The Russians are at it again, those darn pesky pesky Russians! Joe Biden has been caught with his pants down, and it s not even worth rehashing. Plus, a new revelation about Hunter Biden and his dealings with the Ukraine.
00:01:31.020Except that the director of national intelligence says, actually, none of that is the case.
00:01:37.580It's, it's not Russian disinformation.
00:01:40.340Actually, it looks like all the emails are legit.
00:01:43.620It's funny that some of the people that complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing intelligence.
00:01:52.160And unfortunately, in this case, it is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who, as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
00:02:09.260Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that.
00:02:15.580And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
00:02:25.160And this is exactly what I said I would stop when I became the director of national intelligence.
00:02:30.800And that's people using the intelligence community to leverage some political narrative.
00:02:36.160And in this case, apparently, Chairman Schiff wants anything against his preferred political candidate to be deemed as not real and is using the intelligence community or attempting to use the intelligence community to say there's nothing to see here.
00:02:49.460It's not the Russians. It's not the Russians. It's not the Macedonians. It's not Click Farms. It's not any of that.
00:02:55.660The Democrats are corrupt. The Biden family is corrupt.
00:03:00.580And Joe is literally running away when he gets asked questions about it.
00:03:05.200I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:28.960This is this bizarre situation here where the left says that children are capable of making life-changing decisions,
00:03:39.660decisions that they can never come back from, permanently changing their body chemistry.
00:03:44.340Uh, while at the same time saying, for instance, I don't know, uh, 18 year old on a college campus can't make their own personal decisions.
00:03:54.340We have an age of consent because we say young people are not capable of making decisions.
00:03:58.780You know, certain decisions that could have effects later on.
00:04:01.140So we're saying that a 17 year old can't choose to have a one night stand, but an eight year old can choose to fundamentally change their body chemistry and their sexual appearance.
00:04:25.660And the left unbelievably embraces it all the way up to their presidential candidate, Joe Biden, who, by the way, has gotten caught with his pants down.
00:04:34.440Well, I'm sorry, a CNN analyst got caught with his pants down, but Joe Biden got caught in a pretty crooked scheme, which we will get to because, you know, Joe, Joe was always known for being like really slick and really smooth.
00:04:46.000You know, he's a smooth operator, but this time, I don't know.
00:05:06.880So they're all, it's all just using this incredibly soft fabric that uses a special blend of 100% long fiber cotton and a unique manufacturing process.
00:05:15.500It's not some kind of weird material that's super synthetic or something.
00:05:19.080It's all cotton, but it's, you've never felt anything this soft.
00:05:21.960And then the shirt that I have has these little mint particles in it that when you put it on, it cools you down.
00:05:28.300So you actually get like a little chill up your spine.
00:05:59.140Democrats got caught in a pretty bad scheme.
00:06:04.160Actually, even before we get to Joe Biden running away from this and the cover up from the media and the cover up from big tech, there's more news on the Hunter Biden scandal.
00:06:15.320So, you know, these messages came out that showed that Hunter Biden introduced a Russian energy executive or a Ukrainian energy executive rather to his father while his dad was the point man on Ukraine and while his dad was vice president.
00:06:29.520And it just looked like a pay for play kind of corrupt scheme.
00:06:33.800So for a while, you'll remember on this show, I said, now the emails appear to be real, but we don't know.
00:06:43.400The Biden campaign is not denying the veracity of the emails on the hard drives.
00:06:47.180They have photos of Hunter Biden, so it's pretty, pretty clear that it was his.
00:06:50.460Otherwise, it was the greatest Photoshop job in the world.
00:06:52.560And beyond Ukraine, there is a another threat in here that shows Hunter Biden pursuing a very lucrative energy deal in China and possibly cutting his dad in on the action at possibly giving his dad a significant portion of his salary.
00:07:10.760And Fox is reporting that this has been verified.
00:07:13.200Again, it's it's anonymous, so you can't say for sure.
00:07:16.440But you've got Hunter Biden using this phrase.
00:08:20.300And so any reporter, I don't care your political, your political preferences, any actual journalist, if they got this story, they would be hounding Biden day in and day out.
00:09:23.080He knows that a boring press conference in the White House press room is not going to do very well.
00:09:29.300So you'll notice he gives these press conferences and they don't always get the most play.
00:09:33.380He usually gets better play when he's talking to reporters outside of an airplane, outside of a helicopter, on the White House lawn, because it's just more dramatic.
00:09:47.160Think about the question that the reporter asks him.
00:09:49.140The reporter doesn't ask him anything about an issue, right?
00:09:53.840He's not asking him about the Hunter Biden emails, not asking him about an issue that Trump is involved in.
00:09:58.740He's saying, why are you calling Joe Biden a criminal?
00:10:03.980And now Trump has to inform the reporter about this major news story that the New York Post broke a week ago that Hunter Biden's emails show his crooked business dealings in Ukraine and China.
00:10:17.000How backwards a society are we living in that the president of the United States needs to fill in the reporter on the news?
00:10:25.920He says, oh, well, I guess you probably you don't read the news or you do read the news, but you don't read the news in the news.
00:10:51.520You know, he doesn't he prefers that to the vanilla ice cream.
00:10:54.120And then they ask him an actual question, like some reporter, I guess, snuck in to this this grouping and said, hey, what's going on with that whole Ukraine thing and China and all that?
00:11:04.800And then he goes, and you can't, by the way, you can't just say this is an example of gotcha journalism where someone runs up while the while Joe Biden's just minding his own business and Joe Biden keeps walking.
00:11:26.660Joe Biden stopped, decided to talk to the reporters about how he likes his ice cream cones.
00:11:31.900Really important issues, probably the most complex issue that Joe Biden can handle at this point.
00:11:37.440And then a reporter, again, just kind of snuck in secretly and he goes, hey, what's going on with that FBI thing with and Biden just the minute he gets to be he doesn't even get the FBI out.
00:11:48.420They give you F. Hey, what's with that F. B.
00:12:25.960No, I'm not answering that tough question.
00:12:28.400Call me when you want me to talk about ice cream.
00:12:30.580OK, the the Biden campaign just does not want to communicate with the press.
00:12:36.440It's very difficult to communicate these days.
00:12:38.080If you want to communicate better, by the way, you should use Pure Talk USA.
00:12:40.920OK, if your carrier, if your cell plan is with Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, you are paying way too much for the exact same coverage that you would be getting right now with Pure Talk.
00:12:52.660I know what you just heard me say is you're paying too much for similar coverage.
00:13:52.120So now Joe Biden is running away from the questions, the few times that the Hunter questions even come up.
00:14:00.300But don't forget, this Hunter issue has been going on for a very long time.
00:14:04.560I mean, we've known about this Hunter issue for years at this point,
00:14:07.760and it's even kind of cropped up into the press for about a year, year and a half.
00:14:12.220Early on, reporters were bringing this up, if for no other reason than so that Joe could swat it down.
00:14:18.140The trouble was Joe Biden wasn't able to swat it down because the scandal is obviously legitimate.
00:14:22.120And it's obviously stinks to high heaven.
00:14:26.240The anger that Joe Biden would express when he was asked this question shows you everything you need to know about whether or not it is legit.
00:14:37.320Take a listen to a quick little montage of Joe occasionally answering a question on Hunter.
00:14:43.500In your son's job in Ukraine, how is that not a conflict of interest?
00:15:38.200And there at the very end is that email from the Ukrainian executive saying to Hunter saying, thank you for inviting me to D.C. to meet your dad.
00:15:45.600So that's who's saying it is that the Ukrainian executive.
00:15:48.200Even Savannah Guthrie, right, who is as far left as they come, she's asking Biden, you know, look, this doesn't look great for you.
00:15:57.680You know, isn't it maybe just say it's like sort of like a little improper maybe.
00:16:01.420And then we can just kind of scoot this under the rug.
00:16:03.920But obviously, Hunter Biden got the job because he was selling your name.
00:17:18.940But nobody thinks Joe Biden's gone broke.
00:17:21.460Nobody thinks Joe Biden's losing money.
00:17:24.320Everyone realizes that Joe Biden's worked in the government service for 50 years and somehow he's gotten real rich doing it.
00:17:32.340All right, he's caught with his pants down, much like, much like a certain CNN analyst yesterday and writer for the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin, who was put on to an indefinite leave because he was on a conference call, on a Zoom call.
00:17:50.000And he was caught getting a little frisky with himself on the Zoom call.
00:17:58.840Now, for expert analysis of this, this particular action in this story, we turn now to Woody Allen.
00:18:19.300Jeffrey Toobin was pretty vicious during the whole Kavanaugh scandal, you know, and accusing Kavanaugh of all sorts of madness and particularly of a sexual nature.
00:18:29.980And yet now Jeffrey Toobin gets caught doing some weird, creepy stuff.
00:18:34.000Vice Magazine reported this yesterday, that Jeffrey Toobin exposed himself to members of the New Yorker and WNYC radio during a Zoom call.
00:18:42.920And this, this, according to the story, the call was described as an election simulation.
00:18:49.760So now when I read that, I realized this may have just been a huge misunderstanding because, see, it was supposed to be an election simulation.
00:18:59.340And, I don't know, maybe Jeffrey didn't have his glasses on when he was reading the instructions.
00:19:04.100All I know is the man was two letters away from being the most meticulous person on that phone call.
00:19:09.480But unfortunately, got a couple letters wrong in there, and now he is, he is indefinitely suspended.
00:19:16.280This was on a call with Jane Meyer, Masha Gessen, Andrew Morantz, Jelani Cobb, Evan Osnos, Sue Halpern, and Dexter Filkins.
00:19:24.980All these kind of liberal, prominent journalist types.
00:19:29.340So, the reason I bring up this story is actually two reasons.
00:19:33.000One, Trump's critics are worse than Trump.
00:19:38.480This is, I always, you always hear this from the left.
00:19:41.400They say, Trump is awful, he's terrible, he's vulgar, he says mean things, he dated porn stars, he whatever, you know.
00:19:46.780And I think, okay, well, I guess all of that's fair enough, but his critics are worse.
00:19:52.600Trump is vulgar, and he's made a lot of money, and whatever.
00:19:56.020Remember, Joe Biden is a crook who sold influence, as was Hillary, by the way.
00:20:03.040Hillary was also selling influence through the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:20:06.220Well, you know, Trump has, says vulgar things.
00:20:10.760Joe Biden says a lot of vulgar things.
00:20:13.260Well, Trump has made some mistakes in his career.
00:20:15.740Joe Biden's only made mistakes in his career.
00:20:17.540Well, these, I don't know, these Republicans are blah, blah, blah.
00:20:22.280Anything you can accuse these guys of, it's doubly true of his critics.
00:20:26.300This is, Drew Clavin has this great point on bigots, which is, he makes the observation that it's not that bigots are necessarily wrong about the people they're criticizing.
00:20:35.260It's just that they have no self-awareness.
00:20:37.220They don't, they're wrong about themselves.
00:20:39.140You might say, oh, that guy's awful, he's terrible.
00:20:41.040Sure, maybe, but what about you, buddy?
00:20:43.140And so the, the left does this here too.
00:20:45.520You know, they can castigate Brett Kavanaugh, a milquetoast lawyer, because, I don't know, he kissed a girl in 1982, maybe.
00:20:51.840Meanwhile, these guys are doing weird, creepy stuff on Zoom calls.
00:20:55.060But the second point I want to make on the Zoom call is, we need to go back to work.
00:21:01.540We need to take off the dumb masks, and we need to leave our stupid apartments, and we need to stop Purelling ourselves, walking through showers of Purell every time we go everywhere.
00:21:18.660We are not meant to be locked in pods alone for the rest of our lives.
00:21:23.840We are, human beings are social animals.
00:21:26.540Our defining characteristic is how social we are, and the fact that we have speech, so we can communicate with each other.
00:21:31.640And if you put a mask on your face all the time, and you block your smile, and you block your mouth, and you block your voice, you are fundamentally crippling your humanity.
00:21:42.820And I don't care if it increases the chances that you get the flu.
00:21:46.640By the way, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
00:21:48.580I'm not delving into the scientific question.
00:21:51.200I'm only making the political point here.
00:21:53.740Remember, people get weird and creepy when you lock them alone for a long time.
00:21:59.560Jeffrey Toobin wouldn't have gotten caught in this problem if he were in a business meeting in the boardroom of the New Yorker rather than on Zoom.
00:22:11.180You know, the only good thing I can say about the lockdowns is that it has given people a little bit more time to read.
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00:23:51.320And I don't want to hear any stupid egghead doctors telling me anything otherwise.
00:23:55.020I don't care what their opinion is because I'm not making this a scientific point.
00:23:59.500I'm sure from an epidemiological standpoint, it's better to lock ourselves and wrap ourselves in saran wrap and sit in our apartment all the time.
00:24:07.400Because then you're really going to reduce your exposure to germs.
00:24:09.920But we're not going to beat germs, folks.
00:24:11.920We're not going to end germs on Earth.
00:24:13.540I know the left is utopian, but that's taking it far even for them.
00:25:30.100That is right there on the CDC website, which suggests to me, we're not going to defeat germs by putting cloth over our face forever, okay?
00:25:42.820The left is not deferring to the science, though, by the way.
00:25:45.840You know, they've been telling us, listen to the scientists, listen to the experts.
00:25:48.480Well, only if the experts back up their preconceived political notions.
00:25:52.260Because you've got an expert on this at the White House, Dr. Scott Atlas.
00:25:55.860Dr. Scott Atlas came out, he tweeted, that the masks maybe don't work that well.
00:26:02.820He tweets out an article from the American Institute for Economic Research that showed that, or that argued, rather, that face masks should be restricted to narrow circumstances,
00:26:12.660such as you're visiting an elderly, sick person in a controlled healthcare setting, you know, like a hospital or a nursing home or something like that.
00:26:20.740But it also raised the question as to whether or not widespread mask use may lead to an increased spread of the virus rather than less of a spread of the virus.
00:26:31.320The reason it raised this is the same reason that an epidemiologist at Columbia raised the prospect to NPR.
00:26:36.980It's the same reason that Dr. Fauci actually recommended not wearing masks early on, which is that people don't use them correctly.
00:26:42.860So, there's a world in which, if you're not using your mask correctly, you end up touching your face even more.
00:26:48.640You lower it, or the masks are dirty, people don't wash them all the time.
00:26:51.400All perfectly obvious, common sense, legitimate questions.
00:28:45.800I know that he's just saying this because he's a hack and he doesn't want people to trust the Trump administration.
00:28:50.360But I'm glad he's saying, wait, hold on, you're telling me that all these eggheads and lab coats who have gotten everything about this virus wrong from the very beginning.
00:28:59.120Now they're going to, like, inject me with something.
00:29:10.420I sure wish that you would apply that standard evenly.
00:29:14.380Because, yeah, I don't trust the science.
00:29:16.700You know, the one thing I know about scientific discoveries, like, like, in statistically 100% of cases, is they change over time.
00:29:26.180Like, every made, every scientific consensus that we've had at various times in history gets changed later as scientific progress develops, as more scientific discoveries are made.
00:29:38.880And trust the science, as they're, as they, I think, intend to be using it, is a method of material inquiry that obviously changes with circumstances and is obviously prone to error.
00:29:54.380So the idea that I'm now going to export every decision that I would make about my life to some egghead at some particular time in history is absolute madness.
00:30:04.240But beyond that, the, if these guys don't even understand their own field of expertise, why would I have them answer questions well outside their field of expertise?
00:30:15.980Why would I have Dr. Fauci tell me when I ought to prioritize seeing my family beyond avoiding germs and a certain statistical risk from germs?
00:30:27.720Why would, Fauci doesn't know anything about that.
00:30:49.160He's coming around in the worst way possible, but I never want to hear again that the Republicans are undermining faith in science, that we're prolonging the virus or anything like that.
00:30:58.240Andy Cuomo just came out and said, don't take the vaccine.
00:31:00.740So don't tell me anymore that Trump is endangering lives, ignoring the science.
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00:41:14.580It's just, look, this is obviously like a pretty macho, normal guy.
00:41:19.200You know, he's not very woke, I would suspect, in his comportment.
00:41:24.360He goes, it's like, yeah, man, look, they've been lying to us, they pander to us, they think we're a bunch of idiots, they take us for granted on the basis of our race, usually.
00:41:33.880And we're just not going to take that anymore.
00:41:36.940And I like the matter of fact approach to Trump.
00:41:40.180Because the left becomes very hysterical, like those gals that we were playing on the show yesterday.
00:41:44.020But the right, very matter of fact, yeah, okay, maybe you don't like this about Trump or that about Trump, but he's doing a good job.
00:41:50.520Actually, the reasoning that Jorge gives for why you should support Trump, beyond, you know, how offensive it is that Biden and the Dems pander to people and lie to people and have empty promises.
00:42:02.540He gives a great sports analogy that I think is good reasoning we should all keep in mind.
00:42:06.840Now, I'm a professional athlete and I've been one for most of my life, so I've always seen things through a sports lens.
00:42:12.540That makes Donald Trump our head coach.
00:42:15.420And before the global pandemic, we were winning Super Bowls.
00:42:18.840And when you're winning Super Bowls, you don't fire the coach.
00:42:23.500You don't, it doesn't matter if you don't like the plays he runs, the players he puts on the field, or what he says on Twitter.
00:42:28.700You sure as hell don't replace him for another coach that's been in the business for 47 years at every level and never won a f***ing game.
00:42:43.100This is a great analogy, and it gets to a big difference between the left and the right, because notice he didn't say here, look, Trump's our quarterback.
00:42:51.520Look, Trump, Trump is like Tom Brady, okay, and he's a winner and he's a winner, because that would suggest that Trump is doing all of these things himself.
00:42:58.700But we know Trump isn't doing all of these things himself.
00:43:01.540We know that the president actually has relatively little direct power.
00:43:05.240Much of his power is from the bully pulpit.
00:43:07.800Much of his power is putting some people in place that then carry out these operations.
00:43:11.940But the president himself, it's not like he's sitting on his computer all day, like typing away emails and, you know, filing like spreadsheets and things like that.
00:43:20.400His job is one of inspiration to the people and then of appointment to get good people in place that can actually run this massive government.
00:44:49.120They know that it was the leftists and the eggheads and the technocrats who were insisting on keeping this thing shut down.
00:44:56.460Over a virus that has a 99 percent plus survival rate.
00:45:03.280They know that the big errors that occurred in the treatment of the virus occurred in democratic states like New York.
00:45:10.540Don't forget, federal government made a lot of masks, made a lot of ventilators, did shut down travel from China, shut down travel from Europe.
00:45:40.160That's at least what this UFC champ seems to think.
00:45:43.400That's what I think a lot of other people are thinking, too, even if they won't say it to the pollsters.
00:45:51.140The question is, will all of these forces, the Presidential Debate Commission, the media, big tech, the bureaucrats, the people counting the ballots, will they be able to collude together, to use a popular word?
00:46:07.380Will they be able to collude and overwhelm Trump?
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