The Charlie Kirk Show - Black History Month + Nikki Haley for President? With Senator Ted Cruz

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00:01:15.000 It seems to be official.

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00:01:20.000 That is less important to the future of our civilization. 1.00

00:01:23.000 But Nikki Haley seems to be running for president of the United States with a scoop last evening.

00:01:29.000 The media is reporting that Nikki Haley is going to announce for the presidency on February 15th, the day after Valentine's Day.

00:01:38.000 You see, a couple years ago, Nikki Haley was really looked at as the future of American conservatism.

00:01:46.000 Objectively, she was a very conservative governor of South Carolina.

00:01:51.000 That is true.

00:01:52.000 However, she would always go out of her way to try to pander to media narratives.

00:01:57.000 And Donald Trump selected her to be the ambassador to the United Nations when she went and became the ambassador to the United Nations.

00:02:04.000 That's where I personally started to find a lot of disagreement with Nikki Haley.

00:02:09.000 Let me say this before I go any further.

00:02:11.000 I've actually had a very warm relationship with Nikki Haley.

00:02:14.000 I know her son.

00:02:16.000 She has spoken at Turning Point USA events.

00:02:18.000 I have nothing negative to say about my interactions with her.

00:02:21.000 She just recently spoke at a Turning Point USA chapter meeting in Clemson.

00:02:25.000 I'm certainly not supporting her for the presidency in 2024.

00:02:29.000 We're going to talk about that, but I find it very interesting.

00:02:32.000 I find her candidacy interesting for a couple of reasons because it does show that despite all the bad news, I think the party is changing for the better because a couple years ago, even prior to Donald Trump, somebody like Nikki Haley would have automatically been accepted as a consensus top-tier candidate.

00:02:54.000 But Nikki Haley, I'm sure you could find an article.

00:02:58.000 Somebody could of Nikki Haley 2016 or 2018, 2020 presidential poll, some poll that somebody did a favorability.

00:03:06.000 She used to be one of the most popular Republican figures out there, and she is no longer.

00:03:12.000 Now, she could, again, and I'm going to walk through how I think we should not underestimate Nikki Haley.

00:03:18.000 I think she's very talented. 0.97

00:03:20.000 She'll raise a ton of money.

00:03:22.000 And she works, man.

00:03:23.000 I'm telling you, she is ambitious.

00:03:25.000 Do not underestimate her.

00:03:27.000 But I find it interesting, what happened to the popularity that Nikki Haley once enjoyed?

00:03:34.000 Let's go to a couple pieces of tape here.

00:03:36.000 Let's talk to, let's see Nikki Haley here talking to Brett Baer, cut 50 two weeks ago.

00:03:41.000 Nikki Haley teasing that she's going to run for president.

00:03:44.000 Now we know she is play cut 50.

00:03:47.000 But when you're looking at a run for president, you look at two things.

00:03:49.000 You first look at, does the current situation push for new leadership?

00:03:55.000 The second question is, am I that person that could be that new leader?

00:03:59.000 Yes, we need to go in a new direction.

00:04:01.000 And can I be that leader?

00:04:03.000 Yes, I think I can be that leader.

00:04:04.000 I've never lost a race.

00:04:06.000 I said that then.

00:04:07.000 I still say that now.

00:04:08.000 I'm not going to lose now, but stay tuned.

00:04:10.000 52, she continues and says it's time for a new generation to lead Play Cut 52.

00:04:15.000 The survival of America matters, and it's bigger than one person.

00:04:20.000 And when you're looking at the future of America, I think it's time for new generational change.

00:04:24.000 I don't think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in D.C.

00:04:28.000 I think we need a young generation to come in, step up, and really start fixing things.

00:04:33.000 So Nikki Haley running for president shows that Donald Trump is going to have some serious competitors, competition.

00:04:40.000 Now, Nikki Haley is not going to resonate with the grassroots base immediately. 0.94

00:04:45.000 She's going to raise a pile of money, though, a ton of money.

00:04:49.000 I can say this as somebody who has been very blessed to raise a fair amount of money at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action and Turning Point PAC and been around the conservative donor space for 10 years.

00:05:00.000 And I listen to what they have to say, and I agree some and I disagree some, but Nikki Haley is definitely a consensus candidate for the American conservative donor class.

00:05:10.000 They love Nikki Haley.

00:05:12.000 And I'm curious, what do you guys think of Nikki Haley?

00:05:14.000 I want to hear from you.

00:05:15.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:05:16.000 I'll read some of your emails.

00:05:18.000 But Nikki Haley is going to raise a ton of money.

00:05:21.000 She's going to work very hard.

00:05:22.000 Now, where she's going to run into some trouble is the grassroots side of things, doing big events, doing big rallies, drawing crowds.

00:05:30.000 I don't think that is going to be a strong suit for her. 0.97

00:05:34.000 But Nikki Haley entering this race is she's going to try to carve out a lane.

00:05:39.000 She is now the first announced candidate of somebody that is going to try to scoop up tens of millions of dollars of donor money, having a 527 on the outside, a super PAC to run ad assistance, to run against Donald Trump, even though he put her in a position of power, which is going to be a very perplexing thing for a lot of us.

00:05:57.000 Like, wait a second, weren't you ambassador to UN because Donald Trump empowered you?

00:06:01.000 Okay.

00:06:03.000 And maybe there is a lot of just naked opportunism there.

00:06:06.000 I don't know.

00:06:07.000 But it'll be fascinating to watch how she is going to explain why you're able to win straw polls amongst donors.

00:06:18.000 Nothing wrong with that, by the way.

00:06:20.000 You need the support of donors, but not with the actual mass amount of voters.

00:06:26.000 And there's tons of examples of this.

00:06:29.000 There's plenty of examples, I should say, of people like Nikki Haley that seem when it gets tough and there's a lot of pressure, she doesn't always make the right decision.

00:06:40.000 For example, Nikki Haley said this with the George Floyd situation.

00:06:45.000 We spent the last couple of days celebrating our son's graduation.

00:06:48.000 Tonight, I turned on the news and I'm heartbroken.

00:06:51.000 It's important to understand that the death of George Floyd was personal and painful for many.

00:06:55.000 In order to heal, it needs to be personal and painful for everyone.

00:06:59.000 That sounds very left-wing, personal and painful for everyone.

00:07:03.000 She also said that it was a mistake to follow Donald Trump when it came to January 6th.

00:07:08.000 It seemed as if there was this pattern, there was this theme that she was just waiting to jump ship.

00:07:15.000 However, I will say that my greatest disagreement with her is in the area of foreign policy.

00:07:24.000 Nikki Haley is a cheerleader for the military-industrial complex.

00:07:28.000 She sat on the board of Boeing right after leaving.

00:07:31.000 In fact, she might still sit on the board of Boeing.

00:07:32.000 Maybe she resigned recently, but she certainly sat on the board of Boeing at some point.

00:07:37.000 She has been enthusiastic about trying to escalate tensions with Ukraine.

00:07:42.000 And now, of course, cheerleading us sending weapons to Ukraine. 1.00

00:07:45.000 Nikki Haley is going to try to carve out a lane for neoconservatives against Donald Trump. 1.00

00:07:50.000 That's actually only going to help Donald Trump. 0.66

00:07:55.000 Again, Nikki Haley being someone that I've never had a crossword with and someone who's actually been sweet enough to speak at our events.

00:08:01.000 So I'm going to be very precise in how I say this, but she is very wrong in her continual embrace of neoliberalism.

00:08:10.000 Cut 51, Nikki Haley says legal immigrants are more patriotic than most Americans these days.

00:08:16.000 Play Cut 51.

00:08:18.000 You know, I mean, my parents came here because they wanted a better life for their family.

00:08:22.000 And they came here with $8 in their pocket.

00:08:25.000 They came here legally.

00:08:26.000 They came here the right way.

00:08:28.000 And, you know, they look now at what's happening and they're offended by those people that are coming illegally. 0.76

00:08:34.000 But I'll tell you, the most amazing part of all of it is legal immigrants are more patriotic than most Americans these days because they appreciate how wonderful this country is.

00:08:45.000 They appreciate that if you work hard, you can be anything you want to be.

00:08:49.000 And there was not a day that went by that my parents didn't remind my brothers, my sister, and me how blessed we were to be in this country.

00:08:56.000 Now, to be fair, that can be true.

00:08:59.000 And that is true for some immigrants. 1.00

00:09:01.000 I could say that the Ukrainian immigrants I was just spending time with in Santa Barbara, they do love America more than most Americans.

00:09:08.000 However, that's not true of all immigrants.

00:09:10.000 That's not true of Somalis. 0.92

00:09:12.000 That's not true of a lot of the third world immigrants that come here that don't have any heart for assimilation to speak our language, share our culture, understand our values, or our history. 0.96

00:09:21.000 That kind of blanket neoliberal talking point is an abstraction that is very harmful to actually having prudent immigration policy.

00:09:33.000 And also, it just sounds rather insulting to native-born Americans.

00:09:37.000 It just does.

00:09:37.000 It just sounds a little bit like, why don't you love America as much as somebody else?

00:09:43.000 Not a messaging twist that I would engage with.

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00:10:52.000 It seems to be a little bit of maybe semantic focus, but it is important.

00:10:58.000 Settlers are people that come to a largely undeveloped area and build something new. 1.00

00:11:04.000 Now, when I say this, people go nuts in the media because they say, oh, what are you trying to say that the Indigenous people and the Native Americans didn't have anything here?

00:11:12.000 They had something, but it was not largely developed the way that Europe was developed.

00:11:16.000 And so my ancestors who came over, Alphonsus Kirk, in 1620, built a new nation from scratch.

00:11:23.000 That is what a settler is.

00:11:24.000 A settler comes and there is not a constitution, a government, rule of law, infrastructure, buildings, capitals. 0.98

00:11:31.000 You have to basically go at it new.

00:11:33.000 An immigrant, nothing wrong necessarily with this, but it's a fact. 1.00

00:11:37.000 An immigrant comes to something that is already built. 1.00

00:11:40.000 An immigrant comes to something that is already functioning, that is already flourishing.

00:11:44.000 And so saying that we are a nation of immigrants is not correct.

00:11:49.000 The large amount of people that came in the 1600s, 1700, 800, even early 1900s came to a largely undeveloped country.

00:11:58.000 Even in 1849, when people came into America in huge numbers to go into the gold rush, California, the golden state, was largely undeveloped.

00:12:06.000 Now, why is this important?

00:12:08.000 This kind of repeated incantation that started with John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK, saying we're a nation of immigrants, led to the segue of then Ten Kennedy negotiating and bartering this Immigration Act that allowed legal immigration to grow to great levels.

00:12:24.000 Immigration can be, can be a net asset to a nation.

00:12:29.000 Currently, it is not.

00:12:31.000 The way we do immigration in our country, way too many people don't share our values, no assimilation. 0.98

00:12:37.000 We are originally a nation of settlers, not of immigrants.

00:12:44.000 And that's why I've advocated for a moratorium for quite some time.

00:12:47.000 We got to slow this down and figure out who we want in our country and prioritize our own citizens first.

00:12:53.000 Okay, here's Nikki Haley saying, I don't know that I've talked to a single person that has denied the election results.

00:12:58.000 Play cut 73.

00:13:00.000 So if they deny those election results, though, you don't think that's a disqualifier.

00:13:04.000 I don't know that I've talked to anyone that's denied the election results.

00:13:07.000 Everybody that I'm helping acknowledges the fact that the elections were real.

00:13:11.000 She does not know, she does not know a single person that has denied the election results.

00:13:17.000 I actually probably believe her because I don't think she's necessarily in touch with grassroots.

00:13:24.000 Someone says here, Charlie, I find it a very hard to believe that Nikki Haley is very popular with the conservative donor class.

00:13:32.000 Well, she is. 0.72

00:13:33.000 She's incredibly popular. 1.00

00:13:35.000 And she's going to raise a ton of money.

00:13:38.000 And so Nikki Haley's candidacy is going to be the first of many.

00:13:40.000 Mike Pence is probably going to run.

00:13:42.000 Mike Pompeo is probably going to run.

00:13:44.000 Maybe Christy Noam, Asa Hutchinson, I just think it would be hilarious to have him run for president, former governor of Arkansas. 0.63

00:13:52.000 He's terrible.

00:13:53.000 Ron DeSantis looks like he's probably going to run.

00:13:56.000 All indications point that way.

00:13:59.000 And Donald Trump is being really smart, by the way.

00:14:01.000 Donald Trump's saying, I hope all these people run.

00:14:04.000 Yes, the more muddied that kind of lane becomes, the better it is for Donald Trump.

00:14:11.000 A one-on-one, Trump versus an opposition candidate, is a tougher lift than Trump versus 10 or 15 or 16.

00:14:19.000 Remember, back in 2016, Donald Trump was, he had an advantage because there were just so many candidates, so many candidates.

00:14:31.000 And this race is about to heat up.

00:14:33.000 We are a year out from Iowa.

00:14:35.000 A year from now, right now, on this program, we're going to be covering the Iowa caucus.

00:14:39.000 We're going to be covering the New Hampshire primary.

00:14:42.000 We're going to be covering the South Carolina primary.

00:14:44.000 It's happening a year from now.

00:14:47.000 The first presidential debates are this summer.

00:14:52.000 That's right.

00:14:53.000 The first presidential debate is scheduled between anywhere in late July or early August.

00:14:59.000 It's going to be happening really quick, everybody.

00:15:01.000 And we are now already into the second month of this year.

00:15:05.000 Somebody just emailed us.

00:15:07.000 You've got to be kidding me.

00:15:08.000 No, we're in 2023.

00:15:09.000 This is where it starts to heat up.

00:15:11.000 And yes, I do agree.

00:15:13.000 Our elections are too long.

00:15:14.000 I think it's exhausting.

00:15:15.000 It's nauseating.

00:15:16.000 The winners are the consultants.

00:15:18.000 They make so much money off of this.

00:15:20.000 Oh, the permanent consultant class makes so much money on the ads and all the permanent infrastructure and their consultant fees.

00:15:30.000 It's just, it's a year and a half election.

00:15:31.000 It's not good for the country.

00:15:32.000 It isn't.

00:15:33.000 You need kind of like a healing point or just like a boiling down period where you're just like, I'm not going to think about politics for a couple months.

00:15:40.000 Can we do anything but politics?

00:15:42.000 But instead, now it's all this palace intrigue and this drama.

00:15:44.000 It's not going away.

00:15:45.000 Our show is going to be on the forefront of all of it.

00:15:48.000 But the entrance of Nikki Haley, I just find this very interesting.

00:15:51.000 And I'll close with this.

00:15:53.000 A couple years ago, she was the darling of the conservative movement, the most in demand, the highest stock.

00:16:00.000 And a couple years later, polls are showing she's between 2% to 3% approval rating.

00:16:06.000 How that happened, I have some theories, but I do find it fascinating.

00:16:10.000 Based on your emails, there is no mass love for Nikki Haley here in our audience.

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00:16:54.000 Senator Ted Cruz joins us now.

00:16:56.000 Senator, welcome back to the program.

00:16:57.000 You are calling for a quick impeachment of Mayorkas. 1.00

00:17:00.000 Walk us through it.

00:17:02.000 Well, Charlie, great to be with you.

00:17:05.000 Alejandro Mayorkas has done the worst job imaginable as Secretary of Homeland Security.

00:17:14.000 Under his tenure, we have seen the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country.

00:17:21.000 Just last month, we had the highest illegal immigration ever recorded in a single month in the history of the United States of America.

00:17:30.000 And it's not simply that Mayorkas won't do his job. 0.91

00:17:34.000 If he had utterly abdicated his responsibility, if he did nothing, if he just sat on a chair and spun, that would be better than what he's been doing.

00:17:46.000 Because doing nothing at least wouldn't do affirmative damage.

00:17:49.000 Instead, what he is doing is he is actively defying federal law.

00:17:54.000 He is actively flouting federal immigration law.

00:17:58.000 He is directing those under his control, not only not to secure the border, not only not to deport people coming here illegally, but he is directing them to expedite people coming here illegally, to process them more quickly, to make it a faster process.

00:18:17.000 So the 5.4 million people that have crossed under Joe Biden's presidency, he wants to more than double that number.

00:18:25.000 He wants to get faster and process Alejandro Mayorkas today is the world's largest human trafficker. 0.89

00:18:39.000 His business model is funding the Mexican cartels to the tune of billions of dollars as they bring in fentanyl and opioids that are killing Americans as they sexually assault little kids, as they rape women, as they leave immigrants in the desert to die.

00:19:00.000 Mayorkas, his priority is making their operations even more efficient so they can make more money because he looks at all of the people coming as potential Democrat voters.

00:19:12.000 And for him, politics matters more than following the law.

00:19:16.000 The House should impeach him, and the American people should see and hear the facts of the horrors that are unfolding on our southern border.

00:19:24.000 That is the best summary I've heard.

00:19:26.000 And Senator, the way you describe it, that he's actively undermining the national security interest, the sovereignty, and rule of law. 0.84

00:19:34.000 It would be better if he was a lazy bum bureaucrat.

00:19:38.000 I mean, we almost want just a paper shuffler. 0.89

00:19:41.000 What you're saying, Senator, is that he's actually burning the midnight oil.

00:19:45.000 is working against the country.

00:19:49.000 It is this administration is all politics all the time.

00:19:54.000 And they do not care about the Biden body bags.

00:20:00.000 They do not care about the 53 illegal aliens who cooked in a tractor trailer outside San Antonio, including children who died of the heat. 0.83

00:20:10.000 That doesn't matter in part because they know their cronies in the corporate media, they don't care either.

00:20:16.000 So they're not going to report on it.

00:20:18.000 And the frustrating thing, Charlie, the folks that listen to your podcast, the folks that listen to my podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, they know what's going on because the folks that are listening to these pods are smart, are engaged, are learning the facts.

00:20:32.000 But what is infuriating is there are millions upon millions of Americans who are living their lives and who turn on the corporate media.

00:20:40.000 They turn on CNN.

00:20:41.000 Well, they're not millions of people turning on CNN.

00:20:43.000 They're like six lonely people turning on CNN.

00:20:46.000 But there are people turning on ABC and CBS and NBC.

00:20:51.000 And they don't know what's happening at the border.

00:20:55.000 We no longer have a functioning media in this country because the corporate media today views their mission as they are propagandists.

00:21:07.000 So if you ask, you know, an ordinary suburban mom who just watches Good Morning America, she has no clue that Joe Biden has presided over the worst humanitarian history on our southern border in the history of the United States of America.

00:21:24.000 And so do you think, so let's say the House impeaches him.

00:21:27.000 I don't think the Senate will.

00:21:28.000 But what you're saying, though, Senator, I'm guessing what your answer will be.

00:21:32.000 The trial is worth it.

00:21:33.000 I mean, he'll probably be acquitted.

00:21:35.000 But then Schumer would have to take it up.

00:21:37.000 How does that work then?

00:21:40.000 Well, unfortunately, starting with the end point, you are right that he will be acquitted.

00:21:46.000 In order to impeach someone in the House, it takes a majority in the House.

00:21:52.000 In order to convict them, it takes two-thirds in the Senate.

00:21:56.000 Many, many folks learned that for the first time on the two failed impeachment trials of Donald Trump.

00:22:03.000 And my podcast verdict was launched the first day of the first impeachment trial to explain to folks what the hell was going on.

00:22:11.000 It takes two-thirds to convict and to remove from office.

00:22:15.000 There are 51 Democrats out of the 100 senators.

00:22:18.000 That means we would need to get a whole bunch of Democrats to vote to convict.

00:22:24.000 The chances of that happening, I can give you a precise and exact number, are 0.000%.

00:22:31.000 It ain't going to happen because these Democrats don't care.

00:22:34.000 No, they don't.

00:22:35.000 It does not matter to them.

00:22:37.000 So why do it?

00:22:38.000 Why do it, number one, because the process of impeaching him in the House forces the corporate media to cover at least some of it to tell the story.

00:22:48.000 And in the Senate, look, Schumer is going to try to give as little time and attention to this as possible.

00:22:53.000 And you and I both very much wish that Republicans had won the Senate this election so that we would have ball control and have the ability to have a real and extended trial.

00:23:05.000 Schumer will try to cut things short as much as possible.

00:23:09.000 But the value of bringing the case, of bringing the impeachment, is to prosecute the case to the American people, to tell the story that if the media were doing their jobs, people would know.

00:23:22.000 And it is a very potent tool, even in the face of Democrat intransigence.

00:23:27.000 Yeah, and so, Senator, you say something that the Democrats don't care.

00:23:30.000 I think that's true of some of the Democrats.

00:23:32.000 I think that some of the Democrats, and I know that sounds so sinister and cynical, but I think they're cheering for the continuation of open borders.

00:23:41.000 Yeah.

00:23:42.000 Do you have any idea as to why?

00:23:44.000 Because as soon as you get into the why, you and I both get smeared and slandered by the media because I believe it very well might be for political reasons.

00:23:51.000 But why is this, Senator?

00:23:54.000 We're dealing with the invasion of a sovereign country.

00:23:58.000 So I think two things are driving it.

00:24:00.000 One, what has happened to the modern Democrat Party is they have been captured by the extremes on each subject matter. 0.98

00:24:11.000 So on questions of gender, Today's Democrat Party is captured by the radical extremes that thinks there's no difference between a boy and a girl and it's a good idea to surgically mutilate children and cut off their genitals. 0.98

00:24:25.000 That's a fringe position. 0.98

00:24:27.000 That's who sets the policy for the Democrat Party.

00:24:30.000 On the question of life, the Democrat Party in Washington is controlled by the radical fringe that believes in abortion up until the moment of birth and even after birth in some circumstances.

00:24:40.000 That's a radical fringe position and yet the position of every Democrat in the Senate.

00:24:45.000 On the question of law enforcement, the Democrat Party has been seized by the radical fringe that believes in abolishing the police and putting in George Soros DAs that release violent criminals into our neighborhoods and terrorize our families.

00:25:00.000 That's a radical fringe position, and yet the Democrat agenda is driven by them.

00:25:04.000 And on immigration, the Democrat Party is driven by the radical fringe that embraces open borders, that believes the very notion of having a border is wrong and immoral.

00:25:16.000 Look, some of these kooks believe we ought to give half of America back to Mexico.

00:25:22.000 I mean, these people are... 0.91

00:25:26.000 They are radical and fringe. 0.99

00:25:28.000 And look, the California argument, they may have a point there, but we ain't giving up Texas, damn it. 0.98

00:25:36.000 By the way, for the record, that's a joke. 0.98

00:25:38.000 That's a joke for the record.

00:25:40.000 I can already see it in the cruise calls for giving away California.

00:25:43.000 But if you actually talk to some of the La Raza folks, this is a demand of theirs.

00:25:49.000 And unfortunately, they're talking about the Democrat Party.

00:25:50.000 Do you think we should also impeach Merrick Garland given I actually think that might even be more dramatic in the House?

00:26:00.000 Walk us through that.

00:26:02.000 Yeah, look, I'm very glad that the House has created a committee on the politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice.

00:26:09.000 As you know, the latest book that I just wrote is called Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized Our Legal System.

00:26:16.000 And it goes through chapter and verse how first under Barack Obama and now even worse under Joe Biden, they've turned the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, they've turned them into political weapons to target their enemies.

00:26:30.000 I think Merrick Garland should be impeached because he's been the most political attorney general in history, and he's undermined the integrity of law enforcement, and that's profoundly dangerous.

00:26:40.000 I agree.

00:26:41.000 Senator, please keep fighting.

00:26:42.000 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:26:44.000 Thank you, my friend.

00:26:48.000 I'm sick of talking about race, aren't you?

00:26:50.000 I don't think race matters.

00:26:51.000 The more we talk about race, I think it gets us further, further away from us actually talking about things that matter, character, virtue, goodness, truth.

00:27:02.000 You know, the people in charge of our society, the elites, they're going full propaganda on the Black History Month thing.

00:27:11.000 And they're saying that Black History Month, very important to understand the struggle and the plight of Black Americans.

00:27:20.000 Interestingly, you don't hear about Frederick Douglass very much or George Washington Carver.

00:27:25.000 You don't hear about Clarence Thomas.

00:27:27.000 But should we have a Black History Month at all? 0.98

00:27:30.000 Should we have a month dedicated to a specific and singular race?

00:27:34.000 Black History Month only plays into this kind of overarching narrative that, of course, we've talked about it from critical race theory.

00:27:41.000 First, I want to play this cut six, Harvard professor to Mendy Hassan, talking about how great critical race theory is.

00:27:49.000 It all plays together in harmony, play cut six.

00:27:52.000 Since when is African American history or the teaching of it part of a political agenda?

00:27:57.000 Well, you know, Mendy, that's complicated because I think that I'm not willing to accept, nor I think Kimberly, to accept that so-called critical race theory is a bad thing.

00:28:07.000 It has literally been defined as such by a fake journalist named Christopher Rufo.

00:28:13.000 In the broadest sense, this African-American studies curriculum, which is important to note, does include critical race theory as well, it should.

00:28:22.000 Morgan Freeman had some very sharp opinions on this.

00:28:28.000 Morgan Freeman, talking to Chris Wallace's father, Mike Wallace, man, I don't know what year this is from, said we shouldn't have a Black History Month.

00:28:36.000 You want to move past racial trauma?

00:28:40.000 Stop talking about it.

00:28:43.000 But no, the racial arsonists in charge of our society want us to focus on this. 0.99

00:28:50.000 They want us to emphasize it.

00:28:52.000 It's very profound and it's courageous.

00:28:54.000 I think there's no better way to start Black History Month than letting Morgan Freeman tell us that we shouldn't have Black History Month.

00:29:03.000 Play cut 58. 0.94

00:29:05.000 Black History Month, you find ridiculous. 0.98

00:29:09.000 Why? 0.96

00:29:11.000 You're going to relegate my history to a month?

00:29:13.000 Oh, come on.

00:29:14.000 What do you do with yours?

00:29:16.000 Which month is white history month?

00:29:19.000 Well, come on.

00:29:20.000 Tell me. 1.00

00:29:21.000 Well, damn, I'm Jewish. 1.00

00:29:25.000 Okay. 1.00

00:29:25.000 Which month is Jewish History Month? 1.00

00:29:27.000 There isn't one.

00:29:28.000 Oh, oh, why not?

00:29:31.000 Do you want one?

00:29:32.000 No, no, no.

00:29:34.000 I don't either.

00:29:36.000 I don't want a Black History Month. 1.00

00:29:39.000 Black history is American history. 0.89

00:29:41.000 How are we going to get rid of racism and stop talking about it? 0.89

00:29:47.000 I'm going to stop calling you a white man.

00:29:51.000 Yeah. 0.97

00:29:52.000 And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

00:29:55.000 Could you say that on television now?

00:29:57.000 That's from 2005.

00:29:59.000 No, they elected a president, Barack Hussein Obama, largely on the narrative, the foundational narrative, that we're racist.

00:30:06.000 Obama ran on that lie and was able to get a lot of power because of it.

00:30:10.000 And white liberals who are guilty because they don't know how to talk about race or think about race-not even just white liberals, just upper-middle-class whites, gave away political power to a Marxist and to an entire Marxist regime on the lie that America is systemically racist.

00:30:27.000 Morgan Freeman's clarity is just as profound today as it was then.

00:30:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:30:38.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:41.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.

00:30:46.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 01, 2023

Black History Month + Nikki Haley for President? With Senator Ted Cruz

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