Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson are a match made in heaven. Tucker and Ted have been friends for a long time and have been very complimentary of each other's views and opinions. Ted and Tucker have been on opposite sides of the political aisle for years and their relationship has always been one of mutual respect and respect for each other. I think it's safe to say that they have a lot in common.
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00:04:11.000I will say, if you listen to the long-form discussion between Ted Cruz and Tucker, I think Ted did a better job of representing his position than some of the clips would have necessarily portrayed him as.
00:04:23.000Now, Tucker got at very important points, however.
00:04:26.000Anytime we're considering war, we should know a lot about what we are doing.
00:04:30.000Not just like, oh, I don't study population tables.
00:04:34.000Senator Cruz, I've known you for a while.
00:05:11.000I know the theology, let's just say minimally well at best.
00:05:16.000I could be conversant about it, but even I know Genesis 12, 3, and I know the context about it.
00:05:22.000An even better argument would have been Ezekiel 36, 37, 38, which prophesies about how Jews are scattered all across the world and they will be reconstituted back into a nation.
00:05:32.000A better argument to be made would have been about the land rights given to Israel and the eternal promise given to Israel.
00:05:39.000And kind of, in my opinion, kind of clumsily walking around, not even knowing Genesis 12, 3 was not the best presentation of what even Ted Cruz was trying to say.
00:05:49.000Now, I will say this as I am more in Tucker's camp when it comes to foreign policy without a shadow of a doubt.
00:05:57.000And I'm probably more in Ted Cruz's camp when it comes from a theological perspective.
00:06:02.000And so I think that there is a third way outside of just the yelling at each other on this issue, which is that we should always serve America and America first and our obligation is to America, but understand some of these theological issues as well.
00:06:15.000So what all that to say, as you know on this program, I'm very war-weary.
00:06:20.000I think our intel agencies have led us astray the last 20 years.
00:06:28.000And what was very interesting is that President Trump, he pioneered a third way?
00:06:33.000He's not an isolationist, he's not an interventionist, and that third way is one of prudence, decisive, quick, violent action, and no permanent war.
00:06:42.000To your other question, you asked about what do we do to keep our rhinos accountable.
00:06:47.000If anyone listening to this right now lives in the great state of Kentucky, I am doing an event with Nate Morris.
00:06:57.000He is running against the McConnell mafia.
00:06:59.000He is the only Senate candidate who is outwardly and vocally running up against the McConnell mafia for that open Senate seat.
00:07:06.000And so I'm doing an event with Nate Morris because I think it's important that we lend our voice and our activism and our platform to try and change the U.S. Senate for the better.
00:07:15.000It is by far the most broken institution.
00:07:18.000The House is broken, but the Senate is far more broken.
00:07:21.000And in my personal opinion, I believe that Nate Morris is the best candidate there.
00:07:27.000And look, people can disagree on that, but we should all agree we need someone who is not part of that McConnell tribe.
00:07:32.000So if you guys want to come to that event, we're going to post all the details at charliekirk.com.
00:07:39.000If you want to come see me in one of the suburbs outside of Louisville, okay, thank you for your question and really appreciate you being a member.
00:08:30.000So students should learn how to use it.
00:08:32.000However, we have to make sure that students still have the capacity to think, still have students the capacity to write without AI.
00:08:38.000So here's how I think the way it should work.
00:08:41.000You can do all of your study, all of your preparation at home with AI.
00:08:45.000But every teacher in America should carve out time that there are in-class tests without phones, without laptops, and just a pen or a pencil and a piece of paper.
00:08:55.000If you want to use AI as a preparatory tool, if you want to use AI as a tutor at home, God bless you.
00:09:04.000But the assignment that should weigh the heaviest, and I hope every teacher listening to this understands this, the assignment that should have the most weight for your grade should be a non-technology in-class test where students have to prove that they can still write with their hand.
00:09:21.000Not on a laptop, no internet connection, and pure confiscation of all the phones.
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00:11:17.000Okay, to finish the thought, cursive has many benefits, the brain, fine motor skills, memory learning, neural connections, functional specialization, sensory, motory integration, understanding words.
00:11:42.000For example, when I was preparing for the program the other day and I want to learn more about Islam, I spent an hour with ChatGPT just asking questions about Islam.
00:11:51.000Do they believe that Muhammad is sinless?
00:11:53.000Do they believe that Muhammad is the greatest person that ever lived?
00:11:55.000Was Muhammad in the Quran and what is a hadith?
00:11:57.000I can get it so much quicker on ChatGPT if I want to learn.
00:12:01.000So I don't use ChatGPT to like, oh, you know, write that, that's a much BS.
00:12:05.000Instead, it's like help with research.
00:12:06.000So for example, when I was doing research for my upcoming book about the Sabbath, oh my goodness, it was so much more helpful than just going through endless Google searches.
00:12:15.000I was like, can you please find the three Bible verses that talk about the Sabbath?
00:12:37.000So my main thing is like you, the way you use it is very discretionary.
00:12:42.000But obviously a lot of the kids that are using it nowadays, they don't have that type of discretion.
00:12:48.000And that's where I see a big issue is like, how can you teach them like to like what's your method to teach them like this is how you should be using AI?
00:12:59.000So The parenting plus the teacher, but also you need the forcing function of the test without AI.
00:13:04.000They will learn how to use AI for the better if all of a sudden they are locked in a room and there is no technology and their entire grade is weighted on what they're about to write on that piece of paper.
00:13:44.000List 50 Islamic countries, their GDP per capita, their total GDP, whether or not they have robust private property rights, separation of powers, whether or not they have freedom of speech.
00:13:58.000Basically, there's a whole chart that is created, and then I'm able to study it and then ask more questions.
00:14:03.000So basically, ChatGPT allows me to become a better spokesperson, a better thinker, not as a replacement, but it involves thinking.
00:14:12.000It actually involves thinking on my side, and then I have to remember it.
00:14:15.000And even sometimes, if I do an hour ChatGPT, this is what I do, is that I'll then, I'll say, now create a test of everything I just learned.
00:14:35.000Again, so what it's done for me, it makes me better at my Q ⁇ A's on campus.
00:14:39.000You know, it's funny, some of these kids come up to the mic and they have AI in their hand.
00:14:44.000And they're trying to, I now have to debate AI, which again, if for me to debate AI, I have to sometimes use it, you could say, to become better at what I do.
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00:15:01.000And on the East Coast, thank you for all you do, as always.
00:15:05.000And my question was around this birthright citizenship situation.
00:15:10.000Obviously, we've got a good initial ruling out of SCOTUS today, but I think the law is not always the only way to get victories.
00:15:18.000We have to kind of push public opinion, I think, to between now and then get the final ruling.
00:15:23.000I think there's an option or opportunity there, particularly around black Americans, to say, look, they're essentially devaluing your ancestors' slavery because this was not designed for people to come on vacation or hop across the border, have a baby that the system has to pay for, and then they're a citizen equally to you.
00:15:41.000And I just think if we message around this properly, we can make this decision happen and codify it as well.
00:15:50.000And so I think the most important thing about codification and to codify is involving Congress, is involving Congress to actually codify these victories.
00:16:01.000Because otherwise, it's just one simple executive order after the other.
00:16:07.000Now, the long-term solution is actually getting the congressional kind of committee on board.
00:16:15.000Now, regarding birthrights decision, did you know that in 2023, there were between 225,000 and 250,000 babies born to illegal immigrants?
00:16:24.000That's more than the babies born in all but two U.S. states taken individually.
00:16:29.000It's also more than the number of babies born to legal non-citizens per the Center for Immigration Studies.
00:16:36.000Right now, there are reports of expectant mothers who are either illegal or in the United States under temporary parole lining up for preterm C-sections to beat President Trump's cutoff date, which was back in February.
00:16:50.000Now, just so you know, that two Supreme Court cases upheld that the 14th Amendment excludes citizens of foreign countries born in the United States.
00:16:58.000The 14th Amendment did not originally grant citizenship to American Indians.
00:17:03.000Because they were considered to hold allegiances to tribal nations and were only partially considered to be subject to the jurisdiction of the government.
00:17:10.000This was always about children of slaves.
00:17:12.000It was always about slave children, not some random CCP birth tourist.
00:17:19.000And let me repeat, two Supreme Court cases upheld.
00:17:22.000The 14th Amendment explicitly excludes the citizens of foreign countries born in the United States, the slaughterhouse cases in Elk v.
00:17:31.000So what exactly is the case that they point to?
00:17:34.000Well, the one that they point to is in the late 1800s, like 1897, there was a quite, the Wong Kim Ark case was about the children of legal residents.
00:17:47.000Are the children of legal residence U.S. citizens?
00:17:50.000The United States Supreme Court has actually not weighed in on whether in recent memory or recent times on the children of illegal aliens.
00:18:00.000That is the brilliance of President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order.
00:18:05.000The left just reached for this and took it and nobody stopped them.
00:18:10.000Let me repeat, the left reached for this and George W. Bush didn't stop them.
00:18:47.000He said it was one of his greatest regrets.
00:18:50.000This is from the Senate floor debating the 14th Amendment.
00:18:52.000Quote, the 14th Amendment will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers, a credit to the government of the United States, but will include very other class of persons.
00:19:06.000So understand President Trump's brilliance here.
00:19:08.000He is forcing this case to the top of the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:19:13.000He is forcing this case in a very, very quick way.
00:19:17.000And so I got to be honest that if we are able to strip away birthright citizenship, if we are able to strip away this sort of scam, this will be a mass destabilization of the American left, in a way that we could never have imagined.
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00:21:00.000I have to read this statement from President Trump.
00:21:06.000He is so locked in, it is just, it's as good as it gets.
00:21:11.000Quote, why would the so-called supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamani of the war-torn country of Iran say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the war with Israel when he knows his statement is a lie?
00:21:29.000His three evil nuclear sites were obliterated.
00:21:32.000I knew exactly where he was sheltered and would not let Israel or the U.S. armed forces by the greatest and most powerful in the world terminate his life.
00:21:41.000In all caps, I saved him from a very ugly and ignominious death.
00:21:45.000Now, that is not a word you hear every day.
00:21:47.000He does not have to say thank you, President Trump.
00:21:50.000In fact, in the final act of war, I demanded that Israel bring back a very large group of planes, which were headed directly to Tehran, looking for a big day, perhaps the final knockout.
00:21:58.000Tremendous damage would have ensued, and many Iranians would have been killed.
00:22:02.000It was going to be the biggest attack of the war by far.
00:22:05.000During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions and other things, which would have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery.
00:24:14.000So that's been kind of like over the last six to seven months, I've been kind of like pulling back from marketing and refocusing on just like revamping them a little bit.
00:25:19.000So your question was, how do you research nonfiction?
00:25:23.000So what topic are you going after in your nonfiction work?
00:25:26.000So I'm titling it The Rebellious Generation.
00:25:29.000I'm kind of talking about the whole mentality of like, I'm calling it Medum, which means kind of just like worshiping the self over God and how people are so entitled to their own opinion and not, you know, absolute truth.
00:25:45.000And so that's kind of the topic that I'm writing about.
00:25:48.000So as far as the research, try to find original source documents and either peer-reviewed or widely accepted studies.
00:26:16.000Research of a book is sometimes the deepest, most time-intensive component of it.
00:26:20.000Blake did all the research and kind of compiling of my last book on right-wing revolution, and it took him probably 20 to 30 hours of research.
00:26:29.000And so, Margo, if you'd like, I can connect you on email with Blake, and he could help you kind of put that together.
00:27:11.000Charlie, I've been aware of the Senate parliamentarians' power for some time, and I'm surprised MAGA didn't notice it much before this.
00:27:19.000I know you said not to worry too much, but it seems me that Thune could and should have removed this deep state appointee of Harry Reid in 2012, particularly in light of the change in the Fifth Republican Party.
00:27:29.000We were no longer interested in the Euno Party.
00:27:32.000Is there potential for Thune to remove her?
00:27:37.000Look, I did a whole program on it yesterday.
00:27:39.000Things are mildly improving with this parliamentarian, Elizabeth McDonough, but we are still a ways out from having the declarative decisions that we need from her that are consistent with our policy agenda.
00:27:53.000I do not think that dismissal should be off the table.
00:27:57.000I think that if we have a repeated, ridiculous, grotesque pattern of behavior from McDonough, dismissal can happen from Thune or basically JD.
00:28:07.000But understand that if we dismiss too arbitrarily, I know no one wants to hear this, there will be a revolt from Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins because they're institutionalists.
00:28:17.000You can't lose those guys, and you don't want to have a revolt on one side, and then you could potentially turn her into a martyr where she could go to the New York Times, she should go to CNN, all of a sudden she'll say the Trump administration is trying to do illegal stuff.
00:29:25.000I just now saw your interview with Harmeet Dillon, and I'm not an attorney, and I have not listened to the entire interview, but and she may have some process or game plan.
00:29:38.000Did she explain why the DOJ is handling a performative issue at the Orange County level and not the civil rights issue from a federal level?
00:29:46.000Our civil rights are being violated here in California, but in many and most states across the United States.
00:29:53.000The U.S. Constitution in Article 1, Section 2, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states.
00:30:06.000Not only are there non-citizens voting here in Orange County, one out of every five vote is either a non-citizen, ineligible, or simply does not exist.
00:30:28.000And I mean, it depends on how many of these phantom and fake voters actually are.
00:30:34.000And I think Harmeet Dylan is uniquely positioned to be able to look into this, which, of course, is a disenfranchisement of people's civil rights.
00:30:43.000A lot of our friends live in California.
00:30:45.000And if people who are voting who should not be voting like illegal aliens and illegal citizens, then that is disenfranchising your right to vote.
00:30:52.000I think we should give Harmeet Dillon all the possible firepower and backing that we can.
00:30:58.000So I guess What part of California are you from?
00:33:24.000You know, we're scared to knock on doors.
00:33:27.000Like, you know, if I don't text somebody first or they don't know that I'm coming and I knock on their door, are they even going to answer?
00:33:44.000I know you talk a lot about spirituality in the church and going to church and getting back to those roots, but I think we need to get back to saying yes, ma'am.
00:34:06.000Ever since we've had mass immigration, we've had low breakdown in social trust, social cohesion.
00:34:11.000Our schools, our hospitals, our social services are flooded, and we are a nation of strangers.
00:34:15.000We lock our doors and we keep our head down on the phone.
00:34:18.000Now, a lot of this is just phones, honestly.
00:34:20.000A lot of this is just smartphones and the supercomputers in our pocket that we're staring at all day long is that people increasingly do not have in real life experiences.
00:34:28.000And it should be the church and it should be a bottom-up grassroots revival of us demanding better that we shouldn't have to be staring at these things all day long, that we should get to know our neighbors by name and that we should have block parties and make food and meals for our neighbor.
00:34:42.000I mean, I'm in a unique position where I know my neighbors and my neighbors are awesome, but we've gone out of our way to get to know our neighbors, know their birthdays, know their kids' names, know their struggles.
00:34:51.000And it could be something as simple as you should be proactive to your neighbor, like, hey, can I pray for you?
00:34:57.000Find someone in your local community that might be a new mom and be like, I'm just going to provide meals for you one night a week for a couple months.
00:35:04.000There's so much, you see, the gospel of Jesus Christ can be synthesized to four words.
00:35:13.000And we're doing bad with both right now in America.
00:35:16.000We have to do a better job of loving people, of being unafraid to serve others.
00:35:23.000This is what makes Christianity the greatest of all the faiths, because we're told to die to ourself, to Christ, and to serve others, even if it's at an expense to ourself.
00:35:33.000It's a very harsh teaching, a very difficult teaching.
00:36:43.000Saving Washington is a huge endeavor, but find other people that agree with you.
00:36:47.000And unless you really want to make this your task, we would welcome you with open arms in Arizona because every new activist and every new patron in Arizona is so welcome.
00:36:58.000I don't want to say give up on Washington, but I can tell you that it is probably not the greatest use of an activist time to try to flip a deep blue state when we have states that are ready to become the next Florida.
00:37:10.000We can take Arizona off the battleground map heading into 2028.
00:37:14.000We need to win the governor's race, Andy Biggs.
00:37:17.000We need to win the AG race, the Secretary of State race.
00:37:47.000Just I've followed you for a while and I know throughout the various stages you went through when you were building Tournament Point USA.
00:37:54.000I was just kind of curious, as someone who's like looking at starting smaller companies with a family and friends, what did you do for medical insurance?
00:38:04.000Because I talk with a lot of people here and it's like, oh, you know, if you want to get any kind of medical insurance, it's any good.
00:38:36.000The open exchange is awful for entrepreneurs.
00:38:39.000You get totally hosed if you have to go buy your own health insurance on the open exchange.
00:38:43.000We need a whole recalibration of our health insurance way of thinking things.
00:38:47.000Unfortunately, is way too tied to your employer.
00:38:50.000And for sole proprietors, entrepreneurs, business owners, you just get crushed if you're kind of like an entrepreneur and you're not part of a major conglomeration.
00:38:58.000And so I know that doesn't fully answer your question, but again, I'm not a huge fan of Obamacare, but one provision does allow you to stay on your parents' plan until you're 26.
00:39:09.000So our healthcare system is one that nobody would create, but it's almost impossible to dismantle.