The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Discussing Trump's Victory & Post Meltdown with Dave Rubin & Michael Knowles (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_754)

00:00:00.000 I'm so scared.

00:00:02.000 Why are you crying, sweetie?

00:00:04.000 I'm so scared.

00:00:06.000 There, there. It's gonna be okay.

00:00:08.000 Donald Trump has won.

00:00:10.000 I can't make sense of the world.

00:00:12.000 It's gonna be okay.

00:00:14.000 It's okay.

00:00:30.000 It's a crazy world.

00:00:32.000 Somebody's gotta have the same views.

00:00:44.000 All right, people. I'm Dave Rubin.

00:00:46.000 And according to the paperwork in front of me,

00:00:48.000 this is the Rubin Report. And it's Friday,

00:00:50.000 which means it's time for another roundtable

00:00:52.000 extravaganza. And we have an

00:00:54.000 all-star program

00:00:56.000 for you. Joining me today

00:00:58.000 is a visiting professor and global

00:01:00.000 ambassador at Northwood University

00:01:02.000 and author of The Sad Truth

00:01:04.000 About Happiness, my old friend Gad

00:01:06.000 Sad. And also joining me is the

00:01:08.000 host of The Michael Knowles Show

00:01:10.000 and a non-New York Times

00:01:12.000 best-selling author, Michael Knowles.

00:01:14.000 Gad, Michael, how are you

00:01:16.000 gentlemen? Doing great.

00:01:18.000 It's been a great week, huh?

00:01:20.000 It's been great, about eight days

00:01:22.000 now. It has been a phenomenal

00:01:24.000 eight days. Actually, why don't, well, first off,

00:01:26.000 should we all put on our glasses just so that people know,

00:01:28.000 that we're learned individuals

00:01:30.000 and look at us.

00:01:32.000 These are professional.

00:01:34.000 I only have my sunglasses

00:01:36.000 today because

00:01:38.000 MSNBC is going out of business.

00:01:40.000 So if Jeremy ends up buying it,

00:01:42.000 I don't want the confusion to be

00:01:44.000 so great when I take Rachel Maddow's

00:01:46.000 time slot. So I can't,

00:01:48.000 I gotta, I gotta stick with the Steve McQueen's.

00:01:50.000 For the record, I did see

00:01:52.000 Jeremy Boring's offer,

00:01:54.000 CEO of Daily Wire's offer to buy

00:01:56.000 Daily Wire. And I have put out there

00:01:58.000 I am willing to throw in 500 grand.

00:02:00.000 I don't know what, I don't know if that gets you

00:02:02.000 the Maddow set or whatever,

00:02:04.000 but I'm all in on that.

00:02:06.000 Let's just start with that, with what you just

00:02:08.000 brought up there, Michael, for a second. Just like the

00:02:10.000 feeling that we have. I know we're facts over

00:02:12.000 feelings, people. But the feeling of

00:02:14.000 the last eight days has been,

00:02:16.000 I think, just

00:02:18.000 absolutely extraordinary. Like, I really

00:02:20.000 think we forgot how good America

00:02:22.000 can be, and suddenly, you can

00:02:24.000 feel it again. It really

00:02:26.000 is, it's thick, and it's

00:02:28.000 real. Knowles?

00:02:30.000 Of course, and with respect to our Jewish

00:02:32.000 friend in Boca Raton,

00:02:34.000 sometimes feeling

00:02:36.000 can collapse into fact

00:02:38.000 as happened last Tuesday night. There was

00:02:40.000 a broad feeling among a broad

00:02:42.000 swath of Americans, that includes 0.79

00:02:44.000 white people, that includes one in five

00:02:46.000 black guys, that includes roughly half of

00:02:48.000 Hispanics, that includes Jews, that 0.77

00:02:50.000 includes Muslims, that includes

00:02:52.000 women, including 40% of women under 30.

00:02:54.000 There was a feeling that liberalism

00:02:56.000 had failed them. That the leftist

00:02:58.000 policies of the last three and a half years

00:03:00.000 had failed them, and they wanted to change, and

00:03:02.000 we got it. So that, there was a

00:03:04.000 feeling among the liberal establishment that

00:03:06.000 Trump was Hitler. Well, guess what? Now

00:03:08.000 Trump is meeting with Joe Biden, he's got

00:03:10.000 a grin on his face, ear to ear. He sure

00:03:12.000 hanging out with Hitler. I think that 0.96

00:03:14.000 the feeling is actually connected

00:03:16.000 with the fact that Trump

00:03:18.000 was a better president than Joe Biden was.

00:03:20.000 Things have gotten worse under Biden's

00:03:22.000 watch, and they're going to get better under

00:03:24.000 Trump's watch, and pretty much everyone's

00:03:25.000 excited about it.

00:03:26.000 We will get to hanging out with Hitler, 1.00

00:03:28.000 which coincidentally is the title of my

00:03:30.000 next book in just a moment. But

00:03:32.000 first, Gad, you're up in

00:03:34.000 Canada, so 0.57

00:03:36.000 you're a little out of the thing here,

00:03:38.000 but if we go down, you go down,

00:03:40.000 you've got to be feeling pretty good.

00:03:42.000 You know, as you guys

00:03:44.000 probably know, I lost a lot of

00:03:46.000 weight a few years ago, and I think that

00:03:48.000 that weight loss is lesser

00:03:50.000 than the weight that was

00:03:52.000 holding me down from all of the

00:03:54.000 craziness. I mean, I really do mean it,

00:03:56.000 that it's been eight days now that

00:03:58.000 I'm walking around as though we

00:04:00.000 truly did, you know, avoid

00:04:02.000 a existential

00:04:04.000 asteroid hurting at us. And so,

00:04:06.000 yeah, I mean, even though I'm in Canada,

00:04:08.000 probably I'm even happier than you guys

00:04:10.000 are because I'm in Canada, because

00:04:12.000 we're probably even more woke

00:04:14.000 than what could have happened had

00:04:16.000 Kamala won.

00:04:18.000 So, boy, did we avoid a disaster.

00:04:20.000 And, Noles, real quick before we start,

00:04:22.000 just to be clear, our friend in Boca,

00:04:24.000 you are referring to Ben Shapiro,

00:04:26.000 not Morty Seinfeld, correct?

00:04:28.000 It's true. But why not both?

00:04:30.000 Why not both?

00:04:32.000 Why not both? Alright, so real quick, let's show you

00:04:34.000 a special map now that Arizona finally

00:04:36.000 was called. It was 3-12

00:04:38.000 to Donald J. Trump

00:04:40.000 and 2-26 to the

00:04:42.000 blue blob lady. And, uh,

00:04:44.000 you mentioned the meeting of Trump and Biden

00:04:46.000 at the White House, and let's take a look.

00:04:48.000 leader of the food.

00:04:49.000 Alright, let's go to this.

00:04:50.000 They're meeting.

00:04:51.000 I'm looking forward to having a mic reset,

00:04:54.000 smooth transition,

00:04:56.000 and make sure you're accommodating

00:04:58.000 once you meet.

00:04:59.000 We're going to get a chance to talk about

00:05:01.000 some of that today.

00:05:02.000 Welcome.

00:05:04.000 Thank you very much.

00:05:06.000 And, uh, politics is tough,

00:05:08.000 and it's, uh, in many cases,

00:05:10.000 not a very nice world,

00:05:12.000 but it is a nice world today,

00:05:14.000 and I appreciate it very much.

00:05:16.000 A transition that's so smooth,

00:05:18.000 it'll be as smooth as it can get,

00:05:20.000 and, uh, I very much appreciate that, Joe.

00:05:22.000 You're welcome.

00:05:24.000 Thank you all.

00:05:28.000 Michael, I think that Joe likes

00:05:30.000 Donald way more than

00:05:32.000 he likes Kamala, and I also

00:05:34.000 think that he has an unbelievable

00:05:36.000 opportunity right now to say 0.81

00:05:38.000 goodbye to all the loony progressives

00:05:40.000 and actually spend two months, 0.98

00:05:42.000 whatever's left of Joe Biden's brain

00:05:44.000 charge, actually doing some

00:05:46.000 good things that could lead to

00:05:48.000 a really successful Donald Trump

00:05:50.000 presidency.

00:05:51.000 Am I, am I just a crazy dreamer?

00:05:53.000 What am I, Michael?

00:05:54.000 No, no, I don't think you are at all.

00:05:56.000 But my first reaction when I saw

00:05:58.000 Trump meeting with Biden is that

00:06:00.000 it was so nice of President Trump

00:06:02.000 to take time out of his busy day

00:06:03.000 to meet with one of his voters.

00:06:05.000 Joe Biden looked happy as a clam out there.

00:06:07.000 And even beyond Joe Biden, you think

00:06:09.000 of his wife, Jill Biden, Jill Biden

00:06:11.000 wore what seemed to me a rather

00:06:13.000 intentional red dress on election

00:06:16.000 day.

00:06:17.000 Uh, there is no love lost between

00:06:19.000 the Biden and the Kamala camps.

00:06:21.000 And so the election's over.

00:06:23.000 Biden has nothing left in his

00:06:24.000 political career.

00:06:25.000 The only chance he has at legacy

00:06:27.000 right now is the next two months

00:06:29.000 or so.

00:06:30.000 And, and, uh, he, he obviously

00:06:33.000 detests the progressives, uh, who

00:06:36.000 threw him out.

00:06:37.000 He obviously detests Kamala Harris

00:06:39.000 who shivved him and twisted the

00:06:40.000 knife.

00:06:41.000 So why not at this point?

00:06:42.000 What, why not, uh, give, give

00:06:44.000 yourself the legacy that you had

00:06:46.000 wanted for so much of your

00:06:47.000 political career, which was to be

00:06:49.000 the moderate, the centrist, the

00:06:50.000 man who brings people together.

00:06:52.000 Okay.

00:06:53.000 Here's your chance.

00:06:54.000 And there's really no cost to

00:06:55.000 it.

00:06:56.000 So again, I think obviously the

00:06:57.000 three of us would like to see

00:06:58.000 that we'll see what happens

00:06:59.000 there.

00:07:00.000 What do you make of that?

00:07:01.000 You know, for four years, in

00:07:02.000 essence, Biden and everybody in

00:07:04.000 the mainstream media was calling

00:07:05.000 Trump Hitler. 0.70

00:07:07.000 And then you'd have, you know,

00:07:08.000 Chuck Schumer laughing with him

00:07:09.000 at the Al Smith dinner or right

00:07:11.000 there.

00:07:12.000 If you genuinely thought he was

00:07:13.000 Hitler and you thought that half

00:07:14.000 the country were Nazis, you, you 0.99

00:07:16.000 as Joe Biden certainly would not

00:07:18.000 be sitting with him and smiling

00:07:19.000 and saying, make it an easy

00:07:20.000 transition and everything else.

00:07:22.000 Is it just that the mask is just

00:07:23.000 fully off now?

00:07:25.000 Indeed.

00:07:26.000 And what amazes me is, you know,

00:07:28.000 people say that, you know, Trump

00:07:29.000 is so impulsive.

00:07:30.000 Remember the old, you know,

00:07:32.000 midnight tweets and so on for

00:07:34.000 him to be able to stand there

00:07:36.000 with such restraint when you've

00:07:38.000 thrown all that you've thrown at

00:07:40.000 this guy.

00:07:41.000 I don't think there is another

00:07:42.000 politician that's ever been

00:07:43.000 thrown as many things.

00:07:44.000 I mean, literally shooting at him, you

00:07:47.000 know, the faming him, taking him to

00:07:49.000 the court system and so on.

00:07:51.000 So to me, it reminds me if I can

00:07:53.000 draw an analogy, when Lionel Messi

00:07:55.000 won the World Cup, I felt as though

00:07:57.000 it was existential justice, right?

00:08:00.000 It can't be that this guy who is

00:08:02.000 such a beautiful player would go out

00:08:04.000 without having won the World Cup.

00:08:06.000 I feel the exact same way for

00:08:08.000 Donald Trump, right?

00:08:09.000 Setting aside the politics, just a

00:08:11.000 sense of, you know, cosmological

00:08:14.000 justice, the fact that he was able

00:08:16.000 to withstand all that he did.

00:08:18.000 And yet he now sits when he knows

00:08:20.000 that all those other people are

00:08:22.000 seething with anger and he's all

00:08:24.000 calm with a little grin.

00:08:25.000 It's it feels very good to me from

00:08:27.000 way up here in Montreal.

00:08:28.000 Michael, what do you what do you

00:08:29.000 make of that?

00:08:30.000 Because I think it's interesting.

00:08:31.000 It's not what politicians or

00:08:32.000 pundits are particularly good

00:08:33.000 talking about.

00:08:34.000 But I do think God had a little

00:08:35.000 hand in this that Donald Trump's

00:08:37.000 hero's story was not complete.

00:08:39.000 And and had it ended the other

00:08:41.000 way, I think it actually would have

00:08:43.000 done something very strange to

00:08:45.000 the to the universe like that that

00:08:47.000 evil really was on the march.

00:08:50.000 Yes, it is not for me to plot out

00:08:52.000 every aspect of Providence.

00:08:54.000 That's that's above my pay grade.

00:08:56.000 However, it's not it's it's not for

00:08:58.000 me to do, but one can recognize

00:08:59.000 Providence.

00:09:00.000 A priest friend of mine in New York

00:09:01.000 observed that it's a wicked

00:09:03.000 generation that seeks for science 1.00

00:09:04.000 and wonders, but it's a stupid 1.00

00:09:06.000 generation that ignores science 1.00

00:09:07.000 and wonders.

00:09:08.000 And that last minute turn of

00:09:10.000 President Trump's head seemingly

00:09:12.000 inexplicable in Butler,

00:09:13.000 Pennsylvania, it one had this

00:09:15.000 feeling the story cannot end

00:09:17.000 here, even just with the language

00:09:19.000 of myth, with the force of

00:09:21.000 narrative, the American story.

00:09:23.000 For goodness sakes, the man's

00:09:24.000 name is Trump.

00:09:25.000 OK, he's got to win.

00:09:27.000 He can't lose that.

00:09:29.000 The story of this past 10 years

00:09:30.000 in American politics was one in

00:09:32.000 which the man did have to win.

00:09:35.000 I was thinking last night to

00:09:36.000 the to the narrative and the

00:09:37.000 mythos that we have around

00:09:38.000 American presidencies.

00:09:39.000 After John F.

00:09:40.000 Kennedy was killed, Jackie

00:09:41.000 Kennedy said that his

00:09:43.000 administration was Camelot and

00:09:45.000 she was actually quoting a

00:09:46.000 contemporary popular Broadway

00:09:48.000 play, the Camelot musical.

00:09:50.000 And she said, you know, there

00:09:51.000 was a time when there was Camelot.

00:09:53.000 I thought, OK, if the Kennedy

00:09:54.000 administration was Camelot,

00:09:55.000 what's the Trump administration?

00:09:57.000 And I think what it is to a lot

00:09:59.000 of people, whether they're

00:10:00.000 conscious of it or not, is it

00:10:01.000 feels like the Avengers.

00:10:03.000 If I mean, in the case of Elon,

00:10:04.000 you actually have Tony Stark just

00:10:06.000 like playing a role in it.

00:10:07.000 But it just feels like the

00:10:08.000 Avengers.

00:10:09.000 It feels like this team coming

00:10:10.000 together, you know, all hope

00:10:13.000 seems lost.

00:10:14.000 But no, these guys, it's not just

00:10:15.000 about one man.

00:10:16.000 One man's leading up, but he's

00:10:17.000 assembling this team of absolute

00:10:19.000 all stars who are going to come

00:10:21.000 together and stop the bad evil

00:10:23.000 powers from conquering the world.

00:10:25.000 Yeah.

00:10:26.000 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:10:27.000 You could even see some of the

00:10:28.000 more lefty leaning people who

00:10:30.000 weren't Trump supporters, some of

00:10:31.000 whom who had TDS.

00:10:33.000 The way that they were sort of

00:10:34.000 rationalizing their vote for

00:10:35.000 Trump was I'm not just voting

00:10:37.000 for Trump.

00:10:38.000 I'm voting for Elon and for

00:10:39.000 Vivek and for Tulsi, RFK,

00:10:42.000 et cetera, et cetera.

00:10:43.000 I want to jump to a media part of

00:10:45.000 this for a moment because to me,

00:10:47.000 the other story, maybe even more

00:10:49.000 important than the presidential

00:10:50.000 story, is that this to me signals

00:10:52.000 the end of the mainstream media

00:10:54.000 and the ascendant rise of

00:10:56.000 something that we've all been

00:10:57.000 been part of.

00:10:58.000 And I would also say anyone

00:10:59.000 watching this has been part of

00:11:00.000 here is AOC doing a little.

00:11:02.000 I don't know if this was

00:11:03.000 tick tock or Instagram, but

00:11:04.000 she's very interested in

00:11:06.000 finding out which Trump

00:11:07.000 podcasts people are listening

00:11:09.000 to.

00:11:10.000 Which podcasts are you

00:11:12.000 listening to?

00:11:13.000 Which accounts are you

00:11:14.000 subscribing to?

00:11:16.000 I'm interested, like genuinely,

00:11:19.000 let me know which ones

00:11:20.000 specifically, which accounts,

00:11:22.000 which podcasts, et cetera.

00:11:24.000 Now, Gat, I don't think there's

00:11:25.000 anything genuine about her.

00:11:27.000 However, is this all because she

00:11:30.000 wants to still put us on a list

00:11:31.000 to hopefully get us in the gulag?

00:11:33.000 Or is it possible that there's a

00:11:34.000 flicker of something in her brain

00:11:37.000 going, oh, maybe I did misjudge

00:11:39.000 what's going on here?

00:11:40.000 No, I think it's the latter.

00:11:42.000 I think people are starting to

00:11:43.000 realize that, you know, the

00:11:45.000 powerful mediums now are Joe

00:11:48.000 Rogan and et al, right?

00:11:50.000 I mean, I have a personal story

00:11:52.000 from academia that I can share

00:11:53.000 that mimics that reality.

00:11:55.000 So in 2017, I had gone to

00:11:58.000 Stanford Business School to give a

00:11:59.000 talk and the host who was a

00:12:02.000 consumer psychologist who was

00:12:03.000 hosting me the night before,

00:12:06.000 very smugly said that, you know,

00:12:09.000 at Stanford, you know, we don't

00:12:11.000 do research so that we can

00:12:13.000 appear on Joe Rogan.

00:12:15.000 I said, well, I don't do my

00:12:16.000 research also to appear on Joe

00:12:17.000 Rogan, but if I can publish in

00:12:19.000 top journals and appear on Joe

00:12:21.000 Rogan where he's got 15, 20

00:12:23.000 million viewers, then I'm

00:12:24.000 certainly doing something well.

00:12:25.000 Well, guess what?

00:12:26.000 Many of the people who told me

00:12:28.000 don't go on shows like Joe

00:12:30.000 Rogan et al, now they all write

00:12:32.000 to me and say, hey, is there a

00:12:34.000 way that you can get us on Joe

00:12:36.000 Rogan?

00:12:37.000 So it's exactly what she, what

00:12:38.000 she's realizing.

00:12:39.000 Academia is also realizing.

00:12:41.000 So, Michael mentioned this sort

00:12:43.000 of broad coalition of people

00:12:45.000 that now seem to have all

00:12:47.000 coalesced around Trump.

00:12:48.000 As everybody knows, we've got

00:12:49.000 some info.

00:12:50.000 Donald Trump has officially

00:12:51.000 announced that Elon Musk and

00:12:52.000 Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the

00:12:54.000 Department of Government

00:12:55.000 Efficiency.

00:12:56.000 And my crack team here at the

00:12:57.000 Rubin Report, they went into

00:12:58.000 Grok, which is the AI system

00:13:00.000 within X Twitter.

00:13:02.000 And here's an image of Elon and

00:13:04.000 Vivek cutting the fat, as you

00:13:06.000 fat, as you can see.

00:13:07.000 I mean, AI is just like, it

00:13:09.000 really is just incredible.

00:13:11.000 But does it get much, does it

00:13:12.000 get much better than this,

00:13:13.000 Michael?

00:13:14.000 Like truly, could we have asked

00:13:15.000 for anything more than we are

00:13:16.000 getting handed right now?

00:13:17.000 And I don't want to, I don't

00:13:18.000 want to look a gift horse in

00:13:19.000 the mouth and I don't want to

00:13:20.000 get too overconfident, but this

00:13:21.000 is it.

00:13:22.000 This is it.

00:13:23.000 Yes.

00:13:24.000 The picks have all been terrific.

00:13:26.000 I think really, really smart.

00:13:28.000 And President Trump is moving

00:13:29.000 quickly.

00:13:30.000 You mentioned the DOGE, the

00:13:32.000 Department of Government Efficiency.

00:13:34.000 And Elon said he wants to cut

00:13:36.000 329 federal agencies, which a

00:13:39.000 lot of us would say is a good

00:13:40.000 start.

00:13:41.000 He wants to, he wants to bring

00:13:42.000 it down to 99.

00:13:43.000 This is great.

00:13:44.000 President Trump has an

00:13:45.000 opportunity, which he appears

00:13:46.000 to be seizing, to reset the

00:13:47.000 relationship between the

00:13:48.000 citizen and the government.

00:13:49.000 Absolutely beautiful thing.

00:13:51.000 He has one other opportunity

00:13:52.000 that you alluded to, Dave, which

00:13:54.000 is President Trump has the once

00:13:56.000 in a generation, at least

00:13:58.000 opportunity to reset the

00:14:00.000 relationship between citizen and

00:14:02.000 the press.

00:14:03.000 Yes.

00:14:04.000 Between specifically the

00:14:05.000 conservatives and the

00:14:06.000 Republicans and the press.

00:14:07.000 I think that right now you're

00:14:09.000 seeing CNN in a ratings collapse

00:14:11.000 in 2016.

00:14:12.000 They had 13.3 million viewers

00:14:14.000 in prime time.

00:14:15.000 Now I think it's down to

00:14:16.000 something like 800,000.

00:14:17.000 MSNBC is up for sale, might

00:14:19.000 be sold for scraps.

00:14:20.000 The New York Times, Washington

00:14:22.000 Post both admitting that they're

00:14:24.000 having their lunch eaten by

00:14:25.000 podcasters and streamers.

00:14:27.000 The New York Times.

00:14:28.000 The New York Times put my face

00:14:29.000 right in the center of their

00:14:30.000 banner of that election

00:14:31.000 disinformation, even though

00:14:32.000 they didn't even mention me

00:14:33.000 in the article.

00:14:34.000 They didn't have any.

00:14:35.000 Right before the election,

00:14:36.000 just to bully YouTube into

00:14:37.000 kicking our shows off the

00:14:38.000 air.

00:14:39.000 So they understand that there's

00:14:40.000 a real threat here.

00:14:41.000 And so the media have revealed

00:14:43.000 themselves not merely to be 0.53

00:14:44.000 liars, not merely to be

00:14:45.000 caught in lie after lie, 0.99

00:14:47.000 specifically about Trump.

00:14:48.000 But they've also revealed

00:14:49.000 themselves to no longer have

00:14:51.000 influence over voters.

00:14:53.000 So it would seem to me that the

00:14:55.000 next White House press secretary

00:14:56.000 needs to seriously rethink the

00:14:58.000 seating chart in the briefing

00:14:59.000 room.

00:15:00.000 It is absurd that CNN gets a

00:15:02.000 front row seat.

00:15:03.000 It is absurd that MSNBC is

00:15:06.000 given a seat at all.

00:15:07.000 As far as I'm concerned, it's

00:15:08.000 absurd that the New York Times

00:15:09.000 has a seat.

00:15:10.000 The New York Times was just

00:15:11.000 caught in more fake news the

00:15:12.000 other day.

00:15:13.000 President Trump after Hurricane

00:15:14.000 Helene said that FEMA was 0.99

00:15:15.000 discriminating against Trump

00:15:16.000 supporters in disaster relief.

00:15:18.000 CNN had a fact check.

00:15:19.000 This is fake news. 0.96

00:15:20.000 Totally ridiculous. 0.57

00:15:21.000 Daily Wire obtained messages 0.59

00:15:22.000 from FEMA.

00:15:23.000 Yep, you guys did it.

00:15:24.000 We saw that clearly FEMA was

00:15:27.000 discriminating against

00:15:28.000 conservatives and Trump

00:15:29.000 supporters after Hurricane

00:15:30.000 Milton.

00:15:31.000 And then the supervisor from

00:15:33.000 FEMA who got fired came out

00:15:34.000 and said this was not a

00:15:35.000 one-off.

00:15:36.000 This is a systemic event.

00:15:37.000 And FEMA was doing it

00:15:38.000 during Helene too.

00:15:39.000 So Trump totally vindicated.

00:15:40.000 The New York Times posting

00:15:42.000 fake news again.

00:15:43.000 I think the next White House

00:15:44.000 press secretary needs to 1.00

00:15:45.000 seriously consider revoking

00:15:47.000 the New York Times's past

00:15:49.000 and rejigger that room. 1.00

00:15:50.000 We should have representatives

00:15:51.000 for Joe Rogan, Tim Kast,

00:15:53.000 all of the new media, you

00:15:55.000 know, many of us in this

00:15:56.000 room should be in that

00:15:57.000 briefing room.

00:15:58.000 And the old decrepit media

00:16:00.000 which no longer has

00:16:01.000 influence should probably

00:16:02.000 be shown the door.

00:16:03.000 Yeah, it could not happen

00:16:05.000 to a worse group of people.

00:16:06.000 Gad, I want to get your

00:16:07.000 take on this.

00:16:08.000 Colin Rugg tweeted this out

00:16:09.000 and this is just the perfect

00:16:10.000 example of how inefficient

00:16:11.000 government has been.

00:16:12.000 In honor of Elon and Vivek

00:16:14.000 being picked as heads of

00:16:15.000 Department of Government

00:16:16.000 Efficiency, here are some 0.99

00:16:17.000 of the dumbest uses of your 0.99

00:16:19.000 tax dollars. 0.99

00:16:20.000 20,000 to drag shows in

00:16:22.000 Ecuador.

00:16:23.000 30,000 to study the secret

00:16:26.000 language of butchers in

00:16:28.000 Paris.

00:16:29.000 750,000 for the New York

00:16:31.000 Metropolitan Opera Fire

00:16:33.000 Alarm.

00:16:34.000 350,000 to develop AI smart

00:16:37.000 toilets.

00:16:38.000 And 660 grand to study the

00:16:41.000 impact that COVID had on

00:16:43.000 Russian women. 0.97

00:16:44.000 on Russian women. 0.77

00:16:45.000 I mean, we could do this

00:16:46.000 all day long, just breaking

00:16:47.000 down the utter inefficiency

00:16:48.000 of all of this.

00:16:49.000 But I tweeted out this

00:16:50.000 morning that basically what

00:16:52.000 they fear the most right

00:16:53.000 now is not that Donald Trump

00:16:54.000 is Hitler. 0.86

00:16:55.000 It's that Donald Trump is

00:16:56.000 going to expose their

00:16:58.000 complete absurdity and how

00:17:01.000 inefficient they've been.

00:17:03.000 And then there's just no

00:17:04.000 use for them whatsoever.

00:17:05.000 Listen, I've sat on many of the

00:17:09.000 committees that judge many of

00:17:12.000 these grants, like the ones

00:17:14.000 that you just read out.

00:17:15.000 So, you know, I've existed in

00:17:17.000 that ecosystem for well over

00:17:18.000 three decades and it's

00:17:20.000 absolutely astonishing to see

00:17:22.000 the stuff that goes on in

00:17:23.000 academia.

00:17:24.000 And whatever you think you

00:17:25.000 know about academia, it's a

00:17:26.000 lot worse when you're inside

00:17:28.000 the beast, right?

00:17:29.000 I mean, it really is

00:17:30.000 incredible.

00:17:31.000 I should, though, warn about

00:17:32.000 one one reflex that might be

00:17:34.000 incorrect to to invoke all the

00:17:36.000 time.

00:17:37.000 Sometimes you conduct research

00:17:39.000 without it having any clear

00:17:41.000 immediate application.

00:17:42.000 So, for example, Pierre de

00:17:44.000 Fermat, who was a famous

00:17:45.000 mathematician in the 17th

00:17:46.000 century, developed these

00:17:48.000 very, very arcane mathematical

00:17:51.000 theorems that sat there for

00:17:53.000 300 years collecting dust until

00:17:55.000 we then had the advent of

00:17:57.000 cryptography.

00:17:58.000 And suddenly now many of his

00:17:59.000 theorems are, you know,

00:18:00.000 relevant today.

00:18:02.000 So it's not that you always

00:18:03.000 have to judge the value of

00:18:05.000 research by its immediate

00:18:06.000 application.

00:18:07.000 But the examples that you

00:18:08.000 gave and many others are

00:18:10.000 truly the squandering of

00:18:11.000 taxpayer money.

00:18:12.000 You're absolutely right.

00:18:13.000 So you're basically making

00:18:14.000 the argument that we should

00:18:15.000 have science for the sake of

00:18:16.000 science.

00:18:17.000 The question is how much how

00:18:18.000 much public money should be

00:18:20.000 allocated to that, which

00:18:21.000 that's an honest debate that

00:18:23.000 we can have.

00:18:24.000 But it has very little to do

00:18:25.000 with COVID response in

00:18:27.000 Russian women. 0.97

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00:19:44.000 All right, so Biden handing this

00:19:47.000 thing off to Trump, and they kind

00:19:49.000 of look like they're digging each

00:19:51.000 other, and if the three of us get

00:19:52.000 our way, it's going to be a smooth

00:19:54.000 transition.

00:19:55.000 Kamala and Jill, a little less

00:19:58.000 pleasant.

00:19:59.000 Take a look.

00:20:00.000 Cold as ice, Knowles.

00:20:19.000 I mean, do you think there's any chance

00:20:22.000 that Jill Biden has the receipts on what

00:20:25.000 they did to Joe and could somehow incriminate

00:20:28.000 Kamala and some of that, or do you think

00:20:30.000 the ship has just sailed on all that?

00:20:32.000 Certainly, I think the song choice of

00:20:33.000 Nessun Dorma was apt, because if I were 0.97

00:20:35.000 Kamala, I'd sleep with one eye open.

00:20:37.000 I think the Biden White House has it in

00:20:40.000 for this woman, and rightly so, because

00:20:42.000 she shivved them, pushed their guy out, 1.00

00:20:45.000 and then went down in an historic defeat.

00:20:49.000 Certainly, you're seeing a big division

00:20:52.000 right now among the Democrats.

00:20:54.000 For all the talk of Republicans being

00:20:56.000 divided, the Republicans have really come

00:20:58.000 together, even part of the establishment

00:21:00.000 wing, and the libertarians, and the

00:21:02.000 traditionalists, and everybody.

00:21:04.000 They all seem to be coming together and

00:21:05.000 being put in their places, whereas for

00:21:07.000 the Democrats, you have people like Chris

00:21:09.000 Murphy, Democrat Senator from Connecticut,

00:21:11.000 who's tweeting out saying it was a

00:21:12.000 cataclysmic tragedy on election day.

00:21:15.000 Democrats need to rethink the whole party,

00:21:17.000 need to abandon neoliberalism.

00:21:19.000 The policies of Bill Clinton say we

00:21:21.000 need to become commies, pretty much,

00:21:23.000 and only talk about working class

00:21:25.000 economic issues.

00:21:26.000 Forget about the social issues that

00:21:28.000 also repel working class voters like

00:21:29.000 migration and the promotion of trans 0.61

00:21:32.000 ideology in schools, say.

00:21:33.000 So he's freaking out.

00:21:36.000 AOC wants to start listening to our

00:21:37.000 shows, I guess.

00:21:38.000 I don't know.

00:21:39.000 She's having an existential crisis.

00:21:40.000 And then even within the White

00:21:42.000 House, you're seeing the White 0.94

00:21:43.000 House divided against itself.

00:21:44.000 So an early Republican president,

00:21:47.000 Abraham Lincoln, said that a house

00:21:49.000 divided against itself can't stand.

00:21:51.000 Right now, I think the whole

00:21:52.000 Democratic establishment is on really

00:21:54.000 shaky ground.

00:21:55.000 Well, speaking of a house divided

00:21:56.000 against itself, it appears that Joe

00:21:58.000 Biden and Kamala Harris had lunch.

00:22:01.000 Peter Doocy asked Corinne Jean-Pierre

00:22:03.000 about that.

00:22:05.000 We know that today, a week after the

00:22:07.000 election, President Biden and Vice

00:22:09.000 President Harris had a private lunch.

00:22:12.000 How awkward was that?

00:22:15.000 I don't even understand.

00:22:17.000 Why would it?

00:22:18.000 Why would it be awkward?

00:22:19.000 Because.

00:22:20.000 Why would it be awkward?

00:22:21.000 It got squeezed out for her and then

00:22:22.000 she kept him at arm's length and then

00:22:23.000 she lost.

00:22:24.000 And now she's there.

00:22:25.000 Why would you characterize it as

00:22:26.000 awkward?

00:22:27.000 They have regular lunches.

00:22:29.000 They meet and talk regularly.

00:22:31.000 Why would you call it awkward?

00:22:33.000 A little weirdness about the way that

00:22:34.000 things have unfolded since life.

00:22:36.000 Did you see them?

00:22:37.000 Did you see them together yesterday as

00:22:38.000 well when they honored our veterans and

00:22:40.000 were together during the day making sure

00:22:43.000 that we didn't forget the brave men and

00:22:46.000 women that fought for this country? 1.00

00:22:48.000 Did you see them together yesterday?

00:22:50.000 Did you see the the show of force together?

00:22:53.000 This is I'm not even going to take the

00:22:57.000 premise of the question.

00:22:58.000 What I will say is the president and the

00:23:01.000 vice president had lunch today.

00:23:03.000 They've had lunch many times.

00:23:05.000 They have come.

00:23:07.000 They communicate with each other regularly.

00:23:10.000 They had an opportunity to discuss the

00:23:13.000 last 70 days or so of this administration.

00:23:16.000 How important it is to get things done for

00:23:20.000 the American people.

00:23:21.000 And that's their focus.

00:23:23.000 That is genuinely their focus.

00:23:27.000 Dad, I actually think it was a completely

00:23:29.000 legit question.

00:23:30.000 Everything she did right there with her

00:23:32.000 little duck and weave and all of that is

00:23:34.000 exactly what we're trying to kick out of

00:23:36.000 government right now.

00:23:37.000 It's like, why would it be awkward?

00:23:39.000 I don't know, maybe because she threatened

00:23:40.000 him with the 25th amendment and then lost

00:23:42.000 and he's a little pissed.

00:23:44.000 How about that lady? 1.00

00:23:45.000 Yeah.

00:23:46.000 Well, I think their, their respective

00:23:49.000 demeanors is really part of a larger story.

00:23:52.000 If you compare the manner by which Trump

00:23:54.000 was, you know, behaving, you know, showing

00:23:57.000 up with the garbage truck and you know, the 0.53

00:23:59.000 capacity to be authentic and to troll and

00:24:02.000 to use humor versus Kamala Harris, who, you 0.86

00:24:05.000 know, couldn't get out of the three syllables

00:24:07.000 that she knew she was, she felt very

00:24:09.000 constrained by it.

00:24:10.000 I mean, if I may say, I mean, one of the

00:24:12.000 reasons that my message resonates is because I

00:24:14.000 don't speak down to people, right?

00:24:16.000 I can be funny. 0.93

00:24:17.000 I can be buffoon. 0.92

00:24:18.000 I can be professorial. 0.91

00:24:20.000 And so I think one of the things that really resonated

00:24:23.000 with the American public, forgetting about all the

00:24:25.000 important policy issues is that with Trump and all of

00:24:30.000 his cadre of folks, you get people who look as though

00:24:33.000 they're actual flesh and bones, human beings.

00:24:36.000 When the others are speaking, they're so unsure of their

00:24:41.000 positions that they have to stay within very confined

00:24:45.000 lanes.

00:24:46.000 And once you hit them with any pivot, they can't respond,

00:24:49.000 right?

00:24:50.000 That's why she couldn't go on Joe Rogan because how can

00:24:52.000 you go with a guy that's not going to give you any questions

00:24:55.000 that's not going to give you any, you know, a priori prepping

00:24:58.000 and you're going to have to sit there and be an authentic self

00:25:01.000 for three hours.

00:25:02.000 And so bottom line authenticity wins the day.

00:25:06.000 It's really an interesting notion.

00:25:07.000 I mean, for, for guys like us that talk for a living, like

00:25:10.000 if you were going into an interview, what would be scarier

00:25:12.000 for you that you'd have to talk for three hours in a loose

00:25:15.000 form way or that someone might ask you hard questions.

00:25:18.000 And for her clearly, I mean, she couldn't answer the hard

00:25:21.000 questions.

00:25:22.000 Anyway, that 60 minutes thing was an abject disaster, but clearly

00:25:25.000 what would have been worse for her was to would be to just sit 0.92

00:25:28.000 with someone who was not trying to get her for three hours

00:25:32.000 because there's no there there.

00:25:33.000 However, she did sit down with Oprah and it appears that Oprah's

00:25:37.000 production company got a cool million bucks from that.

00:25:40.000 Oprah was confronted while on a walk in her Lululemon.

00:25:44.000 Hey, Oprah. 0.75

00:25:45.000 Good morning.

00:25:46.000 How are you, darling?

00:25:47.000 You're looking very good.

00:25:48.000 How do you think the election went?

00:25:50.000 Not talking about the election.

00:25:52.000 Oh, is it true that they paid you a million dollars for the

00:25:55.000 endorsement for Kamala?

00:25:56.000 Not true.

00:25:57.000 Not true.

00:25:58.000 Okay.

00:25:59.000 I was paid nothing ever.

00:26:00.000 What do you think about all the celebrities with their mass

00:26:02.000 exodus?

00:26:03.000 I'm not talking about it.

00:26:05.000 Do you think do you think Prince Harry's going to lose his

00:26:07.000 visa now that Trump's president?

00:26:13.000 Michael, I'm going to give you a multiple choice here. 0.98

00:26:16.000 Would you like to comment on Oprah's boobs or should we show 0.99

00:26:19.000 you the receipts that she did in fact take a million dollars? 0.89

00:26:22.000 Which would you like to do first?

00:26:24.000 I think it would be most conducive to virtue and the flourishing of

00:26:29.000 our country.

00:26:30.000 If first we got to the receipts.

00:26:33.000 Receipts.

00:26:35.000 Yeah, there are the disbursements right there and hot diggity 0.98

00:26:39.000 damn Harris for president paid the recipient Harpo Productions. 0.98

00:26:44.000 That's Oprah's production company twice in one day on 10, 15, $500,000. 0.99

00:26:49.000 I'm not a math magician, but 500,000 times two is roughly $1 million.

00:26:54.000 Anything on the boobs or should I just throw that to Gad? 0.99

00:26:57.000 That goes to Gad. 0.90

00:26:58.000 He'll be a much better commenter on that.

00:27:01.000 Gad, he's a conservative.

00:27:02.000 He's like a true conservative. 0.99

00:27:04.000 They get nervous around boobs. 0.97

00:27:06.000 Could you handle this? 0.96

00:27:07.000 I won't talk about her boobs, but I can tell you as an evolutionary

00:27:10.000 psychologist, the ideal waist to hip ratio in women around the world

00:27:15.000 is 0.7 and she certainly does not meet that hourglass figure. 1.00

00:27:21.000 I'll leave it at that.

00:27:23.000 You see why I booked these people?

00:27:24.000 I think you see.

00:27:25.000 Wow.

00:27:26.000 All right.

00:27:27.000 Now to the receipts for just a second.

00:27:28.000 I mean, it knows even that look, I have never been paid for an interview.

00:27:33.000 And what she's doing there clearly is duplicitous. 0.98

00:27:36.000 Did you, Oprah, take money for it?

00:27:38.000 No, they didn't hand her a sack of cash, but they paid the production company.

00:27:42.000 And it's not just that.

00:27:43.000 When she did the Call Me Daddy podcast, they paid that girl. 1.00

00:27:47.000 I'm blanking on her name.

00:27:48.000 It doesn't even matter.

00:27:49.000 $500,000 to build a one-time set.

00:27:52.000 I mean, the level of absurdity that these people wanted to run the economy is just off

00:27:56.000 the charts.

00:27:58.000 Well, and even beyond that, they paid Al Sharpton $500,000.

00:28:02.000 And then shortly after that, days after that, he plays a happy birthday message that she had

00:28:08.000 sent him.

00:28:09.000 And then shortly after that, he gives her a softball interview, but she was paying off

00:28:12.000 all sorts of groups.

00:28:13.000 I mean, to the tune of over $5 million, she was paying off various racial grievance groups. 0.57

00:28:18.000 I think she paid off a Freemason break-off black lodge to try to shore up the blackmail

00:28:24.000 vote.

00:28:25.000 I mean, it was just spaghetti at the wall, none of which worked.

00:28:28.000 So she's been caught in all of this.

00:28:31.000 And at this point, I think this will be studied in political science classrooms as one of the

00:28:38.000 worst ways to wage a campaign.

00:28:41.000 But it all comes back to that point that you started with, Dave, which is, would you rather

00:28:45.000 sit down for the hard questions, or would you rather just have to be loose for a few

00:28:48.000 hours?

00:28:49.000 And the reason that a politician like Kamala has to choose the former is that you can,

00:28:54.000 in principle, study up for the hard questions.

00:28:57.000 You kind of know what they're going to ask you about.

00:28:58.000 They're going to ask you about the border crisis.

00:28:59.000 They're going to ask you about inflation. 0.99

00:29:00.000 They're going to ask you about some dumb thing you said. 0.95

00:29:02.000 And so you can study up and write a canned answer and memorize it and regurgitate it. 0.91

00:29:07.000 If you want to have a free-flowing conversation, you actually have to have a consistent view

00:29:12.000 of the world.

00:29:13.000 You have to have first principles that are coherent.

00:29:16.000 You have to have considered those first principles and developed a political philosophy

00:29:20.000 from that.

00:29:21.000 You have to be thoughtful and sincere in your politics.

00:29:24.000 And Kamala certainly has not been that.

00:29:27.000 She's held both sides of every single issue.

00:29:29.000 I think the Democrats broadly are struggling with that right now, which is why not only President

00:29:34.000 Trump, but also J.D. Vance can rack up millions and millions of views on Joe Rogan, can hang

00:29:39.000 and be cool and seem normal to normal people.

00:29:42.000 Noles, that was one of the best answers I've ever heard. 1.00

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00:31:04.000 All right, guys.

00:31:05.000 Well, Thanksgiving is a-coming, and that's when we here in America sit down with friends and family,

00:31:10.000 and we eat, and we drink, and we celebrate freedom,

00:31:13.000 and we take a moment to be thankful for all of the goodness that this great country

00:31:17.000 has afforded us in almost 250 years of existence.

00:31:20.000 Unless there's someone on the view, in which case you shouldn't invite people you like,

00:31:23.000 and you should probably ruin the day for everybody. Go.

00:31:26.000 Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family,

00:31:31.000 because they won't always be there.

00:31:34.000 I'm going to disagree.

00:31:35.000 I completely understand her point, because I really do feel that this candidate,

00:31:41.000 you know, President-elect Trump, is just a different type of candidate from the things he said

00:31:47.000 and the things he's done and the things he will do.

00:31:50.000 It's more of a moral issue for me, and I think it's more of a moral issue for other people.

00:31:55.000 We're just, you know, so I think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families,

00:32:01.000 but against them, and against people that they loved, I think it's okay to take a beat.

00:32:06.000 I don't have to like the voters.

00:32:08.000 Yeah.

00:32:09.000 I appreciate the voters, but I will say, somebody who tells me that my child is wrong,

00:32:18.000 because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn't be allowed to be who they are with my permission.

00:32:27.000 I have to question it. I don't want to put my kid in that position.

00:32:30.000 Exactly.

00:32:31.000 I don't want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn't understand her

00:32:38.000 and feels like it's okay to just blurt all that out. That's just me.

00:32:42.000 Just me.

00:32:43.000 Gad, I was not invited to Sonny Hostin's Thanksgiving, thankfully.

00:32:47.000 I did have a debate earlier in the week with our friend Megan Kelly.

00:32:51.000 Megan believes that Joy Racist, I almost called her Joy Racist. 1.00

00:32:56.000 A Freudian slip where you say one thing but mean your mother.

00:32:59.000 Oh, that's good.

00:33:01.000 Megan believes that Joy Reid is the most racist person on television. 1.00

00:33:05.000 I think it's Sonny Hostin. What say you?

00:33:08.000 Joy Reid is the black woman that has short hair? 1.00

00:33:12.000 Yes, the blonde. 1.00

00:33:14.000 Oh, right.

00:33:15.000 I'm going to say that in terms of pure corrosiveness, Joy is probably more so.

00:33:21.000 I mean, between a bite from a black mamba in Africa or Joy Reid, I would take the black mamba any day of the week. 0.96

00:33:30.000 I stand more chance of surviving the serpent.

00:33:33.000 As to the actual clip, because you wrote a book about happiness, which is right behind you, and it's really wonderful.

00:33:38.000 And out of all of the people that I've met in all my years of doing this, you know, you constantly privately and publicly exude joy and happiness and warmth and all of that stuff.

00:33:48.000 That they have now brought this to the Thanksgiving table.

00:33:51.000 Isn't that the perfect example of how corrosive, as you said, this has all become?

00:33:56.000 Yeah, thank you for mentioning the book, because there's actually an anecdote that I mentioned in the book that speaks exactly to that clip.

00:34:03.000 I have a cousin who was my closest best friend growing up in Lebanon.

00:34:08.000 We went through the civil war together.

00:34:11.000 It's difficult to imagine a context where two cousins could be more, you know, bonded than the two of us.

00:34:18.000 When I put out a tweet after having visited Tucker Carlson at his studio in Florida after doing his show, I put out a very innocuous tweet saying, thank you so much, Tucker, for your warmth.

00:34:29.000 It was lovely for my family to meet you.

00:34:32.000 That's it.

00:34:33.000 No politics.

00:34:34.000 Just a warm, you know, thank you.

00:34:36.000 He publicly chastised me.

00:34:39.000 How dare you?

00:34:40.000 Have you no shame?

00:34:42.000 How could you be associated with that guy?

00:34:44.000 So the cousin who was my best friend with whom I went through the terror of the Lebanese civil war disowned me publicly for having said a nice thing about Tucker.

00:34:55.000 It's grotesque.

00:34:56.000 Uh, Knowles, can you beat that?

00:34:57.000 I mean, I know you lived through the great Scarsdale launch, uh, Larchmont civil war.

00:35:02.000 I did.

00:35:03.000 And, and people don't even read about that in the history books.

00:35:07.000 All right.

00:35:08.000 You got it.

00:35:09.000 We got to get that back in our classrooms.

00:35:10.000 Uh, the, the way that people on the view, the way that the libs broadly can write off their family members and blow up their families and not go to Thanksgiving is because they lack charity, first of all, and because they have not cultivated virtue, uh, and because they don't really understand politics, the present moment or politics broadly.

00:35:29.000 And you, you see this revealed when she says that for her, this is really a moral issue.

00:35:33.000 You know, I actually have some moral disagreements with my liberal relatives that I go to holidays with, uh, because some of my liberal relatives support murdering babies and castrating children.

00:35:44.000 So we're not even talking about minor or trivial moral issues.

00:35:48.000 We're talking about real serious moral issues.

00:35:50.000 So how is it that I can sit down with my relatives?

00:35:53.000 Well, it's in part because I know that they, they don't really understand those issues.

00:35:57.000 Uh, it's in, in part, cause I hope to have cultivated patients, three toddlers under the age of four will help with that as well.

00:36:04.000 But, but it's also because I recognize as St. Thomas Aquinas might say that desires are aiming at some good.

00:36:11.000 When, when a liberal supports murdering babies, the liberals are actually aiming at the good of liberation or the good of self-actualization or whatever false good that they, they're, they're aiming at.

00:36:24.000 They're really trying to pursue some good and, and they're just mistaken about how to go about that.

00:36:28.000 Uh, even with the castrating children, they're aiming at a good.

00:36:31.000 It's just their, their intellects have been darkened through vice and ignorance.

00:36:34.000 So that's how I can sit down with them and have a lovely time and still love my family.

00:36:38.000 Even when they're wrong about a lot of things, uh, for I hope they don't watch this show before Thanksgiving, because they may not be thrilled with some of that.

00:36:46.000 No, I mean, I would, I would happily say that to their face in some cases I have, but it doesn't mean that I love them any less.

00:36:52.000 Doesn't mean I want, I don't want to spend time with them, but, but for someone like these ladies on the view, they really don't get it. 1.00

00:36:57.000 They, they don't understand why most people voted for Trump.

00:37:01.000 They don't understand.

00:37:02.000 They, they want to say it's racism.

00:37:03.000 Well, explain half of Hispanics and one in five black men.

00:37:06.000 They think it's sexism. 0.95

00:37:07.000 Explain 40% of women, even under 30 in the majority of married women. 0.56

00:37:10.000 They don't, they just don't know.

00:37:12.000 And so it just seems to me, if I were the kind of person who couldn't understand why most people did something, I would maybe become a little introspective.

00:37:21.000 I might think, huh, maybe I'm the one with the problem.

00:37:24.000 And I'd try to figure that out.

00:37:25.000 They do.

00:37:26.000 You might look in the mirror every now and again, but unfortunately they just seem to refuse to do it.

00:37:31.000 And I'll start with one last clip related to this, because I do think this, you know, we're rolling into the holiday season here.

00:37:37.000 And it's like, you, we're all going to be around family with whatever issues they've got.

00:37:41.000 And we've all got the issues.

00:37:42.000 Every, literally everyone on earth has got some issues with family and it's going to be incumbent on us to be a little bit better than they are.

00:37:50.000 And here's a perfect example of that.

00:37:51.000 This is a mega viral video of a BLM activist talking about cutting, cutting people out of the life. 0.87

00:37:57.000 I'm going to make this for the white people and the white people only. 0.97

00:38:00.000 Oh, y'all are standing on big business and I love to see it. 0.97

00:38:06.000 Y'all are cutting off family members.

00:38:08.000 You are standing up for black people in these comments. 0.85

00:38:11.000 Y'all are stitching videos and going in and we love to see it.

00:38:18.000 This is how you ally.

00:38:20.000 You hold the people accountable for their actions, your people.

00:38:26.000 Dad, this concept that she's trying to give accolades to people who will basically cut other people out of their lives in order to serve her purpose.

00:38:36.000 Ooh, that's some suicidal empathy right there, isn't it?

00:38:40.000 Next book, indeed.

00:38:41.000 Well, thank you, by the way, for having provided me with a synopsis of what she said, because I don't speak crystal meth, whatever it is that you're speaking.

00:38:48.000 So I appreciate I do speak Arabic, Hebrew, French and English, but I don't speak whatever language that she was speaking.

00:38:54.000 So I appreciate that.

00:38:55.000 Yeah, I mean, it goes to the earlier point that we said that it is unbelievable how for the progressives, everything is political, right?

00:39:03.000 The soccer matches, the football matches, art, the FBI, medicine, everything that should be that should have a clear delineation.

00:39:12.000 By definition, it shouldn't involve politics.

00:39:15.000 They try to infuse politics into it, even at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

00:39:20.000 Here is a prescription from my happiness book.

00:39:23.000 Don't live your life as the progressives do.

00:39:26.000 Gentlemen, I was strongly considering writing you both off after this and having this be your last appearance on the Rubin Report

00:39:32.000 because of your radical positions, ending our friendships, et cetera, et cetera.

00:39:36.000 No more whiskey for you, Knowles.

00:39:38.000 No more cigars for you, Gad.

00:39:40.000 However, it's the holiday season.

00:39:42.000 You guys can come back one more time.

00:39:44.000 Knowles, what do you do over the weekend?

00:39:46.000 Well, I'm just glad you weren't going to write me off for my lack of breast jokes.

00:39:50.000 You know, I'll try to come with with more material next time.

00:39:53.000 I thought you had something right there.

00:39:56.000 I thought you I thought you were about to drop one, right?

00:39:58.000 No, no, no.

00:39:59.000 It's good.

00:40:00.000 No, absolutely.

00:40:01.000 It's actually gets to something Gad said earlier.

00:40:03.000 I feel I'm there.

00:40:04.000 I'm not being cute in any way.

00:40:06.000 I feel since Tuesday that my step has been lighter.

00:40:10.000 I have been springier.

00:40:11.000 I have I feel in a way that I'm kind of on a cloud.

00:40:16.000 I don't know.

00:40:17.000 You know, with that, I'm still grounded.

00:40:18.000 I'm still on Earth, but it just feels so good.

00:40:21.000 And so, you know, President Trump said that we would get tired of winning.

00:40:24.000 I'm not tired of winning.

00:40:25.000 I am tired from winning.

00:40:27.000 We've been staying up late.

00:40:28.000 We've been it's been very, very exciting.

00:40:30.000 But but I can say for the first time in politics in many, many months or years, what I've been doing over the weekends is enjoying things.

00:40:39.000 There you go there.

00:40:40.000 And you know what?

00:40:41.000 The spring in your step is right.

00:40:42.000 I'm playing basketball the other night, and I jumped a little higher than I've been jumping, and I felt it was the power of Donald Trump springboarding me that way.

00:40:50.000 Gad, bring us home.

00:40:51.000 What do you got this weekend, Mr. Happy?

00:40:53.000 Well, continue working on the book Suicidal Empathy and just spend quality time with our children there.

00:41:01.000 As you know, they're now entering the teenage years.

00:41:04.000 So this is the time where you go from being a hero to a zero.

00:41:07.000 So any time that I could spend with them where they still think I'm cool, I'm going to jump all over that.

00:41:12.000 So spend time with the family, write a bit and life is good.

00:41:16.000 You guys are the best.

00:41:18.000 We saved America.

00:41:19.000 Have a good weekend, everybody.

00:41:21.000 No postgame show on Fridays.

00:41:22.000 We'll be back on Monday.

00:41:23.000 Thanks.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - November 16, 2024

Discussing Trump's Victory & Post Meltdown with Dave Rubin & Michael Knowles (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_754)

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