand and you can hop on one foot while singing the national anthem in a top hat, but you're not allowed to wear a fedora. 0.95

00:08:14.340 I mean, just ridiculous, senseless kind of rulings.

00:08:19.860 I frankly, I think, I don't think I'm exaggerating. 0.84

00:08:21.860 I think I'm going too easy on him.

00:08:23.220 Um, we are not ruled by these guys.

00:08:27.440 We are, and, and these guys are exporting their power to, to, to scientific lab coat dictators.

00:08:34.500 Fortunately though, while you hear Fauci saying we have to follow the science, all hell the medical science.

00:08:39.740 There's some evidence that Trump is beginning to break with some of our lab coat dictators. 0.97

00:08:44.640 President Trump, uh, you know, was asked about Dr. Fauci, the exalted Dr. Fauci.

00:08:51.960 Uh, Dr. Fauci has been similarly discouraging of reopening and Trump is finally breaking with him.

00:08:57.820 He said he disagrees with Fauci on when we can open the schools.

00:09:02.300 So Anthony is a good person, very good person.

00:09:06.920 I've disagreed with him.

00:09:08.380 Uh, when I closed the border to China, he disagreed with that.

00:09:12.380 And then ultimately he agreed and he said, I saved hundreds of thousands of lives, which is what happened.

00:09:17.600 Everybody disagreed when I did that.

00:09:20.160 I think that we have to open our schools.

00:09:22.900 Young people are very little affected by this.

00:09:26.360 Uh, we have to get the schools open.

00:09:28.600 We have to get our country open.

00:09:30.460 We have to open our country.

00:09:31.820 Now we want to do it safely, but we also want to do it as quickly as possible.

00:09:36.000 We can't keep going on like this.

00:09:37.900 I mean, you're going to have, uh, you're having bedlam already in the streets.

00:09:41.340 You can't, you can't do this.

00:09:42.940 We have to get it open.

00:09:44.320 Uh, I totally disagree with him on schools.

00:09:46.980 So I think Trump is right here.

00:09:49.400 I, I, there's a caveat to that, but I think Trump is right.

00:09:53.240 Anthony Fauci might be a good person, might be a nice guy.

00:09:55.960 I'm sick of Fauci.

00:09:56.880 No more Fauci.

00:09:58.000 Okay.

00:09:58.520 I don't pass a constitutional amendment that says that Dr.

00:10:01.800 Fauci rules me.

00:10:02.860 Otherwise enough Fauci.

00:10:05.000 Okay.

00:10:06.060 Yes.

00:10:06.500 We need schools to reopen.

00:10:07.980 We can't just pause our lives indefinitely.

00:10:10.800 Like Eric Garcetti wants us to.

00:10:13.180 The one caveat I say to this is the longer that the schools remain closed, the better

00:10:18.640 our chances of breaking this sort of state education monopoly that they have.

00:10:25.040 The kind of craziness that is taught in schools.

00:10:27.380 I mean, we did a story on this show a few months ago about a preschool in Brooklyn that's teaching

00:10:32.480 little three and four year olds that boys are girls and girls are boys and you can pick

00:10:36.380 your own gender.

00:10:37.920 That's not great stuff.

00:10:38.960 So if we could crack that a little bit, if we could show people that maybe they don't

00:10:43.300 need to spend a quarter of a million dollars to go to some college where they won't learn

00:10:46.660 anything, won't get any practical training either, and will end up in debt for the rest

00:10:52.140 of their lives.

00:10:52.660 If we could do that, that might not be the worst effect of this lockdown.

00:10:57.720 Actually, that might be a silver lining in the storm cloud.

00:11:00.240 But broadly speaking, we have to reopen society.

00:11:03.040 There's no amount of money we can spend.

00:11:05.000 There is no policy we can write up and craft and pass that will make up for everybody sitting 0.99

00:11:12.440 at home for six months or eight months or 10 months, or if the mayor of LA is to be believed

00:11:17.260 forever until we get a cure.

00:11:20.980 The left is furious that President Trump is disagreeing with Fauci, particularly those Cuomo

00:11:26.300 brothers, Fredo Cuomo, who has a CNN show, and Anthony Cuomo, the Anthony Cuomo, Andrew

00:11:33.980 Cuomo, the governor of New York.

00:11:36.720 Here are the Cuomo's outrage at questioning our benevolent doctor dictator.

00:11:43.740 I want to show you a clip of the president today talking about Tony Fauci, because it is

00:11:48.600 a demonstration of how feelings are overwhelming fact in this situation, literally by intentional

00:11:54.640 assault.

00:11:55.520 The president is playing to people's feelings.

00:11:57.740 We got to reopen.

00:11:58.740 You got to be back in school.

00:11:59.900 You're not really open.

00:12:01.440 It's been too long.

00:12:03.100 And that's why states are reopening, Gov, because it's not about the facts that are reopening

00:12:07.380 them.

00:12:08.320 You're going to have to follow that same path if the people demand it.

00:12:11.760 Yeah, Trump is manipulating people's feelings, unlike Chris Cuomo, who would never think of

00:12:15.720 doing that, even though he said that anyone who thinks we should ever reopen society is

00:12:19.720 basically killing grandma and is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.

00:12:23.520 What a joke. 0.93

00:12:24.140 What a joke this guy is.

00:12:25.420 This dichotomy here, by the way, between fact and feeling on this issue is a complete

00:12:30.280 false one.

00:12:31.820 On the one hand, the left, which has been pushing the alarmism, does not have the facts

00:12:36.460 on their side.

00:12:37.360 They said early on, that big study, the Imperial College study that we based all of our policies

00:12:43.020 on, said 2.4 million Americans dead, right?

00:12:45.460 That wasn't true.

00:12:46.440 That was way, way off.

00:12:47.600 So many of the other models from the so-called scientists, way, way off.

00:12:51.160 So they don't have facts on their side.

00:12:53.340 The conservatives who said, hmm, what's, what's Sweden doing over there?

00:12:56.220 Maybe we should actually try to develop a sort of herd immunity.

00:12:59.500 Increasingly, it seems pretty clear that they had the facts on their side.

00:13:02.440 There's a very good article in Foreign Policy, uh, in the magazine that just came out yesterday

00:13:07.360 on how we're all going to end up like Sweden anyway, because of course we are, if we're

00:13:10.700 not going to get a vaccine anytime soon and the hospital systems are not being overwhelmed

00:13:15.220 and the virus continues to spread, then the only option is for the virus to spread there.

00:13:20.920 That's not necessarily a wonderful thing, but that's just where we are.

00:13:24.780 So they don't have the facts on their side.

00:13:26.520 But similarly, uh, when we come to manipulating feeling, the left has been doing this from

00:13:33.120 the very beginning.

00:13:33.860 And even more important than that, politics involves some feeling, okay?

00:13:39.420 That's why we elect people.

00:13:41.400 That's why we have a representative democracy is so that the government can take the pulse

00:13:46.660 on how we're all feeling.

00:13:49.020 If, if we were just going to have a fact, I don't even really believe in this distinction

00:13:53.500 here between the facts and values and things like that.

00:13:56.220 But if we were just going to have a purely cold, sterile, fact-based politics, then we

00:14:02.420 wouldn't have elections.

00:14:03.320 Why would you have elections?

00:14:04.160 You would just appoint the best experts and they would run the country, but you would,

00:14:08.360 you would just appoint, you would basically construct robots just to run the country and

00:14:12.140 it would all be run on facts and would have no care about people's feelings.

00:14:15.360 But we don't do that because our representative democracy has more than just these technocratic

00:14:23.420 robot overlords.

00:14:24.960 We express our feelings.

00:14:26.240 We express our desires.

00:14:27.420 We express our preferences.

00:14:28.860 We express the amount of risk that we're willing to endure, to live, to not be held prisoner

00:14:33.540 in our own homes, to be able to express ourselves and not have a freaking mask covering our face

00:14:39.200 all the time in perpetuity on the beach.

00:14:43.300 We express those preferences and those desires.

00:14:46.180 That's what politics is.

00:14:47.500 It involves a fair bit of feeling.

00:14:49.460 Cuomo knows that.

00:14:50.160 Both Cuomos know that because they're demagogues themselves.

00:14:52.480 But they, they want to claim fact.

00:14:55.520 You know, this is what they do with science.

00:14:57.160 Remember the word science comes from the Latin word shire for all of human knowledge.

00:15:02.940 And then these very narrow materialists, they, they claim all of knowledge for themselves.

00:15:09.500 Now there's some wisdom in other places too.

00:15:11.780 There's some wisdom in the American people and there's a lot of evidence that they're beginning

00:15:15.980 to turn on these draconian policies. 0.71

00:15:17.700 While there's wisdom in the American people, let's not forget there's a lot of foolishness 0.65

00:15:21.300 and corruption in the government.

00:15:22.820 This is the biggest story, the biggest political scandal of our lifetimes.

00:15:28.060 Obamagate.

00:15:29.740 Obamagate.

00:15:30.900 I know people think it's being hyped.

00:15:33.420 They're being told it's a conspiracy.

00:15:35.560 It's, it is a conspiracy.

00:15:36.960 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:15:38.180 It's a conspiracy fact.

00:15:39.600 But we now know what happened and this is some brutal, brutal stuff.

00:15:43.480 We'll get to it in one second.

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00:16:44.660 This Obamagate scandal is the biggest one of our lifetimes.

00:16:48.700 And it's not getting any play because the media are corrupt and in bed with the officials

00:16:52.660 involved and because it's a little bit complicated.

00:16:56.160 So I'm going to try to simplify it in just like one or two minutes.

00:16:58.860 More than a dozen Obama administration officials, high ranking Obama administration officials

00:17:07.020 signed off on the unmasking of Michael Flynn.

00:17:11.540 Michael Flynn was the incoming national security advisor for Trump.

00:17:14.420 This happened during the presidential transition period.

00:17:18.060 So after Trump had won the election before he's inaugurated, one of the officials who signed

00:17:24.160 off on the unmasking of Michael Flynn was Joe Biden, the current Democratic frontrunner.

00:17:30.720 I guess.

00:17:31.120 I don't know where he is.

00:17:32.320 I'm not convinced he is still with us.

00:17:34.560 But he is theoretically going to be the Democratic nominee in November.

00:17:39.100 Other senior Obama officials include UN Ambassador Samantha Power, CIA Director John Brennan,

00:17:46.060 and the White House Chief of Staff, Dennis McDonough.

00:17:48.560 Now, what is unmasking?

00:17:52.020 We know what masking is.

00:17:53.540 We do a lot of that these days.

00:17:54.800 What is unmasking?

00:17:56.800 Unmasking refers to the ability of the government to spy on foreigners in certain cases, particularly

00:18:04.760 if the foreigners, foreign governments, foreign people have some relationship to terrorism.

00:18:10.340 That's in particular.

00:18:12.020 Sometimes when you're spying on these foreigners, you pick up conversations with American citizens.

00:18:17.380 Those conversations are then masked because the government doesn't have this carte blanche

00:18:23.220 right to just spy on American citizens and then make that available to other people in the

00:18:29.140 government.

00:18:30.080 So you'll see who the foreign official is, but they will mask who the American official

00:18:35.240 is.

00:18:36.780 Sometimes intelligence officials can request that the NSA, no such agency, National Security

00:18:42.280 Agency, unmask those American citizens for security purposes.

00:18:48.840 So reveal who the American citizens are who are talking to the foreign officials.

00:18:55.060 That does not appear to be what happened here.

00:18:57.460 It wasn't some intel officials for a legitimate investigation who were doing this unmasking.

00:19:01.320 Actually, what happened here is that politicians, very prominent politicians requested this.

00:19:08.420 This is very strange.

00:19:09.540 It's very odd for requests for unmasking to come from politicians, particularly politicians

00:19:14.040 this high up.

00:19:15.200 Very strange, very rare for requests like this to come in a period of presidential transition,

00:19:21.220 meaning from the outgoing administration into the incoming administration.

00:19:24.960 Frankly, seems unprecedented.

00:19:26.780 Think of the effect that this decision had that Joe Biden signed off on to unmask Mike

00:19:33.300 Flynn had the effect of allowing the previous administration to nullify the incoming national

00:19:41.900 security director, just took him out or national security advisor rather forced the incoming attorney

00:19:49.160 general to recuse himself.

00:19:51.420 So Trump didn't, he didn't get an NSA right away.

00:19:54.300 He didn't get an attorney general for much of his administration or his first term, first

00:19:58.620 term, please.

00:20:00.800 Hostile bureaucrats were then allowed to undermine the administration from within during the Trump

00:20:05.260 administration, completely kneecapped the administration in the first three years and

00:20:09.580 covered up the truth, covered up the truth for what are we at now?

00:20:14.280 Three and a half years.

00:20:15.180 It's just beginning to come out almost a full presidential term.

00:20:18.900 What the Obama people were hoping would be the full Trump presidential term.

00:20:23.640 This all goes back to a January 5th meeting where, and we know about this meeting because

00:20:30.000 former Obama national security advisor, Susan Rice wrote an unusual email to herself to take

00:20:36.060 notes about this meeting that she attended with deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, FBI director,

00:20:40.720 Jim Comey and VP Joe Biden.

00:20:45.000 She sent this email to herself.

00:20:46.740 Why?

00:20:47.180 Maybe to have some notes.

00:20:48.320 Why?

00:20:48.680 Maybe to exonerate herself if this ever came out. 0.55

00:20:50.580 The note said, President Obama said he wants to be sure that as we engage with the incoming

00:20:54.920 team, we're mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information

00:21:00.120 fully as it relates to Russia.

00:21:03.740 See the implication here.

00:21:06.340 You need, what it would seem that that meeting is suggesting is that the outgoing administration

00:21:12.320 needs to be able to frame the incoming administration in such a way that they can keep power for

00:21:17.300 themselves, hold over power for themselves, keep it away from the Trump administration.

00:21:22.620 Why did this happen?

00:21:23.820 Why did this happen?

00:21:24.800 If I were a gambling man, here's my theory.

00:21:27.560 I think a pretty straightforward theory.

00:21:29.080 The Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.

00:21:31.660 We know that.

00:21:32.340 They spied on the Trump campaign using BS intel cooked up by Democrats, ironically colluding with

00:21:38.120 the Russians through the Steele dossier.

00:21:39.800 We know that for a fact.

00:21:41.980 When Trump unexpectedly won, he wasn't supposed to win.

00:21:44.520 Remember 99% chance Hillary wins.

00:21:46.960 The Obama administration knew that they had to cover their tracks because what they did was so

00:21:51.440 egregious.

00:21:52.920 So they had to keep the bogus Russia investigations going, which they did by entrapping and sidelining

00:21:59.220 Flynn and forcing Sessions to recuse himself.

00:22:01.940 That bought them almost entire, an entire presidential administration of the Russia hoax investigations

00:22:09.040 and distractions.

00:22:10.540 And they almost got away with it.

00:22:12.880 They got so close, but they didn't.

00:22:17.220 They didn't get away with it.

00:22:18.580 We now see it coming out.

00:22:20.540 There is criminal investigation being conducted by John Durham.

00:22:23.500 We'll see what happens next.

00:22:25.060 I have two big takeaways.

00:22:26.740 One sort of gives us some oomph, some confidence for the Trump administration.

00:22:32.740 And one is a little bit sadder.

00:22:35.540 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:23:58.120 My two takeaways here.

00:23:59.180 This is the biggest political scandal of our lifetimes by far.

00:24:03.180 This is much, much worse than Watergate.

00:24:05.720 You always hear political pundits and analysts and commentators.

00:24:10.480 They say this is worse than Watergate about whatever scandal it is.

00:24:13.640 In the Obama administration, you can talk about the IRS targeting scandal.

00:24:16.800 You could talk about Fast and Furious.

00:24:19.020 You could talk about any number of things.

00:24:21.440 In the Trump administration, I don't know.

00:24:24.260 You could talk about how he sent some mean tweet sometime.

00:24:26.600 They say it's worse than Watergate.

00:24:28.440 I don't use that phrase.

00:24:30.340 I don't think I've ever used that phrase to refer to a political scandal yet.

00:24:34.200 I am using it to refer to this one.

00:24:35.860 This is truly worse than Watergate.

00:24:38.540 Goes up much higher.

00:24:41.020 Very likely touches the president himself.

00:24:43.200 We need to know what Barack Obama knew and when he knew it.

00:24:46.420 We need to subpoena these people.

00:24:48.220 Find out what the logic was for unmasking Michael Flynn.

00:24:53.240 Find out why the vice president of the United States signed off on this.

00:24:55.920 Why it went so high.

00:24:56.820 Got so political.

00:24:57.920 Eight days before he left office.

00:24:59.920 Got to find out what that January 5th meeting was all about.

00:25:02.940 That Susan Rice sent that email to herself about.

00:25:05.060 Got to find out a whole lot of stuff.

00:25:06.520 Because it stinks to high heaven.

00:25:08.980 And I can't imagine any evidence that would exculpate these guys.

00:25:13.020 That's the one takeaway.

00:25:14.120 The other takeaway is they're probably going to get away with it.

00:25:17.220 They're probably going to get away with it.

00:25:18.600 That's just a political reality.

00:25:20.960 Why wouldn't they?

00:25:21.860 It's Obama's old news.

00:25:23.060 He did get away with it, right?

00:25:24.520 He finished his administration.

00:25:28.220 Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee right now.

00:25:30.920 So the trial of these people is going to be held in the court of public opinion at the ballot box.

00:25:36.500 Perhaps as it should be.

00:25:38.240 No one's going to cover it.

00:25:39.500 It's too complicated for people to really digest.

00:25:42.520 You know, at least in Watergate.

00:25:43.480 Watergate was not as complicated.

00:25:45.860 It was just kind of a bungled burglary that the president, I guess, covered up.

00:25:50.020 I mean, it's like nothing compared to this.

00:25:53.340 But it was a little more straightforward.

00:25:55.280 And obviously you had a news media that were pushing it all the time.

00:25:57.660 And you had Republicans who folded.

00:25:59.080 But this, it's more complicated.

00:26:02.840 The only place that people are going to be able to weigh in is at the ballot box, okay?

00:26:07.560 Speaking of which, Joe Biden just had a fairly unfortunate interview with Vanity Fair.

00:26:14.360 Vanity Fair is not a right-wing publication.

00:26:16.900 But the Vanity Fair contributor, Peter Hamby, confronted Joe Biden on video

00:26:21.020 about all of the mean things that people call him on the internet.

00:26:24.420 It was really a delightful interview.

00:26:27.580 Biden didn't have a great response.

00:26:29.080 The Shorenstein Center up at Harvard did a study of all of the anti-Biden memes out there

00:26:34.660 on the internet.

00:26:35.420 And according to them, the top three slogans they're seeing, this is from the left and

00:26:39.180 the right, are Dementia Joe, Sleepy Joe, Creepy Joe.

00:26:43.760 Barack Obama reportedly said last week that his daughters have been showing him anti-Biden

00:26:47.660 TikToks.

00:26:48.620 You can't make us vote for Joe Biden.

00:26:51.180 You can't make us vote for Joe Biden.

00:26:53.400 Basically, there's an entire discourse on the internet right now that's painting you as creepy 0.95

00:26:57.880 and old and out of touch and kind of lame.

00:27:00.400 How do you fight back against that?

00:27:02.920 Look, Trump is a master at laying nicknames on people.

00:27:07.160 But the vast majority of the voters out there that have voted, including young people, are

00:27:11.960 not getting all their news from the internet.

00:27:14.580 But I'm trying to compete there.

00:27:16.060 We're getting started late in a comparative sense.

00:27:18.380 The vast majority of people, including young people, are not getting their news from the

00:27:23.540 internet.

00:27:24.380 I'm not out of touch.

00:27:26.300 You know who's out of touch?

00:27:27.860 That really small group of people who use this newfangled thing called the internet.

00:27:32.640 Nah, me, me, look, I'm in touch.

00:27:34.780 They call me in touch Joe.

00:27:36.440 All right, I come home every night, I put on the phonograph, and I listen to the latest

00:27:40.800 recordings of the news.

00:27:42.920 I think he actually used the phrase phonograph during a debate.

00:27:46.100 Do you remember that?

00:27:46.760 He said he was making some, what was then immediately perceived as a racially insensitive comment,

00:27:53.200 Joe Biden is kind of known for those, about how it was like black families need to play,

00:27:59.920 put the record player on for their kids to raid.

00:28:02.960 Initially, he said, you know, put on the music, the CD, the phonograph, the record player.

00:28:11.040 It got worse and worse and worse.

00:28:13.060 And I guess he's doing it again.

00:28:14.540 That's Joe Biden.

00:28:15.160 Please, please don't make them vote for Joe Biden.

00:28:19.280 They're, they're rattled.

00:28:20.700 Okay.

00:28:21.080 You know, Joe Biden is very good at keeping his composure a lot of the time, but it isn't

00:28:26.260 going well.

00:28:26.820 I think Democrats are scared about this because nobody wants to vote for Joe Biden.

00:28:30.760 You're now in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, possibly, depending on

00:28:36.720 how the next few weeks play out and yet still Donald Trump looks like he's going to be Joe 0.82

00:28:42.440 Biden because Joe Biden is a walking cadaver.

00:28:44.640 He's not a real candidate. 0.77

00:28:45.560 He was always kind of a doof, you know, from the eighties. 1.00

00:28:48.320 And then he ran again in the two thousands.

00:28:49.820 Now he's running again.

00:28:50.500 Now, no one ever really liked him.

00:28:51.840 He's never a great candidate, but he can't even beat Trump during this particular instance.

00:28:58.020 And you have Obamagate hanging over everybody, including implicating the nominee just to show

00:29:05.440 you.

00:29:05.700 I mean, the good thing about this being weighed in at the ballot box is the Republicans can

00:29:10.000 make an issue out of this.

00:29:11.040 If they can get their messaging right, we know that the Democrats won't get their messaging

00:29:14.620 right.

00:29:14.840 Because Joe Biden can't form a coherent sentence.

00:29:16.980 And the DNC spokesman has no answer on this.

00:29:19.480 She went on Fox News.

00:29:20.400 I can't pronounce her name because it's got too many consonants in a row.

00:29:24.020 But her last name is Hino Hoza.

00:29:26.440 And this spokesman, DNC communications director, goes on Fox News, is asked about Obamagate and

00:29:32.740 sputters in a way.

00:29:34.440 I can't even I can't even listen to the whole clip.

00:29:37.080 Unmasking and something like unmasking is something that you are just looking to see more

00:29:42.000 intelligent.

00:29:42.620 It is nothing that is scandalous in any way.

00:29:46.680 But frankly, this is going to backfire on Republicans because it just showed how serious

00:29:52.000 Flynn was and his conversations with the Russians.

00:29:55.040 So Republicans can try to use this to play political football.

00:29:58.460 But in reality, this is going to backfire with that.

00:30:01.280 Is that a crime to talk to other countries during that period?

00:30:05.540 Well, I think that when well, whenever you are you are trying to interfere in an election

00:30:11.580 or in any way, try to go against the United States, I think that, you know, that is something 1.00

00:30:18.260 that is.

00:30:19.340 And so I think that right now, when it comes to the Department of Justice politicizing things,

00:30:24.460 this is just time and time again.

00:30:26.600 You continue to see this Justice Department politicize issues in order to help Donald Trump.

00:30:34.140 The answer there was a suggestion that there was collusion.

00:30:37.700 There's been no proof of that.

00:30:39.420 Where's yours?

00:30:39.940 You continue to see this Justice Department and specifically, you know, Bill Barr trying

00:30:46.120 to cover up for the president generally.

00:30:48.540 Oh, that's so embarrassing.

00:30:50.460 You know, I'm really glad that she doesn't have an answer to this because it shows how

00:30:54.940 weak the Democrats case is.

00:30:56.640 But as someone, you know, I've done a lot of TV news hits that I can't even imagine how

00:31:01.480 that must have felt in the moment where she just she's sitting there.

00:31:04.160 She's on national television.

00:31:05.240 She's on the biggest cable news network and she's, you don't have an answer. 0.99

00:31:10.520 What on earth is the answer?

00:31:13.200 This gives us some strategy going into November, which is we got to turn up the light.

00:31:18.680 We got to turn up the heat.

00:31:20.600 Sunlight is a great disinfectant.

00:31:23.520 That's true when it comes to viruses.

00:31:25.280 It's true when it comes to political scandals.

00:31:27.120 We will get to a little bit more and then the mailbag.

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00:32:19.480 Be right back with some more news in the mailbag.

00:32:21.420 Just a little piece of news I have to get to before we get into the mailbag.

00:32:38.800 Out of California, California's 25th congressional district just flipped Republican for the first

00:32:45.400 time since 1998.

00:32:47.080 No Republican since 1998 has flipped any district in California.

00:32:52.940 And Mike Garcia, who I believe is a Navy pilot and he's a really, really good candidate.

00:32:59.100 He just won that seat over Democrat Christy Smith by 12 points.

00:33:03.500 That seat was forfeited by Democrat Katie Hill, best known for having a thruple with her husband

00:33:10.980 and a staffer and kind of burning the staffer, I think leaving the husband. 0.98

00:33:16.800 Anyway, it's a mess.

00:33:17.700 It's a mess.

00:33:18.360 Those scandals don't really, don't really help you keep your congressional seat.

00:33:21.620 So that's good news.

00:33:23.000 You know, this is a, this fairly moderate district.

00:33:26.240 Is that going to tell us something about November?

00:33:28.000 Obviously not every congressional district has a thruple having incumbent, but might tell

00:33:33.820 us something about November.

00:33:35.120 Might tell us something about pushback against the Democrats' overreach.

00:33:38.040 We're seeing that in Wisconsin.

00:33:39.620 4-3 decision at the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor Tony Evers' stay-at-home

00:33:45.320 order in Wisconsin, meaning Wisconsin is reopening as it should.

00:33:51.440 This is some good news. 0.91

00:33:52.820 Even amidst all these crazy political scandals and a bunch of dumb orders that we're all

00:33:56.940 going to ignore from mayors like Eric Garcetti, there is a little bit of good news. 0.75

00:34:01.660 All right, let's get into the mailbag.

00:34:03.300 From Chastity, Dear Noble Knowles, I am a registered nurse in Oklahoma.

00:34:10.740 I listened to your show faithfully and was basically silenced among my peers for my beliefs on the

00:34:16.680 COVID-19 crisis until this week.

00:34:18.680 Last week was Nurses Week.

00:34:20.300 We were showered with lunches and gifts, only to be emailed by our CEO that they would be

00:34:24.360 making drastic cuts, cutting leadership salaries by 26%, furloughing thousands of frontline

00:34:28.860 employees, and stopping 401k contributions.

00:34:31.680 They said those who still had jobs would have to be thankful for that and step up.

00:34:36.480 They will freeze any hiring.

00:34:38.080 If they run out of PTO, you'll need to pay your portion of health benefits or those benefits

00:34:42.620 will be terminated while we have no income.

00:34:44.820 This shutdown has not only cost jobs of so many Americans, but also the healthcare frontline

00:34:49.120 workers are paying the same price.

00:34:50.760 Part of my many reasons for becoming a nurse was job security.

00:34:53.380 I'm now faced with the uncertainty of losing my job.

00:34:55.500 I have many nursing friends across the U.S. who are facing similar fates from their hospitals.

00:34:59.240 My question is, why is this not the biggest news story?

00:35:01.600 If this isn't the biggest indicator that scientists got it wrong, I'm not sure what else could be.

00:35:06.760 Very sorry to hear that you're going through all of that, and I'm not terribly surprised.

00:35:11.240 From the beginning, there has been a lot of demagoguery on this, from the lab coats and

00:35:17.080 from the, more than that, from the politicians who amplify the lab coats and the commentators

00:35:23.040 who do that as well.

00:35:24.140 And they've set up a lot of false dichotomies.

00:35:27.400 They've said that either we can save people's lives or open the economy, but we can't do both.

00:35:35.480 And if you open the economy, you're going to kill people.

00:35:36.900 Actually, there's no evidence the lockdowns have saved a single life, and there is plenty of evidence

00:35:40.880 that the lockdowns have killed people.

00:35:42.480 So they got that one dead wrong.

00:35:44.080 Another one they have is either you can support the lockdowns and support healthcare workers

00:35:48.940 or oppose the lockdowns and oppose healthcare workers.

00:35:52.620 This is a line that's become popular on the left.

00:35:55.300 It's healthcare workers, it's an alleged healthcare worker slogan.

00:35:58.660 We're here for you, so stay home for us.

00:36:01.800 And so it's good for the healthcare workers if you stay home.

00:36:03.980 But that's not true.

00:36:05.120 That's not true.

00:36:06.900 Many, if not most, healthcare workers in the U.S. are at serious risk of losing their jobs

00:36:12.500 if we don't reopen the economy because the influx from coronavirus hasn't been anywhere

00:36:17.720 near as dramatic as people said it would, right?

00:36:21.820 The Javits Center Emergency Hospital in New York was basically empty.

00:36:25.000 That hospital ship in New York was basically empty.

00:36:27.020 Same thing in California.

00:36:28.660 We just haven't seen that overwhelming of the healthcare system.

00:36:31.060 Meanwhile, every other medical procedure is not being conducted.

00:36:34.680 So you're actually, when you stay home, you're actually hurting the healthcare workers in pretty

00:36:40.640 significant ways.

00:36:41.480 So I'm sorry to hear you're going through that. 0.99

00:36:42.860 I'm sorry to hear that our politicians are such dummies. 0.97

00:36:45.500 And I'm sorry to hear that the American people are going to give up their faculties of reason 0.97

00:36:49.400 and self-government for a bunch of two-bit would-be experts in lab coats.

00:36:54.160 It's just a very, very unfortunate situation all around.

00:36:57.280 It does appear the tide has turned a little bit. 0.99

00:36:58.900 We should encourage that and we should ignore all the stupid orders, arbitrary power grabs 0.99

00:37:03.560 that are being foisted on us. 0.98

00:37:05.060 From Aiden, dear Mr. Knowles, as you have mentioned on previous episodes, loneliness in

00:37:10.060 the U.S. has been on the rise, especially among millennials.

00:37:13.360 What would you recommend someone who is feeling lonely do to overcome this issue?

00:37:18.600 And how could they improve their human relations when encountering new individuals?

00:37:24.120 Loneliness is the, it is affecting everybody.

00:37:26.580 Well, certainly right now in the quarantine, but it affects people, virtually everybody

00:37:31.220 in modern, liberal, secular society.

00:37:35.400 It isolates even the, the person you would say is the greatest social butterfly.

00:37:40.540 You know, he's very good at talking to people or whatever.

00:37:44.240 Very often you'll see that people in terms of their, you know, serious relationships, whether

00:37:49.920 boyfriend, girlfriend, marriage, you know, husband, wife, or deep friendships, not just the

00:37:55.720 kind of, you know, amicable, get along, drinking buddy kind of stuff, but really deep friendship

00:38:01.580 grounded in, in, in real substance.

00:38:06.280 Those don't exist very much.

00:38:08.000 And if you have any of those, you're, you're very fortunate, but for, for maybe most people

00:38:11.880 that, that isn't really going away.

00:38:13.560 So what, what do I recommend you do?

00:38:15.620 First thing is go to church.

00:38:17.420 It has a very practical effect.

00:38:18.840 You'll be around a lot of people and you'll talk to people.

00:38:20.480 And most of them recognize that humans are social and we actually need to engage with

00:38:24.660 one another.

00:38:25.520 But also it will, it'll just focus your view of the world because one, one temptation when

00:38:32.680 you're feeling lonely is to try to get something for yourself, you know, to, to get a hookup

00:38:38.440 or a girlfriend, you know, or, but for you or a friend to hang out with for you.

00:38:43.480 And that's obviously not how human relationships work.

00:38:46.120 You, you get the most out of it when you give the most of yourself away.

00:38:48.900 So first one, always good advice, go to church.

00:38:52.620 Beyond that, you have to prioritize real person interaction.

00:38:58.280 Digital is not enough.

00:39:00.100 It's a good start.

00:39:00.760 It's nice that we have that option, especially in quarantine, but it's not sufficient.

00:39:04.720 We are incarnational beings.

00:39:06.380 We have bodies.

00:39:07.740 We got flesh and meat.

00:39:09.020 That's part of who we are.

00:39:10.080 We live in time.

00:39:11.040 We live in space.

00:39:12.420 It's not enough simply to abstract that to text messages or emails or even Skype, Face

00:39:18.860 Time, Zoom.

00:39:19.660 It isn't enough.

00:39:20.300 You got to be in person with somebody to, to really develop that relationship.

00:39:24.860 You got to, you got to visit people.

00:39:26.540 You got to, you got to really make the effort to do that.

00:39:29.900 Those are two things I would do right away.

00:39:32.460 They're pretty simple to do, right?

00:39:34.300 When the country, whenever it does open back up, you can always go to a coffee shop, always

00:39:37.840 go to a bar, always go to some interest group.

00:39:42.160 You can, you can be around people, even if they're not friends of yours, even if you don't

00:39:45.780 know them very well.

00:39:46.440 And, and certainly you can always go to church.

00:39:48.080 That would be my first place to start.

00:39:51.700 And, uh, you know, open yourselves up to talking to people, recognize that the whole world isn't

00:39:55.900 about you.

00:39:56.320 And then ironically, your own life, your own self-interest will get a lot better.

00:40:00.880 From Travis.

00:40:02.180 Hello, Michael.

00:40:03.760 What are some private sector career paths available for somebody deeply interested in politics?

00:40:08.200 I am studying political science in college and don't want to run for office and yet would

00:40:12.880 love to make a career dealing with political issues.

00:40:15.300 Many thanks.

00:40:16.420 Now you're going to run into a problem, which is that politics is by definition public.

00:40:20.960 So it's not private.

00:40:22.780 Now the distinction between public and private is a little blurry sometimes, but politics by

00:40:28.460 definition is a public thing.

00:40:29.880 Now, probably what you're saying is you don't want to work for the government, which is makes

00:40:34.040 perfect sense.

00:40:34.680 You know, unfortunately for you, a lot of politics does occur at the governmental level,

00:40:39.140 but some of it does not.

00:40:40.400 So one clear example in the private sector would be working in political media.

00:40:45.200 So that could involve you writing columns, you know, right, or being a straight political

00:40:51.140 reporter or being a professor, you know, professors, if you're working at a private university

00:40:57.080 are in the private sector, or it could mean you work at some political nonprofit.

00:41:03.580 Or it could mean you work at some political think tank, but there isn't too much political

00:41:09.600 business, I guess.

00:41:12.880 You know, there aren't political factories churning out politics beyond what I've just

00:41:18.280 described because politics is, is public.

00:41:23.360 Politics is, and it does relate most directly to the government.

00:41:27.500 So I wouldn't limit yourself to saying, I don't want to have anything to do with the government.

00:41:31.700 I don't want to have anything to do with, with the public because, you know, that's just

00:41:35.820 not how politics works.

00:41:36.800 And politics also is not a, not a straight career path.

00:41:39.920 You're going to have a lot of different jobs in politics.

00:41:42.440 You know, I mean, I started, my first political job was when I was 18, 18 or 19.

00:41:48.140 And, you know, you hop on this campaign, that campaign, this political action committee,

00:41:53.840 this, you're writing for this person, you're talking to this person, you've got this show.

00:41:57.200 I mean, it just, it's a really fun, wild career path, but you can't be too choosy about it.

00:42:02.040 From Justin, Michael, is it more American to buy a Ford made in Mexico or a Toyota made

00:42:06.440 in America?

00:42:06.940 Love the show.

00:42:07.580 Wow.

00:42:07.940 What a good question.

00:42:09.260 I would have to say it's more American to buy the Toyota made in America.

00:42:15.420 Really what this question is doing is asking you to choose between something that really

00:42:23.140 looks like what you want and something that really is more like what you want.

00:42:27.920 And it's also asking you to choose between profits for owners and workers and employment

00:42:36.960 and, you know, company loyalty.

00:42:40.220 Now, those things are not always at odds, but when they are at odds, I kind of go more

00:42:45.900 for the America working, having our own manufacturing, having some loyalty to this country and being

00:42:55.720 more of the thing rather than merely looking at the thing.

00:42:59.600 You know, I was an actor earlier in my 20s, in my wayward youth, and I sometimes joke about

00:43:07.680 that.

00:43:07.920 I say, I used to be an actor, now I'm the real thing.

00:43:09.600 I think it's better to be more in the camp of reality.

00:43:13.380 From Michael.

00:43:14.640 Hello, Michael of the camp of Knowles.

00:43:16.440 Well, it's weird that those two words, you know, it's quite a coincidence.

00:43:19.380 Maybe it's Providence.

00:43:20.100 I don't know.

00:43:20.600 Most austere religious podcaster.

00:43:22.760 My question is about the teaching of Jesus Christ as a historical figure as well as a

00:43:27.000 biblical one.

00:43:27.900 Why is Jesus not mentioned in the history books that are taught in a school?

00:43:31.340 We have records that predate Jesus, so might it be a way of keeping God out of schools 0.99

00:43:35.360 under the auspices of the separation of church and state or something more insidious?

00:43:39.080 Yes, thanks for all you do.

00:43:40.080 Yeah, it's funny.

00:43:40.620 The fact that we even discuss this as a distinction shows you how rotten the problem of an atheist 1.00

00:43:46.980 culture has gotten.

00:43:48.140 That we say, well, there's the biblical Jesus and the historical Jesus.

00:43:52.040 There was a course when I was in college called the historical Jesus.

00:43:54.680 As though those were different people.

00:43:56.000 As though the Bible is, that's not true. 0.97

00:43:57.880 That's ridiculous. 0.99

00:43:58.540 Those are a bunch of fairy tales. 0.92

00:43:59.520 They're the most reliable documents we have of the era.

00:44:03.220 But yeah, no, sure.

00:44:04.240 It's just, that's a fairy tale.

00:44:05.540 The real historical Jesus disproves Christianity entirely.

00:44:09.380 That's the kind of narrative they want to tell you based on very little evidence.

00:44:14.800 The gospels are historically very reliable, right?

00:44:19.940 You know, unlike other religions, Christianity is not founded exactly on poetry or philosophy. 0.86

00:44:24.480 It's founded on journalism.

00:44:26.280 The gospels are journalist accounts of the life of Christ and what happened afterward with

00:44:31.860 the apostles, you know, and the rest of the New Testament, the letters, right?

00:44:35.420 Those are like, those could be newspaper columns, you know, the epistles.

00:44:39.200 So I would look there first.

00:44:42.140 Why is Jesus not mentioned in the history books, in history classes these days?

00:44:46.400 At other times in history, he was taught, but it shows you not only how corrupt our own

00:44:54.040 time has become, but a little bit of what Christ was telling us about, which is that

00:44:59.040 the world is going to hate him and the world is going to hate you because of him.

00:45:03.060 I mean, regardless of what you think about the divinity of Jesus, surely he is the most

00:45:09.920 important person that ever walked the earth.

00:45:12.440 He changed everything.

00:45:13.700 When you talk about how history is taught, the way that we date things is about him, right?

00:45:21.080 We have before Christ and anno, anno domini, the year of our Lord.

00:45:25.380 A.D., right, refers to the year of Christ.

00:45:28.920 Now they try to change that.

00:45:30.300 They keep the exact same scale, but they now call it before the common era and after the

00:45:35.620 common era.

00:45:36.200 They're actively trying to write Jesus out of history.

00:45:38.600 Same thing with the saints.

00:45:39.520 The saints are the greatest people that ever lived and yet we're never taught about them.

00:45:42.540 Isn't that weird?

00:45:45.540 You know, a secular culture would look at that and say, see, it's evidence that they don't 0.85

00:45:48.640 really matter.

00:45:49.620 But someone with any reason or wisdom would look at that and say, gosh, that's evidence

00:45:55.940 that it's all true.

00:45:57.460 All right.

00:45:57.840 Before we go, let's get to one quick one from Paul and Elizabeth.

00:46:02.240 Dear Michael, could you give us some concise pro-Trump talking points?

00:46:05.480 We have some conservative Christian friends who are reluctant to enthusiastically support President

00:46:09.260 Trump because of his behavior or at least the media's portrayal of his behavior.

00:46:13.460 Can we shine a light on his accomplishments?

00:46:14.920 All the best.

00:46:15.400 Yes.

00:46:15.760 First of all, if you're worried about Trump's behavior, don't forget anything that Trump is

00:46:18.900 being accused of, Joe Biden is accused of too.

00:46:22.640 Trump's accused of lying. 0.97

00:46:23.920 Joe Biden actually had to drop out of the presidential race in 1988 because he is a proven liar. 0.87

00:46:29.120 He's lied about virtually everything. 0.96

00:46:31.060 Uh, you're worried about the sexual allegations. 0.99

00:46:35.980 Donald Trump's a little bit of a playboy and he pays off porn stars. 0.98

00:46:38.580 Apparently Joe Biden is being accused with some credibility of sexual assault. 0.98

00:46:44.460 That one's off the table too.

00:46:47.320 Donald Trump uses colorful language.

00:46:49.460 Joe Biden uses colorful language.

00:46:51.140 Let's not forget when, uh, the Obama healthcare bill passed and he said, this is a big effing deal

00:46:56.140 on microphone before the international press.

00:46:58.360 So I would take that off the table.

00:47:01.180 Then what has Trump accomplished?

00:47:02.540 Most importantly, the judges.

00:47:03.880 He's given us all of these judges who will craft for, for a generation or more our legal system,

00:47:13.380 the way we interpret laws, very possibly prevent the redefinition of biological sex,

00:47:19.120 very possibly save lots of babies through the, uh, gradual, at least we hope, abolition of this

00:47:27.220 fictitious right to, uh, abortion in the constitution.

00:47:30.900 Very important stuff.

00:47:32.240 If you're conservative Christian, as you say your friends are, you want that. 0.89

00:47:37.080 You can't vote for a pro-abortion politician.

00:47:39.180 You can't vote for someone who wants to radically redefine the very nature of existence.

00:47:42.940 You can't vote for a socialist.

00:47:46.240 That's just the judges.

00:47:47.440 He's also wrecked the credibility of the media.

00:47:49.640 He's preserved relative peace abroad.

00:47:51.640 He treats our allies like our allies and our enemies like our enemies.

00:47:54.300 He's, he does what he says he's going to do.

00:47:56.540 He's let people keep more of their own money as he promised that he would.

00:48:00.600 The economy was doing very well before China sniped us out with this Wuhan flu.

00:48:05.260 And it's, it's, it's just been very good.

00:48:09.840 I mean, I, I guess I can't think of real downsides to the administration.

00:48:13.140 I can pick a little bill or two here.

00:48:14.480 I didn't like that jailbreak bill that he passed, you know, I think it was what, about a year ago.

00:48:19.720 But other than that, who cares?

00:48:22.320 It's okay.

00:48:23.580 It's a pretty good administration.

00:48:24.780 I would ask them what their objections are because I think pretty simple answers to the

00:48:29.580 objections.

00:48:31.040 All right.

00:48:31.680 One last one before we go from Nick.

00:48:33.040 Dear master of the absence of the written language.

00:48:35.180 My question is what is more likely for you to vote for Joe Biden in November or for me

00:48:39.620 to spot Ben Shapiro out for a jog eating bacon, listening to his iPod on a Saturday afternoon.

00:48:44.720 Thanks.

00:48:45.120 In order for Ben to eat bacon on a Saturday afternoon, the, the only way that that would

00:48:56.380 happen, I think, is the second coming of Jesus Christ, uh, proving definitively that Christianity 0.98

00:49:03.860 is true, right?

00:49:05.280 In the minds of everybody.

00:49:08.320 Uh, and there is no way for me to vote for Joe Biden in November is certainly much more

00:49:14.700 likely that the second coming will happen and the end times and that Christianity is true. 1.00

00:49:18.040 Obviously I've staked a lot of my life on that.

00:49:19.620 So clearly, clearly the latter.

00:49:23.100 All right.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 14, 2020

Ep. 546 - The Mask Slips

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