The Charlie Kirk Show - May 02, 2025


A Sad Day for the Left: America Isn't Failing


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Non-farm payrolls hit a record high of 177,000, beating expectations by over 400,000! What does this mean for the economy and the stock market? What does it tell us about the direction of the economy?

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00:01:02.000 Okay, everybody.
00:01:03.000 Welcome.
00:01:04.000 We are here live in beautiful San Diego.
00:01:06.000 We have a live audience here, and we also have producer Andrew as well here on this beautiful Friday.
00:01:12.000 And it is a great day to be alive.
00:01:13.000 Lots of news to cover.
00:01:14.000 So let's dive into it.
00:01:15.000 There was a lot of news over the weekend, including a jobs report.
00:01:18.000 What was the jobs report this morning, Andrew?
00:01:19.000 Well, the jobs report beat expectations.
00:01:22.000 I think Stephen Moore put it really well, where this was over 400,000 actual new jobs that...
00:01:31.000 People being employed over 400,000.
00:01:33.000 Jobs report will say 177,000.
00:01:35.000 That beat Wall Street expectations, which had it around 130,000.
00:01:40.000 But nonfarm payroll went through the roof.
00:01:43.000 We're seeing a lot of manufacturing get reshored.
00:01:45.000 So the changes that President Trump is making in the economy, namely through tariffs, tax
00:01:50.000 The stock market's up 2,800
00:02:07.000 points and counting.
00:02:10.000 You have a lot of these changes that are being implemented in the economy already taking effect.
00:02:16.000 Do we have the clip of Steve Moore talking about this?
00:02:18.000 Let's go here.
00:02:18.000 I think I have it.
00:02:19.000 486.
00:02:19.000 Let's play cut 486.
00:02:22.000 436,000 increase in the number of people who are employed.
00:02:26.000 So this is an amazing report.
00:02:29.000 The number of people, the labor force participation rate.
00:02:33.000 Rose.
00:02:34.000 So this is a really strong number.
00:02:37.000 I wanted to mention one other quick thing.
00:02:39.000 You know, about two weeks ago, every headline, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, was, oh, the stock market is crashing.
00:02:47.000 And since then, the market has been up, what, like 2,800 points.
00:02:51.000 Yeah, well, you don't see that headline.
00:02:52.000 And by the way, I don't see headlines about that.
00:02:54.000 That was the point that Scott Besson made.
00:02:57.000 Well, it's important to note, too, that the stock market is not the economy.
00:03:00.000 The stock market can react to jitters and news.
00:03:03.000 The economy is growing incredibly strong and is only going to grow stronger with the tax cut that we see coming and deregulation.
00:03:09.000 Let's go to CNBC.
00:03:10.000 Let's play cut 483.
00:03:12.000 The job, job, jobs report for April hitting the wires.
00:03:16.000 Non-farm payrolls.
00:03:17.000 A greater 177,000.
00:03:21.000 We're expecting, as Joe pointed out, 133,000.
00:03:25.000 177,000 would be the second best of the year outside of what's in the rearview mirror.
00:03:31.000 Now you have to wonder, are the Democrats happy about this?
00:03:33.000 I mean, they're the ones saying that the recession is coming.
00:03:35.000 Are they thrilled that the American economy is doing better and is actually only going to further improve?
00:03:39.000 You see, the prediction was that by now we would have major job losses.
00:03:42.000 We have the tariffs.
00:03:43.000 They said by the summer we're going to see major drop-offs.
00:03:46.000 But this jobs report has exceeded expectations.
00:03:48.000 Well, this just reminds me of just about every other chapter of President Trump's political career where the elites and the experts tell us he's doing it wrong, only to be...
00:03:59.000 find out in the end that he's doing it right, that his instincts have been right all along.
00:04:02.000 Now, he's not right about everything.
00:04:03.000 Listen, we're free to disagree with President Trump.
00:04:05.000 But time and time again, whether it's foreign policy, energy policy, tariffs, President Trump has an instinct for the
00:04:13.000 I've always been a fan of tariffs.
00:04:18.000 We have internal disagreements on our team about tariffs.
00:04:20.000 I get it that it causes jitters in the short term, but we're already seeing, especially with auto manufacturing, where they're starting to replace...
00:04:28.000 You know, producers and their supply chains, they're reshoring those supply chains. 0.75
00:04:35.000 They're already working on it.
00:04:36.000 Ford has come out, said they're building two new plants, Hyundai, Toyota.
00:04:41.000 All of them are making moves to reshore supply chains, which is going to increase American costs.
00:04:46.000 And also remember, they told us that if the border was closed, it would crater America without cheap illegal labor.
00:04:52.000 This is a very important point.
00:04:53.000 The border is completely secure, 99% border crossings.
00:04:57.000 It's incredible.
00:04:58.000 We have deportations happening.
00:04:59.000 So it turns out actually when you close the border, more Americans get hired.
00:05:03.000 That actually on the books, like what a concept.
00:05:05.000 And there's a direct correlation with you close the southern border and American jobs actually increase.
00:05:11.000 There's actually a clip from Bernie Sanders in 2015 talking about how he is not for open borders.
00:05:16.000 Why?
00:05:16.000 Because that depresses American wages.
00:05:18.000 This is a very, very clear line.
00:05:19.000 And you've made this point on the show a bunch of times, and it's a point that it's worth reiterating, is that we are looking down the barrel of an AI revolution, of a robotic revolution.
00:05:28.000 So if you're going to keep...
00:05:30.000 You know, flooding your country with cheap third world labor. 1.00
00:05:34.000 It's unnecessary.
00:05:35.000 You're also going to be causing a problem down the road where those jobs no longer exist.
00:05:39.000 And that time frame is way closer than most people realize.
00:05:43.000 Here's Scott Bessent, cut 145, talking about how the doomsdayers said it was going to be the worst stock market ever.
00:05:49.000 Again, the stock market is not the economy.
00:05:51.000 The stock market can react to economic news.
00:05:54.000 But we're seeing the stock market catch up remarkably.
00:05:56.000 I think it was at 41,000.
00:05:57.000 The Dow was at 41,000 this morning.
00:05:59.000 Yeah.
00:05:59.000 Again, invest for the long term, everybody.
00:06:01.000 Play cut 145.
00:06:02.000 There was a story 10 days ago that said this is the worst April for the stock market since the Great Depression.
00:06:09.000 10 days later, the NASDAQ is now up in the month of April, and I haven't seen a story that says, oh, stock market has biggest bounce back ever.
00:06:19.000 Well, it certainly has gone back and forth.
00:06:22.000 I think a lot of this is media-driven.
00:06:25.000 Of course, and this is the most important clip of them all, which is, this is Joel Scheilman, who's a CEO of a company called eShares.
00:06:31.000 Even these CEOs believe the propaganda.
00:06:34.000 They think, like, well, the economy must be bad because everyone says the economy is bad.
00:06:37.000 So he is on the front lines of hiring and investing, and he's even surprised at how good the numbers are.
00:06:43.000 Let's play Cut 489.
00:06:44.000 What's interesting, the numbers, by the way, were very, I was a little surprised to see how strong they were, but this is very encouraging because we're already seeing many of the companies dependent upon foreign suppliers.
00:06:57.000 Already reassuring some of their jobs.
00:06:59.000 In fact, I talked just recently to a couple of entrepreneurs who are getting off their China dependency.
00:07:05.000 They are going to other Southeast Asia companies for their supplies, and they're starting to look at domestic manufacturers.
00:07:11.000 So they're putting orders in already for the third and fourth quarter for this.
00:07:15.000 And you combine all this together, President Trump, this economy will only get better.
00:07:20.000 And it's very important, everybody, because...
00:07:22.000 The media's almost been calling and cheering for an economic collapse.
00:07:25.000 I mean, can you think of anything more sinister and more wicked than a group of people that want Americans to suffer?
00:07:33.000 They actually, if they got their way, the market would go down to, you know, 25,000 and people would be out of work.
00:07:39.000 They'd say, see, I told you Trump is this terrible and awful person.
00:07:41.000 Well, it's an existential dilemma for them, though, Charlie, because if Trump succeeds, that means their entire worldview is cast into doubt.
00:07:47.000 These are bad people.
00:07:48.000 I hate to say it that way.
00:07:49.000 They're not patriots.
00:07:50.000 If you are cheering for the downfall of America and you're cheering for – if you want bad economic news, then you care much more about political power than any sort of patriotic allegiance to the United States.
00:08:00.000 You wanted to play a piece of tape here?
00:08:02.000 Yeah, I want to play Charles Payne, 484.
00:08:04.000 One more piece of econ here, and this is talking about manufacturing directly, 484.
00:08:08.000 As I look at this initially, the one thing that really jumps out to me that I love, transportation and warehousing.
00:08:15.000 Up 29,000.
00:08:17.000 Some of this manufacturing, some of these deals that the White House has announced, maybe we're starting to see that already play out.
00:08:24.000 Yeah, I mean, so the White House has said that it's over $5 trillion in foreign investment in manufacturing.
00:08:32.000 And by the way, speaking to our earlier point about technology and robotics and AI, these are investments in warehousing, data warehousing, energy capacity.
00:08:43.000 These are high-tech investments in the future from Apple, NVIDIA and others, SoftBank.
00:08:49.000 This is not like, you know, those images in your head of the...
00:08:53.000 The steel welders, although we love the steel mills, don't get me wrong, this is the jobs of the future.
00:08:58.000 Advanced manufacturing.
00:08:59.000 Exactly.
00:09:00.000 This is a very breaking news day.
00:09:02.000 Late last night, we're going to cover this next, President Trump signed an executive order defunding NPR and PBS.
00:09:07.000 Do we like that, everybody?
00:09:08.000 Do we like that?
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00:09:13.000 The interaction's good.
00:09:14.000 They love it, and I didn't have to ask them to clap, like Jeb Bush.
00:09:18.000 They loved it.
00:09:19.000 And we're also going to go deeper into some of the other really good news of the day, including what I thought was a phenomenal segment that Jesse Waters did with Doge.
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00:09:28.000 It was a really, really good picture of the super geniuses that are going through the spending practices of our federal government.
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00:10:45.000 Late last night, President Donald Trump signed a, I would say, a pretty ambitious executive order, one that I truly appreciate, which is he defunded NPR.
00:10:58.000 I've got to do that in your NPR voice.
00:11:00.000 It's amazing how you don't even have to call.
00:11:02.000 There's no applause sign here.
00:11:03.000 I'm going to do that in my NPR voice.
00:11:06.000 It's very exciting.
00:11:08.000 You see, I always say that NPR is left-wing radicalism.
00:11:14.000 Said very smoothly.
00:11:16.000 It's like laundered in.
00:11:17.000 I know.
00:11:18.000 They launder in the radicalism.
00:11:19.000 Welcome, everybody, to the NPR broadcast.
00:11:21.000 Wouldn't it be nice if capitalism was no more?
00:11:25.000 Did you know you're a racist?
00:11:27.000 Yeah.
00:11:28.000 Buy a tote bag.
00:11:29.000 Did you hear that white people are awful?
00:11:31.000 Exactly.
00:11:33.000 Let's go cut 507.
00:11:36.000 President Trump defunding NPR and PBS.
00:11:39.000 President Trump is looking to slash funding for NPR and PBS, alleging bias in their news reporting.
00:11:46.000 The president signing an executive order on Thursday directing several agencies to stop federal funding for the public broadcasters.
00:11:54.000 No, no, time out.
00:12:09.000 Defunding is also one way to put it, but here's my challenge to NPR.
00:12:13.000 Go raise your own money like Turning Point USA has to raise money.
00:12:16.000 You see?
00:12:17.000 You gotta go.
00:12:18.000 You gotta go meet your own donors.
00:12:19.000 You gotta go talk to people.
00:12:21.000 Just don't go to the U.S. taxpayer and have us subsidize your radicalism.
00:12:25.000 And so, think about that.
00:12:26.000 That's half a billion dollars.
00:12:28.000 I mean, I think NPR and PBS are completely redundant anyways.
00:12:31.000 You already have New York Times.
00:12:33.000 Right?
00:12:33.000 I mean, what do we need NPR and PBS for?
00:12:36.000 The problem with PBS...
00:12:37.000 PBS used to have some good stuff.
00:12:39.000 ...is that PBS is able to get into child environments because it's PBS with incredibly sexually explicit content that is now laced in this trans insanity and this radicalism and critical theory. 0.59
00:12:53.000 But look, NPR, NPR especially, has become...
00:12:56.000 It's too bad because I actually remember a different NPR growing up.
00:13:00.000 I mean, they were still liberal, but...
00:13:01.000 It was at least, like, entertaining.
00:13:03.000 I mean, you guys remember Garrison Keillor?
00:13:05.000 It was like Little House on the Prairie.
00:13:08.000 Was that what it was called?
00:13:08.000 It was Little House on the Prairie, right?
00:13:11.000 No, it was what?
00:13:14.000 Prairie Home Companion.
00:13:14.000 That was close.
00:13:16.000 He was from Mankato, Minnesota, if I remember correctly, right?
00:13:20.000 And that was somewhat listenable.
00:13:22.000 And then Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me was a pretty good show, if you guys remember, on NPR.
00:13:26.000 And then they had the car show every Saturday morning, which...
00:13:30.000 Right?
00:13:30.000 You know what I'm talking about?
00:13:31.000 And now you listen to NPR, and they might still have these shows, but this is what's important.
00:13:36.000 NPR was really smart.
00:13:37.000 They took the taxpayer money, and they diversified into podcasting, and NPR podcasts are very popular because they have $500 million to produce it, and they are unspeakably radical.
00:13:49.000 That sounds like they should be making money then, Charlie.
00:13:51.000 Well, that's right, but here's the thing.
00:13:52.000 So the third biggest podcast out there is NPR.
00:13:55.000 We right now are on the charts.
00:13:57.000 We're number nine, which is great, in Apple News.
00:13:59.000 And just so we're clear, I go through NPR's list, like the list of their episodes.
00:14:04.000 Continued crackdown on immigration.
00:14:06.000 Trump defies the law.
00:14:07.000 I mean, it's so outrageous.
00:14:09.000 And so if you want to go do that, NPR, you've got to sell a lot more tote bags if you want to finance yourself.
00:14:15.000 And that's fine.
00:14:15.000 This is my position with Harvard.
00:14:17.000 No one's saying you can't exist.
00:14:18.000 Go raise your own money.
00:14:20.000 Go to donors like we do on the conservative side and go convince people to voluntarily give you money.
00:14:26.000 You know what would happen if...
00:14:27.000 PBS and NPR had to start making money and justifying their own existence.
00:14:32.000 You'd get classics like Ken Burns' baseball.
00:14:35.000 Come on, that was actually fantastic.
00:14:37.000 Do we have any baseball fans out here in the audience?
00:14:40.000 Come on now.
00:14:40.000 Give me some.
00:14:41.000 All right, thank you.
00:14:42.000 So Ken Burns and baseball, they replay this stuff still because it's still their most popular content as opposed to their more radical stuff.
00:14:49.000 Yeah, and the New York Times is not publicly financed.
00:14:53.000 And they do fine.
00:14:54.000 They have a subscription-based model.
00:14:56.000 And I do not—here's the theory.
00:14:57.000 They know this.
00:14:58.000 NPR is so redundant.
00:14:59.000 What niche are they really feeling other than they're just more left-wing noise?
00:15:03.000 And I will say this.
00:15:04.000 If the Republicans in Congress fail to defund NPR and PBS, because Trump can only do so much by an executive order, that will be one of the easiest— The Democrats would never put up with it.
00:15:25.000 But that is an equivalent.
00:15:27.000 And another funny thing is they often say it almost gets no money, so this is pointless.
00:15:31.000 Okay, so what's the holdup?
00:15:32.000 If they say, like, well, we don't get that much money.
00:15:34.000 I'm sorry, $500 million is a lot of money when you're running a media operation every single year.
00:15:40.000 Every single year?
00:15:40.000 Every year, you get $500 million.
00:15:42.000 Not to mention, during all the Floydapalooza stuff post-2020, their articles about the looting and the rioting was so outrageous, was so out of the norm.
00:15:53.000 And so, I gotta be honest, I love this.
00:15:56.000 It might not be a ton of money in the grand scheme of things, but beyond that, the rebalancing of the American narrative war that this would do is remarkable.
00:16:07.000 Think about how conservative this country could become if we weren't subsidizing the Democrat Party with our own taxpayer funding to have them have a bigger microphone than they actually should have.
00:16:19.000 What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?
00:16:28.000 They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.
00:16:32.000 Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.
00:16:39.000 We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:41.000 In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.
00:16:49.000 And that growth means jobs.
00:16:51.000 Today, there's over 7.5 million U.S. businesses on TikTok employing more than 28 million people.
00:16:56.000 And that number keeps growing.
00:16:57.000 Small businesses thrive on TikTok.
00:17:02.000 Okay, let's close the thought on NPR here.
00:17:10.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:17:11.000 And let me just, I made a point in the break that I think is important.
00:17:14.000 When you do not have to raise your own money, you don't have to earn it.
00:17:17.000 And therefore, you don't have to actually have the best possible product, which allows you to become super radical.
00:17:23.000 And so if NPR actually had to go to donors, donors would ask the question, well, what do you do?
00:17:28.000 Why do you exist?
00:17:29.000 What is your impact?
00:17:30.000 Instead, they just go to Congress, specifically Democrat members of Congress, and they say, I'm just going to do air cover for you and for your agenda.
00:17:38.000 You have a headline.
00:17:40.000 They feel entitled, too.
00:17:40.000 Of course.
00:17:41.000 This is great.
00:17:42.000 So throw 513 on the screen, please.
00:17:44.000 So this is an article from NPR, and here's the headline.
00:17:50.000 Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS.
00:17:53.000 They say he can't.
00:17:55.000 This is...
00:17:56.000 NPR reporting on itself in the third person.
00:17:59.000 In the third person.
00:18:00.000 It's like...
00:18:01.000 They say they...
00:18:03.000 They is you.
00:18:04.000 Why don't you just say, we think this is bad.
00:18:06.000 This is them trying to be like, no, we're objective journalists.
00:18:09.000 So I'm going to say the third person, they.
00:18:11.000 This is the height of absurdity.
00:18:13.000 But it gets even more absurd.
00:18:16.000 Because...
00:18:16.000 Catherine Mars, the head of NPR, and this is a clip from her.
00:18:22.000 She's awful.
00:18:22.000 She's a radical who is trying to kind of whitewash some of her past, but you can't.
00:18:29.000 You can't hide the eclipse.
00:18:30.000 The Internet is forever.
00:18:30.000 515.
00:18:31.000 The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust protection of rights.
00:18:42.000 And that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.
00:18:50.000 But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
00:19:03.000 So this is the head of NPR saying that the First Amendment is a real problem for publishers.
00:19:09.000 So she's anti-American, she's anti-free speech, and this is subsidized by taxpayers. 1.00
00:19:15.000 And here's the last point I'm going to make, Charlie.
00:19:18.000 The Democrats say this is an earmark of dictatorship, that you're trying to play winners and losers in the media space.
00:19:27.000 No, the earmark of a dictatorship and of an authoritarian regime is that you have state-sponsored...
00:19:32.000 Media.
00:19:32.000 That says what you want it to say.
00:19:34.000 And that's what they have.
00:19:35.000 Let's just be clear.
00:19:36.000 Why is it that Canada has struggled to have an equivalent right-wing movement?
00:19:40.000 Because they have CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is all publicly financed, and it is so, so left-wing.
00:19:47.000 And also the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation.
00:19:50.000 Same sort of thing.
00:19:51.000 So when you have these instruments, these organs that are funded by taxpayers...
00:19:56.000 Now, thankfully in America, we are still a semblance of a free society.
00:20:00.000 And the First Amendment is our birthright.
00:20:01.000 The reason we're able to push back on this nonsense is we're able to speak freely without threat of imprisonment.
00:20:06.000 But in these other countries, they are the predominant...
00:20:09.000 They are the predominant news organization.
00:20:11.000 It's very similar to Pravda in the Soviet Union.
00:20:14.000 Pravda literally meant truth in Russian, where you weren't able to question it.
00:20:18.000 And NPR thankfully has been flailing, but don't underestimate their influence.
00:20:22.000 What they've been able to do on podcasting is legitimate because they poured so much money into it, and there's no reason why taxpayers should subsidize it.
00:20:28.000 Do you have that other clip of the...
00:20:30.000 I don't know if you guys saw this, but Germany, just today, the news, is that they have now...
00:20:45.000 The intelligence community in Germany has now labeled AfD, Alternative for Deutschland, Germany, as a radical entity.
00:20:54.000 So this allows them now to harass AfD, to censor them, to basically surveil them, and essentially criminalize their activities.
00:21:03.000 Correct.
00:21:04.000 And so AfD is now the most popular party in Germany.
00:21:08.000 It's essentially the closest equivalent that we have to MAGA, if you will.
00:21:12.000 It's a nationalist party.
00:21:14.000 In Germany, they have all the vestiges of World War II hanging over them.
00:21:20.000 They've lost their confidence in that.
00:21:22.000 So they instantly say, oh, we've got a Nazi, a fascist party.
00:21:26.000 That's not what this is.
00:21:27.000 This is like strong borders, anti-open borders party.
00:21:30.000 It's very MAGA in spirit and in tone.
00:21:33.000 And now it's probably criminalized.
00:21:36.000 By the way, why are we still subsidizing Germany if they're locking up and potentially criminalizing opposition political parties?
00:21:42.000 They say that America is a threat to democracy.
00:21:45.000 Europe is no longer the democratic beacon on the hill that they say they are, and they haven't been for quite some time.
00:21:50.000 Let's play Cut 494.
00:21:51.000 A little bit of breaking news coming in to us from Germany.
00:21:55.000 The Reuters News Agency is reporting that the country's domestic intelligence agency has classified the Alternative for Germany party as an extremist entity that threatens democracy, a move that enables it to better monitor the party,
00:22:12.000 which came second, of course, in February's federal election.
00:22:16.000 And I want to just, this is what would have happened if Kamala Harris would have become president, everybody.
00:22:21.000 If Kamala Harris was in the White House right now, Turning Point USA would be recognized as an official extremist organization. 0.86
00:22:27.000 They were already spying on groups like ours.
00:22:28.000 They were already trying to infiltrate us.
00:22:30.000 And it's amazing how on July 13th, not only did Donald Trump dodge a bullet, but America dodged a bullet too, preventing Kamala Harris from becoming president of the United States.
00:22:39.000 Because we look at what's happening in Canada.
00:22:41.000 These other countries are not becoming freer societies because America is course-correcting.
00:22:46.000 They're doubling down on becoming unfree, totalitarian countries.
00:22:50.000 And it's chilling.
00:22:51.000 In Germany, if you say something that's considered racist online, they will raid your home, they will take your devices, and you will face prison time.
00:23:00.000 What is considered to be racist?
00:23:02.000 If you question mass migration.
00:23:05.000 If you say that immigrants are making Germany not as nice of a place, they could raid your home. 0.99
00:23:10.000 If you question, yeah, Muslim immigrants.
00:23:11.000 No, that's right.
00:23:11.000 If you say that Muslim immigration might be, which of course it is, everybody.
00:23:14.000 We know that it's a problem in Germany.
00:23:16.000 If you say that, they will come and knock.
00:23:18.000 Can we get that piece of tape, actually?
00:23:19.000 Yeah.
00:23:20.000 I think it's really important.
00:23:20.000 60 minutes.
00:23:21.000 But every day I wake up and I just say, thank you, God, that Donald Trump is president.
00:23:26.000 Because I look at these other Western countries and they are becoming more and more radical.
00:23:31.000 They're becoming more and more extreme.
00:23:34.000 And the United Kingdom, where I'm actually going to go debate at Oxford soon, they're putting people in prison and in jail for making documentaries, for challenging the status quo.
00:23:45.000 And I hope Americans, especially American conservatives, can understand that the trajectory is away from speech and away from quote-unquote liberal democracy.
00:23:53.000 And think about how insane that clip is you just watched.
00:23:56.000 Well, we're going to punish the most popular political party because it's a threat to democracy.
00:24:02.000 Oh, really?
00:24:03.000 What the people want is a threat to democracy.
00:24:06.000 Every time you hear the word democracy, you must replace it with oligarchy.
00:24:11.000 Now let me restate that statement.
00:24:13.000 We must now lock up and penalize the top political party because it's a threat to our oligarchy. 0.63
00:24:18.000 Now it starts to make sense.
00:24:20.000 When they say democracy, they really mean oligarchy.
00:24:23.000 Well, and they view the election of Donald Trump as a cautionary tale because America was unsuccessful in...
00:24:28.000 Clamping down on the speech.
00:24:30.000 We are the one that got away.
00:24:32.000 Every other Western government right now has become less free from France, from Germany, UK, from Brazil.
00:24:40.000 Brazil is an unfree country.
00:24:41.000 You're following what's happening in Brazil?
00:24:43.000 They're basically killing Bolsonaro right now in medically controlled hospitals.
00:24:47.000 I encourage you guys to...
00:24:49.000 Listen to our program, because we cover this stuff, because the mainstream media here in America doesn't really cover what's happening in these other countries, and it is an exceptional moment that we live in the United States of America.
00:25:00.000 Do we have the clip here?
00:25:01.000 Is it loaded up?
00:25:02.000 One second, yeah.
00:25:03.000 Yep, 518.
00:25:04.000 Okay, so I want to just preface this.
00:25:06.000 This is just one of hundreds of clips we could play.
00:25:07.000 This is 60 Minutes that went to Germany.
00:25:09.000 This is the Stasi, the secret police, in Germany, doing midnight raids on young people.
00:25:16.000 Taking their devices and then putting them potentially in jail because they said stuff on the internet.
00:25:21.000 Wrong thing.
00:25:21.000 That was wrong.
00:25:22.000 This is where Western democracies are going.
00:25:26.000 What is it?
00:25:27.000 518, play it.
00:25:28.000 518, play it.
00:25:30.000 It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning.
00:25:33.000 And we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany.
00:25:41.000 Inside, six armed officers searched the suspect's home.
00:25:45.000 Then seized his laptop and cell phone.
00:25:48.000 Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime.
00:25:53.000 The crime?
00:25:54.000 Posting a racist cartoon online.
00:25:58.000 At the exact same time across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out.
00:26:07.000 Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.
00:26:13.000 Guys, this is Germany.
00:26:14.000 This is not Ghana. 0.95
00:26:15.000 This is a country we subsidize with our taxpayer dollars, by the way.
00:26:19.000 And military.
00:26:19.000 Our military.
00:26:20.000 And they did 56 a.m. raids against people that posted racist cartoons for breaking the law.
00:26:27.000 This is what Kamala Harris wanted to bring to the United States of America.
00:26:30.000 And by the way, who knows if it's really racist?
00:26:32.000 No, but by the way, their definition of what is racist is...
00:26:36.000 And by the way...
00:26:37.000 Being racist is not a crime.
00:26:38.000 Let's just keep on repeating that, okay?
00:26:39.000 You're allowed to be unseemly.
00:26:41.000 You're allowed to push boundaries.
00:26:42.000 You're allowed to say things that might be improper.
00:26:44.000 That is what free speech is all about.
00:26:46.000 But free speech is not a German value, and free speech is not a European value.
00:26:50.000 And so, just to reiterate that, you have to wonder, you might as well put the Berlin Wall back up at this point.
00:26:56.000 It's like, the Berlin Wall fell, and who actually won?
00:26:59.000 Did liberty win or did communism win?
00:27:01.000 Because that's not what the promise of the fall of the Berlin Wall was.
00:27:04.000 But what we are getting at, which is very important, the fundamental point is that we in America are actually trending in the right direction.
00:27:11.000 These other countries are going in the wrong direction, and we have this island now, this island of liberty surrounded by totalitarianism.
00:27:18.000 Canada is just as bad.
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00:27:55.000 Okay, let's go through the Doge clips here.
00:27:57.000 Well, let's set the stage here.
00:27:59.000 So Jesse Waters got an exclusive invite to go sit in on a Doge meeting.
00:28:04.000 Now, they don't do these meetings at normal business hours because they never stop working.
00:28:08.000 This team is a bunch of geniuses that all they do all night and all day is work on fixing.
00:28:14.000 Really rudimentary problems like, oh, do the databases talk to each other?
00:28:18.000 Is there a tech issue that's allowing waste, fraud, and abuse?
00:28:21.000 This was at 10 p.m.
00:28:23.000 They did a roundtable.
00:28:24.000 All these super geniuses that have built their own businesses or dropped out of Harvard or whatever, and he's brought them together to solve some of the most confounding problems in our federal government.
00:28:33.000 And I just want to reiterate, you know how thankful we should be that we have the smartest young people on the planet that want to go into our government and make it more efficient?
00:28:40.000 Do you know how they've been treated by the media?
00:28:42.000 Yeah, it should be applauded, right?
00:28:46.000 How they've been treated.
00:28:47.000 Their public information's been made.
00:28:49.000 Their private information's been made public.
00:28:51.000 They've been doxxed.
00:28:52.000 So many death threats.
00:28:53.000 They've been hunted and followed in the streets.
00:28:55.000 The media relentlessly is going after the personal information of these young people.
00:28:59.000 I mean, these are wicked and wicked operators in the media.
00:29:03.000 So how about this one?
00:29:04.000 Let's play cut 496.
00:29:05.000 When I say they're super geniuses, I mean, I've met these young kids.
00:29:10.000 Remarkable.
00:29:11.000 Playcut 496.
00:29:12.000 Just a few hours after we got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over a terabyte of accounting records from several years.
00:29:19.000 So you'd have to ask the question, well, why would somebody do that?
00:29:22.000 The Doge team, unfortunately, was able to recover that data with the help of a few great employees at the Institute of Peace.
00:29:27.000 And I think the most troubling thing was they received $55 million a year from Congress, and any money that went unspent, instead of returning that to Congress, they would sweep it into a private bank account, which had no congressional oversight.
00:29:39.000 And that's what they would use to fund things like events at their headquarters and the private jets.
00:29:44.000 Sounds illegal, doesn't it?
00:29:46.000 Private jets?
00:29:48.000 Yeah, it sounds illegal.
00:29:49.000 Other things that came out of this discussion, just mind you, is our founders established essentially four agencies of the federal government.
00:29:57.000 Today we have 400.
00:30:00.000 400.
00:30:00.000 So you were hearing him talk about the Institute of Peace, which is another...
00:30:05.000 Sort of smaller agency.
00:30:06.000 And it's just the amount of bloat is tremendous.
00:30:10.000 I want to get to this one.
00:30:10.000 This is 480.
00:30:11.000 Elon Musk reveals Department of Education.
00:30:13.000 We're using taxpayer dollars to rent out stadiums.
00:30:15.000 Play cut 480.
00:30:17.000 Department of Education.
00:30:19.000 And there was no receipts required.
00:30:20.000 So people would just draw down on it.
00:30:22.000 And when people looked into it, this wasn't dust.
00:30:24.000 This was before us.
00:30:25.000 They found that money was being used to rent out Caesar's Palace for parties, rent out stadiums, etc.
00:30:31.000 And so the one change that Doge made with Department of Education is we had the simple requirement that if you draw down money, you must first upload a receipt.
00:30:39.000 That was the only change that was made.
00:30:41.000 You must upload your receipt.
00:30:42.000 And upon doing so, nobody drew down any money anymore.
00:30:47.000 As soon as we asked for anything at all, suddenly the requests were like, oh, we don't need it anymore.
00:30:53.000 That's interesting.
00:30:54.000 No one's ever asked them questions.
00:30:56.000 I want to play this one.
00:30:56.000 This is one of the super geniuses who dropped out of Harvard.
00:30:59.000 Play cut 493.
00:31:00.000 I dropped out of Harvard and came here to serve my country.
00:31:04.000 And it's been unfortunate to see lost friendships.
00:31:07.000 Most of campus hates me now.
00:31:10.000 But I think fundamentally, I hope people realize through conversations like this that reform is genuinely needed.
00:31:17.000 And we're running out of time, but this is just a montage of Democrats going after trying to make the government more efficient.
00:31:24.000 Think about that.
00:31:25.000 Play cut 482.
00:31:26.000 Unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.
00:31:32.000 This smash and grab by Elon Musk is going to stop.
00:31:36.000 This is the most corrupt bargain we've ever seen in American history.
00:31:42.000 Honestly, I just want to reiterate it.
00:31:44.000 We are so lucky.
00:31:45.000 We are so blessed.
00:31:46.000 That not only Trump won, but he empowered Elon Musk.
00:31:49.000 And every day, every day when you guys are worrying about the country, you have the brightest minds imaginable that are literally working 24-7.
00:31:56.000 These guys do not sleep.
00:31:57.000 They do not sleep.
00:31:58.000 They sleep like two or three hours a night.
00:31:59.000 They have these sleep pods that Elon brought into the White House.
00:32:02.000 I don't know if you guys heard this.
00:32:03.000 They do 90 minutes of sleep at a time at three times a day.
00:32:06.000 That's it.
00:32:07.000 And these guys are all up.
00:32:08.000 And their only focus is to make sure that your taxpayer money is better spent.
00:32:12.000 And I just can't say how thankful we are.
00:32:14.000 No other country has this going on right now.
00:32:16.000 And it is a phenomenal development for the well-being of our republic.
00:32:21.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:22.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:25.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.