The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 884 - Your Right To Self-Defense Is On Trial

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00:00:30.000 The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse had been going extremely poorly for the prosecution.

00:00:36.160 It had been going extremely well for the defense.

00:00:39.480 All that was left to do for the jury was to acquit.

00:00:44.620 And yet, before they could do that,

00:00:47.640 the defense made a dramatic, potentially catastrophic decision.

00:00:51.540 They called Kyle Rittenhouse himself to the stand.

00:00:55.580 One wrong word could have upended the whole thing,

00:00:59.420 could have sent this kid to jail for life.

00:01:01.100 And yet, he knocked it out of the park.

00:01:04.360 And he exposed the entire media narrative around him as a sham.

00:01:09.100 And I hope he becomes a trillionaire,

00:01:11.760 suing every single dirtbag journalist and politician

00:01:15.360 who slandered and libeled him.

00:01:17.940 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:18.620 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:26.420 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:59.160 I want to correct the record on something here

00:03:01.640 because I'm seeing a line go around the internet

00:03:05.080 and all the commentary around the Kyle Rittenhouse case,

00:03:08.520 and the line is true enough,

00:03:10.700 but I think it implies something that's not true.

00:03:13.800 Everyone's pointing out that the prosecution is incompetent.

00:03:17.760 The prosecuting attorney and the whole case

00:03:19.920 that the state is making is just really weak,

00:03:21.940 and the lawyer who's giving it is really weak,

00:03:24.020 and that's true.

00:03:25.100 He's not a very good prosecutor,

00:03:27.160 but if Kyle Rittenhouse gets off,

00:03:29.000 that's not why he will get off.

00:03:30.560 He will get off because all of the evidence

00:03:32.860 in the case is on his side,

00:03:34.840 and none of the evidence is on the side of the state.

00:03:37.420 You could have the dream team.

00:03:38.620 You could have Johnny Cochran and Alan Dershowitz

00:03:40.980 and, I don't know, Ken Starr

00:03:42.700 and all the great top lawyers in the country

00:03:45.800 working for the prosecution,

00:03:47.680 working for the state here.

00:03:48.660 They still would not be able to make a convincing case

00:03:52.040 that Kyle Rittenhouse is guilty

00:03:53.700 of what they're accusing him of.

00:03:55.440 So at issue here is the fact

00:04:00.040 that Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people,

00:04:04.440 killed two of them, one of them he didn't kill.

00:04:06.360 Was he the aggressor here?

00:04:09.800 Was this reckless?

00:04:11.000 Was he trying to commit murder?

00:04:12.680 Or was he acting in self-defense?

00:04:15.560 So the prosecutor just tries to nail him on this.

00:04:19.180 Did you intend to kill these people?

00:04:23.620 Everybody that you shot at that night,

00:04:25.560 you intended to kill, correct?

00:04:28.140 I didn't intend to kill them.

00:04:29.660 I intended to stop the people who were attacking me.

00:04:33.640 By killing them?

00:04:36.360 I did what I had to do to stop the person

00:04:38.720 who was attacking me.

00:04:41.320 By killing them?

00:04:42.960 Two of them passed away,

00:04:44.540 but I stopped the threat from attacking me.

00:04:47.880 By using deadly force?

00:04:49.500 I used deadly force.

00:04:51.480 That you knew was going to kill?

00:04:53.360 I didn't know if it was going to kill them,

00:04:55.120 but I used deadly force to stop the threat

00:04:58.040 that was attacking me.

00:04:59.040 You intentionally used deadly force

00:05:02.960 against Joseph Rosenbaum, correct?

00:05:04.940 Yes.

00:05:05.720 You intentionally used deadly force

00:05:07.860 against the man who came and tried to kick you in the face,

00:05:10.760 correct?

00:05:11.720 You intentionally used deadly force

00:05:14.020 against Anthony Huber, correct?

00:05:15.760 Yes.

00:05:16.480 You intentionally used deadly force

00:05:18.520 against Gage Grosskreutz, correct?

00:05:20.380 Yes.

00:05:21.220 With regard to Joseph Rosenbaum,

00:05:23.480 you fired four shots at him, correct?

00:05:25.560 Yes.

00:05:25.920 You intended to kill him, correct?

00:05:28.260 I didn't intend to kill him.

00:05:29.460 I intended to stop the person

00:05:30.760 who was attacking me

00:05:31.640 and trying to steal my gun.

00:05:33.400 This answer is so sophisticated,

00:05:36.580 and I can't tell if the prosecutor is just stupid

00:05:39.320 or if he's playing dumb,

00:05:40.800 but this is an actual important distinction.

00:05:43.140 It's the law of double effect.

00:05:46.620 Okay?

00:05:47.120 The kid, Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:05:49.200 did not set out to kill these people.

00:05:52.700 If he had set out to kill these people,

00:05:55.780 he would have been the aggressor, right?

00:05:57.640 He would have just gone out with his gun

00:05:58.960 and just found a bunch of people to kill.

00:06:01.080 In every case,

00:06:02.640 he only shot at people who were attacking him,

00:06:06.100 and he didn't even kill everyone

00:06:07.840 that he fired at who was attacking him.

00:06:12.300 So you heard the prosecutor say,

00:06:15.040 you were stopping the threat by killing them,

00:06:20.960 but he actually didn't kill everyone.

00:06:22.800 One of the people that he shot at

00:06:23.920 testified during this trial

00:06:26.460 and actually testified that Kyle Rittenhouse

00:06:28.460 was acting in self-defense.

00:06:31.460 So then the prosecution focuses on this guy,

00:06:34.280 Joseph Rosenbaum, who's a kid diddler.

00:06:36.080 He was a child rapist

00:06:37.520 who Kyle Rittenhouse put out of his misery

00:06:40.120 as this guy was attacking him.

00:06:42.720 And they say,

00:06:45.600 you intended to kill this man.

00:06:47.380 And Kyle Rittenhouse says,

00:06:48.120 no, I intended to stop the threat

00:06:50.800 that was coming at me.

00:06:51.780 If as a consequence of stopping the threat,

00:06:55.000 the person died,

00:06:56.620 well, that's a second effect.

00:06:58.320 That's a secondary effect

00:06:59.460 of my stopping the threat.

00:07:01.180 But let's be very clear here.

00:07:03.240 I wasn't here out for blood

00:07:04.740 just trying to kill everybody.

00:07:06.400 I waited until the last moment,

00:07:09.100 until it was absolutely,

00:07:10.280 the threat was coming at me.

00:07:11.400 And in every single case,

00:07:13.260 video evidence,

00:07:14.480 testimony has proven that to be the case.

00:07:16.480 So then the prosecutor,

00:07:18.160 because he's maybe a little thick in the head,

00:07:19.900 or maybe he's just desperate

00:07:21.060 and he's out of options here.

00:07:22.300 He says, well, hold on.

00:07:23.680 Why do you think that the people

00:07:25.020 who were coming at you

00:07:25.860 and attacking you were the threat?

00:07:27.140 You had a gun.

00:07:27.900 Weren't you the threat to them?

00:07:29.840 Can you help me understand,

00:07:30.880 Mr. Rittenhouse,

00:07:31.700 why Gage Grosskreutz,

00:07:35.500 with a pistol in his hand,

00:07:37.420 is a threat to kill you,

00:07:39.560 but you with an AR-15 pointed at him

00:07:42.600 is not a threat to kill him

00:07:44.620 at this moment.

00:07:46.400 Can you help me understand that?

00:07:49.700 I've been attacked by several people

00:07:51.660 and he decided to come

00:07:53.900 and point a gun at my head.

00:07:57.400 Well, first...

00:07:58.320 He hasn't done that yet, has he?

00:08:00.960 No.

00:08:02.100 So again, I ask you,

00:08:03.620 in this moment,

00:08:05.480 you told us Gage Grosskreutz

00:08:07.120 is a threat to you right now.

00:08:08.600 Yes.

00:08:09.800 He's got a pistol not aimed at you.

00:08:12.660 You've got an AR-15 aimed at him.

00:08:15.100 Why is he more of a threat to you

00:08:17.300 than you are to him?

00:08:19.900 Because he was moving at me

00:08:22.300 with a gun in his hand.

00:08:24.080 It's a very simple answer.

00:08:25.880 So the prosecution thinks

00:08:26.820 he's got him on this image, right?

00:08:28.440 The other guy,

00:08:29.720 at least at one moment,

00:08:31.020 doesn't have the gun

00:08:31.900 aimed at Rittenhouse,

00:08:32.940 but Rittenhouse has his gun

00:08:34.040 aimed at the other guy.

00:08:35.620 Why isn't Rittenhouse the threat here?

00:08:37.600 Why is this?

00:08:38.660 Because the other guy

00:08:39.480 is advancing on him.

00:08:41.920 Rittenhouse is in

00:08:42.660 the defensive position.

00:08:43.900 The other guy

00:08:44.900 is in the aggressing position

00:08:46.360 with a gun in his hand.

00:08:48.120 Obviously justifies lethal force

00:08:50.960 for self-defense.

00:08:54.420 The prosecution,

00:08:55.400 not impressive at all.

00:08:57.420 He apparently doesn't even know

00:08:59.700 anything about the guns

00:09:01.100 and keeps asking Rittenhouse,

00:09:02.840 where did you get this fascination

00:09:04.800 with AR-15s from?

00:09:06.800 You picked it out

00:09:07.740 because it looked cool.

00:09:09.760 I thought it looked cool.

00:09:11.580 I guess that's the reason, yes.

00:09:12.680 It resembled the types of weapons

00:09:15.120 that are used

00:09:15.760 in first-person shooter video games,

00:09:18.320 correct?

00:09:20.880 I don't really play

00:09:22.220 first-person shooter video games.

00:09:23.880 I have,

00:09:24.440 but I believe there's

00:09:25.360 a variety of guns,

00:09:26.720 including shotguns, pistols.

00:09:29.380 There's guns in video games

00:09:30.980 that resemble all guns.

00:09:32.500 Isn't it true

00:09:33.160 when you would hang out

00:09:34.400 with Dominic Black,

00:09:35.620 you'd play Call of Duty

00:09:37.380 and other first-person shooter

00:09:38.940 video games?

00:09:40.060 Sometimes.

00:09:41.320 And those are games

00:09:42.220 in which you use weapons

00:09:43.460 like AR-15s

00:09:44.860 to pretty much shoot

00:09:46.680 anybody who comes at you,

00:09:48.560 correct?

00:09:50.000 It's a video game

00:09:51.320 where two players

00:09:52.440 are playing together.

00:09:55.400 I don't really understand

00:09:57.500 the meaning of your question,

00:09:59.060 to be honest.

00:10:00.360 Isn't one of the things

00:10:01.220 people do in these video games

00:10:02.760 try and kill everyone else

00:10:04.700 with your guns?

00:10:10.400 Yeah, it's a video game.

00:10:11.940 It's just a video game.

00:10:13.120 It's not real life.

00:10:14.480 Isn't it true,

00:10:15.620 Mr. Rittenhouse,

00:10:16.580 that you and your friends

00:10:18.960 used to play

00:10:20.500 cowboys and Indians?

00:10:22.320 Yeah, didn't you?

00:10:23.520 Mr. Rittenhouse,

00:10:25.040 I would like to introduce

00:10:26.140 Exhibit A,

00:10:26.960 a cap gun

00:10:27.760 that Mr. Rittenhouse

00:10:29.580 was given

00:10:30.040 for his 10th birthday.

00:10:31.360 And when you played

00:10:32.760 Cowboys and Indians,

00:10:33.780 Mr. Rittenhouse,

00:10:34.860 didn't you point

00:10:36.220 the guns at each other

00:10:37.840 and go bang, bang, bang?

00:10:40.840 The prosecution

00:10:41.820 rests its case,

00:10:42.580 Your Honor.

00:10:43.280 This boy played games

00:10:44.280 as a child.

00:10:46.000 Rest my case.

00:10:47.020 And isn't it true,

00:10:48.620 Mr. Rittenhouse,

00:10:49.400 that a cap gun

00:10:50.560 like an AR-15

00:10:52.220 is a type of gun?

00:10:54.440 It looks like a gun?

00:10:55.720 Yeah, that's it.

00:10:56.780 And that's the,

00:10:57.380 by the way,

00:10:57.660 that's the best they had.

00:10:59.240 That's the best case.

00:11:01.360 The prosecution made

00:11:02.360 as far as I'm concerned

00:11:03.900 all trial

00:11:04.420 is that Kyle Rittenhouse

00:11:06.320 played video games

00:11:08.500 sometimes.

00:11:12.460 This is why

00:11:13.260 it was so impressive

00:11:14.000 that they brought

00:11:14.840 Rittenhouse to the stand.

00:11:15.760 They didn't need to.

00:11:17.880 It was a big gamble.

00:11:20.160 And

00:11:20.480 I'm beginning to think

00:11:23.060 the reason

00:11:23.740 they did that

00:11:25.100 is not to gain

00:11:26.240 any advantage legally.

00:11:27.660 I think legally speaking,

00:11:28.900 they had

00:11:29.920 everything to lose

00:11:33.080 and nothing to gain.

00:11:34.160 But I think this went

00:11:34.800 further than that.

00:11:35.540 I think this was about

00:11:36.320 a kid who was trying

00:11:37.780 to clear his name,

00:11:39.460 who was trying to focus

00:11:40.480 not just on the court

00:11:41.320 of law here,

00:11:41.960 but the court

00:11:42.520 of public opinion

00:11:43.340 where the media

00:11:44.280 had just been

00:11:45.340 absolutely

00:11:46.080 slandering him,

00:11:47.560 libeling him,

00:11:48.620 smearing him

00:11:49.260 for months and months

00:11:50.180 and months.

00:11:51.180 And this kid

00:11:51.980 was confident enough

00:11:53.560 and had the evidence

00:11:55.320 and the truth

00:11:55.840 on his side

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00:13:10.600 The judge

00:13:11.460 in the Rittenhouse trial

00:13:13.100 at a certain point

00:13:14.920 had just had it

00:13:16.400 with the prosecution

00:13:17.700 and reamed

00:13:19.040 the prosecution

00:13:19.800 on multiple occasions.

00:13:21.260 You are already,

00:13:23.180 you were,

00:13:23.700 I was astonished

00:13:25.760 when you began

00:13:27.460 your examination

00:13:28.300 by commenting

00:13:29.340 on the defendant's

00:13:30.280 post-arrest silence.

00:13:32.820 That's basic law.

00:13:34.080 It's been basic law

00:13:35.020 in this country

00:13:35.600 for 40 years,

00:13:36.880 50 years.

00:13:37.800 I have no idea

00:13:38.660 why you would do

00:13:39.240 something like that

00:13:40.160 and it gives,

00:13:42.540 well,

00:13:43.420 I'll leave it at that.

00:13:44.900 So I don't know

00:13:45.660 what you're up to.

00:13:46.460 The problem is,

00:13:47.520 this is a grave

00:13:48.320 constitutional violation

00:13:49.640 for you to talk

00:13:51.840 about the defendant's

00:13:54.120 silence.

00:13:56.460 And that is,

00:13:57.740 and you're right,

00:13:59.420 you're right on the,

00:14:01.480 you're right on the borderline.

00:14:03.360 And you may,

00:14:04.600 you may be over,

00:14:07.000 but it better stop.

00:14:08.720 So the prosecution,

00:14:09.820 because he had nothing else,

00:14:10.720 said,

00:14:11.040 hey,

00:14:11.280 how come Kyle,

00:14:13.100 how come he

00:14:13.820 exercised his right

00:14:16.060 to remain silent?

00:14:16.900 You know,

00:14:17.060 his constitutional right,

00:14:18.240 you know,

00:14:18.360 the Miranda rights

00:14:19.100 that you are read

00:14:19.800 when you're arrested.

00:14:20.800 The fact that he exercised

00:14:22.400 those,

00:14:22.880 huh,

00:14:23.660 probably means he's guilty,

00:14:25.220 right?

00:14:25.560 This is a,

00:14:26.260 as the judge says,

00:14:27.040 a grave

00:14:27.880 constitutional violation.

00:14:30.580 You would learn this,

00:14:31.840 forget about

00:14:32.420 law school,

00:14:33.960 you would learn this

00:14:34.540 in undergraduate

00:14:35.460 pre-law classes.

00:14:37.720 And yet this prosecutor

00:14:38.800 seems to have forgotten it.

00:14:40.380 The,

00:14:40.720 the most dramatic moment

00:14:42.580 of,

00:14:42.960 of the whole

00:14:43.540 testimony,

00:14:45.700 which is,

00:14:46.080 which is really getting

00:14:46.840 the most play right now,

00:14:48.040 is where Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:14:49.800 he's recalling the events

00:14:50.960 and he breaks down

00:14:51.780 and he starts crying.

00:14:53.320 Once I take that step back,

00:14:55.020 I look over my shoulder

00:14:56.260 and Mr. Rosenbaum,

00:15:00.500 Mr. Rosenbaum was now

00:15:01.920 running from my right side.

00:15:05.840 and I was cornered

00:15:10.080 from,

00:15:10.780 in front of me

00:15:11.600 with Mr. Zeminski

00:15:13.760 and there were,

00:15:20.460 there were

00:15:25.820 three people

00:15:28.220 right there.

00:15:33.080 Take a deep breath, Kyle.

00:15:35.840 That's what I'm,

00:15:43.460 Okay,

00:15:49.400 so this,

00:15:49.900 this is really hard to watch

00:15:50.960 because the kid,

00:15:51.400 he's still just 18,

00:15:53.040 right,

00:15:53.300 and this happened

00:15:54.140 when,

00:15:54.560 when the kid was 17.

00:15:55.640 Here,

00:15:55.760 here was the only time

00:15:56.540 you really remember,

00:15:57.400 this is a pretty young guy.

00:15:59.720 I guess now you would,

00:16:00.480 you'd say he was a kid

00:16:01.380 eight months ago,

00:16:02.820 now you,

00:16:03.240 now you'd say,

00:16:03.780 I guess he's technically

00:16:04.460 an adult,

00:16:04.940 but just,

00:16:05.480 just barely.

00:16:08.160 The left is accusing him

00:16:09.700 of crocodile tears,

00:16:10.820 of faking it,

00:16:11.580 of going up there

00:16:12.220 to fake it

00:16:12.780 to try to gin up sympathy

00:16:14.940 and they're saying

00:16:16.100 that actually,

00:16:16.720 if you look,

00:16:17.060 he's not even really crying.

00:16:18.360 There aren't any tears

00:16:19.160 coming down.

00:16:20.140 So,

00:16:20.640 you know,

00:16:20.820 it's all,

00:16:21.160 he's just,

00:16:21.580 he's just a big faker.

00:16:24.500 I think they're missing

00:16:25.620 the point here.

00:16:27.060 I don't think that

00:16:28.120 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:16:28.800 is crying

00:16:29.420 because he did

00:16:30.240 something wrong.

00:16:32.100 That's,

00:16:32.600 that's the whole point

00:16:33.400 of the defense

00:16:33.900 is he didn't do

00:16:34.640 anything wrong.

00:16:35.560 Every single shot

00:16:36.820 that Kyle Rittenhouse

00:16:37.960 took

00:16:38.360 was a good shot,

00:16:40.380 was a justified shot.

00:16:42.580 They didn't even

00:16:43.260 really go astray,

00:16:44.400 they weren't excessive,

00:16:46.540 right,

00:16:46.660 he was waiting

00:16:47.160 until the threat

00:16:47.860 was there.

00:16:48.560 So,

00:16:48.820 I don't think he's crying

00:16:50.080 because he regrets

00:16:50.840 anything he did.

00:16:51.480 He didn't do anything wrong,

00:16:52.900 according to all the evidence

00:16:54.840 we've seen.

00:16:56.160 He's crying

00:16:57.060 because of the

00:16:57.920 trauma of this.

00:17:00.680 What,

00:17:00.900 he's crying

00:17:01.320 because he's got

00:17:02.040 post-traumatic stress,

00:17:03.760 right?

00:17:04.160 Wouldn't you?

00:17:05.180 Wouldn't you?

00:17:06.680 As an adult,

00:17:08.400 let's say you were an adult

00:17:09.480 with much more life experience,

00:17:11.040 perhaps with much more

00:17:11.820 firearms training.

00:17:12.740 If you had to live

00:17:13.540 through this,

00:17:13.960 if you were being chased down

00:17:15.060 by pedophile rapists

00:17:16.420 and criminals

00:17:17.120 and thug

00:17:18.560 Antifa

00:17:19.480 rioters,

00:17:21.340 and you,

00:17:22.140 in this moment

00:17:22.780 where your life

00:17:23.420 is being threatened

00:17:24.120 and you take these shots

00:17:25.220 and you end up

00:17:26.080 killing a couple of people

00:17:28.160 and injuring another person,

00:17:30.060 you're on trial

00:17:30.620 and you're smeared

00:17:31.160 as a terrorist

00:17:31.640 and a white supremacist.

00:17:32.160 Don't you think

00:17:32.880 reliving that moment,

00:17:34.200 you might have

00:17:34.820 a little bit of a reaction?

00:17:36.680 He didn't have

00:17:37.280 an emotional,

00:17:39.420 you know,

00:17:40.320 regretful,

00:17:41.140 lamentation type

00:17:42.060 of outburst.

00:17:43.340 He had a panic attack

00:17:44.300 up there.

00:17:46.400 To me,

00:17:47.340 the readout,

00:17:48.060 first of all,

00:17:48.680 I think his testimony

00:17:50.060 was so articulate,

00:17:51.180 it was so tight

00:17:52.460 and the prosecution

00:17:52.960 had nothing on him

00:17:53.900 that I think he did

00:17:54.560 an incredible job.

00:17:56.300 But also,

00:17:58.200 the fact that he had

00:17:58.940 a panic attack

00:17:59.520 reliving this moment,

00:18:00.640 to me,

00:18:01.580 makes the testimony

00:18:02.500 even more credible.

00:18:06.020 I think he did great.

00:18:07.340 It was a crazy move

00:18:08.180 to call him to the stand

00:18:09.160 and he knocked it

00:18:09.940 out of the park.

00:18:11.040 So there's a chance

00:18:11.880 he might be vindicated

00:18:12.720 in court

00:18:13.300 despite already being convicted

00:18:14.920 in the court

00:18:15.640 of public opinion.

00:18:16.720 Just a little trip

00:18:17.380 down memory lane.

00:18:19.220 Rittenhouse

00:18:19.620 is basically

00:18:20.580 what you would have had

00:18:21.620 in a school shooter.

00:18:22.480 He's a 17-year-old kid.

00:18:24.180 He shouldn't have

00:18:24.640 had a gun.

00:18:25.220 He crossed state lines

00:18:26.240 to supposedly

00:18:27.000 protect property.

00:18:28.000 No,

00:18:28.260 he was going out

00:18:28.900 to shoot people.

00:18:29.680 Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:18:30.440 the 17-year-old vigilante.

00:18:32.260 Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:18:33.360 the vigilante.

00:18:34.360 Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:18:35.300 the armed teenage vigilante.

00:18:36.900 A 17-year-old vigilante,

00:18:39.160 arguably a domestic terrorist,

00:18:40.940 picked up a rifle,

00:18:41.800 drove to a different state

00:18:42.540 to shoot people.

00:18:43.260 Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:18:44.720 a guy who's deeply racist,

00:18:47.260 went with weapons

00:18:48.320 to a Black Lives Matter

00:18:49.320 protest,

00:18:49.860 looking to get in trouble.

00:18:51.140 He did.

00:18:51.680 He murdered a couple of people.

00:18:53.180 Rittenhouse,

00:18:54.100 the 17-year-old kid,

00:18:56.340 just running around,

00:18:58.280 shooting and killing protesters.

00:19:00.120 You see the 17-year-old

00:19:01.520 who was radicalized

00:19:02.860 by Trumpism,

00:19:04.160 took his AR-15 to Kenosha

00:19:06.020 and became a killer.

00:19:07.320 A white,

00:19:08.400 Trump-supporting,

00:19:10.040 MAGA-loving,

00:19:11.440 Blue Lives Matter

00:19:12.760 social media partisan,

00:19:15.780 17 years old,

00:19:16.840 picks up a gun,

00:19:18.100 drives from one state

00:19:19.140 to another

00:19:19.580 with the intent

00:19:20.240 to shoot people.

00:19:22.520 Complete lies.

00:19:24.100 Complete lies.

00:19:24.680 The only thing they said there

00:19:25.660 that's true

00:19:26.120 is he drove from one state

00:19:27.120 to another,

00:19:27.660 but they were right

00:19:28.660 over the border.

00:19:29.440 It'd be like me driving

00:19:30.980 to Franklin.

00:19:32.820 I'm in Nashville.

00:19:33.740 It'd be like me driving

00:19:34.380 to Franklin.

00:19:35.180 It's not like driving

00:19:37.760 hours and hours out of state.

00:19:39.560 It's driving to the place

00:19:40.300 where he worked,

00:19:40.820 the place where his father lives.

00:19:43.200 And he didn't go there

00:19:44.280 to go kill people.

00:19:45.260 He only shot in self-defense.

00:19:48.240 Why did he go armed?

00:19:49.480 I don't know,

00:19:49.660 because he was going

00:19:50.160 into a riot zone

00:19:50.960 where his dad lived

00:19:51.760 and where he worked.

00:19:53.360 I'm glad he went armed.

00:19:55.340 I'm glad he went armed.

00:19:56.280 Otherwise,

00:19:56.860 these guys very likely

00:19:58.200 would have killed him.

00:20:00.280 I hope Rittenhouse

00:20:02.020 sues every one

00:20:03.540 of these dirtbags.

00:20:04.980 The Lincoln Project guy,

00:20:06.960 I forget his name,

00:20:07.740 the bald Lincoln Project guy.

00:20:09.740 I don't know why pedophiles

00:20:10.960 keep playing into

00:20:12.680 this narrative so much,

00:20:14.420 both the assailant

00:20:16.580 in Kenosha

00:20:17.820 and now we're talking

00:20:19.220 about the Lincoln Project.

00:20:20.240 I hope he sues him

00:20:21.140 into the dirt.

00:20:21.960 I hope he sues Joe Scarborough.

00:20:23.860 I hope he sues

00:20:24.840 all of these people,

00:20:27.040 all of those MSNBC people.

00:20:29.960 Hope he sues them

00:20:30.920 into the ground.

00:20:31.660 I hope he becomes

00:20:32.340 a gazillionaire.

00:20:34.120 I hope he pulls

00:20:34.700 a Nick Sandman.

00:20:35.540 You remember the kid,

00:20:36.240 the smiling kid,

00:20:37.240 who was being accosted

00:20:38.980 by that lunatic Indian man

00:20:40.580 at the Lincoln Memorial

00:20:41.540 and by the black supremacists

00:20:43.600 who were screaming all sorts

00:20:45.040 and he just stood there

00:20:45.860 smiling in a MAGA hat

00:20:46.980 and the media smeared him too

00:20:49.060 and then he got settlements

00:20:49.880 from CNN.

00:20:50.620 I hope this kid

00:20:53.400 gets the exact same thing.

00:20:55.220 In other narrative news,

00:20:57.380 George Floyd

00:20:57.900 is getting a hagiography.

00:21:00.220 There's a new book coming out.

00:21:01.460 It's a biography

00:21:02.000 of George Floyd.

00:21:03.460 Talk about people

00:21:04.280 who don't need biographies.

00:21:05.940 He's getting a biography

00:21:07.360 published May 17th,

00:21:08.980 2022.

00:21:10.600 This is going to be coming out

00:21:11.560 from one of the imprints

00:21:13.600 of Penguin Random House,

00:21:15.400 a very prestigious

00:21:16.280 publishing house.

00:21:18.460 Here's the press release.

00:21:19.440 Quote,

00:21:20.440 the biography of George Floyd

00:21:21.980 shows the athletic young boy

00:21:23.720 raised in the projects

00:21:25.000 of Houston's Third Ward

00:21:26.260 who would become a father,

00:21:27.780 a partner,

00:21:28.680 a friend,

00:21:29.580 and a man

00:21:30.200 constantly in search

00:21:31.420 of a better life.

00:21:33.080 Oh yeah,

00:21:33.840 is that so?

00:21:35.040 In retracing Floyd's story,

00:21:38.160 Samuels,

00:21:38.640 and Olo Ranipa,

00:21:40.260 these are two

00:21:41.220 Washington Post reporters,

00:21:43.260 bring to light

00:21:44.440 the determination

00:21:45.260 Floyd carried

00:21:46.200 as he faced

00:21:46.820 the relentless struggle

00:21:47.820 to survive

00:21:48.780 as a black man

00:21:49.640 in America.

00:21:51.480 Now,

00:21:52.200 I'm going to translate

00:21:53.140 that from

00:21:53.900 the delusional fantasy

00:21:55.700 of Penguin Random House

00:21:56.800 into reality.

00:21:57.920 George Floyd was a career

00:22:01.300 criminal who robbed

00:22:02.380 a pregnant woman

00:22:03.140 at gunpoint

00:22:03.880 and never turned

00:22:04.680 his life around ever

00:22:05.740 and in his final moments

00:22:07.560 was only killed

00:22:08.720 because he was

00:22:09.840 resisting arrest

00:22:10.820 and committing a crime

00:22:12.300 at his very last moments

00:22:13.720 and was super duper

00:22:15.060 high on drugs,

00:22:15.820 had taken a lethal dose

00:22:16.620 of drugs.

00:22:17.260 Never,

00:22:17.660 ever once improved

00:22:18.700 his life

00:22:19.240 and was

00:22:21.200 for his entire career

00:22:23.760 a menace to society

00:22:25.020 and

00:22:27.340 did not have

00:22:28.980 a constant struggle

00:22:29.900 to survive

00:22:31.240 as a black man

00:22:31.900 in America,

00:22:32.920 made very,

00:22:34.360 very bad choices.

00:22:36.020 I think that book,

00:22:39.480 I think that book

00:22:41.220 would be a lot more honest

00:22:42.480 if you wrote that about,

00:22:43.660 but I don't think

00:22:44.480 that one would get published.

00:22:45.840 I think instead

00:22:46.660 you have this fantasy,

00:22:48.620 this narrative.

00:22:48.920 What this is about,

00:22:50.040 obviously this has nothing

00:22:50.800 to do with George Floyd,

00:22:51.900 the book that they're publishing,

00:22:53.260 it has to do with the narrative.

00:22:55.460 White people bad,

00:22:56.260 black people good,

00:22:57.340 really easy for white people

00:22:58.500 to live,

00:22:59.020 very hard for black people

00:23:00.000 to live.

00:23:00.560 George Floyd,

00:23:01.600 saint,

00:23:02.320 martyr,

00:23:03.800 a hero,

00:23:04.520 a demigod.

00:23:06.020 Even if that story is false,

00:23:10.360 it gets to a greater truth.

00:23:11.520 Here's the narrative.

00:23:12.260 Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:23:13.300 evil,

00:23:13.640 white supremacist,

00:23:14.360 terrorist,

00:23:16.240 all the

00:23:16.800 pedophile,

00:23:18.200 rapist,

00:23:18.680 career criminal,

00:23:19.420 rioters who were chasing him

00:23:20.460 are good,

00:23:20.920 wonderful,

00:23:21.380 saintly,

00:23:21.800 anti-racist protesters.

00:23:23.460 And even if the reality

00:23:24.660 isn't that,

00:23:26.960 even if that narrative

00:23:27.940 is a lie,

00:23:29.400 it gets to

00:23:30.300 a greater truth.

00:23:32.620 What it gets to

00:23:33.480 is a fantasy,

00:23:34.720 but it's a fantasy

00:23:35.300 with a lot of

00:23:35.840 institutional backing.

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00:24:48.820 As I think we've mentioned

00:24:50.260 on this show before,

00:24:52.080 we got to fight

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00:24:55.120 The Biden administration

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00:24:57.500 The Daily Wire

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00:24:59.080 We filed a lawsuit

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00:25:47.660 with a lot more.

00:25:48.180 Rioters good,

00:26:01.940 people who defend

00:26:03.000 themselves bad.

00:26:04.400 Criminals such as

00:26:05.920 George Floyd,

00:26:07.180 good,

00:26:08.060 cops,

00:26:09.060 bad.

00:26:09.660 That's the new

00:26:10.500 national narrative.

00:26:11.580 That's the new

00:26:12.120 national myth.

00:26:13.520 So how does this

00:26:14.140 play out in real life?

00:26:16.100 About a week ago,

00:26:17.640 less than a week ago.

00:26:20.060 The 50th person

00:26:22.160 this year

00:26:24.200 was arrested

00:26:25.660 in Chicago

00:26:26.600 for murder

00:26:29.000 while out

00:26:30.240 on felony bond.

00:26:32.500 The 50th person

00:26:34.160 this year

00:26:34.860 in Chicago

00:26:35.800 was arrested

00:26:38.000 for murder

00:26:38.580 while he should have

00:26:39.860 been in jail.

00:26:41.680 Okay.

00:26:42.680 The CWB Chicago

00:26:43.780 reported

00:26:44.280 that this

00:26:46.060 new fellow,

00:26:46.880 Edmund Harris,

00:26:47.800 was arrested

00:26:48.340 on February 12th,

00:26:49.640 so quite a while ago,

00:26:51.540 though the report

00:26:52.620 has just come out.

00:26:54.100 Quote,

00:26:54.360 after he allegedly

00:26:55.220 crashed a hijacked

00:26:56.360 SUV in Lawndale,

00:26:58.300 Harris was not

00:26:59.620 charged for any crime

00:27:01.080 related to carjacking

00:27:02.180 or crash

00:27:02.920 and was instead

00:27:03.560 charged,

00:27:04.180 quote,

00:27:04.640 with failure

00:27:05.540 to register

00:27:06.240 as a sex offender

00:27:07.240 in an unrelated

00:27:08.360 manner.

00:27:09.020 Okay,

00:27:09.240 so that was back

00:27:09.740 in February.

00:27:11.300 Now,

00:27:12.420 failing to register

00:27:13.520 as a sex offender,

00:27:15.360 a lot of sex offenders

00:27:16.240 in the news these days,

00:27:17.620 is a felony,

00:27:18.640 but didn't matter.

00:27:19.700 Harris was released

00:27:20.660 a few days

00:27:21.520 after his arrest

00:27:22.580 because he posted

00:27:24.220 a thousand buck deposit

00:27:25.400 for felony bond.

00:27:28.300 Five weeks

00:27:29.160 after he posted

00:27:30.060 that thousand dollar

00:27:30.880 bail bond,

00:27:31.860 he killed

00:27:32.360 a 31-year-old

00:27:33.280 Uber driver

00:27:33.900 in another carjacking,

00:27:35.400 this according to

00:27:36.160 federal prosecutors.

00:27:37.520 There's the compassion

00:27:40.900 for you.

00:27:42.020 There's the mercy.

00:27:43.420 We're told

00:27:43.960 that when we arrest

00:27:45.760 people,

00:27:46.640 when we arrest

00:27:47.180 criminals,

00:27:47.780 especially when we

00:27:48.720 arrest black criminals,

00:27:49.980 that's the worst.

00:27:50.720 You're not allowed

00:27:51.120 to do that.

00:27:52.200 That is terrible

00:27:53.380 and it's white supremacist

00:27:54.860 and it's cruel

00:27:56.520 and unusual

00:27:57.040 and we shouldn't

00:27:58.100 do that.

00:27:58.520 We need to abolish

00:27:59.660 prisons.

00:28:00.200 We need to get rid

00:28:00.800 of the police.

00:28:01.400 We need to stop

00:28:01.960 arresting criminals.

00:28:02.980 That will be

00:28:03.580 really compassionate.

00:28:04.780 Was it compassionate

00:28:05.520 to the 31-year-old

00:28:06.540 Uber driver?

00:28:07.100 31.

00:28:07.520 That's how old

00:28:07.900 I am.

00:28:09.300 Life is over.

00:28:10.800 Did that Uber driver

00:28:11.560 have a wife

00:28:12.180 or a husband,

00:28:13.940 I guess?

00:28:15.200 Did that Uber driver

00:28:16.480 have kids?

00:28:17.260 I don't know.

00:28:17.780 Maybe.

00:28:19.060 I do.

00:28:19.500 I have a wife

00:28:19.880 and kids.

00:28:22.460 What would the

00:28:23.840 compassion be

00:28:24.720 there

00:28:25.140 for my wife

00:28:27.500 and my son

00:28:28.480 if some

00:28:30.120 thug

00:28:30.700 criminal

00:28:31.400 who should be

00:28:32.140 behind bars

00:28:32.980 paying his debt

00:28:34.020 to society

00:28:34.720 had just been

00:28:35.940 released

00:28:36.380 because,

00:28:36.840 you know,

00:28:37.020 hey,

00:28:38.760 that's

00:28:39.160 because of

00:28:40.200 the color

00:28:40.860 of his skin,

00:28:41.680 because we

00:28:42.500 want to go

00:28:42.900 easy on criminals

00:28:43.620 for whatever

00:28:44.180 reason,

00:28:45.100 and then he

00:28:45.420 goes out

00:28:45.880 and killed me

00:28:47.480 or killed you

00:28:48.140 or killed someone.

00:28:49.140 31 years old.

00:28:50.800 There's the

00:28:51.260 compassion.

00:28:51.680 the Libs want

00:28:54.180 to do this.

00:28:54.660 They want

00:28:55.040 to set up

00:28:56.660 specifically

00:28:57.200 a racial caste

00:28:58.140 system here

00:28:58.760 where black

00:29:00.120 people,

00:29:00.460 people of

00:29:00.980 color

00:29:01.280 is the

00:29:01.720 broad term

00:29:02.300 get preferential

00:29:03.260 treatment

00:29:03.640 and they're

00:29:05.580 trying to

00:29:06.020 conflate

00:29:06.420 issues of

00:29:06.920 race

00:29:07.300 and the

00:29:07.780 criminal

00:29:08.020 justice

00:29:08.420 system

00:29:08.900 because there

00:29:11.700 are a lot

00:29:12.000 of people

00:29:12.320 of color

00:29:12.660 in prison

00:29:13.140 because people

00:29:14.120 of color

00:29:14.400 are over

00:29:15.060 represented

00:29:15.620 to use the

00:29:16.360 popular term

00:29:17.000 in crime

00:29:17.520 statistics

00:29:17.980 and so

00:29:18.640 they say

00:29:18.900 that's why

00:29:19.360 as a racial

00:29:20.180 matter

00:29:20.380 we've got

00:29:20.740 to abolish

00:29:22.000 prisons

00:29:22.320 or whatever.

00:29:25.760 They want

00:29:26.700 to do this

00:29:27.960 and the

00:29:28.680 Republicans

00:29:29.180 are buying

00:29:29.820 into it.

00:29:30.440 This is what's

00:29:30.900 so upsetting

00:29:31.280 to me.

00:29:31.600 I mean it's

00:29:31.880 really awful

00:29:32.620 news in

00:29:33.140 Chicago.

00:29:33.600 They've got

00:29:33.760 to turn

00:29:34.380 this around.

00:29:34.860 I think

00:29:35.060 the more

00:29:35.580 just

00:29:35.940 compassionate

00:29:36.420 thing to

00:29:36.740 do would

00:29:37.200 be to

00:29:37.400 lock up

00:29:37.720 the criminals

00:29:38.160 and keep

00:29:38.700 them from

00:29:39.000 harming

00:29:39.220 other people.

00:29:40.980 But you

00:29:42.880 notice that

00:29:43.340 Republicans

00:29:43.760 have adopted

00:29:44.300 this thing

00:29:44.760 too.

00:29:46.160 Donald Trump

00:29:46.580 did it.

00:29:46.860 It was one

00:29:47.140 of his

00:29:47.360 signature

00:29:47.700 achievements.

00:29:48.760 The First

00:29:49.180 Step Act

00:29:49.820 also known

00:29:50.960 as the

00:29:51.240 Jailbreak

00:29:51.720 Bill.

00:29:52.080 I love

00:29:52.380 Trump.

00:29:52.880 I voted

00:29:53.420 for him

00:29:53.660 the first

00:29:53.920 time.

00:29:54.720 He did

00:29:55.100 some stuff

00:29:55.440 that I

00:29:55.640 didn't like.

00:29:56.020 I still

00:29:56.220 voted for

00:29:56.560 him the

00:29:56.740 second time

00:29:57.220 because he

00:29:57.680 did a lot

00:29:58.080 of things

00:29:58.340 that I

00:29:58.520 think were

00:29:58.760 really good

00:29:59.220 and really

00:29:59.700 courageous.

00:30:00.580 It took

00:30:00.740 a lot of

00:30:01.020 guts.

00:30:02.160 But this

00:30:02.540 is something

00:30:02.960 Republicans

00:30:03.500 just have

00:30:04.720 lost their

00:30:05.120 minds over.

00:30:07.960 Republicans

00:30:08.400 should not

00:30:08.940 be running

00:30:09.400 on letting

00:30:09.980 more criminals

00:30:10.900 out of prison.

00:30:11.980 They should

00:30:12.200 not be running

00:30:12.780 on the lie

00:30:13.900 that we have

00:30:14.600 an over

00:30:15.080 incarceration

00:30:15.560 problem in

00:30:16.280 the United

00:30:16.600 States.

00:30:17.000 Looking around

00:30:19.380 at our

00:30:19.820 cities burning

00:30:20.560 and murder

00:30:21.120 rates skyrocketing

00:30:22.260 and carjacking

00:30:22.960 I think we

00:30:23.720 have an

00:30:24.020 under

00:30:24.400 incarceration

00:30:24.980 problem in

00:30:25.780 the United

00:30:26.080 States.

00:30:27.280 And my

00:30:27.700 evidence for

00:30:28.220 that is

00:30:28.580 crime is

00:30:29.240 going through

00:30:29.620 the roof

00:30:30.040 so lock

00:30:30.700 them up.

00:30:31.720 Good grief.

00:30:33.020 These

00:30:33.160 Republicans

00:30:33.660 are a little

00:30:34.260 too clever

00:30:34.700 by half.

00:30:36.040 They think

00:30:36.460 oh you know

00:30:37.100 look if I

00:30:37.700 push for

00:30:38.180 criminal justice

00:30:39.440 reform meaning

00:30:40.180 letting the

00:30:41.120 criminals out

00:30:41.600 of jail

00:30:42.020 then that

00:30:43.600 will I'll

00:30:44.160 seem I

00:30:44.660 won't seem

00:30:45.020 racist.

00:30:45.640 The left

00:30:45.980 won't call

00:30:46.280 me racist

00:30:46.660 anymore.

00:30:47.320 I hint

00:30:47.520 they will

00:30:47.880 and we're

00:30:48.780 going to

00:30:48.960 win over

00:30:49.440 all sorts

00:30:49.920 of new

00:30:50.220 voters.

00:30:50.780 I hint

00:30:51.120 you won't

00:30:51.660 and that'll

00:30:52.760 be really

00:30:53.080 good for

00:30:53.400 everybody.

00:30:53.860 It won't

00:30:54.140 be good.

00:30:54.500 It actually

00:30:55.060 won't be

00:30:55.380 good for

00:30:55.660 anybody including

00:30:56.240 the criminals

00:30:56.900 who should

00:30:57.800 be getting

00:30:58.160 rehabilitated

00:30:59.260 in the

00:31:00.640 can.

00:31:01.840 Speaking of

00:31:02.440 misplaced

00:31:02.960 compassion

00:31:03.600 Steve

00:31:04.760 Doocy

00:31:05.000 or rather

00:31:06.360 Peter Doocy

00:31:06.840 Steve Doocy

00:31:07.480 is on the

00:31:07.780 morning show.

00:31:08.280 Peter Doocy

00:31:08.640 the White

00:31:09.240 House

00:31:09.360 reporter

00:31:09.640 is

00:31:10.620 presently

00:31:12.660 just destroying

00:31:14.200 the White

00:31:14.960 House

00:31:15.180 deputy

00:31:15.660 press

00:31:15.980 secretary

00:31:16.340 Corrine

00:31:16.860 Jean-Pierre.

00:31:19.540 Doocy

00:31:20.180 asked

00:31:20.940 Corrine

00:31:21.660 Jean-Pierre

00:31:22.520 about this

00:31:23.840 Biden

00:31:24.220 administration

00:31:24.720 policy to

00:31:26.000 give massive

00:31:27.120 six-figure,

00:31:28.200 mid-six-figure

00:31:28.900 payments to

00:31:30.400 illegal aliens.

00:31:31.280 Is there

00:31:32.620 any kind

00:31:33.260 of discussion

00:31:33.660 about giving

00:31:34.480 people who

00:31:35.440 are coming

00:31:35.900 here the

00:31:36.240 right way

00:31:36.760 money?

00:31:38.200 Why would

00:31:38.640 we be giving

00:31:40.540 people who

00:31:41.220 are coming

00:31:41.540 here the

00:31:42.100 right way

00:31:42.480 money?

00:31:43.160 Why are

00:31:43.460 you giving

00:31:43.800 people who

00:31:44.360 came here

00:31:44.720 the wrong

00:31:45.060 way?

00:31:45.220 I mean,

00:31:45.700 but I don't

00:31:46.360 understand the

00:31:47.140 question.

00:31:48.540 You're saying

00:31:49.280 that we should

00:31:49.720 give people

00:31:51.500 money who

00:31:52.340 are coming

00:31:52.680 through?

00:31:53.080 I don't

00:31:53.320 understand the

00:31:53.860 question.

00:31:54.200 You're giving

00:31:54.420 people who

00:31:55.000 immigrated here

00:31:56.000 illegally

00:31:56.480 money?

00:31:58.460 Like I said,

00:31:59.440 like I said,

00:32:00.200 that's the

00:32:00.560 Department of

00:32:01.000 Justice.

00:32:02.000 You're going

00:32:02.480 to have to

00:32:02.800 ask them

00:32:03.180 that question.

00:32:04.060 Oh, he

00:32:04.580 got her.

00:32:05.740 He so got

00:32:06.820 her and he

00:32:07.180 did it in a

00:32:08.040 really clever

00:32:08.600 way.

00:32:09.360 The White

00:32:09.800 House has

00:32:10.200 been stonewalling

00:32:11.500 on this

00:32:12.580 issue of

00:32:13.260 them giving

00:32:13.700 six-figure

00:32:14.200 payments,

00:32:15.000 $450,000

00:32:16.280 payments to

00:32:17.140 illegal aliens.

00:32:19.000 And this is

00:32:19.560 for the

00:32:19.880 illegal aliens

00:32:20.820 who were

00:32:21.220 separated,

00:32:21.880 whatever that

00:32:22.260 means,

00:32:23.080 during the

00:32:24.160 Trump

00:32:24.340 administration,

00:32:24.940 even though

00:32:25.140 it's a

00:32:25.340 policy that

00:32:25.720 goes all

00:32:25.980 the way

00:32:26.140 back to

00:32:26.400 Bill

00:32:26.540 Clinton.

00:32:27.720 And anytime

00:32:28.520 they get

00:32:28.900 asked about

00:32:29.200 it,

00:32:29.300 they say,

00:32:29.520 no,

00:32:29.680 we refer

00:32:30.260 you to

00:32:30.660 DOJ.

00:32:31.680 No,

00:32:32.100 we're not

00:32:32.500 going to

00:32:32.680 answer that.

00:32:33.140 No comment.

00:32:33.720 Moving on,

00:32:34.220 moving on.

00:32:35.220 And so what

00:32:35.620 Peter Doocy does

00:32:37.040 here is he

00:32:37.480 inverts the

00:32:38.460 question.

00:32:39.260 He goes,

00:32:39.500 hey, I just

00:32:39.760 wanted to

00:32:40.060 know,

00:32:40.260 is the White

00:32:42.780 House planning

00:32:43.240 on giving

00:32:44.000 payments to

00:32:44.880 illegal aliens

00:32:45.720 or to

00:32:46.180 immigrants who

00:32:47.060 came to

00:32:47.460 America the

00:32:47.940 right way

00:32:48.340 through the

00:32:48.880 legal channels?

00:32:50.940 And the

00:32:51.580 White House

00:32:51.840 Deputy Press

00:32:52.300 Secretary looks

00:32:52.720 at him and

00:32:52.920 goes,

00:32:53.040 what are you

00:32:53.700 talking about?

00:32:54.280 Why would

00:32:54.500 we do that?

00:32:54.940 That's insane.

00:32:55.800 That's so

00:32:56.180 crazy.

00:32:56.560 Why would we

00:32:56.900 just give

00:32:57.260 them money

00:32:57.640 for coming

00:32:58.040 here?

00:32:58.600 They're

00:32:58.840 immigrants.

00:32:59.420 They should

00:32:59.640 be thanking

00:33:00.020 us.

00:33:00.360 They should

00:33:00.540 be giving

00:33:00.800 us money.

00:33:01.300 Why would

00:33:01.540 we be giving

00:33:01.980 them money?

00:33:03.580 Oh, well,

00:33:04.300 because you are

00:33:05.360 giving money to

00:33:06.120 people who are

00:33:07.400 coming here

00:33:07.780 illegally.

00:33:08.500 So why aren't

00:33:10.080 you giving money

00:33:10.840 to people who

00:33:11.260 are coming here

00:33:11.580 legally?

00:33:12.100 And then she

00:33:12.660 realizes that

00:33:13.360 she's not the

00:33:14.800 best press

00:33:15.280 secretary out

00:33:15.920 there, okay?

00:33:16.700 Jen Psaki is

00:33:17.420 much better at

00:33:18.060 her job than

00:33:19.340 this woman.

00:33:20.780 And Jen Psaki is

00:33:21.400 not even that

00:33:21.820 good at her job.

00:33:23.220 And she goes,

00:33:23.740 oh, uh-oh,

00:33:24.320 whoops, oh,

00:33:24.780 never mind, DOJ,

00:33:25.440 DOJ.

00:33:26.040 Well, hold on.

00:33:26.440 You were

00:33:26.620 answering the

00:33:27.060 question before,

00:33:28.280 before you

00:33:28.720 realized that it

00:33:29.240 was a question

00:33:29.880 about a policy

00:33:31.380 that you can't

00:33:31.940 defend.

00:33:33.680 Ducey tries

00:33:34.420 again.

00:33:36.440 Now that the

00:33:37.160 president is on

00:33:37.860 the record as

00:33:39.080 of Saturday

00:33:39.640 supporting

00:33:40.360 compensation for

00:33:41.720 illegal immigrants

00:33:42.700 who are separated

00:33:43.420 from family at

00:33:44.200 the border,

00:33:44.740 who counts as

00:33:46.580 separated?

00:33:47.340 If somebody was

00:33:47.840 just separated for

00:33:48.880 a few hours or

00:33:49.940 a few days,

00:33:50.720 would they be

00:33:51.280 eligible to

00:33:52.420 settle a suit

00:33:53.340 and get this

00:33:54.140 payment from DOJ?

00:33:55.220 So, Peter,

00:33:56.040 I will direct you

00:33:56.980 to the Department

00:33:57.420 of Justice for

00:33:58.080 any specifics on

00:33:59.080 that.

00:34:00.220 You've asked us

00:34:01.060 this question,

00:34:01.800 we have answered

00:34:02.440 it, and I will

00:34:03.240 refer you to

00:34:03.760 the Department

00:34:04.080 of Justice on

00:34:04.740 any specifics.

00:34:06.140 If you've

00:34:06.580 answered it,

00:34:07.060 then just answer

00:34:07.600 it again.

00:34:07.940 If it's such a

00:34:08.440 simple answer,

00:34:09.360 give us the

00:34:09.900 answer again.

00:34:11.540 Oh, you can,

00:34:12.380 because you

00:34:12.780 haven't answered

00:34:13.400 it, because there

00:34:14.540 is no answer.

00:34:15.320 And Doocy brings

00:34:15.900 up a good point

00:34:16.380 here, too.

00:34:17.180 What if you were

00:34:17.820 separated for an

00:34:19.060 hour?

00:34:20.140 You know, you

00:34:20.480 get, you come

00:34:21.360 into the country

00:34:21.840 illegally, you

00:34:23.220 are being, you're

00:34:24.960 caught, you're

00:34:25.480 being processed, and

00:34:27.440 for an hour, you're

00:34:28.780 separated from your

00:34:29.700 kid, and the kid is

00:34:30.480 at HHS, and you're

00:34:31.500 being processed by

00:34:32.220 law enforcement.

00:34:33.000 The kid's not going

00:34:33.620 to be processed by

00:34:34.220 law enforcement.

00:34:35.440 What about that?

00:34:35.900 And then you're

00:34:36.220 back together.

00:34:37.620 Are you entitled to

00:34:38.440 almost half a million

00:34:39.240 dollars?

00:34:40.120 Just a question to

00:34:41.140 my listeners out

00:34:41.860 there.

00:34:42.040 I'm sure some of

00:34:42.620 you are pretty well

00:34:43.600 healed, but I would

00:34:45.620 say most people don't

00:34:46.460 have just half a

00:34:47.180 million dollars

00:34:47.720 lying around.

00:34:49.560 Could you use that

00:34:50.600 money?

00:34:51.440 Do you think it would

00:34:53.220 be nice if the

00:34:54.000 government gave you

00:34:54.700 half a million

00:34:55.180 dollars?

00:34:57.180 Maybe you need to

00:34:58.440 go move down to

00:34:59.140 Guatemala, and then

00:35:00.980 walk up, hitch a

00:35:03.420 ride, and then swim

00:35:04.980 across the Rio Grande.

00:35:07.480 That's an easier way to

00:35:08.400 make half a million

00:35:09.080 dollars than most

00:35:10.300 people.

00:35:10.640 Most people are not

00:35:11.420 going to have half a

00:35:12.020 million bucks in their

00:35:12.620 bank account at any

00:35:14.220 point in their lives.

00:35:16.460 indefensible.

00:35:18.940 And this White House

00:35:19.980 Deputy Press Secretary,

00:35:21.620 she didn't get any

00:35:23.360 better at it the more

00:35:24.200 the questions moved

00:35:25.180 on.

00:35:27.540 She was asked a

00:35:29.540 simple question.

00:35:30.800 What are you guys

00:35:31.620 doing about the

00:35:32.360 rising gas prices?

00:35:33.320 In California, in

00:35:34.120 some places, gas is

00:35:35.080 up to around $7 a

00:35:37.680 gallon.

00:35:38.280 In the United States,

00:35:39.900 that is insane.

00:35:40.820 I mean, that is some

00:35:41.400 unprecedented gas

00:35:43.380 pricing.

00:35:44.780 And they said,

00:35:45.840 what are you guys

00:35:46.440 doing about that?

00:35:48.920 I think that's going

00:35:49.780 to be the subject of

00:35:50.520 my next blank book.

00:35:51.960 What options besides

00:35:53.540 tapping the strategic

00:35:54.920 petroleum reserve does

00:35:56.200 the president have to

00:35:57.700 counteract higher gas

00:35:58.940 prices?

00:36:00.240 So, you know, I've

00:36:02.680 talked about this a

00:36:03.560 couple of times.

00:36:04.480 You know, we don't

00:36:05.880 have an announcement

00:36:06.540 yet on anything to

00:36:08.840 share at this time.

00:36:10.540 You know, but we're

00:36:11.720 monitoring it, right?

00:36:12.780 We're monitoring the

00:36:13.600 prices, and we're

00:36:14.700 making sure that we

00:36:15.920 have tools in our

00:36:16.580 tool belt that we

00:36:17.660 can try and use.

00:36:21.260 But at this time, I

00:36:22.500 don't have anything

00:36:23.200 new to share.

00:36:24.960 What else are you

00:36:25.760 reviewing?

00:36:26.360 Because Secretary

00:36:27.040 Granholm has confirmed

00:36:27.980 that it's an option

00:36:28.840 that's on the table,

00:36:29.640 and the president has

00:36:30.340 said there are other

00:36:31.340 tools that he could

00:36:32.180 potentially use.

00:36:33.080 So could you just

00:36:33.920 lay out what those

00:36:34.680 other options are that

00:36:35.520 he's considering?

00:36:36.100 So I don't, again, I

00:36:37.740 don't have anything

00:36:38.900 specific here.

00:36:39.840 The president spoke

00:36:40.740 to this recently, but

00:36:42.200 he's also asked FTC to

00:36:44.060 crack down on illegal

00:36:45.080 pricing, right?

00:36:45.860 That is one thing that

00:36:46.660 he did on gouging in

00:36:47.940 the market, and the

00:36:49.000 FTC is responding.

00:36:50.620 But also, we're going

00:36:51.360 to continue to monitor

00:36:52.380 the situation and have

00:36:53.860 a number of tools in

00:36:54.700 our arsenal.

00:36:55.160 As I just mentioned, I

00:36:56.340 don't have anything

00:36:56.940 specific.

00:36:58.400 How do you not have an

00:36:59.580 answer to that question?

00:37:00.740 I'm not saying, how do

00:37:02.060 you not have an answer

00:37:02.740 to the gas prices?

00:37:04.000 Obviously, the Biden

00:37:04.660 administration is not

00:37:05.540 nearly competent enough

00:37:06.620 to have that answer.

00:37:07.900 But how do you, as the

00:37:08.820 press secretary, not show

00:37:10.920 up prepared for that

00:37:12.920 question?

00:37:15.380 The story here to me is

00:37:16.860 not just that this woman's

00:37:18.000 bad at her job, because

00:37:19.140 Jen Psaki's not that good

00:37:20.080 at it either.

00:37:20.540 Remember, she keeps

00:37:21.020 circling back all the

00:37:21.880 time.

00:37:23.720 It's not even about the

00:37:24.700 gas prices or the illegal

00:37:26.400 alien payments.

00:37:27.760 It's a story about the

00:37:28.940 media, as it very often

00:37:30.000 is.

00:37:31.060 Kayleigh McEnany, our

00:37:32.700 wonderful former

00:37:34.940 press secretary, made

00:37:35.940 all of our hearts go

00:37:36.640 pitter-patter.

00:37:37.180 She was just, she was

00:37:38.060 so great at that job.

00:37:39.140 She would show up with

00:37:39.880 a binder that was like

00:37:41.060 six inches thick, with

00:37:42.520 all these little

00:37:43.260 annotations, and any

00:37:44.240 question, any question

00:37:45.240 you had for her, she'd

00:37:46.360 open up the binder and

00:37:47.880 have an answer.

00:37:48.520 Kayleigh, what should I

00:37:49.340 have for breakfast on

00:37:50.020 Tuesday?

00:37:50.380 Well, thank you, a

00:37:50.880 great question.

00:37:51.340 You should have an

00:37:51.780 egg with some sausage

00:37:53.560 and bacon and a muffin.

00:37:56.940 And what?

00:37:57.560 I don't know, because

00:37:58.220 it's in my binder, because

00:37:59.240 she had such details here.

00:38:01.240 This is a basic

00:38:01.900 question.

00:38:02.140 Hey, what are you guys

00:38:02.580 doing about gas?

00:38:03.180 We don't, we don't, so

00:38:06.940 we have tools.

00:38:07.820 We totally have tools in

00:38:08.920 our arsenal.

00:38:09.380 We totally have an

00:38:10.040 answer to that, but we're

00:38:11.580 just not going to tell

00:38:12.860 you, but we have it.

00:38:14.920 You know, I, I totally

00:38:17.260 have a boyfriend, but he

00:38:18.340 lives in Canada, but it's,

00:38:20.100 he's totally real, but I

00:38:22.120 can't tell you anything

00:38:23.060 about him, and there's no

00:38:23.880 evidence that, that it's

00:38:25.680 real.

00:38:26.400 And the media don't care.

00:38:27.580 They think that they're

00:38:28.460 walking, and Jen Psaki,

00:38:29.600 especially in the early days

00:38:30.400 of her tenure, would just

00:38:31.940 walk into the press

00:38:32.880 briefing room without any

00:38:34.320 preparation, because she

00:38:35.980 just assumed she wasn't

00:38:37.020 going to get tough

00:38:37.480 questions.

00:38:37.880 And the Republicans are

00:38:39.060 always going to get

00:38:39.740 extremely tough, usually

00:38:40.720 unfair questions.

00:38:42.040 And so they're just simply

00:38:43.660 better prepared.

00:38:44.480 And speaking of

00:38:45.200 transportation, news now

00:38:47.680 that the vaccine mandate

00:38:48.700 from the Biden

00:38:49.480 administration could take

00:38:50.580 out 37% of truckers

00:38:52.760 during the holiday

00:38:54.080 shopping season.

00:38:55.480 This coming from the

00:38:57.260 American Trucking

00:38:57.960 Association, Truckload

00:38:59.520 Carriers Association,

00:39:00.720 International Food

00:39:01.360 Service Distributors

00:39:02.120 Association, other

00:39:02.960 business groups are

00:39:04.620 warning the Biden

00:39:06.280 administration that the

00:39:08.360 vaccine mandate could

00:39:11.460 lead to a 37% reduction

00:39:13.860 in truckers.

00:39:15.180 The industry is already

00:39:16.260 short by about 30%.

00:39:17.640 So when we say that the

00:39:20.660 supply chain crisis is not

00:39:22.960 Joe Biden's fault, sure,

00:39:24.180 there's some truth to

00:39:24.940 that.

00:39:26.080 Yeah, some of it is

00:39:26.840 coming after months and

00:39:28.720 months of locking down

00:39:29.420 the world and not

00:39:30.180 manufacturing things in

00:39:31.080 time.

00:39:31.580 And sure, it's not all

00:39:32.680 Buttigieg's fault, for

00:39:33.640 instance, but some of it

00:39:34.660 is.

00:39:35.920 Some of it is.

00:39:36.640 And in the future, a lot

00:39:38.020 more of it is going to be

00:39:39.000 directly attributable to

00:39:40.780 Joe Biden.

00:39:41.240 That's smart, right?

00:39:41.860 In the middle of a supply

00:39:42.740 chain crisis, as you've got

00:39:43.740 the biggest shopping season

00:39:44.680 of the year coming up,

00:39:46.160 make sure that we put

00:39:47.080 almost 40% of truckers

00:39:48.320 out of business, not just

00:39:50.280 the truckers.

00:39:50.760 Right now, 28, at least

00:39:54.580 28 firehouses in New York

00:39:56.140 City are out of service

00:39:58.260 because of the vaccine

00:39:59.160 mandate.

00:40:01.420 28 FDNY firehouses.

00:40:05.620 I'm sure this will be a

00:40:06.420 great relief when your

00:40:07.300 house is on fire in

00:40:08.340 Queens, you know, and you

00:40:09.800 call up the fire department

00:40:10.860 and you say, help, help,

00:40:12.720 my house is on fire.

00:40:13.720 Oh my gosh, I can't get my

00:40:14.980 children out and my, oh,

00:40:16.880 I'm burning up in here.

00:40:18.200 And they'll say, well, ma'am,

00:40:19.100 we don't have any fire trucks

00:40:20.240 to send you and no firemen

00:40:21.400 to come rescue you.

00:40:23.320 But don't worry, you won't

00:40:24.500 catch COVID.

00:40:26.100 Don't worry.

00:40:26.800 Yeah, we don't, because we

00:40:28.180 don't want to give you

00:40:28.840 COVID.

00:40:29.280 Okay, good luck.

00:40:31.840 That's what's, that's what's

00:40:33.020 going to happen in New York.

00:40:35.340 And there is going to be

00:40:36.360 pushback to this, even in

00:40:37.800 blue New York, even in blue

00:40:39.400 California, even in these

00:40:41.080 places that are full of

00:40:43.180 dyed in the wool liberals.

00:40:44.880 When the basic elements of

00:40:47.400 society break down, when you

00:40:49.280 can't afford gas for your

00:40:50.620 car, when you can't call the

00:40:52.500 fire department, when you

00:40:54.460 can't, when everyone in this

00:40:55.480 country can't get Christmas

00:40:56.400 presents, can't get their

00:40:57.340 food for Thanksgiving or

00:40:58.320 whatever, that there is going

00:41:01.480 to be a pushback.

00:41:03.360 Because it doesn't matter how

00:41:04.460 deeply ideological you are,

00:41:06.380 when your society can't perform

00:41:08.320 even its most basic

00:41:09.360 functions, you can't deny that

00:41:13.040 the people running the society

00:41:14.280 are getting it wrong.

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00:41:54.220 Speaking of New York,

00:41:56.520 story in the New York Post that I

00:41:59.180 had to bring up on the show

00:42:00.140 today.

00:42:01.380 Classic New York Post type

00:42:03.260 headline.

00:42:04.260 Supposed to be a pretty wacky

00:42:05.800 story here.

00:42:08.100 My husband is gay, but we're

00:42:10.600 married with two kids and have

00:42:12.700 great sex.

00:42:15.980 The woman for a beautiful

00:42:17.700 woman.

00:42:18.580 The guy, good-looking guy.

00:42:20.700 The good-looking guy apparently

00:42:22.020 is not particularly attracted to

00:42:23.740 the good-looking woman, but

00:42:25.260 they're married anyway and they

00:42:26.540 have kids and they do the thing

00:42:29.120 that married couples do.

00:42:31.520 Wow, how kooky and crazy, isn't

00:42:33.840 it?

00:42:34.600 This is an amazing story.

00:42:36.580 It's amazing that this story is

00:42:38.100 considered so unusual.

00:42:39.120 They're Mormons, or at least the

00:42:42.820 man is Mormon.

00:42:44.480 The Mormon church says, no, you

00:42:46.440 can't do gay marriage or gay

00:42:48.040 relationships and if you have

00:42:49.780 same-sex attraction, you just

00:42:51.140 basically have to repress it and

00:42:53.940 be celibate or chaste, but you

00:42:56.280 can't engage in that.

00:42:57.980 And this guy has decided to

00:42:59.900 prioritize his religion and his

00:43:01.900 culture and his upbringing over his

00:43:04.180 sexual desires.

00:43:05.120 He's not deceiving anybody.

00:43:06.200 He's told this woman on their

00:43:07.460 first date that, hey, I'm a gay

00:43:09.240 guy.

00:43:09.540 I'm really basically just

00:43:10.840 attracted to men.

00:43:13.900 And she said, oh, okay.

00:43:14.980 And rather than just running away

00:43:17.000 from him, she said, actually, it's

00:43:18.980 kind of, it doesn't really bother

00:43:20.960 me that physical attraction is not

00:43:23.420 the most important thing in our

00:43:25.140 relationship.

00:43:28.940 Actually, she says she realized that

00:43:31.140 he was her guy, that they were

00:43:32.340 really, and he said that about her

00:43:33.880 and they were really meant to be

00:43:34.980 together and they broke up for a

00:43:37.600 little bit when he was trying to

00:43:38.540 work through his sexual desires and

00:43:40.860 then they got back together because

00:43:42.000 they missed each other.

00:43:43.640 So it just wasn't a huge deal.

00:43:45.820 He has with me his choice.

00:43:48.520 What else mattered?

00:43:50.920 Now they're happy and they got these

00:43:52.060 kids and, okay.

00:43:54.820 First of all, this is what gay guys

00:43:58.980 did for, like, all of human history.

00:44:01.380 Okay, not all.

00:44:03.260 Some people would be celibate or, you

00:44:05.040 know, they'd be confirmed bachelors or,

00:44:06.820 you know, they'd live with a very good

00:44:08.280 friend of theirs for a long time.

00:44:10.080 But this was pretty common.

00:44:11.760 If you had same-sex attractions, you

00:44:14.020 would just repress it as if you had any

00:44:16.400 other desire that you didn't want to

00:44:19.180 live out or engage in for whatever

00:44:22.200 reason, religion, culture, tradition.

00:44:26.240 Now we're told that that's evil, that

00:44:28.460 that's wrong.

00:44:29.060 If you have any desire you have,

00:44:30.940 especially any sexual desire, you have

00:44:32.640 to fulfill it.

00:44:35.260 But my question for the sexual

00:44:36.780 revolutionaries who say that you

00:44:38.420 absolutely have to, you know, it's

00:44:39.900 your choice.

00:44:40.660 You have any choice.

00:44:41.520 You can choose to be with a man.

00:44:43.700 You can choose to be with a woman.

00:44:44.680 You can choose to be with two men and

00:44:45.760 a goat.

00:44:46.100 You can choose whatever you want and

00:44:47.740 that's wonderful and we need to

00:44:48.900 celebrate all of that.

00:44:50.100 Well, why don't we celebrate his

00:44:51.400 choice?

00:44:53.780 Why is his choice not valid?

00:44:56.520 He's being completely honest about

00:45:00.400 everything and he's just saying, look, I

00:45:01.720 would rather have the life that comes

00:45:05.920 with being married to a woman with kids

00:45:09.740 in my church community, in my culture.

00:45:13.640 I would rather make that choice.

00:45:15.440 Even if my kind of instinctual desire

00:45:18.440 is, look, this is a crazy world.

00:45:20.960 It's a very diverse world.

00:45:22.740 There's no end to the diversity and

00:45:25.660 eccentricity of human beings.

00:45:27.720 But he says, in my rational will, in my

00:45:30.520 conscious will, I'm just going to choose

00:45:32.740 to repress that sort of desire and I'm

00:45:36.100 going to marry this woman.

00:45:37.940 And by the way, he's being so clear here

00:45:41.260 because he's not saying that he's going

00:45:43.660 to pray away the gay, as some people kind

00:45:45.480 of derisively call it.

00:45:46.400 He's not saying he's ever going to

00:45:47.620 completely eradicate this desire from

00:45:49.820 himself, but it is simply a case of

00:45:52.020 desire, the case with desire rather,

00:45:54.920 that habit helps to form our desires.

00:45:58.020 So it's not like our desires are just

00:45:59.660 permanently fixed, right?

00:46:01.900 When we're little kids, we like milk

00:46:03.980 chocolate.

00:46:04.500 We just love milk chocolate.

00:46:05.720 We can't, C.S. Lewis makes this point.

00:46:07.120 You can't imagine that there's anything

00:46:08.480 better than milk chocolate.

00:46:09.860 But as you grow, you still like chocolate,

00:46:12.320 but your desires can change.

00:46:14.160 Your tastes can develop.

00:46:16.060 You can develop a taste for coffee.

00:46:17.580 You can develop a taste for scotch.

00:46:20.200 You can develop, when I was little, my

00:46:21.940 favorite, I would love to play Cowboys and

00:46:23.440 Indians to get back to a point we were

00:46:24.700 making earlier.

00:46:25.920 Now, I love to sit outside with a book

00:46:27.540 and a cigar.

00:46:28.460 When I was a little kid, I didn't want to

00:46:29.980 sit outside with a book or a cigar.

00:46:32.760 Not until I was 15 and I was a grown up

00:46:34.520 boy.

00:46:35.080 Now, I don't like playing Cowboys and

00:46:36.520 Indians.

00:46:36.900 Our desires actually change as well and

00:46:39.560 we can cultivate desires the more we

00:46:41.720 practice certain habits.

00:46:43.440 Not that you're ever going to completely

00:46:46.100 get rid of some desire, perhaps.

00:46:49.720 But why do you not have that choice?

00:46:53.500 It does show the intolerance, the bigotry,

00:46:56.140 the shallowness of the left and the modern

00:47:00.520 revolutionary view of sex and identity and

00:47:04.120 desire.

00:47:04.580 That the only thing that you're not allowed

00:47:08.100 to do is choose the more traditional path.

00:47:13.920 That's the only thing you're not allowed to

00:47:15.280 do anymore.

00:47:17.380 Now, speaking of sex stuff, before we go, I

00:47:19.300 have to get to this.

00:47:22.140 The Marines have a job opening.

00:47:25.380 Okay, now that's a tough job, working for

00:47:27.100 the Marines, you know, when you enlist, even

00:47:29.820 if you become an officer, it's a tough job,

00:47:32.420 involves a lot of sacrifice, but you're

00:47:33.900 serving your country.

00:47:35.440 Well, no, there's actually a pretty cushy

00:47:36.680 job in the Marines right now.

00:47:39.000 A diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:47:42.200 advisor.

00:47:45.640 The diversity, equity, inclusion advisor for

00:47:47.740 the United States Marine Corps, stationed at

00:47:50.020 Quantico, Virginia, starts at $144,128 a

00:47:56.020 year.

00:47:57.740 Nice work if you can get it.

00:48:01.260 People are really shocked and horrified that

00:48:03.280 the Marines have a diversity, equity, and

00:48:05.260 inclusion advisor.

00:48:06.300 But look, the Marines always had a chaplain.

00:48:09.140 And back when our country believed in God and was a

00:48:13.060 Christian country, we had a Christian chaplain.

00:48:15.560 Now that our country is effectively an atheist country

00:48:19.000 and a secular country, the chaplain is just the

00:48:21.980 director of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:48:24.080 That's our national religion.

00:48:25.000 That makes up our moral understanding and metaphysical

00:48:28.940 understanding of the world.

00:48:31.640 Also reminds us of incentives.

00:48:34.660 Okay?

00:48:35.000 And the left is really good at creating incentives.

00:48:37.080 We talk about how great we are on the economy here on the

00:48:39.640 right.

00:48:39.860 No, the left understands economic incentives a lot better.

00:48:42.740 If you reward something with money and prestige and privilege,

00:48:47.240 you are going to get more of that thing.

00:48:48.960 And right now, what our society rewards with all sorts of

00:48:53.820 compliments and plaudits and cold hard cash is the ideology

00:48:59.060 of diversity, equity, and inclusion is the ideology of the

00:49:01.500 left.

00:49:02.020 And they use the government to push it.

00:49:03.740 And they use corporate America, but they use the whole

00:49:05.700 political system.

00:49:07.300 Maybe the right ought to do that too.

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