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00:04:30.000He just decided to go golfing on the wrong day.
00:04:34.000He went golfing on a beautiful Hawaiian morning.
00:04:37.000And next thing you know, the preemptive strike against the United States occurred, which basically sunk our entire Pacific fleet.
00:04:46.000Thousands of Americans died and left us so geopolitically and strategically vulnerable.
00:04:55.000In the hours and days that followed, there was fear that the Japanese would attack California next, that an amphibious ground invade, amphibious invasion of the western part of the United States was imminent.
00:05:08.000America's reaction to Pearl Harbor showed us the type of country we were.
00:06:38.000And it said a lot about who we were as a nation, what we were willing to do to defend the homeland.
00:06:48.000In the days that followed, the happiest man after Pearl Harbor was, of course, the greatest man to live in the 20th century, Winston Churchill.
00:06:58.000Winston Churchill said, quote, no American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy.
00:07:10.000I could not foretell the course of events.
00:07:12.000I do not pretend to have measured the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment, I knew the United States was in the war up to the neck and into the death.
00:07:55.000As for the Japanese, they would have ground, they would be ground to powder.
00:08:01.000All the rest was merely proper application of an overwhelming force.
00:08:05.000United we could subdue everybody else in the world.
00:08:07.000Many disasters, immeasurable cost and tribulation lay ahead, but there was no doubt about the end.
00:08:15.000Winston Churchill, the greatest man to live in the 20th century.
00:08:19.000What if I told you that as we remember Pearl Harbor and the greatest generation that stepped up to the plate to storm Normandy Beach, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, the Battle of the Bulge, winning a two-front war against existential evil?
00:08:35.000What if I told you that we had our own form of Pearl Harbor, an epidemiological Pearl Harbor that was launched by the Chinese Communist Party that we might have funded through gain of function research?
00:08:46.000What if I told you that the Chinese coronavirus developed in a laboratory, intentionally or unintentionally unleashed, we may never know, on the Western world and eventually the entire world was a civilization-changing bioweapon to change our voting laws, our way of life, to have a $3.8 trillion wealth transfer.
00:09:08.000Did we have a day that will live in infamy?
00:09:11.000Have we held China accountable for the damage, the death, the destruction that the epidemiological Pearl Harbor, that was the Chinese corona Fauci virus, inflicted on the American people?
00:09:34.000They say the only appropriate Pearl Harbor analogy is the Chinese coronavirus that was unleashed on the entire world.
00:09:43.000Instead of bombing the Pacific Fleet, instead of trying to cripple our military advantage, instead it was an invisible enemy, one that went to the hearts and the minds, the psyche, the fears, the anxieties of an ever anxious nation.
00:10:01.000A rise in suicide, mental health, depression, triple masking, vaccinating children, an entire way of life completely and totally being remade by an invisible epidemiological Pearl Harbor by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:10:14.000And so we look at Pearl Harbor, we look at the rallying cry and the unification that we had against the Japanese and we were ready for war and we won.
00:10:27.000Where is the commission to try to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable?
00:10:32.000Where is the widespread uniform agreement that the Chinese Communist Party should not be able to send their students to U.S. universities?
00:10:41.000Where is the agreement that the Chinese Communist Party shouldn't be able to own farmland, especially near military strategic bases?
00:10:48.000Where is the agreement that the Chinese Communist Party shouldn't be doing business with the National Basketball Association or with Hollywood or with Wall Street?
00:10:56.000You want to see the difference between where America is today and versus 1941, December 7th, a day that will live in infamy?
00:11:04.000The difference is that when we were attacked on December 7th, Americans couldn't care less about profits, momentary pleasure, or plastic being imported from other countries.
00:11:14.000They prioritized their nation to be first.
00:11:18.000But when the Chinese Communist Party launched an epidemiological Pearl Harbor against you, your loved ones, your family, and changed the American way of life and trying to change it permanently and shred and put the U.S. Constitution into destruction, why has that not been the same reaction?
00:11:37.000That's an interesting question to explore.
00:11:41.000Now, I do know there's a remnant of Americans that want to respond, that want to actually hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable and punch back twice as hard.
00:11:52.000But that would require something that we've decided to destroy in America.
00:11:57.000Courage, strength, amongst many other things.
00:12:03.000We remember the sacrifices in Pearl Harbor.
00:12:06.000But why are we ignoring the Pearl Harbor of our generation?
00:12:13.000Do you want to be a hero for the holidays?
00:12:15.000How about getting your loved ones a new iPhone?
00:14:22.000It's a day that should be remembered in America because our democracy was at stake.
00:14:26.000This was an attack on our democracy as much as Pearl Harbor was an attack on our country.
00:14:33.000So I guess, yeah, next to Fredo Cuomo, he's no longer employed.
00:14:37.000I suppose the real question here is, if the Democrats Schumer, Sanders, and Cohen are so generously describing everything as Pearl Harbor, from what happened on January 6th to climate change, why are they hesitant to call the Chinese coronavirus an epidemiological Pearl Harbor against America?
00:14:58.000What is it about America that makes them so hesitant, or what is it about China that makes them so hesitant to try to draw the line when it comes to America?
00:15:07.000Something that Americans do not want to admit is that we're already in a non-kinetic war with China.
00:15:27.000And they knew that we would react in a very passive way.
00:15:30.000And part of this, of course, is we have decided in our tone, in our language, in our posture, to become far less, I mean, the politically correct way to say it is strong, but let's just call it what it is, less masculine and more feminine in the way that we approach geopolitics.
00:15:50.000And I've said this before, a country can become too masculine.
00:16:25.000And I'm not saying either our pejorative or a negative or a positive.
00:16:29.000I am saying, though, is if we did not have this all-out assault on the American male, which has been happening in the last 30, 40 years, I wonder if our response to the Chinese Communist Party would be any different.
00:16:46.000The Chinese coronavirus has killed more Americans than did the combat deaths in every single war America has ever fought combined.
00:16:53.000Now, by the way, I think that the deaths from COVID could have been massively mitigated, not from mask wearing or lockdowns or vaccines, but from vitamin D levels.
00:17:05.000You guys should check it out on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:17:08.000Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, is zithromycin.
00:17:11.000But if you just look at the numbers, 787,000 people have died from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:17:18.000Yet Steve Cohen and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, they don't want to call China for what they've done.
00:17:24.000Imagine, imagine for a second, Japan bombs Hawaii and you have a bunch of members of Congress in 1941 and say, hold on a second, we might have deserved it, okay?
00:18:02.000And do you notice that we have been telling the Chinese coronavirus story from the CDC, the FDA, and the White House without the true villain, the true culprit?
00:21:40.000Mark, you made some news this morning.
00:21:43.000If I'm reading it correctly, I want to hear it in your words because I saw it in some untrusted New York Times thing that you're making a decision not to cooperate with the January 6th committee.
00:21:57.000Well, we've been working for weeks, as you know, Charlie, trying to find an accommodation so that I could share and talk to the committee about certain non-privileges.
00:22:07.000And I want to stress that non-privileged information.
00:22:11.000I've always told the president and Congress that the executive privilege that President Trump has claimed would be honored.
00:22:23.000Quite frankly, it's not Congress's to waive either.
00:22:26.000And so we've been working with them over the last several weeks.
00:22:30.000It became very apparent over the last couple of days, even after we given them some documents, that not only did they plan to continue to ask about areas that should be covered under executive privilege, but then they sent a subpoena unbeknownst to us, sent a subpoena to a third-party telephone provider seeking documents, all of my documents on my phone.
00:23:00.000And we just came to a point where we felt like that our spirit of accommodation was not being reciprocated on an equal fashion.
00:23:11.000And some of the comments that the committee has made about others, whether they're claiming other witnesses or potential witnesses and their claims, it sounds like they've already made up their mind on what the outcome will be.
00:23:25.000And so reluctantly, our counsel recommended that we don't show up for a voluntary interview this week.
00:23:36.000Well, and so just our audience might be wondering, what does that mean then, right?
00:25:10.000And so I suppose the issue that a lot of people are trying to work through is what is the check on a committee potentially that might abuse their power.
00:25:24.000And that's a question that hasn't always been kind of sorted out in the courts, at least from my understanding.
00:25:31.000There was a ruling way back in the 60s, if I'm not mistaken, around a veterans group around draft dodging.
00:25:39.000And the courts basically ruled that Congress can get whatever it wants.
00:25:43.000What have the courts decided in regards to this?
00:25:46.000Because in some ways, this is unprecedented.
00:25:52.000And I think, Charlie, probably the biggest thing is that with a chief of staff and somebody that is that close to the president, and honestly,
00:26:02.000those discussions that a president and his chief of staff would have, whether it's me or any other president with any other chief of staff, it would be a real chilling event to think that every new president can waive the executive privilege that came before them.
00:26:24.000I don't know that really any chief of staff and a president would want to have candid conversations if they're going to be subject to a very broad, and I would stress a very broad congressional subpoena.
00:26:40.000The subpoena to the third party carrier that I received over the weekend honestly didn't have really any balance.
00:26:50.000It was every communication, every provider, every person.
00:26:55.000And obviously there are conversations that even now I would have with attorneys.
00:27:03.000And so there are other privileges invoked other than just executive privileges.
00:27:07.000So I think the scope of where they're going is far broader.
00:27:11.000The good thing is, I'm not an attorney, but I've hired attorneys to look at this.
00:27:18.000And hopefully the court will be glad to weigh in on this.
00:27:45.000But if you read the book in the final chapter, I think you only draw one conclusion that I'm expecting another four years of Donald Trump's amazing accomplishments and that I believe that he's going to run.
00:27:58.000Certainly, the things that he's doing would suggest that he's putting together not only the team, but he's putting together really the policy initiatives, staying engaged in the debate.
00:28:11.000You were just with him over the weekend, staying involved in the debate and basically making sure that America and the American people are top priority.
00:28:21.000And what a change it would be from Joe Biden and what we've been seeing for the last 10 months.
00:28:36.000What have you seen recently, kind of on the ground grassroots that's giving you hope that this Congress is going to turn over, we could fire Nancy Pelosi and take back the Senate?
00:28:48.000Listen, I'm getting more and more bullish each day, and it has nothing to do with Kamala Harris's or Joe Biden's sinking poll numbers, although indeed those are welcome barometers of what may have happened.
00:29:02.000Let me tell you what I'm seeing is a whole lot of buyers' remorse out there from unaffiliated voters and even Democrat voters who voted for Joe Biden, believing that he was going to be able to be a leader.
00:29:18.000And what they're seeing now on the world stage is not only that he's not a leader here domestically, but he's not a leader internationally as well.
00:29:27.000You know, when you see what's happening with Russia and China and just the very, very aggressive behavior that we're seeing, that's not the kind of thing that you would have seen with President Trump.
00:29:42.000And so what I'm hearing from a lot of people on the front lines is they are optimistic that Republicans can take back control, but they want to really focus on the primary campaigns.
00:29:56.000Are there any candidates in particular that you and the president are really focused on, especially when it comes to some of these impeachment votes?
00:30:03.000Could talk about some of the endorsements President Trump has made recently.
00:30:07.000I want to make sure our audience is aware of that.
00:30:09.000Yeah, so President Trump is staying unbelievably laser-focused on making sure that we take back both the Senate and the House.
00:30:18.000And I think that we will take back both.
00:30:22.000Obviously, the Senate is a much closer call.
00:30:25.000You've got to encourage, hopefully, Senator Johnson to run again.
00:30:33.000You've got to look at Arizona, Georgia.
00:30:36.000But I do believe that we can essentially get one seat additional.
00:30:42.000Here's the thing: if you look at President Trump and those that have voted either for the January 6th Commission or those that have voted for impeachment and more on the impeachment vote than anything else, they've sent a very clear signal that they are not really for the America First Agenda.
00:31:05.000I know that you, from your standpoint and outreach, have been trying to make sure that we get those MAGA candidates there.
00:31:15.000But the president, when he was in, whether it's in Washington state or in North Carolina or Florida or any of the others, what he's doing is he's sending a clear message.
00:31:29.000Not only is he all in personally with his endorsement, but what he is doing is trying to make sure people like you and me are willing to engage and willing to make sure that they have a backbone of steel.
00:31:44.000And I'm confident, in fact, very, very confident that Speaker Pelosi will have to retire her gavel.
00:31:53.000That's why you're seeing so many Democrats, senior Democrats.
00:31:57.000Normally, you get one or two senior Democrats, but you've got people that are leading committees that are actually retiring.
00:32:06.000And when you see some of the most powerful Democrats here in Washington, D.C. retiring, they see the handwriting on the wall.
00:32:14.000The American people can't be fooled for too long.
00:32:17.000And so I think 2022 will be a resounding success, much like Virginia and much like the truck driver from New Jersey.
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00:34:48.000He was actually more of someone who was willing to embrace not only the America First agenda, but all the conservative values that you and I hold dear.
00:34:58.000And so, you know, I told him, I said, you know, it's better that you lose engaged in embracing something that you like and you believe in than it is to pretend like you're somebody else because people will vote for those that are authentic.
00:35:13.000That's why Donald Trump got elected to be president of the United States.
00:35:16.000They wanted somebody who was authentic.
00:35:18.000And so here's the candidates need to be authentic.
00:35:32.000How are they going to do the outreach?
00:35:34.000They need to do more podcasts, honestly, where you're talking policy, real policy, like you and I do right here, where they actually engage.
00:35:43.000How else can we make sure that it happens?
00:35:46.000Is my good friend Jim Jordan has a book that says, Do what you said you would do.
00:35:50.000You know, it's a great book, but it's also a great concept.
00:35:55.000When you campaign, you actually have to actually work in Washington, D.C. that same way.
00:36:01.000And we're starting not only to see that from so many House members, but we're also seeing that when you do what you said you would do, the American people will reward it.
00:36:12.000Even some Democrats who don't agree with your policy admire the fact that you're willing to say what you believe and act on.
00:36:19.000I will also add that we have to make sure Republicans do not broker an amnesty deal this spring.
00:36:51.000And they're right to be emailing you in a big way.
00:36:54.000I can tell you that a number of us are working on election integrity.
00:36:57.000I continue to work on election integrity to make sure that not only does your vote count, but that that ballot is sacred from your hand to the ballot box.
00:37:06.000And what we've done is, sadly, we've kind of ignored it.
00:37:11.000We've looked at past elections and some are encouraging just to move on.
00:37:16.000We need to make sure there's an audit process that's there, not just for the states that we want to call into question, but for every single state.
00:37:25.000So when somebody votes, that they can make sure that their vote is legitimate and that it counts.
00:37:32.000And I can tell you there's real progress being made, but we've got a long way to go, Charlie, and the work is not done.
00:37:40.000So we need to be vigilant leading up to 2022 and 2024 on election integrity.
00:37:45.000Yeah, and the other side, they were so strategic.
00:37:48.000I mean, you look at Georgia, and I mean, Brian Kemp deserves the primary challenge he's getting against a really good man who is a former senator.
00:37:59.000Yeah, and he should have been a senator.
00:38:01.000And honestly, if we would have taken election integrity as seriously as Stacey Abrams took election corruption, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue would have been senators and Trump would have won Georgia by 60, 70, 80,000 votes.
00:38:15.000When you go from 240,000 mail-in ballots to 1.2 million mail-in ballots, with no infrastructure and a lower signature verification threshold for a consent decree that was privately signed, that no one knew in March of 2020.
00:38:27.000Meanwhile, you have ballots going everywhere because of the COVID stuff.
00:38:30.000It's a tragedy and I'm glad the base is not losing focus on that.