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00:03:05.000And there's a lot that really irritated me about this story.
00:03:08.000We were all kind of texting it around.
00:03:10.000First of all, they said that Joe Biden is one of the most religiously reverent presidents in recent history, kind of glossing over George W. Bush and Reagan, who I believe went to church and Carter with great regularity.
00:03:23.000Anyway, let's just take that at face value.
00:03:25.000Later in the article, it said, you know, Trump was best known for his church attendance by only going in front of St. John's Church where a bunch of protesters were gassed the day before.
00:03:34.000No, it's well known because BLM Incorporated rioters tried to burn it down.
00:03:38.000But what really bothered me, what I want to get to, which is really an important thing, I could do an entire podcast on this topic, is, do you notice how affectionately and how positively the media frames Joe Biden's Catholicism versus Amy Coney Barrett's Catholicism?
00:04:05.000And so Raphael Warnock, for being an evangelical, gets treated very nicely.
00:04:10.000And yet other evangelicals like Ted Cruz get treated like people that are in the backwoods.
00:04:15.000And what it really goes to show, though, is that the left is willing to use any pre-existing core cultural institution to achieve their goals.
00:04:23.000They do not, the left does not believe in the core teachings of Catholicism or of evangelical Christianity at all.
00:04:32.000I'm not going to get into the whole part of how Joe Biden could possibly be a Eucharist-taking Catholic, pro-choice advocate.
00:04:42.000I don't, that doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
00:04:45.000In fact, priests have said, if he shows up to our church, I'm going to deny him the sacrament.
00:04:51.000Good, because that is exactly what should happen.
00:04:56.000I'm just saying that's probably a good idea.
00:04:58.000The thing that's really interesting, though, is that the left's war on religion, which we know exists, shows that it's a little bit more nuanced than that.
00:05:06.000They do not want to get rid of the church.
00:05:08.000They want to get rid of the churches they don't like.
00:05:11.000They want to get rid of the disagreeable churches.
00:05:12.000They want to get rid of the pastors that push against their power.
00:05:16.000They know that people are going to need a connection to a higher being.
00:05:20.000They know that people are going to need a relationship with their creator.
00:05:23.000Where the left has become more disciplined, though, is instead of just becoming pathologically anti-religious, and that still exists, they have decided to co-opt the appearance of being religious to try and achieve a social justice goal.
00:05:41.000So, yeah, I mean, to your point, Raphael Warnock was, I think, the standout example that mirrors the Joe Biden example, is that, oh, now we celebrate faith so long as it's an African-American minister in Georgia that's running up against the conservative who's also pro-choice.
00:05:57.000And I just, I find it really, really rich because the left, as you remember, sort of booed God at the DNC.
00:06:09.000Where they booed it on their platform.
00:06:12.000And then you see this throughout sort of the whole world, right?
00:06:15.000Argentina just recently approved, they legalized abortion, and you had people, hundreds of thousands of them, dancing in the streets in the middle of a pandemic.
00:06:36.000And I think that's the thing that frustrates traditional America the most is that we just, you know, they use what they use when they want to use it.
00:06:46.000And so for them, it doesn't, the teachings of the Catholic Church might actually probably alarm a lot of Joe Biden's very, very liberal supporters.
00:06:53.000Like, do you guys do, hey, Joe Biden, you know what the church says about transgender issues, right?
00:06:58.000You do know what the church says about men being men and women or women.
00:07:01.000You do know what the church says about when life begins.
00:07:03.000You do know what the church says about marriage.
00:07:06.000You do know what the church says about all of these things that he seems to be very happy interfacing with on the liberal base.
00:07:12.000And the New York Times wrote an article and I'm paraphrasing and said, Joe Biden is going to embrace the more liberal sides of Catholicism, racial justice, poverty elimination, and a little bit less on the social issues.
00:07:43.000Keep contradicting the teachings of the church.
00:07:45.000But eventually, the liberals will come for you too.
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00:09:21.000So, let's get right back into the news cycle.
00:09:24.000Isabel, what is just breaking right here?
00:09:26.000Breaking right before our eyes right now.
00:09:28.000We are expected to see Senator Patrick Leahy, who's a Democrat from Vermont and the president pro tempore of the Senate, going to preside over President Trump's impeachment trial starting on February 8th instead of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts.
00:09:41.000They're saying that senators preside when the person facing trial isn't the current president of the United States.
00:09:47.000I think we have to look a little bit more into that, but certainly begs the question on whether or not this follows a constitutional procedure.
00:09:53.000Well, there's never been an impeachment when the individual is not the president of the United States.
00:09:58.000And so, since Chief Justice John Roberts won't be showing up, is it even an impeachment at all, or is it just kind of a vote of no confidence censure exercise in the United States Senate?
00:10:09.000And we've gone through in great detail, and I encourage you guys to go to our YouTube channel and listen to our video.
00:10:16.000It says illegal impeachment, where we go through this in more ways than one, where we talk about how this impeachment is not rooted in a constitutional nature, where it says it has to be a civil officer, someone who currently has power in the United States, executive branch or in the United States government, not just somebody that used to serve in office that you do not like.
00:10:40.000And so, this is a very interesting story here because if we are looking at why the Democrats are exactly, why are they doing this?
00:10:48.000I think they actually want to look and create a constitutional crisis.
00:10:54.000You know, I was watching some CNN this morning just briefly.
00:11:06.000Instead of covering Joe Biden signing his name on a bunch of stuff that will allow men who think they are women serve in women's sports, they are instead just covering the former president.
00:11:17.000They're going to try to speak it into an existence.
00:11:19.000And just like how we would speak into existence, the creation of a third party on the Democrat side.
00:11:25.000And I think that's precisely why impeachment is so important now, even after President Trump has left Washington, D.C., he's no longer impacting politics day to day.
00:11:34.000This is about so much bigger than one individual who's a former civil officer.
00:11:37.000This is about squashing the idea of the Make America Great Again movement altogether by preventing this individual from running for office again, which, by the way, should be up to the American voter, not who's currently sitting in Congress, and just making sure that the American people know conservative ideas are no longer tolerated in 2021.
00:11:54.000So Senator Ram Paul might just skip the Senate trial altogether alongside other senators that are railing against it.
00:12:01.000Nothing says bringing the country together, like impeaching and convicting a man who no longer has any sort of executive governmental power at all whatsoever.
00:12:11.000Just the threat that he might run again, that's going to be a real success that they'll be able to tell their Democrat base.
00:12:16.000And this is going to be a very telling moment for President Biden.
00:12:22.000Biden could end this entire impeachment trial right now.
00:12:25.000Instead, he's getting questions, his press secretary is getting questions.
00:12:28.000Are you going to paint Air Force One a different color?
00:12:31.000Are you going to repaint Air Force One?
00:12:33.000Instead of, hey, how are you going to bring the country together by convicting a former president?
00:12:37.000What if I told you that lockdowns actually make rich people richer?
00:12:43.000The world's richest 10 people, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, are a half a trillion dollars richer since the pandemic began.
00:12:54.000An Oxfam report has investigated growing inequality caused by the pandemic.
00:12:59.000The wealthiest 1,000 people recouped their losses within 10 months of the virus.
00:13:05.000The top 10 richest have added billions to their fortune despite the global crisis.
00:13:13.000It continues by saying that Elon Musk, his wealth has grown by $129 billion this year.
00:13:20.000I think he has enough money to start a social network.
00:13:22.000Mark Zuckerberg is $45 billion richer.
00:13:26.000Bernard Arnault from Louis Vuitton, amongst other things he owns, has added $76 billion to his fortune.
00:13:35.000Bill Gates, $22 billion to his fortune.
00:13:39.000So the question should be, why is it that the richest people got so much richer this past year?
00:13:45.000Well, a law of economics that we talk about frequently is that when you have massive government intervention, massive government subsidy, and you have governments getting involved against how markets would naturally work, then you will have people that are basically economic incumbents do a lot better.
00:14:05.000And so think about who has the advantage when mobility, communication, gathering, and assembly is all disallowed in an economy.
00:14:15.000Well, the people that have massive capital already put aside, people that are able to put hedges against the market, people that are able to invest in mobile delivery, in teleconferencing, every single one of these billionaires, because they already had an incumbent advantage of tens of billions of dollars of wealth, were able to benefit financially from the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns.
00:14:42.000Now, most Americans did not see their net worth nearly double.
00:15:05.000This is not sustainable in any way, shape, or form.
00:15:08.000And this is not because of free markets.
00:15:10.000It's actually the opposite as to why this happened.
00:15:13.000We allowed the greatest act of government interference in world history to occur, where we were not allowed to go to work, not allowed to go to church, not allowed to assemble, not allowed to start a business.
00:15:26.000And so, of course, the pre-existing ruling class, the pre-existing power structure, they're going to benefit financially from whatever advantage they previously had.
00:15:38.000And so, Joe Biden now being president and controlling every sector of government, he's going to have a difficult time reconciling this because these ruling class elites are the very people that put him into office.
00:15:53.000And so, the American people actually are pretty upset about the economic conditions of our country, at least the direction that they're going in.
00:16:01.000You're going to start to see some things opening up.
00:16:03.000You're going to see a little bit of a, what I call an open-up stimulus occurring in the next couple months.
00:16:10.000Around June or July, reality is going to sink in.
00:16:14.000The open-up stimulus will start to flatline.
00:16:17.000Joe Biden's war on oil and natural gas will start to set in.
00:16:21.000The stimulus package will probably be passed by then, but it will fizzle out almost instantaneously.
00:16:28.000And around June or July, we are going to have a market crash.
00:16:31.000We are going to have an economic crisis because people will start to realize that we have injected trillions of dollars that we do not have a backing for, that we are having mediocre economic growth, and the richest people in our society have become half a trillion dollars richer for doing what?
00:16:56.000And so working class people in our country are going to build up a pattern of resentment against these people.
00:17:05.000And the danger for that is, is then you're going to have the true radicals, the Kamala Harris and the Bernie Sanders types, who will then see this kind of unrest, this wealth inequality and this income inequality, which absolutely does exist, as an excuse and a reason to fundamentally revolutionize the entire economy.
00:17:24.000And the challenge for now us is going to be just keeping any form of a system we recognize together.
00:17:31.000You cannot have a billionaire class add another half a trillion dollars of wealth and not expect the plumber who has seen their income go from $44,000 a year to like $36,000 a year and not have some form of economic resentment.
00:17:51.000And these are exactly the people that the left claims to hate, right?
00:17:54.000They hate this wealth and inequality and discrepancies that has systemically existed in this country for so long, but has only been fueled by lockdowns.
00:18:03.000And in many ways, these lockdowns, intentionally or not, have almost targeted the businesses owned by these billionaires to thrive during COVID-19, whereas their competitors, small businesses, mom and pop shops, grocery stores, are completely being shut down.
00:18:17.000This is especially true as everything has moved to more of a digital platform.
00:18:21.000And you see groups like Amazon who have everything conquered in the digital space.
00:18:25.000You see groups like Apple, who are really dominating the tech industry, continue to grow and thrive as we're all confined to our homes, whereas any sort of competition in that space is almost instantly wiped out.
00:18:38.000And so the result of this will be hyperinflation, will be the working class and people that own anything.
00:18:46.000Your assets will become increasingly devalued.
00:18:49.000The only things that actually do well in inflation are land.
00:18:53.000What was Bill Gates just buying a lot of?
00:18:55.000Oh, he's the number one farmland owner in the country.
00:18:58.000If you want to know when inflation is coming, just look at when multi-centi billionaires start to buy up land everywhere, which is exactly what is happening.
00:19:07.000They are buying up hundreds of millions of acres of land all across the country.
00:19:12.000And in fact, Bill Gates is now the number one farmland owner, as I mentioned, in the entire country.
00:19:19.000So what's going to happen then is if you're a true revolutionary like George Soros and you want to and you want to get rid of the entire economic system that we currently live under, then this is a pretty good step forward to do that.
00:19:35.000It would result in currency abolition.
00:19:38.000It would result in a complete and total restructuring of the way that private property is done in our country.
00:19:45.000And so a lot of people say, well, Charlie, what is their motivation?
00:19:48.000I want you to imagine something for a second.
00:19:50.000I want you to imagine that you are this guy, Bernard Arnault, okay?
00:19:56.000And he runs Louis Vuitton, Louis Vuitton.
00:19:58.000He added $76 billion to his net worth.
00:20:03.000What does he not yet have that he wants?
00:20:47.000He says he only wants to rent, and he wants all of his net worth to be just in the stock of his company that he thinks is actually going to change the world.
00:20:54.000In fact, I did an entire column that kind of went viral last week where I just sent an open memo pleading Elon Musk to start building everything, please.
00:21:08.000Because Elon has had a track record of using his net worth and his resources not for kind of Machiavellian political power games, instead for the liberation of humans and individuals.
00:21:22.000He's a huge donor, for example, to Signal, which is a communication-based app that he himself promotes that allows end-to-end encryption.
00:21:31.000Elon Musk, I really believe, has good intentions.
00:21:34.000It seems like wealth is just kind of something that happens in the midst of trying to change the world.
00:21:38.000It doesn't seem like he's opposed to it.
00:21:39.000I'm sure that he doesn't want to fly Southwest Airlines anytime soon.
00:21:43.000However, Elon versus these other guys seems to be more and more committed to actually using his wealth to try to advance human progress and not allow tyranny to seep in.
00:21:59.00049% of Americans say their top New Year's resolution is to save money in the next year.
00:23:08.000There's essentially two hostile reporters in the press briefings nowadays.
00:23:16.000Whereas, if you recall, the Trump administration had to contend with essentially dozens of hostile members of the press every time they tried to brief the public on the business of the country.
00:24:07.000One of the most pressing issues that they should be asking about, and I believe it's only Peter Doocy who's asked about this, is, of course, the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
00:24:19.000And yes, it does pain me to say former, but we have to live in the current reality that we have.
00:24:27.000And this is a new day, maybe a new dark day, but we're going to keep fighting here at the Charlie Kirk Show, regardless.
00:24:35.000So the impeachment documents will be delivered to the Senate if they haven't already been.
00:24:40.000And what you're seeing is the emergence of the fissures within the Conservative Party.
00:24:47.000So while we have the Romney wing, as we could call it, that is, obviously, if you guys remember back, I'm old enough to remember the first time Donald Trump was impeached and then headed to the Senate for a trial, in which he was acquitted.
00:25:03.000There was one break in the conservatives, of course, and that was Mitt Romney from the state of Utah, sort of.
00:25:15.000He was the governor of Massachusetts and then ran for Senate and was elected, partly because the president backed him in the state of Utah.
00:25:23.000Utah deserves much better, unfortunately.
00:26:18.000The guy is such a pandering politician that he, you know, I think he will probably get primaried and he will be heavily primaried and heavily opposed.
00:26:29.000Nevertheless, he is the perfect example of what's going on in the Republican Party, this fissure.
00:26:36.000And we might see a couple other breaks.
00:26:38.000Senator Murkowski from Alaska, Senator Collins from Maine, Ben Sasse.
00:26:44.000It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
00:26:46.000But then we have the other voices in the Republican Party, like Senator Marco Rubio, who was on with Chris Wallace on Fox News on Sunday.
00:26:55.000He was calling the impeachment trial stupid.
00:27:31.000It is a moot point, and it is divisive.
00:27:36.000It's one thing to say that the president spoke in an unwise manner at a speech at the rally on January 6th.
00:27:45.000It's a completely other thing to say that he incited a riot.
00:27:48.000So, first of all, I disagree with the premise that the president incited a riot.
00:27:54.000I believe that politicians should be held accountable for their actions, and I believe individuals should be held accountable for their actions.
00:28:02.000And what we had on January 6th was a bunch of individuals who took it upon themselves to stage a riot that is increasingly clear was very pre-planned and premeditated.
00:28:13.000There was agitators on both the left and the right, mostly on the right, admittedly, but there increasingly is very clear that there were people on the left that were a part of the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
00:28:26.000But, you know, Bernie Sanders was not impeached when one of his supporters shot and almost killed Steve Scalise at a congressional baseball practice.
00:28:38.000Because it would have been inappropriate to hold Senator Bernie Sanders accountable for something one of his supporters did.
00:28:45.000Now, you could claim that the senator incited that violence because of his messaging, because of his rhetoric, but that's not what we do.
00:28:55.000Every individual is held accountable for their own actions.
00:28:58.000And on that day, and we've played it back on this show and on the podcast many times and on the live streams, President Trump called for them to peacefully and patriotically protest.
00:29:10.000Nevertheless, they are going to move forward with this impeachment.
00:29:14.000And the truth is, it's probably unconstitutional.
00:29:20.000The Constitution is very clear that impeachment is for sitting members that are holding office.
00:29:32.000Now, there is a few examples dating back to the 1870s where somebody was impeached after leaving office.
00:29:42.000They actually resigned as to avoid impeachment, and that he was impeached anyways.
00:30:17.000But there are some questions emerging about whether or not the Chief Justice, John Roberts, will even attend the impeachment trial because it is unconstitutional.
00:30:29.000And why is that happening, namely the impeachment?
00:30:32.000Well, it's happening because we didn't win in Georgia in the Senate runoffs, and we have a 50-50 split, and Vice President Kamala Harris is now the deciding tiebreaking vote.
00:30:48.000And the Democrats run all the levers of government in our current moment.
00:30:54.000And they're going to move forward with or without the Constitution.
00:30:58.000We've seen this time and time again from them, that the Constitution is an impediment to getting what they want many times, more often than not, as a matter of fact.
00:31:10.000But one of the interesting dynamics that's going to come out of this is whether or not Chief Justice Roberts will actually preside over a Senate trial that is unconstitutional.
00:31:25.000Again, the Constitution is very, very clear, in my opinion.
00:31:32.000Now, there are people that disagree on this, of course, but the Constitution is very clear that an impeachment is supposed to be for those who currently hold an office.
00:31:41.000Obviously, President Donald Trump is not in office anymore.
00:31:46.000So the question is, can you do it retroactively?
00:31:48.000Can you do it after he's already left office?
00:31:52.000Now, most on the right would say no, but those on the left right now, because they hold the power, are going to move forward with the impeachment, regardless of what the Constitution says.
00:32:03.000As Senator Rand Paul says, this is a fake partisan impeachment.
00:32:28.000Why are they doing this when they know it's one of the most divisive things that could come from the Congress, especially during a new administration, where they're supposed to be moving forward with a new agenda, where they're supposed to be focused on the work of the American people, especially when they say that what they want is unity?
00:32:51.000They are going to move forward with an impeachment of a former president of the United States when he still has an approval rating, according to Rasmussen, of about 48%.
00:33:04.000And people disagree with that, but it's in the 40s, where you're telling 75 million Americans that voted for him, nearly 75 million, that you guys have believed disinformation, that you're part of a cult of personality, that we require a surveillance state to monitor your behavior and your actions.
00:33:28.000And by the way, we're going to impeach a former president just because we can.
00:33:34.000Let's play Mark Levin talking about this sham unity message from President Joe Biden.
00:33:44.000And I love Mark Levin because he calls out the hypocrisy so well here.
00:35:11.000You're letting them move forward with a sham impeachment that is further dividing a country that's already obviously divided.
00:35:20.000Now, what their goal would be is to get a super majority, convict him, and then a simple majority to ban him from ever holding office again.
00:35:30.000I want to go right here to some sound from Senator Rand Paul over the weekend.
00:35:35.000Of all the sound to come out of the weekend, this is my favorite.
00:35:39.000And I was waiting to get to this, but obviously we had to cover the impeachment because it's an impeachment of President Trump, even though he's not in office.
00:35:47.000Nevertheless, it's, as Senator Marco Rubio said, it's stupid.
00:35:52.000They're not going to get a supermajority.
00:35:55.000But it kind of goes back to a deeper question about election integrity and about the role the media has played in this whole, you know, those last four years, really, how they make everything feel like a war zone, how they've inserted themselves, as Senator Rand Paul will say in just a second, into the story instead of being objective.
00:36:18.000The malfeasance of our media establishment, the legacy media, is really heinous.
00:36:27.000And it deserves to be called out again, again, and again.
00:36:33.000And they rightly deserve a lower approval rating than Congress, which, if you know anything about the history of approval ratings for Congress, takes some doing.
00:36:41.000And it's something like 17% of conservatives have trust in the mainstream news media.
00:36:48.000So let's play this clip of Rand Paul on ABC with George Stepanopoulos, as many of you know, came out of the Clinton administration and then became a journalist.
00:36:57.000I'm using air quotes here in the studio.
00:37:14.000Well, what I would say is that the debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur, we never had any presentation in court where we actually looked at the evidence.
00:37:21.000Most of the cases were thrown out for lack of standing, which is a procedural way of not actually hearing the question.
00:37:27.000Courts traditionally and historically don't like to hear election questions.
00:37:31.000But yes, were there people who voted twice?
00:37:36.000Yes, and we should get to the bottom of it.
00:37:38.000Yeah, and I love that Rand Paul here is standing up for the issue of election integrity.
00:37:44.000And then later in this clip, and I'm not sure we have it actually, there is a dust-up between the two of these men where he says, you have inserted yourself into the story.
00:37:56.000You've forgotten who you are, Rand Paul, or George Stepanopoulos.
00:38:02.000You're supposed to ask questions of both sides.
00:38:04.000And what you're doing is you're stating a premise that's false.
00:38:08.000You're saying, well, obviously it's debunked and it's completely false.
00:38:11.000And the president's guilty of insurrection for feeding a lie to millions of his followers.
00:38:19.000Well, as Senator Rand Paul said, you know what?
00:38:22.000There is issues about election integrity that we've yet to deal with as a country because, you know, in my personal opinion, the courts basically looked at the issue and said, it's too big.
00:38:34.000We're not going to overturn this thing.
00:38:36.000We're not even going to hear the case.
00:38:39.000Now, we heard later when Texas sued the state of Pennsylvania, and then multiple other states joined on, and I believe 17 or 18 joined an amicus brief.
00:38:52.000And the Supreme Court is supposed to hear cases between states.
00:38:58.000Now, we heard later that Justice Alito and Justice Thomas were willing to take the case and the rest were not.
00:39:07.000So, we never adjudicated the issue of election integrity and the questions of whether or not state legislatures had their rights overridden by governors, secretaries of state, and state Supreme Courts.
00:39:22.000And he's right to call out George Stepanopoulos and to not take the bait and to not agree to the premise of the question.
00:39:29.000Now, conservatives out there listening, when you're having these discussions with your friends or the dinner table, obviously do it politely, do it winsomely when you can, be persuasive, be more educated.
00:39:41.000Do not accept the premise that the left is constantly shoving down our throats.
00:39:47.000And you'll see this when you read their news articles or you see them on the news.
00:39:52.000They'll say, well, this is totally debunked and it's a lie.
00:40:13.000Now, Senator Rand Paul did not vote to overturn the electors on January 6th because he said that the issue was designed to be at the state level.
00:41:29.000But there was a ton of issues that were exposed in this election.
00:41:33.000So before you take the bait and you say that President Trump incited a riot at the Capitol and insurrection because he was fighting for election integrity and didn't believe the results, take a step back and reject the premise.
00:41:51.000And this issue about the media's role is a very powerful issue because it doesn't just, of course, apply to what we see happening in this unconstitutional impeachment.
00:42:04.000It also applies to what's happening in regards to the coronavirus and the lockdowns, or increasingly the lack thereof.
00:42:15.000So we're hearing news today that in California, the lockdowns, as of this morning, the stay-at-home order, at least, is going to be removed.
00:42:26.000Governor Newsom, who is under threat of recall, and if you haven't, if you're listening to this in the state of California and you have not sent in your recall Governor Gavin Newsom petition, please do so.
00:42:49.000And I think this is a direct result of that recall petition, by the way, that he's feeling this much pressure.
00:42:55.000But he's part of a growing number of U.S. cities and states that have announced plans to lift restrictions on indoor dining, and in California's case, probably outdoor dining, bars and restaurants.
00:43:05.000And moves that come less than a week after a change at the White House.
00:43:15.000We've seen this in Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer, Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C., with Muriel Bowser, who wants to be a governor, apparently, of the state of Washington, D.C., something we need to fight tooth and nail.
00:43:28.000The Democrats are going to try and push that and Puerto Rico through.
00:43:33.000Other recent January examples include Philadelphia, Minnesota, Denver County, Colorado, New York, Orange Zones, which is Erie County.
00:43:44.000And then there's this idea that the Biden administration has said and told us repeatedly that they have a plan.
00:43:51.000He ran on the fact that Trump was messing things up on the coronavirus, that he was doing a terrible job and that he has a plan.
00:43:59.000And then we find out, oh, actually, he doesn't have a plan.
00:44:02.000And there's nothing he can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic over the next several months.
00:44:10.000This is Joe Biden, in his own words, admitting what we already knew.
00:44:14.000If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on because there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.
00:44:33.000That's not what he told voters when he was running for president.
00:44:36.000Let's play clip four of what he purportedly believed, I guess, before stepping in the White House.
00:44:44.000We're in a situation now where the New England Medical Journal, one of the serious, most serious journals in the whole world, said for the first time ever that the way this president has responded to this crisis has been absolutely tragic.
00:44:59.000And so, folks, I will take care of this.
00:45:25.000But this is what's really irking me now, is that you've got Deborah Burks, Dr. Burks, going on the Sunday shows now trying to reclaim her reputation.
00:45:38.000Let's play cut one of her throwing her former administration under the proverbial bus.
00:45:46.000I'm convinced there were parallel data streams because I...
00:45:50.000I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made.
00:45:54.000So I know that someone or someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president.
00:46:08.000Folks, what this is, is simple reputational management.
00:46:15.000She, you know, I don't deny that she had disagreements with the former administration.
00:46:25.000But this is going against the fact that there are other valid opinions, namely Dr. Scott Atlas from Stanford, who came in to help the administration deal with the pandemic.
00:46:37.000Dr. Atlas was for less lockdowns, saying we should not be quarantining the healthy.
00:46:44.000Never before in history have we quarantined the healthy.
00:46:48.000There are other competing ideas out there besides the fact that you need to wear two or three masks at a time and you need to lock down the economy and the entire country to save people.
00:46:58.000Gretchen Whitmer, who is another governor who should be recalled, announcing that she's going to be opening up her state too to indoor dining.
00:47:06.000Today, the Department of Health and Human Services is issuing an epidemic order to resume indoor dining on Monday, February 1st.
00:47:14.000I know this pandemic has hurt our restaurant owners, our restaurant workers.
00:47:19.000I want you to know that I will continue to do everything in my power to support you and your families.
00:48:27.000And now all these blue cities around the country are finally taking their foot off the necks of small business owners, somewhat.
00:48:37.000That after 100, some reports say 150,000 small businesses have been closed and will never open again.
00:48:46.000Folks, we have lived through one of the most obscene scams in the nation's history.
00:48:56.000And now we have folks like Dr. Deborah Burks going on national television to revive their reputation, believing that it's been unduly tainted by their association with the Trump administration.
00:49:06.000But I want to play some tape from earlier on during the pandemic when Dr. Deborah Burks was on television and during the press briefings.
00:49:17.000It was the daily coronavirus task force press briefings, where she says that they've taken a very liberal approach.
00:49:26.000So I think in this country, we've taken a very liberal approach to mortality.
00:49:33.000There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let's say the virus called you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem, some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.
00:49:53.000If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.
00:50:01.000Now, when somebody says that we're taking a very liberal approach to mortality in this country, and then you come on after the fact, after that president is out of office, and you said they had parallel sets of data.
00:50:18.000I wonder why folks within the Trump administration would push back at your liberal set of data that's counting everybody that dies with or of COVID as a COVID death.
00:50:33.000And meanwhile, you've got CNN publishing every day, wouldn't take the ticker off, and we call it pandemic porn.
00:50:42.000Wouldn't take the ticker off the side of the screen during the Trump administration of how many people had contracted COVID-19 and how many people had died from COVID-19, given your liberal approach to mortality.
00:50:57.000So here you come out after the fact and pushed back and said there were parallel sets of data.
00:51:03.000Because as we've said on this show and on the podcast, it's not about you being the party of science or you listen to the science.
00:51:10.000It's which science you want to listen to and which scientists you believe.
00:51:14.000And we should have a debate about COVID.
00:51:16.000We should have a debate about how we calculate mortality rates.
00:51:20.000An issue this big where we shut down the world's economic engine over something that is contested and that there is dissent over.
00:51:30.000I think it's disgusting that after the fact we platform these people to throw the Trump administration under the bus.
00:51:36.000But of course we shouldn't be surprised.
00:51:38.000We shouldn't be surprised about it when 95% of our legacy media in this country is hell-bent on castigating all Trump supporters as insurrectionist, as in need of surveillance from the state.
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