The Charlie Kirk Show - Can We Trust Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America?

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, some breaking news with Matt Gates really fires me up.

00:00:06.000 What they did here, the power the federal government has goes beyond indictments and spying.

00:00:10.000 They could just ruin a reputation by leaking a story.

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00:00:51.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:33.000 Guilty until proven innocent.

00:01:34.000 18 months ago, the media was fed reports that Matt Gaetz was about to be indicted by federal law enforcement for sex trafficking.

00:01:43.000 A very serious accusation.

00:01:45.000 Because of this, a smear campaign was launched so that anybody that would dare get close to Matt Gaetz would think twice.

00:01:54.000 Now, at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action and the Charlie Kirk Show, we kept on having Matt Gaetz on, but many other Republican establishment groups wanted nothing to do with Matt Gaetz.

00:02:03.000 Matt Gaetz, with charisma and with energy, with precision of arguments, one of the youngest, most outspoken people in Congress.

00:02:13.000 They had to go after him and they went after him hard, but they didn't indict him.

00:02:18.000 Instead, they kind of kept him in legal purgatory that he might be indicted at every moment.

00:02:24.000 You should stay away from him.

00:02:27.000 Again, the punishment is the process because the government has unlimited money.

00:02:32.000 They can string this thing along for years.

00:02:34.000 And it's kind of a constitutional loophole because it's not cruel and unusual constitutionally because they haven't indicted you.

00:02:44.000 They're just investigating you, but they're leaking along the way that they're investigating you.

00:02:49.000 Going after Matt Gaetz for potentially human trafficking, a baseless claim where they allowed Bill Clinton to go free with everything he did with Epstein Island and Lolita Express, which we will never quite understand the depth or the complexity of.

00:03:07.000 But today, Matt Gaetz received some welcome news from the Washington Post, the very same Washington Post that leaked the story originally.

00:03:16.000 Might have been the New York Times, but whatever.

00:03:18.000 The point is at the media.

00:03:20.000 Career prosecutors are now recommending no charges for Matt Gaetz in sex trafficking probe.

00:03:27.000 So all those 18 months of smearing his character, of trying to keep him in a penalty box, preventing him from speaking, preventing him from raising money, trying to hope he'll resign.

00:03:36.000 Now, Matt Gates employed a very risky media strategy.

00:03:40.000 He went all in.

00:03:41.000 He leaned in.

00:03:42.000 And I remember a lot of people that I talked to said, boy, if this works for Matt Gates, he is certainly setting a precedent kind of around the Trump behavioral model of lean in, do media, don't sit down and shut up.

00:03:56.000 Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Gates in sex trafficking probe.

00:04:02.000 He stood up to the bullies.

00:04:04.000 He stood up to the entire Department of Justice and FBI.

00:04:08.000 And now they're saying, oh, just kidding, we're not going to charge you.

00:04:10.000 Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz, and I'm just guessing, has probably had to pay over $100,000 a month in legal fees.

00:04:17.000 It's a very risky strategy because every lawyer would have said, Matt, sit down and shut up, go home, don't say anything.

00:04:23.000 And Matt Gates did interview after interview after interview.

00:04:27.000 It turns out that Matt Gates' very risky strategy, one of bold and of courage, worked.

00:04:33.000 But I hope the deeper point why I'm leading with this today, and we'll get to the Republican plan and what I like about it and what I think could be better about it and all that.

00:04:40.000 But the reason I'm leading with this is that they have such power that it's not even just about indicting you.

00:04:47.000 It's not even just about putting you into jail.

00:04:50.000 It's just smearing your character.

00:04:53.000 It is poisoning your name before any indictment is ever filed.

00:04:58.000 Now, there is some good news here.

00:05:01.000 The good news is that the Constitution is still somewhat alive.

00:05:08.000 Is that there still is some form of due process in our country that despite all of the problems, they were still worried that some jury of their peers, even if they would have filed it in a D.C. court, wouldn't have gone along with a fictitious, outrageous, outlandish potential prosecution.

00:05:28.000 So now Matt Gaetz is vindicated.

00:05:31.000 Matt Gaetz has now able to say, well, I'm not being charged.

00:05:36.000 Does he get those 18 months back?

00:05:37.000 Does he get all the articles written about him?

00:05:40.000 All of the smear campaigns written about him.

00:05:43.000 And they went after him for only one reason.

00:05:45.000 He was a threat to the regime, and they had to slow down his congressional progress.

00:05:51.000 And I hope Matt Gates sues everybody.

00:05:54.000 I hope he sues the Department of Justice for illegally leaking, sues the FBI, sues all of the smear artists and the detractors.

00:06:04.000 But now the government comes out and they say, well, our career prosecutors say there's not much of a case.

00:06:07.000 We're just going to move on.

00:06:09.000 And they're going to get away with this.

00:06:10.000 That is part of the process. 0.87

00:06:12.000 It's Soviet, which is even if there's not enough evidence, let's just kind of set it out there so that there's sort of a cloud of doubt around him, that he won't be as appealing as he might otherwise seem. 0.80

00:06:22.000 We'll just kind of create this feeling that there might be there. 0.63

00:06:27.000 So where does he go to get his reputation back from our government?

00:06:31.000 Where does he go to make this right?

00:06:33.000 Now that the government says, actually, we're recommending no charges after he has probably had to spend over a million dollars in legal fees.

00:06:41.000 How does one remedy that?

00:06:43.000 And we've talked a lot about how they've indicted Navarro and they divided, indicted Bannon.

00:06:48.000 They took 40, they sent 40 subpoenas.

00:06:51.000 They took Scott Perry's cell phone.

00:06:53.000 They did all these different sorts of things.

00:06:57.000 Not to mention the trial of Dinesh D'Souza, all these different ones across the board.

00:07:04.000 But we haven't always talked about Matt Gaetz.

00:07:06.000 See, there's some other breaking news.

00:07:08.000 I want to make sure I read that before I mention it on air, something around the Bill the Wall case.

00:07:13.000 But the government doesn't care.

00:07:15.000 The government just continues marching on because they know that Republicans are never serious about using any form of the legal system as a check and balance on their tyranny.

00:07:26.000 But this wasn't even just using the legal system.

00:07:29.000 They can destroy somebody's reputation solely on a leak, a suspicion, a rumor.

00:07:38.000 And that's what they tried to do to Matt Gaetz.

00:07:40.000 And I just want to say, I am very proud.

00:07:43.000 I'm very thankful for our team at Turning Point USA, where we said, you know what, we're going to continue to have Matt Gaetz at our events.

00:07:49.000 And they hammered us, the media.

00:07:52.000 Congressman accused of underage sex trafficking speaking at youth event.

00:07:57.000 Get at, get a life.

00:07:58.000 And now they're saying, oh, just kidding, there's no evidence for that.

00:08:00.000 You see how that works?

00:08:01.000 So they smear the person, they smear anyone that associates with them.

00:08:04.000 And the government now just says, just kidding, we don't have the evidence to recommend charges.

00:08:08.000 Just a rumor.

00:08:08.000 It was just something out there.

00:08:10.000 We're not actually going to go into it.

00:08:13.000 And half the country will always think of him this way.

00:08:15.000 He will always have some form of a cloud over it.

00:08:18.000 And as soon as Matt Gates is willing and able, I hope he goes on a vindication tour.

00:08:24.000 How wrong this is, how deeply sick and disturbing it is, where he's not going to serve time in prison, according to this story.

00:08:31.000 He's not going to go and be in jail, according to this story.

00:08:35.000 But he is going to have some form of a probationary punishment for the rest of his life.

00:08:42.000 The government can smear your reputation, absent evidence, and they just get to move on.

00:08:48.000 They get to do whatever they want, which is why we need to make a lot of this news item.

00:08:55.000 We need to make this a very big story and shame the government.

00:08:58.000 In the midst of a very important 18 months, they go and just leak a story while Biden's president.

00:09:05.000 Oh, yeah, by the way, we might indict Matt Gates.

00:09:08.000 And then 18 months later, like, oh, yeah, we never really had the evidence for that, but he's still accused.

00:09:13.000 And by the way, they're not going to say that he's innocent because it's not the government to declare people innocent, but they'll just say, we didn't have the proper evidence at the time.

00:09:22.000 They go after Bannon, they go after Eastman, they went after Lindell, they go after these alternate electors.

00:09:28.000 They're full court press.

00:09:31.000 And today the news is the government admits, yeah, we actually don't have the goods on Matt Gates.

00:09:35.000 Yeah, sorry, you had to spend a million dollars defending yourself, reputationally put yourself at risk, almost losing your congressional seat and smearing every other group that went alongside of you.

00:09:44.000 But we're the government.

00:09:45.000 We do whatever we want.

00:09:46.000 It's a big victory for the rule of law, but it's a deeper point that should infuriate you on how the government is able to get away with this.

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00:10:52.000 Someone emailed us, Charlie, the FBI doesn't have any power.

00:10:55.000 Stop saying they have power.

00:10:56.000 Yeah, they have power.

00:10:57.000 Are you kidding me?

00:10:58.000 They can indict anybody at any time and leak anything.

00:11:00.000 They have unbelievable power, almost unchecked power.

00:11:03.000 And that's the problem: power is something that needs to exist in a governmental or civil form.

00:11:13.000 We admit that.

00:11:15.000 That there's going to be competence hierarchies.

00:11:19.000 There's going to be some form of a structure that needs to be put in place.

00:11:24.000 And a structure needs to make moral claims.

00:11:28.000 This is where I always laugh when people say, well, you know, our Constitution doesn't make any moral arguments.

00:11:32.000 The whole thing is a moral document.

00:11:35.000 The entire structure of the United States government is a moral claim.

00:11:40.000 One of the moral claims in the United States Constitution is its prognosis or its diagnosis of how human beings act with power.

00:11:50.000 And it makes a very simple moral claim, which is that if we're going to have power transition from people towards the state, then that power needs to be separate and checked upon.

00:12:05.000 And it also needs to be done with permission from the consent of the governed.

00:12:10.000 And then you also need to have an independent form of government, a judiciary, that can check on it, keep eyes on it, and make sure that it's not running awry.

00:12:20.000 But all of that comes back to an even more fundamental moral claim that is first articulated in the Declaration of Independence and then put into practice in the United States Constitution, which is what is a human being?

00:12:36.000 The founding fathers understood what a human being was, not a combination of cells, not a random act of nature.

00:12:42.000 No, it is somebody that is an image-bearer, made in the image of God, made in the image of a creator, has a soul, a spirit, and yes, a mind and a body as well.

00:12:54.000 But that soul is a reason why they have natural rights.

00:12:58.000 They are a speaking being.

00:13:01.000 And so, as we have this situation where the government has now created a new way to be able to destroy political dissidents, not just indictments, not just leg irons, not just handcuffs, but leaking baselessly and falsely over a protracted period of time to poison the name of somebody they don't like.

00:13:24.000 They're doing this, by the way.

00:13:25.000 They did this exact same playbook with Trump, with the Russia stuff.

00:13:28.000 They just say an accusation, try a balloon it, get people on television to parrot it through the mockingbird media.

00:13:34.000 And then over time, it's disproven.

00:13:37.000 But by the time it's disproven, half the country still doesn't care.

00:13:40.000 Half the country still believes that Donald Trump is a Putin puppet, despite the fact the opposite is actually true.

00:13:45.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:13:46.000 By the time it gets into the zeitgeist and it gets repeated and the lie gets circulated, people believe it.

00:13:53.000 So now Matt Gaetz is going to have to spend time, money, and energy trying to win back his reputation.

00:13:58.000 I think Matt Gates has a very strong case to make.

00:14:04.000 Very strong case legally.

00:14:06.000 Now, I will say that I'm starting to get a little bit of optimism that the Republican Party is listening.

00:14:16.000 Today, Kevin McCarthy unveiled what Republicans will do if they take over the House of Representatives.

00:14:23.000 Now, I'm well aware many of you are not fans of Kevin McCarthy.

00:14:26.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene was at this announcement, which I know many of you are fans of.

00:14:31.000 So put that aside for a second and instead let's focus on what was said.

00:14:36.000 If this is true, I think this is a step in the right direction.

00:14:40.000 If this is true, this is the type of posture that we need out of the new Congress.

00:14:46.000 Play Cut 126.

00:14:48.000 But on that very first day that we're sworn in, you'll see that it all changes.

00:14:52.000 Because on our very first bill, we're going to repeal 87,000 IRS agents.

00:14:59.000 Our job is to work for you, not go after you.

00:15:02.000 It's a step in the right direction.

00:15:05.000 87,000 new IRS agents, the first action to get rid of them.

00:15:08.000 We need to go even further, Church and Pike Committee equivalent, the Jordan Hawley Committee.

00:15:12.000 But make no mistake, this program, War Room, Tucker Carlson, is really setting the agenda.

00:15:17.000 Your precincts that you show up to, your state party committee meetings, you pressuring your lawmakers, the money you give is determining and dictating the upcoming legislative agenda if we're able to pull off the red wave, which looks more and more likely.

00:15:32.000 Part of what we are going to do is reestablish the constitutional check and balance.

00:15:38.000 You could call it a constitutional reset.

00:15:40.000 And fundamental to that is this idea that power cannot be unchecked.

00:15:45.000 Man cannot be trusted with power.

00:15:47.000 That is a moral argument our founders got right.

00:15:50.000 In the administrative state, the deep state, the machinery within the federal government, their time is running thin.

00:15:59.000 And by the way, there should be another special counsel on the leaking of information against Gates, going after Bannon, Navarro, all of this.

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00:17:04.000 We're talking about the structure of the United States Constitution, amongst many other news items that are here.

00:17:09.000 And this Matt Gates story just really fires me up.

00:17:12.000 It's not going to get the coverage it deserves in the activist media.

00:17:15.000 They're just going to bury it and move on.

00:17:17.000 Despite the fact that they wrote repeated story after trying to destroy his character and his reputation.

00:17:24.000 And it can happen to every single one of you, any one of you.

00:17:27.000 They can reputationally ruin you by leaking something by rumor mill.

00:17:33.000 It is a penalty by rumor mill, not an indictment.

00:17:37.000 They could have kept an investigation quiet, first of all.

00:17:40.000 They should never have had an investigation into this in the first place, considering the lack of evidence, the political nature of it.

00:17:48.000 In fact, they're not even investigating actual sex traffickers in our country.

00:17:52.000 They're going after Matt Gates.

00:17:53.000 Why?

00:17:53.000 Because he's a very articulate, charismatic, well-spoken, factually focused member of Congress who is really starting a congressional MAGA movement, and they had to stop that.

00:18:04.000 They had to create a little bit of a fog of uncertainty, make it harder for him to raise money, harder for him to do events, harder for him to go on television.

00:18:11.000 In fact, he wasn't allowed to go on cable TV for quite some time.

00:18:14.000 Not allowed, but meaning people are like, I don't want to do it.

00:18:16.000 It's toxic.

00:18:16.000 I don't like it.

00:18:17.000 Now, we, of course, at turning point, I'm very proud of this.

00:18:20.000 I'll say it again.

00:18:20.000 We had him speak at our events, and we came under huge attack for that.

00:18:24.000 Massive attack.

00:18:25.000 Charlie, what are you doing?

00:18:26.000 Charlie, there's this aura of a looming indictment.

00:18:29.000 I said, I don't care.

00:18:30.000 In this country, you are innocent until proven guilty.

00:18:34.000 Even if he was indicted, I would want to see the charging documents.

00:18:37.000 I want to see his defense.

00:18:39.000 I want to see what the jury of his peers, even if he was convicted, I want to want to see the evidence myself.

00:18:44.000 Especially considering the nonsense they threw at Paul Manafort, the nonsense they're throwing at Bannon.

00:18:50.000 And some Republicans can serve as Charlie.

00:18:52.000 I really don't like the fact that you have Matt Gates at your event.

00:18:55.000 And now the government's saying, oh, just kidding.

00:18:58.000 It was all a joke.

00:19:00.000 We don't have the evidence.

00:19:01.000 Have a nice life.

00:19:03.000 The Constitution is supposed to prevent from this kind of tyrannical, despotic overreach.

00:19:10.000 Today, the Republican organization let out, basically announced their, quote, commitment to America.

00:19:24.000 An economy that's strong, a nation that's safe, a future that's built on freedom, and a government that's accountable.

00:19:29.000 It's a four-part plan.

00:19:30.000 Newt Gingrich helped contribute to this.

00:19:33.000 Now, I think there are some really good elements to this plan.

00:19:37.000 It does not go far enough, obviously, but we have to be realistic.

00:19:41.000 We have to be honest.

00:19:42.000 We have to be clear.

00:19:44.000 What are we dealing with?

00:19:45.000 And is it trending in the right direction?

00:19:48.000 I'm a Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Byron Donalds.

00:19:56.000 That's kind of my flavor of conservatism, obviously.

00:20:00.000 And I think we need to do everything we possibly can to put leadership on notice that we're not going to put up with Paul Ryan and John Boehner conservatism.

00:20:12.000 Let's play this clip right here: Cut 135.

00:20:15.000 A mom voices her concern with education at the House GOP's commitment to America, play cut 135.

00:20:21.000 There are many other public education issues concerning parents like myself.

00:20:26.000 The slow creep of critical race theory, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender identity, and allowing biological boys to enter girls' spaces and sports.

00:20:40.000 Now we have SEL, which is social-emotional learning. 0.77

00:20:45.000 It's indoctrination disguised as programs like kindness initiatives or anti-bullying programs or diversity projects.

00:20:54.000 These are all Marxist-style programs targeting our children.

00:20:59.000 They are.

00:21:00.000 They are Marxist-style programs infiltrating our country.

00:21:03.000 So this plan that has now been released, Commitment to America, led by Kevin McCarthy, has the following promises.

00:21:13.000 And it focuses on these four things: economy, nation that's strong, and then built on freedom.

00:21:17.000 So they say we're going to fight inflation.

00:21:18.000 We're going to talk about the cost of living.

00:21:20.000 We're going to release American energy.

00:21:22.000 And we're going to solve the supply chain crisis.

00:21:26.000 Finally, a nation that is safe.

00:21:27.000 And I want your thoughts on this, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:21:30.000 Just based on the peppering we're receiving, not exactly fans of Kevin McCarthy here.

00:21:36.000 We're getting a lot of emails on that.

00:21:39.000 However, you got to look at what you're going to deal with.

00:21:42.000 It's very interesting, Marjorie Taylor Greene was there.

00:21:45.000 Secure the border and combat illegal immigration.

00:21:48.000 3.5 million illegal border crossings under Biden.

00:21:51.000 And building the wall, reduce the crime and protect, reduce crime and protect public safety.

00:21:56.000 Defend America's national security.

00:21:59.000 The next category, a future that's built on freedom.

00:22:02.000 Talk about achieve longer, healthier lives for Americans.

00:22:06.000 Confront big tech and demand fairness.

00:22:10.000 There is a part here of not allowing men to compete in women's sports.

00:22:15.000 It's interesting, too.

00:22:15.000 They have a picture of Jim Jordan on this website.

00:22:19.000 Massive constitutional oversight.

00:22:23.000 Have hearings on the origin of COVID, hearings on the Biden regime's failure in Afghanistan, hearings on the Justice Department labeling parents as domestic terrorists, and more.

00:22:34.000 You guys be the judge.

00:22:35.000 I want your thoughts.

00:22:36.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:22:38.000 Let's play cut 134.

00:22:40.000 We've watched what's happened to our border, the millions of people who are just walking across.

00:22:45.000 People on the terrorist watch list.

00:22:48.000 But now we're watching it create every community to be a border community.

00:22:53.000 Fentanyl, the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.

00:23:00.000 That poison starts in China and comes across our border.

00:23:04.000 Do you realize it's killing 300 Americans every day?

00:23:08.000 Meanwhile, this is Alejandro Mayorkis, Cut 128, defending the Department of Homeland Security.

00:23:14.000 Boy, one of the first acts needs to be to impeach and remove Mayorkas from office.

00:23:20.000 Play cut 128.

00:23:22.000 Secretary, I'm here in El Paso where about 2,000 people are arriving every day.

00:23:27.000 Secretary, what is the United States border policy?

00:23:33.000 Well, we are doing so much, Jose.

00:23:36.000 You know what our policy is?

00:23:37.000 Our policy is to enforce the law.

00:23:39.000 And that is indeed what we are doing.

00:23:42.000 Oh, yeah, we're enforcing the law.

00:23:44.000 That's the opposite.

00:23:46.000 Alejandra Mayorkas is allowing the continual invasion of our country. 1.00

00:23:51.000 I've said it before, that is acts of treason against the homeland to allow foreigners to waltz in without any sort of stopping whatsoever, 5,000 a day if you count the entire border. 0.99

00:24:04.000 5,000 a day. 1.00

00:24:08.000 We'll play a cut here.

00:24:10.000 Talking about today, from the new plan that I love your thoughts from.

00:24:15.000 You guys could check it out at republicanleader.gov.

00:24:18.000 This is the plan that Republicans are articulating if they take back the House of Representatives.

00:24:23.000 Play cut 136.

00:24:25.000 We want an economy that is strong.

00:24:27.000 That means you can fill up your tank.

00:24:29.000 That the paychecks grow, they no longer shrink.

00:24:33.000 We have a plan for a nation that's safe.

00:24:37.000 That means your community will be protected.

00:24:40.000 Your law enforcement will be respected.

00:24:43.000 Your criminals will be prosecuted.

00:24:45.000 We believe in a future that's built on freedom.

00:24:49.000 That your children come first.

00:24:52.000 They're taught to dream big.

00:24:54.000 And we believe in a check and balance.

00:24:57.000 That government should be accountable.

00:24:59.000 No longer special interest.

00:25:02.000 We should work for you.

00:25:03.000 The idea of a check and balance has not been in Washington, D.C. for quite some time.

00:25:08.000 The challenge of this new Republican Congress, if it ends up being a Republican Congress, because we've got to win.

00:25:13.000 But at least they're talking about something that's positive.

00:25:14.000 There's a lot of parents' party elements in here.

00:25:16.000 There's a lot of base demands in here, which is good.

00:25:19.000 It's not certainly not the buffet line that I would totally choose, but it's getting in the right direction, is this, is the challenge will be having the wherewithal, having the precision, and having the wisdom to be able to disentangle and deconstruct the administrative state.

00:25:39.000 The administrative state runs the country right now.

00:25:41.000 And the administrative state is not just in the federal government.

00:25:43.000 The administrative state is interinstitutional.

00:25:46.000 It is intergovernmental.

00:25:47.000 It is Silicon Valley.

00:25:48.000 It's the big banks.

00:25:50.000 It's the CDC.

00:25:52.000 It is Pfizer.

00:25:53.000 It's AstraZeneca working with the agencies in government, working with people like Anthony Fauci.

00:25:59.000 Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greener there, which probably means some inside baseball.

00:26:03.000 I've been texting some people.

00:26:05.000 What it means is probably a deal has been struck.

00:26:09.000 It probably means that McCarthy is going to be pressured to follow through on these deals or risk losing his speakership.

00:26:16.000 That's probably what's been happening here.

00:26:18.000 And again, there's a lot of inside baseball I'm not always clued into here.

00:26:22.000 Here's what I want.

00:26:24.000 I want immediate investigations in the IRS.

00:26:27.000 I want the IRS agents to be completely removed.

00:26:30.000 I want Fauci to be put in front of a committee immediately.

00:26:32.000 I want a Jordan and Hawley special committee on FBI overreach.

00:26:36.000 And I want a Church and Pike Committee 2.0.

00:26:39.000 I want to have Marjorie Taylor Green, Andy Biggs, soon to be Congresswoman Ana Paulina, Caroline Levitt on a special committee overseeing the IRS and having a full commission report on the IRS.

00:26:53.000 Who are they auditing?

00:26:54.000 Who are they investigating?

00:26:57.000 Seems as if there's a deal that's been cut here.

00:26:58.000 I'm going to try to dive deeper into this and talk to some of my sources.

00:27:01.000 And there's a lot of people.

00:27:02.000 And by the way, I'm not blaming you.

00:27:04.000 A lot of you are emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:27:06.000 I don't trust them.

00:27:08.000 You know what?

00:27:09.000 You shouldn't trust them.

00:27:11.000 I agree.

00:27:12.000 They have not earned your trust yet.

00:27:14.000 That is not the argument I'm making.

00:27:16.000 They have a lot of action to do before I'm telling you to trust them.

00:27:20.000 I'm not.

00:27:23.000 That opinion is exactly right.

00:27:27.000 Someone says, Charlie, I want Jim Jordan for a speaker.

00:27:30.000 There probably was a deal cut where Jim Jordan is going to basically be oversight czar and Kevin speaker.

00:27:39.000 There's probably been a deal cut like that.

00:27:41.000 I'm just speculating, but it seems to be that way.

00:27:45.000 One of the reasons why Republicans are going to take back the House of Representatives based on all trajectories because Latinos and Hispanics are defecting in major numbers from the Democrat Party. 0.93

00:27:57.000 It turns out talking about how men can become pregnant, black-only dormitories, gender being a fluid construct. 0.61

00:28:05.000 It's not very popular in a traditional moral center of a hardworking Hispanic home.

00:28:11.000 And so the View is doing what the View does. 0.61

00:28:14.000 They've now come out and they're saying, it's so interesting to me that there's so many Latinos that vote Republican because they're voting against their own self-interest. 0.57

00:28:21.000 This is so, this is exactly how they acted with Donald Trump back in 2016.

00:28:27.000 It's so interesting to me why so many union people are voting for Donald Trump.

00:28:31.000 I don't understand why all these people in Ohio that work at their hands are voting Republican.

00:28:35.000 Instead of trying to understand or try to take an honest analysis, why are our ranks becoming smaller?

00:28:42.000 Instead, they criticize the very people that are defecting from them, only, by the way, accelerating the very trend of which they are criticizing and they are worried about.

00:28:52.000 Play Cut 153. 0.90

00:28:54.000 That's what's so interesting to me that there are so many Latinos that vote Republican because they vote against their own self-interest. 1.00

00:29:02.000 If you really are interested in these types of issues, then you're a Democrat. 0.99

00:29:07.000 Yeah, you're a Democrat.

00:29:08.000 What type of issues are those exactly?

00:29:10.000 That gender is a fluid construct, that we should teach children about the most sensitive sexual topics imaginable? 0.99

00:29:18.000 Food shortages?

00:29:20.000 Look, the consensus amongst all of you, and I'm right there with you, is what have you done lately to make me trust you?

00:29:28.000 But let me kind of take a step that I think would make this at least a little bit of a positive.

00:29:34.000 Because I'm not here to convince you to trust a group of people that the pattern of that very type of person, Republican leadership, over the last 10 years has been lackluster and has been what we call base service, base lip service.

00:29:48.000 But at least, and I will say this, what we can derive from the Republican announcement today is that the base is driving the conversation and driving the narrative.

00:30:02.000 Now, many of you say, Charlie, I don't trust it.

00:30:03.000 It's all lip service.

00:30:04.000 You know what?

00:30:04.000 You're right.

00:30:05.000 You got to see action to believe it.

00:30:06.000 And I'm not here to tell you, oh, yeah, after Boehner, after Ryan, after all that, things are going to get magically better.

00:30:10.000 I mean, come on, look at what we saw.

00:30:12.000 However, the pressure that you are articulating, the pressure we're putting on on this program is driving the Republican Party towards a much better direction.

00:30:25.000 Are we there?

00:30:27.000 No.

00:30:28.000 No.

00:30:30.000 Are we making progress?

00:30:31.000 Oh, yeah.

00:30:32.000 Is the journey continuing?

00:30:34.000 You bet.

00:30:35.000 Are we starting to notch up wins?

00:30:37.000 Yes.

00:30:38.000 Is the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party complete?

00:30:41.000 No, it's not.

00:30:43.000 But I could tell you that based on some of the promises, based on some of the language there today, the tone, the tenor, the bass, the foundation of the party is in your hands.

00:30:53.000 Your fingerprints are all over this.

00:30:56.000 Your distrust is warranted.

00:30:58.000 The question is, what do we do next?

00:30:59.000 Keep the pressure on, support the good guys, and support the good ideas.

00:31:05.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:06.000 Email me your thoughts.

00:31:07.000 It's always freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:31:09.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:31:11.000 God bless.

00:31:15.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 23, 2022

Can We Trust Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America?

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