It's Amfest Week, and it's a big one! On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie talks about what to expect at Amfest this year, and what to look out for.
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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000It is Amfest Week, and it's Amfest 24 hours, basically.
00:01:16.000Yeah, we start tomorrow, tomorrow evening.
00:01:18.000Probably going to do the show here from the studio tomorrow.
00:01:22.000I think I said that wrong earlier in the week.
00:01:24.000So it's doing the show here from the studio.
00:01:26.000Then we'll head on over to the convention center.
00:01:28.000Friday, we're going to be doing the show live from the convention center.
00:01:32.000You know, that's going to actually be a really bittersweet moment for me because we've done the Charlie Kirk show live from our events countless times.
00:01:41.000And the Real America's voice team is going to be, we're going to be at that set.
00:02:11.000You know, I'm actually, I'm actually, yeah, well, I'm actually in a point where like, I feel like, you know, we've got to get through this last little push.
00:02:20.000And it's going to be, I mean, this is like the Super Bowl for turning point.
00:02:24.000And then I'm really, this year, I'm really looking forward to some downtime during the holidays.
00:05:03.000That's putting in something that Charlie cared a lot about, and it's that Chuck Grassley, the House team, they've uncovered more documents related to that raid, which, gosh, that was three years ago, wasn't it?
00:06:11.000It's from Assistant Special Agent in Charge, and they just write, very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling documents.
00:06:20.000From the interviews, Washington Field Office has gathered information suggesting there may be additional boxes.
00:06:26.000But there is some concern that this information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated.
00:06:33.000And they basically say there's a lot of doubt that it reaches a probable cause standard.
00:06:55.000They cross a Rubicon in American political life that we've thus far managed to not emulate the third world on.
00:07:04.000They do it, even though there is a massive discussion and debate about probable cause.
00:07:09.000Do they have the probable cause to do so?
00:07:12.000Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site.
00:07:15.000At what point is it fair to table this?
00:07:17.000It is time-consuming for the team and not productive if there are no new facts supporting probable cause.
00:07:22.000And then it says, this feels like a sentence weighted with a lot of meaning.
00:07:27.000DOJ has opined that they do have probable cause, requesting a wide scope, including residence, office, and storage space.
00:07:36.000Yeah, I mean, this is a, you know, again, Chuck Grassley.
00:07:41.000He's such a funny tweeter, by the way.
00:07:43.000The words he's a funny, he's a funny tweeter.
00:07:47.000Received shocking new docs today from DOJ and FBI showing FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway, based on the records.
00:07:58.000Mar-a-Lago raid was a miscarriage of justice.
00:08:28.000Yeah, well, we say conspiracy, but we have, you know, they all said our own point of view is that the president can order DOJ to investigate something.
00:09:19.000And what the president announced yesterday is he says the largest armada in history, in the history of South America, is surrounding Venezuela now.
00:09:28.000He says he's designated the Venezuelan government a terrorist organization.
00:09:33.000And he says they're doing a total blockade on oil tankers going in or out of Venezuela.
00:09:39.000That is noteworthy because historically, a blockade is conventionally considered an act of war.
00:09:47.000So it's definitely not as it's not kinetic, like dropping.
00:09:57.000They had to call it a quarantine instead of a blockade so they could say that it wasn't going to do that.
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00:11:08.000So Venezuela, I want to play this Clip of Senator Fetterman because this, the drug boats thing is, it's like it.
00:11:16.000I can't explain it, but the Democrats think this is like a political winner and I I love that they're picking this because massively popular to take out narco-terrorists that are trying to deliver poison onto our shores.
00:11:50.000I mean, there's extensive intelligence and they know exactly who's on that boat and they know what's actually on that boat right now and it's quite frequently they they decline to take it and to move on those things.
00:12:03.000When they move on those kinetic kinds of strikes, you know they have absolute confidence that who's on it and what's on it and and that's exactly what it's about they're not just going around randomly just shooting, shooting boats and those things.
00:12:19.000You really find yourself wondering how many boats there must there are, because otherwise it seems like they would stop because no one wants to just commit suicide.
00:12:27.000Yeah, in that same interview he, he did say that the majority of the actions that are being taken are just boat interdictions, where they actually grab them onshore.
00:12:37.000They, i'm sure, i'm sure they process them, seize the drugs, all that sort of thing.
00:12:41.000So to your point though, we didn't read the true social yet, did we?
00:12:44.000We didn't read the whole thing yeah, but it's like somewhat long.
00:12:46.000It's interesting because he says he he, so this is president Trump's true social 221, throw it up.
00:12:52.000But he says Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in The history of South America.
00:12:56.000It will only get bigger and the shock to them will take not uh, will be like nothing they have ever seen before.
00:13:01.000So he's basically, you're right, he's kind of employing almost like a medieval surround the castle, block the resources going in and out.
00:13:07.000Until such time as they return to the United States of America, all the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.
00:13:15.000I don't think he means literal territory.
00:13:17.000I think it's land that U.S. companies own.
00:13:32.000It was stolen from American companies and they're you, he said he alleges, which I think is provably true.
00:13:38.000The Uh Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves, drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping for the theft of our assets and for many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling, human trafficking yeah, he says.
00:13:51.000Therefore, I am ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers.
00:13:54.000Okay, so the question is, will this be?
00:13:58.000I think bombing the drug boats has been a win so far and it'll remain that way.
00:14:02.000As long as they don't blow up the wrong boat, then it's very bad, but does it remain a win if we end up?
00:14:11.000I think President Trump seems to believe he could probably topple Venezuela quite easily.
00:14:17.000And I think it would be easier than Afghanistan or Iraq would be because I don't think you'd have...
00:14:23.000it's not this ideological thing where you have this.
00:14:26.000It's also a Navy, you know, sea fleet, right, that is blocking, and they, you know, Venezuela doesn't have a way to counter us in that way.
00:14:35.000Well, yeah, but the same thing with those other countries.
00:14:36.000We still ended up occupying them and having thousands of people.
00:14:39.000Yeah, I don't think that's where we're going.
00:14:40.000I think he's going to basically choke the finances of the Maduro regime so that he is incentivized to flee and get out of there so that somebody else can.
00:14:49.000Yeah, listen, I have to say, as against foreign invasions and foreign abstractions and military operations, you know, we talked about this with Michael Knowles.
00:15:00.000There is going to be more patience with the base to do this, right?
00:15:06.000First of all, there's been these Venezuelan gangs.
00:15:09.000You know, Aurora, Colorado story lives in the memory of American citizens.
00:15:13.000This is one of the reasons President Trump won election.
00:15:17.000These Venezuelan gangs are being funded, propped up, or at least, you know, tacitly blessed by the Maduro regime to cause chaos in our borders, okay?
00:15:28.000And by the mere fact that these drug boats continue setting off for the United States.
00:15:36.000Like that they're signing off on gangs doing stuff.
00:15:38.000I think Venezuela is just a crappy country.
00:15:40.000And so a lot of Venezuelan gangsters come here.
00:15:42.000I think that that's essentially how Maduro keeps control, is what I've read, is that he has sort of these handshake, wink-wink agreements with the street gangs, and they do his bidding and they go where he wants.
00:15:55.000I feel like the best outcome we could have is they flee or get toppled.
00:15:59.000We get a, you know, the El Salvador guy.
00:16:07.000We send all the Venezuelan illegals back to Venezuela and they immediately send them to some Venezuelan hyper-prison that they build for all of them.
00:16:14.000And we can pay them $5 billion here to go.
00:16:17.000His number one export is going to is going to be like prison systems.
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00:18:01.000You're going to be speaking to the crowd.
00:18:02.000Do you want to give us a little teaser of what you're thinking about talking about?
00:18:08.000The number one thing I hope that we get out of this weekend is I've just never experienced the kind of unity And seeds of revival, like we had at Charlie's Memorial and the immediate thereafter.
00:18:24.000And I am just hoping and praying in advance of this event that what this does is recaptures that going into the holidays.
00:18:33.000And then we come out of the new year with that kind of focus and drive and purpose and shared missiology and momentum again.
00:18:40.000And so everything, I mean, you guys are keeping me busy this week.
00:18:44.000So everything that I'm going to be a part of here at the convention center in Phoenix is going to be about reinforcing that message, which is kind of weird for me.
00:18:53.000I mean, for much of my career, I've kind of been the disruptor insurgent guy.
00:18:57.000But, you know, Charlie convinced me in the last year plus that if we don't convince, we don't keep this coalition together, we're doomed.
00:19:05.000And so now as I get older, I am into my 50s now.
00:19:07.000I kind of feel like I'm grandpa now and I'm trying to get everybody to stay on the same team for the first time in my career.
00:19:12.000So I'm going to be harping on that a lot this week.
00:19:14.000Well, it kind of reminds me of that Elon Musk quote.
00:19:18.000And I think it was right around the memorial where he says, we must hang together or we shall surely hang separately.
00:19:24.000And there really is, you know, I've been thinking a lot about this, Steve, and this isn't where we were planning to go with it, but I think it kind of all ties in with what we were planning on talking about on the show today.
00:19:36.000You know, there is a time for bringing coalitions together.
00:19:56.000And it's truly a difficult question when that time is, you know, who makes the call, who has the leadership to sort of lead the pruning and the, you know, because you've got to prune every garden.
00:20:09.000You've got to prune every tree if it's going to grow healthy.
00:20:12.000And there is a point where that can be.
00:20:57.000And I think people are just now seeing posthumously how much Charlie was respected in that role and precisely was thrust in that role because he did not seek it.
00:21:10.000I mean, that's the kind of respect you can't appoint yourself an apostle.
00:21:18.000And most of the people that try to do that, you know, back in the day when I was younger, we used to say, you can't gloss yourself, right?
00:21:24.000And so the guys that typically try to do that are anything but about that life.
00:21:28.000And typically that stuff is bestowed upon you organically by your peers.
00:21:32.000And I just think there was a unique combination both of reverence for Charlie, respect for Charlie and his intellect, fear of Charlie's intellect and his platform, and then the fact that Juste was a good, decent human being at the same time that uniquely put him into that position.
00:21:51.000And I think what you're seeing now is there's various elements, these various factions within our movement now, libertarians, America firster.
00:22:00.000No, we're really America firsters, maybe America onlyers.
00:22:03.000You know, maybe we need to have a reconsideration of our relationship with Israel.
00:22:08.000Maybe we can have a partnership with the Islamic world.
00:22:10.000Maybe we need to completely divorce ourselves from the Islamic world.
00:22:13.000The leaders of these various factions now are kind of coming to a head with their platforms to fill this void.
00:22:19.000And that has created a lot of the dissension and argumentation that you're seeing right now.
00:22:23.000And I think what we actually really need is a real debate.
00:22:27.000I think we need to have a real argument and in constructive ways so that people can legitimately feel as if their voices are heard.
00:22:35.000I said in the aftermath of the interview that Tucker did with Fuentes that a lot of people got worked up about.
00:22:42.000I said, listen, trying to mainstream Nick Fuentes will destroy our coalition on one end.
00:22:47.000Trying to cancel Tucker because he brings up topics you don't like and in ways that all the time, frankly, I don't even agree with will destroy it in the other end.
00:22:54.000So there's no win here by trying to cancel either side of this various conversation.
00:23:00.000What we really need to have are substantive debates.
00:23:03.000And I would urge the leaders of these various factions that want to have their views reconsidered now with this void left by Charlie's murder, then I would urge them, and I would, one, try to be responsible, try to understand the collateral damage when you bring something up and disagree, and be willing to have and let the leaders of the other side and the other factions question you.
00:23:24.000Go on one another's shows, go on one another's platforms.
00:23:28.000You know, I know there's going to be lots of breakouts and stuff here this week at America Fest.
00:23:32.000You know, this is really a time now that we need to come now and reason together, as the Bible says.
00:24:20.000And I think, you know, if you can stay out of the personal mudslinging and you get into the debate, the actual merits of the ideas, that's the sweet spot.
00:24:31.000The feud culture, the mudslinging, the personal animus, that stuff can be really, really distracting.
00:24:36.000And by the way, it's really seductive as well.
00:24:40.000The feud slinging and also just what they choose to focus on, you know, since you mentioned Fuentes and others, but that one of Charlie's best things is he really was almost entirely focused on very practical politics.
00:24:56.000So he was always talking about the next race, not even the big elections, but those off-year elections.
00:25:01.000He would have been really hammering the Virginia and New Jersey races.
00:25:06.000And that's why we tried to do the same.
00:25:07.000Or even Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Tennessee by-election.
00:25:11.000He'd get whipped up for these things, and he'd fixate on what could Congress be doing right now?
00:25:16.000What could the president be doing right now that will have an impact on the border, on your individual life?
00:25:23.000And when he wasn't talking about politics, he was talking about that individual life stuff.
00:25:33.000And I do worry that a lot of what's happened with the weirder stuff that's come into the right, you know, arguing over, I mean, let's be frank.
00:25:40.000A lot of the stuff, the debate about Israel, for a lot of them, they really actually just want to hate on Jewish people.
00:25:46.000And besides the fact that I consider that generally morally wrong, it's also a huge distraction from everything.
00:25:55.000And it occurred to me that there was this big cancel battle going on in late October of this year, right before important elections.
00:26:03.000And there were a lot of people who weren't talking about that.
00:26:05.000They were talking about whether it was okay to attack world Jewry or not.
00:26:10.000Well, and you know, Steve, and I'll throw this to you.
00:26:13.000Charlie always had this guiding North Star, I think, that kept him very clear-minded about what was important, what wasn't, and that was save the West.
00:26:28.000I think one comes from above, Providence, and that's mass revival.
00:26:32.000When you see that 2% of France, less than 2% is evangelical, you see many of the old Catholic cathedrals now are mosques or strip malls or just barren buildings throughout much of Western Europe.
00:26:42.000We're beyond just rezoning laws and many practical political solutions to that level of spiritual degradation.
00:26:51.000So we need mass great awakening-level revival.
00:26:54.000It's not a coincidence that we had great awakenings before we had, you know, we had liberty in America.
00:27:00.000We had pastors like John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards and others.
00:27:37.000But I'm not even sure how many Christian asylum cases we can take because a lot of them are going to come from countries that are dominated by Islam.
00:28:33.000And there seems to be a faction within our own ranks that is, I don't know, cozying up to this idea that we can be friends with Islamists that move into our own country.
00:28:47.000There are 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world.
00:30:05.000But yeah, this is my question when the West is insistent upon importing third worlders.
00:30:11.000By the way, Trump just expanded his travel restrictions, an additional 20 countries, and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits announced earlier.
00:30:52.000I mean, look at the Prime Minister of Australia, not our hemisphere, but obviously it's a country that's founding is mired in Western values and philosophies.
00:31:01.000Right after what happened there, his immediate call was for more common sense gun control.
00:31:06.000And no one can rise above their own worldview.
00:31:08.000Worldview is destiny, or as the Bible says, as a man thinketh, so is he.
00:31:46.000So, Steve, if you're calling for an immigration moratorium, I am totally on board.
00:31:53.000I would do it for at least a decade, but I'll take what I can get.
00:31:57.000The question then becomes, how do you achieve that political end, right?
00:32:02.000You're seeing today that four Republicans have broke in the House for Obamacare subsidies.
00:32:08.000That is a very clear indication that we do not have control of the people.
00:32:13.000Yeah, we have a bunch of Democrat lights in the House and probably in the Senate.
00:32:17.000You think Susan Collins, you think Lisa Murkowski, you think Rand Paul, you think who else?
00:32:23.000You got Mitch McConnell still in there.
00:32:26.000Even if we nuke the filibuster, you'd have to presume two things.
00:32:29.000One, that we have enough votes to do so.
00:32:31.000And secondly, that once we do so, we'd have enough political will to accomplish the truly important critical pieces that will save America.
00:32:51.000But people got to see the U.S. Supreme Court look at a black man and say, that's not a person, it's property.
00:32:56.000And that clarifying, that clarifier ignited the abolitionist movement in the next era to do what must be done to win.
00:33:04.000And so I think we need to try these things, even if they fail, to spur on our people so that what comes after Trump then is even more zealous for the kinds of things we're talking about now that they fully know who and what it truly is that we are aligned with.
00:34:25.000I bet you get 20 or 25 because now their votes on the record.
00:34:30.000And you have to understand the way the Republican Party establishment works is an incumbency protection racket, right?
00:34:36.000So they don't want a lot of these things to even come up for a vote because they don't want the base to know just truly how weak a lot of the people they're voting for really are.
00:34:44.000And so this kind of clarifier, you're going to get the people that were never with us, they're going to get more emboldened to be so.
00:34:50.000Then you're going to get some squishy people who don't want to be known that they're on the wrong side of history here that would like to keep collecting those pension points there in Washington, D.C.
00:34:58.000So I would guess we'd probably get half the Republican senators to vote for it.
00:35:02.000It's even more treacherous than that, Steve, because think of what happened with Obamacare, for example, where the Republicans would endlessly hold those symbolic votes to repeal and replace Obamacare because they knew it was not going to pass.
00:35:41.000You could do a net zero immigration moratorium, right?
00:35:44.000So the estimates are around 200,000 to 300,000 people, U.S. citizens and immigrants, foreign-born residents, leave the United States every year, 200,000 to 300,000.
00:35:54.000So it's not like you're not allowing some movement of humanity, right?
00:35:58.000You can bring in a new H-1B if you sponsor, if you get somebody else to leave.
00:36:06.000I'm just picturing like a tech company, maybe Microsoft or something, and they find refugees and they just say, we'll pay you $50,000 to leave.
00:36:14.000We'll resettle you in this colony in a cheap country like Panama or something.
00:36:59.000It's like, okay, we have to have some pragmatism in here.
00:37:03.000We have to look at, you know, for example, I'm against H-1Bs, but I'm pro genius visas.
00:37:08.000So why can't we have more geniuses moving on?
00:37:10.000Well, at this point, I often just look at what China does because they're just a country that doesn't hate themselves, even if they're ideologically very different.
00:37:19.000They find a world-class expert in something and they say, come here, we'll pay you $1 million a year, $2 million a year, and you have to teach these native Chinese everything you know.
00:37:32.000If you look at the H-1B program, guys, right now, there's about as many H-1B visas in America as there are college-educated people in the unemployment rhyme.
00:37:41.000And so we keep being told that Americans cannot do these jobs.
00:37:45.000There's about as many college-degreed people in the unemployment line in America right now as we have H-1B visas.
00:37:51.000I mean, if we're graduating from college and you cannot even do baseline H-1B visa work, then I think we should seriously consider why we even have colleges and universities in the first place.
00:38:02.000Other than learning how to become a gay race communist, what are they doing there?
00:38:07.000Well, you know, it kind of, I hate to, I mean, that's a funny line, and I want to enjoy the moment.
00:38:12.000But for some reason, it made me think of poor Ella Cook at Brown University.
00:38:19.000You know, the radical environment that she was living around.
00:38:23.000And we're waiting on confirmation that she was indeed targeted.
00:38:27.000But I'm going to be honest, like, it's hitting me like, you know, the story didn't hit me as hard at first.
00:38:35.000It felt sad and sympathy, and I said a prayer for her and her family.
00:38:39.000But as the days go on and I sit with this, it's hitting me hard.
00:38:43.000I'm like, I'm having, you know, it's hitting closer to home because I think what happened to Charlie and it just is breaking my heart.
00:38:49.000And, you know, these universities, they had a lot of federal funding.
00:38:53.000They get a lot of prop, they propped up, and they're, you know, you're indoctrinating your children.
00:38:58.000You're playing Russian roulette with their values.
00:39:00.000Steve Dace, we are going to see you this weekend, my friend.