The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 74 - The Russians Hacked Alabama

00:00:00.440 Catastrophe in Alabama. A Democrat won the deep red state Senate seat. I personally blame the

00:00:06.000 Russians and Jim Comey. Unfortunately, Republicans are drawing terrible conclusions from this whole

00:00:10.900 experience. We will analyze what conservatives should really take away from Roy Moore's defeat.

00:00:16.240 Then Amanda Prestigiacomo and Ali Stuckey joined the panel of deplorables to talk about a new study

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00:00:26.400 Huge anti-Trump bias at the DOJ and in Bob Mueller's investigation exposed and the real

00:00:33.120 cause of the literal fires, not the weird sex crime figurative fires that burned down my city

00:00:37.900 of Los Angeles. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:17.220 So let's get back into reality. A rough night for Republicans. Take it away. Mainstream media.

00:03:23.040 That breaking news coming out of Alabama this morning, a stunning end to the race for Senate as

00:03:27.760 Doug Jones claims victory while his opponent Roy Moore says things are far from over.

00:03:32.620 Senate race against Republican Roy Moore. This is a seismic Democratic victory in a deeply red state.

00:03:39.320 We have team coverage with reporters in both camps.

00:03:42.000 Tonight, Democrat Doug Jones wins a stunning victory in the Senate election in Alabama.

00:03:47.660 And tonight, I'm Don Lemon. Thank you for staying up with us. An incredible victory

00:03:51.380 for the Democratic candidate in one of the reddest of red states. I want you to listen

00:03:55.620 to this joyful reaction at Doug Jones headquarters.

00:04:01.760 Seismic. Stunning. Miraculous. Thank you for staying up with us. I am truly a masochist.

00:04:08.100 That is like the cat of nine tails whipping myself watching that ridiculous coverage. 0.98

00:04:12.000 So that's going to be the story. Seismic. Stunning. Unbelievable. It's a whole brand new world. 0.96

00:04:17.580 Huzzah, huzzah. You're going to hear that from the mainstream media.

00:04:19.780 Unfortunately, a lot of Republicans are taking this to heart and they're taking away the wrong

00:04:25.200 conclusions from this race. So let's go through the top seven takeaways from Roy Moore's defeat in

00:04:31.280 Alabama. What conservatives should really learn? Number one, no, Roy Moore should not have dropped

00:04:36.800 out of this race after the sexual impropriety allegations came out. There are a lot of Republicans

00:04:43.020 saying, oh, he should have dropped out. There should have been a writing candidate against

00:04:46.260 Doug Jones. We could have run Luther Strange or Mo Brooks or somebody. Not true. Totally ridiculous.

00:04:51.460 Let's look at the timeline. On November 9th, that is when the first allegations against Roy Moore came 0.82

00:04:57.420 out. Keep in mind, these are 40-year-old allegations. But on November 9th, we learned that there is a woman 1.00

00:05:03.700 who says that when she was 14, Roy Moore was sexually inappropriate with her or she sexually assaulted

00:05:09.360 her. And then a number of other women came out and said, oh, yes, when I was 16 or 18 or 19,

00:05:15.000 Roy Moore. Then at the time, 30, 32, he got a little frisky with me too. And it created this aura

00:05:21.920 of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Those were the allegations. These allegations were

00:05:27.780 conveniently timed. You notice you haven't heard about these things for, I don't know, the 40 years

00:05:32.440 since they happened until just too late for Roy Moore to get off that ballot. So people think it's

00:05:38.180 very easy. If Roy Moore just dropped out, then they'd put someone else on the ballot and the Republican

00:05:43.060 would have won. That isn't true. According to Alabama state code, you can only remove yourself

00:05:48.660 from the ballot 76 days before the election. So if it's after that time period, you can't get off of

00:05:54.660 the ballot. If Roy Moore had dropped out, his name would still be on that ballot. He still would have

00:05:58.460 the Republican line. Some people also don't know when you're running for office, you need to get a

00:06:03.540 number of lines. So for instance, when I would run campaigns in New York, we'd try to pick up the

00:06:08.300 Republican line, the conservative line, the Independence Party line. The Democrats would 0.78

00:06:13.140 get working families party. But you get those lines, and then the more lines you have, the better 0.89

00:06:17.600 your chances of winning. If Roy Moore had dropped out and the Republican establishment or Donald Trump

00:06:23.160 even had endorsed someone like Luther Strange, who had lost in the primaries, or Mo Brooks, who

00:06:28.220 didn't really have much of a shot, even though those candidates would have been more likely to win

00:06:33.920 the general, it would have had to be a write-in campaign. So there's a very low chance it would

00:06:38.260 have happened. I think Luther Strange was polling at like 2% or something in a write-in campaign in

00:06:44.040 the general election. Roy Moore dropping out would have guaranteed the seat would have gone to a

00:06:48.640 Democrat instead of what we saw, which was a tight race, but two, three points separating these. It was

00:06:55.200 a clear outcome, basically, but at least a close race. Dropping out would have guaranteed it to

00:07:00.240 Democrats. And I know what you're going to hear. You're going to hear, well, Lisa Murkowski,

00:07:04.440 the senator from Alaska, she won a write-in campaign in 2010. It is completely different.

00:07:08.940 She had a lot of things going for her. One, she had enormous support, which Roy Moore lacked. She

00:07:14.200 was an incumbent. She already had the seat. She already had universal name recognition. She came 0.99

00:07:18.700 from a political legacy family. She was widely known as the heir to a political family. And she had a

00:07:24.820 political write-in campaign campaign. So her entire campaign was about this write-in. She gave out

00:07:30.220 bracelets. She instructed people on how to spell her name. It was just too late. There was a month

00:07:35.040 till the election when these allegations surfaced. It couldn't have happened. Added to all of this,

00:07:40.500 you had Steve Bannon inserting himself into the Roy Moore campaign and playing it as an

00:07:45.940 anti-establishment versus establishment campaign. So had Donald Trump come out and endorsed the guy

00:07:52.180 who lost the Republican primary or someone else, it would have been seen widely as opposing the will

00:07:58.820 of voters opposing the will of the populace. And for a populace president to do that, it just can't

00:08:05.060 happen. At the end of this election, it was a choice between Roy Moore and Doug Jones. Anybody who's

00:08:11.860 trying to tell you otherwise is selling you a fantasy. Number two, no, the outcome is not stunning.

00:08:18.960 The mainstream media will tell you it's stunning. It's unbelievable to hear them tell it. Not since the

00:08:24.380 Battle of Lepanto has an underdog overcome so much to get a victory. NBC News reported it's a

00:08:31.620 stunning victory. Politico reported on the Alabama earthquake. The Washington Post, democracy dies in

00:08:38.000 darkness, called it miraculous. They're suggesting no one could have ever predicted this. This is a

00:08:42.960 blowout victory. Hmm. Did anybody predict that Roy Moore would lose the general? Let's cut to the tape.

00:08:48.220 Luther will definitely win. No, you know what I'm saying.

00:08:57.780 Roy has a very good chance of not winning in the general election. It's all about the general. Don't

00:09:05.600 forget, we don't stop here. You have an election coming up the day this is over. So this is over

00:09:11.060 on Tuesday on Wednesday morning. The new race begins. You got to beat a Democrat. Luther is going to win

00:09:17.260 easily. And Roy's going to have a hard time winning. Oh, Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the guy who

00:09:23.500 predicted this. Right. The leader of Roy Moore's party, the Republican president, he predicted that

00:09:28.600 Roy Moore would have a very hard time. He likely wouldn't win the general election. The mainstream

00:09:32.940 media are conveniently ignoring this today because they need this to seem like a seismic shift.

00:09:40.220 They need this to show that all of the Republican momentum, all of the Trump momentum, conservative

00:09:45.900 policy legislation like we haven't seen in our lifetimes is coming to an end. They have to show

00:09:52.240 that it stops that. Donald Trump predicted it during the primary. He said, yeah, I don't know this guy.

00:09:56.840 It's a tough it's going to be a tough race for him. He isn't a great candidate. He's a flawed

00:10:01.180 candidate. This was before any of the sexual allegations came out just based on his appeal as a

00:10:07.520 candidate. Absent the dirty tricks, absent people coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of

00:10:12.500 things. He knew it would be a tough race. This isn't stunning. Stop repeating that. Number three,

00:10:18.600 Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment now more than ever. Ronald Reagan was fine of saying there is an 11th

00:10:25.280 commandment we all must live by. Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. Unfortunately,

00:10:31.240 many Republicans were all too happy to jump on the bandwagon against Roy Moore when these accusations

00:10:38.020 came out, in part perhaps because the going got a little tough. That's a that is a bad accusation to

00:10:43.640 say that a man in his 30s is creeping on 14 year old girls. And so when the going gets tough, you want

00:10:49.120 to run away from that. Also, I think people just don't like more. Some Republicans don't like him

00:10:54.220 because of his Trumpiness. Some people they don't like him because he's a Bible thumper. They don't like

00:10:59.220 him because he seems a little slick, a little unctuous, whatever. Do not speak ill of a fellow

00:11:04.440 Republican. Because by the way, this sexual mania that took over the last days of the Roy Moore

00:11:11.720 campaign, they had one piece of solid evidence. They had one piece of solid evidence. Gloria Allred 0.99

00:11:18.000 showed it off with that one accuser during her big press conference. It was a yearbook that purported to

00:11:24.080 have a signature from Roy Moore saying sweet things to the little girl. We now know it

00:11:29.140 has been admitted that that evidence was at least partially fabricated and they hid that it was

00:11:34.520 fabricated when they showed it. So the only hard evidence we have is not credible. And yet Republicans

00:11:40.240 were quick to throw Roy Moore under the bus instead of saying nothing at all, instead of stepping back a

00:11:46.040 little bit and saying, well, let's wait and see how this plays out. I'm not totally sure because now

00:11:51.880 there's a precedent, which is if you make allegations, sexual allegations in particular against a Republican,

00:11:58.360 you will be assumed guilty until proven innocent. Not a good way for Republicans to move forward. It

00:12:04.220 really damages us. Hopefully we'll learn not to be so quick on the trigger in the future.

00:12:09.320 Number four, Republicans need better opposition research. This is the part where I talk about how

00:12:13.680 the allegations were pretty strong. So these allegations, sure, they were 40 years old. But we

00:12:20.160 know from Moore's autobiography that he has a thing for young teenage girls. We know from Moore's 2005

00:12:26.620 autobiography that he met his current wife when she was a teenager performing in a dance recital.

00:12:32.120 He wrote, quote, I knew Kayla was going to be a special person in my life. And then later when she

00:12:37.360 was 23, I think they connected and went on a date. That's how the story goes. Nevertheless, he even

00:12:42.400 admitted that when she was a teenage girl in a dance recital, he had the eye for her. So Roy Moore's

00:12:48.000 opponents should have known, his Republican opponents should have known, this was a place rife for

00:12:52.820 attack. Even if all of the allegations were false, they would be easy political tricks to play. They

00:12:58.360 should have, Roy Moore's campaign should have protected against that. And Luther Strange's

00:13:02.680 campaign should have pounced on it. If these allegations are true, they should have found those

00:13:06.960 people and they should have made them make the claims during the primary so that Strange would

00:13:10.780 have won and we would have a Republican in the Senate from Alabama. If those claims weren't true,

00:13:16.980 Roy Moore should have protected against that. It means that Luther Strange's campaign was

00:13:20.940 incompetent. I don't believe this was a big conspiracy really by the establishment. I don't

00:13:26.500 really buy that Mitch McConnell knew about this and he was sitting on it and hiding it. I think if they

00:13:31.860 had been sitting on it, they would have played it in the primary. They don't want to lose that seat.

00:13:35.860 They could have easily bumped out Roy Moore and given it to Luther Strange if this had come out.

00:13:40.620 Republican voting was deeply depressed in the general election. They easily could have defeated Roy

00:13:46.060 Moore in a primary and depressed his supporters in that election, but they didn't do it.

00:13:50.400 I don't know if it's that we're lazy because we've been running against the Clintons for whom every

00:13:55.620 scandal of the last three decades is common public knowledge. It's been plastered all over TV

00:14:00.500 for years and years and years, but you have to get better at opposition research. I place a lot of

00:14:07.880 the blame for this loss at Luther Strange's feet and at his campaign because they didn't uncover this

00:14:12.740 and Moore didn't protect against it. Number five, do not OD on covfefe. Covfe is a hell of a drug,

00:14:19.640 folks. You've got to use it sparingly and cautiously. What I mean by that, there is a huge

00:14:25.440 right-wing exuberance, more than I have ever seen in my entire life, a young life, granted, but I've

00:14:31.740 been on this earth a few decades at least, and we've never seen anything like this. Wonderful

00:14:37.640 conservative legislation, wonderful executive priorities, wonderful foreign policy, good judges

00:14:43.520 being nominated, courts being stacked. We're seeing massive tax reform that we haven't seen since

00:14:48.380 Reagan, but there is a limit. There is a limit. You can't go crazy. Donald Trump has completely shaken

00:14:56.120 up politics. He's radically altered what is acceptable, specifically in political speech,

00:15:01.800 in campaign speech, in what a candidate looks like. He's cracked this political correct, gross,

00:15:08.300 just the political language where they say one thing, and really, you know that they're lying,

00:15:13.960 but they're lying in this way or they're lying in that way. Donald Trump, he cracked that. He cracked

00:15:18.580 the political correctness. He cracked the credibility of the mainstream media, but you can't get away with

00:15:23.620 everything. He hasn't abolished the rules of politics entirely. Roy Moore did not have a way forward. He did

00:15:31.220 not know how to pivot his campaign. He gave this awful interview with Sean Hannity. Let's hear it.

00:15:36.680 Do you know Ms. Corfman? Do you know the mother? I don't know Ms. Corfman from anybody. I've never

00:15:43.660 talked to her, never had any contact with her. Allegations of sexual misconduct with her are

00:15:48.420 completely false. I believe they're politically motivated. I believe they're brought only to stop

00:15:53.340 a very successful campaign, and that's what they're doing. I've never known this woman or anything

00:16:00.340 with regard to the other girls. You understand this is 40 years ago. She said that you asked her out

00:16:06.380 on the first of several dates, but nothing progressed beyond kissing. I don't remember

00:16:13.240 specific dates. I do not, and I don't remember if it was in that time or later, but I do not remember

00:16:20.000 that. But you know her, but you never dated her ever. Is that what you're saying? Know her, but I don't

00:16:25.760 remember going out on dates. I knew her as a friend. If we did go out on dates, then we did, but I do not

00:16:32.600 remember that. That is not an answer. So he's talking about two different girls there, but he's

00:16:38.320 saying on the one, this never happened, this 14-year-old girl, it never happened. Well, did

00:16:42.100 you date teenagers? Well, no, I don't, well, I don't remember specific dates. Well, did you date

00:16:46.960 teenagers? Well, you know, I, that's not an answer. If you're going to deny it, deny it. If you're going

00:16:52.460 to own up to it, own up to it and explain it, but move on, pivot, move on. The way that Roy Moore

00:16:58.020 tried to pivot was by blaming gays and lesbians and the cultural left for harping on this.

00:17:05.280 Sure, the cultural left might be harping on this. You're not going to be able to push your

00:17:08.960 campaign forward by trying to scapegoat gays and lesbians when your own sexual behavior 0.76

00:17:14.840 is being called into question. You have to move forward. Roy Moore didn't do that. He didn't 0.86

00:17:19.600 have a clear enough vision for his campaign, and he didn't have the courage or the strength

00:17:26.320 or the political smarts to address the issue and move straight forward, plow right by it.

00:17:31.040 This brings us to number six, never defend, never explain, always attack. This is also

00:17:38.120 from Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan would say, if you're explaining, you're losing. But Roy

00:17:42.780 Moore just kept on explaining. He kept on saying, well, I never did this 40 years ago, and even

00:17:47.900 when I did, I got the mother's permission. That doesn't work, pal. When you do that, you end

00:17:53.260 up looking like Frank from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

00:17:55.980 I am not going to diddle your kids. I'm not like that. We got to definitely write a song

00:18:01.340 about how we do not diddle kids. Do not diddle kids. It's no good diddling kids.

00:18:07.540 There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a

00:18:11.280 song about it. You got to write a song. It's just, oh, I wouldn't do it with anybody younger

00:18:15.260 than my daughter. My little kids got to be big. Hold them away from my daughter or something 1.00

00:18:21.200 like that. Don't write a song about that. No. I'm cloudy. I got a headache.

00:18:29.100 That could be a documentary of Roy Moore's campaign. That is what it looked like when

00:18:33.220 he came out and tried to explain all of this. Don't do that. Eventually, he wised up and

00:18:36.880 then just denied it. He called into question some of the, clearly the fabrication on the yearbook

00:18:43.360 signature. But that's what he looked like for weeks when these allegations came out.

00:18:47.700 Not a good look. There's no way to convince somebody that you're not doing that when you're

00:18:53.080 constantly harping on these things and going back and changing your story slightly. When

00:18:57.740 Republicans were confronted with various and sundry allegations against Moore, they would 0.95

00:19:03.240 say, if you even support Moore, you are a pedophile. There is a two-word answer that they

00:19:08.960 should have given. Bob Menendez. Bob Menendez. There is a sitting Democrat United States Senator

00:19:14.580 who federal prosecutors think might have had sex with underage prostitutes. You don't hear a peep 0.94

00:19:20.300 about that. You don't hear Democrats calling on him to step down or to resign. The mainstream media

00:19:24.920 have blocked it out entirely because it doesn't help out their narrative against Republicans and

00:19:29.540 against Roy Moore. But that's what they said. The Democrats said, well, if you vote for Moore,

00:19:33.360 you are a pedophile. And just to be precise about language here, what Roy Moore is accused of is not

00:19:39.020 pedophilia. The old Greek word for this is ephibophilia. He's accused of doing things,

00:19:44.740 weird sex stuff with teenagers, young teenage girls, but not with children. There's a difference 0.80

00:19:49.660 between a six-year-old and a 16-year-old, for instance. I guess you could make that point to them.

00:19:55.860 But the real attack you have to make is pushing forward, pushing it back on them. Say, not only are your

00:20:01.600 claims not true, not only is your evidence of the yearbook, which was fabricated, not even is that

00:20:07.720 not credible, but your own guy is sitting in the United States Senate accused of having sex with 0.96

00:20:13.260 underage prostitutes, Senator Bob Menendez, and you're saying nothing on that. And until Democrats 0.98

00:20:17.980 answer for that, they have no credibility on this issue and you don't owe them one single explanation.

00:20:24.000 Beyond that, political votes are... When I vote for somebody, I do not suddenly take on all of

00:20:30.260 their moral characteristics. That's not how it works. We live in reality. And in reality, we have

00:20:35.880 to elect people to represent us on political issues in legislative bodies. I do not become

00:20:41.780 Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer represents the state of New York. I do not become Kamala Harris

00:20:46.380 because Kamala Harris represents California. I don't even become Donald Trump because I voted for

00:20:51.900 Donald Trump in the presidential election. I don't have billions of dollars. I don't have the

00:20:56.820 kind of crazy hair. That doesn't happen because there are steps between the representatives and 0.95

00:21:02.980 their constituents. Don't buy into that lie and hammer them, hammer them, hammer them.

00:21:08.500 Have I made myself clear? I hope so. Next and final point, do not get hypnotized. This one's really hard

00:21:15.600 because the mainstream media will do this to you. According to a report out from the Media Research

00:21:20.480 Center today, 91% of evening news coverage about Donald Trump is negative. 91%. This is way higher

00:21:28.420 than previous presidents, Republican or Democrat. There is wall-to-wall coverage of all of the sex

00:21:35.000 stuff with Roy Moore. And what's the refrain? Roy Moore is a pedophile. Roy Moore is a pedophile.

00:21:39.120 Doesn't really analyze the evidence. It doesn't analyze what those words mean. It doesn't analyze what 1.00

00:21:43.860 the accusations are or how many decades ago they took place. But do not be hypnotized. I know you

00:21:49.320 haven't seen anything about Bob Menendez. I know all you've heard about is what a mean,

00:21:52.880 terrible, rotten guy Roy Moore is. But the mainstream media are the communications wing 0.97

00:21:59.340 of the Democratic Party. Do not believe what they're saying. There have been absurd retractions

00:22:05.320 in just the last few days from CNN, Washington Post, the New York Times. They got stories completely

00:22:10.320 wrong. Important stories. Important stories about so-called collusion, about the White House,

00:22:14.680 about Donald Trump. Don't buy what they are selling and don't buy their premises because

00:22:20.340 then you'll have to arrive at their conclusions. That isn't true. Okay. That's all I want to

00:22:26.300 talk about on how conservatives are making wrong conclusions from this race. Now we have

00:22:31.700 to talk about the race itself. We have to bring on our lovely panel of deplorables, our all-female 1.00

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00:25:09.520 mancrates.com slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S. Own the holidays. Okay, ladies, we have to bring you on a tough 1.00

00:25:17.060 night. Let's begin. Allie, what does this loss, this new Democrat in the Senate mean for tax reform?

00:25:22.960 Well, unfortunately, I don't think it's a great step for tax reform. I do think the positive side

00:25:29.800 about it, although you have already touched on this so far, is that we don't have such an uphill

00:25:36.220 PR battle now to fight. Of course, everyone who voted for President Trump wanted someone in the

00:25:41.860 Senate that would carry out President Trump's pro-America, America First agenda, and that

00:25:46.040 includes tax reform. But I do think it's a positive that we no longer have to battle the media and

00:25:52.560 battle the left and defend ourselves. As you explained, we would constantly be having to

00:25:56.960 explain ourselves by saying, oh, no, we're not the party of a sex offender, or no, we're not the

00:26:03.780 party of a guy who engages in preying upon teenagers. That's how we would be spending the next couple

00:26:09.780 years until 2020, is explaining that we are not the party of Roy Moore. Well, now we don't have to

00:26:16.740 waste our time doing that. We can actually focus on maintaining the majority in the Senate and then

00:26:22.860 winning 2020 as well. So I do think it can be a positive.

00:26:26.620 And it does take a real weapon out of their toolbox, absolutely. I always advocate not explaining

00:26:33.000 anything to them and saying, we don't owe you an explanation. You have Bob Menendez.

00:26:36.160 But you're right. It does make it much easier on the PR front. And really, it was the worst night

00:26:43.300 for Al Franken. Al Franken, who fake resigned a couple weeks ago, he now has to actually resign.

00:26:48.840 You know, if Roy Moore had won, he could say, well, they got more. I'm going to stay. But too bad. Now

00:26:53.500 you're fired. Sad, sad. I guess Donald Trump's catchphrase. So I suppose it's fitting. Amanda,

00:27:00.340 what does this mean for Republicans in 2018?

00:27:06.160 Well, I think we can just learn that this was a really bad candidate. Like, I don't think this

00:27:12.380 teaches us anything else aside from Roy Moore was a really bad candidate. And that's why he lost. Like,

00:27:18.940 I don't think we can extrapolate from this and think it's like a referendum on Trump or anything like

00:27:22.560 that. I just think we put not a good candidate forward. I mean, Mo Brooks would have wiped the

00:27:28.220 floor, even Luther Strange. So it was really, and of course, we can look to Mitch McConnell.

00:27:33.540 Well, and that was not the best move on his part to try to rid those other people from being in 0.51

00:27:40.480 there. So maybe just take a look at our leadership. That would be a good move for Republicans. And then

00:27:47.280 maybe that would help us in 2018. He was a bad candidate. I do fear now that anybody can make up

00:27:55.880 allegations. I'm not saying these allegations are made up, but anybody can make them up,

00:28:00.320 especially if they're four decades old. And giving them a win on this, I just fear is going to unleash

00:28:06.440 a tidal wave of these allegations. Are we going to see this strategy played out in 2018?

00:28:12.640 Oh, 100%. I've had reservations about the whole Me Too campaign from the beginning.

00:28:18.860 And that's exactly the right point, is that anything can be said. Bill O'Reilly actually just

00:28:24.700 recently came out and he said that there's a tape. Again, I can't, you know, I don't know if this is

00:28:28.980 true or not, but he said that there's a tape of basically an anti-Trump attorney offering $200,000

00:28:35.640 to someone to make up false sexual assault accusations against President Trump.

00:28:40.560 To say that this would never happen is absurd, and we've seen it in the past.

00:28:44.820 So it's a really dangerous precedent. Again, not to say that the allegations against Warren

00:28:49.820 Moore were false. I don't know. Some of them seem credible, actually.

00:28:53.560 But we could see this in the future where you could, you know, tank a candidate based off of

00:28:59.000 allegations, true or not. Like I said, we didn't even get to the bottom of these. And the outcome

00:29:03.800 of that election was clear as day that he wasn't going to win because of the allegations. So it's

00:29:08.340 really, really dangerous. Chuck Schumer today reported to Capitol Police that there was a plot

00:29:13.400 of foot to accuse him of sexual assault or sexual harassment that weren't true. You know,

00:29:21.780 it was just made up and cooked up in some political operative's room.

00:29:24.580 That's sketchy.

00:29:25.740 Aren't we always supposed to believe the women, though? What happened to Chuck Schumer?

00:29:29.000 What happened to woke Chuck, huh?

00:29:31.380 Yeah, that's the thing.

00:29:33.440 Go ahead.

00:29:33.940 Go ahead.

00:29:34.940 Allie.

00:29:35.380 Well, I think that's a really good point. I think the danger of Democrats employing this kind of

00:29:40.740 strategy going forward, yes, it could be effective to taking down Republicans. But as they've seen,

00:29:46.300 it's also effective in taking down Democrats. And so if they're willing to take down their own side

00:29:51.440 by taking down people like Al Franken and John Conyers and maybe even Chuck Schumer, who knows?

00:29:55.880 I'm not starting that rumor, but hey.

00:29:57.720 Yeah, I'm not starting that rumor that Chuck Schumer is going to get taken down by weird sex stuff.

00:30:02.020 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:30:02.540 I don't think it's out there. We do have to believe the woman, right? So I think that they have to be 1.00

00:30:06.800 willing to turn that sword on themselves. If that's the sword that they want to die on,

00:30:11.580 I think that what they're doing is that they realize that they're going to take down some

00:30:16.460 of their own by spearheading this whole Me Too movement. And how they kind of remedied that and

00:30:21.500 how they kind of solved that is by using Al Franken as the guy who fell on his sword,

00:30:28.380 as the scapegoat that said, yes, we're even going to call out some of our own. But when we call out

00:30:33.080 some of our own, look what they do. They resign. This is how moral we are. We are willing to throw

00:30:38.400 away some of our own and stand for the principle of morality or principle of against sexual

00:30:43.940 harassment, which I don't think that's a really moral stance at all. I think it's politically

00:30:47.620 expedient. But if they are willing to continue to do that and continue to allow their congressmen

00:30:53.360 who are accused of sexual assault to fall on their swords, then we're not going to have any

00:30:57.140 congresspeople anymore, which I think would be great. Then the libertarians win.

00:31:00.880 Yeah, well, that's true. Although I am sympathetic to Federalist 51, which says that the Congress

00:31:06.520 exists so that all the sociopaths of the country can go into a room and fight one another. And the

00:31:10.780 Democrats, they do seem to be much less morally concerned, much less morally meticulous if you're

00:31:16.560 the senator from New Jersey named Bob Menendez. But who knows? It's so strange. I do want to make,

00:31:21.560 just before we sign off from Facebook and YouTube, I do want to point out we are not starting the

00:31:26.180 rumor that Chuck Schumer, the senior senator from New York and the Democratic leader, is a sexual 0.87

00:31:32.680 predator. We're not starting that rumor. So don't you go around spreading that. 0.97

00:31:36.520 Don't repeat it. Don't repeat it, that Chuck Schumer is a sexual predator. Okay, 1.00

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00:32:47.220 Okay. In the news, this one really rings true for me. A new study published in the journal

00:32:52.440 International Psychogeriatrics. I could describe members of my family, by the way, psychogeriatrics.

00:32:58.440 It shows that the key to living a long life is being a stubborn old Italian woman. 1.00

00:33:03.180 The common personality traits that have helped a group of 90 to 101-year-old Italians is stubbornness, 0.85

00:33:09.740 hope, and a love for family and country. The lead author of the study went on, quote,

00:33:15.000 we also found that this group tended to be domineering, stubborn, and needed a sense of control,

00:33:21.040 which can be a desirable trait as they are true to their convictions and care less about what others

00:33:26.200 think. Get out of my grandmother's house. What are you doing? What are you recording there?

00:33:31.160 This is almost an anti-scientific study, it seems to me. It's a scientific study that says that instead

00:33:37.360 of listening to scientists, you should just do what your Italian grandmother says. Allie, how seriously 0.78

00:33:42.300 should we take this or any other supposedly scientific psychological study that promises us

00:33:48.300 health and happiness?

00:33:49.180 Yeah. I mean, obviously, I think it's totally subjective and up to the individual. I like

00:33:53.660 this. I like anti-science science. I think it's good science. I think it's completely subjective how

00:33:58.560 long people live. I think probably the biggest factor that I see over and over again from scientists,

00:34:04.140 psychologists alike, is that stress is a really big factor in how long people live. I mean,

00:34:10.200 I have a grandfather, for example, who has smoked cigarettes and has drank his entire life and is

00:34:16.860 in no way in good shape, but he's lived a very long time. And then I have other people in my family who

00:34:21.500 have been the epitome of great health and have suffered health complications that had nothing to

00:34:28.340 do with how they lived their life. But the thing about my grandfather is, is that he has been virtually

00:34:32.300 stress-free. He is very content in who he is and in his life. He leads a very simple life. And I kind of

00:34:39.080 think that's the common thread that we see throughout people who end up living a long time

00:34:42.680 is kind of a lack of stress, which we have not picked the right jobs, I don't think, to

00:34:48.000 very long lives. That is true. I try to get my requisite 14 hours of sleep a night, but Ben always

00:34:54.120 just comes banging on the door, waking me up. It's very difficult. It's a hostile work environment.

00:34:58.980 Amanda, you are a future Italian grandmother. Why is it that these traits tend to lead to a long life?

00:35:04.960 I don't know, but this is like the most scientific thing I have ever read. And it actually makes me

00:35:14.320 very hopeful because I'm basically the person that they're describing. So I think this is like

00:35:20.840 100% accurate. I don't know. I mean, I guess it can be subjective, like Ellie was saying, but I would

00:35:28.820 like to believe that this is 100% real. So I will live into a, to a hundred, but, but like my, my

00:35:34.100 Nonna, for example, she's like 87. Like Evan and my family's lived to a very long life. Maybe, maybe

00:35:40.780 there's like also guilt that might also help someone live longer. That's like a good trait for

00:35:46.060 Italian. So maybe it makes that too. So do you want to live to a hundred? That's the, that's the

00:35:51.460 question that I pose this panel of deplorables. Do you want to live to a hundred years old?

00:35:56.340 That's a hard one. It depends. If I can still smoke stogies and have a little scotch in my glass,

00:36:02.140 then I think life is still worth living. You know, I'll enjoy the beautiful poetry of the world.

00:36:06.680 But my, my own grandmother, if she, if I said her age on the air, she would, she would come through 0.96

00:36:11.000 that wall and murder me. So I'll, I'll refrain from that. She says it's 29, but she still goes out.

00:36:16.420 She chases the deer who eat her little flowers. She chases them with a hose around her property. 0.89

00:36:22.620 This woman is tough as nails and yeah, there is something to living a long time because you just 1.00

00:36:29.680 refuse to let the world kill you. You just say, I'm not going anywhere. Tough. Good luck. Yeah. I

00:36:35.600 don't know if I would, if I would want to do that. I don't know if it's, if it's necessarily the

00:36:39.300 happiest, you know, 110 year old person who's just stubborn and frowning and angry at the world.

00:36:44.860 But I do like that a love of country is an aspect of this love of family and love of country.

00:36:50.480 There's something about enjoying the place that you are and the people that surround you that

00:36:57.340 doesn't surprise me that they would want to stick around. It's very real. It's very tangible.

00:37:02.760 And it, and you know, it makes life worth living. Patriotism. These colors don't run. If you want

00:37:07.700 to live a long time, just love America. We've got to move on. Republicans plan to accuse the Justice

00:37:13.160 Department of bias after newly revealed text messages among FBI officials, including some working

00:37:18.500 on the Mueller probe, revealed extreme anti-Trump bias and conspiracy. Last year, just before the

00:37:24.960 election, FBI agent Peter Strzadzak, I can't pronounce his name, Peter Strzadzak, texted FBI lawyer Lisa

00:37:31.340 Page, quote, I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office, meaning FBI

00:37:38.080 director Andrew McCabe, that there's no way he, meaning Trump, gets elected. But I'm afraid we can't

00:37:43.880 take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40. That text was

00:37:51.500 sent just weeks after the FBI investigation into Russian interference began, meaning that the whole

00:37:57.000 investigation appears to have begun as a political hit job to damage Trump. Is this a conspiracy?

00:38:03.860 Amanda, is there a deep state conspiracy against Donald Trump?

00:38:06.900 I mean, it's looking more and more like that. I know Trump from the beginning was saying that it

00:38:12.440 was the witch hunt. And as the days pass, it looks more and more increasingly like it is a witch hunt.

00:38:18.640 I mean, these text messages, it's not just that they happen to, you know, be Democrat,

00:38:24.140 they happen to have a political view that that would be kind of expected. It's that text that you just

00:38:29.560 read. It's almost like it was a conspiracy, like they were going to take him down. That is so,

00:38:34.720 so troubling. And the whole point of the special counsel of this investigation is to rid bias.

00:38:40.860 How in the world is this ridding bias? I mean, Peter Strzok was just let go. But I mean,

00:38:46.300 he had his hands in everything. Apparently, he was like the only FBI agent. And he has a very

00:38:51.760 severe bias. So it's like the FBI in the movies. In the movies, we all picture it's just like one guy

00:38:56.820 doing everything. That is Peter Strzok. Yeah, it's really bad. If the texts had just said,

00:39:01.880 ah, Trump, what a jerk. Oh, wow, I don't like him. That's one thing. But they're referring to 1.00

00:39:06.580 meetings with the director of the FBI on ways to take Trump out. Very bad. Allie, does the Mueller

00:39:12.540 and there's and thus far, there's no evidence of collusion. So that's also, you know, if we had some

00:39:18.640 evidence of collusion, maybe we can be like, okay, like, just get rid of that guy and continue. But

00:39:22.860 where is the collusion? Well, there's collusion between the Justice Department and the Hillary 0.97

00:39:27.520 Clinton campaign. That's the collusion. There's no collusion between Trump and Russia. Allie,

00:39:31.900 does Mueller, who employed both of these people in the text exchange, who stacked his investigation

00:39:37.240 with people who are against Donald Trump, does Mueller have any credibility left? Does this

00:39:43.320 investigation have any credibility left? I don't think so. And I used to be of the camp that said,

00:39:48.520 okay, we can't fire Mueller. That's going to be an absolute disaster. But I think the more we learn

00:39:53.360 about the potential of a conspiracy, the more you really wonder if he should be in this place.

00:39:57.420 And at the very least, do we need to hire an investigation to investigate the investigation?

00:40:02.620 I mean, I think that's what the American people deserve. And I think it's crazy just how much

00:40:07.640 Trump continues to be vindicated in this kind of thing. I mean, every time he says some seemingly

00:40:14.320 outlandish thing about that there's no Russian collusion and Obama wiretapped him, and now the real

00:40:20.360 collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI and all of this, it seems ridiculous at the time,

00:40:25.560 but it ends up that, okay, he might not have worded it correctly, but he was actually right.

00:40:30.440 And I'm just wondering if the FBI thought that they were so savvy that this wasn't going to come

00:40:35.740 out at any point, that they were going to continue to spin this narrative of collusion,

00:40:40.520 and that it wasn't going to come back to bite them. I think it just kind of shows how stupid 1.00

00:40:45.500 they think the rest of the world is and the rest of the American people are and how stupid Trump 1.00

00:40:50.060 and his cronies are, that they were never going to figure something like this out. And so I think 1.00

00:40:55.580 it's going to be amazing and amazingly vindicating for all of us if at the end of this, there's

00:41:02.340 obviously no Russian collusion and the real collusion was with the Hillary Clinton camp. It'll just be

00:41:06.940 beautiful.

00:41:07.580 And that hubris of the FBI is so outrageous. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit

00:41:14.820 before a fall. You jerks, we got you. Ha ha ha. Next news story. I, you know, last week or two 1.00

00:41:21.660 weeks ago, maybe I got in trouble with lefties pretending to be offended. They weren't really

00:41:26.040 offended, but they were pretending to be offended because I suggested that the massive fire that

00:41:30.340 burned down Hollywood, the one that torched my commute and made me broadcast from my apartment

00:41:34.480 in front of my Christmas tree, that that was evidence of God's unsubtle brushstroke. You know,

00:41:39.400 the physical reflecting the metaphysical, the figurative in the sex scandal melting down

00:41:45.900 Hollywood and then literally the same thing happening. We now know the immediate cause of

00:41:50.520 the fire that destroyed six homes and damaged a dozen others. It was bums. City officials have

00:41:55.780 confirmed the start, the fire rather, was started by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment. L.A.

00:42:02.640 Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has completely failed to address the homeless crisis, passed the buck

00:42:07.100 saying, quote, you can never get to zero risk. I think it would be a mistake to think we could.

00:42:12.680 All right, Eric. Sure. Amanda, there are homeless people camping out all over the city. Why are there

00:42:18.780 so many homeless people? Yeah. Well, that's the thing, though. Like instead of reflecting and being

00:42:23.620 like, OK, this is a massive homeless problem. Let's address that. Maybe our policies aren't so aren't

00:42:29.900 doing so hot and we should change our economic policies. No, no, no. I think the solution that I read,

00:42:34.480 and then this is like legit, is that they said they wanted to educate the homeless about these

00:42:39.100 fires, like safety precautions for the homeless. Like why not try to make them not homeless?

00:42:44.080 But on that on that point of the homeless people, it's true we need policies and incentives so that

00:42:49.320 they can't live like bums for their lives. But also that won't solve it for everybody. The poor 0.95

00:42:54.760 will always be with us. And in the 1980s, we closed down a lot of mental institutions during the Reagan

00:43:01.540 administration, actually, because there were new psychotropic drugs, drugs that would address

00:43:07.300 psychological conditions. And then they would be better. And these people didn't need to be locked

00:43:11.520 up anymore. Trouble was they stopped taking the drugs when they got out. And all of a sudden they

00:43:16.460 were living in squalor again. We do not take mental health seriously in the United States. It's a touchy

00:43:23.900 issue because we don't want to be able to commit people to institutions. We want them to be free to

00:43:29.100 live lives of misery and squalor and crime for themselves and society. But that isn't compassionate.

00:43:35.380 And a huge proportion of homeless people have mental illnesses. So we ought to take that seriously.

00:43:41.400 There is nothing compassionate about lefty politicians who think it's better to leave

00:43:47.000 them on the street than to get them the care that they need, even if it's involuntary and the road

00:43:51.720 to hell is paved with good intentions. Ladies, that is all the time. We're actually running a little

00:43:56.080 late. It is always so good to see you. I was having such a terrible morning. I see you. It brightens my

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