The Charlie Kirk Show - June 25, 2024


Assange Goes Free + What States Require An ID To Vote?

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Assange Plea Deal Announcement voter rolls & citizenship laws Sun Valley grassroots engagement
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Cleta Mitchell Julian Assange Donald Trump Joe Biden Hillary Clinton Turning Point USA Hunter Biden Steve Moore Saipan The Mark Elias Gretchen Whitmer Christian Adams Patriot Mobile Donna Brazile John Podesta Gavin Newsom Andrew Cuomo Edmund Burke Mike Pompeo JD Vance and 6 more
Mike Rowe Tells The Rest of the Story How Many Terrorists Are Currently in America?

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Julian Assange has a plea deal! He will plead guilty to one charge of obtaining classified intelligence, national security information, and will be released on bail to go to the Northern Mariana Islands. What does this mean for Hillary Clinton and her campaign? And what does it mean for the rest of us? What will the deal mean for our vote in the 2020 election? And why should we allow foreigners to vote in our election?? All that and much more on this episode of the CharlieKirk Show with Charlie and Blake on today s episode of Freedom in the Sun Valley Forum in Idaho! Subscribe to our newest podcast, Freedom, wherever you get your podcasts, and don t forget to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, too! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about this podcast and we'll make sure to bring you more episodes like this in the future! Peace, Blessings, Cheers! Cheers, EJ & Charlie -EDGAR & BLAKE KIRK - Copyright 2019 Charlie K.K. & Blake P.S. - The Charlie Kirk Show This episode was produced and edited by Charlie Kirk. All rights reserved. All Rights Reserved. Used by the author and copyright of "Freedom in The Sun Valley" unless otherwise stated and shared under Creative Commons: "Thank You" by author Charlie Kirk, LLC. All permission given to "Free Press, Inc. and "Free Speech, Inc." and all rights reserved under CC BY-SAFEEDUCATION, Inc., Inc., etc., etc. . Used by permission, etc., LLC - Thank You, unless otherwise permitted by statute or other third-party owners worldwide. Thank you, unless stated or other wise, etc. etc., unless otherwise noted. This podcast is copyrighted property of "free speech, etc.." - Thank you Mr. or other such rights reserved worldwide. This material used by copyright infringement is not permitted by any other person else's use or such title or such other such copyrights or such such thing is such a thing being promoted or such thing being offered in this material being promoted by such a person's credit given credit or such credit given or such notice or such person's use such credit is appreciated or such value is offered in such a good willed or such a credit given, such such person is required or such advantage is offered by such person being offered, etc.)

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00:00:05.000 We talk about the debate, Julian Assange, and not having foreigners vote in our elections. 0.99
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00:01:17.000 We're here live in Idaho with some amazing patriots.
00:01:23.000 We got our co-host here, producer Blake.
00:01:25.000 Blake, how we doing?
00:01:26.000 We're doing great, Charlie.
00:01:28.000 So Blake counts the counties he's been to all across the country.
00:01:31.000 I don't know if you know, this is a new county for you?
00:01:33.000 Yes, it is.
00:01:33.000 Yes, it is.
00:01:33.000 Blaine County, I believe.
00:01:35.000 Is that right?
00:01:36.000 And so you've been to other parts of Idaho, so now Blaine County is a new county.
00:01:39.000 We have Ada County, Blaine County.
00:01:41.000 I might not have come if this was in Boise.
00:01:43.000 No, that's right.
00:01:43.000 So we're honored to be here.
00:01:45.000 We are at an undisclosed location in Blaine County, and we are here a couple weeks before all the plutocrats and the oligarchs come to this part of the world.
00:01:53.000 We are here with some great folks, lots to talk about here today.
00:01:57.000 We also have some great guests.
00:01:58.000 We have Cleta Mitchell, we have Steve Moore, and then also we have Senator J.D.
00:02:02.000 Vance, as we also bring up more guests here.
00:02:05.000 So let's get into the breaking news of the day, Blake.
00:02:07.000 What is going on with Julian Assange?
00:02:09.000 This is a story that has been kind of below the radar for a couple of years.
00:02:14.000 He's been called a traitor by our intel agencies.
00:02:16.000 He's been called a threat to the West, and now all of a sudden there's a plea deal.
00:02:21.000 Yeah, this just came totally out of the blue late last night.
00:02:21.000 What's going on here?
00:02:26.000 US prosecutors who charged Assange with all these Espionage Act violations.
00:02:31.000 That's why he was in prison in Britain for the last five years, battling extradition.
00:02:36.000 They suddenly announced, we're happy to reach a plea deal with you, and then you'll be free to go.
00:02:42.000 He'll basically plead guilty to one charge of obtaining classified intelligence, national security information.
00:02:50.000 Part of what's weird is to plead guilty, he has to go to a court in the Northern Mariana Islands.
00:02:55.000 So where is that?
00:02:56.000 You're the geography expert.
00:02:57.000 That's the islands we own in the Central Pacific, north of Guam.
00:03:02.000 It's like Saipan.
00:03:02.000 I think I'll have to go to Saipan.
00:03:04.000 North of Guam.
00:03:05.000 Yes.
00:03:06.000 So he was in London.
00:03:07.000 Yeah.
00:03:07.000 And has to go into the island.
00:03:09.000 So why not Los Angeles?
00:03:11.000 Why is he going to the Mariana Islands?
00:03:14.000 You know, it's not clear why they did that.
00:03:15.000 It might be that Assange, he felt more confident that they wouldn't, you know, spring a trap and just arrest him and take him away to federal prison and say the deal's revoked if it's on this outer island.
00:03:29.000 But that's not really the case.
00:03:31.000 They could still do that.
00:03:32.000 So it might be that it doesn't matter, but he thinks it matters.
00:03:35.000 But it's not clear.
00:03:36.000 It's also close to Australia.
00:03:38.000 And so he seems like he'll go to Australia after this.
00:03:40.000 That's where he's from.
00:03:42.000 But as you say, the wild thing about this is just they, for a decade, they've been obsessed
00:03:48.000 with bringing down Assange.
00:03:50.000 They blame him for all these bad things.
00:03:52.000 And remember, the reason why they really hate Assange is not because of his journalism or leaking.
00:03:57.000 They hate Assange because they blame him for Hillary Clinton not becoming president in 2016
00:04:03.000 because of all the WikiLeaks and the phishing attack with John Podesta.
00:04:06.000 And I never had strong opinions about Julian Assange, but the more I learn about the intel agencies and how they have lied, they lied about the origins of COVID.
00:04:15.000 They lied about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:04:18.000 They lied about Donald Trump and the Russia gate.
00:04:21.000 I actually have more sympathy for Julian Assange when I say, if he's exposing the intel agencies, I think it's a good thing that the American people know that the Central Intelligence Agency is not worthy of trust.
00:04:32.000 Do you not want to know about all those things that the DNC was saying behind closed doors?
00:04:36.000 It's thanks to him we know— That debate questions, by the way, were leaked, which is very applicable.
00:04:41.000 Because of Julian Assange, we know that Donna Brazile gave Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance.
00:04:47.000 Exactly.
00:04:49.000 Are they doing that this week?
00:04:50.000 Do you guys think that CNN is giving Joe Biden debate questions in advance?
00:04:54.000 Who cares is the better question.
00:04:56.000 You mentioned what they lied about COVID.
00:04:58.000 We just had recently where it comes out that while they were promoting censorship of COVID misinformation in the U.S., they were also doing the opposite type of COVID attacks in China.
00:05:08.000 They were trying to undermine China's vaccine while they were saying you can't criticize the vaccine in the U.S.
00:05:14.000 And they've been on both sides of this.
00:05:17.000 So I think it's not clear whether or not Julian Assange, how you look at him as a hero or not a hero,
00:05:22.000 but I have a lot of sympathy for him because you look at what he's been through.
00:05:27.000 There were assassination attempts against him.
00:05:29.000 Yeah, we had it came out.
00:05:30.000 I think The Guardian reported a few years ago that I think Mike Pompeo and some other kind of national security apparatchiks were like, can we drone Assange?
00:05:39.000 You know, some of them said that we should try to assassinate him.
00:05:42.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:05:42.000 In fact, there's a new report that shows that we should try to kill him. 0.99
00:05:46.000 The American... They still might try to kill him. 1.00
00:05:48.000 No, I mean, yeah, he's certainly not safe.
00:05:51.000 But what exactly was his crime?
00:05:52.000 Did he put Americans at risk or in danger?
00:05:56.000 Because that's what people have been saying.
00:05:58.000 The original case, they would say, is back during the Iraq War, this would be over 15 years ago at this point, they released internal documents from the U.S.
00:06:08.000 military.
00:06:09.000 I think the original thing that made him famous, it was called collateral murder.
00:06:12.000 and it was like a video of some sort of engagement between US troops and Iraqis
00:06:19.000 where some civilians were killed.
00:06:20.000 And the claim was this would put US troops in danger by promoting like hatred of US troops.
00:06:26.000 And I think they had some intelligence stuff where they said this would endanger sources.
00:06:30.000 I don't know if there's ever been a case where someone's death or serious injury
00:06:34.000 was directly linked to anything WikiLeaks did.
00:06:36.000 That was always the argument they would make for it.
00:06:38.000 Yeah, and so I think that's an important contextual element.
00:06:43.000 However, just speaking more broadly, when I hear that from the intel agencies,
00:06:48.000 they have not earned my trust the last five years.
00:06:50.000 Not at all.
00:06:50.000 And the repeated lies and the repeated use of the American government for political means.
00:06:57.000 I mean, again, I can't—four years ago, we were in the midst of an election, and 51 intel experts Signed an open letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:07:07.000 That was direct election interference.
00:07:10.000 We should never trust what these intel agencies say ever again.
00:07:12.000 Exactly.
00:07:13.000 Until they earn our trust back, if ever.
00:07:16.000 Yeah, everything they make is just, trust us, we've got it.
00:07:19.000 Why?
00:07:20.000 What good thing have you done for America in my lifetime?
00:07:24.000 And then what they did with Donald, they spied on Donald Trump's campaign and tried to entrap him.
00:07:29.000 So now the Assange thing is a good segue with the debate questions.
00:07:32.000 We have a debate coming up on Thursday.
00:07:35.000 Who's watching the debate?
00:07:37.000 Again, I, like you, have to watch CNN.
00:07:41.000 I'm not sure how I feel about that.
00:07:44.000 The only time I watch CNN is when I'm in airports.
00:07:46.000 I'm just walking through.
00:07:47.000 I think that CNN's viewership goes in half if they're no longer in airports.
00:07:51.000 So, Blake, what could go wrong for Trump or what could go wrong for Biden?
00:07:56.000 Who has the most to lose going into Thursday?
00:07:58.000 Yeah, it's definitely Biden who has the most to lose.
00:08:01.000 I think this is probably the highest stake debate that's actually ever happened for a candidate.
00:08:05.000 The only thing that comes close, I think, is the second Trump-Hillary debate that was right after the Access Hollywood tape.
00:08:11.000 There were some Republicans saying Trump should drop out.
00:08:13.000 He had to nail that one or it might have been over.
00:08:15.000 But this one, I think the worst case for Biden is he has some sort of freeze up Senior moment, if you will.
00:08:24.000 And if it's bad enough, I think this is the last chance, if you're a Democrat who wants to change the candidate who's on the ticket, this is your last serious chance to do it without Biden just actually dying somehow.
00:08:36.000 Yeah, and I think it's important, though, because this is the earliest debate that we've ever seen.
00:08:40.000 It's a summer debate.
00:08:41.000 Joe Biden asked for this debate.
00:08:43.000 He's the one that said, I want it to be an early debate, because he's legitimately behind in all the tracking polls in the internal states.
00:08:50.000 If Donald Trump does not do well, I think he can recover from that.
00:08:53.000 For sure.
00:08:53.000 I think for Trump, the debate is mostly upside.
00:08:56.000 That if Trump does well, he gets himself well on the way to normalizing, you know, the convicted felon thing.
00:09:03.000 Like, we've predicted people will get over the New York case.
00:09:06.000 They'll get over- As time goes.
00:09:08.000 As time goes.
00:09:09.000 And a lot of that is just going to be seeing him on TV, being a serious candidate, talking about policy.
00:09:14.000 And that gets in their brains that, oh, I'm allowed to vote for this guy.
00:09:18.000 The most likely outcome is a stalemate where both sides says they won, and you kind of go back.
00:09:23.000 And then, and honestly, that's not the worst thing, if it's a stalemate, because I actually want to run more against Joe Biden than Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin Newsom.
00:09:31.000 I would rather run against Joe Biden, to be perfectly honest with you.
00:09:34.000 And so, you know, Blake, I think that as we go into, I want to get into the kind of the debate prep stuff in a second here.
00:09:45.000 Cutting of the mics.
00:09:46.000 Who does that favor? 0.97
00:09:47.000 The fact that you can't use the mic without your being called on.
00:09:49.000 What do you say?
00:09:50.000 I think it definitely favors Trump because, first of all, I think it will keep him from—he had a bad habit of interrupting too much in 2020, and I think he'll follow the guidance here and not do that, and it'll be helpful to him.
00:10:01.000 And it increases the risk of Biden having to just talk for two minutes.
00:10:04.000 He'll freeze up.
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00:11:12.000 How's that everybody?
00:11:13.000 It's really great here.
00:11:16.000 And really great folks, and we're here giving a couple speeches today, and we have a lot going on.
00:11:22.000 So we want to get into the debate here, but I want to just remind people back to the debate in 2020.
00:11:27.000 Now, a couple things to remember.
00:11:29.000 Number one is that Donald Trump had COVID during this debate.
00:11:32.000 Remember, he tested for COVID positive the next day or the day after.
00:11:36.000 Number two, incumbent presidents usually do poorly in their first debate.
00:11:41.000 Obama, Carter, Clinton, and then they usually recover in later debates.
00:11:46.000 Why is that the case?
00:11:48.000 Why do you think that is, Blake?
00:11:50.000 I have no idea.
00:11:51.000 Maybe it's just the rust.
00:11:53.000 They're the ones busy being president.
00:11:55.000 Their opponent is busy running for president so they can practice more.
00:11:58.000 Sharper on the campaign trail.
00:12:02.000 Being president is such an artificial environment because you very rarely— Get pushback.
00:12:07.000 Yeah, you don't get much pushback.
00:12:08.000 You don't have normal discussions with a lot of people.
00:12:10.000 There's a lot of pro forma.
00:12:12.000 You know, sort of performance to being president.
00:12:16.000 Yeah, a lot of taking of photos and sitting in lunches.
00:12:19.000 So, and I also think that in 2020, we made a big mistake.
00:12:23.000 We set the expectation super low for Biden because he was in his basement.
00:12:26.000 They pumped him full of drugs, and he didn't necessarily do well.
00:12:30.000 But with Trump also interrupting him during that debate, people did not look favorably on that.
00:12:36.000 Now, I watched the debate as someone who Kind of debates a lot.
00:12:41.000 I didn't think it was as bad as people thought it was.
00:12:43.000 But objectively, the ratings did not go well for Trump.
00:12:45.000 Is that fair to say?
00:12:46.000 Yeah.
00:12:47.000 And I knew a lot of people who were at debate parties and they came away disappointed.
00:12:51.000 There was definitely a sense that people thought he would just steamroll Biden and it didn't happen.
00:12:55.000 And there was a lot of disappointment.
00:12:56.000 So let's just go back in the clip machine here.
00:13:00.000 This is cut 15.
00:13:01.000 This is back from the debate.
00:13:03.000 Trump Biden 2020 play cut 15.
00:13:06.000 You should go out and vote.
00:13:08.000 You're in voting now.
00:13:10.000 Vote and let your senators know how strongly you feel.
00:13:14.000 Vote now.
00:13:15.000 Make sure you, in fact, let people know you're a senator.
00:13:19.000 I'm not going to answer the question because the question is... The question is... Would you shut up, man?
00:13:26.000 Listen, who is on your list, Joe?
00:13:29.000 Gentlemen, I think we've ended this.
00:13:34.000 We have ended this segment.
00:13:35.000 We're going to move on to the second segment.
00:13:37.000 That was really a productive segment, wasn't it?
00:13:41.000 Keep yapping, man.
00:13:42.000 The people understand you.
00:13:44.000 47 years you've done nothing.
00:13:47.000 Which is true, by the way.
00:13:49.000 So those were good points that President Trump was making.
00:13:52.000 I just think that in a debate, you have to allow your opportunity.
00:13:55.000 It made it so easy for Biden, instead of possibly freezing up, to just go, you're such a child.
00:14:01.000 You just look at him like he's disappointed.
00:14:02.000 I remember another point in the debate, he just sighs and he's like, you're the worst president there's ever been.
00:14:06.000 And that's a weak debate point if he's just saying that.
00:14:09.000 But when it was in response to being interrupted repeatedly, it didn't go well for Trump, I think.
00:14:15.000 So looking towards this Thursday, the mics will be cut.
00:14:20.000 Now I have a theory about this, that if one of the candidates, Biden or Trump,
00:14:23.000 try to interrupt the other with their mics not being on, it could actually even look worse.
00:14:29.000 For sure.
00:14:29.000 Imagine what it looks like if you can't even hear what they're saying,
00:14:32.000 but they're trying to yell into a microphone. 0.97
00:14:33.000 Yeah, it'll sound like ridiculous and they'll be quiet. 0.97
00:14:36.000 It'll sound like that random guy on the street that's yelling at you 0.93
00:14:39.000 and you can't hear what he's saying.
00:14:40.000 But it's an opportunity too.
00:14:41.000 Like I can easily imagine a scenario, Biden is older.
00:14:44.000 I mean, you can even tell just that clip.
00:14:45.000 He looks so he sounds so much better.
00:14:47.000 Oh, goodness.
00:14:48.000 I was like, that's the Biden of old.
00:14:49.000 So imagine Biden is struggling through an answer and kind of losing his train of thought and then he gets saved by the bell and they're like, they go over to Trump and Trump just goes, he can finish let him finish.
00:14:58.000 And I think that'd be amazing if we got that moment.
00:15:01.000 I agree.
00:15:02.000 We went through this yesterday, but President Trump—by the way, he's doing robust debate prep, and I think he's going to do very well.
00:15:08.000 But I want to make sure the expectations—my expectation is for a stalemate, that both sides kind of get some shots in, and both sides say they win.
00:15:16.000 Okay.
00:15:18.000 But the issues that Joe Biden will push is convicted felon, January 6, COVID, which I think is going to be a sleeper one, also abortion, and then finally, dictator on day one, threat to democracy.
00:15:31.000 If President Trump can navigate those and then counter with, straight to camera, to the American people, who was a better president?
00:15:40.000 What president was the world safer?
00:15:43.000 What president do we actually have a border with?
00:15:44.000 What president was the economy better?
00:15:47.000 Every single poll shows that 70% of Americans think that Trump was not just a little bit better, but way better in that regard.
00:15:53.000 That is the case he has to keep on bringing back to there.
00:15:57.000 Trump needs to come with the facts and not just say that the conviction was necessarily unjust or a fraud, but explain why it was outrageous and say, I think the best talking point he can say is, the former Attorney General and former Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, who does not like me, says that that case never should have been brought against That is a very good talking point.
00:16:17.000 If you want one or two sample sentences that get at it quickly, you don't want to get into the details of what the judge ruled on this or that.
00:16:24.000 You can't get into gag order or any of that stuff.
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00:17:38.000 Well, I thank you, Charlie.
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00:17:42.000 I've known you for a long time when Turning Point USA was just a baby organization.
00:17:47.000 It was in the crib and we've, praise God, grown over the last couple of years.
00:17:52.000 You are doing some of the most important work and have been really with precision about election integrity because there's a lot of people in that space.
00:18:00.000 I'm not in that space.
00:18:01.000 I'm very passionate about it.
00:18:02.000 Talk about what you're doing, especially with saying only U.S.
00:18:05.000 citizens should vote.
00:18:07.000 Well, after the 2020 election, I'm an election lawyer.
00:18:11.000 I've been doing election law, political law, for many, many decades.
00:18:17.000 And I was one of President Trump's volunteer attorneys in Georgia in the post-election of 2020. 0.94
00:18:23.000 And that, of course, brought the wrath of the left and that crazy, what do they call it, the Lincoln Project, those obscene perverts.
00:18:35.000 They went after me and my law firm, and so I ended up resigning my partnership of 20 years. 0.92
00:18:42.000 And they thought they'd vanquished me.
00:18:45.000 And all they did was free me from billable hours so that I could spend 100% of my time, which I have done, Since February 1st of 2021, working on election integrity.
00:18:58.000 And my having spent all those years around election boards, I've done plenty of time in election board offices all over the country.
00:19:06.000 And I know that all elections are local.
00:19:11.000 All elections are local.
00:19:13.000 And that what we need to do is arm citizens.
00:19:16.000 I wanted to try to take that energy and upset and anger from what happened in 2020 And channel that into something productive.
00:19:25.000 And so I wrote The Citizen's Guide to Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure, because that's what we need to combat the very, very well-funded left-wing election infrastructure, where they're set about to destroy our election system.
00:19:39.000 And to get citizen patriots into the election offices, just like parents in school board offices and that kind of thing.
00:19:48.000 We've built statewide coalitions.
00:19:51.000 I founded the Election Integrity Network.
00:19:53.000 And we have coalitions in more than, I think we're up to 28 states now.
00:19:59.000 And we have local task forces.
00:20:00.000 We run national working groups every week.
00:20:05.000 Nine different working groups on everything from how to clean voter rolls, how to protect vulnerable voters in nursing homes, et cetera, et cetera.
00:20:13.000 And so that's ongoing, and about a year ago, I decided I needed to form something that was focused strictly on threats for 2024.
00:20:21.000 Just targeting threats for 2024.
00:20:24.000 And so I created the Fair Elections Fund, and we have been raising money to give to grants to help support local efforts in key counties, in key states, And then in January this year, I realized that we needed to focus on this threat of illegals voting in November, because I absolutely believe that that is how they are planning to try to steal the election this year, is through illegals who are then added to the voter rolls and really directed by these left-wing NGOs, national 0.68
00:21:02.000 Non-governmental organizations that are shepherding these migrants all over the country, getting them IDs, getting them housing, handing them tax paid phone cards and food cards and, and getting them on the voter rolls. 0.62
00:21:14.000 So much there.
00:21:15.000 So first I want to go into the left wing and how, what is the budget if you were to approximate of the left wing infrastructure to make our elections less secure?
00:21:25.000 The Mark Elias beast.
00:21:27.000 Oh my.
00:21:28.000 Well, let me say this.
00:21:29.000 The Capital Research Center has estimated, based on... They've really been tracking the left.
00:21:36.000 They have something called Influence Watch.
00:21:38.000 If you're not familiar with it... It's terrific.
00:21:40.000 You really need... They've mapped the left, and they've had a particular focus on the myriad, hundreds and hundreds of left-wing organizations that focus strictly on some aspect of the election process.
00:21:56.000 Their estimate And this was a year or two ago.
00:21:59.000 I don't know that they've updated it since then, but their estimate is that between around 2012 and 2020, that the left had raised and spent between $11 and $14 billion on election matters.
00:22:16.000 And this is 501c3 and 501c4 money primarily?
00:22:19.000 Mostly c3, right? 0.99
00:22:21.000 This is important.
00:22:22.000 So for those of you that have charitable foundations, donor devised funds, The left, they put this through tax-deductible donations to change our elections.
00:22:30.000 Now, what would you say the right has spent on election integrity in that time period?
00:22:34.000 Oh my gosh.
00:22:35.000 Well, probably about 45 cents before 2020.
00:22:39.000 Now, I helped found the first and only election integrity public interest law firm, which we founded in 2014, the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
00:22:49.000 I still chair that.
00:22:50.000 And I say to the Hans von Spakovsky from Heritage Foundation, Christian Adams, who's the President General Counsel at the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
00:23:00.000 And I say to them, do you remember when there were, you know, we could fit into a phone booth, those of us who cared about election integrity.
00:23:06.000 And for you young people, we used to have things called phone booths, and you would go and make a phone call and put a quarter in.
00:23:13.000 And they were small.
00:23:14.000 And they were small.
00:23:15.000 And so we don't have those anymore.
00:23:17.000 But I, you know, even since 2020, I would say, You know, if we spent $10 million, $10 to $12 million,
00:23:28.000 Since then, that would probably be about right.
00:23:30.000 So I just hope everyone understands the economy of scale here.
00:23:33.000 On one side, you have a $10 to $15 billion.
00:23:35.000 On the other side, you barely even have 1% of it.
00:23:38.000 Right.
00:23:39.000 And because election integrity has never been a priority in the conservative circles.
00:23:43.000 And also, our side doesn't really understand the 501c3, 501c4.
00:23:46.000 That's a whole separate conversation for a different time.
00:23:50.000 But let's now get into the applicable, because you're going about solving this.
00:23:54.000 So if you were to approximate How many illegals, foreign citizens, are currently either on the voting rolls, receiving ballots, or voting?
00:24:03.000 What does your research show?
00:24:06.000 I don't think we know the answer to that question, Charlie.
00:24:09.000 Here's the reason.
00:24:12.000 Our laws, our election laws, are so porous.
00:24:16.000 That getting on the voter rolls is so easy.
00:24:19.000 And you have states all over the country that have adopted same-day registration and automatic voter registration so that you go to the DMV to get your driver's license.
00:24:29.000 And remember, non-citizens are all allowed to get driver's licenses. 0.87
00:24:35.000 And 19 states have now, based on a push from the ACLU, There are 19 states that now give driver's licenses to illegals.
00:24:47.000 Including Texas.
00:24:48.000 Including Texas.
00:24:50.000 And so one of the things that happens, well, the federal law says that nobody can go on the voter rolls until they have had their identity and their residency confirmed.
00:24:59.000 Well, that's by giving your driver's license number or the last four digits of your social security number.
00:25:05.000 Well, guess what?
00:25:06.000 You don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license.
00:25:09.000 And you don't have to be a citizen to get a social security number.
00:25:13.000 And that's one of the, those are the two checks.
00:25:15.000 But the problem is that law was passed by Congress 22 years ago.
00:25:19.000 And no one dreamed at the time that there would ever come a day in the United States of America where you had, the Census Bureau estimates over 22 million illegals and non-citizens living in this country.
00:25:32.000 So in Arizona, it might be performative, but it's the only state that says non-citizens can't Is that correct? 1.00
00:25:40.000 No, in Arizona, poor Arizona, they've been trying for 20 years.
00:25:48.000 It's a wacky place.
00:25:49.000 It is a wacky place.
00:25:50.000 But the law says that before a person can register to vote in Arizona, this is what the state law says, they have to provide documentary proof of citizenship.
00:26:02.000 You're not going to be allowed to register to vote unless you provide documentary proof of citizenship.
00:26:07.000 Well, that case went to the U.S.
00:26:09.000 Supreme Court in 2013.
00:26:13.000 And because there is a federal law that was passed, Bill Clinton's top priority, number one bill, when he became president in 1993, the National Voter Registration Act requires every state to accept and use the federal voter registration form.
00:26:32.000 And so Arizona said, if we have to use this form, Then we want to be able to put our state's requirements on this form so that we don't have to just accept a checkbox, yes, I'm a citizen, which is what the form has.
00:26:47.000 And the Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Justice Scalia, said Congress didn't require that, the state can't just add it, and neither can the Election Assistance Commission.
00:26:59.000 So guess what exists in Arizona that doesn't exist in any other state?
00:27:05.000 They have two voter rolls.
00:27:07.000 One is the state voter roll for people who have provided proof of citizenship.
00:27:13.000 The other is the federal-only voter rolls.
00:27:17.000 And guess what?
00:27:18.000 Those are the people that get the ballots for President, Congress, and the United States Senate.
00:27:23.000 They're the people who did not provide proof of citizenship.
00:27:27.000 So go think about that for a moment.
00:27:29.000 I just want, you're a very smart audience, everybody listening in the audience here.
00:27:33.000 When you have foreigners that can determine your leaders, you no longer have a country. 1.00
00:27:37.000 It's just the country doesn't, by definition.
00:27:39.000 What are the action items?
00:27:40.000 Talk about your group.
00:27:41.000 What is the solution?
00:27:42.000 Go to www dot Onlycitizensvotecoalition.com.
00:27:49.000 Sign up.
00:27:50.000 We have a whole toolkit.
00:27:52.000 The only way we're going to be able to stop this is by having citizen action, looking at the DMVs, looking at the voter rolls in your county, looking at the voter rolls, watching, and basically creating a national neighborhood watch to try to find these pockets of non-citizens that are getting added to the rolls.
00:28:08.000 And your group is going after this?
00:28:11.000 Yes.
00:28:12.000 And is it mostly in the counties and states?
00:28:14.000 All over.
00:28:17.000 If you were to say, what is the, we're the worst offenders.
00:28:20.000 Wisconsin is really terrible.
00:28:22.000 Wow, that's bad. 0.92
00:28:22.000 Wisconsin is really terrible. 0.92
00:28:24.000 And just so everyone, I don't, you're C3, C4. 0.99
00:28:26.000 You're C3. 0.97
00:28:27.000 Yeah, so I could say this.
00:28:30.000 Foreigners or illegals, they vote like 85% Democrat.
00:28:32.000 We know what's going on here, guys.
00:28:34.000 Okay?
00:28:35.000 So, Kalita, is it impossible to hypothesize the reason they've kept the border open is to potentially benefit themselves politically?
00:28:41.000 That's exactly why they've kept the border open.
00:28:43.000 There's no other explanation for wrecking the country.
00:28:46.000 It's for political power.
00:28:47.000 The real question is why have Republicans let them do that?
00:28:50.000 Good question.
00:28:50.000 That is the question that makes no sense.
00:28:52.000 Cleta, you're amazing.
00:28:53.000 Say the website one more time.
00:28:55.000 www.onlycitizensvotecoalition.com.
00:29:00.000 Go sign up.
00:29:01.000 Get busy in your neighborhoods because it's coming to a neighborhood near you.
00:29:04.000 I want our whole audience to go to that website right now that's watching.
00:29:07.000 Help Cleta out. 1.00
00:29:08.000 Cleta, God bless you. 0.80
00:29:09.000 Thank you.
00:29:12.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:30:12.000 So tell us more about this wonderful organization.
00:30:17.000 So we started a couple of years ago.
00:30:18.000 We've been growing.
00:30:19.000 We have three major programs a year, and we make a lot of our programming free to the community so that families can bring their kids.
00:30:26.000 They can bring their neighbors.
00:30:27.000 They can bring guests and residents who come and visitors who come to Sun Valley.
00:30:32.000 We have a major program this summer that we've launched called the Sun Valley 2024 Summer Institute, which is all about learning about our common values.
00:30:42.000 And we brought in Steve Moore last night, Knocked it out of the park on the economy and Cleta Mitchell talking about election integrity. 0.99
00:30:49.000 Our whole idea is just to give people the fundamental opinions to have conversations with their neighbors and their family members, and then spread that out through their networks throughout the country.
00:31:00.000 I love it.
00:31:01.000 And as I mentioned, you are a nice contrast to the worldview that the oligarchs bring in.
00:31:07.000 That's part of the conversation.
00:31:08.000 Again, that's how I always knew about Sun Valley is just all the tech giants that come here.
00:31:13.000 And when you say constitutional fidelity, they could use some of that.
00:31:16.000 They sure could.
00:31:17.000 And you know what's interesting about that is that I think that next year we're going to be bringing program around major sector ideas like energy security, climate, but understanding what's the free market version of that.
00:31:29.000 What does it look like when you have policies that involve less government, that is not heavily regulated?
00:31:34.000 How can we flourish as a country and have great policy, great ideas, and implement those with new leadership through the private sector and private markets?
00:31:43.000 I love that.
00:31:43.000 Let's talk more broadly about Idaho.
00:31:46.000 They say Idaho is the reddest state in the country.
00:31:48.000 Could be.
00:31:49.000 It could be.
00:31:49.000 It's 80% probably red.
00:31:51.000 So why is it that you don't have the most conservative leaders?
00:31:55.000 You know, it's a great question.
00:31:56.000 I've been asked that a lot.
00:31:58.000 We have incredible on-the-ground local leadership.
00:32:01.000 The best!
00:32:02.000 The grassroots in Idaho are the best in the country.
00:32:04.000 They are.
00:32:04.000 They're on fire and they're really active.
00:32:06.000 In fact, one of the things I love about Blaine County is that as a result of us starting to convene in the last three years as a result of the last couple of elections, people are getting engaged and involved.
00:32:17.000 I've seen so many of our friends who've supported and been part of this programming now are on the ground.
00:32:22.000 They've run for office.
00:32:23.000 They're precinct captains.
00:32:25.000 They are engaged and they've gone to the state conventions.
00:32:28.000 They are doing everything they can to help bring sound leadership to not only our area, but throughout the state.
00:32:36.000 We'll see that change over the next couple of years, I think.
00:32:39.000 Can you talk about the grassroots of Idaho?
00:32:41.000 They're some of the hardest-working, faithful, liberty-loving people in the whole country.
00:32:46.000 And I visit Idaho a couple times a year because of it.
00:32:50.000 Brag on the grassroots of Idaho.
00:32:52.000 It's incredible.
00:32:53.000 They are.
00:32:53.000 Well, they're generational.
00:32:54.000 They're generational, hardworking.
00:32:55.000 Their kids work hard.
00:32:56.000 Everyone I know, anyone I work with actually has, you know, other jobs over there.
00:33:01.000 I mean, when I get on the phone with a county commissioner, he's on a tractor, you know, and he's running cattle.
00:33:07.000 He's doing all kinds of things before they even get up in the morning and then go to work to do something for their community and their town.
00:33:13.000 The one thing I love about Sun Valley that's different than other major mountain resorts like Jackson, Aspen, Vail, Sun Valley, the leadership here is generational in terms of families.
00:33:23.000 Families here in Sun Valley, as I say, they built things and they employ people.
00:33:28.000 It's not that way in other resort towns.
00:33:30.000 These are people who know what it's like to run a business, be successful, and have generational success.
00:33:36.000 Is it fair to say, you know, in Arizona, we say, don't California my Arizona?
00:33:41.000 Are you guys going to have billboards that say, don't Aspen my sun valley?
00:33:44.000 Is that right?
00:33:45.000 I like that.
00:33:46.000 I like that.
00:33:47.000 We call, you know, I'll sort of refrain from what we call everybody entering our state. 0.98
00:33:52.000 No, that's okay.
00:33:53.000 And there is a, I already feel more at home here.
00:33:57.000 I said, you know, I was joking with the great audience we have here.
00:33:59.000 I said, I feel like Aspen.
00:34:00.000 They said, it's just not Aspen.
00:34:02.000 You know, I kind of like this place here.
00:34:03.000 Hey, everybody goes to bed around 8 or 9 o'clock here because we want to be up in the morning and enjoy the gorgeous, glorious weather.
00:34:10.000 Those are my type of people.
00:34:12.000 At sunrise.
00:34:13.000 We are not late-nighters.
00:34:14.000 Our club shut down, even though I will give a shout-out.
00:34:16.000 Your club shut down?
00:34:17.000 Yeah, we do.
00:34:18.000 Even though I will give a shout-out.
00:34:19.000 Aspen keeps opening these degenerate places.
00:34:21.000 Whiskey's on Main is a great spot.
00:34:23.000 In fact, that hosts our Town Hall 208s.
00:34:26.000 On a regular basis, which is open and free to the public.
00:34:28.000 We have great programming, and whiskey does stay up late, but that is our great honky-tonk that delivers live music.
00:34:34.000 It's a great topic that we could talk about another time, which is, and for the national audience to understand, these slivers of heaven that God have given us in America have been polluted by the worst people on the planet, because they've destroyed San Francisco, so they use all their money to go then vacation in Aspen and Vail.
00:34:49.000 And in Sun Valley, you guys are holding the line.
00:34:52.000 I love that.
00:34:52.000 And that is it.
00:34:53.000 That is a very, very important topic.
00:34:55.000 God bless you guys.
00:34:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:00.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.