The Charlie Kirk Show - April 19, 2021


Ask Charlie Anything 59: The Left's Dangerous Motivation, Court Packing, A 13-Year-Old Shot in Chicago, and MORE!


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Should we support packing the Supreme Court? And why is that a bad idea? Thanks to everyone who called in with their thoughts, and to Charlie for running the show. Today's episode features: 1. What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg have to say about packing the court? 2. What would happen if the Democrats were in power and were able to reduce the court back to 9? 3. How would we determine which justice to remove? 4. Who would replace Justice Ginsburg if she were replaced?

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 Happy Monday.
00:00:02.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:00:16.000 What is going on with Chicago of the shooting of a 13-year-old?
00:00:20.000 Should we support packing the court?
00:00:22.000 Of course not.
00:00:23.000 And why is that a bad idea?
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00:02:37.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:02:38.000 Always love the show and what you're doing to conserve our freedoms and the greatness of our country.
00:02:42.000 Thank you.
00:02:43.000 If the Democrats, against all likelihood, are able to pack the Supreme Court, are Republicans able to reduce it back to nine when they are in power?
00:02:50.000 This assumes the Democrats get rid of the filibuster in order to pack it in the first place.
00:02:54.000 It seems like the easier play would be to pack it again and just keep adding justice as the concept of getting back to nine makes the most sense.
00:03:01.000 How would we determine which justice to remove?
00:03:03.000 Thanks, Jeff.
00:03:05.000 Well, look, this idea of packing the courts is now getting into the mainstream because the Democrats are focusing their time and their attention and their resources on expanding the conversation.
00:03:18.000 Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you need nine justices.
00:03:21.000 That has just been precedent for quite some time.
00:03:25.000 Instead, Democrats know that the Supreme Court in its current composition is going to uphold a natural rights doctrine of first principles and a textualist originalist approach.
00:03:38.000 Now, what did Ruth Bader Ginsburg have to say about packing the court?
00:03:42.000 Let's see.
00:03:42.000 Cut 71 says it rather clearly.
00:03:46.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg saying that she does not support packing the court.
00:03:50.000 Play tape.
00:03:51.000 I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court.
00:03:57.000 If anything would make the court appear partisan, it would be that one side saying when we're in power, we're going to enlarge the number of judges so we will have more people who will vote the way we want them to.
00:04:15.000 So I am not at all in favor of that solution.
00:04:26.000 Not at all in favor of packing the court.
00:04:29.000 But the Democrats, they're not really concerned about what they said previously.
00:04:34.000 In fact, Joe Biden, when he was senator, said that packing the court is a terrible idea.
00:04:41.000 So why are they doing this now?
00:04:43.000 It's because Democrats are growing impatient.
00:04:46.000 You have Democrats that are in their late 70s and early 80s that are running the Democrat Party, and they want to see the revolution that they've desired come to pass now.
00:04:58.000 And they don't think they're ever going to get another chance at it.
00:05:00.000 And they're combining their interest with late 20, early 30-year-old activists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Talib, Ayana Presley, and others that believe this is a moment for radical Marxist revolutionary change in our country.
00:05:19.000 Cut 93, we have not played this one.
00:05:22.000 Senator Markey from Massachusetts on the need to expand the United States Supreme Court about the court's legitimacy.
00:05:30.000 Cut 93.
00:05:31.000 And I'm disappointed to say that too many Americans question the court's legitimacy.
00:05:38.000 The consequence is that the rights of all Americans, but especially people of color, women, and our immigrant communities are at risk.
00:05:51.000 We have a stilted, illegitimate 6'3 conservative majority on the court that has caused this crisis of confidence in our country.
00:06:01.000 What if I told you that one of the most corrupt nations in the world tried court packing?
00:06:09.000 Venezuela packed the court with Hugo Chavez allies many years ago.
00:06:17.000 Hugo Chavez won his first election in 1999, and the Supreme Court was independent.
00:06:23.000 They were one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
00:06:26.000 But after it issued several rulings against him, Chavez said, I don't like that.
00:06:32.000 You see how all these despots work in the same behavioral pattern?
00:06:40.000 So then Chavez said, you know what?
00:06:42.000 I'm going to pack the court, expanding its size for the Venezuelan Supreme Court from 20 to 32.
00:06:49.000 This was back in 2004.
00:06:51.000 Chavez is dead.
00:06:52.000 He was not a good person.
00:06:54.000 So Chavez got to pick all 12 of those new justices, basically saying the Supreme Court in Venezuela will not be independent.
00:07:01.000 It will be the Chavez Court.
00:07:05.000 So there's been a lot of research done on the 45,000 rulings that have happened in Venezuela ever since.
00:07:13.000 And the court has never sided against Chavez since that took place.
00:07:21.000 Canova, this is from a Foxnews.com article, who's a researcher, said, quote, since 2004, I found that Chavez and the government never lost a case, not a single one.
00:07:35.000 So what is the role of the United States Supreme Court?
00:07:38.000 It's to interpret the constitutionality and the legality of the laws and the actions of the other branches of government.
00:07:47.000 Why is that important?
00:07:50.000 Well, it's important because if you do not have an impartial mediator or adjudicator of differences, then you're slowly and then suddenly going to find yourself ruled by despots and tyrants.
00:08:10.000 The United States Supreme Court, which originally was able to establish itself under this process called judicial review, in a U.S. Supreme Court case of Marbury versus Madison, which was somewhat of a technical case, but it was about appointments from a prior administration.
00:08:31.000 If my memory serves me correctly, it was Thomas Jefferson's administration that put this person Marbury in a position, and then James Madison's administration, the fourth American president, sued about this.
00:08:44.000 It was somewhat of an inconsequential situation, but it actually established, I believe it was John Marshall, who was the U.S. Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who then established this idea of judicial review.
00:09:01.000 It basically said that, hey, the Supreme Court's going to be a co-equal branch of government.
00:09:06.000 This is not just some theory.
00:09:07.000 This is a real thing.
00:09:10.000 And from that point forward, we had some of the most consequential U.S. Supreme Court decisions from McCullough versus Maryland to the unfortunate, unconstitutional, and immoral decision of the Dred Scott case, which, by the way, every single justice in the Dred Scott case that ruled blacks as not human beings was a Democrat. 0.83
00:09:31.000 Just a nice side note. 0.62
00:09:33.000 But the U.S. Supreme Court, since its charter and its founding, was supposed to be a non-political, impossible-to-influence branch of government, but a co-equal one.
00:09:49.000 It's not supposed to make laws.
00:09:51.000 It's not supposed to be a legislative branch.
00:09:53.000 But unfortunately, in recent years, we've started to indulge into this idea of the Supreme Court making law. 0.53
00:10:01.000 And I agreed with some of his decisions, but I think that Justice Kennedy made a huge mistake in the gay marriage decision. 0.73
00:10:09.000 Massive mistake.
00:10:11.000 Because it wasn't that Justice Kennedy was arguing under the Equal Protection Clause.
00:10:15.000 No, he decided to overturn dozens of other states that said marriage is between one man and one woman.
00:10:24.000 So instead of interpreting the law, he overturned dozens of state-based laws that defined marriage as one man and one woman.
00:10:35.000 Basically turning the U.S. Supreme Court into a legislative body.
00:10:41.000 So what the Democrats are now doing is they're saying, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett, we don't like your political views.
00:10:50.000 We don't like the way you're going to rule on guns, on speech, on immigration, rule of law, private property.
00:10:56.000 So now we are going to dilute your influence by adding additional seats to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:11:01.000 That's really what's happening here.
00:11:03.000 Now, this is not going to happen immediately, but the same way that we conservatives lost the gay marriage debate, the same way that we conservatives lost the Green New Deal debate in the sense that multi-trillion dollar bills are spent immediately, that everything is infrastructure.
00:11:17.000 And I kid you not, a congressman from New York actually said packing the U.S. Supreme Court is infrastructure.
00:11:22.000 I kid you not.
00:11:25.000 That we are now heading in a direction where they're going to win the court-packing decision.
00:11:34.000 So, well, how should we Republicans respond?
00:11:37.000 Republicans should respond as doing this.
00:11:40.000 They should have a press conference called Shrink the Court. 0.94
00:11:44.000 That if a liberal justice passes away, they're not going to fill the seat. 0.95
00:11:50.000 That instead of diluting, we're going to increase the power of Amy Coney Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas.
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00:12:49.000 Hey, Charlie, Linda from New Haven says, you talked about the bloody 20s last week on your podcast, but since then, there have been at least three more hyper-publicized mass shootings or officer-involved shootings.
00:13:01.000 This was a seemingly rare occurrence in four years under Trump.
00:13:04.000 Why all of a sudden do you think we're seeing such a sharp uptick?
00:13:08.000 Linda from New Haven.
00:13:10.000 Thank you, Linda.
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00:13:18.000 Why are things becoming more violent?
00:13:20.000 And I encourage all of you to check out our Bloody 20s podcast.
00:13:24.000 We are heading for the most violent decade in American history.
00:13:28.000 In fact, a social psychologist predicted this 10 years ago.
00:13:32.000 I can't remember his name.
00:13:33.000 He wrote a long piece on it and he was ridiculed for it.
00:13:36.000 And everything he predicted is coming true.
00:13:38.000 Number one, people can't take the madness in their heads any longer.
00:13:41.000 They can't.
00:13:42.000 There's too much noise and not enough truth.
00:13:45.000 These phones are driving people chemically insane.
00:13:49.000 The dopamine rushes, the highs, the lows, the instant gratification, the search for meaning, the lack of purpose, the lack of aim, the lack of direction.
00:13:58.000 People that already have borderline schizophrenic issues are now more likely to engage in violence than ever before.
00:14:07.000 As church attendance goes down, as marriage rates go down, as newborn children go down, as people not finding satisfaction or meaning in their job goes down, alcoholism goes up and opioids go up, don't be surprised when all of a sudden violent crime is going to go up alongside of it.
00:14:27.000 You see, human beings have a list of things that they need.
00:14:31.000 People need certainty and uncertainty.
00:14:33.000 Isn't that a wonderful charm that God made human beings that way?
00:14:37.000 We need things we can count on and things we can't count on.
00:14:40.000 We also need significance in one way or the other.
00:14:44.000 We need to be cared for by somebody, whether it be a friend, a boss, an employer, a co-worker, a spouse.
00:14:52.000 We need to feel as if our action matters to somebody else.
00:14:57.000 And I tell people all the time: go do something that matters to somebody else and you will then be significant.
00:15:03.000 Well, you know how some people find themselves to be significant?
00:15:07.000 Whether we like it or not, go shooting up a FedEx, that makes you significant.
00:15:13.000 In the most perverse, evil, awful way, you're significant.
00:15:17.000 You might be in the hood and you might be someone that is not very important, doesn't have a great life in front of you.
00:15:25.000 But all of a sudden, the moment you take a firearm and you put that firearm on somebody's head, you go from someone that's not important to really important in that moment.
00:15:33.000 Boom, immediately.
00:15:36.000 Another reason is I think we are over-medicating our society.
00:15:40.000 We are eating terribly in our country.
00:15:42.000 I'm going to do a whole podcast on how awful people eat. 0.93
00:15:46.000 No one should ever drink any of that soft drink garbage out there. 0.94
00:15:50.000 Stop it.
00:15:50.000 Drink water, coffee, or tea.
00:15:53.000 I'm telling you, it's contributing to the madness.
00:15:56.000 Fresh vegetables, fresh fruits.
00:16:00.000 Get rid of your saturated fats.
00:16:05.000 I think all of this contributes to an unhealthy trend that will contribute to violence.
00:16:11.000 I do.
00:16:12.000 We're seeing testosterone rates plummet amongst men in our country.
00:16:16.000 The media hates when I talk about this, so I make sure I talk about it at least once a week.
00:16:21.000 That men are less manly today than any other time in human history.
00:16:30.000 So what does that all mean?
00:16:33.000 I'm not saying violent crime is necessarily an output of all those things, but those things contribute.
00:16:40.000 And so a pretty easy way to address this is protect yourself, obviously, and protect your family, buy weapons and buy firearms.
00:16:51.000 But if we do not teach people earned success and they indulge in instant gratification, don't be shocked or surprised when people then start breaking into other homes, burning down small businesses, burning down police cars to go find that need for purpose and significance.
00:17:13.000 And this is what's so dangerous about some of these activist movements is that they purport to be on the side of the angels that they're going to give upper middle class people significance when in reality it does the opposite.
00:17:30.000 It's rooted in destruction, not building.
00:17:33.000 So here's a really good test for yourself.
00:17:35.000 Two things.
00:17:36.000 Number one, are you building something or being part of building something every single day?
00:17:42.000 A family, a church, a community, a business, an enterprise.
00:17:44.000 Number two, if you didn't show up to something, would you be missed?
00:17:48.000 Would people look around and say, hey, we need that guy around.
00:17:51.000 He's doing something helpful for other people.
00:17:55.000 He's running a shift at a local grocery store.
00:17:57.000 He's running a manufacturing plant.
00:18:00.000 He's helping run a radio show.
00:18:03.000 If you can't answer those two things, then you have a crisis of purpose and a crisis of meaning.
00:18:09.000 One of my very good friends from Chicago has sent in a question.
00:18:13.000 We'll just call him Mr. D.
00:18:18.000 And he says, Charlie, what book would you recommend reading?
00:18:21.000 Well, that will be our thinker.org book of the week, T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie, Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.
00:18:31.000 Thinker.org slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R dot org slash Charlie, where Victor Frankl famously said, and he was a concentration camp survivor, there are only two types of people in the world.
00:18:43.000 There are decent and indecent people.
00:18:47.000 It's phenomenal.
00:18:49.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:18:52.000 George P. from Kentucky says, Trevor Noah called the police system a bad tree that creates bad fruit.
00:18:59.000 What happened to comedy?
00:19:00.000 Well, congratulations, George P. You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:19:04.000 Let's play Cut 81 of Trevor Noah. 0.51
00:19:07.000 Because we're told time and time again that these incidents that black Americans are experiencing are because of bad apples, right?
00:19:15.000 There are bad apples in these police departments who are doing these things.
00:19:18.000 They use chokeholds that are not allowed.
00:19:21.000 They use excessive force.
00:19:23.000 They're violent in their words and their actions to the people they're meant to be protecting and serving.
00:19:27.000 These are bad apples.
00:19:28.000 We've got to root them out of the force.
00:19:29.000 My question, though, is: where are the good apples?
00:19:33.000 If we're meant to believe that the police system in America, the system of policing itself is not fundamentally broken, then we would need to see good apples.
00:19:45.000 And by the way, I'm not saying that there are no good policemen.
00:19:48.000 Don't get me wrong.
00:19:49.000 I'm asking where the good apples are.
00:19:52.000 And what I mean by that is, where are the cops who are stopping the cop from putting their knee on George Floyd's neck?
00:20:02.000 Because there's not one cop at that scene.
00:20:04.000 There's one cop who's on trial, but there's not one cop at that scene.
00:20:08.000 You know?
00:20:09.000 Where are the other cops when Philando Castile is losing his life?
00:20:18.000 Like, where are the cops?
00:20:19.000 You know, where are the good apples?
00:20:23.000 I think Trevor Noah is giving Plato a run for his money as far as deep intellectual thoughts.
00:20:33.000 And Trevor Noah is not funny nor wise.
00:20:36.000 Here's a story for you, Trevor Noah.
00:20:38.000 Texas police officer saves five children from burning home.
00:20:41.000 A police officer in Texas ran into a burning home to save five children and one adult.
00:20:46.000 Sam Click, a Seagoville police officer, was on patrol and he discovered the front of a duplex home engulfed in flames in the 700 block of Casa Grande Drive the morning of August 25th.
00:20:56.000 Saved five children from imminent death.
00:20:59.000 Now, Trevor Noah, this is actually not hard.
00:21:01.000 Do you know what I typed into Google?
00:21:03.000 Police officer saves lives.
00:21:05.000 And there are, oh, how convenient.
00:21:08.000 676 million results on Google of police officer saves lives.
00:21:15.000 How about this one?
00:21:16.000 Officer saves man's life after shooting in Jacksonville.
00:21:22.000 The story says, quote, a shooting victim is in stable condition thanks to the quick actions of a Jacksonville sheriff's officer.
00:21:29.000 Police are saving lives every single day, Trevor Noah.
00:21:33.000 And to use the analogy of the tree and the apples, and he says, well, we have a whole bad system.
00:21:45.000 You see, that's what Trevor Noah is trying to say, a couple bad apples.
00:21:49.000 Well, now, actually, I'll go a step further. 1.00
00:21:51.000 I'm going to say the system of policing in America has actually helped black America. 0.96
00:22:00.000 Let's go to Cut 82, where the Plato of our time, Trevor Noah, continues. 0.99
00:22:05.000 And honestly, I believe we don't see them not because there are no good people on the police force.
00:22:12.000 I think there are many people who are good on the police force.
00:22:14.000 That's why they join because they want to do good.
00:22:16.000 But I think it's because they themselves know that if they do something, they're going against the system.
00:22:22.000 The system is more powerful than any individual.
00:22:27.000 The system in policing is doing exactly what it's meant to do in America. 1.00
00:22:32.000 And that is to keep poor people in their place.
00:22:36.000 Who happens to be the most poor in America? 1.00
00:22:40.000 Black people. 1.00
00:22:41.000 You monetize them, you imprison them, which monetizes them again. 1.00
00:22:45.000 It's a system.
00:22:47.000 And once you realize that, I feel like you get to a place where you go, oh, we're not dealing with bad apples.
00:22:54.000 We're dealing with a rotten tree that happens to grow good apples.
00:23:02.000 But for the most part, the tree that was planted is bearing the fruit that it was intended to.
00:23:09.000 You hear that?
00:23:10.000 That's a parable, I think, right?
00:23:12.000 Sort of.
00:23:13.000 I don't even know.
00:23:14.000 Or analogy.
00:23:15.000 Instead of the allegory of the cave, we now have to do that.
00:23:18.000 We have to now descend ourselves into the allegory of the rotten tree.
00:23:23.000 Again, he's a comic.
00:23:24.000 He should stick with that.
00:23:25.000 I don't think he's even funny.
00:23:27.000 I don't.
00:23:27.000 Nor do I think he's wise.
00:23:29.000 And so, first of all, Trevor Noah, way more unarmed whites are killed every single year than blacks. 0.94
00:23:40.000 And the number one input variable, prerequisite that Trevor Noah never wants to talk about is how blacks don't have fathers. 0.95
00:23:48.000 That's that simple.
00:23:51.000 Trevor Noah, I have a homework assignment for you.
00:23:55.000 Instead of making meaningless TikTok videos, I think that was actually posted on TikTok.
00:24:01.000 Why don't you read a book called Discrimination and Disparities?
00:24:05.000 You guys can also see a summary of it at thinker.org.
00:24:07.000 And here's the main thesis of discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell.
00:24:13.000 Just because something has disparate outcomes does not mean you can blame discrimination for it.
00:24:22.000 It's a pretty simple argument.
00:24:25.000 So for example, do you know that the United States of America has 80% of all the tornadoes on the planet happen in the United States of America?
00:24:35.000 80% of all the tornadoes on the planet.
00:24:38.000 Is that because of racism?
00:24:41.000 No, it's actually because of weather patterns and wind and solar flares.
00:24:46.000 A lot of other contributing factors play into the fact that America has 80% of all the tornadoes on the planet.
00:24:54.000 Discrimination can't possibly be an input prerequisite for that.
00:25:00.000 How about single parent prerequisite?
00:25:06.000 One of the most telling and predictive inputs of a child's success in life, and this is very important for all you new parents out there that listen to our program, is how many words a child hears every single day.
00:25:22.000 It's true.
00:25:24.000 If a child hears 3,000 or more words a day, they are exponentially more likely to have a high IQ and succeed.
00:25:32.000 If they hear 1,000 words or less a day, they're much more likely to have a low IQ, less curiosity, less likely to learn.
00:25:40.000 Okay.
00:25:41.000 If you have a two-parent household with a stable family and grandparents and family members in the home, is that child likely to hear more words or less words every single day?
00:25:53.000 Why are coastal cities more likely to be wealthy than inland Midwestern cities?
00:25:59.000 Why are river towns more likely to be wealthy than mountain towns?
00:26:04.000 Is it because of racism and discrimination?
00:26:06.000 No.
00:26:07.000 Proximity, trade routes, capacity to do commerce.
00:26:12.000 The point that Thomas Sowell makes, and Trevor Noah refuses to acknowledge it because it takes wisdom, intelligence, nuance, honesty, and deliberative thinking and not pathological narrative building, is that when you have a society with millions of prerequisites and input variables, there might be other things at play other than discrimination, besides discrimination.
00:26:40.000 Like how many words does a black child hear at home?
00:26:44.000 When's the last time you heard anyone on television mention that?
00:26:48.000 Or how about that a black kid raised by a mother and a father is more likely to succeed than a white child raised by a single mother?
00:26:56.000 It's a fact.
00:26:58.000 There are numerous input variables for what might be considered success in our country.
00:27:05.000 But Trevor Noah is under the belief that the whole system works. 0.64
00:27:08.000 So he says, wait a second, we monetize black people and then imprison them and monetize them again.
00:27:15.000 I'm not quite following Trevor Noah. 0.81
00:27:17.000 What you're really trying to say here is that there's a white supremacist monetization conspiracy scheme to try and Imprison black people because we make money off of them?
00:27:32.000 Not exactly the case.
00:27:34.000 Instead, you should be asking the question: huh, why are there 727 black-on-black homicides in Chicago and Milwaukee every single year?
00:27:43.000 Why is that the case, Trev? 0.87
00:27:44.000 Is that, Trevor, is that KKK members and white people going into downtown Chicago and slaying black people? 0.97
00:27:50.000 Of course not. 1.00
00:27:51.000 It's blacks killing blacks. 1.00
00:27:54.000 And you see, what Trevor Noah and so many others refuse to acknowledge is that the core family unit is irreplaceable. 0.99
00:28:07.000 A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects.
00:28:19.000 Black officers were 67% more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect.
00:28:25.000 Hispanic officers were 145% more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect.
00:28:33.000 Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. 0.99
00:28:41.000 So that is a fact.
00:28:46.000 Not a narrative.
00:28:48.000 Trevor Noah is a narrative builder.
00:28:51.000 He is much more rooted in building pathological emotive.
00:28:59.000 I won't even call it an argument.
00:29:01.000 That's not even fair to people that build arguments.
00:29:04.000 I guess sentences.
00:29:08.000 According to the Washington Post, nine unarmed black people were killed by police in one year.
00:29:17.000 Nine.
00:29:18.000 And out of those nine, some of them had weapons nearby.
00:29:21.000 Some of them were in cars.
00:29:22.000 Some of them threatened to kill police officers.
00:29:24.000 Some of them were charging police officers.
00:29:26.000 And only three of those nine have police officers that were convicted by a jury of their peers for any form of murder.
00:29:33.000 So why the focus on it?
00:29:35.000 Number one, in the digital social media age, there are highly emotional videos that can be misinterpreted.
00:29:40.000 Number two, there are people that want to do crime that have been trying to get rid of the police for quite some time.
00:29:47.000 And want me to prove, number three, that police officers are not racist and they actually don't only go after black people.
00:29:55.000 Ask any white person that you know that when they see a police officer in the rearview mirror, do they get nervous or do they get they don't care?
00:30:06.000 Every person, regardless of skin color, when they see a police officer and they're driving, gets nervous that they're going to get caught texting while they're driving or pulled over.
00:30:15.000 Every person.
00:30:16.000 This idea of racial profiling when it comes to policing is not rooted in science or facts.
00:30:24.000 But Trevor Noah wouldn't tell you that because no one gets powerful when that actually is true.
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00:31:29.000 We got a question here about Adam Toledo and the situation happening in my hometown of Chicago.
00:31:38.000 And as we predicted, there is outrage happening in great numbers.
00:31:44.000 Adam Toledo was a 13-year-old from Chicago.
00:31:47.000 He was shot on March 29th.
00:31:50.000 He was with a known gangbanger, Ruben Roman, 21-year-old, who was arrested at the scene of the crime of the shooting, and he has been arrested on an unrelated warrant earlier this month.
00:32:05.000 Officers charged him with child endangerment, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, and reckless discharge of a firearm.
00:32:12.000 So before I go through this, let me just say Ruben Roman should be the focal point of all criticism here.
00:32:21.000 Ruben Roman is the bad guy in this situation.
00:32:25.000 And I'm going to walk you through what's really happened here.
00:32:27.000 Okay, so the 2 a.m. hour, officers were responding to eight shots fired according to police radio traffic released by authorities.
00:32:35.000 So someone shot eight shots somewhere at 2 a.m.
00:32:40.000 Footage shows Eric Stillman, who I think is the police officer, catching Roman, the 21-year-old criminal thug, and then passing him off to his partner while he continues to chase Adam Toledo down a narrow alleyway.
00:32:53.000 Now, before I go any further, it's very clear that Adam, being a 13-year-old, was being groomed by Ruben Roman to be a gangbanger.
00:33:03.000 That's what they do.
00:33:03.000 They find these 12 and 13-year-olds and they put them in a situation of crime.
00:33:07.000 It's an evil, immoral, manipulative thing to do.
00:33:14.000 So, Stillman and Toledo, the encounter between them lasted about 20 seconds.
00:33:19.000 In the final seconds of the encounter, on a body camera, a police officer can be heard repeatingly saying to Adam, stop and show me your effing hands.
00:33:31.000 The officer, the police officer, then chases Toledo and can be heard on the radio transmission that he's chasing someone who's, quote, holding his waistband.
00:33:39.000 The video, according to police, shows a gun in Toledo's right hand as he nears an open area of the fence next to an empty lot.
00:33:47.000 And surveillance video from behind the fence shows Adam throwing the gun.
00:33:53.000 Adam Toledo then turns to his left towards the officer, and what the police says is the gun disappears behind the right side.
00:34:01.000 Toledo then begins to raise his hands as he's facing the police officer when the officer fires his weapon.
00:34:05.000 All happens in less than an eighth of a second, eight-tenths of a second.
00:34:11.000 The officer had to make a decision in less than eight-tenths of a second, possibly be shot or shoot someone who has a firearm after you heard that eight shots were fired.
00:34:23.000 Stillman runs towards Toledo, the police officer, and actually offers him medical aid.
00:34:30.000 He did not want this 13-year-old to die.
00:34:33.000 After calling for help and confirming they had a gunshot victim by the police, the officer said, Where are you shot, man?
00:34:39.000 Where are you shot?
00:34:39.000 Stay with me, stay with me.
00:34:41.000 He did not want Toledo to die.
00:34:45.000 After attempting medical aid, Stillman stood up and paced, and at least half of a dozen other officers arrived.
00:34:50.000 This police officer knew that he was in an unfortunate situation where he's going to be wrongly blamed.
00:34:56.000 And you can just imagine the weight of the moment that's coming over him.
00:35:01.000 The mayor of Chicago says no one should have to look at this video broadcast widely.
00:35:05.000 So here's what we have.
00:35:06.000 Here's the situation, just so you know it, as factually and as precisely as I can say it.
00:35:12.000 A gangbanger was grooming a 13-year-old to become a ruthless murderer.
00:35:17.000 He was bringing him alongside, and eight shots were fired by somebody.
00:35:22.000 This 13-year-old was being brought along and was being chased and pursued by the police.
00:35:28.000 A moment of confrontation happens where Adam Toledo has a weapon.
00:35:32.000 And by the way, he was found with firearm residue on his hand, gun residue.
00:35:38.000 Had gunpowder residue on his hands, which means he probably fired the weapon.
00:35:42.000 Possibly.
00:35:44.000 Speculation.
00:35:47.000 And Toledo, who was brought into the situation by this gangbanging thug, met with law enforcement, drops the gun, but in an eighth-tenth of a second, this police officer has to make a decision, and he goes bang, and Toledo dies.
00:36:02.000 That is not murder.
00:36:04.000 That is a 2.30 a.m. situation of self-defense with an unfortunate outcome.
00:36:09.000 And there is one person to blame.
00:36:11.000 And he's not going to get the blame, of course, because the police are going to get the blame here.
00:36:15.000 And that is Ruben Roman, a known gangbanger, who was arrested at the scene of the shooting on a misdemeanor charge.
00:36:26.000 Now, where Adam Toledo's parents were, where his parental influence was, I don't know.
00:36:33.000 It's not a situation any of us want to see happen.
00:36:36.000 Do not pursue outrage or emotion, but instead, facts.
00:36:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:44.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:48.000 God bless you guys.
00:36:49.000 Talk to you soon.
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