The Michael Knowles Show - May 04, 2025


Protester Arrested, Police Injured — Michael Knowles Returns to Pitt


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University of Pittsburgh allows conservative commentator Michael Vole to speak in a building hosted by a registered student group and protected by university pigs. Vole's return to campus was greeted with boos, jeers, and heckles.

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00:00:37.600 Is free speech dead on campus?
00:00:40.020 Um, no.
00:00:40.820 He is speaking right now.
00:00:42.000 We are not shutting him down.
00:00:44.220 Hopefully we can drown him out.
00:00:45.440 Thank you very much to the police for removing that.
00:00:51.080 Can you explain what happened the last time you came to the University of Pittsburgh?
00:00:54.720 Yeah, I showed up for a debate on the topic of transgenderism, and when I walked up, the 1.00
00:01:02.280 street was on fire with my welcoming committee, which was burning me in effigy.
00:01:07.880 And as I was scheduled to walk out, some Antifa lunatic threw an explosive at the building
00:01:13.960 and actually seriously injured a cop.
00:01:15.520 I was inside, and all of a sudden I heard some loud boom, and it was a little bit worrying.
00:01:21.340 You think Michael's nervous to come back to campus?
00:01:23.460 If he didn't have security, probably.
00:01:25.580 Happily, one of the two lunatics who tried to blow me up is currently in federal prison.
00:01:30.240 He's only serving a five-year sentence.
00:01:31.680 He should be serving a 20-year sentence.
00:01:33.340 And the wife got off basically with a slap on the wrist. 1.00
00:01:35.880 But in any case, it was all reason to expect that my return to Pitt would be similarly excited.
00:01:44.140 Were you excited to come back?
00:01:46.380 With a welcome like this?
00:01:48.220 How could I not be?
00:01:49.040 I won't be silenced no more.
00:01:53.380 I will be young.
00:01:56.640 Today, the University of Pittsburgh has made a positive decision to allow Michael Vole to speak
00:02:01.780 in a university building hosted by a registered student group and protected by university pigs.
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00:02:08.520 Yeah!
00:02:09.920 We are not shutting him down.
00:02:13.140 One day he's down!
00:02:15.360 One day he's down!
00:02:16.760 I'm with Daily Wire.
00:02:19.140 Daily Wire?
00:02:20.140 No.
00:02:20.900 You can't touch my camera.
00:02:21.760 Sorry.
00:02:22.280 Please don't film him.
00:02:23.680 You touched me.
00:02:24.940 We're not touching you.
00:02:26.340 We're just using our bodies.
00:02:28.300 My truth will be told.
00:02:31.080 Do you mind if I ask you if you've registered a protest?
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00:02:46.760 However, I was able to sit down with three left-wing students for a somewhat heated conversation.
00:02:54.940 Thank you all for sitting down.
00:02:56.640 What's your name?
00:02:57.480 My name is Mike.
00:02:58.180 Mike, good to see you.
00:02:59.360 My name is Mercy.
00:03:00.280 Mercy.
00:03:00.980 Beautiful name.
00:03:01.200 My name is Kenny.
00:03:01.960 Kenny, you all came out tonight.
00:03:03.980 You disagree with me.
00:03:05.200 Did I convince you by the end of the speech?
00:03:07.280 No.
00:03:07.620 I do not think so.
00:03:08.860 Okay.
00:03:09.380 What do we disagree about?
00:03:10.980 Mainly the stance on settler colonialism.
00:03:13.240 Okay.
00:03:13.980 What's your problem with it?
00:03:14.880 I guess my problem is for somebody who claims to be a conservative that's supposed to uphold
00:03:19.520 the values of the Constitution, how it's difficult to justify some types of colonialism
00:03:24.420 versus others.
00:03:26.300 Well, the Constitution was ratified in a colonial age by people who were themselves colonists
00:03:32.240 and who descended from the colonial settlers themselves.
00:03:35.160 Yes.
00:03:35.320 I'm not saying that's good.
00:03:36.300 I just think that all colonialism is bad, per se, versus where you say some colonialism.
00:03:41.100 Well, why?
00:03:41.300 Because you just said, how could one be a conservative and support the Constitution?
00:03:45.900 But as I just pointed out, the founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution had no
00:03:49.840 problem with colonialism.
00:03:50.980 They had just been colonists previously.
00:03:52.940 So it's one thing to say it's bad, but you couldn't say it's un-American or not conservative.
00:04:00.060 Oh, I never said that.
00:04:00.240 I never said it was un-American.
00:04:01.500 I just say that it's not-
00:04:02.780 It's contrary to the Constitution.
00:04:03.680 Exactly.
00:04:04.180 It's contradictory to values, especially of like John Locke and life, liberty, and property.
00:04:08.600 John Locke didn't write the Constitution.
00:04:10.060 Oh, he didn't, but his ideas very greatly influenced it.
00:04:12.720 You know, the life, liberty, and property directly led to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
00:04:16.380 In the Declaration of Independence.
00:04:17.540 Yes, that's correct.
00:04:17.860 Which is different from the Constitution.
00:04:19.000 That's correct, but those ideas carried forward, especially in James Madison's framing of
00:04:22.420 the Constitution.
00:04:22.980 Sure.
00:04:23.420 Yeah, I think Locke's influence is a little overstated, especially by liberals, deliberately.
00:04:27.860 And I think that other guys like Montesquieu, or even Cicero, and some more conservative
00:04:32.840 thinkers, even Thomas Aquinas, either directly or indirectly, I think influenced the Constitution
00:04:37.000 a little bit more than it is understood.
00:04:41.040 But, fair enough point, you're saying you can't be a liberal and be a colonialist.
00:04:46.000 Yes, that's correct.
00:04:46.780 Okay.
00:04:47.320 But liberals do that all the time, don't they?
00:04:49.820 I'm sorry.
00:04:50.220 Why did we go in and intervene in Libya, for instance, under a very liberal government,
00:04:54.840 Obama and Hillary Clinton?
00:04:57.180 Why did we intervene there?
00:04:58.400 There was no particular direct American interest involved.
00:05:01.560 There was humanitarian reasons, right?
00:05:03.220 Okay.
00:05:03.620 It was a kind of colonialism, wouldn't you say?
00:05:05.600 Sure.
00:05:07.360 Well, there you go.
00:05:08.000 Then it doesn't contradict the liberals.
00:05:09.280 Well, I'm saying that you shouldn't be.
00:05:11.380 That's the case.
00:05:11.880 I'm saying that all types of colonialism are inherently bad versus where you are justifying
00:05:16.040 some types or others.
00:05:17.120 Because it violates people's own rights.
00:05:19.320 What rights?
00:05:19.780 To life, basically.
00:05:21.400 Saying that my life is better than your life.
00:05:23.500 No, no, no.
00:05:23.860 I'm not saying when I support colonialism, I'm not supporting genocide or something like
00:05:28.360 that.
00:05:28.520 I'm just saying that nations have interests and we exert those interests in different
00:05:31.980 places around the world.
00:05:33.180 So it wouldn't violate your right to life.
00:05:35.560 Well, I mean, to Native Americans and people who were here before us, it does because they're
00:05:39.960 no longer with us.
00:05:40.960 No.
00:05:41.400 Because we take their property as well.
00:05:43.100 No.
00:05:43.360 Well, we traded with the Indians and we...
00:05:45.700 Were those negotiations fair, per se?
00:05:47.840 Well, why wouldn't they have been fair?
00:05:49.420 Because they were being coerced.
00:05:50.880 That's why a lot of treaties...
00:05:51.300 How were they being coerced?
00:05:52.180 They were being coerced because whenever the treaties are being signed, there's groups
00:05:55.260 of people behind them with guns who are basically saying, sign this treaty or we'll shoot you.
00:05:59.520 I think you diminish the Native Americans.
00:06:01.300 I mean, I think the first Native American interaction that we had in the United States
00:06:04.980 in the first instance of settler colonialism in the Northeast, Plymouth, you know, the people
00:06:10.780 who sailed on the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand, they formed an alliance with
00:06:15.060 Chief Massasoit.
00:06:16.380 Massasoit, who was the chief, became the chief of the Wampanoag Nation, which greatly benefited
00:06:20.420 from an alliance with the Pilgrims, with the English colony.
00:06:23.920 And the Wampanoag had enemies and they actually let the English know that the Massachusetts 0.61
00:06:28.740 Indians were going to come after them. 1.00
00:06:30.520 And so, in fact, Massasoit himself was nursed back to life by Edward Winslow.
00:06:34.740 The guy would have died without the Pilgrims. 0.98
00:06:36.540 So later on, decades later, relations broke down because a direct descendant of Massasoit 0.93
00:06:43.360 decided to start a war on the mistaken pretext that the English had killed his brother.
00:06:47.740 But I say all of this arcane history to you, to point out, the real history is a lot more
00:06:53.920 interesting than the notion that the Native Americans were just innocent little does who
00:06:57.860 were coerced by the omnipotent white man who had total power over them.
00:07:02.020 The real history shows that these Native Americans were real men.
00:07:04.980 They engaged in real alliances and they benefited and sometimes they were damaged by it.
00:07:10.800 But I guess my question then is also, what's the alternative?
00:07:14.300 There is, unfortunately, no alternative, but I'm saying that the practice as a whole is
00:07:19.120 bad.
00:07:19.700 And I don't think that it's good or beneficial or justified.
00:07:22.500 I'll take it.
00:07:22.940 Okay, that's fine.
00:07:23.680 Where do we disagree?
00:07:24.800 Yeah, so I had a lot of issues with what you were talking about.
00:07:27.180 And I, myself, am Christian.
00:07:28.580 So the first thing I want to talk about is abortion.
00:07:30.640 So you mentioned that abortion is killing, which I understand biblically.
00:07:33.680 That's how it is.
00:07:34.420 That is how it is presented.
00:07:35.860 And biologically.
00:07:36.680 And biologically.
00:07:37.720 But do you not agree that there are certain circumstances in which abortion is necessary?
00:07:41.680 And adding on to that, do you not think that abortion is not as much of a black and white 0.57
00:07:46.580 issue as you are making it out to be?
00:07:47.960 I think it's a totally black and white issue.
00:07:49.700 And I don't think abortion is ever necessary.
00:07:52.440 I suppose if one looked at a very, very small number of medical problems that could arise,
00:07:58.320 the death of the preborn baby could result as a consequence of that medical treatment.
00:08:05.420 You'd look at a taste like ectopic pregnancy with a baby implants in the fallopian tube. 0.93
00:08:09.060 There, it might be necessary even to remove the fallopian tube to prevent the woman from 1.00
00:08:13.380 dying.
00:08:13.920 That would necessarily result in the death of the baby. 0.70
00:08:17.640 But the death of the baby is not what is intended.
00:08:19.880 And the abortion of the baby is not the medicine to treat the mother.
00:08:23.360 So that would be one example.
00:08:24.440 But of course, for 99% plus of abortions, it's not to protect the life of the mother.
00:08:28.720 It's not because of a pregnancy that resulted from rape or incest.
00:08:31.740 It's a purely elective pregnancy.
00:08:33.240 So would you agree, as a Christian, for those pregnancies, at the very least for those pregnancies,
00:08:37.580 that those are morally unacceptable?
00:08:39.960 I think morally is different from how we view things in the political sense.
00:08:43.620 How so?
00:08:43.860 Because I think that morally, yes, it is wrong to kill a fetus.
00:08:47.940 However, if you're looking at the impact that that child will make on the future of anyone
00:08:52.680 in the United States or looking at how their life will progress, I don't think that we
00:08:57.020 should be taking away the mother's right to decide whether or not they want their child 1.00
00:09:00.560 to grow up in specific circumstances.
00:09:02.480 Because when you're pointing out these statistics, you're saying that 99% of the cases are elective.
00:09:06.880 But what is causing the mother to make these choices? 1.00
00:09:09.320 Are they doing it because they want to go on a rampant killing spree of their child?
00:09:12.640 No.
00:09:13.280 Imagine you were in the circumstances where you were dirt poor, where you didn't have
00:09:16.340 the financial ability to give your child a good life.
00:09:19.300 I've been poor at points in my life.
00:09:20.240 And so have I.
00:09:20.940 So I appreciate the fact that you're bringing that up.
00:09:22.640 But I think that when the mother makes that type of decision, instead of outwardly ruling that, 0.90
00:09:27.120 oh, abortion is wrong, we should allow the woman to make that choice. 1.00
00:09:29.780 But you already ruled that abortion is wrong.
00:09:31.460 You already said it's morally wrong, but I just don't want to enforce it politically.
00:09:34.380 So what, we're going to make laws without any recourse to morality?
00:09:38.960 Is that the argument?
00:09:39.900 Yeah, because we're not supposed, okay, I understand that morals do play a big role
00:09:44.020 in how we make laws.
00:09:45.320 That's all, that's all of it.
00:09:46.540 A civil law is just an instantiation of the perception of the moral law.
00:09:51.640 So then why would you divorce the two on this one particular issue?
00:09:55.780 Well, I don't divorce the two on this one particular issue because there are other circumstances
00:09:59.640 in which I believe we have to move away from the moral.
00:10:02.180 I'm saying that not everything is as black and white as it is portrayed morally.
00:10:06.100 And so when a woman decides to kill her child, it's not out of the perception that she just
00:10:09.380 wants to murder her child.
00:10:10.640 It's because she thinks that this is what's best.
00:10:12.700 And also, if we're looking at the future of the United States in a way to actually decrease
00:10:16.180 abortion rates for the long haul, removing abortion right now is not going to stop that.
00:10:21.420 No, it wouldn't.
00:10:22.380 Abortion rates would plummet.
00:10:23.420 When abortion was legalized, the rates shut through the roof.
00:10:25.580 So let's talk about what happened when the United States banned alcohol.
00:10:29.200 What happened to people who are drinking alcohol?
00:10:31.200 What happened to domestic abuse rates?
00:10:33.200 What happened to those?
00:10:34.160 They skyrocketed.
00:10:35.280 So the same thing applied now.
00:10:36.040 No, no, when people stopped drinking alcohol, domestic abuse.
00:10:37.700 For a little bit.
00:10:38.340 And then it skyrocketed.
00:10:39.440 Also, when abortion was made illegal in 1973, what happened to black market abortions?
00:10:45.940 What happened?
00:10:46.520 This is often raised by the pro-abortion side.
00:10:48.720 They'll say, well, we're going to have black market abortions run by criminals and a lot of 1.00
00:10:51.760 women are going to die. 1.00
00:10:53.300 Do you know how many women died from illegal abortions the year before Roe v. Wade was ratified?
00:10:59.780 39.
00:11:01.220 Not 3,900, not 39, not 390.
00:11:03.680 It was 39 women.
00:11:04.700 Do you know how many women died from legal abortions that same year?
00:11:07.280 24.
00:11:08.360 And when you factor in the number of states where abortion was legal and illegal, the rate
00:11:11.840 was almost exactly the same.
00:11:13.440 So the comparison to some black market kind of abortion, there's no analogy whatsoever.
00:11:18.520 Well, that's not true whatsoever.
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00:12:28.800 Once you are banning abortions in the United States, what's going to happen is that we're
00:12:32.560 going to have women fleeing to other countries that have these abortions. 0.68
00:12:34.900 And also the countries, I don't know.
00:12:37.100 International travel is kind of expensive.
00:12:38.560 I thought you said it's because women are poor that they kill their kids. 1.00
00:12:40.580 I didn't say it's because women are poor. 1.00
00:12:42.020 I said that's one of the contributing factors.
00:12:43.620 I'm not saying that's every single thing.
00:12:45.000 So hold on.
00:12:45.960 Just on that point, at the very least, before we move on.
00:12:48.580 You said you've had the experience of being poor.
00:12:50.980 We had money problems a little bit when I was growing up.
00:12:53.120 However, at no point did I ever think that it would be better to be dead than poor.
00:12:59.020 And at no point do I think here, with the argument that you're making, a woman would
00:13:02.960 be justified in killing her kid because she doesn't have enough money, particularly in 1.00
00:13:08.820 the richest country ever in the history of the world.
00:13:11.460 Okay.
00:13:12.580 I think you also have to take into consideration the women who are actually committing abortions.
00:13:17.080 It's not the richest women in the world. 0.80
00:13:18.800 It's not the women who are high class in the United States that are actually having these 1.00
00:13:22.520 abortions. 0.94
00:13:23.000 Some are.
00:13:23.300 Because some of them are.
00:13:24.380 Some actually are.
00:13:24.860 It's like wealthy white women. 1.00
00:13:25.900 Some of them are, but they're not the majority.
00:13:28.160 You're right.
00:13:28.540 A lot of, 60% of black babies in New York are killed before they're born.
00:13:32.140 Because they realize that their children are not going to grow up in a system where they
00:13:35.560 are supported.
00:13:36.540 Now, morally, I can make the argument all day long that abortion is wrong.
00:13:39.700 And I will make the argument that abortion is wrong morally.
00:13:42.280 But I don't think morals can-
00:13:43.040 But you want to actually try to reduce the number of abortions? 1.00
00:13:45.100 I do.
00:13:45.640 I will.
00:13:46.060 In the way that's most effective?
00:13:47.520 Because it's not the most effective way.
00:13:49.100 It certainly is.
00:13:49.640 Without question.
00:13:50.660 The best way to decrease abortions, honestly, is to increase the amount of sexual education that
00:13:54.740 we are giving to our children.
00:13:55.620 Because once we-
00:13:56.660 So, hold on.
00:13:57.060 Okay.
00:13:57.540 I get the argument.
00:13:58.840 Safe sex education. 0.78
00:13:59.860 Yes.
00:14:00.120 I get the argument.
00:14:00.320 Not just like sex-
00:14:01.060 I get the argument.
00:14:02.020 My last question on this, to try to understand your thinking here, because I'm very impressed
00:14:06.460 that you would say, I think abortion is wrong, and it's tantamount to murder, and I want 0.99
00:14:09.700 there to be fewer abortions, and I want all this stuff.
00:14:12.960 If it were the case that outlawing abortion would, in fact, reduce abortion dramatically,
00:14:20.640 why would you not support that if you have all of those other goals that you've just
00:14:24.440 stated?
00:14:24.720 Well, I would support it, but that's not what the actual case is.
00:14:27.460 You would.
00:14:27.920 You would.
00:14:28.360 So, if I could convince you-
00:14:29.560 If you could convince me, yes.
00:14:31.000 If I could convince you that banning abortion would reduce the number of abortions, you
00:14:33.560 would support banning abortion?
00:14:34.720 Yes, but that's not the actual evidence.
00:14:36.940 We'll get you this.
00:14:37.400 It does happen, but I'll get you this statistic.
00:14:38.920 That's not the actual evidence.
00:14:40.440 Hello.
00:14:41.040 Hi.
00:14:42.480 I guess I disagree with you regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
00:14:46.100 I don't even know.
00:14:46.560 What is even my view on these?
00:14:47.560 People try to pin me down on Israel-Palestine, which I don't really care all that much about.
00:14:51.720 But what is my view?
00:14:52.740 Where do we disagree?
00:14:53.340 Do you support Israel's settlements in the West Bank, especially the ones lodged inside 1.00
00:15:00.980 cities like Hebron and the settlers who commit violence against the Palestinians and take
00:15:06.460 their resources and decrease their quality of life? 0.83
00:15:09.180 I don't have strong feelings about Israeli settlements.
00:15:12.500 I don't lose sleep at night one way or the other over it.
00:15:15.140 I do think broadly that the state of Israel probably ought to be able to exist, which is
00:15:20.940 contrary to the views of many people on the left, even prominent people.
00:15:24.380 I do think that it would be imprudent to give the Palestinian Arabs yet another state. 0.96
00:15:29.320 I don't think that would work out very well.
00:15:30.620 I do think it would be wrong, actually, to abolish the Jewish state that has come to exist
00:15:37.120 in the Holy Land so that we could liberate from the river to the sea a stretch of land
00:15:42.960 that could then go on to elect more Islamists.
00:15:46.040 I think that would be imprudent.
00:15:47.800 So in that way, I guess I'm sort of vaguely pro-Israel, but it's not my top issue.
00:15:52.400 So what's your take on Israel-Palestine?
00:15:54.780 Well, personally, I believe that Israel should do more to limit the settlements of Israelis 1.00
00:15:59.880 in Palestinian territories because the vast majority of Israelis do not support the settlements
00:16:05.760 in the West Bank.
00:16:07.120 It's just a really fringe minority that do, and the settlers do not contribute to the peace
00:16:12.440 process.
00:16:13.280 They actually complicate the peace process.
00:16:16.040 By the way, I do not support Hamas or anything.
00:16:18.640 I do think that Hamas is really bad. 0.60
00:16:20.260 I think the war that Israel is currently waging against Hamas is causing a lot of civilian
00:16:27.580 casualties, and it is not bringing back any of the hostages.
00:16:31.900 It is, in fact, killing the hostages and Gazan civilians.
00:16:36.140 I think Israel should try to negotiate with Hamas and, through a longer period of time, like 1.00
00:16:43.140 slowly try to build peace and build security in Israel and Gaza, improve their quality of
00:16:50.260 life so that they would not have an incentive to attack Israel again because they attacked
00:16:55.740 Israel because they suffered so much and they just wanted to take revenge, which that form 1.00
00:17:01.820 of revenge by killing civilians is not justified, but it is caused by their suffering.
00:17:06.980 It sounds like what you're saying, except for this one point which we can talk about, it
00:17:10.760 sounds like what you're saying is it's a great pity that the war is happening and I hope it
00:17:13.960 comes to a resolution soon and I recognize the Israelis have some rights, but I wish they'd be 1.00
00:17:17.980 nicer to the Palestinians. 0.90
00:17:18.920 That's basically what you're saying.
00:17:19.940 So the one point of contention maybe would be that the reason that a group of people
00:17:25.220 went out and raped and murdered like a thousand people and took hundreds of hostages was because 0.96
00:17:31.240 they were just suffering.
00:17:32.940 You know, they were just expressing their feelings because I suffer too, and I'm not a
00:17:36.360 Muslim and I'm not a Jew, so I guess I don't have much of a role in the Israel-Palestine
00:17:39.600 conflict, but I am a Christian.
00:17:41.520 And when Christians suffer, we're told to kiss it up to God and have our suffering unite us
00:17:45.860 to Christ on the cross.
00:17:47.960 I'm never at any point impelled to go kidnap and murder and rape people.
00:17:51.980 So why are we justifying it when the Palestinian Arabs do it? 1.00
00:17:54.660 Oh no, I'm absolutely not justifying them.
00:17:56.940 I'm just saying the reason they did it is because of their suffering, but that is absolutely
00:18:02.760 not justified.
00:18:03.620 But another point is Hamas was propped up by Netanyahu's government as a counterbalance
00:18:10.480 to the Palestinian authority in the West Bank.
00:18:14.640 Netanyahu himself has said in past years that yes, Hamas-
00:18:18.300 He played one party off the other party.
00:18:19.920 Yes.
00:18:20.280 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:20.620 Well, that happens all the time in politics, but I don't think- you can blame Benjamin Netanyahu
00:18:25.820 for anything you like.
00:18:27.000 You can't really blame him for the election of Hamas, right? 0.74
00:18:29.540 It wasn't him who did that.
00:18:31.060 It was the people of Gaza.
00:18:32.640 It was indirectly Israeli politicians that caused Hamas to be elected because they have 0.96
00:18:37.740 caused so much pain and suffering upon Palestinians that they felt that they needed to elect such 1.00
00:18:44.060 a radical party to power.
00:18:46.020 You have a great deal of empathy.
00:18:47.640 Some would call it suicidal empathy, but it's charming in any case.
00:18:51.180 Thank you very much for sitting down, guys.
00:18:52.720 Thank you.
00:18:53.340 Thank you so much.
00:18:53.680 Such a pleasure.
00:18:54.500 Thank you.
00:18:55.020 Thank you.
00:18:55.340 See you next time I'm at Pitt.
00:18:56.580 And thank you for not throwing any explosives at me.
00:18:58.700 Some other people in this town.
00:19:00.320 Oh yeah.
00:19:00.640 Are you deathly afraid of tambourines?
00:19:02.260 There was somebody out there with one.
00:19:03.500 Were there tambourines out there?
00:19:04.380 Yeah, there were tambourines.
00:19:05.280 Wow, that's quite a downgrade in weaponry.
00:19:07.480 I agree.
00:19:08.080 You go from explosives to- maybe I'll join the drum circle.
00:19:10.400 Maybe.
00:19:11.500 Michael, Mercy, and Kenny did not end up agreeing with me.
00:19:15.320 Or, if they did, they at least did not admit it.
00:19:17.780 As my YAF campus tour continues, I hope to encounter more students, like the ones I spoke
00:19:22.460 with at Pitt.
00:19:23.620 Students willing to cross the picket line, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and perhaps even summon
00:19:28.520 the courage to sit down for a face-to-face conversation.
00:19:32.260 You may be right now.
00:19:34.720 Homecoming fear to sit down for a face-to-face discussion.
00:19:37.160 If you do not confess anything, you might not be the same anymore.
00:19:39.760 loose on me.
00:19:43.260 Laureen as amente- speak, you know, 0.90