The Michael Knowles Show - March 10, 2022


Ep. 960 - So About Those Biolabs In Ukraineā€¦


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Florida has passed a bill that bans the use of the word "gay" in public schools, but it doesn't even mention the word gay. Democratic lawyer Ethan Behrman joins me to explain why this is a bad idea.

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00:00:30.560 The parental rights in education bill has officially passed the Florida State Senate
00:00:35.440 and even before being signed into law has already made history
00:00:40.280 as the single most misrepresented piece of legislation in perhaps the history of politics.
00:00:47.520 Opponents have dubbed it the don't say gay bill,
00:00:51.440 prompting Senate Democrats in Florida to walk up and down their office hallways chanting gay.
00:00:57.040 Gay, gay, gay. 0.95
00:00:59.420 The bill led Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker, to tweet the word gay precisely 69 times.
00:01:07.360 The bill impelled the CEO of Disney to donate $5 million to gay causes
00:01:13.300 to plead with Ron DeSantis not to sign the bill,
00:01:17.780 not to prohibit the utterance of that apparently sacred word, gay. 0.92
00:01:22.460 But the bill doesn't ban the word gay.
00:01:26.580 The bill doesn't even mention the word gay.
00:01:29.660 The bill just stops teachers from preaching transgenderism and other strange sexual theories
00:01:36.000 to extremely young school children in preschool through third grade.
00:01:41.420 Why are Democrats so deeply opposed to a bill that would have been entirely uncontroversial,
00:01:46.980 considered common sense just five or ten years ago?
00:01:49.340 I don't know, which is why I've invited a Democrat on to explain it to me.
00:01:54.080 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:54.760 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:03.080 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:04.100 My favorite comment yesterday is from Doughboy2M,
00:02:07.680 who says,
00:02:08.200 when Biden is talking at any given time and the sign language guy is in the little box off to the
00:02:12.940 side interpreting, waving his hands around, the sign language guy seems to be making more sense.
00:02:18.560 That is an astute observation.
00:02:20.700 I agree with you entirely.
00:02:23.180 Now, I need help making sense of the uproar over this law,
00:02:27.720 which is why I have invited on my friend, Ethan Behrman.
00:02:31.620 Ethan Behrman, you know him.
00:02:32.620 You've seen him on TV.
00:02:33.500 He is a liberal California Democrat lawyer.
00:02:38.460 Ethan, thank you for coming on.
00:02:40.700 Well, Michael, it is good to join you.
00:02:42.420 And of course, I disagree with your entire premise of where this starts.
00:02:48.020 But it's good to see you this morning.
00:02:50.120 Well, it's wonderful to see you.
00:02:51.140 You are, as far as I can tell, very intelligent, generally normal,
00:02:57.380 certainly by California standards, normal, common sense headed person.
00:03:01.560 And yet, you oppose this law in Florida.
00:03:06.080 Explain to me the problem with the law.
00:03:08.900 Well, let's start with the presentation of the law in the first place.
00:03:12.840 There is no sex ed curriculum for K through 3 in the state of Florida now.
00:03:18.700 Nothing in this bill addresses the curriculum in the state of Florida.
00:03:23.920 This is a classic red meat piece of legislation for a rabid base that hates the idea of anybody who is different from them.
00:03:34.840 And so it was really a bill that addressed nothing that was relevant in the Florida schools in the first place.
00:03:40.560 Well, OK, then I'll pause you there for one second, Ethan.
00:03:42.120 If the bill doesn't actually take on anything that is going on in the schools, then what's the big deal?
00:03:48.580 Why the uproar about it?
00:03:49.660 It's going to be completely ineffective.
00:03:51.020 So who cares?
00:03:53.020 Yeah, the big the big deal is this is we already have a minority group of LGBTQ families and students.
00:04:00.920 So, for example, one of the things that one of the authors said, I can't remember which Republican in Florida said this,
00:04:07.280 but basically you can't have an issue now under this law, a teacher in third grade giving a word problem in math class can't say Jimmy and his two moms have that's against the law under this law to say Jimmy and his two moms.
00:04:25.060 The reality is there are same sex parents in this country.
00:04:29.800 The reality is there are gay people in this country to deny a reality is to diminish their existence, which we know based on data that that actually has harmful mental health effects on LGBTQ individuals and families.
00:04:47.120 So I want to make a distinction here or at least delve into this distinction.
00:04:51.840 You're saying that this bill is unfair toward LGBT people.
00:04:56.320 Are you referring to the LGBT three year olds to seven year olds that this bill would affect?
00:05:01.920 Or are you referring to the three year olds and seven year olds who whose sexuality we are not talking about and are not interested in?
00:05:10.080 And, you know, I think it's a little creepy even to talk about five year old sexuality, but maybe they've got their father is gay.
00:05:17.440 And so they you know, it's Johnny has two daddies or their mother is a lesbian or something like that.
00:05:22.320 And so it's it's disrespectful to them not to have the math teacher talk about the lesbian mothers when doing arithmetic.
00:05:29.820 Yeah, well, first things first, this affects K through three.
00:05:34.580 So I don't think kindergarten is three year olds.
00:05:37.080 Now I have kids.
00:05:37.880 No, it's preschool.
00:05:38.520 It's pre-K through through.
00:05:40.100 Is it pre?
00:05:40.560 I apologize.
00:05:41.360 It's pre-K through.
00:05:42.340 OK.
00:05:42.620 And then in third grade goes all the way up to you can be nine years old in third grade as well, potentially, depending on how well you do in second grade.
00:05:50.600 But so.
00:05:53.000 But here's the deal.
00:05:54.600 It's this denying reality.
00:05:56.800 This is a common problem that seems to be happening in Republican circles right now.
00:06:00.660 Book banning.
00:06:01.840 Right.
00:06:02.000 We actually have book banning happening in this country.
00:06:04.400 You can't reject reality.
00:06:07.160 You can't reject ideas that just because you disagree that.
00:06:11.400 Look, you and I disagree all the time.
00:06:13.400 Does that mean, Michael, that I reject that your idea should not even exist in the public sphere for fear that it's going to infect others?
00:06:24.080 Look, I am 100 percent always have been against white nationalism, for example.
00:06:30.740 Does that mean I think that it should never exist?
00:06:34.040 Well, I would like it to never exist.
00:06:35.880 Do I think that everything should be banned and those people should not be allowed to speak on that basis by government decree?
00:06:44.360 That's what we're talking about.
00:06:45.400 So it's not a it's not a choice that's being made.
00:06:48.520 It's by government decree that we're saying something can't be said in a classroom.
00:06:54.220 That idea is should be antithetical to most people on the right.
00:06:58.200 But you get you mix religion into it.
00:07:00.740 And suddenly people forget their core values that they supposedly espouse and then say, now we can't say those words at all in a public space.
00:07:09.720 Now, Ethan, are you on this topic of banning books, are you of the opinion that no books should be banned from the curriculum whatsoever?
00:07:18.320 There's a difference between curriculum and what's available in a library.
00:07:22.420 Right.
00:07:22.680 So we're talking I'm sorry.
00:07:23.600 We're talking about the classroom, though.
00:07:24.720 Right.
00:07:24.940 You know, the math teacher talks about how Jane has two mommies. 1.00
00:07:28.480 We're talking about the books that are being taught, not necessarily in a health class and not just what's in a library, but the sort of ideas and books that are being brought into the classroom.
00:07:37.140 Are you of the opinion that no books should be banned whatsoever?
00:07:40.580 No, there are books that should be banned.
00:07:43.360 And I would go back to the white nationalist example.
00:07:45.540 I don't want any white nationalist book taught in my K through three school because but that should still be potentially available in a library somewhere.
00:07:53.700 If somebody wants to read and argue that point.
00:07:55.860 Right.
00:07:55.960 I don't agree with it.
00:07:57.240 I don't like it.
00:07:57.700 It won't be in my library.
00:07:59.140 But does that mean that the government should put out a decree that says it cannot be available?
00:08:05.160 No, I don't agree with that.
00:08:07.440 So that's where we are, though, in this circumstance is the government is decreeing that a teacher cannot do a word problem in third grade that says Jimmy and his two moms.
00:08:22.580 You're breaking the law.
00:08:24.120 And now we're restricting teachers.
00:08:25.580 By the way, Florida is also proposing putting cameras and microphones on teachers to this.
00:08:30.420 This is where the slippery slope on the right seems to be wildly out of control.
00:08:35.020 Now, Ethan, but what what if I were what if math teacher Michael, who is Catholic and conservative, what if I were teaching students and I said, OK, so we're going to do an arithmetic problem here.
00:08:48.300 Marriage, as we all know, is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
00:08:51.500 So you've got one man on one side and one woman on the other. 0.98
00:08:54.460 What happens when you add them together?
00:08:55.940 One plus one equals two.
00:08:58.500 Would that statement, should that be banned from the classroom?
00:09:02.240 No, it should not.
00:09:03.660 So if you think if you think that and you believe that you can disagree with it, the key here is, are you going to be preaching Catholicism in a public classroom?
00:09:16.380 Now, I just did.
00:09:17.020 I just did.
00:09:18.260 But now you have to allow then at the same time.
00:09:21.540 So there's a difference.
00:09:22.520 If it's espousing a specific religious belief and you don't allow a contradictory opinion, I think we have problems.
00:09:29.680 By the way, OK, then on that on that, but that's a very good point on that point when the left, some leftist teacher espouses a very specific religious belief, namely that it's totally morally acceptable for men and men to be the same as men and women or that men can become women and women can become men.
00:09:47.560 That's a religious belief.
00:09:48.460 It's called Gnostic dualism, among other things.
00:09:50.920 Of course, it's religious. 0.81
00:09:51.760 It's about the nature.
00:09:52.940 That's not.
00:09:53.440 Of course.
00:09:54.020 I mean, but Ethan, by definition, it's religious.
00:09:55.680 You're talking about the nature of morality.
00:09:57.300 You're talking about the nature of humanity.
00:09:59.420 You're talking about the relationship between our soul and our body.
00:10:02.000 How much more religious can you get?
00:10:04.220 Yeah, it's not because it's not part of a catechism, for example, from a church.
00:10:09.120 That's where you start crossing the boundary.
00:10:10.000 Church of leftism, I think, Ethan.
00:10:11.820 No, that's not an official church.
00:10:13.420 Is that is that?
00:10:14.320 It's the state church in this country.
00:10:17.060 The IRS runs it.
00:10:18.480 It really isn't, though.
00:10:19.060 So that's a nonsensical argument that the right likes to use.
00:10:22.040 But the issue here still comes down to a key fact.
00:10:24.700 There are gay people.
00:10:26.320 There are same.
00:10:27.020 No one's denying that.
00:10:28.280 You want to deny that reality in a classroom to kids because you somehow have a belief that
00:10:33.320 is so weak that you can't hear those words and you don't have a strong enough home where
00:10:37.480 you're teaching them what you believe your own children, that they can never hear something
00:10:41.860 that contradicts what you believe.
00:10:43.700 That's weakness.
00:10:44.280 By the way, the Supreme Court just under 100 years ago affirmed your right, Michael, to send your kids to a private Catholic school.
00:10:52.380 It was actually over Catholicism in 1925 that the Supreme Court ruled that you have the right to send your kid to a private school.
00:11:00.240 But Ethan, but Ethan, my taxpayer dollars are going toward the public schools.
00:11:05.000 And I think this is a pretty modest ask to suggest that people who are little kids who are three to seven or eight or even for your slow second grader, nine years old in these classrooms, that they not be exposed to radical theories about sex and gender, which have been held in moral opprobrium by virtually every civilization for all of human history.
00:11:27.260 That they not be exposed to that before they're even hitting the age of reason.
00:11:31.760 This seems like a relatively minor ask to me.
00:11:34.340 It seems like a pretty radical political agenda on the other side that's seeking to imbue the math curriculum with transgenderism and novel notions of marriage.
00:11:44.100 We've got we're already past time, but I want to give you the last word.
00:11:47.080 Yeah, I just disagree with that.
00:11:48.520 And it's already not in the curriculum.
00:11:50.260 It's prohibiting something that isn't even happening.
00:11:52.360 And it's demeaning.
00:11:52.780 So the math teacher is not talking about it.
00:11:53.980 A higher section of our population.
00:11:54.980 The math teacher is not going to say talk about Johnny's two moms and his dad who became a mother.
00:12:00.100 It might now because you made an issue of it.
00:12:02.840 Well, I guess I guess it's on us.
00:12:04.900 But I'm glad there's a law at least to to stop that kind of radicalism that perhaps I guess we impelled it in the first place.
00:12:10.760 But I'm glad we won't see any more.
00:12:12.500 Ethan, where can people find you?
00:12:14.420 Just Ethan Bearman dot com.
00:12:16.200 And you can find me on Twitter at Ethan Bearman.
00:12:18.360 Ethan, thank you very much.
00:12:19.620 You have given me a broader perspective of this law, but I still think you are entirely wrong.
00:12:25.660 Thank you for coming on, Ethan.
00:12:27.740 Thanks, Michael.
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00:14:04.060 Shifting gears a little bit from transgenderism in second grade classrooms.
00:14:09.320 I've got the craziest story that I have seen in politics in years, I think.
00:14:17.680 The story has so many levels of disinformation to it, I don't really know where to begin.
00:14:25.340 The story is the allegation of biolabs in Ukraine, U.S. funded biological laboratories in Ukraine.
00:14:36.800 The Russian government has made an accusation that the U.S. is developing bioweapons.
00:14:44.040 And part of the reason that they invaded Ukraine was to stop this development of bioweapons in Ukraine. 0.90
00:14:49.800 Here is the Russian government official line.
00:14:53.000 We have found your biological materiel.
00:14:58.400 It was developed primarily for military purposes.
00:15:02.360 As it turns out, it was all happening in Ukraine.
00:15:05.520 What were you doing there?
00:15:07.400 It's a different continent.
00:15:09.420 It has no borders with you.
00:15:11.180 There are no bases of yours.
00:15:18.540 What were they doing there under the guise of scientific research?
00:15:23.480 So we've got it.
00:15:24.860 We've found that the Americans and the Ukrainians are working together to build these biological weapons. 1.00
00:15:30.520 Is this claim credible or not?
00:15:33.120 The Russians do know a thing or two about chemical and biological weapons. 0.69
00:15:37.220 The Russians regularly use at least chemical weapons against their own people, against political dissidents.
00:15:43.140 They did it to the main opposition leader.
00:15:44.860 They've done it to a number of people who've fallen afoul of Putin's regime.
00:15:49.220 Furthermore, for most of the history of the Cold War, the Soviets accused the United States of developing biological weapons, usually without any basis.
00:15:58.540 There's actually a letter that was sent from the Soviet Central Committee in 1953, just after the death of Stalin, to the communist dictator Mao Zedong.
00:16:08.160 They said for Mao Zedong, the Soviet government and Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were misled.
00:16:13.960 The spread in the press of information about the use by the Americans of bacteriological weapons in Korea was based on false information.
00:16:21.960 The accusations against the Americans were fictitious.
00:16:25.360 So we know from the Russians themselves that they have a very long history of making false accusations about the Americans and bioweapons. 0.91
00:16:35.260 But what about these labs?
00:16:38.520 What about this accusation?
00:16:40.600 The Ukrainians came out and immediately denied that any of this was happening.
00:16:45.260 In the Kiev Post, they wrote, recently, fake news about the alleged activities of American military biological laboratories in Ukraine has been spread in the media and social networks.
00:16:55.520 No foreign biological laboratories operate in Ukraine.
00:16:58.820 Statements recently made by individual politicians are not true and are a deliberate distortion of the facts.
00:17:04.980 Okay, no foreign biological laboratories exist in Ukraine.
00:17:10.300 This is BS, fake news, Russian propaganda.
00:17:12.960 So says Ukraine. 0.83
00:17:14.360 The Americans are saying this, too.
00:17:16.900 So you've got the official propagandists of the liberal regime here in America, PolitiFact, Snopes, the fact checkers, Big Tech, the mainstream media.
00:17:26.260 They are saying this is totally fake news.
00:17:28.640 There are no, right here at the sub-headline, there are no U.S.-run biolabs in Ukraine contrary to social media posts.
00:17:38.180 And yet, just a couple days ago, we played this on the show yesterday, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, Victoria Nuland, admitted that there are, in fact, biolabs in Ukraine.
00:17:51.780 Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of.
00:18:09.260 So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
00:18:21.900 There are biological, and you can tell she didn't want to fully admit all of this, and then Rubio diverted the questioning after that.
00:18:30.980 But she said pretty clearly, there are biolabs in Ukraine.
00:18:34.780 The relationship of the U.S. to those biolabs she doesn't quite get into. 1.00
00:18:38.120 And she says, we're very concerned that those biolabs might fall into the hands of the Russians as they invade Ukraine. 0.96
00:18:44.400 Now, the U.S. embassy in Kiev, through a little video that was linked actually from one of these fact-checker websites,
00:18:52.900 the U.S. embassy in Kiev admitted that the U.S. has a pretty tight connection with these laboratories.
00:19:00.720 The work we do in the Biological Threat Reduction Program is complicated, and it's difficult to communicate it sometimes to outside audiences.
00:19:11.380 And I think our adversaries, like Russia, can take advantage of that with some of the propaganda that they put out.
00:19:17.280 The Biological Threat Reduction Program is working in 27 countries.
00:19:21.800 We feel this disinformation and misinformation is done just to really exploit divisions.
00:19:28.180 We've had accusations that some research projects were being used to create threats, not to identify threats and reduce them.
00:19:36.980 Ulterior motives are being injected where none exist.
00:19:42.100 We've built these capabilities for the partners, their central reference labs for research.
00:19:46.380 They publish everything they do.
00:19:48.740 They invite the international community into their laboratories.
00:19:52.800 They're working on behalf and the benefit of the people of their respective countries.
00:19:58.180 So these labs, look, they're just purely scientific research to prevent threats.
00:20:03.140 And then the Russian disinformation, they've gone out and they've said this is some kind of military operation to create biological weapons.
00:20:10.580 And that's just completely ridiculous.
00:20:12.260 Okay, this is where it gets really, really weird.
00:20:14.100 Because at the end of that video from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, the presenter says, for more information, go to dtra.mil.military.
00:20:28.400 So you've been telling me the whole time this is just purely a scientific public health-minded endeavor.
00:20:34.000 And yet now you're directing me to a military website because this program is being run by the Pentagon.
00:20:38.940 It's being run by the Department of Defense.
00:20:40.200 Okay, this is where it gets weird.
00:20:42.020 Yesterday, I said, okay, I'm going to look into this.
00:20:43.640 I go to the dtra.mil website.
00:20:46.400 The website was down.
00:20:48.260 I looked on archive.org, which will show you various screenshots of websites, when they were online, what the pages looked like, and when they go offline.
00:20:57.080 The page had been up just a couple days prior.
00:20:59.180 I asked other people, I said, here's, go to this website, what do you see?
00:21:03.980 I tried on multiple devices.
00:21:05.340 The website was down.
00:21:08.240 You can use different VPNs to make, have you coming through different, different ports of entry to look at the website.
00:21:14.000 The website was down just one day after Victoria Nuland gave her testimony about this.
00:21:19.900 Then a few hours later, it goes back up.
00:21:24.800 Then you go over, I said, okay, I want more information about this program because the argument that is being made now by the Pentagon is this all dates back to a 2005 treaty that was signed under George W. Bush to dismantle old Soviet bioweapons laboratories.
00:21:40.660 The Soviets had developed these bioweapons after the fall of the Soviet Union, about 14 years later, we go in there into Ukraine, into Georgia, into all these other Eastern Bloc countries, and we're going to very safely protect and dismantle these bioweapons programs. 0.91
00:21:57.400 Then I went over to the State Department website where I could find links on the internet to the funding grants, but all the links had been deleted.
00:22:07.000 You couldn't get it there.
00:22:07.880 You had to go to old versions of the details of these grants.
00:22:13.780 You look, I mean, there were about 11 or 12 of these on the internet.
00:22:17.280 You've got them for the Kharkiv Oblast Laboratory Center in Kharkiv.
00:22:20.480 You've got the Lviv Oblast Laboratory Center, Lviv.
00:22:24.600 You've got the, I'm mispronouncing all of these names, the State Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory.
00:22:30.440 And all of the funding is coming from, not from the National Institutes of Health, not from the CDC, not from the World Health Organization, not from USAID.
00:22:39.480 It's coming from Donor, the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
00:22:43.600 Donor, the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
00:22:46.420 Donor, the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
00:22:49.780 On and on and on.
00:22:52.720 So what exactly is going on with these labs?
00:22:56.860 Who is telling the truth?
00:22:58.840 And if no one's telling the truth, what is the truth about these laboratories?
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00:25:39.540 The bio labs in Ukraine get even weirder. 0.98
00:25:53.320 The Russians are accusing the United States of developing biological weapons
00:25:58.040 and using Ukraine as the ground on which they're going to do it.
00:26:01.300 The Chinese are saying that we have hundreds of these centers all over the world.
00:26:05.680 The United States says we're not developing bioweapons.
00:26:08.220 This is disinformation.
00:26:09.540 This is not a military effort.
00:26:11.320 We are actually preventing threats and we're conducting ordinary scientific research
00:26:15.480 to help the public health.
00:26:16.840 So what exactly is going on?
00:26:18.100 Well, one organization that is at the heart of these bio labs, 0.57
00:26:23.520 these and other bio labs, is EcoHealth.
00:26:27.200 EcoHealth, does that name sound familiar?
00:26:29.880 It's familiar because that was the organization that was associated with Dr. Fauci,
00:26:34.920 that it was at the heart of the gain-of-function research in conjunction with the Wuhan Institute
00:26:40.640 of Virology just before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.
00:26:45.780 EcoHealth, the organization run by Peter Daszak, who was Dr. Fauci's gain-of-function guy,
00:26:50.820 who Dr. Fauci gave a lot of money to, to conduct gain-of-function research.
00:26:56.140 EcoHealth has received huge contracts from the Pentagon.
00:26:59.220 They've gotten $41.91 million in awards since fiscal year 2008.
00:27:06.760 So the Pentagon is the biggest funder of EcoHealth Alliance.
00:27:09.900 It's not the NIH that's the biggest funder.
00:27:12.040 It's not the public health apparatus.
00:27:13.820 It's the defense department.
00:27:15.320 They're getting three times as much money from the Pentagon as they have from any other organization
00:27:22.720 in the government.
00:27:23.500 The next highest one is the Department of Health and Human Services.
00:27:26.360 Now, of this, for almost $42 million, a little under $38 million of that was awarded to EcoHealth
00:27:33.180 Alliance by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the DTRA, the agency listed at the end of that
00:27:40.320 video by the U.S. Embassy in Kiev.
00:27:42.600 Describes the mission as, quote, to protect the United States and its allies by enabling
00:27:45.760 the DOD, international partners, to detect, deter, and defeat weapons of mass destruction
00:27:51.700 and threat networks.
00:27:54.800 I am not denying that there is possibly some reasonable explanation for all of this.
00:28:01.900 But what is it?
00:28:03.140 What is it?
00:28:03.600 I don't know.
00:28:04.060 Because initially, what we were told by the entire liberal establishment, by big tech and
00:28:09.780 the fact checkers and the government officials and everyone, is there are no bioweapons in
00:28:14.760 Ukraine.
00:28:15.160 That's what Ukraine was saying.
00:28:16.160 There are, rather, there are no bio labs in Ukraine.
00:28:19.400 Ukraine says there's no foreign bio labs.
00:28:22.460 PolitiFact says there are no U.S.-run labs.
00:28:24.940 Well, the language here is really clear because what the Ukraine is saying is, well, there's
00:28:30.320 no foreign labs.
00:28:31.160 What if it's a domestic lab that a foreign government happens to be very involved in?
00:28:35.740 That might be the way they're getting out of that.
00:28:37.100 But PolitiFact says there's no U.S.-run labs.
00:28:39.620 Well, what if it's a lab that is largely run by the Ukrainians, but is funded and was in
00:28:44.020 part built by the United States?
00:28:45.820 There, it falls apart.
00:28:46.780 I think the language is pretty clear.
00:28:48.180 So the question is, are there U.S.-funded labs, and what is the funding going toward?
00:28:52.500 Initially, they tell us there's no bio labs.
00:28:54.280 Forget about it.
00:28:54.780 It's totally fake news.
00:28:55.840 Okay, actually, there are bio labs, but it has nothing to do with the United States.
00:28:59.560 Then they say, okay, it's got something to do with the United States.
00:29:02.300 The U.S. funds them and built them in some cases.
00:29:05.420 It's actually spent millions and millions of dollars rebuilding these labs, but it's
00:29:08.640 only to dismantle the old Soviet bioweapons. 0.85
00:29:12.260 How long does it take to dismantle bioweapons?
00:29:14.820 The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
00:29:17.380 This deal went into effect much later in 2005, but even still, it's been 17 years since 2005.
00:29:22.940 How much longer is it going to take to dismantle these things?
00:29:24.820 Well, no, they're not going to dismantle them entirely.
00:29:27.380 They're going to just safely store them and conduct some research on them.
00:29:31.300 Okay, well, if you're conducting research on these biological weapons, that seems to be
00:29:35.740 kind of dangerous, doesn't it?
00:29:36.980 No, no, they say it's not a big deal.
00:29:38.920 All of the research that's going on there is completely mundane, and that's why it's
00:29:42.760 such a big threat if the Russians get a hold of it. 0.81
00:29:44.800 Well, hold on a second here.
00:29:45.860 If it's just totally ordinary scientific research, who cares if the Russians get a hold of it? 0.99
00:29:50.180 That doesn't seem like it would be that dangerous, unless we're talking about very,
00:29:53.700 very dangerous biological materials.
00:29:55.740 Well, look, even if that is a problem, this has nothing to do with a military action.
00:30:01.160 This is entirely just scientific, which is why the whole damn thing is funded by the
00:30:04.980 Pentagon.
00:30:05.680 It doesn't add up.
00:30:07.040 It doesn't add up.
00:30:08.160 And I'm really not saying that there couldn't possibly be some good explanation for this.
00:30:15.600 What I am saying is the government has not provided one.
00:30:20.300 The press, the broader propaganda machine, has not provided a good answer.
00:30:25.060 They've provided lots of contradictory answers that are extremely dishonest, and then when
00:30:31.560 the facts come out, it completely undermines the credibility of the government on the next
00:30:36.620 claim that it makes.
00:30:38.000 So what is going on here?
00:30:41.180 And furthermore, why lie about it?
00:30:43.960 Why do you keep lying about it?
00:30:47.960 Whenever anyone asks these questions, we're accused of spreading propaganda or disinformation.
00:30:53.740 No, I'm trying to cut through all of the disinformation.
00:30:56.600 I want to cut through Putin's disinformation.
00:30:58.660 I want to cut through China's disinformation. 0.94
00:31:01.240 And yes, I want to cut through the disinformation of our own deep state.
00:31:04.640 I want to cut through the disinformation of the United States so that I have some idea of
00:31:09.140 what the truth of the matter is here.
00:31:10.760 We're not going to be able to come up with solutions to the particular problem in Ukraine,
00:31:14.740 to broader geostrategic issues, unless we know even just a little bit of what is actually
00:31:21.440 going on here.
00:31:23.400 The government has some explaining to do.
00:31:27.060 Now, you want to talk about good statesmanship.
00:31:29.520 President Trump was just caught on a hidden camera speaking to a very famous golf star.
00:31:37.920 So this is not a high-level government meeting.
00:31:39.540 He's just talking to a buddy of his, and the conversation was secretly recorded.
00:31:43.200 He is describing how he dealt with Vladimir Putin.
00:31:47.040 Oh, he's a nuclear power.
00:31:48.680 It's like they're a friend of him.
00:31:49.800 You know, he was a friend of mine.
00:31:51.720 I got along great with him.
00:31:52.860 I say, Vladimir, if you do it, we're hitting Moscow.
00:31:55.300 I said, we're going to hit Moscow.
00:31:56.800 And he sort of believed me, like 5%, 10%.
00:31:59.240 That's all you need.
00:32:00.400 He never did it during my time, John, you know.
00:32:02.780 No.
00:32:03.080 We're all talking about it.
00:32:04.120 No, it's funny.
00:32:04.900 Why did he do this during the last four years?
00:32:06.760 Because he knew he couldn't.
00:32:07.980 It's funny how she didn't bother you either.
00:32:10.540 Yeah.
00:32:11.040 No, she didn't bother me.
00:32:12.200 And I told him the same thing.
00:32:14.680 That'll be next.
00:32:16.120 Yeah.
00:32:16.560 You know, that's going to be next.
00:32:17.840 Saigon will be next.
00:32:19.160 You won't have any computer chips.
00:32:21.000 They'll blow them off the face of the air.
00:32:23.440 So this is a casual conversation about all the bumbles from Joe Biden.
00:32:27.020 And the most interesting part to me is that 5% to 10%.
00:32:30.700 He says, look, Putin, I'm going to hit Moscow.
00:32:34.220 And he believed me.
00:32:35.440 He believed me 5% to 10%, which is enough.
00:32:39.860 Right?
00:32:40.080 Trump is not boasting here that he completely 100% convinced Putin that he would hit Moscow
00:32:46.180 in the event of an invasion of Ukraine.
00:32:49.780 He's not even saying that he 100% wasn't going to do it.
00:32:54.080 He's saying, all I had to do was convince Putin that there was a 5% to 10% chance that I would
00:33:01.980 bomb Moscow.
00:33:03.420 The lesson here is unpredictability is an extremely powerful political asset.
00:33:12.380 And the problem, one of the biggest problems right now with the current occupant of the
00:33:16.160 Oval Office is he is 100% completely predictable.
00:33:20.440 It's not even the specific policies, all of which are terrible, but it's just that we know
00:33:25.620 exactly what he's going to do all the time.
00:33:27.840 And that gives our foreign adversaries a huge advantage because they can plan ahead and they 1.00
00:33:33.600 can plan not just an invasion of a country, but they can plan four or five steps ahead because
00:33:38.080 they know that all Biden is going to do is the usual, classical, typical establishment
00:33:43.200 playbook.
00:33:45.800 Trump was not like that.
00:33:46.960 I don't think people believed that it was very likely that Trump would go in and bomb
00:33:54.880 Moscow, go in and invade some country. 0.93
00:33:57.840 He ran as a fairly anti-war candidate, but they believed there was a chance.
00:34:03.860 Every so often, he'd go take out an Iranian general out of the blue.
00:34:08.980 And even a lot of the establishment didn't like that he did that.
00:34:11.160 Every so often, he'd drop the mother of all bombs on a country and just, you didn't, and
00:34:17.080 he tried to minimize deaths and that, but he would just, he would do wild things.
00:34:22.360 He would tweet out, hey, I've got a bigger nuclear button than yours, Kim Jong-un, and
00:34:26.900 my button's bigger and it works.
00:34:29.420 You think the guy's threatening World War III?
00:34:31.660 That unpredictability, you just need that a little bit, five to 10%.
00:34:34.300 It's true in show business.
00:34:35.560 You don't tune into shows where you know exactly word for word on every single issue what some
00:34:41.800 guy is going to say.
00:34:43.140 You don't do it.
00:34:44.780 Even if you generally agree with the guy, because you want there to be some kind of tension,
00:34:49.860 some unpredictability, something that you could learn, something that he knows that you don't
00:34:53.800 know.
00:34:55.040 Same is true in politics.
00:34:57.820 Much better, ironically, people are making fun of this clip.
00:35:00.260 But unironically, this is much better statesmanship than anything we are seeing from Biden or the
00:35:04.960 people around Biden.
00:35:07.140 Now, what is extremely predictable is that the White House is, of course, coming out against
00:35:12.360 this bill that I was just debating with my friend, Ethan Bearman.
00:35:16.720 They take an even stronger stance on the bill than Ethan does.
00:35:19.380 They say that this sex ed bill, this parental rights and education bill is horrifying, discriminatory,
00:35:25.780 and bullying.
00:35:26.300 Regarding the Florida bill, in 1994, when many of us in this room were in school, President
00:35:33.380 Biden actually voted for a much broader restriction that banned federal funds from being used for,
00:35:39.180 quote, the promotion of homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.
00:35:42.920 Why did he do that?
00:35:44.000 And can you describe how his thinking has evolved over the years?
00:35:47.140 Well, I think that you have seen the president speak passionately about his view that a bill
00:35:52.260 like this, a bill that would discriminate against families, against kids, put these kids in
00:35:59.600 a position of not getting the support they need at a time where that's exactly what they
00:36:05.540 need, is discriminatory.
00:36:07.480 It's a form of bullying.
00:36:09.720 It is horrific.
00:36:10.960 I mean, the president has spoken to that.
00:36:13.180 In terms of his views and comments from 25 years ago, I think the most important question now is
00:36:18.480 why are Florida leaders deciding they need to discriminate against kids who are members of the
00:36:23.400 LGBTQI community?
00:36:25.060 What prompts them to do that?
00:36:26.600 Is it meanness?
00:36:27.760 Is it wanting to make kids have more difficult times in school, in their communities?
00:36:31.840 I would pose that question to them, and we can talk about it more tomorrow if you get an answer.
00:36:35.840 It's horrifying, it's bullying, it's discriminatory, it's mean, it's cruel.
00:36:40.340 That's the White House's line.
00:36:41.800 This was the crucial mistake that Ethan made in trying to make his argument opposing the bill,
00:36:48.820 is he said, it's not even happening.
00:36:51.020 This was the mistake that the critical race theory defenders were making early on in that
00:36:56.140 political battle.
00:36:57.160 They said, it's not even happening.
00:36:58.680 It's not even in the classrooms.
00:37:00.080 So why are you trying to ban it?
00:37:02.260 And of course, the natural response to that is, okay, if it's not happening, then don't worry
00:37:05.800 about it.
00:37:06.080 It's not a big deal.
00:37:06.960 It's not happening.
00:37:08.180 So who cares?
00:37:10.280 And Ethan caught that at the end.
00:37:11.980 And so he said, well, but it might happen now.
00:37:15.240 Well, that's too late.
00:37:16.240 It's not a big deal.
00:37:17.200 If the bill is banning something that doesn't exist, then no one would reasonably be upset
00:37:24.080 about it.
00:37:24.360 The reason people are upset is because this is happening.
00:37:27.640 What is happening in math classrooms?
00:37:30.280 I thought that was a good example that Ethan gave, because it's not just sex ed.
00:37:33.400 It's not just history or literature.
00:37:34.860 It's in math classrooms.
00:37:35.980 It's throughout the entire school curriculum.
00:37:39.900 Kids are being taught LGBT sexual theories.
00:37:44.940 As young as three years old, four years old, five years old, really, really young kids are
00:37:50.100 being taught that men and women are basically exactly the same.
00:37:54.040 And marriage maybe is between one man and one woman.
00:37:56.680 Maybe it's between one man and one man.
00:37:58.160 Maybe it's between one woman and one woman. 1.00
00:38:00.060 Men and women are pretty much interchangeable.
00:38:02.180 Well, that's why men can become women. 1.00
00:38:03.860 That's why women can become men. 1.00
00:38:05.340 That's why transgenderism is totally normal.
00:38:07.340 And hey, little Johnny, if you feel like little Jane today, we're going to go talk to
00:38:10.380 the guidance counselor and we're going to start calling you little Jane.
00:38:13.360 And your parents have no rights whatsoever to oppose that sort of thing.
00:38:17.680 No reasonable person would defend that.
00:38:22.700 Okay, we've got to get that out of the classroom.
00:38:24.940 And the point that Ethan would not concede to me, although I think it's fairly obvious,
00:38:29.860 is this is a religious point of view.
00:38:34.020 It's a religious point of view to say this definition of marriage is good and moral and
00:38:41.420 upstanding.
00:38:42.560 It's a religious point of view to say that the relationship between the human soul and
00:38:46.500 the body is such that I can change my body to better accord with my soul because my soul
00:38:51.920 is female and my body is male.
00:38:53.080 That's a deeply religious point of view.
00:38:54.980 It's called the Gnostic dualism.
00:38:56.740 It's a very ancient religious heresy.
00:38:59.440 And so they're already teaching that kind of religion in the classroom.
00:39:02.440 And what a lot of parents are saying who are Christian, who are Jews, who are Muslims,
00:39:07.260 who are maybe somewhat agnostic, but they've still got a little bit of that old kind of
00:39:11.820 cultural religion in them.
00:39:13.420 They say, hey, I'd rather my kids be taught that boys are boys and girls are girls.
00:39:17.840 That's my view.
00:39:18.600 I want them raised that way.
00:39:20.440 And what the radicals in the classroom are saying is, no, those religious views are completely
00:39:27.120 banned.
00:39:27.620 The only book that you're not allowed to teach in the classroom is the Bible.
00:39:30.560 You can teach Mein Kampf, but you can't teach the Bible. 0.90
00:39:34.520 Those views are banned.
00:39:35.760 And the other religious views that boys can become girls, those are mandatory. 0.99
00:39:40.140 And if you ever try to kick that out of the classroom, it's mean and discriminatory and
00:39:43.940 horrifying.
00:39:44.520 And it obviously is happening in the classroom because this is being elevated, not just from
00:39:51.660 some school battle in Florida, this is being elevated all the way up to the highest levels
00:39:56.460 in the government.
00:39:57.980 This is being elevated all the way up to the White House.
00:40:00.260 If this isn't really happening, if this isn't a big deal, if this is just some crazy, tiny,
00:40:05.420 little trivial obsession for Republicans, why is the White House so obsessed with it?
00:40:10.620 It's a question you got to ask yourself.
00:40:11.660 Who cares?
00:40:12.780 The left cares.
00:40:13.680 The left seems to care a whole lot.
00:40:15.620 Maybe the right should care too.
00:40:18.360 The Disney CEO down in Florida, he's very disappointed.
00:40:22.460 Oh boy, is he disappointed in this law banning creepy sex stuff from the classroom.
00:40:29.100 Disney CEO Bob Chapek has called on Governor DeSantis.
00:40:33.400 He said he's very disappointed.
00:40:35.840 He wants the governor not to sign this legislation.
00:40:38.080 He's donating five million bucks to gay causes, and he's trying to stop this kind of legislation
00:40:45.420 from spreading across the country.
00:40:47.640 I cannot wait for Governor DeSantis to lay the political body slam on this guy and say,
00:40:55.700 no, the perverts who want to indoctrinate five-year-olds into transgenderism, they don't
00:41:02.140 get to do it.
00:41:02.960 There are naturally limits in the classroom.
00:41:05.040 There are always going to be limits in the classroom, and that's just the way it goes.
00:41:10.380 We're not going to have the limits be, you can discuss anything from LNG to T, which is
00:41:18.380 pretty much the current limit in the classroom.
00:41:20.700 No, we're going to say the limits are, you don't get to inculcate this ideology of transgenderism
00:41:27.580 in six-year-olds.
00:41:28.620 I think DeSantis is going to stand for weaker politicians when they get calls from powerful
00:41:32.920 corporate interests in their state.
00:41:34.520 They cave.
00:41:35.300 Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas did it on this issue.
00:41:38.500 Kristi Noem in South Dakota did it on this issue until she realized it almost destroyed 0.99
00:41:42.800 her political career and she flipped back. 0.96
00:41:44.740 Ron DeSantis, I don't think he's going to do it.
00:41:46.920 I think he's a lot smarter.
00:41:48.560 This issue is a winner for conservatives.
00:41:52.400 Just look at the polls.
00:41:54.880 Look at the polls on not just even these issues, not just even transgenderism or critical race
00:42:01.360 theory in the classroom, on pretty much all of the hot button social issues.
00:42:05.280 We've talked a lot about immigration.
00:42:06.820 That's a total winner for conservatives who want to restrict not just illegal, but legal
00:42:11.120 immigration as well.
00:42:12.860 Abortion is at least a draw.
00:42:14.620 And when you talk about limits to abortion, not from the moment of conception, but even
00:42:18.680 15 weeks, six weeks, 15 weeks, 20 weeks, then it's a huge winner for conservatives.
00:42:25.280 Transgenderism in the classroom, huge winner for conservatives.
00:42:27.560 Critical race theory, huge winner for conservatives.
00:42:29.720 Same as to a voter ID.
00:42:31.760 There's a new Rasmussen poll out that asked voters if it was reasonable to ask voters to
00:42:37.820 present some form of photo ID before they cast their vote.
00:42:40.560 The vast majority of likely voters said yes.
00:42:44.180 That includes a majority of Democrats.
00:42:48.420 Three quarters of likely voters say that voter ID is a reasonable measure.
00:42:52.500 Only 20% say that it is not.
00:42:55.600 It's a huge spread.
00:42:58.920 Now, 90% of Republicans say that this is a reasonable measure.
00:43:03.240 There's no surprise there.
00:43:04.340 But 59% of Democrats say the same thing.
00:43:08.920 And yet, the squishes will tell you, oh, back away from voter ID. 0.96
00:43:13.240 Oh, don't lean into the social issues.
00:43:15.860 What are you talking about?
00:43:17.120 I think they have bought too much of the CNN, MSNBC, mainstream liberal narrative here.
00:43:26.080 The CNN, the MSNBC, the NBC, New York Times, they will concern troll Republicans.
00:43:33.460 By concern trolling, I mean they'll say, look, it's for your own good, Republicans.
00:43:37.520 If you want to win elections, you better cut it out with all this talk about voter ID.
00:43:43.300 You better cut, because that's not going to work for you.
00:43:44.980 And I'm just so concerned.
00:43:46.280 I, a partisan Democrat who've never even considered voting for a Republican in my entire life,
00:43:50.580 I'm just really, look, if there were a sane Republican, I might vote for one.
00:43:55.040 And I, if there were, if you guys got back to nominating, I don't know, John Kasich for every
00:44:03.160 position, maybe I'd still vote for the Democrat, but I'd be happier because you'd have a total
00:44:09.340 loser being nominated on the other side.
00:44:12.080 But you know, you crazy Republicans, that's just not going to play well.
00:44:15.980 I think it plays great.
00:44:17.580 I think the squishy Republicans that the Democrats keep encouraging us to nominate,
00:44:21.520 I think they all lose.
00:44:23.100 I think they're complete losers because people are not motivated primarily by lowering the
00:44:28.440 marginal corporate tax rate.
00:44:29.840 People don't wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and say, gosh, golly,
00:44:33.500 I've just got to sign another free trade agreement with Asia.
00:44:37.300 People are motivated by, hey, are my kids being indoctrinated in this creepy sex stuff?
00:44:42.160 Hey, are my kids being taught that white people are evil because of the color of their skin
00:44:47.420 from the moment of birth?
00:44:49.700 I think they wake up with that.
00:44:51.020 Hey, are my elections fair?
00:44:53.060 Hey, can I trust my own government?
00:44:54.960 Hey, are gas prices going up or down?
00:44:58.200 Really basic stuff, okay?
00:45:01.120 When the liberal media concern troll you and tell you, oh, guys, just drop this to the voter
00:45:06.380 ID, drop this, drop abortion, drop transgenderism, drop critical race theory, that's when you know
00:45:11.280 you really should double down.
00:45:14.860 So who's going to be running?
00:45:16.600 Who are we going to be running against in 2024?
00:45:18.700 You know I have said, and I'm a shiver even at the thought, that Hillary might not be finished
00:45:25.340 yet.
00:45:25.640 Well, Hillary just went on MSNBC. 1.00
00:45:27.780 She said emphatically, I'm not interested in running.
00:45:31.140 Are you open to running for president again?
00:45:34.580 No, but I am certainly going to be active in supporting women running for office and other
00:45:50.680 candidates who I think should be reelected or elected, both women and men.
00:45:57.940 Because I think, you know, there's a big debate going on, as you know so well, Mika, in our
00:46:04.500 country, but in other countries as well, about the future of democracy, of economic opportunity,
00:46:11.920 of climate change, of health and other important issues.
00:46:16.920 So I, I will stay active, uh, in, uh, all of those debates.
00:46:21.280 We need you.
00:46:22.700 Uh, yes, no, I'm not at all interested in running for president.
00:46:27.080 That's why I keep going on TV.
00:46:28.740 And that's why I just relaunched the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:46:31.760 And that's why I keep writing and speaking about my views on politics.
00:46:35.900 But I would never run.
00:46:37.900 Don't believe it.
00:46:39.560 Don't, as a, as a rule, don't ever believe the Clintons.
00:46:42.900 That's just never going to lead you into the right direction.
00:46:46.920 She may not run.
00:46:48.740 She may run.
00:46:49.580 Here, here's what I know though.
00:46:50.760 Here's what I know.
00:46:52.100 Almost everything that the liberal establishment has told us, the swamp creatures have told us
00:46:57.940 for the past five years, going all the way back to the Russia hoax and pretty much everything
00:47:02.580 since then has been a lie.
00:47:05.180 And there is no creature swampier than Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:47:08.140 And Hillary Clinton was actually the instigator of that original, the Russia hoax.
00:47:12.900 In the first place.
00:47:14.360 And Hillary Clinton is doing everything you would expect her to do if she were trying
00:47:18.540 to set herself up to run for president in 2024. 0.99
00:47:23.040 On that terrifying note, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:47:25.460 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:47:26.640 See you tomorrow.
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