Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) joins the show to discuss the rise of left-wing new media, and his recent speech at Harvard University, where he stood up for President Trump's anti-Semitism attack on the school.
00:00:50.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:42.000When you explain it, how it's going to impact you, that person, that student, they get it.
00:02:48.000But we have to do what you're doing all the time.
00:02:50.000You're going to these college campuses and you're explaining how it impacts their life.
00:02:54.000And that's what we all ought to be doing.
00:02:56.000And so how was that message received by the Harvard student body bashing Harvard at Harvard to Harvard students?
00:03:05.000They didn't push back because when I asked the question, I said, how many of you think that we ought to pay people that don't even want to apply for work?
00:04:09.000So this thing is very interesting on a variety of levels.
00:04:12.000It's not just interesting in what he's saying, but there's a political dynamic here, and I want to make sure we have the humility to see whether or not we're missing, we're not reading the room.
00:04:27.000He's a very slippery young man, and I can say a young man because he's very young.
00:04:32.000So am I, but he's young for a senator.
00:04:34.000And he's saying that the president's conduct has already exceeded the threshold for impeachment.
00:04:42.000This is a guy who's running for re-election in the state of Georgia, will likely face a challenge from Governor Brian Kemp, who will probably beat him and is very popular.
00:05:10.000There is no doubt that this president's conduct has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment by the United States House of Representatives.
00:05:24.000But as I said at the beginning, I also have no choice but to be candid with you about the situation that we face and the tools that are at our disposal.
00:05:32.000As strongly as I agree with you, man, the only way to achieve what you want to achieve is to have a majority in the United States House of Representatives.
00:05:40.000Senator, help me understand what his political calculus here is and the idea of impeaching Donald Trump.
00:05:49.000Well, I think he's a typical Democrat.
00:05:51.000He'll show up and he'll say whatever it takes to say in that setting.
00:05:56.000But he didn't say why he should be impeached.
00:05:59.000And by the way, why wasn't he out there wanting to impeach Joe Biden when Joe Biden completely opened our border?
00:06:18.000But let's remember what this election is going to be about in 26. It's going to be about whether Donald Trump gets impeached.
00:06:25.000If the Democrats control the House of Representatives, they will impeach President Trump like they did before for something that he should never be impeached for.
00:06:36.000And they will have to have a trial in the Senate if we don't control the Senate.
00:06:53.000But we need to beat individuals like Ossoff.
00:06:56.000But we have got to get a bigger majority in the House.
00:06:59.000We have to have a majority in the House, but a bigger majority would be better.
00:07:02.000Yeah, and I've certainly had my disagreements with Governor Kemp, but he objectively would be a very good general election candidate against the incumbent John Ossoff and increase our chances of keeping the U.S. Senate.
00:07:16.000But do you think that John Ossoff and Democrats in danger?
00:07:21.000Think that impeachment of Donald Trump is popular going into 2026?
00:07:25.000That that's what the people want, especially 100 days into office?
00:10:36.000I mean, and they supported Biden the entire four years he was president with his open border policies, the criminals, the lack of new full-paying jobs, the unbelievable inflation.
00:10:47.000So, I mean, it's like they are out in left field.
00:10:51.000No one understands what they stand for anymore, except people.
00:11:13.000Senator, in closing, you mentioned this, but what is the timeline?
00:11:16.000Just want to make sure that we're clear on the upcoming big, beautiful bill.
00:11:21.000When can we expect this to start, the details to really surface, and to start moving through committee, etc.?
00:11:27.000So it's starting to go through committee.
00:11:29.000They're starting to have a lot of conversation, both in the House and the Senate.
00:11:32.000We're working on how do we do all the things that we want to accomplish.
00:11:35.000So I've got two meetings tonight to basically work with my friends at the House to try to figure out how do we balance a budget, reduce the taxes, make the Trump tax cuts permanent, secure the border, all these things.
00:11:49.000So it's going to be a lot of work, but I'm optimistic that we can get it done in the next two months.
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00:13:25.000About a year ago, I made a lot of news when I warned that when you hire pilots, Based on criteria that does not matter, you very well might have a slippage in standards and in quality.
00:13:42.000DEI, affirmative action, disparate impact, all those together, when you are trying to hire the best, does not allow you to hire the best.
00:13:49.000When I go to college campuses, it is a major issue that far left-wing activists have a difficulty understanding.
00:13:57.000They say, but Charlie, the standards are the same.
00:14:23.000When a school gets shot up, and that tragic evil happens, and 15 souls are lost, it's nationwide news for a couple weeks.
00:14:32.000But when there's a plane crash in our nation's capital, it gets out of the news cycle within a week because it doesn't fit the narrative.
00:14:40.000According to the New York Times, the D.C. plane crash, the woman helicopter pilot ignored multiple warnings from her right seat, her male counterpart, about altitude and him directly telling her to turn away.
00:14:56.000And she flew directly into a passenger jet.
00:14:59.000She was at least 100 feet too high and did not drop elevation when her male co-pilot warned and didn't turn when he warned her.
00:15:11.000Even if the standards are the same across the board, sometimes the standards are lowered than across the board to just make diversity easier to achieve.
00:15:20.000You have a culture of cutting corners and ignoring red flags.
00:15:24.000We don't know whether or not This woman, who I think is also lesbian for the record, not that that matters, but it could play into kind of the DEI matrix.
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00:18:44.000You got to ask a question in the briefing room.
00:18:46.000Tell us about your time in the White House, and then I want to dive deeper into the state of alternative media, of which you are a pioneer.
00:18:53.000But Tim, bring us into the room of your time in the White House, the press briefing room, and your time with President Trump.
00:18:58.000Yeah, well, I didn't get to see President Trump while I was there, I wish.
00:19:02.000But we do have a reporter who works with Timcast, Elad Eliyahu, who is in the press pool and does now get to, as part of our organization, ask questions of the president, which is tremendous.
00:19:11.000He was also in the briefing room with me at the time.
00:19:14.000I went in and I was able to interview Secretary Noem, Sebastian Gorka, and Secretary Duffy, which was also an honor and a privilege.
00:19:20.000And then shortly after, they brought me to the White House briefing room.
00:19:24.000It is kind of strange because they walk me through the back, the same as Carolyn Levitt.
00:19:28.000So I'm walking into this room and into a sea of reporters all staring at me.
00:19:35.000You know, they pile in from the back or however they come in.
00:19:38.000And I did know the question I wanted to ask as soon as they asked if I would take the seat, which is, what I can't understand, you've got this media, they call it this media apparatus, sitting in this room and all of these chairs, the White House Correspondents Association that controls who sits where,
00:20:00.000They ask the most generic and obvious questions.
00:20:04.000I don't quite understand what they think they're accomplishing other than when you see Caitlin Collins, for instance, just argue for the sake of getting a viral clip.
00:20:13.000And so my concern is you've got one new media seat and all of the rest of the chairs are a corporate media.
00:20:21.000That say the exact same things as each other all the time.
00:20:24.000That is the very fine people hoax and the covenant smear were just two examples from the past eight or so years.
00:20:29.000But now we have the Maryland man hoax, where instead of saying an El Salvador illegal immigrant or adjudicated MS-13 gang member, they're saying Maryland man.
00:20:52.000While still asking something that I thought was important for the American people to hear, I will add one thing that made it difficult was, you know, they said, you're going to come in, we'll sit you down, we'll let you ask the first question.
00:21:03.000But before they did, Carolyn Levitt introduced a reporter who'd been there for 44 years and was retiring and everyone's clapping and cheering.
00:21:10.000And I started getting nervous thinking to myself like, Am I about to rag on this corporate press as everyone's clapping and cheering for this journalist?
00:21:17.000And so I got a little flustered on that one, but, you know, it went how it went.
00:21:20.000And naturally, the reaction from the corporate press was anger.
00:21:24.000And they're writing a bunch of articles that I'm bad or whatever.
00:21:27.000One response that I think is particularly telling is that they're saying, I'm defending the Trump administration or softballing Carolyn Levitt, when my point is, all of these news outlets have the exact same line of thought.
00:21:42.000There's no attempt to actually explain context.
00:21:44.000They all say the same things as if it's one company.
00:21:48.000And for that, for calling that out, they say, I'm lobbing softballs.
00:21:52.000So, Tim, you were in what's called the podcast chair, and credit to this White House for recognizing alternative media and the need to have decentralized communication platforms to push back against the mockingbird media press.
00:22:07.000We have dominated in the podcast space.
00:22:09.000You are a pioneer in that, and also the over-the-top space on YouTube and now Rumble and many other places.
00:22:15.000But you are of the opinion that the left is adjusting, they're realizing their mistake, and they're starting to catch up.
00:23:09.000And by going crazy, by lying all the time, you push people like Joe towards Donald Trump.
00:23:15.000When the truth is on the side of the conservatives, then it doesn't matter what your political argument is because it's based on lies that people will reject.
00:23:23.000So I had warned right away, if Rachel Maddow can get $25 million for a once-a-week program, the powers that be, the Democrat institutions, the liberal media easily can take $25 million, go to a top liberal podcast and say,
00:23:38.000we're going to spend $20 million in outdoor ads.
00:23:48.000They can pay this podcaster $5 million because they're not making that kind of money relative to, say, what the cable network guys were making, and then put the rest in just fabricating this space and this attention.
00:23:59.000What people need to understand about how the podcasting space works largely is subscribers talk.
00:24:04.000If you've got a platform with a million subs, you're going to get good bookings.
00:24:08.000You're going to get top names, which in turn will get you more attention.
00:24:11.000If they can pay for guests, If they can pay for appearances on big programs and TV, then what do you end up seeing?
00:24:19.000Midas Touch, a liberal podcast, has taken the top spot for a short period, displaced Joe Rogan as the top podcast for, I think, one or two episodes.
00:24:26.000But this shows, it does show that they are course-correcting.
00:24:30.000They're aware they need to course-correct.
00:24:32.000They're going to start heavily investing in this.
00:24:34.000And we know that big tech and the big media platforms are going to do whatever they can to prop them up.
00:24:39.000And I think we are actually witnessing that right now.
00:24:41.000When you look at the metrics for some of these top liberal podcasts, largely their YouTube platforms, somehow, right before the election, literally two or three months, their viewership doubles.
00:25:17.000Do you think the Democrats are equipped for that because they're so used to short soundbites and prepackaged material on cable news?
00:25:26.000What I'm getting at is totalitarian leftism, Marxism, can it survive, exist and thrive in a place where there are no gatekeepers?
00:25:36.000Largely no, but I don't think it's going to be an overnight flick of the switch.
00:25:41.000Charlie, did you know that Hassan Piker did not know that Kilmar Garcia was from El Salvador?
00:25:48.000So here's a guy who's got one of the largest left-leaning streams.
00:25:55.000And when I appeared at the White House and made the point that I did, my only regret is that I didn't clarify he was from El Salvador because in response to this, Hassan Piker said, What do you mean he's not a Maryland man?
00:26:07.000Are you saying he's from D.C. like he's not from Maryland?
00:26:12.000The dude, Hassan reads the New York Times, he reads the Independent or whatever, Daily Beast, and when they say Maryland man, he actually in his mind thinks and tells all of his millions of viewers this illegal immigrant that two courts found to be a member of MS-13 is just a man from Maryland.
00:26:32.000The implication, of course, is that he's an American citizen or at the very least a permanent resident.
00:26:36.000So while I do think there will be a leaking happening from the left podcast because they don't have the truth on their side, they will prey upon the more ignorant and angry individuals.
00:26:47.000They're going to try and keep them isolated.
00:27:53.000All over the Midwest Rust Belt area where we tend to do very well.
00:27:57.000So if you're driving around in Pennsylvania or Ohio, you're going to see a big billboard for Timcast IRL 8 p.m. on Rumble.com.
00:28:04.000And we're doing this because, and I think more people should, you want to create that cultural ubiquity where even if they don't watch, they know who you are and then they...
00:28:14.000The average person might say, oh yeah, I've heard of that person.
00:28:18.000That can help protect this advantage while you have the resources and the space.
00:28:22.000Because otherwise, they're going to shore up their attacks on the space.
00:28:28.000They're going to lie, cheat, and steal.
00:28:29.000But more importantly, they're going to put their fingers on the scales.
00:28:33.000So that, say, YouTube, for instance, already doesn't recommend people on the right.
00:28:37.000You can look at all the data going back 10 years.
00:28:42.000If you watch a video on YouTube, What are you likely to get recommended?
00:28:47.000Independent conservative-leaning podcasts or even just anti-establishment non-liberal ones get recommended substantially less than establishment.
00:28:56.000First of all, if you search for news, you're going to get CBS, NBC, ABC.
00:29:00.000But if you watch a Charlie Kirk video on YouTube, you're probably going to get recommended some liberal podcaster and not something more in line with what the Charlie Kirk viewer might want.
00:29:39.000What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?
00:29:47.000They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.
00:29:51.000Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.
00:29:58.000We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:30:00.000In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.
00:31:08.000They have secret chat rooms where they share story talking points, so they all march in lockstep.
00:31:13.000And then, of course, the famous incident which occurred is when an Axios reporter started talking about how, you know what, we really missed this one.
00:31:21.000We missed this Joe Biden was infirm story.
00:31:25.000And, you know, people don't trust us now, but I'll tell you this, guys.
00:31:29.000Everyone's saying that it's the mea culpa.
00:31:35.000These journalists knew full well because no sane, rational human being watched Joe Biden say, and I quote, true in an ass shop of depression and then thought he was capable of doing this job.
00:31:47.000But the media kept saying, and I say the media, but these journalists, these anchors, they were saying, you know, behind closed doors, he's as sharp as ever.
00:31:55.000Anybody with eyes to see was thinking to themselves, what's wrong with Joe?
00:31:59.000And it wasn't until they put him on that debate stage.
00:32:07.000President Biden's decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception.
00:32:21.000But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves.
00:32:26.000We, myself included, missed a lot of this story.
00:32:31.000And some people trust us less because of it.
00:33:07.000A meter on from Germany, I mean, from France, looked at me and said, I said, I'm going to be a president for everybody whether you live in a red state or a green state.
00:33:36.000The speculation most of us had, I think, in real journalism, in real media, was that they probably would have him sleep all day and then give him an IV therapy drip or some kind of upper.
00:33:47.000So that he could do these late-night appearances.
00:33:50.000In one appearance, he had a bandage on his hand that appeared like he was getting IV therapy to try and help him do a job he was clearly incapable of doing.
00:33:58.000Now, I think most people realize at this point, the corporate press is aligned with the Democratic Party, 100%.
00:34:05.000They attack Donald Trump no matter what it is.
00:34:08.000They never give him a single good day.
00:34:10.000They referred to an ISIS leader who kidnapped and tortured women as an austere scholar.
00:34:16.000And that was the moment some prominent personalities in media started to kind of question what was going on with, I think it was Nate Silver, who said, you can't give him one day?
00:34:29.000They are addicted to making sure that no matter what happens, Trump is the bad guy, the Democrats are the good guys, but I'll tell you what's interesting now.
00:34:37.000They are trying to find a way back in terms of media, through podcasting or otherwise, but there are no leaders in the Democratic Party.
00:34:44.000When we're putting together our graphics for the nightly show on Timcast IRL, we try to find prominent leaders in relation to these stories, and we've been going over it.
00:34:55.000There is no leader in the Democratic Party that represents any of these issues.
00:35:00.000Chris Van Hollen may be over the deportation.
00:35:06.000AOC is considered to be the frontrunner, but she has 10%.
00:35:10.000Support in the party as the frontrunner.
00:35:12.000So it's a total mess for what they have right now.
00:35:15.000And I'm not entirely sure in the short term they can recover from it.
00:35:19.000But if Donald Trump and Kristi Noem can figure out, and Tom Homan, figure out this deportation thing, and Cash and Dan can clean up our election systems, the corruption in these various jurisdictions, we got to make sure that the 2030 census is done clean and correctly.
00:35:35.000I'm not sure how the Democrats recover from this unless they abandon these insane policies, start speaking truth, admitting what's fake, and then try and, I don't know, win back some moderates.
00:35:46.000But they're going to have to rapidly transform in a way I'm not sure is possible.
00:35:49.000I don't think media gatekeeping is compatible with long-form podcasting.
00:35:55.000Long-form podcasting flushes out BS way too effectively.