00:00:07.000Also, we have a conversation about the border, as well as many other questions you have emailed us, as well as how public opinion has moved dramatically on core issues in the last couple of years.
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00:01:53.000Look, I'm not taking credit for it, but there's some truth to this.
00:01:56.000I can isolate three issues in particular that we have focused on, made persuasive arguments.
00:02:01.000And by we, I don't just mean the Charlie Kirk show.
00:02:03.000I don't by any means think we're that powerful, okay?
00:02:06.000I think we make an impact, a difference, but it's the community of people.
00:02:09.000It's Matt Walsh, it's Candace Owens, it's Ben Shapiro, it's Steve Bannon, it's all of us.
00:02:15.000And we kind of get into a harmony, there's a harmonization effect, and it's all totally organic.
00:02:21.000There's no group chat, there's no coordination, there's none of that.
00:02:23.000It's just we kind of look and see what other people are talking about, and then we talk about what they're talking about, and we kind of create this effect.
00:02:30.000But one of the issues I want to talk about here has been one of the great messaging victories of my career.
00:02:38.000We were completely outgunned, and I could list just a few shows and programs that had the moral clarity from the beginning, and that's on Ukraine.
00:02:47.000I have not seen an issue that has moved so significantly, so quickly, so against the powerful as the Ukraine issue.
00:02:59.000We are coming up on the two-year anniversary, right?
00:03:02.000Two years, right, Blake, of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:03:07.000From the very beginning, we've been morally clear.
00:03:09.000Russia should never have invaded Ukraine.
00:03:10.000It's not right for a strong, powerful country to invade a weaker country.
00:03:15.000We were very morally clear from that, and we were so attacked.
00:05:19.000And the great credit, the true leader of this is Tucker Carlson.
00:05:22.000He deserves the most credit, and Steve Bannon as well.
00:05:25.000And I'd put us in the top three or four of very vocal social media accounts, very vocal shows, where it was a no, it was not, there was not a mystery around the Ukraine issue.
00:05:35.000We covered biolabs, we covered Azov Bataling, we covered the corruption of Zelenki, color revolution, Lindsey Graham saying that we're going to play offense.
00:05:42.000And we were in the 10 to 15% of the country that said no aid to Ukraine, period.
00:06:44.000And this is the power of dissident media.
00:06:48.000And I know I'm going to sound like I'm attributing a lot to this, but it's just true.
00:06:52.000Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and releasing Twitter from captivity is another one of the reasons why the Ukraine issue has moved in public opinion.
00:07:03.000As more and more people were able to learn, see the outright lying, see the, well, maybe there's bad guys on both sides in the Ukraine-Russia, even though they called us a Putin puppet relentlessly.
00:07:16.000Jack Pesopic deserves a lot of credit on this as well.
00:08:04.000So you can have both of those simultaneously true.
00:08:08.000So I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:08:10.000And it is David Ignatius in the Washington Post saying it's shocking to even think what would happen if we give up on Ukraine.
00:08:15.000So David Ignatius, he is now moralizing, but I would love to ask David Ignatius, why do you think the American people no longer support sending money to Ukraine?
00:08:24.000Why don't you make better arguments that are shaming us instead of lying and suppressing?
00:08:30.000If this effort to provide continuing U.S. aid to Ukraine fails, Joe, I think of the people who fought to build up American credibility in the world.
00:08:42.000I think of my dad's generation that fought in World War II, the sacrifices they made.
00:08:46.000I think of the decades of struggle in the Cold War to build the reliability of America's name and commitment to its allies.
00:09:31.000At almost every conflict in the country, we see funding on both sides.
00:09:35.000We're going to talk about that after the break.
00:09:38.000But I just want to compliment you, the audience, and I want to thank you, the audience, because we made some really bold arguments, episodes, interviews on the Ukraine issue, and you guys stood by us.
00:09:49.000There were a couple nasty ones that said we're never going to listen again and we're never going to support you again.
00:09:58.000And I thank you for that because the arguments we were making were right.
00:10:04.000Okay, Kirk fans, I need you to stop and pay attention to this.
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00:13:03.000And by the way, never once did he tell me to stop saying things or any of that.
00:13:06.000It was just a very, it was a very direct conversation.
00:13:09.000And again, I've hit a lot of different people.
00:13:11.000Typically, they react in one of two ways.
00:13:13.000They tell you to go to hell and then they deploy their little attack dogs on you.
00:13:18.000Or they'll do a surrogate like they'll have Eric Erickson, whatever that loser's name is that no one listens to attack you on social media.
00:13:25.000Or they'll just completely ignore you and blacklist you and eventually try to have some sort of person try to take you out.
00:13:43.000He knew that he was calling someone that was really fired up and really heated.
00:13:46.000And I told him very directly and bluntly, I said, listen, you have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to show that you're a different type of Republican.
00:13:56.000And I don't want to get into some of the private stuff here, but I challenged him directly to be the Christian leader that we desperately need and that he says that he is.
00:14:04.000I said, the people of America right now and the base will rally behind anybody, anybody that will raise the flag to fight on the border.
00:14:54.000The problem is that becoming speaker tends up to being all backroom DC politics.
00:14:59.000We've had decades of deflective, disassembling nonsense in BS.
00:15:04.000A speaker who even looks like or seems like he cares about the public would be amazing.
00:15:08.000And what's great is you guys watching this program, you guys, I really, there's nothing like secret I'm saying on these phone calls because everything I say on the show, I say on the phone call.
00:15:16.000So I said, why didn't you go to Eagle Pass and shut down the government and set up a bunch of tents and do a press conference?
00:15:21.000Again, that's not, it's not like a new thing.
00:15:25.000But look, he gets a thumbs up on one thing.
00:15:27.000He had the gusto, the stones, and the spine to reach out to someone who was awfully critical of him.
00:15:59.000Speaker Johnson has just confirmed the U.S.-Ukraine aid being negotiated in the Senate will not pass the House.
00:16:04.000Speaker Johnson just said Ukraine's dead on arrival in the House.
00:16:07.000He said that the border deal is dead on arrival.
00:16:10.000And he did fill me into one element that I think is really important, one element, that Chuck Schumer learned from the Trump shutdown that if this, and I still think this is not an excuse not to shut it down.
00:16:21.000But Chuck Schumer learned from the Trump shutdown that military pay and border patrol pay would have also been shut, quote unquote, shut down because Schumer put all those together on the same timing date to try to force the hand to not have the government shut down.
00:16:36.000And the thing that I disagreed at the most with the speaker, to be perfectly honest, he said, I think Biden would relish and enjoy a shutdown.
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00:19:27.000If the administration declares that it plans to federalize the National Guard of the state of Texas, your National Guard, what will be your response?
00:19:40.000That would be a boneheaded move on his part, a total disaster.
00:19:44.000But for one, as you might imagine, we are prepared in the event that that unlikely event does occur to make sure that we will be able to continue exactly what we've been doing over the past month, and that is building these barriers, whether it be the Constitutional Wire or other anti-climate border barriers, whatever we've been building, the Biden administration is now trying to attack us because of it.
00:20:07.000And we will continue to do exactly what we're doing to expand our denial of illegal entry into the state of Texas.
00:20:14.000So, what Greg Abbott is saying is super smart here.
00:20:17.000He's saying, hey, Biden, if you escalate to, so just everyone knows, the President of the United States reserves the right to federalize the National Guard, to take away a governor's authority of the National Guard.
00:20:29.000Typically, it's done in natural disasters or widespread riots or totally crazy stuff.
00:20:34.000And there's another law that we're going to talk about in just a second here, which I think is really important because they've been building up this word in the mainstream media narrative for a reason, and I have not heard a single person talk about it.
00:20:45.000And I think we should tweet about it, but get ahead of it.
00:20:48.000But the situation in front of us in Texas is that you have the National Guard, the president can federalize the National Guard, but there's other agencies that the President of the United States cannot federalize.
00:20:59.000Texas Department of Safety, Texas Rangers, that Greg Abbott has fully at his disposal as the governor of the state of Texas.
00:21:08.000Now, I want to play cut 192 here, but I guarantee you right now, and Abbott has thought this through, but make no mistake, everybody, I guarantee you right now, there are conversations happening in the Department of Justice and in the White House Counsel's office about Joe Biden signing the Insurrection Act.
00:21:30.000The Insurrection Act, the last time the Insurrection Act was signed, was by George Herbert Walker Bush to contain the Watts riots in Los Angeles.
00:21:39.000We wanted Trump to sign the Insurrection Act during Floyd Apalooza, and he should have signed the Insurrection Act.
00:21:45.000But don't be shocked or surprised if all of a sudden some lunatic on MSNBC trial balloons.
00:21:50.000It's time to sign the Insurrection Act, Joe Biden.
00:21:53.000Do not be surprised, which would give the Attorney General of the United States RICO power, Merrick Garland, to go arrest Greg Abbott and every single one of these red state governors and nullifying their electors potentially coming into November.
00:22:38.000With state employees, I assume, not with National Guard.
00:22:41.000But can you envision a scenario in which you would put armed state employees on the border instead of the National Guard of Texas?
00:22:48.000We do have other armed state employees on the border as we speak right this minute.
00:22:53.000And there's the Texas Department of Public Safety, as well as other law enforcement officers, as well as National Guard from other states.
00:23:00.000And you can be assured there will be more National Guard from other states and more law enforcement officers within the state of Texas and other states.
00:23:06.000And Tucker, I just signed a law, a new law in the state of Texas that will go into effect on March the 5th that authorizes any law enforcement officer in the state of Texas to be able to arrest anybody coming across the border illegally.
00:23:21.000Abbott is talking like a determined guy.
00:23:24.000He is talking like someone that is seeing a crisis and an invasion.
00:23:27.000It's a completely different tone that we've seen out of Abbott recently.
00:26:06.000You think that the media would jump and pounce on an opportunity to continue to call us insurrectionists and secessionists and nullification.
00:26:15.000And by the way, they might turn off that switch at any time.
00:26:18.000They might turn on the media at any time.
00:26:20.000But every single action in front of Joe Biden is escalation.
00:26:24.000And Joe Biden very well might choose ignoring the border.
00:26:29.000He very well might choose forget it, not worth the risk.
00:26:33.000In an election year, is the optics that Joe Biden wants to go cut the razor wire?
00:27:02.000And God bless him for flirting with that line because it is long overdue that we have some courage.
00:27:08.000Now, the 25 states outside of this moron, Phil Scott, from Vermont, who didn't send in any national, he's the only Republican, I think, not to send it in.
00:28:14.000What's not okay is staying in your place of comfort while we get invaded by the third world and fentanyl and drugs and sex slaves are coming into America and we sit idly by and just wait for it to be solved.
00:28:25.000The easy way out is to say, well, the open border is hurting Joe Biden.
00:29:02.000You've heard about and thought about and talked about it and maybe even prayed about it.
00:29:05.000But right now is the time to do something about it.
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00:29:57.000Blake, Andrew, Tyler, Jack Pasobic, all of us are on, is there was this discussion, and I was cut off in the clip, but again, I stand by everything I said, but everyone missed what I was actually saying, which is the essence of what I was saying is that DEI creates bad people.
00:30:17.000And more importantly, DEI damages healthy thinking and poisons our thinking process.
00:30:24.000It makes you look at the world differently than you otherwise would.
00:30:30.000So for example, I said this, that because of DEI and the massive hiring push and what we know about affirmative action, and affirmative action means that you lower the standards, you lower the standards to try to meet your goal.
00:30:46.000What this does is it arouses unhealthy suspicions in our fellow citizens.
00:30:51.000Now, that was actually even in the tape, and people did not acknowledge it.
00:30:56.000In fact, the low IQ chattering class, and some on the right, said, Charlie's a racist, and Charlie's a racist, and Charlie's a racist.
00:31:04.000Even though in the clip I say, this is not who I am.
00:31:09.000What I'm getting at, though, is when you are reminded on a daily basis that United Airlines or the FAA are prioritizing skin color over excellence.
00:31:18.000They're prioritizing diversity over merit.
00:31:22.000You then say, and by the way, what is incredible is that people are, they don't even look at the actual clip.
00:31:27.000I said, I'm sorry, if I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
00:31:34.000I never said inherently that he isn't qualified.
00:32:12.000And that's why I think this United story and the DEI story hits so hard because we've all been in the back of a plane when the turbulence hits or when you're flying through a storm and you're like, I'm so glad I saw the guy with the right stuff and the square jaw get into the cockpit before we took off and I feel better now.