The Charlie Kirk Show - Biden's Border Bribery Plan

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00:03:20.000 We have Vivek Ramaswamy with us.

00:03:22.000 Vivek, I want to get into the invasion on the southern border.

00:03:26.000 There's a new story out of the Washington Post that shows that Joe Biden is meeting with the president of Mexico to effectively bribe Mexico to slow down the invasion until after the election.

00:03:35.000 Vivek, your reaction.

00:03:37.000 Well, look, I think it makes total sense, Charlie.

00:03:39.000 It's about incentives.

00:03:40.000 Forget conspiracy theories.

00:03:42.000 Just talk about the alignment of incentives here.

00:03:44.000 The very people who are in favor of effectively open border policies at the southern border are also the very people who are also opposed to voter ID requirements, to lowering the requirements to vote.

00:03:55.000 That's not an accident.

00:03:56.000 It's an electoral strategy.

00:03:58.000 And if you look back to 2012, 2013, prominent Democrats were arguing this in academic essays and political magazine.

00:04:05.000 The likes of Biden, even Maorcas, Stacey Abrams, and others have said this is part of their lasting electoral majorities.

00:04:12.000 Now you put a label on that, you call it the great replacement theory, and it gets labeled a conspiracy theory.

00:04:16.000 The reality is it's just plain incentives hiding in plain sight.

00:04:20.000 They want to import long-run voters and stop the export of people who would have otherwise voted for them as well.

00:04:25.000 That's why they're against the deportations. 0.56

00:04:27.000 It's why they're favoring the mass migration.

00:04:29.000 And we got to see through it to solve the problem.

00:04:32.000 Well, and it's also, it's outright bribery.

00:04:34.000 The question is, Biden thinks this will work.

00:04:37.000 He knows the Biden, he knows the border is a huge issue.

00:04:39.000 So he's literally giving tens of billions of dollars under the table to the Mexican government.

00:04:44.000 And it shows, Vivek, this problem can be solved.

00:04:47.000 It is not some sort of abstraction.

00:04:50.000 This can be solved.

00:04:51.000 The country that put a man on the moon can solve this problem, right?

00:04:54.000 Man-made problems have man-made solutions, Charlie.

00:04:57.000 Putting man on Mars, that's a problem of nature.

00:05:00.000 And maybe we'll solve it soon and maybe we won't.

00:05:02.000 But this is a clearly man-made problem.

00:05:04.000 We've created the incentives for people to be here illegally.

00:05:06.000 You want to stop the border crisis? 0.81

00:05:08.000 Here's how you do it.

00:05:08.000 Aquatic barriers in the Rio Grande.

00:05:11.000 Put our own military on our own southern border, which people forget even Bill Clinton did.

00:05:16.000 Actually, you had parts of the U.S. military stationed on the southern border.

00:05:19.000 You can't do that today.

00:05:20.000 They say, yes, we can.

00:05:22.000 Complete the wall.

00:05:23.000 Stop giving money to Central American countries until each of them blockade their own borders from Venezuela to the southern border of Texas. 0.99

00:05:30.000 End birthright citizenship for the kids of illegals. 0.99

00:05:33.000 Stop funding sanctuary cities and then take the millions who are here and start deporting them to their country of origin. 1.00

00:05:38.000 Problem solved.

00:05:40.000 It's not complicated.

00:05:40.000 It's not a question of technical solutions.

00:05:43.000 It's a question of willpower.

00:05:45.000 It's a question of do we actually want to do it?

00:05:47.000 And the people in charge right now, to the contrary, have an incentive, including an electoral incentive to keep the crisis intact.

00:05:56.000 It's their best chance of securing electoral majorities.

00:05:58.000 Well, why is it that our leaders are so reluctant or willing to actually solve the problem, Vivek?

00:06:04.000 I mean, you've spent time now around the political class.

00:06:06.000 You just gave a great speech, by the way, to 250 of our top donors.

00:06:09.000 They loved you.

00:06:10.000 Those are patriotic donors.

00:06:11.000 Those are the good ones in the movement that love the country.

00:06:14.000 But why do we not have the willpower?

00:06:16.000 We do have the willpower of Vivek to set up an office.

00:06:19.000 We the people do. 0.99

00:06:19.000 Yeah, no, but no, no, I'm saying the leaders have the willpower to set up offices in Turkey and in Doha to make sure that more Gazan Hamas people can come into the country. 0.99

00:06:30.000 We have the willpower to make sure Zelensky gets his money. 0.80

00:06:32.000 We have the willpower to make sure the FBI gets a new building.

00:06:36.000 Why don't we have the willpower to do the most fundamental thing, which is to make sure we still have a nation? 0.66

00:06:41.000 We had the willpower to invade Iraq. 0.58

00:06:43.000 It could go straight down the list. 0.97

00:06:44.000 We have the willpower to mount invasions.

00:06:46.000 We don't have the willpower to stop the invasion of our own border.

00:06:49.000 No, actually, we the people do.

00:06:51.000 The problem is actually the people in charge have incentives to be able to do deals with each other, right?

00:06:56.000 So the interventionist crowd, which includes, Charlie, let's be honest, Republicans and Democrats alike, have a hierarchy of priorities.

00:07:04.000 So many of those Republicans who innately would be on the other side of the border issue as centrist Democrats or even left-wing Democrats, you know, all else equal, even those centrist milk toasted Republicans.

00:07:14.000 I guess all else equal wouldn't like a border invasion at our own southern border.

00:07:17.000 But a much higher priority for them is keeping that interventionist foreign policy agenda intact.

00:07:22.000 And so what you have is them effectively doing a quiet deal with the centrist left, the institutional uniparty Democrat variety of it to say that, okay, that's a higher priority for us.

00:07:33.000 So if you get on board with that agenda and we have a bipartisan consensus to invade countries like Iraq and the Middle East to fork over more money to Ukraine to continue never-ending wars, that's a higher priority for us, in which case we're going to turn a blind eye on the southern border, which is the priority incrementally of the left.

00:07:49.000 And of course, it's a priority of the left because that helps them get longer lasting electoral majorities.

00:07:53.000 So it's kind of this weird arranged marriage, actually, between the pro-war interventionist institutional wings of both parties that allow each one to have a tit-for-tat trade that allows the American people to suffer as a consequence.

00:08:06.000 What you're saying, Vivek, is different, though, than what the consensus is you hear from the puppeteers and propagandists on the media.

00:08:13.000 They say, oh, we've never been more divided.

00:08:15.000 What you're saying is actually that agreement, not disagreement, is at the center of gravity in the kingdom of Washington, D.C.

00:08:23.000 Yes, and it's two layers of agreement.

00:08:25.000 One's a dark side of it and one's the bright side of it.

00:08:27.000 The dark side of the agreement is the institutional class in Washington, D.C., the people who we supposedly elect to represent the American people, are not representing the American people, in many cases in both political parties.

00:08:38.000 So in a weird sense, the worst decisions we're making in Washington, D.C. right now are actually the bipartisan ones.

00:08:44.000 There was bipartisanship around expanding FISA 702.

00:08:47.000 It was not reauthorizing it.

00:08:48.000 It was expanding it.

00:08:49.000 I'm going to call out what it is.

00:08:50.000 Bipartisan consensuses around forking over more money to Ukraine.

00:08:54.000 Those are bipartisanship and action.

00:08:57.000 And yet the other side, Charlie, is we're as a people not nearly as divided as we're taught to be.

00:09:02.000 I've gone to the south side of Chicago.

00:09:04.000 I've gone to inner cities across this country, mostly black, supposedly mostly Democrat audiences who are dead set against, every bit as much as you and I, against forking over that money to Ukraine, against the idea of an infiltration of our own southern border.

00:09:17.000 And so the people of this country are way more united than they'd have us believe.

00:09:21.000 And ironically, the leaders in Washington, D.C. are way more united than they'd have us believe.

00:09:26.000 It's just that they're united against the interests of we, the people.

00:09:29.000 That's the perversion of this whole nightmare.

00:09:31.000 And you got to see it to believe it.

00:09:33.000 But once you do see it, you can't unsee it.

00:09:35.000 And that's one of the things I've learned over the last year.

00:09:37.000 I totally agree with you.

00:09:38.000 As you know, I talk to a lot of different people and we're best known for our campus events that are going super viral right now, the most viral we've ever been.

00:09:46.000 And outside of a couple, you know, lunatic fringe students, 95% we can come to agreement.

00:09:52.000 We can come to clarity.

00:09:54.000 We can come to consensus that even the ones who think they're on the radical left, opening their eyes to how that is now the party of the oligarchy.

00:10:02.000 And I want to talk about that, Vivek.

00:10:03.000 As I mentioned, you did a wonderful job speaking to our donors this last weekend.

00:10:07.000 We have over 300,000 donors at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.

00:10:11.000 But it's important to remind people that the left is the party of the well-connected, of the closer to the power center than the Republican Party.

00:10:21.000 Two questions, Vivek.

00:10:23.000 Number one, is that a trend that will continue?

00:10:26.000 Number two, how do we close the funding gap as conservatives, which I'm sure is something you've thought about, which is the benefit of being the party of plumbers, electricians, and welders is that there's more of you.

00:10:38.000 The downside is that it's harder to raise money from those folks that are getting crushed by inflation and are basically being abused by their corporate masters.

00:10:46.000 Vivek, your thoughts.

00:10:47.000 So a couple of things.

00:10:48.000 I think young people are hungry for direction and purpose, Charlie.

00:10:51.000 It's not that they're against what we stand for.

00:10:54.000 It's that our Republican Party has failed to actually give them an alternative vision that we actually stand for ourselves.

00:11:00.000 We can't just sit around criticizing the other side and their endless hypocrisies.

00:11:04.000 We have to offer an alternative vision.

00:11:06.000 And I think now's a good moment to do it.

00:11:07.000 Because if you're 18 years old and 19 years old, what do you want?

00:11:10.000 You want to stick it to the man.

00:11:11.000 You want to stick it to the system.

00:11:13.000 And 20 years ago, that was being woke, talking about systemic racism and invisible societal injustices.

00:11:18.000 That began as a challenge to the system.

00:11:21.000 Now that has become the system. 0.67

00:11:23.000 And so now if you really want to stick it to the man on a college campus, try going to Columbia and calling yourself a conservative and say you want to get married to somebody of the opposite gender and have kids and stay married. 0.87

00:11:33.000 Boy, is that going to be countercultural today, right? 0.99

00:11:35.000 That's the new hippie move.

00:11:36.000 That's actually the new countercultural move.

00:11:38.000 That's how you stick it to the man today.

00:11:40.000 And so I do think that that tidal wave is coming amongst people in age 19, 20, 21 age group, which is different even than you're in my vintage, which I think is a little bit of a shift that not many people see coming.

00:11:52.000 People like you and I who are going to college campuses do see it.

00:11:54.000 And so I think that's an opportunity that the Republican Party, you know, largely has been a party for the last 20 years.

00:12:00.000 It's been asleep at the Switch, with the exception of Donald Trump and the America First Movement waking it up.

00:12:05.000 Are we going to seize and rise to that occasion and actually lead that movement of youths that is hungry for a different direction?

00:12:11.000 I think we can, but that's a choice we got to make.

00:12:13.000 Now, the question on the funding gap is a longer discussion, Charlie, is that part of this is we do have to actually awaken.

00:12:20.000 People like even who are in the room of donors that we spoke to in California, those are the good kind.

00:12:25.000 Those are people who we don't need to dance to their tune.

00:12:28.000 Those are the people who actually share our foundational America First values, but like me, have lived the American dream and want to use our own resources not to just bequeath a bunch of green pieces of paper to our children, but to pass on that country to our children, a country greater than the one that we inherited, just as our founding fathers did.

00:12:47.000 And I do think we can't just ignore this idea of the institutional elites.

00:12:52.000 Well, you know what?

00:12:52.000 They have the elites on the other side, but it's a good thing when you have people on our side that have real resources, have real actual seats at the table.

00:13:00.000 I've been blessed with living the American dream.

00:13:02.000 That's why I'm trying to be as generous and as both from a private sector perspective and a philanthropic perspective as I can be.

00:13:09.000 But so too do we need other people like those you brought together in that room to do the same thing.

00:13:13.000 And then there's the mass uprising, which is going to happen not just through donations, but I see through a parallel economy and through an actual economic response that says, you know what, we are better off not just subsidizing the same companies that are spitting in our face, but creating new economic options through the private sector to stand up to the ESG cartel.

00:13:31.000 So there's a lot there, but you asked a big question and that'd be my answer.

00:13:34.000 I love it.

00:13:34.000 And I think it's important because we must come up with comprehensive ways that we can finance our movement because you know this, Vivek, we're outspent 10, 15 to 1 in certain sectors now.

00:13:43.000 The wealthiest counties in the country almost all vote for Joe Biden.

00:13:46.000 The wealthiest counties are all very Democrat.

00:13:49.000 But the people are with us.

00:13:51.000 This is a people movement that is ascendant.

00:13:54.000 It is multiracial.

00:13:55.000 It is multi-generational.

00:13:57.000 And Vivek does a wonderful job of communicating to them.

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00:14:04.000 Vivek, we're going to be doing some campus stuff together this fall.

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00:15:30.000 Vivek, a lot of people are asking, what can I do?

00:15:33.000 First, talk about your plans for this election year, Vivek.

00:15:36.000 You've been traveling the country, motivating folks.

00:15:38.000 You have a very important voice.

00:15:39.000 I think you're one of the most important people on the landscape and the movement.

00:15:42.000 I'm a true believer.

00:15:43.000 You know that.

00:15:44.000 And then talk about that and then what people can do to actually effectuate change on the ground.

00:15:49.000 Look, I'll tell you what I'm doing.

00:15:50.000 And I think that these are things that other people can actually do in their own lives as well.

00:15:54.000 Two different prongs.

00:15:55.000 One is, most importantly, how do we make sure that Donald Trump is elected as the next president and that we have sizable enough majorities in the Senate and the House to drive through the full agenda we need to actually get through?

00:16:06.000 Well, look, we talk to people in our own tribe.

00:16:08.000 I think one of the things we need to get better at, you're doing this, Charlie.

00:16:11.000 I'm trying to do it.

00:16:12.000 I'm going to do it with you.

00:16:13.000 I'm doing it in other places too, is go to the places where Republicans don't show up.

00:16:18.000 That's a hard thing to do.

00:16:20.000 You know, writing a check is important.

00:16:21.000 We're behind on fundraising.

00:16:22.000 And for those who have lived the American dream and have the ability to do it, you know what?

00:16:26.000 Make the sacrifice that our founding fathers did.

00:16:28.000 They didn't just pledge their lives and their sacred honor.

00:16:30.000 They pledged their treasure too.

00:16:32.000 And I'll come back to that.

00:16:33.000 But not necessarily everybody has enough money in this environment to be able to say, you got to look after your family first.

00:16:39.000 I respect that if money isn't the way you're going to support this movement.

00:16:42.000 But then here's how you can, is make sure you're in a community, wherever it is, from central Ohio to where I am to people from California, from sea to shining sea.

00:16:50.000 You're going to be surrounded by people who are quietly harmed, quietly disgusted by what's going on with the Biden administration.

00:16:57.000 I think you have a responsibility.

00:16:59.000 Every person can do this.

00:17:00.000 Take 10 people who you are near certain would never consider voting for Donald Trump, but to engage them in actual conversation, to say things like, you know what, you don't have to agree with everything we stand for.

00:17:11.000 You just have to agree with the basic ideals of the country.

00:17:14.000 Understand what's important to them.

00:17:15.000 Bring them along.

00:17:16.000 Actually getting people, every person who switches from a Biden vote is the equivalent of two votes because it's one less for Biden and one more for us.

00:17:24.000 So that's a two-for-one investment.

00:17:26.000 And I think that that takes courage, right?

00:17:28.000 Americans have plenty of common sense.

00:17:30.000 I've noticed that from traveling this country.

00:17:32.000 What we lack is courage as a people.

00:17:35.000 Well, you know what you can do?

00:17:36.000 Show that courage in your schools, in your communities, in your parent-teacher conferences, and in your board meetings.

00:17:42.000 That's most important.

00:17:43.000 And then second, look, this is a longer conversation that goes even beyond the election.

00:17:46.000 People are voting every day with their dollars, whether or not they know it.

00:17:50.000 Stop subsidizing the actual causes, including through corporate America, including through capital markets, including through the products you buy or where you shop to subsidize the very people who are spitting back in your face.

00:18:01.000 And that's something that I think I'm focused on for the rest of this year.

00:18:03.000 That goes beyond this year, too.

00:18:05.000 Our change in this country isn't just going to come through politics.

00:18:08.000 It's going to come through driving real change through the private sector too.

00:18:12.000 But we have an urgent mission for the next seven months.

00:18:14.000 That's the most important one.

00:18:16.000 Show the courage.

00:18:17.000 Actually make the sacrifice.

00:18:18.000 Take the risk that your neighbors might tar you with some label that you're uncomfortable with.

00:18:23.000 But that's what this country requires.

00:18:24.000 And that's what I'm asking of you.

00:18:26.000 I love it, Vivek.

00:18:27.000 The call to action is stay engaged, stay involved, keep the faith.

00:18:31.000 This is going to be a long slog, and we have to focus on the states and the areas that matter the most.

00:18:37.000 You're going to be lending your voice to the kind of grassroots, let's just say, movement of this country.

00:18:44.000 And we have to grind this out.

00:18:46.000 And I know you're spending a lot of time with Donald Trump.

00:18:48.000 And I think that you should be as closely involved in that as possible.

00:18:53.000 Final thoughts here, Vivek.

00:18:55.000 Final thoughts are complacency is also not an option.

00:18:58.000 And I say this to everybody who's working on the Trump campaign.

00:19:00.000 I say this to everybody across the country.

00:19:03.000 We can look at the poll numbers now and pat ourselves in the back.

00:19:06.000 Forget about that.

00:19:07.000 It's nonsense.

00:19:08.000 The other side has been one step ahead consistently. 0.81

00:19:11.000 And you know that red wave that never came in 2022?

00:19:14.000 I think we're at risk of something similar happening this year unless we get past complacency and actually start taking action.

00:19:14.000 Well, you know what?

00:19:21.000 You don't like early voting?

00:19:23.000 Too bad.

00:19:23.000 You got to play by the rules to win and change the rules.

00:19:26.000 So that's my closing message.

00:19:28.000 Complacency isn't an option.

00:19:29.000 Don't sit on the laurels of the poll numbers.

00:19:32.000 That's a dangerous trap we're falling into.

00:19:34.000 For all we know, we might not even be running against Biden. 0.93

00:19:37.000 Basically, get off your butts, take action in your community. 0.71

00:19:39.000 And if you have the money to do it, support the cause too. 0.95

00:19:42.000 All right, Vivek, I know you got to run.

00:19:43.000 Thanks so much.

00:19:47.000 Joining us now is the great senator from the state of Florida who voted no on the foreign aid package and has been a great voice for our country and I hope becomes Senate majority leader, Senator Rick Scott.

00:19:57.000 Senator Scott, welcome back to the program.

00:20:00.000 Charlie, thank you. 0.70

00:20:01.000 But shouldn't we just call it the more immigration pro-Hamas bill? 0.75

00:20:05.000 Isn't that what we should call it? 0.88

00:20:07.000 I mean, think about it.

00:20:09.000 They put money in there so they could help put more money than Hamas would get.

00:20:15.000 And oh, we have an office now in Qatar where we can bring people on those flights that they're bringing so many thousands and thousands of people to this country, completely unvetted, with no idea. 0.59

00:20:27.000 And so, and by the way, did you realize that the Gazans that they're talking about bringing in support Hamas?

00:20:35.000 I mean, thank you for mentioning that, Senator, because I've been talking to lawmakers all morning and they're saying I'm wrong.

00:20:44.000 They say that the refugee thing is not a big deal.

00:20:46.000 I have the text here.

00:20:48.000 You actually read bills before you vote on them.

00:20:50.000 I know that's an unusual thing in DC, which I want to ask you about in a second.

00:20:54.000 But can you just go into specific detail?

00:20:57.000 This is $3.5 billion that is doing what exactly?

00:21:02.000 First off, let's put the number in perspective.

00:21:04.000 When I got up here in January 2019, government was shut down because Trump wanted $1.7, I think it was $1.7 billion to build the wall, right?

00:21:13.000 So he wanted $1.7 build the wall and the Democrats, no, golly, no, we're not going to do anything like that.

00:21:18.000 $1.7 billion.

00:21:20.000 We can't spend money like that.

00:21:21.000 But this is over $3 billion, okay, to basically continue to resettle people into our country. 0.72

00:21:29.000 And as we know, they're completely unvetted.

00:21:33.000 I mean, these people are not vetted. 1.00

00:21:35.000 We're bringing them into our country. 1.00

00:21:38.000 We have no idea if they even believe in this country, if they believe in our Constitution.

00:21:43.000 We don't know if they're terrorists.

00:21:45.000 We don't know if they're criminals.

00:21:46.000 Oh, because we don't check their IDs and we don't individually interview them.

00:21:46.000 We don't know.

00:21:52.000 So this is the craziest thing in the world that we would give Biden, who is completely lawless, more money to bring in people unvetted in the country, especially just the hotbud of the Middle East. 0.88

00:22:05.000 I mean, there's polls that say, what, 80% of Gazans support Hamas? 0.63

00:22:11.000 I don't want Hamas supporters living on my streets, living next door to me.

00:22:16.000 I don't think anybody in this country does.

00:22:17.000 No, and by the way, not a single Republican voter does.

00:22:20.000 I just want to understand, though, Senator, why did so many Republicans vote for this?

00:22:24.000 And I don't mean this facetiously.

00:22:27.000 Do they actually read the bills before they vote on them?

00:22:30.000 Well, first off, Mitch McCollum put a lot of pressure.

00:22:34.000 I tell people when they're running for the Senate, you don't realize the pressure that you're going to get from Mitch McCollum.

00:22:40.000 Like, you could get kicked off Congress Committee if you don't vote his way.

00:22:43.000 Oh, maybe that happened to me or happened to Mike Lee.

00:22:47.000 Or he might tell people not to give you money for your race because he doesn't want you to win, right?

00:22:55.000 So there's a lot of pressure up here.

00:22:58.000 And look, there's a lot of people saying, I want to help Israel.

00:23:02.000 I want to help Israel.

00:23:03.000 We actually, I was part of Roger Marshall's group.

00:23:05.000 We forced a vote.

00:23:07.000 Every Democrat voted against helping Israel. 0.70

00:23:09.000 But we're not helping Israel when we give money to Gazans who give money to Hamas. 0.64

00:23:15.000 We are not helping Israel. 0.60

00:23:16.000 We are not helping Israel. 0.97

00:23:17.000 I don't care what you think.

00:23:18.000 And then behind the scenes, Chuck Schumer said that McConnell had a pact with him that they would not do any aid for Israel without aid for Ukraine.

00:23:29.000 And not just military aid for Ukraine.

00:23:32.000 We're going to pay for their politicians' salaries.

00:23:35.000 So with which is, I mean, we're just going to put money into their government, spend, you know, let Zelensky play, spend the money where it was.

00:23:43.000 Now, we'll monitor the military stuff, but the other stuff, how do you even monitor it?

00:23:47.000 So, I want to just make sure the audience understands.

00:23:49.000 So, you didn't vote Mitch McConnell's way previously, and he exacts revenge on you, and you got kicked off a committee.

00:23:55.000 I think that's important for our audience to understand.

00:23:57.000 That's how DC works.

00:23:58.000 It's power politics. 0.65

00:23:59.000 It's the mob.

00:24:00.000 It's not about representing your voters.

00:24:01.000 It's not about reading the text, and is it good for the country?

00:24:05.000 It's that any sort of access to prestige is then gatekept by the leader.

00:24:12.000 Can you tell us that story again, please?

00:24:15.000 So, so as you know, I'm fed up with the way this place is run.

00:24:20.000 So, I ran on the first person, the only person, but with supportive guys like Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jay Vance, people like that.

00:24:30.000 I ran against McConnell to be the leader at the end of the 22 cycle.

00:24:34.000 And so, he rushed the vote to the next day.

00:24:37.000 You know, it was no vote was not actually supposed to be until January.

00:24:41.000 We vote the next day.

00:24:42.000 I don't win.

00:24:43.000 All right.

00:24:43.000 And then I got kicked off Congress along with Mike Lee because Mike Lee supported me and he proposed me with Ron Johnson.

00:24:50.000 So, so then, and Mike Lee and I basically had done in the last, since I've been up here, I'd been up here four years at that time, probably did 80% of the amendment votes on the Republican side.

00:25:00.000 We did.

00:25:01.000 And so, we, you know, we got kicked off the committee.

00:25:05.000 All right.

00:25:05.000 There's, there's different, you know, rankings of committees.

00:25:09.000 So, Mike Lee got, we and I got kicked off, but it's my understanding.

00:25:13.000 Other people got like a bunch of committees.

00:25:16.000 And so they get to represent their states better than we get to because we don't count out of Mitch McConnell.

00:25:24.000 I don't work for Mitch McConnell.

00:25:26.000 I work for the people of Florida.

00:25:28.000 And I thought, I think everybody ought to take that attitude.

00:25:31.000 We represent our states.

00:25:33.000 Yes, this is not a radical proposition.

00:25:39.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:26:41.000 So I want to now just zero in on this.

00:26:45.000 The Biden administration is saying they're going to bring people from the Middle East brought to you by these new satellite offices that were established in the foreign aid bill.

00:26:53.000 Is there anything we can do to stop this?

00:26:56.000 No.

00:26:57.000 No, because the Democrats are allowing the Democrats in the Senate.

00:27:02.000 All right, because they control the Senate right now, they are allowing Biden to be lawless.

00:27:09.000 So I'll give you a quick story.

00:27:11.000 After Afghanistan withdrawal, okay, I'm on Homeland Security.

00:27:15.000 We said we're not going to have a committee meeting.

00:27:17.000 We're a 50-50 Senate unless you tell us what happened.

00:27:20.000 So the Democrats said, great, we'll give it to you in a classified setting.

00:27:23.000 So what I'm going to tell you, I got told in a classified setting.

00:27:25.000 So keep it confidential.

00:27:27.000 I said, how many people, how many people came from Afghanistan?

00:27:30.000 77,000.

00:27:31.000 How'd you pick them?

00:27:32.000 They're at the airport.

00:27:34.000 I said, how many were American citizens?

00:27:36.000 5,000.

00:27:37.000 Special visas, 2,500.

00:27:39.000 I said, do you know anything about the others?

00:27:41.000 No.

00:27:41.000 Do they have IDs?

00:27:43.000 No, we didn't have any ideas.

00:27:44.000 Have you interviewed them individually?

00:27:46.000 No, we haven't interviewed them.

00:27:47.000 Do you know where they are in this country?

00:27:49.000 No.

00:27:50.000 So 70,000 people came from Afghanistan.

00:27:53.000 Do you wonder why we have people that hate this country?

00:27:56.000 I'm sure there were some wonderful people in there, but how many people that hate this country does it take?

00:28:01.000 And you can look at our campuses now.

00:28:03.000 We got people that just hate our country and hate our allies on Columbia and UCLA on these campuses that just hate our country. 0.99

00:28:14.000 I want them to go and live in Gaza for a while. 0.93

00:28:17.000 Go say, hey, Hamas, we love you. 0.98

00:28:19.000 Go tell them that. 0.53

00:28:20.000 And we want to be here to help you and see how it goes for you.

00:28:23.000 Senator, just really quickly, Mike Johnson said repeatedly: no Ukraine money without border security money.

00:28:28.000 Essentially, he was saying we want to have a stricter immigration before we have any sort of foreign aid.

00:28:34.000 We've got the opposite.

00:28:35.000 We actually have more people coming into the country than securing our border. 0.99

00:28:40.000 I'm going to ask you a question I asked you before.

00:28:42.000 It's a little bit abstract.

00:28:43.000 Why is it that the members of the U.S. Congress, House, and Senate who are tasked with defending the country have such contempt for our nation?

00:28:52.000 I have no idea.

00:28:54.000 Think about it.

00:28:55.000 Our number one issue is to keep Americans safe.

00:28:58.000 Keep Americans safe.

00:28:59.000 The number one issue, in my opinion, in the federal government, is keep us safe.

00:29:04.000 The bill that passed does not make America safer.

00:29:08.000 It did nothing to secure the border. 1.00

00:29:10.000 And we're going to now make sure that we bring more people across and we're going to support Gazans, which is support Hamas. 0.99

00:29:17.000 How is that making America safer? 0.97

00:29:20.000 It is not making America safer.

00:29:22.000 Really quickly, Senator, what is the call to action to get you to be Senate majority leader?

00:29:26.000 What does that look like?

00:29:27.000 I think we are going to take the Senate.

00:29:28.000 So we have to really hit that hard if that happens.

00:29:31.000 I think Tim Sheehy is going to win.

00:29:32.000 I hope Bernie Moreno wins.

00:29:34.000 I think Larry Hogan's going to win, which will be whatever, but it's an extra vote.

00:29:37.000 I think Kerry Lake is going to win.

00:29:38.000 I really think we're going to have a good Senate map.

00:29:41.000 What does it look like to make sure that it is not the McConnellite tradition that continues?

00:29:47.000 So here's what we're doing.

00:29:48.000 I'm seriously considering running and again.

00:29:51.000 And what Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and I are doing and some others is we're saying, why don't we stand for something?

00:29:56.000 Why don't we sit down as a group?

00:29:58.000 We've had these conference meetings and say, let's stand for something.

00:30:01.000 Then, once we decide what we stand for, it's easy to pick leadership.

00:30:04.000 I've built companies all my life.

00:30:05.000 What we did is we said, what do we stand for?

00:30:08.000 What do we want to get done?

00:30:10.000 And then what's our mission?

00:30:11.000 And then we put together a management team.

00:30:12.000 That's all this is.

00:30:13.000 The leader of the Senate is not to be the dictator.

00:30:17.000 The leader of the Senate is to help people accomplish their goals and accomplish Republican goals all across the country.

00:30:24.000 Love it.

00:30:24.000 Senator, thank you.

00:30:25.000 We have your back 100%.

00:30:26.000 If you do run again, we're going to be right there after the election for that fight.

00:30:30.000 That's a big fight, that leadership fight.

00:30:32.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:30:33.000 Thank you.

00:30:33.000 Bye, Charlie.

00:30:34.000 Take care.

00:30:34.000 Bye-bye.

00:30:37.000 Last evening, Columbia University got cleared out by the police.

00:30:44.000 And this is just one of my favorite tapes ever.

00:30:46.000 It's long, but it is a reporter who grills a Columbia student.

00:30:50.000 This is one of the leaders.

00:30:52.000 She is one of the spokespeople for the revolution. 0.96

00:30:59.000 And she's upset that she can't get her Uber Eats. 0.99

00:31:03.000 She can't get her vegan milkshake. 0.71

00:31:07.000 Humanitarian aid, she calls it.

00:31:09.000 So you storm and occupy a building and perform an academic insurrection, and then you complain that the university is not bringing you donuts.

00:31:20.000 It's a longer clip, but it's excellent.

00:31:22.000 And it is a perfect picture and a window.

00:31:24.000 By the way, this individual, this is not a joke.

00:31:28.000 This is what happens when you send your kids to college.

00:31:31.000 She might have conservative parents, for all we know.

00:31:36.000 She is studying poetry through a Marxist lens.

00:31:43.000 I'm trying to find the exact, yeah, here it is.

00:31:45.000 She's a paid instructor and a PhD candidate at Columbia University studying theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens.

00:32:00.000 Now she's demanding that Columbia administrators bring food and water to protesters illegally occupying Hamilton Hall.

00:32:09.000 She's studying poetry. 0.89

00:32:11.000 It is time to collapse these universities, defund them completely, and turn them into data centers.

00:32:19.000 Cut 77.

00:32:20.000 Well, first of all, we're saying that they're obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.

00:32:26.000 But you mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in.

00:32:29.000 Unless I missed an audience.

00:32:30.000 To allow it to be brought in.

00:32:31.000 I mean, well, I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students.

00:32:38.000 Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill, even if they disagree with you?

00:32:45.000 If the answer is no, then you should allow basic, I mean, it's crazy to say because we're on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for.

00:32:53.000 Like, could people please have a glass of water?

00:32:55.000 But they did put themselves in that very deliberately in that situation and in that position.

00:33:02.000 So it seems like you're sort of saying, we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building.

00:33:07.000 Now would you please bring us food and water?

00:33:10.000 Nobody's asking them to bring anything.

00:33:12.000 We're asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.

00:33:17.000 They're stopping that delivery of food.

00:33:20.000 We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it.

00:33:23.000 They haven't stopped it yet.

00:33:26.000 Well, I don't know to what extent it has been attempted, but we're looking for a commitment.

00:33:32.000 Violently stop them from bringing us food.

00:33:36.000 So let me get this straight.

00:33:37.000 They want room service because they've taken the entire university hostage.

00:33:44.000 And they call that humanitarian aid.

00:33:47.000 The entitlement.

00:33:48.000 But this is taught.

00:33:50.000 This is taught to them by their leaders, by their teachers, by their professors.

00:34:04.000 The world revolves around them.

00:34:07.000 Mayor Adams says there's a movement trying to radicalize our children.

00:34:11.000 I'm not going to allow that in New York City.

00:34:12.000 Hold on, Mayor Adams.

00:34:14.000 The entire New York public school system is radicalizing our children. 1.00

00:34:19.000 You are subsidizing it with your pride parades, the tranny nonsense. 1.00

00:34:24.000 You are a failed mayor of New York City. 1.00

00:34:26.000 You're a disgrace to the profession. 0.99

00:34:28.000 And when you decided to talk a little bit about illegal immigration, they raid you. 0.99

00:34:36.000 You are co-sponsoring the radicalism.

00:34:39.000 And only now are you backtracking because a lot of people in New York do not like what's happening at Columbia.

00:34:45.000 You are an enabler, Eric Adams.

00:34:47.000 Play cut 79.

00:34:49.000 Now know that there are those who are attempting to say, well, the majority of people may have been students.

00:34:54.000 You don't have to be the majority to influence and co-op an operation.

00:35:00.000 That is what this is about.

00:35:02.000 And so if we want to play the road police, you could do so.

00:35:06.000 I want to play the New York City police, but we're going to protect our city from those who are attempting to do what is happening globally.

00:35:15.000 There is a movement to radicalize young people.

00:35:19.000 And I'm not going to wait until it's done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it.

00:35:24.000 This is a global problem that young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children.

00:35:34.000 Wait, are you describing New York City public school teachers?

00:35:37.000 Professionals that are radicalizing our children?

00:35:43.000 That sounds like your average fourth-grade teacher in downtown Brooklyn. 0.97

00:35:49.000 They're grooming kids to be trans. 0.96

00:35:51.000 They're grooming them to hate the country. 0.96

00:35:53.000 Is that what you're talking about, Mayor Adams?

00:35:57.000 Don't be mad at the monster you created.

00:36:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:01.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 01, 2024

Biden's Border Bribery Plan

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