The Charlie Kirk Show - Can Joe Biden Survive a Primary? with Rep. Lauren Boebert and Sen. Ron Johnson

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00:00:41.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:23.000 Joining us now is Congresswoman Lauren Bobert.

00:01:27.000 Lauren, how are we doing?

00:01:29.000 Charlie, I am great.

00:01:30.000 It's great to be back on with you.

00:01:32.000 So, Lauren, so much happening right now from Colorado's third congressional district.

00:01:37.000 Let's start with the debt ceiling.

00:01:39.000 Really, a big surprise where for the regime, all of a sudden, House Republicans pass a debt ceiling resolution, and they're scrambling.

00:01:49.000 What's the latest from DC?

00:01:51.000 Well, House Republicans passed a plan to avoid this catastrophe by raising the debt ceiling.

00:01:57.000 Now, I had never voted on a debt ceiling increase before, but we did this by cutting wasteful government spending and getting America back to where it should be.

00:02:06.000 Joe Biden had said that he would not even negotiate.

00:02:08.000 And I'd like to remind Joe that America saw firsthand how strong the House Freedom Caucus was in January.

00:02:16.000 We aren't moved by media tack ads.

00:02:18.000 We're not moved by pressure from leadership.

00:02:22.000 We are moved by policy.

00:02:24.000 And that's exactly what we put forward when we first outlined the debt ceiling proposal that we had.

00:02:29.000 And so now Joe Biden and the senators need to come to the table and work with us for the good of the American people. 0.58

00:02:36.000 Americans are on our side, and the majority of Americans think that Biden's unwillingness to negotiate is absolutely ridiculous.

00:02:45.000 75% of Americans believe that the federal government spending is too high.

00:02:51.000 And the other 25% probably just haven't paid attention recently.

00:02:56.000 But Biden's campaign as a bipartisan deal maker was nothing but a lie.

00:03:03.000 And so now we have to make sure that we're putting pressure on the Senate to keep the cuts that we had.

00:03:08.000 We cut $500 billion in the student loan bailout, $60 billion in unspent COVID funding that would be taken out of that budget, the Green New Deal tax cuts.

00:03:21.000 We strengthened work requirements for welfare programs and so much more.

00:03:28.000 I'm very proud of the package that we were able to put together.

00:03:32.000 It's not completely perfect.

00:03:33.000 I would have loved to even seen more, but it was great to actually get to be able to pass that, send it over to the Senate, keep the pressure on them.

00:03:40.000 And now we have to force Joe Biden's hand at coming to the table, negotiating, and helping get our country back on track.

00:03:48.000 I mean, the Uniparty spending is unbelievable, Lauren.

00:03:51.000 I mean, $500 billion there, $600 billion there, $700 billion there.

00:03:56.000 I mean, we are running deficits.

00:03:58.000 It seems as if the current American Democrat regime wants an intentional fiscal destruction of the country.

00:04:05.000 We don't talk about the debt enough.

00:04:07.000 And, you know, this plan, I agree with you, is a step in the right direction.

00:04:11.000 I would have liked this in even more, but I mean, it's a lot better, okay?

00:04:14.000 It just, it is better.

00:04:15.000 That's a fact.

00:04:16.000 And I mean, these numbers are so high.

00:04:18.000 The dollars are worth less and less.

00:04:20.000 They're intentionally deteriorating our currency.

00:04:23.000 And so, if you were to kind of play this out, then how do you see this progressing?

00:04:29.000 Well, in a perfect world, they agree with our plan and add even more cuts.

00:04:33.000 But unfortunately, I have seen how often the Senate Republicans fold and give place to more spending and for the further detriment of our country.

00:04:44.000 So I think it's going to come back to us, and we are going to have to look at that and try to beef it up once again.

00:04:53.000 It has to be where it was before to get the amount of support that it had because it was really tough getting the majority of Republicans to vote on this and pass it in the first place.

00:05:04.000 So if this deal is even weaker when it comes back from the Senate, then that's going to be a very big problem.

00:05:11.000 So shifting gears here for a second, Joe Biden has announced reelection, saying there's no primary debates.

00:05:18.000 Do you think Republicans should follow suit?

00:05:22.000 No way.

00:05:22.000 We have President Trump leading the top of the ticket on the primary for the Republican Party.

00:05:28.000 And I think there's nothing better than a good President Trump debate.

00:05:32.000 That's where we see him shine and really show that he is a leader, that he's here to drain the swamp, as we all want to do so badly and hold these people accountable.

00:05:44.000 So I fully support a Republican primary.

00:05:48.000 And, you know, I'm the least bit surprised that the most popular president in American history is struggling to gain support and now doesn't want a primary.

00:06:02.000 He cannot sustain a primary.

00:06:06.000 And I don't know if we have enough of whatever it is they pump him full of to actually get him through a debate.

00:06:14.000 And the only reason that he won't have this debate is because the people who are actually running the country know that Joe Biden does not have the cognitive ability to get through the debate.

00:06:24.000 Biden even admitted in his White House correspondent speech that he talks for 10 minutes, Charlie, answers zero questions, and then walks away.

00:06:34.000 And we know what little questions he does engage in.

00:06:37.000 Well, they're already pre-screened.

00:06:38.000 We have the kindergarten pamphlet there for him with a picture of the reporter and describing who they are and what the question is that they're going to ask, and then his answer already prepared.

00:06:49.000 And if you can't even get through a question, a press conference at the White House, then you're certainly not going to be able to get through a debate.

00:06:59.000 And that means that you're not fit to be president of the United States.

00:07:03.000 And that's why I'm giving Joe Biden an open invite to a rehearsal debate whenever he's ready.

00:07:11.000 So some White House officials say it's difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends.

00:07:17.000 So basically like half the week.

00:07:19.000 The vast majority of Biden's public events happen on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

00:07:26.000 Only four public events before 10 a.m.

00:07:29.000 That vitamin B12 shot peaks right around 1 p.m.

00:07:32.000 Just a dozen public events after 6 p.m., mostly dinners and receptions with foreign leaders or fundraisers, 12 full weekends with no public events.

00:07:42.000 And so, Lauren, you ran in a very, very tight race.

00:07:44.000 You have another important election coming up in 2024.

00:07:49.000 I think that in your district, especially, one of the top issues is energy and the war on fossil fuels.

00:07:57.000 Talk about how Joe Biden and the Democrats are continuing a crusade against our natural resources and how that impacts your race.

00:08:06.000 Yes, well, we have been regulated into poverty in Colorado's third district by politicians and their terrible policies.

00:08:13.000 We know that America needs to be energy secure.

00:08:16.000 We have the cleanest, best resources, and nobody produces it better than we do.

00:08:20.000 And Democrats would rather virtue signal and be involved with child and slave labor in the Congo, where we have children mining with their bare hands for cobalt, sending those rare earth minerals to China, who owns the mines.

00:08:34.000 And then we're buying solar panels from them.

00:08:37.000 This energy is not reliable.

00:08:39.000 It's not affordable.

00:08:40.000 They think it's affordable because of the subsidies.

00:08:43.000 But all of this is doing is crushing America's economy.

00:08:47.000 It is killing jobs and it is making it harder for Americans to even pay their utility bills.

00:08:53.000 At one point, we had 20 million Americans who could not afford their utility bills.

00:08:59.000 This did not happen under President Trump.

00:09:02.000 It will not happen when President Trump is back in the White House because he will make sure that we are energy independent again, energy secure, and pursuing energy dominance.

00:09:11.000 We need to utilize the resources that we have, and we could literally send our energy to other countries, like our clean LNG, to Europe, and we could be exporting freedom, liberating these countries from these horrible dictators that they are currently bound to get their energy by.

00:09:34.000 So, what they're doing in every sense is destroying it.

00:09:37.000 They want to outlaw, they want to outlaw gas vehicles, gas stoves.

00:09:43.000 I saw in Colorado gas lawnmowers and weed whackers.

00:09:47.000 I mean, this is absolutely absurd.

00:09:49.000 Our energy grid is not able to support all of these electric items that they're wanting to force on the American people.

00:09:58.000 And like I said, Charlie, it's not reliable.

00:10:01.000 You know this.

00:10:02.000 But we have to get back to the point of creating those good-paying American jobs and getting our economy strengthened again.

00:10:12.000 And that starts with producing America's resources.

00:10:15.000 We are 100% behind you.

00:10:16.000 I know you're coming to our turning point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit.

00:10:19.000 You have a primary challenger.

00:10:20.000 We should all support Lauren Boebert.

00:10:22.000 She's doing a great job.

00:10:23.000 See you soon, Lauren.

00:10:23.000 Thanks so much.

00:10:24.000 Thanks, Charlie.

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00:11:43.000 So when I went to Wheeling High School in the suburbs of Chicago, I was taught, and this was the correct teaching, that if you have segregated anything, that's racist, that you should not segregate people based on race.

00:11:58.000 You see, we believe that people should be judged by character and that race means absolutely nothing.

00:12:03.000 That a moment in American history of racial segregation was rooted in tribalism and identitarianism.

00:12:10.000 It was sick. 0.51

00:12:11.000 It was wrong. 0.97

00:12:12.000 It was disgusting.

00:12:13.000 You see, I went to Wheeling High School. 1.00

00:12:15.000 That was a majority Hispanic high school.

00:12:18.000 No one talked about race.

00:12:19.000 No one cared about it.

00:12:20.000 And now 10 years later, they seem to be having a lot more racial conversations than we certainly had 10 years ago.

00:12:26.000 The left destroys everything it touches.

00:12:27.000 Same thing is happening all throughout District 214.

00:12:29.000 So there's a picture right there.

00:12:30.000 Restrooms, white and colored.

00:12:32.000 You show that to most Americans.

00:12:34.000 They'd say, that's terrible.

00:12:35.000 That's awful.

00:12:35.000 That's racist.

00:12:36.000 It's wrong.

00:12:37.000 It's neo-segregation.

00:12:39.000 Now, we've been warning for quite some time.

00:12:41.000 And of course, most people ignore our warning.

00:12:45.000 It's not just our warning, but anybody on team reality and team decency and team humanity says, hey, segregation is coming back to the country. 0.91

00:12:53.000 So there's black-only dormitories all across the country. 0.52

00:12:57.000 There are black-only graduation ceremonies from Grand Valley State University to Columbia University where white people are not allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony. 0.66

00:13:07.000 And now in the suburbs of Chicago, not far from where I went to high school, it is just the next step.

00:13:14.000 AP Calculus, so advanced placement calculus, at Evanston Township High School says that there is a course, and it goes through the description of the course, but this code for the course is restricted to students who identify as black.

00:13:30.000 And they also have a Latinx or Latinx.

00:13:34.000 Essentially, math classes at Evanston High School, they have a black-only math class. 0.72

00:13:41.000 They have a white-only math class. 0.81

00:13:44.000 And they have a Latin-only math class. 0.59

00:13:49.000 And if you dare oppose this segregation, they call you a racist because they say blacks need to have environments where they are not influenced by whites, that there's so much white supremacy.

00:14:07.000 The answer is neo-segregation.

00:14:10.000 Now, this is why I've never bought this idea that the party switched after the 1960s or 70s.

00:14:19.000 Because white Democrats who are implementing the policy of segregation at Evanston High School are doing the exact same thing that their grandparents did in the 1950s and 60s, where they said blacks go to this restroom and whites go to this restroom.

00:14:35.000 White Democrats have not changed. 0.98

00:14:38.000 They remain bitterly racist. 1.00

00:14:41.000 They hate black people. 1.00

00:14:43.000 They have for quite some time. 1.00

00:14:45.000 They think black people are stupid. 1.00

00:14:46.000 Why else would they have to say that you have your own class? 1.00

00:14:51.000 Now, this is considered to be progress.

00:14:53.000 This is not an exaggeration, everybody.

00:14:56.000 I'm not doing this because for ratings or anything.

00:15:00.000 Neosegregation is happening all across the country.

00:15:05.000 What do we stand for?

00:15:07.000 What does this new coalition stand for?

00:15:09.000 Russell Brand, Joe Rogan, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Bill Maher, Elon Musk, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, we think segregation is wrong and evil.

00:15:16.000 We do not think the melanin content in your skin should dictate or determine where you go to class, how you learn math, where you go to school, how you graduate, or where you live.

00:15:29.000 We are going to be entering into a country, it's like we're already there, but it's going to be institutionalized, where blacks live in one area and whites live in one area. 0.72

00:15:38.000 It's against everything that Martin Luther King argued for, but they've never liked Martin Luther King. 0.89

00:15:42.000 They never liked the deracialization of America.

00:15:46.000 They never liked the idea that we're going to detribalize America.

00:15:49.000 And by the way, you want to know what's coming next, and this is not an exaggeration. 0.61

00:15:54.000 The next iteration will be whites paying taxes to black people as reparations. 0.70

00:16:02.000 It's going to happen next. 0.85

00:16:04.000 And just so we're clear, the advanced placement criteria says students who identify as black.

00:16:11.000 So you could just identify as whatever you want. 0.58

00:16:13.000 It's the postmodern dream.

00:16:15.000 There is no truth.

00:16:16.000 There is no objective reality.

00:16:18.000 There's just power struggles and individual will. 0.91

00:16:21.000 If you don't believe me, you can go to the Evanston Township High School website, and it says it right there, black only.

00:16:28.000 And by the way, this is not the only class.

00:16:30.000 Algebra is this way.

00:16:32.000 I'm going through it.

00:16:33.000 Almost every single class ends with this one. 0.98

00:16:35.000 Algebra 2, by the way, says only blacks allowed. 0.73

00:16:38.000 This one says only Latin X allowed.

00:16:41.000 These people want more racism.

00:16:42.000 Racism is a cottage industry.

00:16:45.000 Segregating people based on the color of their skin creates more of the boogeyman that does not currently exist, but then you're going to get legitimate and actual racism.

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00:17:58.000 Joining us now is the great senator from Wisconsin, Senator Ron Johnson.

00:18:02.000 Senator, welcome to the program.

00:18:04.000 Let's dive right into it.

00:18:05.000 I see here new emails show Tony Blinken lied to the U.S. Senate under oath about meeting with Hunter Biden.

00:18:12.000 Senator, tell us about it.

00:18:13.000 Well, Charlie, well, what he lied about is that he said he didn't ever email Hunter Biden.

00:18:18.000 Now, remember, Senator Grass and I were investigating Hunter Biden late 2019, early 2020.

00:18:27.000 Remember December 2019, the FBI took possession of his laptop.

00:18:33.000 2020 was COVID.

00:18:35.000 It wasn't easy to do an investigation.

00:18:37.000 People wouldn't come in for interviews.

00:18:38.000 But, you know, a number of people from the State Department did come in for interviews.

00:18:42.000 We actually had a interview scheduled with Anthony Blinken.

00:18:45.000 Remember, he was Deputy Secretary of State.

00:18:47.000 And at some point in time, he decided to cancel that.

00:18:51.000 The election happens, and then lo and behold, because he wanted to become Secretary of State, he decided to come in for an interview.

00:18:58.000 And so we transcribed that interview, asked him all kinds of questions.

00:19:01.000 We were primarily concerned about the May 27th meeting that he had scheduled with Hunter, which got canceled because Bo Biden died, I think, three days later.

00:19:10.000 But then the follow-up meeting, a luncheon meeting that occurred in July of 2021, or of 2020.

00:19:18.000 And so we want to ask him, you know, what did he and Hunter talk about and what he told us?

00:19:23.000 No, it's just golf and grandkids.

00:19:24.000 It's going to be golf and grandkids, just like Lois Lerner.

00:19:27.000 Remember that?

00:19:28.000 Not Lois Lord, Loretta Lynch with Bill Clinton.

00:19:31.000 Just golf and grandkids.

00:19:33.000 Right.

00:19:33.000 So again, they talked about Boeing.

00:19:35.000 So how can you really press them too hard on that when you're talking about the tragedy of losing a brother?

00:19:41.000 But during that interview, we asked him point blank: I mean, what kind of communications did you have with Hunter?

00:19:45.000 I mean, did you talk to him on the phone?

00:19:47.000 He said he really didn't.

00:19:48.000 We asked him, well, do you communicate him through email and text?

00:19:51.000 And he said no.

00:19:52.000 Now, what we've seen because of the Hunter Biden laptop is we have emails where Anthony Blinken was emailing Hunter Biden and probably even worse, his wife, Evan Ryan is her name.

00:20:04.000 She worked for the State Department, also under Obama.

00:20:07.000 She was, it looks like, acting as a conduit, communicating between Hunter and Anthony Blinken using her personal email account.

00:20:17.000 There's one particular exchange where she was trying to set up a phone call between the Karen Tremontano and the folks of Blue Star Strategy.

00:20:27.000 That's a Democrat lobbying firm.

00:20:30.000 These are people who used to work in the Clinton administration that were lobbying on behalf of Burisma to the Obama administration.

00:20:37.000 And let's face it, they knew Hunter Biden was involved in that as well.

00:20:40.000 So now that we know he point-blank, bold-faced lied to us about emailing Hunter, why wouldn't he be honest?

00:20:49.000 I mean, what's the big deal?

00:20:50.000 Say, yeah, I email him occasionally.

00:20:52.000 But he didn't say that.

00:20:54.000 He lied to us, which calls into question all of his testimony, which, quite honestly, I didn't believe it back then, but there wasn't any documents we had to disprove it.

00:21:05.000 Now we're going to be asking for his documentation, his email, his text records.

00:21:10.000 We're going to delve into this further.

00:21:12.000 Is it time to send a criminal referral?

00:21:14.000 Are you able to do that for lying to Congress, to the Department of Justice?

00:21:18.000 Yes.

00:21:19.000 But we will first give him a chance to give us our records or give us his records so we can review them.

00:21:26.000 So again, we'll give him an opportunity to provide us the information that we need if he wants to proclaim his innocence.

00:21:35.000 But I think that would certainly be a potential step.

00:21:39.000 It is becoming more and more clear that Tony Blinken is not just some sort of career diplomat, that he's kind of the conduit, or at least was.

00:21:48.000 He was the lynchpin of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and he faced zero consequences.

00:21:54.000 And so it's very important to really figure out who was, was he operating, of course he wasn't operating by himself, but who was really calling the shots?

00:22:02.000 And it really begs the question then, Senator, is he Secretary of State as a reward?

00:22:08.000 Was that the payoff, if you will, for doing all this clandestine activity during the 2020 election?

00:22:16.000 Well, I like Jonathan Turley's comment where he's talking about people in the Biden administration as a bunch of made men.

00:22:22.000 They prove their loyalty by doing things like what appears Anthony Blinken did in making sure that 51 former intelligence officials wrote probably as fraudulent a letter ever perpetrated on the American electorate in history.

00:22:39.000 Remember all the Russian collusion hoax and the Democrats screaming that that was a stolen election.

00:22:46.000 Blinken and Biden and their 51 intelligence officials interfered in the 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia could ever hope to have achieved.

00:22:58.000 It's a massive fraud.

00:23:00.000 Where's the outrage by the mainstream media?

00:23:03.000 Well, we know there won't be any outrage, but we're going to do everything we can to hold at least Anthony Blinken and those 51 former intelligence officials.

00:23:11.000 They should all have their security clearances revoked.

00:23:14.000 None of them should be working for the federal government or ever work for them in the future as well.

00:23:20.000 I mean, again, this is so egregious.

00:23:23.000 This is such a massive fraud.

00:23:27.000 And it absolutely impacted the election.

00:23:29.000 We've seen polls that had the public known just about Hunter Biden's laptop that Joe Biden would not be president and we would not be on this current path of destruction that the Biden administration has put America on.

00:23:41.000 I think that damaging their reputation is necessary.

00:23:44.000 I mean, they trade on their reputation, board seats, think tank opportunities.

00:23:51.000 These 51 intelligence agents, they knew what they were signing was incorrect, and it was all a con job.

00:23:57.000 And then, Senator, as you well know, it was used as basis for social media censorship.

00:24:04.000 So I lost access to my Twitter for a week because they said, well, according to Politico, 51 intelligence officials say that this looks like Russian disinformation.

00:24:15.000 And so I'm all for stripping their security claims.

00:24:18.000 What is the process for that?

00:24:19.000 And I can't imagine that any Democrats are taking this seriously.

00:24:23.000 They probably are perfectly fine with it.

00:24:25.000 No, that's the problem.

00:24:26.000 You know, we see the corruption in the FBI and the Department of Justice and Intel agencies.

00:24:30.000 The Democrats couldn't care less because it favors them.

00:24:33.000 But remember, the FBI had possession of Hunter Biden's laptop in December 2019.

00:24:38.000 These people talk to each other at the highest levels.

00:24:42.000 You don't think those folks didn't realize that the FBI probably had that computer laptop?

00:24:47.000 The other thing, Charlie, Senator Grassley and my report relied on Treasury records through 2019.

00:24:55.000 So that's, you know, we released our report in September 2020, which showed the vast web of foreign financial entanglements that proved that President Biden would be highly compromised, right?

00:25:05.000 So now James Comer, he's getting new Treasury records.

00:25:08.000 The Bidens knew they were under investigation in 2019, certainly during 2020, but now James Comer is getting evidence that they continued their grifts.

00:25:17.000 I mean, they were so brazen, they were so confident that the deep state that the mainstream media would cover for them, that they could just keep right on profiting, selling influence, bargaining in the Biden name, engaging in conflicts of interest.

00:25:31.000 It literally is astounding.

00:25:34.000 But again, that just shows the complicity in corruption and compliance of the mainstream media.

00:25:40.000 It's a big problem we have in this country.

00:25:42.000 It's not a level playing field.

00:25:43.000 It's not a fair fight.

00:25:45.000 Yeah, that's needless to say.

00:25:47.000 And so, you know, there's, Senator, what is your thought just more generally?

00:25:51.000 And you're nonstop on this, and you have great endurance and perseverance.

00:25:56.000 But some people are just getting overly cynical that they're never going to be held accountable because you're right, the grift only accelerated.

00:26:03.000 And, you know, this involves so many family members, you can't even count them on two hands.

00:26:08.000 And so do you have some hope that there's going to be legitimate accountability or justice for any person in the audience out there that says, yeah, this is fine.

00:26:17.000 But when are we going to start to see some form of criminal prosecution where you have Donald Trump getting indicted in New York for a paperwork issue that's being called a felony?

00:26:28.000 I see the comments on my Twitter feed, and they're all criticizing me for not prosecuting him.

00:26:33.000 I don't have the power to do that.

00:26:35.000 I would suggest that the first line of accountability is exposure, exposing the truth, showing these people for the low-life, sleazy, corrupt individuals that they are.

00:26:47.000 That's some pretty significant accountability.

00:26:48.000 Now, are you ever going to be able to get Merrick Garland to charge any of these folks?

00:26:53.000 I highly doubt it.

00:26:55.000 We'll certainly make the case.

00:26:57.000 It's interesting that it seems like the only people that get prosecuted and then convicted of lying to Congress would be conservatives.

00:27:04.000 Isn't that surprising?

00:27:06.000 So, again, public exposure is a pretty significant step toward accountability, and that's my job.

00:27:15.000 I'm going to tenaciously pursue, uncover, and expose the truth.

00:27:20.000 And truth has its own power.

00:27:22.000 So, Senator, you were willing to ask questions about the vaccine, and I want to thank you for that.

00:27:28.000 Took a lot of courage.

00:27:29.000 We're now seeing the media go after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a nut for any sort of vaccine skepticism.

00:27:36.000 And he had this thing on ABC where they heavily edited the entire interview and video.

00:27:41.000 You know, Jake Tapper comes out and literally says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running for president is a nut.

00:27:47.000 And so, Senator, I know you've been looking into Pfizer, AstraZeneca, you know, a lot of these companies for lying.

00:27:53.000 What is the status of some of those investigations as you look into the kind of the story behind the mRNA vaccine?

00:28:00.000 Well, first of all, let me suggest to the mainstream media types that are going to continue to savage Bobby Kennedy: watch the documentary Vaxed.

00:28:09.000 Read the books, Dissolving Illusions, Turtles All the Way Down.

00:28:14.000 Familiarize yourself with the VARS report.

00:28:18.000 Yes.

00:28:18.000 The vaccine adverse event reporting system.

00:28:20.000 We're over 35,000 deaths associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.

00:28:24.000 25% of those deaths are occurring on the day of vaccination or within day one or two.

00:28:29.000 Over one and a half million total adverse events.

00:28:31.000 And of course, VAYERS doesn't prove causation, but again, 25% occurring on day zero, one, or two.

00:28:38.000 And it dramatically understates the number of adverse events.

00:28:40.000 So I would just ask the news media: familiarize yourself with some facts before you attack Bobby Kennedy or people like me.

00:28:48.000 Your eyes just might be opened.

00:28:50.000 I will continue to do my oversight.

00:28:52.000 Again, we will continue to expose the truth.

00:28:54.000 I'll be continuing to write oversight letters, if nothing else, to act as a foundation.

00:28:59.000 Should we get the majority and I become chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigations, and I would have the subpoena power to start hauling these people in before Congress and start asking them some pretty tough questions.

00:29:10.000 And that's federal health officials, that's people like Fauci, Walinski, all these people that are covering up what the VAER system is basically telling us about vaccine injuries.

00:29:20.000 It is.

00:29:21.000 Why can't we ask questions?

00:29:23.000 That's a pretty simple, you know, that's a simple question that people aren't able to answer.

00:29:28.000 Senator, thank you for your leadership and stay on it.

00:29:31.000 I know that a lot of people are growing cynical, but we need to reveal, as you say, and really make public the corruption that's been happening in our government.

00:29:39.000 Senator, thank you so much.

00:29:40.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:29:45.000 First Republic Bank has collapsed.

00:29:49.000 Now, we're still learning as to why what went wrong at First Republic Bank because at each one of these bank failures, we're getting excuses.

00:29:57.000 Silicon Valley Bank, it was because of crypto.

00:30:00.000 What was the main reason here?

00:30:01.000 It could be commercial real estate, as we've predicted, but it's not exactly clear.

00:30:07.000 First Republic had total assets of $229 billion and $130.9 billion worth of deposits.

00:30:15.000 This is the second largest bank failure in history.

00:30:17.000 How is this not a massive story that everyone's talking about?

00:30:20.000 Because they don't want to create a bank run, just so we're clear.

00:30:23.000 The media is ignoring this story.

00:30:25.000 They're de-emphasizing it because they do not want to create behaviors of a bank run because fractional reserve banking means that at any moment our entire banking system can collapse.

00:30:36.000 So now JPMorgan swoops in and they're buying First Republic and JP Morgan's assets are up.

00:30:42.000 I'm a free market guy, but I want to make sure we're all very clear.

00:30:46.000 This is not in the best interest of markets or what we consider to be capitalism.

00:30:52.000 This is something closer to fascistic oligarchy, where we're going to have only a couple companies to choose from.

00:30:58.000 And I could prove it to you.

00:31:01.000 We're only going to have a couple banks.

00:31:03.000 We already only have a couple cell phone companies, Verizon, T-Mobile, ATT.

00:31:08.000 We only have two actual hardware cell phone companies, Samsung and Apple.

00:31:15.000 We only have a couple major news networks.

00:31:17.000 We only have a couple major streaming networks.

00:31:20.000 We only have a couple mass delivery systems of consumer products, Amazon and Walmart, Target.

00:31:26.000 We've already seen this corporate consolidation, this almost perfect fascistic oligarchy that has been basically taking over the entire country.

00:31:39.000 This is not the best interested American worker, best interest of entrepreneurs, and this is not free market.

00:31:45.000 You only have a couple soft drink beverage companies, Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola.

00:31:51.000 You only have a couple of home good companies, Home Depot and Lowe's.

00:31:56.000 You only have a couple rideshare services, Lyft and Uber.

00:32:00.000 What we're getting at is that what they call free markets is really bigger and bigger companies merging and acquiring merger and acquisitions, smaller companies, to then create an entrenched, permanent, woke corporate oligarchy.

00:32:19.000 And that's exactly where banking is going.

00:32:22.000 We are going to see dozens, maybe hundreds of small and regional banks fold that then they have to get rolled into the woke major banks.

00:32:32.000 For example, the biggest banks are JP Morgan, Wells Fargo.

00:32:36.000 Those are the big ones.

00:32:38.000 JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.

00:32:40.000 And so now First Republic is selling all of its assets to J.P. Morgan, and JP Morgan's stock is up.

00:32:48.000 Either that or when these banks fail, they get bailed out by the biggest funds and asset managers.

00:32:54.000 This is what is driving the new alignment, the realignment.

00:32:58.000 Two things can be simultaneously true.

00:33:00.000 In fact, it's necessary that they are simultaneously true.

00:33:04.000 You can love the promise and the wealth that markets and entrepreneurs are able to create, that Milton Friedman beautifully articulated and Thomas Sowell articulated, while simultaneously believing that the mass, just unstopped, like unadulterated consolidation of corporate power is bad for all people.

00:33:26.000 I don't want to live in a country where we only have two or three companies in every genre of market selection.

00:33:34.000 Okay, here are your two companies for banks.

00:33:36.000 Here's your three companies for cell phones.

00:33:38.000 Here's your three companies.

00:33:39.000 That's not good for anybody, largely because you don't have enough competition and they get bloated, inefficient.

00:33:50.000 But more broadly, that I think is really important is that then their politics are a lot easier to control. 0.56

00:33:57.000 They become woke publicly traded super PACs that are selling you potato chips, soft drinks, or offering you mortgages because these HR departments are already captured by people that go to Stanford and Brown and Yale, and they're all on birth for the men can, they're all on board for the men can give birth black only dormitory crowd. 0.56

00:34:19.000 And then they fund transgenderism and BLM and CRT and ESG radicalism. 0.68

00:34:27.000 I do not say this lightly.

00:34:31.000 I say this with a fair amount of study, prayer, and reflection.

00:34:35.000 We need a new Teddy Roosevelt trust-busting moment.

00:34:38.000 We just do.

00:34:39.000 We need somebody to come in and start to break up these companies and start to say, for the sake of markets, for the sake of entrepreneurs, for the sake of the muscular class, for the sake of the working man and woman, woke, internationalist, monopolistic, fascist oligarchies are at odds with human flourishing and liberty.

00:35:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:04.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:35:13.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

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