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Basically. I've seen. Personal things against. You. I decided to wear hidden camera. Your unit is going to give. Me To which I decided to secretly record the 9 am rundown called meetings and it's basically run by Jeff Zucker the president of c.n.n. . When I came to work at c.n.n. I mean it was my dream job and that dream actually just turned into a nightmare the only thing that makes me question this source is credibility as he says that working at c.n.n. Was his dream job that I know I'm a little questioning but you could hear it on the audio that 1st person you hear from and the last person you're from there is Jeff Zucker this source for Project Veritas also went in and talk to media coordinators and for directors and a lot of people at c.n.n. They make it very clear they are pushing impeachment we've known this for a long time but it's a it's a whole nother thing to hear it straight from the horse's mouth the horse in this case Jeff Zucker the head of c.n.n. That's a whole nother ball game because c.n.n. At least to date has pretended to be a straight news outlet they would run those commercials facts 1st we only care about the facts we're speaking truth to power they're not you can now hear it from the top this is not. Like it was an editorial person speaking to the opinion team this is the head of c.n.n. The news network talking to what should be people trying to get to the bottom of straight news and then obviously not doing that they are pushing impeachment they're not reporting the news they are activists who have a political goal in mind now there are they are coming out of this not like they're being honest about it they've just been exposed Jeff Zucker actually went further though he didn't just say gun for the president try to get him out of office push the stories that will lead to impeachment he actually said that people at c.n.n. Should not even associate with prominent Republicans specifically Lindsey Graham he says I know some You're friends with Lindsey Graham no more cut that out. That's what it that's the result I can't believe unself aware this guy is I can't believe the obliviousness he is out there as the head of what pretends to be a news organization saying go get the president go for him and get him impeached and don't be friends with any Republicans and don't even be chummy with prominent Republicans you got to go get these guys and this is the result of fake news from Fox Fake news from Fox Fake news from you the head of c.n.n. I mean fake news from Fox. Say whatever you like about Fox News At least Fox News has some diversity of opinions at their network what diversity of opinion is there at c.n.n. Not very much and now we see from the top this is a news now this is a partisan outlet masquerading as a news network classic c.n.n. Response he just weeded out just moments ago quote Now that we have found out that c.n.n. Is a virtual fraud Rumor has it that Jeff Zucker will be resigning the momentarily and it's got you know some misspellings in there and what I love about this tweet is what he should be saying is a statement it's a sentence Rumor has it the Jeff Zucker will be resigning momentarily but he puts a question mark at the end of it because I don't see any reports that Jeff Zucker is going to be rude to resigning so it's obviously just from trying to set up this story because he doesn't like Jeff Zucker and as we just heard Jeff Zucker doesn't like him this is what President Trump is probably best at and it'll it'll be a legacy of his is that he is so good at just calling at the present a way that no Republican president has been able to do that now what's the big fake news story that's been going around. Not just c.n.n. But all over the place according to the mainstream media this is been wall to wall coverage for the past 24 hours according to the mainstream media President Trump participated in a video showing him to ring members of the news media one by one here is N.B.C.'s Lester Holt describing the video tonight the White House is trying to distance the president from a disturbing video showing a likeness of him violently attacking his political opponents and the news media it was apparently played at a conference at one of the president's Florida resorts alley Jackson has that story the White House is trying to distance the president from this video and because I'm saying they're going to distance the president I'm implying that the president had something to do with this video even though he didn't and it had nothing to do with him or his advisors or the White House or his campaign but we're going to tie it to him because we are fake news what is the actual video the actual video is a scene from the 2014 movie Kingsmen and it's this famously gory scene where the president or the president where a guy walks into a church and all the people in the church of kind of lost their minds and so the guy just shoots everybody in the church now the outrage is not from 2014 that there's a movie depicting a guy shooting up an entire church of course that is completely to the side with the with the video shows that because it's an Internet meme is on the main guy's body is Trump's face in a still picture and then on all the members of the congregation or the different logos of news organizations there are a couple faces but it's mostly just like the logo of n.b.c. News the logo of o.f.a. The logo of p.b.s. All the logos of the the mainstream media so what happened there was a conference organized by American priority American priority is not the Trump campaign it's not out of the White House it's not run by Donald Trump it's just a pro Trump group so they were going to the conference and they had a contest at this conference. For means for those internet means that you just send around to your friends and so they had this contest and they get all these means and this was one of the means they show the video in a side room along with lots of others and you can see even pictures from the conference looks like basically nobody's looking at this video and then the news story breaks out someone from the New York Times gets a hold of it they run the story is there were some big awful conspiracy from Trump himself the organizers of the event then said This video was not approved seen or sanctioned by the organizers We condemn all violence in the strongest terms and only want to unite Americans Ok easy enough done Ok not good you know you don't you don't want to be encouraging or even making light of violence against journalists or against politicians so not great but you know it's I mean that's what means are kind of funny that's what that's that's what the movie is right it's a dark comedy movie with a lot of gory violence and I think sometimes we collect your pearls a little bit on this Ok we think about all those good old days those how see on days early in the Republic in the late 18th really 1900 century when all our founding fathers were so civilized and hold on let me check my notes the sitting vice president murdered the former treasury secretary in a duel remember that 'd back in those peaceful genteel gentlemanly days when sitting vice president Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton in a duel All right so not exactly unprecedented if I had to choose between the vice president of the United States why did you bring Mike Pence murdering the former treasury secretary or I mean going around I would choose the latter I don't think things have gotten that much worse but still not good the organizer apologized that's fine even the White House condemned it by the way the White House said we never saw the video but we heard it's violent obviously we don't support this Ok but this is not good enough for the fake news media so Brooke Baldwin goes out on c.n.n. And she demands that trump do something more. Mr President. Why is it taking you so long to condemn this video you tweet all the time I don't want to hear from your press secretary who says you strongly condemned the video I want to hear from you the video I'm referring to is obtained by The New York Times it is extremely violent it is disturbing and c.n.n. Has confirmed it was shown at a pro Trump political conference and in case you have not seen it it depicts the killing spree inside of a church a scene caught from a 2014 film. Why you will hear from the president you what you already heard from the president he put out a statement we don't want to hear from your spokesman Mr President we don't want to hear from the person whose job it is to speak for you we want to hear from you we want to hear what you think about a meme that was created by a group that you're not affiliated with that was seen by a like a handful of people before we had the fake news media played it for everybody you owe us that we need you Mr President to take responsibility for something you had absolutely nothing to do with Meanwhile while the mainstream media are focusing on a need that the president is not at all connected to there's actual leftist violence against supporters at a rally in Minneapolis there was a group of leftist thugs as a guy in a nice Make America Great Again sweatshirt is walking out with barely his girlfriend some leftist thug goes up and smacks the girl in the face you can you can hear it in the clip comes up in this leftist screaming at her hits or that's real violence how much have you heard about that in the mainstream media probably not very much. Ok you can defend it or you can oppose the meme video it's just a mean nobody really cares. But what about all the left wingers in politics in Hollywood in the news media itself who were actually calling for physical violence against conservatives. I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House and. From that cabin it was too late. To restore the does it was done to you and you look. Into. Your details today on the incident that left Senator Rand Paul with 6 broken ribs this might be one of my favorite stories although course we don't want to clearly Senator Paul still struggling prison Walker How do you resist the temptation to run up and bring her now you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for what you care about that's why I believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate that's when civility can start again. Josh. This is the anatomy of a fake news story this is Jeff Zucker goes out and says we're we at c.n.n. Our purpose is to get the president impeached we at c.n.n. Can't be friends with Republicans anymore we can associate with Republicans even senators like Lindsey Graham not going to do it because Fox News is fake news the left always accusing the conservatives of what they're doing the left the whole mainstream media apparatus saying President Trump needs to condemn this violent Internet meme that some guy made that nobody saw Meanwhile it's the left themselves prominent politicians including the former nominee for president Hillary Clinton the last nominee they had including members of the news media miss n.b.c. Hosts laughing about Rand Paul who's going to be joining the show later today laughing about Rand Paul being physically attacked members of Hollywood talking about assassinating the president that's the anatomy of fake news that's why they've lost all credibility and his wife absolutely right for us to tune them out but you should keep tuning this show in we have a lot more another major news story talking about Syria and the Kurds on a.b.c. News but they got caught in the mainstream media red handed we will be right back with a whole lot more on Michael Mills filling in for the Ben Shapiro show Don't go anywhere . 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It's either diplomatic speak or didn't search and trying to treat every reach the deal is a big nothing burger Turkey sanctions what would we do and the big debate the big Democratic debate will be all that and more starting search for your name so the money can be. Back on the bench of your show on Michael Knowles filling in on host of The Michael Knowles show pod cast you can get that Apple podcasts Google Play stitcher Spotify all over the place you get it everywhere if you want I will send a courier pigeon to you with an audio cassette so you can listen to it invite me into it or Michael j. Knowles we're talking about fake news and C.N.N.'s Jeff Zucker gets caught on audiotape saying that the network is going to become a partisan outlet to push impeachment we then see this mainstream media apparatus inventing stories about conservative violence totally ignoring leftist violence here we have a really specific example of fake news coming from overseas there's been a lot of misinformation about what's going on in Syria the way I've been explaining Syria is for those of you who have really really strong opinions about what the u.s. Should be doing in Syria close your eyes. Where is Syria and you could you pick out Syria on a map could you name all the countries around Syria could you name I'll give you 11 is Turkey could you name could you point out where Turkey is on a map I'm not saying this to insult anybody's intelligence I'm just saying there is a lot more in the way of opinion on this question than there is in the way of knowledge so this is true not just among the general population it's especially true at a.b.c. News which played a video on the n.b.c. News shows or on the a.b.c. News shows showing really devastating violence. Gun attacks and Firearms and explosions and this was under the headline crisis in Syria there's just one small problem with the report here it is. This video. This video right here period show Turkey's military following curve civilians in a Syrian border town the Kurds who fought alongside the u.s. Against ISIS now horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish backed fighters on those very allies. Ok you saw that that's the crew that's what's happening in Syria that's the footage from Syria the problem is it's not footage from Syria it's not footage from northern Syria or any other part of Syria or any part of the Middle East it's not footage from this week or this month or this year or even last year that is footage from a gun show in Kentucky in 2017. That's where it comes from and it was Iranian sleep played on a.b.c. As though it were showing violence in Syria to push an agenda so how did a.b.c. React today issue a big on air apology during prime time so that everybody could see and hear it no of course not they posted a little note they said quote We've taken down video that aired on World News Tonight Sunday and Good Morning America this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy a.b.c. Regrets the error excuse me the video did not have questions raised about its accuracy we just saw that it was the same video from a Kentucky military show from 2017 so it was just a complete fake news that you used to push a narrative and you didn't even have the dignity and the integrity to make an on air retraction you posted a little note to Twitter Ok Ok great that's that is fake news and they wonder why we don't have any trust or faith in these institutions at all it kills me to say this but I think one of the most honest voices in the country right now is bedo O'Rourke I know in all of politics in all of the media is bego work not because bait or work a thing true things he's saying really really dumb things and usually false things but he's showing honestly the logical conclusions of leftist policies he's showing honestly what Democratic politicians desire to see in our country he was got a lot of flak because he said that he would bankrupt churches that didn't kowtow to leftist ideologies on sex and gender and anything else and he said that during the c n n l g b t town hall and he was asked about this on m s n b c Because the fake news media want to get him to shut up and stop being so honest about what the left wants bedo to his credit doubled down. To be clear you are free to believe anything that you want to in this country to associate with whom you please to practice your faith as you best see fit but you are not allowed to discriminate against people in this country to violate their civil rights or their human rights there is that but you're free to have your own religious views in this country you're totally free to do that and practice whatever religion you want but and then you negate what you were saying before that this is what this is what they do all the time they do actually explains the big issue he goes on and he says you're allowed to do whatever you want within the church but you're not allowed to do whatever you want outside of the church this is a totally mistaken view of what religious liberty is our founding fathers didn't think that religious liberty meant you could go to a place on Sundays and hopefully bedo Roark wouldn't bankrupt you because you believe that men are not women. Religious liberty means the liberty to follow your conscience all the time religious practices is not just from 10 am to 11 am before you go at the brunch on Sunday it's all week long 247 bedo doesn't understand that the left doesn't understand that huge portions of America don't understand what those constitutional liberties are what religious freedom is but at least unlike the news media they know O'Rourke has the honesty to show us his ignorance and show us his radicalism that's the left for you the other the other outlets are a little better at hiding it from us although maybe a real journalist will keep on covering that we got a lot more coming up we have any McCarthy coming to talk about impeachment and Michael Knowles filling in for the mention Pirro Show Don't go anywhere. Get a.b.c. News live in a local at $330.00 I'm Liz Warner and l.a. 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Welcome back to the venture puro show on Michael Knowles filling in on the host of The Michael Knowles show podcast you can get that on Google Play and stitcher on Spotify Apple podcasting find me on Twitter at Michael j. Knowles we are talking impeachment the segment we're talking impeachment because there's a Fox News poll out which shows that a majority of Americans support impeachment President Trump wasn't too happy about that and he tweeted to Fox News and told them that their pollsters suck his word not mine. But impeachment has been on the lips of all the prognosticators since just before President from was elected I think and certainly before he took office there have been attempts to impeach him over Russian collusion and Stormy Daniels and I think he had 2 scoops of ice cream at dinner they want to impeach him for that and now obviously they want to impeach him because he had a phone call with Ukraine impeachment has. Not very much to do with the law it seems these days has a lot to do with politics that's why we are very lucky to have an Andy McCarthy Andy McCarthy senior fellow at the National Review Institute author of ball of collusion and a Fox News contributor former chief assistant us attorney and one of the great insightful voices in politics Andy thank you for being here Michel My pleasure thanks for having so and I love that your piece that you wrote a few days ago at National Review which was titled What is impeachment for because it seems like a simple question and yet I suspect if you polled all of the Democrats and maybe some of the Republicans in the house you wouldn't be able to get a straight answer out of that what is impeachment for and if you believe the polls why is support for impeachment increasing among Americans. Well from what I see in the papers today impeachment for Donald Trump. That seems straightforward. Well you know you made a great observation before you introduced me which is that it's. It's really laced right now with political talk and seemingly doesn't have much to do with the law and that's really because impeachment is essential a political process it's got as I said in the piece you were kind enough to mention it's got kind of legal mood music to it so we talk about high crimes and misdemeanors and process and. You know all that well but the razzmatazz that. Is sort of circles around it but in the end impeachment as Gerald Ford said in 1971 he was the minority leader of the House of Representatives and they were trying to impeach Justice William o. Douglas of the Supreme Court's impeachment is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives thinks it is an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives thinks it is at a certain moment in history and right now they're trying to gin up a moment where. They could take somebody in namely Trump who they long ago decided was not fit for office and try to come up with an act that they can plausibly hang their hat on for a conclusion that they've already drawn right you know we have Alan Dershowitz on the show a lot and he always tries to drill home that impeachment really does have a legal requirements and I know in your piece of National Review you say Alexander Hamilton an in Federal a $65.00 tries to make the case or tries to draw the distinctions and detail in what would be the legal process and the legal criteria for impeachment and yet as we see it play out it does seem as a practical matter it is just political that maybe Gerry Ford was right. Yeah well you know I wrote a book about impeachment back in 2514 I wasn't smart enough to wait till Trump was president made a few bucks but. You know I became familiar with Professor Dershowitz has views on it and I think you know as a person who was you know 1st and foremost a constitutional law professor he understandably I have the same instinct myself we want to believe that there is a that there is a standard and therefore you know we can we can judge both conduct and a process of carrying out an impeachment proceeding in a way that's orderly and understandable and I'm unfortunately I think. This is one of those things where it's just not so tidy it's really bound up with the politics of the moment and we don't like having a standard we don't like having a situation for example where it seems quite clear to me that a Republican president has a lot a lot less margin for error than a Democratic president does because the press has the the wind in his face rather than that is that and you know specifically I was talking to. A friend earlier today about you know there's a criticism out there of Trump supporters where the left says Well is there anything that Trump could do where you would say yes this is an impeachable offense and my attitude hearing that was you know very simply if Trump had pulled something like Fast and Furious he'd already have been impeached and removed right not just impeached removed so you know I really do think that the as much as we would like to believe that Alexander Harold Hamilton was right and that there is a standard and it's agree just abuses of power that go to the to the trust that we repose in public officials. And you know we would like to be able to say Ok I see that and I can identify it as an impeachable offense this simply is a lot more to do with it than that and a lot of it goes to with the political environment and we've seen shifting political context for impeachment so initially we were told I think about 700000000 times throughout the mainstream media that the walls were closing in on President because of Russian collusion and the Muller report and payoffs to Stormy Daniels and now with the Ukrainian phone call and we read the transcript but there's now another side of it apparently. What is he going to get impeached for. Sounds like it kind of a dumb question but since this has shifted so much I do wonder how support among the public for in impeachment could increase when it would appear to the plain observer that this is an impeachment in search of a crime Yeah well he's going to be impeached. I think we can pretty much rest assured that that is not going to happen and when I say he's going to be rich in peace I literally mean the House will impeach him he will never be removed by the Senate certainly not if if things are as we understand them to be now and this is a situation I think where the wiser people in the in the Democratic Party know that this is this is a this is really. A fraught road for them to go down and it may blow up on them. And it's really not a smart thing to do especially the closer we get to the election the idea that you know that the political class rather than the sovereign namely the people should decide who the next president is is. I think that gets a whole gets to be a harder and harder argument to make but the problem they have the dynamic they have is that their base badly wants the president impeached and they want to know why it wasn't done yesterday you know that it should have been done already so they need to do something I think quickly. So that they can go back to their base and say see we did it we impeach and I don't think they have any realistic hope of removing the president from office but this is kind of been made an imperative by the part of their party that punches above its weight in a presidential election season and is pulling all of the candidates in the direction of you know Trump needs to be impeached and what they will impeach him over I think will be the idea that he put his. Control as the chief executive over the conduct of American foreign relations in the service of his political campaign in order to dig up dirt on Biden. And that will not be I don't think impeachable offense that has a lot of resonance with people. It'll ring the chimes of the Democrats because they think it's overdue but what it will do for the Democrats I think is it will blunt some of what may be coming in connection with the you know we're still waiting for this inspector general report from the Justice Department waiting for the bar investigation being conducted by John Durham where they're looking precisely into the Obama administration putting the intelligence and law enforcement apparatus of the government in the service of the Clinton campaign at Trump's expense and I think they're they're hoping to be able to say you know does this too right this does seem in many ways you might say like a defensive impeachment like they see the i.g. Report coming down the road they see the Durham investigation coming down the road and you think all right let's get ahead of this politically even the idea that you would you would impeach the president for using the state to dig up dirt on your political opponent when you would get into the specifics of it you see he's using the state to dig up dirt on his political opponent. Political opponent who had used the state to bury dirt on himself if he were going to run for president. Give them a complicated so I wonder in terms of the. All of the different factors that could lead perhaps a Republican or a moderate or someone to turn on the president and to vote to impeach him what you think the role of this this recent move in Syria as you mentioned it in your end are columns that perhaps trumps pulling those troops out of northern Syria could so infuriate some Republicans that they might it might break his firewall in the Senate do you do you think there's a real risk here. Well I think that if this sort of thing continues and if it gets much worse in Syria I don't you know look I don't think that he's going to lose 20 Republicans in the Senate I just don't I don't think so. I'm also mindful of Michael of the fact that what was it about 3 weeks ago we had never heard of the whistleblower you know and whenever we're dealing with this environment in this presidency what I always find myself having what I remind myself of constantly is you know I guess where you are it's about 1 o'clock in the afternoon now right knows what we'll be talking about by 5. Very true so you know I do worry because this is volatile Island because it's political anybody I think who says that they have a you know a perfect perfectly prescribed read on the situation when we don't even know what's coming around the next corner I would take that with a grain of salt and I do wonder also if to your point that the idea that the political class is going to remove a president just as we're headed into a presidential election that they're basically going to rescind it or usurp that power rather from the sovereign people maybe that tells you that the Democrats are not as confident in their presidential candidate perhaps they have to be in 2019 I suppose we'll see tonight during this debate if any of us has the fortitude to last through 3 hours of that I'm I'm skeptical that I'll be able to make it but I will try to endure Andy McCarthy thank you so much for being here Andy McCarthy just to mention author of ball of collusion and many other books a memoir willful blindness a memoir of the jihad the grand jihad how Islam and the left sabotage America and of course you can see him on Fox and read in The National Review and I try never to miss reading him because Andy always has such great insight thank you so much for being here. Thanks so much for have me have a good one all right that's such a such a good point he brings up on. The impeachment and all of these political factors leading in and maybe what we're going to see with that i.g. Report and with the drum investigation I guess we'll just have to wait and see we got a lot more coming up and we're me taking your calls in the next hour get your questions ready 855-236-3228 Michael Knowles filling in for the Ben Shapiro show we've got a whole lot more coming up so do not touch that radio dial we will be right back. 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We're back on the bench of Heroes show on Michael Knowles filling in I'm host of The Michael Knowles show podcast you can get that on Google Play stitch your Spotify Apple podcasts everywhere podcast or download or you can find me at Michael j. Knowles on Twitter and coming up we're going to taking your questions in the next hour that number is 855-236-3228 that number is 85523632 or 28. I have got to I can't even express my shock but the age we're living in we're through the looking glass I have got to give credit to Kanye West Kanye West in recent years has become a real voice of clarity political clarity religious clarity and now he's a spouse family values I am pleased that I can count myself in the one percent of Americans maybe less who's never seen keeping up with the car dash. However apparently on a recent reality t.v. Show episode Kanye West confronted Kim Carr dash in over her sexy outfits specifically her outfits for the Met Gala and he suggested sort Tauriel modesty and he said that he wants his wife to being that she is his wife and their one flesh she once he wants her to dress modestly because otherwise it hurts his soul Here's Kanya now save your money to be wearing it so you are my wife and expects me to do what you say force is like a small underwear it's time to say top of it like a knife from point to get it right here. And say that you're not a horse and I just feel like I just went through this transition where from being a rapper looking at all these girls and looking at my wife like Oh my girl needs to be just like the other girl short of body go off on this show and that and I didn't realize that that was affecting like my soul and my spirit as someone that's married in love and the father of like now would that be for kids him shut that down real quick you build me up to be this like sexy person in confidence not just because you're on a journey and you're on your transformation doesn't mean I'm right I'm saying stop . I love this exchange. Ange and I love everything that Kanye West is saying so much of the coverage of Kanye West and his recent political statements and his recent public statements has focused on race and politics. So much of it has focused on Kanye West is a black guy and he's supporting Trump and that makes him a race traitor or that that is the C's doesn't understand racism and all this racist talk constantly and what Kanye expresses here is that he's going through a transformation but it's so much deeper than just politics and race I actually think if we had to go down to one kind of identity category here what Kanye West is embodying is the millennial experience or even the Gens e experience these younger Americans who were raised in a politically very shallow environment who were raised in a culturally decayed and decadent environment and who were raised increasingly and constantly in an irreligious environment. That by far the largest religious group or the nuns the religiously unaffiliated the people who just they grew up with no sense of religion and they really grew up with not very much sense of culture and their politics is just so shallow this I in this idea because of the indoctrination of they found in the media in the popular culture and in education. Educational institutions that you can only ever be a leftist and Kanye goes out there and he says hey you know what I just found out is that the Republican Party freed the slaves that's pretty crazy and you know what I just found out a bunch of leftist policies have really hurt the black community and hey you know what I just found out the Bible is really worth reading and any when he says these things he's got the joy in his eyes of somebody who's just discovering this for the 1st time why are his Sunday services which are these vaguely religiously themed concerts that Kanye has been holding on Sundays why are they so popular why are they capturing the public imagination it's because it's as though millennia old and Gen z. And people in the pop culture and Kanye West fans and Kanye himself are discovering for the 1st time that there is more to life than just sitting on a couch and maybe you know having a couple drinks or smoking a joint and then going out to brunch It's like they're discovering for the 1st time that there is a metaphysical world there are things that matter just beyond the physical and there's something out there that's really beautiful good and true and beautiful that we actually can in a very modest way elevate culture that we can begin to explore religious questions that we've been denied for our whole lives for a whole generations lifetime and you hear this with Kanye talking to Kim Cardassian he says you know I'm going through this transformation and I just realized you're my wife I don't want you to go out there and just be a sex symbol and be dressing in really skimpy clothing all the time and you eat he almost sounds like he's surprised when he says it yeah i just because I love you and we have this family together and because you're my wife and we have 4 kids and I just don't think we should go out there and engage in really lustful clothing and advertisements and pictures anymore and Deschutes answers perfect you she says hold on to say wait wait wait. You're telling me that for the past decade been building me up as the sex symbol and you've been out there a kind of in a very decadent way in the culture and that's all been well and good and now you're going through this transformation and you just expect me to be there too and she's got a point but he's right he's right he's discovering something that's true he's discovering the politics isn't so simple as the leftists and the mainstream media want us to think it is. That politics isn't so simple as just identity groups it's maybe there's actually some reason maybe there's some logic maybe half the country isn't deplorable irredeemable maybe life isn't all just about sex and sexual appetites and sexual satisfaction maybe there's more of that maybe there's something in the metaphysical world like love and like loyalty and like family and maybe that's better than all of the trash culture that we've been fed in recent decades and Canisius It's a joy to see it on his face he's got this new album coming out Jesus is King and he's been workshopping he's clearly starting to take not just his politics seriously but his culture his religion seriously too and that's that is a really big win for right minded people I don't even just mean staunch political conservatives I mean all right minded people that's a big win that such a big voice in the culture is taking that seriously we've got your calls coming up by the way so get them in 855-236-3228 that number 855-236-3228 extension 1 Michael's filling in for the venture puro show get the calls and we'll be right back. 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