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Nov. 7, 2019 - The Michael Knowles Show

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Ep. 446 - The Impeachment Coup

The impeachers admit impeachment is nothing but a coup, Warren picks up a big endorsement, and Jeffrey Epstein’s brother thinks he didn’t kill himself. Finally, the Mailbag! Date: 11-07-2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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	Democrats' impeachment attempt is not merely a hoax.
	It's not merely a witch hunt.
	It is a coup.
	And if you don't want to take my word for it, you can listen to the words of the lawyer for the whistleblower who kicked off the latest impeachment push in the first place.
	We will blow the whistle on the whistleblower's coup.
	Then, Elizabeth Warren picks up an endorsement from a member of the radical socialist squad.
	The ladies of The View go after Tulsi Gabbard.
	And Jeffrey Epstein's brother thinks the billionaire pedophile who didn't kill himself didn't kill himself.
	Finally, the mailbag.
	I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.
	So I'm just having a little trouble reading whatever is in the prompt.
	It looks like Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
	We'll get to that a little bit later as well.
	But first we have to get to this whistleblower's coup.
	This is a major story that nobody in the mainstream media is covering.
	The lawyer for the whistleblower, the so-called whistleblower, I want to put it in quotes when I say it, who started this entire latest impeachment campaign That lawyer has been saying publicly for two years now, three years almost, that the left is going to be launching a coup to oust President Trump from office that would end in impeachment.
	I kid you not.
	This guy must be the least competent saboteur in the history of politics.
	The guy's name is Mark Zaid.
	I would read the tweets for you that he sent out about this coup and about impeachment, but I'll let President Trump do that himself at a rally last night.
	A lot of things have happened because, you know, I don't know if you saw, I just got off.
	I'm coming off the plane and they hand me, look at this character.
	Okay, they just hand me this story.
	Coup has started, whistleblowers, attorney said, in 2017.
	You know when that was?
	That was a long time ago.
	It's all a hoax.
	They say January 2017, a coup has started, and the impeachment will follow, ultimately.
	It's all a hoax.
	It's a scam.
	And you know who helps them?
	These people right back here, the media.
	And then it said, oops, the light's going to go off, the CNN light is going to go off.
	It said, from the lawyer, a sleazeball.
	It said, I predict at CNN we'll play a key role in at-wheel Donald Trump.
	Not finishing out his first time.
	Can you believe this?
	And this was done a long time ago.
	Then he goes, as one falls, two more will take their place, referring to outgoing Trump administration employees who, by the way, have been put through hell by the sleaze back there and by crooked politicians.
	This lawyer, Mark Zaid, thank you, sir.
	Thank you for saying the thing that you're not supposed to say, that you're just supposed to keep in your head, which is that the entire push for impeachment is illegitimate.
	It is a coup d'etat.
	It is actually an overturning of the regime, overturning of a presidential election because you don't like the results in 2016.
	That's what it is.
	I don't want to hear...
	Anything else about how Trump is eroding trust in our institutions or how Trump is undermining norms of behavior.
	I don't want to hear another word about that because you have the lawyer for the whistleblower saying emphatically on Twitter two years ago, 2017, that there will be a coup I don't want to hear another word about Trump's tweets.
	Trump has never tweeted anything as dangerous to our republic and to our institutions as those tweets from the lawyer for the so-called whistleblower.
	Who's the whistleblower?
	Sure looks like it's a fella named Eric Charamella.
	The reason I think that is because Donald Trump Jr.
	tweeted this out yesterday.
	He tweeted out, this was with an article from Breitbart.
	So the article reads, alleged whistleblower Eric Charamella worked closely with anti-Trump dossier writer.
	And Trump Jr.
	tweets out, because of course he did.
	Alleged whistleblower Eric Charamella worked closely with the hoaxer.
	This is the alleged whistleblower, but it's the name that's going around Washington that nobody has denied, including himself.
	Sure looks like this guy is the whistleblower.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	goes out there and just says, this is who the guy is.
	Yesterday, we played a clip of Rand Paul Saying that it would be perfectly fine for him to name the whistleblower, though he's not going to do it yet.
	Everybody's been talking about how it's fine to name the whistleblower, but no one wants to actually do it.
	Trump Jr.
	just goes out there, says the name, no big deal.
	I love him for it.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	has really been going up in my estimation recently because he's just willing to say things and be brash and go out there and say the thing you're not supposed to say.
	He was on CBS News, CBS This Morning, and he was asked...
	To name his favorite Democrats.
	Say something nice about Democrats.
	And it took him a second, but Trump Jr.
	had the perfect response.
	We've got to go.
	I'm sure you'll take the conversation to Twitter.
	Say something nice on there today, all right?
	I'll do that.
	I'll do that.
	I can do both.
	There's some nice stuff in there.
	Who is your favorite Democrat?
	Go ahead.
	All right, Mayor Trump, we're going to let you go.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
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	Mitt Romney, Gail.
	Mitt Romney is my favorite Democrat.
	How about that?
	It's time to check your local weather.
	It took him a minute.
	It would have been better if he had that line ready to go, but that was a good response.
	Who's your favorite Democrat?
	Mitt Romney.
	So this is Trump Jr., Donald Trump Jr., who's just going in there with his attitude.
	He says, I'm not going to wait for somebody to reveal the whistleblower and there's going to be this whole debate over the ethics of it.
	I'm just going to say it.
	It's this jerk named Eric Charamella.
	He's the alleged whistleblower.
	He's a deep stater in the true sense of the word.
	He's worked for the CIA. He's worked for Joe Biden.
	He worked for Joe Biden while Joe Biden was being a crook with Ukraine.
	He worked for John Brennan.
	Then he goes back and works for the CIA. And he's been undermining the Trump administration since the very beginning.
	And he's a self-appointed master of the universe who graduated Yale in 2008 and is just absolutely convinced that That he knows better than the American people how to run their country for them.
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	Is it legal to reveal the identity of the whistleblower?
	Yes.
	That was a short segment.
	It is.
	The mainstream media tell you otherwise, but it is.
	I mean, the mainstream media were haranguing Rand Paul yesterday.
	It's illegal to name the whistleblower.
	It's out of the bounds of constitutionality, and they just use buzzwords that they've heard.
	It's perfectly legal.
	NPR, of all places, spoke with four legal experts yesterday on whether it would be a crime for President Trump to out the whistleblower.
	The answer is no.
	According to Robert Litt, former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence under Barack Obama, quote, If Trump thinks he knows the name, he can come out and say it, and he's probably as protected as anyone is.
	From Dan Meyer, a lawyer and former executive director of the Intelligence Community Whistle Program, says, There is no overarching protection for the identity of the whistleblower under federal law.
	Congress has never provided that protection.
	This is the former executive director of the IC's whistleblower program.
	He's saying there's no protection to keep that identity a secret.
	This is from Leon Panetta, who obviously worked in the Obama administration.
	He said that the whole purpose of the law, the whistleblower law, is to allow people to be able to speak to fraud or crimes they see within their jobs without having to pay a price for vengeance and retribution.
	And if the president revealed his name, it would be unprecedented in history.
	But notice what's missing in Leanne Panetta's statement.
	He never says it's illegal.
	There's no legal protection for it.
	And Panetta's one of the people who's certainly hoping to keep that whistleblower name a secret.
	And then Stephen Cohn.
	Stephen Cohn is a lawyer for whistleblowers.
	He's the only one who suggested otherwise.
	He said, disclosing the name of a whistleblower is one of the worst forms of retaliation.
	Trump's obligations are not just to protect the whistleblower's identity.
	It only begins there.
	The law says he has to ensure that nobody in the executive branch leaks out his name.
	That is the best argument that a lawyer for whistleblowers can make.
	All of the relevant people, even those who worked in the Obama administration, say there is no legal protection there.
	So it's perfectly legal to leak the whistleblower's name, to reveal who the whistleblower is.
	He's not even a whistleblower, by the way.
	We read, this was now weeks ago on the show, we read the so-called whistleblower complaint.
	The whistleblower was blowing the whistle on second and third hand information.
	He didn't have first hand knowledge of the phone call between Trump and Ukraine.
	Then we read the transcript between Trump and Ukraine.
	There was nothing wrong with it.
	Then if you read the whistleblower complaint, much of what he was complaining about was public knowledge.
	Tweets, interviews with George Stephanopoulos on network television, that's not blowing the whistle.
	That's using the mechanisms of the bureaucratic state to try to overturn a presidential election.
	This guy deserves no legal protection, and he has none.
	He deserves absolutely no respect.
	He is...
	If it sounds like I'm speaking to this with some sort of personal feeling here, it's because I am.
	Because...
	I know these guys.
	I don't know this whistleblower in particular, but I know these guys.
	I know these guys who graduated from Yale, who went straight into the bureaucracy, into what is called the deep state, who believe that they are so much better than the American people.
	They know so much better than you do how to run your life and how to run your government.
	government and they feel that they have no, there will be no legal ramifications for what they do.
	They can flit in and out of the elected government, but they'll go right back to the permanent government.
	They are going to be around long after any of the elected people are gone and they are going to run your country and you can't do a damn thing about it.
	The vision of the anointed as Thomas Sowell would say, I know a lot of guys like this.
	I happened to miss this guy in college.
	He left right when I got there.
	But I know so many guys like this.
	And it's so disrespectful to our republic, to the American people, and to constitutional norms.
	He deserves absolutely no respect or special protection.
	There's a book coming out, As the Whistleblower Saga Has Begun.
	As the whistleblower who, first, I can't even call him a whistleblower.
	As the saboteur, as the rebel, as the coup enactor, began this process of impeachment before he filed his complaint.
	He spoke to Adam Schiff, probably the biggest hack Democrat in Congress, who's in many ways leading impeachment and who's mostly a tool of the intelligence community.
	He spoke to him.
	They colluded.
	They conspired on how they were going to launch impeachment.
	As this was happening, there's a book coming out, anonymously, from another saboteur in the Trump administration.
	A guy who presents himself as a saboteur of the Trump administration, he published an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times.
	Talk about journalistic standards.
	In the New York Times, they publish an anonymous op-ed from a guy in the Trump administration saying, hey, I'm working in the Trump administration and sabotaging Trump's plans and sabotaging the desires of the American people who elected him.
	That book is coming out.
	It's called A Warning, reportedly written by an unnamed senior White House official.
	And now they make another claim there.
	The claim they make is that Vice President Mike Pence was willing to invoke the 25th Amendment to kick Trump out of office and overturn the presidential election.
	That's the new claim.
	Should we believe it?
	We'll get to that in a second.
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	So these guys...
	Who have been lying since day one?
	These guys, the same people, the same cabal who pushed the Russia collusion hoax, who then, when that didn't work, they tried to impeach Trump for sleeping with a porn star or something.
	Then, when that didn't work, they tried to get Trump for his taxes.
	Then, when that didn't work, they tried to get Trump for colluding with Ukraine.
	And that doesn't make sense because Ukraine is at war with Russia, so I don't know how he's colluding with both.
	They get more specific.
	They say he tried to engage in a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
	A quid pro quo meaning...
	You get something and they get something, which is, by the way, the definition of foreign policy.
	When we're dealing with our allies around the world, we offer them something, they offer us something.
	The claim is that Trump was personally benefiting from this.
	What was the personal benefit?
	The personal benefit was that he was allegedly asking them to investigate Joe Biden for engaging in a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
	The leading Democratic contender...
	Engaged in some pretty dodgy activity in Ukraine and then the minute that the Republican president says look into it, that's apparently criminal.
	They've been lying to us from day one and now we're supposed to believe that Mike Pence was willing to overturn the presidential election, invoke the 25th Amendment, and kick Trump out of office.
	There is no reason to entertain this for even two seconds.
	Pence's team is pushing back pretty hard.
	His former press secretary is saying it's absolutely ridiculous.
	The reason I dismiss this out of hand is not because I don't think there's any court intrigue in the White House, although I will point out Mike Pence has been incredibly loyal to Trump.
	But it's not, look, of course there's always intrigue in any political campaign left, right, or center.
	The reason I dismiss this out of hand is because these people who are trying to overturn the presidential election of 2016 have never told us the truth, ever, and they've consistently lied to us.
	So I see no reason to believe them this time.
	There's some good news for President Trump that came out of this whole Ukraine thing, though.
	Testimony about a month ago from Kurt Volker, the U.S. envoy to Ukraine, was highly anticipated.
	The left said, Volker, he's the one.
	He's going to nail Trump.
	If anyone's going to nail Trump, it's going to be him.
	He's going to testify that there's a quid pro quo and it was illegal and they're going to impeach him now.
	We have the transcript.
	it.
	We have the transcript from that testimony.
	He was asked, Kurt Volker, U.S. envoy to Ukraine, was asked what conversations he had with the president or anybody else about the quid pro quo in Ukraine.
	Here is Kurt Volker's response verbatim.
	You asked what conversations did I have about that quid pro quo, etc.?
	None.
	Because I didn't know there was a quid pro quo.
	So you have the guy whose job it is to conduct U.S. policy with Ukraine saying on the record, testifying, that he had no clue, didn't know anything about there being a quid pro quo.
	It is at this point lunacy to believe that there is any legal basis for impeachment.
	It doesn't matter if you like Trump or if you think Trump is the worst guy in the world or you think he's a fascist or a monster or a demagogue.
	There is no legal basis for impeachment.
	And there's no reason to believe that there is.
	They've been trying to impeach Trump since literally before he was sworn in.
	The justification has changed at least three times now.
	All of the others have been disproven.
	The main whistleblower's lawyer is admitting that this is a coup.
	There is no evidence that what the Democrats are even alleging is illegal.
	Much less high crimes and misdemeanors.
	And the U.S. envoy to Ukraine says there's no quid pro quo.
	There is no reason to buy this.
	The other aspect here is that about two weeks ago in USA Today, you had a big left-wing op-ed which said it doesn't matter if the president hasn't committed a crime, he can still be impeached.
	They're already setting up this narrative that you don't need to commit a crime to be impeached, which you do.
	We had many debates at the founding of this country over what impeachment should look like.
	Can you be impeached just for being poor, a poor manager, bad at running the government, or must you commit a crime?
	And some people like George Mason argued that you should be able to be thrown out of office if you're just not good at your job.
	And people like James Madison said, no, that's not enough.
	There needs to be a stronger legal basis for impeachment because we don't simply want the executive branch to serve the legislative branch.
	We don't want congressional supremacy where we have the Congress dominating our government and the Executive and the judiciary are just subsidiary branches of government.
	We have three co-equal branches of government and a separation of powers.
	That has served our country very well for a long time.
	The left is trying to undermine that now.
	There's no reason to give them any leeway there.
	Getting to 2020, big endorsement for Elizabeth Warren.
	You saw a few weeks ago AOC and the...
	Ilhan Omar and who's the other one?
	Whatever.
	The other member of the squad.
	Rashida Tlaib.
	They were coming out for Joe Biden.
	Not Joe Biden.
	Bernie Sanders, rather.
	Obviously not Joe Biden.
	They were coming out for Bernie Sanders, but one member of the squad was not coming out for Bernie.
	That was Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo of the squad, and she is coming out now for Elizabeth Warren.
	Here she is.
	The American people deserve to be represented by elected officials who see them, who listen to them, and who fight for them.
	I have seen Elizabeth in small church basements and in packed gymnasiums, and she is consistent.
	She never loses sight of the people.
	You've all heard about the Senators' plans, but here's the thing.
	The plans are about power.
	Who has it, who refuses to let it go, and who deserves more of it.
	For Elizabeth and for me, power belongs in the hands of the people.
	That's why she's fighting for fundamental change that restores power to those who've been left behind and centers those who've never had access to it in the first place.
	This election is a fight for the very soul of our nation.
	Elizabeth knows how to fight and she knows how to win.
	I'm proud to call her my senator.
	I can't wait to call her our president.
	I'm Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, and I represent the Massachusetts 7th Congressional District, and I'm proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren for president.
	Okay, so this is a good pickup for Elizabeth Warren.
	However, it's not the same as AOC and Ilhan Omar endorsing Bernie Sanders.
	Why not?
	Because Anna Presley sort of had to endorse Elizabeth Warren, because Anna Presley is a congressman from Massachusetts, and Elizabeth Warren is the senator from Massachusetts, and so it just, these are people who've worked together, they share a constituency, it just looks much better for her to back the person from her own state.
	Also because Elizabeth Warren has momentum now, so she's finally willing to get on board.
	I suspect if Anna Presley were not from Massachusetts, she might withhold an endorsement.
	Maybe she would have gone to Bernie Sanders.
	It's a much bigger deal when you get the endorsement on the basis of ideology and not really just on geography or opportunism.
	And that's what happened when AOC backed...
	Bernie and when Ilhan Omar backed Bernie Sanders.
	Still a good win for Elizabeth Warren and she's trotting this out now because the race is starting to heat up and you're starting to see people snipe at one another and because, as we said a couple days ago on the show, Elizabeth Warren has made her decision.
	She was debating, is she going to try to...
	Fight off Joe Biden or is she going to try to fight off Bernie Sanders?
	Is she going to steal Biden's moderate voters or is she going to steal Bernie's socialist voters?
	She's made her choice.
	She's running as a leftist and she's going to let Pete Buttigieg try to fight it out to win the moderate lane.
	She's going to the left.
	She's now advocating a $52 trillion healthcare program.
	She is trotting out endorsements from socialists.
	She's going all the way left.
	We'll see.
	It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
	We'll see how it turns out for her.
	Many people still believe that beyond the headlines, beyond the mainstream media, the moderate wing is going to eke this out.
	There's still a chance Joe Biden gets the nomination, which is why Pete Buttigieg has made his choice.
	He's now running away from the left and running toward the middle.
	It's a win for Elizabeth Warren, but it's not going to count for very much.
	She's got to Sure up more of her left-wing credentials.
	She's got to really beat Bernie out of the race.
	And Bernie's still doing an excellent job with fundraising.
	He's still doing a very good job in many of the polls.
	So this is not going to end anytime soon.
	I could see this left-wing battle going on very, very close to even the nominating convention.
	We've got a lot more to get to, but first, before we get to those ladies of the view, you know, I used to call the ladies of the view cackling hens after Norm MacDonald's phrase, but I really like Abby Huntsman, so I can no longer do that.
	Abby Huntsman is on the view.
	I'm not going to call them cackling hens anymore.
	I guess I could call the rest of them, but I'm not even going to do that out of respect for Abby Huntsman.
	Tulsi Gabbard was on The View, and she gets into it with the leftist Joy Behar.
	We'll get to that in a second.
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	Okay, before we go to break into the mailbag, I've got to get to this clip on The View.
	It is one of the few times I've watched The View in recent years, but Tulsi Gabbard absolutely clobbered Joy Behar.
	Here she is.
	Some of you have accused me of being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse, or a useful idiot, I think was the term that you used.
	Which basically means that I'm naive or lack intelligence to know what's going on.
	I want to let your viewers know exactly who I am.
	All right.
	Set the record straight.
	I am a patriot.
	I love our country.
	I am a strong and intelligent woman of color.
	And I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security and the freedom of all Americans in this country.
	It was the attacks on 9-11.
	I guess we're getting a little bit far ahead of ourselves, but Franklin Graham finds you refreshing.
	He doesn't find me refreshing.
	Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader, says he could vote for you.
	Joy, this is why I'm here.
	I mean, you're on Tucker Carlson at least ten times.
	Why don't you go on Chris Wallace's show?
	This is why I'm here, because you and other people continue to spread these innuendos that have nothing to do with who I am.
	Okay.
	She goes on.
	It's worth watching the whole rest of the segment.
	I bring this up not even to defend Tulsi Gabbard.
	I don't especially care for Tulsi Gabbard as a candidate.
	Obviously, every time she's on TV, my heart goes pitter-patter.
	But she's still a leftist.
	I mean, she's still a Democrat.
	And I think some of the conservative swooning over her is really just because she's in any way contradicting left-wing orthodoxy.
	I mean, she's still a leftist.
	She votes for impeachment.
	You know, she's...
	But she's diverged in a couple ways on a few issues from leftist orthodoxy.
	She doesn't think we should be able to kill babies until the moment of birth, only a little bit before birth.
	She doesn't think that we should have our troops overseas in every single country in the Middle East.
	She's pulling away a little bit from leftism, pulling away just a little bit from liberal internationalism.
	And I bring up this clip to show you Even if you only contradict leftism by a little tiny bit, They will destroy you.
	They will smear you.
	They will lie about you on network television.
	They will call you a racist and a bigot and a white nationalist.
	That's the new made-up term for a racist.
	And racist is the old term that has now been so robbed of meaning that they have to move on to white nationalists.
	They call everybody a white nationalist now.
	It's a term that I suppose once sort of had meaning and now no longer does.
	They'll do that to Tulsi Gabbard.
	Tulsi Gabbard is, I guess, a white nationalist.
	She's a leftist of color, but she's a white nationalist now because Joy Behar says so, because she contradicted leftist orthodoxy in any way whatsoever.
	It's to show you they do this even to the left, the mostly left.
	One, when they do it to you, and they will, don't let it bother you.
	If you're not a bigot, who cares if they call you a bigot?
	Doesn't matter.
	Also to show you don't believe what you read in the newspapers all the time because they'll do it to everybody.
	They'll lie through their teeth.
	It's cynical.
	It's opportunistic.
	And they deserve no credibility when they say it.
	It is lies through and through.
	It is all designed at a coup through and through.
	It is all designed at taking power.
	They're not blowing the whistle on any crime Trump actually did.
	It's an impeachment in search of a crime.
	They're not...
	Blowing the whistle.
	They're not showing America and exposing the awful rank bigotry at the heart of candidates like Tulsi Gabbard.
	They're not doing that.
	They're just saying things without any regard for the truth in a cynical ploy to steal power.
	Let's not give it to them.
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	By the way, I just noticed something here before we get to the mailbag.
	It looks like, trying to read my own notes, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
	That's what it looks like, not just to me, but to Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, who is now speculating that the two contusions Epstein had on both of his wrists, a left forearm abrasion and muscle hemorrhaging of his left deltoid, are evidence that there was a struggle, there was a fight.
	Mark Epstein said those are unexplained.
	Was he handcuffed and struggled?
	Was someone holding his wrists?
	The marks on his wrist are unexplained.
	He's been trying to get the autopsy, the death report.
	He said, they're playing games.
	I've done the appropriate requests with the Justice Department twice and have heard nothing.
	I was told someone's looking into it, but so far he's heard nothing.
	He then says, I have no standing to sue.
	People should know the truth about what can happen in a federal facility.
	My brother might have been murdered.
	This is not about me.
	He then asked Dr.
	Michael Baden to do the autopsy.
	He was a very well-known, long-standing forensic expert.
	And the doctor said, quote, It says that he met with Jeffrey Epstein on August 1st,
	and he told Fox News, quote, He was told they closed the case.
	Call me crazy, but what it sure sounds like to me is Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
	And by the way, if anything happens to me between now and our show on Monday, you better go to Chappaqua and investigate.
	Alright, folks?
	Alright, let's get to the mailbag.
	From Amanda...
	Given that only 3% of Americans wait until marriage to have sex, and even in highly religious groups, like the Southern Baptist groups, are only up to 20% likely to wait until marriage.
	Should religious institutions continue to focus on abstinence, or should they focus on safe sex practices?
	Thanks.
	What do you mean, should they focus on?
	I don't think the teaching of the church has changed.
	Just because people are violating the rules, violating commandments, violating the moral law, doesn't mean that the moral law changes.
	It's not good to break the moral law, but people do it all the time.
	I mean, that's the reason that we have an incarnation and atonement in the first place.
	But you shouldn't change your moral teaching just because people are breaking the rules.
	That destroys the whole purpose of the moral teaching.
	Now, if you're asking, should churches say, don't have sex before marriage, but if you do have sex before marriage, use a condom and do this and do that.
	No, I think that's pretty confusing.
	If you're asking, should the churches teach...
	Don't have sex before marriage, but there are condoms, and there are sexually transmitted diseases, and this is what will happen if you do have sex.
	Well, of course.
	Of course people should teach biological realities.
	You shouldn't hide information from people.
	You shouldn't pass along bad information or misinformation.
	In fact, as part of any sort of sexual education, you should tell people exactly what will happen if you have sex.
	And you should tell people exactly the statistical likelihood of what happens if you have sex at 15 or 16.
	And you should present all of that information.
	I think that's a pretty good bit of information for the case to not just have sex with everybody you meet when you're a teenager and in your 20s and before you get married.
	Actually, the more information you give, the stronger the argument is for the traditional moral teaching here.
	That's not an argument for changing moral teaching.
	It's actually a buttress for the traditional teaching.
	But you're going to have to approach this from a lot of different angles because just the advent of high-speed internet pornography alone means that sexual education has completely changed in just the last 12, 13 years.
	The vast majority of boys between, I think it's the ages of 10 and 13, will have seen high-speed internet pornography.
	That is not the kind of sexual education you want your kids to get.
	So you should certainly present the information, and you should explain to them why it is better.
	I mean, I talk to a lot of millennials, virtually none of whom waited until marriage to have sex, and a lot of them will now say, gosh, maybe I should have waited.
	Huh.
	Maybe that traditional teaching has a point.
	Hmm.
	Maybe the fact that between 1960 and today, that sexually transmitted diseases have exploded in this country.
	Maybe the fact that there's a syphilis epidemic in Los Angeles.
	Syphilis.
	That shouldn't even exist anymore.
	Maybe that tells us that something's gone wrong in the sexual revolution, and maybe those old fuddy-duddies who didn't sleep with everyone they met at a bar, maybe they had something right.
	From Jeremy.
	Second Amendment question.
	My liberal friends say, your guns won't protect you against government drones.
	I say the military as a whole force would not turn against its population and the combatants in Afghanistan held out pretty well with less firepower.
	How can my rebuttal be better formulated and more comprehensive?
	That's a very good rebuttal.
	Afghanistan is the size of Texas, I think.
	And they've held out for 17, 18 years now using black powder rifles from the British colonial era.
	Americans, the most popular gun in the country is the AR-15.
	I think we'd be fine.
	And yes, you're right.
	The military wouldn't turn on its own people.
	If they got the order to attack their own people, I think you'd see huge numbers of military personnel just walking away and taking the side of the people who are being targeted.
	Same goes for law enforcement agencies.
	But America's a really, really big place.
	Really, really big.
	The fact that when you look at the electoral map, it's a sea of red with a few little pockets of blue on the coast, and yet the elections are usually about 50-50, tells you something.
	There's a lot of wide open space here.
	There's a lot of space for that federal government to occupy.
	And if...
	If the Second Amendment were not such a strong power center for the people, then why would the left be so keen on taking it away?
	Especially the AR-15, right?
	The AR-15 is involved in very, very few murders each year.
	Hands, feet, bats, and clubs are involved in many more murders than rifles of any kind, including the AR-15.
	So why is the government so keen on taking away your rifles?
	Because they don't want you to be able to protect yourself.
	Liberal democracies, republics, many of them in the last century and a half have disarmed the people as a way to steal more power and give the government a carte blanche to do whatever they want to the people.
	Our founders had the foresight not to let that happen, and we should have the foresight not to give away that right.
	From Abby, for your religious and politically conservative beliefs, what is the best state to move to in your opinion?
	I'm assuming California is not where you would ideally live.
	Thanks.
	I have always lived in liberal places.
	I think it makes me better at defending my ideas and makes me think more carefully about my ideas and exposes me to the best arguments of the left.
	So, I actually do kind of like living in left-wing places.
	I also like the beach and, you know, being near the water.
	However, if I were to live in my ideal place, where people generally agree with me, where the people are really nice, where it's beautiful, where the architecture is beautiful, where people understand religion very well, I would go to the greatest town in America, Mobile, Alabama.
	I shouldn't even say this on my show.
	I'm going to ruin Mobile just by talking about it.
	And all these people are going to go there.
	Mobile is such a great place.
	Not easily accessible from any major airport, so it hasn't been invaded yet by leftists.
	Beautiful, temperate, on the water, some of the nicest people in the world...
	A gorgeous Catholic cathedral there.
	I think it's a pretty old Catholic town, back from the French.
	It was initially part of the Diocese of Havana.
	Obviously, I like that very much.
	They invented Mardi Gras, one of my favorite holidays.
	Stone's throw from New Orleans.
	It's just a great town.
	So, if I were to retire and leave these leftist, Gomorrah-by-the-Sea kind of places like LA, I'd have to go to Mobile, Alabama.
	From Ryan.
	On campus, there is a should-Trump-be-impeached debate.
	I would appreciate some good counter-arguments against the typical leftist talking points for impeachment.
	Thanks.
	Oh, well, I think I gave you those today, actually.
	What I would first do is ask them.
	What impeachable offense did Trump commit?
	Probably that will end the conversation because they don't have any answers to that.
	Then I would point out that the left has been trying to impeach Trump since before he got elected.
	That happened in the Senate and in the House.
	Then, right after he got elected, or right after he was...
	They've been trying to impeach Trump since after he was elected, but before he was inaugurated.
	Right after Trump was inaugurated, Al Green, the congressman, not the singer, put out a resolution to impeach Trump.
	Fortunately, that failed.
	He was asked why he did it.
	He said, because I think if we don't impeach Trump, he'll get re-elected.
	That's what this is about.
	It's about a coup.
	The lawyer for the whistleblower admits it.
	Al Green admits it.
	The rank-and-file Democrats should admit it, too.
	From Giovanna.
	Beautiful name.
	Dearest King Covfefe.
	What's your stance on listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving?
	My personal favorite holiday song is It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Epstein Didn't Kill Himself.
	I'd love to hear your thoughts.
	Very interesting, Giovanna.
	I'm actually of the opinion that we listen to Christmas music far too early.
	And we've totally forgotten about the season of Advent.
	So I don't just think that we shouldn't listen to Christmas music...
	Before Thanksgiving or after Thanksgiving.
	I don't think we should listen to Christmas music before Christmas.
	I think we should listen to Advent music.
	This Advent is the season that we're about to get into it.
	It's the season before Christmas.
	And it's the season after the time that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
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