The Charlie Kirk Show - Biden's Katrina

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

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00:00:20.000 Here we go.

00:00:21.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:00:55.000 This is producer Andrew Colvett filling in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who's out today.

00:01:00.000 Honored to be with you all.

00:01:02.000 Lots of news to get into, lots of great things to discuss.

00:01:06.000 And it seems like this time of the political cycle, we're just getting started with the Biden administration, much to the chagrin of many of us in this country, millions of us.

00:01:18.000 But it feels like what we're seeing is the laboratory of democracy.

00:01:22.000 The states are either rising or falling based on the pandemic.

00:01:29.000 The pandemic is still the driving force of much of the news that we have today.

00:01:33.000 And we're going to get into lots today.

00:01:35.000 We're going to get into immigration.

00:01:36.000 We're going to get into Ted Cruz.

00:01:39.000 We're going to get into the weather.

00:01:42.000 But before we get there, while I had her, I wanted to invite Jennifer Horne to the show. 0.97

00:01:46.000 Jen, say hello to our audience.

00:01:48.000 It is such a pleasure to be here with you.

00:01:50.000 I love Charlie.

00:01:51.000 You know, Andrew, I am a big, big fan of yours.

00:01:54.000 So it is, it's so much fun to hang out with you today.

00:01:56.000 Thanks for inviting me.

00:01:57.000 It's great to have.

00:01:58.000 Now, if you guys haven't checked it out, Jennifer Horn, the morning answer at KRLA in Los Angeles.

00:02:03.000 It's a great morning drivetime show.

00:02:06.000 It's fantastic.

00:02:06.000 I think so.

00:02:07.000 She is a radio legend in her own right.

00:02:10.000 Her family goes way back in the radio biz.

00:02:13.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:02:13.000 And so always learning from the one and only Jen Horn. 1.00

00:02:19.000 But I wanted to bring you in, Jen, because there is so much going on in the state of California.

00:02:23.000 We have a ton of our listeners on the podcast from the state of California.

00:02:26.000 It is one of the most dynamic political environments right now.

00:02:30.000 And that's saying something because it felt like California's been under one-party rule for quite a while now.

00:02:37.000 And there's not a whole lot of back and forth tension.

00:02:40.000 But now there is a recall effort that has eclipsed the number of signatures needed, but they're still going for more.

00:02:47.000 They still want to hit 2 million.

00:02:48.000 They're about 1.5, 1.6, right?

00:02:50.000 Yeah.

00:02:51.000 As of right now, they need more because unlike Mail and Ballading for the general election of the president, signatures matter and they're going to try and verify those, which is the irony of all ironies.

00:03:03.000 But nevertheless, Jen, I wanted to bring you in to explain it to our listeners who are not in California or maybe just starting to perk up their ears saying, ooh, a Democrat on the ropes.

00:03:14.000 Give us a little bit of the backstory.

00:03:15.000 Tell us how we got here.

00:03:17.000 What's going on?

00:03:18.000 And let me tell you why it's important because there are a lot of people in, and I see you out there.

00:03:22.000 You're in Arizona.

00:03:23.000 You're in Oklahoma.

00:03:23.000 You're in Texas.

00:03:25.000 You're in Georgia.

00:03:26.000 And maybe you're going, oh, who cares about what happens in California?

00:03:30.000 California is a lost cause.

00:03:31.000 I've heard it.

00:03:31.000 I've heard it when I've done national radio.

00:03:34.000 I'm on with Seb Gork, our colleague here at Salem Radio every single week.

00:03:37.000 And people go, well, it's just California.

00:03:40.000 The reason that this is significant is for the reason that you said.

00:03:43.000 Number one, California has been under single party rule.

00:03:46.000 Number two, it should be really important to the rest of the country because as goes California, California goes, so does the rest of the country.

00:03:53.000 Don't California my Texas.

00:03:54.000 I think it's a lot of fun.

00:03:55.000 California is a verb.

00:03:55.000 That's right.

00:03:57.000 Constantly say the country got California during the last presidential election.

00:04:01.000 All of the practices that Democrats used to steal this election away, they got them from California.

00:04:08.000 So they were hatched here.

00:04:09.000 And the Biden administration has hand-picked a ton.

00:04:14.000 I mean, I'm not sad to see these people go, but he's taken a lot of the top talent, a lot of our top elected officials from California, and he's put them.

00:04:22.000 Talent and air quotes.

00:04:23.000 Exactly.

00:04:23.000 He's put them in his administration, and they're bringing with them their policies.

00:04:27.000 Look at Kamala Harris. 0.65

00:04:29.000 She is, many people believe, really kind of the guiding force of this administration, and she's bringing California to the country.

00:04:35.000 So it matters what's happening here.

00:04:37.000 And that's why it is so important to note to everyone and to get this narrative out there that in California, common sense is starting to push back.

00:04:46.000 It is not just Republicans, but independents and Democrats who have said enough with these really far-left progressive policies that are not serving California residents.

00:04:57.000 And so this recall effort has been founded by the citizens of California.

00:05:01.000 There have been other recall efforts on Gavin Newsom before.

00:05:03.000 There have been like six of them.

00:05:05.000 None of them were successful.

00:05:06.000 But Recall Gavin 2020 has been because it's a grassroots effort.

00:05:10.000 Conservatives started it, but independents and Democrats are pushing back because Gavin Newsom, using COVID-19 as an excuse, has shut down the schools.

00:05:20.000 He's taken away our ability to go to work.

00:05:22.000 He has taken away our ability to save money, to make a living.

00:05:28.000 And he's shut people down.

00:05:29.000 And because of it, the middle class is running out of California to other states.

00:05:33.000 And we're left with, as socialism proves, the very rich and the very poor.

00:05:37.000 Well, and it's a really important point that you just brought up and that I think a lot of people don't know yet.

00:05:43.000 And that's that this is not just Republicans signing this recall.

00:05:48.000 This has now become, it's gained so much momentum that you're hearing criticisms both from the left and the right.

00:05:53.000 And one thing that people don't know about California is that there's a lot of independence.

00:05:58.000 This state is way overrepresented in the independent category compared to a lot of other states because a lot of people don't want to be identified as a Republican.

00:06:08.000 Now, there are 5 million registered Republicans in the state, but there's a lot of independents.

00:06:12.000 And those independents are the mushy middle.

00:06:14.000 They can be convinced.

00:06:16.000 And what's probably even more striking is how many Democrats are now getting involved with this recall effort because, as you said, you're seeing this, as Bill Maher said, it felt like the 1970s, Italian malaise was setting in where you can't get a U-Haul van out of the state of California.

00:06:34.000 And if you can grab your hands on one, it's incredibly expensive because you can't get anybody to bring it back.

00:06:39.000 That's right.

00:06:40.000 So, I mean, and you've got the homelessness and the high taxes, and you've got this beautiful state that so many people remember at its prime and its peak represented freedom, self-expression.

00:06:50.000 And now those places have been exported to Texas, Tennessee, Florida, the free states that have remained open.

00:06:56.000 And so this is a real opportunity to press the reset button in California, where you even have people on the left saying we need to lower our corporate taxes.

00:07:05.000 We need to lower our state income taxes and we need to deal with homelessness.

00:07:10.000 This is a massive, massive opportunity to bring pragmatism back to a blue state.

00:07:14.000 Now, people don't often remember this, but Los Angeles and New York City had Republican mayors.

00:07:20.000 They did.

00:07:20.000 And there is a chance to get back there.

00:07:22.000 What do you think?

00:07:23.000 Who's it going to be?

00:07:25.000 I think that there is a chance for a Republican to hold statewide office.

00:07:29.000 What people may not know outside of California is that we like recalls in California.

00:07:33.000 We recalled Gray Davis and we brought in Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:07:37.000 Unfortunately, Arnold Schwarzenegger shriveled quickly under pressure from the state legislature.

00:07:43.000 And he really kind of killed the opportunity for no Republican has held statewide office since Schwarzenegger.

00:07:49.000 But there is a chance.

00:07:51.000 And if I'm looking at some of the candidates, because I believe this recall will make the ballot, it's at 1.7 million signatures now.

00:07:57.000 I think they'll probably get close to 2 million before it's over.

00:07:59.000 I think it'll get qualified and make it to the ballot.

00:08:02.000 I'm looking to someone like Rick Renell.

00:08:04.000 I'm looking to it, maybe an independent.

00:08:07.000 You know, typically, if you'd asked me as a conservative and as a MAGA conservative, I would probably look around to never support someone in a third-party role.

00:08:15.000 But in California, a third-party candidate could be successful.

00:08:18.000 And I think Rick Rennell, former director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany, could be the guy.

00:08:23.000 Well, I think you're absolutely right.

00:08:25.000 I think there's a lot of independents that are going to emerge that are going to be more right of center than they may even let on.

00:08:35.000 I think they're going to be more pragmatic, more pro-business, trying to revitalize this state's business economy because they know that if they come right out and say it, they're going to attach too much negative attention to their own bid, right?

00:08:49.000 So you're going to have a lot of people that are actually on our side that you're not going to know about on its face.

00:08:54.000 Let's talk about conservatives in California.

00:08:57.000 You mentioned Rick Grinnell, who's one of them.

00:09:00.000 We have some sound here, clip 85 that I want to play for you.

00:09:03.000 Rick Grinnell, he was on, I believe he's on Newsmax talking about this recall.

00:09:07.000 Let's go ahead and play clip 85.

00:09:10.000 I think it's really important.

00:09:11.000 We have a long history here of one-party rule in California.

00:09:15.000 And Gavin Newsom's tenure has been a disaster.

00:09:18.000 He started off by closing the beaches, if you can imagine that.

00:09:21.000 There's no science that says you should close the beaches.

00:09:23.000 So he's ignored science.

00:09:25.000 He's manipulated all of the decisions in order for political gain.

00:09:30.000 Our schools are closed.

00:09:32.000 We can't go inside restaurants.

00:09:34.000 Our gyms are closed. 0.59

00:09:35.000 Wealthy people are getting the vaccine while cancer patients and elderly are going without. 0.54

00:09:41.000 This is a disaster.

00:09:42.000 Rick Rinnell being potentially one of the folks, the names that are being floated.

00:09:47.000 You have some inside info on this.

00:09:50.000 Yeah, I don't know if I can reveal my sources yet, but I have heard that Rick Rinnell, who a lot of conservatives in California are begging to run.

00:09:50.000 Tell our audience.

00:09:57.000 He lives in Palm Springs, which is beautiful and a beautiful spot.

00:10:01.000 He would be a great candidate for governor.

00:10:03.000 And people say that he is really interested.

00:10:04.000 Now, if that happens, and maybe you've noticed this across the country, there are a lot of MAGA candidates that are starting to jump in.

00:10:12.000 We've got Sarah Sanders, who's running for governor in Arkansas.

00:10:15.000 You've got Corey Lewandowski, who's exploring Iran.

00:10:19.000 You have Lara Trump, who will most likely run for Senate in North Carolina.

00:10:23.000 She is going to win.

00:10:23.000 She's going to win too.

00:10:24.000 And you've got a lot of people who now have that MAGA ideology that are jumping into races around the country.

00:10:31.000 Now, the thought is, and this is what I've heard is the rumbling, and I love this as a Trump supporter.

00:10:36.000 Pray tell.

00:10:37.000 If Rick Rennell jumps into the governor's race, there is some talk that President Trump might start up his rallies again.

00:10:45.000 Everybody's waiting to hear what President Trump's political future is going to be.

00:10:48.000 But I don't think it's by mistake that all these MAGA candidates are suddenly jumping in.

00:10:52.000 I think President Trump is ready to put his political power behind his friends, his allies, those people who will carry on a MAGA agenda.

00:11:00.000 And even in California, Andrew, I think it works.

00:11:02.000 Trump used to fill rallies here in 2015 when he was rallying for president.

00:11:08.000 There's still car parades going through.

00:11:12.000 Malibu.

00:11:13.000 Malibu for Trump.

00:11:15.000 Absolutely.

00:11:15.000 During the fight over the election in the months following the election, there were rallies going on like every single Saturday in places like Beverly Hills and in Huntington Beach.

00:11:25.000 And so if you can get all of the 5 million people that turned out and voted for President Trump in the presidential election in California, you're going to see a huge amount of power wielded by someone who shouldn't be considered popular in California.

00:11:41.000 All of that power can be thrown at his chosen candidate.

00:11:44.000 And this is the question.

00:11:45.000 So we were debating this.

00:11:46.000 Somebody in California, you've got immigration, and we're going to hit this later in the show.

00:11:52.000 We're going to go dive right into it because Biden's been making all kinds of moves on immigration.

00:11:58.000 Can somebody that has the MAGA brand attached to them win in California?

00:12:04.000 One, will you be able to bring in independents?

00:12:08.000 And what do you do about immigration in a state like this?

00:12:11.000 We talked about Faulkner, the former mayor of San Diego, who is notoriously, I would say, weak on immigration.

00:12:18.000 You have an opinion about this, though.

00:12:19.000 What's the approach?

00:12:20.000 Yeah, there are a couple of people who have already declared their candidacy for governor.

00:12:23.000 And one of them is Kevin Faulkner, former mayor of San Diego, John Cox, who ran against Gavin Newsom and lost in 2018.

00:12:32.000 And Doug Osi, who had a short run for governor that same year.

00:12:35.000 You've got Major Williams, who's a Republican candidate, who ran for Pasadena mayor, didn't win.

00:12:42.000 African-American guy.

00:12:43.000 Really good, really good guy. 1.00

00:12:44.000 The problem with all of these guys is name recognition, right?

00:12:47.000 California loves a brand name.

00:12:49.000 We'd love to know people that we've heard of before.

00:12:52.000 And so that's the challenge there.

00:12:54.000 But I think with Kevin Faulkner, he is very soft on immigration.

00:12:57.000 He is, however, really good at solving the homeless crisis.

00:13:01.000 So if I were him, I think the only way that you pull together a candidacy that brings in Republicans who want you to be tough on immigration and independents and Democrats who don't is to focus on what your skill set is.

00:13:11.000 And that is fixing the homeless problem, fixing those life issues, schools, crime, all of that stuff that matters to the everyday person.

00:13:18.000 Focus on that and focus less on those other things.

00:13:21.000 Right.

00:13:21.000 And Rick Gurnell has the benefit of not really being in a position where he has anything to do with immigration, which in a state like California could it could benefit him.

00:13:30.000 The question is, does he have the in California, the MAGA stink?

00:13:33.000 Right.

00:13:34.000 Time will tell.

00:13:36.000 I hope he puts his name in the ring because I think he would be a phenomenal candidate.

00:13:39.000 He's such a good operator.

00:13:41.000 I've seen him behind the scenes.

00:13:42.000 He's so good.

00:13:43.000 So hopefully he jumps in.

00:13:44.000 Hopefully we can encourage him and be a source of support.

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00:14:40.000 We have to talk about Cruz.

00:14:42.000 We have to talk about Ted Cruz today.

00:14:45.000 Let's start with him apologizing, and then we'll get into it after that.

00:14:50.000 So the question from the video on the cell phone was whether the decision to go was tone deaf.

00:14:56.000 Look, it was obviously a mistake.

00:14:58.000 And in hindsight, I wouldn't have done it.

00:15:05.000 Hearing Ted Cruz apologize is hard to listen to, honestly, because we've come to know Ted Cruz as this aggressive bulldog in the Senate that, you know, nobody likes him, but he's cool with it and he doesn't care because he's going to fight for the American people.

00:15:24.000 He's going to fight for the state of Texas and, you know, to hell with it.

00:15:28.000 He's going to go for it.

00:15:30.000 So to hear him be contrite like this over something that honestly is getting completely blown out of proportion is disappointing.

00:15:36.000 It was actually a great tweet, simple, straightforward from Matt Gates, Representative Matt Gates, who's a friend of the show.

00:15:43.000 And he said simply, Ted Cruz should not have apologized.

00:15:46.000 I couldn't agree more with Matt Gates.

00:15:49.000 Ted Cruz should not have apologized.

00:15:51.000 The truth of the matter is, if you look back at the sequence of events here, he and Senator John Cornyn from the state of Texas, their one real functional job in a crisis, and obviously, you know, the backstory, I think we all are aware that Texas is going through some winter storms that are once-in-a-generation storms.

00:16:12.000 I'm hearing some people say this is the worst it's been since 1949.

00:16:15.000 I'm hearing other people say it's the worst it's been in Texas since 1918.

00:16:19.000 So, just to put it in perspective, it's not only cold, it's prolonged.

00:16:26.000 And now, 4 million people are out of power.

00:16:28.000 I think that number's down to 300,000 today.

00:16:30.000 So, it is getting better.

00:16:33.000 And, you know, but the new thing is that a lot of people have to boil their water because the water sanitation is down as well.

00:16:41.000 So, they're under Boyle advisories, which is obviously no fun.

00:16:45.000 But it's not like Senator Ted Cruz is a lineman.

00:16:48.000 It's not like he's an engineer.

00:16:49.000 It's not like he's even at the state level and has executive authority over the state of Texas and running the daily business of Texas.

00:16:57.000 That's Governor Abbott's job, and he is working with the federal government.

00:17:01.000 And I think there is some criticism that Joe Biden deserves in all of this.

00:17:04.000 It's been a slow response from the federal government.

00:17:06.000 We can get into that in just a second.

00:17:09.000 But Senator Cruz and Senator Cornyn requested and received emergency declarations on the state of Texas, received resources because of that.

00:17:22.000 Other than that, there's not a whole lot that Senator Cruz directly has to do.

00:17:26.000 Now, I admit that it was an optics issue.

00:17:32.000 There is certainly an optics issue here that does plays into the calculus.

00:17:40.000 But by Cruz capitulating and accepting the premise, he has poured fuel on a fire and turned it into a bonfire.

00:17:51.000 And it's given the left all the fodder they want to attack him and something that they've wanted to do with Cruz since 2013 when he railed on the Senate for hours and hours and hours, wouldn't let anybody go home over the amnesty bill.

00:18:05.000 So let's play clip 83 here, just to make my point even clearer.

00:18:09.000 This is Megan McCain, you know, from The View.

00:18:13.000 The former senator from Arizona, his daughter, Megan McCain, saying exactly what we all know to be true, that nobody really likes Ted Cruz in D.C. Let's go ahead and play it.

00:18:25.000 The explosion on Twitter is warranted, but I had just wished last night when I was seeing the absolute outrage and more time being dedicated towards this scandal.

00:18:33.000 I wish we had had a modicom of what was dedicated to the Ted Cruz scandal, dedicated to the scandal with Governor Cuomo, where 15,000 elderly people were tragically died in nursing homes and the media has ignored it for a year.

00:18:48.000 That's exactly right.

00:18:49.000 You know why?

00:18:50.000 There's two reasons, really.

00:18:52.000 One reason is that the media establishment in this country is 95% just based on donations to political parties, 95% in the bag for the Democrat Party.

00:19:03.000 So, of course, they come in with an implicit bias against a conservative.

00:19:09.000 In this case, Senator Ted Cruz is the recipient of that, but it's, frankly, it's all of us.

00:19:14.000 They're pitted against us from the jump.

00:19:17.000 And then when you give them something like this and you capitulate and you apologize, you're only making it worse for yourself.

00:19:25.000 Now, my theory on this is the second reason is that nobody in D.C. likes Ted Cruz, and that's okay.

00:19:34.000 That's totally okay.

00:19:36.000 If the kingdom of Washington is pitted against you, Senator Cruz, that's okay.

00:19:42.000 That probably means that you're doing something, something worthwhile.

00:19:46.000 But I think what happened here is as soon as Ted Cruz got onto that plane, and it was a commercial.

00:19:52.000 He was, you know, people were snapping pictures of him.

00:19:55.000 He started to see that everybody was aware that he was on a plane getting out of Texas, going to Mexico during the coldest stretch in anybody's memory.

00:20:06.000 He knew he messed up.

00:20:08.000 He knew he messed up, but it was too late.

00:20:09.000 He was on the plane with his daughter and her friends.

00:20:13.000 And he started getting nervous and he started backtracking.

00:20:17.000 News broke relatively quickly.

00:20:19.000 He got himself back.

00:20:20.000 It started groveling.

00:20:23.000 And for somebody that wants to be president, and it's very well reported that Senator Cruz wants to be president, and we like Senator Cruz here.

00:20:30.000 We're fans of him.

00:20:30.000 He's been on Charlie's podcast a couple times.

00:20:34.000 Great guy, smart guy.

00:20:37.000 But if you want to assume the energy within the conservative movement moving into 2022 in the midterms and then again in 2024, you've got to be stronger than accepting the premise of the left and capitulating to what they tell you you need to be sorry for and what you should not be sorry for.

00:20:59.000 And the left is just having a heyday with this.

00:21:03.000 Honestly, I don't want to talk about it.

00:21:06.000 I think we've done probably enough on it already because it's just giving into this narrative.

00:21:12.000 It was bad optics.

00:21:13.000 Could it have been done better?

00:21:14.000 Yes, of course.

00:21:15.000 But the main issue here is that Senator Cruz himself shouldn't have dealt with the fallout the way he has.

00:21:24.000 He should never, ever play ball on the left's turf.

00:21:27.000 That's the lesson, folks.

00:21:28.000 If you're out there, never play ball on their turf because then you have to play by their rules and they will always win.

00:21:34.000 It's like going to Vegas.

00:21:35.000 The House always wins.

00:21:36.000 Well, guess what?

00:21:37.000 When you give in and you start playing on their turf, the House always wins.

00:21:41.000 And in this case, the gavel at the House is Speaker Pelosi.

00:21:45.000 So the analogy continues.

00:21:47.000 So, Senator Ted Cruz, you have nothing to be sorry for.

00:21:51.000 You did your state well.

00:21:52.000 You got the emergency declaration.

00:21:54.000 You were being a good dad.

00:21:56.000 You do not have to apologize.

00:21:57.000 Enough of this already.

00:21:59.000 Moving on, in my opinion.

00:22:01.000 So the next big story that I think is, you know, honestly, I'm extremely passionate about is the announcement yesterday that the Biden administration is trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

00:22:19.000 And this is the debate within Democrat circles right now: do we do a comprehensive piece, which has failed both during Bush and Obama years, or do they do a piecemeal piece of legislation?

00:22:34.000 And regardless of whatever it is, both are utter disasters.

00:22:39.000 Just read at the onset, open borders, blanket amnesty.

00:22:46.000 There's three pieces that they're trying to potentially divide up and pass on their own.

00:22:54.000 One is the DREAM Act.

00:22:55.000 I think we all are well aware of what the DREAM Act is. 0.81

00:22:59.000 It's for childhood arrivals brought by their parents.

00:23:03.000 There is probably some bipartisan consensus that could be reached on the DREAM Act.

00:23:10.000 There is the Promise Act, and then there is a piece of legislation designed to help farm workers that are here as well.

00:23:20.000 Now, the poison pill in all of this is these three pieces, and these three pieces of legislation all grant immediate green cards, and then they Allow for a pathway to citizenship within three years, which is faster than the five-year track that other green card holders would typically get.

00:23:44.000 So, right at the onset, we have a problem.

00:23:49.000 And then, what they want to say is for anybody that arrived in the country as of January 1st, you have an eight-year path to citizenship.

00:24:03.000 If this doesn't frighten you, then you're not thinking about this the right way.

00:24:08.000 The left wants to frame this in purely moral terms, that we are to be a nation, as a nation of immigrants, we are to be compassionate, that we are bigger than the trivialities of the Trump administration, that we need to think about those lesser than us, and that Trump was just cruel. 0.98

00:24:28.000 He was a bully.

00:24:31.000 One of the facts that we need to confront and we need to be honest about with the left is that not only is this a recipe for utter chaos, it's the opposite of compassion. 0.63

00:24:45.000 By telling these people, everybody has cell phones down there.

00:24:49.000 You could be in the middle of the jungle with no power and you still have a cell phone in the Northern Triangle.

00:24:54.000 And there are 55 million people there.

00:24:57.000 And when polled, about 90% of them would come if given the chance to America.

00:25:03.000 This is why you see caravans forming over and over and over again.

00:25:10.000 And what you're doing is you are sowing the seeds of absolute and utter chaos that is the opposite of compassion.

00:25:16.000 Why do I say that? 0.96

00:25:18.000 I say that because you are empowering the most vile and evil forces within Mexico with the power of God at their hands.

00:25:29.000 They are the ones making all the money trafficking human beings across that border.

00:25:34.000 Some of the cartels, it's even been reported, have stopped dealing drugs and dealing guns and all these sorts of things because it's more profitable to force these people to pay them the money for safe passage through their territories.

00:25:52.000 So when you incentivize them and you send messages to Mexico and to Central America and the Northern Triangle, you're putting lives at risk.

00:26:02.000 So you want to tell me about kids in cages?

00:26:05.000 You are endangering young people that are going to be coming up without their parents.

00:26:09.000 You are endangering whole families of getting exploited by the cartels and really dangerous terrain, really dangerous circumstances.

00:26:17.000 It is the opposite of compassion.

00:26:19.000 And we need to hit that message extremely hard moving forward.

00:26:22.000 It's incredibly frustrating to me to watch politics completely hijack something that is, to my mind, and probably to many of yours, something that is completely common sense.

00:26:35.000 I'm reading here from the National Review.

00:26:38.000 And by the way, just before I get into this, some of you might be confused.

00:26:41.000 There is a comprehensive piece of legislation and then there is piecemeal.

00:26:46.000 Both are working their way through Congress and being proposed simultaneously because the worry from the Democrats is that if they issue a comprehensive immigration bill, that it will get dead on arrival, won't happen.

00:27:00.000 Probably all this is dead on arrival, to be honest, which is good.

00:27:05.000 But if they do the piecemeal, they might have more success of getting certain aspects of their wish list across the finish line.

00:27:12.000 So I'm reading here from National Review, like the bloated comprehensive measure, the piecemeal proposals would not result in a similar broken promise because they don't even pretend to provide for future enforcement, all but guaranteeing the buildup of another large illegal population in the future.

00:27:30.000 This part about enforcement is really key.

00:27:33.000 I feel like we're living in an era where the left has completely abandoned the idea of law and order and enforcement.

00:27:40.000 To them, it's cruel.

00:27:42.000 Defund the police.

00:27:45.000 Let's not protect the border.

00:27:46.000 That's mean.

00:27:47.000 Kids in cages.

00:27:49.000 So, in the absence of enforcement, you get chaos, which is cruel to the rest of America, which is cruel to those living at the border, which is honestly cruel to the immigrants that are trying to make their way across the border because you're selling them a false bill of goods.

00:28:04.000 But let's get to Senator Menendez, who is the Senate sponsor of this new immigration package.

00:28:11.000 Let's play his clip.

00:28:13.000 Well, what I want to achieve is robust reform.

00:28:19.000 Look, you know, we want to have border security, but we think that technology, in addition to everything that's already been done, we have more border patrol than we've ever had.

00:28:29.000 We spend more on border patrol than we do in all of the other federal law enforcement entities combined.

00:28:38.000 So it's time to take a new look at how do we ensure the border.

00:28:42.000 So that's one piece of it.

00:28:44.000 Like I said, they look at all the enforcement at the border, which is one of the crowning achievements of the Trump administration.

00:28:50.000 And they look at that as somehow a black eye against the United States of America, that Trump has successfully reduced the chaos and the criminality at our southern border, built 450, 500 miles a wall that they've toyed with taking down.

00:29:04.000 Meanwhile, those communities that are benefiting from the wall love it.

00:29:07.000 It's never been so good.

00:29:09.000 They've never had so much peace.

00:29:11.000 But, you know, they can't live with that because guess what?

00:29:16.000 It's all political.

00:29:17.000 But meanwhile, Chad Wolf, former acting DHS secretary, explains the problem with the lack of enforcement.

00:29:26.000 Clip 82, go ahead and play it.

00:29:29.000 Well, what I can tell you is that the situation on the border right now is very dangerous.

00:29:33.000 We've got over, our CBP is facing a little over 3,000, in some cases 3,500 individuals coming across the border illegally every day.

00:29:42.000 And if we go back to the previous DHS secretary under Obama, who said 1,000 a day is a very bad day for DHS and at crisis levels.

00:29:51.000 So we're at three times that at the moment.

00:29:53.000 So it's very concerning, a number of things that are occurring down there.

00:29:57.000 And again, I think it's a direct result of some of the things that we've heard this administration do in sending a signal to those south of the border, those wanting to cross illegally, to the cartels, the smugglers, and the traffickers.

00:30:08.000 Now is the time to send those individuals across the border.

00:30:13.000 Signaling now is the time to come.

00:30:15.000 This is what happens with lack of enforcement.

00:30:17.000 And I tell you, we are sitting at the precipice, if not already there, of a terrible humanitarian crisis at our southern border.

00:30:25.000 And this will be the direct result of the policies of the Biden administration.

00:30:29.000 And frankly, it's horrifying to me.

00:30:31.000 And I feel like I'm watching a train crashing in slow motion, and I can't stop it.

00:30:36.000 And it feels like none of us can stop it, but we have to keep voicing our concern and fighting back to keep our GOP members in the Senate strong to push these bills down.

00:30:46.000 We do not want to lose any of our members.

00:30:48.000 We can't afford it.

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00:32:02.000 Biden, this according to NPR, the headline does say a lot on immigration.

00:32:07.000 Biden goes big in opening a bid to Congress.

00:32:11.000 So, what is this big opening bid from Joe Biden?

00:32:14.000 You've got the DREAM Act for undocumented childhood arrivals.

00:32:20.000 I do think that there is the potential that the DREAM Act is going to get passed.

00:32:24.000 I do think that.

00:32:25.000 I think that's a realistic situation here.

00:32:28.000 A lot of people have compassion for the DREAMers.

00:32:31.000 They didn't come here under their own will.

00:32:33.000 It was their parents' decision.

00:32:36.000 You know, I think if you are a conservative, that is the piece to barter with.

00:32:40.000 I think, you know, it's all problematic, frankly, because it's all breaking our laws and getting away with it.

00:32:46.000 And that's infuriating to so many of us. 0.99

00:32:49.000 But in this particular instance, even President Trump was willing to wheel and deal with the DREAMers piece of this in order to get what enforcement. 0.57

00:33:00.000 And that is the big thing missing from all of this.

00:33:03.000 Senator Menendez, oh, we're going to add some great technology.

00:33:06.000 Well, you're going to have drones flying overhead as drugs are getting smuggled across the border, and nothing's going to be done about it.

00:33:12.000 You are going to be putting our brave men and women of Border Patrol in harm's way, and it's despicable.

00:33:20.000 And you're going to be putting the lives of those children that are being trafficked across and those women being trafficked across.

00:33:26.000 You're going to put their lives in danger as well by just saying, oh, we're going to have some technology.

00:33:30.000 It's going to be great.

00:33:31.000 President Trump was privy to this.

00:33:33.000 He knew it was a sham.

00:33:34.000 He knew it was a fraud.

00:33:36.000 Putting sensors, cameras, drones, whatever is not going to stop hardened criminals from getting across our border and subjecting our population to massive amounts of crime coming up from a borderless, lawless area.

00:33:51.000 And this is no disrespect to Mexico.

00:33:53.000 This is no disrespect to the Northern Triangle.

00:33:55.000 There's great people there.

00:33:56.000 There's wonderful people there.

00:33:58.000 And they are poor and they are crying out for help.

00:34:01.000 And I don't say that we should turn a blind eye to that.

00:34:04.000 But we should absolutely not do is open the borders and say, come at us, chaos.

00:34:09.000 We're a rich country.

00:34:10.000 We need to pay penance for our privilege and let you all in because Trump was so cruel to you.

00:34:17.000 We need to reverse this.

00:34:18.000 Well, if they've looked at it with clear-eyed vision, which is asking a lot, I understand, they would see that President Trump actually had a massive amount of success in this area.

00:34:30.000 So much so that many of us have forgotten about the border crisis that was so prevalent during the Obama years.

00:34:37.000 So not only do you have these, the DREAM Act, which I said is it does have some bipartisan consensus behind it, potentially, you've got the Promise Act, and then you've got the Farm Workers Act, and then you've got this other catch-all, which is a poison pill that says if you were here as of January 1st of 2021, then we're going to grandfather you in and we're going to blank an amnesty you as well.

00:35:02.000 And here's another frustrating part about all of this.

00:35:04.000 And by the way, eight years pathway to citizenship.

00:35:07.000 And the part that really frustrates me about all of this is that we are encouraging lawlessness and lawbreaking and we are rewarding it to achieve the ends of an activist minority because the vast majority of Americans know this is a recipe for disaster.

00:35:26.000 And you've even got Democrats that are saying, you're going to lose in 2022 if you go on this.

00:35:32.000 If you move forward with these policies, these soft-on immigration, open borders policies, you're going to lose.

00:35:39.000 And it's an absolute recipe for destruction and chaos.

00:35:42.000 And I've said that.

00:35:43.000 I will say it again.

00:35:45.000 And their justification is that you've got to prioritize.

00:35:48.000 You've got to prioritize where you're dispatching the federal government's resources.

00:35:54.000 You have Senator Menendez saying we spend more on Border Patrol than any other federal law enforcement agency for good reason because the crisis and the problem is that large.

00:36:04.000 It requires that many resources.

00:36:07.000 And here we go.

00:36:08.000 Here's the rub.

00:36:09.000 They have been saying 11 million undocumented people in this country for years.

00:36:15.000 Now, Tucker Carlson made this point brilliantly on a show.

00:36:17.000 I want to play his tape right now.

00:36:21.000 So the best estimate we have, the firmest, puts the number at about 22 million people living here illegally.

00:36:28.000 There are informed estimates that put the number above 30 million. 0.85

00:36:32.000 Anyone who repeats the 11 million number is either ignorant or lying. 0.98

00:36:38.000 It's so true. 1.00

00:36:39.000 I mean, I remember being in high school hearing 11 million immigrants are in this country illegally.

00:36:47.000 That cannot be the case.

00:36:50.000 And they keep saying 11 million because they know that you, the listener, you, the audience, has become so numb to that number that it doesn't even mean anything.

00:36:59.000 Ah, well, they're here anyways.

00:37:00.000 It's always 11 million. 0.99

00:37:01.000 You might as well make them part of the country.

00:37:02.000 Give them voting.

00:37:03.000 That's fine.

00:37:06.000 Listen to Jen Saki saying that, yeah, we are.

00:37:09.000 Yeah, we're going to amnesty 11 million.

00:37:11.000 Clip 90.

00:37:12.000 Can you give us any specifics on whether a potential pathway to citizenship will be part of the plan for that particular group?

00:37:22.000 Well, there certainly is part of the proposal that the president outlined and proposed on day one is an earned path to citizenship, right, for 11 million immigrants who are undocumented immigrants who are living in the country.

00:37:35.000 He's also somebody who believes in the rights of the DACA recipients to be in the country.

00:37:42.000 Yeah, it's always about DACA.

00:37:43.000 That's the one they go back to.

00:37:45.000 And then they latch on and they kind of push all this other stuff through off the backs of this, an issue that genuinely should evoke compassion for these kids.

00:37:57.000 I do believe that.

00:37:59.000 Nevertheless, what they're packing into it is a poison pill.

00:38:05.000 And we should know that.

00:38:06.000 Now, part of all this is not just the portion that has to do with the immigration bill presented by the Biden administration.

00:38:17.000 It's also on how they are enforcing those who are already here and breaking our laws.

00:38:23.000 This is the other piece of this puzzle that's massively important.

00:38:28.000 After four years, I'm reading from NPR, after four years of former President Trump's immigration crackdown, the Biden administration on Thursday announced new guidelines that are expected to sharply limit arrests and deportation carried out by immigration and customs enforcement.

00:38:41.000 Under the guidance, ICE agents and officers have been told to prioritize, listen to this, threats to national security and public safety when deciding whom to arrest, detain, and deport.

00:38:53.000 National security.

00:38:54.000 I bet that my definition and many of yours of what national security is and is not is completely different from what the Biden administration would define it as.

00:39:06.000 Is it not a matter of national security when MS-13 fills up your neighborhoods in Long Island and attacks your kids?

00:39:15.000 Is that not national security? 0.60

00:39:17.000 Is it not national security when Kate Stele got killed in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant? 0.99

00:39:23.000 Was that not national security?

00:39:24.000 I'm pretty sure the Stele family would feel differently.

00:39:28.000 Is it not national security when the schools here in Los Angeles, many of which have predominantly Spanish-speaking students, is that not national security for those parents of English-speaking students that their kids can't get ahead?

00:39:42.000 They can't accelerate in the learning process fast enough?

00:39:46.000 I think it's that big of an issue that we need to just keep hammering at home.

00:39:51.000 We have an administration that seems hell-bent on degrading the security and safety established by the Trump administration at the southern border under intense scrutiny and criticism.

00:40:05.000 We've also got an administration that wants to tie the hands of ICE to deport violent criminals from our streets and restrict what they can do.

00:40:14.000 Now, I'm fully aware looking at the broad breadth of coverage on these new guidelines for ICE that there are still, even with these relaxed standards, these very loose standards, there are still advocates on the left that are saying, you're still not going far enough.

00:40:29.000 You're not upholding the dignity of the immigrant. 0.83

00:40:32.000 Well, that's just ridiculous. 1.00

00:40:34.000 If somebody's here in this country illegally and they're breaking our laws, they should be deported. 0.99

00:40:40.000 If somebody's here illegally, they should be deported. 1.00

00:40:42.000 This should not be controversial at all. 0.97

00:40:46.000 But they are moving forward with a big, bold proposal that will not get passed.

00:40:52.000 And if we, in the grassroots movement of the conservatives, raise our voices in a collective fashion, we will fight back and we will make sure that the Republicans hold the line on this.

00:41:03.000 Now, they're going to try and work some of their proposals in through the reconciliation process, which is not what reconciliation is designed to do.

00:41:12.000 Nevertheless, they're going to attempt to do it.

00:41:15.000 But for the really big stuff, we should be able to stop this.

00:41:19.000 That's the good news.

00:41:22.000 But a larger question is why?

00:41:27.000 Why are they trying to do this?

00:41:29.000 There is a built-in assumption within the Democrat Party and progressives in general that if we allow citizenship for millions of Hispanic, largely Hispanic, and otherwise people of color from Africa,

00:41:45.000 there's Haitians, there's a whole composite of different groups that would be part of this amnesty, that we are going to create a permanent Democrat majority in the United States.

00:42:01.000 That Republicans will never be able to win a national election ever again in the United States of America if we allow millions of undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants, to become citizens. 0.57

00:42:14.000 And that's why they keep telling you 11, because in reality, they know it's 30 or at least 22. 0.65

00:42:19.000 They think in one fell swoop, they're going to get millions of new voters.

00:42:24.000 And in the short term, they're probably right.

00:42:27.000 But there's an interesting article from the New York Times by Eric Kaufman.

00:42:31.000 He's a professor who studies and writes about demographics and partisanship and ideology.

00:42:37.000 He wrote a piece here, February 13th, it's dated.

00:42:40.000 How stable is the Democratic Coalition?

00:42:43.000 The party may control the elected branches in Washington, but it may be facing some slippage in the support from minority communities.

00:42:51.000 And what this article is based around is the fact that Trump did surprisingly well with minorities in 2020.

00:42:58.000 So well that it surprised many prognosticators and analysts and talking heads on the left.

00:43:05.000 Now, when Obama built his coalition, he garnered the support of 75% of minorities.

00:43:13.000 They identified as Democrat in 2008, 75%.

00:43:17.000 Do you know what that number is now?

00:43:20.000 As of 2020, that number is down to 51% identify as Democrat.

00:43:26.000 Now, you have places in the Rio Grande Valley.

00:43:29.000 You have places in South Florida where the Hispanic population almost went 50-50. 0.66

00:43:36.000 You had places that had not gone Republican in Texas in 95 years flip red, largely Hispanic.

00:43:45.000 There's certain counties that are 95% Hispanic that went Republican in Texas.

00:43:51.000 And this author stipulates that the Hispanic population is following a very similar trajectory in American politics of other recent immigrant groups throughout our nation's history, including the Catholics that in 1960, and they voted for JFK were almost 73% of white Catholics identified as Democrats.

00:44:16.000 By 2016, just 38% of white Catholics identified as Democrats and half called themselves Republicans.

00:44:24.000 This is a trend that will continue if the conservatives embrace the populist energy of Donald Trump and stay rooted in conservative values, in life and liberty and opportunity and entrepreneurialism, the things that brought these people to this country in the first place.

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00:45:39.000 I'm going to play a clip here from Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida honoring the great Rush Limbaugh.

00:45:46.000 And I know they're still figuring out the arrangements, but what we do when there's things of this magnitude, once the date of internment for Rush is announced, we're going to be lowering the flags to have staff.

00:46:00.000 Thank you so much.

00:46:04.000 A truly beautiful sentiment from the governor there.

00:46:08.000 Hats off to Governor DeSantis for honoring Rush Limbaugh in that way.

00:46:13.000 Obviously, Rush was a Floridian later in his life, retired.

00:46:17.000 Well, never retired, but he moved there from New York to escape the taxes and the weather and was broadcasting out of Palm Beach.

00:46:25.000 So hats off.

00:46:29.000 I want to talk about sort of behind the headlines here a little bit, getting behind the scenes and behind the thinking of the people pulling the strings, both at a media level and a government level.

00:46:42.000 You've got what is arguably, it's a once-in-a-generation storm in Texas.

00:46:47.000 And what are we talking about besides the disaster and the people's lives affected?

00:46:52.000 And really, what we should be talking about is the utter failure of the federal government to get out in front of this and to lend a helping hand.

00:47:02.000 If there was an honest media, or at least a consistent media, whether it's fair or not, this would already have been dubbed, and I am hereby dubbing it if it hasn't been done yet, as Biden's Katrina moment.

00:47:17.000 There's a tweet from yesterday from Joe Biden that said, oh, we're getting generators to Texas.

00:47:23.000 Well, I'm sorry, but it's a little bit late, don't you think?

00:47:27.000 As most of the House's power is coming back on, but we don't have a consistent media.

00:47:32.000 Instead, what are they doing?

00:47:35.000 They are throwing off the scent to a ridiculous scandal with Senator Ted Cruz and interestingly, a scandal involving New York's governor Andrew Cuomo.

00:47:49.000 Now, Senator Cruz makes sense why they would want you to be talking about him instead of Joe Biden's failure.

00:47:57.000 But Andrew Cuomo is kind of interesting.

00:47:59.000 I think it's actually incredibly telling that they want us to be talking about Cuomo.

00:48:06.000 And what's also interesting is that you have Democrats piling on.

00:48:11.000 You see, now that Joe Biden's in the White House, the entire calculus of the Democrat Party has changed before they dispatch their attack dogs in the media and their political mouthpieces, both at the state level and the national level, to attack one singular enemy, and that was Donald Trump.

00:48:33.000 But without him in the White House, the calculus has changed.

00:48:37.000 They are happy today that we are talking about Andrew Cuomo.

00:48:43.000 And most conservatives all across the country are eagerly gobbling it up.

00:48:47.000 And rightly so.

00:48:48.000 It's a tragic thing that happened there.

00:48:53.000 He covered up a massive scandal and he deserves to be held accountable for it.

00:48:57.000 And while we're at it, we should hold Chris Cuomo, his brother, accountable.

00:49:00.000 A complete hack that was more interested in cracking jokes on primetime CNN than actually asking his brother real, serious questions.

00:49:11.000 And now CNN has silenced him.

00:49:13.000 He can't talk about it.

00:49:16.000 It's a complete joke.

00:49:18.000 CNN is a joke.

00:49:20.000 But see what's happening.

00:49:21.000 They want us talking about Andrew Cuomo.

00:49:23.000 They want us talking about Senator Cruz because they know that as long as we're doing that, we are happily distracted from the real scandal that we should be focused on.

00:49:35.000 And just imagine, folks, if the shoe was on the other foot.

00:49:37.000 If Trump was in the White House right now, we would be having calls for a third impeachment.

00:49:43.000 This would be Trump's Katrina, which they eagerly tried to do multiple times when Trump was in the White House.

00:49:53.000 Anytime there was a crisis, a natural disaster, they were like, oh, this is Trump's Katrina.

00:49:59.000 It was like as the storm was approaching, as a hurricane was approaching the mainland, they were already saying this is going to be his Katrina.

00:50:07.000 Meanwhile, Texas has been without power for days in a once-in-a-generation storm.

00:50:12.000 And just yesterday, we get a tweet about generators.

00:50:16.000 Nobody is talking about it because they know that as long as they're number one, as long as their main guy up at the top, Joe Biden, their puppet that they can control, that's already shown time and again in his short time in office that he is more than happy to appease the far left and the radical left and the activist left and prove to them that he's their guy and he's going to advance the progressive agenda.

00:50:42.000 As long as they got him in office, as long as they can control him in Kamala Harris, they are not going to let anybody touch him.

00:50:52.000 And that's why it doesn't matter how bad the immigration policies are.

00:50:55.000 It doesn't matter that they're saying they're going to raise corporate taxes.

00:50:58.000 It doesn't matter that they're going to raise taxes on the working class.

00:51:01.000 It doesn't matter that they are trying to pass a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that even Obama's chief economist is saying it's way too big and it's going to overheat the economy and that we've got inflation that is already driving up mortgage rates, impending inflation.

00:51:20.000 It doesn't matter about any of that stuff.

00:51:21.000 It doesn't matter how horrific the policies are.

00:51:23.000 It doesn't matter that today we officially rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, which is going to hamstring U.S. businesses in favor of Chinese and Indian businesses that don't have to meet the same standards.

00:51:38.000 It doesn't matter that he's allowed China to get access to our power grid again and sell component parts.

00:51:46.000 It doesn't matter that he's now again going back to the table with Iran and the failed Iranian nuclear strategy that Trump set right, which led to unprecedented peace in the Middle East.

00:52:00.000 It doesn't matter how terrible any of these policies are because as long as you're talking about Ted Cruz and as long as you're talking about Andrew Cuomo, they still get their way.

00:52:08.000 They still win and they know it.

00:52:12.000 And that's why Andrew Cuomo is now getting thrown overboard.

00:52:16.000 That's why he's, you know, he's a casualty of war.

00:52:22.000 He is unfortunately now going to be swimming on his own because they don't need to protect him.

00:52:30.000 He's the bait.

00:52:31.000 He's the chum in the water that distracts us from the real target, which should be this horrific Biden administration policy agenda and portfolio.

00:52:41.000 It's that bad. 0.62

00:52:44.000 You know, I think a lot of us had hoped and prayed that Biden was going to be a moderate, that he would be Scranton Joe.

00:52:55.000 But he has proved anything but that.

00:52:57.000 Now, I, again, understand he's got a far-left contingent that continues to rail at him no matter what he does, but that's what he should know.

00:53:05.000 That's what they're designed to do.

00:53:06.000 He can go a mile in their direction and they will demand five.

00:53:13.000 But if he really wanted to bring unity and heal this country, he would reject the socialists.

00:53:19.000 He would reject the cultural Marxists that are yanking him in a borderless, globalist direction towards the climate cult, towards widely accepted solutions, the DREAM Act.

00:53:32.000 That's a place where you could probably wheel and deal on immigration in exchange for the DREAMers, get border enforcement.

00:53:41.000 That's a place where we could find consensus. 0.93

00:53:44.000 Instead of doing that, he doesn't even start an opening bid with any enforcement.

00:53:49.000 He just blanket amnesty, essentially. 0.80

00:53:53.000 Fast-tracking DREAMers, those of the Promise Act, the Farm Workers Act, fast-tracking them to citizenship in three years. 0.90

00:54:00.000 Three years. 0.92

00:54:03.000 I don't exactly know, but that might be in time for 2024 when he has to run again.

00:54:10.000 Maybe that's part of the calculus there.

00:54:14.000 These are radical policies.

00:54:18.000 And he and his administration are rightly throwing off your scent to Senator Ted Cruz and a trip to Cancun.

00:54:27.000 And all of his lackeys in the media are playing along and they're playing all of us.

00:54:32.000 Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is showing us how it's done.

00:54:38.000 And a complete flip-flop, by the way.

00:54:42.000 Ron DeSantis, they called him Ron Death Santis because he insisted on keeping his beaches open, his restaurants open, and his economy open.

00:54:53.000 And they hailed Cuomo because why?

00:54:56.000 Because at the time, Trump was in office and Cuomo was their foil.

00:54:59.000 They said, look at how terrible Trump is because look at how great Cuomo is.

00:55:03.000 But now that you got Biden in the office, they don't need him anymore.

00:55:08.000 And their mob-style tactics, they're throwing him overboard.

00:55:13.000 And now DeSantis is the darling and has presented himself as a frontrunner in 2024.

00:55:19.000 Obviously, President Trump is still out there.

00:55:22.000 It's just amazing how this calculus is playing out in real time and how most of us are taking the bait and not paying attention to the real target, and that is the radical policies out of Washington, D.C. There's a new call from the House to study reparations.

00:55:40.000 Now, reparations, as CNN puts it, is a complex and thorny issue.

00:55:47.000 Because after all, how do we determine who gets money, who deserves money, who should pay, and how much?

00:55:53.000 I mean, if you're talking about somebody that is mixed race and half black and half white, do they pay themselves?

00:56:01.000 This is something Charlie often says.

00:56:04.000 But it gets to a deeper question.

00:56:07.000 And I just want to start off with some sound from the great Larry Elder.

00:56:14.000 He was testifying before Congress and grabbed headlines all over because of how eloquently he stated his case against reparations.

00:56:23.000 A black American, he's a conservative, arguing before Congress that reparations are bad.

00:56:29.000 Let's go ahead and play Larry Elder. 0.53

00:56:32.000 Gallup asked whether or not Americans would not vote for a black person referring to Obama, would not vote for a woman referring to Hillary Clinton, would not vote for a Mormon referring to Mitt Romney, would not vote for a person as old as John McCain would be 72 years old.

00:56:47.000 And what Gallup found is 5% of Americans said they would not under any circumstances vote for a black person.

00:56:53.000 11% said they would not under any circumstances vote for a female.

00:56:57.000 24% said they would not vote for a Mormon.

00:57:00.000 42% said they would not vote for a person who would be 72 years old when he became president, which would have been the case had John McCain been elected.

00:57:09.000 In other words, Obama as a black person had a smaller barrier than these three white politicians.

00:57:14.000 So having this conversation right now when racism has never been a less significant problem in America to me is mind-boggling.

00:57:22.000 That's exactly right.

00:57:24.000 And if you guys haven't heard all of Larry's testimony there, I definitely encourage you to Google it, check it out on Rumble.

00:57:33.000 It gave me chills listening to it, and I will tell you why.

00:57:38.000 Because Larry Elder was striking at one of the deepest, most profound, most destructive lies in our culture today.

00:57:47.000 That you are defined by the melanin in your skin as opposed to the content of your character.

00:57:53.000 The modern radical left has reversed one of the greatest achievements any society has ever made, and that was the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, who had a dream that his four little children would not grow up in a world that judged them by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

00:58:11.000 And we have a whole movement in this country that says that that was not enough and that is not complete.

00:58:18.000 And so what they're trying to do is they're saying, you are not enough.

00:58:23.000 You are not enough.

00:58:24.000 You are a victim. 1.00

00:58:24.000 You are an aggrieved class. 1.00

00:58:27.000 You cannot make it.

00:58:29.000 You can't achieve because of this evil, wicked country that you have grown up in.

00:58:35.000 When that could not be further from the truth, the truth is, is that America, despite her flaws, is still the greatest country in the history of the world.

00:58:48.000 And that if you were born here, you are already born privileged.

00:58:51.000 It does not matter the color of your skin.

00:58:53.000 It doesn't matter anything that has to do with your immutable characteristics.

00:58:58.000 What matters is if you believe that you can achieve.

00:59:04.000 And this is the conservative ethic.

00:59:06.000 This is the conservative ethos.

00:59:08.000 This is the heart of the matter.

00:59:10.000 That if you just get government off your back, if you get regulations out of your way, if you get these ideologies of victimhood tossed aside with the truth that you are already privileged, there is not white privilege and black privilege and whatever privilege.

00:59:26.000 You are an American and you are privileged to be here.

00:59:29.000 And we should all fight harder to protect this gift that we've been given.

00:59:33.000 Despite our flaws, we are great.

00:59:39.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:59:40.000 I encourage you to get involved with TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.

00:59:44.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:59:48.000 And please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:59:51.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:59:53.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 20, 2021

Biden's Katrina

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