00:00:39.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:04.000That's why I said we could talk for hours.
00:02:06.000So Charlie, you know, the thing is, I'm a Muslim.
00:02:09.000I'm an immigrant from India and I came to this country at the age of four.
00:02:13.000I knew not a word of English and this country gave me freedoms that no Muslim country could have ever afforded me.
00:02:19.000I grew up in the heart of America in West Virginia and I love this country.
00:02:25.000This country allowed me to go from being that little girl to a Wall Street Journal reporter at the age of 23.
00:02:31.000But, you know, like a lot of people, 9-11 was an awakening and I emerged out of the tragedy of the murder of a dear friend of mine, Danny Pearl, into a Muslim reformer.
00:02:45.000I started challenging Islamic extremism and that put me in the crosshairs of this just diabolical campaign to shut people up.
00:02:56.000What I've learned now is that these Muslim establishment people who were supported by Senk at Young Turks, they have come together in this alliance, this unholy alliance with the leftists.
00:03:13.000And Sank is a perfect example because here he is, creates this organization called Justice Democrats, you know, and it's pushing socialism and he's running cover for the Islamists or those establishment Muslims that want, you know, theocracy as a part of governance.
00:03:32.000And how does this all matter to America?
00:03:35.000I'm going to try to unpack that for you and all your listeners now.
00:03:40.000So just one question there, then we can get into the war on merit, which I think is really important.
00:03:45.000But something that perplexes me and confuses me is that devout religious Muslims and devout social justice warrior wokies, they seem so ideologically and philosophically incompatible.
00:04:26.000You know, you know, politics is about power and control over people.
00:04:31.000And what happened is that the establishment Muslims were very much aligned, some of them for the socially conservative reasons with the Republicans for many years, but in fact, you know, voting for President Bush, second Bush.
00:04:50.000And with President Obama's turn and apologetics for establishment Muslims like the Muslim Brotherhood in countries like Egypt, they ended up, you know, attaching to the Democratic Party.
00:05:04.000And the compromise that they've made on these socially, you know, abhorrent issues to them.
00:05:12.000These are folks who are even, you know, for all that the left talks about conservatives, these are Muslims who actually are not only against homosexuality,
00:05:26.000but agree with the criminalization of it and even the murder of people who are gay, which is nothing that any political conservative in America would ever agree with doing in that you cannot actually murder somebody for this moral issue that you might have a difference about.
00:05:50.000There is so much difference on issues of women's rights, even.
00:05:55.000You know, the far left, of course, and the Democrats always talk about our body, our choice.
00:06:01.000But my activism as a Muslim woman began because I just walked up to the front door of my mosque in Morgantown, West Virginia, and wanted to step through the front door.
00:06:11.000And a man stood in front of me and said, no, sister, you have to take the back door.
00:06:15.000So how is it that these two come together?
00:06:17.000It's because they ended up finding, you know, a Trojan horse with the Democratic Party that could push their political agenda.
00:06:26.000And that's how we now have folks like Ilhan Omar and Rashid the Talib.
00:06:59.000This is, you know, so for 20 years, I have been fighting the extremists in my Muslim community.
00:07:07.000I call them Islamists, you know, folks who want political governance through with religion.
00:07:12.000Well, in the summer of 2020, like a lot of people, I started observing these really crazy things happening in my school district here, where my son was attending Fairfax County Public Schools outside of DC.
00:07:24.000What they were doing is deciding that there wasn't enough of an achievement by Black and Hispanic students.
00:07:32.000And so my son's high school happens to be the number one high school in America, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
00:07:40.000And they changed admissions so that there was no more of a merit race blind test, but a popularity contest really for which they rigged the numbers.
00:07:52.000That was the warning sign for all of America that this sort of new phenomena that I call the woke army, these folks that call themselves equity warriors, they had merit as one of the areas that they wanted to take down in America.
00:08:14.000So, what we see now, fast forward three years, is exactly what you're talking about.
00:08:19.000I heard your tweet went viral this weekend about this war on merit.
00:08:26.000This is the actual plan, Charlie, from Culver City Unified School District, right outside LA.
00:10:30.000I know a lot of people who take supplements and formulated nutrition packs, but balance in nature goes right to the source.
00:10:36.000Real fruits and veggies, all that nutrition captured with their advanced vacuum-cold process, packed in a capsule and sent to your doorstep.
00:10:43.000I give my body what it needs because feeling great is important to me.
00:10:46.000Getting good daily nutrition is the foundation of all aspects of good health.
00:10:50.000And that is why you hear me talking about balance of nature on my show.
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00:11:55.000And I think there's a lot of reasons for that.
00:11:57.000But you're arguing that the influence is actually greater than ever before, especially domestically.
00:12:03.000And so is, let me ask you a question from Elon Omar to Rashida Talib to many other radical left-wing activists that are also radical, you know, radical Muslims.
00:12:16.000And maybe they're not radical Muslims.
00:13:02.000And then I saw it in the trenches, right, Charlie, with the war on merit.
00:13:07.000What I didn't fully understand, but now I completely understand and rewrote the book then over that summer is I understood them.
00:13:16.000What the Islamists did, Charlie, is they saw a great opportunity with this ideology of critical race theory to create a new shield for themselves.
00:14:16.000I see it all the time when I go to the mosque.
00:14:19.000And I mean, it is not only male supremacy because I'm put as a woman into the back halls, something that's not even allowed on racial lines anymore, fortunately, America.
00:14:30.000But in my mosque, I got to go to the back door, go sit.
00:14:33.000They say, they say, Charlie, oh, go to the balcony because you're closer to heaven.
00:14:38.000I'm like, well, you want to get closer to heaven.
00:14:40.000Why don't you guys go there and give us the main hall?
00:14:45.000And what has happened then, you know, to your point is the conversation and the Democrats have led on this is eliminate any conversation on Muslim supremacy, make everybody focus on white supremacy.
00:14:59.000And the Muslims in this new hierarchy of human value get new standing, including the extremists.
00:15:07.000Because what is Ilhan Omer's strategy, right, Charlie?
00:15:10.000When she was so anti-Semitic, she just said, oh, you're being Islamophobic.
00:15:15.000And then remember AOC the other day said, how dare you go after a woman of color?
00:15:20.000Well, they've now whitewashed Jewish people, right?
00:15:24.000They have changed the hierarchy of human value using this failed ideology of critical race theory to do it.
00:15:32.000So really quick, only one minute remaining.
00:15:34.000Do you think there might be a fault line between the rank and file Muslims, people that really believe their faith, but they're not radicals.
00:15:41.000They're not being paid by a foreign government.
00:15:43.000And they say, wait a second, this is totally inconsistent with my beliefs.
00:15:53.000In Michigan, we have parents that are leading in Ilhan Omer's own school district because after woke, baby, you end up getting books like what?
00:16:23.000Great way to put it, Charlie, but they are happening.
00:16:26.000And people are rethinking in the trenches, just like you said, just regular Muslims, the strange alliance that they've had.
00:16:34.000And I count myself among them because I was a hard-caring Democrat for most of my life and have seen that they have betrayed my own personal value.
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00:18:06.000In just a second, we're going to dive into Todd Bensman's new book, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in UN History in U.S. history, while we're caring about the foreign borders.
00:18:16.000And so over the weekend, I had a Twitter dispute with Adam Kinzinger.
00:18:26.000I said, to everyone demanding that Ukrainian soldiers and civilians die for, quote, as long as it takes to stop Putin, do you realize Russia is mobilizing 300,000 to half a million troops as we speak?
00:18:38.000Are you really prepared for the loss of life?
00:18:41.000Adam Kinzinger said, the weakness of scared, trembling boys who've never done a thing in their life, but live in comfort and complain that they aren't special enough, like Charlie Kirk, is the antithesis of American strength.
00:19:02.000Okay, yeah, calling me a scared and trembling boy is rather petulant and irrelevant to whether or not you're prepared to have a bunch of Ukrainians die in a looming bloodbath.
00:19:16.000So then I say the following: the man too cowardly to run for re-election talks tough on Twitter.
00:19:20.000When it's other people's children and family members who will die, can we count on you, Adam, to lead a platoon of Ukrainians on the front lines in time for spring fighting season?
00:19:27.000Then Adam King Kinzinger responded again.
00:19:31.000He said, nah, I've already done my time in war.
00:19:33.000The Air Force doesn't have platoons genius.
00:19:45.000Adam Kinzinger will armchair quarterback this from America while the world becomes destabilized because he has a war fetish while ignoring our own border.
00:19:57.000Not even a concern for our own border.
00:20:00.000And joining us now is Todd Bensman, author of a new book, Overrun, How the Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.
00:20:22.000Well, there seems to be still contention about why we're having the greatest numbers, volume-wise, ever cross that border in the history of record keeping for the country.
00:20:35.000But when you ask the immigrants why they're coming, it's pretty simple.
00:20:40.000They say they're coming because the border's open and all their friends, relatives, and neighbors got in.
00:20:46.000So we're going to sell everything and go to pay for our smuggling fees, drop 10,000 or whatever it costs, because we want to know in advance before we gamble that money that we're going to, first of all, be able to enter and second of all, be able to stay.
00:21:04.000As long as they see that they can do that, they're coming.
00:21:07.000So it started with a snowball that's turned into an avalanche.
00:21:11.000And you learn that from interviewing the immigrants who are at the heart of this thing, the heart and soul of this whole crisis.
00:21:18.000How many, and I, this is just semantics.
00:21:22.000I think they're criminals, but, and I think it gives them too much credit.
00:21:25.000So how many foreigners are illegally breaking into our country every day?
00:21:30.000Well, we had, we heard Jay Johnson, the former Secretary of State under Obama, one time say, man, if I woke up and there were a thousand a day crossing, I would have a really bad day.
00:21:59.000It seems like every month is a brand new record-smashing month.
00:22:04.000I mean, what's happening here is beyond the American experience, anything that we've ever seen, which is why I call it in the book, you know, the greatest mass migration in U.S. history.
00:22:17.000So, yeah, so let me ask you, the seven to eight thousand a day, and they're trying to, in essence, decriminalize it so that we have complete and total open borders.
00:22:30.000When Mark Kelly ran for the U.S. Senate seat and was re-elected, he said that we're deploying a lot more resources to the border.
00:22:36.000Do you have any evidence to support that?
00:22:39.000Well, they're pulling resources to the border not to block, stop, and deter, which the law says the administration has to do.
00:22:47.000The resources that are being surged to the border are to enable the most to come in in the smoothest possible way without building into some kind of an international media story like the Del Rio migrant camp or more recently, the El Paso situation where you had thousands of immigrants, illegal immigrants sleeping in the streets.
00:23:09.000That's really what their goal is for what their idea is for border security.
00:23:15.000Whereas the rest of like normal people know border security as stop them from coming, block them from coming, deport.
00:23:25.000The administration has allowed a cobble.
00:23:28.000I write about this extensively in the book, Chapter 4, called The New Theologians, which is to say that they've allowed this cobbl of really extreme fringe left liberal progressives to seize control of the portfolio, the immigration portfolio.
00:23:48.000And their idea is that there shall be no immigration enforcement at the border.
00:23:56.000It's like Jim Crow laws of the 1950s or something to them.
00:24:00.000And so they have systematically dismantled interior deportation and almost all of the enforcement at the southern border.
00:24:09.000That's why we've had 5 million people cross through the southern border and millions of them are inside the country right now and millions more are coming.
00:25:36.000Part of the border crisis is, you know, there are give up traffic, people that just come over by the thousands and wait to be processed in.
00:25:45.000They'll be on a bus in two days to Chicago or Indianapolis or wherever.
00:25:50.000But then the other part are the ones that know they're probably not going to get in.
00:25:55.000They're hiding something, criminal activity, criminal behavior, convictions, whatever, gang membership on a database.
00:26:02.000And they're running through the undefended gaps that have been left behind by border patrol who have been forced to go into administrative processing for the give-ups.
00:26:18.000Together, it's all utter pandemonium and just this nonstop flow of just hundreds and hundreds of thousands and millions into the interior of the country.
00:26:29.000And then you have Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., New York declaring emergencies and demanding federal bailouts.
00:26:39.000And that list is going to get longer and longer.
00:26:43.000I'm going to ask you after the break, just what you learned from talking to these criminals at the border and kind of why are they saying they're here?
00:26:53.000How many of them are being brought by cartels, which the Biden regime, one of the less covered stories is how the Biden regime is very cozy with the cartels and they are just allowing the cartels to do whatever they want on the southern border.
00:27:07.000It's one of the largest human trafficking enterprises ever.
00:27:11.000In fact, in scale, you can make an argument.
00:27:14.000It's very similar to the slave trade that we think actually we ended in the 1800s.
00:27:19.000But in reality, this is pseudo-slavery.
00:27:22.000And the left, of course, is perfectly fine with it.
00:27:58.000When Roe versus Wade fell as the law of the land last year, all it did was increase what pro-abortion states are doing to entice and mislead women to abort their children.
00:28:07.000States are now advertising to travel just to get an abortion.
00:28:13.000So the need to provide the truth as girls and women are contemplating what to do about their pregnancy is greater now than ever before.
00:28:20.000Ultrasounds save babies because ultrasounds give the truth at a time everyone else is saying it's not just a baby, it's just a clump of cells.
00:28:28.000When you introduce a girl to her baby by providing an ultrasound, you are giving her the truth at the most important time of her life.
00:28:35.000And more than 85% of the time, she will choose life.
00:28:38.000You don't have to make a lot of noise to make a big difference for life.
00:28:41.000Just give an ultrasound at preborn.org to be a hero for life.
00:29:04.000Well, listen, for the most part, these are not asylum seekers.
00:29:08.000These are not people who are fleeing political persecution.
00:29:12.000I don't believe I've ever talked to one who actually made a claim to me while they're en route that they are fleeing some kind of political persecution or economic migrants.
00:29:23.000And they say so loud and clear, constantly saying, yeah, I'm just coming for a better job and the border's open.
00:30:09.000These ones that have been pouring over our border have been living for years in Chile and Brazil with jobs, sanctuary, asylum, work authorization, everything.
00:30:22.000But when they saw that the southern border was open, they were like, ah, I got an easy upgrade, lifestyle upgrade.
00:30:30.000Take the Venezuelans, so many Venezuelans coming over.
00:30:34.000Very few of them are actually coming from Venezuela.
00:30:37.000They've been living for five, six, seven years and longer in Colombia, Argentina, and 15 other South American countries safely, prosperously, all the rest of that.
00:30:49.000But they can get into the United States.
00:31:47.000When New York takes a bunch of immigrants from Texas or whatever, illegal immigrants from Texas, they're staying in four-star and five-star hotels at taxpayer expense.
00:31:59.000They are sending those selfies home, and they're all coming to New York to get five-star hotel treatment.
00:32:38.000What I mean is that if you're contemplating a move from Chicago to New York for a job, you're going to take into account all these factors.
00:32:56.000So, you know, it's these are policy choices, is what I'm saying that's enticing this mass migration, not certain death, not absolute political persecution and gulags and jails and North Korea type treatment.
00:33:13.000And that's what you learn when you actually sit down and talk to as many as I have.
00:33:18.000Yeah, Biden and Majorkis and Harris have been inviting them repeatedly, and it's by design.
00:33:28.000They raise hundreds of millions of dollars to lie to voters when any of these Democrats are up.
00:33:33.000If you're a swing voter, you think I talked to a swing voter here in Arizona, they said, I voted for Mark Kelly because he was the best on the border.
00:33:39.000Literally, that's what people believe.
00:33:42.000So I hope your book is successful to tell the truth.
00:33:44.000Todd Benceman, the name is called Overrun.