The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 27: Epstein and Maxwell, Bill Clinton in Handcuffs? And How To Find Meaning In Your Life

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00:02:13.000 Let's get to the first question.

00:02:15.000 This is from Derek from Massachusetts.

00:02:18.000 Hey, Charlie, I heard you say to Ben Shapiro that you like Teddy Roosevelt.

00:02:22.000 I was told that he was an awful progressive president.

00:02:24.000 Can you please elaborate?

00:02:26.000 Thanks so much.

00:02:27.000 Happy to.

00:02:28.000 Like with all leaders, some historical figures do things we really like, and sometimes they do things that we do not like.

00:02:34.000 I've always loved Teddy Roosevelt.

00:02:36.000 Glenn Beck, who's a friend of mine, and I have a lot of respect for Glenn Beck, makes Teddy Roosevelt the most public enemy number one of, and he argues that it is the beginning of the progressive movement.

00:02:46.000 Ben Shapiro in his book was awfully critical of Teddy Roosevelt.

00:02:49.000 Teddy Roosevelt, I think, gets an unfair and really bad rap amongst conservatives.

00:02:54.000 And you actually dive deep into what Teddy Roosevelt believed and why he believed it.

00:02:58.000 I think that there's a lot to be learned, and there's some things we can disagree with.

00:03:02.000 But first, kind of going into the history of Teddy Roosevelt, interestingly enough, he was born in New York, Harvard-educated, where he said, quote, I learned nothing of great value of my time at Harvard because Harvard hasn't changed very much in 100 years.

00:03:15.000 He ended up becoming governor of New York.

00:03:18.000 But before that, really interesting, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first advocates of the American police force.

00:03:25.000 He was the commissioner of the New York Police Department.

00:03:27.000 The New York City Police Department did a great job.

00:03:30.000 Huge decrease in New York City crime.

00:03:32.000 He actually ended up running the Rough Riders, which fought a nice little conflict in Cuba that became very famous.

00:03:38.000 Teddy Roosevelt was very pragmatic.

00:03:40.000 He was a man's man.

00:03:41.000 He was a famous outdoorsman.

00:03:43.000 He was incredibly politically ambitious.

00:03:46.000 He loved America.

00:03:47.000 I just want to make that very clear.

00:03:48.000 His motives were all about a strong and cohesive America that represented the middle class of our country.

00:03:55.000 Again, he was very pragmatic.

00:03:56.000 He was willing to try out new ideas.

00:03:58.000 He wanted to run for the presidency, wasn't really sure the way to do that, ended up becoming selected for the vice president position for McKinley.

00:04:06.000 McKinley ends up getting shot, and then Teddy Roosevelt takes over almost the entire term for William McKinley and serves two terms, almost three.

00:04:15.000 Teddy Roosevelt was best known for his trust-busting, going after the massive companies that were basically running America.

00:04:22.000 In very strict libertarian circles, they will say that this was an awful overreach of power.

00:04:29.000 It's a misrepresentation of history to say they were abusing their power.

00:04:32.000 There might be some truth to that, but the more I've studied it from impartial observers, I think it's fair to say that that mass consolidation of corporate power was a violation of human liberty and freedom in certain parts of the country.

00:04:44.000 And I think that Teddy Roosevelt generally acted correctly in that sense.

00:04:48.000 Teddy Roosevelt built our national parks.

00:04:50.000 This is probably what I think we can learn the most from him.

00:04:53.000 He was a huge believer in preserving our national treasures of Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton National Park, the Glacier National Park, the Dakota Badlands is actually where he got his start as an outdoorsman.

00:05:07.000 Teddy Roosevelt probably could have ran for a third term and won a third term.

00:05:11.000 He stepped down because of precedent, something that his distant cousin relative, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, decided not to do, where he was elected to four terms, really only serving three died in his fourth term.

00:05:22.000 Teddy Roosevelt decided to groom a successor.

00:05:25.000 He groomed the very large William Howard Taft, big guy, the fattest president in American history, and actually famously got stuck in a bathtub because he was so big.

00:05:34.000 William Howard Taft changed the direction of the Republican Party from a way that Teddy Roosevelt just didn't like.

00:05:41.000 Because of that, Teddy Roosevelt felt betrayed, ended up primaring William Howard Taft in that Republican primary, unsuccessfully, then ended up starting the Bull Moose Party.

00:05:50.000 William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt both then split the Republican vote about 25-25 each, which then elected one of the worst presidents in American history, Woodrow Wilson.

00:06:00.000 Now, look, Teddy Roosevelt was a complicated figure.

00:06:02.000 He won a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:06:03.000 That's a fun cocktail party fact for ending the Russia-Japan war.

00:06:09.000 I think we can use Teddy Roosevelt as someone who was a patriot first, might have pushed the boundaries of executive power too much for some people, but generally made decisions that were in the best interest of the middle class and the worker and the everyday man.

00:06:24.000 I'm also a big fan of Dwight T. Eisenhower.

00:06:26.000 We've talked about that in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:06:28.000 We can dive into that more.

00:06:30.000 Next question: Charlie, what are your thoughts on President Trump's recent announcement that he will be sending a surge of troops into cities like Chicago to combat growing violence?

00:06:38.000 Is this the right move?

00:06:40.000 Jeff from Indiana.

00:06:42.000 Well, hi, Jeff.

00:06:42.000 Well, first of all, my home city is Chicago.

00:06:45.000 I am proud to be from Chicago.

00:06:46.000 Look, violence in Chicago has been out of control for an incredibly long period of time.

00:06:53.000 So I'm from Chicago.

00:06:54.000 Let's just have a little update in Chicago.

00:06:57.000 In July so far, there have been 75 people shot and killed in Chicago, 357 people shot and wounded, 432 people total shot, and 85 total homicides.

00:07:06.000 Just in the last week, just in the last six days, 13 shot and killed, 66 shot and wounded, 79 total shot, and 14 homicides.

00:07:14.000 And so far in 2020, 383 shot and killed, 1,767 shot and wounded, 2,150 total shot with 426 homicides.

00:07:25.000 A person is shot in Chicago every two hours and 16 minutes, and a person is murdered in Chicago every 11 hours and 28 minutes.

00:07:33.000 So to say that Chicago is going in the right direction would be a complete and total misrepresentation of the data. 0.96

00:07:40.000 The average age of a shooting victim in Chicago is 29.2 years old, and the average race is unfortunately black, and most of the people doing the shooting are black on black crimes. 0.93

00:07:51.000 So look, Chicago has long been a center of violence, a center of destruction and blood in the streets. 0.95

00:07:57.000 I fully support President Trump bringing in the troops to quell this conflict.

00:08:03.000 77% of all the victims that die in Chicago are black every single year. 1.00

00:08:07.000 So, first, I want to start with Lori Lightfoot, who's an imbecile. 1.00

00:08:10.000 She's a complete and total imbecile. 1.00

00:08:12.000 She's a corrupt individual who's probably owned by the street gangs. 1.00

00:08:16.000 It's very well known in Chicago that politicians and aldermen take money under the table from street gangs. 1.00

00:08:21.000 It's just how it works.

00:08:22.000 It's why they do not police certain corners.

00:08:24.000 It's why they do not investigate crimes.

00:08:27.000 It's why most Chicago murders actually go unsolved.

00:08:32.000 So according to the Chicago Tribune, there have been 40,000 homicides in Chicago in the last 63 years.

00:08:38.000 So in the last 63 years, 40,000 people have killed each other in Chicago, just to give you an idea.

00:08:45.000 And police solve fewer than one in six killings.

00:08:48.000 So the police solve less than 15% of all the murders.

00:08:52.000 So that means that 85% of murders go unsolved.

00:08:55.000 And a huge part of this is because the gangs tell the police and they tell the aldermen, you're not allowed here.

00:09:01.000 We'll take care of this ourselves.

00:09:02.000 And so you kind of put that all together.

00:09:04.000 They run the city. 1.00

00:09:05.000 So Lori Lightfoot, who again is a total imbecile. 1.00

00:09:08.000 She's incredibly corrupt, might be getting cash onto the table. 1.00

00:09:10.000 Who knows? 0.97

00:09:11.000 She says that Trump is not welcome in our city.

00:09:13.000 Play tape.

00:09:14.000 That's not democracy that we saw unfolding on the streets of Portland as a result of this federal action.

00:09:21.000 That's what we call tyranny and dictatorship.

00:09:24.000 And we are not having it in Chicago.

00:09:28.000 Since we, the president and his team, started to rattle the saber that they were going to do exactly the same thing in Chicago that they'd done in Portland.

00:09:39.000 I've been very clear.

00:09:42.000 Not happening in Chicago.

00:09:44.000 We don't need federal troops. 0.96

00:09:46.000 Look, Lori Lightfoot knows nothing about Chicago.

00:09:48.000 I was raised in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:09:49.000 I know Chicago very well.

00:09:51.000 The only way you can solve this problem is you bring federal troops into the city and you start solving these crimes using the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:09:58.000 You say, we are not going to leave until there are no more children being shot in the streets.

00:10:04.000 Now, President Trump has defended the move based on a refusal of local politicians to protect their citizens.

00:10:10.000 Play tape.

00:10:10.000 Today I'm announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent crime.

00:10:18.000 We'll work every single day to restore public safety, protect our nation's children, and bring violent perpetrators to justice.

00:10:28.000 We've been doing it, and you've been seeing what's happening all around the country.

00:10:32.000 We've just started this process, and frankly, we have no choice but to get involved.

00:10:38.000 So just to reiterate, 34,000 of 40,000 murders in Chicago have gone unsolved.

00:10:43.000 If you want to get away with murder, you can literally get away with murder in the city of Chicago.

00:10:48.000 Senator Cruz introduced a bill to hold local officials liable for allowing violent autonomous zones.

00:10:54.000 It's called the Reclaim Act.

00:10:55.000 Now, mind you, Democrats are not going to do anything with any of this. 1.00

00:10:58.000 Black lives being obliterated. 1.00

00:11:02.000 It doesn't matter the Democrat Party. 0.99

00:11:03.000 And this is what's so funny to the NBA, the National Basketball Association. 0.81

00:11:06.000 They have just revealed their new court that says black lives matter on the court where they are going to be playing their social justice playoff in their self-contained little bubble in Orlando. 0.75

00:11:20.000 What they do not mention at all is the 77% of black homicides, 77% of homicides in Chicago every year are black. 0.68

00:11:29.000 They don't mention it because all that matters to them is the fact that a black individual was killed by a white police officer, despite the fact that they knew each other for quite a while leading up to it.

00:11:41.000 The NBA doesn't care about that at all. 0.56

00:11:43.000 So I completely support it.

00:11:44.000 There is one downside, which is they are going to try to use this against President Trump politically if it doesn't go well.

00:11:50.000 Don't see that possibly happening how it doesn't go well, but they're all of a sudden going in and blame all the violence that might continue to happen on President Trump.

00:11:59.000 This is something that I can tell you that governors and mayors in these cities have failed their citizens so horribly.

00:12:05.000 Laurie Lightfoot J.B. Pritzker, who's a trust fund baby who has never worked a day in his life.

00:12:10.000 He was born on third and thought he hit a triple.

00:12:12.000 And if you think William Howard Taft was a big guy, J.B. has him beat by double.

00:12:16.000 That's all I have to say.

00:12:18.000 If J.B. Pritzker ever runs for the president, he would have William Howard Taft.

00:12:22.000 William Howard Taft was like a CrossFit athlete compared to J.B. Pritzker, okay?

00:12:26.000 J.B. Pritzker is one of the most despicable human beings I've ever had a chance to meet.

00:12:31.000 I got to know this guy. 0.70

00:12:32.000 He is a socialist through and through.

00:12:34.000 He's never worked an honest day in his life.

00:12:36.000 He inherited the Pritzker family fortune.

00:12:38.000 And every time you stay at a Hyatt hotel, you're making J.B. Pritzker and Penny Pritzker richer.

00:12:43.000 Related to all this in Portland, recently, Joe Biden accused federal law enforcement of, quote, brutally attacking peaceful protesters around the federal courthouse in Portland.

00:12:52.000 Federal officers are operating, quote, without a clearly defined mandate of authority, Biden said in a statement, adding that the White House is, quote, trying to stoke the fires of division in our country.

00:13:01.000 This is nonsense.

00:13:03.000 Peaceful protesters, Biden probably has not seen the videos of the nightly assaults on the courthouse.

00:13:09.000 And I encourage you to look at the videos of police officers literally under fire, literally being having things thrown at them and 48 of them being injured.

00:13:18.000 But of course, the media decides not to cover that.

00:13:20.000 The media decides not to talk about that.

00:13:22.000 Instead, the activist media talks about how Donald Trump wants to take over the inner cities.

00:13:26.000 Well, it is America to him, too, and these are not autonomous zones.

00:13:29.000 And actually, Donald Trump cares about black lives being lost. 1.00

00:13:32.000 Donald Trump cares about black children being shot. 1.00

00:13:35.000 Donald Trump cares about black families being torn apart. 1.00

00:13:38.000 Joe Biden does not care about black lives being lost. 0.99

00:13:41.000 The Democrats don't care about black lives being lost. 0.99

00:13:43.000 Barack Obama does not care about black lives being lost. 0.98

00:13:46.000 For them, they think, oh, yeah, a couple thousand black people a year being killed in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. 0.97

00:13:52.000 Who cares?

00:13:53.000 Unless if a police officer dares do something that is not correct, then all of a sudden they're mobilizing people in the streets.

00:13:58.000 Of course, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the entire BLM Inc. industry, they're silent because this does not fit their political agenda.

00:14:07.000 There is rioting, arson, and murder happening in the streets of our great cities.

00:14:13.000 Criminals are on the loose.

00:14:16.000 Democrat governors are releasing criminals by the thousands.

00:14:19.000 California just announced they're going to release another 10,000 criminals.

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00:15:41.000 Next question from Jack.

00:15:42.000 Charlie, I love your podcast and thanks for all you do.

00:15:44.000 I was recently discussing the most recent death of the judge's son and injuring of her husband, who were connected to the Epstein case.

00:15:51.000 I was recently told that Trump was connected with Epstein too and made trips out to his island.

00:15:55.000 Is this true, thanks, Kenjack?

00:15:57.000 No, we have no evidence that Donald Trump ever went to the island.

00:15:59.000 Period.

00:16:00.000 Bar none.

00:16:01.000 Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were not friends.

00:16:04.000 In fact, he threw Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago because Jeffrey Epstein was trying to proposition young girls at his club, Mar-a-Lago.

00:16:12.000 In fact, Donald Trump in 2015 at CPAC warned us about Lolita Express, Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghelane Maxwell.

00:16:20.000 Play tape.

00:16:22.000 Bill Clinton.

00:16:24.000 Nice guy.

00:16:26.000 Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:16:31.000 A lot of problems.

00:16:32.000 So Donald Trump, again, was ahead of the curve.

00:16:34.000 Donald Trump has been on the right side of child sex trafficking and the horror and the sin of it.

00:16:39.000 Make no mistake. 0.97

00:16:40.000 Jeffrey Epstein was one of the most disgusting people ever to exist in the history of our country. 0.99

00:16:47.000 He used his power, his wealth, and his prestige to traffic young girls and prey on them sexually. 0.99

00:16:53.000 It's one of the most disgusting things a human being can do.

00:16:57.000 Now, people say, Charlie, did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself?

00:17:00.000 I don't know that, but it certainly looks like he didn't kill himself.

00:17:04.000 That's all I have to say.

00:17:06.000 In fact, even if you go to his Wikipedia page, it says that death, cause of death, questionable.

00:17:12.000 Yeah, I think that's probably fair.

00:17:14.000 Now, they're going to try to kill Ghelane Maxwell.

00:17:16.000 Now, who is they?

00:17:17.000 Just so you understand, the ruling class across the world, not the same ruling class I always talk about here, but people in the royal family and heads of state, they have a very perverse and dark fascination with taking advantage of young children.

00:17:28.000 It's just something that has always existed in the highest levels of authority and power all across the world.

00:17:35.000 It's nothing new.

00:17:36.000 It's a very strange thing when you start to look at even thousands of years ago in Aztec and Peruvian archaeology and Egyptian archaeology, how people were so invested in child exploitation and child sacrifice.

00:17:49.000 It's very strange and very bizarre.

00:17:50.000 I'll let you draw your own conclusions there. 1.00

00:17:53.000 However, Ghelaine Maxwell is now public enemy number one because she has all the secrets on all these people that actually went to the island. 0.78

00:17:59.000 Now, mind you, I think we have to dismiss from our nomenclature, oh, that's a conspiracy theory.

00:18:04.000 Well, guess what?

00:18:05.000 I'm going to be honest with you guys.

00:18:07.000 In 2013, I was at a dinner in Palm Beach.

00:18:10.000 I'll tell you a true story.

00:18:11.000 I was at a dinner with Palm Beach with three billionaires that were very well connected.

00:18:16.000 And one of the billionaires said, yeah, you know, Jeffrey, who lives down the street from here, you know that he's sex trafficking girls to his mansion.

00:18:23.000 And two of the people said, that's a lie.

00:18:26.000 That's a conspiracy theory.

00:18:28.000 Stop saying that.

00:18:29.000 Of course, it ended up being true.

00:18:30.000 And he was convicted previously for doing it.

00:18:33.000 So just because someone says it's a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's necessarily untrue.

00:18:37.000 It's actually been proven to be true now.

00:18:39.000 And now there's federal investigation after federal investigation for doing that.

00:18:43.000 Now, none of the people at the table were involved in doing it, obviously.

00:18:46.000 They just knew about it.

00:18:47.000 It was the worst kept secret in Palm Beach for a decade and a half.

00:18:51.000 And yet it was just allowed to happen because it was important people that were doing it. 0.99

00:18:55.000 And so I hope every single one of these people rot and burn. 0.99

00:18:59.000 These people that engage in this unspeakable horror, which by the way, the left is now trying to normalize pedophilia. 1.00

00:19:05.000 There is a TED talk out there where they try to normalize pedophilia.

00:19:10.000 There has been New York Times articles written trying to say that pedophilia is something that we should accept.

00:19:15.000 So just anticipate that the left is going to try to normalize the exploitation of children.

00:19:19.000 It's just part of their new agenda.

00:19:21.000 And if you don't believe me, go look it up yourself.

00:19:24.000 So then you have President Trump asked about Ghelene Maxwell at the press conference.

00:19:29.000 I'm wondering, do you feel that she's going to turn in powerful men?

00:19:29.000 Play tape.

00:19:33.000 How do you see that working out?

00:19:34.000 And then President Trump says that he wishes Ghelane well.

00:19:39.000 I don't know.

00:19:39.000 Play tape.

00:19:40.000 I haven't really been following her too much.

00:19:42.000 I just wish her well, frankly.

00:19:44.000 I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach.

00:19:50.000 But I wish her well, whatever it is.

00:19:53.000 I don't know the situation with Prince Andrew.

00:19:55.000 Just don't know.

00:19:56.000 Now, I think this is being really played up as something that it's not. 0.73

00:19:59.000 I think that people say, oh, Donald Trump wants what's best for a child sex trafficker.

00:20:02.000 No, I actually think he was sarcastically saying, I don't think this is going to end very well for her, and that's all I can say about that.

00:20:09.000 I think that just knowing Donald Trump and the way he communicates, I'm going to totally defend him on this.

00:20:12.000 I think it's unfair to attack him on here.

00:20:14.000 And people said, oh, he misspoke.

00:20:15.000 And I just don't agree.

00:20:17.000 I think that he's saying, I don't think this is going to end well for her or people around her.

00:20:20.000 That's kind of the tone I got from it.

00:20:22.000 I think it probably wouldn't be better if he said it, but I found nothing wrong with what he said because I put it in context of his prior statements.

00:20:28.000 I don't actually think he was saying, I wish I want something good for Ghelain Maxwell.

00:20:33.000 So again, I will defend President Trump on this.

00:20:35.000 But look, these are the worst of the worst criminals that use their wealth and their power and their connections to prey on young children.

00:20:42.000 Every single one of them should be put in prison for life quickly and given very little hope of living a meaningful life after that.

00:20:53.000 I can't think, I can think of something more evil than this, but it's just at the top level of how evil a human being can become.

00:20:59.000 And they thought they would get away with it.

00:21:01.000 They thought what they were doing was perfectly fine to create sex slaves and bring them to New Mexico and an island in the Caribbean. 0.96

00:21:07.000 And Bill Clinton, I can't wait to see you in handcuffs.

00:21:11.000 If Bill Clinton does not go in handcuffs because of this, then we don't have a justice system.

00:21:15.000 That simple.

00:21:15.000 Bill Clinton in jail within a year from today.

00:21:18.000 Doesn't happen.

00:21:19.000 I will lose faith in our justice system.

00:21:21.000 We know he went to the island. 0.99

00:21:23.000 We know he was underage girls. 0.93

00:21:24.000 We have plenty of people that have testified with that.

00:21:27.000 It's time to put that megalomaniac in jail.

00:21:31.000 Next question.

00:21:32.000 Hey, Charlie, Ohio and Indiana governors have both announced a statewide mask law, both Republicans.

00:21:38.000 Last time I checked, there were no laws passed, but just edicts from governors.

00:21:43.000 Is this legal?

00:21:44.000 Connor from Texas.

00:21:45.000 Hi, Connor from Texas.

00:21:47.000 Look, I'm going to be very honest.

00:21:48.000 I'm not a fan of these mask mandates.

00:21:50.000 If you want to wear a mask, that's liberty.

00:21:51.000 That's fine.

00:21:52.000 If you want to wear an Abraham Lincoln hat, you can wear that too.

00:21:54.000 If you want to wear a New York Yankees hat, that's fine.

00:21:57.000 I mean, if you think it's going to help you, do not force me to wear a mask.

00:22:00.000 I'm not going to do it.

00:22:00.000 It's that simple.

00:22:02.000 I'm not.

00:22:03.000 The only time I comply is on the airlines because I actually need to fly the airlines to be able to do my job and travel the country so I can deliver truth to you and make an income and grow Turning Point USA.

00:22:12.000 So that's the fight I do not fight.

00:22:14.000 But every single time I go into one of these grocery stores, where's your mask?

00:22:17.000 I say, well, first of all, the science around masks is very questionable, very questionable.

00:22:22.000 In fact, some people, some doctors think that masks actually make you sicker and have you less likely to be able to get oxygen and more likely to infect yourself and less likely to be able to fight the virus and actually more likely to be able to die sooner.

00:22:35.000 A lot of people believe that.

00:22:36.000 I've met many doctors that hold that view.

00:22:38.000 Secondly, we have a huge civil liberty issue here.

00:22:40.000 Why do you have the authority to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body?

00:22:44.000 I thought it was my body, my choice.

00:22:45.000 I thought that was the entire thought process as to why we are wrongly able to terminate a million children in the womb every single year.

00:22:52.000 And so I just don't like being told what to do generally by the federal government.

00:22:55.000 I'm not a type of person who plays well when the government comes in and starts to say you must put this on your face.

00:23:01.000 Now, I think there's some restrictions that I support.

00:23:04.000 I'm actually in the minority.

00:23:05.000 I support seatbelt laws because I think seatbelts actually save lives.

00:23:09.000 And I actually think it's not that big of an infringement on your liberty.

00:23:11.000 I kind of disagree with a lot of people on this.

00:23:13.000 I mean, some super strict libertarians say, oh, no, no seatbelts ever.

00:23:16.000 Okay. 0.88

00:23:17.000 If you fly through the window of a car because you didn't want to wear a seatbelt and all of a sudden I have to pay for your health care, that's ridiculous.

00:23:23.000 A mask might not even work. 0.55

00:23:25.000 A mask is questionable at best.

00:23:28.000 So the science wearing masks needs to be debated more.

00:23:31.000 And the fact that these Republican governors are saying, oh, you must wear a mask.

00:23:34.000 You must wear a mask.

00:23:35.000 I think it's nonsense.

00:23:36.000 I don't think it's popular.

00:23:37.000 I have never met anyone that says, I just love wearing my mask.

00:23:40.000 I love it.

00:23:42.000 Yeah, I mean, okay, I am not a fan.

00:23:44.000 I think it's dehumanizing.

00:23:46.000 When I see a four-year-old wearing a mask, I can't think but help.

00:23:49.000 We have let them down and we have robbed them of their childhood.

00:23:52.000 I think there's something innocent and something special with a childhood about children being able to communicate with facial expressions, and we have robbed them from it.

00:23:59.000 I encourage you to go back and listen to Dr. Simone Gold on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:24:03.000 She warned about masks.

00:24:04.000 I encourage you to listen to it. 0.85

00:24:07.000 Whether you're working from home or working on your fitness, you want to know what you're listening to to be actually what you're listening to, not what your roommates or your neighbors or the garbage that your left-wing neighbor might be listening to.

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00:25:30.000 I need your advice.

00:25:30.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:25:31.000 I have an ex-friend who always asks me, how can I support a racist and homophobic person like Trump?

00:25:37.000 How can I combat her comments and attacks on me?

00:25:40.000 Dolin, well, first of all, you win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:25:44.000 Congratulations.

00:25:45.000 First of all, it's really hard.

00:25:46.000 You have to first just come from the question of, do you think Trump is doing bad or do you think Trump means bad?

00:25:52.000 Very important distinction.

00:25:54.000 If your friend thinks Trump means bad, then you have to try to dispel that first.

00:26:00.000 And that's a hard thing because who actually knows whose motives are what?

00:26:03.000 How can you actually be able to articulate what a certain individual's motives are and what they are not?

00:26:08.000 I think it is actually really difficult to be able to articulate what a human being's motives are and why they act in a certain way.

00:26:15.000 In fact, I think it's dangerous to do that.

00:26:17.000 I think that if you just try to go out of your way to say, I know exactly why a certain person is doing something, well, you need a lot of evidence to do that.

00:26:25.000 And we do not have that evidence at all.

00:26:26.000 We actually have evidence to the contrary as to why Donald Trump is doing what he is doing. 0.86

00:26:30.000 First of all, homophobic.

00:26:32.000 I'm so sick of this accusation. 0.99

00:26:34.000 Donald Trump is the first incoming president in American history to support gay marriage.

00:26:38.000 Now, I support biblical marriage, one man, one woman.

00:26:41.000 I do believe that gay individuals should be able to have equal access to hospital visitations and file taxes together.

00:26:47.000 But I do believe in biblical marriage, one man, one woman.

00:26:52.000 With that being said, I do believe that gay people and gay conservatives should be given a full and equal footing in the conservative movement.

00:26:58.000 I do not believe, as some people do, that gay people should have no place whatsoever in the conservative movement.

00:27:03.000 I push back against that categorically and completely.

00:27:06.000 We have gay individuals that work for us at Turning Point USA.

00:27:09.000 Some of my best friends, Dave Rubin, other entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel, are openly gay. 0.98

00:27:14.000 So I just think that this idea that you cannot be in the conservative movement because you are gay is rubbish and nonsense and should be categorically rejected altogether and completely. 0.99

00:27:25.000 And then this idea of Trump being a racist. 0.99

00:27:27.000 Well, wouldn't you think that someone is a racist has been showing their colors for multiple decades?

00:27:31.000 Donald Trump was revered by the black community.

00:27:33.000 Donald Trump had rap songs written about him.

00:27:35.000 Donald Trump was one of the most loved individuals in pop culture America for decades.

00:27:41.000 Then, all of a sudden, when he decides to run for president because he was worried about losing his country, he becomes the worst thing you could possibly call somebody in our country.

00:27:49.000 And the problem is, because of what he said post-Charlottesville, which actually he said nothing wrong.

00:27:55.000 He did not call the people that were the white supremacists fine people.

00:27:59.000 In fact, he said that they were fine people on the both sides of the statue argument, which is a completely different thing.

00:28:05.000 And you literally cannot refute this argument enough.

00:28:08.000 They found what they wanted, they found what they thought they needed, and they tried to create him into a racist.

00:28:15.000 This is incredibly dangerous and destructive.

00:28:19.000 And in a lot of different ways, it has created something that is categorically untrue.

00:28:25.000 At Turning Point USA, we have hosted the nation's largest black leadership summit for two years now with hundreds and hundreds of black leaders.

00:28:32.000 I've yet to see Joe Biden be able to host a black leadership summit.

00:28:36.000 Here's the point: I think that there should and can be a seismic change happening in the black community in support of President Trump. 0.92

00:28:43.000 We're going to have to keep on that.

00:28:44.000 BLM Inc. is trying to make your skin color directly connected with how you vote, which is a highly racist way of looking at the world because I think that BLM Inc. are the actual racists.

00:28:56.000 So, look, best of luck to you continuing to try to communicate that.

00:29:00.000 Try to be as clear as you can and convince them that Donald Trump is the opposite of a racist.

00:29:06.000 He's actually a decent, open-minded, and very accepting person who looks at people on character, not based on skin color.

00:29:18.000 Here's a longer question, but an important one.

00:29:20.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:29:21.000 My name is Jonathan, and I have been a huge fan of yours since I turned 18 in 2016 and voted for the first time for the amazing Donald Trump.

00:29:28.000 I listen to your podcast every single day, and I watch all of your videos.

00:29:32.000 You are really a great person, and I'm truly glad we have you on our side.

00:29:36.000 Thank you.

00:29:37.000 All of that aside, though, I became an atheist around my freshman year of high school.

00:29:41.000 I was going through some horrible stuff at the time and had been going through bad things for years before that.

00:29:46.000 I lost my faith because I couldn't imagine how an all-loving God could allow all of his creation to go through stuff like that.

00:29:53.000 It's understandable.

00:29:55.000 I was hard-set in my beliefs, and always said I would never change my mind.

00:30:00.000 Recently, though, I started to question my atheist beliefs and have begun searching for God again.

00:30:05.000 My question to you is: where do I start?

00:30:07.000 Where do I begin my journey to find God again?

00:30:10.000 And would I even be accepted if I did find him?

00:30:12.000 Yes, you would be.

00:30:14.000 It's something that weighs heavily on my shoulders and on my heart.

00:30:17.000 And you being a person who's deeply committed to his faith and to God, I thought maybe you'd be able to help me out.

00:30:22.000 I appreciate any answer you can give me, and I appreciate everything you do for this country and for us conservatives.

00:30:26.000 Thank you, Jonathan.

00:30:27.000 Amazing question.

00:30:28.000 Thank you.

00:30:29.000 First of all, thank you for emailing me, Jonathan.

00:30:31.000 That's not an easy email to send.

00:30:33.000 I have to say that believing in atheism is a very dark belief.

00:30:41.000 It's a belief in nothingness.

00:30:44.000 It's a belief that there is no afterlife.

00:30:46.000 There is no creator.

00:30:47.000 And the furthest extension of it actually creates very miserable people.

00:30:51.000 So, first thing I encourage you to do, I'm sure a lot of people have told you to read the Bible, but it's actually really good advice.

00:30:57.000 There's two books of the Bible I encourage you to read: Proverbs and the book of John.

00:31:02.000 Those are the two books I encourage you to read.

00:31:04.000 John is a great book for new believers to read.

00:31:06.000 It's about the testimony and the life of Jesus Christ.

00:31:11.000 It's written incredibly well, and it's one of the most read, if not the most read, book in the entire Bible, with the most famous verse in the entire Bible, for God so loved the world that he gave us as one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

00:31:24.000 John 3.16.

00:31:26.000 Proverbs is different.

00:31:28.000 See, I encourage you, if you're trying to find belief in God, to ask yourself, look at the world around you.

00:31:34.000 Look at how men and women are made for each other.

00:31:37.000 Look at the laws of nature and how they work, the laws of physics and chemistry and how we have oxygen and how the sun comes up for just about half the day.

00:31:44.000 And all of a sudden, you start to see there's a harmony to all this.

00:31:46.000 There's almost a synchrony.

00:31:48.000 And ask yourself, was this all done by mistake?

00:31:51.000 Or am I actually believing in faith of nothingness more than a faith in a creator?

00:31:55.000 I actually think that it takes more faith to be an atheist than faith to believe in God.

00:32:01.000 I truly believe that.

00:32:03.000 And here's a really important question to ask yourself as an atheist.

00:32:07.000 Do I hope I'm wrong?

00:32:09.000 It's a very important question.

00:32:11.000 If you hope you are wrong, then you want to find what is good more than what you think is correct and what is right.

00:32:19.000 If you don't hope you are wrong, then therefore you want what you think is correct more than what is good.

00:32:26.000 For people that are atheists that say, oh, I hope I'm correct.

00:32:29.000 So you never want to see your loved ones again? 1.00

00:32:31.000 You hope that there isn't an afterlife?

00:32:33.000 You hope that there isn't a God?

00:32:35.000 I also challenge you to pray.

00:32:38.000 God will listen to all of us, regardless if we are Christian.

00:32:43.000 We're atheist.

00:32:44.000 Prayer is a direct connection to the Almighty, a way that you can connect deeply to him.

00:32:50.000 And finally, I'm happy to go through the archaeological argument, the apologetic argument of why Jesus Christ was a real person who walked the earth, lived a perfect life, died a brutal death, and then rose again in three days.

00:33:02.000 I could summarize and say it, it just happened.

00:33:06.000 But more than that, we have four eyewitness accounts written from four different perspectives, all saying the same thing, never contradicting each other about Jesus Christ's testimony, all within a couple decade window of Jesus Christ walking the earth.

00:33:20.000 Mind you, also, the early church.

00:33:22.000 Look at how fervent and committed the early Christians were to the creation of the church.

00:33:27.000 Look at how much they sacrificed, from Stephen being stoned to Paul going from a Roman Jewish persecutor to someone who died a horrendous, martyred death.

00:33:41.000 All of the disciples died martyr deaths.

00:33:44.000 So I think that might be helpful to you because you strike me as someone who really enjoys history.

00:33:49.000 But more than that, there is an experiential side to your faith in Christ or your faith in God.

00:33:56.000 And first, you just have to ask.

00:33:58.000 So where do you start?

00:33:59.000 The Bible, the book of Proverbs, and of John. 1.00

00:34:03.000 I encourage you to read Mere Christianity. 0.99

00:34:05.000 It's phenomenal. 0.82

00:34:06.000 If you are a more logical person and you're just like, I just need facts, read The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.

00:34:16.000 It is one of the most factual defenses of the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

00:34:25.000 Someone who started as an atheist and then became a Bible-believing Christian and one of the most effective evangelists across the world.

00:34:34.000 And I can tell you this: you will go through ups and downs in your struggle in believing or not there is a God.

00:34:41.000 And you might say, God doesn't love us.

00:34:45.000 How could God create all this suffering, but God created you and you believe that you have agency, I'm sure.

00:34:55.000 And if you believe that you have agency and you have some choice, then you are able to choose that gift he gave us, which is Jesus Christ.

00:35:03.000 And for those of you that are out there that might be struggling right now and say, is life even worth it?

00:35:07.000 Is there meaning?

00:35:08.000 Of course there is.

00:35:09.000 Yes.

00:35:10.000 Things do get better.

00:35:13.000 And as a Christian, of course, I talk about how you need to accept Jesus Christ and go to church and take responsibility for your life and stop doing things that you know are bad for you and feel good in the short term and believe in delayed gratification and maybe stop drinking and maybe stop doing drugs and maybe stop watching that harmful thing on television and maybe stop playing video games all day and maybe you should exercise more.

00:35:34.000 You know the answer to those.

00:35:35.000 You know what's good for you and what's not.

00:35:36.000 I'm just telling you to start doing those things because that will actually give you a more meaningful life.

00:35:41.000 It's really interesting because the way the culture is programmed towards us, we are supposed to believe that the late nights on Friday night till 2 a.m. where you drink endlessly and you don't even remember what you did or you're promiscuous in some other capacity like that's going to give you meaning.

00:35:55.000 It won't.

00:35:56.000 It'll actually make you really miserable.

00:35:59.000 In fact, what will give you meaning is actually stopping doing those things because you're aiming at something that will actually give you fulfillment.

00:36:07.000 And so if you're going through a really tough time right now, I get it.

00:36:09.000 Our whole country is shut down and we're in political turmoil.

00:36:12.000 But this too shall pass.

00:36:13.000 And so that verse in Exodus that says this too shall pass, it has two meanings.

00:36:19.000 It means that if you're going through something bad, you're going through something that is unfortunate, it'll end.

00:36:26.000 It also means that if you're going through something good, that too will end.

00:36:30.000 So enjoy it.

00:36:30.000 It has a dual meaning.

00:36:32.000 So it means whatever you are going through right now, it's not a state of permanency.

00:36:37.000 It's not.

00:36:37.000 It might feel like it is, might feel like an endless rut.

00:36:41.000 See, we as Christians don't talk enough about how we are able to apply the teachings of Christ and not necessarily live a more flourishing life.

00:36:50.000 I think that is nonsensical prosperity gospel stuff, but a more meaningful life.

00:36:54.000 I think that's a huge difference.

00:36:56.000 And of course, maybe you want to flourish, and I support that.

00:36:59.000 I'm a free market guy.

00:37:00.000 I think that flourishing is good.

00:37:01.000 And I think the more flourishing we have, we'll be able to give back to the kingdom.

00:37:05.000 But let's talk about meaning before we talk about material flourishing.

00:37:09.000 Meaning, in the sense of the word, is that you wake up every single day and you have something worth protecting and preserving.

00:37:15.000 That you have something when someone tries to go and destroy something, you're willing to sacrifice for that something that is beautiful, that is good.

00:37:21.000 It might be kids, it might be a job, it might be work.

00:37:23.000 And that's one of the big tragedies of our generation is that you've been told not to marry, you've been told to not marry until a certain age, you've been told to just indulge yourself in endless substances, and somehow that's going to make you the happiest person in the world.

00:37:35.000 You know that's not the case if you're listening to this.

00:37:38.000 But even beyond that, I'm a big believer in self-authoring.

00:37:41.000 I encourage you guys to look it up.

00:37:42.000 Self-authoring.

00:37:44.000 Type it into your search engine.

00:37:45.000 Jordan Peterson does this exercise.

00:37:47.000 He'll walk you through it.

00:37:48.000 And you take out a piece of paper and you map out for a couple minutes straight exactly what you think your life might look like with meaning a couple years from now, two years from now.

00:37:56.000 And then you start to take tangible steps and you remove three things from your life that might be getting in the way of you achieving that.

00:38:04.000 This idea of nothing but indulgence and no responsibility will create a miserable generation.

00:38:09.000 So to kind of tie the question together, Jonathan, I meandered in a direction there.

00:38:13.000 I truly believe that if you believe in God, if you believe in a higher power, you truly do, and you act like God exists.

00:38:22.000 You don't just say God exists, but you act like God exists, a God that judges you, a God that loves you, then I think that you'll really be able to break yourself free, which Christ does, from that suffering that you once encountered earlier in your life, which is horrific.

00:38:38.000 You didn't go into detail in it, but I can understand it.

00:38:41.000 Because the kind of suffering that you go through early in your life can be very formative and can be almost a form of a prison sentence for you for the rest of your life.

00:38:50.000 And I understand that and I get that.

00:38:52.000 However, what if I told you that that doesn't have to be your destiny?

00:38:56.000 What if I told you that the shackles that you think you're wearing does not have to be the life that you have to live?

00:39:03.000 In fact, it can be the exact opposite.

00:39:05.000 In fact, it can be a place that you are proud once happened and you learn so much from it and you saw that you can actually live a meaningful life and you can.

00:39:14.000 So if you're asking yourself the question, do I give up?

00:39:17.000 The answer is absolutely not.

00:39:19.000 The answer is that you live in a country that gives you agency, that gives you freedom of choice and religion, at least to the recording of this podcast.

00:39:31.000 And you should go pursue what is meaningful and good and what is true and what is proven to make people live lives that give you responsibility and fulfillment.

00:39:43.000 So Jonathan, keep going.

00:39:45.000 I will pray for you.

00:39:47.000 And I am deeply committed to my faith into God.

00:39:50.000 And I'm a sinner just like everyone else.

00:39:52.000 We all are.

00:39:52.000 We all fall short.

00:39:53.000 We believe in original sin.

00:39:54.000 No one is perfect.

00:39:57.000 I can tell you, though, what gives me meaning is when I start to get messages from people where they say, Charlie, I used to believe this and now I believe that.

00:40:04.000 Or Charlie, I was close towards self-harm and you were able to help me.

00:40:10.000 That's really meaningful.

00:40:12.000 In fact, it's a lot more meaningful than just getting some award from somebody.

00:40:16.000 And that doesn't really give you, what gives you meaning is when you actually have a connection to a human being and you're able to see that you're helping them.

00:40:23.000 So I encourage you to pursue that, Jonathan.

00:40:24.000 Thank you so much for the question.

00:40:26.000 These are questions that we are getting at freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:40:30.000 This is from Connie.

00:40:31.000 Last question.

00:40:32.000 I can't thank you enough for your podcast on Cancel Culture.

00:40:34.000 I needed to hear everything you said, having been through some really bad thoughts of late since the political issues have escalated.

00:40:40.000 I have had a difficult situation at church.

00:40:42.000 The pastor whom I've followed forever has helped ground me in Christianity and happened to mention, speaking with Al Sharpton following the Minnesota Minneapolis riots.

00:40:49.000 My goodness.

00:40:50.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:40:51.000 There's more, but that's the short of it.

00:40:52.000 Anyway, it has made me question everything.

00:40:54.000 I know this pastor is not in God, but that, along with this country and my personal issues right now, have left me in a really difficult and confusing place.

00:41:01.000 I don't even know why I'm on this planet any longer.

00:41:04.000 What you said astounded me.

00:41:05.000 I never expected it.

00:41:06.000 Then you said Des Moines, Iowa.

00:41:07.000 Silly coincidence, but I found it interesting.

00:41:09.000 That's where I'm at.

00:41:10.000 Anyway, I feel like God really used you in my life for good.

00:41:14.000 And I wanted you to know there are not words for how much I appreciate and needed to hear what you said.

00:41:18.000 I've posted that podcast, The Parlor, and subscribed to you in Apple.

00:41:21.000 God bless sincerely, Connie.

00:41:23.000 Well, that gives you meaning.

00:41:24.000 Thank you, Connie.

00:41:25.000 That's what I need to hear.

00:41:27.000 And wow, it's incredible.

00:41:28.000 So thank you.

00:41:29.000 So look, let's close this podcast on this note.

00:41:32.000 And again, we are a comprehensive podcast.

00:41:34.000 We cover sports.

00:41:35.000 We cover culture.

00:41:36.000 We cover religion.

00:41:37.000 We cover philosophy.

00:41:38.000 We obviously cover politics.

00:41:39.000 We are a one-stop shop podcast that we give you more content than any other show out there.

00:41:43.000 But for those of you that are struggling out there and you say, what is there to live for?

00:41:49.000 A lot is the answer.

00:41:50.000 In fact, there's a beautiful life waiting for you.

00:41:53.000 There is.

00:41:54.000 And if you make a series of very methodical choices and believe in the principle of delayed gratification, that life is right there for the taking.

00:42:02.000 And I know it might not seem that way, but if you do something that is good every day for a long period of time, all of a sudden good things will start to happen.

00:42:13.000 So if you save a dollar a day for a decade, you'll have a very serious amount of money.

00:42:19.000 If you go out of your way to act as ethically as you possibly can, and at the very best tell the truth, but at least don't lie and don't lie to yourself.

00:42:29.000 You see, a lot of self-misery comes in lying to yourself.

00:42:34.000 As soon as you are brutally honest with yourself, then all of a sudden you can break yourself free.

00:42:38.000 This is what Christ talks about, setting yourself free from sin.

00:42:42.000 Because when you lie, you're actually then a captive to that untruth that you told the world.

00:42:49.000 So, for example, when you say to yourself, it doesn't really matter if I keep on eating ice cream to 2 a.m.

00:42:55.000 Who cares?

00:42:56.000 No, it actually does matter.

00:42:58.000 That's a lie you're telling yourself.

00:43:00.000 And all of a sudden, it doesn't make you very happy.

00:43:01.000 You have all that sugar in you and might gain some weight because of it.

00:43:06.000 And so, if you're trying to find a way to break out and break through, here's three concrete things that you can do in the next two weeks.

00:43:13.000 If you're just kind of in a rut and you're like, I just can't get out of this, I just can't.

00:43:17.000 Here's some three things: number one, stop doing one thing that you consciously know is not good for you.

00:43:25.000 Stop it.

00:43:26.000 Quit doing it.

00:43:27.000 You know what that is.

00:43:28.000 Stop it.

00:43:29.000 Number two, exercise every single day.

00:43:32.000 Motion is directly related to emotion.

00:43:36.000 It might be a walk.

00:43:37.000 It might be weightlifting.

00:43:38.000 It might be doing something with, you know, with sports or friends.

00:43:41.000 That's number two.

00:43:42.000 Number three, learn something by the end of the day you didn't know at the beginning of the day.

00:43:48.000 It might be listening to this podcast.

00:43:50.000 It might be reading a great book, which you can do so on thinker.org/slash Charlie, which we have talked about before, thinker.org slash Charlie.

00:43:58.000 It might be exploring a philosopher, but instead of watching that trash on television, on Netflix, and I flipped through Netflix the other night, I was repulsed.

00:44:08.000 I mean, it's all just social programming designed to hypnotize us to hate our country. 0.96

00:44:13.000 It's just awful.

00:44:15.000 Maybe you're going to explore a big idea.

00:44:18.000 Maybe you're going to write down that idea for two weeks and you're going to say, I'm going to try to be a better understanding of that.

00:44:25.000 For example, that idea that Jonathan said, How could God create the world the way it is if he loved us?

00:44:32.000 Well, there's a lot of good scholarship on that.

00:44:34.000 You're not the first person to come up with that question.

00:44:36.000 Okay, I hate to break it to you.

00:44:37.000 Robbie Zacharias, other people have explored that at great lengths.

00:44:41.000 It's worth going towards it.

00:44:43.000 So if you stop doing that one thing, you exercise every day and you wrestle with a big idea, all of a sudden you're going to start to realize that your entire tonal level will elevate.

00:44:54.000 All of a sudden, you're going to start to think more clearly.

00:44:56.000 You're going to see things with direction.

00:44:58.000 And I'm going to tell you, if you make good choices, you will be rewarded for those choices.

00:45:03.000 You will.

00:45:05.000 We live in a country still that allows you to do that.

00:45:10.000 Try to be a better person today than you were yesterday.

00:45:14.000 Be nicer to people.

00:45:15.000 Be more gentle.

00:45:16.000 And we all fall short of this.

00:45:18.000 It's part of the human condition.

00:45:20.000 But ask yourself, am I generally moving in a direction that will make my life have more meaning and the people around me have more meaning?

00:45:30.000 See, we are not meant to just be self-isolated individuals.

00:45:33.000 We are built to be in a community.

00:45:36.000 That's far from the same thing that saying we should all have collective ownership.

00:45:39.000 But if you are not positively impacting the people around you, then you yourself are probably not having meaning.

00:45:47.000 So maybe find one thing you're good at and pour into somebody else.

00:45:51.000 It might help you along the way.

00:45:52.000 We're happy to dive into that more.

00:45:53.000 But if you guys want to email me and how I can help you, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:45:58.000 I want to thank those of you that help support our program at charliekirk.com slash support, charliekirk.com slash support.

00:46:04.000 Type in Charlie Kirk, show your podcast provider.

00:46:06.000 Hit subscribe.

00:46:07.000 Give us a five-star review.

00:46:08.000 Get involved at TurningPointUSA, TPUSA.com, TPUSA.com.

00:46:12.000 If you're listening to this and you're saying, my life has no worth, you're wrong.

00:46:16.000 It does.

00:46:17.000 Do those three things.

00:46:18.000 Pray.

00:46:19.000 Read the book of Proverbs and the book of John.

00:46:21.000 Email me with anything you're struggling with.

00:46:22.000 I do read all the emails.

00:46:24.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com, Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:46:27.000 Thank you guys so much.

00:46:28.000 Talk to you soon.

00:46:29.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 27, 2020

Ask Charlie Anything 27: Epstein and Maxwell, Bill Clinton in Handcuffs? And How To Find Meaning In Your Life

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