The Charlie Kirk Show - Breyer Retires Amid a Coming Constitutional Reset

00:00:00.000 Justice Breyer is stepping down.

00:00:02.000 What are the implications of that?

00:00:04.000 Also, we talk about the Constitution, which is on trial and why we need a constitutional reset.

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00:00:29.000 We dive into Constitution's free speech, the restraints of the Constitution that some people believe exist that actually don't.

00:00:35.000 Buckle up, here we go.

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00:01:19.000 We're going to keep unpacking this Justice Breyer news.

00:01:21.000 Looks like our prediction was right.

00:01:23.000 He's going to wait to summer to step down for a variety of reasons.

00:01:30.000 Obviously, the most obvious is that he wants to play out this term and he wants to have his successor be confirmed while the Democrats still control the Senate.

00:01:42.000 Now, there's a couple different ways that we can analyze this.

00:01:44.000 The first is the Democrats are worried they're going to lose control of the United States Senate because of good candidates like Herschel Walker and Ron Johnson running.

00:01:55.000 The second is that they're going to try to use this to motivate their base to try and, let's say, lessen the loss or try and mitigate the damage, I should say, of the pending red wave.

00:02:08.000 They're trying to thwart the red wave.

00:02:09.000 And it does go to this deeper point that I think the Democrats have a variety of different surprises they are going to roll out.

00:02:17.000 They are not going to give up power easily.

00:02:20.000 It's likely that Republicans are going to take back power.

00:02:23.000 It's very likely, but it is not 100%.

00:02:26.000 It's not certain by any means.

00:02:30.000 And to think that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are just going to willingly give up power without deploying every single trick they have at their disposal, you're fooling yourself, especially people that are near the end of their career.

00:02:44.000 This is why they have the January 6th Commission.

00:02:46.000 This is precisely why they're trying to now do this nonsense with the Supreme Court.

00:02:51.000 They're going to try to politicize Roe versus Wade, amongst many other things.

00:02:55.000 Now, another poll has Biden under 40% approval.

00:02:59.000 A Harvard-Harris poll has Biden approval at 39%.

00:03:03.000 The gender gap has also disappeared, and Biden is upside down with both men and women by 14 points.

00:03:10.000 If Democrats felt confident that they would hold the Senate, they would want Breyer to stay on until they have a more secure vote and a larger margin.

00:03:20.000 So then they could confirm a less moderate nominee.

00:03:24.000 And so we don't know who the nominee is going to be.

00:03:27.000 CNN already has seven black women on screen, right? 1.00

00:03:31.000 Saying this is who should be the next Supreme Court justice.

00:03:35.000 Cut 63, Fox News reports on Biden's 40% approval rating and other abysmal stats.

00:03:41.000 Play Cut 63.

00:03:43.000 First of all, if you look at the real clear politics average, he's at about 40% on his approvals, which is terrible.

00:03:51.000 The congressional ballot, meaning would you vote for a Republican or Democrat coming up in November?

00:03:57.000 Republicans are actually leading that.

00:03:58.000 We never lead that.

00:04:00.000 Matter of fact, a lot of times we will win national elections being slightly behind in the generic ballot.

00:04:05.000 The right track, wrong track.

00:04:08.000 26.5% of Americans think we're on the right track.

00:04:12.000 That is just, that's the basement.

00:04:14.000 That is terrible.

00:04:15.000 And the final thing in your Fox poll that came out the other day, 25% of Democrats are saying they won't vote for Joe Biden.

00:04:22.000 You know, the polling isn't good.

00:04:23.000 So Democrats are going to deploy every single trick that they have.

00:04:29.000 Now, the White House has already come out and they've said, look, there's no collusion between Justice Breyer.

00:04:33.000 Yeah, right.

00:04:34.000 Okay.

00:04:35.000 There was someone that triangulated this.

00:04:36.000 And by the way, Republicans probably did the same thing with Justice Kennedy.

00:04:41.000 So I'm not even accusing them of anything nefarious.

00:04:44.000 You're trying to tell me Mitch McConnell was shocked that Justice Kennedy resigned.

00:04:48.000 Like, oh, wow.

00:04:49.000 I had no idea.

00:04:50.000 So it's part of politics, part of Washington, D.C.

00:04:53.000 I don't think there's anything to that.

00:04:54.000 Now, Nancy Pelosi was asked, why are so many Republicans resigning?

00:04:58.000 By the way, a lot of Republicans aren't retiring.

00:05:01.000 There's 29 Democrats that have retired.

00:05:03.000 Is that right?

00:05:04.000 We are now at 29 Democrats that are retiring.

00:05:06.000 There are 15 House Republicans that are retiring.

00:05:09.000 And some of those 15 House Republicans are kind of these moderate Republicans that voted to impeach Donald Trump.

00:05:16.000 Nancy Pelosi said, look, I think it's an indication that Republicans know that they'll probably be serving in the minority in Congress coming up in November.

00:05:24.000 Play Cut 64.

00:05:26.000 Two quick political questions.

00:05:27.000 15 House Republicans retiring next year.

00:05:31.000 What's that all about?

00:05:32.000 I think it's an indication that the Republicans know that they'll probably be serving in the minority in the next Congress and most likely with a Democrat in the White House.

00:05:45.000 So I think it's maybe they think it's time to spend more time with their family.

00:05:50.000 And so Nancy Pelosi has an announcement of her own.

00:05:53.000 Now, look, Nancy Pelosi, I could make fun of how she talks pretty well. 0.95

00:05:59.000 She released this new video.

00:06:01.000 It's a mockery of itself.

00:06:03.000 It's not a parody.

00:06:04.000 It's hard to believe.

00:06:06.000 I'm tempted to play the entire three minutes of it just so you can get a little bit of a window into the ruling class.

00:06:13.000 It's really hilarious.

00:06:16.000 They asked me at the time, who, why am I running?

00:06:18.000 The children, the children, the children.

00:06:22.000 She slurs throughout the entire thing.

00:06:24.000 Play Cut 66.

00:06:26.000 Hello, it's Nancy.

00:06:28.000 Thank you for the opportunity to share some thoughts with you, our VIPs, our volunteers in politics, and our ongoing engagement for the people.

00:06:38.000 Thank you for being a constant source of new fresh ideas and political activism to help Democrats deliver and to defend democracy.

00:06:48.000 But as we say, we don't agonize, we organize.

00:06:52.000 And that is why I am running for reelection to Congress and respectfully seek your support.

00:06:58.000 35th term.

00:07:01.000 Look, Nancy Pelosi is going to win re-election for as long as she wants. 1.00

00:07:04.000 She represents Western San Francisco, which, look, San Francisco used to be a really nice place.

00:07:12.000 I used to love to go Sanford, to go to San Francisco.

00:07:15.000 It's an interesting thing.

00:07:16.000 So I, you know, having grown Turning Point USA with an amazing team, it's not just me, but in the first couple of years traveling the country, I went to almost every single state, spent a lot of time in New York, a lot of time in LA, good amount of time in San Francisco.

00:07:30.000 I grew up in 2012, 13, 14, 15, when I was 18, 19, 20, 21 years old.

00:07:35.000 These cities had problems, but I never felt unsafe.

00:07:40.000 I never felt in imminent danger.

00:07:44.000 I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:07:46.000 And I think that the decline of urban America is something that is one of the more depressing developments of my life.

00:07:56.000 It really is.

00:07:58.000 I don't, I don't find pleasure in saying Chicago, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, and Portland are deteriorating third-world dystopian cities, which they are.

00:08:09.000 I don't find joy in that.

00:08:10.000 I think it's really sad.

00:08:11.000 In fact, I think a country that doesn't have at least some form of, I don't want to say vibrant cities, because I think urban areas are super depressing sometimes, but they should have some sort of energy.

00:08:23.000 They should have some sort of spirit.

00:08:26.000 To give you an idea, let me ask you a question.

00:08:30.000 What is more damaging to a society?

00:08:33.000 A nuclear bomb or Democrats?

00:08:36.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:08:38.000 What is more damaging to society?

00:08:41.000 A nuclear bomb or Democrats?

00:08:45.000 Well, thankfully, we've run that experiment.

00:08:48.000 President Harry Truman famously dropped two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1944, 45, right near there.

00:08:59.000 Detroit was the heartbeat of America at the time.

00:09:02.000 Detroit was the wealthiest city on the planet, an industrial capital.

00:09:07.000 Fast forward to 2022, nearly almost 80 years, 75 years after the dropping of those bombs.

00:09:15.000 Detroit looks like an atom bomb was dropped on it, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki look closer to Detroit.

00:09:23.000 Public policy decisions can have just as big, if not more, of an impact on a city over 80 years than literally dropping an atomic bomb.

00:09:38.000 What's worse for a society?

00:09:41.000 Two atomic bombs that kill 80,000 people or 80 years of Democrat rule.

00:09:47.000 If you walk the streets of Detroit right now, you would think, like, wow, this is where Harry Truman bombed his people.

00:09:56.000 If you were to bring a child and say, we're going to tour Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and we're going to tour Detroit, which one got bombed?

00:10:04.000 Which one do you think they would say?

00:10:05.000 And look, you got inflation.

00:10:08.000 You got a potential electromagnetic pulse attack from China.

00:10:13.000 You got 2 million people coming across the southern border.

00:10:17.000 You might be living through a crisis and you might not even know it.

00:10:22.000 Are you able to feed your family in case of crisis?

00:10:25.000 I want you to remember this.

00:10:27.000 You are nine meals away from anarchy.

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00:10:52.000 Personally, I think we are in the calm before the storm.

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00:11:28.000 Nine meals away from anarchy.

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00:11:38.000 When there is risk, there must be choice.

00:11:42.000 That is something that the founding fathers understood: that if there is risk involved, you must be allowed to choose.

00:11:51.000 This is why liberty is the pursuit of virtue.

00:11:53.000 For example, we have the right to own firearms.

00:11:58.000 It is not mandatory to own a firearm.

00:12:00.000 You might be intimidated.

00:12:01.000 You might be scared of a firearm.

00:12:02.000 Then fine, don't buy one.

00:12:04.000 When there is risk associated with something, then you must trust agency.

00:12:09.000 You must trust an individual to make the choice appropriate for their own life and their own sovereignty.

00:12:17.000 Enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, articulated in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and reasserted in the United States Constitution with the extension of the American U.S. Bill of Rights that came in 1791, is this idea of human equality.

00:12:34.000 It's not that all people have the same gifts and talents, that everyone is the same size or same height.

00:12:41.000 No, instead, it's that we're all the same sort of thing.

00:12:44.000 We have the same duties, obligations, and rights.

00:12:50.000 That is what a constitutional system establishes and sets up.

00:12:56.000 In Cut 60 from Senator Ron Johnson's panel, Dr. Paul Alexander walked through how vaccines do not sterilize the virus or stop transmission and how that will make it impossible to ever reach herd immunity.

00:13:12.000 Play Cut 60.

00:13:13.000 The key point he was making is: had we been using a vaccine that could sterilize the virus, that could stop transmission, we would not be in this situation, whether or not the vaccine is needed.

00:13:25.000 And the problem here is this vaccine does not stop infection, does not sterilize the virus, it does not stop the transmission.

00:13:32.000 You can never ever get to population herd immunity 100% with these vaccines.

00:13:38.000 Impossible.

00:13:39.000 So when there is risk and also what you are pushing is not even working, why would you still mandate it?

00:13:47.000 And that's where all of a sudden the centralization of power, the likelihood that a central authority is wrong more than right is actually much higher.

00:13:57.000 You're just dealing in pure percentages and pure probability, especially when you have the conflict of interest and the not-so-innocent inclinations of a group of bureaucrats that are highly corrupted or heavily corrupted, I should say.

00:14:16.000 The chance that they are going to get the mandate wrong is far better than you to be able to make the decision correctly.

00:14:25.000 This is very logical when you think about it because you have the ability to adapt.

00:14:29.000 You have more agility.

00:14:32.000 You also have a vested interest in looking after yourself.

00:14:36.000 And so if all of a sudden you start to see a sequence of medical decisions that are being pushed upon you that don't make any sense, then you should be able to establish your individual sovereignty and say, yeah, I'm not doing that.

00:14:48.000 Now, vaccine mandates, thankfully, are falling apart.

00:14:53.000 Tragically, when we pushed a vaccine on people, we've already started to see some of the adverse events.

00:14:59.000 And I'm afraid we're going to see more mounting adverse events for years and decades and generations to come from that for a vaccine that is not even protecting people against the very virus that they got the vaccine to try and prevent.

00:15:14.000 When there is risk, there must be choice.

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00:16:41.000 It really is a constitutional question, isn't it?

00:16:43.000 And the Constitution should be our guide in all this.

00:16:46.000 I had someone ask me the other day, said, Charlie, how are you ever going to unite all the different factions of the conservative movement?

00:16:52.000 And I'm not totally interested in that, to be perfectly honest at times.

00:16:56.000 But I will say that the Constitution is the non-negotiable.

00:17:00.000 The Constitution recognizes God-granted rights, separation of powers, independent judiciary, consent to the governed, checks and balances.

00:17:06.000 These are non-negotiable principles.

00:17:09.000 The Constitution also is not a document that says you can't do anything about existential threats.

00:17:15.000 This is something that's really important, is that if you understand the promises and the truths that are articulated in the United States Constitution, all of a sudden you might feel more empowered to actually handle some of the issues that are in front of us.

00:17:27.000 Let me give you a great example of this.

00:17:28.000 In the United States Constitution, it articulates both in the first seven articles of the Constitution and also in the First Amendment, it articulates a right to political speech, religious affiliation, and your ability to speak freely.

00:17:42.000 Now, this is so typical of the left, right?

00:17:45.000 So the left takes the First Amendment and they immediately say, how can we make America a more degenerate place based on a promise of the First Amendment?

00:17:53.000 So they had all these lawsuits in the 70s and 80s, and they won a lot of them to say that, oh, pornography and swearing and all these things, that's First Amendment.

00:18:00.000 No, it's not, okay?

00:18:03.000 People say, oh, that's free speech.

00:18:04.000 If you actually go to what the founders said is free speech, it was really two groups of people.

00:18:09.000 And Jim Acosta is going to really love this.

00:18:13.000 It's people that are journalists and people that are newspaper writers and truth seekers to hold politicians accountable and religious officials.

00:18:23.000 That really is the two buckets of people the First Amendment was designed to write.

00:18:26.000 Now, I'm not saying there should be a pull-up bureau of censorship that goes around and shuts everyone up.

00:18:30.000 I actually would be open to turning off some of the garbage that our nine-year-olds are actually consuming on the internet.

00:18:35.000 They're like, oh, no, that's free speech.

00:18:36.000 Actually, no, it's not.

00:18:37.000 It's really creepy.

00:18:38.000 But let's kind of take that one step at a time.

00:18:42.000 Speech that questions and challenges the regime is not just protected, it is imperative.

00:18:53.000 If you do not have speech that questions people in charge, then you have nothing more than an obedient population within the people that own the lines of communication, or you have a propaganda arm.

00:19:08.000 And so I'll give you a great example, which is kind of this Biden press conference that has gotten, you know, received a lot of attention.

00:19:14.000 Do you notice that almost no one interrupts Joe Biden when he's doing his answers?

00:19:19.000 With Donald Trump, they would interrupt him almost relentlessly.

00:19:22.000 That's not a media that is in need of constitutional protection.

00:19:29.000 What is an example of a media that is in need of constitutional protection?

00:19:32.000 How about Project Veritas with James O'Keefe?

00:19:36.000 James O'Keefe's home was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, because he dared to publish articles with Pfizer and DARPA and the Department of Defense.

00:19:48.000 And also, James O'Keefe happened to be a recipient of an alleged diary that was Ashley Biden's that he did not even publish.

00:19:58.000 But the Constitution being the centerpiece, and they always talk about the great reset.

00:20:03.000 I think we need a constitutional reset.

00:20:06.000 It doesn't mean you have to be stuck in a state of paralysis when it comes to existential threats to our liberties.

00:20:15.000 So when Google and Facebook start to restrict political speech, such as they did in October, that should be a violation of the promise and of the contract and the compact of the First Amendment.

00:20:29.000 You see, an improper reading of First Amendment is like, oh, that's a private business.

00:20:33.000 Facebook can do whatever they want.

00:20:34.000 No, no, no.

00:20:35.000 Actually, that's as much of a public forum where you're saying that the New York Post can't publish negative articles against Hunter Biden.

00:20:41.000 You go read the Federalist Papers, go dive deep into the literature of the Founding Fathers.

00:20:47.000 They were very clear.

00:20:48.000 At the time, it was mostly pastors, but it applies to other religious officials, rabbis, et cetera.

00:20:54.000 Religious officials must have unquestioned, let's say, completely protected ability to speak, assemble, communicate as they see fit.

00:21:08.000 And so should journalists and members of the media.

00:21:11.000 Now, what's the significance of those two things?

00:21:13.000 Why would the founding fathers, as they were designing a constitutional construct, why would they point out religious officials and journalists or people that are commenting about those sorts of issues?

00:21:25.000 Not just the officials, but let's say those categories, not pornography or swear words or some sort of lunatic trying to pervert your children to go become a transgender person or whatever, right?

00:21:35.000 Oh, yeah, the blessing of liberty includes drag queen story art. 0.98

00:21:38.000 Actually, it doesn't.

00:21:39.000 Okay, that's called licentiousness.

00:21:42.000 Why those two things?

00:21:44.000 One, holds power accountable and fulfills the, let's say, not the promise, but it holds in check the truth articulated by Lord Acton: absolute power corrupts absolutely.

00:21:58.000 The founding fathers knew this.

00:22:00.000 That's the point of having communication and having discourse and having dialogue and having publication and having journalists that are willing to go after those stories.

00:22:12.000 And secondly, if you do not have a moral underpinning of a society, then liberty turns to license within a couple months.

00:22:24.000 And James Madison knew this.

00:22:26.000 James Wilson, who's not as much of a sighted person, knew this.

00:22:31.000 Gubiner Morris knew this as part of the Founding Fathers kind of group of authors and writers.

00:22:37.000 They knew that if you do not have the ability for pastors and priests, rabbis and religious officials to be able to pursue virtue and instill virtue on a society, then limited government is a temporary mirage.

00:22:54.000 It is built on a metaphorical house of cards.

00:23:04.000 And so when we look at this idea of holding powerful people accountable, I believe in small government, a small but strong government.

00:23:12.000 We should also believe in small pharma.

00:23:16.000 Big pharma is not something that we as Republicans should automatically support.

00:23:23.000 Cut 61, Dr. Robert Malone, shares that he met with Nancy Pelosi's office and recommended that the CDC aid stratify the vaccine risks versus benefits, but no action was taken.

00:23:34.000 PlayCut 61.

00:23:35.000 Regarding the age stratification, I was asked not to speak about this by Nancy Pelosi's office.

00:23:45.000 But I had a meeting with them last fall, and I specifically asked that they asked the CDC to age stratify.

00:23:55.000 And there was absolutely no action taken.

00:23:59.000 So it's not as if the administration and the senior leadership in the House, at least, was not aware of this issue of age stratification.

00:24:09.000 It's hard sometimes being on the eight ball as things happen.

00:24:13.000 Unfortunately, this is where the conservative base has been so right, yet so ignored.

00:24:19.000 The conservative base has been so right, yet so ignored.

00:24:22.000 And the premier issue or the best example of this was and is big tech.

00:24:30.000 We're doing our podcast, and also we're streaming on rumble.com.

00:24:34.000 You know where we're not streaming?

00:24:35.000 YouTube.

00:24:36.000 Why?

00:24:36.000 Because we've participated in way too many thought crimes.

00:24:39.000 So we are not able to communicate to our 561,000 subscribers or our 2.4 million fans on Facebook, a combined audience of nearly 3 million people, because we are mentioning facts, circumstances, and ideas that would be censored or canceled by the regime media.

00:25:02.000 Now, it's easy to complain about it, but the real question is, why didn't Republicans do anything about that in 2017, 2018 when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House?

00:25:11.000 Instead, they cut corporate taxes for these companies.

00:25:13.000 The answer is twofold.

00:25:15.000 Number one, it's because of the corruption.

00:25:16.000 But number two, Republicans really had convinced themselves that it's not a role of government to protect your rights.

00:25:23.000 Republicans had really convinced themselves amongst the intelligentsia that, hey, we might be here, but it's really not our role to protect your rights.

00:25:30.000 No, no, no.

00:25:31.000 This is where people read the Constitution incorrectly.

00:25:35.000 The founding fathers envisioned government as the ultimate, let's say, entity that will restrict your freedoms and liberties.

00:25:44.000 But now we have seen a new government created out of Silicon Valley.

00:25:48.000 And the fact that a sitting U.S. Senator mentioning the government's own vaccine adverse event database would get us censored should be totally unacceptable.

00:25:58.000 But it isn't.

00:26:00.000 The Overton window moves.

00:26:02.000 They move the limit of acceptable debate where it's like, oh, that's just Ron Johnson from Wisconsin.

00:26:07.000 Like, yeah, have you ever been there?

00:26:09.000 That's basically the attitude.

00:26:10.000 Like, Wisconsin, really, we hate that place.

00:26:13.000 This is one of the reasons why I think Ron Johnson is going to win reelection by three, four, five, six points is just Wisconsin is going to reassert their pride of being a state.

00:26:24.000 That it's like, yeah, I don't know if I like Ron Johnson, everything he's doing, but I know he loves Wisconsin and I love Wisconsin and I live here and I hate Manhattan and I can't stand Malibu and I don't like how they talk down to us.

00:26:37.000 The Constitution allows plenty of opportunities for action as long as they're protecting natural rights.

00:26:49.000 And the most important of which is the right to speech.

00:26:52.000 That is who we are as human beings.

00:26:53.000 We are the speaking beings.

00:26:56.000 We are the only beings that is able to communicate verbally, not just pain and pleasure, but right and wrong.

00:27:05.000 In the beginning was the word, the word was God, the word was with God.

00:27:08.000 That's John 1.

00:27:10.000 And the word logos means reason, speech.

00:27:16.000 There's lots of different interpretations for that.

00:27:18.000 Though you think about it, it's like, wow, our ability to reason, our ability to make sense of the natural world, our ability to communicate, our ability to use common nouns, which I've talked about the common noun miracle many times on this program, is what makes us uniquely human.

00:27:37.000 So, what do you say to a government that doesn't allow you to do the thing that makes you human?

00:27:43.000 What do you say for a government that doesn't allow you to speak?

00:27:48.000 That's why the Founding Fathers took it as the First Amendment.

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00:29:14.000 Joe from Charlottesville added a really nice piece of context.

00:29:18.000 In 1789, the word press was not commonly associated with news.

00:29:23.000 It incorporates all the ability to speak and to publish.

00:29:29.000 That's exactly right.

00:29:31.000 And the Founding Fathers knew that as a moral good for a variety of different reasons for expression, but also to challenge authority.

00:29:38.000 So Justice Breyer is stepping down.

00:29:40.000 There's a variety of different takes here.

00:29:42.000 I am not overly excited about this.

00:29:44.000 I think Democrats are probably likely to screw this up, but I think that there's a potential that they could use this as a base motivator, especially in certain districts.

00:29:55.000 Now, I promised I would play this tape, and not everyone remembers this, but one of the great moments of all time when Donald Trump heard that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away, done with just incredible class and with remarkable instincts, as it happened, play tape.

00:30:18.000 She just died.

00:30:21.000 Wow.

00:30:23.000 I didn't know that.

00:30:24.000 I just was telling me now for the first time.

00:30:29.000 She led an amazing life.

00:30:32.000 What else can you say?

00:30:33.000 She was an amazing woman.

00:30:35.000 Whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life.

00:30:42.000 I'm actually sad to hear that.

00:30:44.000 I am sad to hear that.

00:30:45.000 Thank you very much.

00:30:51.000 I mean, a Hollywood cinematographer and movie scorer couldn't produce a better scene.

00:30:57.000 I mean, the lighting behind his hair was perfect.

00:31:00.000 The tie, the tone, the balance between the music and the statement, the walkaway, it was so poetic as the music fades.

00:31:11.000 It was classy.

00:31:13.000 I just, it reminds me as we kind of go through the Supreme Court thing.

00:31:16.000 I remember as it happened, I was like, ooh, how's it?

00:31:20.000 Because he actually was doing a rally as the news broke.

00:31:22.000 Remember that, Connor?

00:31:24.000 And he gets off the stage.

00:31:26.000 He goes and does that.

00:31:27.000 It goes totally viral.

00:31:29.000 So Justice Breyer has resigned or is resigning.

00:31:33.000 Our prediction was right. 0.70

00:31:34.000 He's not going to make it immediate.

00:31:36.000 It's going to be effective after the summer term.

00:31:38.000 So we are going to have a summer Supreme Court fight.

00:31:42.000 I think Republicans would be very wise not to dig in too deep and to make this about mansion and cinema.

00:31:49.000 Know the votes you have, hold the line.

00:31:52.000 I think it would be disappointing if Mitt Romney and Susan Collins decided to try and win over the moderates by trying to signal that they might vote for this.

00:32:03.000 We don't even know the nominee, but we know it's going to be someone who's super radical, kind of a soda mayor.

00:32:08.000 This does not upset the balance of the court.

00:32:10.000 Let me say this again.

00:32:12.000 It does not upset the balance of the court.

00:32:15.000 You'd be substituting a liberal for a liberal.

00:32:18.000 The fear, though, that Democrats have is like, oh, what if Breyer dies in two years?

00:32:26.000 And they, and again, I'm not saying I don't wish that upon him.

00:32:28.000 He's 83, so it's, you know, he's playing on the back nine.

00:32:31.000 And so you have the Senate that will probably go to Republican hands and then maybe in 2024, a Republican president.

00:32:41.000 They don't want to play that game.

00:32:42.000 They don't.

00:32:44.000 So this very well might be them indicating that they're afraid that they're going to lose power very soon, that they are increasingly worried that this might fall apart.

00:32:55.000 Now, they need to solidify 50 votes first.

00:32:57.000 And so I think Republicans need to just kind of say, you control the apparatus, have at it.

00:33:05.000 I think McConnell needs to be careful not to look like a hypocrite here because he's going to be like, oh, why are you doing this in an election year?

00:33:11.000 Just basically, I think that McConnell needs to say, look, you guys control the Senate right now after two very suspicious election wins in Georgia.

00:33:22.000 We'll see how much longer you control it.

00:33:25.000 Try to pull this off without a single Republican vote.

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00:33:30.000 I think that's going to be McConnell's approach, and I would support that.

00:33:33.000 Have fun.

00:33:33.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:34.000 Have fun winning over Tester and winning over cinema and winning over Mansion.

00:33:40.000 And also, have fun trying to explain to the voters of Arizona, Mark Kelly, that you just voted for a radical Supreme Court justice 90 days before polls open.

00:33:49.000 Like, good luck, Raphael Warnock, explaining that one to the great people of Gainesville, Georgia, that, yeah, vote for me so you get a radical takeover of the United States Supreme Court.

00:34:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:04.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, you can do so at tpusa.com.

00:34:09.000 And if you want to email us your thoughts, as always, you can do so, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:13.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:15.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 27, 2022

Breyer Retires Amid a Coming Constitutional Reset

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