The post-election liberal media meltdown continues as the Associated Press prepares to fire 8% of its staff,

while desperate left-wing media figures cling to their careers by trying to make peace with President Trump.

I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Know the show.

Welcome back to the show, some really great news coming out of Congress, which is that five days ago, I called attention to the fact that the first ever trans-identifying member of Congress was just elected. This guy, Tim McBride, Democrat from Delaware, obviously Democrat. And I said, look, no one's really talking about this,

but this is a pretty shocking turn of events. And the Republicans are going to have to deal with this

issue, which is that this guy is probably going to want to use the women's bathroom. And so

Republicans need to either hold the line and show that we actually do oppose trans ideology

for the purpose of justice and its good politics,

or the Republicans are going to let this guy use the women's bathroom, and then we're implicitly

going to be giving up the whole trans ideology premise. We're going to be saying, yeah, for all

intents and purposes, a man really can become a woman, because the Republicans don't want to

have courage and, you know, grow a spine,

along with some other appendages, perhaps. So in any case, I said Republicans have to hold the line

on this. They got to make sure that this guy, no disrespect him, they got to make sure this guy

uses the proper bathroom. And Nancy Mace has done it. A Republican member of Congress has done that

introduced a resolution to ban men from the Capitol Hill ladies' room.

There's so much more to say first, though, go to leaffilter.com slash knolls.

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