On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Colvitt and Blake Neff are back covering the fallout from Robert Kennedy's confirmation to the Supreme Court. They cover the clips, the reaction, and the Laken Riley Act signing ceremony. Some truly powerful moments there, especially when Laken s mother, Allison Phillips, took the podium to speak.
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00:02:09.000I think it's important that we keep the show rolling here, Blake.
00:02:14.000That confirmation hearing with RFK was pretty explosive at times.
00:02:21.000I knew that he was going to be coming into a hostile environment, but I actually didn't anticipate the sort of moralizing and the virtue signaling from the Democrats that we saw there.
00:02:33.000Actually, I thought I knew it was going to be like a five, six at least.
00:02:37.000But I think what we saw was like an eight, nine to a ten at times grandstanding from Bernie Sanders, grandstanding from Senator Warren and, you know, Senator Hassan from New Hampshire.
00:02:52.000What do you make of the environment within the Congress?
00:02:55.000Well, I'm definitely not surprised about it, Andrew, because you have to think all the factors that could come into play to make this a barn burner hearing are there.
00:03:07.000First of all, he is a former Democrat.
00:03:41.000He was 100% needed, but he gave the Trump campaign a lot of energy right after the Democratic convention, right around that time, really built that coalition so they can dislike him for that reason.
00:03:55.000And of course, there's also, lurking in the background, the economic reason.
00:04:00.000Obviously, you know, there's reasons they can give to oppose all of Trump's picks, but RFK is the one where you can say there is a large vested interest in the United States, both in government and in the private sector, that really, really badly does not want this to go through, which means they're able to spend millions of dollars on the oppo, on the background networking.
00:04:25.000There can be this vast ad hoc apparatus to stop this nomination, which means they're all going to have the opposition research they can draw on.
00:04:33.000They can get professional coaching from the lobbyists who will say, you need to do this, you need to say this.
00:04:39.000So they're going to make the full court press, and the pressure is on for Trump, for MAGA, for Maha to make it clear to Republicans that they need to make this confirmation, because Republicans will look for an out on this if they can.
00:04:57.000It's like the line from Star Wars, like, fear will keep the rebel senators in line.
00:05:02.000Fear of MAGA. Well, I think this is a clip that really sums it up well, Blake.
00:05:09.000This was Senator Bennett from Colorado just screaming at RFK Jr., basically saying he was playing games, he's going to kill people, 143. This matters.
00:05:23.000It doesn't matter what you come here and say that isn't true, that's not reflective of what you really believe, that you haven't said over decade after decade after decade, because unlike other jobs we're confirming around this place, this is a job where it is life and death for the kids that I used to work for in the Denver Public Schools and for families all over this country that are suffering.
00:05:48.000From living in the richest country of the world that can't deliver basic health care and basic mental health care to them.
00:05:56.000It's too important for the games that you're playing, Mr. Kennedy.
00:06:01.000And I hope my colleagues will say to the President, I have no influence over him.
00:06:06.000I hope my colleagues will say to the President, out of 330 million Americans, we can do better than this.
00:06:14.000Well, and so that seems to be the crux of the, I would say, the main thrust of the argument is that, you know, RFK is considered anti-vax.
00:06:25.000And so there was a lot of these exchanges going back and forth about this particular topic, specifically around the vaccine topic.
00:06:34.000I personally believe that, you know, he made some good points.
00:06:42.000He said repeatedly that he's not anti-vax, but that he is asking uncomfortable questions through his advocacy.
00:06:50.000I want to take you back in time to this clip, which has been going around the internet lately.
00:06:55.000This is from 2005, Blake, where he was talking with Joe Scarborough.
00:07:00.000Remember, he's still considered a Democrat in good standing at this point in history.
00:07:05.000Play cut 140. My son, born in 1991. It has a slight form of autism called Asperger's.
00:07:14.000And again, when I was practicing law and also when I was in Congress, parents would constantly come to me and they'd bring me videotapes of their children, and they were all around the age of my son or younger.
00:07:26.000So something happened in 1989. Exactly.
00:07:30.000What happened was the vaccine schedule was increased.
00:07:33.000We went up from receiving about 10 vaccines in our generation to these kids.
00:07:39.000Received 24 vaccines, and they all had this thimerosal in them, this mercury, and nobody bothered to do an analysis of what the cumulative impact of all that mercury was doing to kids.
00:07:50.000As it turns out, we are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe.
00:07:58.000Now, Blake, I know you're kind of a contrarian when it comes to RFK, as you are with many things.
00:08:04.000It's sometimes annoying, but we love it about you.
00:08:07.000From your perspective, as somebody that would call some of this junk science, that would call some of it woo-woo, this is what so much of this hearing is hinging upon.
00:08:21.000Where does the line between asking tough questions, uncomfortable questions, and woo-woo science come into play?
00:08:27.000Because it strikes me that asking tough questions is what will propel truth forward, will propel real science forward, instead of relying on these institutionalized, calcified places like the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
00:08:43.000Well, first of all, we're really seeing sort of the peril of existing issues.
00:08:50.000Like, RFK, in this confirmation, to some extent, he's a victim of just being a famous person for decades on end with a consistent portfolio.
00:09:56.000So it's not super surprising that Congress is raking him over the coals.
00:10:01.000I think it's the job of RFK supporters, RFK himself and our show here to make it clear what he really believes, what he's saying, which is defensible versus what is essentially fear mongering by his opponents.
00:10:17.000And I think he's striking a good tone where he's saying, I am not anti-vaccine because I don't think we want polio to come back.
00:10:24.000I don't think we want measles to come back.
00:10:27.000But what is true is we have in our recent history a vaccine that was very scientifically novel, that was pushed out very quickly, very aggressively.
00:10:38.000People were compelled to take it in situations that seemed very dubious in the military, very young people who weren't in danger from the virus itself.
00:10:49.000And there's certainly at least a lot of anecdotal evidence that it had harms they said couldn't happen.
00:10:55.000And that has created a huge amount of distrust.
00:10:58.000And I think the room is there for him to say we actually need more investigation to restore public confidence that has been so badly damaged by elite health care distribution.
00:11:07.000No, I think that's a really good point that he's got this long portfolio of comments that he's made dating all the way back to like the 80s.
00:11:17.000And some of those things he's probably not going to agree with anymore.
00:11:19.000Some of those things he might have revised his position.
00:11:22.000And some of those things he's going to have to bring to heel to the president's position.
00:12:28.000Blake, I want to play this clip first.
00:12:32.000I think it illustrates kind of what you're talking about with Some of the things that RFK Jr. has said in the past, maybe he wants to walk those back, maybe he's refined his position, but I thought it was illustrative nonetheless.
00:12:44.000This is another exchange he had with Senator Bennett, talking about Lyme disease, 147. Did you say that Lyme disease is highly likely a materially engineered bioweapon?
00:12:57.000I made sure I put in the highly likely.
00:13:00.000Did you say Lyme disease is a highly likely...
00:13:26.000But, you know, he was constantly getting cut off.
00:13:28.000And you could actually see them using his speech impediment.
00:13:34.000Forgive me, I can't remember the exact name of the condition, but they were using it against him because they knew that he couldn't reply back in a rapid pace, and so they would use that against him and cut him off repeatedly, which was another theme that we saw in this confirmation here.
00:14:40.000As you know, because it's been repeatedly debunked, that statement that I made on the Lex Friedman podcast was a fragment of the statement.
00:14:49.000I said, there are no vaccines that are safe and effective, and I was going to continue for every person.
00:14:56.000Every medicine has people who are sensitive to them, including vaccines.
00:15:14.000I just want to, for the audience's sake, we're working on getting the feed from the Lake and Riley signing ceremony that's happening right now.
00:15:24.000But Blake, your reaction to, I mean, this sort of is the clip that...
00:15:30.000You were referencing where he was pretty combative back, pretty aggressive back, in which we all know President Trump loves to see a fighter.
00:16:20.000That respect is what he needs, because you have to have Trump, you have to have MAGA saying, this nomination is essential, this is a promise the president made, and if you vote against this, you are abetting the failure of President Trump to keep his promises, and that will be remembered, that will reflect on whether you are supported the next time you are up for office, it will reflect whether we fund a primary challenge to you.
00:16:47.000That threat has to be there to make sure people stay in line, because we should be honest with ourselves.
00:16:53.000This is not a nomination other Republicans would make, and it's one that Republicans would not conventionally vote for.
00:17:01.000So they have to be pressured heavily to stay in line.
00:17:05.000Well, and, you know, we also saw Nicole Shanahan is going out making very direct threats of primarying senators that vote against.
00:17:14.000RFK Jr., that was, of course, his running mate when he was still running for Congress.
00:17:18.000He also made another viral clip here, Blake, that President Trump is going to like very much.
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00:18:53.000He was soon arrested again in New York City on charges of endangering a child, but because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies, as we have in California but because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies, as we have in California and many other We're going to end them.
00:19:19.000The Biden administration then provided this illegal alien criminal with a free, taxpayer-funded flight from New York to Georgia, where he was arrested yet again, constantly, this time for stealing from a Walmart along with his gang member brother, who was a bad one.
00:19:36.000Only after being released a third time by the U.S. law enforcement did this cold-blooded criminal go out on that fateful morning, hunting for women.
00:20:14.000Under the law I'm signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, murder, or any crime that results in death or a serious injury.
00:20:33.000In addition, for the first time ever, this act gives state governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive relief if any future administration.
00:20:43.000ever again refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the United States like happened for four long years.
00:20:51.000And that was happening for four long years, Frightful years.
00:21:36.000It's a landmark law that we're doing today.
00:21:38.000It's going to save countless innocent American lives.
00:21:43.000I want to thank every House Republican, every Senate Republican, as well as the 12 Senate Democrats and the 48 House Democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill, and many of them are with us today, and I really do appreciate it.
00:21:58.000I very much especially appreciate the bipartisan support.
00:22:02.000The Democrats, really a big percentage of them came through, and plenty of them wanted to.
00:22:07.000They probably felt they couldn't, but they really wanted to.
00:22:10.000They don't understand that would have made them a lot more popular, would have made them a lot better with their people.
00:22:17.000The ones that didn't are going to be, they're going to be sorry, because the people are not going to forget that they wouldn't sign.
00:22:26.000Perfect, incredible tribute to an unbelievable young lady.
00:22:31.000We're joined today by many great supporters of our new strong border policies, and they are indeed strong, including Vice President Vance, thank you, J.D., the Secretary, Scott Bessing, who just got approved, by the way.
00:25:38.000Most of them are in the room or represented in the room, and they're incredible people.
00:25:43.000And I've never seen them come together like they have for this.
00:25:46.000I've done many of these, not of this kind, but different bills, different passages, having to do with many different things, from homeland security to inner security to taxes to 50 different items.
00:27:30.000Here also is Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, killed two years ago by an illegal alien who was let into our country by the last administration's ridiculous, weak policies.
00:28:05.000With us as well is the loving family of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old girl murdered in July 2022 by the MS-13 illegal alien gang member.
00:28:16.000Who is violent, vicious, and they knew it, and they didn't do anything about it.
00:28:20.000And I want to thank you to Kayla's mother, Tammy, and her grandmother, Kathy, and her stepfather, Jeremiah, very much.
00:28:29.000And finally, I want to thank others who have also suffered this horrible scourge that goes on with young people being killed, and other people, too, but young people, largely young people being killed.
00:28:45.000Thank you to Scott Root, the father of Sarah Root, killed at 21 years of age.
00:28:51.000Think of that, 21, by an illegal alien, shouldn't have been in our country, would have never been in our country if we were here.
00:29:00.000To each of these angel families, we love you and we stand in awe of your courage and your strength.
00:29:06.000It's the toughest thing anybody has to go through.
00:29:08.000Many of the angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration.
00:29:14.000With this heartless and foolish and really very, very arrogant and very, very dumb policies.
00:29:24.000Policies that aren't even believable when you talk about common sense.
00:29:28.000I say we're the party of common sense, but the Democrats also, they have plenty of common sense, and that's why so many are here today and so many supported what we're doing, the very government.
00:29:39.000That was supposed to protect their daughters instead opened our borders and transported the world's most dangerous criminals straight into their communities.
00:29:47.000They came from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world, not just South America.
00:30:01.000And they came here by plane and they were loaded onto buses and they were driven right up to our border and they drove right through the border and nobody even said a word to them.
00:30:10.000And in those buses and those cars and those trucks were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world.
00:30:16.000As of last September, 425,000 illegal alien criminals were roaming free.
00:30:23.000Including 13,099 convicted illegal alien murderers, of which about almost 50% killed more than one person, and they were roaming all over the country in our farms, in our cities.
00:30:36.000Under the Trump administration, we're moving with urgency and speed to get these vicious and violent criminals the hell out of our country and to restore law and order to our suburbs, our cities, and our towns.
00:30:47.000And we're going to do it with Tom and with Christie and with all of the people that are working so hard on this.
00:30:53.000This week, compared to a comparable time a year ago, think of this, the number of illegal border crossers has already fallen by more than 100 percent.
00:31:02.000And because the election was coming, They started getting a little bit tougher on the border.
00:31:08.000They tried to follow our policies, and they did much better, but it still was horrible.
00:31:13.000The numbers were still horrible, so that's 100% over those.
00:31:16.000They only did it because of the election, so they knew what they were doing was wrong.
00:31:21.000And those who do cross the border, and you're seeing that every time, all you have to do is turn on your television set or pick up a newspaper.
00:31:32.000Read any form of new media, because we have a lot of new media today, fortunately, that's letting the word get out.
00:31:39.000But they're watching these people be captured and removed from our country.
00:31:43.000ICE arrests have risen by 15 times, 15 times in just a short period.
00:31:49.000And over the past eight days, the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol, we can never forget Border Patrol.
00:31:55.000Those people, I've gotten to know so many of them.
00:31:58.000Our border czar, as you remember, never went to the border and never made a phone call.
00:32:09.000And she admitted she never made one call, but she was the border czar.
00:32:13.000And that's exactly what our border was all about.
00:32:16.000The heroes of ICE have arrested thousands and thousands of illegal alien criminals, including hundreds of gang members, traffickers, child predators, terrorists, and murderers.
00:32:27.000For the first time in history, we're loading dangerous and illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came.
00:32:35.000You probably read about Colombia two days ago.
00:33:03.000They make our criminals look like very nice people.
00:33:06.000That's about the only thing that comes out of this.
00:33:08.000And I said, could you imagine you're a pilot on the plane and you have your co-pilot and you're sitting there and you have 150 people, no shackles, and they like to murder people?
00:33:18.000This is not a good, this would not be a good flight.
00:33:22.000So actually, so Colombia apologized to us profusely within an hour, based on something I said, meaning you're going to pay tariffs like nobody's ever paid tariffs before.
00:33:35.000But they actually wanted to terminate his position.
00:33:40.000Their essentially Congress met, and they were very angry with them.
00:33:45.000But they actually said they were going to send the presidential plane to pick up these criminals and to bring them because they didn't want to inconvenience us or have us do a second flight.
00:34:28.000We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.
00:34:37.000Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
00:34:45.000This will double our capacity immediately, right?
00:37:12.000We trust that he will fight for the American people.
00:37:18.000Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us.
00:37:29.000But because of him, we can continue living, knowing that we will see Lakin again.
00:37:38.000There's no amount of change that will ever bring back our precious Lakin.
00:37:42.000Our hope moving forward is that her life saves lives.
00:37:47.000We're so thankful that her passion for helping others and her legacy for doing good in the name of Jesus Christ will carry on.
00:39:15.000There's a lot of excitement in Washington, D.C. as we start the year, but I wanted to talk to you about something just as exciting happening outside the D.C. Beltway, a revolution in the States.
00:39:28.000And growing because some states, as they should, are putting parents in charge of the education of their kids.
00:39:34.000Everyone knows education has the power to change a kid's life, and anyone who raised a child knows each has different needs, learning styles, and God-given talents.
00:39:44.000The fact is, parents know their own children best, knows what's best for their development and future.
00:39:50.000Education freedom legislation puts parents, not zip codes, and politicians in charge of these important family decisions.
00:39:57.000It's why I strongly support making universal education freedom a reality for every parent in every state.
00:40:04.000To find out where your state legislature stands and to make sure your voice is heard, go to educationfreedomusa.com now, educationfreedomusa.com.
00:40:15.000That was an incredibly powerful moment, Blake, when Alison Phillips, Lakin Riley's mother, came up.
00:40:22.000And it was interesting, the camera I was watching, it kind of almost zoomed in on President Trump standing behind her shoulder as she spoke and sort of talked about Lakin, got emotional, and you could see the president take this heavy, deep breath in, just sort of gutted, as I think I was, as everybody watching would be.
00:40:45.000Hearing her describe her deceased daughter that was killed at the hands of an illegal Venezuelan immigrant who should have never been in this country, even Bill Clinton, if you'll remember during the campaign, said, didn't think they vetted that immigrant properly.
00:41:03.000This person never should have been here, killed Lake and Riley, and to hear Alison Phillips speak about that from the heart during this signing ceremony was just...
00:41:11.000And to see President Trump's reaction was also powerful.
00:42:19.000And Blake, you've even seen Democrats, pundits on CNN, MSNBC saying, guys, you shouldn't be surprised that he's doing X, Y, and Z. He said exactly this during the campaign and he's fulfilling it.
00:42:32.000We're just not used to Republicans or Democrats for that matter, politicians in general, fulfilling their promises.
00:43:04.000We trust that he will fight for the American people.
00:43:10.000Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us.
00:43:21.000But because of him, we can continue living, knowing that we will see Lakin again.
00:43:33.000I think beyond just promises made, promises kept, Blake, I think to your earlier point, Realizing and seeing the American people realize how personal this is to President Trump and how much of a personal touch he pursues all of his policies with.
00:43:49.000He is a guy that will call you and check in on you if your wife has cancer.
00:43:53.000He is a guy, if some tragedy has befallen you, will call in multiple times to check in.
00:44:26.000He cannot possibly know or speak to all of them.
00:44:29.000But the greatest politicians, what they can do is they can create little...
00:44:35.000Relationships in microcosm that allow tens of millions of people to feel like they know them.
00:44:43.000And President Trump is incredibly talented at that.
00:44:46.000He can take Lake and Riley's family and through his honest and earnest care for them to help bring justice for their daughter.
00:44:54.000He communicates that he understands all the Americans, the thousands of Americans who have been harmed by what happened on our border, who have been harmed by the Biden crime wave.
00:45:06.000And it's only world class politicians can do that.