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00:01:09.000So crime is on the rise all across the country, but there's two kind of tracks of the crime issue.
00:01:17.000There's the fact that criminals feel empowered to do what they want to do because the police don't have the ability to intervene, just kind of smash and grab stores.
00:01:25.000The anarcho-tyranny, where if you dare participate in a thought crime or give $50 to the Canadian truckers, they're going to raid your apartment, where if you want to just go steal a couple thousand dollars of merchandise, you're perfectly fine.
00:01:39.000So there's a couple of crimes in particular I want to talk about that I think illuminate the moment that we're in in the country, but it's not just the police part of it.
00:01:53.000So this one story is so extraordinary.
00:02:00.000And there's been a lot of back and forth on this, but the latest is this.
00:02:05.000George Gascon, who I think is being recalled in Los Angeles County, the fact he got elected in the first place is just extraordinary, is actually saying that his recommended sentence for this person is too short.
00:03:53.000This person's going to a juvenile facility for two years, probably get out sooner than that for multiple assaults against a child, gender transition to a woman, and they're going to walk the streets free, probably doing it again.
00:04:07.000Now, recently released phone conversations between Tubbs and his father said, They're going to stick me on probation and it's going to get dropped.
00:04:21.000I won't have to register, won't have to do nothing.
00:04:24.000They will not have to register as a sex offender.
00:04:27.000And so, this kind of goes back to the Ukraine conversation in a very interesting way, which is what are we going to prioritize in our society?
00:04:38.000So, the same sort of interventions that we need to prioritize, what problems kind of necessitate our focus, where are the real concerns, the civilizational concerns, such as deterioration of the family, crime, drugs, all these sorts of things.
00:04:55.000And the same can be for what sort of crimes should we prosecute and how should we focus on them.
00:05:03.000Because it's not that the left doesn't want all crimes to be prosecuted, they want some crimes to be prosecuted heavily and severely, and other crimes they couldn't care less.
00:05:15.000Sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, but it's not that big of a deal, especially if the man thinks that he's a woman.
00:05:24.000Just let them prowl the streets, do whatever they want.
00:05:27.000For the left, that sort of crime, no big deal.
00:05:32.000Smash and grab at department stores, no big deal.
00:05:35.000But the sort of crimes that really bother them would be misgendering somebody.
00:05:42.000The crime that they really want to focus on would be political type crimes.
00:05:46.000Do you walk into the Capitol building and take a selfie?
00:05:50.000Well, we want to lock you up for the rest of your life.
00:05:53.000Here's the recorded audio: the sex offender calls Hannah Tubbs, even though it's such a joke, saying that I won't have to register as a sex offender because of the light on crime policies.
00:06:37.000But that is the new regime of Los Angeles.
00:06:40.000A similar story happened in Louisville.
00:06:45.000I want you to imagine for a second: if a Trump supporter tried to murder a Jewish mayoral candidate, how do you think that person would be treated?
00:06:55.000Do you think that person would be bailed out?
00:06:59.000Well, BLM Incorporated has now bailed out an individual in Tennessee.
00:07:05.000This BLM activist was charged in a murder attempt of a Jewish mayoral candidate.
00:07:10.000Quintez Brown, a local political activist, allegedly attempted a shooting attack on Craig Greenberg, a Jewish Democrat running for mayor in Louisville.
00:07:20.000Louisville police have charged Quintez Brown, a local political activist.
00:07:24.000Brown 21 has been prominent in the city's civil rights activism.
00:08:57.000Every Republican would have to apologize preemptively for what's happening.
00:09:01.000Instead, the media is completely silent on this.
00:09:04.000Meanwhile, this guy shared anti-Semitic views, but we're not allowed to say that there's any sort of motive here because he's a member of BLM.
00:09:11.000You sexually assault a 10-year-old girl, you get a couple years of juvenile detention when you're 26 and nothing on your record.
00:09:19.000You try to murder a Jewish man running for office and you're a Black Lives Matter black activist, no big deal.
00:09:26.000But you walk into the Capitol and take a selfie and wave a flag, they're going to treat you as if you're in gitmo, a political prisoner.
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00:10:32.000Senator Rick Scott has come out with a pledge to the voters of this country, 11-point plan with 128 promises from Republicans saying we win elections by having plans.
00:10:50.000So you can see it at rescueamerica.com.
00:10:52.000I'm open-minded to this, and actually, I think it's a good thing Republicans are starting to put their promises in a clear, easy to understand, easy to follow, very public fashion.
00:12:13.000American warfighters are being indoctrinated with left-wing woke foolishness and kicked out of the military because of big brother vaccine mandates.
00:13:01.000There's a couple things that I would add, such as corporate tyranny that he doesn't have in there, but he's close.
00:13:07.000So here are the 11 promises by Rick Scott.
00:13:10.000With Republicans in leadership, our kids will say the Pledge of Allegiance, salute the flag, and learn that America is a great country and choose the school that fits best for them.
00:15:48.000I am invested personally and also through the Charlie Kirk show to try to do everything we possibly can to try and push back against these Democrats and their lies.
00:15:58.000You can get a signed picture by President Trump himself.
00:17:21.000But one thing I can agree with establishment Republicans on and warmonger Republicans is none of this would be an issue if we allowed domestic exploration of our own assets.
00:17:36.000On Thursday, I will be speaking at the legendary Conservative Political Action Conference, which is a phenomenal gathering and organization run by my friend who's with us right now, Matt Schlapp, the chairman of CPAC, and I will be there midday Thursday.
00:17:55.000Matt, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:18:06.000You know what it's like to have a conference with record numbers, but what I always notice, I know that we're doing well when the media starts turning on us quickly.
00:18:14.000And, you know, we had a lot of attacks already.
00:18:46.000You're going to be speaking, I believe, twice on Thursday.
00:18:49.000You're going to be a part of a tribute to Andrew Breitbart, the 10th anniversary of his death.
00:18:54.000That panel is called War from his famous comments about what the left really wants to do to all of us and to our culture.
00:19:04.000And you're also going to be giving a standalone speech, which I know people are excited to hear what your message is.
00:19:10.000I'm going to ask you what your message is, but I'm first going to tell you that I had a hand in picking the theme of the conference because I've lived through all this crap like we all have over the last couple of years.
00:19:24.000To me, what establishment Republicans are missing is they think this is all about the economic situation, which is pretty bad, but it's bigger than that.
00:19:32.000And I think this whole the death of woke and woke on trial in November is what it's all about.
00:21:15.000And I do agree with you about this idea of citizens.
00:21:18.000We have a woman coming from Miami who runs a couple of schools and outlawed CRT in her schools and doesn't follow any mask mandates ever, never did, no vax mandates.
00:21:31.000We have people who took back their school boards in Texas and exposed the idea that parents are not domestic terrorists.
00:21:39.000We have business people who are coming forward who are saying, you know, wokeism is destroying, woke incorporated is destroying what we understand to be the free market system in America.
00:21:51.000It's like, I love all the senators and the congressmen and the governors, and we have great ones.
00:21:55.000But really, this is a moment for citizens to stand up.
00:21:58.000So, if that's what you're going to talk about, I think it's really going to hit a chord.
00:22:01.000And for me, what I've seen is everyone's too damn quiet.
00:22:07.000Everyone is so worried that they'll get canceled personally that we're almost giving up the whole show because we're so scared of the ramifications on our individual lives.
00:22:18.000Well, and that's part of what CPAC has always done and has done for me too for 10 years.
00:22:22.000You guys have been always so generous and nice to give me a platform to be able to invigorate people and to be able to get the message out.
00:22:43.000You and I have been talking about it for a little while.
00:22:44.000It's called Really Defeating Cancel Culture: The Desecrators.
00:22:49.000Talk about your book and why you wrote it.
00:22:52.000I wrote the book because, quite honestly, my friend Deal Hudson flew out and saw me at CPAC and said, Hey, you need to write a book about what you and Mercy went through supporting Trump as an establishment, Bush Republicans in 2015 and 16.
00:23:06.000And then Mercy went to work for President Trump, and I was an advisor on the outside, much like you were.
00:23:12.000And, you know, what was that story like?
00:23:14.000Because at the end of it, it was very hard for us to deal with the fact that we had very few friendships that remained.
00:23:21.000I had very few commercial contacts that remained.
00:23:27.000And so as I saw this destruction going on in the country with Black Lives Matter violence, assassinating cops, burning down our cities, we were also facing this destruction in our own life where Mercy was and still is on assassination lists from these far left groups.
00:23:43.000She's on lists that say she should never get a job again in America because she is too associated with Trump.
00:23:49.000And as you know, Charlie, even being associated with Trump isn't easy because it's a, you know, it's a mixed group of folks that are inside that camp too.
00:23:57.000So it's, it's a tough, it was a tough couple of years.
00:24:00.000And it just kind of all poured out of me.
00:24:04.000And I feel deal must feel the same way.
00:24:09.000It's not about me as much as it is about the country and our values.
00:24:14.000And to understand that cancel culture is only the top level of the evil goes much deeper.
00:24:21.000And the spiritual element to this cancel culture battle is why we call it the desecrators, because there's an attempt to destroy all goodness, all truth, everything that's holy, everything that's transcendent, the church, America, faith, gender, everything in life that builds culture, builds civilization, and creates human joy.
00:24:41.000There's a coordinated attack on each and every one of those at the same time.
00:24:45.000The book is called The Desecrators, Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God.
00:24:50.000Go buy a couple of copies and then go get Matt to sign it at CPAC.
00:24:54.000He'll probably be running in between interviews.
00:24:56.000So, Matt, I want to ask you personally, just where do you think the state of the Republican Party is?
00:25:00.000We had you on about a year ago, right before CPAC, and we were both pretty fired up that too many Republicans seemed uninterested in fixing our elections.
00:25:09.000The lack of any sort of infrastructure post-election to be able to actually fight for election integrity.
00:25:14.000You were on the front lines in Nevada.
00:25:15.000You did a great job despite kind of the last minute operation there, which obviously wasn't on you.
00:25:20.000It was just based on the lack of that from the campaign.
00:25:23.000What's the state of the Republican Party right now?
00:25:27.000I think that these committees still have a role to play.
00:25:31.000They're an important finance arm for the party.
00:25:36.000But the real question is, why is the left able to raise so much more money and use nonprofits in new and innovative ways?
00:25:44.000They never seem to get into any legal trouble and really swamp us.
00:25:49.000And that's what the last election showed.
00:25:51.000It wasn't that Joe Biden or the DNC raised a whole bunch of money.
00:25:56.000It was that Mark Zuckerberg and all the Zuckerbucks, others, they raised about $500 million to sway the election.
00:26:04.000All that money flowed through nonprofits.
00:26:07.000So when you look at the amount of money the left is pushing through nonprofits, we have two choices.
00:26:12.000We can get power again and try to curtail what some might argue is a misuse of nonprofits, or we could do the exact same thing.
00:26:21.000And I think that's what we have to learn to do more of is to break our old ways of doing things.
00:26:27.000And if the left is going to do something and the government won't prosecute them because they think it's lawful, well, we need to, we need to mimic them, which is why at ACU we started this First Amendment fund to help pay for the legal expenses or defend the constitutional rights of those who are being canceled left and right.
00:26:45.000We mimicked that off of the NAACP fund to uphold the constitutional rights of people of color.
00:26:53.000And so I think we have to learn from their tricks and hopefully we'll outmaneuver them and they'll have to learn from our tricks.
00:26:58.000But if we keep doing the same thing, we're going to keep winding up in the same hole.
00:27:03.000What do you anticipate from Republicans heading into this election cycle?
00:27:08.000CPAC actually is kind of the beginning of the midterms.
00:27:18.000Kind of connect that with what do you think the Republican message going into November is going to be if we want to win?
00:27:24.000I think it is the starting point of the midterms.
00:27:28.000And look, I think a lot of outsiders are going to win, Charlie.
00:27:30.000I think this kind of Donald Trump phenomenon is going to keep happening.
00:27:34.000And I think we're going to win almost every close race, even in tough states, because I think woke is on trial and I think it's incredibly unpopular.
00:27:43.000And I think that when Republicans get majorities, I'd say the House majority is a dang near slam dunk.
00:27:50.000The Senate is a little tougher because it's more incumbent on the candidate that emerges from these primaries.
00:27:56.000But, you know, if we get this power and do the same thing we did the last couple of times with that power, I think the Republican Party will be done.
00:28:04.000I think the Republican activists want to see us actually believe as deeply in the issues we campaign on as the left is.
00:28:11.000And that when we get power, we go after their wrongdoing just as aggressively as they go after our fake wrongdoing.
00:28:18.000And if we don't do that, then you and I need to get together and figure out how we're going to work politics in this country because it won't be through the Republican Party.
00:29:11.000And look, 85% of grass-fed beef in stores and online is imported.
00:29:15.000Don't pay a premium for low-quality foreign meat.
00:29:17.000So look, when the box of good ranchers comes to our office, it's a feeding frenzy.
00:29:21.000Producer Connor, he gets his elbows out.
00:29:23.000He gets people to get out of the way, is what Producer Connor says.
00:29:26.000He gets the fresh cuts, 100% American meat, T-Bones, New York strips, ribeyes.
00:29:30.000In fact, Producer Connor was doing an Instagram live stream and he was grilling T-bones, New York strips, and all sorts of different types of things.
00:29:39.000Producer Andrew fed his entire family with good ranchers and it actually mended fences.
00:29:44.000It was people in his family that otherwise would have been very politically divided.
00:31:51.000So we kind of looked at our ratings and we said, hey, we got to get tougher on these ratings because it's true, every Republican has like a great score, but they're never there on the votes that really matter.
00:32:00.000So we looked at that and we started using the scorecard to invite members and a lot of members fell off the list and they're kind of sore about it.
00:32:26.000So your keynote, if you could call it that, I mean, kind of the speaker that will be the most attended speaker of all is, of course, President Trump.
00:32:39.000He needs to have a better team around him.
00:32:41.000He had, I think, his re-elect campaign team was weak.
00:32:47.000And I think not every member, there was plenty of good people there, like my spouse, but they weren't organized for the battle that laid ahead for them, including on all this illegal voting.
00:32:58.000And I also think that he, and I've talked to him about this, you probably have too.
00:33:04.000He understands the game now of politics and Washington, D.C. a lot better than he did when he came in.
00:33:10.000I think, quite honestly, him and his family were a little bit disdainful of Washington, D.C. because they had dominated New York City so well that they thought they would dominate Washington.
00:33:19.000Washington is a mean place filled with people of mediocre talent, and they'll fight to the death to kill you.
00:33:24.000And I think Donald Trump was getting killed in ways that he never saw coming.
00:33:30.000And I think if he gets another chance in the swamp, I think he'll be ready on day one to pick the right kind of people and to know what they're up against.
00:33:37.000So I'm hopeful that a second Trump term would begin the first moment on the right foot.
00:34:12.000We gave you four years of what we're about and what we stand for.
00:34:16.000We did, we accomplished more together under President Trump's leadership than any president I can ever remember or any leader I can remember.
00:34:25.000If the Republican Party grab them and run on them, they will have one of the most overwhelming victories in November you could ever imagine.
00:34:33.000Matt, can't wait to see you in sunny Florida.