The Charlie Kirk Show - November 04, 2022


Biden's $90 Trillion Price Tag with Brian Riedl and Gen. Paul Vallely


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Brian Rydel, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute on Budget and Deficits, joins the show to talk about the impact of $114 trillion in deficits over the next 30 years, and how it will affect our economy and our future.

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00:01:50.000 Joining us now is someone who's very smart, and he is from the Manhattan Institute on budget and deficits.
00:01:58.000 And boy, is there a lot of topic?
00:02:00.000 It's a huge topic there.
00:02:02.000 It's Brian Rydel.
00:02:04.000 Apologies if I mispronounce that name, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
00:02:07.000 Brian, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:09.000 Glad to be here.
00:02:10.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:02:11.000 Okay, so talk about the, I mean, I'm a big deficit hawk.
00:02:14.000 I'm a debt hawk.
00:02:15.000 I actually think deficits and debts matter.
00:02:17.000 I know I'm old-fashioned in that way.
00:02:19.000 It's been my most unpopular policy crusade ever, and most unsuccessful policy crusade, I should say, but that's fine because I talk about it a lot and people just roll their eyes.
00:02:29.000 But this is a massive issue.
00:02:31.000 I mean, we're talking about the destruction of our currency, our national security.
00:02:35.000 Walk our audience through the enormity of this issue.
00:02:39.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:02:40.000 I think people don't fully recognize what's about to hit us right now with deficits and debt.
00:02:46.000 President Biden said he's going to reduce deficits.
00:02:49.000 He's actually signed legislation adding $4.8 trillion to 10-year deficits already.
00:02:56.000 So we're already looking at deficits that are going to be heading back towards $2 trillion by the end of the decade.
00:03:02.000 The 30-year numbers are scarier.
00:03:05.000 The Congressional Budget Office projects $114 trillion in deficits over the next 30 years, $114 trillion.
00:03:16.000 And that assumes no spending hikes.
00:03:19.000 It assumes the Trump tax cuts expire, no wars, no recessions.
00:03:24.000 And most importantly, it assumes interest rates don't rise.
00:03:28.000 And as you know, interest rates have been drastically rising.
00:03:32.000 So we are looking at debt levels that could get so high that we, I mean, it'll be nothing we've seen anywhere else.
00:03:41.000 Again, we're looking at over $100 trillion in baseline deficits over the next three decades.
00:03:48.000 And so in deficits or in cumulative debt?
00:03:53.000 The total debt will rise by $114 trillion as a result of that much deficit, that much new borrowing.
00:04:00.000 So the debt right now is about 30 trillion.
00:04:03.000 It's heading to about 145 trillion over the next three decades, which kind of sounds like monopoly money.
00:04:09.000 It does.
00:04:10.000 Yeah.
00:04:10.000 And so this is all interconnected, by the way.
00:04:13.000 So people say, well, how does that impact me?
00:04:16.000 Okay, so your price at the pump, groceries.
00:04:19.000 It actually is directly tied together with the purchasing power of your dollar.
00:04:23.000 Because if the Federal Reserve or the masters of the economy, masters of the universe, they look at the balance sheet and they say, well, we have a couple of ways we can handle a $30 trillion debt.
00:04:33.000 We can cut spending.
00:04:34.000 They're certainly not going to do that.
00:04:36.000 They could raise taxes, which they'll do a little bit of, but you can't raise enough taxes to compensate for that.
00:04:41.000 Or they can inflate their way out of the debt, which is the scariest, but quite honestly, the most realistic or the thing we should expect the most.
00:04:52.000 What is inflating your way out of having a big debt look like?
00:04:56.000 We've seen it in other countries, and it has disastrous results.
00:05:01.000 You're exactly right.
00:05:02.000 At a certain point, the debt gets so big that you would have to double all taxes or eviscerate all spending.
00:05:09.000 And lawmakers aren't going to want to do that. 0.95
00:05:11.000 So what they'll do is what's called fiscal dominance.
00:05:14.000 They will direct the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low so the government can borrow cheap.
00:05:20.000 The way the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates low, they're going to turn on the printing press in that situation.
00:05:26.000 And you can, the inflation can go through the roof.
00:05:29.000 I mean, we've all seen the Weimar Republic, people with cash and wheelbarrows. 0.95
00:05:33.000 I'm not necessarily saying it'll be that bad, but I'm saying inflation is not a free lunch.
00:05:39.000 It actually will make things worse in this situation.
00:05:42.000 Yeah.
00:05:42.000 And so we're left in a set of circumstances where if our leaders don't actually make prudent fiscal decisions and balance the budget, or I mean, we're not going to have a balanced budget in the near future, but at least get this under control.
00:05:55.000 I mean, you could talk about a currency reset.
00:05:58.000 You could talk about the mass elimination of wealth, because then you have such a disconnect between actual asset prices and the amount of dollar bills.
00:06:06.000 So no one actually knows what anything is worth because everything is, I mean, there was this story in the 1970s when we had mass inflation where, you know, you used to go buy feed, you know, if you're a rancher, and literally they would cross out prices on the feed bags because over a week, because they couldn't keep up with the inflation so quickly.
00:06:27.000 So talk just more, just expand on this more.
00:06:29.000 The reckless deficit spending that our regime has been focused on in both political parties the last 20 years is finally materializing in Americans' pocketbooks.
00:06:42.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:06:43.000 I mean, it's 20 to 30 years of not caring at all about deficits is catching up to us.
00:06:48.000 And this is the result of Republicans and Democrats.
00:06:51.000 Mainly, it's actually driven by Social Security and Medicare.
00:06:54.000 The Social Security and Medicare systems are going to run $116 trillion shortfall over the next 30 years.
00:07:02.000 That's basically the entire deficit.
00:07:04.000 And so if we don't reform that, you have huge deficits, which can lead to huge inflation if we try to monetize it.
00:07:13.000 But here's something even scarier.
00:07:15.000 Interest rates are rising.
00:07:17.000 And that number I told you about $114 trillion over 30 years, that assumes low interest rates.
00:07:24.000 And here's a scary statistic.
00:07:26.000 Every percentage point that interest rates will rise for the government is going to add $30 trillion in interest costs over 30 years.
00:07:36.000 So these numbers assume 4% interest rates.
00:07:40.000 If interest rates instead settle at 5%, it's not going to be $114 trillion.
00:07:45.000 It's going to be $144 trillion over 30 years.
00:07:48.000 Again, the numbers are too big to comprehend, which is why we have to make sure this doesn't happen.
00:07:52.000 Yeah, no kidding.
00:07:54.000 So, what are some of the actual fiscal reforms that could be entertained to do this?
00:07:58.000 Because I hear from politicians, it's impossible.
00:08:01.000 We can't do this.
00:08:02.000 What are actually some of the policy proposals that can go about actually getting this under control?
00:08:07.000 First step, stop digging.
00:08:09.000 Stop the spending spree.
00:08:10.000 President Biden's $4.8 trillion in 10-year costs.
00:08:14.000 I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit.
00:08:16.000 People talk about waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:08:18.000 That can help.
00:08:19.000 It's not going to save enough money.
00:08:22.000 People talk about pulling back funding for Ukraine, foreign aid.
00:08:25.000 None of those are going to make enough of a difference.
00:08:28.000 Additionally, when the left says tax the rich or cut defense, you can tax the rich 100% and zero out the Pentagon.
00:08:36.000 It ain't going to come close.
00:08:37.000 Ultimately, you have to reform Social Security and Medicare because, as I said, the entire long-term deficit is because the Social Security and Medicare systems are going to run $116 trillion shortfall.
00:08:51.000 We're not saying kick people off Social Security and Medicare, but we're going to have to look at raising the eligibility age, slightly trimming benefits for people at the top.
00:09:00.000 You can protect people at the bottom, but you can't continue the Social Security and Medicare systems at their current rate because there's not enough spending to cut or taxes to hike outside of that system.
00:09:12.000 If we move now, we can do it gradually and not hit poor seniors, or we can wait 10 years and have to do something drastic to people who've already retired.
00:09:23.000 Yeah, and that's, it also takes political will, though, as well, right?
00:09:27.000 I mean, we've had these debates for a while, and it just doesn't seem to be happening.
00:09:31.000 It's the metaphorical kicking the can down the road, generational theft and all of that.
00:09:36.000 But it has civilizational implications all the way across the board.
00:09:40.000 And then you're going to have stagnant economic growth because of this, too, right?
00:09:45.000 Yeah, well, exactly.
00:09:46.000 When the deficit gets this big, it raises interest rates, which means your taxes go up to pay more interest on the debt, and there's less business investment.
00:09:57.000 There's fewer home loans.
00:09:58.000 There's fewer car loans because the government is soaking up all the savings and spending it themselves.
00:10:04.000 But, you know, you hit on an important point of how hard it is to have a national conversation on this.
00:10:10.000 Because if you turn on Twitter or listen to the president for five minutes, he is completely panicking that some Republicans have said we probably need to take a look at Social Security and Medicare before they go bankrupt.
00:10:23.000 Sounds pretty basic, but these programs are heading towards bankruptcy.
00:10:27.000 If we want to preserve them, we should take a look at them.
00:10:30.000 And instead, you have the Lincoln Project running ads saying Republicans are going to eliminate Social Security and Medicare and kick off seniors in January.
00:10:38.000 This is why we can't have a nice rational conversation on this because the president and his allies are demagoguing it.
00:10:45.000 Yeah, and it's so, I mean, it's just robbery of future generations if you can't have a conversation on how to balance budgets and all this.
00:10:53.000 And then we bail out the blue states that have recklessly borrowed money for years.
00:10:58.000 It's just terrible.
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00:12:01.000 We're getting a lot of different emails here.
00:12:03.000 I just want to say one thing.
00:12:04.000 We had an email here from a great listener, Kim.
00:12:06.000 She said, leave our social security benefits alone.
00:12:09.000 I think that's exactly right.
00:12:11.000 I think what we're talking about is potentially future conversations and changes to make it solvent and to make it there for future generations.
00:12:19.000 But don't want to misinterpret what we are, what we're saying here.
00:12:26.000 I want to welcome Brian back to the program.
00:12:26.000 Okay.
00:12:28.000 Brian, so we kind of look at these issues here.
00:12:32.000 What's so interesting is that for every dollar you have to spend servicing the debt is a dollar you can't spend on something else, which hilariously left-wingers should be really worried about, right?
00:12:43.000 Because they want to fund all these different things.
00:12:45.000 But what percentage of our budget will be spent actually just servicing the debt, not even paying the principal, just the interest?
00:12:54.000 Yeah, the interest is rising right now as interest rates rise.
00:12:57.000 Right now, it's about 10% of all federal spending, but it's going to get a lot worse.
00:13:03.000 Let me throw some scary numbers.
00:13:05.000 Even if you just assume the baseline, a couple decades from now, you'll be paying half of your taxes will be going to interest on the debt.
00:13:14.000 If interest rates rise one more point, two-thirds of your taxes will pay interest on the debt.
00:13:20.000 And if interest rates rise two points, 100% of your taxes will be paying interest on the debt.
00:13:25.000 It's going to become within a couple, within about two decades, the single biggest part of the entire federal budget.
00:13:32.000 And again, even that's under low interest rates, because when you have that much debt, it doesn't take much of an interest rate rise to push the cost through the roof.
00:13:41.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:13:42.000 Okay, I want to play a piece of tape here, cut 81 and get your reaction to it.
00:13:46.000 Play cut 81.
00:13:47.000 No one's ever reduced the debt that much.
00:13:50.000 We cut the federal debt in half.
00:13:52.000 Okay, so he keeps on saying this.
00:13:54.000 Now, he hasn't cut the debt at all.
00:13:56.000 There's a difference between debts and deficits, but that's kind of like saying, you know, I really started to, I ate five Whoppers for the last six months and now I only eat two and a half.
00:14:06.000 Well, it's like, okay, wait, you increased up to five and now you're at two and a half.
00:14:10.000 That doesn't, you've increased it and then you get to take credit for cutting it.
00:14:14.000 Yeah, what the president did, this is amazingly cynical.
00:14:18.000 He pushed up the 2021 deficit with the huge American Rescue Plan.
00:14:23.000 It was a $1.9 trillion bill to push the deficit way back up, well over $2.5 trillion.
00:14:31.000 And then when his own spending bill expired the next year, he patted himself on the back for deficit reduction.
00:14:39.000 Let's look at this realistically.
00:14:41.000 This year's deficit that just ended was 40% higher than what the deficit was before the pandemic.
00:14:48.000 So if you ignore the pandemic spending, which spiked up and then spiked back down, we're still 40% higher than we were before the pandemic.
00:14:57.000 And he's patting himself on the back as a deficit reducer.
00:15:00.000 It's absurd.
00:15:01.000 It really is.
00:15:03.000 Cut 107, Nancy Pelosi says that inflation is a global phenomenon. 0.87
00:15:07.000 It has nothing to do with our own fiscal policy.
00:15:09.000 Play Cut 107.
00:15:11.000 The fact is, is that when I hear people talk about inflation, as I heard them there, we have to change that subject.
00:15:17.000 Inflation is a global phenomenon.
00:15:20.000 It's not, the fight is not about inflation.
00:15:23.000 It's about the cost of living.
00:15:25.000 And so, yeah, I don't even know how to make sense of that, but America willingly contributed to spending six or seven trillion dollars unnecessarily.
00:15:36.000 Is that right?
00:15:37.000 Yeah, inflation is a global phenomenon in part because a lot of other countries made the same mistake we did.
00:15:44.000 But inflation, the inflation has been worse in the United States because of policies like the American Rescue Plan, like the tariffs, the Buy America provisions, the oil and gas limitations, the rest of the runaway spending, the ethanol mandates, and on and on.
00:16:03.000 And don't listen to me.
00:16:04.000 The Federal Reserve of San Francisco did a study that said the American Rescue Plan alone added three percentage points to the inflation rate.
00:16:14.000 Yes.
00:16:14.000 That's not me.
00:16:15.000 That's the Federal Reserve saying that.
00:16:17.000 And that doesn't count the infrastructure bill.
00:16:19.000 It doesn't count all this other stuff on top of the baseline of an overly inflated federal budget.
00:16:24.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:16:25.000 When we already had supply constrained because of the pandemic, we already had supply constraints.
00:16:30.000 Adding $1.9 trillion of new demand when there's no supply is economic malpractice.
00:16:36.000 Of course, it was going to drive inflation.
00:16:39.000 Brian Riedel, thank you so much.
00:16:40.000 Really appreciate it.
00:16:41.000 Manhattan Institute does terrific work, especially on crime.
00:16:44.000 I love what you guys publish every year on crime.
00:16:46.000 It's super important.
00:16:47.000 Thanks for the great commentary.
00:16:48.000 Appreciate it.
00:16:49.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:16:49.000 Thank you.
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00:17:54.000 I've known Paul Valley for a while.
00:17:56.000 He's a great American.
00:17:57.000 I got to tell you, he has the standupamericaus.org.
00:18:01.000 In fact, Paul hosted me in the beautiful flathead region, Kalispell, Montana, right before the lockdowns.
00:18:11.000 Paul, do you remember that?
00:18:12.000 That we had that big event?
00:18:14.000 Well, I do.
00:18:15.000 And it was the largest event in the United States with almost 600 people that we had.
00:18:22.000 And after that, within 24 hours, it's like the whole country shut down.
00:18:26.000 That's right.
00:18:27.000 The events or gatherings.
00:18:29.000 Yeah, factual.
00:18:30.000 It was the largest thing.
00:18:31.000 No one was doing anything.
00:18:32.000 And we were in Montana.
00:18:33.000 We said, hey, we might as well organize and gather.
00:18:37.000 So, Paul, you got a lot of things that you could talk about.
00:18:40.000 I want to just kind of share a concern I have.
00:18:42.000 You're retired Major General, great American patriot.
00:18:45.000 You've done a lot of great things for America, and thank you for that.
00:18:48.000 But I'm very worried about our military readiness.
00:18:50.000 This is one of my concerns about us bumbling into a proxy war in Ukraine: I just don't trust our people in charge.
00:18:57.000 Paul, is that a fair thing to believe to say that our military is not properly being led, equipped, or ready for a kinetic conflict against a major power?
00:19:07.000 Charlie, I think that's an understatement.
00:19:10.000 Retention is down considerably, re-enlistments, the troops downline.
00:19:17.000 They understand what's going on with these woke generals and admirals like General Milley and the other others who have bought into this.
00:19:25.000 And so they're more concerned about equity, diversity training, CRT critical race theory training.
00:19:34.000 And it's permeated, Charlie, all the way down to the academies, West Point, Coast Guard Academy, Annapolis, Air Force Academy.
00:19:42.000 And so it's real.
00:19:43.000 It's very real.
00:19:44.000 And I get an update almost every day on the military, but we have got to remove almost all of these generals because they came in under the Obama cloak when Obama basically purged 120 senior officers.
00:19:57.000 So the officers you see now were colonels then.
00:20:00.000 Now they're generals and they're all Obama followers.
00:20:04.000 And so there's a dilemma.
00:20:05.000 I get this question asked all the time, Paul, and I'd love your wisdom on it.
00:20:09.000 I don't have a good answer.
00:20:10.000 Where young men, 17, 18 years old and their families come up to me and they want to serve America.
00:20:15.000 And they say, Charlie, should I?
00:20:17.000 And it's hard for me to answer because I don't want them.
00:20:20.000 I don't want to deter them from service to America.
00:20:22.000 I think it's honorable and heroic to have duty to your nation.
00:20:27.000 At the same time, I don't feel confident to send some of these young men into the current apparatus that is the United States military, which is just becoming a social experiment.
00:20:38.000 What advice would you give to them?
00:20:39.000 What's your response to that, Paul?
00:20:41.000 We have to restore it, Charlie, and we have to have new leadership.
00:20:45.000 That's why a new president selecting new generals and admirals who go by the code duty honor and country, which we learned at West Point, as you know, and have taken their oath.
00:20:55.000 And they have basically subjugated themselves to inferior set of officers.
00:21:01.000 And that was the hallmark of that was the surrender in Afghanistan.
00:21:06.000 The troops saw this.
00:21:07.000 They understood what these generals and admirals were doing and not doing.
00:21:11.000 And so we have a restoration, a reconstruction, a renewal, just like our Constitution and our government.
00:21:18.000 We've got to restore it, Charlie.
00:21:19.000 That's the only way.
00:21:20.000 There's too many threats against this country.
00:21:22.000 Yeah, no kidding.
00:21:23.000 And so, I mean, right now we have a lot of people that are wondering whether or not to enlist or what to do while they're within it.
00:21:30.000 And so it really does come down to the president, doesn't it?
00:21:33.000 Is there a role Congress going to have in the meantime if we take back the House and the Senate?
00:21:37.000 Well, we do have about four representatives in Congress and the Senate who are going to do investigations into the continued vaccine of our troops, where we have found a tremendous amount of illness and even deaths within the military.
00:21:53.000 And so from that standpoint, we have set up a legal support fund for the troops.
00:22:00.000 But this mandatory vaccine and everything, these young, healthy people don't want it and they're being forced to do it, which is a violation, in my opinion, the Nuremberg Codes of 1947.
00:22:12.000 Totally.
00:22:12.000 Yes.
00:22:13.000 I mean, it just is infuriating to me where you take the most masculine, the most dedicated, the most courageous population, and they're the ones that you have to force an experimental shot on.
00:22:28.000 I mean, I got to be honest, it's one of the most maddening issues that just really hadn't got the hearing it deserved.
00:22:35.000 Do you agree?
00:22:36.000 No, it doesn't.
00:22:37.000 That's why we've got Congressman Waltz and a number of others that will be conducting immediate hearings in the halls of Congress.
00:22:48.000 But they've got to put enough pressure on the administration to back off.
00:22:53.000 Let's strengthen our armed forces.
00:22:55.000 Let's recruit.
00:22:56.000 And there's a lack of patriotism now, Charlie.
00:22:59.000 Another thing in the country.
00:23:00.000 A lot of parents don't even want their children, young men and women, to go into the military.
00:23:05.000 So there's a lot of different effects on what the status of the military in readiness is right now.
00:23:10.000 Yeah, no kidding.
00:23:11.000 I mean, it is widespread and it's a serious threat.
00:23:16.000 And part of this is the wokeism stuff that's within it.
00:23:19.000 I mean, and just explain to us, though, Paul, how does someone like Mark Milley get in charge of the armed forces?
00:23:26.000 He seems to be more, he seems to be closer to a university president or a college professor than the head of the greatest fighting force the world has ever known.
00:23:34.000 Can you just speak to a little bit of how these hyper-ideological academics have found their way into the United States military?
00:23:42.000 It's very confusing to a lot of people.
00:23:44.000 Yeah, well, Milley's a Princeton graduate.
00:23:47.000 That's all I'm going to do.
00:23:47.000 Well, there you go.
00:23:49.000 That tells you what you need to know.
00:23:51.000 He's not a West Point graduate, but Gordon Austin's a West Point graduate.
00:23:55.000 So when you go back, even to the Clinton years when they started politicizing the promotions of generals at the Pentagon, we then go up all through the way to Obama, which I had mentioned earlier, purged almost 120 senior officers.
00:24:09.000 Purse and right out, these were colonels on the bottom.
00:24:11.000 And so what happened now, you had these majors, lieutenant colonels who got promoted under Obama.
00:24:17.000 That's when they started getting this locism.
00:24:22.000 Of course, locism wasn't the term used back then, but they started becoming hydrologs.
00:24:28.000 It's Marxism, is what it is.
00:24:29.000 It's Marxism.
00:24:30.000 Exactly.
00:24:31.000 Yeah, camouflaged as social justice or racial justice.
00:24:34.000 But Paul, you deserve credit.
00:24:36.000 When I first met you about 10 years ago at David Horatz Freedom Center, David's a great American patriot.
00:24:40.000 I love him.
00:24:41.000 I hope to see you next week too, Paul, if you're coming down to the event.
00:24:45.000 I remember you came up to me and you grabbed my arm and you said there are Marxists in our military and in our government.
00:24:51.000 And you were right.
00:24:52.000 It is widespread and it really just blows people away that you would think the military would be the one place that this stuff wouldn't be able to get a hearing.
00:25:02.000 Well, they're concerned about promotions.
00:25:04.000 They're concerned about will they get a job in the defense industry?
00:25:08.000 Even the defense industry contract crackers are following this locism and mandatory vaccine.
00:25:15.000 So it's all connected.
00:25:17.000 So it's what we'll call go along and get along, Charlie.
00:25:22.000 And that's what they're doing.
00:25:23.000 We haven't had one general yet stand up to be counted.
00:25:27.000 We've had lieutenant colonels like Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeyer and a few others, Teresa Long, out of the Army, flight surgeon, but none of the senior officers, not a full colonel or above or admiral, have stood up against this.
00:25:41.000 Not one.
00:25:43.000 Yes.
00:25:44.000 And so let's focus on foreign interference.
00:25:48.000 So a report came out that Mark Milley got on the phone and gave the Chinese Communist Party military leadership.
00:25:58.000 Again, this story didn't get anywhere near the coverage that it deserved.
00:26:02.000 He gave them a heads up saying, hey, just so you know, we're not going to attack you.
00:26:07.000 Or if we are, I'll give you a call.
00:26:09.000 Something like that.
00:26:09.000 You could fill in the details.
00:26:10.000 I'm drawing from memory here.
00:26:11.000 How is that not treason against the United States?
00:26:14.000 It is treason.
00:26:15.000 Aiding and abetting an enemy.
00:26:17.000 Aiding by giving him information that I'll have your backside if our president makes a decision to attack not Taiwan, but China in any way.
00:26:28.000 And so that's aiding and abetting the enemy.
00:26:30.000 It's treason.
00:26:32.000 And he needs to be charged with treason.
00:26:34.000 And then his compatriots that follow along also.
00:26:39.000 But time will tell.
00:26:40.000 They're going to get their due someday, Charlie.
00:26:43.000 Believe me.
00:26:44.000 I mean, they need to.
00:26:45.000 I mean, this is.
00:26:46.000 I mean, how significant is the infiltration of foreign powers into our military?
00:26:55.000 Big time.
00:26:56.000 And they get in through the gates of the defense contractors, the big companies.
00:27:01.000 Look at all the Wall Street companies that are listed now, Raytheon, for example, and others.
00:27:06.000 So they come in the back door.
00:27:08.000 They also get into our schools, into our campuses.
00:27:11.000 And there you have what, ROTC going on, Air Force, ROTC, Navy.
00:27:15.000 So they've infiltrated all of those levels within our government and within our educational system.
00:27:22.000 We even have come up with some intel that they've infiltrated the academies to some degree.
00:27:28.000 So it's real, this infiltration.
00:27:30.000 But let me give you one aside here.
00:27:32.000 Please do.
00:27:32.000 Let's talk about, if you let me just talk about the border.
00:27:36.000 I wrote the plan for the Pentagon to take down the cartels.
00:27:40.000 I asked the Pentagon, give me your plan for neutralizing the cartels.
00:27:45.000 because it's a national security problem, just not a homeland security.
00:27:50.000 None of them, they don't even have a plan to take out the cartels, but yeah, we're pouring billions into Ukraine.
00:27:55.000 Figure that out.
00:27:56.000 I mean, it's unbelievable.
00:27:58.000 And actually, Paul, I've never talked to you about the Ukrainian issue.
00:28:01.000 My thoughts are well publicized.
00:28:02.000 I think we're making a mistake by sending money there, especially to our great leadership.
00:28:05.000 Do you agree with that?
00:28:07.000 Oh, I agree 100%.
00:28:09.000 If Trump was there, it would have never happened in the negotiated with Putin.
00:28:14.000 I'm now working on a group to represent the United States to call a ceasefire in Ukraine.
00:28:22.000 And we're working on that behind the scenes now.
00:28:25.000 I got word that Putin will.
00:28:27.000 He'll keep the four provinces and Crimea, but he's willing to sit down and stop this.
00:28:33.000 But he wants somebody from the Biden government to step up and meet with him in Vienna.
00:28:38.000 Yeah, but I actually think the Biden government wants this to continue.
00:28:41.000 It pays the bills of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.
00:28:48.000 Paul, tell us about your book and also give, send, go.
00:28:53.000 This is the second book on what we call Endgame.
00:28:57.000 Our first book with General McMahon, myself, and General McInerney was Endgame Blueprint for Victory for Defeating Terrorism.
00:29:05.000 This one is the Blueprint for Victory, Restoring America.
00:29:09.000 And the whole first chapter is dedicated to the spiritual awakening of America.
00:29:13.000 We have to have that as a basis before we can move forward and restore the country and constitution.
00:29:19.000 But this lays it all out.
00:29:20.000 America's Endgame for the 21st Century.
00:29:23.000 I love that.
00:29:24.000 It's so important.
00:29:25.000 And so people can find that book just in stores or, I mean, in Amazon or whatever.
00:29:30.000 That's on Amazon.
00:29:31.000 I have three books on there.
00:29:33.000 The other one is Reality Prism and The Mindless War, the Information Warfare Program.
00:29:38.000 The Mindless War and Reality Prism, the two other books I have out now.
00:29:43.000 So let's get to a, I want to talk about the midterms here, Paul.
00:29:46.000 What do you think is the kind of major message of the midterms when it comes to some of these things we're talking about here?
00:29:54.000 Charlie, I'm going to break something to you that I just got this morning from our intelligence group.
00:30:00.000 The word is the Democrats are going to go full aisle out on exercising Hammer and Scorecard, which is a cybersecurity platform that Obama sold to the Chinese, and they're going to go full force on it. 0.87
00:30:13.000 We understand they used it in Brazil last week.
00:30:16.000 So don't assume that this red wave is going to go down nice and sharp.
00:30:22.000 They're going to do everything to cheat and to cause a cyber attack on some of these polling stations, just like they did in 2020.
00:30:32.000 So be alert for that.
00:30:33.000 We'll see what happens.
00:30:35.000 So let me ask you, though, do you think that having people show up in person is a way to help overwhelm the system?
00:30:41.000 Absolutely.
00:30:43.000 And is that the only way to do that?
00:30:47.000 I think it is.
00:30:48.000 That's what we need to do.
00:30:49.000 One day, everybody goes and votes.
00:30:52.000 These mail-in ballots, I mean, we have them in Montana here.
00:30:55.000 They're fairly secure.
00:30:57.000 But when you have ballot harvesting going on, then that just lays out the whole carpet for cheating and fraudulent voting.
00:31:06.000 And so just I just pray that everybody's doing their job at the precincts, Charlie, and we're on top of everything, realizing there's going to be a big attack on the day of the election by the Demons.
00:31:17.000 You're going to do everything they can to pull it out.
00:31:19.000 So you got to show up and make sure you use a paper ballot in person, right?
00:31:23.000 Is that correct?
00:31:24.000 That's correct.
00:31:25.000 Okay.
00:31:26.000 Well, let's play a piece of tape here.
00:31:29.000 Very important.
00:31:30.000 And I want to play this one right here.
00:31:33.000 Let's go to cut 20.
00:31:37.000 Digging deeper here, we've got some all-time midterm highs that should serve as red flags for the Democrats.
00:31:43.000 The wrong track, 71%, all-time midterm high since we've been polling.
00:31:48.000 How about presidential approved disapproval on the economy sitting at 57%?
00:31:53.000 Again, we hadn't recorded that ever that high in our poll.
00:31:58.000 And the third one, the direction of the economy.
00:31:59.000 In the next year, is it going to get better or worse?
00:32:01.000 50% say it's going to get worse again.
00:32:04.000 An all-time high in midterm polling.
00:32:08.000 So it looks like it's trending in the right direction.
00:32:09.000 Your thoughts, Paul?
00:32:11.000 It absolutely is.
00:32:12.000 And it's a clean election as best we can do it.
00:32:15.000 It will be a red wave.
00:32:17.000 But you know, Charlie, that's just the beginning when we take the House and Senate.
00:32:22.000 I say constitutional patriots taking the House and Senate.
00:32:25.000 Now, what are you going to do with Biden?
00:32:27.000 Biden is, he's promised to come out and said, well, whatever the Republicans do, I'm going to veto it.
00:32:33.000 But I understand also there's a move to have Kamala Harris step down. 1.00
00:32:36.000 She's going to be paid big bucks to do it. 1.00
00:32:38.000 They're going to move somebody in as VP and then pull Biden down after the election. 0.94
00:32:43.000 So those are some of the scenarios out there we're watching very carefully.
00:32:47.000 Very, very important.
00:32:48.000 How about that?
00:32:49.000 Yeah.
00:32:50.000 Well, Paul, thank you so much for your time.
00:32:53.000 God bless you, man.
00:32:54.000 See you next week.
00:32:56.000 Okay.
00:32:56.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:32:57.000 Thanks.
00:33:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:01.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:04.000 Thank you so much for listening.
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