In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk is joined by Scott to discuss the upcoming Inauguration and the use of drones in the process. Listen to find out what he has to say about it.
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00:03:30.000And if he doesn't feel comfortable, why should we?
00:03:33.000The second out of these three points is that DHS, FBI, FAA, and DOD's statement, they came out and said that such drone sightings near or over DOD installations are not new.
00:03:47.000And anybody in the counter-drone sector like myself has known this for years.
00:03:52.000Third, you're a football fan for the wrong team, the Oregon Ducks, sadly, but a couple years ago there were two drone sightings on one weekend alone in Seattle, one at Husky Stadium and one at the Seahawks Stadium, and neither time was the drone pilot found.
00:04:11.000So this other question and the last point that people don't understand, I can share some details if you want, But it's 10 times more difficult to detect, track, and take down drones in an urban environment than a wide-open area.
00:04:24.000I mean, think of, you're out in a wide-open area, and you're shouting, right?
00:04:27.000And your voice just carries over a large area.
00:04:30.000Now, for an urban environment, you're in an echo chamber, Charlie, with me and other folks, five or six people, and you all shout at once, and the The radar signals are like that.
00:04:41.000They're just bouncing around and you can't hear your own message.
00:04:44.000So urban environments, it's practically impossible to protect people.
00:04:48.000So my question is, are you aware the U.S. government can't guarantee the safety of people attending the inauguration?
00:04:56.000Well, that's uplifting for me that's going to inauguration.
00:05:00.000But let me just say one thing about this.
00:05:03.000I hope the government gets stacked together to be able to secure our safety because a lot of important people are going.
00:05:07.000I can't say more than that, but I certainly hope they get their act together.
00:05:29.000It's like he never got to defend himself.
00:05:32.000It was way past the statute of limitations.
00:05:35.000Tell me what you're thinking here, Charlie.
00:05:38.000Well, that's a smart question, Rosetta, and that's why you guys are the best audience in all of broadcasting, because we've got to keep our eye on the ball here and keep the main thing the main thing, which is, what if they try to lock up Donald Trump while he's President of the United States in the hush money stuff?
00:06:10.000And it's even more egregious than that.
00:06:13.000According to New York law, there's a very specific statute of limitations that I think was seven years ago.
00:06:21.000They signed a law, or it was like five and a half years, they signed a law extending the statute of limitations because of COVID, only to try to still get Trump.
00:07:24.000So, I wanted to basically ask you two questions.
00:07:27.000So, In your talks at AmFest, you said continuously that the left is going to come back with something stronger and a way to basically shut down the MAGA movement.
00:07:42.000They're going to try and shut down Turning Point.
00:07:44.000Or they're going to at least try their best to.
00:07:46.000And I wanted to ask you, what do you have in mind or what's on your mind about that?
00:07:52.000What do you see them trying to execute?
00:08:10.000Number one, as far as how they're going to try to go after turning point or their outside groups, they're going to try to use state attorneys general against people like us.
00:08:23.000And so California, Massachusetts, they're going to be even increasingly weaponized against groups like ours, people like myself.
00:08:32.000I think we're going to be fine, but we have to be ready for that.
00:08:35.000Secondly, and you're starting to see this, if the left was really smart, they would try to peel Elon Musk away from Trump world.
00:08:42.000That combination of world's richest man with most popular famous man and powerful man.
00:08:49.000Look, there's three things that really are the web of influence.
00:08:51.000There's power, there's wealth, and there's fame.
00:08:55.000Between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, you have an overabundance of a supply of those three things.
00:09:01.000World's richest man, world's most powerful man, and the two most famous men on the planet.
00:09:06.000So those two then combined forces, it's an unstoppable movement to be able to bring this country back to greatness.
00:09:12.000So what I think the left is going to try to do is have very...
00:09:16.000They haven't been too sophisticated yet, but I think they'll increase in their sophistication of psychological splinter operations to try to turn Elon against Trump or Trump against Elon.
00:09:27.000So we have to be very, very, very careful about that to try to keep...
00:09:32.000Keep those two very close and not allow those efforts to be successful in any way.
00:09:39.000They're trying to run that play to try to create daylight because that combo factor of Elon and that whole group that he represents and Trump and obviously his movement and those together, that is an American restoration likes of which we could never have imagined.
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00:12:19.000I mean, I don't want to grow government to be that much in the sense where we're over-policing child's BMIs.
00:12:26.000But you can make an argument that it is equally as damaging.
00:12:30.000Not equally, but not as, but very damaging to a child to be type 2 diabetic by the time they're 8 years old.
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00:12:43.000There's an incredible conversation Tucker Carlson recently had on his program with Dr. Mark Hyman.
00:12:52.000And Dr. Hyman said he was once working as an ER doctor, as a nurse, and this woman came in with her baby who was 10 months old and was drinking some brown liquid.
00:14:59.000And remember, the invasion of Iraq happened two complete years after 9-11.
00:15:04.000That was in early 2003 that we invaded Iraq.
00:15:08.000When it came to Afghanistan, the invasion of Afghanistan is different than what we actually did in the first couple of weeks.
00:15:14.000After 9-11, we went in with incredible precision.
00:15:18.000We went in with Navy SEALs units, Army Rangers, Green Berets, and we put people on the ground and we were incredibly efficient at taking out the bad guys.
00:15:29.000So we had a couple thousand person fighting force, very similar to what Eric Prince would talk about, of people that did not require major tank assistance, did not require nation building type support, auxiliary support, that was just going through the hills of Afghanistan, finding the bad guys, and killing them.
00:15:48.000Where I think what we should have done is had a very agile team, You see, that is a lesser talked about element of Donald Trump's first term.
00:16:07.000Donald Trump took out ISIS. How did he do that?
00:16:09.000Well, he didn't do that with 250,000 ground troops.
00:16:13.000He did it with a Green Beret unit here, a drone strike there.
00:16:20.000Instead, we went all in on an antiquated, expensive, and costly version of war fighting, which is that we are going to liberalize Iraq and Afghanistan and turn them into Indiana and Alabama.
00:16:34.000That was foolish, that was dumb, incredibly costly, and no one doubts that there should have been a response after 9-11.
00:16:43.000In fact, the first couple weeks after 9-11 was actually our most effective, where after three weeks we did a lot, after 20 years we had very little show for it, and now we see, of course, the disaster.
00:16:53.000$100 billion in equipment left over, complete humiliation, one of the darkest days in American history.
00:16:59.000And I point to the Bush-Cheney junta for creating this mess in the first place.
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00:18:22.000Hey Charlie, I almost met you last time at AmFest, but I kind of missed your signature signing thing on their hats.
00:18:29.000I wish the schedule was a little bit perfect, but my question is, in a society that we all live in, the thing that people do is idolize people from sports or Hollywood.
00:18:43.000The biggest promise is that Donald Trump said that he will be releasing one of those Diddy party lists and exposing those people who did those freak offs.
00:18:51.000My question is, would it be really a great idea to be releasing names like LeBron James, who has a lot of influence on a lot of people's lives and some evil mold their lives around his name?
00:19:03.000I feel like if they did release the names, it will destroy a lot of hopes and communities knowing their heroes are evil.
00:19:10.000I think those lists should be released.
00:19:12.000I think that people deserve the truth.
00:19:13.000And so if these people went to freak out parties and did things illegal, release the names.
00:19:18.000By the way, Jay-Z is not having a great news cycle right now.
00:20:23.000So the gig economy is a completely separate issue than the H-1B thing.
00:20:27.000The gig economy is basically forced, not unionization, but benefits for people that are working as independent contractors, essentially Uber drivers.
00:20:36.000So we're talking about two different things.
00:20:38.000So the gig thing, President Trump hasn't really weighed in on much on that.
00:20:42.000But President Trump definitely remains resolutely pro-American first when it comes to restricting the labor supply to be able to prioritize our workers first.
00:21:21.000And President Trump, I don't think, has weighed in on that either way, but it is highly restrictive of part-time work and people that are just trying to make ends meet.
00:21:32.000Now, all of a sudden, employers are less likely to employ them.
00:21:35.000AB5 is the California law that was restricting the gig economy work that does not yet have a federal corollary as of yet.
00:22:30.000My question is, what are your thoughts on Department of Children and Family Services?
00:22:35.000So, DCFS. Many believe it's one of the most corrupt government agencies, often misusing power and using fear tactics to pressure good parents into relinquishing their rights based on minor or untrue complaints under the broad-term neglect.
00:22:49.000Do you think DCFS should be investigated for its practices?
00:22:53.000I mean, I'm sure they do some good work, but I hear almost nothing but complaints.
00:22:56.000I mean, one of our employees that works for us, who does a great job, phenomenal parent, father of four, they had DCFS called on him because his kids were playing in his driveway too close to the cul-de-sac that they were in.
00:23:09.000And one of his neighbors, who's super left-wing and super liberal, called DCFS. They had to hire a lawyer.
00:23:15.000They had to go through this whole process.
00:23:17.000They were threatening to take the kids away.
00:23:51.000I do want to say, though, I have known of instances where DCFS really should take the kid away because they are being abused and they are being beaten and they're not able to do that.
00:24:02.000Those are rare, but you could admit those exist, right?
00:24:05.000There are parents that do abuse their kids, but I've seen it on the other extreme.
00:24:10.000I've seen it far more often being the situation of the government haggling and hassling good parents rather than trying to save kids from bad environments.
00:24:39.000First things, I just want to say thank you for everything you guys did during the election.
00:24:43.000I watched a whole bunch of your speeches going to different universities, and I wanted to say thank you for all of the hard work you guys put in.
00:24:50.000My question is, my wife and I are hoping to afford a home sometime in the near future, and I wanted to know what other knowledge or ideas Trump has planned to be able to combat the current housing crisis.
00:25:05.000And during the break, I saw that the illegal immigration was a factor in this, but I just wanted to know what other kinds of aspects.
00:25:14.000Can you tell me where you live, what state you live in?
00:25:24.000Number one, the price of everything that goes into buying a home has gone up dramatically, from windows to siding to Concrete to the nails that have to be nailed in.
00:25:36.000And that is a byproduct of hyperinflation.
00:25:39.000So if President Trump is able to bring down inflation, which of course inflation is just very simple.
00:26:04.000That's not the complete and total solution.
00:26:07.000Secondly, deportation of illegal migrants so that you don't have to compete against illegals to buy homes or to at least have housing.
00:26:15.000Thirdly, which is a more controversial take, but I think we can all agree on this one, is that BlackRock and this $10 trillion company should not be able to come in and buy single-family homes when you yourself want to be able to buy a home.
00:26:30.000Fourthly, we have to bring down interest rates.
00:26:32.000We have to bring down the cost of money.
00:26:34.000You do that through a robust and growing economy.
00:26:37.000And by the way, interest rates go down when you no longer have inflation.
00:26:41.000Interest rates are the price of money, and you use that as a lever to try to restrict the money supply if you have too many dollar bills out there.
00:26:48.000If we can bring reflation into retreat, it gives us a signal to bring down interest rates.
00:26:53.000Now, let me just give you some off-the-hand advice.
00:26:56.000And again, my friends Andrew and Todd at andrewandtodd.com are the ones to talk to about.
00:27:02.000But let me just kind of give you some advice.
00:27:04.000The minute interest rates start to go down, that is the point to actually go and buy because prices are only going to go up after that, if that makes sense.
00:27:12.000Because eventually, once interest rates go down, they're going to go up even more There's going to be this kind of low period where housing will stabilize and then it's going to skyrocket because demand is going to go up like a hockey stick.
00:27:24.000And then finally, hopefully working wage is going to go up thanks to President Trump.
00:27:30.000Good people like yourself are at the outside looking in at some of the basic promises that you were given by your parents and grandparents.
00:27:57.000Hey Charlie, just talking about Vivek's comments and I'm wondering why so many people are missing his main point.
00:28:04.000His main point is that the American education system has been a disaster, is a disaster, and so has been lazy American parenting over the last 50 years.
00:28:15.000It's a culture that is not producing American geniuses.
00:28:19.000That was his main point, and everybody seems to be skipping that.
00:28:24.000And look, I love Vivek, and I think that is a very good reading of what he wrote.
00:28:29.000I think that the way people were gleaning it, of which you can, based on Vivek's articulate tweet, which is that he was calling the American people mediocre and was also there's a fair amount of people that did spend their high school and college years enjoying themselves and not necessarily studying all the time.
00:29:24.000I do think, though, that the American people need to face some harsh realities that the way we've been doing things over the last several decades isn't the path to a good future.
00:29:41.000Well, and again, a lot of what Vivek's saying, there's some wisdom in what he was saying.
00:29:44.000I would have worded it a lot differently, and nor do I share a lot of the views in that tweet, but disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun.
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00:31:51.000Get involved in your state party and from there, in Virginia, you could have a really big say in who becomes the next governor of Virginia.
00:32:29.000I figured that since we've already won so many things, the House, the Senate, the Executive Branch, the Supreme Court, we talk a lot about macroeconomics a lot, inflation, things that we can't control.
00:32:40.000What I'm wondering is how do we get the administration and Congress to prioritize and consider legislating a combined package of fiscal policies that address non-life essential costs of the typical American budget?
00:32:53.000For example, tackling the out-of-control property taxes across the country.
00:32:58.000There's a movement in several states that are doing that.
00:33:01.000Home insurance, property taxes make up almost the same amount as a mortgage in many cases.
00:33:10.000Interest rates and then also fixing the entire credit card industry is terrible in the way they're doing it.
00:33:18.000And a lot of people can't get credit that probably should in the way they do it.
00:33:21.000So I'm thinking, like, how do we get down to kitchen table economics, where they actually put together a bill that has direct impact on people's lives?
00:33:40.000Because that will lower the rate of inflation and return more money into the pockets of the American people, definitionally.
00:33:47.000Secondly, we have to also lower the amount that we tax on wages.
00:33:51.000FICA tax, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, do a working person's tax cut, and get rid of FICA for people below earning a certain amount.
00:34:01.000So, those are just some initial ideas.
00:34:04.000By the way, what you are talking about in Florida, flood insurance alone is more than people's mortgage payment for people that own property in Florida.
00:35:21.000In fact, in the book, Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, he talks about just a 20-minute walk without a phone literally changes your brain's plasticity.
00:35:31.000Changes it and it's more in touch with its environment.