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Anna Kasparian
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Candace Owens
All right, you guys, I am so excited. I have been saying, probably seen this all over online, that I have been dying to host Anna Kasparian because I feel like at the exact same time, her and I had perhaps a broader awakening about this left, right paradigm that is not serving the left or the right and is only serving the elites. It's how we are all feeling right now. And similarly, her and I are both under a very severe attack from Zionists who. Who, I guess, want our families to be harmed. Anakus Varian, welcome to the Candace Show.
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Anna Kasparian
Thank you for having me.
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Candace Owens
I'm, like, thrilled to have you. It's just so funny because we hated each other.
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Anna Kasparian
Yes.
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Candace Owens
So much.
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Anna Kasparian
So much. I mean, it's. It is wild where we're at. But I'll tell you where I started to change my mind about you. It was a few years ago where. Well, first of all, it started with your firing at the Daily Wire and what you were fired for. Right. The fact that you were willing to call out a genocide for what it is. And I really respected that because there weren't really any media people on the right at all at that time who were willing to do it. Then after that, you went on, I think, maybe a few podcasts where you talked about your evolution in regard to your perception of Muslims. And I was like, okay, that takes an honest person to say that, to, like, admit I was wrong. And especially on the right, where, you know, the Islamophobia, which I think is the product of brainwashing, is still very much prominent. Right. And then the final thing that happened was you went on, I think it was breaking points. You were talking to Sagar and Jetty. This is before the election. You were in support of Donald Trump at the time. But Sagar asked you, you know, you're against invading Iran or going to war with Iran. What would you do if Trump gets elected and he goes to war with Iran? You just straight up said, I will no longer support him and I'll be vocal about it. And I'm like, okay, we'll see. We'll see. And you made good on that promise. And I, I really appreciate that.
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Candace Owens
Yeah, I. I think for Me, I had to sort of re examine it. It takes a lot of humility. I think when you have a public platform, people are always rooting for you to be wrong anyway. And I think it's the reason that so many people hold on to ideas even when they know they're wrong.
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Anna Kasparian
Yes.
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Candace Owens
They just don't want to do the thing and go through the process of change.
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Anna Kasparian
But people love it. Yeah, people love when you're willing to be honest about what you were incorrect about and that you're willing to recalibrate or evolve on an issue. I, I know that I'm growing and evolving. I mean, I started working at TYT when I was like 20 years old. And so I'm now going to turn 40 in July. So that's 20 years. For me to not change at all would be ridiculous and embarrassing, to be quite frank.
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Candace Owens
Right.
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Anna Kasparian
And so I'm, I'm proud of my changes. I'm open minded. I'm willing to have conversations with just about anyone as long as I know it's going to be good faith. And we have to find a way to bring the American people together because we are in the fight of our lives. Our government is not representing us. And the only way we can change things is if we're willing to build coalitions and work together on our system of government and making the reforms that we need. We need to get money out of politics. We need to ensure that foreign governments do not have a say on our foreign policy or our domestic policy. If we don't do that, we're screwed. Our country's done. And so I'm noticing that there is some growing unity between the left and the right, the anti war left, anti war right, who are privy to the fact that our politicians are super corrupt, that they're bought by moneyed interests. And you can't really solve that problem with one group of voters. You really need all hands on deck.
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Candace Owens
You do. And I think for me, when I started to have these scales fall from my eyes for a second time, by the way, I feel like I sort of graduated to politics. I was like, oh, I figured this out. Republicans have it right and the left has it, you know, Democrats have it wrong. And I felt so great about that and I felt like, so free and so smart. And so then when I went through this second process and was going, wait a minute, why is genocide sometimes okay? And going, I, I can't have gotten that wrong. Come on, come on, Republicans. This is obviously what's happening in Gaza is wrong. It's Kind of a scary process because then you have to, you go, how could I have had this so wrong?
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Anna Kasparian
Totally.
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Candace Owens
How could I have had this so wrong?
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Anna Kasparian
It, it is, it's a scary process because politics has become more than just, oh, this is a group of people I agree with on policies. It, it turned into, I think, a replacement for religion. For some people, it turned into. Because think about, you know, the era when everyone went to church or everyone went to temple or, you know, mosque, whatever. It, it's your community, right? These are people that you communicate with. These are people who might have different politics than you, but you share a faith and as a result, you have exposure to people who have different ideas. But then as people became less and less religious in this country, I think politics or political parties kind of became the church. Right? And it's scary to go against your community.
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Candace Owens
Right? And that's it. You suddenly find yourself in a position where you have to make all new, like political friends, so to speak.
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Anna Kasparian
Exactly, yes.
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Candace Owens
And then you see what they are capable of, what they are willing to do, how much it is just as you're describing, not even a religion, a cult. And the, how quickly I was sort of excommunicated and they tried to, just as if you're leaving a cult, convince me that I was the crazy person.
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Anna Kasparian
Right.
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Candace Owens
For saying something so sensible like, hey, killing kids is wrong. We shouldn't do that. Like saying a statement like Brian Mas did about the Palestinians. There's no such thing as an innocent Palestinian, which is what I was tweeting about in particular. Everyone should just have been like, of course this is a wrong statement from Brian Mast. But they tried to play this psychological game on me where they were gaslighting
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Anna Kasparian
me like, you were the wrong. Like you were in the wrong. Because you realize that you have a sitting United States Congressman wearing the uniform of a foreign, foreign country in the halls of Congress talking about how it's okay to just slaughter an entire group of people, including women, children, elderly people, because of the cult he's in. It is a cult. And I mean, what are our values as a country? And the other thing is the fact that you were willing to put everything on the line to speak out against the genocide in Gaza made me realize that you are actually good faith on other political views you have. Right, Because I'm, I'm pro choice. That that hasn't changed. I mean, I'm definitely not in favor of, you know, late term abortions happen, but they're very rare. But, you know, I think that there were Some laws written in a way that could have been abused, whatever, you know. But my point is, when it came to conservatives who said that they're anti choice, I was like, they just want to control women. That's all it's about. They don't actually see the fetus as a life. They don't see a zygote as the same as a human life. No, but you do, actually, right? Because you'll see conservatives cheer on what's happening in Gaza. And now Lebanon. And now Lebanon. And then purport to be pro life.
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Candace Owens
Yep. That was one of the big ones for me where I was going, we're pro life. And you're telling me that there's an exception because you have some heretical theology that's telling you that, oh, all of these rules are, of course, we should be abiding by this. And of course it's the right thing to do. And God, God, God, Jesus Christ. And then they go, oh, but unless it happens in Israel, then it's okay. So I'm like, oh, wait, so there's this random carve out where we can mass murder kids. As long as it's in Israel. Why doesn't every mass murderer just go to Israel and just do whatever they want? And then you just go, well, they're chosen, so this. This land is chosen so they can do whatever they want on this land. That was shocking for me, and it made me go a lot deeper on theology. And gratefully, like, my husband is just. I mean, he majored in theology, and so it's been kind of a part of his internal dialogue for a very long time. And I was like, what am I missing here? Like, how. How did I miss that? I was in partnership with these people? That. You're right, this is not a theology for them. This is a cult. This is a cult.
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Anna Kasparian
What's really interesting and something that I've always wanted to ask you about is do you feel that. I mean, I'm sure. Look, I'm. I'm seeing the success of your show, so obviously there's a giant portion of conservatives out there in this country who side with you and don't fall under the category that I'm about to describe. But do you feel like you were kind of used as a tool earlier in your career?
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Candace Owens
Absolutely. I know that feel it's a fact,
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Anna Kasparian
because when you're critical of, let's say, the black community, oh, they love it. Right? That's when you get a platform and you get all the plaudits and speaking engagements. But once you speak out against what's happening in Gaza, you're not that useful tool anymore.
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Candace Owens
That was one of the things that was really hard for me to contend with personally because obviously not the day lawyer. We were actually kind of in the midst of the same topic, really. Right. So it's like you're talking about a race. You're saying, okay, this thing happened. So they were saying October 7th happened. BLM was saying, the George Floyd thing happened. This is going to be the impetus now. And I, they were doing things that in my view still to this day were just wrong. I don't care what happened in Minnesota. You don't have the right to go into Target and grab a flat screen tv. Right. And so I wanted to do a documentary. I wanted to dive deeper on the topic. And it was round of applause from a daily Wire. This is amazing. Give her a platform. Then I watched the virtually the exact same thing. Right. Using race as an excuse, saying, oh, well, we have to do this for Jews. You had this event, this, this event that happened, which was singular. And then they tried to extrapolate it and I'm going, well, it's still wrong. Right, Right. Well, the law is the law. Like, you know, morality is. Morality doesn't matter if a black person does it or if a Jewish person does it. You don't get to rob and steal Palestinian homes.
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Anna Kasparian
Exactly.
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Candace Owens
And suddenly it was, you're an anti Semite. You deserve to have nothing. You shouldn't even be allowed to travel to Australia because you are akin to Adolf Hitler. The same people that gave me the platform. And so I, yeah, it was a very tough pill to swallow.
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Anna Kasparian
So Australia banned you after you said that. It's a genocide.
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Candace Owens
Yeah, that was the beginning of, I mean, I was temporarily banned for ads from YouTube because they are organized online and started mass reporting my new channel. I got banned from Australia, got fired from the Daily Wire. They started putting pressure, bench bureau in particular on, you know, this is the Zionist lobby. It's not just in America, it's global.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
And so I went from being a rock star to suddenly she is Adolf Hitler and deserves nothing in her life because she has a moral principle. So you kind of look and you go, well, I have two options here. I can play the game.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
And do like the majority of people do and just look the other way and say, oh, I don't really care about what's happening overseas.
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Anna Kasparian
Go along to get along.
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Candace Owens
Go along to get along. Or you take a bold stand and you say, I'll rebuild It. Because I don't want to have a house that's made because I'm silent on issues that actually impact my soul. I want to get into heaven.
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Anna Kasparian
Okay? I mean, there's that for sure. But on top of that, I don't think people who go along to get along realize they're going to get caught because audiences aren't stupid. And we might be in an environment where you can get away with either being silent or providing ridiculous excuses for why you're not speaking out against what's really going on or why you're not, you know, willing to tell the truth about what's going on. Eventually there's going to be enough videos of dead children. Eventually, when it comes to the war in Iran, the gas prices and the inflation is going to be so bad that you're going to lose people, and people are going to wake up to what the reality is. And when they are personally harmed, when their own household is personally harmed by these policies that, you know, the government pursues based on moneyed interests or foreign pressure that, well, you know, they're gonna lose support from the people. And what do they do? The first thing they do is they engage in intimidation tactics, censorship. The more the, you know, pro Israel crowd and the Zionists attempt to censor people and intimidate them, the more counterproductive they're being for their own cause.
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Candace Owens
Right. But they don't think.
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Anna Kasparian
Because it wakes people up.
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Candace Owens
They don't think long term, they're always thinking short term and what's right in front of them. They don't. They're not trying to make friends, they're trying to terrify people. They operate exactly like a mafia. Um, who would you say on the left of people that maybe, like, were your heroes? Were you shocked, didn't take the moral position?
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Anna Kasparian
Um, I don't talk about him that often because it really does break my heart. I. He was the best reporter. After the 2008 economic collapse, Matt Taibbi, he. He hasn't taken the wrong position. He's just decided to be silent for whatever reason. And that kind of breaks my heart because he's such an amazing journalist and reporter, and I thought that he would be an important voice in exposing the truth to people. But for whatever reason, he's just decided to remain silent. And when people kind of started to nudge him about it, he continued to be silent and then defensive. And I'm like, there's something going on. And I'm also in a different place in my life where I don't Feel the need to like, just go out of my way to attack people. Like, I used to be an attack dog a little bit, so I'm not like going out of my way to attack him or anything. I'm just disappointed. And so I just note it for the record and then I move on to people I can trust.
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Candace Owens
Yeah, so much of that, I think, especially for me, like the, obviously the Charlie Kirk assassination.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, I bet.
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Candace Owens
Was just. I will never see politics the same. I'm like, what did that man live for? Yeah, he formed all of you, all of you, me, everyone. I just thought there would be an army of people assembled and I thought we'd have a truth in a week. This man is like the reason Donald Trump is in office. He was like brothers with Don Trump. Like, so could you imagine the shock that I have gone through? Like Kash Patel, who, who was the person writing hardcore for Cash Patel.
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Anna Kasparian
Cash Patel. There's something going on with that brother. I don't know what is going on with him, but there's something very strange about him. I mean, it could just be a lack of competence for the role that he's in. But when you consider the fact that he's our FBI director still, when you consider the fact that we have depleted 80% of our missile interceptors because we've given military aid to Israel, Ukraine, we're currently using interceptors, you know, in this war against Iran, I'm worried about our national security, our national security. Like, and I'm not one of these, like, ooh, I'm going to scare everybody. I'm not a scaremonger. And I never bought into national security threats or that narrative from the government when it came to manufacturing consent for wars that we got involved in. But right now, when you just look at the facts, our military capability is weakened. We don't have the manufacturing capacity that Iran has. For instance, like, they build five thousand dollar drones real quick. We have an entire corrupt system where these defense contractors, first of all, we don't have like the industrial base and the manufacturing capacity to build these weapons as quickly as we need, okay? And then on top of that, just because we're spending an arm and a leg on our Pentagon on our defense budget, doesn't mean that we're getting our money's worth.
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Candace Owens
No, we're sending it overseas.
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Anna Kasparian
We're sending it overseas. And on top of that, we're spending more than we need to on the weaponry that we purchase. The, the defense capabilities we purchase from these private kickbacks.
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Candace Owens
That's the entire Neocon class.
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Anna Kasparian
Exactly.
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Candace Owens
And that's the Megan McCain's of the world who sit up there, have accomplished absolutely nothing in their lives but just sit up there and go, war, war, war, war. One needs to grow and have the audacity to lecture us.
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Anna Kasparian
I have a funny story about Megan Mc.
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Candace Owens
I, I just, I am amazed that she has the audacity to ever speak but will like my daddy. That's her whole position in life. My daddy has never done literally anything. I would never say my daddy.
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Anna Kasparian
I've never met a woman in the media space or political space who's less intellectually curious.
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Candace Owens
Most unimpressive.
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Anna Kasparian
She's so, I mean, she used to host a show called Take Part Live. And at this time she and I knew each other and so I would fill in when one of the hosts was out. But we interacted and I remember one time they called me in to be a guest on the panel and they were going to talk about. This is during the Obama administration. They were going to talk about Obama's expansion of drone use in, you know, the Middle east. And a lot of innocent people were getting killed, you know, a lot of collateral damage. And people were very critical about that. And so she just had to read an article so she would know what the story is. As we talk about on the show. She couldn't be bothered to read the article. She had no interest at all. I'm like, why are you even in this space? What are you doing?
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Candace Owens
You could see that even when she was on the View. Oh, totally. She just had nothing to add that was intellectual or that looked like she maybe studied. She, she, she just comes across like they had a butler who did her homework. Do you know what I mean?
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
And that she's, that she reads very few books. There's just something about her. And yet she has this attitude and this sense of this arrogance. Well, my daddy, my daddy, my daddy. And has no idea what the general viewpoint is of her father. Like two. That's also stunning. It's like she thinks like her dad is some like, very well liked politician. No, actually on the right or, or on the left. Is your father, was your father very well liked or is he very respected? And I think people chose this sort of respectful silence, obviously when he passed away. And for me, a moment where I really saw what she was, was when she used her father's funeral to dunk on Trump.
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Anna Kasparian
Like, I don't remember that.
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Candace Owens
Oh, gosh. Her, the speech. Yeah, my, my, my dad would say that this country was always great because you know, Trump said, make America great again.
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Anna Kasparian
That's right. I do remember that.
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Candace Owens
And I just thought to myself, what is your life like? Do you have a real life? If you think that I would waste one sentence, one breath towards an enemy. When my father.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, the funeral.
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Candace Owens
At the funeral, it's like I. Like, are you kidding me?
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Anna Kasparian
I wouldn't have mentioned.
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Candace Owens
Don't. It's just it was, to me, so crass and so. Yeah, it's the arrogance that comes. That goes with it. When we know you've worked for nothing in your life and you have had everything handed to you and you actually don't have any moral principle outside of more war. More war. More war.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
And the amount of people who are dying. It's the way these people speak to us. And I'm saying left and right. The way they speak to us when they call us evil, psychopathic, when we're
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Anna Kasparian
worried about innocent people getting killed like that. At the heart of it is that we find it immoral. Just like I did on October 7th. I find it immoral when civilians are targeted and killed. So I was not ever one of those people who cheered on what happened on October 7th. Never. I never would. That goes against who I am as a human being. I value human life. And I don't think civilians should be targeted for any reason. Anytime they are the person doing the targeting, the group doing the targeting is in the wrong. Period.
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Candace Owens
That's it.
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Anna Kasparian
So when you now have upward of 75,000 people killed in Gaza, and you mention that to a Israel first or a Zionist, and they respond to you immediately by saying, what about October 7th? What that communicates to me is you do have a problem with civilian lives being lost on a particular side, but civilian lives mean nothing to you. At first I thought when it comes to the Palestinians, but no, I feel like human life doesn't matter to them at all. Unless we're talking about a Jewish Zionist. Because if you're a Jewish person, like Dave Smith, for instance, they'll kill you, too.
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Candace Owens
They could care, but you're not a Zionist.
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Anna Kasparian
Oh, they could. They couldn't care less. You're right. They could not care less. And I just find that so immoral. But they turn around and they try to make us look like we're the immoral ones, that because we have a problem and we're speaking out about this.
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Candace Owens
That's exactly right. And you. You understand, even within the Jewish population. And that's why I've done so much. I've made such an effort over the last year to wake up Jewish Americans to this, Right? Because I view them as. You were brainwashed. This is what you think. I mean, this is the whole reason they started the program of Birthright. And when the ADL guy got caught at a private call saying that we need to kind of come up with something, we're losing Gen Z. We gotta do like we did when we established that program for Birthright. And this is why Max Blumenthal has done such incredible work, because he went on Birthright and he spoke about. But that experience. They're brainwashing them so young, right? We are all subject to brainwashing. That is the most important thing that I think I have come out of learning is like, how did I get brainwashed? I thought the same thing. I was watching the Holocaust movies. All of that is a part of your growing up, your brainwashing experience. What you're learning in the classroom. You're. Who is the victim, you know, and who do you have to defend? Who is being oppressed? And so there's this sort of trigger mechanism that is within all of us. It's buried within us from the time that we're kids. And we don't realize it because we're just taking in so much media. We're taking in. We're listening to our teachers. And then we're like, October 7th happens. And then they go, remember all that stuff like this is now. You have to understand what they're going to do next. Think about what happened. You don't want another Holocaust.
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Anna Kasparian
It's like priming you to be accepting of something that just goes against your
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Candace Owens
core principles and for Jewish Americans too. So you can understand why they reacted the way that they did right away. Of course, yeah, they're going to get that 20 times worse. Is going to be your stories about your grandma and your book. You go to temple, you go to, you know, you're. I mean, you go to. You go to synagogue and. And you're going to have those presets. And then it went too far and a lot of them snapped out of it. And now I get Jewish people emailing me. I don't know what this is. I don't know why I'm being told I have to defend Jeffrey Epstein. I don't know why I'm saying it's wild. I have to defend Bibi Netanyahu.
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Anna Kasparian
So can we just address how brazenly obvious, like, okay, when every pro Israel media figure comes out at the same time and basically says, oh, there's no big deal with The Epstein files, they shouldn't be released. You're giving it away, like, you're giving it away. Like, you guys are too obvious. And. And what I'm wondering is, was the propaganda always this bad, or is it that we're just a lot more awake now because there's diversified independent media? People are kind of breaking out of their bubble, so it's harder to lie to us. So they're like propaganda muscle has atrophy to some extent, so.
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Candace Owens
Well said.
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Anna Kasparian
Right?
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Candace Owens
I think it's the latter. Absolutely. I think we are more awake than we've ever been. There's independent media, and it's also, like you said earlier, they can't help themselves. So the entire strategy of a daily wire try to destroy me actually woke a lot of people up. Like my Tony. Candace was going around Judeo Christian doing all the things she worked at Prager. You want me to believe that overnight Candace Owens became an anti Semite? I know she's working with, you know, Ben Shapiro and Marisha Straight and Dennis Prager, and they're like, yeah, no, it's crazy how it happened. She fell and bumped her head, and now she's Adolf Hitler. And that. It's. It's the whiplash. It's too fast. People go, okay, you had me. Maybe you had me at Nick Fuentes. You know, this is like. People go, okay, he was done early. He's 18. We didn't know who he was. But they just start moving. And then you're going, it's Candace Owens. Oh, no. Tucker Carlson bumped his head and became Adolf Hitler. It's. It's becomes way too. And then you go, okay, let me go back and really see what's happening.
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Anna Kasparian
Totally. Because, I mean, look, Nick Fuentes's rhetoric is nowhere close to Tucker Carlson's rhetoric. Not nowhere close to it.
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Candace Owens
They're all in the same box. Right.
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Anna Kasparian
But they're lumped together. And to me, this isn't really about hatred toward Jewish people, which I find immoral. Just like I would find hatred toward Muslims or hatred toward Christians. Like, hating any group of people simply based on their identity is wrong.
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Candace Owens
I've always been against that.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, but. But, yeah, I just. I just seems like I forgot where I was going with that. Yeah, a lot of people I like, I think they were just kind of part of this algorithmic bubble where they're only exposed to one thing. And when it came to the Muslim population, I think that the dehumanization was seen in the media, across the board, and that brainwashing worked. For a really long time. I mean, it definitely convinced Americans to support wars that we shouldn't have supported.
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Candace Owens
Going back to those presets when working our youth. 9 11.
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Anna Kasparian
Yep.
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Candace Owens
It was so raw. It was so scary. They. The way they made us stand up at 911 every day, the time in school, moment of silence for what the Muslims did to us. Think about, like, that's kind of. So I was just like, Muslims, like, this is just how they live. This is what they do. And didn't. Didn't register to me as Islamophobia. I just thought, I'm Edu. I'm educated. It's a token of your education to understand how despicable Muslims are.
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Anna Kasparian
I remember that. I remember that so well. I remember the unfair attacks against Muslims, by the way. I mean, there are different Muslim beliefs like sex and whatever, but everything was just lumped together. Muslims bad. And this is going to be used as a justification for us to enrich defense contractors. They profit off war. Right now, you know, there's a town in Alabama where they make rockets and military weaponry, and it's booming all of a sudden because of the war against Iran. And it's funny listening to an interview of, like, one of the workers there because they're able to, like, compartmentalize the economic boom they're experiencing from what it's feeding into. And so when you think about how people's livelihoods get wrapped up into questions of peace and war, when you consider the fact that our. Our media apparatus, especially when it comes to legacy media or corporate media, is very much part of the propaganda campaigns to, in my opinion, just trick Americans into supporting things that actually work against their own interests. All of that stuff started to kind of get chipped away at by independent media and people being willing to honestly critique their own side. There aren't a lot of people in the media who are willing to do that. Just a handful that I can think of. But I think that woke a lot of people up. I really did. I really do think it did.
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Candace Owens
And the whiplash of, oh, Tucker Carlson was fine for Fox News and CNN and everything, and then all of a sudden, no Tucker Carlson, very, very bad. You can't listen in a different. But we're starting to notice this pattern, that it's the same issue that suddenly gets these people who are welcomed, loved by the mainstream, adored by the mainstream, and then suddenly thrust to the side and having not just their livelihoods impacted, but also our families. I was watching this attack on your husband, like, my husband's being attacked Your husband's being attacked.
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Anna Kasparian
Yep.
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Candace Owens
And by the way, kudos for you for just coming back. Thank you. Yes, it is my husband. He's hot. I'm glad you found him. I mean, he's hot. Than. But what actually sits at the center of that? Let's now try to get and harass Anna Kasparian's husband. Why do you think that that became now their. Their prime motivator?
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Anna Kasparian
Well, because I'm. I don't want to say I'm unbreakable, but I am kind of unbreakable. Like, I'm the kind of person who does not respond well to others telling me what I can and can't think or what I can and can't say. So I might fall prey to brainwashing and propaganda. We're all susceptible to that. However, when you're straight up telling me you're not allowed to think that, you're not allowed to say that, I just get very irritable and I double down. It's like not the way to persuade me to think otherwise. Right. And so, I mean, they've done some damage to me financially. I got fired from a job that I really like, a side job where I was doing investigative reporting on California based stories. Because there's a lot going down in California that I think people need to be aware about to make smarter decisions when they vote. So even though that was one of the more difficult jobs, like I was writing features like 2000 word pieces that were like original reporting, it was hard, it was very time consuming, but I loved that job so much, they. They took it from me, I guess. There was one board member at the company that didn't like my commentary. I called Jonathan Conricus, who's a IDF propagandist. He's usually on like Piers Morgan's show and whatever I was on with him. And I called him a terrorist because he's a terrorist. And that was it. Like, that was what got me fired, whatever. But I'll take it. I want to be free. I don't want to work for some. This is not a news organization. If you guys are going to censor people on what they can and can't say on what's going down in the Middle east right now. So, okay, fine, I'm. You took that from me. But once they realize that like taking things away from me wasn't working, once they realize like Tyt is not going to fire her, they're like, okay, what else can we do? And they immediately move on to collective punishment. They are big Believers in the ideology of collective punishment. So we're going to go after her family. We're going to go after her husband, who's a freaking PE teacher, who is not political, by the way, after they did go after him, this is the second time, first time they did it. Suddenly my husband's asking me questions about what's happening in Gaza. Suddenly he's, he's listening to my show. He's. And I'm like, oh, you never, you know, because he's not a political person at all. Like, why are you asking me questions suddenly? Why are you listening to the show regularly? He's like, because they made me want to know what's going on.
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Candace Owens
Exactly.
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Anna Kasparian
You know what I'm saying? So, like, their efforts in attacking people, intimidating people, censoring people is so counterproductive, but they're too stupid to realize it.
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Candace Owens
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Anna Kasparian
It's not.
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Candace Owens
I'm like you. I just dig my feet in even more and I'm like, let's suit up for battle. Let's do this thing. I am not going to be broken by this. You guys have tried so much, but right now, I mean, the radical nature of Trump's tweets right now, oh, my gosh, they're unique. Hinge and I used to enjoy. They used to be pithy. One sentence and hit at some modicum of truth. Like, only Rosie o'. Donnell. That is just funny to people because it's like, he's Saying basically, ROSIE o', DONNELL this is not that. This is like the rantings of a madman. I don't have time to read all of this. And at its core, it's just he's being instructed to attack people who don't support Israel.
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Anna Kasparian
It's crazy. It's absolutely insane.
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Candace Owens
What are we getting close to? Yeah, that's my question. What are we getting close to? If they don't feel like they're in control right now, they feel like an animal backed into a corner that's fighting and just lashing.
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Anna Kasparian
Well, it's funny because they are in control of the levers of power. Right. And that's definitely scary. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't want to minimize that. But at the same time, they are no longer in control of the narrative. And Americans are waking up to just how much our government has been, I mean, for lack of a better word, infiltrated by people who are much more concerned with foreign policy that benefits Israel above and beyond. You know, what's better for the American people. This war against Iran doesn't benefit us in any way, shape or form. And we went into it with no strategy, no plan, no support the people. Exactly. No support for. I mean, Trump never even thought he needed to make his case to the American people. So we went into it with it being an incredibly unpopular war. The fact that he didn't even consider that Iran would take control of the Strait of Hormuz, thus creating a lot of economic pain for the globe. Like, think about all, all of our allies right now, longtime allies who are so furious with us. You know, Germany recently came out and had some, you know, strong words against the United States. India has been irritated with us because of first Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, which also seem pretty ham handed. And I'm saying that as someone who's supportive of targeted tariffs and think, you know, they can work in bringing some jobs back to the United States. But the way he did it made a lot of enemies. Again, I go back to the issue of our, you know, military being weakened because we've given so many weapons away, we've used so many weapons, and we've depleted 80% of our missile interceptors. I just feel for the first time that we are not safe. But the thing that gives me a little bit of relief is knowing that people on the left and the right are waking up to it. You know, like, that gives me hope. If it weren't for that, honestly, I would definitely be 100% black pilled. I would Be a total doomer. And I would see no hope for the future. But the people are waking up, right? And so the fact that the individuals you're referring to who are backed into a corner don't have control of the narrative, that's why they're backed into the corner and they don't know what to do. So they're lashing out and attacking family members. But it's only helping our cause when they do that, because people see it and they're just like, ew, this is disgusting behavior. Why are you going after a PE teacher who never said anything about Israel at all? You know, and anything I've said about Israel is not anti Semitic. Israel carried out a genocide, continues to carry out a genocide. In Gaza, they were occupying 53% of the territory, now they're occupying 64%. Just last night I read an article about how they quietly redrew the map of the area of Gaza that they're going to Occupy. So from 53% to 64%, where are all those Palestinians going to go? How many refugee crises have we experienced because Israel wants to pursue its border expansion project? And so when I hear people like that Tommy Robinson guy whining about like, oh, the Islamification of the uk, these Muslims are so bad and so dangerous, you are supportive of Israel. So unless you wake up and tell the truth about what's actually happening and what's causing these mass migration events, how about you shut up?
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Candace Owens
I always say that. I'm like, and where do you think these migrants are coming from? Do they wanted to be here or are they being forced out of their homes? And so they don't, they can't connect the dot there. Yeah, it's, oh, we have a Muslim problem, but no, we actually, we have an Israel never ending war problem.
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Anna Kasparian
Exactly.
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Candace Owens
And it's, then of course, these people have to go somewhere if you're just going to take their land.
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Anna Kasparian
Look at Lebanon now. Yeah, yeah, we're just going to take southern Lebanon. And then by the way, they've begun evacuating villages north of the Latani River. Meaning, oh no, it's not just southern Lebanon. And so when people fear monger about groups like Hezbollah, for instance, which is supported by Iran, you got to understand why Hezbollah exists in the first place. Hezbollah formed in the 1980s after Israel invaded southern Lebanon. So like, let me ask our red blooded Americans right now, if Mexico invaded, you know, one of our southern border country states, are we just going to sit back and take it, or is there going to be a resistance group Right now we have a military, we have a government that would prevent that from happening. But let's say a foreign country turned our government into a puppet of theirs, and they cared less about protecting the American people in our territory, which I think is the case in Lebanon. There would be a resistance group.
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Candace Owens
Of course there would be a resistance group. Yeah.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
I always said to people, it's like they took their homes. They just spoke up one day and said, I don't care if you've lived here for centuries, you just gotta go. We're now giving your land, and you're not gonna get any money. Like, you're at gunpoint. You just gotta leave your house.
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Anna Kasparian
I can't imagine.
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Candace Owens
It's weird to me that people don't understand that if you keep empowering something that is that immoral. Right. Something that believes that genocide is their right, that it's their birthright to mass murder. Children who don't see you as having a human soul, how do you not comprehend that that chicken will eventually come home to Bruce?
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Anna Kasparian
100%. I mean, I think Christians are waking up to it because of the abuse Christians are dealing with in Lebanon, in Jerusalem. You know, it's interesting because after World War I, our. Because of the Armenian genocide that was carried out by the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turks, Armenians became, you know, they fled. Many went to Syria. They were forced to do a death march, as my great grandmother was. And she survived it, but my great grandfather didn't. This is on my dad's side. They killed him. And so she had to do that death march that she survived with her children in tow, including my grandfather. I didn't know this until very recently. My last name wouldn't have been Casparian. Casparian is the last name of the man who took my great grandmother and grandfather in and, you know, married her and whatever. So I would have had a completely different last name. This made me much more curious about, like, my ancestry and everything. And on my mom's side, they fled to Palestine. Okay. So my. My grandmother's birth certificate said Haifa, Palestine. And so I started doing some research into that because she was born in 1937 in Haifa in 1947, a year before the Nakba happened, basically, the Soviet Union was sending ships to what is now Israel to take Armenians back to the homeland because, well, there were these terrorist groups that were carrying out terror attacks against the Palestinians and Christians because Armenians are overwhelmingly Christian. Right. And so at that time, what my research showed me was that the Irgun, which is one of the three Terrorist groups that formed Israel was attacking the, you know, local communities there in Haifa, doing bombings and all sorts of crazy things. So, like, they fled genocide, went to Haifa and then had had to flee again. But luckily they were able to go back to their homeland at that time, and they went back to Armenia, and that's where my mom was born.
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Candace Owens
And it's crazy because those terrorist groups, like, they then came to the United States, became their children, became executives, politicians. Like, these are what we are dealing with in media, are the sons and the daughters of those terrorists. Make no mistake. I mean, this is crazy.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
The Emanuel family being one of them. Rahm Emanuel, Ari Emanuel. How much power does that family have?
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Anna Kasparian
Do not trust that man. Democrats. I'm gonna look right in there. I'm gonna look into the camera right now. Do not trust me. Trust him. He's like, he's putting out statements right now about, like, oh, we should really rethink our support to Israel. He's full of crap.
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Candace Owens
Absolutely not.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah. In the idf, like, no, don't trust him. Democrats need to distance themselves from these people. Like, they're not healthy for us, to be honest.
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Candace Owens
I just think at the top, it's all the same. I don't. I think the Epstein files had everyone in it, truly. I think they have been that. That sort of global arms trafficking, human sex trafficking syndicate has. Is running America and has been running America for a long time. Obviously, Epstein, you know, his side gig was blackmail, but people forget that former Mossad agents testified that he was brought in for the arms deal for the Iran Contra scandal.
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Anna Kasparian
Yes. Yes. Okay. So, you know, oh, I am.
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Candace Owens
No. So deep on the Epstein stuff. And I'm going, oh, okay. So this is what I think is kind of happening in America is a lot of these people have a lot to do with trafficking.
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Anna Kasparian
Like, well, do you read drop site news by any chance?
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Candace Owens
No.
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Anna Kasparian
Okay, you will it because dropsite news when, first of all, there was a leak of the former Israeli prime minister's email. And so they started doing reporting on that. And then the Epstein files that were released, they specifically started to look into what kind of ties Epstein had with Israel. And it went beyond blackmailing our politicians and powerful people on behalf of Israel. Right. He was making all sorts of international deals on behalf of Israel, including the arms deals you're referring to, you know, cyber weapons, things like that. Why do you think the UAE has such a friendly relationship with Israel?
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Candace Owens
Weapons was one. And I keep trying to tell people that my podcast, my guys, like, this is not. So when I'm, like, looking into things, and there's so much trafficking connections. I'm like, is this. Are we looking at the Epstein network? Is that what's being protected? And I don't know what your take is on why Trump is protecting that.
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Anna Kasparian
When I think they have blackmail on him, I don't know. I don't know how deep it goes. I also think just. Just keeping it real. Trump is a very corrupt person. I mean, he loves money, and I think it's easy to buy him. I think it's. I think he's exceedingly easy to corrupt.
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Candace Owens
So. And this is my opinion, so I have no proof of this. But when I look at the broader Epstein picture, one of the things that Epstein was always involved in was where women could be trafficked, too. So Victoria's secrets. The guy, Jean Luc Brunel was his partner in Paris for, like, the modeling firm, who ended up killing himself in prison. Killing himself and hang him. Hanged himself in prison, just like Epstein. Exactly. And so he was constantly plugged into all of these modeling firms. And also pageantry falls into that category. And that was when. Why was Trump running, you know, the pageantry? Like, is that how he knows Epstein world? Is that. Does it go back that deep? Did he do a deal with Epstein and look the other way, like a lot of these other people did when these Eastern European women were coming in? Those are the questions that I have, because it doesn't make sense otherwise. Do I think he's also protecting his donors? Absolutely. Do I think Trump is his own man? Obviously not. Miriam Adelson did a deal with him, purchased out. I mean, she kind of outright purchased the White House.
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Anna Kasparian
I mean, he said it himself. I mean, it's. That's the thing that I guess I appreciate about Trump, if you want to put it that way. I mean, I don't know if it's due to lack of sophistication or if it's just that he can't help himself, but he just says it's it. He just says it. And so I choose to believe him when he says that, you know, Miriam Adelson loves Israel more than the United States, that she's got a lot of money, that she, you know, is a big donor. Like, I mean, he's communicating to us. Listen, I'm doing what I'm doing because she bought me.
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Candace Owens
That's also, by the way, what I think is wrong with Cash Patel. He's from Las Vegas. Las Vegas was. Is a gambling empire. That's it. They own Vegas. So when I see people coming out of Vegas. My immediate assumption is, well, you're already. If you made it up the chain in Vegas, you've already done some deals. Allegedly. My opinion. But when I was like, cash tells from Las Vegas. There's no. Of course, obviously, he's corrupt. You don't get ahead in Las Vegas because you're, like, a good guy.
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Anna Kasparian
Like, his behavior makes that obvious.
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Candace Owens
Right.
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Anna Kasparian
What do you think about the reporting about his, like, alcohol use? Do you think that's, like, an attempt to smear him? So, no, I don't get rid of him.
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Candace Owens
I think. I think he. He drinks. I think it's very stupid for someone like the Atlantic to publish that. It's just. I mean, they're. They're too well known to be like, I'm just gonna publish a piece. It's way too specific. And his reaction, he's so vociferous about it. It was, like, too much. And he just kind of strikes me as. When I was reading some of the stories, I was like, they're way too specific. And I do know that people don't like him. So they would leak those sorts of stories. Right. If the Atlantic is. If their response is, we are prepared to defend ourselves in court.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
Then they have something. It's the same way where everyone is, Sue Candace. Sue Kandace. I have been meticulous about making sure that I am saving every source, every conversation. I don't take an unnecessary risk. I don't want to be sued and then proven an idiot by being like, oh, well, she was just coming up with fantasy, and nothing was driving this. So of course they had. And they are. And they are not independent. They have people that they have to rely upon. They have to have those legal teams. They did not publish that article and put a target on their back from the FBI director on the basis of just wanting to, like, lol. Publish. That's my read on the situation. And he is erratic. There's something about him that feels erratic. And even the tweet, the weird tweet about my girlfriend's a country music sensation, you got to be a couple of cocktails in, right? I mean, I don't think. I hope. I think that's actually helps him. Actually. I don't think it's information. I think that is the best case scenario. It's like, oh, I was just a few cocktails in. Yeah, that's why I tweeted it. Because if you did it sober, then I have some bigger questions. You know, it's about your competence I
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Anna Kasparian
mean, the, the biggest thing for me
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Candace Owens
was
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Anna Kasparian
you like to get drunk in D.C. around a bunch of these people that, like, I wouldn't want to be in a room with, to be honest with you. Like, I don't want to spend my free time with these people at all. But then on top of that, to make yourself vulnerable by getting wasted. Like, that's so crazy.
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Candace Owens
The soccer, I mean, the hockey thing.
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Anna Kasparian
Crazy. I just. Crazy, crazy. And people defended him on that, like, oh, he's celebrating us one, like, whatever. And let's. Okay, fine, whatever. But now, in retrospect, when you realize that he clearly has a drinking problem,
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Candace Owens
I think that was very strange. It's just. You can celebrate, you can high five. But it was just like the whole. It just felt very frat boy about. And it was very frat boy with
- [47:40]
Anna Kasparian
the backdrop of how poorly he's doing his job. I mean, I, I. One thing that really stood out to me was the guy who first attempted to assassinate Donald Trump. I'm forgetting his name right now.
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Candace Owens
I don't know why, but we're three assassination attempts in. Yeah, I think his name is Matthew Crooks.
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Anna Kasparian
Crooks, yes. Perfect. Okay. Matthew Crooks. So Tucker did this really great special on the lack of investigation into that and how much we were lied to by our FBI. Like the fact that the FBI told us that, oh, there's no online trail of guy. And it turns out, no, he was actually pretty active online. Why did you lie to us about it? And then he played a video of Cash Patel testifying about it in front of a congressional committee, and Patel was like, I can't disclose that information because there's a trial. Except there isn't a trial. Crooks is dead. So, you know, like, we want to learn more about his motives. Like, where is he from? How did this happen? What were, like, what were the security failures? How come no one in the Secret Service got fired over this?
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Candace Owens
This?
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Anna Kasparian
We're not getting any answers. So I look at our government. I'm just like, this is all kabuki theater. And these people don't represent us. They don't care about our safety. They don't care about our country. They don't care about the injustices that get carried out against, you know, some of the biggest public figures in the country. So, like, how the hell am I supposed to trust this government? And it makes me increasingly angry, to be honest with you, when you see how much of our money, how much of our earnings goes toward a government that squanders it, it.
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Candace Owens
I would I would push back on your point that Cash Patel isn't doing his job. I think he is.
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Anna Kasparian
Interesting.
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Candace Owens
I think that is his job, and that is why he is in there. They put him in there and they tell him what to do, and it is to look the other way and to come up with excuses. I think he is executing his job perfectly.
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Anna Kasparian
Well, he hasn't been fired yet, so
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Candace Owens
his job is being executed perfectly. His job is to protect the elites. And shame on us for thinking that his job is to make sure justice is. Is served. And he paid all that lip service. If I get in there day one, here's what's going to happen. None of those happened because he went in there in the same way that Trump went in there. I don't know who their boss is. I actually think both of them have the same boss, if I'm being frank. They both answer to Vegas and Tel Aviv. But it's clear to me that he is doing a great job for the people that he actually works for. And I obviously have a lot of resentment, particularly for Cash Patel, because of the Charlie Kirk situation. Looking at what he has, the fact that he won't hand over the documents and the theater of that, the theater of how they came out and. Oh, gosh, it makes me so sick. You have no idea how sick it all makes me. To reflect upon just the fact that Charlie empowered these people like that. Like, it makes me sick.
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Anna Kasparian
Well, I mean, look, I. So I started watching. I had never watched your show until after he was assassinated because I'm like, there was there. There's something off. And she knew him better than anyone else in the media, so let me see what she's got. But I've got so much going on, and it was hard to follow your, like, you know, your investigation because there were so many moving parts, and I got to produce a show, and so I just kind of, like, dropped off a little bit. But what were you saying about Cash Patel's refusal to handle for documents? I don't know about that.
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Candace Owens
So the trial, I'm obviously on top of it because they. I. I really do think that what they're so angry about right now, more broadly speaking, is that we're staying focused on things. We are designed to be an ADHD culture.
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Anna Kasparian
That's true.
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Candace Owens
Charlie died yesterday. I forgive him. Okay, everybody, move on. We're all good. Well, let's move on. She's moved on. Everyone, forget about it. Epstein files. Oh, who are we talking about? The Epstein files. Okay, good. Let's move on. Let's move on. Okay. Trump says it's good and you're maga, Right? Here's some red meat. You're maga. Trump said it. Lancer the king.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, yeah.
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Candace Owens
And we're not doing that. We're not moving. We're not doing that. And with this, I was like, I am not moving on from this. And so the midterms. Exactly. We've signed up. We're getting the documents, obviously, but the midterms. And in this particular case. So they obviously, when I sat down with Erica and she explained to me they were sort of moving toward this may date or where he. He hasn't even entered into plea yet, to be clear. And so in May, they're supposed to have this hearing, and there's limited discovery in that, in that time frame because one of the questions I asked Erica sincerely was, you're communicating to the public that you believe they have the right guy. So my assumption when she was saying that to Barry Weiss was that obviously she has access to more information than we have. Like, as you know, she's involved in the case. She's listed as a victim on the case. Like, she can see stuff that we can't see. Maybe it's literally a clear video of Tyler Robinson coming out and shooting Charlie, like, open to that. And then when I sat down with her, she was like, oh, no, I haven't. I don't have anything more than the public has, because we are. Now what happens is we have to move towards this May date. And the sbi, which is the Bureau of Investigations in Utah, is the state investigations in Utah. They're going to go now, find the. All this evidence that Tyler Robinson did it. And Tyler Robinson then they present that to Tyler Robinson's team, and they then build their sort of defense leading to this may date. Well, it turns out that Tyler Robinson's team false document and says we need to move the state because that we have been asking for Cash Patel, who should not even be involved in this case, mind you, it's a state case to release the information to us, to give us these documents to his defense. To his defense. So, like, they're like, he haven't even given it to Utah. Forget sbn, hasn't given to the sbi. The defense doesn't have it. And they're like, how are we going to have this hearing when they're going to get up there and essentially put on a show trial and say, your honor, look at these messages where they're like, we don't even know those Messages are real.
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Anna Kasparian
That.
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Candace Owens
That's crazy. So imagine you're. You're. We're moving toward this date, and all they have is what Cash Patel told us in the first 48 hours, but they will not give them the discovery on that. They won't give them. So, like, if I say, Anna texted me and said she did it and that they want to say that, I'll. Blah, blah, blah. She hasn't even been able. The defense has not even been able to access Tyler Robinson's phone. They haven't been able to see the gun. Nothing.
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Anna Kasparian
Wow.
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Candace Owens
And what's holding that up?
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Anna Kasparian
That is weird. And also, what's up with the arbitrary May date? Right?
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Candace Owens
Yeah, they. So. And that was the thing. They fought back immediately because they were like, we want to make sure that, like, we get the discovery that we're asking for. And the judge was like, oh, it'll be fine. Don't worry about it. By then, in May, if we need to bump it, we will. And they all kind of agreed to that. And now that May is upon us. Erica's team, because she's a listed victim. So when I say Erica's team, I mean literally, she's a victim in this case, is fighting them. They're like, no, we want to keep the May date. And I'm like, why would you want to keep the May date? And I. I instantly alerted the public to that. I'm like, they are not giving them. They have no. We have no idea. These shady messages. Did Cash Patel, after a few beers, type them up? We don't know. We can't say no.
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Anna Kasparian
That's so weird. You know what? So when it comes to Erica's behavior, like, I will admit, like, some of her behavior is odd. Right. And off putting. And I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I wonder if, you know, her insistence that it's Tyler Robinson and nothing else is shady and, like, we need to pursue this prosecution. It's definitely him. I wonder if it's because, you know, when a family member of yours gets murdered or killed or harmed in some way, usually the family members want closure so badly that they. As soon as there's a suspect, they want that suspect to be the guilty one, and they just go for it full force. And maybe that's what's informing her decisions, to kind of pursue it the way that she's pursuing it. I don't know. But I will say this. I actually. I don't know how it would behave, to be honest. Like, I just think about how much I love my husband. And I, I, I don't think anyone would see me for a few years. Like, I just would not be able to go public. I wouldn't be able to have the strength to even talk in public about anything. And so that stood out to me about her. But also, she's a different person than me. So I, I just. People, People do grieve differently. I just know that the case itself has a few elements to it that raise some eyebrows. Everyone in the media that's critical of you is, like, so vociferous that it kind of gave me the idea that, like, the general public isn't with you until I told female family members of mine that I'm doing your show. And they're just like, oh, my God, I love Candace. I watch her every day. And I'm like, Like, really? You're not mad at her because of the whole Erica thing? They're like, no, no. And I'm like, really? Like, I couldn't believe it. So, yeah, clearly what you're seeing is something. I mean, the numbers in your show, like, it's very highly viewed. Okay. So obviously the people agree with you that there's something off, and I agree with you that there's something off. I just don't know what it is.
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Candace Owens
Yeah. And I think that what you're describing in is the process that we all went through because you don't want to even go down that route. Maybe it's this. Maybe in my head, I was like, maybe she's being blackmailed. Maybe she's scared they're going to kill her. Maybe, like, like you said, she just wants a quick conclusion to all of this. Maybe she's still in shell shock and is actually not controlling anything. At Turning Point was my initial suspicion. And just on paper, she's CEO, but she's actually just home crying every day. And like, behind the scenes, like, you know, Tyler, Justin, I went through that whole thing, and for me, I never wanted to arrive at Erica being suspicious. I didn't abstained from the like, oh, she's wearing hot pants with jd. None of that matters to me because I don't think people understand. I needed it as a part of my grieving process not to accept that plausibility, because then for me, beyond just having lost Charlie and having to wake up to then, I then had to wake up to the idea that Trump betrayed him in a way, and Kash Patel, everyone is betraying him and not wanting. Seeking more investigation. What I had to go through to pursue that for it Was I had to grieve again, right? Because I knew how much Charlie wanted love. Like, I have these messages, like I was helping Charlie draft text messages and what should I say? So I had to grieve again and go, okay, I need to like, really just follow the facts here. And that's all I've done. And it's landed me at. She's remarkably suspicious. Not because of the way she dresses, not because of the. Of whether or not she's crying enough. All of that kind of paints a picture that makes people uncomfortable, but just objective lies. Objective lies that I can't comprehend. Why would you lie and tell the public? And I think for me, the most explosive one that no one wants to address by calling me a monster. Why would you lie and say that the surgeon told you or told Andrew that he had a superman neck? And all of this stuff that objectively did not come from the surgeon, it came from Erica. And why would you lie and tell me that Andrew went rogue and sent that message when you did it with him? I can't actually. How did you find that out? How to make that out? A source, you know, a source and I trust the source. And obviously that's a strong statement to make. And so when Erica first said to me, I also didn't believe her. Right. So when she said, oh, I said, what's the Superman neck? And she said, oh, well, you know, Andrew went rogue. And then I said, the surgeon went rogue though, and talked. The surgeon violated HIPAA and Andrew went rogue. Yeah, that's a good point. And beyond having the conversation, Andrew then tweeted without your perm. Lot to have had to happen. I don't believe that the surgeon violated HIPAA and spoke to Andrew without your permission. And I said that to her face. I said, it's a tough one for me, but okay. And then I got the information that no, Erica actually called the surgeon. It's a three way call. And she wanted to know what to tell the public about why the bullet didn't go through. And that superman neck thing came from her. So, yeah, the public was told from Andrew's tweet. So I'm like, I can't somebody just offend it? Somebody just tell me why that should. Shouldn't completely unnerve me. Donors. The. Another huge one where like these are my two biggest things. Donors saying that that video that or. Or hasn't existed yet. The AI, alleged AI of Charlie saying I appoint Erica to be the CEO. Erica told me that he said that at an Aspen event. I Was, okay, great. Well, the Aspen people who were at the event said that never happened.
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Anna Kasparian
What?
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Candace Owens
These are the Turning Point USA donors who have contacted me and said, candace, that is AI. He did not say that. What? Now they have alleged that they have the video of that. Why do they only play the audio? And then when I said, hey guys, this is not normal, it doesn't actually really sound like Charlie. The, the cadence is somewhat off. And I said, okay, so just drop the video so we can all put this to bed. Not only that, people at Turning Point told me that he never said that at this event. Okay, so what am I left to do? I. You guys mentioned this to the public. You said that Charlie two weeks before, I guess, had done a complete 180 on his entire life's perspective that women should stay home and raise the children and not be CEOs. And suddenly he was like, you know what? Actually, not only should women do it, but single women should do it, widows should do it, and the kids should just be raised by the nanny and they should work 80 hour weeks.
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Anna Kasparian
That does seem uncharacteristic of Charlie Kerr.
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Candace Owens
Completely uncharacteristic of everything he's ever said.
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Anna Kasparian
In fact, one of the last conversations I had with him was at the Democratic National Convention. And look, I always appreciated the fact that he was down to debate, right? And that he didn't ever let it get dirty. Like, and so I, I, I appreciated that. And so we started debating about the role of women. And he basically said, because I don't have children, I'm, I don't plan on having children. It's just a decision that me and my husband made together. And honestly, I don't think that I have the right temperament to be a mom in today's society because I will definitely kill people if they come anywhere. Like, what they're doing to my husband right now, if they tried to like, harm my kids, prison, I, yeah, I would make myself at home 100%. I don't give a damn. That's how I am.
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Candace Owens
That's me.
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Anna Kasparian
I'm like, like fiercely loyal and defensive of my family. But anyway, he told me, well, you know, if you don't have kids, you don't really have a stake in the future of this country. And I just remember being very offended by that because I love this country so much and I definitely do have a stake in the future. Like, I have young, you know, nieces and nephews that I love to death. But even if I didn't, I love the people of this country. Like, I want it to succeed. And so. And so in that conversation, he, like, really reiterated what he believes the role of women should be. So then after he gets assassinated, and you don't really question it at first because you don't want to be that guy or that person who's just like, I don't know, that sounds a little shady and weird. And you go along to get along. That's a good example of a story where you go along to get along. But, yeah, there was this feeling within me where it's like, well, maybe he was willing to go against his beliefs or his values because he wants to make sure that the business falls in the hands of a family member. Right. Maybe that's why. But I just. I do find it strange. I do.
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Candace Owens
But it goes against common sense, because not only the story we're being told is, like, specifically, he said, if anything ever happens to me, meaning, like, if I get killed, I want my wife to be the next person that gets into the line of fire while my kids are at home.
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Anna Kasparian
Like, what?
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Candace Owens
Like, no, yeah, that's a good point, actually. Your instinct is then, no, shut this down. You go and move and stay away from politics forever and protect our children. So it defies common sense. And I know what Charlie's perspectives were. Obviously, the life that he wanted and what he said every time anybody asked him on his podcast. I mean, we have a decade of Charlie saying what his perspective was on how women should stay home, and there's no value in becoming a CEO, and then suddenly it's whiplash. And we're told, actually, right before he died, he just had this amazing 180 that nobody. It was a private donor event, and now the donors are saying it didn't happen, and that that is AI. Okay, wow. That's a very big claim that I am making. Right? And I'm not making that claim, by the way. The donors are, and they're contacting me and saying this never happened because they couldn't believe it, because they said they were watching my podcast. And when they had heard it initially, when Erica told the story to Megyn Kelly, they thought, oh, it must have been at the Hamptons or whatever it was. And then when I said it was Aspen, they were shocked. They said this absolutely did not happen. So if I'm lying about that, that wouldn't you, if you're Andrew Colvett, instantly say, oh, here's the video, Candace. Like, I don't know, maybe the donor forgot, but here it is. And now we're suddenly going why didn't they drop the video?
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
Like, they had her walk out to the audio. That would have been a very powerful. Could you imagine?
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
You have a video of Charlie on stage at an event, and he says, like, I want Erica Kirk. I appoint Erica Kirk to be the CEO.
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Anna Kasparian
Right.
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Candace Owens
Like, people would have had not had a dry eye in the place. We would have. I think it would have, like, even more made people rally around her and said, like, okay, I don't. I don't love it, but, like, it is. It was like Charlie's dying wish.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
And instead, Blake Neff says, we're never dropping the video.
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Anna Kasparian
It's so weird.
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Candace Owens
It's. It's bonkers. And so I have. There are. Are real things that are compelling me to continue this pursuit. I'm not interested in the vanity of, like, you know, her outfits or her makeup.
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Anna Kasparian
Well, you're under tremendous fire right now. I mean, it's. I can't even imagine, like, people in the media are really going at it, like, just trying to, you know, attack you for being cruel and, you know, going after Erica. And, like, I do think that they put words in your mouth sometimes and say things that you didn't actually say. But, you know, the other thing that. I mean, look, you tend to provide receipts when you have them. Right. And so everyone was denying what you were saying about the very real pressure campaign that Charlie was undergoing. And when you released those text messages, I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, this is. This is a big deal. And I'm not saying that it's definitive that there's, like, a connection to his assassination, but just knowing what he was going through personally behind the scenes in the months leading up to his assassination is information that maybe the FBI should be pursuing. No.
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Candace Owens
Or if you. If you are the wife of Charlie Kirk, wouldn't heads be rolling? Like, would I? The last people that would ever have a platform at Turning Point USA if I was the helm of it, were the people who stressed him out, who pressured him, who I would go to war with.
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Anna Kasparian
Josh Hammer. If that were my husband, and Josh Hammer was lying about what my husband actually believed, I would be at war with him right till this day.
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Candace Owens
Immediate partnership with all of. All of his enemies.
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Anna Kasparian
It's crazy. Yeah.
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Candace Owens
I can't make sense of that. I can't make sense of that. Everybody knew, knows Ben and Charlie hate each other. Like, it's like a just a known thing in politics. Like, they just never got along. And then he's opening, and it doesn't make Sense to me, setting aside my personal feelings for Ben, which were always in line with Charlie's because of how he behaves behind the scenes. How do you explain that? Yeah, he comes in with a million dollar check, sits in a chair and then just says, not like. It's like. That doesn't make sense to the public. Because a normal reaction to a loved one is everybody who caused them grief, who put pressure on their donors, who. How about me having to be the one to tell people that he, the night before, texted and said that he thought they were going to kill him. And not only that, but she explicitly denied that on Glenn Beck. She did deny that until I clocked it and said, well, Andrew Colbett told me that he was one of the ones that received it. And then it became the story about, oh, maybe it was in Telegram. Dan Flood received a message as well. It wasn't on Telegram, it was on imessage. So who deleted it? Or were you lying? Or did somebody delete it? Okay, I want to give you the benefit of doubt. Maybe someone took his phone in between and deleted all that. I don't even know why you have his phone. Actually. I feel like that should be in evidence. But it becomes increasingly hard that no one is attacking the substance of what I'm presenting. They're just saying, like, how dare you? How dare you keep telling the truth about what Charlie was going through. How dare you present to the public that he did not die a Judeo Christian and that he was angry with how he was being treated.
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Anna Kasparian
Well, there was one other thing that I thought was interesting, right? The audio of Tyler Robinson's grandfather. Remember, Tyler Robinson allegedly was, like, turned in by his family. His, like family knew he was guilty and they. No, it turns out his grandfather, whose weapon he allegedly used, right, to carry out the assassination, was there at the trial defending his grandson. But we were all led to believe that the family, they, you know, knew that Tyler Robinson is guilty and are not supporting him in this process.
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Candace Owens
Everything has been a lie. And I've, I've told the public that. I'm like, when this case gets going, you're going to see that everything's a lie. And so we are left asking the question is, why are they lying? And I, I'm sorry that we're rational thinkers and we are seeing how I
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Anna Kasparian
don't trust my government. Like, it's, it's that simple. I just don't trust the government. That's where we're at. So I feel like anyone who doesn't have a Healthy dose of skepticism. Needs to get some. Okay.
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Candace Owens
Because Bibi's radical denials when no one was pointing the finger at him was also kind of just, like, weird.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
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Candace Owens
I didn't kill Charlie Chirk. I didn't kill Charlie Kirk. Why. Why are you saying that right now?
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Anna Kasparian
I know that was pretty wild. First of all, why was he on a US Media tour on the day that he got assassinated? Like, I don't care what Netanyahu thinks about anything that happens in our country at all. All, he should be in prison for the rest of his life as a war criminal because that's what he is. Why are we hosting him on media shows here in the US to chime in on Charlie Kirk's assassination?
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Candace Owens
It's bonkers.
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Anna Kasparian
It's so crazy. Like, I thought that was strange on day one.
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Candace Owens
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Anna Kasparian
But you're right, I mean, I have resisted, like, allowing myself to believe that there's like a wider conspiracy because you just don't want to believe it. But I will say this. I Nothing adds up. Like, this whole situation doesn't add up. And I do find it very strange that the person who wants to ask questions and look, you might pursue threads that don't go anywhere. And I think people have a problem with that, right? They feel like, oh, you're incriminating individuals who are innocent. Like, that's the big argument I hear against you.
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Candace Owens
You.
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Anna Kasparian
But I don't think you'd be pursuing this if you felt like there was an adequate investigation being done. And I myself agree with you that there isn't an adequate investigation being done.
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Candace Owens
And he went toe to toe with Bibi and he won over the Iran war. And I think that people have to understand that we're sitting here talking about how he feels nothing as he mass murders children. The way that he lies is also, there's something so psychopathic about it when he just gets on and pretends he's perpetually the victim and he's just killing people all day, every day. He's a homicidal maniac.
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Anna Kasparian
I know.
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Candace Owens
Who is supported by the halls of Congress, who gets a standing ovation when he walks into Congress. It's disgusting. So if that's possible, if it's plausible for these people not to want to spit in his direction when he walks by them, then we have to imagine that. Would you think you'd have an issue like doing something to Charlie Kirk? It means nothing to these. And I'm not saying that we have evidence that Bibi Netanyahu did, but I am saying that the way in which he reacted and me knowing how they wanted this war so badly and that Charlie at first stood in the way of it, literally, like debated and got Trump not to do anything more than that limited military operation when they, when they bombed for a. And the other. Was it in tons. The other nuclear sites. And Bibi was pissed. And then we fast forward, Charlie's out of the way and what are we doing? Everything Bibi wanted to be done. So it's hard for us not to just piece together a comprehensive story here.
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Anna Kasparian
I mean, it is wild that the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, worked on Benjamin Netanyahu's 2020 reelection campaign. She is the gatekeeper to the President of the United States. What was that guy's name? Former Trump administration official who's now, like, running like a propaganda arm of the Israeli government as we speak. Not Corey Lewandowski. He worked on. He got arrested once for like a domestic case, and now he's like, working for the Israeli government doing propaganda.
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Candace Owens
I had no idea.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, I par scale Brad Parscale.
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Candace Owens
I do. I do know what you're talking about. That's the clock tower media.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. So it's. You see these connections, and those connections are proven. This is not a conspiracy. They're just proven. And they kind of like rub it in our faces. And it's just like, okay, well, you can't be upset when people don't trust the government because of all this foreign influence and when people keep getting hurt and there are these, like, weird, what appears to be sham investigations. I mean, another example is Donald Trump. One thing that I think everyone can agree on, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, is that Trump is unable to let a grudge go. He will hold a grudge for the rest of his life, but when it comes to his would be assassins, we never hear him say a damn word about it. Strange. So strange.
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Candace Owens
A lot of people now are kind of revisiting Butler and starting to talk about what happened there or what didn't happen thereafter. And it is.
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Anna Kasparian
Is.
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Candace Owens
I don't know. And it's a scary thing for me because I was so invested and oh my goodness, you know, Trump was saved. There must be a broader reason for that. And I have checked myself a thousand times since the Charlie investigation. I've realized what real evil we're up against. And this kind of gets into what you're saying about how you were atheists for a long time, but now you're realizing this is bigger there.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah, I mean, I.
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Candace Owens
Good versus evil, like these demons versus angels.
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Anna Kasparian
I mean, I, I definitely think that over the last two and a half years, I've been able to Identify the existence of evil that I didn't think existed. And that pushed me a little closer to my roots because I grew up Christian. I, I wouldn't say that I'm like a full blown Christian again, but I'm am now realizing that there's. I've had some experiences too, which I, I haven't really talked about too much publicly mostly because after, you know, Tucker Carlson talked about his supernatural experience, people dunked on him, including myself, and I'm very embarrassed about that. Mine wasn't like, oh, I got, you know, attacked by demons. Mine was actually a very positive experience and it made me very close to humanity, like understanding and appreciating people's humanity first and foremost before seeing them as nothing more than like a political figure or a political ideology. You know, I think that we've been going back to brainwashing. I think a lot of us have been brainwashed by our political system into dehumanizing people who disagree with us without realizing that, like the only way we come up with solutions in this country, in a democracy, is in if we encourage conversation between Americans, regardless of what they believe politically, it tends to have a more moderating effect as well. Right. And you get a better sense of who your fellow Americans are as opposed to having people in positions of power tell you who your fellow Americans are and scare you about the other side and all of that. And so I just feel like there's something bigger than us. And it's hard to explain. I mean, I'm not really big into religious doctrine per se, but I definitely don't think I'm an atheist anymore.
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Candace Owens
Right.
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Anna Kasparian
Yeah. This is the first time I've said that publicly.
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Candace Owens
Right. Which is amazing. I mean, I think it's. Something's on the move. And I keep saying that it feels like there are so many people that are having that sort of a spiritual awakening, if that's what you want to call it, and recognizing. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is happening is so evil that it is ancient. There's something ancient about what's happening right now. And the answers are not going to be in these fickle day by day discussions. And we need to. What actually has been happening since the beginning of time. And when you. For me, that was kind of the most natural thing where I was like, wow, this is like way deeper than I ever imagined. And it is. You're right, it's. Something happens that is so. It's like evil by biblical proportions. Right. It's like biblical. This can't be. You can't be we can't be the same species if you're okay with what they're doing. Like, there's something so much deeper. What is motivating you to be okay with a genocide? I need to figure this out. And I have been in that pursuit, I think, heavily so since definitively, since obviously my firing and me not comprehending everything. And I feel it has put me. It has driven me even more. Like, I'm like, okay, I get this now. This is. Yeah.
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Anna Kasparian
And I love that you're willing to have people like, you know, Norm Finkelstein on Basam Youssef. Like, those are some of my favorite episodes of yours. I watched it, and Bassem Youssef got a little. I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of heat too. Oh, you're talking to Candace Owens. Whatever. He got a little bit of heat on that. And I'm. I'm so happy to see that he pushed back. He's like, okay, you don't like Candace. Who cares?
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Candace Owens
Yeah.
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Anna Kasparian
Get over it.
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Candace Owens
We need more of that. We. We have to, like, take this thing out a bit because we're fighting real evil, and so we just. I just really want to say that, like, if you think you hate someone on the left, like, does. Is that person? Like, my. I think my litmus test is, like, Gaza. Like, you know, my litmus test has somehow become Gaza, where I'm like, someone
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Anna Kasparian
else finally said it. Same for me. Same for me. It's funny because I went through at least a year and a half being, like, deeply, deeply bitter toward the left because of how they reacted toward me. When I started to, like, moderate, literally on, like, two issues, the way we were handling crime policy. And. And by the way, I don't want to go back to, like, tough on crime, throw everyone in prison. I was just like, hey, I live in California. We need to just calibrate a little bit because this isn't working out.
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Candace Owens
Out.
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Anna Kasparian
And then there was one other issue. I can't remember what it is at the moment, but they, like, threw me away. And, like, longtime friends of mine, like, just started putting out, like, negative content about me. And it. Like, I was bitter about it, but after everything that happened in Gaza, I have a pretty strict policy right now. You are against what's happening in Gaza. That means, to your core, you're a good person. So who cares what you did to me? I'm not attacking you. I consider you a good person. And so you're on my side. Even if we have these little squabbles. Bubbles and these disagreements, who cares if you care about making this country better and you're willing to sacrifice, you know, your. The purity of your political brand or whatever to work with people that you might have other disagreements with. I love you. I want to work with you. You're a good person. I just, I don't want to waste any of my time anymore with these, like, nonsense little squabbles when, like, our country is under attack. Okay. Our government doesn't represent us. Money, moneyed interests control us. Foreign influence is out of control. We have problems that are way bigger than, like, I don't know what you think about. Yeah, even crime policy. Right. Like, okay, you don't agree with me on crime policy, it's fine, whatever. Doesn't mean you're a bad person. And you can attack me if you want, but I just. The reason why I don't want to attack back at this point is because it's not important in the grand scheme of things.
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Candace Owens
Yeah, you are absolutely right. Okay, so I want to ask you in closing, what are your predictions for? I would say this, this, just this next year. Because, like, I go back to that. Something feels very fragile right now. Everyone's lashing out. They seem like they've lost control. Trump, like, he's really completely lost his support. He doesn't want to acknowledge it. They're kind of keeping him in a cave of Fox News every day.
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Anna Kasparian
Yep.
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Candace Owens
Telling him he's amazing. Also fake news. CNN says 100%. I have 110% support. What are your predictions? Like, what do you feel him and where we're at right now as a nation.
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Anna Kasparian
So there had been a lot of liberals who were worried that Trump, if he gets reelected as he did, he, he's never going to leave the White House. I'm not worried about that at all. I think that in order to do a literal coup, you would need popular support among your base. And he's losing that support big time. I think the popularity of Tucker Carlson gives me a look into what the conservative movement is evolving toward. At least I'm hoping that's the case because he's very much conservative. Don't get me wrong. I mean, like, he's still, you know, anti abortion, you know, all the conservative values that have existed when it comes to social issues. But he woke up to the neocons. He woke up to the big game that's being played with our money, our resources, with our reputation as Americans. And he's speaking out against it, and he's taking a huge risk. And guess what? He's got a lot of support, not just from conservatives, but also I'm noticing, you know, the biggest voting block now are independents, and he has a lot of support among independents as well. I'm even seeing some hardcore lefties, like, reluctantly admit, like, Tucker's right about this, you know, and. And I love it. I love that. Be honest with yourself. Yourself, who cares about the labels, what are your values? And stick to those values. And if you do that, you have to give Tucker Carlson credit for being as vociferous as he's been against Israel's influence on the United States. What's been going down in the Middle east, how much we have lost in blood and treasure when it came to forever wars that were fought on behalf of Israel in the past. And by the way, this is not. I want to be clear, this is not a partisan thing like this. Foreign policy is very much bipartisan, partisan under Obama, and a lot of people don't know this. We wanted to assist Israel in turning Syria into a failed state, and we certainly succeeded in that mission. So under Obama, we started arming literal terrorists, including, like, Al Qaeda offshoots.
- [82:59]
Candace Owens
Al Nusrat.
- [83:00]
Anna Kasparian
Yes, Al Nusrat. Exactly. How the hell could anyone defend that? It's so wrong. And so we need people who are awake to how much this puts Americans at a disadvantage, how evil and immoral all this behavior has been. I hate the way that people across the globe perceive us. You know, Iran. Their propaganda has been very effective.
- [83:24]
Candace Owens
Fantastic.
- [83:25]
Anna Kasparian
Yeah. Their Lego videos are amazing.
- [83:27]
Candace Owens
Yeah.
- [83:27]
Anna Kasparian
And the one that they put out recently where they're speaking directly to the American people and telling us, like, we actually love you guys. We have no problem with you guys. We know it's your government and that they're not representing what you want. Want.
- [83:40]
Candace Owens
It was a sigh of relief because I'm like, please do not grow up and think that we support this geriatric pedophile defending like Epstein, class of psychopaths. We don't want this. We do not want this war. We want to go about our day, have low gas prices, be able to afford groceries. And when they put that out, that message, it was like, they are plugged in.
- [84:00]
Anna Kasparian
Yeah, they are.
- [84:00]
Candace Owens
They're plugged into how the American people feel. So Trump does not comprehend that he is completely removed from it. And now you have Iran, and they have pretty much done everything the right way. We're trying to negotiate. We're killing people while we're negotiating.
- [84:13]
Anna Kasparian
I know.
- [84:13]
Candace Owens
Crazy. It is crazy, crazy what we did. And Americans are awake to that.
- [84:17]
Anna Kasparian
They are. So that's what gives me hope. So my, my prediction for the future is I don't think the political landscape is going to look anything like it has over the last, I don't know, 25 years. I think things are changing. I think Americans are. Are uniting on issues that matter the most most. And that gives me hope. So as negative as all the issues we've been talking about are, fact of the matter is we are kind of moving in a better direction. The at least the people of this country are. And we need to find a way. We need to start strategizing on how to change the political class entirely. All of them. Okay. And the Chuck Schumers on the, on the Democratic side, they gotta go. They gotta to go.
- [85:01]
Candace Owens
Totally agree.
- [85:02]
Anna Kasparian
Yeah.
- [85:03]
Candace Owens
Well, you guys, it has been an absolute honor to host Anna Kasparian. I am sure there will be backlash. Actually not for me. My audience is very split now because I'm really. Yeah. I'm not like females in my family
- [85:13]
Anna Kasparian
who are watching you. I was like, I was pretty shocked.
- [85:16]
Candace Owens
Yeah. You know, because I just hate everybody.
- [85:19]
Anna Kasparian
Shout out to Lily Rodriguez. By the way, she won.
- [85:21]
Candace Owens
Shout out to Lily Rodriguez. Rodriguez. Yeah, I have just not. I just don't care anymore. We have to do more of this. It is the only way we're going to save this country against the Epstein class. And so if you're anti pedal pedophiles, if you are against what is going on in Gaza, then we really are actually on the right side. We're on the same side. On the right side. I should say the same side.
- [85:41]
Anna Kasparian
The same side.
- [85:42]
Candace Owens
Thank you guys so much. We'll see you next time.